Holy body, start with the Five Animal Exercises

248: Zhen Dao Tian JunThe Eastern Region, Exquisite Dao Land.

Vast mountain ranges and scattered palace complexes released nine-colored profound light, appearing just like an immortal court, not much inferior to the imperial city of the Emperor Ancestor Dynasty.

The Exquisite Dao Palace’s main body was forged from Ice Domain Immortal Gold, supplemented by various precious materials. It was only half a step away from becoming an Immortal Lord-grade Immortal Artifact and was only opened when the most distinguished guests of the Exquisite Dao Land visited.

The banquet was filled with beautiful women; many True Immortals and Holy Lords clinked glasses and toasted in celebration.

As the banquet neared its end, Qin Jiang lightly raised the wine cup in his hand. ”Immortal Lord, I wish to borrow your sect’s Array Dao books for a look.”

The Exquisite Immortal Lord also raised her cup in a distant toast. ”Naturally. You may read them at your leisure, Immortal Lord.”

She had already thought of this. With the Formation Yuan Yang had laid down, even a Grand Sage of Array Dao would find it difficult to enter, let alone do so silently.

It was evident that Qin Jiang’s attainments in Array Dao were even higher than Yuan Yang’s, not losing out to some veteran Grand Sages of Array Dao.

After the banquet ended, Qin Jiang was led to the Scripture Pavilion by a True Immortal female official.

”Immortal Lord, your permissions have already been set. You may browse all the books, not limited to Array Dao Secret Manuals,” the female official said with a smile.

”Thank you for the trouble.”

”You are too polite, Immortal Lord. This official will take her leave.”

After she left, Qin Jiang walked into the Scripture Pavilion. The interior spiraled upwards, and every floor had books that stretched as far as the eye could see.

With this quantity of books, even with the energy of a True God, it would be difficult to finish reading them in a hundred years.

Without stopping, he headed straight for the Array Dao area.

Upon arrival, with just a thought, he finished browsing through the lower layers of books.

Then, he picked up an Array Dao Secret Manual placed at the highest point: ”Nine Explanations of Time and Space.”

This was a legacy volume from an Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign of an ancient era; unfortunately, it was only half a volume.

As for the remaining half, even that Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign had been unable to leave it behind.

That already involved the Domain of Immortal King secrets. A power in the unseen would erase such information from the world.

Unless the Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign was willing to expend their own life force and use the method of stabilizing an Immortal King Scripture to solidify it, it could not be passed down.

But clearly, when that person wrote the ”Nine Explanations of Time and Space,” they were already in their twilight years and lacked the ability to solidify it.

After browsing it, he picked up other books to read.

What the Array Dao branch in the Potential Panel improved was actually the comprehension of Innate array patterns.

And these books were the precious experience accumulated by generations of Array Dao masters.

Compared to the simple Innate array patterns, these Acquired array patterns could practically be said to have played the Array Dao into countless variations.

If Innate array patterns were the ultimate simplicity of the Great Dao, then Acquired array patterns were the Peak of craftsmanship.

The unification of Innate and Acquired was the broad road leading above an Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign.

Before long, Qin Jiang did not pass over the other books either, not limiting himself to Martial Dao and so on.

After an unknown amount of time, having finished browsing all the books, he couldn’t help but feel a bit of a headache.

Walking to the top floor, the breeze outside the Scripture Pavilion brushed against his face, clearing his mind a bit.

He looked at the panel.

[Array Dao: Grand Sage of Array Dao (12,000/100,000)]

[Potential Points: 145,206.1]

Without hesitation, he invested one hundred thousand potential points into Array Dao.

[Grand Sage of Array Dao (12,000/100,000), Potential Points +100,000]

[Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign (12,000/500,000)]

[Potential Points: 45,206.1]

Silver brilliance soared into the sky, lighting up the dark night and making the moon appear dim.

At the Star Observation Platform, the Exquisite Immortal Lord turned her head in slight bewilderment. Seeing that silver pillar of light, her beautiful eyes showed surprise.

At the Celestial Firmament Pavilion, a young Daoist wearing an Eight Trigrams robe stood up and muttered to himself, ”Array Dao... Heavenly Sovereign.”

He looked at the Eight Trigrams plate in his hand, his eyes full of doubt.

It shouldn’t be? The Array Dao Laws of this era shouldn’t be enough to give birth to an Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign yet.

The Eight Trigrams plate in his hand turned, and specks of orange light fell.

”Cough, cough!” The man in the Eight Trigrams robe spat a mouthful of blood onto the plate, his eyes carrying a hint of terror.

He couldn’t see through it, he completely couldn’t see through it!

Unwilling to give up, he looked toward the direction of the Exquisite Dao Land and took out a jade book from his robes. This was the Immortal King Scripture of the Celestial Firmament Pavilion.

It was also the only Immortal King Dao Weapon on the surface in the current world.

The jade book suspended in the air. The young Daoist rarely performed hand seals and chanted incantations. Rings of profound light wheels descended, surrounding the jade book within.

After a few breaths, the young Daoist suddenly opened his eyes, wanting to retreat in panic.

But before he could retreat even half a step, a pure white sky manifested out of thin air and struck down on the Immortal King Scripture, even splitting a crack into that jade book.

”Pfft!”

Under the influence of the karmic connection, the young Daoist spat out a mouthful of blood, and his aura became somewhat withered.

He gasped for breath and tremblingly took back the jade book. Although that crack was terrifying, it was slowly repairing itself.

But looking at the speed, it would take at least a hundred years of work.

He looked toward the Exquisite Dao Land, gasping for breath, his gaze somewhat dim.

He didn’t understand who this Heavenly Sovereign was. How could the backlash be so powerful just from a single deduction!

In a profound ice secret chamber in the Taiyin Dao Earth, the Taiyin Immortal Lord was refining the nine luminaries star nucleus in her hand.

Suddenly, she snapped her eyes open. An Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign!

This aura... Immortal Lord Qin?! He became an Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign?!

She had felt Qin Jiang’s aura outside the Nine Luminaries Immortal King’s ruins; she could never mistake it.

But, but isn’t this guy’s Martial Dao Heaven-Defying? How can even his Array Dao be—

Ah~ This infuriates me!

She gritted her teeth and looked at the nine luminaries star nucleus in her hand, wanting to throw it away but unable to part with it.

”Hmph!”

Just an Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign! Once I achieve the Immortal King Body, I won’t be inferior in the slightest!

In the Emperor Ancestor Dynasty, the Emperor Ancestor Sovereign and the Imperial Preceptor were playing chess, their positions on the board evenly matched.

”Haha, this Immortal Lord Qin has truly given me quite a big surprise.”

An Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign, even in an era where Immortal Kings walked the world, would be treated as an honored guest, an existence capable of speaking as an equal with an Immortal King.

If an Array Dao Heavenly Sovereign was given time to prepare, they could unleash power that surpassed the end of the Immortal Lord realm.

This kind of power was invincible in the current world.

”Indeed. If Immortal Lord Qin—oh, no, if Heavenly Sovereign Qin is willing to take action, the possibility of success will increase greatly,” the Imperial Preceptor said with a smile.

The Scripture Pavilion of the Exquisite Dao Land.

After the tribulations passed, Qin Jiang sat cross-legged. After adjusting his breath for a moment, he slightly opened his eyes, and profound Innate array patterns slowly faded in his pupils.

Looking around, countless transparent silk threads spread out in all directions with him as the center.

The vast majority were white, some were red and purple, and the golden ones were the rarest, with only a dozen or so.

He followed the sensation of one of them. The figure of the Exquisite Immortal Lord appeared in his eyes with a smile on her face, and a wave of thought spread over along the golden thread.

’Congratulations, Heavenly Sovereign Qin, on achieving the status of a Heavenly Sovereign.’

Along another thread, he saw a young Daoist cupping his hands toward him, his aura somewhat chaotic.

Besides these, there was also the statue at the Black Tortoise River Bottom, the Immortal King corpse in the Nine Luminaries Immortal King’s ruins, Dahei Mountain, and the Sea Abyss. Every single one was related to an Immortal King.

Looking at the last one, what appeared in his eyes was the Emperor Ancestor Sovereign.

’Fellow Daoist, the Immortal King Scripture has been revived. I await your arrival.’

All the silk threads gradually dissipated. Qin Jiang slightly clenched his palm. Karma lines?

Half a month later, in a certain mountain villa in the Exquisite Dao Land, Qin Jiang, who was browsing through an Array Dao book, suddenly looked up.

He looked toward the Exquisite Immortal Hall. That was the place where the Exquisite Dao Land usually held lectures. Today happened to be the annual Exquisite Dharma Assembly, where the Exquisite Immortal Lord personally gave a lecture.

However, today, an ’uninvited guest’ had arrived.

The Exquisite Immortal Hall used ethereal clouds as its foundation, like a palace floating above the clouds.

The Exquisite Immortal Lord sat in the main seat, while the other Holy Lords and True Immortals of the Dao Land were lined up below on the left and right.

Standing further back were many True Gods of the new generation and several Saint-level prodigies of the current era.

The pressure released by these prodigies was all at the Peak of the eighth-rank Divine Martial realm, exceeding ordinary Saint-levels and being only half a step away from becoming a True God.

In the brilliant hall, there was now a somewhat discordant figure sitting at the front of the hall, holding an immortal staff.

”Exquisite Dao Sovereign, that Qingyun Holy Land is a Holy Land of your Eastern Region. You can’t just ignore it!”