[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-green-immortal-sovereign":3,"chapter-eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-chapter-844":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Eternal Green Immortal Sovereign",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2270852,4432,"Chapter 844: Distinctions of Closeness and Distance","eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-chapter-844",844,"\u003Cp>The last person to become an Immortal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His steps did not pause as he swiftly approached the Green Emperor statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the cultivators who had entered the Emperor’s Hall ahead of him were gathered at the base of the massive Green Emperor stone statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor’s Trial is called Imperial Listening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor’s Trial is not a contest among Immortal Sects; cultivation base and talent are secondary at best—what they seek is a promising candidate to suppress an entire dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes: the great affairs of a state are sacrifice and war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is sacrifice?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is the offering to the spirits of past Emperors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui slightly narrowed his eyes; upon the Green Emperor statue, he sensed a hundred distinct qi signatures—all of them past Emperors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor’s Hall—the very words “Emperor’s Hall” are the most fitting in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For every Emperor, in the end, is buried within the Emperor’s Hall; over a thousand years, the accumulated imperial qi and imperial souls have become immense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperors of every dynasty took pride in being interred within the Emperor’s Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imperial Listening means linking one’s own fortune to the statue, gaining recognition from the imperial souls within the Green Emperor statue; the degree of recognition is divided by the color of the aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purple qi is supreme, red qi is middling, blue qi is inferior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui recalled the intelligence he had heard from Yu Haizhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A middle-aged man clad in a python robe spoke leisurely, casting a kind gaze toward Li Rui: “My name is Ji Fang, Ji Fan’s clan uncle.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Greetings, Elder Ji.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui bowed his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just call me fellow cultivator.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Fang waved his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His bearing was even nobler than that of many imperial clans of the Shenxu Immortal Dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who in the world does not know that the Zhongyao Immortal Dynasty shares the same ancestral roots as the Ji family? As one of the five supreme-tier Immortal Dynasties of the Emperor’s Hall, the Zhongyao Ji clan naturally had to send representatives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike first-tier Immortal Dynasties,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The five supreme-tier Immortal Dynasties may send ten participants each to the Emperor’s Trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Fang had entered precisely in this manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was already Ji Fang’s second visit to the Emperor’s Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was among the most experienced, and thus knew every detail within the hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Fang: “I wonder if anyone this time will again earn purple qi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This trial truly represents the level of recognition from past Emperors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who earn blue qi are recognized by ten Emperors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who earn red qi are recognized by thirty Emperors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who earn purple qi are recognized by a hundred Emperors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understand that each Emperor had a different temperament; even if a True Person possessed extraordinary talent, if an Emperor disliked him, he simply would not be favored—let alone gaining the approval of a hundred Emperors at once. How difficult is that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even spirit stones are not universally loved, let alone a stranger from a later generation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, those who earn purple qi are invariably beings blessed with immense fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It has been fifteen hundred years since the last purple qi appeared.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Fang spoke with a cheerful smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood the Emperor’s Trial thoroughly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Rui grew interested; given his connection to Ji Fan, he immediately began conversing with Ji Fang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Fan merely smiled in response, not immediately linking his own dao qi to the imperial spirits within the statue, but instead observing like a spectator, glancing left and right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The calm of an experienced cultivator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those with keen eyes would notice that not only Ji Fang, but many cultivators from the supreme-tier Immortal Dynasties, also watched calmly, not rushing to activate their dao power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, they had been instructed by their family elders before arriving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hence, they were in no hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who first activated their dao power were mostly the patriarchs and Holy Emperors of first-tier Immortal Dynasties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To say these men were impulsive and restless\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would be to vastly underestimate the ruthless ones who had carved their way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood—they knew these truths well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But do not forget:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The imperial spirits within the statue were strangers to them, yet to the imperial clan disciples of the supreme-tier dynasties, they were their ancestors—great-grandfathers, uncles, patriarchs!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on first impressions is nowhere near as reliable as relying on bloodline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because of this, the imperial clan disciples of the supreme-tier dynasties could remain so composed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The facts proved it so.\u003C\u002Fp>",766,"2026-06-19T22:01:12.223Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ba0fd0903bf6eb4912899fa7310d270c35998a92877659c09e8ca0d2d8b06a39","eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-chapter-845","eternal-green-immortal-sovereign-chapter-843",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-green-immortal-sovereign-cover.jpg"]