Chapter 505: Forging the Immortal Body in the Pool of Transcendence (4K)

"Ancestor Master?"

This voice, Zhang Jian naturally would not mishear.

That was the voice of the Ancestor of Exorcism.

Besides the Ancestor of Exorcism, Zhang Jian's vast primordial spirit and divine sense also sensed that outside the Pool of Transcendence, there were several figures with extraordinarily vast and majestic auras.

These were immortals and gods of extremely powerful and domineering Dao arts.

Their entire bodies were suffused with the aura of the Tongshan Dao lineage's mana, or their techniques bore the aspect of the Tongshan Dao lineage.

He was certain this was not a demonic illusion.

"Thank you, Ancestor Master, for dispelling my doubts!"

Zhang Jian replied loudly at once.

At the same time, his vast innate divine sense fell upon the so-called "Pool of Transcendence" around him.

He saw countless white lights shuttling within the pool, confined within a vast "pond," the pond's edges built of white jade blocks, with steps ahead, and railings around the steps, but whether it was the pond walls, steps, or railings, all were carved with countless intricate ancient runes.

The ancient runes formed countless divine chains of law.

Zhang Jian read out their meaning.

"Creation," "Synchronization," "Spirit Gathering," "Tempering," "Marrow Washing," "Forging," "Heaven-Human Transformation"—the profound mysteries of myriad Great Dao laws were contained within.

Zhang Jian could easily discern some key points.

The Pool of Transcendence is the starting point where ascended beings synchronize their primordial spirits and adapt to the environment of the Three Emperors' Heavenly Realm.

As for spirit gathering, tempering, marrow washing, and forging the immortal body, these are additional benefits, enabling one to cultivate an immortal spirit body or an endless lifespan like that of the Heaven-Human race.

And if one is already an immortal god, then one only needs to seize the opportunity to synchronize the primordial spirit and adapt to the heavenly laws that differ from those of the mortal realm.

As for the benefits mentioned by the Ancestor of Exorcism, Zhang Jian soon felt them as well.

Upon first entering the Pool of Transcendence, it seems one can once again, with the aid of the pool, contact the vast and boundless source of the Heavenly Dao of the Three Emperors' Realm.

The stronger one's Dao cultivation, the longer one can linger.

This is also what is called the "newcomer's" benefit.

Shortly thereafter, within the Pool of Transcendence, a vast and magnificent Dao resonance appeared, as if directly entering the azure heavens of the heavenly realm.

"Truly, a most powerful and domineering Dao cultivation!"

Upon sensing this, the expressions of the various immortals and gods also showed some admiration.

One Daoist sighed.

"Exorcism, your disciple's Dao cultivation is now probably on par with ours, perhaps even surpassing us; among us, only Third Senior Brother and Seventh Senior Brother could possibly suppress him!"

Upon hearing this, the leading figure, clad in a silver-white Daoist robe and wearing a high crown, had his eyes flicker.

The other four Daoists also turned their gaze toward him.

The remaining nine disciples of the Tongshan Dao lineage mostly achieved considerable accomplishments, but the most outstanding among them is still the Tianhe True Person, who holds the position of Water Official Emperor, whose Dao cultivation is powerful and domineering—not only is he the actual power holder of the heavenly realm's Emperor, but his rank among the Emperors is also high, and his own Dao cultivation is extraordinarily powerful and domineering; he has gradually stepped out of the mold of the Tongshan Dao lineage, and the Tianhe Dao arts he founded have great renown in many heavenly realms.

Next is the seventh-ranked Jiuyou True Person, who acts as the Tongshan Dao lineage's representative in presiding over the Netherworld, one of the ten Netherworld Emperors of the Jiuyou Underworld, and is the Yin Underworld Emperor.

The Yin Underworld Emperor is also one of the court Emperors; although his authority is not as great as that of the Three Emperors' Water Official Emperor, in the ranking of court Emperors he is still in the top ten, and equally formidable.

After that, many other senior brothers remain, some of whom hold positions as deputy palaces.

For example, the eighth-ranked Tianren Daoist is now the Great Dragon God supervising rain in the Rain Department, and together with several other ancient immortals holds the position of deputy palace in the Rain Department, a lofty status, and he is also a Taiyi True Immortal.

He is also of dragon god descent.

Furthermore, the sixth disciple, Chimei True Person, serves as the Heavenly Emperor of the Fire Department in the Fire Department, also a deputy palace, and is the left and right hand of the Fire Virtue Star Emperor.

Although they hold lofty positions, when it comes to divine status, they may not necessarily be able to suppress Zhang Jian, this fourth-generation disciple of the Tongshan Dao lineage.

Zhang Jian's starting point has already been known by the various True Persons.

The Lingyuan Emperor, although he is a court Emperor without actual authority, but after he cultivates in the Fire Cloud Cave, he will surely advance further, obtain the status of a court Emperor with actual authority, and then further still become a heavenly realm Emperor, and an actual authority heavenly realm Emperor.

With Zhang Jian's innate divine nature and the body of a Human Emperor, this is inevitable.

The Jade Emperor deep in the heavenly court will obviously not allow such a talent to fall into other Emperors, or under the Dao Venerable's command.

……

At this moment, in the depths of the dark void, Zhang Jian's innate primordial spirit, aided by the special "platform" power of the Pool of Transcendence, merged into the profound depths of the heavenly and earthly Dao laws.

He wandered through the earth-attribute law network of the heavenly realm with the earth-emperor Dao qi.

The earth-emperor Dao qi naturally possesses a "sovereign" attribute toward other earth-attribute law networks and earth-attribute law networks, but regarding the Dao qi networks behind the law networks, he also felt a strong tremor.

Behind the Dao qi network, the hidden profound mysteries of the heavenly and earthly Dao are even more vast and boundless, difficult to resist.

"How rich and substantial the heavenly Dao source is!"

Zhang Jian sensed the vast and boundless heavenly and earthly source power of the Three Emperors' Heavenly Realm, and was also secretly shaken.

In the Zhou Mountain Realm, relying on the Human Emperor's Dao fruit, Zhang Jian could clearly feel the operational laws of the Zhou Mountain Realm, as well as the limits of many heavenly and earthly principles.

Although the heavenly Dao source network behind the Zhou Mountain Realm is vast, in his eyes it is now clearly layered.

And in the Three Emperors' Heavenly Realm, Zhang Jian felt that this realm is vast and boundless.

The heavenly and earthly Dao laws are not only unfamiliar, but also more intricate.

Even the state and community Dao laws he controls seem to have branched out into countless branches, thousands of twigs and hundreds of joints, no longer a simple planar structure, but becoming more three-dimensional, filled with a sense of dimension.

This alone suffices to show the domineering nature of such a heavenly realm.

With this understanding, Zhang Jian quickly gathered his thoughts, yet subconsciously projected his Mountains and Rivers, State and Community Diagram toward this direction, using heavenly and earthly laws as the first layer, Dao qi as the second layer, and the Dao fruit source as the third layer.

He also clearly felt the direction of his own advancement.

Immortals of the Taiyi True Number realm must necessarily perfect their Dao fruit completely, forming a multi-layered structure, rather than remaining a single earth-emperor Dao qi.

Transform Dao qi into primordial qi, accomplish quantitative change, and finally qualitative change!

With this thought in his mind, Zhang Jian suddenly felt that the heavenly and earthly law network had generated a repulsive force toward him.

"Has the authority of access expired?"

Zhang Jian had this thought flash through his mind, and in an instant he felt his innate primordial spirit withdraw from the context of the heavenly and earthly great Dao laws.

Only a vast and magnificent Dao divine light, also involuntarily emanated from his entire body, resembling the ancient heavenly Dao in its vastness and grandeur.

Outside the Transformation Immortal Pool, many immortals gazed upon this scene with slight astonishment.

To have gained such obvious benefit in such a short time made them unable to help but feel moved.

Cultivating as an innate divine being is truly astonishingly remarkable.

Being born close to the Dao is indeed extraordinary.

Zhang Jian opened his eyes and looked, only to see that most of the other immortals and deities within the Transformation Immortal Pool were still using the pool's power to synchronize their primordial spirits, reforging their immortal bodies, or transforming their heavenly-human forms.

Especially Zhang Yifu and his wife, Qi Yuhua, Zhang Duan, and some civil and military officials of mortal origin.

Everyone had become a 'jade cocoon' form, with countless heavenly-human transformations wondrously flowing upon the 'jade cocoon'.

Everyone was still fully digesting this special 'ascension blessing'!

Seeing this, Zhang Jian simply stepped out of the Transformation Immortal Pool first; his body flowed with immortal light, his imperial robes receded and turned into ordinary purple long robes, his hair flowed freely and was simply bound into a crown by a metallic hairpin, his figure was tall and slender, though without the imperial robes, he still bore the bearing of a dragon striding and tiger stepping, his eyes stern, making it hard to look directly at him.

"What a fine appearance!"

Gazing at this scene, one Daoist could not help but clap, his eyes smiling.

Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon this ancient immortal, his expression stirring.

Although this was the first time seeing him, he had already recognized the identity of this patriarch.

The Ancestral Hall indeed contains the golden-body manifestations of several second-generation patriarchs.

Besides, the Dharma Patriarch, seeing this, also smiled and introduced Zhang Jian.

"A Yu, this is your tenth grand-uncle patriarch, and also the orthodox ancestor of your crown princess!"

"As for these three before you, they are respectively your Tianhe grand-uncle patriarch, your Chimei grand-uncle patriarch, and your Tianyu grand-uncle patriarch!"

The three other immortals of varied appearance also smiled and nodded slightly at Zhang Jian.

Zhang Jian then clasped his hands and said.

"Disciple pays respects to all grand-uncle patriarchs and grand-uncle patriarchs!"

A hint of smile appeared in his eyes; having just ascended to the Heavenly Gate, he already had sect elders coming to attend to him—this treatment is only available to immortals of such ancient Dao lineages as the Tongshan Dao Tong.

With the elders attending to him, he will avoid many detours.

Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon the five patriarchs before him.

Twelve patriarchs fell, three perished, nine remain, and before him are five of them.

Specifically, the third-ranked Water Official Great Emperor Tianhe True Person, the sixth-ranked Chimei True Person, the eighth-ranked Tianyu Daoist, the ninth-ranked Dharma Patriarch, and the tenth-ranked Si Clan Second Ancestor, who is also the offspring of Patriarch Great Yu, the founder of the Great Yu Dynasty.

Besides these, there are four grand-uncle and grand-uncle patriarchs absent: respectively, the fourth-ranked Qingyuan Old Ancestor, the seventh-ranked Yinyue Emperor Nine Abyss True Person, the eleventh-ranked Zidian Old Ancestor, and the twelfth-ranked Tianyun True Person.

The five patriarchs' gazes fell upon Zhang Jian, they slightly swept over and nodded secretly.

The leading one, the Water Official Emperor Tianhe True Person, smiled and said.

"A Yu, since you have relinquished the Human Emperor Dao Fruit, the coming tens of thousands of years will be the best period for your cultivation; you must not miss it. The Fire Cloud Cavern Heaven of the Three Emperors' Celestial Realm is also an excellent place—you should strive to stay there for a while, as it will benefit your future!"

Zhang Jian's heart stirred; the words of this Tianhe grand-uncle patriarch carried hidden meaning.

He immediately prepared to ask further.

"May I ask, Tianhe grand-uncle patriarch, are there other methods within?"

The Water Official Great Emperor slightly nodded.

"How long you can remain in the Fire Cloud Cavern Heaven also depends on your own fortune and opportunities; there is competition here, you will naturally know when the time comes. However, some inner pathways, the Tongshan Dao Tong will later leave you a professional 'strategy guide'!"

Zhang Jian's eyes moved.

There's even a 'strategy guide'!

This is exactly what he likes most—patriarchs who give 'strategy guides'!

Moreover, it is fitting, as he comes from the Three Emperors and Five Elders Association, as one of the major Dao lineages of that association, the Si Yu lineage must necessarily be the local power in the Three Emperors' Celestial Realm.

After thinking, Zhang Jian again recalled the immense spacetime storm in the depths of the heavenly realm passage earlier.

"Tianhe grand-uncle patriarch, Patriarch, was the storm in the depths of the heavenly gate just now naturally formed, or...?"

His eyes held a hint of solemnity.

If the depths of the heavenly gate are so dangerous, then other ascending immortals could hardly enter the heavenly realm safely!

The Tianhe True Person's smile faded, and he spoke in a deep voice.

"Someone has locked onto your ascension auspicious moment and moved against you, but he has now reaped the bitter fruit himself!"

"Your patriarch and several other Majesties acted together against him; this time he will not die without being stripped of a layer of skin!"

Zhang Jian's expression startled.

"May I ask, Tianhe grand-uncle patriarch, which divine being acted against us?"

The Tianhe True Person gazed upon him and said.

"The Xuji Magic Lord of the Blood Sea Magic Realm!"

"A尊 Magic Dao Lord?"

Zhang Jian's pupils contracted slightly.

The Tianhe True Person did not mind this.

"Do you still remember the magic lord's primordial spirit borrowed three thousand years ago using the State Altar King Ding for refinement?"

Without waiting for Zhang Jian to ask, the Tianhe True Person continued.

"That is the doing of the Xuji Magic Lord; you ruined his great undertaking, so he bears a grudge!

"

Several second-generation patriarchs of the Tongshan Dao Tong were also smiling faintly.

Several gazes fell upon Zhang Jian; besides the Tianhe True Person, whose high cultivation allows him to keep his Dao心 calm, the other few Daoists felt somewhat shaken.

Someone's gaze fell upon the Immortal Ascension Pool; they rarely get to see such a grand spectacle.

A single ascension brought up hundreds of people.

In the vast void of the myriad heavens, only a few mighty beings who have attained the Dao can achieve such a scene.

Now, these mighty beings have almost all stepped into the Dao Lord realm, and the vast majority have achieved astonishing feats, becoming entities that countless immortals and gods in the myriad heavens must look up to and revere.

At this moment, gradual changes began to arise within the Immortal Ascension Pool.

The clear cry of a phoenix echoed from above the Immortal Ascension Pool, a golden light pierced the void, and the true form of the Phoenix Spirit emerged first, with the golden light instantly falling before Zhang Jian.

She is a celestial immortal, and after Zhang Jian, she was the first to complete the transformation of the primordial spirit.

Yet after her, vast thunderclouds appeared above the Immortal Ascension Pool.

The thunderclouds piled up, and myriad streaks of lightning flowed and turned.

Zhang Jian gazed ahead, and with a wave of his hand, he saw one figure within the Immortal Ascension Pool shift outward, to prevent the tribulation of the celestial immortal from affecting others.

The one undergoing the celestial immortal tribulation is Bai Li Ying.

This Empress of the Western Palace, aided by the Immortal Ascension Pool, has finally begun to cross into the celestial immortal realm.

Bai Li Ying is the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, and she also possesses the numerous Yin Immortal Treasures bestowed upon her by Zhang Jian.

The second-rank Yin Immortal Treasure, the Yin Divine Fire Treasure Wheel; the third-rank Yin Immortal Treasure, the Yin Ice Soul Bow.

Zhang Jian felt no worry at all.

Meanwhile, within the Immortal Ascension Pool, many other true immortals, as well as profound primordial spirit true kings and star kings, successively succeeded in transforming their primordial spirits, or alternatively, took the opportunity to reforge their immortal bodies.

Streams of immortal light flew forth from within.

The ancestor of the Cavern Spirit Sect, the Yin Immortal Maiden, the Kitchen God, Bai Nu, Bai Xianyin, Bai Gui, the Deyang Elder Ancestor, and part of the Great Xia civil and military officials who are true immortals—this group of civil and military officials numbers in the dozens.

The remainder are some primordial spirit realm cultivators, and some 'mortals' currently in the process of transforming their mortal bodies into heavenly human forms!

But not long after, as Bai Li Ying passed through the celestial immortal great tribulation and attained the Dao.

The people within the Immortal Ascension Pool subsequently also successively transformed into immortal bodies, or heavenly human bodies!