Within the ancestral hall, Zhang Jian looked at the purple-striped peach in his hand, translucent with purple light and exuding a tempting fragrance, and consumed it in just a few bites.
With only a purple-striped peach pit left in his hand, Zhang Jian pondered for a moment before planting it within the Zhang Family Mansion to see if he could cultivate this immortal seed.
At the same time, the flesh of the peach in his abdomen began to dissolve, and a surge of overwhelming life force spread out instantly, enveloping his entire body in a warm stream of life essence. A special innate rune emerged, directly integrating into the depths of his Primordial Spirit.
"Longevity Dao Fruit?"
From the rune, Zhang Jian sensed a profound and magnificent mystery of the Path of Heaven and Earth.
It seemed related to lifespan.
Once it entered the depths of Zhang Jian’s Primordial Spirit, it fused with it, forming a unique power that extended into his limbs and bones.
This unique power already existed in the depths of Zhang Jian’s Primordial Spirit.
However, although he had achieved the Primordial Spirit, this essence was only manifested in the Primordial Spirit.
The longevity of a Primordial Spirit Master is merely the longevity of the Primordial Spirit, not immortality of the flesh body.
If no progress is made, the flesh body will still gradually decay, at best granting a few thousand years of lifespan before decaying, leaving only the Primordial Spirit to escape and continue on the path of the Primordial Spirit Dao.
Without the flesh body as a vessel to cross the sea of suffering, cultivation becomes twice as hard for half the result, and the Primordial Spirit is more susceptible to harm.
However, the power of the purple-striped peach is comprehensive, not only transforming the Primordial Spirit but also reinvigorating the Immortal Body, transforming the flesh body into an Immortal Body with eternal life and youth.
Zhang Jian’s powerful Primordial Spirit Divine Sense enveloped his entire body. He could see that special power penetrating into his limbs and bones, with flesh, muscles, and bones constantly transforming under the vast peach essence qi.
With a thought, he simultaneously operated the "Treasure Record" cultivation technique, constantly refining the medicinal power of the peach, integrating it into the characteristics of more than ten types of Dao Bodies within him.
The ’heart’ of the Seven-Quartet Exquisite Heart strengthened, ’comprehension’ enhanced!
The Pure Yang Dao Body’s natural ’affinity’ for pure yang attribute and ’suppression’ of profound yin attribute.
The ’purity’ of the Innate Purity Dao Body, innate purity!
The Wind and Thunder Dao Body’s natural affinity for the wind and thunder attribute.
The Yellow Court Dao Body’s proximity to the Dao.
The Sheji Dao Body’s capacity to encompass all rivers and suppression of the Emperor Dao.
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His Innate Dao Embryo Body, which fused multiple innate magical body inheritances from primordial spirit immortal techniques, was now able to integrate these, merging them into the innate dao embryo.
The abundant flat peach spiritual qi imbued their essences deep within the dao embryo of the innate dao embryo body, preventing it from becoming a monstrous hodgepodge.
This innate dao embryo was growing rapidly.
Zhang Jian could clearly sense this transformation.
The most distinctive feature of the great success of the Innate Dao Embryo Body is undoubtedly the formation of the dao embryo itself, breaking free from the old molds, establishing dao body characteristics unique to oneself.
The final innate dao body he evolves into would undoubtedly align with his own Sheji Emperor’s Primordial Spirit and the Dao path.
Zhang Jian believed that at that point, it could be called the Saint King Dao Body, or perhaps even the Celestial Emperor Dao Body.
The pinnacle of the Saint King Dao is undoubtedly the Celestial Emperor, overlooking all beings and ruling the boundless heavens and earth.
In Zhang Jian’s view, the Celestial Emperor is an achievement, a Dao Fruit, not merely a singular divine presence.
Within the Yellow Court Blessed Land, the grand Qiankun Society and State Spiritual Mechanism flowed in from all directions, and around Zhang Jian, law power runes clearly circulated like strands of tangible clear brilliance emanating outward.
This is an unusual sign of the expansion of magical power.
"Indeed, this flat peach is worthy of being a Celestial Treasure, a fabled mythical item, the spiritual mechanism it contains is extraordinarily abundant, sufficiently saving thousands of years of arduous magical power cultivation!"
At this moment, Zhang Jian also felt his substantive Sheji Emperor’s Primordial Spirit expanding, growing.
Because of its incredibly high essence, his substantive Primordial Spirit rarely underwent noticeable change, so this was quite an exceptional occurrence.
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Zhang Jian was in seclusion cultivating within the Yellow Court Blessed Land while the chaos and turmoil in Daqian were ever-fluctuating.
The death of King Zheng, Wei Chi, intimidated many Vassal Kings, but did not deter the ambitious ones stirring within various counties.
Rumors constantly circulated among the people that Emperor Qi Yuan’s ascension was illegitimate.
Folks rumored that Emperor Qi Yuan, Wei Yuan, was merely a puppet supported by Prime Minister Zhang Jian and Zhang Daosheng and that the Daqian Royal Family had been hollowed out. There were even claims that Empress Dowager Li was imprisoned within the palace, with decrees calling on all royal kings to purge the court of sycophants and traitors.
Due to such rumors, several counties declared they would no longer follow the mandates of the Emperor.
Upon ascending the throne, Emperor Qi Yuan naturally could not ’tolerate’ such ’treacherous ministers and traitors,’ thus ordering the generals throughout the court to lead military campaigns against the disloyal.
The conflict ignited, engulfing dozens of counties within half a month.
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On the Observatory Platform, Jingming Daoist stood in front of the Demon Suppression Tower.
But the Demon Suppression Tower before him was empty, as all demons inside had already departed.
The Cave God Sect ancestor and their transaction had been completed.
Now it served more as a symbol.
Jingming Daoist had been utilizing the ancient Dao charm within the Observatory Platform to refine his Yin Spirit.
Currently unable to cultivate, he could only continuously polish his Yin Spirit, purify his own Dao Heart, and wait for the moment of liberation to arrive.
Yet, he still paid attention to the outside happenings.
He Ying Daoist stood beside him, serving as a bridge of communication between Jingming Daoist and the outside world.
As He Ying Daoist relayed information, Jingming Daoist sighed.
"It seems the Daqian Royal Family is still dissatisfied; they’re the ones inciting local resistance against the Court!"
He Ying Daoist’s expression immediately turned solemn upon hearing this: "Master, will Grand Scholar Zhang blame this on you?"