The voice of the Ancient Great Venerable immediately caused the expressions of the several Taishang of the Heavenly Race to change.
Without a doubt, the Great Venerable's meaning was that he wished to emerge into the world.
The clan leader exclaimed in alarm, "Great Venerable, but once you emerge, the Thirty-Three Celestial Palaces will pursue and kill you."
The terror of the Thirty-Three Celestial Palaces was something no person or power could ignore, not even the Eternal Heavenly Clans.
Once the Great Venerable emerged, if the Thirty-Three Celestial Palaces wished to deal with him, even the Purple Extreme Heavenly Clan might not necessarily be able to protect him, unless the Purple Extreme Heavenly Venerate himself emerged.
However, the Purple Extreme Heavenly Venerate had long been secluded for endless eons. No one even knew if he was within the Purple Extreme Heavenly Clan; even the Great Venerable might not know.
"Heh, the Thirty-Three Celestial Palaces pursuing me?" The Heavenly Clan's Great Venerable let out a cold laugh. A pair of radiant eyes pierced forth from the divine hall, instantly traversing who knew how many billions of li, seemingly passing through the Celestial Domain to gaze at the highest point of the heavens.
There, layer upon layer of magnificent and majestic Heavenly Palace halls stood imposingly, thirty-three layers in total. That was the legendary Thirty-Three Celestial Palaces.
"Back then, although the nine Supreme Heavenly Venerates, including the Heavenly Father, established the Heavenly Covenant to restrict us Great Venerables, the Heavenly Father did not agree with the Covenant restricting the Great Venerables. It was just that a few individual Supreme Heavenly Venerates believed we Great Venerables threatened their status, and since a relative majority of Supreme Heavenly Venerates agreed, the Heavenly Father had no choice."
"Moreover, among us, there were also a very few Great Venerables who were traitors, secretly betraying our kind, which led to the failure of the Great Venerables' alliance and the deaths of several fellow Daoists."
"However, we are all Great Venerables. Even if we are not equal to Supreme Heavenly Venerates, we are still considered peers on equal footing. How can we tolerate being secluded for endless eons? That is tantamount to imprisonment in disguise."
"This venerable one wishes to see just how those five traitors in the Thirty-Three Celestial Palaces intend to pass judgment."
"But that other Great Venerable must be careful. Being fellow Great Venerables, those traitors have been bathed in endless faith and flattery day and night; they are far from simple."
On this day, the Purple Extreme Celestial Domain was shaken.
The Purple Extreme Heavenly Clan also possessed a peerless Great Venerable, and after being secluded for endless eons, he now announced he was about to enter the world.
Within several other Eternal Heavenly Clans, terrifying fluctuations also began to appear.
The world believed these were the Heavenly Clans that possessed Ancient Great Venerables. Now, the Ancient Great Venerables within their respective Eternal Heavenly Clans were beginning to awaken, preparing to emerge.
Within the Thirty-Three Celestial Domains, there were six Celestial Domains that, because their respective Eternal Heavenly Clans had been exterminated, had become lands contested by countless powers, including the various major Eternal Heavenly Clans.
However, within these six Celestial Domains, there were nine Forbidden Lands. Together with the four Forbidden Lands in the other Eternal Celestial Domains, they were collectively known as the Thirteen Forbidden Zones of Life, world-renowned life-forbidden zones that no one could recklessly enter.
It was said these were battlegrounds from the era of the Multiverse Dusk, where Supreme Heavenly Venerates had fought, leaving behind endless Eternal Heavenly Patterns that never dissipated. Anyone who mistakenly entered would undoubtedly die.
There were also Forbidden Lands that belonged to chaotic secret realms from the Primordial Era of the Origin Land, filled with infinite danger.
Even the various major Eternal Heavenly Clans dared not enter recklessly.
Because, throughout the ages, there had been overlords of the Taizhen and even Taishang levels who entered and perished within.
One could imagine just how dangerous they were.
But on this day, the Thirteen Forbidden Zones of Life also emitted terrifying fluctuations that shook the world. Brilliant, colossal beams of light shot into the sky, and Eternal Heavenly Patterns spread out, boundless in their terror.
"Those fluctuations are even more terrifying than overlords of the Taishang Realm. Could they be Ancient Great Venerables?"
"Are the Thirteen Forbidden Zones of Life perhaps the former cave abodes of Ancient Great Venerables?"
At this moment, the world trembled, suddenly understanding.
These Forbidden Zones of Life might be able to stop ordinary experts from entering, but they absolutely could not stop the Eternal Heavenly Clans from attacking and entering.
Legend had it that each Forbidden Zone of Life held endless divine treasures—either legacies left by Supreme Heavenly Venerates from the Multiverse Dusk era or supreme treasures from the Primordial Era of the Origin Land.
If the Eternal Heavenly Clans wished to attack, even with the endless Eternal Heavenly Patterns and Heavenly Venerate killing intent left by Supreme Heavenly Venerates encircling them, as long as the Eternal Heavenly Clans wielded Ancient Heavenly Venerate weapons, entering would absolutely not be a problem.
But throughout the ages, the various major Eternal Heavenly Clans had regarded the Thirteen Forbidden Zones of Life as absolute forbidden zones, not daring to set foot in them.
Even beyond the six Celestial Domains, the locations of the other four Forbidden Zones of Life were within Eternal Celestial Domains garrisoned by Eternal Heavenly Clans, yet they still could not be pacified. One could imagine they were absolutely not simple.
Now, the world understood.
It was likely that the Thirteen Forbidden Zones of Life all had the presence of Ancient Great Venerables.
They slumbered within, and even the Eternal Heavenly Clans dared not attack without permission. Otherwise, they would likely face the calamity of clan extermination.
After all, apart from the other nine Eternal Heavenly Clans that possessed Heavenly Venerates in the world, the other Eternal Heavenly Clans, without Supreme Heavenly Venerates garrisoning them, also dared not easily offend Ancient Great Venerables.
"The Thirteen Forbidden Zones of Life have all been stirred. They should be the other Ancient Great Venerables. It seems the Great Venerables of the myriad heavens are basically all beginning to awaken."
Someone murmured softly, gazing into the distance at the Eternal Heavenly Clans and Forbidden Zones of Life from which brilliant beams of light shot skyward, representing the successive awakening of Ancient Great Venerables.
Were the Great Venerables of the myriad heavens truly unable to hold back, all wanting to emerge?
Pangu Celestial Domain.
One of the Thirty-Three Celestial Domains, and also one of the most core domains.
Throughout the ages, it had also been a land contested by countless powers from the Origin Land.
Because, in the endless eons past, it was the Celestial Domain belonging to the Supreme Heavenly Venerate, the Great God Pangu.
Even after endless eons, having had much of its territory swallowed by the surrounding major Eternal Heavenly Clans, it still possessed an incomparably vast and expansive land.
Especially one epoch ago, when the many experts who rushed out from the Deficient Primordial Realm arrived at the Pangu Celestial Domain and began to take root within this domain.
Of course, throughout this epoch, the various experts from the Primordial Realm had basically been targeted by the major powers of the Origin Land.
The major powers all believed that the Primordial Realm was merely an abandoned land of exile, where only sinners of the Origin Land were banished.
There, the Eternal Heavenly Dao did not exist; all cultivators were unable to truly cultivate to the most perfect state, their Great Dao flawed.
Moreover, they even wanted to occupy the lands of the Pangu Celestial Domain—a place all major powers competed to seize—naturally not allowing other external forces to participate.
However, the various experts from the Primordial Realm also knew about the targeting by the major powers of the Origin Land. Apart from the Town Realm Heavenly Clan, which, being one of the Eternal Heavenly Clans of the Origin Land, could leave safely and return to the Town Realm Celestial Domain to reunite with the original Town Realm Heavenly Clan, the other Primordial Realm forces, even the Ancient Cosmos of the Foreign Races, were hardly a match for the major powers of the Origin Land.
Because the Origin Land was filled with countless experts. Especially the Pangu Celestial Domain, being one of the core Celestial Domains of the Thirty-Three Celestial Domains, was rich in resources and even more unwilling to allow Primordial Realm forces to compete for them.
Therefore, the various major forces of the Primordial Realm also implicitly banded together.