Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me-Chapter 1666: One thousand eighty-three Five Great Innate Forbidden Zones

Upon entering Kunlun Mountain, one essentially ties their fate to the Three Pure Ones. If one cannot ultimately achieve the realm of Daluo Jinxian of the Primordial, their downfall is almost inevitable.

It is similar to how the Human Race’s Ancestral Land was taken by King Wu. He dared to let his human subordinates cultivate there but would never allow subordinates of other races to enter it.

Because doing so would offend all human experts, including his own human subordinates.

Jiang Chen would never risk offending the human experts. Only the Shangqing Palace, belonging to the Upper Qing Saints’ Doctrine and part of the Three Pure Ones, holds the entitlement to reside in Kunlun Mountain.

Not only the Shangqing Palace, but also the immortals of the Jiejiao Sect will reclaim their positions there and move into Kunlun Mountain in the future.

The Mystic Sect’s orthodoxy ultimately lies in Kunlun Mountain. Whether Jiang Chen likes this place or not, he must occupy Kunlun Mountain to validate his legitimacy.

Not only must the Shangqing Palace in Cang Mountain relocate, but the Shangqing Palace in Qingcheng Mountain also must move to Kunlun Mountain. In any case, Eastern Kunlun is vast enough to accommodate tens of thousands more disciples with ease.

The full relocation of the Shangqing Palace to Kunlun Mountain will free up Cang Mountain and Qingcheng Mountain, allowing the Divine Court’s strong practitioners to seize those areas as training grounds.

The Divine Court does not collect taxes; so how should daily expenses be managed? Naturally, it must take control of all renowned mountains, rivers, Cave Heavens, and Blessed Lands across the realm.

Only by mastering these realms can the Divine Court prosper further.

Similarly, families and clans seeking growth without occupying Cave Heaven Blessed Lands have no choice but to join the Divine Court and serve it, which is one of Jiang Chen’s strategies to suppress local forces from growing too strong.

唳!

A piercing phoenix cry rang out, and suddenly, the southern sky turned entirely crimson, as though consumed by flames.

Beneath the fiery sky loomed towering peaks.

Unlike ordinary mountains, however, these immense peaks were entirely shrouded in flames, with magma visibly flowing within.

This is the Immortal Volcano of the South, the dwelling place of the Phoenix Clan. At Jiang Chen’s invitation, the Phoenix Clan moved their habitat to the Nine States.

"Such dense innate fire spirit energy, almost tangible—yet alas, excess leads to harm," Jiang Chen remarked.

Even while he was deducing the whereabouts of the Demon World, the commotion from the Phoenix Clan’s relocation caught his attention, causing him to glance toward the Southern Immortal Volcano.

However, the scene before his eyes made Jiang Chen furrow his brows.

The Southern Immortal Volcano, as expected, was tied to fire. This land was born during the Great Ancient era, when the Primordial three tribes engaged in catastrophic warfare, plunging the Prehistoric World into imbalance and disarray of the Five Elements.

During that time, the Five Elements were thrown into chaos, and fiery energies surged from deep within the earth, transforming into a boundless sea of flames that set the entire southern Prehistoric World ablaze.

The sea of fire showed no mercy, and after igniting the southern lands, it continued to spread.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the Phoenix Ancestor sacrificed itself, merging with the world and transforming into the Innate Sacred Beast of Fire—the Vermilion Bird. Employing supreme divine abilities, it suppressed the raging sea of fire and ended the catastrophe.

However, the Vermilion Bird acted swiftly but ultimately arrived slightly too late, failing to save the southern Prehistoric World, which was ravaged by the subterranean fire veins and converted into countless everlasting volcanoes.

Thus, this is why the Prehistoric World features only East and West but no South.

It’s not that the South doesn’t exist—it was annihilated, transformed entirely into a fiery wasteland that is inhospitable except to the Phoenix Clan; no other living beings can be found there.

The Southern Immortal Volcano originates from the southern Prehistoric World.

As for the northern Prehistoric World, it was destroyed at the dawn of Heaven and Earth—or rather, it never had the chance to fully form.

The Ancient Thunder Marsh represents the northern Prehistoric World.

This territory was created by the epic battle between Pangu the Great God and the Thunder Demon God, serving as a flaw in the Prehistoric World. Their leftover powers were not absorbed by the land but remained intact, evolving into Thunder Marsh.

If the Prehistoric World had been able to refine Thunder Marsh, it could have successfully developed a northern land. Alas, even after the Chaos World’s fragmentation, this goal was never achieved. Thus, the northern Prehistoric World remains nonexistent.

As for the Prehistoric World’s center—where Mount Buzhou lies—that region has also been destroyed.

The five major regions of the Prehistoric World—East, West, South, North, and Center—all experienced varying degrees of calamity, with only the East remaining robust. This is precisely why the East flourishes so prominently; its advantages are overwhelmingly apparent.

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As for the Southern Immortal Volcano, the abundance of volcanoes here causes the innate fire spirit energy to be extraordinarily rich, almost tangible.

Logically, this should be a Holy Land for practitioners of fire-based methods. Yet in truth, aside from the Phoenix Clan, one can scarcely spot any other living beings within the Southern Immortal Volcano.

This isn’t due to the Phoenix Clan being domineering; rather, the Southern Immortal Volcano is inherently a region unsuitable for the survival of living beings.

As the saying goes, excess leads to harm. The overly concentrated innate fire spirit energy here instead renders it hazardous, possessing the ability to incinerate all things.

No matter the type of being, any who venture into the Southern Immortal Volcano must endure the agony of being scorched by fire. The deeper one goes, the hotter and stronger the surrounding flames become.

At the depths of the Southern Immortal Volcano, traces of Southern Brilliant Flame can even be spotted—sufficient to burn an Innate Dao Sovereign alive.

Even the Phoenix Clan, despite their natural affinity for fire, would not dare linger long in the Southern Immortal Volcano without the shelter provided by the innate fire-attributed spirit root, the Wutong Tree.

This attests to the deadly risks present in this region, making it worthy of being labeled an innate wasteland.