Heaven Dragon Flame Region

The Heaven Dragon Flame Region was its own minor world. It wasn't within the Martial Heaven Continent. To reach it, the PV disciples had to go through a transportation formation.
Long Chen learns the 2nd volume of the Great Brahma Scripture from the Pill Emperor here.
== Inside ==
When the world stopped spinning, he saw a sea of lava. In the distance were high mountains, yet they also didn't seem like mountains. Instead, they were like islands rolling on the lava. Everything here was filled with dense flame energy.
Space shook, and Long Chen appeared atop a mountain, which composed entirely of rock. The mountain had some faint crevices in an almost honeycomb-like fashion.
This was the result of the flame energy constantly washing over it. A burning smell still lingered in the air.
Looking out from this high mountain, he saw a sea of lava around him. Well... it was more like a swamp of lava. But he couldn't see far because the heat caused space to twist, cutting his effective visual range to about ten miles.See #Trivia for physics
== Description ==
The Heaven Dragon Flame Region is Pill Valley's ancestral land. It is a corner of a broken world and a land of flames. There are Earth Flame Spirit Beasts roaming around, and disciples are able to go and try to subdue them. This is a benefit given to disciples once every three years. However, only the top 300 disciples of the Divine Pill Hall and the top 500 of the Flame Divine Palace are qualified to enter. 
Within the depths of the Heaven Dragon Flame Region is the Flame God Tablet. The second volume of the Nirvana Scripture is inscribed on it. However, the tablet's immortal characters are different from the immortal characters most people are familiar with these days.
Those characters on the tablet were incredibly difficult to understand. The second volume of the Nirvana Scripture that Pill Valley used was a translation of that original inscription. But most likely, there was quite a bit of deviation between their translation and the original.
=== Map ===
This opening of the Heaven Dragon Flame Region was for disciples to test their luck. Pill Valley didn't offer the disciples maps.
The two of them were communicating with spiritual messages. From the outside, it looked like they were staring deeply into each other's eyes. Suddenly, the sound of countless hearts shattering rang out.
Even Kan Dongze's gaze turned a bit cold. Within Pill Valley, every male disciple worshipped the Pill Fairy. Thus, for her to express special treatment to Long Chen made them almost go insane with jealousy.
However, Kan Dongze's lips then curled. He noticed a certain person looking like he was about to explode. Yes, it was Jiang Zijun.
=== Earth Flames ===
The opening of the Heaven Dragon Flame Region was a benefit that Pill Valley gave its disciples. It had Earth Flame Spirit Beasts that they could subdue. As for what kind of Earth Flame they got, it would be up to their luck and power.
The top twenty Earth Flames could not be exchanged with merit points inside Pill Valley. If a disciple wanted such a thing, they would need to find it themselves, usually in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region.
Even Kan Dongze, Dan Yanxue, and Jiang Zijun were using flames outside the top twenty of Earth Flames Ranking.
A portion of these people had entered the Heaven Dragon Flame Region before, but their luck hadn't been good and they hadn't gained any suitable Earth Flames. It had to be known that Earth Flames that were too powerful weren't existences they could subdue. Instead, there was the danger of them dying.
According to Pill Valley's rules, Jade Core disciples and below had three chances to enter the Heaven Dragon Flame Region. If they didn't obtain anything in those three attempts, it could only be said that they had no destiny with the Heaven Dragon Flame Region. In the future, they probably wouldn't have much more room for growth if they couldn't find a powerful Earth Flame, and so Pill Valley might just abandon them.
The Pill Fairy was naturally an exception. She possessed an innate divine flame and didn't need to subdue Earth Flames. So she wasn't entering the Heaven Dragon Flame Region.
== Story ==
All the Divine Shield Alliance's disciples scattered. They had even more people than the Divine Spear Alliance, and their chances of running into Long Chen were greater, especially with them having been given the order to hunt down Long Chen as their top priority.
As for looking for Earth Flames, that could be done slowly. In any case, the Heaven Dragon Flame Region would be open for a month. Although it was huge, and a month's time wasn't even close to being enough to reach its edge, they all started from the same spot. For this many people to look for one person instead of Earth Flames made it very easy for them to stumble into either of them.
=== Huo Long ===
Within the Heaven Dragon Flame Region, his sight and Spiritual Strength were suppressed. But Huo Long was like a fish in water here. If he hadn't told Huo Long not to cause a disturbance, it'd probably be roaring excitedly.
The air was filled with dense flame energy, which was the best nourishment to Huo Long. It was like dense spiritual qi to cultivators.
=== Flame energy ===
The Nirvana Scripture was many times stronger here than in the outside world. Practically, all the flame energy suddenly became like obedient housepets rushing over to assist him.
== Trivia ==
*The entire Heaven Dragon Flame Region didn't have a proper landmass. All it had were floating islands. So by going through the lava, it was possible to reach any location. As they traveled, Huo Long constantly grew stronger, because its split bodies were all called back.
*Huo Long was the one with the best senses in the Heaven Dragon Flame Region.
=== Physics, optics, 'bending space' ===
Long Chen says the effective visual range is cut to about ten miles within the flame region, which can be taken to mean that this is the visual range before light from objects becomes distorted and bent due to refraction from heat:
*For optics, heat also can create mirages as in deserts. The physics explanation is that light will bend due to refraction via different mediums. The refractive index of air depends on the atmospheric temperature and pressure. For a place as hot as the heaven flame region, the temperature is high, so the refractive index (usually varying inversely with temperature) will be higher, so light rays can be bent more according to Snell's law. 
**Note that space itself is not actually bent. It is really light that is bent as is it is refracted through the molecules in the air, whose movement depends on the air temperature. Space can be bent in the context of general relativity and gravity, but usually such effects are only significant for massive objects such as black holes.
*For human visual range, look at the sun in the sky on a clear day. The sun is ~90 million miles from Earth, and humans can see it. Also on a clear night look at the stars in the sky that are light-years away. There is not really a limit on how far the human eye can see, so long as the light waves from the source are within the visible spectrum and are not refracted or bent as in this case.
==References==
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