The master and disciple left through the South Heavenly Gate and flew towards the primordial wilderness.
On the way, as Guan Kong inquired, Hu Le taught her the method of severing the Dao Fruit.
On this day, the master and his disciple arrived at a sacred mountain.
This mountain is tens of thousands of feet high, majestic and precipitous, stretching endlessly, with strange peaks standing in rows, with ever-blooming jade flowers and immortal trees that never wither, the forests are dyed in layers of color, and the land is full of greenery.
Cranes and phoenixes fly and sing in the sky, while rare birds and animals roam through the forest.
During the day, wild beasts roam the mountains and valleys, and hundreds of birds sing; at night, frogs croak incessantly, and insects rustle.
A red cloud lingered above the mountaintop, making the peaks appear as if they were dyed with the morning glow or engulfed in flames.
"Teacher, this mountain is quite nice, but are there any immortals living here?"
Seeing that Hu Le had stopped at the foot of the mountain and was gazing into the mountains, Guan Kong couldn't help but ask.
"There is a celestial cave on the mountain called Fire Cloud Cave, which is the location of Hongyun's Taoist practice," Hu Le said calmly.
Upon hearing this, Guan Kong was taken aback, "It was actually him!"
However, a question arose in her mind: Hongyun was already dead, so Hu Le had not come here to visit his master.
Then why did he do it?
Could it be that they came for the treasures left behind by Hongyun?
As a teacher, I wouldn't do such a thing. Wouldn't I be afraid of being laughed at if word got out?
Faced with Guan Kong's doubts, Hu Le did not offer any further explanation. Instead, he urged his mount to ascend to the mountaintop and arrive deep within the clouds.
After walking for a short while in the red mist, a cave suddenly appeared ahead, with the three large characters "Fire Cloud Cave" written on it.
The master and his apprentice arrived at the cave entrance, but the cave gate was tightly closed.
Guan Kong stepped forward and flicked his finger, sending out a point of white light that landed on the cave entrance.
Suddenly, a dazzling golden light shone on the cave entrance, dispelling the white light.
It seems that when Hongyun left, he had already activated the restrictions on the cave entrance, probably to prevent outsiders from entering the cave.
However, these restrictions were no match for the master and disciple.
Guan Kong raised his hand and unleashed a palm strike.
Boom!
The lightning struck the cave entrance, and the golden light that had just appeared on the entrance was shattered by the impact of the lightning.
Without the protective barriers, the cave entrance was reduced to dust as well.
Behind the cave entrance lies a vast expanse of land and sky, which is the true location of the Fire Cloud Cave.
Within the Fire Cloud Cave, the world is extremely vast, with immortal mountains and great rivers, as well as a boundless sea. The space is filled with spiritual energy, and auspicious light and mist rise... revealing a scene of serene immortality.
Guan Kong led his mount, and the master and disciple entered that world.
Hu Le remained seated on the ox's back, not dismounting. He merely flicked his sleeve, and the Kongtong Seal flew out, shining brightly in mid-air.
Hu Le raised his hand and pointed, and the Kongtong Seal was immediately enveloped in a ball of auspicious light and flew forward.
"Keep up with me," Hu Le said casually.
Guan Kong hurriedly led the white ox and quickly followed the Kongtong Seal.
The Kongtong Seal flew forward for hundreds of thousands of miles before finally stopping in front of a majestic mountain.
On that mountain peak stood a magnificent palace.
Meanwhile, the Kongtong Seal hovered above the palace, emitting a dazzling auspicious light that illuminated the entire world.
“Disciple, what do you think of this mountain?” Hu Le suddenly asked.
Guan Kong was taken aback upon hearing this, and used his ability to observe the wind and discern the qi to look up at the mountain.
Originally, this mountain was just an area with an excessively dense spiritual energy in her eyes. But now, looking at it again, she could see wisps of human dragon energy within that spiritual energy.
"Huh? That's strange. Although Ancestor Hongyun was a primordial saint who attained enlightenment during the Heavenly Emperor era, he had no connection with the human race. How could there be human dragon energy in his Daoist temple?" Guan Kong asked curiously.
"Well, this is just the workings of nature."
"How could this be? Hongyun is just a rogue cultivator, so how could his Daoist temple generate dragon energy? Could it be that he has the potential to become an emperor in the future?"
"The future? He has already fallen, how can he have a future?"
Why is that?
"This place should be the future training ground for the Human Emperor."
"Sigh, is that so? Isn't the Human Emperor's Dojo located at the ancestral home of the human race on Mount Zhou?"
"Heh... Zhou Shan?" Hu Le smiled meaningfully. "The future is unpredictable; what is truly permanent?" Hu Le said with a sigh...
As the master and disciple were talking, they arrived at the square in front of the palace.
"Halt! Who are you? Don't you know this is the Ancestor's Daoist temple?"
The Old Ancestor Hongyun once enlightened some plants and trees in the mountains to be used for cleaning the palace.
At this moment, seeing the Kongtong Seal hanging high in the sky, and two strangers arriving, they couldn't help but step forward and block the path of the master and disciple in front of the palace gate.
"Go and send them away," Hu Le instructed.
Guan Kong stepped forward, flicked his sleeve, and a whirlwind rose from the ground, sweeping up all living beings and sending them thousands of miles away.
The master and disciple then entered the Fire Cloud Palace.
The two passed through a series of pavilions and palaces, finally arriving at the main hall, from which all the human dragon energy dissipated.
Upon entering the hall, the two immediately saw eighteen jade pillars standing there, each with a golden dragon imprisoned on it.
These golden dragons were formed from the fortune of humanity, but before they could ascend to heaven and merge into the great fortune of humanity, they were fixed on the jade pillar and could no longer escape.
"What a Hongyun! He actually has such methods!"
Guan Kong was astonished when he saw this scene.
It is obvious that these were all the work of the Old Ancestor Hongyun.
She could guess some of the truth of the matter.
Huoyun Cave received the blessings of heaven and earth, giving birth to eighteen golden dragons of human destiny. However, Hongyun learned of this and, before the dragons could ascend to heaven, he used a secret method to trap them.
Then, he continuously draws upon the Dragon's Luck of Humanity to refine himself, using it to aid his cultivation.
He kept this secret tightly under his nose all along.
But after his death, the human dragon fortune he had absorbed and refined returned to these golden dragons of fortune.
Once these golden dragons of fortune received the returning fortune, they immediately returned to their original ferocity and began to attack the restrictions set up by Ancestor Hongyun, hoping to break free and ascend to heaven again to join the human fortune.
However, as expected of one of the great supernatural beings, the restrictions he set up were not so easy to break free from.
Despite struggling for so long, the golden dragon was still unable to break through the restriction.
However, during the process of breaking through the barrier, some human dragon energy still escaped.
As a supreme treasure for suppressing the destiny of humanity, the Kongtong Seal is most sensitive to changes in the fate of humanity. Even though it is in the Heavenly Court and far away, it can still sense the presence of the dragon energy of the Fire Cloud Palace.
As a result, the Kongtong Seal became restless.
As the owner of the Kongtong Seal and also the Human Emperor, Hu Le, upon seeing the unusual state of the Kongtong Seal, made a simple calculation and thus understood the cause and effect in the darkness.
"This Hongyun is just a mere rogue cultivator, with no connection whatsoever to the human race, yet he dared to meddle with the human race's dragon energy. How could he not suffer a backlash? It seems his death this time was entirely deserved..." Hu Le thought to himself...
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