Brilliant crimson clouds of auspicious light shifted, forming new patterns as the Great Dao’s resonant chants emanated from the tripod. Countless techniques rooted in the Red Emperor began to transform. Across the world, every practitioner of the Red Emperor’s path felt their techniques—previously weakened by the dissipation of the Five Emperors' national fortune—find a new "pillar." The source, however, was no longer the Red Emperor, but the Southern Cinnabar Spirit True Elder of the Three-Qi Heaven Monarch.
As long as one could accept this source, the image of the Red Emperor within their technique would gradually transform into that of the Heavenly Monarch. This was all made possible by the peerless great tripod that contained the ancestral luck of the Five Immortals, an object covering the entire world. The Five Directions and Five Elders were naturally among the Five Immortals, serving as Daluo Celestial Immortals and masters of the heavens.
Many of the Daoists from Xuandu Mountain present had practiced some form of the Five Emperors' techniques. For instance, a Daoist who cultivated the Li Fire Ancestral Qi should have been overjoyed that his path was being mended, offering him a chance to advance further. However, if he were to acknowledge the Red Emperor’s transformation into the Cinnabar Spirit True Elder, it would be equivalent to integrating himself into the orthodoxy of Zhou Tieyi. To then oppose Zhou Tieyi would be to slap his own face.
Chapter 527