Tales of Herding Gods
Chapter 1597: The First Battle

Celestial Venerable Yun's heart sank. The one who was staring at him the most was probably Tai Chu.

Because of his own flaws, the Grand Emperor used the Tai Chu Emperor Sword as his foundation. He used the Dao Tree, the Dao Flower, and the Dao Fruit. In the battle of the Great Overarching Consciousness Heaven, the Grand Emperor died, and Celestial Venerable Yun took the chance to control the Grand Primordium Emperor Sword and scare Celestial Venerable Hao away. The Emperor Sword became his divine weapon.

This emperor's sword was the accompanying treasure of Tai Chu. When Tai Chu broke out of its shell, it was seized by the Grand Emperor. Its desire for the emperor's sword had always been the obsession of Tai Chu.

The instant Celestial Venerable Yun's figure rushed into the Great Overarching Consciousness Heaven, a Grand Qi Celestial Heavens crashed into it!

Celestial Venerable Yun almost lost his balance. Luckily, his Dao Tree wasn't damaged like the Grand Emperor's. Instead, it was a complete Dao Tree that could withstand it.

Swoosh—

The roots of the Dao Tree danced in the air and stabbed into his back. Instantly, surging consciousness flooded in from the roots to strengthen his corporeal body.

In Celestial Venerable Yun's body, the spirit embryo opened up and evolved into the Ancestral Court's land. The galaxy soared into the sky and transformed into Xuandu. The celestial river pierced through the sky and flew up from the sea majestically, piercing through Xuandu.

This celestial river flowed down from Xuandu and revolved around the four poles of the universe, establishing the divine treasures of the four poles. The divine treasures of the four poles opened up one after another.

Next, Yuandu opened up, and the celestial river flowed through the sky above Yuandu. It flowed into Youdu and transformed into the ghost river, opening up Youdu.

The ghost river flowed from Youdu into the Ruins of End, opening it up.

From then on, the seven great realms of the new divine treasure were cultivated by him!

This was the seven realms of the new divine treasure that Lan Yutian had imparted to him. These realms were different from the previous seven realms of the divine treasure. They didn't borrow the power of heaven and earth. In the past, other than the spirit embryo, the other six realms of the Seven Divine Treasures relied on external objects and ancient gods.

On the other hand, the new divine treasure was to observe the path of heaven and earth and open up the divine treasure. It didn't borrow power from the outside world and instead used itself as the universe, borrowing the path of heaven and earth to evolve the marvel of the inner universe.

Celestial Venerable Yun's cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds. Actually, when he cultivated to Youdu Realm, he had already escaped death and become like a god. He had boundless lifespan and had the same lifespan as heaven and earth.

If one used the standard of having boundless lifespan to become a god, the sixth realm of the new divine treasure, Youdu Realm, could be called the god realm.

However, the realm that Lan Yutian founded didn't have the so-called god realm. It didn't even have the realm of celestial palace.

After Celestial Venerable Yun opened the seven great divine treasures, his primordial spirit stood on top of the ancestral court. The Great Dao gathered and passed through the four great heavenly gates, undergoing the baptism of the Jade Pavilion in the Jade Pool, undergoing the tempering of the Heavenly Sea Dao Heart, before entering the God Execution Stage, the Nine Hells Stage.

The path ahead was hazy and chaotic. His primordial spirit appeared in front of a majestic Jade Capital City, but he couldn't step into it.

The realm that Lan Yutian had opened up, the Seven Divine Treasures, was cut off from the Foundation Establishment Realm. After that, it was the Ancestral Court Realm. The Ancestral Court Realm was divided into the Four Heavenly Gates Realm, the Jade Pool Realm, the Jade Pavilion Realm, the Heavenly Sea Realm, the God Execution Realm, the Nine Hells Stage Realm, the Jade Capital Realm, the Five Great Realm, and the World Tree Realm.

The seven realms of the New Divine Treasure were completed by Lan Yutian alone, and the eight realms of the ancestral court were created by Lan Yutian, Xu Shenghua, Hua Xuanxiu, Granny Si, Prince You Ming, and the rest.

However, they hadn't completed the Jade Capital Realm, the Five Great Realms, and the World Tree Realm.

Because the Jade Capital Realm wanted to comprehend the Jade Capital City, it was sealed by the Celestial Venerables of the celestial heavens and guarded by soldiers. Lan Yutian and the rest couldn't enter to comprehend, so they could only see a hazy piece of the Jade Capital City and couldn't enter.

The five Grand Realms required one to comprehend the five Connate Great Daos of Taiyi, Grand Primordium, Grand Primordium, Great Simplicity, and Taiji. Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua had gone to the ruins of the five major mines more than once to try and comprehend these five Great Daos. However, these five Great Daos were too profound, and they were unable to reach perfection.

The World Tree Realm was similar to the traditional Dao Realm. It was similar to the thirty-six heavens of Founding Emperor's Dao Realm, where one would achieve the Dao and cultivate the Great Overarching Heaven. The Dao Tree would bloom and bear Dao fruits.

However, the World Tree Realm was different from the traditional Dao Realm. The Dao Realm's Dao Tree imitated the World Tree, while the World Tree Realm comprehended the World Tree of the Black Mountain Holy Land and used its own Dao to nurture a World Tree in the ancestral court that it opened.

When the World Tree was cultivated, it would control the various Great Daos in the body. The Great Dao would form a Great Overarching Heaven with the World Tree as the center.

The World Tree in the Great Overarching Heaven could also bloom Dao flowers and bear Dao fruits.

What was different from the Great Overarching Heaven of the Dao Realm system was that the Great Overarching Heaven of the Ancestral Court system didn't need to be entrusted with the ultimate void. The Great Overarching Heaven of the Ancestral Court system was formed by one's own Great Dao.

This was the idea of Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua. They planned to use this method to prevent the Ultimate Void from collapsing because there were too many Great Overarching Heavens.

If he didn't entrust his Great Dao and only refined the Great Overarching Heaven in his ancestral court system, there wouldn't be too much pressure on the Ultimate Void. It might be a way to solve the destruction of the universe.

Furthermore, different people cultivated different paths. The Great Overarching Heaven and the World Tree in the ancestral court were also different.

The traditional system of celestial palaces and celestial heavens relied on strength to achieve the Dao, while the system of Dao Realm relied on the Dao to achieve the Dao. They were all entrusted to the outside world, while Lan Yutian, Xu Shenghua, and the rest relied on the inside. This was the biggest difference between the new and old systems.

Celestial Venerable Yun was able to cultivate the new ancestral court system to the Nine Hells Stage in a short period of time. Such aptitude and comprehension were truly extraordinary.

However, the new system wasn't complete, and even the founders like Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua couldn't cultivate it, let alone him, a practitioner.

His magic power was still much inferior to those who had achieved great success in the system of celestial heavens like Tai Chu.