When Zhou Xingdou and Yuan Tian walked out of the Underworld Palace, they were already reeking of alcohol, the bright moon was high in the sky, and the night breeze was cool.
If it weren't for other matters, his uncle Hades and cousin Ming Jiuyao would have really dragged him out for two more jars of Drunken Immortal Wine and fought until dawn.
At this moment, Zhou Xingdou was finally able to use his Taoist power to dispel the alcohol fumes in his body and clear his mind a little.
The gains from today's visit to the Underworld Palace are far greater than Zhou Xingdou had imagined.
Although it was only the second time they met since he could remember, the blood ties between them could not be severed. The feelings that Hades and Ming Jiuyao had for him were so strong that Zhou Xingdou felt they could be described as "pampering".
It was like treating a child. Even Ming Jiuyao was like that. He was already a Quasi-Emperor at the peak of his power and had the strength to compete for the Heavenly Heart, but he was willing to help him compete for the Heavenly Heart.
Moreover, in Ming Jiuyao's mind, this seemed to be the proper thing to do, let alone any complaints. He was practically ready to lift himself up high.
This made Stephen Chow feel a little uncomfortable. It wasn't that he disliked it, but he felt like he was being treated like a child, which made his scalp tingle.
However, he also learned about the general situation of his parents and maternal grandfather from his uncle, Hades.
His father was Zhou Qingdi, the eldest of the five emperors of the Zhou family. He was the first among the five emperors to enter the Great Luo Heaven Realm. After entering the Great Luo Heaven Realm, his strength was unparalleled, making him almost invincible even among the Great Luo realm.
He could even sense from Hades's words about his father, Zhou Qingdi, that Hades held a certain degree of admiration for his brother-in-law.
His maternal grandfather was the Absolute Emperor, one of the two extraterrestrial emperors, a being who had transcended the Great Luo Heaven Realm and was already beyond existence.
His mother, Ming Qianyue, was not originally from the Primordial Era. It was only when her younger brother, Ming Qianyu, who was also the King of the Underworld, came to visit him after he had trained in the Primordial Era and entered the Underworld Palace that he met Zhou Qingdi.
After experiencing some clichéd accidents, Ming Qianyue and Zhou Qingdi secretly fell in love and pledged their lives to each other.
Zhou Xingdou heard from his uncle, Hades, that his maternal grandfather, Jue Tianhuang, was initially very unwilling to teach Zhou Qingdi, who had abducted his daughter, a lesson from the Zhou family.
His father seemed to have been beaten quite badly by his maternal grandfather. Later, it was his own grandfather, Zhou Wuji, who stepped in and discussed the Dao with Emperor Jue Tian in the heavens, which finally convinced Emperor Jue Tian to agree to the marriage.
Zhou Qingdi and Ming Qianyue were already quite far apart when they had Zhou Xingdou. At that time, his father, Zhou Qingdi, was already a powerful expert in the Great Luo Heaven Realm, and his mother, Ming Qianyue, was already in the Great Luo Profound Realm.
Not long after Zhou Xingdou was born, Zhou Qingdi and Ming Qianyue heard that a primordial ancestral fruit had been born in a place in the Chaos Domain.
The innate ancestral fruit can lay the foundation for a child's future as a Great Luo, ensuring their future as a Great Luo. This was naturally extremely tempting for Zhou Qingdi and Ming Qianyue, who had just given birth to Zhou Xingdou, and they would never let such an opportunity pass them by.
That innate ancestral fruit does indeed exist; it's not a false rumor. At the time, the chaos in that chaotic domain trembled.
Zhou Qingdi had the power to control all the stars in the heavens and the power to sever the heavens and the Dao. But just as the two were about to seize the innate ancestral fruit, the most mysterious Heavenly Dao Sacred Domain suddenly appeared and sucked all the Great Luo Immortals there into the Sacred Domain. Only a few Great Luo Immortals who had been defeated and retreated to a distance beforehand were spared.
After Zhou Qingdi, Ming Qianyue, and a group of Daluo were sucked into the Heavenly Dao Sacred Domain, the Heavenly Dao Sacred Domain disappeared again. Even when Zhou Wuji and Jue Tianhuang reacted, they could not find any trace of their son, daughter, or the Heavenly Dao Sacred Domain.
The Sacred Domain of Heavenly Dao is the place where the Great Unification of Heavenly Dao is achieved.
The Great Unified Heavenly Way, as the name suggests, is the source of the Heavenly Way of all the heavens. The Heavenly Way governs the world, and the Great Unified Heavenly Way governs all the heavens.
This is an existence second only to the Great Dao of the Heavens and Chaos. No one knows where the Great Unified Heavenly Dao is, so naturally no one can know where the Sacred Domain of the Heavenly Dao is.
The reason I didn't tell Zhou Xingdou was because it wouldn't have been of any use to him, and knowing about the existence of the Great Unified Heavenly Dao was not a good thing.
What's even more worrying is that Zhou Xingdou might feel responsible for his parents' disappearance, leading him to become despondent. After all, for the Zhou Xingdou of the past, these events certainly didn't tell him it was a wise choice.
The reason why he was able to find the Heavenly Dao Sacred Domain after merging with the Heavenly Heart to become an emperor was because the Primordial Heavenly Heart was a unique product in all the heavens, and it did not exist in other worlds.
There are even rumors that Tianxin is related to the Great Unification of Heavenly Dao, and that among the original Tianxin Emperors, some once entered the Heavenly Dao Sacred Domain after breaking through the Emperor Realm by merging with Tianxin.
However, the Heavenly Heart Emperor is already dead, and the specific details are unknown. Moreover, this is the only known example. It is just a possibility, but no one knows how he got to the Heavenly Dao Sacred Domain.
Therefore, Stephen Chow had no reason not to fight for the will of Heaven, whether for himself or for his parents whom he had never met. He had to give it his all.
However, Hades told himself that the struggle for the Heavenly Heart was not an easy matter. Once the Heavenly Heart descended and the Heavenly Heart Domain opened, the self-proclaimed gods, ancient freaks, self-slaying emperors, and withered quasi-emperors hidden in the Primordial Era would all appear and flood into it.
My cousin Ming Jiuyao's blood and physique are no less than mine, and even a bit stronger. But even so, with his near-perfect quasi-emperor level, he is probably not top-tier in the battle for the Heavenly Heart.
Even though Zhou Xingdou cultivated both systems to the peak of Quasi-Emperor level, and his strength in the same realm dominated all the heavens, this was not a personal battle, but a group battle.
For Zhou Xingdou, even without using the full power of both systems, it wouldn't be too difficult for him to defeat his cousin Ming Jiuyao.
But what if there were ten perfect Quasi-Emperors at the Mingjiuyao level?
These quasi-emperors, along with some auxiliary quasi-emperors, could overwhelm Zhou Xingdou to the point of exhaustion. No matter how strong his recovery ability was, he could only be suppressed if he faced an overwhelming array of quasi-emperor divine abilities.
In the struggle for the Heavenly Heart, even the slightest delay could mean losing it to someone else. Although there is time to refine it, no one dares to gamble on whether someone will "grab it in one go and refine it instantly."
Moreover, Zhou Xingdou would not believe that Tianjizi would be completely unprepared for his struggle for Tianxin; Tianjizi would definitely plant spies against him.
If Stephen Chow were Tianjizi, he would definitely have made two preparations.
When one seizes the heart of heaven, it will be a tough battle, both in the outside world and within the realm of heaven itself.
At that time, the struggles in the outside world and the struggles within the Heavenly Heart Domain will be far beyond what Zhou Xingdou's Star Alliance and the Underworld Palace can withstand.
Tianjizi was carried by the Underworld King, but regardless of whether the Underworld Protector and the Underworld King's Palace could keep an eye on the Xuantian Dao Sect, Tianjizi was not alone.
What about Tianji Ancient Pavilion? What about the general trend that Tianjizi mentioned?
Fortunately, Zhou Xingdou's trip wasn't just to seek out the Underworld Palace as an external aid. He also needed to go to the Tai Shi Dao Domain to fight those battles below the Great Luo level.
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