Chapter 812

Sword light fell like a waterfall, and the entire abandoned Chaos Market likewise burst apart.

Yet within came the roaring cries of countless evil spirits, and a dazzling, eye-catching wheel of dark green sunrise emerged from within.

At this moment, layers of dark green evil energy surrounding him were being worn away.

But the evil spirit power within instead grew ever more concentrated, bearing a domineering, extraordinary power that could overturn heaven and earth and devour all living beings.

At this moment, a humanoid evil spirit within revealed its true form, its body suffused with vast evil energy, and wherever its gaze fell, it seemed capable of corrupting Chaos.

"No one can escape my grasp!"

His face was icy cold, his hands forming seals, and behind him, countless layers of dark green evil power burst forth, transforming into brilliant, dazzling multiple evil spirit divine lights that shot toward Zhang Jian like a heavenly deluge.

Each strand of dark green evil spirit divine light carried the power to devour Chaos and plunder the primordial essence of countless gods.

Under this supreme divine power, the countless layers of Chaos long rivers seemed to be enveloped by the radiance of the dark green divine light, surging and vast.

The divine power it emitted had already far surpassed ordinary Dao-level marvelous techniques.

Within lay contained a primordial divine power of unknown origin.

"You spoke incorrectly—this time, you cannot escape even with wings!"

Zhang Jian's face remained calm, golden light blazing deep in his palm, and the Imperial Gold Spirit Sword appeared.

The primordial divine power of such a rank was too overwhelming; to inflict damage upon it, it would naturally be best to use an innate supreme treasure.

This was more advantageous than any other method.

His long sword thrust toward the heavens, a streak of brilliant gold light bursting from the point where his fingers met the hilt, radiant sword light erupting from deep within his palm, instantly cleaving through the strands of dark green divine light, the primordial power within his hand's Imperial Gold Spirit Sword fully erupting, Zhang Jian seized the momentum to swing, activating the Earth Emperor's Sword-Drawing Technique.

This time he no longer relied on his greatest strength—weight—but on sharpness and speed.

Within the sword light, the concepts of speed, space, wind, flow, and instantaneity perfectly combined, transforming into streaks of piercing cold light that threaded through the threads of Chaos primordial energy.

The radiant golden light swept past, and even the Chaos primordial energy flowing in the void showed not the slightest ripple.

Only after a moment did it seem as if an unmatched gravity had fallen, layer upon layer of Chaos long rivers shattering and vanishing into nothingness.

Above the void, sensing the terrifying golden light rushing toward it, the Chaos Evil God's face shifted slightly, its ink-black eyes flashing with specks of astonishment.

But in an instant, layers of dark green Great Dao divine patterns appeared on its body, each layer forming threads of evil spirit radiance.

This was the primordial evil spirit divine light corresponding to the Dao level.

But as expected.

Strand after strand of peerless sharp sword light pierced through its chest, and this Chaos Evil God spewed countless streams of dark green blood and vital energy.

……

"The Star Evil Demon God has actually been wounded!"

Deep within the Chaos long river, at this moment several figures wrapped in immortal light gazed upon this scene from afar, their expressions changing.

Besides the original Yan Qian Daoist, the Guang Sheng Emperor had also arrived.

Beside the Guang Sheng Emperor stood two other formidable immortal gods with distinctive auras.

These were the guest ministers behind the Chaos Market, and also powerful beings from the Heavenly Court.

At this moment, several immortal gods showed slight tremors in their eyes.

The Guang Sheng Emperor spoke.

"It seems the earlier intelligence was not mistaken—this Earth Emperor Dao friend's cultivation truly surpasses imagination!"

Rumors are always far inferior to seeing with one's own eyes.

The two Heavenly Court powerful beings beside him also showed expressions of some shock.

Whether it was Zhang Jian, or the Star Extreme Demon God revealing his cultivation, both far exceeded their expectations.

One of the powerful beings spoke.

"I hope the earlier rumors are not false, otherwise this Earth Emperor Dao friend may well face great trouble!"

This immortal's body was surrounded by layers of magnificent firelight, and behind him faintly appeared wheel upon wheel of crimson flame treasure wheels, while his body also radiated great power.

Yan Qian Daoist, upon hearing this, replied with decisive firmness.

"Senior Red Lord, this matter will certainly not be false!"

The Guang Sheng Emperor, however, furrowed his brows.

The Star Extreme Demon God is known as one of the Three Great Forbidden Demon Gods of the Geng Chen region, and is very difficult to deal with.

He can only hope that Zhang Jian can defeat his opponent.

This is also to eliminate a major enemy for the Chaos Market.

This Star Extreme Demon God has recently set its sights on the Chaos Market, yet has destroyed several of its branch halls.

The Chaos Market has thus suffered considerable losses.

What angers the Guang Sheng Emperor most is still the decline of the Chaos Market's prestige.

This is fatal for the Chaos Market.

The Chaos Market urgently needs to slay this Chaos Evil God to establish its prestige, and also to revive its reputation.

……

After lightly wounding this terrifying Chaos Evil God with a single sword, Zhang Jian prepared to engage in close combat while activating the Imperial Gold Spirit Sword.

Golden light transformed into a waterfall, slashing downward toward the Star Extreme Demon God.

At the same time, Zhang Jian realized this Chaos Evil God was very difficult to approach closely.

Its body was surrounded by a layer of special, unknown domain.

Zhang Jian preliminarily judged this might be a primordial Dao domain.

This was the first time he had encountered such a unique primordial Dao domain.

Under the influence of this unique primordial Dao domain, there seemed to be an invisible force constantly repelling his presence, while within lay a silent, unseen attribute of erosion and devouring, capable of corrupting the Dao body, primordial spirit, and even the Dao heart of powerful cultivators.

The longer the entanglement lasted, the greater the influence became.

Even Zhang Jian's Earth Emperor origin felt the power of suppression.

"The primordial power truly can only be suppressed by another kind of primordial power—this advantage is truly astonishing!"

At this moment, layers of cyan sacrificial flames appeared within Zhang Jian's body; despite several collisions, he did not let the Star Pole Evil God gain any advantage.

But as the battle progressed, he increasingly felt the uniqueness and tyranny of this primordial authority.

Had it not been for his overwhelming Earth Emperor origin and his anomalous primordial spirit, there would be no hope of defeating such a supreme Dao powerhouse.

Yet as he slew more and more supreme Dao powerhouses, he could clearly know their limits.

Although supreme Dao powerhouses nurtured a unique primordial authority and possessed some primordial divine energy—making their Dao cultivation and divine abilities far broader than ordinary three-turn Dao Lords, their primordial spirit will seemingly undergoing some transformation, their Dao hearts more acute—not to mention the various primordial secret arts constructed from primordial power—

but in fact, most of their primordial authority is merely initial, meaning they can only form a portion of primordial secret arts.

Unable to form the primordial realm, primordial Dao heart, primordial Dao body, and most importantly, the primordial Dao fruit and primordial primordial spirit.

Unable to achieve harmony like意, truly attaining the power of a Harmony Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Moreover, the primordial authority is similarly similar to the Heavenly Authority prevalent in ancient and medieval times.

The primordial authority is likewise not stable—it can be consumed, worn down, and severed.

Some source spiritual treasures that nurtured the primordial authority, or even innate supreme treasures, or even Dao-attainment artifacts fused with a portion of the Holy Sage's source, all possess similar abilities.

Zhang Jian could sense that this Star Pole Demon God, after tasting the sharp ferocity of the Kaihuang Golden Spirit Sword, had become extremely cautious.

The entourage of the Broad Sacred Emperor at this moment also wore solemn expressions.

This Star Pole Demon God truly deserves the title of Forbidden Demon God of the Gengchen Region.

In every movement, his divine energy surged forth uncontrollably.

If they were to go up against him, even if they possessed innate spiritual treasures, they would be reduced to puppets under his corruption in just a few rounds!

But another one is even more terrifying.

Clearly having attained Dao in this Yanji era, yet he can already battle such a terrifying Chaos Evil God on equal terms—and even secretly gain the upper hand?

Seeing the Star Pole Demon God's chest stained with blood, left and right flailing, one can see his situation is already dire.

……

The Star Pole Demon God also became aware of his predicament.

His face looked somewhat grim, his ink-black pupils flickering with a chilling killing intent.

He realized that not only was the opponent's divine sword power astonishing, but his primordial spirit's deductive ability was also astonishingly beyond compare.

No matter which direction he dodged or counterattacked from, he would immediately be detected by the opponent and then subjected to renewed suppression.

Of course, if it were only about cultivation level and deductive ability, it would still be manageable.

But the most dreadful thing in the opponent's hand is still that innate supreme treasure-level innate divine sword.

It possesses the miraculous ability to cut through chaos.

The Star Pole Demon God also gradually felt the strain; within his body, terrifyingly sharp sword qi surged and flowed, continuously affecting his supreme demon god true form.

"Evil Spirit Shrill Cry!"

At this moment he roared in anger, and billions of layers of dark-green evil light emerged from behind him; within the dark-green light shadows, an abnormally vast, gloomy, profound realm seemed to manifest, from which suddenly poured forth waterfalls, oceans of evil spirit power—as if one could see billions of beings, even countless chaotic lifeforms swallowed by the corrupting power, unable to escape, a terrifying omen.

In an instant, these terrifying evil spirits were all swallowed by the dark-green divine light, transformed into billions of streams of dark-green divine light flooding toward all directions, spreading and coming.

At this moment, deep within Zhang Jian's palm, he held the Kaihuang Golden Spirit Sword.

At this moment, deep within his nine Daoist Jade Palaces, the power of creation from the boundless heavens and earth burned madly, continuously calculating the Star Pole Demon God's movement trajectory, and now activating streams of sword light to preemptively lock his movement path.

Sensing the straight-line surge and even ascent to an extremely dangerous level of the Star Pole Demon God's secret method divine light power, his ninefold Daoist depths primordial spirit calculation faintly already knew this demon god might be attempting to flee.

With a thought, layers of Daoist immortal light within his body surged wildly, and he swung the Kaihuang Golden Spirit Sword in his hand with a single sword strike.

The primordial sword radiance tore through the dark-green torrent.

Yet Zhang Jian's figure had already vanished from the spot.

Within the layers of evil spirit realm, the Star Pole Demon God already faintly sensed something amiss; his vast primordial spirit will swept across chaos and spacetime, and he detected that the opponent's figure had already disappeared, while deep in his Dao heart, a strong omen arose.

He sensed danger.

"Harmony Evil Spirit, Primordial True Form!"

Suddenly, layers of dark-green divine light surged from deep within his brow, and he condensed a dark-green Dao fruit in the center of his brow.

Within that Dao fruit surged a special primordial evil energy; his true form suddenly transformed into a dark-green phantom, becoming a dark-green endless river floating within the primordial essence of chaos, vast and mighty, yet making it difficult to discern his true form's location.

Yet in the depths of the void, in an instant, countless golden lightning bolts suddenly emerged from the void; in a flash, a magnificent purple-gold dragon-shaped sword light descended from within, carrying the miraculous power of cleaving heaven and earth, nurturing the great Dao of heaven and earth.

Where the sword light passed, tens of billions of kilometers of chaos long river were suddenly split open by this magnificent sword intent—it seemed chaos shattered, forming a clear and turbid universe, the formless transformed into form, a magnificent cosmic phantom.

Chaos split open, that golden sword light flowed like water, vast and surging.

Under the sword light's assault, the endless dark-green river appeared to be largely obliterated by the purple-gold dragon-shaped sword light, nearly completely severed.

Utterly unable to resist.

Above the void, Zhang Jian's true form manifested, his hand holding the Kaihuang Golden Spirit Sword radiating brilliant sword light; his eyes swept over vast shattered chaos void, yet his gaze held a hint of gloom.

He could confirm that although he had severely wounded the opponent, he had still allowed this cunning chaos demon god to escape.

The opponent finally enveloped his entire body in primordial power, forming a special state within a short time.

This special state not only greatly enhanced his defensive and endurance capabilities, but also granted him some special abilities.

"What a pity!"

Zhang Jian secretly sighed.

What a perfect sacrifice—yet the opponent escaped.

Zhang Jian could feel that this chaos demon god was stronger than the chaos demon wolf and golden cicada demon god he had previously slain.

At least those two could not yet form such a mysterious primordial state!

If he were to slay the opponent and directly refine him, perhaps the innate azure lotus could advance to the realm of top-tier innate spiritual treasure.

At this moment, Zhang Jian's gaze turned toward the distance; moments later, he saw several streams of light suddenly appear from afar and rush near.

The aura revealed among these streams of light was not weak, but most of them were celestial deities of the Heavenly Court.

The Heavenly Court divine seals on their persons were quite 'conspicuous'!

The voice of the Broad Sage Emperor Lord expressing astonishment came through faintly.

"Your methods, Fellow Daoist of the Earth Emperor, are truly eye-opening; I never expected that an existence dubbed one of the Three Great Taboos of the Gengchen Thirty-Six Districts would, in your hands, fail to last even a few rounds—calling you a Heaven's Pride would, I fear, be nothing more than a term of contempt for you!"

Zhang Jian's expression remained unchanged, yet there was a hint of scrutiny in his eyes.

Seeing Zhang Jian's cold and composed countenance, the Broad Sage Emperor Lord immediately clasped his hands and spoke again.

"Fellow Daoist of the Earth Emperor, the loss at the Ninth Chaos Market was indeed an accident; we too did not expect this evil god to find this market so swiftly. Though it was an accident, our failure to contact you in time, nearly causing you loss, is also due to our mishandling of the Chaos Market affair. We are willing to offer appropriate compensation."

Actually, the Chaos Market need not apologize for this matter.

After all, having left the Chaos Market, all resulting consequences should be unrelated to the Chaos Market.

The Broad Sage Emperor Lord's willingness to apologize stems first from concern that Zhang Jian might take his anger out on others and cause them trouble.

Secondly, he also wishes to win over such a 'major client'!

Zhang Jian's heavy blow to the Star Pole Demon God, to some extent, also did the Chaos Market a great favor; offering a bit of remuneration is not excessive.

Seeing the Broad Sage Emperor Lord lower his posture and apologize, Zhang Jian's expression eased slightly.

He then proactively invited Zhang Jian to another Chaos Market to continue the transaction.

He immediately informed Zhang Jian of good news: the Heaven-Endowment Divine Stone had already been successfully sold and purchased by the Heavenly Court.

As for the second Chaos Odd Treasure, the Immortal Grand Jupiter, it was purchased by Shi Zu, under the Three Holy Courts, who also delivered a heavenly divine object with netherworld attributes.

This came as somewhat of a surprise to Zhang Jian.

He had not expected the Immortal Grand Jupiter to fall into Shi Zu's hands.

However, considering that the other party is the founder of the Human Martial Dao, with a large following of body-refining cultivators, purchasing such a renewable body-refining supreme treasure is not particularly surprising!

Regarding compensation, the Broad Sage Emperor Lord decided to offer another batch of innate stellar divine marrow, of considerable value; Zhang Jian found it fairly satisfactory.

But after the transaction was completed, the Broad Sage Emperor Lord subsequently made a special request.

Actually, this request is not from the Broad Sage Emperor Lord himself, but an invitation from the Heavenly Court.