For this, Zhang Jian carefully selected a celestial city far from the core region of the Central Celestial Court.
Of course, the reason was to take Zhang Nan and others to explore the Zhang Clan’s foothold in the Central Celestial Realm.
Finally, Zhang Jian focused his gaze on a small town on the eastern edge of the Central Celestial Realm.
Though this place is small, it is well-equipped and serves as a necessary passage on the official road leading to Eastern Qingyi City.
More importantly, Zhang Jian sensed the existence of an innate spiritual acupoint deep underground here through the authority of the Earth.
The innate spiritual acupoint contains innate essence qi, which greatly benefits the cultivation of the young Zhang clan members. Moreover, it is easy to transform it into an Innate Spirit Gathering Array after setting up a grand array!
Additionally, it’s not far from Qingyi City.
Eastern Qingyi City is one of the sixteen main celestial cities in the east, all nominally ruled by Dongji Qinghua Emperor.
Similarly, the other directions are nominally ruled by the other Five Celestial Emperors: Emperor Miro True Jade Emperor, West Pole Gouchen Emperor, Emperor Ziwei of the Arctic, Emperor of Longevity of Nanji, and Houtu Emulating Emperor.
At least nominally, whether it is so in reality, Zhang Jian does not know.
Zhang Jian’s decision to establish the Zhang Clan’s foothold in the Central Celestial Realm in the east was a calculated move.
After all, he has the closest relationship with the Eldest Master Dongji.
When he ascended to the Celestial Palace, this Emperor’s Mansion had also sent an immortal invitation to recruit him.
Of course, his main target is still Qingyi City; this small town is merely a temporary residence.
Temporarily using it for worship, and once ascertaining whether there is a divine thought of Eldest Master Dongji stationed in Qingyi City, he will then look for an opportunity to move the clan’s residence.
In the Central Celestial Realm, for the Zhang Clan, Zhang Jian decided to appoint Zhang Nan as patriarch and left twenty-two True Immortals to guard, with the True Immortals led by Taiyin Fairy and another female immortal from the Lingxiao Sword Sect.
As for Celestial Immortals, he assigned four under his command to take honorary positions.
Among them, two are Lords of the Dukes, and two come from his subordinates.
Bai Nu and Phoenix Spirit.
Regarding these four Celestial Immortals, he allocated them powers of junior immortal officials and reserve positions.
Two held literary positions, while two held martial preparation immortal positions.
The literary positions are document-related, assigned to Phoenix Spirit, and one Lord of the Dukes, an immortal from the Ji Family, named Ji Tianzheng.
He is the uncle of the Imperial Consort from the Ji Family.
In the same generation as the Second Elder Ji Tianyun, he smoothly advanced to Celestial Immortal after ascending to the Celestial Palace.
As for martial preparation immortal positions, they were given to Bai Nu and another Celestial Immortal from an ancient Immortal Sect, named Xuan Guan Daoist.
As for Zhang Nan, Taiyin Fairy, and the other female immortal, since their Dao practice is still accumulating at the True Immortal realm, they were only given three reserve immortal official positions.
Yet even so, everyone was immensely delighted.
These are immortal positions, signifying their official integration into the Central Celestial Realm, where they can receive salaries from the Celestial Court and have their influence within it.
However, the extent of their authority depends on the position of the Ling Yuan Emperor in the Celestial Court.
After setting up initially, Zhang Jian proceeded to hold a grand ceremony to worship Heaven and Earth, and an ancestral worship ceremony, following the customs of the lower realm!
Everything seemed quite routine.
In the newly built ancestral hall, not many Immortal Gods participated in the worship, except for Zhang Jian, Zhang Yi, Qi Ruolan, Qi Yuhua, Bai Liying, Madam Yun, Madam Meng, and a part of the Zhang Clan members led by Zhang Nan and Zhang Yujing.
Most of these Zhang Clan members were the children born of Zhang Yi in the Celestial Realm, many of whom were still mortal-bodied.
After the ancestral worship ceremony, Zhang Jian stayed alone in the ancestral hall.
No one minded, knowing that this had become a habit for Zhang Jian.
After everyone left, Zhang Jian retrieved numerous gold and silver Yuanbao from the void of mountains and rivers.
These gold and silver Yuanbao were not brought from the lower realm.
Objects brought from the lower realm, even ordinary spiritual objects, cannot withstand the power of the space-time storm and would be shattered.
These gold and silver Yuanbao have not been sold in the Celestial Realm.
At least, Zhang Jian has not yet found a place to sell them.
They were all condensed by him using the power of creation, personally inscribing scriptures within them and stamping them with seals he collected.
To complete these gold and silver Yuanbao, Zhang Jian expended a considerable amount of effort.
A mountain range of gold and silver Yuanbao nonetheless.
In addition, Zhang Jian retrieved a Tier Two Immortal Treasure from the mountain and river space.
This was refined using divine materials taken from the Fire Cloud Cave within the Fire Cloud Grotto Heaven.
It is a piece of cloud cloth, filled with the profound mysteries of Heaven and Earth trigrams, fused with a portion of the Great Celestial Red Cloud Technique Ban.
Zhang Jian named it the Eight Trigrams Cloud Light Cloth, containing an Eight Trigrams Space, very mysterious.
In Zhang Jian’s gaze, the mountain range of gold and silver Yuanbao was rapidly consumed.
However, in Zhang Jian’s eyes, the scale of this sacrifice still could not surpass the previous one, closely resembling the last time.
Zhang Jian was not surprised.
The Ling Yuan Emperor’s position, though high, lacks substantial authority. However, a high position brings benefits, such as extensive influence.
Of course, gaining real power would further enhance influence.
Seeing that the gold and silver Yuanbao in the central great cauldron gradually stopped burning, Zhang Jian moved some out, then threw the Eight Trigrams Cloud Light Cloth inside.
It gradually burned in the sacrificial flame, turning into blue smoke and disappearing.
Once the sacrifice was completed, Zhang Jian cleaned up the traces and gradually exited the ancestral hall.
He had to rearrange the House Protection Forbidden Technique for the Zhang Clan and purchase side spirit fields, medicinal gardens, and various other resources.
A newly emerging immortal race requires a lot of preparation.
In the Central Celestial Realm, near the Jasper Pool Sacred Land, a magnificent immortal island floated in the area of the eighth layer of the Upper Realm.
The immortal island is vast, and the surrounding sea of clouds seems to form its own grand world.
Above the boundless sea of clouds, beams of Divine Light soared into the sky in the distance.
At this moment, a majestic figure was seated in the Immortal Palace, surrounded by a grand aura. Strands of Divine Thought dissipated, seemingly compressing the Heaven and Earth Dao Law Origin, as boundless and majestic Divine Power unfolded, terrifying in its grandeur.
’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’ carefully perceived her own Daoist Monarch abilities, feeling a subtle joy within.
After more than twenty thousand years of arduous cultivation, she finally broke through the Destruction Tribulation, successfully achieving the form of a Daoist Monarch.
The status of a Daoist Monarch allowed one to wander carefreely through eternal space-time, with great power permeating every temporal dimension.
This majestic Divine Power was enough to sweep across Heaven and Earth.
A journey into that Innate Ruins with her true form was not wasted, as she smoothly completed her breakthrough plan.
Of course, the key factor was the significant role played by the hundred and ten Incense Realms in the previous ritual.
Not only did it perfect her Incense Fire Dao Fruit, but it also further condensed several Eternal Immortal Techniques of great power.
This proved to be greatly beneficial to her at a critical moment!
Suddenly, she opened her eyes, with a foresight in the depths of her gaze, as if penetrating through a section of the River of Destiny, instantly witnessing a grand spectacle where boundless Incense Fire Golden Light gushed forth from the Two Realms Pool.
A smile flickered at the corner of her lips, and she thought to herself.
"The true form was indeed not mistaken; after returning to the Central Celestial Realm, it won’t be long before an attempt at a ritual!"
Her figure moved in space, appearing instantly before the Two Realms Pool.
Within the Two Realms Pool, the Nine-Colored Pool Water surged, having signs of an omen.
’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’ gathered a beam of Immortal Light to merge into the Two Realms Pool.
As her Immortal Light and magic power merged, the entire Two Realms Pool suddenly roared, as if countless rays of golden light condensed within it, transforming into a source.
’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’ was accustomed to this, gracefully lifting her hand to cast a Divine Light over the Two Realms Pool.
The Incense Fire Divine Realm of the Daoist Monarch opened, unraveling countless intertwined phantom Incense Realms within.
In an instant, Incense surged into the depths of the realms, gilding each with a layer of Incense Fire Golden Light.
Pure Incense Fire Golden Light flowed in, causing a smile to quiver at the corners of ’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’s’ lips.
She could directly absorb this Flawless Incense now, integrating it into her Incense and Immortal Light, rapidly growing her Dao practice.
The best aspect of Incense Fire Gods is that as long as the incense is sufficient, the cultivation speed far exceeds that of other Immortal Gods.
With so much Flawless Incense, a few more occurrences might enable her to catch up with her true form and quickly challenge the second Destruction Tribulation!
In the vast Incense Fire Divine Realm, countless golden realms gradually solidified into reality.
Exceeding a hundred in number.
That’s a hundred billion Flawless Incense.
’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’ sensed that the scale of this ritual might not match the previous one, feeling slightly regretful.
After entering the Celestial Realm, she hoped the ritual scale could be as extensive as possible.
For the feedback received would no longer be limited to Heaven and Earth treasures, and there’d be no worry about the Celestial Realm’s overseers discovering anomalies in the Two Realms Passage, allowing for feedback of other great power treasures, or even cultivation techniques and secret techniques.
The Incense Fire Golden Light gushing from the Two Realms Pool gradually subsided after some time.
"A hundred and five Incense Realms perfected, roughly a hundred and five billion Flawless Incense..."
A faint smile flickered in the depths of ’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’s’ eyes.
At this time, the Nine-Colored Pool Water in the Two Realms Pool roiled, with Great Dao Celestial Sound emerging within.
The majestic Celestial Sound was exceptionally grand at this moment, faintly drawing down the Heaven and Earth Dao Laws from above the Immortal Realm in resonance.
Strands of Innate Divine Light burst forth.
’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’ gazed towards the firmament.
There was a hint of astonishment in her eyes.
What emerged from the Two Realms Pool this time was a treasure eliciting a strong resonance with Heaven and Earth Dao Laws, and the number of laws drawn was quite numerous.
A total of eight or nine kinds!
It was the first time she had seen an Innate Divine Object appear and draw so many Heaven and Earth Dao Law resonances.
"Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang, Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind Thunder..."
"Is this the Eight Trigrams?"
’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’ had a prediction in her heart.
She didn’t wait long, and soon after, a magnificent Innate Divine Light surged skyward from the depths of the Two Realms Pool, transforming into a giant Eight Trigrams swirling above.
The Innate Eight Trigrams revolved continuously, wielding tremendous power, seemingly able to dissolve immense force.
This Innate Spiritual Treasure, with just one glance, she roughly guessed its function.
It should be a defensive Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure, primarily focused on binding, sealing, and dissolving.
With a wave of her hand, she collected this Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure.
Briefly refining it, her eyes showed a trace of clarity.
Eight Trigrams Cloud Light Cloth: An Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure containing five Innate Divine Prohibitions, interwoven with the profound mysteries of the Innate Eight Trigrams, its Eight Trigram powers could dissolve the mightiest of forces, with an Eight Trigrams World within capable of entrapping Heaven and Earth Immortals, its Cloud Light Evasion Technique is both covert and wondrous!
This was also a Middle-Grade Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure!
A look of satisfaction emerged in the depths of ’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’s’ eyes.
This object, refined by her, was most suitable.
Furthermore, it featured the Cloud Light Evasion Technique, disappearing without a trace, making it an excellent life-saving Spiritual Treasure!
’Daoist Monarch Qingxia’ was well-prepared.
The feedback object was ready.
A beam of Exotic Treasure containing intense Destiny aura appeared in her palm, that time she intended to personally travel to the Lower Realm and meet the other party.
With a flash of Divine Light, her figure instantly vanished from the Immortal Realm.