Chapter 620: Boundless Kalpa (4K)

The First-Rank Eternal Dao Law Mountains and Rivers State Diagram has already been successfully deployed.

The Mountains and Rivers State Diagram silently drew in the Qingyang Daoist Sovereign, and even the myriad demons before him, into the scroll.

This fact was not noticed by the many demon soldiers, nor by the Qingyang Daoist Sovereign himself.

In the instant when his eternal will was obscured, the Qingyang Daoist Sovereign had actually already been defeated.

Zhang Jian calmly took out the Post-Heaven Spiritual Treasure Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram; a Chaotic Immortal Bridge flew out, and wherever the bridge passed, countless azure primordial divine winds congealed, including the Qingyang Daoist Sovereign, whose form rapidly twisted and transformed in the void, his form congealing, at this moment his face showing a startled expression.

In an instant, he was enveloped by swirling azure treasure lotuses; his form instantly fell into the azure treasure lotus, and whether his cultivation, primordial spirit, eternal will, or even his Daoist Sovereign status, after being suppressed by the azure treasure lotus, he seemed merely bound, and in the blink of an eye, Zhang Jian took him into the Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram.

Using the power of the Post-Heaven Spiritual Treasure, Zhang Jian instantly suppressed this demon Daoist Sovereign, then employed the power of the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram.

Inside, wind and fire raged, instantly sweeping across the heavens, utterly exterminating all the demon soldiers and generals.

Even their weapons were completely melted in the Flame Emperor's Divine Flame.

Having exterminated this heavenly demon army, Zhang Jian knew he would certainly offend the Heavenly Court, and trouble would surely follow.

Zhang Jian simply gathered all the primitive human tribes into the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, then directly left Mount Dihuang.

Not long after Zhang Jian rose and departed, a vast mass of demonic clouds appeared from above the heavens, the demonic aura carrying the power of the vast stellar divine path.

In an instant, it coalesced into a towering figure clad in black scale armor, with curved ox horns atop his head.

This is an immensely powerful demon Daoist Sovereign; the demonic aura emanating from his body is vast as an ocean, and amidst the rolling demonic aura behind him, another vast demon army manifested from his banner.

His eyes glanced slightly toward Mount Dihuang, but wherever his divine gaze passed, countless signs of life appeared, the earth's power being forcibly extracted, the entire Mount Dihuang seeming to weather and crumble directly, turning to dust and scattering on the wind.

At this moment, several other figures with vast demonic aura appeared in the void, accompanied by starlight, manifesting in the void.

These figures each corresponded to ancient stars, their auras ancient and towering!

These are the demon gods of the Heavenly Court, beings of the same rank as the Qingyang Daoist Sovereign!

The ox-horned demon Daoist Sovereign coldly snorted and said.

"The aura of the Raised Goat Star Lord has completely vanished, and Mount Dihuang is deserted—clearly the culprit has already fled!"

One of the vast demon Daoist Sovereigns slightly furrowed his brow, his expression somewhat fierce, and said.

"Should we simply encircle and hunt him down?"

Although there was some killing intent in his eyes, he remained vigilant and cautious.

The Raised Goat Star Lord is one of the 365 demon sages of the Heavenly Court, exalted in status, and also the master of the Raised Goat Star among the 365 main stars; to die thus naturally requires an explanation.

But they also know that the identity of the one who killed the Raised Goat Star Lord is somewhat special.

The opposing party is a attendant deity of the goddess Nüwa.

The goddess Nüwa is also one of the supreme sovereigns jointly revered by the demon race.

Everyone inevitably feels some concern.

But if we do not take some action, we cannot explain ourselves to one of the Ten Great Demon Sages, the Piercing Iron Demon Sage.

The Purple Child Ox Demon, seeing this, lightly snorted and said.

"We should still first consult the Piercing Iron Demon Sage; otherwise, if something happens, no one will be able to bear the responsibility!"

Upon hearing this, the other demon Daoist Sovereigns also had no objection.

……

After leaving Mount Dihuang, Zhang Jian casually chose a direction and hurried forth; along the way, upon encountering primitive human tribes, he directly used the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram to gather them in.

Actually, Zhang Jian had considered contacting the goddess Nüwa at this time.

After all, nominally he is now an attendant deity of the goddess Nüwa.

But the goddess Nüwa has not actively intervened in this matter; evidently, even if he contacted her, it would probably have little effect.

Or perhaps, to the goddess, this is merely two brothers fighting, and she cannot intervene at this time.

She may not have even considered intervening.

If so, why should he proactively contact her?

……

Along the way, Zhang Jian gathered more and more human tribes into the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, yet he still could not prevent humanity from facing the fate of slaughter.

As he traveled, he finally saw that many powerful demons were no longer acting furtively or concealing their actions.

Vast stretches of powerful demons surged into the land like a flood, cleansing the earth of the few humans who had just begun to recover.

Not only the demons on the vast wilderness lands, but also heterodox paths and even a portion of the ancient demon gods were slaughtering humans and seizing their essences.

This is an extremely tragic scene!

Even though Zhang Jian, as a Daoist Sovereign, already had a heart as firm as iron, he still felt a tremor.

Such a scene is truly too tragic.

Man is the knife and cutting board, I am the fish and meat.

He could only do his best to rescue some human tribes.

But occasionally he would encounter human tribes being slaughtered by demons or demon gods, and he would also exert his full effort.

As the number of times increased, Zhang Jian gradually became a thorn in the flesh and a sting in the eye of the ancient demon god clan, and even of the demon race.

Zhang Jian does not intend to continue like this.

He knows that the ancient Heavenly Emperor Di Jun holds two very special innate spiritual treasures.

Namely, the River Chart and Luo Book, which are extremely skilled at deduction; if he does this too much, when this ancient Heavenly Emperor directly acts against him, he will shift from extreme joy to sorrow.

Having reached this extent, he has already done his utmost.

And in the dark, witnessing the Heavenly Court and the brutal aspect of the ancient demon gods, other innate great divine powers finally could not bear it; some great divine powers then actively opened their mountain gates, beginning to protect a portion of the human-populated territories.

Among them are not lacking the outstanding figures among the innate divinities.

Such actions also drew the attention of the Heavenly Court.

After several great battles, realizing that continuing this way could not completely exterminate humanity, the Heavenly Court gods also ceased their actions, turning instead to focus their attention on the ancient demon god clan.

After all, the ancient demon god clan is the obstacle that blocked the unification of heaven and earth by the celestial court!

As long as we deal with the ancient demon god clan, other immortals and gods, as well as later-born races, can be easily kneaded and flattened at any time!

……

After the slaughter gradually subsided, Zhang Jian found a remote area far from the central wilderness and released many of the human races contained within the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State.

This area has mountains and water, with many fruit trees and wild beasts in the mountains, enough to stave off hunger.

There are also fish and shrimp in the water, including river turtles, which can be hunted.

Zhang Jian set up a Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State barrier around this area, forming a small Peach Blossom Spring.

This barrier can last for ten thousand years.

It is expected that after ten thousand years, the situation should have calmed down.

They can walk out of this Peach Blossom Spring and return to the wilderness.

On the high mountain, gazing at these seeds, Zhang Jian secretly pondered in his heart.

"Truly pitiful, my human race suffered this calamity, only one in ten survived, countless brothers and sisters were devoured; today's cause, tomorrow's retribution!"

"Today demons devour humans, tomorrow humans will slay demons! Heavenly principles cycle, retribution is inevitable!"

Zhang Jian glanced at it, then turned and left.

And after leaving, Zhang Jian prepared to find a place to hide his presence.

And not long after.

Zhang Jian then encountered bad luck again, actually meeting a troop of exceptionally elite demon soldiers, led by an extraordinarily powerful demon Daoist Lord.

This demon Daoist Lord is far stronger than the Qingyang Daoist Lord.

This demon is none other than the Divine Might Star Lord, Zitong Niu Mo Wang. In a great battle, relying on the advantage of the innate spiritual treasure, Zhang Jian did not suffer a loss at the opponent's hands; instead, he used the innate spiritual treasure to inflict a minor loss upon this Daoist Lord.

However, the background of this Divine Might Star Lord is not insignificant.

Though his cultivation is not profound, he has the ability to summon allies, directly shaking loose one of the Ten Great Demon Saints, the Zitie Demon Saint, and bringing him over.

The cultivation of this Zitie Demon Saint is extraordinarily terrifying.

His cultivation is not weaker than that of the Minghuang Demon Lord seen by Zhang Jian in the Corridor of Time.

Merely a portion of his terrifying cultivation projected downward was enough to severely wound Zhang Jian.

The Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State was almost crushed.

But upon seeing the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State, for some unknown reason, the Zitie Demon Saint's power momentarily stalled, giving Zhang Jian the chance to escape.

……

In the eastern part of the Wasteland World, within a great earthly aperture of dense innate essence, Zhang Jian's head bore the manifestation of a third-grade innate creation green lotus, his Dao body bore countless terrifying cracks slowly healing, and a hint of fortunate color appeared in his eyes.

If not for him actively deriving the Wasteland Earth Vein Map from within the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State, he might truly have died at the hands of that terrifying demon saint.

Finally, the Zitie Demon Saint should have seen the mystery of that Wasteland Earth Vein Map.

The power of the Wasteland Earth Veins has always been held in the hands of the Ancient True Goddess Nüwa.

He was also bluffing, waving a big flag, hoping the other party would have some reservations.

Now it seems his small calculation was indeed successful.

Taking advantage of the moment when the opponent's thoughts were sluggish, at the critical moment he preserved his life and directly escaped.

At the same time, Zhang Jian gazed deep into his palm.

In the deep palm, among the four symbols of formation, existence, decay, and emptiness, the symbol representing the calamity of decay — the calamity pattern — had completely vanished at this moment.

This represents that the decay calamity has passed!

His four calamities of formation, existence, decay, and emptiness now only have the emptiness calamity remaining.

However, all of this, for Zhang Jian, is truly extremely dangerous.

The depths of Zhang Jian's eyes fluctuated, and he soon suppressed many thoughts.

At this moment, he also had some speculations in his heart regarding the fourth calamity.

He does not know whether it is because his attainment of the Dao mainly relied on the great fortune of the human race, but he noticed that most of the experienced formation, existence, decay, and emptiness four calamities are related to the growth of the human race.

For example, the formation calamity was seeing the beginning of the great flourishing of the human race of the Three Sovereigns' Heavenly Realm across all heavens and worlds.

Then it was discovered by the Minghuang Demon Lord.

And the existence calamity is related to the world-destroying calamity, likewise to save the human race, to help the human race survive the world-destroying calamity.

Finally, he was pursued and killed by several Daoist Lords!

And the decay calamity is the crisis of human race extermination.

Likewise, to save the human race, he was finally watched over by the celestial court's group of demons.

Only then did the Zitie Demon Saint's projection descend, nearly dying at the hands of such a terrifying existence.

"Is this due to borrowing the fortune of the Three Sovereigns' Heavenly Realm for protection, taking a shortcut that produced a backlash of calamity energy?"

Zhang Jian secretly pondered in his heart.

His eyes welled up with surging waves.

But if this is the case, it should not be this exaggerated.

Throughout ancient and modern times, those who borrowed the fortune of the Three Sovereigns' Heavenly Realm to achieve the body of a Daoist Lord should be few in number.

Yet I have never heard of encountering such terrifying tribulations!

Zhang Jian racked his brains in vain, only able to attribute it to possibly his preparation at some stage being insufficient, thus producing such terrifying consequences.

Or perhaps it is due to some special factor on his own body, producing such consequences.

Overthinking is useless.

Zhang Jian knows, for the Daoist Lord's great tribulation, no amount of preparation is ever enough.

Nothing can be perfectly prepared for.

Anything can give rise to accidents.

The problem he now faces is how to resolve this accident, finally pass through this last void calamity, and return to the present and ancient times.

……

Zhang Jian continued to use the Innate Creation Azure Lotus, a third-grade innate spiritual treasure, to heal the injuries within the Dao Lord's body.

The Dao Lord's body is difficult to injure, but once injured, it requires a period of time to recover.

At this time, Zhang Jian also secretly noted down that Divine Power Star Lord, as well as the Chi Iron Demon Saint.

When the opportunity arises in the future, I will surely give him a harsh lesson.

And after his seclusion, the name of the Earth Emperor Divine Lord spread slightly throughout the Wasteland World.

After all, the number of immortals and gods who can escape from the Chi Iron Demon Saint's grasp in the Wasteland Heaven and Earth is not large.

Of course, besides that, there is also a considerable amount of incense and faith power.

These incense and faith powers come from the primitive human tribes he saved.

……

Three thousand years later, Zhang Jian's injuries healed, he escaped from this vast wasteland, but he followed the eastern territorial boundary all the way, searching.

This is what Zhang Jian had intended to do from the beginning.

He clearly remembers that, in the long river of time, the third-grade innate creation azure lotus seemed to sense something, emitted divine light, and ultimately led him to this wasteland spacetime.

The object capable of resonating with the third-grade innate creation azure lotus is unlikely to be simple.

Therefore, Zhang Jian prepared to search, hoping to find the whereabouts of that object.

What is regrettable for Zhang Jian is that, over the ensuing tens of thousands of years, although he found many valuable heavenly and earthly treasures and divine objects, he ultimately failed to find the treasure capable of triggering the resonance of the third-grade innate creation azure lotus.

On this day, a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar suddenly came from the heavens above, as if the voices of billions of thunderclaps echoed upon the damaged heavenly pillar.

After the tremendous roar, the countless prohibitions on the heavenly pillar turned to dust at this moment, yet a towering god spanning heaven and earth appeared in the heavens above, vast illusions converging, and with a single strike shattered the entire heavenly gate, while on the earth below, countless killing vapors spread, instantly transforming into rolling black dragons that charged toward the shattered heavenly gate in the heavens above.

Above the heavens, however, stars were seen arranging themselves in the deep star sea, manifesting a grand formation at first glance, resembling a vast star abyss reflected downward, swallowing the army of countless ancient demon gods formed within it.

The earth-shaking slaughter sounds echoed across the heavens at this moment.

"Finally, the battle has begun!"

At this moment, Zhang Jian, who was cultivating in the Earth Ancestral Aperture, also felt this tremendous commotion and could not help but fly out from his seclusion.

In the void, his eyes gazed upon the heavens obscured by the myriad calamity slaughter, countless collisions like muffled thunder appeared above the heavenly pole, and the light and shadow produced by the struggle filled the heavenly pole.

With each contact between divine light and demonic aura, victory or defeat was instantly determined.

The ominous signs of the fall of demon gods and demon gods caused the clouds between heaven and earth to be shrouded in a layer of terrifying blood-red color.

Yet death did not cause these terrifying demon gods and heavenly gods to retreat; instead, they advanced one after another.

Listening to the countless battle cries that made his blood boil beside his ears, he believed that at this moment, many immortals and gods, even those with great divine abilities, shared his sentiment.

The gods of heaven and earth have long suffered under these two hegemons!

If they do not start fighting now, other immortals and gods will soon reach the limit of their endurance.

At the same time, Zhang Jian also clearly understood that, with the arrival of the ancient final calamity war, his final calamity.

The void calamity, is necessarily contained within it.

As long as he passes through this calamity, he will be able to prove eternity and achieve the true Dao Lord's body.