Chapter 704: Sedimentation, Dao Cultivation Surges (4K)

That is to empower with the power of light.

The Nine Revolutions Vastly Bright Golden Lamp was originally born from the concepts of 【Light】 and 【Vast Brightness】.

Among the concepts of 【Light】 and 【Vast Brightness】, 【Light】 is one of the primordial concepts closest to the origin.

If this were in some divine Dao realms, to seize ownership of this concept, they would likely fight to the death.

Empowering with the power of light can make faith and incense purer, helping him maintain the cohesion of his followers, and is also greatly beneficial for the cultivation of Daoist immortals and gods.

Zhang Jian was in high spirits, and immediately walked out of the ancestral hall, feasting with many Zhang clan members, and only left the Zhang ancestral land several days later.

This time, Zhang Jian prepared to return to the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm to enter seclusion, striving to fuse the Three Thousand Great Dao principles into one furnace, condense three thousand sources, thereby purifying the Earth Emperor's source.

This is an extraordinarily complex process.

Many great divine powers, condensing even a single source, would need to spend hundreds of derivation eras, let alone possibly needing to condense three thousand sources.

Without the support of a heavenly realm, Zhang Jian would not even dare to think of it.

But now possessing such conditions, he feels he can try one or two.

And he possesses the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm and the Earth Emperor Golden Register, the Primordial Jade Pearl and other supreme treasures to assist, which could alleviate part of the burden.

Moreover, the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm is his own domain, and with the aid of the Heavenly Emperor's status, cultivation will naturally be much faster.

Most of the Zhang clan's immortals and gods, as well as part of the Tongshan Dao lineage's immortals and gods, will also return together.

The Tongshan Dao lineage and the Zhang clan have gradually been pouring some of their efforts into the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm, already regarding it as the most important base for the future.

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And on the other side, the Nine Provinces' Ancestral Gods of the Three Emperors Heavenly Realm, after cultivating for ten thousand years in the human race's inheritance land, also returned to the Spirit Realm together with the He-Luo Dao Lord.

As divine beings, they represent the interests of the Tai Ji Celestial Court Earth Emperor Supreme God.

Zhang Jian does not hold command in the Spirit Realm, and those who returned to hold command in the Spirit Realm are only the two Dao Lords, but the two Dao Lords fear no challenge, for behind them is Zhang Jian, this human elder, and behind him are the Tongshan Dao lineage and the Three Emperors Five Elders Council.

Even the Heavenly Court's Fighting Department, as the landlord, cannot look down on them.

With the two Dao Lords holding command, they can fully control the authority over the earth and the Nine Netherworlds.

Of course, the two Dao Lords returning also brought back many 'professionally matched' divine Dao powerhouses, among whom are the Second Generation Ancestor Yin Ming Emperor Lord of the Tongshan Dao lineage, and the ghost god troop that Zhang Jian personally brought out from the Netherworld Underworld.

There are also the human Dao gods sent over by the Fuxi Holy Emperor from the human Dao god class.

The Kitchen God Red Flower Lady is also among them, preparing to spread the Kitchen God faith in the Spirit Realm.

However, the Kitchen God is originally one of the human Dao gods.

The entourage can be described as mighty and imposing.

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Celestial Court Heavenly Realm

The Qian Heaven Holy Land, the Three Teachings Holy Land, this is the birthplace of the innate Three Teachings' leaders Zi Yun Dao Lord, Long Yin Dao Lord, and Tian He Dao Lord, where the Creator Lord of the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm, Qian Tian Emperor Lord's divine image is enshrined.

After the War Against Heaven, the three innate Dao Lords were severely injured and have been in seclusion in the Qian Heaven Holy Land, recovering their wounds.

After dozens of elemental meetings, the three innate Dao Lords gradually recovered to their peak.

And the earth-shaking heavenly and earthly upheaval outside the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm, the three innate Dao Lords naturally are aware of it, but they are powerless to change anything, whether it is the Water Mother Dao Palace where Zhu Zhuo Dao Lord and Yu Yu Dao Lord reside, the Eight Wastelands Dragon Realm, or the Human Emperor Holy Court behind the Tongshan Dao lineage, none of which the Qian Heaven Holy Land can provoke.

Such changes have left the three Dao Lords feeling depressed.

They have not lacked the thought of competing with the Water Mother Dao Palace, and also the Earth Emperor Dao Palace, or even the Qing Qiu Dao Palace, but it is not ideal.

The amount of knowledge, or even the depth, mastered by those three Dao lineages is above that of the Qian Heaven Holy Land.

And in terms of martial power, the three innate Dao Lords combined can only oppose them.

And they still do not hold an advantage.

Suffering setbacks everywhere, letting the usually proud three innate Dao Lords suffer repeated defeats, they are the direct descendants of the Creator Lords, innately divine and enlightened, they can allow themselves to temporarily be inferior in skill, but even in the accumulation of knowledge, they actually cannot compare to the other side.

Compared to other Dao Lords, they seem to have cultivation levels that have never reached the passing line, this feeling makes the proud three innate Dao Lords truly unable to bear it.

Tian He Dao Lord now gazes afar at the myriad stars bursting with starlight in the azure sky, and speaks in a deep voice.

"Two elder brothers, we cannot continue like this! If we go on like this, when will our Qian Tian lineage ever regain control of heaven and earth?"

Long Yin Dao Lord, upon hearing this, nodded rarely.

"Not speaking of regaining control of heaven and earth, limited to a corner of the Celestial Court, our vision and insight have been restrained, cultivation speed will likely be hard to catch up with others, let alone restore the glory of the Father God's lineage!"

The two Dao Lords looked toward the leader, Zi Yun Dao Lord.

Zi Yun Dao Lord hesitated slightly.

Leaving the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm undoubtedly represents needing to abandon the benefits in the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm.

The three innate Dao Lords have painstakingly managed many derivation eras, which is a great fortune of fate, to discard it thus, how could it be done easily?

Moreover, having left the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm, they would have to re-establish such a foundation, which may not be easy.

But the three innate Dao Lords before us are indeed in a predicament.

Tian He True Lord sees Zi Yun Dao Lord silent in contemplation, he steps forward to Zi Yun Dao Lord's side and says.

"Great elder, there are too many strong ones between heaven and earth, we cannot be trapped in one place, we, even the Qian Tian divine lineage, our father god is the Creator Lord, we cannot disgrace our father god's name!"

Tian He Dao Lord knows Zi Yun Dao Lord and he are alike, their regard for the reputation of the Qian Tian lineage outweighs themselves.

Zi Yun Dao Lord's expression carries a hint of sigh, he glances at Long Yin Dao Lord, Tian He Dao Lord, after a moment finally nods as well.

"Then so be it, let us leave the Celestial Court, the glory of the Qian Tian lineage cannot be damaged in our three brothers' hands, what we have lost will ultimately be taken back by our own hands in the future!"

Zi Yun Dao Lord made up his mind, immediately discussed briefly with Long Yin and Tian He the two Dao Lords, then directly selected a portion of loyal disciples, and left the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm through a part of its secret spacetime fissures.

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Celestial Court Immortal Palace, upon the Heavenly Emperor's throne, Zhang Jian sits upon the magnificent Heavenly Emperor divine throne, vast and majestic divine power as if penetrating the past, present, and future of the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm, his gaze sweeps over that hidden spacetime fissure, and with a wave of his hand, he sees in the depths of the void, the power of the long river of spacetime branching out to mend this spacetime fissure.

He saw the departure of Zi Yun, Long Yin, and Tian He the three Dao Lords.

He did not go to pursue them.

Each has their own ambition, they are unwilling to submit to the Celestial Court Heavenly Realm, unwilling to bow to the Earth Emperor Dao Palace, or likewise the Water Mother Dao Palace, and he does not force them.

However, Zhang Jian also knew that letting the three Primordial Dao Lords go freely would inevitably leave hidden dangers.

The three Primordial Dao Lords were descendants of the Celestial Court's Creator Sovereign, and they certainly knew part of the Celestial Court's cosmic secrets; if they fell into the hands of other major powers, it would affect the stability of the Celestial Court's heavenly realm.

But considering the contributions the three Primordial Dao Lords made during the destruction of the Purple Origin, he still showed them leniency.

However, to avoid future hidden dangers the three Dao Lords might bring to the Celestial Court's heavenly realm, he still decided to mend the 'loophole' brought by their identities.

To some extent, the three Primordial Dao Lords each represent one of the three supreme powers of the Celestial Court's heavenly realm: namely, essence, qi, and spirit — that is, mountains and rivers, the vital energy sea, and the source of the Heavenly Dao.

The best way to mend this loophole is, while the three Primordial Dao Lords are departing, to bestow the divine positions born from these three primal sources upon other immortals, thereby seizing this immense power.

Coincidentally, his subordinates Zhang Zhao, Zhang Yi, and Zhang Xian are very suitable.

Zhang Zhao is the Human Sovereign, capable of overseeing the mountains, rivers, and state altars.

However, his fundamental cultivation is the Grand Void Dao, so he can only be said to be acting in stewardship; but with Zhang Jian, the Earth Sovereign, as his backer and support, controlling the authority over mountains, rivers, and state altars is not difficult.

In fact, during the tenure of the Heavenly River Dao Lord, he also had to submit to Zhang Jian's jurisdiction.

Zhang Yi, born inheriting the primordial wind and thunder, can further control the vital energy sea of heaven and earth.

Zhang Xian, possessing the body of the Primordial Dao Embryo, is naturally close to the Dao and can control the Divine Origin Dao Palace, thereby condensing a Primordial Sacred Body.

With a raise of his hand, Zhang Jian condensed three Primordial Talisman Edicts, which respectively fell into the landing places of the three brothers, prompting them to rush to the three Primordial Dao Palaces to seize their Dao achievements.

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In the Celestial Court's heavenly realm, the silent departure of the three Primordial Dao Lords went unnoticed except by Zhang Jian, as the Heavenly Emperor, who had a faint awareness; the other immortals could not detect it beforehand, and only after the Zhang brothers gradually occupied part of the three Dao Lords' authority did the other immortals of the Celestial Court's palaces become aware.

For the immortals beneath the Dao Lords, the status and authority of the three Primordial Dao Lords were undoubtedly a great fortune; the myriad immortals were unwilling to easily relinquish it, and so some immortals began to join the contest.

However, Zhang Yi, Zhang Zhao, and Zhang Xian, having Zhang Jian's scheming, entered early and already held a decisive advantage; thereafter, they only needed to maintain steady performance, and no mishap would occur.

As for those stronger than the Dao Lord realm, or those worried about the influence of the Earth Sovereign Dao Palace or the Tongshan Dao Tradition, none stepped forward.

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The struggle over the status of the three Primordial Dao Lords did not affect Zhang Jian's cultivation.

Upon the Heavenly Emperor's throne, he remained in a state of unity with the Dao, as if he had become the embodiment of the Celestial Court's Heavenly Dao; behind him, multiple divine Dao treasure wheels emerged, the Heavenly Emperor's Divine Wheel illuminating heaven and earth, within which appeared the boundless cosmos of the Celestial Court's heavenly realm, heaven and earth, and the scene of myriad immortals and gods paying homage, with endless torrents of the Heavenly Dao's source pouring down.

Deeper still was the Earth Sovereign's Divine Wheel, followed by the Third Rank Nine Netherworlds Investigating Spirit Emperor and the Dark Moon Emperor, whose authorities transformed into two divine Dao treasure wheels, radiant and brilliant.

At this moment, deep within the Earth Sovereign's Dao Wheel, one could seemingly see boundless primordial mountains and rivers condensed, and also witness the lands of all heavenly realms floating, vast and magnificent, endless and infinite.

Ultimately, all mountains and rivers condensed into a single Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State Altars.

Within the Map of Mountains, Rivers, and State Altars, purple and yellow immortal light flowed; within it, one could seemingly see the power of the boundless yang realm and the netherworld yin soil constantly turning like yin-yang taiji, with these two as the core, layer upon layer of heaven and earth's great Dao laws transforming into runes manifest within the divine wheel.

As for how to walk the path of the Earth Sovereign's veneration and condense the Earth Sovereign's root source, Zhang Jian already had it in mind.

Through accumulation upon the Earth Sovereign's veneration status, his Earth Sovereign's Dao Fruit had become completely perfected, gradually purified into a thread of root-source qi, as if the divine fruit tree that governs boundless earth and the Nine Netherworlds' great Dao rules had been entirely refined, becoming a single thread of pure, new root source.

Its essence still needed to surpass the Earth Sovereign's Dao Fruit.

This thread of root source, Zhang Jian called it the Earth Sovereign Root Source.

Just like the Purple Micro Emperor's Dao, it could be directly called the Purple Micro Root Source, the Purple Micro Great Dao.

Or like the Dao of that Yunxiao Immortal Maiden, it could also be named after oneself.

He transcended the myriad heavenly voids, the existing three thousand great Dao laws' barriers.

In fact, when this root-source qi condensed into form, Zhang Jian could then recombine it with his primordial spirit, Dao heart, and eternal will to achieve the other shore.

He only needed, in this evolving era, to carefully nurture it to the point of union with his primordial spirit, and then he could break through.

But this was not what Zhang Jian wanted.

That way, his root source foundation could not reach his expected level.

With all he possessed, achieving an ordinary other shore would be far easier than for other three-transformation great divine ability users.

But precisely because he already had this bottom-line guarantee, he would seek goals beyond mere subsistence.

The Strongest!

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Zhang Jian knew this retreat would necessarily be long, so he prepared thoroughly; he first prepared to concentrate advantages and condense the qi of the two secondary root sources — the state altars and the Nine Netherworlds — and then the qi of the other three thousand root sources.

Secondary, this is a relative concept.

Merely relative to the Earth Sovereign Root Source within his body.

At this moment, the Earth Sovereign's Golden Canon in his hand faintly blossomed with radiance; countless extremely complex primordial runes appeared on it, forming an immensely complex purification method.

Fortunately, his comprehension of the State Altars Dao Fruit and the Nine Netherworlds Dao Fruit had already reached perfection; as the boundless great light cloud and wisdom great light cloud appeared at the center of his brow, one saw thread after thread of primordial divine power in his palm center transform into countless primordial runes, which condensed into form as a special great Dao diagram, and finally, thread after thread of heavy, magnificent root-source qi surged forth from within, faintly visible.

Zhang Jian knew this still required multiple guidings and trials to take shape.

During this trial process, although his refinement of the Earth Sovereign Root Source progressed slowly, his comprehension of heaven and earth's great Dao laws gradually deepened; if applied in practice, it could easily form an absolute advantage.

Having reached the Dao Venerable realm in cultivation, the accumulation of knowledge and results easily forms an overwhelming advantage.

Sometimes, the emergence of a single root-source Dao method can decide life and death.

During this process, Zhang Jian never neglected the cultivation of the Three Corpses Gods; in the deep part of his Dao Fruit's auspicious clouds, faintly visible were three cocoons of light coalescing into form, faintly carrying immense power, each containing a wonderful power.

The three light cocoons all possessed the qi of the Earth Sovereign Root Source, but one was pure yang, blazing, gentle — seemingly symbolizing the yang-world aspect of the Earth Sovereign Root Source's affinity — while the other symbolized the yin-nether aspect of that affinity.

The light cocoon symbolizing the yang-world aspect of the Earth Sovereign Root Source's affinity faintly resonated with the Earth Sovereign's Golden Canon.

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Zhang Jian's this retreat was extraordinarily long-lasting, exceeding nearly fifteen elemental meetings in one go; he originally thought he would remain in retreat until completing all his conceptions, until the Earth Sovereign Root Source was tempered to a certain degree, but not long afterward, he was awakened by a message sent from the heavenly court.