Chapter 742: Sacrifice, Qinglian Treasure-Colored Banner? (4K)

Dongfang Immortal Realm, Qingyi City, Fengqiao Town.

This time, the one welcoming Zhang Jian was no longer the Zhang clan's claim from the Central Heaven Realm.

But one of Zhang Nan's descendants.

Zhang Jian did not have a deep impression of him.

At this time, Zhang Nan and other Zhang clan members were still cultivating in seclusion in the Celestial Court Heaven Realm.

The arrival of this Zhang clan elder, Zhang Jian, caused the entire Central Heaven Realm Zhang clan to be extraordinarily excited.

The clan head, named Zhang Lingchuan, even wanted to hold a grand family celebration to make a name for themselves.

But Zhang Jian refused.

He only received some Zhang clan immortals who had reached the Taiyi realm or above, and casually bestowed upon them some small trinkets.

To him, these trinkets were merely discarded defective products he casually refined, but to the other Zhang clan immortals, they were extremely precious.

The treasures bestowed by Zhang Jian were at least of eternal-grade heavenly divine objects, or eternal-grade immortal treasures—items only a Dao Jun could wield.

They could fully serve as clan-treasures or sect-treasures.

Many descendants in various realms had already established immortal clans and divine dynasties; with these treasures, they naturally gained tremendous advantage.

All the immortals were overjoyed; as they left the ancestral hall, their steps became lighter.

Some celestial immortals with lesser cultivation could only watch from outside, their eyes flashing with envy.

Unfortunately, they were still some distance away from reaching the Taiyi realm.

The Zhang clan of the Central Heaven Realm indeed had many strong cultivators.

Besides the clan head Zhang Lingchuan, who had attained the Taiyi True Numbers, there was also a Taiyi Heavenly Immortal-level Supreme Elder, two core elders of Taiyi True Numbers, and nearly seven or eight Taiyi-level immortals.

For a Dao Jun immortal clan, this number was still considered normal.

Of course, this was only the Zhang clan's branch in the Central Heaven Realm.

The Zhang clan's holy land in the Celestial Court Heaven Realm naturally had even more strong cultivators.

After all, they independently controlled a vast heaven realm.

……

Inside the ancestral hall, Zhang Jian casually bestowed a fourth-grade eternal immortal treasure upon Zhang Lingchuan, then signaled him to leave first.

"Thank you, Elder Ancestor!"

Zhang Lingchuan held the immortal treasure with both hands, his eyes filled with boundless joy; suppressing his inner delight, he rose and departed.

Zhang Jian watched Zhang Lingchuan's departing figure, a smile also appearing in his eyes.

The development of the Zhang clan was, after all, not bad.

These Zhang clan descendants had gradually grown up and could now be put to use.

Among these Taiyi immortals, some outstanding ones had already achieved the status of innate divine beings' followers, with great hope of becoming Dao Jun in the future.

Of course, the Zhang clan was merely one of his forces.

Whether they could be put to use, Zhang Jian actually did not care much.

When he first established the Zhang clan, he only wanted to pass down the legacy of the Great Xia Holy Dynasty.

He had not expected to casually create such a promising great family.

The two largest forces under his command were, one of them being the Celestial Court Heaven Palace.

With the Celestial Court fully under his control, the Celestial Court gods could be said to be entirely his wings.

Next was the Earth Emperor Dao Palace.

The Earth Emperor Dao Palace took the Nine Provinces Dao Jun and the River Luo Dao Jun as its chief attendant gods.

Afterwards came the group of immortals and gods from the Earth lineage of the Spirit Realm.

Next were the Zhang clan's attendant immortals of the Great Xia Holy Dynasty, including the Four Symbols Divine Beasts, part of the dynasty's strong cultivators, and the Zhang clan immortals.

Afterwards came the Tongshan Dao lineage; although he had left some inheritances, Shi Rui and Jiaomu's influence in the Tongshan Dao lineage could only be considered average.

With various thoughts flashing in his mind, Zhang Jian immediately turned his gaze toward the ancestral hall.

His face became slightly solemn as he stepped forward toward the candlelight.

Whether this ceremony could satisfy his heart now depended on whether this 'ancestor,' Qingxia Dao Jun, could exert his power.

Since the Taichi clan appeared, Zhang Jian must accelerate his steps toward becoming Dao Zun.

The faster, the more room for maneuver he could gain.

And naturally, being able to completely sever the Three Corpses was very important to him.

With a wave of his hand, he took out from the Qiankun Ring mountain-range-sized gold and silver elemental treasure pills.

Zhang Jian's eyes showed a hint of contemplation.

He estimated that this ancestral sacrifice would not be less than the previous one, possibly even more.

The last ancestral sacrifice was when he assisted the Heavenly Court in taking over the Spirit Realm.

He naturally also seized the Spirit Realm's earth and the Nine Nether authorities.

And what he did this time was not inferior to the last time.

He similarly seized the Nine Nether authorities of the Golden Element Underworld, and also seized the Creation authorities.

Furthermore, he participated in restoring the Golden Element Underworld, suppressing the Infinite Earth Vessels, and assisting the Golden Element Heaven Realm to survive the Haoyang Tongtian Calamity.

Of course, although he was not the key factor in enabling the Golden Element Heaven Realm to survive the great calamity, he was still one of the main factors.

In the Golden Element Heaven Realm, he also participated in opening up the Human Realm.

Another most important point is that the Golden Element Heaven Realm, in terms of scale, is slightly exceeding that of the Spirit Realm.

It is a powerful heaven realm now catching up to the former Earth Immortal Realm.

Zhang Jian had considerable expectations for this.

Yet he saw that in his hand, mountains of gold and silver ingots fell into the central bronze cauldron, and the green sacrificial fire was lit once more.

Seeing this, Zhang Jian attached a thread of his spiritual sense to it, carefully sensing the profundity of the green sacrificial fire.

Zhang Jian could faintly feel that the birth of the green sacrificial fire began to stir the boundless Dao origin, and the power of the Heavenly Dao origin merged into the green flames.

His sacrifice seemed to draw the boundless Dao origin from the vast void of the heavens, and the might of the Heavenly Dao origin descended.

Zhang Jian sensed this scene, and his eyes rippled slightly.

Zhang Jian could not even imagine what the true nature of his own primordial spirit was, that it possessed such astonishing divine power.

Zhang Jian had once doubted whether his primordial spirit was some special forbidden constitution.

But now he felt it was not quite like that.

How could there be such a powerful forbidden constitution?

Of course, this was not absolutely impossible.

In the vast void of the heavens, all kinds of strange things exist.

In Zhang Jian's gaze, mountains of gold and silver ingots burned rapidly, and the Heaven and Earth Dao origin that descended in the darkness, the profundities of the Heavenly Dao, became ever more vast, all turning into streams of pure incense that vanished into the depths of the Heavenly Dao divine light.

Zhang Jian himself looked on with longing.

If he sacrificed himself, would it not mean he could directly draw upon the Dao origin, and the profundities of the Heavenly Dao would descend upon himself?

Such ability would probably not be much weaker than the endorsement of the Heavenly Emperor's rank.

As this thought arose, another idea immediately appeared in Zhang Jian's mind.

Does he also have on him a rank similar to that of the Heavenly Emperor, merged into his primordial spirit?

Above the vast void of the heavens, the rank of the Heavenly Emperor is supreme, but positions surpassing the Heavenly Emperor's rank are not nonexistent.

To put it plainly, the Heavenly Emperor's rank is not the Primordial Origin rank; it merely possesses a portion of the Primordial Origin rank's power.

In the vast void of the heavens, ranks stronger than this, such as the Primordial Heavenly King rank, exist.

That is the innate supreme rank.

That is the rank forged by the ancient sacred Primordial Heavenly King, who used it to cleave heaven and earth and establish the vast primordial world.

For example, in the mythic age, some patriarchs forged such ranks.

For instance, Shi Xuan Yuan—this is the fixed innate Primordial Origin rank of the three patriarchs of antiquity, and with it they dominated the ancient and medieval eras.

But at the end of the medieval era, the war of the celestial gods and immortals shattered the vast primordial world, and these three terrifying ranks gradually withdrew from the tide of the ages.

Zhang Jian speculated in his heart, but he truly did not know what secrets lay deep within his own primordial spirit; he could only feel that since its birth, his primordial spirit had been extraordinarily resilient.

It would be hard to wear down.

As myriad thoughts flashed through his mind, Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon the green sacrificial fire within the bronze cauldron, which, after burning for a time, gradually dimmed, like a mung bean in size.

Experienced Zhang Jian immediately knew that at this moment, offerings should be presented.

He noticed that the scale of this sacrifice was about fifty percent greater than the last.

He had it figured.

After thinking, he again took out a refined spiritual treasure from his hand.

It was a postnatal spiritual treasure he himself had refined.

To refine this item, he had invested a considerable portion of his wealth.

"Hopefully I can break even!"

He muttered darkly in his heart.

In his hand appeared a banner, its entire body green, within which countless innate divine patterns coalesced into blooming after blooming lotuses of endless creation, very profound.

This time, in the Golden Element Heavenly Realm, Zhang Jian personally mastered creation and destruction, drew parallels, and thus fully comprehended the profundity of the Three-Grade Creation Green Lotus.

This banner was crafted by emulating the innate invincible profundity of the Three-Grade Creation Green Lotus.

Zhang Jian called it the 'Azure Lotus Treasure Color Banner'!

At this moment, Zhang Jian's eyes held a hint of probing, as well as a mischievous interest.

In mythic hearsay, when the vast primordial world first opened, five divine banners were born, one of which was the Azure Lotus Treasure Color Banner.

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In the eighth layer of the upper realm of the Heavenly Court, within the Azure Mist Immortal Realm.

Azure Mist Daoist Monarch at this moment sat cross-legged with his incarnation.

The two were calculating the gains and losses of a journey to the Golden Element Heavenly Realm.

At this moment, the two Daoist Monarchs stood side by side, and two magnificent auras flowed from their bodies, extraordinarily magnificent and vast.

The Dao cultivation of the divine incarnation 'Azure Lotus Daoist Monarch' had also risen at this time; she had likewise endured the third great calamity of destruction over these tens of elemental cycles.

With the body of a three-transformation Daoist Monarch, possessing a divine incarnation of the level of a three-transformation great divine power wielder, Azure Mist Daoist Monarch was similarly favored by heaven.

Azure Mist Daoist Monarch sighed at this moment.

"Although the journey to the Golden Element Heavenly Realm gained the Azure Heaven Immortal Mansion and smooth cultivation, in the end we failed to fulfill the Father Emperor's commission, to persuade the Phoenix clan—what a pity!"

The divine incarnation opposite, 'Azure Mist Daoist Monarch', shook her head.

"The moon has its waxing and waning; nothing in the world is perfect!"

After a slight pause, she spoke again.

"However, the reappearance of the Taiyi clan is worth vigilance, and also that Xihe, Xihe's return—if the one of the Lunar Yin Palace knew, she would probably be delighted!"

Azure Mist Daoist Monarch nodded.

Xihe was the heavenly consort of the ancient demon court, her Dao cultivation unimaginable; if the Lunar Yin Immortal Monarch gained Xihe's aid, she would be in considerable trouble.

Of course, it was merely trouble, not yet to the point of disturbing sleep and appetite.

After all, she still had behind her the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable and the Holy Mother of Jasper Pool.

Xihe is still a black household registration now; whether she can appear openly and aboveboard is an unknown.

The Taiyi clan and Xihe both bear the blood debt of the human race.

The ancient demon court's myriad demon gods ruthlessly suppressed the human race, slaughtering human spirits to forge the God-Slaying Sword; it was no great loss that the Taiyi clan and Xihe died.

Now that the arch-criminal has returned to life, how could the human powerhouses of the Three Emperors' Heavenly Realm possibly let this rest?

The human race of today is not the feeble, newly born human race of ancient times.

The two Dao Lords were in discussion when they suddenly moved in unison, sensing a major disturbance from Zhang in the Heavenly Realm.

The divine incarnation's eyes flickered slightly bright.

"At last, another source of income has arrived—I have waited for dozens of yuanhui for this!"

Joy could not be concealed on her face.

Her path differs somewhat from both the incense-god Dao and the innate Dao.

Her cultivation progress relies entirely on incense.

The purer the incense, the faster her cultivation naturally progresses.

At this moment, the Dao Lord Qingxia transformed into a streak of flowing light, returning to the depths of her true body's Purple Mansion Palace, where she gradually merged with a divine Dao spirit treasure; the Dao Lord Qingxia then stepped down from her cloud-bed, her form instantly appearing before the Two Worlds Pool.

At this moment, a hint of helpless smile appeared in her eyes.

Zhang Jian, on the other hand, was unwilling to wait any longer.

With a wave of her hand, several strands of golden light appeared.

Four small golden gourds emerged from her hand.

These were incense gourds.

This time, she also counted as traveling alongside Zhang Jian; she had fully observed Zhang Jian's performance in the Golden Element Heavenly Realm and knew this sacrificial ceremony would certainly not be small in scale.

She did not wait long.

Soon, the entire Two Worlds Pool began to surge.

Boom—boom—boom!

Like countless galloping thunders roaring, innumerable golden lights shimmered and appeared within the nine-colored pool water.

To the Dao Lord Qingxia, this sight was exceedingly pleasing to behold.

These were all flawless incense.

After the flawless incense within the Two Worlds Pool accumulated to a certain extent, the Dao Lord Qingxia timely opened the incense gourd.

Then, countless streams of incense golden light shot skyward, resembling a long whale sucking water, being drawn into the incense gourd.

Once one incense gourd was filled to capacity, she directly replaced it with another.

In the Dao Lord Qingxia's star-like eyes, a smile now appeared.

In her gaze, two incense gourds were seen overflowing in an instant.

Immediately followed by the third incense gourd.

However, when the third incense gourd was nearly overflowing, the incense golden light shooting skyward within the Two Worlds Pool gradually dimmed and faded.

Gazing upon this scene, the Dao Lord Qingxia felt extremely pleased.

Purple Mansion Palace—even from within the Purple Mansion Palace, the laughter of the divine incarnation could be heard by her.

That gourd contained ten trillion strands of incense.

Three incense gourds equaled thirty trillion strands of flawless incense.

This was indeed astonishing.

The scale of this sacrifice exceeded the previous one by ten trillion strands—no wonder the divine incarnation was so delighted.

At this very moment, the Dao Lord Qingxia felt a stir in her heart; her gaze shifted, and she saw, without realizing when, a figure had appeared behind her.

The Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Sovereign!

Noticing the Dao Lord Qingxia's gaze upon him, the Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Sovereign, slightly raised his hand, gesturing that she need not perform salutations, merely directing his gaze toward the space above the Two Worlds Pool.

Above the Two Worlds Pool, at this moment, an unusual omen unlike any ordinary phenomenon emerged from within.

Vast expanses of auspicious clouds and propitious vapors were forming in the heavens above.

Within them seemed to flow the boundless heavenly sounds of the Great Dao.

Strands of primordial divine light burst forth from within, manifesting layer upon layer of heavenly-earthly Great Dao principles descending upon the void—this resonating omen.

The spectacle was immensely grand.

Had it not been shrouded by the immortal realm's interdiction, likely more than half of the Central Heavenly Realm could have witnessed it.

Amidst this magnificent immortal radiance, both the Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Sovereign, and the Dao Lord Qingxia could sense a hitherto unfamiliar majestic aura.

Clearly, the innate spirit treasure being nurtured within the Two Worlds Pool was no ordinary thing.

The Dao Lord Qinglian also felt a stir of anticipation in her heart.

Last time she obtained the Qiankun Bowl; this time, perhaps this Great Heavenly Sovereign would still leave behind a treasure!

At this moment, a vast cyan treasure blossom suddenly appeared within the Two Worlds Pool, its radiance formless, shooting straight into the heavens, but in the next instant it fell into a hand that had materialized out of nowhere, transforming into a cyan innate treasure banner.

Innate treasure light circulated, the light of purifying the world rose into the sky, and moreover, blossoms of cyan lotuses unfurled, forming the protective divine light of the Guardian of the Dao, bringing joy to behold.

However, after only a slight refinement, the Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Sovereign's gaze became somewhat strange.

"Top-grade innate merit spirit treasure, the Cyan Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner?"

Upon hearing this, the Dao Lord Qingxia's eyes widened in surprise, her expression likewise turning unusually subtle.

The Cyan Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner—was that not the Dao-sealing supreme treasure of the Buddhist sect?