Super God Pet Shop

Chapter 1287 Heavenly Fire

"This is... the Flame of Heavenly Dao?!"

Di Qiong's gaze fell on the Nine Flavors Heavenly Flame, her eyes slowly widening in shock. She couldn't help but look at Su Ping: "Where did you get them? Weren't they sealed away...? Could it be that they've reappeared now?"

Su Ping was taken aback. The Flame of Heaven?

"I got this from another universe, a place where the gods gather. There, it's called Nine-Flavor Heavenly Fire..." Su Ping looked at Di Qiong and asked, "What are these 'sealing' things you mentioned? And who are they?"

"The Protoss?"

Di Qiong was stunned, staring at the flickering flames within the chaotic universe, and said, "What is the God Race? I've never heard of it. Is it a bloodline descended from some witch race? Nine Flavors Heavenly Fire... they might as well call it Nine Realms Heavenly Fire, after all, it contains the Dao power of the primordial nine realms..."

"The Primordial Nine Realms?"

Su Ping looked at her in surprise, feeling as if he had come into contact with an ancient secret again. However, Su Ping was not surprised that Di Qiong did not know about the God Clan. After all, the Golden Crow Clan had been isolated from the world for a long time, so it was normal that they did not know about the outside world.

Di Qiong snapped out of his daze, shook his head, and stared at Su Ping, asking, "Where did you get this Heavenly Fire? What's the situation outside?"

"As I just said, I got it from another universe, from the gods." Su Ping looked at her solemn expression and asked, "Is there anything secret about this thing?"

"These are the flames they control, capable of burning through countless worlds!" Di Qiong said solemnly. "The manifestation of heavenly fire is a sign of impending disaster. You haven't seen them before? That's right, if you had, you wouldn't be here alive. It's what they left behind when they were traveling. This cluster of fire is indeed very weak..."

"What are you referring to as 'them'?"

"It cannot be spoken of." Di Qiong's face was gloomy as he said, "With my current power, I cannot reveal their names and deeds, otherwise they will sense it and find our ancestral star."

"Just mentioning them isn't enough?" Su Ping was stunned. What kind of power was this? He was now considered a God-King, but if someone spoke ill of him behind his back, beyond his perception range, he would have absolutely no way of knowing, let alone imagining, what kind of method this was!

"I'll take you to see the elder. The elder can talk to you." Di Qiong suddenly grabbed Su Ping, glanced at the flames in his chaotic universe, and said, "You actually want to control the Heavenly Fire? You're too audacious. You'd better seal them off immediately and never reveal them again."

"Well……"

Seeing her so wary, even to the point of fear, Su Ping was somewhat astonished. However, he knew that the Golden Crow Goddess in front of him would not act this way for no reason. This flame must have a great background, perhaps even surpassing the Golden Crow clan.

It is highly likely that the Golden Crow clan was forced into isolation and blockade because of the power behind this flame.

Could it be the power behind that Crimson Sky Domain Lord?

Su Ping shook his head, directly rejecting the guess. Even if the Crimson Sky Domain Lord was backed by one of the seven great divine races, he was not qualified to make the Golden Crow Clan fearful.

Even the entire divine realm combined wouldn't be enough to make the Golden Crow clan perform like this.

After all, the Golden Crow Elder alone is a being comparable to an Ancestral God.

Su Ping had met three such elders!

And the Golden Crow Ancestor, whom these three elders all held in utmost reverence, was an existence beyond imagination!

Soon, Su Ping and Di Qiong arrived at the canopy of the Sacred Tree. There was an extremely thick branch there, like a vast world. In fact, every leaf on the Sacred Tree contained a space and time, boundless and expansive.

At the end of the branches is a bird's nest palace.

Su Ping had been here before. Now, following Di Qiong, they flew all the way to the Bird's Nest Palace. There were two Golden Crows guarding the palace. They were huge and covered the sky. Su Ping sensed them slightly and found that they were both at the Divine Emperor Realm, even more terrifying than the elders he had seen in the Heavenly Dao Academy.

"I have urgent business and need to see the elder," Diqiong said hastily.

The two golden crows exchanged a glance, and one of them said in a deep voice, "Wait a moment, I will inform them immediately."

"No need, let them in." came the aged voice of the Golden Crow Elder from inside.

Immediately afterwards, Su Ping felt his whole body covered by a power, and the scenery in front of him changed, and he appeared directly in the Bird's Nest Palace. This was a vast universe with no boundaries, and the stars were dazzling, blazing and glorious. Su Ping seemed to be suspended in the starry sky, and in front of him was a majestic golden crow.

"Elder."

Di Qiong was stunned by the sight around him, never expecting that he would be brought directly into its universe by the Grand Elder.

"I deduced that you have something extremely important to discuss with me. This is my universe, young human friend. Please feel free to speak your mind." The Golden Crow Elder slowly turned around, a dazzling star in his mouth, which he swallowed slowly, releasing a burst of heat.

Su Ping was stunned. Ancient legends say that the Golden Crow transforms into the sun, but today he saw the Golden Crow swallowing the sun.

"Elder, he possesses the Flame of Heavenly Dao!" Before Su Ping could speak, Di Qiong couldn't help but exclaim.

The Golden Crow Elder's eyes widened slightly as he asked, "Is that so?"

Su Ping was also very direct. He opened the Chaos Universe and revealed the Nine Flavors of Heavenly Fire within, saying, "This junior has come here to request senior's guidance on the Divine Technique of Fire Control."

"It really is heavenly fire..." Elder Jinwu's eyes flickered slightly upon seeing the Nine Flavors Heavenly Fire. He gazed at Su Ping and asked, "Where did you obtain this fire? What is the situation outside?"

Su Ping was taken aback. Di Qiong had asked him the same question not long ago, almost word for word.

"It was obtained from a powerful figure in the God Realm. Does Senior know the origin of this fire? This junior would also like to know." Su Ping asked with some curiosity.

"The realm of gods..."

The Golden Crow Elder murmured, "So it really was created?"

"create?"

"In the beginning of chaos, we gods and demons were born."

The Golden Crow Elder looked at Su Ping and slowly revealed an ancient secret: "All things in the world have their hierarchy, and so do we gods and demons. The powerful bloodlines born among us gods and demons call themselves 'Witches'! There are a total of 12 powerful Witch Clan members who govern the order of the world!"

"My Golden Crow clan is one of them."

He said, "Our progenitor was the Golden Witch Lord among the Twelve Ancestral Witches! Besides our clan, other witch clans are also powerful. Some of them are trying to create life forms beyond gods and demons. As far as I know, one witch clan wants to create a race called the 'God Race,' to extract a portion of divinity from the bloodline of us gods and demons and create pure divine life!"

"I just didn't expect that after that great war ended and so many years have passed, they actually succeeded. I remember when they first created them, almost all of them were failures. They either went berserk and out of control or died prematurely. The survivors were not the true gods they were trying to create, but a group of giant monsters called Titans."

"The Titans possessed unimaginable power, but were intellectually deficient, knowing only destruction, and were gradually wiped out."

"Titan?"

Su Ping was taken aback. He suddenly realized that, according to the system shop's appraisal, the bloodline in Joanna's body seemed to be the ancient bloodline of the Titan God!

"You obtained this Heavenly Fire from the God Clan. In that case, the Ancestral Witch Clan who created them should still be around. Are they currently engaged in a fierce battle?" Elder Jinwu asked Su Ping suddenly.

"A tough battle?"

Su Ping was stunned and asked, "What do you mean?"

"No war?" Elder Jinwu was stunned. Seeing Su Ping's reaction, he didn't seem to be lying. His eyes flickered for a moment, and he said, "Do you remember the 'Celestial Clan' that I mentioned to you last time? This Heavenly Fire is a celestial technique controlled by the Celestial Clan. It can burn through all the worlds. Back then, when we went into seclusion, the various races of Chaos were separated, all because of the Celestial Clan."

"The Celestial Clan..."

Su Ping immediately thought of the High Heaven Remnant Realm, which was not yet activated in the system's cultivation list.

The entrance fee to that facility is exorbitant, and he hasn't been willing to pay it.

"What is the Celestial Clan, and why are they at war with you?" Su Ping asked. Last time he didn't delve deeper into the matter, and the Golden Crow Elder didn't seem inclined to say much either, but this time he wanted to get to the bottom of it.

He felt that this touched upon the deepest secrets of the ancient era. Even Di Qiong, who was standing next to him, did not dare to call them the Celestial Clan. He had never heard of any rumors about the Celestial Clan in the Immortal Realm or the God Realm. It was clear that this was a terrifying force hidden in the long river of history.

The Golden Crow Elder was silent for a moment, his eyes reflecting the flames of the Nine Flavors Heavenly Fire. After a while, he said, "The Celestial Race are beings born at the same time as us gods and demons, but they are completely different from us. They are a different kind of life. I don't know the specific reason for their birth. There are many legends and speculations."

"The first guess is that the Celestial Race, like us gods and demons, was born from the beginning of chaos. They are life forms formed from another kind of energy at the beginning of chaos, which can be understood as purer life forms."

"The second guess is that after the birth of us gods and demons, the twelve ancestral witches rose up and gave birth to something from the various mixed powers released by us gods and demons. Simply put, it is the life that is formed from the emotions of us gods and demons, such as love, anger, hatred and so on."

"The third hypothesis is that we may have come from outside the chaos, and are intruders. But this would mean that there are other spaces outside the chaos."

The Golden Crow Elder looked at Su Ping and said, "At present, we all lean towards the first guess. The second guess cannot be confirmed, and the third guess has the least hope. After all, there are billions of universes, and we can also create our own universe. The Ancestor once said that beyond chaos, there is silent darkness, and there is no life."

"In our chaotic world, there are already countless times and countless universes. Even if the chaos is broken, it will still be endless darkness. It is impossible for a life like the Celestial Race to be born in such a place."

"Break through the chaos..."

Su Ping was somewhat shocked, finding it hard to imagine what kind of being the Golden Crow Ancestor was.

These secrets were something he was hearing about for the first time, something he was learning for the first time: beyond the chaos lay endless darkness.

"In the era when our 12 Ancestral Witches ruled the order, the Celestial Race suddenly appeared and waged a great war against us, wanting to destroy us gods and demons and rule the chaos. In that great war, countless gods and demons perished, and the Celestial Race also suffered heavy losses. Countless heavens fell and collapsed..." The Golden Crow Elder's eyes held a trace of indescribable emotion.

It seemed to be a recollection, a sadness, and a hint of fear.

Su Ping was shocked when he saw the look in his eyes. It was hard to imagine that a powerful Ancestral God Realm expert would show fear just by recalling past scenes.

Just how shocking and tragic was that great battle back then?!

"Through the valiant efforts of our ancestors, we arrived here, seeking refuge from the world. Though we are unwilling to admit it, we know that we cannot fight against fate!"

The words "can't win" struck Su Ping's heart like a heavy hammer.

Su Ping inexplicably felt as if the blood in his body had frozen for a moment, or as if it had suddenly reversed course, boiling and burning, leaving him with complex emotions.

"The reappearance of the Heavenly Fire today indicates that the Celestial Race did not completely perish and still exists in the world..." The Golden Crow Elder looked at the Heavenly Fire within Su Ping's universe with a complex expression, and said, "Many Ancestral Witches perished back then, yet they were unable to completely annihilate the Celestial Race. It seems this calamity is far from over..."

Su Ping remained silent for a moment, then asked, "Senior, why did the Celestial Clan you mentioned launch a war? Was it merely to rule Chaos?"

"Does a rule need a reason?" Elder Jinwu looked at Su Ping.

Su Ping was speechless.

"If the Celestial Clan were to emerge, the Divine Clan you went to would be extremely dangerous. You'd better not go there again. If the Celestial Clan sees you, they will never let you go. After all, you have the aura of our Golden Crow Clan on you, and your talent... is not bad either."

Di Qiong looked at Su Ping with concern, and in the end had to reluctantly acknowledge Su Ping's talent.

Su Ping fell silent for a moment. He suddenly thought of the great war that had once broken out in the Primordial God Realm. The God Realm collapsed and the Heavenly Dao Academy was almost destroyed. The strongmen in the academy led all the students in a bloody battle against the Wilderness. Could it be that the other side in that war was also the Heavenly Clan?

This conjecture is highly plausible, since the origin of this war was either a massive civil war among the various races of the divine realm, initially vying for their original territories.

Either they were at war with foreign races, and apart from the Celestial Race mentioned by Elder Jinwu, Su Ping couldn't imagine what other race could have pushed the Primordial God Realm to this extent.

"When we get back to the Heavenly Dao Academy, we'll ask the elders to find out the details of what happened back then. Elder Chan said he didn't know, but I don't believe the other elders don't know either. If all else fails, I'll search through all the secret texts in the Divine Library myself..." Su Ping's eyes flashed. This was crucial to him. If it could be confirmed, he had another terrifying guess in his heart.

"Young human friend, I know that you have come here repeatedly because there is an unimaginable being protecting you. That being can even deceive the senses of the Celestial Race."

The Golden Crow Elder stared at Su Ping and said, "If it's you, mastering this Heavenly Fire won't be a problem, but you must use it with caution. I will teach you the method to control it, and at the same time, I will give you a drop of the Ancestral Blood."

(End of this chapter)