Chapter 1630 — The Duel of Yun and Taichu
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In the realms Lan Yutian had founded, the seven Divine Treasures formed the foundation stage, and after them came the Ancestral Court realms. The Ancestral Court realms were divided into the Four Heavenly Gates realm, the Jade Pool and Jade Terrace realm, the Heavenly Sea realm, the God-Slaying Platform realm, the Nine Prisons Platform realm, the Jade Capital realm, the Five Primes realm, and the World Tree realm.
The seven realms of the new Divine Treasures were completed by Lan Yutian alone, whereas the eight Ancestral Court realms were opened and completed by Lan Yutian, Xu Shenghua, Hua Xuanxiu, Granny Zhu, Crown Prince Youming, and others joining their strength together.
Only the Jade Capital realm, the Five Primes realm, and the World Tree realm they had never completed.
The Jade Capital realm required comprehending the Jade Capital City, but that city had been sealed by the Heavenly Venerables of the Heavenly Court and was garrisoned with troops; Lan Yutian and the others could not enter to comprehend it. Thus there was only a dim, hazy Jade Capital City, and no way to step within.
The Five Primes realm required comprehending the five primordial Daos of Taiyi, Taichu, Taishi, Taisu, and Taiji. Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua had gone more than once to the ruins of the five great mineral veins, seeking to comprehend these five Daos; but the five Daos were truly unfathomably profound, and they could never bring them to perfection.
The World Tree realm was somewhat akin to the traditional Dao realms: much like Kaihuang, who had formed his Dao through the thirty-six heavens of the Dao realm, cultivating a Daluo Heaven, growing a Dao Tree, opening Dao Flowers, and bearing Dao Fruit.
Yet the World Tree realm differed from the traditional Dao realms as well. The Dao Tree of the Dao realms was an imitation of the World Tree; in the World Tree realm, by contrast, one comprehended the World Tree of Black Mountain Holy Land and, within the Ancestral Court one had opened for oneself, used one's own Dao to gestate a World Tree.
Once the World Tree was cultivated, it would command all the various Daos within one's body; with the World Tree as their center, the Daos formed a single Daluo Heaven.
The World Tree within that Daluo Heaven could likewise open Dao Flowers and bear Dao Fruit.
Unlike the Daluo Heaven of the Dao realm system, the Daluo Heaven of the Ancestral Court system had no need to be lodged in the Ultimate Void; the Daluo Heaven of the Ancestral Court system was transformed from one's own Dao.
This was the conception of Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua. By this method they meant to keep the Ultimate Void from being crushed beneath too many Daluo Heavens and bringing on the great destruction of the cosmos.
If one did not lodge one's Dao there, but merely forged a Daluo Heaven within one's own Ancestral Court system, then no excessive burden would be laid upon the Ultimate Void, and perhaps this would be a path to resolving the destruction of the cosmos.
Moreover, different people cultivated different Daos, and so the Daluo Heaven and the World Tree within their Ancestral Courts were each unlike the others.
The traditional Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court system achieved the Dao through power; the Dao realm system achieved the Dao through the Dao; both lodged it outside themselves. Lan Yutian, Xu Shenghua, and the others lodged it within. That was the greatest difference between the new system and the old.
That Cloud Heavenly Venerable could, in so short a time, cultivate the new Ancestral Court system to the Nine Prisons Platform realm — such aptitude and comprehension were truly extraordinary.
But the new system was not complete; even its founders, Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua, had not succeeded in cultivating it through, much less he, a mere learner.
His dharma power was still far inferior to that of Taichu, a man who had brought the Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court system to its fullest perfection!