Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 902 Transformation
For ordinary enlightened beings, and even for the vast majority of enlightened beings in the human universe, after reaching old age in their first life, their priority is to live out their second life by taking the elixir of immortality.

If a Daoist has already used the elixir of immortality for various reasons, they will try to find the legendary Nine-Turn Immortal Pill. Very few people choose to explore the method of transformation in their first life.

Those who manage to discover the method of reversing life in their first life and thus transform into a second are extremely rare. After all, the difficulty is simply too high, and many cultivators don't have enough time to achieve this. Even the most talented cultivators often need to rely on elixirs of immortality to buy themselves time.

Therefore, Duan De's decision to undergo transformation was naturally a very strange thing in the eyes of others. He already had the Tree of Life in his hands, yet he still took a risk, which was obviously somewhat unusual.

However, for Duan De, this was a move born out of necessity.

After all, the elixir of immortality would have little effect on him; at the very least, it wouldn't allow him to live a new life.

The reason for this is that Duan De possessed the elixir of immortality in both his previous life as the Heavenly Venerable of Tribulation and his previous life as the Underworld Venerable. In fact, during the Underworld Venerable's era, he may very well have even used the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill.

In this situation, his body has developed resistance to both the elixir of immortality and the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, making it impossible for him to live a new life using them.

Although Duan De followed the path of reincarnation to become an immortal, and each time he experienced the destruction of his primordial spirit and the decay and death of his physical body, and then used special terrain to start a new life over a long period of time, and even later he would sever his powerful physical body to start from scratch, his physical body was, in a strict sense, always the same one. Therefore, some things could not be completely erased.

Therefore, if Duan De wants to transform, he can only choose to reverse his life, and cannot use the elixir of immortality or the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill.

For Duan De, reaching this point was already an achievement beyond his expectations; he could have simply passed away and begun preparing for his next life. In the original timeline, apart from his incarnation as the Underworld Lord, he hadn't achieved anything like this in any of his other lives.

Therefore, ending this life now would significantly improve his future achievements. But the problem still lies with this cursed power.

Without this curse, Duan De could have ended this life peacefully. However, because the curse penetrated deep into his life essence, primordial spirit, and every part of his physical body, and even tainted the reincarnation seals he had formed, his originally perfect state was affected and could no longer remain stable.

This has led to Duan De's current poor condition. Once this life ends and he begins to prepare for the next, it is highly likely that he will encounter problems due to the influence of the curse.

Therefore, if he wants to begin his next life, he needs to temporarily suppress the power of the curse and bring his state to a more stable state. As for eradicating it, Duan De already knows that he probably won't be able to do so before becoming a Mortal Immortal. And for Duan De now, suppressing the power of the curse is almost impossible.

Therefore, Duan De must find a way to reverse his life once again, so as to use the power of this rebirth to suppress the curse power in his body and continue his path to immortality in the mortal world.

This was naturally arranged by the Primordial Celestial Venerable. If Duan De needed to prove his Dao in each of his subsequent lives and reach the level of the Heavenly Emperor, and then undergo another transformation to achieve perfection, then the Dao fruit of each of his lives would be incredibly powerful.

Although Duan De's path to becoming a Red Dust Immortal focuses on these nine reincarnations, the achievements in each individual life don't have a huge impact; as long as the goals are met, it's considered complete. However, reaching this stage still makes the Dao Fruits and Primordial Spirit fragments contained within his corresponding Reincarnation Seals even stronger. Thus, when he becomes a Red Dust Immortal, the power contained within the nine Reincarnation Seals will be unified, allowing him to possess even more superior Dao Fruits.

In this way, apart from a very few individuals like Liang Yu, who has reached the pinnacle of immortality, and Yuanshi Tianzun, who is close to the pinnacle of immortality and has surpassed the peak of mortal immortality, Duan De would probably be no weaker than anyone else.

After all, if things develop as Yuanshi Tianzun designed, then including the previous life of Mingzun, Duan De will have reached the Heavenly Emperor level or even higher in seven lifetimes. After nine lifetimes of perfection, his potential will naturally be even greater, and he still has a good chance of becoming a peak Red Dust Immortal.

Of course, this is also because although Duan De does not appear to be a peerless genius who is unparalleled throughout history, he has great potential. He just needs a long time to accumulate strength and become stronger. Therefore, the methods of Yuanshi Tianzun can force him to grow faster.

Duan De was unaware of the good intentions behind Yuanshi Tianzun's actions. He absolutely loathed those who cursed others. Forcing him to cultivate was one thing, as that was at least a positive outcome, but the excruciating pain he felt when the curse took effect was unbearable.

Duan De adjusted his mood and prepared to begin his transformation.

Threatened by the power of the curse, Duan De must continue to grow stronger to resist it. He has now reached the Heavenly Emperor level, and he doesn't have many options left; the Ancient Tree of Life is naturally one of them.

Although he cannot directly live a second life through the Tree of Life, his understanding of the life laws contained within the Tree of Life is still useful for this new life.

Therefore, he has been studying the laws within to gain a stronger life force and thus resist the power of the curse.

Under the corrosive power of the curse, Duan De still needs to continuously refine his already unparalleled Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Technique in order to further perfect his Dao Fruit.

By combining these two methods, Duan De elevated his Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Skill to a more profound level, enabling him to achieve a further transformation.

Duan De took a deep breath and began to circulate the Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Technique to continuously transform and regenerate himself, regain his vitality, and become even stronger.

During this process, the cursed power within him seemed to sense the threat and immediately began to erupt throughout his body in an attempt to prevent him from successfully transforming.

Duan De had anticipated this, and he focused all his energy on himself, beginning his transformation under the power of the curse. He vaguely sensed that if he could successfully transform, he should be able to limit the power of the curse, preventing it from taking effect and thus ensuring that he could live to the next life.

As time went by, Duan De's aura grew stronger and stronger, and his vitality became more and more vigorous. He finally completed his transformation and began a new life. Meanwhile, the curse power within him was suppressed by his further advancement in the Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Technique and his own Dao Fruit, and it subsided.

(End of this chapter)