Chapter 703

The Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable appeared, his gaze merely sweeping over the Two Realms Pool before he gave a slight wave of his hand, indicating that Qingxia Daoist Lord need not stand on ceremony.

"Just wait for the sacrifice!"

Upon hearing this, Qingxia Daoist Lord gave a slight nod.

One would think it was not only her; this Great Heavenly Venerable must also be curious about the treasure about to appear this time.

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Fengqiao Town, Ancestral Temple

After the ancestral worship ceremony, many members of the Zhang clan left the ancestral temple one after another to join the flowing banquet outside, while Zhang Jian remained alone.

The ancestral temple had already been enveloped by the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram barrier he had deployed; at this moment, he took out the prepared gold and silver ingots from within and, using the method of the Mustard Seed Ring, threw them into the central bronze cauldron.

Zhang Jian estimated that the scale of this sacrifice would certainly not be as large as the previous one.

But it should not be much less either.

For dozens of yuanhui, besides his gains in the Spirit Realm, the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm had also continued to develop, especially with the further transformation and perfection of the Heavenly Great Dao laws, which had a subtle, imperceptible enhancing effect on the fortune of the ruler of a realm.

Only the specific scale of the sacrifice that could be achieved still needed to be seen based on the actual quantity of gold and silver ingots burned.

In Zhang Jian's sight, mountain ranges of gold and silver ingots fell into the bronze cauldron, making the cauldron seem like a giant beast with its mouth wide open, taking in but giving out nothing.

Green sacrificial fire birds birds.

Zhang Jian also took advantage of this opportunity to continually contemplate the essence of sacrifice, thereby gaining greater control over his primordial spirit essence power.

Soon, Zhang Jian felt that the burning of the gold and silver ingot mountain ranges he had poured into the bronze cauldron had slowed down, eventually coming to a halt.

Seeing the green flames weaken, Zhang Jian moved the remaining gold and silver ingot mountains out.

"Nearly sixty percent!"

Zhang Jian slightly curled his finger, and thus knew that the scale of this sacrifice was roughly sixty percent of the previous one.

This number did not exceed his expectations.

Afterwards, he took out another prepared treasure.

A bowl appeared floating in the depths of his palm.

This object is a fifth-rank eternal immortal treasure, named the Qiankun Bowl.

It is also an immortal treasure that Zhang Jian forged by further contemplating the Qiankun Diagram, imitating its power to contain the endless Qiankun universe.

The power of this treasure is not small.

However, when forging this fifth-rank eternal immortal treasure, he did not have the same feeling as when forging the Star Sacrificial Altar, so this fifth-rank eternal immortal treasure still failed to nurture the postnatal divine prohibition spiritual light, which made Zhang Jian quite regretful.

At this moment, the Qiankun Bowl fell into the bronze cauldron, and amidst that small amount of weak green flame, it burned rapidly.

The fifth-rank eternal immortal treasure was actually burned to ashes in an instant by the firelight, both form and spirit consumed.

Afterwards, that last small amount of green flame gradually extinguished.

Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon the extinguished green sacrificial flame above, while deep in his primordial spirit he tried to simulate the power of this green sacrificial flame, but the green sacrificial flame seemed to contain a wondrous trace of heavenly Dao law, with an extraordinarily complex sacrificial diagram within, making it difficult for him to parse for a moment.

But Zhang Jian felt that if he could master the mystery of sacrifice in advance, he would not only be able to grasp another earth-shattering great divine ability, but his own cultivation would also undergo a qualitative change, reaching an unimaginable state.

Only Zhang Jian felt that the algorithm contained in the Great Dao diagram was too complex; to decrypt it, he would still need to continually transform his own cultivation.

Foundation insufficient, everything is empty talk.

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Qingxia Immortal Realm, before the Two Realms Pool

At this moment, the nine-colored pool water buzzed and trembled; the pool water reflected, and below, boundless golden light ripples seemed to burst forth from within, endless auspicious clouds and auspicious qi about to emerge.

After the roar of the Two Realms Pool reached its peak, thousands upon thousands of magnificent golden light burst forth from the depths of the Two Realms Pool, seeking to rush out and envelop the azure cloud range above the Qingxia Immortal Realm, but in an instant they were enveloped by groups of azure cloud light, gathering in the boundless golden light.

Seeing this, Qingxia Daoist Lord had long been prepared; with a wave of his hand, individual golden incense fire gourds appeared in the void, the gourd mouths opened, and behold, strands of incense fire golden light, like a flood, were swallowed and merged into the golden incense fire gourds.

This is a standard magical treasure specially refined by Qingxia Daoist Lord for storing incense fire.

One incense fire gourd can hold ten trillion incense fire.

During Zhang Jian's previous sacrifice, she had filled four incense fire gourds to the brim; this time, Qingxia Daoist Lord was also full of anticipation.

As for the innate spiritual treasure born from the sacrifice, 'Qingxia Daoist Lord' did not dare to hope for it, anyway this cause and effect did not need her to repay, and she could still obtain so much flawless incense fire for free, so she was already content.

As for the innate spiritual treasure, this thing is indeed good, but she had already obtained six or seven of them before, which was enough for her cultivation; the rest she did not wish to actively taint herself with.

Only see the rolling incense fire flood surging forth; moments later, the first incense fire gourd was filled, immediately followed by the second incense fire gourd.

Not long after, the second incense fire gourd also overflowed.

This is twenty-five trillion flawless incense fire.

The smile in Qingxia Daoist Lord's eyes could not be concealed.

Immediately afterwards, she took out another incense fire gourd; when the third incense fire gourd was filled to about half, the magnificent incense fire golden light flood gradually ceased.

"Nearly twenty-five trillion flawless incense fire!"

Qingxia Daoist Lord casually took the three incense fire gourds into her hands, the smile in her eyes impossible to conceal.

With these twenty-five trillion flawless incense fire, she could also assault the third great calamity of destruction.

If successful, she would be equivalent to possessing an incense fire incarnation equal to a three-turn Daoist Lord.

This incense fire incarnation could completely serve as a surprise force, playing the role of stabilizing the universe at critical moments.

If Qingxia Daoist Lord's true body wished to cultivate the secret method of beheading the three corpses, she could also directly behead it, thereby ascending to the realm of Dao Venerable.

After slightly calming her mind, Qingxia Daoist Lord then put away the three incense fire gourds and stepped back one pace.

In the depths of the Two Realms Pool, at this moment the omen reappeared.

Threads of innate Dao sound burst forth from the nine-colored pool water of the Two Realms Pool, the Great Dao heavenly sound echoed through heaven and earth, and then only strands of innate divine light projected from within the nine-colored pool water, innate divine patterns emerged, stirring various heavenly great Dao laws in the profound void to resonate, and moreover, all kinds of heavenly and earthly omens emerged from the profound void.

Amidst the auspicious clouds and auspicious qi, strands of intense treasure light could not be concealed.

Qingxia Daoist Lord and the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable both fixed their gazes upon the void.

In the profound void, multiple heavenly great Dao laws descended, but the primary one was still time and space, followed by purity and turbidity, the five elements, yin and yang, and so on, multiple heavenly great Dao laws descended.

In the congenital anomaly, the manifestation showed nine layers of congenital pure qi and nine layers of congenital turbid qi intertwining and transforming into the scene of congenital cyan and white qi merging.

In the treasure light, a round and radiant golden bowl gradually manifested, its surface entwined with countless innate Qiankun Dao patterns, cyan and white qi weaving and wandering, wondrous and unfathomable.

With a raise of his hand, the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable caused the flying innate treasure light to instantly fall into his palm, transforming into a spinning golden bowl.

The surface of the golden bowl still had layers of merit-gold light flowing, bearing a unique auspicious and tranquil qi.

Its appearance was quite extraordinary.

The Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable channeled a strand of divine power into it, and in a moment he knew part of this treasure's information.

Qiankun Bowl: Top-grade congenital merit spirit treasure, nurturing eight congenital divine prohibitions within, containing the transformations of Qiankun, Five Elements, and Yin-Yang, capable of capturing myriad immortals and gods, its golden light enveloping the universe, offense and defense integrated!

Offense and defense integrated also means its attributes are relatively balanced, and this is a suppression-type innate spirit treasure; for the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable, it can only be considered quite good.

He has several similar innate spirit treasures in his hand.

The most outstanding among them is undoubtedly the Haotian Divine Pagoda.

However, no one dislikes having too many such treasures!

Even if I cannot use it myself, I can bestow it upon my subordinates' strong ones; relying on this treasure's wondrousness, it can completely allow a shore-reaching-level strong one to greatly increase their strength.

However, the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable merely glanced at it and, with a wave of his hand, threw the Qiankun Golden Bowl to Qingxiao Daoist.

Qingxiao Daoist gazed at the Qiankun Golden Bowl in her hand, yet her expression froze for a moment; before she could speak, the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable calmly said.

"The previous top-grade congenital spirit treasure, the Pure Yang Gathering Immortal Banner, possesses the wondrousness of suppressing qi fortune, which is exactly what I need; I entrust this to you, hoping it will be of help!"

Simultaneously, a vast and bright light condensed deep in his palm, instantly falling into the Two Realms Pool; moments later, the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable transformed into a stream of light and departed from the Qingxiao Immortal Realm.

Qingxiao Daoist gazed at the Qiankun Golden Bowl in her hand, yet she did not expect this treasure to ultimately fall into her hands.

Deep in her Dao heart, there were faint ripples, but even more so was joy.

Such a top-grade congenital spirit treasure provides immense assistance to her strength enhancement.

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Eastern Immortal Domain, Fengqiao Town, Ancestral Temple within.

Zhang Jian stood alone in the void upon rows of spirit tablet positions; at this moment, his gaze fell upon the first spirit tablet.

Zhang Gong, You Ren.

That is the common name of the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable's reincarnation in Zhou Shan Realm.

Actually, Zhang Jian has always harbored a doubt in his heart.

Does the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable truly not know about his worship of Qingxiao Daoist?

Zhang Jian's expression was somewhat subtle.

He was thinking about his own collection of congenital spirit treasures.

The value of the treasures fed back by Qingxiao Daoist increases each time, but is this truly all from Qingxiao Daoist's doing?

Zhang Jian secretly speculated in his heart, feeling that it might not be the case.

Although Qingxiao Daoist is famously the 'Little Rich Lady' of the Heavenly Court, it is impossible for her to have surplus enough to casually bestow top-grade congenital spirit treasures.

He already possesses three, including the damaged congenital spirit treasure Qiankun Tu in his hand.

Qiankun Tu, congenital Four Symbols Divine Needles, Earth Emperor Golden Canon.

However, the damaged state of Qiankun Tu at most equals a medium-grade congenital spirit treasure.

Yet the continuous bestowal of such treasures is also extremely astonishing.

Zhang Jian does not look down on Qingxiao Daoist, but as fellow three-transformation great divine ability cultivators, he does not believe Qingxiao Daoist possesses such wealth.

Of course, it is also possible that he has underestimated Qingxiao Daoist.

But there is another possibility: Qingxiao Daoist may have behind her another supreme will.

Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable, or perhaps the Yaochi Holy Mother!

Zhang Jian's expression remained unchanged; even if someone stands behind Qingxiao Daoist, it is no matter, as long as it does not affect his worship.

However, Zhang Jian hopes more for the former.

Because the former shares a special identity bond with him, the likelihood of harboring ill will toward him would reduce to the lowest.

During the shift of thoughts, suddenly his expression slightly moved, his gaze falling upon the central ancestral temple, upon the incense-fire golden body of Qingxiao Daoist.

Only seen, layers of blue light halos burst forth around the incense-fire golden body, the halo condensed, and instantly a spacetime passage manifested beneath the incense-fire golden body seat, a milky white luminous power burst forth from within, instantly falling into Zhang Jian's palm.

In his palm it transformed into a lamp of entirely radiant, brilliantly shining golden divine lamp.

This divine lamp's light is brilliant and splendid, flames leaping, as if capable of burning away all heavenly and worldly evil spirits and demonic thoughts.

"Lamp-type congenital spirit treasure?"

Zhang Jian's pupils shifted slightly, a hint of surprise appearing in his eyes.

Lamp-type congenital spirit treasures are not uncommon in ancient mythology, but each possesses formidable power.

Such lamp-type innate spirit treasures have an advantage: they can serve as ritual implements for suppressing great teachings, or as façades, allowing one to know the essence at a glance.

For example, the ancient great teaching Chan Sect possesses a Jade Void Palace Lamp; its golden light illuminates, able to reduce calamity numbers, suppress part of qi fortune, wondrous and unfathomable; also, the leader of the ancient great teaching Human Sect has an Eight Scenes Palace Lamp, its refined wondrousness boundless, the palace lamp burns eternally, the Dao lineage unbroken.

Moreover, the ancient great teaching Sect of the Cut also possesses an innate spirit treasure, the Emerald Light Two Instruments Lamp; the palace lamp illuminates the void, penetrates the heavens, illuminates the nine abodes, splendid light fills the universe, qi rushes the cosmos.

Furthermore, in the palace of the ancient true goddess Nüwa Niangniang, there is also a precious lotus lamp.

Even if not used for façade decoration, the golden lamp omens condensed upon the Dao fruit auspicious clouds is also used for immense power; during dharma combat, it greatly suppresses demonic path strong ones.

Various thoughts flashed through, and Zhang Jian directly began refining the congenital golden lamp in his hand within the ancestral temple.

Vast divine power continuously flowed into this congenital spirit treasure.

Ownerless congenital spirit treasures refine quickly.

Especially since his cultivation and realm have already arrived.

As he refined the golden lamp in his hand, another strand of information surged into his sea of consciousness, which he perceived.

He gradually came to understand the origin of this supreme treasure in his hand.

Nine Revolutions Righteous Golden Lamp: a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, born from the innate concepts of 【Light】 and 【Righteousness】 of another universe, containing nine innate divine prohibitions.

He gazed at the Nine Revolutions Righteous Golden Lamp deep in his palm, and a hint of joy could not help but rise in his eyes.

According to the message left behind, this treasure was formed from the righteous qi of the chest of the creator-king of another universe's dimension at the time of heaven and earth's creation, and it absorbed the righteous qi of a heavenly realm over hundreds of millions of years, finally condensing into form; upon its formation, demons scattered and evils retreated, and the light of the Righteous Golden Lamp can refine demons, suppress the Dao-heart, and naturally restrain eternal darkness, destroying one side of the heavenly Dao's rules.

It also possesses a portion of extremely rare auxiliary abilities, such as quickly restoring primordial spirit power, dispelling external demons, and refining primordial spirit杂念, etc.

This is a rather precious innate spiritual treasure of the primordial spirit type.

It can not only adorn one's appearance but also possesses strong demon-refining power, especially effective against all heavenly demons.

At this moment, Zhang Jian slightly pondered, and in an instant, the Nine Revolutions Righteous Golden Lamp deep in his palm transformed into a ray of righteous light that merged into the auspicious clouds of his Dao-fruit, blossoming deep within the auspicious clouds of his Dao-fruit; that luminous power entered his Dao-fruit's auspicious clouds, as if all thoughts deep in his Dao-heart were illuminated by lustrous, flawless glass, pure and immaculate.

Furthermore, the power of the ten directions' holy beings burst forth from his entire body, illuminating the boundless heavens and earth in the deep void, preventing evil thoughts from arising and making it difficult for all evils to invade.

"Not bad either!"

Feeling this protective bodily omen, Zhang Jian's eyes slightly curled with a hint of a smile.

With this treasure adorning his appearance, going out he will surely not stumble.

Additionally, Zhang Jian sensitively perceived another very important hidden marvelous use of this treasure; if used well, it will greatly aid his Dao cultivation.