Chapter 732

Danque Divine Palace, Qinglian Mansion.

Zhang Jian's entire body was interwoven with layers upon layers of eternal immortal light, his aura vast and varied.

Since he cut out the two corpses, his cultivation has been increasing day by day.

Not only is there the primordial feedback from the Earth Emperor's Golden Register allowing his cultivation to grow, but he also gained the assistance of the good and evil corpses to jointly deduce the myriad heavenly and earthly Dao rules, purifying the Earth Emperor's origin.

If at this time he were to completely combine the Earth Emperor's origin condensed in the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram with his Dao fruit, he has considerable confidence in achieving Supreme Dao Venerable.

But if he wishes to become the strongest, Zhang Jian has little confidence.

However, if he can perfect the three thousand origins and use them to temper the Earth Emperor's origin, then he feels he will certainly have hope of becoming the strongest.

Therefore, he is unwilling to lightly take that step.

At this time, Zhang Jian also felt some faint omens deep between his brows, his eyes fluctuating.

He knows that after the Yuan Phoenix returns, she will inevitably try every means to search for traces of the good and evil corpses, and the method she will certainly use includes employing the supreme treasure in her hand to probe, very likely an innate spiritual treasure.

With the Heavenly Emperor's authority plus an innate spiritual treasure, it is indeed possible to search for some of the traces he left behind.

Although he believes he has erased all flaws.

But perspectives differ, not necessarily infallible.

However, Zhang Jian has also prepared for this kind of probing method.

Firstly, his fate has already been concealed by someone.

Secondly, he has long since seen Qingxiao Daoist Monarch and borrowed an innate spiritual treasure that obscures one's own fate.

Zhang Jian has long been prepared for this.

Since he understood the truth of sacrifice, Zhang Jian knew that many of his sacrificial magical treasures might have all been promoted to innate spiritual treasures.

Among them is the strange treasure that obscures heavenly secrets, the Hetu Luoshu Diagram.

This is what he forged after comprehending the mysteries of the Hetu and Luoshu!

Zhang Jian did not wait long; merely decades later, this day arrived.

He suddenly awoke from seated meditation, startled from his cultivation; at this time, a jade stone tablet in his bosom emitted countless black and white mysterious lights, which transformed into a black and white long river that gradually enveloped Zhang Jian's entire body.

This innate merit spiritual treasure needs no refinement; it directly sank into the depths of his Niwan Palace, forming an extremely complex Hetu Luoshu Grand Array, as if a vast fate qi mechanism enveloped his true spirit.

Zhang Jian is not intending to oppose the Yuan Phoenix; he merely relies on the formidable computational power of this innate spiritual treasure to conceal his fate imprint within the river of fate.

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Jin Yuan Dao Court, within the majestic immortal palace.

Numerous powerful immortal gods directed their gazes toward the Ancestral Phoenix Hall above; at this time, a treasure mirror emitting brilliant light hovered between heaven and earth, its entire body covered with the omen of a hundred birds flying and dancing, boundless majestic aura flowing forth from within.

Any strange treasure within the treasure mirror possesses a very basic function.

For example, illumination.

Among the famous mirror-type innate spiritual treasures in the myriad voids, there are many, such as the renowned Haotian Mirror of the Central Heavenly Court, the Demon-Reflecting Mirror, and then the Heaven-Earth Treasure Mirror of the ancestral vein of Longevity Mountain, and the Kunlun Mirror in the Western Kunlun Mountains.

The Phoenix clan also possesses a Phoenix Jade Mirror.

This is a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.

This treasure is an object left behind by the Phoenix clan in the primordial era, likewise possessing the ability to illuminate heaven and earth and return to the origin.

At this time, in the Yuan Phoenix's hand, boundless heavenly Dao origin supported her surroundings, a strand of majestic divine light pierced through the Phoenix Jade Mirror, illuminating boundless time and space, upon the river of fate, beginning to retrace the great battle that occurred in the Jin Yuan Dao Court three hundred years ago.

Three hundred years of time, for immortals and gods, is not distant.

Shortly thereafter, the scene from three hundred years ago appeared within the Phoenix Jade Mirror.

Within the Phoenix Jade Mirror, two extremely powerful divine lights could be seen piercing straight through the void, erupting at a certain immortal palace.

Those two deities activated the innate prohibition surrounding a central immortal hall.

Those two deities actually silently infiltrated the core of the Jin Yuan Dao Court without triggering the surrounding defensive prohibitions, let alone activating the power of the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web; all the gods showed somewhat shaken expressions.

The Jin Yuan Dao Court is surrounded by numerous powerful prohibitions, which they know clearly.

This is a prohibition arranged in imitation of the Phoenix clan's forbidden land, and possesses temporal relevance; it is absolutely not comparable to those already outdated prohibitions.

If not for triggering an invisible alarm, the Jin Yuan Dao Court would not even know that two terrifying intruders had already broken in.

As the omen erupted, troop after troop of Jin Yuan Dao Court immortals and gods surged out from all directions, but in an instant were enveloped by a nine nether river formed of ink, and upon a single encounter were given to death by divine technique blood sacrifice.

As the two divine emperors said, these two intruders, one of them is extremely proficient in the source secret arts of the netherworld.

Upon seeing this scene, the Yuan Phoenix Divine Emperor's face slightly furrowed in thought; a strand of majestic divine power surged in her hand, locking onto that majestic deity entwined with countless ink-jade colored divine light, intending to illuminate its foundation, divine soul imprint, or perhaps capture a trace of qi mechanism.

But shortly thereafter, the Yuan Phoenix Divine Emperor's face changed slightly, her divine eyes flashing with severity.

Yet within the Phoenix Jade Mirror, that majestic figure remained like a flower in the mirror, a moon in the water, unable to capture its divine form and qi mechanism.

Preparing to say that although the other party had intruded into the Jin Yuan Dao Court, from beginning to end they had never allowed their qi mechanism to leak out!

Upon seeing this, the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Emperor and the Vast Sea Divine Emperor's faces immediately grew somewhat gloomy.

This change made both deities' expressions unpleasant, indicating that when facing their intimidation, those two Dao Venerables obviously still had reserves.

Otherwise, how could they achieve complete non-leakage of even a trace of qi mechanism?

"Great Thousand Divine Technique, Observe All Realms!"

At this time, the Yuan Phoenix formed seals with her hand; strands of divine light flew forth from her surroundings, combining with the Phoenix Jade Mirror through supreme wondrous methods to evolve a vast Great Thousand Divine Mirror.

This is no longer merely using the power of an innate spiritual treasure to display a secret method.

But rather using the power of an innate spiritual treasure in conjunction with herself, with her own secret method as the leader.

The Yuan Phoenix's use of innate spiritual treasures had long surpassed merely utilizing the innate immortal divine prohibition within the innate spiritual treasure.

The innate spiritual treasure is no longer the active party, but merely a tool.

This is an extraordinarily wondrous divine state.

The divine light of the Phoenix Jade Mirror surged and merged into that Great Thousand Divine Technique; one face of the vast divine mirror resembled the vast Great Thousand world, illuminating the origin, locking onto the two figures as they began to rapidly retrace, but what made the Yuan Phoenix feel unexpected was that those two figures now seemed to have completely concealed their past, present, and future; no matter how, it was impossible to lock onto their qi mechanism and fate trajectory.

Yet beneath the secret method, the Yuan Phoenix still saw a vast fate radiance enveloping the two qi mechanisms.

"An innate spiritual treasure of the fate type!"

Gazing at this scene, Yuan Huang's expression tightened.

Innate spiritual treasures of the fate type are the most troublesome.

If the other party intends to conceal themselves, the only option is to contend with them through computational power, striving to suppress the innate spiritual treasure's computational power, thereby breaking through the fate fog and locating their true form.

But Yuan Huang is not a Dao Sovereign who walks the path of fate.

However, the Golden Origin Dao Court does have a Divine Emperor quite proficient in the way of fate.

Yuan Huang's gaze fell upon the Ming Huang Divine Emperor.

Ming Huang's gaze fell upon the Great Thousand Divine Mirror, his pupils flickering slightly before he spoke.

"The power of the innate spiritual treasure held by the other party is extraordinary; this Emperor cannot guarantee breaking through its fate-based computational power, but I can try!"

With a raise of her hand, she took out an object from her palm.

It too was an innate spiritual treasure radiating intense innate light.

It was a compass.

This object is called the Zhou Guang Compass.

It is a lower-grade innate spiritual treasure born natively in the Golden Origin Celestial Realm, known as the Yan Dao Compass.

This object is also a sharp tool in Ming Huang's hand.

She immediately sat cross-legged, activating a secret method using the figure within the Great Thousand Divine Mirror as a clue, and began searching through the fate sub-net.

Meanwhile, on the other side, seeing that her secret method could not discern the opponent's origin, Yuan Huang decisively chose to abandon it.

She then began using the Phoenix Jade Mirror to search for the whereabouts of the Chi Ling Divine Emperor and the Jing Ling Dao Sovereign.

Those two Divine Emperors left many handwritten records in the Heavenly Court, which can serve as evidence to trace their whereabouts.

The Great Thousand Divine Mirror reformed once more, and the figures of the Chi Ling Divine Emperor and the Jing Ling Dao Sovereign appeared within it.

Yuan Huang first activated a secret method to trace their movements, attempting to detect clues from their motives and trajectories, but soon discovered their movement trails had already been completely erased by someone.

Seeing this, the gods all showed some change in expression.

The one who acted possesses cultivation beyond the ordinary, seemingly also skilled in fate and spacetime secret arts, having completely and violently erased the fate traces of the Chi Ling Divine Emperor and the Jing Ling Dao Sovereign, making it fundamentally impossible to track their movement paths.

Yuan Huang now has only one remaining option.

To use the Dao imprint left by the Chi Ling Divine Emperor deep within the Heavenly Dao as a basis to trace her whereabouts.

However, as Yuan Huang cast forth divine light after divine light onto the Great Thousand Divine Mirror, she saw instead a magnificent, vast black-and-white long river emerge from within, unparalleled in beauty; upon closer inspection, it seemed like boundless stars, with the earth manifesting from within. Even the Great Thousand Divine Mirror could not carefully calculate the whereabouts of the Chi Ling Divine Emperor and the Jing Ling Dao Sovereign from that vast black-and-white long river.

At this moment, Yuan Huang, Divine Emperor, wore a stern expression.

The gods could see it clearly.

That is clearly the power of the same innate spiritual treasure.

Clearly, the Chi Ling Divine Emperor and the Jing Ling Dao Sovereign have also fallen into the hands of those two Dao Sovereigns.

The gods all turned their gazes toward the Ming Huang Divine Emperor.

At this moment, the Ming Huang Divine Emperor's body was surrounded by countless innate runes evolving outward, entering through the Yan Dao Compass in her hand into the depths of the dark fate river; a vast and immense divine power flowed from her body, unfathomable.

The gods all clearly know that although the Ming Huang Divine Emperor's foundation in the Golden Origin Celestial Realm is not as strong as that of the Heavenly Three Phoenixes, her cultivation is not inferior to that of the Dan Que Divine Emperor or the Golden Phoenix; it is said she can be compared to Yuan Huang.

The gods' gazes converged; Ming Huang at this moment seemed to merge with the fate river in the dark void, becoming an incarnation of fate.

Her divine power grew ever more astonishing; the gods' divine posts faintly felt themselves as if silently falling into a vast net, unable to break free.

With a thought, their true forms would collapse, turning to ashes.

Fate divine power manifested upon the Golden Origin Dao Court, like a surging flood striking.

Upon the fate river also appeared a magnificent and strange omen, with countless black-and-white star rivers emerging from the endless void.

Countless black-and-white light points formed a complex and vast innate formation.

"The Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation?"

Seeing this formation, Yuan Huang's pupils in the void twitched slightly, a flash of annoyance passing through her eyes.

She immediately recalled the Dong Huang Tai Yi clan from beyond the realm.

As an ancient monster court sovereign, knowing the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation is nothing surprising.

Then the truth has already been concealed.

Without doubt, the disappearance of the Chi Ling Divine Emperor and the Jing Ling Dao Sovereign is inseparable from the Dong Huang Tai Yi clan!

At this moment, the Ming Huang Divine Emperor gazed upon the manifested grand innate formation above the firmament, her pupils flashing with countless wisps of divine wisdom, while behind her head appeared layer upon layer of radiant cloud-light of perfect completeness, nearly thirty-two layers in number.

Her divine power was vast, as if capable of destroying boundless fate and time.

She examined it closely, then shook her head and said.

"Although it is still based on the Zhou Tian Star Dou, this is not the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation!"

After a slight pause, she added.

"Although it is very similar to the Zhou Tian Star Dou!"

Her words immediately drew Yuan Huang's gaze, her pupils filled with astonishment.

Nowadays, it is rare for any formation to deceive her eyes.

Ming Huang Divine Emperor said.

"I personally observed the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation in ancient times, and have studied it over these ages; although this formation shares the same origin, its enhancement is not for slaughter or attack, but for proliferation and entrapment!"

"Its extraordinary complexity is actually very similar to another innate formation said to be based on the River Chart and Luo Book!"

A hint of unusual color appeared in the depths of Ming Huang Divine Emperor's eyes.

"What formation?"

The Cang Ming Divine Emperor could not help but ask.

At this moment, Yuan Huang's pupils flickered slightly, and after a moment she spoke.

"I think, even if it were the Hunyuan Heluo Grand Formation, only this formation could have made this palace misjudge!"

The Minghuang Divine Emperor nodded.

She gazed upward at the firmament, her expression solemn as she spoke.

"Legend has it this formation was specially created by the ancient demon emperor to deceive the heavens—it is extremely mysterious!"

"Unlike the widely disseminated Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Formation, this formation's recognizability is not high!"

"This formation cannot be broken by this palace in a short time!"

Upon hearing this, the gods of the Jin Yuan Dao Ting all had somewhat grim expressions.

Dan Que Divine Emperor spoke upon hearing it.

"As a direct lineage inheritance of the same ancient demon clan, it is feared that Chi Ling and Jing Ling have truly fallen into the hands of the Tai Yi clan!"

"We have fallen for the Tai Yi clan's scheme!"

Upon hearing this, all the gods nodded slightly.

Beside them, the Tian Feng Divine Emperor also completely dispelled her doubts, believing those two Dao Zun were likely the work of the Dong Huang Tai Yi clan.

It must be said that Zhang Jian borrowing the Hunyuan Heluo Diagram unexpectedly served its purpose.

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Dan Que Dao Palace, Zhang Jian at this moment sensed the divine light emanating from the Hunyuan Heluo Diagram within his body gradually subsiding, thus knowing he had successfully evaded the pursuit of the Jin Yuan Dao Ting.

Temporarily safe!