Chapter 676: Celestial Court Prince (4K)

The celestial palace was vast and magnificent, with boundless incense and divine power gathering, the heavenly Dao rules converging, and the great fortune of the celestial palace within growing ever more abundant.

Especially as the laws of the celestial court's great Dao were perfected, the auspicious energy gathered here, along with the primordial source of the heavenly Dao, grew increasingly intense, and the authority of the celestial emperor of the celestial court grew heavier.

The Hall of Containing the Origin—this is the heavenly emperor's sleeping palace.

Zhang Jian sat cross-legged, layers of divine light flowing around his body, behind him seemingly manifesting the myriad powers of the ten heavens and ten earths, the void and all phenomena; with a single thought, he seemed capable of overturning the heavens and spacetime, as well as all boundless beings—this power was extraordinarily tyrannical.

As a portion of the celestial court's heavenly Dao origin slowly recovered, he clearly felt the celestial emperor's power still growing.

Unfortunately, once this celestial emperor's rank is taken out of the celestial court's heavenly realm, its mighty power will inevitably be stripped away.

On the other hand, the pure purple rank of the Earth Emperor Dao Sovereign can be taken out, but if one cannot comprehend part of its essential nature within the pure purple rank, after taking it out, its mighty power will degenerate into a three-transformation Dao Lord rank.

Although it will degenerate, this does not mean the value of these two great pure purple ranks is insignificant.

On the contrary, their value is immense.

At the very least, they can help him comprehend deeper levels of the heavenly Dao rules; if he can analyze their essence, especially the Earth Emperor Dao Sovereign's rank, it would be as if a direction had been pointed out for his advancement to Dao Sovereign.

This counts as his greatest gain from entering the celestial court's heavenly realm this time.

As for the auspicious energy and salvific merit accompanying the two great pure purple ranks, Zhang Jian now finds himself no longer regarding them as so important.

"Perhaps after twelve elemental cycles, I might still return to the ancestral shrine to shear some wool!"

Zhang Jian silently thought to himself.

However, his cultivation has now caught up to that of the Qingxu Dao Lord; continuing to run to the ancestral shrine to shear wool—wouldn't that be a bit unkind?

This thought flashed through his mind, and soon he suppressed it.

He is 'pure filial piety'—how could he describe himself in such a utilitarian way……

With a thought, Zhang Jian waved his hand and saw several strands of divine light appear before him.

These were part of the treasures left behind after the fall of the Purple Origin Heavenly Emperor.

These treasures have always been sealed by him, never yet refined.

Among them, the most precious is undoubtedly the innate spiritual treasure, the Yang Yang Divine Banner.

This is also an innate spiritual treasure.

He originally already possessed five innate spiritual treasures within his body.

The Three-Grade Innate Creation Green Lotus, the Qiankun Diagram, the Innate Four Symbols Divine Needles, the Innate Wood Source Divine Talisman, and the Four Seas Pearl.

This counts as the sixth innate spiritual treasure he has obtained.

As a three-transformation Dao Lord, yet controlling six innate spiritual treasures in his hands—such wealth is truly not low.

However, among the innate spiritual treasures that align with his origin path, there are still none.

These six innate spiritual treasures—even if the top-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Innate Four Symbols Divine Needles, and the Qiankun Diagram only assist him in slaughter beyond mere killing.

The most important function of innate spiritual treasures has yet to be unleashed.

Zhang Jian also felt a tinge of regret in his heart.

His gaze swept over the remaining portion of the heavenly emperor's relics.

Among them, the most precious is undoubtedly a damaged seal.

This is the heavenly emperor's seal.

Forged by the gods of the celestial palace for the Purple Origin Heavenly Emperor's ascension.

This is also a divine path supreme treasure.

Its material is quite proper—made from various innate divine metals and divine iron forged together, and it contains the will of all beings and the heavenly Dao origin, but the forging technique can only be considered ordinary.

In the end, it is merely at the level of a fifth-rank eternal divine path artifact.

Zhang Jian has recently been trying to cleanse the imprint left by the Purple Origin Heavenly Emperor within it, so as to re-refine it and bestow it upon the Great Xia Holy Lord of the Ten Lands as a supreme treasure to suppress the holy dynasty.

Besides this heavenly emperor's seal, the value of other divine objects can only be considered ordinary.

Zhang Jian knows that before the Purple Origin Heavenly Emperor's fall, he must have left behind a heavenly emperor's treasury, just in case.

But this treasury was secretly sealed by the Purple Origin Heavenly Emperor, and even he cannot find it.

Zhang Jian entrusted this matter to other celestials and gods of the Zhang clan, letting them pay attention, while he himself had no intention of participating in such a search.

Finally, Zhang Jian let his gaze fall upon the heavenly Dao golden list above.

The last heavy treasure on his person is precisely this object.

Zhang Jian is quite curious about this object, especially the innate divine path mysteries contained within.

Zhang Jian tallied the many supreme treasures on his person, then immediately divided a portion of the treasures to be refined to one side.

The Yang Yang Divine Banner is a middle-grade innate spiritual treasure; he has already investigated it, finding it contains five innate divine prohibitions.

Among them, defensive and slaughtering powers—Zhang Jian has already witnessed them.

Although this treasure's defensive power is strong, it is not as good as his middle-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Innate Creation Green Lotus, nor his top-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Qiankun Diagram.

He does not intend to refine it, but rather prepares to find an opportunity to give it to Zhang Zhao.

Additionally, the Innate Wood Source Divine Talisman and the Four Seas Pearl have limited use for him; he also prepares to leave them for Bai Li Ying, or alternatively Zhang Yi, Zhang Xian.

Of course, Zhang Jian deeply understands the principle that holding jade brings guilt; before their cultivation reaches completion, he will not lightly bestow these treasures upon them.

His gaze ultimately still fell upon the heavenly Dao golden list.

Refining this object is indeed the most important matter.

At this moment, he set his mind to inject a thread of eternal immortal light into the heavenly Dao golden list, refining this treasure.

All the imprints deep within this post-heaven spiritual treasure have already been completely removed.

By relying on his tyrannical cultivation, Zhang Jian let his eternal immortal light thread by thread fuse into it, and soon he gradually mastered this post-heaven spiritual treasure, understanding its myriad mysteries.

This is indeed a divine path artifact that balances the heavenly Dao.

The function of enshrining gods and governing gods is merely an auxiliary ability of the heavenly Dao golden list.

Its primary ability is to assist the heavenly emperor in better comprehending the heavenly Dao laws and buffering the heavenly Dao's backlash.

Its interior contains various profound mysteries of the heavenly Dao.

Zhang Jian can affirm that the existence of its refinement has already reached an astonishing level of mastery over the heavenly Dao laws.

Time quietly passed, and after Zhang Jian successfully refined the Heavenly Dao Golden List, he immediately began to focus his attention on the Earth Emperor Dao honorific rank.

This is his primary cultivation goal moving forward.

Once he analyzes the essence of this pure purple honorific rank, he will soon be able to approach the realm of the other shore.

Additionally, Zhang Jian conveniently prepares to cultivate the marvelous method of severing the three corpses.

He is not preparing to use this to break through the Dao Sovereign realm, but rather to enhance his own combat power.

If he can sever the three corpse incarnations, it will not only be beneficial for comprehending the great Dao of heaven and earth, but also increase three incarnations of the same realm.

The three corpse incarnations, whether formed from innate spiritual treasures, or from incense-bodied golden forms, or using the Dao fruit as a medium, are far stronger than the nation-fate incarnations condensed from the Nine Dragons True Scripture.

The essence of the Nine Dragons True Scripture is a nation-fate secret method, and the condensed secret method is also a nation-fate incarnation.

Once the nation-fate reaches its limit, or if the nation-fate is affected, the power of the secret method will also be affected.

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Taiji Divine Mountain, Tongshan Dao lineage.

Boundless thunderclouds enveloped one of its peaks, within which seemed to be hundreds of millions of thunderous sounds roaring.

This was not a heavenly tribulation descending from the void of myriad heavens, but rather a great fluctuation caused by a breakthrough of a majestic thunder deity within.

Upon close inspection, the majestic thunder deity's entire body was surrounded by a vast purple-blue dragon shadow, the dragon shadow flowing and turning, as if a substantial thunder Dao treasure wheel, with boundless thunder Dao qi, and even various thunder ancestral qi swirling around.

At this moment, above the head of the thunder deity, a boundless thunder radiance flowed and transformed, emitting electric light and azure clouds from within.

"Taiji Qingyun, Dao fruit perfected!"

In the distance, many immortals and deities of the Tongshan Dao lineage gazed upon this scene, and could not help but secretly sigh.

The manifestation of Taiji Qingyun is the mark of achieving Taiji Heavenly Immortal.

This represents the perfection of the Taiji Dao fruit.

"Such a young Taiji Heavenly Immortal, truly a tiger father has no dog son!"

The distant second-generation elder ancestors of the Tongshan Dao lineage gazed upon this scene, their expressions filled with sighs.

The Heavenly Emperor of the Celestial Court early achieved the rank of Dao Jun, but this Heavenly Emperor's eldest son cultivates at a speed not slow either, having achieved Taiji Heavenly Immortal in less than three elemental cycles.

"The Thunder Dao is also the Dao of destruction and creation, but Yi'er clearly leans toward sublimating from thunder into a destruction Dao fruit, seeking to condense the Hun Dun Cang Wu destruction auspicious clouds; this method's subsequent cultivation is indeed not easy, but fortunately in this realm there is no god of destruction, so competition is not great!"

On the mountain peak, besides the Chu Law Old Ancestor and the Zi Dian Old Ancestor standing together, beside them was the Slay Demon True Lord.

At this moment, upon hearing these words, the Slay Demon True Lord glanced at the Zi Dian Old Ancestor.

Indeed, the Zi Dian Old Ancestor wore a face of helplessness.

"Ninth Senior Brother, although I do not have Yi'er's background, you must not overlook me!"

Upon hearing this, the Chu Law Old Ancestor did not take it seriously.

"You and he are not the same; you walk the pure thunder Dao, and you two will have no competition!"

The Zi Dian Old Ancestor, upon hearing this, gave a somewhat bitter smile.

Cultivators with deep foundations and excellent roots will, as their later cultivation progresses, reveal this most notably in their cultivation speed.

Zhang Yi cultivated for only three elemental cycles and already stepped into the realm of Taiji Heavenly Immortal.

He and the other second-generation elder ancestors cultivated for varying lengths of time; the eldest among them cultivated for over a thousand elemental cycles, for example, the Tianhe True Person.

While he entered the path later, his cultivation also exceeded dozens of elemental cycles.

Cultivation exceeding millions of years.

Yet his Dao cultivation still has a distance to go before reaching Taiji Heavenly Immortal.

However, thanks to Zhang Jian's great fortune.

He relied upon the Celestial Court of the Immortal Realm, also reversing the innate, reshaping the origin, achieving the body of an innate deity, and achieving Taiji Heavenly Immortal is merely a matter of time.

However, the opportunities of other second-generation disciples are even stronger; by relying on the opportunity to repair the Immortal Realm's heavenly Dao laws, they all, with this eastern wind, successfully stepped into the Taiji Heavenly Immortal realm.

And similar to the second-generation elder ancestors, those with excellent talent, opportunity, and foundation, such as the seventh disciple Yin Ming Di Jun Jiu You True Person, the tenth disciple Si Yun True Person, and the twelfth-ranked Tian Yun True Person, their Dao cultivation has already approached the Taiji Great Perfection.

Others such as the Tian Yu True Person, Chi Mei True Person, Qing Yuan Old Ancestor, and Chu Law Old Ancestor closely follow.

As the Chu Law Old Ancestor, as the ancestor of the Slay Demon Peak—no, now it should be called the Earth Emperor Peak lineage—he possesses great fortune, and during this time in the Immortal Realm's Celestial Court, his opportunities have been extraordinary; he may even surpass others later, achieving Dao fruit great perfection ahead of time.

At this moment, the Slay Demon True Lord spoke.

"Yi'er is now the Lord of the Immortal Palace Thunder Department, and having entered the Taiji Heavenly Immortal realm, this position of Thunder Department Lord is indeed well-deserved, overseeing the Immortal Realm's Thunder Department, wielding the destructive power of one realm; in the future, there is indeed hope to sublimate thunder and oversee the Immortal Realm's Celestial Court's destructive Dao!"

After a slight pause, the Slay Demon True Lord spoke again.

"However, action must be taken before twelve elemental cycles pass; otherwise, when the strong ones sent by the Three Emperors' Celestial Realm enter this realm, there will likely be considerable trouble again!"

The Chu Law Old Ancestor gave a slight nod.

Immediately, the Chu Law Old Ancestor looked toward the Slay Demon True Lord and smiled.

"Disciple, I have heard you have been very busy lately!"

Upon hearing this, the Slay Demon True Lord shook his head.

"It is not because of A Yu; he himself took disciples, but then dumped them on me, his disciple—this disciple is truly a trouble magnet, bringing disaster wherever he goes!"

What he referred to was not Shi Rui.

But the Tian Zuo Magic Embryo Jiao Mu.

Although Jiao Mu was sealed in his innate magic embryo nature, the fate of the innate magic embryo as a calamity star was not removed; he brought disaster all along, and if not for the Slay Demon True Lord repeatedly cleaning up after him, he would have long been suppressed and suffered greatly.

The Chu Law Old Ancestor naturally also knew of the Tian Zuo Magic Embryo matter, merely giving a slight smile.

"Much labor, much gain; if you can educate this innate magic embryo, then for you, the name Slay Demon will truly be well-deserved!"

"Moreover, educating the magic embryo, guiding it onto the righteous path, will surely bring boundless merit and fortune; this kind of good thing others cannot even snatch away!"

Upon hearing this, the Slay Demon True Lord glanced at this old ancestor.

She thought for a moment and then asked.

"Master, I heard that Third Uncle-Master is preparing to undergo the Calamity of Annihilation in the Celestial Court; I don't know if it's true or not."

Chu Fa Laozu let out a light snort upon hearing this.

"Where did you hear such petty gossip?"

Zhan Mo Zhenjun said.

"Within the sect, everyone is discussing it; all the immortals are discussing it in great detail. If the Celestial Court could also assist us in surviving the Calamity of Annihilation, wouldn't that indicate..."

Chu Fa Laozu shook his head and said.

"Third Senior Brother has achieved perfected cultivation for some time now, but to undergo the Calamity of Annihilation still requires a period of arduous effort!"

Actually, Chu Fa Laozu also does not know what Tianhe Zhenren thinks.

He also does not intend to say much more; Tianhe Zhenren has many thoughts regarding undergoing the Calamity of Annihilation, and these thoughts might also be known to Yu Wang and Qiu Xiang Niangniang, or perhaps even the Celestial Emperor of the Celestial Court.

At this moment, he said.

"I heard that after a while, Senior Longhu of the Kunlun Celestial Realm is preparing to undergo the Calamity of Annihilation; we might as well go observe and learn a thing or two!"

Upon hearing this, Zhan Mo Zhenjun's eyes lit up.

The last time Zhang Jian underwent his tribulation, although they were also present, their cultivation realms differed too greatly, so they could not perceive any profundity; now that their cultivation has been accomplished, they can instead conduct preliminary reconnaissance.

This Longhu Zhenren is an immortal deity of the Yuxu Dao Palace, and even among the myriad voids, he has considerable fame.

He is a veteran immortal deity.

Perhaps he also hopes to prove himself as a Dao Jun.

At this moment, in the void above, boundless thunderclouds were annihilated, and that magnificent thunderous divine light also gradually dissipated; the purple-blue, winged innate true dragon dharma manifestation likewise transformed into a stream of light that fell upon Zhang Yi's body, endowing him with magnificent divine power all over.

Moreover, boundless innate wind and thunder manifested around him, revealing the aspect of destruction.

Gazing upon this scene, even a portion of the second-generation elders sighed in admiration for Zhang Yi's foundation.

And in the distance, behind Zhang Zhao and his wife, who were dressed in splendid attire, followed several powerful deities whose bodies were entwined with intense divine light.

The couple exchanged a glance, and their expressions also underwent some change.

After condensing the Taiyi Dao Fruit, the couple both felt the difficulty of accumulating cultivation in the Taiyi realm; to break through to the Taiyi Celestial Immortal realm in such a short time, such profound accumulation indeed inspires envy.

However, their own progress is not slow either.

As the lord of the Celestial Court's Human Dao Dynasty, having condensed the Ancient Sage King Dao Fruit, Zhang Zhao is not far from the Taiyi Celestial Immortal realm.

Yi Li'er, as the Holy Empress, also has a cultivation speed that is not slow.

The two did not regard Zhang Yi as a competitor.

Both being princes of the Celestial Court, but among the brothers, only Zhang Zhao also walks the Imperial Dao.

Zhang Xian, however, is an innate Dao Embryo by nature, and his path is not the Imperial Dao.

……

Twelve yuanhui quietly passed by.

Zhang Jian's this retreat was not ordinary; it might be the longest retreat since he began cultivation.

Merely from the twelve yuanhui of bitter cultivation, he also gained greatly.