Chapter 973 - 617: Enlightenment in Ancient Times (4K)_2

Chapter 973: Chapter 617: Enlightenment in Ancient Times (4K)_2

At this moment within the Map of Mountains and Rivers, the Artifact Spirit of the Sheji King Tripod, Sheji Immortal Monarch, couldn’t stop smiling.

"Emperor, following you has been the wisest decision of my life!"

"My old acquaintances probably never expected that there would come a day when I achieved eternity, especially those defeated ones; they certainly can’t imagine me reaching such heights!"

Zhang Jian was momentarily speechless upon hearing the Sheji King Tripod’s words.

At present, he solely relied on the power of the Earth Soul Authority to rapidly collect the remaining living beings.

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However, no matter how fast Zhang Jian collected, he couldn’t surpass the speed of the Nine Heavens Weak Water. The ones he could truly save were merely those who survived temporarily under the protection of Immortal God Techniques.

And as time passed, the longer the Nine Heavens Weak Water raged, the fewer living beings could hold on.

On the other side, following a wail that echoed throughout the Primordial Chaos, Lady Nvwa descended from the heavens holding four bloody and terrifying giant legs. As she cast her magic, the four horrifying legs transformed into four-colored glowing clouds, descending to the four cardinal points.

Then she took countless precious Heaven and Earth Divine Materials to refine them in a great cauldron for forty-nine days, eventually creating a Tripod Furnace’s worth of Five-Colored Divine Stones.

Countless powerful Immortal Gods in the heavens started to act, either using Immortal Techniques to collect the Nine Heavens Weak Water on the earth, or after helping beings like Zhang Jian, using Magic to prevent the Nine Heavens Weak Water from further invading other spiritual lands.

Some Immortal Gods even tried to contain the surging Nine Heavens Weak Water at its source.

There were also powerful beings who descended into the depths of the chasm, using Great Divine Techniques to ice seal billions of miles of Nine Heavens Weak Water.

But it couldn’t cure the world-ending tribulation of the Nine Heavens Weak Water.

The Ancient Goddess watching this scene then ascended, carrying each refined Five-Colored Divine Stone to the depths of that enormous chasm, where they transformed into clusters of Five-Colored Divine Liquid.

The Five-Colored Divine Liquid interwove, gradually merging with the clear Qi of the heavens and beginning to solidify, simultaneously blocking the poisonous corrosion and terrifying invasive power of the Nine Heavens Weak Water, slowly bridging the heavens and earth.

Zhang Jian stood atop a gigantic Divine Peak, beneath his feet, infinite Weak Water flowed past.

Watching the gradually spreading five-colored clouds in the sky, his expression changed.

Facing this scene, he realized the immense merit this act held.

This truly was a deed of immeasurable merit.

After repairing the heavens, Zhang Jian didn’t see any Five-Colored Divine Stones left.

This inevitably left Zhang Jian regretful.

Having previously missed out on obtaining the Zhou Mountain Fragment, he had held some hope for the Five-Colored Divine Stone that could mend the heavens, but now it seemed hopeless.

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After the heavens were repaired.

Zhang Jian noticed deep within the heavens, there was an abundant Merit Golden Light, a significant portion of which landed behind Lady Nvwa, while another part fell upon other Great Divine Ability Users who participated in repairing the heavens and suppressing the Nine Heavens Weak Water.

Zhang Jian noticed that no Merit Golden Light came to him.

In truth, he had done just as much as those Great Divine Ability Users.

Possessing the Earth Soul Authority, he had saved billions of beings and had built a Wall of Earth to redirect the Nine Heavens Weak Water. Although he wasn’t seeking these merits, surely there should have been some Merit Golden Light.

The previous pursuits and personally witnessing Lady Nvwa’s True Body made Zhang Jian believe he truly returned to this ancient time.

Yet this transformation sowed many doubts in his heart.

Did he truly travel back to ancient times?

Or was he merely inside a fragment of a space-time era of the universe?

Yet, if it was just a fragment, he felt that falling here would mean his true demise.

Moreover, the Earth Soul Authority genuinely existed rather than being illusory.

That grand decree of the Di Huang Divine Monarch, this position of the Earth Emperor Daoist Monarch, was more magnificent and vast than his own self-consolidated Earth Emperor Position.

But Zhang Jian quickly cast aside these thoughts.

Regardless, everything experienced here was real, and it could all genuinely reflect onto his Dao Fruit, so he must treat it as real, integrating himself within, to find a way to emerge victoriously, and thus truly become enlightened.

Just as he responded to Lady Nvwa’s words, he pursued the Path of Heaven and Earth.

The current ordeal was indeed a unique vista in the pursuit of the Great Dao.

There was no need to ponder whether it was real or merely a fragment of time.

As long as the knowledge gained and the opportunities obtained were real, what difference would the truth make?

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After the mending of the heavens, Lady Nvwa and the gods, along with the immortals, cast spells to collect the remaining Nine Heavens Weak Water on the earth, and then extracted the residual toxins on the earth to reactivate the earth’s vitality.

As the Di Huang Divine Monarch conferred by Lady Nvwa, as the Earth’s Essence, Zhang Jian naturally had to assist Lady Nvwa in reorganizing the earth eroded by the Nine Heavens Weak Water, a long-term ’major project’!

However, in between, Zhang Jian began to take time to release some of the collected ordinary living beings, and the Human Race clans he had gathered.

Many of the Human Race clans were deeply grateful for this.

Thus, the name of the Earth Emperor also spread across the land, with some Human Race clans even taking Zhang Jian as a totem.

Zhang Jian didn’t mind this.

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A thousand years later, the residue of the Nine Heavens Weak Water on the earth was gradually cleansed, and the gods returned to the Celestial Court.

The Lord of Heaven, the Celestial Emperor, extended an invitation to Zhang Jian, asking him to serve as an official in the heavens, but Zhang Jian temporarily declined.

It was a joke; at this time, he definitely dared not associate with the current Celestial Court.

If he got involved with the Celestial Court, the upcoming Calamity and Void Tribulation would probably be hard to pass.

Thinking back to the heart-stopping troubles of the previous two disasters, Zhang Jian knew that the forthcoming Bad Calamity and Void Tribulation might not be so easy to overcome. ℯℯ𝘭.

Recalling the celestial records, after Lady Nvwa mended the heavens, there followed a great war with the Ancient Demon Gods, causing Zhang Jian’s Dao Heart to tremble.

That was an Immeasurable Tribulation created at the end of the Ancient Era.

It’s said that the internal conflict between the leaders of the Water and Fire Ancient Demon Gods was the precursor to the Immeasurable Tribulation.

The Ancient Demon God Race’s strength significantly waned, thus allowing the Celestial Emperor Di Jun to lead the gods in waging war against the Ancient Demon God Race, thereby concluding the gods’ enfeoffment and unifying the Wilderness World in a grand enterprise.

Going to the heavens at this time would surely make him one of the pawns in the great war against the Ancient Demon Gods.

The Bad Calamity and Void Tribulation would inevitably erupt at that time.

Zhang Jian just imagined it, and his Dao Heart was ringing alarms.

Zhang Jian found a deserted Divine Mountain adjacent to the Original Human Race and cultivated within.

After confirming that the Earth Emperor path could be reestablished without being targeted by other Great Divine Ability Users, Zhang Jian re-condensed the Earth Emperor Position in the depths of the Sea of Chaos Origin within the Wilderness World.

Zhang Jian noticed the difference between the Sea of Chaos Origin in the Wilderness World and that of later generations.

It wasn’t that the Chaos Origin Qi was dispersing, nor that the Great Dao Laws of Heaven and Earth flowed disorderly, but rather that grand thrones stood tall within the depths of the Sea of Chaos Origin, with endless Divine Light condensing into glorious Ancestor Qi Wheels and Dao Qi Nets, eventually forming massive vortex shapes.

They were majestic beyond measure.

Latecomers, any Immortal God achieving enlightenment had to face their oppression.

They could only rise in small spaces.

Even if they successfully rose, under the monopoly of the Chaos Origin Sea, the paths for ascension were essentially closed.

Otherwise, they could only adhere to the rules of these terrifying existences and complete advancement step by step.

It was a stifling sight.

Zhang Jian’s Earth Emperor Position, under the glorious protection of the throne of the Ancient True Goddess Nuwa, gradually took shape and began to have its own place in that Divine Palace.

When this Earth Emperor Position was fully realized, Zhang Jian felt the resonance with the Great Dao Laws of Heaven and Earth.

Countless divine powers of the earth, Nine Netherworld, and Earth Element converged within the new Earth Emperor Daoist Monarch Position network.

Simultaneously, the Sea of Chaos Origin slightly shook, as immeasurable purple Qi and auspicious clouds appeared.

It was as if celebrating the birth of a Daoist Monarch.

Indeed.

In this ancient time, his state counted as that of a Daoist Monarch.

He seemed to have everything a Daoist Monarch should possess.

Relying on this consolidated Daoist Monarch Position, he possessed all the abilities expected of a Daoist Monarch.

An illusory Daoist Monarch Dao Fruit also emerged and transformed with it.