Chapter 1742 — Burned in Fire, Reborn Anew
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
" From the Lingxiao Hall and the Zixiao Hall came the gratified laughter of the Third and Fourth Young Masters: "We have finally molded you into the shape we desired. " Emperor Hao raised his head, his face heaped with smiles.
In that moment, Heavenly Venerable Yun died. And the Heavenly Venerable Hao of old, full of fighting spirit and unyielding, died as well. When Shen Mu arrived at Jingping, he sensed a strange fluctuation coming from the depths of time and space.
His expression changed slightly, then he set his heart at ease.
This fluctuation came from the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court, not only the Lingxiao Hall, but even the many and varied treasure halls within the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court.
When this fluctuation spread through the whole Yuan Realm, every power that was not of the Heavenly Court would sense that the Jade Capital realm, the Lingxiao realm, and even the Imperial Throne realm they had cultivated so diligently could no longer grant them power. In other words, these three realms had been abolished at a stroke.
Shen Mu had long anticipated this. The Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court realms were modeled on the Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court of the Heavenly Court, and the Heavenly Court was in turn modeled on the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court. The origin of all this lay in the deed of the Great Emperor and Taichu of the ancient era, who journeyed to the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court to probe its secrets.
The Creator declined; Taichu and the other ancient gods prevailed, and in accordance with their memory of the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court they established the Longhan Heavenly Court. The human Heavenly Venerable Yu came to the Heavenly Court, observed its grandeur, perceived the power concealed within it, and founded the realm of the Heavenly Palace.
In the Longhan era, Heavenly Venerable Yun and the men of surpassing talent of that time perfected the realms of Jade Capital, Lingxiao, Imperial Throne, and the rest; and thereafter, for six hundred thousand years, the Ten Heavenly Venerables perfected the realm of the Heavenly Court.
And the source of the realms of Jade Capital, Lingxiao, Imperial Throne, and Heavenly Court was the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court. Shen Mu had long ago foreseen that the Young Masters of the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court would use this to control the gods and demons of this universe, that they could strip away their power at will, and even borrow that power to strengthen the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court and themselves. And he had long since prepared a fallback plan.
This fallback was the Dao realm cultivation system, and the wholly new Ancestral Court cultivation system founded by Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua.
The Dao realm cultivation system was hard to enter, but once one had entered it, it could complement the Ancestral Court cultivation system and advance in tandem with it.
These two cultivation systems might even merge in the future, becoming the Ancestral Court Dao realm cultivation system.
"In the past, neither Jingping nor Wuyou Township had the will or the courage to promote the Ancestral Court Dao realm cultivation system.