In his previous life, Jiang Chen had gained considerable knowledge about various material planes. Many of the geniuses he had encountered had ascended from material planes as well.
As such, he possessed a fair understanding of the matters concerning material planes.
This Heavenly Secret Realm should be the highest-level secret realm found in a mortal plane like the Divine Abyss Continent. Under normal circumstances, it would not appear easily.
Once it appeared, it was bound to bring earth-shaking changes to the mortal plane.
After all, the opportunity to reach the Heavenly Dao might not present itself even once in ten thousand years.
He had to admit, this was the first time since his reincarnation that Jiang Chen had clearly seen the four characters "Myriad Heavens Planes." Although the inscription only mentioned the Myriad Heavens Planes without providing any information about them, Jiang Chen still felt an inexplicable surge of excitement.
True, the universe was vast and home to many Myriad Heavens Planes. The Myriad Heavens Planes connected to the Divine Abyss Continent might not be the same ones governed by his father, the Celestial Emperor, in his previous life.
But regardless, the moment he heard those four words — Myriad Heavens Planes — a flood of hope and anticipation welled up within Jiang Chen.
The Heavenly Secret Realm, the Heavenly Rank Decree, the Myriad Heavens Planes…
This was all information completely beyond the reach of the Myriad Manifestations Domain.
"No wonder Bumie Tiandu and the Jiuyang Tianzong hunted someone for a thousand years, even going so far as to lay their groundwork in the Myriad Manifestations Domain for millennia. It must have been to track down these things!"
Jiang Chen had long suspected as much. If it were merely the personal legacy of Great Emperor Fei Yu, it would never have held such appeal for a first-rank sect.
After all, first-rank sects were not lacking in Titled Great Emperors. Some even had several of them.
There were even more quasi-Emperor-level powerhouses who had broken through the Emperor Realm but had yet to receive their titles.
The legacy of Great Emperor Fei Yu alone would certainly not have such tremendous draw for a first-rank sect.
At the end of these inscriptions, Great Emperor Fei Yu repeatedly emphasized that whoever obtained his legacy must destroy the Jiuyang Tianzong and Bumie Tiandu.
As Jiang Chen read these inscriptions, he could indeed sense the hatred Great Emperor Fei Yu harbored toward those two sects. After all, the fatal wounds that ultimately claimed his life had been entirely caused by their relentless pursuit.
And yet, something about it all felt off to Jiang Chen.
He felt that while Great Emperor Fei Yu's hatred for the two sects was undeniably deep, there was something about these inscriptions that struck Jiang Chen as odd.
He figured that for an ordinary successor, everything about these inscriptions made perfect sense and was entirely logical.
But in Great Emperor Fei Yu's situation, the person he should have been considering was not some ordinary successor — it was the people from Bumie Tiandu and the Jiuyang Tianzong.
After all, given that he was being hunted relentlessly, the ones most likely to find him were not other potential successors, but the people from Jiuyang Tianzong and Bumie Tiandu.
In that case, weren't these inscriptions nothing more than a futile exercise?
If people from Jiuyang Tianzong or Bumie Tiandu barged in, who would care about his inscriptions? They would simply take the legacy with ease.
His Dharma Body might even be desecrated.
At this thought, Jiang Chen halted in his tracks. He was certain that a man of Great Emperor Fei Yu's wisdom could never have overlooked such an obvious flaw.
The fact that Great Emperor Fei Yu had managed to escape the pursuit of both sects and enter this Myriad Manifestations Extreme Realm proved he was a powerhouse brimming with wisdom and resolve.
How could he have failed to consider that the first people to find this place would most likely be from Jiuyang Tianzong or Bumie Tiandu?
Then, under those circumstances, wouldn't all these inscriptions be nothing but a joke?
"If I were Great Emperor Fei Yu, I would never have overlooked such a gaping hole. I would certainly have found a way to spring a trap on those two sects."
Putting himself in Great Emperor Fei Yu's shoes, Jiang Chen felt that if it were him, he would never let his enemies have the last laugh.
And so, even though the legacy items sat right behind Great Emperor Fei Yu's remains, Jiang Chen did not rush to take them.
"I must not act rashly. Great Emperor Fei Yu surely had his reasons for doing this. Perhaps he placed these legacy items behind him precisely to lure those two sects into taking them."
Jiang Chen could almost picture what would happen if he rashly tried to take them — the entire cave mansion's defensive mechanisms might erupt all at once.
Given the formidable restrictions adorning this cave mansion, once they activated, the terrifying power they unleashed would be far beyond what Jiang Chen could withstand at his current level.
Even a Titled Great Emperor might not be able to endure the restrictions laid down by a Heavenly Rank powerhouse.
After all, this cave mansion clearly bore the handiwork of a Heavenly Rank powerhouse. Great Emperor Fei Yu had merely been its temporary custodian.
Though Jiang Chen yearned to claim these treasures, he suppressed the impulse. He decided it was wiser to first locate the core hub of this cave mansion.
This cave mansion must have been refined by Great Emperor Fei Yu at some point.
But after Great Emperor Fei Yu entered nirvana, the cave mansion had become masterless once again. If Jiang Chen could find the core hub, he could refine it anew and bring the cave mansion under his own control.
Once he had refined the cave mansion, everything within it would be under his command. Any tricks Great Emperor Fei Yu might have laid would become transparent to him.
"Right, that's the way to do it. I can't follow Great Emperor Fei Yu's train of thought. Otherwise, I'll inevitably fall into his trap."
Jiang Chen was perfectly clearheaded and rational.
He knew he had to follow his own line of reasoning and never allow himself to be led by Great Emperor Fei Yu.