Boundless Heavenly Venerable left, generously giving both the Myriad Dragon Nest and the Chaotic Dragon Nest to Li Ming.
Even the coffins Desolate Heavenly Emperor had forged for the eight hundred veteran soldiers, he generously gifted to Li Ming as well.
With a thunderous boom, Li Ming opened the lid of that mysterious coffin.
Inside was an incomparably vast universe, nurturing countless stars, with innumerable small worlds floating within it.
He flew inside and saw galaxy after galaxy, as well as astonishingly vast continents.
Following the information Boundless Heavenly Venerable had left him, Li Ming searched this place carefully.
Tracing that familiar aura, he lightly tore through the void.
With a thunderous boom, the void shattered. A Yellow Springs River surged and roared, flowing out of the void and back into it.
The Yellow Springs River carried the purest death aura.
In another direction, a blazing flame like the sun burned fiercely.
One yin and one yang, mutually generating and restraining each other, complementing one another as they wound through that world.
Li Ming looked at the Yellow Springs River and the fiercely burning Netherfire within that world.
Though Netherfire was an object of utmost yang, it was black as ink as it blazed.
Using the Yellow Springs River and Netherfire as focal points, Li Ming watched closely and observed carefully.
The terrain of this world appeared somewhat ruined and lifeless, yet it was actually constantly drawing in the essence of the entire universe.
This place seemed to be a dead end, yet life emerged from death, containing incomparably dense vitality.
Desolate Heavenly Emperor truly treated those eight hundred veteran soldiers well. To forge coffins that could revive them, he had even refined an entire world into them. Perhaps he had personally opened this world for them.
These dozens of incomparably enormous continents, each like a galaxy, nurtured exceedingly dense vitality that all flowed toward the center.
The Yellow Springs River and Netherfire connected with each other, forming a Yin-Yang Gate.
That incomparably dense vitality flowed into the Yin-Yang Gate.
From life came death, and from death came life, like a cycle of life and death.
This was a place where a dragon could soar and ascend to immortality, one rarely found throughout the ages.
It seized the fortune of heaven and earth.
It was absolutely a place for immortal burial, or a place for Nirvana and rebirth.
Perhaps only Desolate Heavenly Emperor could be so extravagant as to arrange such astonishing terrain regardless of cost.
Li Ming recited a mysterious incantation, one Boundless Heavenly Venerable had also taught him.
He flew inside.
Time and space became chaotic, years flowed by, and it seemed as though he passed through a strange passage.
Once all the phenomena vanished, Li Ming arrived in a mysterious world.
Endless Chaos Thunder flickered, while Nine-Colored Divine Thunder roared.
Yin-Yang Thunder flashed, earth, fire, wind, and water churned, and the entire world seemed to have triggered a Heavenly Tribulation.
Everything here matched Boundless Heavenly Venerable's description.
This was a place of ultimate glory and brilliance, yet also a place of destruction.
Life and death rested upon a single thought.
This place was densely covered in mysterious Grand Dao Runes, and there even seemed to be Immortal King-level runes among them.
Unfortunately, they had long since been worn away. Especially after falling into this world, many Immortal Dao Runes had also been erased.
It could be said that the Immortal Dao Formation here had already been suppressed and destroyed by this world.
No wonder Boundless Heavenly Venerable had generously given this world to Li Ming.
At most, this place could probably allow Li Ming to undergo one transformation. In another few tens of thousands of years, it would truly be destroyed.
All the Immortal Dao Runes might be wiped out.
The suppression suffered by Immortal Dao Runes from the Immortal Domain in this world was astonishing.
Even so, Li Ming remained extremely satisfied.
He did not care whether this world or its benefits could last forever. As long as it could help him complete one transformation, that was the greatest gain for him.
Besides, Boundless Heavenly Venerable had already imprinted a copy of the Immortal Dao Runes here for him.
Though he had only imprinted a small portion, it had already benefited Li Ming enormously.
In such a place of immortal burial, many formation patterns and Grand Dao Runes were exceedingly strange, clearly not in the style of this world.
Upon careful observation, the Formations in this world had long been damaged and could no longer block his divine sense.
He could sense mysterious auras flowing here, especially vigorous life force that seemed to be gathering somewhere.
Following Boundless Heavenly Venerable's guidance, Li Ming advanced while comprehending.
Very soon, he arrived at a mysterious place.
There, in the sky, more than ten thousand enormous dragons were flying, surging, and roaring.
Every one of them was lifelike.
At intervals, these True Dragons opened their mouths and sprayed dragon saliva like waterfalls toward the mysterious place at the center.
Like silvery-white waterfalls, it submerged the coffin in the center.
It was absorbed by the coffin at the center.
No wonder Boundless Heavenly Venerable had tried to live out a new Lifetime here.
With such an astonishing arrangement, as long as one was not stupid beyond belief, there was a high chance of living out a new Lifetime.
Look at that endless immortal essence, watering the flesh and Primordial Spirit, bringing life from death. This truly was a treasure land bestowed by heaven.
The number of True Dragons here exceeded ten thousand. They were not actual members of the Dragon Race, but manifestations of Dragon Veins.
Li Ming stared intently at the mysterious coffin in the center.
It rose and fell there like a star.
The coffin merely lay there, yet it made him feel an astonishing life force within.
"No wonder even True Dragons at the Immortal King level tried to revive within this coffin!"
"Even with the Heavenly Dao Formation completely destroyed and the Immortal Dao Runes almost entirely erased, it still possesses such astonishingly dense life force. It is unbelievable."
Li Ming proceeded forward without encountering any traps.
He arrived directly before that mysterious coffin.
It was unexpectedly an ancient, weathered Yellow-Mud Coffin.
Apart from the occasional radiance flashing across it, shining like starlight, it looked utterly ordinary when no light shone from it, no different from a common Yellow-Mud Coffin.
It was difficult to believe that this was a treasure Desolate Heavenly Emperor had personally forged for the eight hundred veteran soldiers.
"A Yellow-Mud Coffin may appear ordinary, but it contains the power of heaven and earth. It harmonizes with heaven and earth, seizing all their fortune. It can truly be called an ancient divine coffin!"
Li Ming waved his hand and opened the coffin lid.
Rumble.
Inside the coffin was another real world.
Endless Chaos surged and churned, while the power of countless suns, moons, and stars shone.
All of it was firmly bound within the coffin by a mysterious force.
After the aura inside stabilized, Li Ming looked at the dense mysterious runes on the coffin.
They were unexpectedly Boundless Heavenly Venerable's Boundless Heavenly Art.
He had not expected Boundless Heavenly Venerable to be so thoughtful, leaving behind benefits even after obtaining benefits himself.
Li Ming also saw some mysterious dragon patterns, clearly Immortal Dao Runes.
However, many had already become blurred.
Clearly, the Dragon Race would not casually pass its inheritance to other races.
To prevent other races from coveting it, those without Dragon Race bloodlines could not obtain these core dragon runes.
Even Boundless Heavenly Venerable could only pass a portion to Li Ming through divine sense.
Fortunately, Netherworld Venerable was still buried in the earth. If he were alive, he would have followed the scent here long ago to dig up these coffins.
Everything related to Desolate Heavenly Emperor interested him.
He would definitely have been interested in this coffin forged by Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
How did Li Ming know this was a coffin forged by Desolate Heavenly Emperor? Boundless Heavenly Venerable had naturally told him.
Since Boundless Heavenly Venerable had successfully transformed here, how could he not know the coffin's origins?
Besides, the great coffin outside bore the mark of the Desolate Pagoda. Was that not obviously Desolate Heavenly Emperor's mark?
Li Ming entered the Yellow-Mud Coffin and quickly found a space inside.
He casually reached in and unexpectedly pulled out countless heavenly treasures.
The mountain-like pile of treasures even shocked Li Ming.
Besides the Nine Immortal Metals, there were many rare materials he had never heard of or seen before, seemingly originating from the Immortal Domain.
All of them glittered brilliantly, radiating mysterious light.
These materials were more than sufficient for crafting Immortal Weapons, much less Extreme Dao Weapons.
Li Ming had truly not expected to obtain so many treasures.
It seemed Boundless Heavenly Venerable had deliberately left these for Li Ming as well.
Boundless Heavenly Venerable had stayed in this coffin for so long. How could he not know there were so many treasures here?
Li Ming nodded, feeling that Boundless Heavenly Venerable was a decent person worth befriending.
At the bottom of the Yellow-Mud Coffin, Li Ming soon found a mysterious Grand Dao pattern.
The pattern was exceptionally clear, depicting a True Dragon coiled into a design.
Li Ming tentatively extended his divine sense into it and soon heard an incomparably majestic voice.
"Darkness has invaded, the Immortal Domain has shattered, and countless living beings of the Immortal Domain have suffered grievous casualties..."
"I am an Immortal King from the Immortal Domain. Gravely wounded, I have spent many years healing within this coffin, yet there has been no improvement."
"If I succeed, I will emerge through Nirvana and become an Immortal King once more."
"If I fail, then everything ends."
"My bones and these treasures may all be taken, but please make certain to deliver this inheritance imprint of the Dragon Race to the Dragon Race in the Immortal Domain."
Li Ming was also startled after reading it.
Could this Dragon Race Immortal King be Red Dragon Ge Gu's father, or one of Red Dragon Ge Gu's descendants?
Who knew how many tens of thousands of years had passed since Desolate Heavenly Emperor's era? The time was impossible to calculate.
Yet Li Ming remembered that Red Dragon Ge Gu was a direct descendant of the True Dragon Immortal King and also Desolate Heavenly Emperor's nominal disciple.
Then it was not strange for Desolate Heavenly Emperor to forge this coffin for Red Dragon Ge Gu or his descendants.
Boundless Heavenly Venerable must have heard this last wish when he was here.
Why had Boundless Heavenly Venerable not reminded Li Ming about it?
In any case, if he could enter the Immortal Domain in the future, he could hand it over to Red Dragon Ge Gu's descendants.
If he could not enter, then there was nothing to worry about.
Li Ming thought that as long as he could live out a new Lifetime here, there was no need to consider anything else for now.
After all, from this day onward, the Myriad Dragon Nest would be under Li Ming's control, and no one could take it from him.
The Dragon Race's Myriad Dragon Emperor could forget about taking the Myriad Dragon Nest from Li Ming in the future.
He could go look for another dragon nest himself.
If one reasoned from this, then the Myriad Dragon Emperor and Dragon Maiden might truly be descendants of Red Dragon Ge Gu. It was simply that too many generations separated them, their bloodlines had become mixed, and after ending up in this world, their bloodlines had also been suppressed.
Li Ming shook his head and did not continue speculating.
There was no need to determine whether the Myriad Dragon Emperor and Dragon Maiden were Red Dragon Ge Gu's descendants.
Even if they truly were descendants, countless generations separated them, and their bloodlines were thin.
Furthermore, in Shrouding the Heavens, the Myriad Dragon Emperor and Dragon Maiden played Ye Fan's enemies, taking the role of antagonists.
As for whether they were worth saving, Li Ming did not think too much about it. He would deal with it when the time came.
After the Myriad Dragon Emperor attained Emperor Enlightenment, he never launched a Dark Turmoil throughout his life. Judging from that alone, his character was worthy of praise.
In the original work, Li Ming found it somewhat regrettable that the Myriad Dragon Emperor and Qilin Ancient Emperor, two Ancient Emperors who had not launched a Dark Turmoil, simply died like that.
Now that Li Ming had transformed into a Chaotic Body, his lifespan was ample, and he had plenty of time to comprehend how to live out a new Lifetime.
He comprehended the place briefly before immediately leaving.
Countless heavenly treasures shone brilliantly. Besides treasures from this world, there were also treasures from the Immortal Domain.
So many rare materials were truly invaluable.
Moreover, they belonged to a Dragon Race Immortal King, so they were definitely extraordinary.
Among those treasures, Li Ming even saw a Divine Spring Water Vein shaped like a True Dragon. It radiated mysterious purple glow, and the spring water it produced was even better than the water from the tenth level of Yaochi Holy Land.
Judging from the life force it emitted, it was even close to the medicinal liquid of an Ancient Medicine King, or the liquid of Demigod Medicine.
Li Ming also discovered a kind of mysterious white jade, crystalline and translucent like ice and snow. He had no idea what mysterious material it was, but since it came from the Immortal Domain, it could not be inferior to the Nine Immortal Metals.
While sorting through these treasures, Li Ming unexpectedly discovered a mysterious scroll.
That mysterious immortal treasure firmly drew his gaze.
With a wave of his hand, Li Ming grabbed it.
It was a mysterious scroll, crystalline and resplendent, as though condensed from the light of the sun, moon, and stars, radiating a sacred aura.
It was unexpectedly the Immortal Treasure Map from the original work!
The instant Li Ming seized it, he immediately understood what an astonishing treasure it was.
Li Ming injected a trace of divine power into it, and the ancient scroll immediately underwent an astonishing change.
Starlike coordinates appeared upon it. They were unexpectedly the coordinates of the Immortal Domain and the Strange World, as well as terrain maps and a diagram of the entrance to the Immortal Domain.
On the other side was unexpectedly a map of mysterious mountain terrain.
More than ten thousand Great Dragons coiled around and guarded that divine mountain, as though they were about to ascend as immortals.
It was unexpectedly Kunlun Mountain and the pattern of the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains.
Li Ming was startled.
"The Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains of Kunlun Mountain do not exist yet. There is only Kunlun Mountain, but the Immortal Treasure Map already shows the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains!"
"Could it be that the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains of Kunlun were actually deduced by Emperor Zun and Netherworld Venerable from this Immortal Treasure Map, restoring Kunlun Mountain's true appearance?"
"Could it be that the true Kunlun Mountain was actually fused with the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, forming the real Kunlun Mountain?"
In the original text, this ancient scroll recorded the coordinates of the major universes in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, as well as the void coordinates of the Immortal Domain.
No matter what, he had never expected that such a topographical map had existed even before the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains appeared.
And it seemed that this map had come from the Immortal Domain.
"Could this map have later fallen into the hands of Emperor Zun or Netherworld Venerable?"
"If I'm not mistaken, after Netherworld Emperor Duan De revived, he should have attained Enlightenment as Supreme through Source Arts."
"That mysterious Source Heaven Book was probably created during that lifetime of his!"
"Only by understanding Formations and the terrain of heaven and earth to a certain extent could one possibly create something so groundbreaking."
"Other than Emperor Zun and Netherworld Venerable, it was hard to imagine anyone else capable of creating such a thing."
"Moreover, the original text stated it very clearly: Emperor Zun and Duan De had jointly refined the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, shattering countless life-bearing planets and making the Grand Dao unmanifest, even rendering them unfit for life."
"Just like Mars, which had been destroyed and turned into a red desert."
Li Ming had yet to become immortal, so the Immortal Treasure Map seemed to be of little use to him.
Now that this thing had fallen into Li Ming's hands, would Kunlun Mountain still have the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains?
Would Emperor Zun and Netherworld Venerable still work together to create the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains?
After thinking it over, Li Ming still carefully stored away the Immortal Treasure Map.
It might come in handy someday.
Perhaps then he could trade it to Emperor Zun and Netherworld Venerable for some strange yet useful things.
After putting away the Immortal Treasure Map, Li Ming temporarily stored away the Yellow-Mud Coffin as well.
Since he intended to use this thing for his transformation in the future, he had to keep close watch over it.
If he left it here, perhaps the awakened Netherworld Venerable would steal it one day.
Although the terrain here was certainly important, this coffin was the most crucial thing for his transformation.
Then Li Ming looked toward those heavenly treasures.
Looking at the mountain-like pile of treasures, Li Ming felt it was necessary to refine another weapon.
He would forge a supreme heavy weapon capable of shaking heaven and earth.
His gaze turned toward the old body stored within the Bronze Immortal Hall.
Ever since this old body had been placed in the Bronze Immortal Hall and continuously received the mysterious baptism of the Immortal Dao, Li Ming had paid it no attention.
Now, looking at the lifelike old body, after careful consideration and deduction, he abandoned the idea of allowing the corpse to undergo Corpse Spirit Awakening.
Like Empress Numinous Treasure in the original text, he decided to refine this transformed old body into a Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
When the original text described the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, it said that Ruthless Empress's old body had been used as clay, supplemented by countless rare materials, to refine the supreme Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
Looking at the mountain-like heap of materials, Li Ming planned to fuse them with his old body and refine them into a supreme Devouring Heaven Demon Jar as well.
A Devouring Heaven Demon Jar belonging solely to Li Ming.
He acted as soon as he made up his mind.
Li Ming arrived at the Chaotic Dragon Nest. He would use the Nine-Colored Immortal Dao Divine Thunder here to forge the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
With a thunderous boom, Li Ming's old body was taken out, blooming with endless Chaos Divine Light. Vigorous life force flowed through it, carrying immortal radiance.
The supreme power contained within the Myriad Dragon Nest, along with the order of the Grand Dao Laws, was drawn over by Li Ming and used as Great Dao Flame to temper the heavenly treasures and Li Ming's old body.
He would fuse them into one and transform them into a true Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
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