Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 923 Guidance
Although the Celestial Venerable of Morality only taught Zhang Bairen about cultivation in the very beginning, Zhang Bairen has now found his own path and has a clear direction for progress, which is enough to make the Celestial Venerable of Morality very gratified.

After all, being able to align one's talents with the direction one most wants to pursue is itself a great fortune, containing boundless potential.

Even if Zhang Bairen may never catch up with the Moral Celestial Venerable, he will definitely achieve extraordinary success in the future, surpassing most enlightened beings.

As his only disciple, Zhang Bairen naturally raises his own standards, which is why he chose the path of perfecting the Chaotic Ancient Method to reach a higher level.

Moreover, it is precisely because his master is the Moral Celestial Venerable that he has more confidence and assurance to do this.

After all, the accumulation and cultivation of the Daoist master can provide him with the strongest support, saving him a lot of hard work and trial-and-error costs.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality said, “At present, you have not yet completed your journey in the realm of humanity, so you still need to continue on the path of transformation and cultivation. With my junior brother Daohuang and my research on the Chaotic Ancient Method as a reference, that is enough for you.”

"But if we want to go further and truly transform the Chaotic Ancient Methods into a complete system, these are probably not enough."

"Whether it's me, or Fellow Daoist Wuji, Fellow Daoist Yuanshi, or Fellow Daoist Lingbao, before we create our own system, we will try our best to cultivate our original system, that is, the Secret Realm Method, to the extreme. Only after the sixth Secret Realm is derived can we create a new system with ease."

"If you achieve success in your cultivation, you can also draw inspiration from other systems to gain insights, thereby avoiding the situation caused by isolation and better improving your own system."

Zhang Bairen immediately cupped his hands and said, "I will follow your teachings, Master."

The Celestial Venerable of Morality continued, “However, for now, you still need to focus more on your own cultivation. You must maintain the purity of your Chaotic Ancient Law and reach a sufficiently high realm in order to avoid being influenced by other systems and deviating from the main path.”

"I have some new insights into the Chaotic Ancient Method, so I'll share them with you for reference."

After speaking, the Celestial Venerable of Morality pointed a finger at Zhang Bairen's brow, and used the Dao Fruit that he had just obtained, which would allow him to become a Celestial King by transcending the tribulation, to further comprehend the Chaotic Ancient Method. This led to more extreme changes derived from the previous realms, which Zhang Bairen used as a reference.

After acquiring this information, Zhang Bairen immediately entered a state of enlightenment, beginning to supplement his existing Chaotic Ancient Law based on these extreme states in different directions, and generating more variations based on them.

The Chaotic Ancient Method is inherently incomplete. To evolve it to a higher level, one needs to continuously break through limits in each of the early stages, and ultimately rely on the superposition of multiple extreme states to continue on the path and go further.

Zhang Bairen had previously developed many different extreme realms of his own based on his own insights and by referring to the previous explorations of Dao Huang and Dao De Tian Zun, but this was not enough for him to reach the ultimate.

In other words, this allows him to dominate the field of humanity, but what he gains cannot be transformed into a system that allows other cultivators to naturally reach or at least approach his level.

The various extreme realms that the Celestial Venerable of Morality just pointed out to him will allow him to develop multiple directions for breaking through limits in each realm of the Chaotic Ancient Law, thereby allowing these extreme realms to merge and unify in the process, generating more stages to make the system more complete.

After all, only through various explorations and experiments with this system can its core elements be summarized, allowing it to be further refined and ultimately encompass more variations, becoming a complete and traceable system applicable to more people, instead of requiring extremely rare and precious resources or exceptionally powerful personal talent to master it. Therefore, Zhang Bairen once again immersed himself in a new exploration of the Chaotic Ancient Method, forgetting himself and the world around him. Consequently, his own cultivation began to continuously improve, and his Dao Fruit became increasingly perfect, giving rise to countless new variations.

Dao Huang said, "Senior Brother Dao De, you have now made up for the shortcomings of your master in teaching your disciple. Congratulations!"

The Celestial Venerable said, “I originally intended to give you some guidance, but it seems you already have your own ideas. However, to repay you for taking such good care of my disciple, from now on, I will entrust this Great Luo Immortal Mountain and the Bodhi Ancient Tree to you.”

The Dao Emperor said, "Although these things are no longer of any use to you, it seems a bit inappropriate for you to entrust them to me like this."

"Zhang Bairen is your disciple, why don't you give these things to him?"

The Supreme Lord of Morality said, "Because the savior of Buddhism, as prophesied by that mysterious ancient Buddhist enlightened one, will appear in the next era, which is at least tens or hundreds of thousands of years from now."

"You should know that it's impossible for Zhang Bairen to stay in the human universe for such a long time. I can only entrust this matter to you for now."

Dao Huang shook his head and said, "Although I don't know what the future holds for me, since you've said so, I'll trust you and leave these matters to me."

Then he added, "This ancient Bodhi tree has begun to evolve over the years thanks to the constant nurturing of the Great Luo Immortal Mountain, and the feedback from the three Immortal Kings has greatly increased its rate of evolution. If this continues, perhaps this elixir of immortality will also have the hope of taking human form in the future."

"I wonder what Senior Brother De plans to do with it?"

After pondering for a moment, the Celestial Venerable of Morality said, "Although this ancient Bodhi tree now belongs to us, it was once a treasure of the ancient Buddhist sect, and we have countless connections with it."

“In the future, when that Buddhist disciple is destined to be connected with this ancient Bodhi tree, I originally intended to leave this elixir of immortality directly to him, but now it seems that I should give it a chance.”

Dao Huang said, "So, Senior Brother, you've decided to let it take human form?"

The Celestial Venerable of Morality nodded and said, "After all, it has helped us a lot. Since it wants to take human form, I will naturally grant its wish."

"It would be best if this elixir of immortality could take form during the time of the prophesied Buddha and begin its cultivation in the mortal world. That way, no matter what mysterious entanglements they may eventually have due to these past causes and effects, we would have done our utmost."

As he spoke, the Celestial Venerable of Morality pointed out a point of spiritual light, which fell into the ancient Bodhi tree. Instantly, its spirituality began to grow slowly, truly breaking through the shackles of the elixir of immortality and beginning to evolve into true life.

If this continues, the Bodhi Tree will only need to grow steadily until it reaches a point where it can truly take human form and break free from the limitations of the elixir of immortality. A Bodhi Tree born under these circumstances will undoubtedly possess extremely powerful talents.

(End of this chapter)