Chapter 415

"Oh?"

Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon the ancestor of the Dongshen Sect.

A hint of interest appeared in his eyes.

Treasures capable of enhancing imperial fortune are rare.

Zhang Jian has only seen the Red Dragon Pearl so far; the Tai Xiao Blazing Fire Pearl possesses such extraordinary power.

The ancestor of the Dongshen Sect wore a faint smile, yet as he waved his hand, a streak of fierce divine light flew from his palm.

It was a treasure seal.

The treasure seal was entirely jade-green, but each face bore one or more imperial treasures, from which dense imperial aura surged forth, like a vast, turbulent ocean.

Zhang Jian glanced at it and also gave it a sideways look.

The dragon energy contained within this imperial seal was vast, like an ocean.

This is a rare imperial Dao treasure.

Zhang Jian raised his hand and drew the treasure seal into his body, slightly sensing the imperial fortune within it; his eyes showed a hint of emotion.

The imperial fortune contained in this treasure is several times richer than that of the Tai Xiao Blazing Fire Pearl.

Facing Zhang Jian's approving gaze, the Dongshen Sect ancestor smiled and said.

"Your Majesty, these years I have relied solely on this treasure to suppress the backlash of heaven and earth; now that the backlash has been resolved, I offer this treasure to Your Majesty—perhaps it may still aid in enhancing Your Majesty's imperial fortune!"

Zhang Jian smiled and said.

"Minister, you have good intentions—do you know the origin of this treasure?"

The Daoist Jingming beside him also turned his gaze over, and likewise gave it a sideways look.

He knew well the preciousness of such imperial Dao treasures.

It is rare that the Dongshen Sect ancestor would actually be willing to give this away—truly beyond his expectations.

This master of his is nothing but a miser.

Now it's the miser plucking his own feathers—and doing it himself.

Truly rare.

The Dongshen Sect ancestor bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, this object is the Nine Imperial Seals!"

"It is the seal used by the Nine Emperors of the Middle Ancient era, passed down through nine dynasties, containing dense imperial fortune; if Your Majesty digests it, there will surely be benefits!"

"Nine-dynasty imperial treasure?"

Zhang Jian casually seized the imperial seal into his hand, his eyes slightly startled.

At the same time, he suddenly understood.

No wonder the Dongshen Sect ancestor, after suffering the backlash of heaven and earth's fortune, could still endure until now.

His opportunity is truly extraordinary.

He actually managed to obtain such a treasure.

Otherwise, such rare treasures are usually hoarded by immortal sects or cultivation clans; once they fall into their hands, they would hardly ever see the light of day.

"Indeed, a rare treasure—Minister, you have good intentions!"

Zhang Jian casually stored the Nine Imperial Seal into his spatial artifact, his expression calm as he said.

"Our Great Xia Dynasty has always rewarded merit and punished fault; Minister, your offering of this treasure is meritorious—you shall be richly rewarded!"

"Effective immediately, the rank of the Dongshen Sect shall be raised by one level; two immortal cities shall be bestowed, one hundred mu of spirit fields, one market town in the clouds, immortal city markets—Dongshen Sect shall have administrative and operational rights, and may establish up to two sect guard units, each not exceeding five hundred personnel!"

Upon hearing this, the Dongshen Sect ancestor had not yet felt the full weight, but Jingming Daoist's eyes lit up brightly.

The newly established immortal dynasty of the Great Xia is a coveted prize—each immortal city is a sect's foundation, not only allowing one to extract spirit stone taxes from trade, but also surrounded by spirit veins, medicine mountains, and spirit fields—truly glittering gold mines.

These immortal cities, spirit fields, and market towns have long been under the Great Xia Dynasty's control; now, two are granted to the Dongshen Sect for management—even if only administrative and operational rights, the benefit to the sect would be immense.

Not to mention the sect's promotion in rank.

The Great Xia Dynasty has established a strict rank system for sects within its borders, each rank corresponding to specific authority; if a sect's rank is insufficient, it suffers greatly when contending for spirit veins, or even control of newly built spirit mountains and blessed lands.

When high-ranking sects vie for spirit vein control, they not only enjoy reduced spirit stone taxes, but the Great Xia Dynasty also allocates a portion of dragon aura for protection, or can mobilize nearby deities to provide necessary safeguarding.

These benefits are real and tangible.

As Zhang Jian's words fell, he waved his hand—yet two jade boxes appeared deep within his palm.

"These are Taiyin Golden Pills, capable of healing your primordial spirit injuries accumulated over these years, and providing further benefit; they should be able to replenish your immortal foundation, so as not to hinder your path!"

Zhang Jian waved his hand, and the two jade boxes landed in the Dongshen Sect ancestor's hands.

The Taiyin Golden Pill—he originally had sixteen in his hand, had consumed six himself, leaving ten; removing these two leaves only eight remaining.

"Your subject thanks Your Majesty for your generous bestowal!"

The Dongshen Sect ancestor received the two jade boxes with both hands, sensing the purity and gentle divine resonance emanating from the Taiyin Golden Pills within; his eyes brightened slightly.

As for the name Taiyin Golden Pill, he naturally knows it.

It is a supreme treasure for enhancing the primordial spirit and strengthening the foundation.

Rare to encounter, impossible to seek.

With these two Taiyin Golden Pills, he will soon return to his peak.

With such a great bestowal, the Dongshen Sect ancestor's faintly aching heart feels somewhat better.

Jingming Daoist followed closely, kneeling down, his eyes filled entirely with joy.

Master and disciple, having received great favor, now depart the Western Garden and return to the Western Mountain Dongshen Sect.

Zhang Jian's form returns to the Hall of Containing the Origin.

He takes out the Nine Imperial Seal, gazes upon it, and as he focuses his mind, activates the《Nine Dragons True Classic》; behind him, five red dragons seem to fly out, coiling around the Nine Emperors before him, the dragons' mouths aimed at the Nine Imperial Seal, beginning to swallow the vast imperial aura within.

Zhang Jian feels that, after swallowing and exhaling this ocean-like imperial fortune, his imperial sovereign authority over the state and land has grown, along with imperial Dao aura and imperial purple aura.

The authority of the State and Sovereign Emperor gradually received nourishment, gaining some benefit.

Rings of dense imperial golden light appeared around his body, this golden light gradually condensing into form within the purple-yellow divine radiance behind his head.

"Imperial fortune greatly increased!"

Roar! Roar! Roar!!

In the void, wherever Zhang Jian's gaze reached, he saw two illusory dragon shadows forming behind him from the depths of the void.

They transformed from illusion to substance, their dragon scales seemingly wrapped in layers of rich purple-red radiance.

Seven Crimson Vein Fire Dragons.

These seven Crimson Vein Fire Dragons exhaled and inhaled imperial dragon aura as vast as oceans, each possessing power not inferior to that of a Primordial Spirit True Lord; if unleashed, it would be equivalent to the combined strength of eight Primordial Spirit True Lords.

As the seven Crimson Vein Fire Dragons rotated, moments later the vast imperial aura within was completely absorbed, and the emerald-green Nine Emperor Seal before him, deprived of imperial support, gradually turned into an ordinary piece of natural beautiful jade.

Zhang Jian casually put it away, a faint smile appearing at the corners of his eyes.

Being able to cultivate seven Crimson Vein Fire Dragons, he was already greatly satisfied.

The seven Crimson Vein Fire Dragons are the incarnations of seven Primordial Spirit True Lords.

He could be said to have greatly increased his strength by a step.

After the increase, Zhang Jian recalled the ancestral shrine he had not visited for a long time.

In recent years, he had once exterminated a drought demon, slaughtered countless demons and foreign evil gods, and with the continued strengthening of the Great Xia Dynasty's national fortune, logically, performing ancestral rites at this time should yield considerable gains.

He had originally planned to accumulate more time, hoping to extract something comparable to nine-colored fertile soil from the ancestral shrine.

However, as his cultivation approached immortality, Zhang Jian decided no longer to accumulate.

Preparing to first take some wool from the ancestral shrine, to see if he could once again enhance his foundation.

After the Immortal Welcoming Banquet, Zhang Jian, citing the Great Xia Dynasty's years of rest and growing national strength, held another grand autumn sacrifice.

Besides selectively pardoning some prisoners, he also led the Zhang clan members to the Ancestral Temple to worship ancestors.

Ancestral Temple

After the numerous clansmen departed in single file, Zhang Jian, wearing his imperial robes, waved his hand, and a pile of gold and silver ingots formed a small mountain before him.

A grand great cauldron stood upright.

Inside the cauldron, countless gold and silver ingots fell like flowing water, transforming into rolling blue smoke.

However, Zhang Jian noticed that this time the quantity of gold and silver ingots burned was only about two-thirds of the previous amount.

"I fear this time's feedback will not be as good as before!"

Zhang Jian knew this in his heart, but he also did not mind.

Whether there are dates or not, we'll just beat the stick and see.

At the same time, within the bronze cauldron, another treasure was slowly burning, turning into blue smoke.

It was a treasure cauldron.

A cauldron vessel.

It was formed by his comprehension and condensation of part of the profound mysteries of the earth.

Heavenly Realm

Deep within the magnificent immortal realm.

"Qingxia Daoist Lord" had been passing this period rather comfortably and pleasantly; by selling an innate merit spiritual treasure at the Yaochi auction, she greatly alleviated her mental pressure.

She could even use a portion of incense-offering gold bricks for cultivation, enhancing her incarnation's origin.

Pure and flawless incense-offering can directly supply the incarnation for refinement.

Because the essence of this incarnation of hers is also formed from faith and incense-offering.

If she cultivates well, it is not impossible to transform it into an incarnation of Daoist Lord level.

The remaining over a hundred incense-offering gold bricks beside her had been refined by her more than half; her body radiated vast divine light, and within, a hidden power to subdue the heavenly way and earthly way lay concealed.

At this moment, "Qingxia Daoist Lord" stirred, her gaze once again turning toward the Two Realms Pool.

Yet she saw the nine-colored pool water roaring, threads of golden light boiling within it—clearly, another great surge of incense-offering faith was arising from within as an omen.

"This time the scale should be much smaller!"

At this moment, wherever "Qingxia Daoist Lord" looked, this time the scale of the sacrifice was far less extravagant than before.

Nevertheless, it should not be underestimated.

Her figure appeared beside the Two Realms Pool; with a wave of her hand, a magnificent immortal light shot into the pool, and moments later the Two Realms Pool stabilized.

Boom—Boom—Boom!!

Shortly after, it seemed as if the heavenly dao resonance emerged from within; in an instant, golden light flew out from within, falling deep into the incense-offering palace lamps beside her.

These were incense-offering golden bodies.

One incense-offering golden body equals ten million flawless incense-offering.

Merely in an instant.

Seven or eight strands of incense-offering golden light fell into the incense-offering palace lamps—those eighty million flawless incense-offering.

Then three more incense-offering golden bodies flew out from within, ultimately forming eleven rings of magnificent incense-offering golden light around the incense-offering golden lamp.

"One thousand one hundred million flawless incense-offering!"

Seeing this, "Qingxia Daoist Lord" exhaled lightly in relief; this time was still acceptable.

In the eyes of "Qingxia Daoist Lord" lay a hint of strange color.

Not knowing from when, she actually hoped the scale of the sacrifice could be smaller, and the treasures obtained could be of lower grade!

Immediately she turned her gaze once again toward the Two Realms Pool.

The omen within the Two Realms Pool had not ended.

The flowing heavenly dao resonance within grew increasingly dense, and another strand of innate divine rhythm flowed out from within.

After waiting a moment, the Qingxia Daoist soon saw the familiar primordial divine light being born from within, and in an instant a beam of divine light fell to the ground, transforming into a large yellow earthen cauldron that flew out.

With a raise of her hand, the Qingxia Daoist enveloped the great cauldron and stored it deep within her palm.

After only slight refinement, she understood the profundity of this yellow earthen great cauldron.

"The Wu Earth Stabilizing Yuan Cauldron, an earth-attribute primordial merit treasure, contains a primordial divine prohibition, and its malevolent power holds a portion of earthly authority, balancing offense and defense—truly a fine treasure!"

The Qingxia Daoist's eyes flickered with a faint brightness.

Defensive primordial merit treasures usually hold extremely high value.

With such danger outside, everyone lacks a life-preserving treasure.

Not to mention earth-attribute primordial merit treasures, which possess exceptionally strong versatility.

Among the mighty of heaven and earth, those with earth and water attributes are the most numerous.

The Qingxia Daoist was in good spirits; as for what kind of treasure to give as feedback, she had already prepared it—she had recently auctioned the primordial merit treasure 'Five Dragon Halberd,' and had just 'seized' a wondrous treasure born of heaven and earth, whose value might not match this sacrifice but was not far behind.

With a thought, a beam of intense divine light emerged from deep within her palm, transforming into a long rainbow that flew down and fell into the nine-colored pool water.

Imperial Ancestral Temple

After everyone departed, Zhang Jian sealed off this place and has been cultivating within the Imperial Ancestral Temple all along.

At this moment, incense swirled in the Imperial Ancestral Temple; wherever Zhang Jian's gaze reached, rows upon rows of spirit tablets were entwined with intense golden light, especially the spirit tablets of several forefathers, where halos swirled—appearing to have received the protection of the Xia Dynasty's national fortune, already becoming a force in the depths of the netherworld's underworld, faring quite well.

At this moment, Zhang Jian's heart stirred, and his gaze turned toward the depths of the void.

Only then did he see a golden radiance flowing across the female 'Primordial Ancestor Golden Form' at the center of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, a spatial passage forming, and in an instant a stream of light transformed into an azure-blue long river that fell into the depths of Zhang Jian's palm.

This treasure, having fallen into the depths of his palm, immediately followed the trend and merged into his body.

Merely after his primordial spirit's consciousness received part of the subsequent profound information, his eyes showed something strange.

Primordial Yin Law Dao Seed: A thread of primordial yin dao qi origin from heaven and earth fell into the origin sea of the primordial great dao law, nurtured over hundreds of derivation eons, condensed into a point of immortal primordial yin spiritual light, containing within it a point of primordial yin great dao imprint; obtaining it allows one to thereby comprehend the primordial yin great dao law, condense a primordial yin dao body, and wield part of the yin great dao authority.

Second: By this means, when yin reaches its extreme and yang is born, one can obtain the profound mystery of the next-origin primordial yin-yang great dao law.

Third: By means of this primordial yin law dao seed, condense a yin-attribute star monarch divine body, with a certain probability of obtaining the yin star monarch's 'hostility' and being obliterated……

As the third point drifted through his mind, Zhang Jian felt a flush of embarrassment.

Yet he was still greatly shocked.

Regarding the value of this primordial yin law dao seed, it is clearly not inferior to the Nine-Colored Accumulated Earth.

This and the Nine-Colored Accumulated Earth should be of the same type of heavenly and earthly rare treasure, a mythic object.

However, he walks the path of the State and Sovereign Emperor's Great Dao; for such a yin rare treasure to fall into his hands is simply a tremendous waste.

Even if he obtained the primordial yin law dao seed, he could not possibly condense a yin-attribute dao body; at most, he could use this opportunity to comprehend part of the profound mystery of the yin great dao law.

As for handing over such a treasure to others, for Zhang Jian, there is basically no such possibility.

Such treasures are so precious—how could they be wasted?