Chapter 545: Earth Sovereign's Rightful Name (4K)

Zhang Jian's innate primordial spirit was immersed in the depths of the ancestral qi wheel within the Dao realm.

The same ancestral qi wheel.

But the earth-attribute ancestral qi wheel condensed in this earth-attribute ancestral qi Dao realm is exceptionally pure, far surpassing that of the Huoyun Cave Heaven.

However, the Huoyun Cave Heaven possesses advantages that this Dao realm cannot match—namely, embracing all rivers and containing not just one kind of wondrous ancestral qi.

Zhang Jian had already benefited from it before, and now he feels that if he merely supplements a portion of the earth-attribute ancestral qi's profundity, he hopes to complete the profound earth-sovereign Dao qi deep within his innate foundation, allowing it to fully possess ancestral qi characteristics.

If he could transform all the Dao qi within his body into earth-sovereign ancestral qi, possessing all the qualities of innate ancestral qi, he would naturally become the innate divine being born from this ancestral qi's nurturing.

This is the greatest difference between divinity and innate divine beings.

One is the source of all Dao, the beginning of the Great Dao, possessing a unique and unparalleled characteristic.

Although innate divine beings are born from the nurturing of innate Dao qi, in essence they still differ greatly from innate ancestral qi.

It is merely that the earth-sovereign Dao qi differs from ordinary Dao qi.

Within the Huoyun Cave Heaven, Zhang Jian enabled the earth-sovereign Dao qi to possess a portion of sovereign characteristics.

Sovereign over the Dao qi network, sovereign over the law network.

This in itself is one of the characteristics of ancestral qi.

Deep within his primordial spirit, a vast expanse of purple-yellow divine light burst forth, and above his head, three Taiyi azure clouds emerged with a purple-yellow radiance; the azure cloud brilliance shifted, as if illuminating countless earth-attribute Dao qi heavenly-earthly Great Dao laws, gradually merging and fusing into the three Taiyi azure clouds above.

The three Taiyi azure clouds continued to grow, and also exhibited a symptom of merging into one.

When merged into one, it may be called a single true Dao fruit auspicious cloud.

This is the manifestation of the Great Dao heart, the Great Dao practice, and great wisdom.

Only a powerful immortal deity who has attained Taiyi Great Perfection will have a Dao fruit auspicious cloud appear behind the head, and possess the qualification to achieve Dao Lord.

This step requires a long time.

However, at this moment, deep within Zhang Jian's three Taiyi azure clouds, a light wheel gradually emerged—purple-yellow as its boundary, within which countless wondrous innate Dao patterns seemed to wander; this divine wheel gradually approached the earth-attribute ancestral qi wheel deep within the Dao realm, drawing upon the heavenly-earthly earth-attribute ancestral qi's wonders.

This change was witnessed by many Dao Lords within the Pure Yang Immortal Palace, each of whom involuntarily changed expression.

Only then did they clearly realize how close the Lingyuan Emperor before them was to the footsteps of divinity.

Only one step away!

Within the Immortal Palace, Yu Wang gazed calmly at this scene, his eyes showing no surprise.

Having absorbed the Holy Purple Qi nurtured in the depths of the Huoyun Cave Heaven and obtained another innate imprint, Zhang Jian has already largely completed his innate foundation; the distance to the footsteps of divinity is indeed not great.

Innate divine beings are born mastering a path of innate ancestral qi.

Stepping onto this path to become a Dao Lord, the success rate is at least over fifty percent.

This can also save hundreds of millions of years of arduous cultivation.

After all, ascending to Dao Lord and condensing the ancestral qi Dao fruit is an essential path.

However, ordinary Taiyi Great Perfection cultivators need only transform their Great Perfection Dao qi Dao fruit into postnatal ancestral qi.

Strictly speaking, innate ancestral qi and postnatal ancestral qi differ little; both can master the source of the boundless heavenly-earthly Great Dao laws.

One is innate, the other is postnatal.

Being innate means one naturally possesses it, thus saving hundreds of millions of years.

Postnatal cultivation, however, requires an unknown span of time before one can evolve an ancestral qi Dao fruit.

Moreover, innate beings naturally receive the favor of the heavenly-earthly Great Dao's qi fortune.

Postnatal beings, however, must gain heavenly-earthly recognition and wait until the end of this evolutionary era, then use this opportunity to imprint their mark into the reorganized heavenly-earthly Great Dao depths, transforming postnatal into innate.

Once Zhang Jian condenses innate ancestral qi, his opportunity to achieve Dao in this evolutionary era will greatly increase.

Furthermore, obtaining this great fortune, his achievements will undoubtedly be extraordinary.

Within the great hall, many Dao Lords also clearly understand this point.

The Pure Yang Dao Lord's pupils underwent some change.

If Zhang Jian truly transforms into an innate divine being within the Luan Sheng Kun Yue Dao realm, then it is his opportunity that has arrived.

However, if speaking frankly, had he known earlier that Zhang Jian possessed such a foundation, he might not have agreed to let Zhang Jian participate in the trials within the innate Dao realm.

Each evolutionary era has a limited number of Dao Lords, and the order of achieving Dao follows a sequence.

The powerful beings born in this evolutionary era, during this era, will receive the protection of the Great Dao and can achieve Dao in the early or middle stages.

Meanwhile, powerful beings born in other evolutionary eras must wait until the later stage of this era arrives before they are released from confinement and given the opportunity to strive for Dao Lord.

Furthermore, if the quota for achieving Dao Lord in this evolutionary era is already full, that too would cause trouble.

Within one heavenly realm, the quota for supporting Dao verification in an evolutionary era is very limited.

If there is no quota, one must enter the myriad heavens' void to verify Dao—this is a near-certain death.

Yu Wang then turned his gaze toward another innate Dao realm.

The Water Virtue Star Lord, Water Official Emperor Lord at this moment also found themselves in a stalemate.

The difficulty of the eighth level is indeed no ordinary matter.

It is feared that it cannot be broken in a short time.

For the many Dao Lords within the great hall, three hundred years is but a snap of the fingers.

Before the eighth level, Zhang Jian's 'Earth Sovereign Treasure Wheel' appearing behind his head became increasingly condensed, with numerous dense heavenly-earthly Dao patterns emerging across his body; these Dao patterns gradually coalesced into a clear purple-yellow dragon-shaped pattern, continuous and magnificent.

As if transformed into a unique Dao pattern imprint.

The Dao Lords within the Pure Yang Immortal Palace gazing upon this scene knew they were already close to success—perhaps only a single spark of inspiration away from transforming their inner foundation.

Zhang Jian also sensed this; he opened his eyes and gazed at the stone tower before him.

"It seems I still need to pass the eighth level!"

A ripple appeared in the depths of his eyes; passing the eighth level, he would still possess three hundred years of time.

With these three hundred years, it would be sufficient for him to condense the Earth Sovereign Treasure Wheel and achieve the ancestral qi Dao fruit.

Actually, Zhang Jian knew that his attainment of the Innate Divine Saint was a matter of necessity.

The benefits he gained within the Fire Cloud Grotto-Heaven were too great—the Dao Qi Net, the Ancestral Qi Wheel, the Supreme Holy Purple Qi, the Innate Imprint—these had already completed much of what a Divine Saint should possess.

The Ancestral Qi's profound mystery contained within this Dao realm remained of utmost importance to him.

It was akin to adding the eyes to a painted dragon.

Without such fortune, he did not know how many years he would have wasted.

This was the great fortune path of the Innate Divine Saint.

Just like rolling a snowball, the stronger the beginning, the stronger the later stages become.

The eighth stone tower, its entire body entwined with dense Ancestral Qi mystery, resembled a blazing sun wrapped in Ancestral Qi; Zhang Jian stepped into it.

Yet the sight before him caused Zhang Jian to frown slightly.

However, he saw that at the center of the stone tower, three special thrones now stood, each occupied by a powerful figure wearing a mask.

Above the heads of the three powerful figures, dense divine light emerged, intertwining to form the Dao Fruit Auspicious Clouds.

These were the guardians of the three Taiyi Great Perfection realm cultivators.

This was still the first wave of the five-wave assault in this stage.

Zhang Jian's eyes slightly darkened with solemnity.

At this moment, however, he saw streams of flowing light tearing through the void from deep within, forming lines of characters before his eyes.

Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon what lay before him.

At this moment, fragile earth altars appeared before him.

These earth altars resembled fragile porcelain, their interiors filled with countless backlashes from the Heaven and Earth Great Dao.

To pass this stage, he needed not only to withstand the five external waves of attack, but also to protect these fragile earth altars and successfully repair them within three hundred years.

He had only one chance to clear this stage.

Seeing this, he knew he could only resort to his family's foundation this time.

With a thought, a nine-colored divine light swept through the depths of the stone tower space.

His natal immortal art, the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

As the diagram appeared, it instantly swept forth, swallowing heaven and earth; within this stone tower space, he became the absolute master.

No matter how many Taiyi Great Perfection realm immortals and gods came, he could defeat them all individually.

Under the nine-colored divine light, the three Taiyi Great Perfection realm powerful figures manifested, but were instantly suppressed by the sealing power nurtured within the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, as if the great Dao laws of heaven and earth had condensed into divine mountains, pressing the three immortals deep into the cosmic void.

But immediately afterward, the second wave of attack arrived.

From the depths of the void emerged countless scenes of heavenly and earthly great destruction, as if all things collapsed and heaven and earth fell into apocalypse; even the flowing heavenly and earthly Dao laws in the depths were gradually withering, collapsing, and heading toward nothingness.

This gradually affected the power of the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

Adding to the misery, as heaven and earth collapsed and all things perished, countless extraterritorial heavenly demons howled forth, carrying rolling demonic sounds, as if demonizing heaven and earth.

Countless black-colored radiance spread across this world; the light between heaven and earth gradually faded, leaving only unpredictable darkness surging forth, causing even Zhang Jian's innate primordial spirit to feel a terrifying sense of contamination and defilement.

Such intense tearing sensation greatly restrained control-type immortal arts.

Zhang Jian felt the Dao Fruit immortal light continuously overflowing; he needed to use profound Dao cultivation to suppress the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

At this moment, the weakness of this natal immortal art also became apparent.

After all, he was not the innate spiritual treasure Mountains and Rivers State Diagram; his true self was Zhang Jian himself, not another.

If faced with an irresistible external force, he would ultimately struggle greatly.

Fortunately, Zhang Jian's many heavenly and earthly treasures on his person compensated for this deficiency.

At this moment, as Zhang Jian focused his mind, many heavenly and earthly treasures within the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram began to burst forth with their power.

The Heart of Dimension, the Samsara Divine Stone, the Hunyuan Life and Death Pearl, the Innate Yin Law Dao Seed—various heavenly and earthly treasures surged forth with magnificent power from their depths; even if the heavenly and earthly Dao laws were destroyed, they could still not tear apart the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

The Mountains and Rivers State Diagram deep within his brow also radiated its own divine power.

Zhang Jian had not yet used the Eternal Immortal Treasure or the Acquired Spiritual Treasure.

Doing so would seem excessively domineering……

Zhang Jian instead seized the opportunity to circulate the Art of Reversing Creation, causing streams of divine light to fall into the earth altars beneath his feet, fully dedicating himself to repairing these fragile earth altars.

After the scene of great destruction passed, it was followed by the scene of small-scale extraterritorial demon god legions charging in, difficulty further increased; yet under the silent shroud of the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, many extraterritorial demon god legions were swept away by spacetime storms, or washed clean by starlight, fire, and vanished without trace.

Within the Pure Yang Immortal Palace, at this moment, many Dao Lords fell into a strange tranquility.

After Zhang Jian revealed the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, many Dao Lords stared for a long time, each merely furrowing their brows.

The Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, this supreme treasure among mythologies, unheard of by other immortals and gods—how could the many Dao Lords of the Taiqing Heaven Lineage not have seen it?

They fundamentally did not believe this was a coincidence.

How could there be so many coincidences in the world?

At this moment, the Condensing Yang Dao Lord hesitated slightly, then after a moment spoke to the Yu King Dao.

"Your Majesty, I never expected the Lingyuan Emperor Lord to have also received the inheritance of the Holy Mother of the Brocade Robe Palace—truly deep blessings!"

A strange look appeared in the Yu King's eyes; at this moment he said:

"It is merely due to fate and opportunity; Yu also attained this profound immortal art through fate and coincidence!"

He explained in his words, but he dared not impersonate the Holy Mother of the Brocade Robe Palace.

Furthermore, Zhang Jian's attainment of this natal immortal art had already been confessed to him, though it was merely an accidental insight, brought about by fate.

Other Dao Lords hearing this in their ears merely took the Yu King's words as an admission.

Fate and coincidence?

It was because the Holy Mother of the Brocade Robe Palace forbids external transmission and forbids the use of her palace's name—this is also a perfectly normal practice.

At this moment, Zhang Jian's standing in the hearts of the many Dao Lords rose sharply.

Moreover, the Dao Lords could see that the nine-colored divine diagram already possessed divine rhythm, within it a kind of magnificent divine power; when fully accomplished, it would likely be sufficient to again display the divine power of that sacred artifact.

……

In the eighth pass, Zhang Jian operated the Daoist immortal light, turning the myriad extradimensional demon gods of the demon god legions into ashes, and after more than a hundred years of repair, he passed the trial of this pass.

Outside the eighth pass, he emerged from within, his expression also not lacking solemnity.

He had nearly exhausted all his trump cards.

But everything was worth it.

These trump cards would soon be updated and replaced by new trump cards.

Exposure was also worth it!

Gazing at the last ninth stone tower, like a golden blazing sun, Zhang Jian's eyes flickered with a ripple as he walked to the side of the ninth stone tower and sat down quietly before a river of primordial qi.

This place was closest to the primordial qi wheel above his head, and the primordial qi essence was extraordinarily intense.

Zhang Jian no longer hesitated; his form transformed into a great vortex, beginning to merge with the descending primordial qi essence, while simultaneously harmonizing the innate primordial spirit deep within the Earth Emperor's Treasure Wheel.

The Earth Emperor's Treasure Wheel manifested, within it a layer of intense purple-yellow divine light flowing forth; its essence had already become extremely close to the earth-attribute primordial qi Dao wheel above his head, but its fundamental nature remained clearly distinct.

It clung close to the earth, not only suppressing the earth-attribute network, but also exerting tremendous suppressive and dominant power over the Nine Springs, the state altar, and other qi networks.

This was a special, entirely new primordial qi essence.

Within the Earth Emperor's Treasure Wheel, the countless heavenly and earthly Dao patterns forming a special purple-yellow dragon-shaped Dao imprint gradually condensed and took shape.

Two hundred years passed quietly.

Meanwhile, on the other side, the Water Virtue Star Lord and the Water Official Emperor had already entered the ninth pass.

These two immortals entered the ninth pass at a speed not differing from Zhang Jian's.

The Water Virtue Star Lord was slightly faster.

At this moment, however, within the Luan Sheng Kun Yue Dao realm, countless innate primordial qi essences transformed into vortices and merged into Zhang Jian's surroundings, forming a giant egg around him, from which a hazy purple qi burst forth.

With each strand of purple qi bursting forth, heaven and earth seemed to weigh a measure, the legal pathways of heaven and earth, the qi networks faintly trembling.

Even those within the Pure Yang Immortal Palace felt a growing majestic pressure.

On this day, the immortals suddenly changed expression, seeing within the Eastern Hua Realm the boundless heavenly and earthly laws, the infinite qi network suddenly violently tremble; even the heavenly Dao light wheel at the central depths showed a slight hesitation, as majestic divine power erupted from the innate Dao realm, the boundless heavenly and earthly spiritual mechanisms violently trembled and surged outward, rushing toward the ten directions of heaven and earth, even affecting the depths of the heavenly realm's dimension……