Shrouding the Heavens: Creating the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art in the Age of Myth
Chapter 34

A Strange Fat Daoist Who Established the Dao with His Body and Created the Source Heaven Book

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"He wasn't the Demon Venerable!"

"The Demon Venerable might already be dead!"

"He had completely become a weapon!"

"He was merely a weapon!"

Supreme Ba Snake roared. They had already undergone Extreme Sublimation; there was no way out for them now.

Even if the Heavenly Demonic Saber or the Demon Venerable was powerful, so what? They were going to die anyway. No matter what, they would perish together with the Heavenly Demonic Saber or the Demon Venerable.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

The four Dark Supremes erupted with divine light that soared into the heavens. Their killing intent stretched billions of miles, layer upon layer, like the universe exploding, like the Chaos Sea boiling, like space and time collapsing. With rumbling booms, blazing light submerged the universe.

The Cosmic Frontier Wasteland became an ocean of laws, incomparably terrifying and capable of destroying all life.

The four Dark Supremes attacked together, fighting desperately and truly unleashing peerless power.

Even the Dark Supremes who had been silently watching felt their souls tremble. They had never expected these four Dark Supremes, fighting together with their lives on the line, to unleash such terrifying might.

With a thunderous boom, the Demon Venerable did not expend much effort against that earth-shattering attack. He merely raised his left hand and gave a light slap.

That slap seemed capable of creating heaven and earth, of destroying heaven and earth. The entire world roared, and heaven and earth became a vast blur as the four Dark Supremes were sent flying.

It was an astonishing outcome.

The four Dark Supremes, who had just been so imposing and brimming with killing intent, had actually been sent flying by a single slap.

It was truly unbelievable.

With a whoosh, the four Dark Supremes flew back. They steadied themselves once more and stared intently at the Demon Venerable.

The Demon Venerable remained calm, as though he had done something utterly insignificant.

His gaze was cold and indifferent, as if he were looking at corpses.

"Demon Venerable, you truly are powerful, but you are now a weapon!"

"You are not unstoppable!"

Supreme Heavenly Demon said.

At this moment, the four Dark Supremes shone brilliantly, their bodies blazing as countless laws and orders boiled. Those were their own immortal Great Dao Laws.

Those hazy chains of law and order belonged solely to their Great Dao. Now, they all burst forth, seeking to connect together.

The four stood united, even imprinting portions of Immortal Dao Runes upon those laws and orders.

As experts who had once ruled the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, they had naturally encountered countless fortunate opportunities in their day, as well as innumerable Immortal Dao Runes and ruins related to immortals.

It was hardly strange that they had imprinted some Immortal Dao Runes and studied them.

Every Dark Supreme truly was extraordinary.

Each of them had once imprinted Immortal Dao Runes unique to themselves, branding them upon their bodies and their Great Dao Laws.

They had also explored turning themselves into weapons, even attempting to transform themselves into Immortal Weapons.

Yet they feared truly becoming weapons, and no one had ever succeeded.

Now, they were fighting desperately.

After the countless Immortal Dao Runes gathered together and merged with their Great Dao Laws, they erupted with an even more vast and majestic aura.

Killing intent swept through the entire Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.

One expanse of the Chaos Sea after another collapsed.

The resurrected weapon spirit of the Heavenly Demonic Saber looked exactly like the Demon Venerable.

A shocking blade radiance burst from his eyes.

As if awakening from slumber, he released blade radiance capable of cleaving apart everything.

That incomparably brilliant gaze tore through the starry sky with a dominance that drove people to despair.

He directly slapped toward the four Dark Supremes.

Flying Immortal Power erupted in full. A rain of light fell like dancing petals, scattering across the starry sky.

That Flying Immortal Power was so terrifying. The forbidden secret art that belonged solely to the Demon Venerable was actually being wielded by the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

Flowers drifted through the skies, resembling Mortal-World Ascension, as though they were about to enter the Immortal Domain.

It was too powerful. That immortal aura made people tremble, and many shook all over in excitement.

It was as though they had truly seen an immortal.

One powerhouse after another, upon sensing that immortal aura, could not help kneeling to the ground with tears streaming down their faces. They worshipped devoutly and kowtowed toward the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

The Heavenly Demonic Saber's strength surpassed imagination. His figure was dreamlike and illusory, as if he had crossed the river of time. Immortal Dao Laws erupted as he lightly delivered another palm strike.

With a thunderous boom that shook the eternal starry sky, the universe shattered. The four Dark Supremes were sent flying again, their auras noticeably weakened.

They were deeply shaken.

The four of them had undergone Extreme Sublimation, yet they could not defeat a single saber!

If they had faced the true Demon Venerable, how many moves could they have endured?

The weapon spirit of this Heavenly Demonic Saber was too heaven-defying, too bizarre.

Everyone was stunned.

Many even suspected that the Demon Venerable had truly transformed into the weapon spirit of the Heavenly Demonic Saber. Otherwise, how could it be so dominant and powerful?

With a single light slap, it had sent four Dark Supremes who had undergone Extreme Sublimation flying, covering their bodies in dense cracks.

"Was the legend true?"

"Could the Chaotic Body truly achieve Mortal-World Ascension?"

"Could the Chaotic Body truly break the shackles of the Immortal Dao and become immortal in this world?"

"He actually wielded the power of ascension!"

"Could he be an immortal?"

Question after question surfaced in everyone's minds. It was simply impossible to believe.

"This is clearly just a weapon. Why is it so powerful?"

"He definitely isn't the Demon Venerable!"

Supreme White Snake muttered, his face filled with rage and agitation.

The other Dark Supremes were the same.

They frantically devoured the spiritual essence of heaven and earth throughout the universe's eight directions. They even swallowed more than half of the surrounding Chaos Sea. Countless stars went dark, consumed by them.

The Heavenly Demonic Saber merely watched silently as they crazily replenished their divine power, as though it disdained them.

The Heavenly Demonic Saber stood in the starry sky, continuously tracing patterns with both hands. A dense expanse of Immortal Dao Runes unexpectedly appeared, gathering into a sea.

The four Dark Supremes' expressions changed drastically when they saw that expanse of Immortal Dao Runes, and their entire bodies turned cold.

For a moment, they felt as though some terrifying existence had locked onto them.

They desperately dodged, trying to avoid this fatal strike.

Yet the Heavenly Demonic Saber was so swift that no matter how they evaded, it followed them like a shadow.

With a thunderous boom, heaven and earth shattered and the universe collapsed. The power unleashed by that sea of Immortal Dao Runes directly engulfed the four Dark Supremes.

Puff, puff, puff...

The bodies of the four Dark Supremes exploded one after another, turning into clusters of blood-colored mist.

Their final substitutes exploded into ashes, and they were also grievously wounded.

Everyone was shocked.

These four Dark Supremes had been utterly crushed by the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

"Unbelievably strong!"

"Was that really only a weapon?"

"That was an Immortal Weapon!"

"But even an Immortal Weapon should not be this powerful. We have all seen the Desolate Pagoda and the Kunlun Immortal Bell, and we have seen what they looked like when they erupted. They were definitely not this powerful!"

The awakened Dark Supremes whispered among themselves, exchanging what they had seen and heard.

The Heavenly Demonic Saber's figure appeared again without a sound, just like the true Demon Venerable.

He stepped on Supreme Red Dragon's head.

That jade-like foot appeared soundlessly in that stretch of empty space.

The Demon Venerable, handsome and imposing like a jade tree in the wind, simply stood there with his foot on Supreme Red Dragon's head.

It was an immensely shocking scene, deeply branded into everyone's hearts and impossible to erase.

It was difficult to imagine that a Dark Supreme who had once ruled the world was now being stepped on like this.

"Awooo..."

A warrior could be killed but not humiliated. Supreme Red Dragon had ruled the world for countless years; when had he ever suffered such humiliation?

He let out a shrill roar, burned his origin and life, and exploded with a thunderous boom.

He had actually self-destructed.

Destructive Great Dao Laws tore open the universe, turning this place into a land of destruction. Shattered chaos flowed everywhere, and fractured space churned within it.

Supreme Red Dragon died just like that.

Yet the Demon Venerable's body was completely unharmed. He strode through the void, and that shattered space and chaos could not devour him at all.

He seemed transcendent above all things, strolling leisurely through the abyss of the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland.

Supreme Red Dragon had died in vain. The black hole-like abyss created by his self-destruction could not harm the Demon Venerable in the slightest.

Supreme Ba Snake, Supreme White Snake, and Supreme Heavenly Demon mourned the death of a fellow creature and let out roar after roar.

Since becoming Supremes, when had they ever endured such humiliation?

Being silently stepped upon like that, unable to break free no matter how they struggled, had filled Supreme Red Dragon with profound despair. That was why he chose self-destruction to end his humiliating life.

When people looked back upon history in the future, they might write of this in vivid detail and nail him to the pillar of shame.

Northern Polar Immortal Light appeared simultaneously around the remaining three Dark Supremes.

That was the Northern Polar Immortal Light they had gathered over countless years and refined into weapons.

Now, it erupted completely and was unleashed in full.

They no longer hoped to survive.

They only wished to wound the Heavenly Demonic Saber as severely as possible.

Rumble, rumble.

The three Dark Supremes burned their origins and lives, carrying countless laws and secret arts as though they intended to perish together with the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

Supreme Immortal Dao Laws erupted from the Heavenly Demonic Saber. Its attack was incomparably fierce, its blade radiance incomparably dazzling.

It transformed into flower after flower of incomparably resplendent Great Dao Flowers, blooming in the universe.

With a thunderous boom, the three Dark Supremes were sent flying, their bodies exploding once more.

Only after a long time did they struggle to reassemble their bodies.

"Were we all wrong?"

"Could he truly be more than just an Immortal Weapon?"

"Could he be the real Demon Venerable?"

With another thunderous boom, the three Dark Supremes had their bodies blasted apart again.

After reassembling their bodies once more, the three Dark Supremes were pale, their auras even weaker.

"Sentient beings who once believed in us, in the name of Supremes, we summon the Faith Power that once scattered to return!"

The three Dark Supremes roared again and again. They used a forbidden secret art, borrowing the power of Faith Power.

They had once ruled the world, and countless people had built temples in their honor. They had once possessed endless Faith Power.

Even now, people still worshipped them and recited their honored names.

Endless Faith Power gathered. It was the power born of the belief of all living beings in heaven and earth.

Since they were going to die and fight desperately, they no longer cared whether Faith Power was poisonous.

They would use their strongest power to perish together with the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

Endless Faith Power transformed into peerless Great Dao Laws and blessed their bodies.

Their bodies erupted with sounds like thunder and tsunamis, radiating power capable of destroying heaven and earth.

Their entire bodies glittered. That light was extraordinarily unique, igniting the Faith Power and turning it into a Great Dao rule that transcended their original strength. It was the power of the human path opposing the power of the Immortal Dao.

A vast grand formation appeared. Three formations of ultimate laws overlapped one another, formed from the lifelong comprehension of the three Dark Supremes.

Then the Demon Venerable's figure vanished, transforming back into the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

With a thunderous boom, the incomparably dazzling Heavenly Demonic Saber swept across the void.

That incomparably terrifying formation was directly pierced through by the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

Puff, puff, puff...

The Heavenly Demonic Saber's momentum remained undiminished as it directly pierced through the bodies of the three Dark Supremes. Their flesh and primordial spirits exploded with a bang.

Everyone was stunned.

The Heavenly Demonic Saber had pierced three Dark Supremes to death in one strike, shaking the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

It truly deserved to be called an Immortal Weapon!

It surpassed everyone's understanding.

That stretch of starry sky was collapsing, and the place where the Heavenly Demonic Saber stood seemed to have become the source of destruction.

The bodies of the three Dark Supremes exploded into ashes, forming a blood-colored ocean that raised monstrous waves.

That was their unwillingness and fury. Their resentment was contained within it. Having suffered every humiliation, their last remaining obsession made them unwilling to die like this, yet there was nothing they could do.

With a light tremble from the Heavenly Demonic Saber, the crimson blood transformed into incomparably resplendent rosy mist and all flew into the saber.

All the Great Dao Laws contained within were absorbed by the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

Several more Dark Supreme imprints appeared on the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

It now bore the mysterious imprints of more than thirty Dark Supremes.

All of their Great Dao Laws had been completely fused into the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

It had now become an incomparably powerful Immortal Weapon.

Everyone was left gaping in shock.

"What a terrifying Heavenly Demonic Saber!"

"The Heavenly Demonic Saber truly is about to become invincible under heaven!"

"He really turned into an Immortal Weapon!"

"Where is the Demon Venerable? Did he truly merge with the Immortal Weapon as one?"

No one knew the answer.

The Heavenly Demonic Saber gave a faint tremble and shot into the Chaos Sea at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland. No one could find any trace of it again.

Along with it, the Chaotic Dragon Nest was wrapped up by the Heavenly Demonic Saber and carried into the Chaos Sea at the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland, vanishing from everyone's sight.

After an unknown length of time, the void within the Kunlun Mountain Secret Realm was suddenly torn apart, and the Heavenly Demonic Saber appeared.

With a clang, it landed in Li Ming's hand, conveying a sense of joy.

"Not bad!"

"This is the Immortal Weapon from my dreams!"

The Heavenly Demonic Saber rang sharply, responding to Li Ming's praise.

This battle came to an end, shaking the entire universe.

The entire universe was in an uproar, with discussions everywhere.

The Chaotic Dragon Nest had fallen into the Demon Venerable's hands. The Demon Venerable's Heavenly Demonic Saber had evolved into an Immortal Weapon, and the Demon Venerable seemingly had merged with the Heavenly Demonic Saber, walking an alternative path toward immortality.

This news was simply too shocking.

Though it was only speculation, every major force was spreading the news.

The Heavenly Demonic Saber, this Immortal Weapon, had slain eight Dark Supremes and bathed in Supreme blood. It was hailed as the greatest Immortal Weapon of the Age of Mythology.

As for the Desolate Pagoda, the Kunlun Immortal Bell, and the Bronze Immortal Hall, they were all prehistoric relics and had nothing to do with this era.

The Heavenly Demonic Saber was the first Immortal Weapon forged in the Age of Mythology.

After setting up layer upon layer of formations on Kunlun Mountain, Li Ming temporarily left Kunlun Mountain.

He remained in the Reincarnation Sea, continuing his cultivation and contemplation of the Dao within the Chaotic Dragon Nest.

One day, on a whim, he arrived at the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Star.

He noticed a strange fatty crawling out of the earth.

This puzzled him greatly, while also giving him a faintly strange feeling.

"Could this man be Netherworld Emperor Duan De?"

Li Ming then began keeping an eye on him.

This fatty's cultivation method was extremely unusual, completely different from ordinary cultivators. He was actually walking his own path, feeling his way forward.

Although he also cultivated the methods of the five great secret realms, he was merely using them as references. He was actually walking his own Great Dao path.

This was truly unbelievable.

Generally speaking, if one wanted to enter another field on one's own and achieve something, eventually proving the Dao and becoming a Supreme, it was difficult to break past one's limits unless one possessed astonishing talent.

Li Ming was surprised to discover that this man traveled through famous mountains and great rivers everywhere, carefully observing the naturally formed Great Dao Divine Patterns, and had actually created a path called Source Arts.

He studied all kinds of cultivation scriptures, expending enormous mental effort to research this thing he called Source Arts.

All kinds of formations and methods for studying mountains, rivers, and earth veins interested him.

His research into formations was truly astonishing.

Li Ming discovered that this fatty soon became a leading figure in the field of formations.

But this man clearly did not merely wish to study formations. He wanted to use formations to forge his own path of Source Arts.

He wanted to create an evolutionary path and cultivation method that belonged to him alone.

Li Ming watched as he branded his body with countless densely packed Source Art Runes, using those extracted mysterious runes to construct his own Source Heaven Formation.

Relying on this Source Heaven Formation, he defeated one expert after another and escaped one deadly tribulation after another.

He traveled through one famous mountain and great river after another, visiting sacred lands everywhere.

Mountains, rivers, and streams were all places for him to contemplate the Dao and cultivate. Using mountains, rivers, the sun, and the moon as his foundation, he continuously extracted the most fundamental Source Art Runes and combined them into the world paintings he desired.

He branded mysterious Source Art Runes across mountains and earth. Even Dragon Veins were fixed in place by his astonishing Source Heaven Grand Formation.

Li Ming was surprised to discover that every several decades or centuries, this man used the Source Heaven Grand Formation as a womb to nurture a new Divine Embryo. He continuously shifted from youth to old age, then from old age back to youth.

He was not living out an entire lifetime and then beginning a new one. Instead, he was continuously transforming and sublimating through the Source Heaven Grand Formation.

With every transformation, his strength grew greater, and his Dao Fruit became stronger.

This was a mysterious path, a lonely path. Yet this mysterious fatty explored it alone, racing onward without pause.

He advanced alone through a sea of mist. It was truly incredible.

He had no idea that the Demon Venerable had already set his sights on him.

Only occasionally, when a flash of inspiration struck, did he become suspicious and uneasy, but he discovered nothing.

He continued racing forward, pressing onward, until he finally reached the Quasi-Emperor realm.

By then, Li Ming was basically certain that this man was Netherworld Emperor Duan De, the Tribulation Heavenly Venerable after Corpse Spirit Awakening.

After his corpse awakened, he would prove the Dao through Source Arts and become a Supreme in this lifetime.

Li Ming silently kept a close watch on this fatty. He wanted to see with his own eyes how the fatty would create Source Arts and prove the Dao through Source Arts to become a Supreme.

One day, after this fatty continuously opened up his own path and developed his own methods, his mind seemed to tremble as if he had attained a great realization.

He stood atop an incomparably powerful Dragon Vein, on a towering mountain, and declared loudly, "The Great Dao of this world has ages of silence and ages of revival. Yet even in eras when the Great Dao does not manifest, when the laws and order of the Great Dao are difficult to touch, my Source Arts can still forge another path, extracting mysterious runes from mountains, rivers, sun, moon, grass, and trees, and continue onward."

"This Great Dao path shall be founded by me."

"Where I stand shall be the birthplace of the laws and order of Source Arts!"

"Today, I establish the Dao with my body and create the Source Heaven Book. One day, it shall surely evolve into a Heavenly Venerable Scripture."

"This Dao master has succeeded!"

At the Quasi-Emperor realm, this fatty had truly created his own scripture and secret art, the Source Heaven Book.

"Is that so? This thing is that incredible? Hand it over and let me take a look!"

A voice suddenly rang out from behind him...

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