Chapter 713: Vast Ancient, Shining Present Dao (4K)

Zhang Jian did not directly agree.

"Your Majesty Danque, we who are compassionate at heart—repairing the earth's veins can benefit countless beings, so I can indeed agree, but I also need Your Majesty to agree to several conditions of mine; otherwise, please forgive me for being unable to comply with Your Majesty's request!"

"Fellow Daoist Qinglian, just say it—no problem!"

The Danque Divine Emperor's face remained calm.

Zhang Jian immediately recited the several conditions he had prepared earlier.

First, he naturally needed a portion of the earth's origin authority; second, a portion of special innate divine objects, heavenly and earthly treasures; finally, the freedom to traverse the earth and dispose of the gods.

As for demanding a portion of the earth's origin, Zhang Jian used the excuse of facilitating movement within the earth and handling the great annihilation will within the earth's veins.

As for the authority to dispose of the gods, it was to avoid obstruction during the cleansing of the earth's veins, allowing him to act freely.

He could not possibly purify the earth's veins while some deities whose interests were affected truly fought over benefits.

As for the innate divine objects and heavenly and earthly treasures, they were the reward.

Zhang Jian did not make an excessive demand; he knew that participating in the purification of a region of earth was itself a great merit.

If completed, fortune and virtue would naturally descend.

After listening, the Danque Divine Emperor directly nodded and agreed.

"Very reasonable, but the earth's origin rank can only be temporarily lent to you; of course, if Fellow Daoist Qinglian is willing to enter my palace's service, this earth origin rank could also be bestowed upon you!"

The Danque Divine Emperor gazed at Zhang Jian with a smile full of warmth.

Zhang Jian pondered briefly, then immediately agreed as well.

This realm already had an earth god, and this earth goddess was so formidable that Zhang Jian naturally settled for second best, merely seeking to grasp a portion of the Jin Yuan Heavenly Realm's earth authority through this opportunity; if he could record the true forms of its mountains, rivers, and terrains and supplement them into the Earth Emperor's Golden Canon, it would not be in vain.

At this moment, the Purple Jade Dao Master and the Heavy Feather Dao Master stood to the side; both had long seen the presence of the Danque Divine Emperor, and their faces were respectful.

Though this Danque Divine Emperor appeared gentle and easy to speak with, in reality, she was not easy to approach.

These Dao Masters had previously mostly only seen her from afar.

The two Dao Masters' expressions were reverent; moments later, they saw the Danque Divine Emperor's graceful figure vanish into the void in an instant.

Zhang Jian slightly bowed his gaze toward the two Dao Masters, and almost simultaneously, his true form had already entered the depths of the earth, flying swiftly toward the direction of the Boundless Earth's Veins.

Entrusted with a task, seeing it through—since he had agreed to the Danque Divine Emperor, Zhang Jian would certainly not hesitate.

The earth's veins of the Jin Yuan Heavenly Realm were among the largest Zhang Jian had experienced among all heavenly realms.

Whether it was the celestial court's firmament or the Spirit Realm, he had never seen such true earth veins fire.

By reason, the earth's veins belong to metal; though connected to the heart chamber, heart fire is strong, but it should not be this astonishing.

Since Zhang Jian entered the Jin Yuan Heavenly Realm, the fire-attribute divine mountains and blessed lands he saw were truly numerous, and there were also fire spirit heavenly pools, divine fire heavenly pools, and even vast, boundless fire spirit mountain ranges—so many as to be astonishing.

Thus, the number of innate fire-attribute divine beings in the Jin Yuan Heavenly Realm was also extremely great, quite remarkable.

Yet the earth's veins fire was strong without affecting the Jin Yuan Heavenly Realm's five elements yin-yang balance; this realm likewise teemed with living beings.

This was truly remarkable.

Zhang Jian swept past the boiling Boundless Earth's Veins true fire deep in the earth; the depths of the earth's veins true fire were filled with many innate true fires, innate spirit fires, and now these fire seeds had partially been stained by earth fire killing energy, becoming immensely destructive, beginning to erode the earth's veins and affect the five elements cycle.

That terrifying killing energy, through the suppression of the earth's veins network, eroded the earth's veins, penetrated deep into the earth, rivers, ores, and even into trees and spiritual plants, causing the earth's veins to consolidate or rupture, and the killing energy made the living beings on the earth become frenzied.

That fierce killing energy even evaporated the water veins, destroying the will of living beings in mountains and rivers.

Moreover, the earth's veins true fire still retained a portion of the great annihilation will; this trace of will caused the earth's veins true fire to mutate, even able to erode a Dao Monarch's primordial spirit—extremely terrifying.

At this moment, Zhang Jian was surrounded by layers of faint azure divine light; the azure divine light surged beneath his feet, forming a azure lotus treasure lotus that protected his surroundings.

The innate azure lotus creation divine light flowed and turned, easily suppressing that layer upon layer of violent, mutated earth's veins true fire.

The rules of the Creation Great Dao were almost the nemesis of this power.

Of course, this required reaching a certain level of attainment upon the Creation Great Dao rules; otherwise, one could not suppress that terrifying great annihilation will.

Zhang Jian's attainment upon the Creation Great Dao rules was precisely not low.

Among the three thousand great dao origins, the creation origin qi was one of the earliest origin powers he had condensed.

Condensing the creation origin qi, to a certain extent, indicates that his understanding of the Creation Great Dao rules is already comparable to that of an ordinary Dao Monarch-level powerhouse.

Although the benchmark might only be those who have touched the far shore of Creation, it is still extremely astonishing.

For at this moment, the origin qi surrounding his body was not just a few, nor even dozens.

Each formed origin qi equates to Zhang Jian's understanding of a certain great dao rule approaching that of a Dao Monarch on the far shore of that rule; and Zhang Jian, who possesses hundreds of origin qi, actually has a combat power far beyond any powerhouse's imagination.

For him, this is merely a beginning.

His purpose is to emulate the ancient holy Primordial Heavenly King, to temper the Earth Emperor's origin with three thousand origin qi, and become the supreme powerhouse.

Zhang Jian did not wait long in this earth's veins space; shortly after, he saw a divine light condense into form from the void above the earth's veins space, instantly falling toward his direction—a phoenix of entirely bright yellow hue, holding in its beak a dense earth origin dao fruit that fell, along with a divine talisman and a cosmos bag dropping from the void.

That dense earth origin dao fruit floated into view; Zhang Jian waved his hand and immediately stored it using the Earth Emperor's Golden Canon.

It was a universal-type three-turn earth origin dao master rank.

Zhang Jian slowly refined it with the Earth Emperor's Golden Canon; after confirming no abnormalities, it instantly merged into his body; through this dao fruit, Zhang Jian instantly felt as if he had merged with a portion of the Jin Yuan Heavenly Realm's earth, himself becoming the earth's sovereign, wielding boundless earth authority.

But Zhang Jian's now magnificent eternal will could sense that, deep within the vast earth origin ocean, the earth's central hub already had a master!

There was a majestic imprint occupying the central palace, as if merged with the unseen earth's way will.

That was the Danque Divine Emperor.

Zhang Jian then turned his gaze to the other divine talisman and the cosmos bag; inside the cosmos bag were the innate divine objects and heavenly and earthly treasures he needed.

And that innate talisman was the Jin Yuan Dao Court's Divine Emperor's Edict, appointing him as the Qinglian Purify-World Heavenly Sovereign of the Jin Yuan Heavenly Realm, in charge of the purification authority of the Jin Yuan Heavenly Realm, responsible for purifying the earth, and possessing temporary decision-making power.

This was a rankless edict, but its power was immense.

Seeing the Danque Divine Emperor fulfill her promise, Zhang Jian also began his own actions.

He did not directly use the innate azure lotus creation immortal light to display the purification method, but first entered the depths of the Boundless Earth's Veins, using earth authority to survey the terrain of the Boundless Earth's Veins.

The Boundless Earth's Veins were vast; if he directly cast spells, it would inevitably cause the great annihilation will and earth fire killing energy to run wild, losing one while gaining the other.

After surveying most of the terrain of the Boundless Earth's Veins, Zhang Jian then entered seclusion for over six hundred years.

When he appeared again, he had six rods of fifth-grade eternal immortal treasure-level Qinglian Purification Banners in his hands.

These were divine banners refined by Zhang Jian for purifying the Infinite Earth Veins.

They were also meant to maximize the divine power of the Dao Heart Qinglian Mantra, preventing the Great Annihilation Will and earth-fire killing qi from running rampant and causing complications.

However, to refine these six rods of fifth-grade eternal immortal treasures, he had indeed consumed a great deal of heavenly and earthly divine materials.

He also wasted the six innate Qinglian lotuses he had painstakingly cultivated.

Once everything was ready, Zhang Jian transformed the six rods of Qinglian Purification Banners into six streams of divine light, flying out from the six spatiotemporal depths of the Infinite Earth Veins.

Layers of innate Qinglian immortal light burst forth from his entire body, and the magnificent Dao Heart Qinglian Mantra radiated unparalleled miraculous power, with azure divine light spreading unrestrained from him as the center into the depths of the earth veins, simultaneously resonating with the six rods of Qinglian Purification Banners to form a magnificent innate Qinglian Purification Grand Formation.

Zhang Jian did not use the third-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Creation Qinglian.

At this moment, he merely activated the Dao Heart Qinglian Mantra using a single strand of condensed creation-origin qi.

Boundless azure divine light erupted simultaneously from six directions, as if permeating the six spatiotemporal directions of up, down, left, right, front, and back.

Majestic Dao Heavenly Sounds burst forth from the depths of the Infinite Earth Fire, and if gods were to gaze down from the depths of the Infinite Earth Veins, they would see a Creation Qinglian lotus that blots out the sky and sun condense from the void's depths, enveloping the Infinite Earth Veins.

Such a terrifying omen naturally drew the attention of many powerful beings from the Golden Origin Heaven Realm.

Vast divine power erupted from the center of the Infinite Earth Veins, as if condensing into a magnificent Qinglian Pure Land, continuously suppressing and refining the mutated earth-vein true fire, clearing the earth-fire killing qi.

Moreover, strands of azure divine light spread like invisible pure currents, seeping into the innate fire meridians, spirit meridians, and earth meridians deep within the Infinite Earth Veins.

Layer by layer, the residual earth-fire killing qi and the Great Annihilation Will in the depths of the Infinite Earth Veins were cleared away.

"Disciples of the Taiyi Sect, truly extraordinary! "

At this moment, in the depths of the mysterious spacetime, six or seven magnificent figures stood firm in the endless spacetime depths.

The leader was precisely the Innate Three Phoenixes who oversee the three realms of heaven, earth, and humanity in the Golden Origin Dao Lineage: Yuan Huang, Dan Que, and Jin Huang!

Behind them were the fourth-ranked Sun God Jin Xi Shen Huang, fifth-ranked Underworld Ming Huang, seventh-ranked Ming Huang Shen Huang, and ninth-ranked Chi Ling Shen Huang among the Nine Divine Emperors.

It is said that Yuan Huang, Dan Que, and Jin Huang are the three innate sages naturally born with the Golden Origin Heaven Realm.

They can be considered the first three innate divine sages born in the Golden Origin Heaven Realm.

The other six divine emperors attained the Dao somewhat later, similar to how the Ming Huang Shen Huang himself was not natively born in the Golden Origin Heaven Realm.

Upon hearing Yuan Huang's words, the other divine emperors could not help but slightly nod.

"I just don't know whether this move can force out the hidden powerhouse lurking in the depths of the Infinite Earth Veins?"

Jin Xi Shen Huang slightly furrowed her willow brows; this solar goddess was tall and graceful, adorned in luxurious attire, bearing solar authority, and extraordinarily domineering.

"Let's wait and see!"

Dan Que Shen Huang remained calm in expression.

The other few divine emperors had solemn expressions; the hidden powerhouse was extremely mysterious, and even more terrifying was that their joint search yielded nothing— not even when Yuan Huang, who oversees the Golden Origin Heaven Realm's Heavenly Dao, made a move, did it help.

This truly made the divine emperors feel startled.

Boom—

In the depths of the Infinite Earth Veins, however, the flowing Great Annihilation Will seemed to possess wisdom, sensing the approaching stranger, and condensed in the depths into a magnificent annihilation giant god. This giant god's dharma form was exceptionally unique, taking the shape of a golden three-legged divine bird, with every golden feather on its body like a blazing golden sun constantly expanding, exploding, and emitting an aura of terrifying intensity.

Seeing the residual Great Annihilation Will condense into the form of an annihilation divine spirit, the divine emperors' faces flickered slightly.

Deep within that annihilation divine spirit form lay a hidden annihilation, and the annihilation-origin aura condensed into shape from within, terrifyingly so; the power it emitted had already approached that of a Dao Venerable of the Other Shore.

At this moment, the seven divine emperors' eyes flickered; they could affirm that the lingering Great Annihilation Will, spreading out, might very well be the method of that hidden deity.

Above the void, Zhang Jian stood upon a Qinglian, his eyes somewhat strangely gazing at the magnificent annihilation divine spirit formed from the condensed Great Annihilation Will, and there was some surprise in his eyes.

He had not been untouched by the Great Annihilation Tribulation, but he had never imagined that such a Great Annihilation Will could be this strange.

"Is this the calamity-killing power behind the fourth Great Annihilation Tribulation?"

Zhang Jian secretly mused, facing the howling annihilation giant god, he merely slightly raised his palm, only to see a magnificent vortex emerge deep in his palm, within which could be seen the creation-origin qi of the infinite heavens and earth, as well as yin-yang, three powers, four images, five elements, six unions, seven stars, eight trigrams, nine palaces, and other primordial divine powers flowing, ultimately transforming into a palm that encompassed all heavenly realms; as the palm descended, it directly seized the annihilation divine spirit containing the Great Annihilation Origin Power.

The annihilation giant god in the form of a golden three-legged crow let out a heaven-shaking, earth-shaking crow's cry, and around its body, at this moment, it seemed as if boundless blazing suns gathered and transformed, producing a light of annihilation surpassing fifth-grade eternal Dao laws.

However, that brilliant annihilation light could not tear through the palm, instead directly transforming into a flame stream that was drawn into the palm's center, slowly merging into Zhang Jian's palm depths for refinement.

This was the rotation of creation by the Origin Dao Law.

In Zhang Jian's hands, this Dao gate truly possessed both creation and annihilation power, as if capable of refining all heavenly and earthly great Dao rules, truly terrifying to the extreme.

At this moment, the divine emperors also glanced sideways.

The profound mystery of the origin great Dao contained within this rotation-of-creation Dao gate was such that even some divine emperors felt dizzy and overwhelmed, extraordinarily astonishing.

Even Yuan Huang, whose expression had remained unchanged until now, showed a slight sideways glance in his expression.

Her origin was extraordinarily ancient, and the various powerful beings she had seen were numerous in quantity.

Originally, very few things could sway her heart and mind.

But now, she felt a deep impression.

This Qinglian Daoist's cultivation truly astonishes people!

In the true fire of the Infinite Earth Veins, as the true fire retained the Great Annihilation Will, the earth-fire killing qi was cleared away by the Qinglian divine light, yet Zhang Jian, upon the Qinglian, once again emitted a magnificent omen from his entire body.

His vital energy surged violently, and deep in his brow, a divine light seemed to be rapidly forming.

Above the void, moreover, cascades of merit-golden light condensed from the void and fell into the depths of Zhang Jian's brow.