Deep within the forbidden grounds of the Fire Domain's purgatory, on the Fifteenth Layer of the Tomb of the Gods.
Towering flames completely engulfed the world. Crimson divine fire surged and churned, its heat warping the surrounding void. The roaring flames burned day and night, scorching all things, while streams of soul-shackling fire roamed among them, specifically tormenting cultivators' divine souls.
Within this deathtrap, a figure was trapped firmly at the center of the sea of fire. Several thick, cold god-binding iron chains pierced the sinews and bones of his limbs and wound tightly around his torso, binding him fast in the void so that he could not move.
This was Diyan, a supremely powerful forebear who had once held his own and sustained half the human race's fortune.
Trapped here, he endured the tortures of purgatory day after day. Bone-scorching flames ate away at his flesh, and soul-shackling divine fire repeatedly seared his divine soul. Every inch of his meridians and every strand of his consciousness struggled in extreme agony, his divine soul repeatedly approaching the brink of utter collapse. Yet he gritted his teeth and held on, surviving round after round of suffering through his unwavering devotion to the human race.
Within this purgatory of despair, a vast, mighty strand of the Human Emperor's fortune pierced layer upon layer of planar barriers, broke through the boundless sea of fire, and slowly descended into the depths of the forbidden grounds.
The five sets of fire element laws enveloping Diyan had always conflicted with and repelled one another. For hundreds of millions of years, they had remained unable to merge, becoming the greatest shackle on his cultivation realm.
The instant the Human Emperor's fortune washed over him, the previously turbulent, chaotic five-element fire origins abruptly calmed. The powers of laws