Chapter 779: The Root of Heaven and Earth

In the eighth heaven of the celestial realm, amidst the Azure Cloud Immortal Realm

Cloud seas stretch far and wide, sacred realms filled with auspicious clouds and blessed vapors, embracing countless celestial Dao rhythms, and deeper within the auspicious clouds, pillars of sovereign golden light pierce the heavens—majestic and vast.

By the Two Realms Pool, Azure Cloud Daoist Sovereign is wrapped in layers of intense Dao resonance, immortal flesh and jade bones, her countenance peerless.

The ancestral rites at Maple Bridge Town have already startled her, so she returned directly from the Jade Pool to the immortal realm, waiting here.

She also sensed that this ritual's scale would likely be extraordinary.

At this moment beside her, a cluster of light and shadow has already manifested the true form of the Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Lord.

In the eyes of the two deities, deep within the Two Realms Pool, the nine-colored waters surge, and rings of intense incense-fire golden light manifest.

Seeing this, Azure Cloud Daoist Sovereign already had an incense gourd prepared at her side.

In her gaze, moments later, streams of incense-fire golden light transformed into torrents rising from the depths of the Two Realms Pool, vast and pure, as if gathering dense incense-fire ancestral qi, radiant and thick—suggesting that upon absorption, they could directly enhance one's cultivation, even without refinement.

At this moment, the incense-fire golden light within the Two Realms Pool surges forth continuously.

With a wave of her hand, Azure Cloud Daoist Sovereign sees one incense gourd fly out, instantly drawing in a stream of vast incense-fire golden light.

But moments later, the gourd overflows with rings of golden light.

This is an omen of overflow.

Azure Cloud Daoist Sovereign immediately switches to another incense gourd.

Yet within an extremely short time, this gourd too overflows.

Seeing this, Azure Cloud Daoist Sovereign sighs softly.

"Truly, there is no lack!"

This tiny incense gourd holds equivalent to trillions of incense offerings.

Zhang Jian's rites are truly astonishing.

Before the two gourds of incense, the rolling omens within the Two Realms Pool do not cease but intensify further.

Streams of incense divine light surge into the heavens, which she collects one gourd at a time.

Three gourds, four, five, six—in an instant, seven gourds are filled.

After the seven gourds, the surging incense-fire golden light from the depths of the Two Realms Pool gradually weakens.

Casually gathering the seven incense gourds, Azure Cloud Daoist Sovereign's smile in the depths of her eyes cannot be concealed.

Seven trillion flawless incense offerings—what a vast sum of pure incense!

Possessing this incense, her incense incarnation could, in a short time, transform into the Three Corpses Slayer, thereby attaining a Dao Sovereign-level incense incarnation.

This likewise greatly aids her relentless accumulation and progress toward the path of power.

Moreover, Zhang Jian's rites will surely not be a one-time occurrence; her incense incarnation can continue to transform.

The Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Lord, merely gazes upon this scene with calm eyes, his depths holding some contemplation.

Zhang Jian's primordial spirit can actually move the heavenly Dao of all realms, even causing the primordial source of the cosmic Dao to descend, thus manipulating this power for ritual, turning decay into marvel—the profundity hidden in his primordial spirit is thought-provoking.

Even with the Jade Emperor's Dao-heart, this power's uniqueness stirs some emotion.

At times, he entertains such thoughts, but as soon as they arise, he feels a certain unease.

It is precisely this unease that makes him abandon the thought.

He also worries, therefore fearing unintended consequences.

He secretly used the hand of the Longevity Dao Sovereign to test, and found Zhang Jian's primordial spirit extraordinarily resilient.

Within, a staggering power remains unreleased.

When the time comes, if unexpected complications arise, they might affect his attainment of the Dao.

The Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Lord, does not wish to see this.

Nor does he want to miss this opportunity to attain the Dao.

Thus, he is more willing to choose a win-win approach.

The higher the rank of treasures Zhang Jian can offer through ritual, the greater the natural benefit to him.

If he could obtain an innate supreme treasure, future Dao attainment—even facing encirclement by the mighty of all realms—would allow the Great Heavenly Lord to respond with composure and force a breakthrough.

Attaining the Dao at his position is exceedingly difficult.

He truly needs an innate supreme treasure to suppress his fate.

And the more, the better.

As the incense-fire golden light gradually fades, at this moment, deep within the Two Realms Pool, threads of intense immortal light burst forth, the primordial Dao resonance echoing from the depths, and in an instant, boundless heavenly sounds surge forth.

Around the Azure Cloud Immortal Realm, layers of grand omens suddenly appear.

But these omens are instantly concealed by Azure Cloud Daoist Sovereign's spell.

In the eyes of the two deities, one now sees the heavens above covered in vast purple clouds, boundless merit golden light bursting forth from within.

Within the Two Realms Pool, one sees streams of primordial divine light bursting forth, and in an instant, a layer of intense primordial divine light emerges from within, it hovers, and between heaven and earth, an extraordinarily special heavenly Dao rule descends from the void.

This is the Imperial Dao rule.

Moreover, deep within the cosmic void, boundless Dao fortune converges, poured into it, within which a grand Imperial Seal gradually condenses and manifests.

"This is..."

Gazing upon that face bearing the worship of myriad immortals and gods, the other engraved with the myriad realms and billions of star rivers, Azure Cloud Daoist Sovereign's expression shifts slightly, her mind already forming a guess.

"Ah Yu really knows how to conduct oneself—this is returning a peach for a plum..."

Azure Cloud Daoist Sovereign silently thinks.

Her expression unchanging, this benefits both sides, so she naturally delights in seeing this.

The Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Lord, gazes upon that imperial seal entwined with endless imperial omens, at this moment faintly feeling his heavenly emperor status' origin being invisibly stirred, ripples appearing in the depths of his eyes, and with a wave of his hand, he summons the golden seal into his grasp.

This time, the imperial seal offers no resistance.

The Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Lord, slightly refines it, and thus fully controls part of its profundity.

The Heaven and Earth Seal: Contains twelve paths of innate immortal divine prohibitions (top-grade innate spiritual treasure), born from the nurturing of the Heavenly Dao's origin, it is the supreme treasure of the Imperial Dao, combining offense and defense, also possessing the power to stabilize fortune!

"It seems there is also support from the Divine Dynasty, the imperial dynasty, mobilizing the heavenly court's fortune—this is indeed..."

The Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Venerable, also had a hint of a smile deep in his eyes.

The top-grade innate spiritual treasure containing twelve paths of innate immortal divine prohibitions has already approached the level of an innate supreme treasure.

Not to mention this supreme treasure, which can contain the great fortune of the heavenly court, has hope of ascending to an innate supreme treasure!

The help this treasure provides him is even comparable to other types of innate supreme treasures.

It can be said to be extremely precious.

This also counts as one seal repaying another seal.

The Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Venerable, casually put the Heaven and Earth Seal into his body; at this moment, with a wave of his hand, a peculiar supreme treasure appeared in his hand, which he gave to Qingxiao Daoist, smiling.

"He will be able to use this very soon!"

Gazing at the object in the Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Venerable's hand, Qingxiao Daoist's pupils flickered slightly, and he immediately received it with both hands.

The Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Venerable's true form gradually vanished in place; after a few steps, he had already left the Qingxiao Immortal Realm.

Qingxiao Daoist glanced at the supreme treasure in his hand, resembling a galaxy vortex, with a hint of tremor deep in his eyes.

Yet he could not have imagined that such a wondrous object, circulated in the vast wilderness between heaven and earth, would actually fall into the hands of the Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Venerable.

And now it is to be bestowed upon Zhang Jian.

Qingxiao Daoist pondered and still decided to make the journey himself.

……

In the ancestral hall, Zhang Jian sat cross-legged on the futon, constantly refining his cultivation and Dao fruit.

As his cultivation entered the Second Transformation Dao Venerable realm, Zhang Jian also needed to spend time re-deriving the numerous supreme divine abilities within his body.

The Heaven and Earth Furnace True Scripture given by the Longevity Dao Venerable gave him some new ideas.

Of course, Zhang Jian also wanted to cultivate this transcendent divine ability to the third realm, the Dao Origin Furnace, as much as possible.

At this moment, he suddenly felt something in his heart, gazed toward the void above, and saw a blue meteor streaking down from the horizon, following the passage built from incense and fire, arriving instantly before Zhang Jian.

Within the blue immortal light, the true form of Qingxiao Daoist appeared.

Zhang Jian saw Qingxiao Daoist manifest and bowed slightly.

"Daoist!"

Although his cultivation had now gradually surpassed this 'forefather,' Zhang Jian still observed propriety.

This Daoist had helped him greatly during his growth.

Qingxiao Daoist glanced at him, and with a raise of his hand, a dense immortal light emerged from deep within his palm.

Resembling a galaxy vortex.

Upon closer inspection, it was a gate.

The gate shimmered all over with ancient, mysterious qi, like the source flow of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, the root of all things.

It was also filled with a continuous, boundless surge of vibrant life force and creation.

Gazing at this gate, Zhang Jian could not help but a hint of brightness appear deep in his eyes.

He had already vaguely guessed the origin of this mythical object.

Indeed, Qingxiao Daoist raised the galaxy vortex in his hand and said.

"This object is a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Gate of Profound Femininity!

This treasure was naturally born in the primordial chaos when the vast wilderness heaven and earth first opened, containing within it the most primordial life force of the vast wilderness heaven and earth; His Majesty the Father Emperor knows you have initially cultivated your natal spiritual root, so he has sent me to give you this object, which may be able to lend you a hand!"

Qingxiao Daoist raised his hand and handed the Gate of Profound Femininity to Zhang Jian.

Zhang Jian raised one palm, grasped that radiant innate spiritual light, refining it while speaking to Qingxiao Daoist.

"It seems my beloved consort is also fortunate!"

Zhang Jian referred to Lady Meng.

Meng Bingyun, in mortal time, was a peerless heavenly pride of the Five Elements Sect, bearing the innate Profound Femininity Dao Body; after entering the heavenly court's celestial realm, she re-condensed the innate Profound Femininity Divine Body, thereby achieving the body of an innate deity; these years her cultivation has grown rapidly, and she is furthermore the innate goddess who governs the two great sources of life and creation in the heavenly court's celestial realm.

If she could also obtain the Gate of Profound Femininity, this mythical treasure containing the life force of heaven and earth and the root of creation, it would not be impossible to condense the Profound Femininity Mother Dao Dharma Aspect, and thus ascend further.

Among the many great deity Dharma Aspects governing the sources, the Mother Dao Dharma Aspect is usually among the foremost.

Similar to the various Mother Dao Divine Aspects of the Water Mother Dao Palace lineage.

However, in the vast void of the heavens, there are not few immortals and deities cultivating the Profound Femininity Mother Dao Dharma Aspect; Lady Meng, if she wishes to stand out, still needs her own wisdom, creation, and opportunity.

Of course, the one who benefits the most is still himself.

As Qingxiao Daoist said, his natal spiritual root—the thirty-six-leaf innate green lotus—requires a vast amount of innate creative source for its transformation.

But not only his natal spiritual root.

His Earth Emperor True Body, with the support of the Gate of Profound Femininity, will have the time needed for growth greatly shortened.

The Earth Emperor True Body nurtured by three thousand sources has immense potential; as long as it possesses sufficient innate creative source, it cannot fail to grow to the stature of the ancient Celestial King of Origins.

Of course, the Gate of Profound Femininity clearly cannot compare to the Chaos Green Lotus.

But on the path to achieving the Earth Emperor's true form, its help is immense.

Qingxiao Daoist glanced at him, nodded slightly, and said.

"You are one endowed with creation; I hope you can grow quickly, for the war between the human and demon clans has already intensified, and with greater cultivation, you will naturally grasp more initiative!"

Qingxiao Daoist left a few words of advice, then departed!

……

After obtaining the Gate of Profound Femininity, Zhang Jian remained in the Central Heavenly Realm for a hundred years of mortal time, then returned to the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm.

This time he prepared to actively choose a mission.

Rather than wait for the assignment of the Three Sovereigns and Five Elders Council, it is better to turn passivity into proactivity.

Additionally, the benefits offered by Qinglan Fairy also piqued his interest.