In White Emperor City, Zhang Jian very quickly received the second message sent from the Central Celestial Realm.
The second message was more complete. Besides listing the main participating Daoist Monarchs overseeing this Donghua Realm ascension, it also contained many plans from the Taiqing Celestial Lineage.
Of course, there was no detailed blueprint.
But this already left Zhang Jian exceedingly satisfied.
With this in hand, he could display his own power in a targeted fashion, achieving twice the result for half the effort.
And most important of all was the final piece of news.
Ancestor King Yu had personally taken the field and successfully persuaded Daoist Monarch Chunyang to grant Tongshan Dao Lineage three quotas.
However, Daoist Monarch Chunyang also raised a demand.
They could join the Donghua Realm ascension, but Daoist Monarch Chunyang wished to first take a look at the capabilities of the three people!!
Daoist Monarch Chunyang stated very clearly that what the Donghua Realm ascension needed were true powerhouses, not mediocre folk who came merely to freeload benefits and gild themselves.
That is to say, they would need to enter the Pure Yang Immortal Sect and participate in the trials set forth by the Daoist Monarchs; if they passed the trials, then corresponding weighty responsibilities would naturally be granted.
If they failed the trials, they could only go back the way they came.
Of course, they could also choose not to participate in such tests.
But then they would be unable to obtain any functional posts, and could only gain a certain right to observe from the sidelines.
Zhang Jian found this quite understandable.
For a grand undertaking of this scale, naturally one could not allow mediocrities to sit in the corresponding seats, lest at some critical juncture they drop the chain and ruin the great enterprise.
If, because of a single detail, the meritorious work collapsed at the brink of success, would that not be a grievous loss.
Zhang Jian immediately prepared to set out for the Pure Yang Immortal Sect.
Upon hearing this, Bai Hua Fairy at once insisted on going along to watch the spectacle.
This Immortal, no one knew what sort of thoughts she kept hidden in her heart.
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Central Earth World, Eight Sceneries Immortal Realm, Pure Yang Immortal Sect.
The Immortal Sect was vast and boundless, its towering laws and regulations crowning heaven and earth. From the very day of its birth, the Pure Yang Immortal Sect had been a colossal titan within the Donghua Realm, first among the Immortal Sects, commanding the ten directions of heaven and earth within the Donghua Realm and its various Immortal Realms. It bore many titles: Alliance Leader of the Immortal Realms, Sect of the Donghua Divine Court, First among the Regions of Celestial Essence, Innate Dao Lineage, and so on.
Its most famed places were that Purple Mansion Tower, the Eight Immortal Peaks, the Dragon Sect Pavilion, the Pure Yang Immortal Mansion, and the like.
All manner of scenes fully displayed the style of the Immortal Dao.
It was said that they had inherited several of the scenic wonders of the Taiqing Holy Land.
Ranges surpassing Kunlun and Yue, bell-formed splendor and divine grace, moon-sun radiance shining bright.
They were like three tiny suns, within which was contained the profound mystery of a dense First Layer Heaven and Earth Ancestral Qi. From three layers of Ancestral Qi and even multiple Innate Dao Qi, myriad Innate secret realms were evolved.
Even Celestial Gods descending from the Celestial Realm, upon beholding this scene, could not help but feel a surge of shock within.
Those were three complete strands of Innate Ancestral Qi.
Even a fragment of Ancestral Qi was already enough to create an Innate God; a single complete strand of Innate Ancestral Qi was sufficient to give rise to many mighty Immortal Gods. If fused into one’s corporeal body, one would gain the immortal, indestructible abilities akin to Innate Ancestral Qi, existing together with heaven and earth.
Unless the All Heavens Void itself perished, then even if heaven and earth reopened, relying on the position of the Innate Ancestral Qi within heaven and earth, one could still roam at ease and occupy the source flow of the ten thousand Dao.
Furthermore, heaven and earth arise because of Ancestral Qi; by nature they are the source flow of the ten thousand Dao, the beginning of all things.
They are the "one" within the evolution of the primordial One.
After Zhang Jian and Bai Hua Fairy entered the Eight Sceneries Immortal Realm, they first stepped into the gateway to the Central Earth World—the Pure Yang Immortal City—and then presented their visiting cards. Immediately, the Sect Master of the Pure Yang Immortal Sect led a group of Immortals to come forward to receive them.
The Sect Master of the Pure Yang Immortal Sect was named Yuan Yang Daoist, a tall and dashing Daoist clad in a vermilion long robe. Though bearing the appearance of middle age, his countenance was as fine as jade, and crystalline radiance flowed in his eyes, clearly showing that his Dao attainment had reached a truly astonishing level.
From afar, his laughter was heard.
"I have long heard that His Majesty Sheji’s Dao Practice is profound, his Merit famed throughout the Central Celestial Realm. To see you today, Your Majesty’s bearing indeed surpasses the praises passed from Immortal to Immortal!"
"Sect Master overpraises!"
In the flower gardens of the Immortal City, Zhang Jian rose with a smile.
"The Pure Yang Immortal Sect’s fame resounds through the realms, and Sect Master’s name is like the blazing sun of the Celestial Realm. I too have long heard of you; now that I behold you, the person himself far exceeds the rumors!"
The two of them exchanged a round of routine ’mutual commercial flattery,’ and thus were considered to have formally met.
At this moment, Zhang Jian also introduced the Female Immortal at his side to the gathered Immortals.
"This is Fellow Daoist Wang. Fellow Daoist Wang is the Bai Hua Fairy of Jasper Pool descended to the mortal realm!"
"I was just wondering which Immortal could be so dazzling; so it is the Master of Hundred Flowers descended to the world. We Immortals have long revered the Immortal’s name!"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Yang Daoist’s expression immediately grew solemn.
It was clear that, in his eyes, the weight of this Bai Hua Fairy, the Master of Hundred Flowers, surpassed even that of Zhang Jian.
Foremost among the Yaochi Fairies under the Yaochi Saint Mother.
Although Bai Hua Fairy had not yet become a Daoist Monarch, she could still speak directly before the Yaochi Saint Mother; such a status was no lower than that of the various Daoist Monarchs.
The Immortals of the Pure Yang Immortal Sect ultimately still had to ascend to the Celestial Palace, especially the many Female Immortals, who might well fall under this Master of Hundred Flowers’ Divine Office Immortal Palace. How could he afford to neglect her.
Bai Hua Fairy’s pair of exquisite eyes were like the stars; at this moment, a smile rested in the depths of those starry eyes as she said,
"Fellow Daoist Yuan Yang, I’ve heard that your Pure Yang Immortal Sect has Twelve Realms and one hundred and eight scenic wonders; you must fulfill your obligations as host to the utmost!"
Yuan Yang Daoist immediately replied,
"I would never dare neglect the two Fellow Daoists!"
A smiling undertone lingered in his voice.
He did not address the two by their honorifics, nor did he use titles such as Immortal, Emperor, or Upper Gods.
Though he himself had not yet ascended to the Celestial Palace, he already held an Immortal Position, merely without actual power in the Celestial Realm.
Moreover, his Dao Practice had already reached the Taiyi True Number, and he wielded a portion of the Donghua Realm’s Heaven and Earth Origin. Though not the supreme ruler of heaven and earth, he still occupied a secondary seat. He considered his Dao Practice not weak, and thus did not use honorifics, so as not to weaken the name of the Pure Yang Immortal Sect.