Chapter 627: The Gaze of the Heavenly Emperor

Dongfang Immortal Realm, Qingyi City, Fengqiao Town Zhang family old residence.

Zhang Nan led many Zhang family elders, and Zhang family juniors welcomed them at the gate.

After tens of thousands of years, Zhang Nan, as the patriarch of the Zhang family of the Central Heaven Realm, had already stepped into the Taiyi realm in cultivation.

For him, this was already extremely rapid progress.

He was very satisfied with this realm.

Beside him were several Heavenly Immortal elders who had entered Fengqiao Town together with him tens of thousands of years ago, including Taiyin Immortal Maiden, and some feudal lords and old ancestors from Zhou Mountain Realm.

These were all Zhang Jian's old subordinates from back then.

At this moment, upon seeing Zhang Jian arrive, the many immortals of Zhou Mountain Realm each showed respectful eyes.

"Dao Jun!"

Upon seeing Zhang Jian, the immortals all bowed in salute, wanting to speak, but Zhang Jian waved his hand and helped them rise.

"You all are also considered old ministers of the Zhang family, having followed this lord from the lower realm, so there is no need for such excessive courtesy!"

Zhang Jian had a smile on his face.

He noticed that among these old ministers, quite a few were missing.

The center is where the Heavenly Court resides, but it is not without disputes.

Especially with the Zhang family's expansion, it is inevitable that they would infringe upon the interests of some immortals, leading to losses.

Zhang Jian helped the immortals rise, his gaze sweeping over as he comforted a couple of them, then proceeded to enter the old residence under the escort of Zhang Nan and others.

Still following the old rules, he first began the sacrifice to heaven and earth.

Then came the sacrifice to ancestors.

This time, the Zhang family did not invite many guests.

With a Dao Jun-level old ancestor presiding, the Central Heaven Realm Zhang family no longer needed to rely on this Zhang Mu.

The Dao Jun realm old ancestor is the foundation of their confidence.

Zhang Jian also did not prepare to let Zhang Nan and others continue to spread out the grand display; after the small-scale heaven-sacrificing ritual, he led the many Zhang family clansmen into the ancestral temple to sacrifice to ancestors.

Inside the ancestral temple, rows of square spirit tablets stood in a large spirit shrine.

Most of them had portraits or golden bodies, but only a few of the long-past old ancestors had only spirit tablets to enjoy the Zhang family's incense.

After the people finished sacrificing, Zhang Jian re-laid the boundary of the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, conducting a private sacrifice.

After glancing around and confirming no one was present, Zhang Jian waved his hand and took out several mountains of gold, silver, and yuanbao.

Zhang Jian estimated that this time's sacrificial scale would probably be larger than previous ones.

Because he had attained the Dao Jun body.

Moreover, he had become the Mingyue Emperor, one of the Ten Netherworld Heavenly Sons of the Netherworld Realm.

In addition, he had received the imperial decree from the ancient true goddess Nüwa, attaining the position of the Three-Reversal Dao Jun, Earth Emperor Divine Lord.

With all these titles added together, the scale would surely far surpass previous sacrifices.

In the moment of his thought, Zhang Jian threw these mountains of gold, silver, and yuanbao into the great cauldron at the center; a wisp of flame leapt from his hand and fell in, and instantly the many mountains of gold, silver, and yuanbao inside the cauldron began to burn rapidly.

Layer upon layer of flames within the cauldron radiated light and fierce qi.

After a batch of gold, silver, and yuanbao mountain ranges burned quickly, Zhang Jian waved his hand again to take out another batch of gold, silver, and yuanbao mountain ranges from the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram and sent them in; the Sumeru Mustard Seed Ring in his hand was effortless to use.

Seeing that the gold, silver, and yuanbao mountain ranges sent into the great cauldron were gradually exceeding the previous amount, a hint of smile appeared in Zhang Jian's eyes.

It seemed his guess was not wrong.

And, as the sacrifice proceeded, Zhang Jian also sensed a different kind of heavenly and earthly creation mystery.

The essence of sacrificing the Dao laws, Zhang Jian actually understood very clearly.

He himself, in the human dimension, amidst the mundane, also had countless followers, incense, and sacrifices at every moment.

Relying on the eternal will, he would have a sense of it.

This is an output of pure soul thoughts.

Each person contributes a little, accumulating into mountains and seas.

At this moment, as he lit the sacrificial fire, Zhang Jian felt as if he could pry loose a unique thread of the heavenly Dao law from all realms, stirring resonance with the heavenly Dao of all realms' void.

It seemed he was no longer the only one performing the sacrifice.

Rather, a person's fortune had pried loose some special rule deep in the void of all realms, causing the heavenly Dao of all realms' void to output the sacrifice.

This is a very special characteristic.

As if resonating with the chaotic primordial ocean of all realms' void, this essence is truly unique.

Zhang Jian had a feeling that if he could clarify this essence, his own cultivation would undergo a great leap.

After all, he had never heard of any great divine power being able to directly stir the resonance of the primordial source of all realms' heavenly Dao, let alone let the heavenly Dao participate in the sacrifice.

This might be the key factor in turning decay into magic.

Zhang Jian decided he must definitely study this well in the future.

Before attaining Dao Jun, he had only known that through this 'crude' method of sacrifice, he could enter the ancestral temple to 'shear wool'; now he should find a way to fully develop this unique potential.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind.

He noticed that the amount of gold, silver, and yuanbao mountain ranges he had poured into the central great cauldron was already several times that of before.

According to his past experience, this time's sacrificial scale was probably three to four times that of the previous one.

This was astonishing!

As he saw that when the sacrificial amount approached four times, the sacrificial fire stopped burning.

Zhang Jian immediately waved his hand and took out a refined first-rank eternal immortal treasure.

After attaining Dao Jun, his refining skills finally matched his realm.

He was now able to refine a first-rank eternal immortal treasure.

But what met his eyes was a yellowish, hazy divine map filled with the Dao resonance of countless divine mountains and rivers.

This treasure was called the Map of the Desolate Mountains and Peaks.

It was forged by him after comprehending the Dao resonance of the mountains, rivers, and earth veins of the Desolate World.

Fortunately, he held authority over the terrestrial and celestial realms of the Four Extremes and Eight Wastelands, enabling him to imprint part of the divine resonance of the Desolate World's earth veins and mountains into his mind.

But due to limited time, what was regrettable was that he had not yet had the chance to comprehend some famous blessed lands and caverns, or the most renowned mountains and rivers of the Desolate World.

For example, Kunlun, and again, the fallen Heavenly Pillar of Zhou Mountain.

This was the foundation of the earth — of utmost importance.

He had only managed to comprehend the Five Sacred Divine Peaks condensed from the fragments of Zhou Mountain.

Yet even having gained only a portion of the Desolate World's mountains, rivers, and earth veins' creation, he benefited greatly.

As Zhang Jian focused his will, he threw the Map of the Desolate Mountains and Peaks into the cauldron furnace, instantly igniting it.

Green smoke curled upward, straight into the clouds.

……

In the eighth heaven of the Upper Realm, within the vast immortal realm, white clouds drifted leisurely, a scene of harmony, auspicious energy, and tranquility.

Upon the jade bed, Qingxia Daoist Sovereign felt a stirring at the moment the lower realm's sacrifice began.

Her form had already appeared before the Two Worlds Pool.

Where her gaze fell, she saw the nine-colored waters of the Two Worlds Pool giving rise to layer upon layer of ripples.

In an instant, she raised a slender jade hand and struck the Two Worlds Pool with a palm — and in that moment, the entire pool fell suddenly silent.

Boom—

In that instant, the entire Two Worlds Pool began to roar, layer upon layer of magnificent golden light manifesting from within, and behold — beams of golden light shot straight into the clouds at once.

Qingxia Daoist Sovereign had long prepared; deep within her pale, slender palms, azure divine light flowed, and a dao domain enveloped the Two Worlds Pool — in that instant, flawless incense like a golden ocean poured into one illusory dao domain realm after another.

Within the dao domain realms, it was as if golden light pillars rose to prop up heaven and stand firm upon earth.

These were solidified golden realms.

One golden realm equaled one hundred million flawless incense.

And in this moment, there were over a hundred such realms, within which lay condensed intense resonance of the Heavenly Dao.

Such supreme flawless incense would make even a Dao Sovereign or Dao Venerable drool.

Impossible to let go of.

Qingxia Daoist Sovereign sensed this scene, and her heart could not help but overflow with boundless joy.

Setting aside feedback, who could refuse such a benefit?

Only seen — beneath the rolling golden light, the azure dao domain deep within her palm, under this power, seemed to continuously expand, within which manifested myriad wondrous scenes, forming a realm seemingly centered on incense and faith, where all within revolved around incense and faith as the guiding principle.

Possessing soul, the Grand Void, being and non-being, cyclical transformation, and myriad profound mysteries condensed within, and furthermore, a formless great dao rule coalesced into shape.

This rule's power transcended the evolution of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, forming a singular entity unto itself.

Qingxia Daoist Sovereign discovered that, merely moments later, the incense realms condensed within her azure dao domain had already surpassed a thousand.

This was one hundred billion flawless incense.

This was an astonishing amount of incense.

Qingxia Daoist Sovereign had already turned from joy to worry.

A sacrifice of this scale had likely already surpassed the limit of what she could feedback in this instance.

This change caused Qingxia Daoist Sovereign to secretly worry.

Yet the sacrifice did not stop — instead, that flawless incense continued to expand without cease.

In Qingxia Daoist Sovereign's somewhat trembling gaze, it surpassed two hundred billion.

Two hundred billion flawless incense.

Only seen — the azure dao domain was now spread with a thick layer of Heavenly Dao resonance, as if thread upon thread of the Heavenly Dao's primordial aura filled the azure dao domain within.

This omen caused Qingxia Daoist Sovereign to tremble uncontrollably.

This truly surpassed her imagination.

And as the formation of nearly two thousand four hundred golden realms approached, this incense finally began to slow its stagnation.

Two thousand four hundred billion flawless incense!

Qingxia Daoist Sovereign gazed upon the Two Worlds Pool, where waves of magnificent Heavenly Dao sounds flowed, and deep within her eyes, ripples of emotion surged.

Previously, after dozens of sacrifices combined, none had matched the grandeur of this single sacrifice.

Following closely, as celestial music echoed within the Two Worlds Pool, primordial divine light burst forth without end, connecting to the Heaven and Earth Great Dao laws of the Central Upper Realm, from which multiple Heaven and Earth Great Dao laws manifested.

Among them were the Earthly Virtue Law, the Great Earth Law, and the Turbid Qi, Suppression, and many other primordial Heaven and Earth Great Dao laws descending.

Witnessing such an extravagant primordial omen, Qingxia Daoist Sovereign's expression grew solemn.

She knew this time, a top-grade primordial merit and virtue spiritual treasure would likely be born from within.

She deployed her incense dao domain, exerting full force to suppress this change and omen.

As the magnificent Heaven and Earth Dao sounds resonated, boundless auspicious omens intensified, yet within the Two Worlds Pool, a beam of earth-yellow primordial divine light flew forth — and in an instant, was seized by Qingxia Daoist Sovereign.

But what met her eyes was a divine map containing the endless transformations of the universe's dimensions, earth, mountains, rivers, and sacred peaks.

"Top-grade primordial merit and virtue spiritual treasure, Map of the Desolate Mountains and Peaks: containing eight primordial divine prohibitions, encompassing the power of all heavenly realms' mountains and rivers — truly a top-grade primordial merit and virtue spiritual treasure!"

Grasping this map, Qingxia Daoist Sovereign's countenance changed.

"Eight primordial divine prohibitions — how can this possibly be dealt with?"

Qingxia Daoist Sovereign underwent continuous changes; at this moment, her expression held more sorrow and anguish.

Even if she were sold, this time she likely could not repay this karmic debt.

Where would she obtain such a top-grade primordial spiritual treasure of this level?

But just at this moment, the Azure Cloud Immortal Realm suddenly underwent various changes; the Azure Cloud Dao Sovereign's gaze swept over, and her expression changed instantly. She was about to cast a spell, yet she saw a vast and mighty power directly break through her Azure Cloud Immortal Realm.

Only to see a supremely noble figure, clad in the Nine Dragon Wuji Heavenly Emperor's Robe, appear before her eyes.

Upon seeing this figure, she could not help but lose all color in her face.

"Father Emperor?"