Chapter 401: Power of the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram

After the words fell, Zhang Jian raised his hand, his eyes cold and indifferent as they swept across a certain point in the void.

With a wave of his hand, the depths of the void seemed to intertwine countless yin-yang divine lights into blades, like a massive arc blade, tearing through the void in the distance.

Yet he saw vast void ruins islands collapse, and an invisible force fiercely slashed toward one of the demonic auras.

Boom!!

A violent collision sound rang out, yet a dark demonic light appeared, within which a phantom figure offered almost no resistance, being torn apart by the blade.

This primordial spirit powerhouse of unclear demonic path identity had its soul and spirit scattered in an instant.

Zhang Jian's gaze then turned to another point in the void, where he saw a powerful demon god shrouded in magnificent demonic aura transform into blazing lightning, fleeing wildly through the void.

A hint of intense coldness flickered in his eyes.

These demons and monsters had given them no chance to retreat earlier; now wanting to flee was already impossible.

Where his gaze fell, he saw countless black stars twisted in the depths of the void, suddenly stained with specks of white light, and in an instant, a massive white hole of reincarnation violently expanded.

This was the Minor Heavens Reincarnation Law.

The fleeing lightning was about to meet the reincarnation white hole; with just a glance, this thunder leopard demon god comparable to a creation-level being was swallowed by the white hole, meeting the same fate of soul and spirit scattered.

After slaying these two demonic powerhouses, Zhang Jian felt no other gazes in the depths of the void, the terrifying strange light circulating around him gradually faded, he casually put away the Taiyin Star Soul in his hand, and his gaze fell to the ground beneath his feet.

He had always felt some doubts about the appearance of this Taiyin Star Soul.

A stream of light leapt from his head, the Eastern Emperor Treasure Mirror bursting with radiance, enveloping the wormhole below, he activated the Golden Crow Escape Light and swiftly pursued in the direction where part of the Taiyin Gold Centipedes retreated.

Zhang Jian noticed that the nests of these Taiyin Gold Centipedes seemed to be located at the center of the wormhole.

Since the Taiyin Gold Centipedes could freely enter and exit, this wormhole evidently posed no danger.

The golden escape light rushed along the wormhole and shot out.

Upon entering the wormhole, Zhang Jian only felt his vision brighten; looking around with his naked eyes, he saw that beyond the 'wormhole' and opposite the dark side, a vast expanse of snowy white light appeared before his eyes.

What met his eyes seemed to be a beautiful, blazing world of frost and snow.

The Taiyin starlight here became extraordinarily intense.

Beneath his feet lay a magnificent giant star, though equally dead and silent, it was filled with mercury-like Taiyin cold air, as if deep above his head lay the Taiyin star itself.

Besides this planet, in the distance he could also see vast beautiful, blazing nebulae, no longer dark and lightless.

Only the azure void above was covered with countless dense void islands.

"Is this the middle layer?"

Zhang Jian's gaze swept over, and his heart immediately arose with various feelings of emotion.

This Evening Moon Cave Heaven is truly mysterious, actually dividing a cave heaven into multiple layers of space.

This is a grand undertaking.

Though powerhouses of the Primordial Spirit Realm are said to be able to divide the void and possess spatial control abilities, they could by no means achieve this extent.

In an instant, Zhang Jian's vast primordial spirit divine sense swept slightly through the void, instantly locking onto the deep beneath his feet, the qi mechanism of those several Taiyin Gold Centipedes, he exercised the authority over the earth, split the ground beneath him, and in an instant drilled into it.

Deep beneath the star beneath his feet, the deeper he went, the greater the hardness.

The interior was also filled with the power of Taiyin Xuanbing, sealing the earth in ice.

If not for possessing the authority of the State and Temple Emperor Lord, Zhang Jian might not have been able to keep up with this Taiyin Gold Centipede all along.

Approximately, he had been escaping in form for about half an incense stick's time.

Zhang Jian also did not know how far he had descended; he estimated he was fast approaching the planet's core.

"These little worms are truly formidable, actually taking this planet's core as their nest..."

Zhang Jian's gaze swept along the tunnels dug out by the Taiyin Gold Centipedes, his heart secretly amazed.

The earth-escaping ability of these Taiyin Gold Centipedes is quite good; Zhang Jian's form wrapped in the earth, his speed equally extremely fast.

And yet he arrived first despite coming later.

By relying on the divine power of the earth authority, he first controlled the earth origin of this magnificent star, his primordial spirit divine sense reflecting dense Taiyin qi mechanisms.

Ahead, he detected the fishy smell of hundreds, even thousands of terrifying Taiyin Gold Centipedes.

In this deep core region, these gold centipedes moved about in the vast underground space.

The shortest among them was about three or four zhang in length, most were around ten zhang, and there were another ten or so with lengths of several tens of zhang—those were the worm kings.

But in the depths of the worm nest, the most terrifying was still one of those blazing Taiyin qi mechanisms.

That blazing Taiyin qi mechanism surpassed the level of Harmony with the Dao.

Intense Taiyin laws flowed forth, carrying the power to freeze heaven and earth.

Through the power of the earth, Zhang Jian's gaze could already see deep within the star's core, in the worm nest, a terrifying monstrous entity nearly a hundred zhang long—this was the true dragon body of Bai Nu, and even before such a colossal being, it appeared somewhat inferior.

It was a terrifying golden centipede, its body dark gold, with eighteen pairs of wings as thin as cicada's, transparent, it lazily curled up in its nest, lying on a pile of crystalline, transparent Taiyin spirit ore.

"The taste of innate spiritual essence!"

Zhang Jian selectively ignored the female gold centipede king for now; the Eastern Emperor Treasure Mirror before him appeared, showing the scene at the bottom of the worm nest, merely glancing at it, his eyes twitched violently.

In the Eastern Emperor Treasure Mirror appeared traces of numerous Taiyin Star Souls.

Each Taiyin Star Soul, rich with Taiyin spiritual essence, was padded beneath the buttocks of this hundred-zhang female worm.

Each was round and plump.

The largest were the size of a lotus seed pod.

Zhang Jian had never before seen such a quantity of Taiyin Star Souls gathered together.

At a glance, there were hundreds of pieces.

And the lower-grade Taiyin divine marrow was then spread all over the ground.

"No wonder these big worms grew so long and fat!"

At this moment, Zhang Jian's heart also jumped somewhat uncontrollably, but in an instant he was drawn all attention by a strange treasure tree.

It was a treasure tree emitting a bright silver-white radiance.

It was probably about ten feet tall, growing on a strange tree stump in the center of the cave.

The entire tree glowed with silver light, its leaves like silver moons, its whole body emitting a flawless, crystalline, holy radiance.

"What kind of treasure is this?"

At this moment, Zhang Jian's heart trembled violently.

He had no impression of this treasure tree's existence in his mind, and did not know what level of treasure it was.

But he could see that the dense yin spiritual energy within the insect nest, as well as those yin star souls, yin divine essence, and even the countless yin spirit stones, might have come from this treasure tree, or perhaps from the special tree stump beneath it.

"This treasure tree must not be damaged!"

This thought flashed through Zhang Jian's mind, and his gaze, through the Eastern Emperor Treasure Mirror, fell upon the enormous insect's rear.

Since he needed to ensure the preservation of that treasure tree, it would be best to subdue the insect queen as quickly as possible, and also ensure it would not rebel and destroy the tree.

The only divine soul immortal technique he possessed that could produce this effect was the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram!

In that moment of thought, Zhang Jian made his decision.

He immediately sat cross-legged in the void, and a nine-colored divine light suddenly burst forth from the depths of his brow.

Within the nine-colored flowing light, he faintly seemed to see a diagram that swept across heaven and earth, enveloping the vast universe, unfolding beneath his feet and gradually merging with the stellar origin below.

The power of the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram was silent and soundless, as if it had merged with the myriad phenomena of the void, without the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy.

This is the most mysterious aspect of the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

This natal immortal technique not only can manifest the universe's sun and moon, the celestial spheres, but also possesses a special ability.

Follow the heart's transformation: mountain becomes mountain, thought of water becomes water, thought of forward becomes forward, thought of backward becomes backward.

Yet, wherever the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram passed, the many yin gold centipedes surrounding the hundred-foot insect rear were successively bewildered, involuntarily following the various yin lights generated in the void, and fleeing into the diagram.

Meanwhile, the enormous insect queen faintly sensed something amiss; her thousand eyes suddenly opened, bursting forth with golden halos, the golden light shining on the stone walls, and instantly large sections of the walls dissolved, the golden light piercing straight through the void.

The surroundings showed no abnormality.

But the insect queen's sensitive intuition made her feel a vague irritation deep within; she immediately let out a low roar, her eighteen pairs of cicada wings lightly trembling, and immediately a strange, eerie sound echoed in the void, as if countless blades were slicing through the void.

The void was indeed completely severed.

Furthermore, within the stone walls, many scurrying yin gold centipedes seemed to have received some kind of summons, flying swiftly toward the insect queen.

However, the insect queen's distress only grew worse; she no longer languished, but instead raised her head high and looked around in all directions, although all kinds of techniques had achieved their ideal probing effects.

Yet she always felt that everything before her was somehow off.

Very fake!

The offspring are fake, the attack is fake, the void is fake, even the place she is in seems to have changed, yet what her thousand eyes see appears unchanged, and she can even smell countless familiar scents around her.

This contradictory feeling made the insect queen extremely furious.

And she flew into a rage!

In the void, Zhang Jian stared blankly at this scene, silently thinking to himself.

"After all, it is merely a Dao-Union level divine soul immortal technique; although the simulated heavenly and earthly changes are virtually identical, it still lacks insight into the Great Dao's laws, and for now cannot conceal the spiritual awareness of a true immortal... but trapping her is not difficult!"

Once entered into the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, she naturally becomes fish and meat on his chopping board.

Yet he remained expressionless, only a vast and magnificent imperial aura flowing from his body, merging into the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

The imperial aura of the State Emperor filled the diagram, and in an instant, the surging demonic energy around the raging yin immortal centipede was momentarily stalled.

In that instant, her body stiffened, and she only felt her heart pounding with shock.

At this moment, she only felt a surge of passionate heart blood arise, and then saw countless divine path golden lights intertwining in the void, a vague figure appearing out of nowhere, raising its palm and fiercely striking down, as if boundless divine light burst from the palm's depths, as if heaven and earth condensed upon that single palm.

Beneath the palm, the yin immortal centipede could not escape, could only let out a cry, releasing thousands of golden lights from its body surface, attempting to break the giant palm above the heavens.

Boom—!!

Under the earth-shaking roar, heaven and earth united, sun and moon joined, countless immortal dao laws were ground to nothing by the ocean-like divine path golden light, Zhang Jian's face remained calm, at this moment he slowly opened his palm, yet saw a dark-gold centipede firmly suppressed within a cluster of blazing sun, enduring the fierce scorching of the true fire of the Golden Crow.

Not only the insect queen, but also the hundreds of centipedes within the nest were all taken by her, in an instant half-burned by the true fire of the Golden Crow, leaving only those dozen or so insect kings.

The yin gold centipedes of divine soul level are of extremely high value, truly living treasures, Zhang Jian naturally would not let them go to waste.

After dealing with these yin gold centipedes, Zhang Jian then manifested his true form, directing his gaze toward the treasure in the center of the cave.