Zhang Jian opened his eyes.
At this moment, he calculated slightly with his fingers, and it had already been half a month later.
A magnificent Netherworld Dao Divine Light flowed around him, and with a thought, it transformed into a grand Netherworld world in the void, capable of reversing life and death, casting all into reincarnation, reducing it to nothingness at any moment.
This was a terrifying power.
Zhang Jian knew that having mastered life and death, he now also held authority over reincarnation, the Netherworld, and multiple Heaven and Earth powers.
Moreover, these Divine Dao Authorities were profoundly linked with Heaven and Earth treasures.
What he grasped at present was only Tier Three, but as he continued to merge with the Heaven and Earth treasures, the authority would increase continually.
Zhang Jian knew that at least before reaching Tier Five, he would encounter no bottlenecks.
Zhang Jian felt that his Lifebound Immortal Technique of Mountains and Rivers was also greatly increasing in power.
Yet, it had not entered the realm of Tier Five Immortal Technique.
It wasn’t that it couldn’t; rather, his own Dao Skill hadn’t caught up, preventing the Map of Mountains and Rivers from naturally advancing to Tier Five.
However, Zhang Jian did not mind.
To have progressed this much, he was already very satisfied.
Once he achieved greatness in the Saint Dao, after meditating for a few more years, he would surely advance his Daoist Technique to a new level.
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While Zhang Jian controlled a part of the Nether Origin, in a vast layer of the Earth Realm, boundless Netherworld phenomena were everywhere.
It resembled a valley of ten thousand rivers, with limitless Heaven and Earth Yin Qi converging from all directions.
At that moment, in the depths of the void, infinite Nether Yin Qi trembled.
The Netherworld Reincarnation Passage also shook, as if sensing the birth of a Great Divine Ability User who commanded the Nether Origin.
Deep within the Netherworld Underworld, numerous Ghost Gods, and even the forces who achieved the Immortal Gods Great Dao, secretly trembled upon sensing this moment.
Yet they did not understand the source behind such a great Dao anomaly.
Only in the depths of the Netherworld did some Ancient Gods manifesting as Immortal Gods vaguely sense it, and these Great Powers looked solemn.
The Divine Dao Authorities are solemn, unique, with some domains being taboo, not allowing others to meddle. Now, someone commanding the Netherworld is like a new source, a possible unknown threat to those Immortal Gods wielding the Netherworld.
Many Immortal Gods were deeply worried, while some old Great Powers remained indifferent.
They did not care about such changes.
The All Heavens Void is too vast; rather than worrying about others, it’s better to strive with every effort to uplift one’s own Dao Path!
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After emerging from seclusion, Zhang Jian officially announced external expansion, issuing an imperial decree first to the Southern Divine Continent, ordering numerous human nations and even Immortal Sect Dao Lineages in the South to recognize the Great Xia Dynasty as the sovereign country, disband their dynasties, proclaim themselves as vassal states, accept the garrison and magistracy dispatched by the Great Xia Dynasty, or else face the descent of Celestial Soldiers to destroy their ancestral temples and dining halls.
Following this decree, many Immortal Sect Dao Lineages along the Southern Divine Continent coast capitulated upon hearing the news.
Zhang Jian’s previous defeat of a Celestial Immortal level Ghost God in White Deer City and the blasting open of the Yin and Yang Realms’ gate was already widely publicized by ’interested individuals’.
Numerous cultivators of the Immortal Sect Dao Lineages realized their inability to compare with a Celestial Immortal level Ghost God.
Especially when news spread of the toxin in the West He Region’s land being solved by the Great Xia Emperor, more and more major powers willing to recognize the Great Xia Dynasty as a sovereign power became a growing trend.
Soon after, the two super overlords of the Southern Divine Continent, the Ji Family and Celestial Will Sect, successively declared their stance, causing most of the Southern Divine Continent to acknowledge the Great Xia Dynasty as the sovereign country, with some dynasties ’voluntarily’ removing their national titles, assuming the role of vassal states.
Meanwhile, throughout the Heaven and Earth, many deities and high-tier cultivators sensed that the Dragon Qi and Emperor’s Qi permeating the East Suspended Divine Continent began to cover the Southern Continent behind it, with boundless Dragon Qi converging above Haojing City.
The magnificent National Fortune Red Dragon enveloped the heavens and earth, awe-inspiring.
"The general will of the people, the Saint Dao shall achieve!"
In the Southern Divine Continent, atop Ancient Hill Province, two Ancient Immortals of the Ji Family watched from afar. In their eyes, the Dragon Qi and Emperor’s Qi that Ji Family nurtured were being compressed into a certain realm.
Above the firmament, the Emperor Star gradually dimmed, while an Emperor Star overshadowed half the Zhou Mountain Realm, bright as the midday sun.
They had seen such a scene many times before.
It was the sign of the Saint Dao’s imminent great success.
The two Celestial Immortals of the Ji Family showed some sighs in their expressions, since the end of the War of the Middle Ages, no Saint King had been born in Heaven and Earth. The original thought was that this existence would never appear again, but now, it seemed another Human Race Saint King was about to emerge!
While the emergence of a Human Race Saint King would inevitably bow the heads of other Saint King Families, in the long term, the Human Race would surely flourish for another era.
However, during this time, other Immortal Sect Dao Lineages might have to tuck their tails and live cautiously.
The power of the Saint King should not be underestimated.
Fortunately, this Great Xia Emperor is a benevolent ruler and likely would not be too harsh.
Of course, even if he were harsh, it probably wouldn’t involve the Ji Family.
On the contrary, the Ji Family was a minister who followed the dragon.
Ji Ning glanced at the silent Ji Tianyun beside him, secretly thinking that this old guy was cunning. Originally thinking that sacrificing a Celestial Immortal Seed was cowardice, now it seemed he truly had foresight.
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After numerous major forces from the Southern Divine Continent gradually switched allegiance, the Great Xia Dynasty set its sights on the West He Divine Continent, issuing a similar decree.
Compared to the prosperity of the Southern Divine Continent, the human nations in the West He Divine Continent were much smaller.
Among many major forces, the humans in the West He Divine Continent were weak, but upon hearing the Great Xia Dynasty’s decree, they readily accepted the edict and eagerly hoisted the Great Xia Dynasty’s banner, seeking protection.
This change evoked laughter and tears.
The allegiance of the Southern Divine Continent and West He Divine Continent’s human forces vastly bolstered the prestige of the Great Xia Dynasty.
The remaining Northern Divine Continent and Gui Xu Divine Continent’s numerous major powers still hesitated.
But this hesitation didn’t last long.
The superpower of the Northern Divine Continent, Nanhua Immortal Sect, was the first to declare its stance, willing to honor the Great Xia Dynasty as the sovereign country, and this trend became irreversible!
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In Haojing City, during the Great Dynasty Meeting, Zhang Jian formally received the Sect Leader of Nanhua Immortal Sect, who was then conferred the title of Northern Firmament Primordial Spirit True Monarch, before the national document was formally returned to him.
Nanhua Immortal Sect would nominally submit to the Great Xia Dynasty in the future, offering tribute once every century and sending a group of disciples to the Sheji Daoist Palace established in the Northern Divine Continent every ten years to participate in building and maintaining order there.
In return, the Great Xia Dynasty would bestow corresponding sect benefits to Nanhua Immortal Sect, granting certain authority and convenience.
Besides Nanhua Immortal Sect, many Northern Divine Continent Immortal Sect Dao Lineages that followed Nanhua’s lead were also given corresponding conferments first by Zhang Jian.
As long as they were willing to submit and follow the Great Xia Dynasty, many matters Zhang Jian could overlook and not pursue, including previous obstructions.
Conversely, should these Immortal Sect Dao Lineages continue to hinder the Great Xia Dynasty behind the scenes after returning, he would show no mercy.
The current Great Xia Dynasty managed numerous Immortal Sect Dao Lineages, packed with powerful individuals, including some Loose Cultivator True Immortals and certain sect immortals who had come to align themselves.
The allegiance of numerous immortals culminated in a great force.
Naturally, most prominent was Zhang Jian, this Innate Emperor, intimidating with divine power, with all immortals bowing down.
As the Northern Divine Continent’s Nanhua Immortal Sect submitted, the Northern Divine Continent too gradually came under the Dragon Qi and Emperor’s Qi of the Great Xia Dynasty.
In less than a few years, the Great Xia Dynasty’s banner successively covered four of the five divisions, a monumental achievement.
This is also the will of the people.
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In the Tongshan Dao Lineage, however, there was an unsettling disturbance on the mountain.
Since returning from demon refining in the West He Divine Continent, the Sheji King Tripod had been intermittently clamoring to leave.
The entire Tongshan was upset by this, causing headaches for the Second Generation Ancestor Masters.
The cause was that the Sheji King Tripod no longer wanted to be the Destiny Suppressing Treasure for the Tongshan Dao Lineage; it wished to leave Tongshan.
It was prepared to enter the Great Xia Dynasty and become that dynasty’s National Fortune Spiritual Treasure!
For this, it threw tantrums, using every low tactic in the book.
The three Second Generation Ancestor Masters also suspected that Zhang Jian had plotted to lure away the Sheji King Tripod, this Saint King’s Treasure!