An ethereal Cyan Lotus emerged beneath Zhang Jian’s feet as he chanted softly.
Zhang Jian planned to take this opportunity to organize the various immortal techniques he had mastered and directly ascend to Tier Five Immortal Technique.
The ascension from Tier Four to Tier Five primarily involves perfecting the diverse Heaven and Earth Dao Qi contained within the immortal technique.
These Dao Qi can be directly observed within the ’Dao Qi Net.’
Such an opportunity was naturally one Zhang Jian intended to seize.
As he gazed upon the purple mist wall in front of him, with its properties of ’unseeable’ and ’indescribable,’ divine light flowed in Zhang Jian’s eyes, and a trace of sentiment stirred within his heart.
In ordinary realms, even within the Celestial Realm, one would require oceanic amounts of destiny to briefly glimpse the ’Dao Qi Net’ and the ’Sea of Dao Qi’!
Yet now, he had 120,000 years to fully appreciate it.
How could one not be overwhelmed with a sense of ’happiness’!
"Handle the simple first, aiming to perfect the Five Dragons Scripture; to advance this Tier Four Immortal Technique, all that’s needed is the perfection of the Five Elements Dao Qi within it!"
Zhang Jian had a plan in mind.
He intended to tackle the more complex Tier Four Immortal Techniques later.
From simple to complex.
Starting with the Cyan Lotus Soul Purification Spell, which contains various Heaven and Earth Dao Qi types, including light, purification, redemption, and soul among others. Naturally, its power should be correspondingly significant.
Then, for instance, the Nine Nether Life and Death Golden Seal, the Earth Emperor’s Eight Trigrams, the Mediation Creation, the King’s Cauldron Demon-Vanquishing Record, and more.
Zhang Jian’s inherent Immortal Light slowly merged into the depths of his eyes, and in an instant, Zhang Jian locked his gaze deep within the ’Dao Qi Net.’ An extensive celestial Dao pressure flowed through his eyes at that moment, as if countless mysterious Great Daos of Heaven and Earth permeated his innate primordial spirit.
If it were an ordinary mortal, even an immortal god, faced with such an intense influx of Dao Qi information, their primordial spirit would likely collapse instantly, turning them into an idiot, or perhaps transform them into a puppet of Heaven and Earth.
Around Zhang Jian’s innate primordial spirit, there were layers of Dao Heart Immortal Techniques, initially reducing the pressure.
His Sheji Emperor’s primordial spirit at that moment had integrated into the Earth Emperor Dao Fruit, also capable of withstanding the boundless Dao Qi information assault.
Zhang Jian further leveraged this pressure, continuously integrating the Human Emperor Purple Qi into his Mud Ball Palace, striving to perfect the Sheji Emperor’s Authority.
The perfection of the Sheji Emperor’s Authority equates to the Taiyi Celestial Immortal Realm.
Zhang Jian calmed his mind, and a five-colored divine light gradually linked itself from the depths of the ’Dao Qi Net’ to him, enveloping his form in a layer of five-colored divine light.
The five-colored divine light formed into a wheel, within it gradually appeared the forms of five divine dragons.
In a brief moment, the forms of the five dragons successively entered the depths of the five-colored divine wheel.
In that instant, Zhang Jian felt as if he had become one with the Five Elements Dao Qi deep within the Dao Qi Net, easily mobilizing the Five Elements Dao Qi to perform the Five Dragons Scripture.
In his hands, the Five Dragons Scripture truly possessed the capability of leveraging the fundamental substances of Heaven and Earth.
One might suppose that even the immortal gods who created the Five Dragons Scripture could never have imagined this once ordinary immortal technique would reach such a state.
Zhang Jian opened his eyes, feeling the feedback brought to his inherent Immortal Light from the forming of the Five Dragons Scripture deep within his sea of consciousness, a slight smile emerged on the corner of his lips.
With every ascension in Tier Five Immortal Technique, he gained not just a super-tier immortal technique, but also enhancements in his body technique power and Dao practice, manifesting as the Lifebound Immortal Light.
Zhang Jian slightly calculated with his fingers.
"Three hundred and twenty years!"
His eyes were calm, and he next set his gaze on the Innate Yin Yang Extinction Divine Light, a Tier Four Immortal Technique.
Ascending this Tier Four Immortal Technique to Tier Five would undoubtedly benefit him greatly.
At that time, in conjunction with the Taiyin and Taiyang, two Tier Five Immortal Techniques, this composite immortal technique’s power would soar exponentially.
Presently, standing before the "Dao Qi Net," Zhang Jian seemed to have forgotten the passage of time, wholly immersed in refining the immortal techniques within his body.
He truly needed a period for profound comprehension.
The opportunity was right before him.
After integrating the Innate Yin Yang Extinction Divine Light, next was the Nine Nether Corpse Transformation, the Nine Heavens Wind-Riding Thunder-Controlling Technique, the Nine Nether Life and Death Golden Seal, the Little Heavenly Reincarnation Technique, the Royal Path Subjugation, the Earth Decree, the Yellow Court Blessed Land Technique, the Nine-Turns Wishing Wheel Sutra, the Eight Extremes Space-Time, the Nine Dragons Sutra, the All Heaven Canopy, the Dream Traveling in the Void Technique, the Cyan Lotus Soul Purification Spell, the Soul Capturing Technique, the Earth Emperor’s Eight Trigrams... one by one, these immortal techniques continually reached perfection and breakthrough over the years gone by.
Every once in a while, a vast and extraordinary phenomenon would erupt between Heaven and Earth ahead of the Dao Qi Net, grand and awe-striking.
Such phenomena naturally attracted some Human Race Saint Emperors deeply cultivating within the depths of the Fire Cloud Grotto Heaven.
Several Human Race Saint Emperors visited several times, each time lingering for some period before departing.
The Three Ancestors of the Human Race also visited a few times.
The Five Elders of the Three Emperors and Five Elders Assembly had one or two visits, among which King Xia Yu often appeared nearby.
Seeing Zhang Jian not having moved or awakened for three to four ten-thousand years, they refrained from disturbing him.
After a considerable time, the figure of Hongyun Daoist also emerged around, but after a few appearances, he seemingly vanished, temporarily leaving the Fire Cloud Grotto Heaven.
During this time, other Human Emperors also entered the Fire Cloud Grotto Heaven, but none managed to breach the core region.
In fact, although the Fire Cloud Grotto Heaven accepted many royal figures of the Human Race, very few could enter the core region.
Before the second layer of the purple mist wall, the Dao charm swirling around Zhang Jian’s body deepened with each passing day, increasingly resembling the profound and vast Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, cloaked in an aura both "unseeable" and "unfathomable," further exuding the grand mystical aura of Saint Dao that commanded all directions of Heaven and Earth.
His Dao practice had clearly advanced significantly.
Then, an explosive sound echoed around Zhang Jian, cosmos-opening like, and countless cosmic phenomena emerged around him as if representing the beginning of time, the emergence of Yin and Yang.
Amidst the explosion, numerous celestial hexagrams manifested around him, forming a three-dimensional Tai Chi pattern.
Within the three-dimensional Tai Chi Divine Diagram seemed to lie unfathomable mysteries of the Infinite Celestial Dao, resembling the origin of the Great Dao, the mother of all things.
"Success!"
At this moment, Zhang Jian sensed the magnificent divine power of Heaven and Earth contained within the Earth Emperor’s Eight Trigrams.
Such Earth Emperor’s Eight Trigrams appeared to possess the divine power of creating Heaven and Earth, stabilizing boundless chaos.
This Earth Emperor’s Eight Trigrams was the most challenging among the Tier Five Immortal Techniques he had ascended.
Naturally, its power was second only to the Map of Mountains and Rivers, his Lifebound Immortal Technique of Tier Five.
Next were the Suihuang World Technique, the Nine Nether Life and Death Golden Seal, the Composite Yin Yang Immortal Technique, and the Composite Space-Time Immortal Technique.
Within the depth of his Forehead Dao Fruit, Zhang Jian could now observe that in thirty thousand years of cultivation, the Taiyi Cyan Cloud had formed around his Earth Emperor Dao Fruit, appearing ethereal and floating.
This indicated Zhang Jian was ready to attempt to transcend into the Taiyi Celestial Immortal Realm.
After thirty thousand years of cultivation, pushing his Dao Fruit to this point, Zhang Jian was extremely satisfied with himself.
Waves flickered in Zhang Jian’s eyes.
He planned to capitalize on this momentum to consolidate the Earth Emperor Primordial Spirit.
The formation of the Earth Emperor Primordial Spirit would mark the completion of the Earth Emperor Dao Fruit, signifying his full entry into the Taiyi Celestial Immortal Realm.
As for the method to achieve the Earth Emperor Primordial Spirit, Zhang Jian already had a plan.
His Earth Emperor Primordial Spirit needed to embody the Sheji Emperor as yang, and the Jiuyou Emperor as yin, further supported by harmonizing numerous Dao Qi within the Map of Mountains and Rivers, to form the Earth Emperor Primordial Spirit.
This is a unique path.
With various Tier Four Immortal Techniques evolving into Tier Five, Zhang Jian’s understanding of various Dao Qi deepened correspondingly, feeling capable of consolidating the Earth Emperor Primordial Spirit.
Of course, the primary reason was his Nine Nether Life and Death Golden Seal advancing to Tier Five, culminating in the manifestation of the Jiuyou Emperor.
However, to maintain the balance of yin and yang, since Sheji Emperor’s Authority reached Great Perfection, he would likewise need to perfect the Great Perfection status of the Jiuyou Emperor’s Authority.
The progression of the Divine Dao Emperor’s Authority involves two methods—external aids or self-enlightenment.
Zhang Jian possessed both conditions.
For external aids, he had the Human Emperor Purple Qi, which could merge into any Divine Dao Emperor’s Authority, enhancing its power.
Moreover, he had the Reincarnation Divine Stone, a treasure of heaven and earth.
The Reincarnation Divine Stone contained within it the authority of the Divine Dao, enough to bring the Jiuyou Emperor’s Authority to the Great Perfection Realm.