Chapter 567

The place for ancestral worship, Zhang Jian still chose the Eastern Immortal Realm, Qingyi City, Fengqiao Town.

Zhang Nan led many Zhang clan descendants to welcome Zhang Jian's arrival in Fengqiao Town.

As the old residence of the Central Heavenly Realm Zhang clan, even though the Zhang clan has long since expanded into Qingyi City, the 'ancestral residence' in Fengqiao Town still retains its original appearance.

After a simple admonition, Zhang Jian organized a grand Heaven-worship ceremony.

Of course, the reason is ready-made; he is about to be transferred to the Eternal Ice Fortress, becoming its Garrison Heavenly Sovereign.

After the Heaven-worship, then comes the worship of the ancestral shrine's forefathers.

But nominally, it is the worship of all forefathers.

The main object of worship remains the 'Qingxia Dao Sovereign'!

After the great sacrificial ceremony ended, Zhang Jian still chose to perform the ancestral worship alone.

At this time, the ancestral shrine was sealed by a barrier formed from the Mountains and Rivers State Map; Zhang Jian had prepared many gold and silver ingots.

Zhang Jian had reason to believe this ancestral worship would not yield much less than the last one.

Last time, although he had just attained the divine sacred body and saved half the sentient beings of the Jade Liuli World, gaining great benefits.

But this time he will spread the Earth Emperor's ancestral Qi throughout the heavenly court's many realms, and bear the title of Ice Fortress Heavenly Sovereign with a transfer sequence of nine; and in the Donghua Realm, in the Yaochi, what he has done has earned considerable renown.

Therefore, this ancestral worship should yield a return not much less than last time.

It might even yield more.

To verify this conjecture, this time he prepared the ancestral worship on an even larger scale.

At this moment, within the ancestral shrine, blue smoke rose straight into the clouds.

Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon the central great cauldron, where many gold and silver ingots were rapidly burning, one pile after another of gold and silver ingot mountains being filled in by Zhang Jian.

He was like an old farmer tilling the field, about to see the harvest appear.

In his eyes, that vast mountain range of gold and silver ingots was quickly burned to ashes, this scale gradually surpassing that of last time.

"Indeed..."

Zhang Jian secretly thought, a hint of a smile appearing at the corners of his eyes.

In the bronze great cauldron, the burning of the gold and silver ingot mountain range continued, and the ashes left after burning did not continuously disappear.

As the scale of the worship gradually reached about twice that of last time, the wispy blue flames burning deep in the central great cauldron gradually dimmed.

Seeing this, Zhang Jian took out a celestial treasure and cast it into the great cauldron.

This is a bundle of sky-blue banners, the banner faces covered with numerous extraordinary patterns, containing profound mysteries of various heavenly and earthly Great Dao laws; inside, it seems to contain the wonder of chaotic transformation and generation, and moreover displays the magnificent spectacle of the circulation of the Innate Five Extremes.

This is a fourth-rank celestial treasure.

Zhang Jian named it the Innate Five Extremes Divine Banner.

It contains the mystery of the circulation of the Innate Five Extremes' origin, and the wonder of chaotic transformation and generation.

Zhang Jian is still the first to refine a fourth-rank celestial treasure, and moreover such a miraculous one.

As this celestial treasure was refined, Zhang Jian gradually felt that his artifact-refining ability was gradually able to match his own cultivation level.

After the worship ended.

Zhang Jian then summoned Zhang Nan and other Zhang clan descendants to give teachings and resolve doubts for the immortals.

With Zhang Jian's current cultivation level, guiding Zhang Nan and the others is more than sufficient,

and this is also what Zhang Nan and the others most look forward to.

Every time this Imperial Grandfather comes, everyone can receive a period of guidance.

If fortunate, one can even obtain some great-power immortal arts.

The Zhang clan's secretly transmitted fifth-rank immortal arts are numerous in number; mastering any one allows one to surpass peers of the same rank among immortals, and learning several kinds enables one to become a strong figure among immortals of the same realm.

……

Eighth layer of the upper realm, within the Vast Immortal Realm.

The Qingxia Dao Sovereign has already departed far away, but her incense-avatar 'Qingxia Dao Sovereign' remains in the Lantai Dao Palace, guarding it, thus sitting in command of the central palace.

At this moment, 'Qingxia Dao Sovereign' is already standing early by the Two Realms Pool, waiting; she has long since calculated that someone from the lower realm will soon perform worship.

'Qingxia Dao Sovereign' also has confidence in her judgment.

Zhang Jian is about to transfer the Eternal Ice Fortress; one would think he would not give up this opportunity for worship, and incidentally obtain some benefit from her.

However, how could her heart not also harbor anticipation?

Zhang Jian is about to enter the Eternal Ice Fortress.

If he enters the Eternal Ice Fortress, worship will become very difficult.

This would be tantamount to cutting off her stipend.

Without those vast streams of flawless incense-fire cultivation power, her incarnation desires to breakthrough the second great calamity in a short time, which would probably be difficult.

She hopes that Zhang Jian's worship this time will be on a larger scale.

Shortly after, she saw the nine-colored pool water in the Two Realms Pool begin to boil.

"Here he comes!"

Seeing this, Qingxia Dao Sovereign's eyes brightened.

A layer of azure rosy light flowed around her body, instantly enveloping the Two Realms Pool.

Boom—rumble—rumble!

The sound of rushing thunder suddenly emerged from the Two Realms Pool, as if billions of acres of thunder were crashing and flashing.

Sensing the undulating waves emitted by the flawless golden light flood, Qingxia Dao Sovereign's eyes brightened slightly.

At the same time, she also breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems this worship is of considerable scale.

From the commotion, one can tell it will not be weaker than last time.

In an instant, rolling incense mirror light burst forth from the Two Realms Pool, transforming the nine-colored pool water into a vast golden ocean.

Behind the 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch', a vast azure divine domain quietly unfolded, within which lay contained endless mysterious wonders, like a great whale inhaling, it swallowed the rolling incense golden light.

Within the hazy azure divine domain, one golden incense kingdom after another took shape.

Each formed kingdom equated to one hundred million flawless incense.

The 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch' performed this with ease.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of golden incense kingdoms formed, while she rapidly refined them, transforming them into incense divine light that merged into her Daoist Monarch Dao Fruit, becoming pure Dao cultivation to nourish herself.

Deep within the Two Realms Pool, the nine-colored pool water continued to roar incessantly.

Within the azure divine domain, half an hour later, over two hundred golden incense kingdoms had formed, quickly followed by three hundred.

At this moment, even the depths of the 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch's' eyes showed some shock.

The flawless incense produced by this sacred body was different.

And only after the formation of the four hundredth golden incense kingdom did the torrent of condensed incense golden light begin to slow.

Subsequently, another ten or so golden incense kingdoms condensed.

"Four hundred and twelve incense kingdoms, four hundred and twelve billion flawless incense!"

Qingxiao Daoist Monarch carefully contemplated, her heart also involuntarily stirred.

This truly was a vast amount of flawless incense.

With this amount of flawless incense, she feared she would soon catch up to her true body's cultivation speed.

Second Transformation Daoist Monarch, plus one incarnation of a Second Transformation Daoist Monarch.

The 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch's' eyes flickered slightly.

Even if the Taiyin Immortal Monarch turned back, she felt no fear of him.

A hint of a tranquil smile appeared in her expression, then instantly shifted to gaze deep into the Two Realms Pool, where she waited silently for a moment.

Indeed, only a moment later, the nine-colored pool water in the depths of the Two Realms Pool boiled again, within which flowed the Great Dao Heavenly Sound, echoing between heaven and earth, and strands of five-colored innate divine light flashed forth, drawing down various heavenly and earthly Great Dao laws from the Central Heavenly Realm.

The 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch' gazed outward, her eyes likewise filled with astonishment.

First to manifest in the heavens were the Innate Five Grand Dao Laws.

Innate Five Grand: Taiyi, Taichu, Taisu, Taishi, Taiji.

Next came the two heavenly and earthly Great Dao Laws of Chaos and Creation.

Streams of merit and virtue golden light permeated, forming countless golden auspicious clouds.

Various omens displayed the extraordinariness of this innate merit and virtue spiritual treasure.

Qingxiao Daoist Monarch glanced at it, and could not help but fix her eyes upon the depths of the Two Realms Pool.

Soon, a dynamic, vast, innate divine light flew forth from within, instantly falling into Qingxiao Daoist Monarch's hand, manifesting as a five-colored divine light power flowing, with chaos as its face and the azure lotus as its pattern, forming an azure long banner.

It seemed to carry an invincible, formidable power—Innate Five Grand transformation, Chaos giving birth, destroying all.

The 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch' slightly refined it, and in her wondrous eyes, a hint of surprise could not help but arise.

Middle-grade Innate Merit and Virtue Spiritual Treasure: Innate Five Grand Divine Banner, containing the profound mystery of the Innate Five Grand轮转, possessing the power to destroy all heavenly and earthly Dao, able to condense Innate Five Grand divine light, possessing immense Chaos power, invincible, and containing the power of Chaos giving birth.

Possessing six Innate Divine Prohibitions!

A top-tier middle-grade Innate Merit and Virtue Spiritual Treasure.

Moreover, it was a purely offensive Innate Spiritual Treasure.

The 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch' had never before obtained such an ultimate offensive Innate Merit and Virtue Spiritual Treasure.

Its invincible power was extraordinarily formidable.

Speaking of power, it was likely superior to all the Innate Merit and Virtue Spiritual Treasures she had obtained.

Its power surpassed that of the previously obtained Ten Thousand Wheels Reincarnation Diagram, Eight Trigrams Cloud Light Scarf, and Mixed Element River Luo Diagram, though this treasure's power was rather singular, lacking in auxiliary aspects.

But the 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch' turned it over in her mind—was this not its advantage?

By abandoning other functions and transforming into pure offensiveness, it could surpass all treasures.

"Truly a supreme treasure!"

The 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch's' thought flashed—her first thought at this moment was to notify her true body, already far away, to return for a visit.

With this treasure's aid, this journey of expansion would undoubtedly proceed much more smoothly.

Such terrifying offensiveness would be enough to clear all obstacles for her true body's journey of expansion.

Even the heavenly treasures held by the immortals and Daoists might not possess this treasure's offensive power!

In an instant, her gaze turned toward the city's Two Realms Pool.

As for how to give feedback, the 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch' had long been prepared.

The items she had prepared, in terms of preciousness, would not fall short of the opponent's sacrificial offerings.

But the treasures were too precious; after consideration, Qingxiao Daoist Monarch decided to go herself.

……

Fengqiao Town, the night cool as water.

Zhang Jian gazed at the twelve full moons overhead, noticing that recently the twelve full moons were exceptionally bright, and the Yin star was unusually active.

The twelve Yin deities frequently manifested their true forms, scattering Yin light.

Combined with the words of the Hundred Flowers Fairy, Zhang Jian knew the Yin Immortal Monarch was likely truly reappearing in true form.

The time until return would not be long.

When that Yin Immortal Monarch returns, he fears he will still stir up great waves in the heavenly court.

He nominally pays homage to the 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch' as his ancestor, and can be said to be naturally a deity of the 'Qingxiao Daoist Monarch's' camp, and likely eight or nine out of ten will encounter her hostility.

And he has not yet stepped into the Daoist Monarch realm; if targeted by a Daoist Monarch, he fears it will affect his Dao path.

Zhang Jian can only hope that Qingxiao Daoist Monarch has made preparations.

"With Daoist Lord Dao Jun's cunning... pfft, shrewdness, he should have a backup plan!"

Zhang Jian thought to himself.

'Qingxia Daoist Lord' obviously would not want Taiyin Xianjun to return so soon.

As for Baihua Xianzi, Zhang Jian did not hold much hope for her.

Baihua Xianzi is kind-hearted and soft-handed; in terms of methods, she is far inferior to Qingxia Daoist Lord.

As various thoughts flashed through his mind, Zhang Jian actually trusted Qingxia Daoist Lord's methods; he firmly believed the other party was a divine teammate, not a pig teammate.

At this moment, Zhang Jian's heart stirred, and his gaze fell toward the ancestral hall of Fengqiao Town.

"Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao arrives!"

With a thought in his heart, Zhang Jian stepped into the ancestral hall.

Inside the ancestral hall, the night was dim and secluded; this place had been tidied to extreme cleanliness, and the many eternal candles illuminating it made it as bright as daytime.

Beneath the ancient and fragrant atmosphere lay a scene of solemnity and reverence.

The ancestral hall was hung with numerous plaques, most of which were celestial offices; for example, Zhang Jian had previously held the positions of Lingyuan Emperor of the Three Yuan Spirit Officials Hall, Shui Guan Emperor, and the third Yongheng Ice Fortress Heavenly Monarch—three large plaques remained on the hall, which also served as the foundation to awe other immortals and gods.

Behind them were many smaller plaques, such as those held by Zhang Nan, Zhang Qi, and Zhang Yujing, who served as mid- to low-level celestial officials.

These were all precious wealth of the Zhang clan.

At this moment, Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon a blue immortal light descending from the void, instantly forming a vast spatial passage.

Within the vast spatial passage, a blue-clad figure emerged.

Seeing this figure, Zhang Jian was slightly surprised, but still performed a slight bow.

He remembered that Qingxia Daoist Lord seemed to have already gone on a military expedition.

Only to see this figure seemingly notice the surprise in Zhang Jian's eyes, and calmly said: "This palace is her incense manifestation!"

Zhang Jian slightly nodded.

At this moment, 'Qingxia Daoist Lord' raised her hand, and a three-colored divine light emerged from her palm.

"Your offerings, this palace is very pleased with; this item was also an opportunity I obtained in my youth, and today I formally bestow it upon you!"

Zhang Jian's eyes moved; at this moment he raised his hands and received the incoming three-colored divine light.

Yet his eyes flashed with a hint of brightness.

Having handled so many heavenly and earthly treasures, he is exceptionally discerning.

At this moment, the three-colored divine light revealed a peculiar divine stone, its entire body displaying three colors, crystalline silver and translucent, within which lay a peculiar divine energy, seemingly capable of reflecting the traces of time upon all beings in heaven and earth.

Just a glance, and he could sense that this treasure was extraordinarily divine and wondrous.

Yet at this moment, 'Qingxia Daoist Lord''s figure had already vanished.

In her place, a message flew down and entered Zhang Jian's glabella.

He already knew the origin of this treasure.

This is the Three Lives Stone.

Predestined for three lives, originally it was an innate divine object from ancient times; when the netherworld's underworld first opened, sentient beings were born and nurtured; although it is not an innate spiritual treasure, it contains a peculiar power, its value even surpassing some innate spiritual treasures.

According to Qingxia Daoist Lord's words, especially for him to sever fate, leap past the past, present, and future, it is of great help.

Moreover, it itself contains a vast amount of fortune; as long as it is properly utilized, divine aid will surely be obtained.

This is part of the power inherent in the Three Lives Stone itself.

It also has other wonderful uses.

For example, it contains a portion of the authority of the Nine Netherworld's underworld; secondly, it can delude cultivators, attacking immortals and gods through the temporal river of past, present, and future, and the river of fate, etc.

"Ancient divine object, Three Lives Stone!"

A ripple flashed in the depths of Zhang Jian's eyes.

What he values most naturally is still being able to sever fate, and that unknown stroke of divine fortune.

With this object, upon entering the Eternal Ice Fortress, his cultivation will obviously proceed more smoothly.

"This ancestor truly is a warm-hearted rock..."