The True Meaning of the Sky Shrouding Method

The True Meaning of the Sky Shrouding Method

"Hum!"

Around Zhou Tong, the Ten Heavenly Caves blazed at their peak, releasing immortal radiance. He was the same: within his Wheel Sea, a purple ocean surged toward the heavens, wreathed in flames, nearly burning as it unleashed his strongest combat power.

At last, he sprang to his feet. A streak of purple light burst from his mouth as runes danced and strands of Dao patterns unfurled, like divine butterflies circling his body and divine chains piercing the sky. At this moment, his essence, energy, and spirit surged like a rainbow.

Zhou Tong had completely ignited and boiled over. Every bit of his power had been unleashed, reaching its peak!

"Rumble!!"

The Ten Heavenly Caves around him hummed as they continuously collided and merged. Even the surrounding void twisted, while terrifying power ravaged everything around him.

Cracks spread across Zhou Tong's entire body, and drops of blood flowed down, tinged with faint purple.

His Sea of Wheels Realm also trembled without cease. Mysterious power seeped through Zhou Tong's body and frantically poured into the Ten Heavenly Caves outside him.

"Rumble!!"

As if they had found an outlet, the power from the Ten Heavenly Caves' collisions—their divine energy, essence, and runes—all surged wildly into the Sea of Wheels Realm.

The ten Heavenly Caves collided continuously, cracks appearing across them. Then the Sea of Wheels Realm pressed and shook them, finally producing an utterly terrifying transformation. The Ten Heavenly Caves gradually began to resonate, undergoing an inexplicable change.

It was as though world after world were connecting and merging.

This change even caused violent fluctuations throughout the Sea of Wheels Realm. Terrifying power poured endlessly into the Wheel Sea, until Zhou Tong felt as though his Wheel Sea were about to explode.

"Boom!"

At last, as though the heavens had collapsed, sheets of divine light erupted from Zhou Tong's abdomen, blooming there like an exploding sun, dazzling beyond measure.

Zhou Tong's entire body split open. Even his bones shattered, while his internal organs seemed to have suffered an enormous impact and cracked apart.

"This is... a Gate!" Zhou Tong had no mind to spare for the changes in his bones and organs. He focused all his attention on his Sea of Wheels Realm.

At that instant, he seemed to see one immortal gate after another within his Sea of Wheels Realm.

Those immortal gates resembled countless points of light, densely arranged throughout his Wheel Sea.

As though struck by the previous explosion, countless Gates shook and opened. Gate after Gate bloomed simultaneously, merging with one another and spewing boundless power. Zhou Tong's severely wounded body rapidly recovered as well.

Almost instinctively, Zhou Tong circulated the Feather Transformation Scripture. At once, the countless Gates in his Sea of Wheels Realm recombined, separated, and rearranged.

"So that's how it is... so this is the true meaning of the Sky Shrouding Method!!" At that moment, Zhou Tong sensed the feeling the Desolate Heaven Emperor had experienced when creating his path.

"It opens the Gates of Potential within the human body. That is why, during the Chaotic Ancient Years, there were no miscellaneous constitutions such as King Bodies, Divine Bodies, or Saint Bodies. Only by opening the Gates of Potential within the human body can every person's unique constitution be revealed... This is something the Chaotic Ancient Method cannot achieve."

"No wonder all kinds of constitutions can only be considered minor completion upon reaching the Four Extremities Realm. By then, the Sea of Wheels and Dao Palace, the two realms representing the internal foundations of one's physical body, have already been opened. Only then can a constitution be considered minor completion."

In that instant, Zhou Tong thought of many things. Through the arrangements and combinations of the Gates of Potential within his body, he even thought of the difference between Great Emperor scriptures and ordinary scriptures.

The essence of cultivating any scripture was rearranging and combining the Gates of Potential within the human body. The more Gates of Potential it employed, and the more reasonable their arrangement, the more incomparably powerful that scripture would be.

"When the Desolate Heaven Emperor first opened his Wheel Sea, he must have spent great effort arranging and combining the Gates of Potential within it... I never expected that I would have to undergo a similar stage as well!" Zhou Tong silently circulated the Feather Transformation Scripture as he thought.

When the Desolate Heaven Emperor opened the Sea of Wheels Realm, his realm had already been extremely high. Thus, once he opened the Sea of Wheels Realm, it became his own Great Dao. But Zhou Tong lacked such ability. He had only stepped onto the path of cultivation not long ago, so he could only open the Gates of Potential according to the methods of his predecessors.

The more Zhou Tong circulated the Feather Transformation Scripture, the deeper his understanding of how the Gates of Potential in the Sea of Wheels Realm operated became. After every rearrangement of the Gates of Potential, he gained a completely new understanding and insight into this ancient scripture passed down by the Feather Ascension Great Emperor.

This was completely opposite to normal cultivation.

Normally, one should first gain insight into the Feather Transformation Scripture before continuously opening, moving, arranging, and combining the Gates of Potential. This was reflected in ever-higher realms and cultivation.

But Zhou Tong was not displaying that at this moment. He had forcibly opened the Gates of Potential, using his cultivation to force his realm forward!

"Hummm!"

Zhou Tong's realm began to advance continuously. Within his Wheel Sea, a Divine Bridge gradually formed, covered in countless patterns resembling feathers.

Having opened enough Gates of Potential, he had unknowingly cultivated directly to the Divine Bridge realm!

Yet upon reaching the Divine Bridge realm, he felt no discomfort and suffered none of the so-called confusion of "losing his way," because his mind was entirely immersed in the Gates of Potential within the Sea of Wheels Realm.

Outwardly, this manifested as Zhou Tong not being affected by the slightest confusion. In one burst of momentum, he charged straight into the Other Shore!

"That's right. The maze has already been cleared; once you enter it, there is only a bright road ahead. What confusion could there be?"

"The deathly energy inside the Gates of Potential!" Zhou Tong's heart suddenly stirred. After his Gates of Potential opened, he sensed that they were not filled entirely with vitality, but also carried terrifying deathly energy.

"I see. This is the Nine Lives Nine Deaths transformation that must be experienced in the Other Shore realm!" Zhou Tong immediately understood and began his transformation according to the methods of the Feather Transformation Scripture.

Completely unlike the Desolate Heaven Emperor, who had created his own path, Zhou Tong possessed a clear cultivation method and knew how to transform. Thus, it was far safer; he merely needed to follow in his predecessors' footsteps step by step.

After an instant of Silent Annihilation, a fluctuation finally emerged from Zhou Tong's body—

"Hummm!!"

Crystalline light radiated from Zhou Tong's entire body. That light formed feather-like patterns, as though he were ascending through feathered transformation.

Vast quantities of spiritual essence from heaven and earth poured down through the Ten Heavenly Caves and directly into his Wheel Sea. For a time, auspicious signs descended from the heavens, and immortal music rang out in waves.

Feathered ascension to the heavens, rebirth and transformation!!

This was a transformation that had to be undergone when the Feather Transformation Scripture was cultivated to the Other Shore realm of the Sea of Wheels Realm. One had to experience such a transformation nine times to reach the Paragon of the Sea of Wheels Realm.

In an instant, Zhou Tong seemed to undergo feathered ascension. Every pore across his body opened, as though he were receiving a divine baptism.

After that, he underwent Silent Annihilation almost once every hour. Like Plants completing another yearly cycle, deathly stillness and Life Fluctuation alternated continuously across Zhou Tong's body.

The divine feathers around him became increasingly brilliant and crystalline.

In particular, his Wheel Sea nearly manifested physically. He sat cross-legged upon a purple ocean, purple-red flames burning continuously around him. Blood and fire, immortals and demons, all seemed to echo around him at once.