Chapter 467

This female demon's aura was ethereal, yet her spiritual pressure revealed a thick, fierce brutality, domineering in nature.

Not only her, but among the many seats below, several demon clan members wore varied expressions, all with apprehension in their eyes.

Seeing the few peerless great demons depart, the other demons hurriedly followed to watch the spectacle.

Before the Hall of Great Achievement

Countless demonic vortices dissipated, and a figure emerged from within, his body suffused with innate divine light, like a towering, majestic primordial deity, the Dao itself lofty and grand.

Zhang Jian lowered his fingertip, and at its tip, specks of spiritual light flowed.

The ancient demon script was more complex than he had imagined.

Fortunately, he understood the Dragon-Phoenix Treasure Seal.

The ancient demon script seemed to be a continuation of the Dragon-Phoenix Treasure Seal lineage.

With his innate divine perception, he merely needed a little more time to break through these demonic script seals.

Of course, this was also because the demon cultivator who set up the demon script seal was not particularly skilled in setting seals; otherwise, he might have truly had to resort to force, breaking in violently.

Shi Rui's figure also squeezed in behind him.

His form drifted in the river of time, his body protected by a rare treasure, completely ignoring the seal.

He merely glanced at the depths of this ancient hall before him, then dared not advance, only saying.

"Master, it is them—their radiance is formidable; I dare not approach!"

Zhang Jian's innate divine eyes opened; his gaze fell upon the ancient, majestic hall, where two streams of intense demonic light flowed—one azure, its radiance forming a vast vortex capable of swallowing heaven and earth, refining all things.

That must be the Heavenly Demon Gourd.

Its power was extremely formidable, not inferior to the fourth-rank talisman decree wielded by the extramundane deity Zhang Jian had encountered in the depths of the Sea Eye.

It even surpassed it.

Yet in Zhang Jian's innate spiritual awareness, compared to the fifth-rank immortal treasure on Shi Rui's person and the Sea King's secret treasure he had seen in the Qingping Sea Dragon Palace, it still lacked some depth.

"A fourth-rank immortal treasure!"

Zhang Jian's eyes brightened.

This Heavenly Demon Gourd is indeed a fourth-rank immortal treasure.

That other treasure, the Mountain-Suppressing Seal, is likely also a fourth-rank immortal treasure.

Zhang Jian and his disciple stepped into the hall.

Only then did he hear that on the altar in the hall's center stood a small seal.

It was a black-iron small seal, its entire body emitting a dark luster; in Zhang Jian's eyes, it seemed as if countless gravitational rules were twisted and distorted, forming a divine mountain, surrounded by dense heavenly and earthly runes.

Most of these heavenly and earthly runes were for sealing, suppression, and amplification.

Simply put, they infinitely amplified gravitational force.

Sacrificing any defensive power, they became purely offensive.

Just one glance, and Zhang Jian's eyes lit up.

He lacked just such an earth-attribute immortal treasure to fully exploit the advantages of his authority as the Sovereign of State and Earth.

Zhang Jian's gaze swept the hall, then he spotted the Heavenly Demon Gourd again—it was concealed by a seal above the dome; if an ordinary immortal unaware of its nature rashly entered the hall to steal treasures, a moment's inattention would trigger the gourd's power, locking onto them.

Zhang Jian pondered, and in his palm, nine-colored divine light suddenly enveloped the entire hall.

Beneath the Map of Rivers, Mountains, and the State, the seals around the two treasures instantly activated; two streams of immortal light boiled forth, instantly bursting out—one transformed into a vast vortex, as if to swallow heaven and earth.

The other caused a terrifying black hole to appear around it, dark immortal light flowing, twisting the heavenly Dao and great laws; a black light streaked toward the void, seeking to break through and flee.

Though the Map of Rivers, Mountains, and the State was merely a third-rank immortal method, it was extraordinarily profound, as if forming a unique dimension of heaven and earth—state and cosmos within, countless temporal rivers surging, even evolving into the scene of myriad worlds' heavenly and earthly great destruction.

Yet under such omens, the two immortal treasures still did not submit.

The grand scene of destruction suppressed the Mountain-Suppressing Seal, but the dark divine mountain emitted mighty power; the Map's destructive aura seemed also suppressible and distortible by the seal.

The Dao-fruit-level immortal method contained within the fourth-rank immortal treasure slowly released, as if a black star manifested, capable of destabilizing heaven and earth, easily piercing the heavenly Dao.

That Dao-fruit-level great Dao law was too tenacious.

Meanwhile, the Heavenly Demon Gourd, once stimulated, suddenly transformed into a Heavenly Demon that swallowed heaven and earth, becoming a vast demon cloud capable of devouring the stars, sun, moon, and cosmos.

"Excellent treasure!"

Seeing this, Zhang Jian was not startled but delighted.

Such a fourth-rank immortal treasure contained higher mysteries of the immortal Dao, fully capable of serving as a reliance for roaming heaven and earth.

If it fell into the hands of this innate deity, its power would only grow stronger.

If the Zhang family were to rise as a sage-king clan, they would precisely lack such a foundation.

Seeing the two treasures shatter vast dimensions of spacetime, seeking to flee,

as he focused his will, countless layered spacetime labyrinths arose.

After the Map of Rivers, Mountains, and the State consumed the 'Heart of Dimension,' spacetime was no longer a weakness but became one of the strongest places.

The two fourth-rank immortal treasures, unattended, were like a dragon without head or a boat without rudder—in an instant, they were suppressed by the two strands of innate divine light Zhang Jian condensed.

At the same time, Zhang Jian's gaze turned toward the outside of the Hall of Great Achievement.

A strange look appeared in his eyes; nine-colored divine light flowed beneath his feet, instantly enveloping the exterior of the Hall of Great Achievement.

Shortly after, two streams of light came flying at extreme speed.

These two streams of light bore immense, mighty demonic aura.

The arrivals were precisely the Vine Dragon Demon Commander and the Nine Infant Demon Commander.

The two manifested their forms outside; the Vine Dragon Demon Commander glanced at the intact 'Hall of Great Achievement,' his eyes slightly relaxing, but his mind was fixed on the two supreme treasures of the Three Saints Palace; he hastily pushed open the door and entered the 'Hall of Great Achievement.'

The Nine Infant Demon Commander, however, suddenly halted mid-step, standing still, a hint of suspicion appearing in the depths of her eyes.

As she approached the Hall of Great Achievement, she suddenly felt a strong sense of discomfort.

A sudden impulse!

"Something's off ahead?"

She gazed toward the Hall of Great Achievement, yet did not step directly inside.

Inside the hall, Zhang Jian watched this scene, his brow slightly furrowed.

This demoness must possess a special bloodline spiritual awareness, or perhaps she is some ancient primordial exotic species, actually able to sense the presence of danger.

A flicker of emotion passed through Zhang Jian's eyes.

Clearly, the Map of Mountains and Rivers still has flaws in this place.

His next direction should be to cultivate several arts capable of concealing the senses of living beings, masking heavenly secrets, and suppressing their innate spiritual awareness, thereby perfecting the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

But this is merely a branch.

The essence of the Map of Mountains and Rivers still lies in his path; he must not reverse priorities, and should instead comprehensively increase his accumulation upon the principles of the Great Dao of the State.

Zhang Jian's gaze rested within the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

Killing intent flickered in his eyes.

Temporarily lacking one is no problem.

Then let us first slay a demon commander!

At this moment outside the Hall of Great Achievement, numerous demonic energies swirled through the void, many demon gods rushing over, and from afar they saw the great hall gradually emerging before the forbidden law.

The green-clad demoness arrived first.

"Hall of Great Achievement!"

Gazing at the manifested plaque, the green-clad demoness's eyes showed an unusual expression.

According to her knowledge, the interior of the hall is a forbidden zone of the Three Saints Palace, and most demon gods in the palace do not know where this hall is located.

This is an extremely mysterious place within the Three Saints Palace.

Legends say that inside are enshrined two treasures of the demon sovereign.

Before the previous demon sovereign fell into slumber, he placed the two treasures passed down from the Three Saints Palace into the Hall of Great Achievement, to be driven by two demon commanders, thereby stabilizing the situation of the Three Saints Palace, and also to prevent foreign invasion, as the Three Saints Palace would be unable to respond.

Now it appears these two treasures have been taken?

A strong curiosity flashed through the green-clad demoness's heart—these two treasures were originally her target, yet someone had gotten there first?

But in an instant, the green-clad demoness's expression changed abruptly.

Only to see the Hall of Great Achievement suddenly transform into a terrifying sea of raging flames, inside which a green dragon wildly darted about, burned and crying out for its parents.

Only to see, deep within the terrifying fire sea, in an instant countless boundless suns appeared—hundreds of stellar suns surging in the depths of the star river, then bursting open, a layer of terrifying golden divine flame exploding, layer upon layer detonating, as if the star river universe was being staged before the eyes of all demons.

A blue-green azure dragon emitted a cry of unbearable sorrow.

The honored divine beast, king of all beasts, whose body flowed with countless azure divine lights, could not withstand the explosion of the terrifying divine flame, and in an instant was drawn into the solar storm, where countless dragon scales shattered and even a dragon horn was blown off.

"Azure Dragon!"

The Nine Infant Demon Commander gazed upon this scene, her face sinking.

Although she and the Azure Dragon Demon Commander are not on good terms, she cannot stand by and watch the other come to harm.

Her eyes flashed with a hint of ferocity, and suddenly countless red and blue lights blossomed across her body.

This is a third-rank immortal art.

It contains the power of water and fire.

The red and blue lights flowed, constantly colliding, generating endless divine power that surged into the depths of the fire sea before her eyes.

Those raindrop-like red and blue lights, each seemingly containing boundless water-fire creation and destruction power, yet upon entering the Map of Mountains and Rivers, were like a mud cow entering the sea.

"It had no effect!"

Seeing this, the Nine Infant Demon Commander's expression changed.

That was a third-rank immortal art.

Such a third-rank immortal art's coverage would be unbearable even for a celestial immortal.

Her eyes grew gloomy, with a hint of uncertain shock in their depths.

But seeing that the Azure Dragon Demon Commander was about to be unable to resist, she drew a deep breath, and a majestic dharma form appeared around her body, with nine terrifying dragon heads seemingly manifesting above her head.

This is the true form of the Nine Infant.

It is a nine-headed dragon.

Red and blue lights flowed upon the dragon heads, and around her body faintly appeared two layers of terrifying near-Dao power.

Innate divine fire, innate true water.

"A composite-type third-rank immortal art!"

Behind her, several peerless great demons gazed upon this scene, their expressions changing.

Among them, Jin Huang stood nearby, his body flowing with golden light, the authority of the wealth god manifesting, and he appeared somewhat wary.

Prepare to retreat at the first sign of trouble!

But just then, several ice-crystal-colored arrows shot forth, carrying faint ice crystal dust, and in an instant pierced through the Nine Infant's nine-headed dragon dharma form from behind.

The arrows were extremely swift; several dragon heads of the nine-headed dragon tried to dodge, but were instantly pierced and frozen, and even one ice crystal shot toward the heart of the Nine Infant's dharma form.

Yet it was blocked by a phantom claw.

Crack—crack!!

Yet see, several dragon heads of the nine-headed dragon, and even a layer of transparent, icy-cold ice crystal rapidly covering a dragon claw, in an instant freezing over half of the Nine Infant's dharma form region, and still spreading rapidly toward other parts of the body.

The Nine Infant Demon Commander activated the surging demonic qi within her body to resist; a layer of intense innate divine fire surged within her, yet she found that the innate divine fire could not withstand the cold within.

Within the cold air lay an immortal, indestructible power.

Somewhat similar to a fourth-rank Dao fruit immortal art.

But stronger than the indestructible nature of third-rank immortal arts.

This must be a third-rank immortal art of tremendous power!

This thought surfaced, and the Nine Infant Demon Commander's face instantly changed color.

Although she and the Vine Dragon Demon Commander were strong, they were only equivalent to Heavenly Immortal level, neither had ever touched the threshold of Taiyi, being able to release a few third-rank immortal arts was already a sign of extraordinary talent.

How could they resist the power of a being suspected to be a Taiyi great power?

"This lively scene is not something to casually join!"

Among the demons behind her, many powerful demon gods noticed the signs and had already begun to beat the retreat drum, including the green-clad female demon, as well as the Golden Toad Old Ancestor Jin Huang, and several other demon gods silently turned into wisps of demonic aura and fled.

The Nine Infant Demon Commander instantly noticed this scene, seeing that other demon gods also had intentions to retreat, she angrily shouted.

"No one is allowed to leave, I, the Commander, order you all to immediately unleash full-force bombardment ahead!

Anyone who dares to leave, await the awakening of the Demon Lord, and they shall be killed without mercy!"

Her voice was violent and brutal, carrying the unique roar of dragonkind, demonic aura surged in layers around her body, and she no longer maintained her human form, instead, a hundred-zhang true form gradually emerged from before the Great Achievement Hall.

It was a ferocious and abnormal nine-headed dragon.

At this moment, her body was surrounded by intense innate divine fire, countless flames resisting the power of the Lunar Yin Forging Form Divine Light.

Within the Map of Mountains and Rivers, Zhang Jian's body flowed with divine light.

He held the Lunar Yin Ice Soul Immortal Bow in his hand.

When continuously activating this third-rank immortal treasure in succession, Zhang Jian felt no burden whatsoever, whether it was mana, innate primordial spirit, or the deduction of primordial spirit Dao-heart.

He wielded it with ease.

The physical quality of innate deities far surpassed his previously unachieved Innate Dao Fetal Immortal Body.

At this moment, he seemed to merge with the great Dao of heaven and earth, a continuous stream of vast power flowed from the depths of the source of heaven and earth into his body, without any defect of mana depletion.

This is the restorative ability of innate deities.

Endless life, indestructible creation.

At this moment beneath his feet, the Map of Mountains and Rivers evolved into endless blazing flames bombarding, and moreover, time and space inverted, countless golden lights fell from his celestial dome, completely suppressing that azure dragon with protruding bones.

The foundation of the Vine Dragon Demon Commander was that of an ancient aberrant vine dragon.

The vine dragon was also one of the wood-attribute dragon species.

It had transformed through supreme Dao cultivation into the form of a superior azure dragon.

This azure dragon's physique was extraordinarily strong and fierce; Zhang Jian's bombardment using the Golden Crow Splitting Great Law, combined with the cannonade of the Map of Mountains and Rivers, still could not overcome it.

Zhang Jian glanced at it and paid no further heed, the completely suppressed azure dragon could no longer stir up any waves.

Next, he needed to free his hands to properly deal with this Nine Infant Demon Dragon.

And there were those external demon gods peering from the void, external demon gods.

These filth ought to be cleared out once and for all.

At this moment, his body radiated divine light, the innate deity form also emerged from the depths of the ten-thousand-zhang sea of fire.

Vast divine light appeared, and in an instant, the vast divine light burst forth like an ocean, enveloping the entire Three Saints Palace, pressing down completely the surging demonic aura like an ocean.

And when Zhang Jian manifested his true form, the surrounding demon gods seeing this scene were even more horrified in expression.

That stream of innate divine light spread outward, and some slower-moving powerful demon gods actually felt they could no longer move, as the vast divine light quickly permeated, in an instant enveloping the entire Mount Mòuyún.