Chapter 518

The innate primordial spirit involuntarily gave rise to a feeling of longing.

It was as if the Earth Emperor's primordial spirit itself had developed a subtle yearning for it.

Zhang Jian looked around with his eyes.

At this moment, what flowed in the depths of the void was no longer pure primordial essence.

But a layer of intense purple qi.

This layer of purple qi was extraordinarily profound, as if born from the very source of the Heavenly Dao, the origin of heaven and earth, the quintessence of the Great Dao.

It emanated outward from around the colossal purple light wheel at the center.

"What is this thing?"

Zhang Jian gazed at the purple mist before him, a hint of uncertainty and doubt in his eyes.

With a thought, he unfurled the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State, actively drawing in a wisp of the misty purple qi and merging it into a divine spirit form that had evolved within the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State.

Through this divine spirit's body, Zhang Jian felt at this moment as if the divine spirit had truly undergone the transformation from illusion to substance, and the primordial laws of the divine spirit had received immense nourishment.

Could this actually be a heavenly treasure capable of nourishing the primordial spirit?

Zhang Jian's eyes brightened; merely gazing at the layers of thin purple qi emanating from the great light wheel, he felt a hint of hesitation in his eyes.

Zhang Jian clearly understood the principle that to take first, one must first give.

The advantages he had already secured in the Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven were considerable; if he were to draw in these strands of purple qi, his debt of favor to the Three Sovereigns and Five Elders would only grow greater.

Zhang Jian's eyes flickered with emotion; he felt a sigh rise in his heart.

He believed that any powerful being who discovered such an advantage would find it hard to refuse.

As a core disciple of the Tung Shan Dao Lineage, indeed the core among cores, it would be even harder to refuse.

But these favors and karmic debts would eventually have to be repaid.

Even if it was a good cause leading to a good result.

After some thought, Zhang Jian decided not to refuse at this moment.

He had already been marked with the seal of the Three Sovereigns and Five Elders, so there was no need to hesitate further.

Since this was a benefit prepared by the three Holy Emperors for these Human Emperors, he would simply absorb it.

If the Three Sovereigns and Five Elders ever encountered great trouble in the future, he would do his utmost to help.

This was likely also the original intention of the many Holy Emperors of the Three Sovereigns and Five Elders—to bind the Human Emperors of all realms in this way.

After observing that these strands of invisible purple qi posed no hidden danger to living beings, Zhang Jian directly used his Earth Emperor's primordial spirit to swallow and absorb the surging purple qi; his form became like a vast vortex, gulping down these strands of purple qi.

These strands of purple qi, through a special secret method, were completely fused by him into his Earth Emperor's primordial spirit.

Visibly, Zhang Jian felt his Earth Emperor's primordial spirit suffused with a layer of surging purple light, and it continued to grow.

He had previously noticed that this invisible purple qi aided in nourishing the soul and had marvelous uses for the primordial spirit.

At this moment, the Earth Emperor's primordial spirit absorbed it even more noticeably.

"It seems to have multiple marvelous uses—not only enhancing the primordial spirit, but also altering one's innate endowment!"

Zhang Jian contemplated the marvelous uses of the purple qi.

This layer of invisible purple qi contains a special Dao qi imprint; once integrated, it can unilaterally amplify any essence of a powerful being.

Zhang Jian did not know what to call this layer of invisible purple qi, but its effect seemed similar to that of Human Emperor purple qi, though its scope of application was broader.

Human Emperor purple qi can increase divine authority and mandate.

Whereas this purple qi can unilaterally aid in enhancing any one of one's own essences.

For example, destiny, primordial spirit, comprehension, magical power, fortune, or even the physical body's many aspects, or resilience, or indestructibility, or a tendency toward a certain attribute.

Zhang Jian felt it could also be integrated into primordial spirit immortal arts, enhancing their power.

This is like reallocating attributes, allowing one to arbitrarily bolster 'experience'!

Such a heavenly treasure, Zhang Jian had never seen before.

For Zhang Jian, at this moment his Dao heart, Dao fruit, primordial spirit, immortal light, and immortal body were all in perfect unity and balance, and each could be considered extraordinarily outstanding; there was currently no shortcoming needing to be made up.

But he could continue to magnify his strengths!

For instance, Earth Emperor authority, or the primordial spirit's origin, or comprehension.

Strengthening these aspects would produce a relatively noticeable improvement in his own strength.

Zhang Jian's eyes gleamed with light.

Such a heavenly treasure truly warranted careful planning on his part!

Zhang Jian fell into slight contemplation.

After thinking, he first ruled out enhancing Earth Emperor authority.

Infusing this heavenly treasure into the depths of Earth Emperor authority, while it could rapidly advance Earth Emperor authority in the short term, might not necessarily allow him to break into the Dao Lord realm.

For his own benefit, it would merely mean a great increase in strength in the short term.

But in the short term, he did not feel an urgent need to enhance his strength.

Being in the Three Sovereigns' Heavenly Realm and about to enter the Central Heavenly Realm, he had temporarily faced no threat to life or death!

As long as he did not leave the heavenly court, there should also be no danger to life or death.

If he were thus to waste an opportunity to strengthen his foundation, that would be truly regrettable.

Since he did not choose to immediately increase his own strength, the only choice left was to strengthen his foundation.

On the path of assaulting the Dao Lord realm, what could be more beneficial than transforming one's foundation?

He could choose to continue enhancing his innate origin, or his innate fortune, or continue enhancing his innate comprehension.

But after comparison, Zhang Jian easily settled on enhancing his innate origin.

He was already an innate deity; if he could greatly enhance his innate origin, his foundation would naturally rise accordingly.

He could transform from an innate deity into an innate sage.

Zhang Jian knew that among the primordial divine beings, there existed a class of extraordinarily terrifying beings—namely, the primordial divine sages.

They were born possessing powerful primordial essence.

Primordial talent, primordial fortune, and wisdom—all were supreme beings, crushing countless living things between heaven and earth from birth, destined to stand at the peak of countless immortals and gods.

Zhang Jian had a feeling that even if he absorbed these intangible purple qi, he might not necessarily reach the height of primordial divine sages.

But even getting close a little, Zhang Jian would be extraordinarily happy.

This meant his upper limit of progress would still rise.

Having made up his mind, Zhang Jian immediately sat cross-legged, as thread after thread of intangible purple qi merged into his body, instantly being gradually absorbed by his primordial divine body, and continuously merging into the deep source of this primordial divine body.

After the emergence of the Earth Emperor Primordial Spirit, his primordial divine body essentially underwent a refining, and his primordial essence greatly increased.

At this moment, thread after thread of intangible purple qi merged into the primordial divine body, Zhang Jian immediately felt that within every inch of flesh and blood of his primordial divine body, qi and blood gradually approached the Xuanhuang hue, and his connection with the earthly source of the Three Sovereigns Heaven Realm gradually drew near, as if he had once again received nourishment from the great Dao of heaven and earth, like returning deep into the womb of the earth mother.

During the enhancement of primordial essence, his divine blood, body, fortune, and comprehension likewise grew in the intangible.

Each of his cells seemed to have transformed into a vast continent, and also like condensed crystals of the Earth Emperor Dao qi.

In the depths of the void, the earth Dao qi network thus gradually resonated with him, and an intangible vast earth force linked with him.

Not only the earth.

But also the Nine Nether Dao qi network, which followed suit.

Zhang Jian had never felt so good.

As if with a thought, he occupied the central position of the Nine Nether Dao qi network and the earth Dao qi network, and with every gesture he could form the great earth Dao law, the Nine Nether Dao law, tearing apart the heavens and earth.

In the dark, he became the beloved of the heaven and earth great Dao.

Previously, the primordial divine body was likewise a beloved, but now he felt it was the heaven and earth's 'sole favorite'!

Even among gods of the same attribute, he occupied an absolute attribute advantage, possessing the authority of 'attribute dominion,' and naturally there would be law suppression.

And when Zhang Jian had completely absorbed the numerous intangible purple qi before the purple light wheel, then vast divine power omens burst forth.

In the Three Sovereigns Heaven Realm, at this moment the boundless earth law and Nine Nether Dao law gently trembled, as if a true form vast and indescribable existence had stirred the laws to worship.

This movement instantly caused countless immortals and gods in the Three Sovereigns Heaven Realm to glance sideways.

Especially some powerful immortals and gods who had already forged primordial divine bodies could now clearly feel a vast primordial divine pressure surging from the source of the laws.

This clearly was a sign of the birth of a higher-level primordial divine being!

"Again!"

Within the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven, Fuxi Sheng Huang once again opened his eyes, he secretly shook his head, and with a flick of his finger sent a streak of intangible flowing light into the depths of the void, once again stirring the heavenly secrets.

Fuxi Sheng Huang was very clear that those powerful extraterritorial demon gods, and even demon dao demon lords, had an extraordinary 'obsession' toward primordial divine beings with exceptionally strong primordial qualifications.

Very eager to drag them into the demon dao camp.

Moreover, in the depths of the myriad heavens void, the opponents of human powerhouses were not few!

For such a powerhouse, when not yet grown, exposing less foundation means less unnecessary risk.

Moreover, this person who grew up in the lower realm currently appears to have enormous potential.

"Having absorbed the holy purple qi nurtured from the core region, his qualifications should be close to primordial divine sages, plus his original human emperor great fortune, together with the newly replenished foundation, is enough to grow rapidly in a short time, gaining self-preservation ability!"

Fuxi Sheng Huang secretly pondered in his heart.

The holy purple qi nurtured in the depths of the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven is limited.

It is the convergence of boundless human fortune transformed by the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven into a mysterious nurturing, and only one strand can be nurtured every six hundred years.

The hundreds of strands of holy purple qi nurtured in the core region of the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven are the result of hundreds of thousands of years of nurturing in the Three Sovereigns Heaven Realm.

Such holy purple qi is not something every human emperor has the opportunity to obtain, even if they enter the core region simultaneously.

If other human emperors get ahead and absorb all these holy purple qi, then other human emperors must wait at least another six hundred years to obtain a single strand.

The effect of a single strand of holy purple qi is not great.

……

In the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven, Zhang Jian felt the formidable aspect of his primordial divine body at this moment.

He seemed to have completely become the master of the earth and master of the Nine Nether, his control over these two heavenly authorities reaching an unimaginable state.

"This truly..."

Zhang Jian sensed this change; although his primordial divine body before was also close to these two heavenly great Dao laws, it could not compare to now.

Like firefly compared to bright moon.

Zhang Jian closed his eyes and carefully sensed.

The enhancement of the primordial foundation was not only authority enhancement, but his body, reaction, primordial spirit foundation, fortune, and comprehension were all comprehensively crushed.

This change was extremely terrifying.

The same promotion multiplier.

If his foundation and essence were stronger than other immortals and gods, then with the enhancement, the gap would become increasingly obvious.

Moreover, the higher the primordial essence, the easier the cultivation.

Zhang Jian had long understood the essence of primordial divine beings, and soon suppressed the ripples of his Dao heart.

At this moment Zhang Jian felt that after absorbing these purple qi, he should not yet have transformed into a primordial divine sage, but the distance to primordial divine sage was not far!

However, even with only a portion of primordial essence increased, Zhang Jian still felt his combat power had undergone a substantial tangible increase.

This increase was like changing one times nine into three times nine.

"This truly is a blessed land of the great Dao!"

Zhang Jian secretly sighed in his heart.

Yet he had never imagined that after entering the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven, his foundation and cultivation would have such a tremendous increase!

In an instant his gaze fell upon that deep purple treasure wheel, and immediately he sat cross-legged, continuing to contemplate the profound mysteries of heaven and earth contained within the depths of this "Ancestral Qi Wheel."

Such a rare opportunity, Zhang Jian certainly would not let it pass.

Zhang Jian did not linger long before this "Wheel of Ancestral Qi."

After about three thousand years, he merely tasted and stopped.

After all, he was still mindful of the innate imprint behind.

Upon rising, his form suddenly transformed into a streak of scorching electric light, stepping forward toward the deep purple treasure wheel.

The deep purple treasure wheel contains within it the vast heavenly and earthly great Dao law divine power.

With Zhang Jian's current cultivation, he even felt strained.

Each step was difficult!

Yet a layer of fruition immortal light flowed around Zhang Jian's body, supporting against the surging heavenly and earthly pressure like an ocean, instantly tearing open a passage against the current.

Nine-colored divine light flashed, slicing through the various divine abilities evolved from layers of ancestral Qi ahead.

Shortly after, Zhang Jian's form became visible.

Upon sight, a hint of astonishment flashed in Zhang Jian's eyes.

Looking ahead, this place was actually a palace.

This magnificent palace was not luxurious, merely filled with a vast and boundless atmosphere.

Before the palace stood another verdant ancient tree, the ancient tree full of life, standing alone.

Beside this ancient tree, there was also a swing.

This palace appears to have been inhabited long ago.

But later it was abandoned, with no one entering or maintaining it since.

Zhang Jian saw several empty wine jars beside the swing.

Although the palace is extremely tidy, the placement of items is quite disordered.

Clearly, its owner is unrestrained and unconcerned with trivialities.

At this moment, this divine palace has no seals placed upon it; Zhang Jian glanced at it and did not choose to step inside.

Zhang Jian already had a guess as to who the owner of this divine palace was.

Although he sensed several kinds of heavenly and earthly rare treasures and the aura of innate divine objects within, Zhang Jian had no thought of treasure-seeking.

That person is a major trouble; he does not wish to touch the karma related to him at all.

At this moment, Zhang Jian's gaze swept over the front of the divine palace, and he had already found the trace of the "innate imprint."

That innate imprint is indeed very conspicuous.

It hangs like a blazing sun above the palace, now radiating light like the rising sun.

Yet within it lies a heavy sense of antiquity and primal essence.

It seems to have existed since ancient times, and shares an inseparable connection with the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven.

Zhang Jian's innate primordial spirit, upon slight contact, seemed to behold the primordial chaos at the dawn of heaven and earth: a wisp of drifting red clouds drifting from the horizon, undergoing transformation through the five primordial extremes, yin and yang and the five elements first appearing, gradually merging into heaven and earth, forming a vast cave heaven blessed land.

All kinds of primordial scenes—just a glance, and Zhang Jian became immersed, unable to extricate himself.

At that moment, his human emperor primordial spirit suddenly fled, transforming into a stream of light that entered within.

……

Time flows invisibly.

Twenty thousand years have passed without significant change to the Three Emperors' Heavenly Realm.

At this moment, the Zhang family in the Ding Kingdom is unusually lively.

After twenty thousand years, they have for the first time attracted a Zhang descendant who ascended from the lower realm, and also brought news of the situation of the Zhang clan from the Zhou Mountain Realm!