The Elder could see Chiron's readiness for knowledge, and it prompted him to continue speaking. "Legend has it that Cardinal Forbidden zones are the death place of those that could not escape the fate of their mortality.
It is said that at the peak of the middle realms of cultivation, for one to reach the state of gods, one must absorb energy from the heavens. Naturally, this would vex the heavens. The heavens are too glorious to allow the touch of man, and thus the inevitable punishment that will rain down.
It is the one known in the ancient text as the Heaven Tribulation. If one is able to beat the heaven tribulation, then they will be able to do as they wish and progress onward on the path of cultivating the energy of the gods, divine Energy.