Chapter 515: Branches and Nodes, Innate Spiritual Treasure (4K)

The black qi gathered more densely at his brow.

At this moment, Hongyun could clearly sense his own state.

But he did not stop it, nor did he want to.

This terrifying black qi had existed since his birth, merely suppressed until now, when it finally surfaced.

He must find the answer and dispel this black qi.

Perhaps the extraterritorial Human Emperor possesses the answer he needs!

He slowly rose, a great red gourd appearing in his palm; gazing at it, his form suddenly transformed into a streak of red light and vanished from the spot.

Outside the house, the Dragon Horse and White Turtle exchanged a glance, the Dragon Horse somewhat gleeful at the misfortune.

"That little bastard is in for bad luck!"

The White Turtle glanced at the Dragon Horse and said.

"We should help him suppress this obsession!"

The Dragon Horse snorted lightly.

"No, why should we help him suppress this obsession? This obsession grows with Hongyun's cultivation, and has always been expanding; suppressing it brings him no benefit. I think letting him vent is not bad either!"

The White Turtle remained slow, glancing at the Dragon Horse and said.

"Aren't you afraid Fuxi will blame you?"

The Dragon Horse's eyes darted about.

"Not afraid; Fuxi won't blame me over such a trifle!"

The White Turtle was speechless upon hearing this.

"If you're not afraid, why are your eyes darting about!"

A hint of restless eagerness appeared in the Dragon Horse's eyes.

"Come, let's go watch the spectacle—Hongyun hasn't made a move in ages; I want to see him thoroughly thrash that little bastard!"

The White Turtle felt somewhat tempted and said.

"Will His Majesty blame us?"

The Dragon Horse shook his head.

"You're so lackluster, worrying all day about this and that, clearly eager yet unwilling to act on your desires!"

The White Turtle knew the Dragon Horse was using provocation, but after thinking, he still nodded and said.

"Then let's go!"

Upon hearing this, the Dragon Horse's eyes brightened; the two beasts exchanged a glance and transformed into streaks of light, flying into the void.

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In the depths of the Innate Five Grand Array, Zhang Jian observed the array while continuously recording its profound mysteries.

This Innate Five Grand Array is extraordinarily miraculous, containing the profundities of the initial opening of heaven and earth, the beginning of the primordial unity.

Since entering the array, Zhang Jian has felt as comfortable as a fish in water.

He has always had a familiar feeling toward such changes.

In fact, from the Zhou Tian Star Soul, the Heart of Dimensions, the Hunyuan Life-Death Pearl, and the Reincarnation Divine Stone, he obtained traces of the Heavenly Dao, all involving the initial opening of heaven and earth and the transformation of the Five Grand; though in those vast Dao traces, these memories were merely a drop in the ocean, previously just simple accumulation, but when facing the Innate Five Grand Array, these memories suddenly all revived, transforming into insight.

As he surveyed the entire array, his insight deepened.

This Innate Five Grand Array can be described as formidable, yet Zhang Jian could sense that the current Innate Five Grand Array before him actually possesses only one-tenth of its true power.

First, it lacks a conductor.

The most fearsome aspect of an innate grand array is its ability to harmonize with its conductor; if the array is a lever, it also needs someone to pry that lever, to unleash its power a hundred or thousandfold.

Without a conductor, the array's own power is insufficient.

Second, it lacks a suppressing object.

Zhang Jian inspected it; such an innate grand array should nurture a suppressing object, but now that suppressing object has been taken away.

Three thousand five hundred years later.

In the depths of the Innate Five Grand Array, before a magnificent spherical rising sun.

The boundless innate primordial qi gathered into an ocean; within the sphere, a vast mixed-degree Dao qi permeated, and in Zhang Jian's dual mode, it resonated with the four other qi suns, forming an endless chaotic labyrinth.

Yet in Zhang Jian's eyes, most of the array's profundities were fully opened to him; behind him, countless Five Grand divine lights flowed, transforming into a magnificent treasure wheel.

Within the wheel, the Five Grand divine lights flowed, resembling a great 'energy storage' device, capable of efficiently transforming heavenly earthly spiritual qi and storing it.

This is the fifth-rank auxiliary immortal art Zhang Jian comprehended: the Innate Five Grand Wheel Turning Method.

He is not outstanding in attack or cultivation assistance, but it excels in refining magical treasures and elixirs, possessing unique miraculousness.

For him, this is also accumulation.

At this moment, Zhang Jian also felt the timing was ripe.

With a thought, three divine lights burst forth above his head.

One was golden immortal light, another was strange blue divine light, and the third was black-and-white intertwined.

In an instant, the three divine lights merged into one, forming a constantly moving three-dimensional Taiji diagram, from which countless radiance burst forth, containing endless heavenly earthly great Dao rhyme.

As Zhang Jian executed it, the three-dimensional Taiji diagram instantly fell into the innate primordial qi condensing Dao qi sun before him.

Wherever the three-dimensional Taiji diagram passed, the boundless innate primordial qi transformed into pure yin and yang; even the vast primordial sun could not withstand the rotation of this Taiji light sphere, continually being swept by its brilliance, as if a world of intertwined yin and yang were being opened up.

At the moment the primordial sun shattered within the Innate Five Grand Array, the array instantly lost balance!

Zhang Jian gazed at this scene, his expression stirred.

Behind him, nine-colored divine light appeared; the River and Land Community Diagram transformed into flowing light and merged into the Taiji diagram.

The three-dimensional Taiji diagram was instantly stained with nine-colored divine light, its power surging.

It continuously expanded, its volume increasing a hundred or thousandfold, in an instant piercing the primordial sun and tearing a spatial rift through the entire Innate Five Grand Array.

Zhang Jian saw the situation, his figure turning into a stream of light and flying out of this spatial rift in an instant.

Reappearing, he had already left the range covered by the Innate Five Tails Formation.

But at the moment of leaving the Innate Five Tails Great Formation, Zhang Jian's eyes saw four streams of light appearing in the void, and in an instant a red light rolled up, flying to escape several hundred zhang ahead.

Not far away, in the depths of time and space, another stone platform stood upon a fire cloud.

"Red Cloud Daoist, what do you mean by this?"

At this moment, Zhang Jian's eyes were fixed on the highway tiger that had killed its way out mid-path, his brows slightly furrowed.

At this time, all four tokens had fallen into Red Cloud's hands!

Red Cloud Daoist casually put the four tokens in his hand into his pouch; seeing this, Zhang Jian furrowed his brows even tighter. Red Cloud slowly turned around, his eyes falling on Zhang Jian, a hint of cold severity appearing in the depths of his eyes.

"If you wish to pass this level, you must overcome the divine powers in this god's hands!"

Zhang Jian let out a light sigh, speaking calmly.

"According to what I know, His Majesty Fuxi has no such rule!"

A hint of intense black light flashed in the depths of Red Cloud's eyes.

"This is this god's rule!"

Zhang Jian secretly thought in his heart, he had not expected that after breaking through the Innate Five Tails Formation, such a trivial matter would actually arise.

He and Red Cloud should have no grudge, yet the local actively sought trouble with him?

Could it be because he had condensed the Great Sun Golden Crow Dharma Aspect?

But since the other party had made up their mind to cause trouble for him, Zhang Jian naturally had no fear.

His eyes fell on Red Cloud, and he suddenly said.

"I am very curious; with your ability, you should be able to control this Innate Five Tails Great Formation. You could completely carry out a sniper attack when I am about to march out—wouldn't that be twice the result with half the effort?"

"This god does not need to do that for you!"

Red Cloud's expression was cold, yet absolute confidence shone in the depths of his eyes.

Zhang Jian lost his smile.

"Good, based solely on this point, I will go easy on you later!"

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"Arrogant!"

In the depths of Red Cloud's eyes, a hint of icy coldness appeared; in an instant, killing intent burst forth in his eyes. With a wave of his hand, boundless red light flew and rushed through the void, as if boundless scorching red sand poured from the void, covering the sky and heading toward the void.

This was a fifth-rank immortal method.

Moreover, it was a composite-type fifth-rank immortal method.

Red Cloud's cultivation was extraordinarily formidable; controlling such a composite-type immortal method was as easy as lifting a feather.

Zhang Jian raised his head to gaze at the sky-filling red light.

Amidst the sky-filling red light, he felt a familiar power.

Scattering Soul True Fire!

Each grain of red sand contained the power of Scattering Soul True Fire; at this moment, it swept forward, intertwined with the distorted peculiar gravity rules, its speed reaching the extreme, and it also possessed a unique erosive force.

As if it could drill into all things in heaven and earth, seizing the soul and corroding the bones.

As Zhang Jian focused his mind, his entire body likewise manifested a composite-type fifth-rank immortal method.

Taiyin Refining Form Great Method, Eastern Emperor Nine Yang Split Immortal Method, Innate Yin-Yang Two Instruments Annihilation Divine Light.

The three-dimensional Taiji Dao diagram appeared, and in an instant, above Zhang Jian's head it transformed into a divine bridge. Wherever the divine bridge passed, time and space stagnated, the void collapsed, all things lagged, and countless Scattering Soul Divine Sands above his head were involuntarily separated, transformed into the purest yin and yang qi.

That magnificent Innate Yin-Yang True Intent seemed to reach deep into Red Cloud's divine soul, intending to separate his divine soul and flesh.

His eyes sank slightly slightly, and rings of Innate Divine Light shot up from around his body into the heavens.

That seemed to be another composite-type fifth-rank immortal method, internally containing the power of the Three Stars of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity, and this immediately blocked the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light.

Gazing at and sensing this scene, he instantly knew this time would be troublesome.

The other party was probably a Taiyi Celestial Immortal.

In the situation where the two immortals' magical arts were roughly equal in level, the stronger one's cultivation would have the advantage.

In magical arts duels, the stronger cultivation would gain the upper hand.

Moreover, the Taiyi Celestial Immortal's Dao Fruit was fully accomplished, and in the use of fifth-rank immortal methods, they would still have many advantages.

Zhang Jian now merely relied on his Innate Primordial Spirit's special foundation to be able to so recklessly use immortal methods beyond his level and even create immortal methods.

But when the essence of the Innate Primordial Spirit arrived, his Dao heart, and his understanding of Dao qi laws, there would still be some gaps.

Moreover, the other party also had the advantage of fighting on home ground.

However, Zhang Jian's greatest strength lay in creating advantages for himself.

His River and Land Community Diagram itself was also very skilled at this.

At this moment, Red Cloud's body seemed to have thousands of thunderclap sounds ringing out, resembling the voice of great destruction.

Above his head appeared a magnificent divine diagram, which instantly broke open the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light.

Within that divine diagram appeared the scene of the Three Sovereigns proving the Dao.

Moreover, countless beings gathered, paying homage.

In an instant, the Three Sovereigns Divine Diagram intertwined, transforming into three divine lights drifting toward the place where Zhang Jian's feet landed.

The divine light contained the absolute power of the Holy Emperor's sovereignty; the Three Sovereigns emerged, continuing the past and opening the future—this mighty trend could not be obstructed by any immortal or god.

This is a Dao-heart-type Primordial Spirit immortal method; once the Primordial Spirit is taken by the power of the Three Sovereigns, it is naturally like a lamb awaiting slaughter.

Moreover, a power of the Holy Emperor permeated the void, suppressing immortal gods' Dao methods, sealing the laws!

Zhang Jian's eyes swept over, and he could also feel the mighty power contained in the immortal method.

Such a clash, compared to cultivation, the collision of immortal methods was even more dangerous.

When it came to Zhang Jian, at Hong Yun's level of cultivation, the clash of Dao-heart had long been able to transform the virtual and the real.

Yet it was seen that when Zhang Jian landed, his figure suddenly transformed into thousands of streaks of flowing light and vanished into thin air.

At the original spot, clouds rose and rosy mists spread, and the complex 'Zhang Jian' was shattered into countless fragments by this strike.

Hong Yun's expression changed slightly.

He gazed with his eyes, and the surrounding spacetime shifted.

Unaware, he had actually fallen again into that magnificent divine diagram.

Regarding Zhang Jian's Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, he had noticed it earlier, so he had already prepared, but he never expected to still fall for it!

He tried to invoke the primal power of the Huoyun Cave Heaven for support, but found that his connection with the Huoyun Cave Heaven had become faint and intermittent, nearly completely severed.

Amid countless nine-colored divine lights, Zhang Jian now manifested the Dharma Aspect of the State Emperor, surrounded by endless purple and yellow divine radiance. He glanced upward and let out a faint sigh.

"Still, there is a weakness!"

At this moment, the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram was undoubtedly extremely formidable, having absorbed the 'Heart of Dimension' and formed an inner world of its own. He could further enhance his techniques by drawing power from the myriad heavenly and earthly treasures within the diagram.

But in Zhang Jian's view, its cosmic system was still not tight enough.

Zhang Jian clearly felt that on the path of fate, it had an obvious flaw.

Hong Yun could still maintain a connection with the Huoyun Cave Heaven, which proved this point.

If a cultivator of profound Dao attainment used this point to guide from the outside, they could enable Hong Yun to find this flaw and thus escape the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

"But now, you are powerless to turn the tide!"

As Zhang Jian focused his mind, this time he activated the power of the heavenly and earthly treasure, the 'Heart of Dimension'.

In the act of focusing, the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram formed billions of layers of spacetime storm secret realms. Countless dimensional vortices, under the support of the 'Heart of Latitude' and shaped by Zhang Jian's calculations, took form, becoming countless vortices spreading across the dimensional worlds of the universe.

Hong Yun's form turned into a streak of red light, like a 'fly' buzzing and crashing inside, yet he could never break through the cosmic world formed by the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

Hong Yun's Dao attainment was extraordinarily formidable; even as Zhang Jian used the power of the heavenly and earthly treasure 'Heart of Dimension' to constantly create spacetime abysses, the other could still quickly escape.

Moreover, his body radiated even greater immortal treasures unleashing vast power, vaguely inflicting massive damage upon the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

Yet he could never break free and depart.

At this very moment, a red light burst forth from his waist.

It was a gourd.

The red light gushed out, instantly shattering endless spacetime, and flew out from the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram. In an instant, Zhang Jian arrived.

Zhang Jian's brow twitched, and the State King's Cauldron erupted from his head, though he still felt a chill deep in his soul.

At this moment, a faint voice emerged from the depths of the void.

"Hong Yun, you have already lost!"

As the voice fell, that red light also congealed in the void and finally landed in a palm.

The true form of Fuxi Sheng Huang emerged from the void.

Hong Yun's form also flew out from the gourd, gazing upon Fuxi Sheng Huang's figure. He slightly bowed his hands and immediately stood to one side.

His eyes fixed on Zhang Jian, yet he felt somewhat unconvinced.

"Your Majesty Fuxi!"

At this moment, Zhang Jian also retracted the State King's Cauldron, slightly bowed his hands in salute.

This Fuxi Sheng Huang displayed no aura, but merely by holding that gourd in one hand, he was utterly shocked.

If his guess was correct, the gourd that had just shattered the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram was terrifyingly the Innate Spirit Treasure, the Soul-Dispersing Gourd, from myth!

Fuxi Sheng Huang's gaze fell upon Zhang Jian, and he nodded with a smile.

"Your immortal arts are excellent, your treasures are passable, and you yourself are quite good! You are quite good!"

After a brief pause, Fuxi Sheng Huang added: "Hong Yun's attack on you was my fault. I will punish him for it. As compensation, I hereby grant you an additional five thousand years of residence!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Holy Emperor!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jian's eyes brightened.

This fight was not unjust.

If possible, he would actually hope to often exchange a few more bouts with Hong Yun!

Such exchanges are ever beneficial!