Chapter 670: Splitting Rank, Departing the Return to the Abyss (4K)

Above the void, Zhang Jian raised his hand, and within his sleeve, a blazing rising sun manifested from within.

It appeared on its own, and thus connected with the distant Sun Dharma Realm, as if boundless solar true fire drifted over, merging into the rising sun, transforming into a tall, slender goddess figure whose entire body was entwined with boundless golden-red radiance.

Her face was beautiful, yet deep in her eyes lay an ancient well, capable of swallowing all things.

This was the first Sovereign of the Sun, the Sun Goddess Yan Jun.

Zhang Jian said.

"Yan Jun, the Zi Yuan has fallen; you too should abandon your obsession!"

Yan Jun's eyes rippled, her form hidden within the sleeve of this Qing Lian Jiu Ku Tian Zun; though she could not move, she clearly perceived the changes of this period.

She then bowed and said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for avenging my death; this humble deity wishes to take refuge in the Heavenly Venerable, to shepherd all beings, to atone for past faults!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jian's expression carried a hint of a smile.

"Yan Jun, you are one of fortune; though the Zi Yuan Heavenly Emperor schemed and stole your innate divine glory, he could ultimately not take away your entire destiny; now that you have returned, you may finally return to the righteous path!"

"Cultivate well; in the future, you may yet be listed among the Upper Venerables; if you achieve that, I may one day send you into the myriad heavens' void to behold one or two of the true solar ancient stars, the Supreme Yang Sovereign of the Myriad Heavens!"

Upon hearing this, a glimmer of light appeared in the depths of Yan Jun's eyes.

"This humble deity thanks the Heavenly Emperor Majesty!"

Zhang Jian had mentioned to her the multiple solar divine main veins in the void beyond the realm; that vast divine power, she had long yearned for.

After paying homage to Zhang Jian, her form transformed into a stream of light that sank into the innate divine fetus deep within the sun star, circulating the solar will to suppress the sun star's violent solar true fire.

With the return of the Solar God to his position,

the violent solar true fire was restrained, and the collision force field formed between the sun and moon stars gradually shifted toward stability.

When sun and moon are balanced, the myriad beings of the ten heavens and ten earths can be nourished, rather than suffering disaster from the collision of solar and lunar light.

Zhang Jian's gaze then turned toward the nearby Yin star; he activated the Yin Refinement Great Dharma, transforming into a stream of light that fell into the depths of the Yin star, as vast immortal light merged into the Yin star's origin, recondensing the Yin Emperor's Dharma Aspect, thereby controlling the Yin Star Sovereign.

His Yin Refinement Great Dharma had already nurtured the Yin Emperor's Dharma Aspect, and he possessed Yin authority, the Nether Moon Emperor's authority; controlling the Yin Star before him had become quite effortless.

As the Yin Emperor's Dharma Aspect reabsorbed the Yin star, behind him seemed to appear a vast Yin star.

Boundless Yin power was easily under his control.

Zhang Jian felt that he could now extend the Yin Refinement Great Dharma to the third stage, reaching the realm of the fourth stage Eternal Dao Law.

That vast miraculous ability could at any moment freeze the heavens, earth, and void, and refine the spirits of all things.

Yin light can nourish all things, allowing them to recuperate and grow, enhancing their soul power, but it can also refine souls.

This is the supreme profundity contained within Yin Refinement.

As the Yin starlight stabilized, the sun star and Yin star emitted boundless solar and Yin qi, mutually forming the Yin-Yang Two Instruments' primordial source, creating a vast primordial Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram that was restored by the vast immortal court's myriad things void.

Taiji gives rise to the Two Instruments, the Two Instruments give rise to the Four Symbols, and the Four Symbols give rise to all things.

Outside the dimension of the Immortal Court's Heavenly Realm void, at this moment a layer of vast omen manifested; the Immortal Court's Heavenly Realm had already departed from the normal world's trajectory, sliding downward beneath the vortex of the myriad heavens' void.

Beneath the myriad heavens' void ocean lay a great Eye of the Return to the Abyss.

Deep within the Eye of the Return to the Abyss lies the position of the Six Great Demon Realms, within which emanates boundless darkness, ultimate power, continually drawing a portion of the tottering twilight worlds, guiding them into the Eye of the Return to the Abyss, to be utterly worn down, and then return to the chaos primordial source ocean; but worlds stained with twilight light still struggle fiercely, stabilizing their foundations.

The Immortal Court's Heavenly Realm, in the depths of that vast world ocean, is not particularly conspicuous.

Its position is very hidden.

Yet as it slid through the void, it ultimately gradually became visible.

Because part of its function has already been lost, it can no longer easily devour external chaos primordial source qi, nor exchange heavenly-earthly spiritual mechanisms with the chaos primordial source ocean.

This has already reached an extremely dangerous state.

Unable to exchange chaos primordial source qi with the outside, it cannot balance its own energy level.

The backward pulling force of the Great Return to the Abyss cycle increases.

The forward pulling force formed by the chaos primordial source ocean weakens, which naturally causes heaven and earth to slide downward.

And when the yin-yang balance of heaven and earth is restored, it immediately allows the Immortal Court's Heavenly Realm and the chaos primordial source ocean's heavenly-earthly spiritual mechanism exchange to gradually recover some, the forward pulling force is renewed, and immediately pulls upon the Immortal Court's Heavenly Realm.

And the key naturally is that Zhang Jian slew the Zi Yuan Heavenly Emperor, causing the boundless calamity to end prematurely, severing that enhanced backward pulling force.

……

In the boundless void, feeling the initial restoration of yin-yang balance in heaven and earth, another new heavenly scroll merged into the Dao Fruit Auspicious Clouds within him; his Earth Emperor Dao Fruit, under the support of the three pure purple ranks, shone as if radiant.

Vast and vast divine power emanated from his entire body, possessing the power to obscure the heavens and cover the sun.

Zhang Jian's eyes also could not help but arise a sense of lament.

The power of the Dao Venerable level is too overbearing.

At this time he obtained the pure purple rank, yet it is not yet a full Dao Venerable; he merely possesses a portion of the Dao Venerable rank, not the Dao Venerable Dao Fruit.

But this power is also too terrifying; a single thought seems capable of overturning boundless Qiankun, changing heaven and earth, reconstructing Qiankun—nothing more than that.

But Zhang Jian quickly restrained this line of thought.

This is merely the power of a singular pole Dao Venerable.

Having left the Immortal Court's Heavenly Realm and entered the myriad heavens' void, he would still be beaten back to his original form.

However, he can take advantage of the opportunity to attempt to merge a portion of his foundation into the Earth Emperor rank.

Only the Earth Emperor Dao Fruit is his innate Dao path.

In an instant, Zhang Jian quickly restrained his thoughts; as for how to merge a portion of his foundation into the Earth Emperor Dao path, further consideration is needed later.

He still needs to stabilize the five-element cycle between heaven and earth, further stabilizing the Immortal Court's Heavenly Realm.

As for how to stabilize the five-element cycle of heaven and earth, Zhang Jian prepares to entrust it to the Water Mother Dao Palace, the Tong Shan Dao Tong, and the Lan Tai Dao Palace.

This largest chunk of fat he has already eaten; he must now give those around him some soup to drink.

Zhang Jian is actually skilled at dividing the cake.

……

Zhang Jian quickly received a message from the Ancestor King Yu, and immediately ordered people to set up a cross-dimensional spacetime transmission great formation, bringing many immortals and gods who came from the Three Emperors Heavenly Realm into the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm.

With Zhenren Tianhe and Daoist Jun Qingxia sending several Taiyi Heavenly Immortals, and with the assistance of immortal gods at the Taiyi Great Perfection level, Zhang Jian's urgent concern was resolved, allowing him to calmly plan and gradually eliminate the influence brought by the Purple Origin Heavenly Emperor upon the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm.

Many immortals and gods stationed in various immortal offices, divine positions, and even the Primordial Emperor's rank within the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm were also restored, providing great support to the Heavenly Dao.

Next, Zhang Jian freed his hands to clean up the chaotic manifestations of the gods in the Ten Heavens and Ten Earths.

The Purple Origin Heavenly Emperor damaged public interests for private gain, and the immortals and gods below followed suit; although they dared not openly engage in corruption for personal gain, they secretly colluded with demons and monsters, and some even took on demon forms to occupy high-ranking immortal offices and divine positions.

As long as they could convey benefits to the high-ranking immortals and gods.

These entities were the key targets of Zhang Jian's crackdown and cleanup.

……

In the Immortal Palace, shortly thereafter, Zhang Jian's true body also entered the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm along with the four Daoist Lords.

From the Tongshan Dao Tradition came the King Yu and the Lady of Qingqiu.

The Water Mother Dao Palace sent two Daoist Lords of the Dragon Clan.

Each side sent two Daoist Lords, which was also the tacit understanding between Zhang Jian and Daoist Jun Yuzhuo.

To prevent too many Daoist Lords from flooding in and affecting their interests.

Actually, as the Heavenly Emperor, Zhang Jian has now repaired the barrier of the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm and can already refuse entry to strong beings at the Daoist Lord level.

He is different from the Purple Origin Heavenly Emperor.

Although the Purple Origin Heavenly Emperor bears the rank of Heavenly Emperor, he does not know how to construct the heavenly embryonic membrane to form a world barrier; but as the orthodox emperor of the Heavenly Court, he is skilled in various construction arcane arts.

Especially now, with the assistance of the Heavenly Dao.

"Earth Sovereign Dao Friend, we have disturbed you on this journey!"

At this moment, in the Immortal Palace, Daoist Jun Yuyu wore a smile.

This Daoist Lord can be considered an old acquaintance of Zhang Jian, and also an old friend.

Back when he resisted the great strength of the Ox Demon Clan of the Purple Cloud Evil God, the manifestation of "the other self" by Zhang Jian had interacted with Daoist Jun Yuyu.

Zhang Jian merely smiled faintly.

And another Daoist Lord who came from the Water Mother Dao Palace, Zhang Jian also recognized.

That was Daoist Jun Haiyan.

The old ancestor of the Haiyan Palace in the Boundless Sea Region, and also one of the attendant deities of the Water Mother Lady.

The two Daoist Lords entering the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm merely represented the interests of the Water Mother Dao Palace, and were also here to propagate the Dao.

Establishing the Great Dao of the Dragon for the lineage of the Water Mother Dao Palace.

After the two Daoist Lords paid their respects to the Heavenly Emperor, they instantly departed.

Zhang Jian then descended from the Heavenly Emperor's throne and, in another place, privately received the King Yu and the Lady of Qingqiu.

At this moment, the two Daoist Lords swept their gazes across this vast heavenly realm, exchanging their thoughts with each other; the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm before them was even more vast and magnificent than they had imagined.

The King Yu sighed.

"Such a vast heavenly realm should originally have given birth to far more than just these few primordial Daoist Lords!"

The Lady of Qingqiu laughed.

"Severe closure, internal consumption is also quite intense—quite normal!"

The Lady of Qingqiu also participated in the expedition to build the Heavenly Court.

Such a situation is fairly typical.

However, for such a magnificent heavenly realm to remain this closed is comparatively rare.

This may also be related to the location of the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm.

The coordinates of the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm are extremely remote, and moreover lie deep within a spacetime storm, providing excellent protection for the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm, of course also restricting the steps of its internal beings toward external exploration.

If one is not careful, one may easily fall into a spacetime forbidden zone and be reduced to powder.

The Lady of Qingqiu then immediately laughed again.

"This also has its benefits: with less influence from the myriad heavens' void, everything here remains in a primordial state—not only are there many resources, but also faith, and the development of the Heavenly Earth Great Dao's karmic position lags far behind that of the myriad heavens' void, making it perfectly suitable for Emperor Yu's bold reforms and for leaving one's own mark!"

Zhang Jian nodded.

Even if he were to choose a supermajor power to rely upon, he would still want to have absolute control over the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm, lest he end up doing someone else's wedding dress.

He then said: "Ancestor, I wish to reestablish the Tongshan Dao Tradition in this realm, and have Rui'er come to preside over it; however, Rui'er's cultivation is still low, so I still wish to ask the Ancestor for some assistance..."

Zhang Jian's expression carried a smile.

He was referring to his personally transmitted disciple, Shi Rui.

The King Yu immediately laughed and said.

"For the Tongshan Dao Tradition, this is also greatly beneficial; I will naturally assist you!"

Besides reestablishing the Tongshan Dao Tradition, Zhang Jian also began to reconstruct the divine and Daoist systems of this realm.

Zhang Jian also had various thoughts in his mind.

After communicating with the King Yu and the Lady of Qingqiu, he quickly received the support of these two ancestors.

Next, it was about the rebirth of the Zhou Tian stars, further perfecting the great cycle of heaven and earth.

The Zhou Tian stars are one part of a heavenly realm's defense, crucial for transforming heavenly and earthly spiritual mechanisms, and can also strengthen the origin of heaven and earth.

The Immortal Court Heavenly Realm also has Zhou Tian stars, but their power is not evident, and they have never been utilized.

This is also a knowledge blind spot unnoticed by many innate gods of the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm.

Now, Zhang Zhao, as the left clerk of the Purple Micro Heavenly Emperor's mansion, has likewise received the transmission of the Zhou Tian stars lineage.

Zhang Jian prepares to find an opportunity to let him practice.

The King Yu and the Lady of Qingqiu wished to tour the Immortal Court Heavenly Realm, this unknown heavenly realm, to experience its utterly different heavenly and earthly Dao laws; after meeting Zhang Jian, they quickly left the Immortal Palace and entered the Ten Heavens and Ten Earths.

For Zhang Jian, with the Tongshan Dao Tradition, the Lan Tai Dao Palace, and the Water Mother Dao Palace mobilizing their forces to participate in saving the world, he could finally relax.

He took a moment to visit the three Primordial Dao Lords again, and after promising them some benefits, he also calmed the anxious emotions of the three Primordial Dao Lords.

At this time, Zhang Jian would not overlook any slight anomaly.

Besides, regarding Wu Jie and Yuansui, the two demon gods, Zhang Jian also devoted part of his attention to them.

The Yuansui demon god had his demon god's body sealed by him and was still undergoing trials in the mundane world.

The Wu Jie demon god remained within his seal; Zhang Jian had originally planned to use his true form as a curse, to sacrifice at a critical moment, triggering the boundless calamitous qi from the depths of the Purple Yuan Heavenly Emperor's primordial spirit, thus making it a trump card.

However, as Yu Zhuo Dao Lord employed the Yin Slaughter God Arrow, forcing the Purple Yuan Heavenly Emperor to self-destruct, he saved himself this step, and also allowed the Wu Jie demon god to fortuitously preserve his life.

Zhang Jian simply continued to keep him sealed, waiting for an opportunity to let the primordial source of the Celestial Court ascend further.

……

As the major powers from all sides acted, the primordial source of the Five Elements Great Dao was once again dredged and penetrated.

The heavenly dao laws of all realms were reorganized, and Zhang Jian felt that the Celestial Court had finally been pulled back onto the right path from before the 'Ghost Gate Pass', gradually severing the negative pull formed by the Eye of the Return to the Abyss.

Feeling the Celestial Court rise again toward the upper layers of the myriad heavens' spacetime torrent, Zhang Jian also let out a slight sigh of relief.

Thus he also devoted part of his attention to his own cultivation.

At this time, his body contained three great Pure Purple ranks; Zhang Jian prepared to split off part of the authority and integrate it into the Earth Sovereign Dao Lord rank, thereby strengthening his own primordial source and cultivation.

Among the three great Pure Purple ranks, part of the authority was duplicated.

Such duplication would waste part of the authority's potential; it would be better to find a way to transform it into his own true strength.

Zhang Jian first wanted to split off the authority of the Qinglian Jiuku Tianzun rank.

This rank, besides containing redemption and purification, also included authorities of the netherworld, the underworld, reincarnation, life and death, heavenly dao, and so on.

This rank was fundamentally formed by relying on a portion of authority granted by the Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun.

If his original path were also like this, it would be fine; he could try to let it become a 'universal rank' of the primordial chaos source ocean!

But this was not his original path.

He prepared to separate the authorities of the netherworld and heavenly dao from this Pure Purple rank and integrate them into the Earth Sovereign Dao Lord rank, thereby enhancing the power of this natal rank.

If this natal rank were to advance to the Dao Venerable level, even if it were a single-pole Dao Venerable, it would be of great significance to him.