Chapter 695: Round and Complete (4K)

Among the numerous immortal deities, two were entirely entwined with starlight: the Northern Dipper Star Lord Zhu Yuan, and another Underworld Star Lord. Both radiated a strong Dao aura, clearly indicating their formidable cultivation.

They were also Dao Lords among the Primordial Stars.

The other two immortals were unknown to Zhang Jian, but they clearly were not ordinary cultivators.

One was a yellow-robed immortal—nothing special—while the other wore a Taiji Daoist robe, surrounded by intense immortal light. His cultivation was extraordinary: a Three Transformation Great Divine Ability wielder.

Zhang Jian swept his gaze over them and immediately spoke.

"Fellow Daoists, I have an agreement with the Ziwei Emperor of the Heavenly Court. This place now belongs to the Dihuang Dao Palace. Please withdraw yourselves!"

At this moment, he partially revealed the authority of the Dihuang Dao Zun to intimidate them.

The power of the Dao Zun authority manifested around him—vast divine energy crushed down from the formless void, carrying earth-shaking divine force. Simultaneously, Zhang Jian produced the Three-Grade Innate Creation Green Lotus, its innate spiritual treasure power faintly blossoming.

This was a warning to the gods: if they remained oblivious, he would show no mercy.

The Northern Dipper Star Lord Zhu Yuan and the Underworld Star Lord exchanged a glance, their eyes flickering.

The Tianling Realm leans toward the netherworld; the Nine Underworlds' authority is especially profound—a pure purple authority.

Who would not desire such authority?

Moreover, through the Star Lords, they had also heard of the divine power of the Taiji Celestial Court's Dihuang Shangdi.

What's more, his claim of an agreement with the Ziwei Emperor seemed unlikely to be false.

Knowing that even combined they could not match him, the Underworld Star Lord immediately clasped his hands and said.

"Since the Ziwei Emperor has commanded, we of the Dipper Division Stars shall naturally obey!"

"I am Youdu; I shall come again another day to pay respects to the Dihuang Shangdi!"

Zhu Yuan also slightly bowed his hands, and the two Star Lords departed instantly.

There was no point in lingering here unnecessarily; better to seize the opportunity to claim other authorities.

The yellow-robed immortal hesitated slightly, but sensing the aura emanating from Zhang Jian, his eyes flickered. After a moment, he clasped his hands and said.

"The Central Yellow Horn Dao Palace pays respects to the Shangdi. Since the two Shangdi have an agreement, we shall no longer interfere!"

Zhang Jian also slightly nodded.

He then turned his gaze to the last of the Three Transformation Dao Lords, whose body flowed with a layer of intense Qingxian immortal light—likely from an ancient great teaching. Immortals of such sects pride themselves on their lineage and are the most difficult to deal with.

Indeed, this Three Transformation Dao Lord glanced at Zhang Jian and coldly said.

"Since I began cultivation, I have never yielded..."

Before his words finished, a cyan divine light flowed from the center of Zhang Jian's brow, and instantly a cyan lotus appeared above the head of this Daoist wearing the Taiji cloud robe.

The cyan lotus primordial spirit descended, and the Daoist's face changed—yet he saw a mu of Dao fruit auspicious clouds appear behind his head.

The auspicious clouds displayed various omens, along with three layers of perfect cloud light: respectively, the Merit Great Brightness Cloud, the Wisdom Great Brightness Cloud, and the Heavenly Heart Great Brightness Cloud—symbolizing great fortune, great wisdom, and great perseverance.

But which Great Divine Ability wielder does not possess great fortune, great wisdom, and great perseverance?

This is standard equipment.

Yet deep within this immortal's Dao fruit auspicious clouds, there were faint immortal sounds, jeweled palace lamps—each golden lamp illuminating the ten directions of void, sharing a subtle mystery with Zhang Jian's Wuji Great Brightness Cloud, though clearly far inferior to the divine power of the Yuanshi Jade Pearl. Still, it prevented this immortal deity from being immediately suppressed by the primordial spirit green lotus.

At the same time, a postnatal spiritual light appeared in his hand, instantly transforming into a golden streak that shot toward Zhang Jian through the void.

In the void, golden light flowed, even capable of bewildering eternal will.

This was a strange evasion piling.

It was a treasure modeled after the ancient奇物 Evasion Dragon Pile, refined to seize people silently—most peculiar.

But in an instant, Zhang Jian raised his palm; his fingertip pointed, and a purple-yellow dragon-shaped immortal light flew past, instantly striking that golden light away.

Simultaneously, he reached out with his palm, and the boundless void seemed to become a spacetime mire, trapping this Great Divine Ability wielder.

The Heavenly Timespace King's Chart manifested around him, within which infinite timespace rotated, all things turning to dust—this power digested and accelerated the consumption of this Three Transformation Dao Lord's cultivation.

Simultaneously, several eternal Dao laws blossomed around this Great Divine Ability wielder.

Fifth-Grade Innate Dao Law, Nine Transformations Chaos Green Lotus Transformation and Generation Great Law.

Innate Divine Prohibition Dao Law, Dao Heart Green Lotus Law Chant.

Fifth-Grade Eternal Dao Law, Purifying Soul Green Lotus Law Chant.

Three strands of cyan immortal light flowed and appeared.

Among these three immortal laws, two specifically attack the primordial spirit and Dao heart, while the third possesses the unique ability to dissolve various protective immortal lights.

The three cyan immortal lights entered the surroundings of this Three Great Divine Ability wielder, instantly transforming his flowing layers of Qingxian immortal light into chaotic hue. The two cyan lights instantly entered his brow center, repressing his primordial spirit once more.

Anger flickered in the Daoist's deep eyes; light stirred in his primordial spirit, still wishing to resist. Zhang Jian raised his hand, produced the Qiankun Diagram, and directly seized him, to be dealt with later.

Zhang Jian remained expressionless—he did not fear offending the Yuxu Dao Palace. This was not their home; even outside, if one were a descendant of an ancient great teaching, they must still bow their head and behave cautiously, lest they be taught a lesson!

After subduing this Daoist with the Qiankun Diagram, Zhang Jian directly summoned the vast netherworld river space below through eternal will.

This is a sealed netherworld space: a dark-hued endless river, beginningless and endless, flowing from the netherworld spacetime dimension, seemingly extending into this realm, forming vast expanses of netherworld soil.

Moreover, the netherworld soil hosts many netherworld divine kingdoms.

These are descendants left behind by the ancestor of the netherworld river.

These ancient descendants had no time to leave; the strong among them had already abandoned their divine kingdoms and fled, while a portion of the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled remained behind.

Zhang Jian temporarily ignored these ancient descendants, instead gradually merging his vast eternal will into the depths of the netherworld river space, condensing the Fifth-Grade Eternal Dao Law Nine Underworlds Life-Death Golden Seal and implanting it within. After the power of this Fifth-Grade Eternal Dao Law permeated every inch of the netherworld river space's boundary, he immediately began condensing the Nine Underworlds' authority, integrating it deep into this Fifth-Grade Eternal Dao Law.

While condensing the Nine Underworlds' authority, Zhang Jian also unleashed the divine power of the Dihuang Golden Canon—on one hand, using the measurements within the Dihuang Golden Canon to measure the netherworld river space, purify the Nine Underworlds' authority, and erase the traps left by the netherworld river's ancestor; on the other hand, simultaneously sealing the netherworld with the earth-origin space.

If anyone intrudes into the netherworld, he will be immediately alerted.

……

At this moment, within and without the Tianling Realm, turmoil had already become the main theme of the Tianling Realm.

The old order shattered at this moment; the new order had just been born. Moreover, numerous extraterritorial immortals and demons took advantage of the shattered Tianling Realm realm sea and heavenly pass, the chaotic heavenly way, to enter the Tianling Realm's interior to 'scrape gold'!

Under this great transformation, the slaughter accompanying the turmoil is unavoidable.

Everywhere in the Tianling Realm, massacres are being staged, or else compromising farces.

For many immortals and gods, this may also be part of their cultivation.

As the old order of the Tianling Realm continues to collapse, many special heavenly and earthly authorities have become vacant, yet they have become objects of contention among the immortals and gods.

The Five Elements of Heaven and Earth, the Three Powers of Heaven and Earth, the Four Seasons, the earth, the netherworld, reincarnation, the starry sky, the ocean, primordial energy, the sun and moon, and other great authorities are coveted.

Even the Dao Lords cannot stand by and watch such authorities slip away.

Since authorities incompatible with one's attributes cannot be used by oneself, they can still be left to descendants, greatly enhancing one's own Dao lineage and fortune.

In this regard, Zhang Jian has indeed suffered considerable 'harassment' during this period.

The Earth Authority has long been under his control, so no one can contend with him for it.

However, the Nine Nether Authority is still coalescing, yet immortals and demons remain unwilling to relent, constantly coming to test him, inevitably leading to clashes.

A hundred years of wind and rain have swept across heaven and earth, bloody storms have filled the entire Tianling Realm, and casualties among living beings are countless.

But as the Heavenly Court's Fighting Division army begins to gradually enter the Tianling Realm, many chaotic situations have been brought under control.

After the Heavenly Court's Fighting Division's stellar forces entered the Tianling Realm, they reestablished the Purple Micro Immortal Court, simultaneously summoned numerous immortals and gods from within the Tianling Realm, and negotiated with multiple parties to reestablish the division of power, as well as heavenly statutes and divine laws.

This has always been the Heavenly Court's way: after reoccupying a heavenly realm, it will surely reshape the center, establish a new immortal court to stabilize the realm, and then, under the Heavenly Court's dominance in the larger scheme, negotiate with various immortals and gods to divide the spoils.

If negotiations fail, they may ultimately resort to literary combat, or perhaps martial combat.

Zhang Jian has long had an agreement with the Purple Micro Heavenly Emperor: Earth and Nine Nether are his authorities, and the Southern Ming Divine Continent is the territory of his Earth Emperor Dao Palace—this is beyond dispute. However, if the Earth Emperor Dao Palace seeks expansion, it must still enter the Purple Micro Immortal Court to contend with the immortals and gods.

In this regard, Zhang Jian has dispatched the Nine Provinces Ancestral Gods into the depths of the Purple Micro Immortal Court to strive for advantage!

……

In the Nether River space, upon the endless Nether River, Zhang Jian now stands upon the rolling Nether River, as boundless netherworld qi from all directions converges upon his body, he faintly resonates with the entire Nether River space, and moreover, a vast divine power pierces through the Nether River, even penetrating deep into the Tianling Realm, stirring resonance with the netherworld, profound yin, life and death, reincarnation, and other great heavenly Dao principles.

Deep within his brow, the aura of the Earth Emperor Dao Sovereign radiates unprecedented vast divine light.

Behind him, the illusory vast earth emerges from his back, the earth dividing into the yang world and yin netherworld, two wondrous yet perfectly fused aspects merging together.

The two merge into a unified whole, as if a mighty power capable of piercing through all heavenly dimensions of time and space is being nurtured within.

The fusion of the Tianling Realm's Nine Nether Great Dao authority allows the balance pouring forth within the Earth Emperor Dao Sovereign's aura to be restored, and at this moment, the Nine Nether Sovereign aura directly surpasses the limit of the Pure Purple aura.

The Sovereign of the Nine Nether and the Sovereign of the State and Altar, these two auras, resemble yin and yang, the Two Modalities, jointly forming the foundation of the Earth Emperor Dao Sovereign's aura.

Vast divine power erupts from his surroundings, bursting forth from the Nether River space, like a purple-yellow radiant sun shooting outward into the depths of the Tianling Realm, stirring the Tianling Realm's boundless spacetime, causing the earth to generate circle after circle of invisible spiritual ripples, the azure heaven's Dao principles tremble, and moreover, strands of heavenly fortune descend from the River of Fortune above, falling into the depths of the Nether River space.

This scene causes many powerful immortals and gods within the Purple Micro Immortal Court to sense it.

Within the magnificent Purple Micro Immortal Palace, at this moment, three immortal maidens in blood-stained robes fall from beyond the heavens at the gate—these three immortal maidens are the Three Xiao Immortal Maidens.

These three immortal maidens possess graceful bearing and distinct temperaments.

The Three Xiao Immortal Maidens were originally disciples of the ancient great teaching, but after the great teaching's destruction, two of them entered the Investiture of the Gods list, entered under the Purple Micro Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court as responsive immortal maidens to the world.

After the desolate world shattered and the heavens took shape, the bonds of the Investiture of the Gods list were broken, and the three immortal maidens freed themselves.

Remembering the Purple Micro Heavenly Emperor's years of protection, they simply chose to remain in his mansion.

This journey also follows the Purple Micro Heavenly Emperor's campaign to conquer the Tianling Realm, and indeed has resolved many troubles for him.

At this moment, one of the immortal maidens lets out a soft hum, pouting as she speaks.

"This Heavenly Emperor has indeed profited handsomely, while we toil in slaughter beyond the heavens, he merely sits back and enjoys the fruits!"

Finally, the blue-clad immortal maiden also speaks.

"The eldest sister has achievements in reincarnation and the netherworld great Dao, and in this battle her merits are outstanding—this netherworld authority must not be cheaply given to those deceitful and slippery rascals; better yet, we should go to the Purple Micro Majesty and request it for the eldest sister, for surely the Purple Micro Majesty will not refuse to support the eldest sister..."

The leading Yunxiao Immortal Maiden remains composed, merely stopping the two immortal maidens, and speaks calmly.

"There is no need for anger; we gods and immortals each have our own posts, and he too has earned merit in aiding the Purple Micro Majesty's descent—obtaining this authority is not truly taking advantage, for we are of the Heavenly Sovereign Dao lineage—how could we rely on our status to bully others!"

The blue-clad immortal maiden shakes her head.

"The eldest sister is just this soft-hearted!"

Seeing the Yunxiao Immortal Maiden's expression, she can only abandon this plan, letting out a light hum.

"He really got off easy!"

The Yunxiao Immortal Maiden glances toward the direction of the Nether River space, smiles faintly, and says,

"His Dao foundation is already complete, and with the addition of one realm's netherworld great fortune, he is likely not far from proving the Other Shore!"

Beside her, the crimson-clad immortal maiden slightly frowns and says.

"This Earth Emperor Dao Lord, I have also heard of him—achieving Dao in less than one derivation eon, his cultivation has reached this level, truly astonishing!"

The blue-clad immortal maiden then shakes her head.

"Proving the Other Shore is not so easily achieved, and even if he does prove it, he may not surpass us! Not to mention being compared to the eldest sister!"

Her eyes carry a hint of disdain.

Likewise, proving the Other Shore, the difference between those with strong foundations and those with weak foundations is all the more evident.

Similar to how these three Xiao Immortal Maidens could kill ordinary Other Shore Dao Sovereigns in just a few moves.

And as for the supreme, like the Yunxiao Immortal Maiden, even if those top-tier Other Shore Dao Sovereigns stand before her, they would not last more than a few rounds before being slain.

Most of the ancient god ancestors in the Tianling Realm are merely ordinary Other Shore cultivators, so they dare not even emerge from the Tianling Realm—without heavenly protection, a few moves would kill one, and soon they could slaughter them all.

However, for other divine ability users, ordinary Other Shore remains the supreme will.

To prove the Other Shore is the aspiration of many powerful immortals and gods.

But for those truly capable of treading the Other Shore, becoming an ordinary Other Shore Dao Sovereign is absolutely not what they seek.

The three immortal maidens pause, observe briefly, then successively step into the immortal palace gates.

……

Nether River space.

Zhang Jian feels the fusion of his body with the netherworld Dao principles, feeling that vast divine power penetrating through the inside and outside of the Tianling Realm.

A smile also appears upon Zhang Jian's face.

With this Tianling Realm's Nine Nether authority, his Earth Emperor Dao Sovereign aura has been restored to wholeness, his future path can be said to be wide open.

Next is to rebuild the Netherworld Underworld.

The previous Nether River Ancestor completely treated the Netherworld Underworld as his private domain, harming the public for private gain, greatly obstructing the balance of yin and yang between heaven and earth.

He must rebuild the Nine Netherworld Underworld of the Spirit Realm.