Chapter 679: Lord of the Realm's Ancestral Sacrifice, Earth Emperor's Golden Canon (4K)

Central Heavenly Realm, Eastern Immortal Domain, Qingyi City.

Upon Zhang Jian's true form descending, many Zhang clan immortals came to welcome him.

This time, Zhang Nan did not appear.

Zhang Nan had already entered the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm for cultivation before twelve yuanhui; the one presiding over the Zhang clan's mundane affairs in the Central Heavenly Realm is another rising star of the Zhang clan, also a descendant of Zhang Nan.

Although he has been promoted to the thirteenth sequence of the Three Emperors Heavenly Realm, ranking among the top three sequences, Zhang Jian did not make a grand display this time.

Because this is ultimately the sequence of the Three Emperors Heavenly Realm, not the sequence of the Heavenly Court.

In the Heavenly Court, he remains the tenth in sequence.

Perhaps he will enter the eleventh sequence soon, but this is not worth celebrating.

Outside, only a small-scale heavenly sacrifice and ancestral rites were held, though many more plaques were added inside the ancestral shrine.

At this moment, the most central plaque is undoubtedly that of Zhang Jian, the Supreme Ultimate Immortal Court Earth Emperor God; next are the plaques of other Zhang clan immortals and gods, such as Zhang Zhao's Purple Microcosm Star Patrol Envoy, etc.

There are also Zhang Qi, Zhang Nan, Zhang Yujing, Zhang Tianrui, Zhang Tianhe, and other third-generation Zhang clan immortals' divine offices and god-seats.

Most Zhang clan immortals have already established firm foundations.

And most have entered the ranks of mid-level celestial officials.

Before the ancestral shrine, many Zhang clan immortals bowed their heads, daring not to gaze directly at Zhang Jian.

This old ancestor has become a myth in the myriad heavens' void; even many ancient immortals and ancient gods, when mentioning this old ancestor, use honorific titles and dare not directly utter his divine name. In the speculation of the Heavenly Court gods, this old ancestor has likely stepped into the realm of great divine powers.

In the myriad heavens' void, the realm of great divine powers is a myth among countless immortals and gods.

Moreover, as the lord of one heavenly realm, he has hope of achieving that Dao Revered One's body in the future.

In the Heavenly Court, only those supreme Heavenly Emperors possess such great accomplishment and great fortune as Dao Revered Ones.

Zhang Jian slowly stepped into the ancestral shrine; upon entering, an invisible divine light suddenly burst forth from within, with countless threads of incense smoke swirling.

Zhang Jian gazed toward the center of the ancestral shrine, yet saw that on the spirit tablets in the center, layers of thick incense smoke coiled.

Part of the true spirits within the spirit tablets have already grown to a certain extent.

These are some Zhang clan ancestors who have not yet undergone reincarnation.

But most did not respond.

Zhang Jian's gaze swept over, finally settling on the first spirit tablet.

Zhang Gong, the position of You Ren.

A slight ripple stirred in the depths of his Dao heart, but he still shifted his gaze, falling upon the incense-golden form of Qingxiao Daoist Lord; he stepped forward, took three incense sticks, lit them, and then raised his hand to insert them into the central bronze incense burner; his eyes remained calm.

Afterwards, with a wave of his hand, he took from the void mountains of gold and silver ingots formed from treasure, and sent them into the incense burner by the method of the Sumeru Mustard Seed Ring.

Threads of green sacrificial fire burned from within the incense burner.

With these threads of sacrificial fire, Zhang Jian clearly felt the activity of the myriad heavens' void heavenly Dao laws, as if drawn by the sacrificial rite.

His eyes flickered, yet he seized the opportunity to merge a portion of mighty eternal will into it.

Having cultivated to this level, he has gradually been able to comprehend more of the essence of sacrifice.

Just as before, he could truly sense that, with his own sacrifice, he stirred the heavenly Dao law power in the dark myriad heavens' void, thereby guiding the myriad heavens' void heavenly Dao laws to descend and participate in his ancestral rites—this is an extraordinarily mysterious process.

In this process, Zhang Jian could clearly sense that his connection with the heavenly Dao laws in the myriad heavens' void was extraordinarily special.

To be precise, his primordial spirit essence is extraordinarily unique, and the sacrifice he produces can actually draw down the heavenly Dao of the heavens.

Zhang Jian attempted to summon the heavenly Dao laws down with his own primordial spirit.

But he found this was not feasible.

It seems there has always been some barrier between himself and the heavenly Dao laws of the myriad heavens' void.

"There should still be secrets hidden deep within my primordial spirit that I have not yet uncovered!"

Zhang Jian thought darkly in his heart.

As time passed, he noticed the burning green flames gradually reaching a limit.

He slightly bent his fingers to calculate, and vaguely sensed that the scale of this sacrifice was nearly twenty times that of the previous one.

Carrying the merit of saving a heavenly realm and the divine office of realm lord, his sacrifice this time was truly astonishing.

It even far surpassed the scale when he proved the Dao as Daoist Lord last time.

But he had long anticipated this scale.

After all, it has accumulated over such a long time, and multiple achievements were accomplished together.

Zhang Jian's mouth curled into a faint smile.

Now the pressure has entirely fallen upon Qingxiao Daoist Lord.

Afterwards, Zhang Jian took out another prepared fifth-rank eternal immortal treasure.

It is a fifth-rank eternal immortal treasure he personally refined.

It is still a banner-shaped immortal treasure.

Zhang Jian named it the Pure Yang Gathering Immortal Banner.

It is modeled after the Primordial Yang Divine Banner, condensed from the Pure Yang Great Dao laws, integrating offense and defense, truly mysterious.

Most miraculously, it contains a trace of the mysteriousness of the Heavenly Emperor's rank.

In Zhang Jian's gaze, this immortal treasure flashing with pure yang golden light was gradually burning within the green flames.

The green flames seemed to possess a strange ability to melt heaven and earth and all things, which greatly intrigued Zhang Jian.

He simply remained in the ancestral shrine, carefully studying this ability of the green sacrificial fire.

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Eighth layer of the upper heavenly realm, this is also where the twenty-sixth heavenly realm is located.

In the Qingxiao Immortal Realm.

At this moment, two towering figures sat facing each other.

Qingxia Daoist and the incense dharma-body sat facing each other, between them flowing a dense, vast divine power and immortal light, mutually confirming their cultivation.

Since returning from the expedition, Qingxia Daoist has remained in the Central Heaven Realm to cultivate, digesting the gains from the expedition.

At this moment, the forbidden immortal light emanating from her entire body was extraordinarily grand and magnificent, truly astonishing.

At this very moment, two figures simultaneously opened their eyes.

"They have come!"

The two exchanged a glance, almost simultaneously revealing a hint of a smile.

In an instant, the incense incarnation transformed into a divine light that entered Qingxia Daoist's body.

Qingxia Daoist rose from the cloud bed.

She stepped forward to the edge of the Two Worlds Pool.

Within the Two Worlds Pool, the nine-colored pool water trembled slightly, inside which a grand incense golden light gradually condensed into form, surging within, vast and mighty, shocking to behold.

Qingxia Daoist was already accustomed to this sight; from deep within her palm, strands of green immortal light condensed, instantly enveloping the interior of the Two Worlds Pool.

She had a premonition that Zhang Jian's sacrifice this time would be unprecedented.

After all, it was a sacrifice carrying salvation and the authority of a realm master to control one heaven, so its scale would certainly differ from before.

It would likely exceed the level of ten trillion incense.

With a raise of her hand, she condensed a grand incense cosmos phantom.

That incense cosmos phantom resembled something that obscured the sky and covered the sun, within which filled boundless incense realms.

It ultimately transformed into individual golden incense gourds.

This was a magical artifact specially refined by Qingxia Daoist for this purpose, used to contain incense.

One incense gourd can hold approximately ten trillion incense.

As the Two Worlds Pool rumbled, golden light suddenly burst forth from countless nine-colored pool waters, as if each drop of Two Worlds Pool water could refract billions of golden lights, truly magnificent!

The auspicious clouds above the Qingxia Immortal Realm could at this moment faintly ignite into gold, though this scene had long been concealed by forbidden law.

At this moment, Qingxia Daoist condensed an incense gourd, whose gourd mouth was opened at this time, and boundless incense golden light instantly transformed into a flood pouring into it; one could see the purple-red incense gourd's body manifesting a phantom of the Yin-Yang Taiji.

Visible to the naked eye, the Yin-Yang Taiji phantom was gradually filled layer by layer with incense golden light.

Within an extremely short time, one incense gourd was filled.

That was ten trillion incense!

Gazing at this scene, Qingxia Daoist felt some surprise in her eyes, but even more joy.

With this sacrifice, her incense incarnation also has hope to survive the third great calamity of destruction and achieve the body of a Three-Transformation Daoist.

This is also a great fortune.

With a wave of her hand, she continued to take out another incense gourd, beginning to devour the terrifying incense golden light continuously surging from the depths of the Two Worlds.

Soon, the second incense gourd also gradually overflowed.

Qingxia Daoist then continued to take out a third incense gourd.

At this moment, above the void, a cluster of nine-colored divine light appeared, and the Heavenly Emperor, dressed in regular attire, walked out; his gaze swept over the changes in the Two Worlds Pool, his expression somewhat indifferent.

"Father Emperor!"

Upon seeing the Jade Emperor manifest his true form, Qingxia Daoist's expression turned solemn, and she hastily performed a salute.

"No need for this; you just focus on the sacrifice!"

This Great Heavenly Venerable slightly waved his hand, merely observing from the side, his expression carrying a hint of a faint smile.

The smile held something thought-provoking.

Upon hearing this, Qingxia Daoist immediately redirected her attention to the Two Worlds Pool; moments later, she saw the third incense gourd had also overflowed, and she immediately took out a fourth incense gourd.

The flawless incense surging from the Two Worlds Pool continued to churn and surge.

The Heavenly Dao Immortal Sound of the Boundless appeared; such an immense amount of boundless incense was truly astonishing.

But as the fourth incense gourd gradually overflowed, the churning phenomena in the Two Worlds Pool gradually subsided.

At this moment, Qingxia Daoist gazed at the four incense gourds before her, and on her beautiful face, a hint of astonishment at power also arose.

Four incense gourds amounted to nearly four trillion flawless incense.

Even Qingxia Daoist felt astonished.

Relying solely on herself, she truly could not repay such terrifying karma.

Fortunately, there was still the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable before her.

At this moment, after the flawless incense had fully surged from the Two Worlds Pool, strands of innate pure yang golden light burst forth from within, triggering resonance with the Pure Yang Great Dao laws deep in the heavens' void.

In the depths of the nine-colored pool water, strands of innate divine pattern light flowed out, gradually forming in the void multiple torrents of innate pure yang qi dissipating.

The Boundless Great Dao Immortal Sound burst forth from within.

Gazing at this scene, Qingxia Daoist said in her mouth.

"It seems this is an innate spiritual treasure of pure yang attribute!"

The Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable slightly nodded.

As the boundless innate pure yang divine light appeared, above the void another omen emerged; within the innate divine light, billions of immortals and gods manifested from within, all immortals returning to the sect, all gods paying homage.

Furthermore, a current of heavenly Dao qi flowed in from above the void, merging into the innate divine light, from which condensed a form of the Heavenly Emperor's origin.

"This is..."

Gazing at this scene, Qingxia Daoist also felt some astonishment in her eyes.

The emperor sovereign guarded by the omen of all immortals returning to the sect and all gods paying homage clearly bore a hint of Heavenly Emperor divine energy.

Is this an innate spiritual treasure containing the Way of the Emperor?

Qingxia Daoist had never before encountered this type of innate spiritual treasure.

Innate spiritual treasures containing the Way of the Innate Emperor are exceedingly rare in the heavens' void; it is said only a few exist.

But they are all in the hands of the Heavenly Emperor, or perhaps in the hands of the founders of the various great teachings.

After a moment, a primordial divine light burst forth from the depths of the Two Realms Pool, and in an instant, the boundless omens retracted, and a golden stream of light sought to pierce the void.

With a wave of his hand, the Jade Emperor Supreme Heavenly Venerable instantly took the golden stream of light into his grasp.

Golden divine light emerged from his palm, manifesting a tiny, exquisite banner.

The banner was entirely golden, its surface covered in layers of intricate Dao patterns, within which two small Heavenly Dao seal scripts faintly glowed, possessing the power to rend the heavens.

The Jade Emperor Supreme Heavenly Venerable took this primordial spiritual treasure into his hand, and after a slight refinement, he immediately understood its origin.

Pure Yang Gathering Immortal Banner: a top-grade primordial merit treasure, containing nine primordial divine bans, integrating offense and defense, primordially invincible, and possessing the ability to summon multitudes of immortals and gods, capable of suppressing great fortune!

Nine primordial divine bans—this is already the limit for a top-grade primordial treasure.

And what is most rare is that it actually possesses the power to suppress fortune!

Fortune-Suppressing Spiritual Treasure.

Such a supreme treasure, even in the hands of the Jade Emperor Supreme Heavenly Venerable, is nonexistent!

Since the loss of the ancient heavenly court's supreme treasure, the ancient heavenly court has had no fortune-suppressing artifact, relying only on the Heavenly Pagoda of the Vast Heaven, the Heavenly Mirror of the Vast Heaven, and the feng shui of the Thirty-Three Heavens to stabilize great fortune, but it cannot speak of suppressing fortune!

Beside him, Daoist Qingxia could see a rare smile flicker across the Jade Emperor Supreme Heavenly Venerable's expression.

Clearly, this primordial banner is of extraordinary value.

The Jade Emperor Supreme Heavenly Venerable did not speak, merely pondered slightly, and with a wave of his hand, took out an object and handed it to Daoist Qingxia.

Daoist Qingxia gazed at the treasure in his palm, his expression briefly astonished, but it vanished in an instant, as he prepared to make the journey himself.

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Eastern Immortal Domain, Qingyi City, Fengqiao Town.

In the ancestral hall, Zhang Jian, who had been sitting in meditation, quickly opened his eyes, and in an instant saw a magnificent cyan immortal light burst forth from the golden dharma image of the ancestral shrine, forming a spacetime passage, from which a magnificent yellow light flew out and instantly landed in Zhang Jian's palm.

Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon his palm, and there was something peculiar in his eyes.

Upon his palm lay a earth-yellow golden scroll, upon which flowed a thick earthen power, as if born from the boundless earth.

This is actually a primordial treasure of the earth attribute.

A hint of brightness appeared in Zhang Jian's eyes.

After so many sacrifices, he had finally obtained a primordial treasure of the earth attribute.

This is truly not easy.

Threads of primordial immortal light intertwined in his palm, instantly merging into this primordial treasure, beginning its initial refinement.

As his eternal immortal light merged into the primordial treasure, another message flowed forth from within it.

"Nameless Golden Scroll: a primordial treasure condensed from the earth origin of an alternate dimensional heavenly realm, one of the spoils of the Heavenly Court's expedition across realms!"

"Note: This treasure contains part of the earth origin of an alternate dimensional heavenly realm; after refinement, one can obtain the status of Sovereign of the Alternate Dimensional Heavenly Realm Earth (Pure Purple), this treasure contains nine primordial divine bans, and embodies multiple heavenly and earthly Dao laws!"