Chapter 1419 — The Dao Realm Quells the Venerable
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This Dao-Fire Ancestral Land was the birthplace of the Vermilion Bird, the Southern Emperor, and was also called the Southern Pole Forbidden Zone. Shen Mu had been there before. It held nine layers of heavenly Dao fire, scorchingly hot, and the Dao fire dissolved all things; by the eighth layer, even Heavenly Venerable Moon's lantern could not hold out, and would be set alight by the Dao fire.
The Dao fire in the Southern Pole Forbidden Zone was exceedingly powerful; it could even warp space, melt the void, and draw the distances of space close together!
The first layer of Dao fire could already turn Southern Pole Heaven into a ring, near at hand. The second layer of Dao fire warped the heavens and stars of the Southern Heaven and turned them into a second ring.
The third layer warped the Yuan Realm and the myriad realms of the heavens, turning the Yuan Realm and the myriad realms into a third ring.
Hard on its heels came Xuandu, Youdu, Guixu, the Heavenly Court, and the other three Poles; but of the phenomena of the ninth layer of Dao fire, Shen Mu had seen nothing, because by that time Heavenly Venerable Fire had already absorbed much of the power of this Dao-Fire Ancestral Land. Still, he reckoned that at the ninth layer of Dao fire one ought to be able to see the Ancestral Court, and the Ancestral Court would become the ninth ring.
Only thus could the Creators of the Primordial Era cross the vast sea of stars and swiftly come to Southern Pole Heaven to offer sacrifice to the Vermilion Bird, the Southern Emperor.
And only thus could the Vermilion Bird, the Southern Emperor, born of that sacrificial worship, become the ancient god great emperor who sheltered the Creators of the Ancestral Court.
The power of the Dao-Fire Ancestral Land was exceedingly great.
Because the Vermilion Bird, the Southern Emperor, was born of sacrifice, he could not fully unleash his own strength, and so he perished at the hands of Heavenly Venerable Fire. Heavenly Venerable Fire, for his part, had absorbed and devoured the power of the Dao-Fire Ancestral Land along with the Southern Emperor Vermilion Bird's own strength, turning it into his own cultivation and dharma power, and had comprehended the great Dao within the Dao-Fire Ancestral Land.
And now the grandeur of his cultivation had reached the very peak among the Ten Heavenly Venerables. If the Great Emperor did not come forth and the Primordial Beginning did not appear, then no one could surpass him in dharma power!
He was not bound by the great Dao of the Vermilion Bird, the Southern Emperor; he could cultivate other supreme arts, and by drawing inferences from one thing, apply them to a hundred, thereby raising his own cultivation and attainment in Dao fire. And now his attainment in Dao fire had reached a height none could attain!
When the Dao-Fire Ancestral Land of Heavenly Venerable Fire was displayed, Kaihuang's thirty-fifth-heaven sword Dao, the Jade Clarity Realm Sword Domain, was like a ring of sword light suspended outside the nine layers of Dao fire, struggling to break through layer after layer of Dao fire! Having cultivated to his level, an enemy's divine arts could hardly come near him at all; to come close, one would have to break through nine layers of Dao fire.
And those nine layers of Dao fire grew fiercer with each layer, equivalent to passing through nine layers of Dao domains!
Seeing Heavenly Venerable Fire make his move, with Dao fire spreading everywhere and space twisting, Divine Emperor Langxuan, Ancestral God King, and the rest could not help but feel a chill in their hearts: "The benefits Heavenly Venerable Fire gained from doing away with the Southern Emperor were simply too great! The power hidden in the Dao-Fire Ancestral Land of the Southern Pole Forbidden Zone is of the utmost hardness and ferocity, raising Heavenly Venerable Fire's cultivation and dharma power to a level none can match!