Chapter 206: Immortal-Making Tripod, the Ruthless Great Emperor

Without thinking for too long, Zhang Xuan decided to continue deeper after only a moment.

This place, known as the Immortal Land, holds a most important treasure that is not actually the rough embryo of God-mark Purple Gold, but the Green Copper Tripod.

This is also the reason why countless people in the past rushed forward one after another, wanting to penetrate into the deepest part of this area.

Of course, another reason is that the Creation in this area is truly too dense and incomparably terrifying.

Ninety-nine Ancestor Dragon veins, boundless and powerful, mixed with endless smaller Dragon veins, appear together in this area; this is a matter of seizing the spiritual opportunity of Heaven and Earth's Creation.

Under normal circumstances, such vast Creation would nurture an invincible Life Ancient Star.

Yet, all of this Creation has been seized by the very center of this area, a place rumored to be capable of nurturing an Immortal.

All the Creation and spiritual opportunities have been plundered; as time goes on, the Heaven and Earth Essence of Earth grows thin, divine power does not manifest, and everything is in decline.

The most powerful figures of the ancient era all wanted to change all of this, and thus wanted to penetrate into this area to alter the Creation within.

Unfortunately, the map was shattered, all secrets were buried, and no one could penetrate into it.

Therefore, after many Immortal Gods and Buddha of the ancient era knew it could not be reversed, they successively moved far away from Earth and left this Life Ancient Star.

Even those as powerful as the Quasi-Emperor level had no way to deal with it and could only stay far away.

Zhang Xuan did not have a great craving for the Green Copper Tripod, because he knew this was someone else's weapon, the supreme weapon forged by the Emperor back then.

When broken, holding it in one's hand can resist an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon, but once truly complete, it will become the Emperor's weapon, difficult for others to use.

"However, compared to other protagonists of Heaven and Earth or top-tier powerhouses, my foundation is indeed relatively thin; I don't even have a weapon for self-protection, let alone comparing to Gai Jiuyou, I am far behind even Ye Fan."

"Now that there is an opportunity, I should take this Green Copper Tripod and use it."

Zhang Xuan carefully recalled and confirmed that there was not much risk in continuing forward, and only then did he slowly and cautiously walk forward bit by bit, comparing it to the map.

This time, there really was not much risk, and he walked smoothly all the way to the deepest part, even encountering more than ten Medicine Kings along this route.

Zhang Xuan looked carefully and, finding them all in safe areas, plucked them one by one and put them into his Plantation.

A Medicine King can be considered a peculiar type of medicine in the Zhetian World; it needs to grow for over eighty thousand years to be called a Medicine King.

Compared to the Undying Divine Medicine that can mature in five or six thousand years, the time required for a Medicine King to mature is far too long, and its efficacy is also mediocre, at most only capable of extending a person's life by a few hundred years.

From Zhang Xuan's perspective, this type of herb that grows for over eighty thousand years is more about accumulating a meager amount of Immortal Substance bit by bit through the long passage of time, which is why it can be useful to an Ancient Great Emperor, and equally useful to ordinary people, helping them extend their lives by a few hundred years.

Zhang Xuan was not very interested in such Medicine Kings.

But it was just a matter of convenience, and plucking them was a small issue.

These Medicine Kings that can grow for over eighty thousand years all have very special effects.

At the very least, ordinary herbs are hard to live for tens of thousands of years; the herbs grown from their seeds taken to the Plantation can be used for gift-giving in the future.

It also saves the trouble of meeting those top-tier big shots who constantly need to use the remnant pills of the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill.

It always feels a bit strange to take out such a precious gift whenever meeting anyone.

And when Zhang Xuan walked into the deepest part of this Immortal Land, he finally saw the most shocking scene.

Ten thousand massive Dragon veins all spat out Immortal Light like waterfalls from their dragon heads, and the endless Immortal Light gathered at the most central valley, then all converged into a pool over a zhang wide at the very center.

Immortal Qi was thick and misty, with billions of strands of Immortal Light.

That Immortal Light was like the spray and mist of a waterfall, permeating most of the valley, making this valley seem like the Immortal Realm.

A unique fragrance permeated this Heaven and Earth; Zhang Xuan was not unfamiliar with this kind of fragrance, as it was the unique fragrance during the maturation process of an Undying Divine Medicine; there was an Undying Divine Medicine about to mature in this valley.

However, Zhang Xuan opened his eyes to look carefully and did not find any traces of the Undying Divine Medicine.

He looked around and found that the Undying Divine Medicine had no intention of coming out on its own, so he did not pay it much mind; with his current strength, not even having stepped into the Saint Realm, it was normal not to be favored by the Undying Divine Medicine.

Only those who will become an Ancient Great Emperor in the future will be valued and sought after by the Undying Divine Medicine; at that stage, one's strength is basically at the Great Saint or Quasi-Emperor level.

Other people have a high craving for the Undying Divine Medicine, but Zhang Xuan did not have much desire for it.

After all, he already had two Undying Divine Medicines in his Plantation now.

And the effect of the Undying Divine Medicine to extend life did not have much significance for Zhang Xuan.

He could go to different worlds, to those Heavens and Earths that possess rich Immortal Substance; for Zhang Xuan, the Undying Divine Medicine was at most an item with special collection value.

Having it is of course very good, but not having it is also fine.

Zhang Xuan just stared ahead, with that Immortal Treasure Map draped over his body, completely protecting him.

The map on the Immortal Treasure Map was remembered very clearly by Zhang Xuan, and he dared not have the slightest error.

At this stage, the surrounding great arrays and patterns were no longer hidden in the void, but manifested in this Heaven and Earth as if they were substantial.

Like one chain after another, like one shackle after another; the slightest carelessness would result in death, without even a scrap left behind.

In front was a hazy and brilliant Immortal Light, which even with the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, he had no way to see through.

He could only move forward along a hazy path; Zhang Xuan had to use the Immortal Treasure Map to actively sweep away the objects in front to be able to walk forward bit by bit.

In this area, one could not even fly; there was a terrifying, boundless sealing force suppressing this place completely, and even divine power was difficult to manifest.

Only existences like the Undying Divine Medicine, born and raised by Heaven and Earth, could survive in this area and receive protection.

It even made Zhang Xuan feel increasingly uneasy as the Immortal Treasure Map on his back began to glow and flicker, as if echoing with this great array; this felt more like a mark, an imprint.

It was similar to a form of identity verification; even if other people held the correct map and walked all the way inside, they still had no way to reach the deepest part intact once they reached this step.

Because the array at this stage was already alive, possessing peculiar and terrifying properties that ordinary people could hardly fathom; even with the correct map, one would basically be slaughtered here and find it hard to survive.

This was the absolute peak above the arrays of an Ancient Great Emperor, simultaneously combined with the peerless Source Technique; to walk into this, perhaps only the peak Great Emperor could do it.

And for those below the Great Emperor realm, only by bringing the Immortal Treasure Map to this place could they survive, because there was a unique identity verification here, confirming each other.

After confirming this point, Zhang Xuan's heart skipped a beat; fortunately, he did not act recklessly by just branding a copy of the map from the Immortal Treasure Map and then coming to penetrate this place.

If he had done that, he might have already died when he walked into this valley.

The array here was no longer dead, but alive; inside, it was truly like an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon, having nurtured a deity.

Upon reaching this valley, the ground was no longer ordinary soil, but something like jade, and not even a speck of dust could be seen.

Any Medicine King or Divine Medicine was integrated into the array, with roots even merging with this Heaven and Earth, possessing unfathomable abilities, making it impossible to pluck them.

A rich fragrance permeated this area, almost enough to make one faint; all kinds of rare treasures and fruits that one could not imagine in the outside world, things never even seen before, were everywhere here, but Zhang Xuan just looked at them, having no desire to take action at all.

This place seems to be the back garden of an Immortal, filled with all sorts of rare treasures; there are even ancient Medicine Kings that grew to their limit in this area, only to wither away and scatter their seeds across the ground, making it impossible to determine how many cycles of reincarnation they have gone through.

Zhang Xuan no longer looks at these, simply walking forward with his head down.

Then, something that made his heart leap wildly occurred: within the area ahead, there was suddenly a location not marked on the map, where the formations had been suppressed and severed, revealing a peculiar world.

It was a grave, the mound not very high, simply standing there; yet when it stood there, formations similar to an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon lost all effect, coming to a complete halt in that area.

Zhang Xuan took one look, and his heart gave a jolt.

There was nothing too special there, only a piece of blood-stained clothing and a Ghost Face Mask shattered into dozens of fragments, all buried there together.

The material of the Ghost Face Mask was very ordinary, just the simplest bronze, a common item used to forge weapons in the mortal kingdoms, yet it was stained with an inexplicable charm, remaining undestroyed after staying in this place for hundreds of thousands of years.

Zhang Xuan's brows twitched wildly as he watched; in a trance, he seemed to see a two or three-year-old girl with braided hair, crying as she ran forward, having even lost one of her shoes, looking pitiful.

Her true appearance could not be seen clearly, only when she turned her head could one see a pair of teary, sparkling large eyes, bright and full of spirit.

But when he looked closely, everything vanished, returning to its original state, with only the blood-stained clothing and dozens of bronze fragments left on the spot.

Zhang Xuan watched, and after a long silence, he let out a long, lingering sigh.

"Ruthless!"

Without a doubt, there is only one person in this world who could calmly alter this area.

The only person capable of leaving behind such traces is the Ruthless Great Emperor.

After Zhang Xuan took a deep look, he continued to walk forward.

Reaching this part, it truly is the most peculiar Immortal Land.

Immortal Light surges everywhere, and the Great Dao is revealed.

If one were to cultivate here for a long time, let alone cutting the Dao, even the stage of a Sage would be easy to break through.

Yet, from ancient times to the present, few have dared to cultivate in such a place; once one falls into enlightenment and communicates with the Great Dao of heaven and earth, triggering the formations here, no one but an Ancient Great Emperor could survive.

In fact, few people have ever been able to reach this area since ancient times.

The Medicine Kings around him became more and more numerous, most of which could be picked, but Zhang Xuan did not even look at them, striding forward until he finally reached the very center amidst the flickering of endless Immortal Light.

Then, although he had expected it, when Zhang Xuan saw the scene at the very center, he could not help but let out a long sigh; at the very center, endless Immortal Light was gestating an Immortal Embryo.

If long ages were to pass, one would think it could truly gestate an Immortal Spirit, but now, there is a clear, translucent palm print on this Immortal Embryo.

Zhang Xuan watched, and could only sigh and remark: "Who better not to provoke than the Ruthless Great Emperor."

This supreme land of Creation, perhaps crafted by multiple Great Emperors together, mixed with the efforts of a supreme figure who achieved the status of Great Emperor through Source Technique, had its most essential part of the gestating Immortal Land struck through by a single palm, causing all the miraculous Creation to vanish into nothingness.

Zhang Xuan sighed long and low, but said nothing more.

He waved his Divine Power to tear apart the Immortal Light, which was so thick it was impossible to see through, finally revealing the situation in the innermost part of the Immortal Land.

It was a pool, with endless Immortal Light gathered within, nourishing a pool of divine liquid; the pool was not very large, no more than a zhang wide and half a zhang deep.

A simple and unadorned Green Copper Tripod lay quietly within; the ancient tripod should have originally had three legs and two ears, a very ancient vessel.

But it is unknown in what era it was shattered by someone; the three legs remain, but there is a large hole in the bottom, and the top wall is also broken, with at most less than one-third remaining.

Zhang Xuan stared closely; the simple and unadorned large tripod did not have much luster, appearing quite dim.

On the broken walls of the tripod, one could see various scenes from ancient mythology: a Vermillion Bird flapping its wings, a Black Tortoise flying through the sky, and ancient ancestors appearing within.

If it were complete and flawless, it should have been a very miraculous creation, about a meter high, revealing a sense of simplicity and nature.

As it is now, it appears broken, without much charm, and very ordinary.

But Zhang Xuan knows this object is not ordinary at all; this is the weapon personally crafted by the Emperor who founded the Heavenly Court in the Mythological Era, it is the weapon of the Emperor.

It is an Immortal Artifact crafted by a figure in this Universe of Covering the Sky during the Mythological Era.

It is incomparably powerful and peculiar; heaven knows how many Great Emperors contributed to it, and perhaps the Nine Great Heavenly Venerables of the ancient Mythological Era all had an inexplicable connection with this tripod.

After sighing, Zhang Xuan directly took out a storage artifact and filled it up from this Immortal pool.

Only then did he unhurriedly use the Soldier Secret to retrieve this ancient object from the Immortal Land.

And at the moment he did this, the ten thousand Dragon Veins in this place simultaneously let out a heaven-shaking dragon roar.

The pool that originally gestated the Immortal object quickly dried up, and the endless Divine Substance poured backward, sinking into the ten thousand dragon-headed peaks; practitioners across the entire Earth were shaken, hearing that heaven-shaking dragon roar.

Zhang Xuan had an epiphany, having long known that such a thing would happen.

This area was originally a supreme divine land, but after being struck through by the Ruthless Great Emperor's palm, its gestation effect was far inferior to before, yet it was still constantly extracting the most powerful Divine Substance from Earth.

This also caused Earth to continuously decline.

Now that Zhang Xuan has taken out the Immortal Cauldron, this place will naturally no longer gestate supreme Creation, and the ten thousand Dragon Veins will truly nourish Earth in return, allowing Earth to become a supreme Life Ancient Star and restore the true glory of the ancient era.

"Everything can be considered settled."

Zhang Xuan took a deep look at this place and did not linger for too long.

This place has supreme Creation, but it is also too dangerous and terrifying; if it weren't for the need to obtain materials for forging an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon and to get the Immortal Cauldron, Zhang Xuan would never have come here, even if he were beaten to death.

Now that everything is in hand, he naturally does not linger; after carefully walking out of this area, he immediately turned into a ray of mysterious light and rushed out of Kunlun.

After walking out of Kunlun, a smile finally could not be suppressed on Zhang Xuan's face.

Feeling the dim Immortal Cauldron in his Sendai and that God-Marked Purple Gold Tower which had already been crafted into a rough prototype, he could not help but laugh out loud.

(End of this chapter)