In Chen Luo's impression, there were two Fire Cloud Caves.
One was Red Boy's abode in Journey to the West, called Fire Cloud Cave.
The other was the secluded dwelling of the Three Human Emperors in the ancient legends of his previous life.
So, was Red Boy inside this cave?
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Just kidding.
Without a doubt, this Fire Cloud Cave was connected to the Three Human Emperors of antiquity.
Chen Luo was in no hurry to enter. He merely gazed at the three characters "Fire Cloud Cave" above the dwelling. His Golden Crow Dharma Eye revolved almost to its limit, and he finally detected something unusual.
Those three characters had not been carved by anyone. They had condensed from the origin of principle itself.
In other words, if an illiterate who did not recognize a single character—or an alien who had never come into contact with Human characters—stood here now, they would still recognize the words "Fire Cloud Cave" upon seeing them.
This was a manifestation that connected directly to true essence.
To accomplish this, one had to be at least in the Creation Realm.
Chen Luo knitted his brows and recalled Grand Master Xuandu's account of the Three Human Emperors--
During the previous Xuandu War, Jieyin and Zhunti had deliberately tried to release the Heavenly Demons into the Primordial Wilderness. To protect all living beings, the Three Human Emperors had directly sacrificed themselves, destroying three ancestral abysses and heavily wounding the Will of Guixu. Taking advantage of the Will of Guixu's grievous wounds, Jieyin and Zhunti had seized the bodies of the other two Guixu Ancestral Abysses, forming the present Western Pure Land.
Now that he thought back on it carefully, this section seemed somewhat oversimplified.
The Three Emperors had sacrificed themselves to destroy three ancestral abysses—but how exactly