Chapter 762: Life-Bound Wood Spirit, Reforged Qinglian (4K)

It is naturally a joyful thing to obtain a wood-spirit immortal Dao inheritance without any cost.

Strands of verdant immortal light gradually became discernible above his palm.

As he read and contemplated this inheritance, Zhang Jian suddenly furrowed his brow.

This inheritance is far more profound than he imagined; if he could successfully cultivate it to the end, he could actually return the heavenly earth divine wood to its origin, reverse the innate, and achieve an innate spiritual root.

This simply shocked him.

According to the original conception of the Longevity Holy Ancestor, this wood-spirit immortal Dao was actually created as a supreme wondrous method to repair the vitality of heaven and earth.

Because such an immortal Dao inheritance requires, from before the Foundation Establishment stage, selecting a wood-attribute spiritual plant that matches one's own attribute and fate as one's life-bound spiritual plant, to be cultivated in tandem.

This spiritual plant is actually not much different from a life-bound magic artifact.

As the cultivator's Dao cultivation continuously improves, the quality of the life-bound spiritual plant will continuously improve, and it will derive various auxiliary, or even offensive and defensive techniques, and divine abilities.

Most importantly, it will not dilute or consume its own origin.

The stronger the Dao cultivation, the more times the life-bound spiritual plant can transform, and even excavate the heavenly earth spiritual root contained deep within the spiritual plant's core, and even the essence of the innate spiritual root, ultimately reversing the innate and achieving an innate spiritual root.

If one can transform even a part of the essence into an innate spiritual root, one can use it to cultivate the Severing Three Corpses secret method, serving as the entrusted spiritual treasure for severing the three corpses.

Moreover, according to the Longevity Holy Ancestor's understanding of various heavenly earth spiritual roots, the life-bound spiritual plant can continuously transform, or even undergo grafting midway to guide its mutation, and so on.

The Dao Divine Tree came into being precisely in this way!

It originally was merely a small spiritual root possessing a strand of Jianmu's origin.

"Truly a genius-like conception!"

"To be able to create such a wood-spirit immortal Dao, the Second Ancestor truly has boundless merit!"

Zhang Jian slowly opened his eyes.

A hint of a smile appeared on the face of the Longevity Dao Sovereign.

Receiving recognition from others always brings a spontaneous joy from the heart.

Not to mention that Zhang Jian is also a supreme powerhouse.

He said.

"Back when the Longevity True Realm's heaven and earth collapsed, the realm fell into the end of the Dharma, the vital energy tides dissipated, and even I could only resort to desperate measures, never expecting that I would actually revive the Longevity True Realm from death!"

He himself also smiled faintly.

Being able to save a heavenly realm with one's own Dao, preventing it from falling into the eye of the Return to the Abyss, such a result—how could it not make him delighted and proud in his heart?

Zhang Jian pondered slightly; at this moment he understood the profundity of this true transmission secret method, and immediately asked.

"Then does the Second Ancestor mean to find a way to extract the Realm Divine Tree from the Longevity True Realm?"

After a slight pause, Zhang Jian suddenly added.

"Or perhaps to completely control the Longevity True Realm!"

The Longevity Dao Sovereign glanced at Zhang Jian, with a faint smile flickering in the depths of his eyes.

"You are indeed very clever!"

He wished to retract this statement: the good corpse does not necessarily need to leave the Longevity True Realm; one could also choose to accommodate the Longevity True Realm within the Realm Divine Tree.

If his Realm Divine Tree truly devoured the Longevity True Realm, transforming it into the origin space of the heavenly realm, the Realm Divine Tree could likewise resolve the predicament of being unable to move!

At that time, his Dao cultivation would also surge dramatically.

Zhang Jian raised his head, but instead asked doubtfully.

"Second Ancestor, now that the wood-spirit immortal Dao and even the mainstream of the Longevity True Realm, the Realm Divine Tree has already fully permeated every aspect of the Longevity True Realm; with your Dao cultivation, you could completely leverage this great fortune, suppress the heavenly Dao of this realm, and annex the Longevity True Realm as your own—why then do you still need my help?"

Zhang Jian's expression was serious.

Having once served as the Heavenly Emperor of the heavenly realm, he is all too familiar with the convenience of governing a realm and guiding its great fortune.

The Longevity Dao Sovereign then shook his head and said.

"It's not that easy!"

"What I can currently do is merely to be deadlocked with the will of the heavenly realm's heavenly Dao!"

After a slight pause, he glanced at Zhang Jian again and said.

"Moreover, due to special reasons, my strength cannot be fully exerted, and I cannot muster any force!"

This point he keeps closely guarded.

He is unwilling to lightly mention his unhealed injury.

The Longevity Dao Sovereign is somewhat helpless; besides this, there is another important reason.

That is, this realm has long already belonged to the Three Emperors' Holy Court!

The Longevity Divine Court belongs to the Three Emperors' Holy Court; they stand on the side of the Longevity True Realm's heavenly Dao.

Thus, it inadvertently adds three parts of strength to the heavenly Dao.

Under such circumstances, he not only cannot refine the heavenly Dao, but is instead suppressed by the heavenly Dao in this good corpse.

And now, the will of his good corpse is reversed and suppressed by the heavenly Dao, gradually being devoured and transformed into Dao.

The Longevity Dao Sovereign originally intended to conceal this matter, merely letting Zhang Jian follow orders.

But estimating that doing so would make success difficult, he instead revealed part of the circumstances fully, to let Zhang Jian state his position.

Zhang Jian maintained an unchanging expression from beginning to end.

Although the Longevity Dao Sovereign is his Zhang clan's Second Ancestor, he did not feel inclined to immediately agree because of that.

What does a bit of blood relation matter!

They have never had any contact.

There is blood relation, but the relationship is not close!

At this moment, jumping out to ask him for help, he naturally needs to weigh it carefully.

Zhang Jian also does not prepare to agree.

Although he had obtained the inheritance of the Wood Spirit Immortal Dao.

But that was indeed a gift voluntarily given to him by the Longevity Dao Venerable.

His mission in entering this place was not to assist the Longevity Dao Venerable; he merely wished to comprehend the profound mystery of the Heavenly Realm Divine Tree's endless vitality and the turning of all phenomena.

At this moment, it was a subtle way of speaking the Dao.

"Second Ancestor, this matter is of great importance; I need to consider it carefully!"

Seeing Zhang Jian's attitude, the Longevity Dao Venerable felt a slight disappointment in his heart, but it was not entirely unexpected.

But he was also not in a hurry.

As long as Zhang Jian remains in the Longevity True Realm, he has a way to make the other party help him!

Zhang Jian's unwillingness to take risks at this moment is simply because the benefits offered are insufficient.

He nodded slightly.

"Very well, if you change your mind, you may seek me at any time!"

"My promise remains unchanged; as long as you assist me in suppressing the Heavenly Dao Origin of the Longevity True Realm, I can promise to hand over the future governance of the Longevity True Realm to you, and I will only symbolically take a portion of the Heavenly Realm's fortune; besides that, you may freely exert yourself!"

The Longevity Dao Venerable's countenance was solemn, and then his form vanished into the void.

Zhang Jian stood in place, his eyes calm.

To be honest, the Longevity Dao Venerable's conditions were not attractive enough to him.

Because if the two were to unite, the Longevity True Realm falling under his sect would be inevitable.

After all, the Longevity True Realm currently still belongs to the Three Emperors Holy Court.

How could the Three Emperors Holy Court tolerate other immortals and deities snatching away the Longevity True Realm under its command?

But if it were taken by this core member of human elder origin, that would be another matter entirely.

If the Longevity True Realm could nominally be attached to his name while still belonging to the Three Emperors Holy Court, the Three Emperors Holy Court would not be unwilling to accept such a change.

But what would he use to expend his own political resources to help the Longevity Dao Venerable?

Just because the Longevity Dao Venerable is his second ancestor?

Just because he could obtain a portion of the Heavenly Great Fortune?

But to speak honestly, a portion of the Heavenly Great Fortune is indeed quite tempting...

But from the depths of his heart, Zhang Jian believed he could still extract more resources from this "distant relative," and thus did not agree.

……

As the will of the Longevity Dao Venerable departed, Zhang Jian infused a portion of his divine power into the Heart of Ten Thousand Woods before him.

At this moment, through this azure-green Heart of Ten Thousand Woods, radiant like a proud sun, he could feel the boundless spacetime, the gradual formation of the Heaven and Earth Dao Chart appearing deep within the Heart of Ten Thousand Woods.

In the Dao Chart, mountains, rivers, rivers and lakes, spacetime and stars were minutely revealed.

Through a little bit of the River Chart's latitude and longitude, he seemed able to precisely master the rough changes in most areas of the Longevity True Realm and to project and descend at any time and place.

"Indeed, it is a useful tool for governing Heaven and Earth!"

Zhang Jian secretly thought.

This is much more convenient than the Heavenly Net and Earthly Trap Grand Formation.

And at the same time, through this Dao Chart, Zhang Jian could sense a vast, profound human way dragon and tiger qi permeating throughout the Longevity True Realm, forming a grand defensive grand formation.

But this grand formation is already in an activated state.

They cooperate with the divine officials of the Longevity Divine Court, connecting above to the Longevity Divine Court and below to the Longevity Netherworld, ultimately merging into the Heavenly Dao Origin network, continuously strengthening the Heavenly Dao Origin while also nourishing the Longevity Divine Court in return.

The gods, by this divine power, greatly enhanced their strength, firmly controlling Heaven and Earth.

This is actually remarkably similar in effect to the Heavenly Net and Earthly Trap Grand Formation!

The Three Emperors Holy Court's hegemony over Heaven and Earth shows that they, too, possess extraordinary attainment in this aspect.

And they are not much weaker than the Heavenly Court.

Zhang Jian has also had some understanding of this formation.

It seems to be called the Luo Xiang Heavenly Man World-Stabilizing Grand Formation.

Of course, this convenience can at most only reduce some consumption on the battlefield of realms; if encountering someone as powerful as him, the effect such a formation can have is also quite limited.

Zhang Jian's eyes glanced over, and he quickly withdrew his gaze.

He used the Heart of Ten Thousand Woods, not to pay attention to these.

He focused more on the changes in the Heavenly Realm Divine Tree itself.

The Heavenly Realm Divine Tree is like a great transfer station, able to slowly swallow and refine a portion of the calamitous and destructive qi between Heaven and Earth, the yin and resentful qi, swallowing a part of it and transforming it into vitality, creation, and even Heaven and Earth origin qi, then returning it to replenish the Longevity True Realm.

This change is astonishing to Zhang Jian.

Because in other Heavenly Realms, usually one needs the assistance of the Heavenly Dao, through multiple Heavenly Great Circulations, to absorb and purify them.

But the Heavenly Realm Divine Tree has already been able to do this.

Give him some more time, and it might transform into an even more terrifying myriad heavens divine tree.

That is, in the mythical era, rumored to be able to rival the Chaos Green Lotus as a formidable spiritual root.

It is said that in the vast and desolate Heaven and Earth, the ancient World Tree Jianmu once had hope of reaching this step, only to unfortunately encounter calamity and disappear early between Heaven and Earth.

Zhang Jian stood before the Heart of Ten Thousand Woods, and after a moment, a layer of vast Creation Great Dao rules appeared around him.

A grand aura of Creation Origin condensed before him into form, finally manifesting as a virtual image of a grand twelfth-grade Creation Green Lotus.

Although the third-grade Creation Green Lotus had been completely absorbed by him, his comprehension of the Creation Great Dao rules had thus reached an inconceivable level.

At this moment, strands of extremely pure wood-attribute origin spirit machine drifted down outside Zhang Jian's Earth Emperor true body, to be absorbed by the virtual image of the twelfth-grade Creation Green Lotus, replenishing the three thousand innate divine orifices deep within his Earth Emperor true body.

At this moment, his eyes shone with strange light, his eyes as if penetrating the profound mysteries surrounding the origin of the Heavenly Realm Divine Tree.

As he contemplated, around the virtual image of the Creation Green Lotus on his head, additional strands of invisible azure-blue divine light condensed into Dao patterns.

These Dao patterns were initially chaotic and disordered, but as Zhang Jian contemplated, they gradually began to be regulated, for absorption by the twelfth-grade Creation Green Lotus.

The twelfth-grade Creation Azure Lotus gradually solidified from the void, and beneath it, several thick, azure roots and stems began to grow, resembling an octopus's tentacles, seemingly capable of absorbing all manner of heavenly and earthly Dao laws, transforming their power into Creation Origin Qi through the root filaments, which then merged into the depths of Zhang Jian's Earth Emperor true form.

"Useful!"

Sensing that his speed of transforming heavenly and earthly spiritual mechanisms had noticeably increased, with a portion of the essence blood within his innate divine orifices beginning to coagulate, a hint of joy appeared deep within Zhang Jian's heart.

Indeed, expertise lies in specialization!

Especially that divine power of transforming heavenly and earthly spiritual mechanisms—it is truly marvelous.

This is practically the profound mystery at the root of the Creation Dao.

If he could master it, he would not only complete his Earth Emperor true form but also attain a supreme divine ability.

Root-level Dao laws are already difficult to establish.

Every root-level Dao law requires creation based on the Dao Venerable's own root principles, containing their independent Dao paths.

And supreme divine abilities are only attainable by those who have mastered second-transformation or higher Dao laws.

Zhang Jian happens to possess several such divine abilities.

For example, his Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, which revolves Creation, the Earth Emperor's Eight Trigrams, the Nine Revolutions Chaos Azure Lotus Birth Great Law, and the Earth Emperor's Path-Opening Sword can all be considered supreme divine abilities.

The azure lotus atop his head is actually the condensed form of the Revolving Creation after its transformation.

If he continues to transform, it will undoubtedly become even stronger.

As the absorbed innate wood-origin essence qi increased, his Earth Emperor true form manifested a magnificent omen.

In the depths of the void, a terrifying figure appeared to emerge, standing tall between heaven and earth—divine in heaven, holy on earth—with parts of its innate divine orifices bursting forth with divine light, like starlight shining upon the celestial dome.

Each time one lit up, the divine light would subsequently fade.

This signified that the flaws on his true form were gradually being smoothed out.

In the void, the voice of the Longevity Dao Venerable reappeared.

"You seem to wish to comprehend the wondrous, endless mystery of the Wood Spirit Immortal Dao, using it to nourish your true form of the other shore? It appears your true form of the other shore still has some flaws—perhaps your transformation is insufficient, unable to match your primordial spirit and Dao fruit?"

"The Second Ancestor's gaze is like a torch!"

Zhang Jian's expression remained calm, and he did not open his eyes.

He merely let his vast will of the other shore permeate the heart of all trees, continuing to comprehend part of the profound mystery of transforming all things in heaven and earth, and the rebirth of essence.

In the void, the will of the Longevity Dao Venerable manifested, gazing upon the terrifying innate divine phantom that had appeared behind Zhang Jian, and a slight ripple stirred in the depths of his eyes.

Even as a phantom, he could feel the terrifying divine power aura emanating from that colossal true form.

After pondering, he suddenly smiled and spoke.

"If you wish to comprehend the wondrous, endless mystery of the Wood Spirit Immortal Dao, why not directly cultivate the Wood Spirit Immortal Dao? If you achieve great accomplishment in the Wood Spirit Immortal Dao, you will naturally be able to comprehend the realm of endless life, and even gain an additional innate spiritual root as an aid!"

After a brief pause, he continued.

"Since you carry the aura of the Creation Azure Lotus, you should possess its seeds—why not plant one as your life-bound spiritual plant? If you can condense an innate spiritual root in the form of the Creation Azure Lotus, it would undoubtedly be of supreme assistance to you!"