Chapter 553: Abduction (4K)===GLOSSARY===

In the depths of the earth's fissures, Zhang Jian did not attempt to use the power of the Earth Emperor's Ancestral Qi to mend the land and cleanse the demonic aura.

The Earth Emperor's Ancestral Qi he had just condensed was newly formed and still could not be compared to the essence of the demonic aura left behind by that ancient demon lord.

Instead, the transformative azure lotus immortal light contained within the acquired spiritual treasure, the Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram, was strong enough—strands of transformative azure lotus immortal light shot forth, instantly piercing through numerous demonic auras, eradicating the terrifying demonic intent within them completely.

"Feasible!"

Gazing at this scene, Zhang Jian's heart stirred slightly.

Since the Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram works, it is naturally for the best, avoiding the need for him to use the innate spiritual treasure, the Third-Grade Transformative Azure Lotus.

The Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram is an acquired spiritual treasure containing three acquired divine prohibitions within.

This means it is a lower-grade acquired spiritual treasure.

Each acquired divine prohibition contains a unique power, one of which is the transformative azure lotus immortal light, possessing immense purifying ability.

The other two prohibitions respectively grant defensive and suppressive powers.

The defensive one is called the Indestructible Azure Lotus, capable of sprouting lotuses that shield the body, with formidable might.

The suppressive one is called the Chaos Azure Lotus Divine Light, capable of transforming into a chaos immortal bridge to suppress all heavenly and earthly laws, turning the void into chaos—highly advantageous.

Zhang Jian had used it before in the Lotus King's relics.

At this moment, simply employing the transformative azure lotus immortal light, azure immortal light radiated from Zhang Jian as the center, spreading out as vast patches of demonic aura swiftly vanished.

Even purifying millions of kilometers of fissures took only a moment or so.

The azure immortal light swept like wind and lightning, purifying the demonic realm about to take shape.

Then came the repair of this massive fissure valley.

For Zhang Jian, this was rather a simple task.

Although the earth's veins destroyed by that blade light were long and deep, for Zhang Jian, honored as the Earth Emperor, these were trivial matters.

He circulated the turning-creation immortal light around his body, his form swiftly entering each damaged earth spirit orifice, rapidly repairing these damaged earth spirit orifices.

After a thousand years of 'training' in the Innate Dao Realm, he had ample experience in repairing earth spirit orifices, and even earth ancestral orifices.

"Success!"

Lian Shan Dao Jun, while acting, also monitored the changes in that vast demonic aura abyss, seeing the demonic aura within rapidly dissipate, he was secretly astonished.

The demonic aura contained within was abnormally intense, so intense that even he, an Earth Dao Jun, was helpless, yet the other party had means to resolve the issue so swiftly.

This Lingyuan Emperor Jun is merely a Taiyi Great Perfection immortal god.

Undoubtedly, the other party may possess a great treasure!

Lian Shan Dao Jun flashed this thought, which passed through his mind in an instant, but he did not entertain other ideas.

It was not due to lofty Dao-heart or lack of greed for treasure, but mainly because the other party is an official member of the Three Sovereigns and Five Elders Association, possesses a divine nature, and has behind them a powerful ancient Holy Emperor as ancestral master.

Such a background is enough to make many strong ones weigh carefully.

For a treasure of unknown exact effect, should one draw deadly enmity with the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm!

The Xuanhuang Divine Banner waved, the power of the three great earth ancestral orifices fully erupted, and in an instant, a virtual shadow of the Xuanhuang Fetal Membrane of Heaven and Earth condensed once more in the void.

This time the virtual shadow was more substantial, resembling the descent of a true innate spiritual treasure.

The void twisted and coiled, instantly sweeping in a soaring, formidable demon lord.

Lian Shan Dao Jun's eyes flickered with a cold smile; although the Xuanhuang Fetal Membrane Great Array can only mimic part of an innate spiritual treasure's power, under his impetus as a Taiqing Tianyi lineage Dao Jun, its might would far surpass many eternal treasures, enough to rival fourth- or even fifth-grade eternal treasures.

The demon lord falling into the Donghua Realm would naturally be suppressed and rejected by the Donghua Realm's heavenly way, and combined with the power of the Xuanhuang Fetal Membrane Great Array, the result was nothing but death!

Even if a Dao Jun, a demon lord encountering such a deadly killing formation has no second path to walk.

After several successive earth-shaking booms, deep in the void, Lian Shan Dao Jun emerged with a calm face, his expression serene, holding the Xuanhuang Divine Banner in his hand.

The many flying demonic path strongers, and even that renowned extraterritorial heavenly demon realm's extraterritorial demon lord, had already perished within the Xuanhuang Fetal Membrane Great Array.

Zhang Jian, as one of the masters of the Xuanhuang Fetal Membrane Great Array, also sensed this change.

One extraterritorial demon lord actually died so silently and soundlessly.

"Indeed, even after achieving divinity, maintaining a low profile is still necessary; being too conspicuous invites a swift death, for there are too many unknown powers in heaven and earth..."

Zhang Jian secretly mused, his hands not slowing, hastening the repair of earth spirit orifices.

One month later, Zhang Jian successfully repaired all damaged earth spirit orices within millions of kilometers.

Taking less than one-third of the time.

This efficiency caused Ji Cheng and Lian Shan Dao Jun to glance askance.

Having successfully repaired the earth spirit orices, Zhang Jian then returned to the Purple Mansion Province Earth Ancestral Orifice.

But this was merely the beginning.

Above the firmament, as more and more strong ones fell, terrifying demon lords occasionally dropped from the firmament, or Dao Jun divine weapons.

Continuous bombardment and bombardment, although most were blocked by the Xuanhuang Fetal Membrane Great Array, still many demon soldiers, and even powerful demon god corpses, fell into the earth, dealing heavy blows to the land.

With the prior performance in repairing earth spirit orices, Zhang Jian naturally took over all the 'heavy responsibilities' as a matter of course.

Zhang Jian did not refuse this; repairing the earth, though tedious and carrying some danger, is also great merit and great fortune—he naturally would not shirk.

The one seated in charge of the Southern Earth Ancestral Orifice's depths, Ji Cheng, merely watched this situation, only manifesting his true form to participate when the earth spirit orices suffered not severe damage.

Boom—!

This state continued until three years later.

On this day, deep in the Earth Ancestral Orifice of Purple Mansion Province, Zhang Jian suddenly stirred, yet sensed a thread of intense demonic aura surging in the deep subterranean void beneath Purple Mansion Province.

Behind him, the Lotus King's Treasure Mirror transformed into a strand of azure spiritual light and appeared, illuminating the changes in the deep subterranean void below; in the Boundless Netherworld Long River, a humanoid figure silently emerged.

It was the form of an extraterritorial heavenly demon; she wore sheer gauze, yet insufficient to cover her key areas, behind her grew cicada-wing-like crystalline butterfly wings, and between her brows were two short, shallow antennae; her body surged with pink demonic aura.

This is a type of desire demon from the extraterritorial heavenly demon realm.

Also a cultivator, and indeed a type of extraterritorial heavenly demon born from the great desire of myriad beings' hearts.

This is an extraterritorial heavenly demon, not an extraterritorial heart demon.

The outer-domain heart demons are formless and bodiless; unless one cultivates into the body of a demon lord, most outer-domain heavenly demons possess demon bodies and can shift between the real and the illusory, but this one combines the strengths of outer-domain heart demons and boundary-transcending demon gods, making it extremely troublesome.

This outer-domain heavenly demon's cultivation is not weak, roughly equivalent to the Heavenly Immortal realm.

Zhang Jian sensed that this outer-domain heavenly demon might merely be a scout under some powerful demon lord; if mishandled, it would immediately draw the attention of the outer-domain heavenly demon legion.

He did not want this spacetime rift to become a focal point for the outer-domain heavenly demons.

Then he would have no time to contemplate the changes of heaven and earth.

Nine-colored divine light flowed and shifted, and the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and the State emerged accordingly, sealing the breach in the spacetime rift.

That outer-domain heavenly demon traveled upstream along the lower reaches of the Netherworld River, arriving in the area of the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and the State in an instant, only to be bewildered by the nine-colored divine light.

After circling the vicinity several times and finding nothing, it simply departed.

Zhang Jian watched this change, a slight smile on his face.

Being able to avoid such trouble is, after all, good.

After all, he still needs to frequently free his hands to repair the damaged earth spirit veins of the Donghua Realm.

In the subsequent years, the appearances of outer-domain heavenly demons in the depths of this Netherworld sub-space became increasingly frequent; they were like diligent bees, constantly seeking out the flaws exposed in the Donghua Realm, attempting to burrow in and drain its foundation.

Deep within the Myriad Immortals Array, the battle had already entered a white-hot state; the powerful beings coming to obstruct the Donghua Realm's ascension in the heavens grew ever more numerous—not just demon realm experts, but also mighty Dao Lords from the depths of the void dimensions, even great gods of the heterodox paths, and a portion of ancient gods entering the Myriad Immortals Grand Array.

At the core, the sound of endless booming echoed through heaven and earth.

However, with great enemies arriving, there were also powerful allies from the Taiqing Heaven lineage coming to lend aid.

Zhang Jian also saw several extraordinarily powerful Daoists chasing from the void; when one descended, it was as if a Northern Ming Kun-Peng had appeared, and wherever it passed, the boundless void was entirely swallowed by a single blade of immortal light, with countless boundary-transcending demon gods falling, impossible to count.

Another was a Daoist with an ethereal form, seemingly transformed from the Dreamlike Grand Void into a butterfly; with a single sword strike, all manner of immortals and demons seemed to turn into fluorescent fragments and dissipate completely.

These were two extraordinarily terrifying existences, and the killing power they caused was not inferior to that of the three major core arrays within the Myriad Immortals Array.

However, even with powerful reinforcements descending, the fallen immortals and gods within the Myriad Immortals Grand Array were no longer few.

Between Qiankun and the Two Lands, the various grand arrays in the depths of the heavens were the main battlefield; besides most immortals and gods falling within the starry expanse, in the Nine Heavens, Five Phases, Spacetime, Earth, Wind and Thunder, and other innate arrays, countless gods fell.

As for the earth, it was mainly the various stars fallen from the heavens, or demon lord corpses, even outer-domain heavenly demons, and the hidden demon hordes on the earth launching sudden ambushes leading to deaths.

Zhang Jian gazed upon the vast expanse of heaven and earth; at this moment, though the Nine Heavens shrouded the sky, the Nine Heavens cloud layer was already utterly shattered.

From time to time, he could hear violent booming sounds coming from above his head.

The earth above was also pitted and uneven, with one divine mountain and river after another covered in traces of countless bloody battles.

As for the stars above the heavens, they were already sparse and scattered; the Yin-Yang, Four Symbols, Five Phases, Spacetime, and other great Dao laws of heaven and earth continued to tremble incessantly.

In the depths of the heavens, blood rain would occasionally fall, accompanied by endless booming sounds.

Truly, every inch of land and river, every inch of blood.

This Donghua Realm had become a meat grinder.

Zhang Jian had also experienced several heart-stopping immortal-demon great battles.

The Demon Spring Great Battle of the Zhou Shan Realm was also extraordinarily massive in scale.

But compared to this great battle in the Donghua Realm, it was truly the lesser witch seeing the greater witch.

Yet fortunately, he had still preserved himself; the purple-yellow dragon-shaped spirit light rings flowing from the Imperial Emperor's Treasure Wheel behind his head had grown by more than half, obviously gaining immense benefits.

Not only was his control over the Imperial Emperor's primordial qi more adept, but benefiting from the transformation of the Earth Primordial Qi Wheel, he had also gathered countless earth Dao qi, using terrestrial Dao qi as a blueprint.

Zhang Jian felt that he no longer needed to spend large amounts of time carefully deducing; after passing this tribulation, he could directly evolve his own Dao qi and spread it throughout heaven and earth.

This was equivalent to laying a foundation of ten thousand zhang for his third step toward becoming a Dao Lord through the evolution of primordial qi.

Progress was not only Zhang Jian's; as long as other immortals and gods remained alive, they too gained something, more or less.

At this moment, Zhang Jian could also sense that the Donghua Realm's ascension was gradually entering its later stage.

The radiance of the heavenly realm's dimension began to fall from the heavens, penetrating Yin-Yang and the Five Phases, and began to enter the earth above.

The power of the heavenly realm's dimension shining forth, the boundless immortal light caused the speed at which the Donghua Realm's myriad heaven-and-earth Dao laws transformed to become extremely rapid.

Zhang Jian sensed this change, and a feeling of relief also arose in his heart.

This was like finally having hope.

However, he also knew that success was near, yet failure could come from the last missing brick.

Going forward, he still could not afford to be careless.

Going forward, for those immortals and gods like them dwelling in the middle and lower law arrays, or rather, this was the most dangerous, because the situation was nearly settled; those boundary-transcending demon lords, even Dao Lord-level powerful beings, might shift their mindset from completely destroying the Donghua Realm's ascension to merely grabbing a profit and leaving, or alternatively, to doing harm without benefit to themselves, doing their utmost to destroy the foundation of the Donghua Realm, so that after the Donghua Realm's ascension, the benefits obtainable would be reduced.

Zhang Jian also became much more low-key going forward.

If another hole or wound appeared on the earth above, he would no longer readily go out, but instead would leave such 'good deeds' to the increasingly enthusiastic Ji Cheng.

Unless encountering a great demonic pollution that Ji Cheng could not handle.

Ji Cheng's caution allowed him to avoid a calamity; on this day, Ji Cheng emerged from the southern earth's ancestral orifice as usual, patrolled the earth, and repaired a place where the earth's spiritual orifice had fallen and broken due to demon god techniques, yet he encountered a terrifying demon god descending from the heavens.

It was a boundary-transcending demon god whose body was covered in countless black scales, this demon god seemingly of aquatic origin, with gills at the corners of its mouth; its moist demonic light instantly transformed into a vortex that engulfed Ji Cheng, who was repairing the earth's spiritual orifice.

Ji Cheng was greatly startled, and a golden-yellow sword shadow appeared around his body.

This was part of the power of the Xuanyuan Sword; the sword light slashed toward the demon god, which was slightly astonished, yet it immediately began to silently chant a spell, its form entering a great vortex, yet seeing the sword light split the vortex, Ji Cheng was about to turn into a stream of light and swiftly return to the southern earth's ancestral orifice.

From the depths of the vortex shattered into countless fragments came the icy laughter of the boundary-transcending demon god.

"The bloodline of an ancient holy emperor—I, too, have not come in vain!"

Countless ice-blue vortices instantly merged again, enveloping Ji Cheng; Ji Cheng wielded in his hand an eternal-grade immortal treasure, yet it too was instantly frozen by the vortex.

"Xuan Yu Demon Lord, release him!"

At this moment, above the heavens, the Primordial Yellow Membrane of Heaven and Earth condensed, covering the sky and earth, enveloping the depths of the earth, and pressing toward this boundary-transcending demon lord.

The one called Xuan Yu Demon Lord gazed upon this scene, his expression cold and indifferent, he lightly snorted, his form instantly transforming into a divine light that broke open a spacetime rift, and instantly vanished.

"Bold!"

At this moment, deep in the void, instantly came a thunderous roar like a clap of thunder; instantly, a white-gold divine light appeared, like lightning in pursuit, and likewise entered the spacetime rift.

This was another Dao Lord, appearing to have an extraordinary relationship with Ji Cheng.

Zhang Jian watched this scene, inwardly shaken, and at the same time feeling somewhat fortunate.

Fortunately, he sensed the danger and did not continue to greedily pursue luck and merit afterward; otherwise, it would have been him who was taken away just now.