Shrouding the Heavens: Beginning Dao Proving from the Ancient Era
Chapter 24

Ancient Emperor's Corpse Remnants

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The Path to Immortality Amid the Ancient Emperor's Remains.

In an era where immortality was impossible, the Path to Immortality was the road the Forbidden Zone Supremes had been waiting for.

This was the road leading to the Immortal Domain, and also the road recognized by the Supremes.

When these Forbidden Zone Supremes had once reigned over the Nine Heavens, they too had sought to carve out a path forward through their own strength.

Yet they failed. Driven by their obsession with immortality, they abandoned their former glory, severed themselves, and entered the Life Forbidden Zones.

The self-severed Forbidden Zone Supremes all had two states.

In their First Life, at the height of their attainment: "They're merely pitiful worms. Even if there are no immortals in this world, I can still forge a road to immortality."

In their Second Life, as the curtain fell in their late years: "Fellow Daoists, make some room."

Countless Forbidden Zone Supremes had given up on forging a Path to Immortality through their own strength.

They placed their hopes of immortality upon the Path to Immortality.

Since ancient times, Heavenly Lords and Ancient Emperors capable of relying on their own talent to create methods of longevity and transformation, blazing a path of longevity unique to themselves, had ultimately been few.

During the Mythological Era, the Heavenly Court ruled the Nine Heavens. Emperor Lord suppressed the many forbidden zones, refining Nine Revolutions Immortal Pills to extend the lifespans of the Forbidden Zone Supremes.

He invited many self-severed Supremes into the Heavenly Court to plot the Ascension of the Entire Sect together.

At the time, quite a few Forbidden Zone Supremes had placed their hopes in Emperor Lord.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Court's Ascension of the Entire Sect failed. The once peerlessly brilliant Emperor Lord had also passed away, buried within the years.

After many years had passed, another Human Emperor forcefully charged into the Path to Immortality.

With the Path to Immortality at stake, nearly every Forbidden Zone Supreme awakened, save for those sleeping too deeply.

The Path to Immortality concerned becoming immortal.

It was the obsession of untold Heavenly Lords and Ancient Emperors.

"The Big Dipper Path to Immortality opened for a time during Yin's era. Fellow Daoists from the Sea of Reincarnation and the Divine Ruins once entered it as well."

"Later, Yin and those Fellow Daoists never emerged. They were all buried within the Path to Immortality."

"Does the Human Emperor intend to charge into the Path to Immortality in one stroke? Is this arrogant overconfidence, or absolute faith in himself?"

After the Big Dipper Path to Immortality opened, the Forbidden Zone Supremes all recalled that it had once opened during the era of the Yin Human Emperor.

Later, the Yin Human Emperor and several Supremes had all fallen within the Path to Immortality.

"Should we take this chance to enter?" a Supreme whose lifespan was nearing its end proposed.

With his lifespan nearly exhausted, he intended to seize this opportunity to charge into the Path to Immortality.

"Forget it. Once we leave, we'll most likely have to face the Human Emperor."

"Besides, this is not the correct time. It is impossible to break through the Path to Immortality now." A Forbidden Zone Supreme rejected the proposal and did not agree to it.

The Human Emperor's edge was far too dazzling. He intended to avoid him for the time being. Moreover, this was not the time for the Path to Immortality to open; the Human Emperor had merely forced it open.

At the wrong time, one simply could not reach the Immortal Domain.

"Let us watch. If the Human Emperor is grievously wounded within the Path to Immortality, then it will be our chance to hunt the Cosmic True Dragon."

"I'm quite looking forward to the Chaos Body's origin essence." At that moment, the voice of the master of the Immortal Mausoleum Forbidden Zone rang out.

After reaching an agreement, none of the Supremes intended to emerge and venture into the Path to Immortality. Instead, they chose to wait.

If the Human Emperor could break through the Path to Immortality, then they would emerge and seize the fruits of his labor.

If the Human Emperor failed and was grievously wounded by the Path to Immortality, then they would emerge to settle karma and hunt the Cosmic True Dragon.

All cultivators across the universe were stunned. They had never expected the Human Emperor to open the legendary Path to Immortality.

Within the universe, there were only scattered fragments of descriptions concerning the Path to Immortality.

Ascend to the Immortal Domain, attain the Dao, and become immortal.

That alone was enough to stir people into action.

"Could it be that the Human Emperor wishes to become immortal?"

Across the universe, ancient living fossils sealed away in slumber awoke and looked toward the Big Dipper Starfield.

"Back then, the Yin Human Emperor entered the Path to Immortality and fell. Now the Human Emperor has charged into it once more."

"The Human Emperor forcibly opened the Path to Immortality. He intends to become immortal in this era."

"I never thought we would live to see the Path to Immortality open."

The goal of countless cultivators was to become immortal. Now that a road concerning the Path to Immortality had opened—

Naturally, it drew everyone's attention.

Many hoped that the Human Emperor could break into the Immortal Domain, allowing them to behold a True Immortal.

Under the gaze of all living beings, Chen Zhao forcefully charged into the Path to Immortality.

After Chen Zhao entered it, the rift in the Path to Immortality slowly began to close without anyone maintaining it.

Just as all living beings thought the Path to Immortality was about to close...

The Path to Immortality suddenly burst apart, rapidly expanding as boundless Chaos Qi erupted from within, while auspicious rosy light blossomed forth.

A figure emerged from the Path to Immortality—it was the Human Emperor, who had entered the Path to Immortality alone.

Yet no one paid attention to the Human Emperor. Instead, their gazes were fixed upon the cluster of Chaos Qi floating at his side.

The Chaos Qi coiling around its surface split apart, immortal light billowing upward to reveal what was wrapped within.

It was a mangled Remnant Body of flesh and blood—and only a portion of one at that.

Boom! A supremely terrifying Imperial Dao Pressure spread from the Remnant Body, sweeping across the Cosmic Eight Desolations.

That aura oppressed All Spirits, as though they stood before a supreme Emperor, making them unable to resist the urge to bow in worship.

This aura was simply too powerful. Even a single drop of blood upon that Remnant Body was enough to make hearts tremble in terror.

"That is an Ancient Emperor!" A voice suddenly rang out at some unknown moment.

The moment those words sounded, they stirred up a tremendous uproar, and the entire universe boiled over.

The Remnant Body of an Ancient Emperor had been brought out of the Path to Immortality by the Human Emperor.

What exactly had happened to this Ancient Emperor? Why had he fallen within the Path to Immortality? As everyone looked toward the Path to Immortality that was about to close, doubt and fear rose within their hearts.

An Emperor who had Reigned Over the Nine Heavens had fallen just like that on the Path to Immortality. It was enough to give everyone a clear understanding of just how perilous the Path to Immortality was.

Could the Human Emperor's purpose in entering the Path to Immortality have been this Emperor Corpse? What had happened today was enough to leave all living beings shaken.

The Path to Immortality of myth and legend had opened, and the Human Emperor of the present age had entered it, bringing back a broken Emperor Corpse.

This was an event worthy of being recorded in history.

"Is this the emperor body of the Yin Human Emperor? I never expected the Human Emperor's purpose in entering the Path to Immortality was to retrieve Yin's remains."

"What exactly happened on the Path to Immortality back then? Why was the Yin Human Emperor reduced to nothing but a Remnant Body?"

"I sense a familiar aura from this Remnant Body. It reminds me of that person."

"It should not be that person. That person passed away long ago—how could he possibly still be alive?"

Upon seeing the Yin Human Emperor's Remnant Body, all the Forbidden Zone Supremes understood the Human Emperor's purpose.

They had not expected the Human Emperor's reason for entering the Path to Immortality to be so simple: merely to retrieve the body of the Yin Human Emperor, who had fallen on the Path to Immortality in the past.

From the Yin Human Emperor's Remnant Body, the many Forbidden Zone Supremes sensed a familiar aura.

While that familiar aura shocked them, it also left them unable to believe it.

They did not believe that person from the past was still alive.

After all, so much time had passed. If that person had not undergone Self-Severance, how could he possibly still be alive?

And he even seemed to be connected to the cause of the Yin Human Emperor's death.

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