Chapter 1: In Shrouding the Heavens, Becoming a attained the Dao and Heavenly Lord (Tianzun)
Years flowed by. Since Wuliang Tianzun assimilated into the Dao, tens of thousands of years had passed without the emergence of an invincible attained the Dao and Heavenly Lord.
Even during the Mythological Era, the cultivation environment had its ups and downs. The previous tens of thousands of years were a period of decline, but now, it had precisely entered a period of ascent.
In this generation, various King Body appeared in abundance, with legendary supreme physiques like the Supreme Immortal Body and Brahma Battle Body successively manifesting. Powerful bloodlines such as the Golden Crow and Ancient Phoenix also emerged continuously. There were even rumors of Kunlun Immortal Blood and Saint Spirits formed from the essence of heaven and earth being born. A golden grand era had arrived.
The cruel struggle for attained the Dao began. After hundreds or thousands of years of conflict, the struggle for attained the Dao in this generation finally yielded a result.
Liang Yu, clad in a profound black Daoist robe, stood in the starry sky. His aura permeated the universe, and an invincible momentum pressed down, causing thousands of star rivers to stagnate.
Above his head, a precious pagoda hovered. Chaos Qi permeated the pagoda's body, and in each of its forty-nine layers, a Dao Venerable sat, chanting scriptures. The pagoda's body was covered with various immortal spirits and exotic beasts, Immortal Mountains and famous rivers, as well as Dao marks that seemed to be formed by heaven and earth, exuding a mysterious Dao rhythm. A precious pearl at the top of the pagoda was even more extraordinary, with infinite transformations within it. At times, it was a void; at times, gods created the world; at times, all phenomena changed; and at times, all realms fell into silent extinction.
This pagoda was named the Qiankun Creation Pagoda. It was forged from the essence extracted from Chaos Stone, and its material was the same as the later Wu Zhong Bell. It was Liang Yu's attained the Dao treasure.
He stood ready, looking at the constantly surging and evolving lightning tribulation above him, and sighed to himself, "It's finally here. I've finally reached this step."
He was not originally from this world, but one day, on a whim, he decided to go for a walk and had a stroke of bad luck, instantly dying on the spot.
But for some unknown reason, his soul came to this world and was born directly with his memories. From his subsequent experiences, it seemed that this transmigration had greatly enhanced his comprehension.
At the age of eight, when he first encountered cultivation, he immediately realized that this was the world of Shrouding the Heavens. But when he heard that the attained the Daos of this era were called Heavenly Lords, he was still a little overwhelmed.
This was a bit too far from the main storyline. If he had been in later generations, he would only need to cling to Ye Heavenly Emperor's thigh, and his future would be smooth sailing. As long as he didn't die, he could enter the Immortal Realm, and even after the Saint Ruins patch, he could be revived even if he died.
But now, he was in the Mythological Era, and only seven of the Nine Great Heavenly Lords had appeared. The closest thigh to him was Emperor Zun, who might not appear for tens of thousands of years. But for some unknown reason, he was obsessed with sacrificing others, and even confidently went for a one-on-three fight, directly sending himself to his demise.
Combining his experience of using the Jie Character Secret to increase his combat power tenfold and bullying various Supremes with Heavenly Emperor level combat power after renaming himself Emperor Zun, it seemed his stats were too high, and he played too many easy games, which made him lose his mind. It was determined that he played too many numerical monsters.
If he wasn't crazy, then the problem would be much bigger, because these actions were simply like deliberately sending himself to his death. In short, no matter the reason, following Emperor Zun was a dead end.
As for Cao Yusheng, it could only be said that he couldn't learn the Longevity method, nor could he cling to his thigh, after all, he himself would still need millions of years to become a Red Dust Immortal.
However, Nether Emperor became a attained the Dao earlier, but he was also a mentor and friend to Emperor Zun. This meant that in the present, before Emperor Zun's birth, Nether Emperor's era had not yet ended. So, Nether Emperor might have self-severed, or sealed himself by other means to survive without interfering with later attained the Daos, and it's highly likely he is currently in the Underworld.
In any case, Liang Yu had no thigh to cling to. Out of necessity, he could only rely on himself to become a Heavenly Lord.
In this life, he was born with a partial divine bloodline. It should be that one of his ancestors had a Divine Body, and a part of the divine bloodline revived in his generation. Naturally, he was much stronger than ordinary people, but ultimately, this was just a beggar version Divine Body.
A complete Divine Body was not much different from the pile of King Body that reached great completion in Immortal Stage Three. Even if it was stronger, it wouldn't be by much, such as the Overlord King Body, Twin King Body, Yuhua King Body... Oh, no, the Yuhua King Body at least seemed to have produced a Emperor Yuhua.
As for Divine Body, except for Ji Haoyue who clung to Ye Fan's thigh, no other Divine Body became a attained the Dao. Even the Divine Emperor, who was suspected to be an evolved version of the Divine Body—the Divine King Body—only stopped at an alternative path to attained the Dao. Of course, there was a significant possibility for the Divine Emperor to become a attained the Dao, but he was just unlucky and did not self-seal for later generations.
In short, relying on physique was out of the question. So, Liang Yu rose step by step by relying on his powerful comprehension. Since the Demon Emperor Xuanyue Qing of later generations could transform from a snow rabbit into a True Dragon, then why couldn't I, who at least has some divine blood, evolve into a true Divine Body, or even a Divine King Body?
Therefore, Liang Yu created the Divine Transformation Art, which could not only purify the existing divine blood but also accelerate the transformation by supplementing it with rare treasures like divine medicine. Under the effect of this secret art, Liang Yu's divine blood continuously improved, eventually transforming into a true Divine King Body, refining the divine blood to its extreme. Therefore, he could also be considered the first Divine Body attained the Dao in history.
At this time, his physique was already comparable to the Saint Body (Undying Immortal Body) and the Overlord Body. In fact, because there were no restrictions on becoming a attained the Dao, it was not impossible to say that it was even better.
As for other aspects, due to his humble origins and the relatively backward cultivation environment, Liang Yu, like Ye Fan, had to piece together a collection of incomplete scriptures to cultivate.
When contending with various heavenly prodigies, he suffered from a lack of profound secret techniques and could only try every possible way to learn from others or create his own.
This led to his collection of scriptures and Dao methods being a hodgepodge, completely unsystematic, and even unrelated. Therefore, he could only rely on himself to continuously summarize and synthesize, integrating various miscellaneous scriptures and techniques.
When he first entered the Great Saint Realm, he reached the Forbidden Divine ((A kind of special condition) and created his own supreme secret technique, but the result shocked him somewhat. Because his forbidden secret technique was actually identical to the Dou Character Secret.
Of course, this wasn't about similar effects, but identical essence. The secret technique Liang Yu wanted to create was precisely this kind of technique that could simulate and evolve everything as an offensive means.
But what surprised him was that this secret technique could generate a special connection with the other Nine Secrets. In other words, the secret technique he created wasn't like the Dou Character Secret, but was the Dou Character Secret.
In other words, he became the second to last of the Nine Great Heavenly Lords, meaning the creator of the Dou Character Secret.
Was this the convergence of the world line? He, a transmigrator or reincarnator, still filled the void among the Nine Great Heavenly Lords. Of course, this could also just be a simple coincidence.
Being in the Mythological Era, closer to the few Great Heavenly Lords, Liang Yu had already learned about the first seven Heavenly Lords and the methods they created. They were the Dujie Tianzun, who created the Lin Character Secret; the Wuliang Tianzun, who created the Bing Character Secret; the Changsheng Tianzun, who created the Zhe Character Secret; the Xiaoyao Tianzun, who created the Xing Character Secret; Daode Tianzun, who created the Shu Character Secret; Lingbao Tianzun, who created the Zu Character Secret; and the Jiemie Tianzun, who created the Qian Character Secret.
Adding his created Dou Character Secret and the Jie Character Secret created by Emperor Zun's previous incarnation, they formed the Nine Secrets. And these nine individuals would become the most prestigious group in the Shrouding the Heavens world.
Five hundred years ago, Liang Yu defeated the strongest opponent of this generation, the Yingzhao with Kunlun Immortal Blood, in the final battle when he had just stepped into the ninth heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm. From then on, there was no doubt about the victor of this generation.
Now, his Dao had reached great completion, the Dou Character Secret was basically complete, and his physique had also truly reached great perfection due to his self-created Divine Transformation Art. Therefore, he had accumulated enough, reaching the threshold of the ultimate leap.
Liang Yu was only one final great tribulation away from completing his attained the Dao path. At this time, Liang Yu was already one thousand five hundred years old.
At this moment, thunder echoed throughout the universe, and a vast aura spread, even startling the Supremes in the Forbidden Zones.