Chapter 527

Because Zhang Jian had seen its true form.

The Innate Spiritual Treasure Hetu and Luoshu.

Mutual verification, combined with the Earth Emperor's Eight Trigrams deduced from contemplation, will surely yield results!

Besides, Zhang Jian had taken a fancy to one of its special and prominent abilities.

Deduction!

The Infinite Hetu places greater emphasis on the power of deduction in the Dao of Fate.

It is not observing the future, nor deducing the past.

Obsession with past and future will ultimately lead to being deluded by past and future.

Zhang Jian also does not focus on these; if he can analyze the laws of the Great Dao of Fate, he will naturally discern its essence and deduce a marvelous method of the Hetu entirely his own, integrating it into the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State.

At the counter, Zhang Jian directly received this first-rank eternal immortal method.

The form of this immortal method is even more miraculous, directly transforming into a stone tablet that fell into the depths of his glabella.

It is a crystalline stone tablet covered with countless black and white starlight, as if merged with the countless stars' warp and weft in the depths of the void.

Zhang Jian merely glanced over it briefly, and not only did he not find it obscure, but rather felt he had gained much.

The opportunity in the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven is his most precious wealth.

After leaving the Heavenly Scripture Hall, Zhang Jian eagerly entered seclusion once again.

Relying on his near-innate divine top-tier comprehension, Zhang Jian believes he will soon gain something.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Heavenly Cauldron Immortal Lord proceeded to the Heavenly Troops Camp by the Heavenly River to select elite heavenly troops.

And within the Three Yuan Spirit Officials Hall, the other six mid-to-low rank immortal officials Zhang Jian selected, twelve low-rank immortal officials, and twelve reserve immortal officials respectively entered the Three Yuan Spirit Officials Hall to fulfill their immortal duties.

The six mid-to-low rank immortal officials, twelve low-rank immortal officials, and civil officials respectively represent positions such as chief clerk, assistant, warehouse clerk, documents, etc., while martial immortal duties are hall commander, personal troops commander, deputy commander, patrol divine generals, etc.

The reserve immortal officials are personal troops captains, or alternatively, the Demon-Slaying General, Ghost-Subduing General, and Rebellious Troops Heavenly General of the Three Yuan Spirit Officials Hall; if believers of the Three Yuan Spirit Officials Hall in the lower realm have needs, then a portion of the primordial spirit must be descended to respond, accomplish various external functions, and only after sufficient merit and fortune contribution can promotion occur.

This is a thankless task.

Among the six mid-to-low rank immortal officials, all are from under Zhang Jian's command, namely six Heavenly Immortals: Zhang Chang'an, Kitchen God, Phoenix Spirit, White Fury, Mysterious Pass Daoist, and Ji Tianzheng.

As for the Kitchen God, he is temporarily holding a civil immortal post; Zhang Jian plans to observe for a while to see if there is an opportunity to send her to the Fire Department under the Red-Eyebrow Immortal, the Sixth Grand Tutor Ancestor.

As for the twelve low-rank immortal officials, they are respectively composed of part Heavenly Immortals and part True Immortals: Zhang Qiao, Ancestor of the Cave Spirit Tradition, Lunar Immortal Maiden, Bai Xianyun, Bai Gui, and part of the lords of the feudal states who ascended from the lower realm.

As for Zhang Jian's several consorts, similar to the Bai clan, Yun clan, and Meng clan, although they have become Heavenly Immortals, Zhang Jian has not assigned them immortal posts, but the ladies have no complaints whatsoever.

Because they know that following by Zhang Jian's side, their status is far higher than any immortal with an immortal post.

……

A hundred years flashed by in an instant.

The time in the Heavenly Realm passes extraordinarily fast.

When Zhang Jian remembered to go to the King Yu Liuli World to watch the excitement, after initially grasping the Infinite Hetu, he chose to dabble and stop.

At this moment, a layer of intense black and white profound light circulated around his body.

Countless black and white profound lights flowed behind him, scattered and slowly turning; combined with the special Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure, the Stars of Fate, Zhang Jian could also invert a portion of the heavenly secrets of fate related to himself and spy on a portion of fate's changes, extraordinarily miraculous.

The laws of the Great Dao of Fate are extraordinarily obscure.

That Zhang Jian could cultivate the Infinite Hetu to this level in a short time, if spread out, would indeed be astonishing.

His body's black and white divine light at this moment radiated outward, as if penetrating the profound ancient void depths as a magnificent, vague long river; following this fateful long river deep within his own existence's traces, countless black and white divine light enveloped those past traces, gradually concealing them in the depths of the unknown fateful long river.

This is all Zhang Jian can currently achieve.

But as his cultivation increases, the radiance of fate penetrates past and future; Zhang Jian believes that one day he will completely gather the power of past and future into himself.

To let himself compensate for this obvious flaw in fate.

Zhang Jian sensed the profundity of this innate Hetu divine light, and in a flash gathered it back.

Deep in his sea of consciousness, a phantom of the Hetu then emerged.

Its immortal method structure model is a stone tablet-like form, and differs somewhat from the Hetu's true form that Zhang Jian saw.

Countless black and white light points flow and turn, as if countless black and white stars twinkling.

Besides the innate Hetu divine light, the Infinite Hetu, this first-rank eternal immortal method, also has two great mighty miraculous aspects: the Infinite Hetu and the Innate Hetu Grand Formation.

This immortal method does not excel in slaughter, but that does not mean its power is weak.

On the contrary, it possesses strong powers of bewilderment and entrapment.

But in just a hundred years, Zhang Jian has only managed to comprehend it to the fourth-rank immortal method level, still one step away from fifth-rank immortal method, let alone a first-rank eternal immortal method.

……

At the Three Yuan Spirit Officials Hall, at this moment a figure walked out wearing splendid attire, clad in silver-white garments, with a Taiyi Immortal Crown on his head, tall and slender; yet seeing one person stride forward to meet him, the two figures' appearances and demeanor were almost identical, merging into one in an instant.

After withdrawing the Taiyi Spirit Body stationed at the Three Yuan Spirit Officials Hall for a hundred years, Zhang Jian briefly recalled; upon sensing that 'work' had not gone awry, a smile instantly appeared at the corner of his eyes.

Using the Taiyi Spirit Body to handle immortal duties and operate divine functions, while the true body cultivates in the Emperor's residence, this is very cost-effective.

It is not that Zhang Jian alone is slacking off.

In the Three Yuan Spirit Officials Hall, other emperors use incense-fire golden bodies condensed into divine incarnations stationed in the Three Yuan Spirit Officials Hall, while their true bodies have long since run off who knows where to indulge.

Unless encountering the previous grand court assembly they participated in, other emperors and ancient immortals find it very difficult for their true bodies to manifest.

Of course, using incarnations to handle affairs does not mean dereliction of duty.

On the contrary, all changes are under the grasp of the immortals' true bodies.

Zhang Jian's Taiyi Spirit Body, compared to incense-fire golden body, is not inferior; on the contrary, it is more 'real,' and even has need for Zhang Jian to use it as an anchor point to directly descend his true body.

With a thought, Zhang Jian once again manifested a Taiyi Spirit Body.

Subsequently, Zhang Jian proceeded to the Three Yuan Emperor's residence.

In the Three Yuan Emperor's blessed land, the three emperors have already been waiting here.

The Heavenly Official Emperor wears a great red robe, the Earthly Official Emperor wears a red-black interlaced emperor's robe, likewise with beautiful mustaches, holding a jade ruyi in hand, the emperor's divine light vast.

The Water Official Emperor wore imperial robes of alternating red and blue, with pale blue celestial river immortal light flowing around his body, his divine power vast as the sea.

Next was the Blessing Emperor of the Three Yuan Spirit Officials' Hall.

Oddly, the Three Laws Emperor was nowhere to be seen; it appeared he was on duty this time.

At this moment, the Water Official Emperor's gaze fell upon Zhang Jian, and after a brief moment of surprise, he spoke.

"Ah Yu, your comprehension truly exceeds my expectations!"

Zhang Jian's eyes flickered; the Water Official Emperor must have seen the fog of fate shrouding his body.

Zhang Jian smiled slightly and said.

"Your Majesty, I too was fortunate to gain some insight!"

The Heavenly Official Emperor and the Earthly Official Emperor stood nearby, watching this scene, and even these two ancient emperors showed some ripples in their eyes.

The changes in Zhang Jian were clearly visible to them.

Likewise, having already begun to restrain fate and the power of spacetime, they were the most sensitive to such changes.

Such an otherworldly human emperor, once grown, is indeed astonishing.

The three emperors said no more, directly summoning Zhang Jian and the Blessing Emperor to head toward the direction of the Heavenly River.

Along the way, from the words of the three emperors, the Zhang family already learned that the ten thousand heavenly troops and generals led by the Southern Dipper Star Lord had descended from the Heavenly River into the lower realms, reaching the edge of the Jade Glazed World.

At this time, there might be many immortals and gods waiting by the Heavenly River to depart from the Central Heavenly Realm.

When the five arrived, they could see from afar one after another magnificent dimensional heavenly gate lights manifesting.

One after another, figures with mighty auras vanished in a flash.

Among them were not lacking Taiyi-level immortals and great powers going to test their luck, as well as beings of extremely formidable cultivation.

As for those of the Dao Lord level, they no longer needed to use the heavenly realm's dimensional reduction gates, but could directly descend with their true forms.

The will of such exalted Dao Lords was vast and boundless.

The five immortals arrived at one side of the Heavenly River and lined up.

At this moment, Zhang Jian stood upon the vast Heavenly River, where towered pleasure boats were scattered.

The Heavenly River was vast and boundless, all of it the mighty Nine Heavens Weak Water.

This weak water was spread with terrifying stellar stardust, electromagnetic force, having absorbed all manner of chaotic things; even if a mighty immortal entered, they would be defiled, their immortal pure and spotless body tainted.

Of course, some immortals did not scruple, gathering the power of the Nine Heavens Weak Water nearby to concoct various immensely powerful immortal techniques of impurity.

The nature of this technique was no different from the mundane gold juice bomb.

"It's our turn!"

At this moment, the Heavenly Official Emperor ahead called out.

In the distance, before the magnificent, towering gate of white jade, a warrior clad in white robes and silver armor stepped forward; he seemed to know the Three Yuan Emperors, and slightly cupped his hands.

"Are the Five Emperors also preparing to go to the vicinity of the Jade Glazed World?"

"Indeed!"

The Heavenly Official Emperor nodded.

Upon hearing this, the warrior cupped his hands and said.

"Little God will immediately open the heavenly gate!"

"Granted favor, fifteen thousand top-grade immortal crystals!"

"Three thousand immortal crystals per person?"

Zhang Jian, listening from behind, was secretly startled.

This was also a considerable fortune for him.

Even as the Eighth-Rank Spirit Source Emperor, his annual immortal stipend was only around nine thousand.

Monthly stipend of eight hundred.

Eight hundred immortal crystals, and top-grade ones at that.

This amount was actually not small.

For the immortal crystals contained innate pure spirit.

Yet now, opening a single heavenly gate required thirty thousand top-grade immortal crystals.

It seemed this was still a group purchase price, and with a discount.

For an individual, the cost would likely be even greater.

"The heavenly court really knows how to do business..."

Zhang Jian secretly thought.

Having just arrived, he naturally did not have that many immortal crystals; this sum was being paid by the Water Official Emperor on his behalf.

The five gradually stepped onto the white jade stone platform before the heavenly gate.

The white jade stone platform was surrounded by countless silver-white runes; Zhang Jian, being highly proficient in the spacetime great dao laws, glanced over, and deep in his eyes the River Chart appeared, revealing a magnificent dimensional grand formation before him.

The heavenly gate manifested deep between his brows, within which spacetime was traversed and stabilized, spacetime anchor points, spacetime great translocation, and many other profound spacetime great dao laws, but in an instant Zhang Jian secretly shook his head.

Such a heavenly gate grand formation is easy to copy, but difficult to operate.

First, one must pass through the heavenly net of the Central Heavenly Realm, and it is necessary to obtain the pass for that heavenly net; otherwise, one will be directly intercepted, even struck down.

Second, one must go to the spacetime coordinates of the earthly realm.

Without precise spacetime coordinates, who knows where one will be sent.

The four emperors beside him seemed to also notice Zhang Jian's actions, merely smiling slightly.

When they first began, had they not once pondered such matters?

Unless the heavenly net is broken, how could one possibly pass through easily?

But to find a flaw in the heavenly net—even a Dao Lord might not necessarily succeed.

At this moment, Zhang Jian's mind conjured the image of Daoist Qingxia.

That Daoist must have seen through the flaw in the Heavenly Net and Earthly Trap, otherwise it would be utterly impossible for him to casually send so many treasures down to the lower realm.

"Perhaps I can communicate with my ancestors about this matter..."

The light of time and space flowed, and the five figures vanished in an instant before the Heavenly Gate dimension, the radiance tearing open boundless time and space.

Zhang Jian's incredibly sensitive innate primordial spirit could faintly sense the traces of the solemn Dao laws permeating the depths of the void, and there were hundreds, even thousands of high-grade immortal arts of warning, detection, and discernment types flowing past the Five Immortals' bodies.

Zhang Jian could faintly perceive the profound wonder of these immortal arts.

Behind them, numerous destructive immortal arts were gathering power, ready to be unleashed!

If any cat-nap is discovered, even a Daoist would absolutely not be able to leave the Central Heavenly Realm.

"Truly terrifying..."

Zhang Jian thought to himself.

But this is also normal; everyone knows constant progress.

The Heavenly Court, such an ancient power standing in the myriad heavens and void for who knows how many evolution kalpas, various destructive killing immortal arts, and even all kinds of Dao arts must have evolved to a state beyond imagination for myriad immortals and gods.

Zhang Jian believed that within it, Dao arts capable of destroying heaven and earth, even destroying evolution kalpas, must certainly exist.

Otherwise, how could one suppress the myriad heavens and void?

The light flowed, and Zhang Jian quickly adapted to his first descent to the lower realm.

Zhang Jian actually never imagined that, after entering the Central Heavenly Realm for just over two hundred years, he would obtain the opportunity to descend again.

Time and space inverted.

After a moment, the five stepped out from the radiance of time and space.

At the moment their figures appeared, the Five Immortals' faces changed simultaneously, and only a vast, magnificent force was seen sweeping in from afar.

This force stirred time and space, forming a tremendous time-space storm.

With a thought, each of the five saw a shield of immortal light appear before them.

Streams of immortal light, vast and magnificent.

At this moment, however, distant stars glittered as the Southern Dipper Star Lord descended with the Southern Dipper Heavenly Star Lords, engaged in battle with a portion of the continually gathering extradimensional demon gods, and even powerful beings from the demon realm.

Those extradimensional demon gods were numerous in number.

Zhang Jian had once seen the Gluttony Demon God, the Lord of Gluttony, the extradimensional heart demon, the extradimensional heaven demon, and the sea demon god—all had manifested, and in considerable numbers.

They are natural predators born in the myriad heavens and void, wandering above the starry sky, together with myriad starry sky behemoths and void evil gods forming the ecology of the void.

Ordinary heavenly immortals encountering such regiments of hundreds or thousands of extradimensional demon gods would also have to detour, lest they become snacks.

But at this moment, they encountered the heavenly soldiers and generals of the lower realm.

The myriad heavenly soldiers and generals formed a spell array, with the light of the Zhou Tian stars above their heads; after a wave of the Zhou Tian starlight extermination divine light, the number of extradimensional demon gods able to stand in place was already small.

Zhang Jian's gaze swept across the void, yet his pupils slightly contracted; his sensitive innate primordial spirit sensed that many unknown terrifying presences were still approaching in the darkness.

At this very moment, Zhang Jian's heart stirred, and yet he saw a voice appear beside his ear.

It was the voice of Daoist Qingxia.

"Find an opportunity to come see me!"