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"Three immortal talismans."

"With the current rank of the Qingping Sword, no amount of luck and merit can help it. If it wants to refine the sword with luck and merit again, it must be at least at the Mahayana level."

"Refining the Void, Uniting the Body, and Great Ascension. The number three is indeed profound."

Jiang Sheng gently stroked the Qingping Sword in front of him. He could clearly sense that the amount of fortune and merit that the Qingping Sword could accept had reached its limit.

It's not that the Qingping Sword's rank is insufficient. The Qingping Sword is currently only at the Integration rank, but the fortune and merit it receives far surpasses that of a Mahayana Immortal Treasure. The creation mysteries brought by the three golden and purple immortal talismans are the limit that can be reached in the Upper Three Realms.

Do not underestimate the fortune and merit contained in a single Golden Purple Immortal Talisman; the fortune and merit that can be condensed into a Golden Purple Immortal Talisman is itself a matter of destiny.

It should be noted that Jiang Sheng, during the Xuanmen Great Calamity, used his Integration Realm to slay three Fifth Tribulation True Monarchs, while also killing countless true disciples of the Seven Sects of Xuanmen. He participated in the entire Xuanmen Great Calamity, and also entered the Xuanhuang Realm to cleanse the Heavenly Demons and regulate the Taiyin. Including Jiang Sheng's rescue of the Shanhai Realm from chaos, his introduction of the Immortal Path into the Shanhai Realm, and the initial creation of the Immortal Path, he accumulated various opportunities and fortuitous events. He went through countless tribulations that others could not imagine before he obtained these twenty-four Golden Purple Immortal Talismans.

Even other immortals and gods of the Eastern Heaven, including the Mahayana Immortal Lords, would not have as much fortune and merit as Jiang Sheng. After all, during the Xuanmen Great Tribulation, most of the immortals and gods of the Upper Three Realms only received fortune and merit bestowed by heaven. Very few could condense their fortune and merit into a golden-purple immortal talisman, and even fewer could have more than a handful.

Taking the Fifth Tribulation True Monarchs and Mahayana Immortal Monarchs of Tianhe, Penglai, and Qinghua as examples, even these senior uncles, senior brothers, and Mahayana Immortal Monarchs might not have three or five Golden Purple Immortal Talismans in their hands, let alone the True Monarchs who are affiliated with Immortal Sects and Immortal Schools.

The Golden Purple Immortal Talisman, to some extent, was specially prepared by the Three Realms for the Pure Yang Dao Lords. Those who are not Pure Yang Dao Lords but can obtain the Golden Purple Immortal Talisman are all those who have the potential to become Pure Yang or have great opportunities and good fortune.

Jiang Sheng held twenty-four golden and purple immortal talismans, which would make even the Dao Lords of the Eastern Heaven take notice. He could use three golden and purple immortal talismans to nurture the Qingping Sword, which would be enough to temper it to the level of any Mahayana immortal treasure, and would be more than enough even for the Pure Yang realm.

Moreover, besides the golden-purple immortal talisman formed from his fortune and merit, Jiang Sheng also possesses thirty-six strands of Xuanhuang Qi. He can use Xuanhuang Qi to nourish the foundation of the Qingping Sword, allowing it to advance further. At that time, the Qingping Sword's rank will likely far surpass that of a Mahayana immortal treasure.

Once it reaches the Pure Yang stage, it will be nurtured and refined again by the Pure Yang Qi.

In short, Jiang Sheng would never neglect his most precious treasure, no matter what he lacked.

"The Qingping Sword still needs nurturing, and in my Heaven, Earth and Man Palaces, there are three golden and purple immortal talismans that have also faintly reached the extreme number of Heaven and Earth."

"The Three Realms and the Three Powers seem to have their own predetermined fate."

"Putting everything else aside, my soul in my sea of ​​consciousness has been nourished by three golden and purple immortal talismans, and the three flowers on my head have reached their limit. This gathering of the three flowers at the top of my head is the limit of my cultivation."

As he spoke, Jiang Sheng's spirit leaped away from his physical body, revealing the Taoist in a green crown and black robe sitting cross-legged on a green lotus platform. A radiant light emanated from the top of his head, displaying gold, silver, and lead-colored luster, emitting a mysterious glow. One could tell from this that his essence, energy, and spirit were perfectly clear and complete, comparable to a Great Vehicle Immortal Lord.

"What I lack right now is the five elements in my chest. I still have twelve golden and purple immortal talismans, but my five elements are not yet fully formed. With the current state of my five internal organs, it would be the best I can do to have one of each for tempering. The remaining seven can be used to refine other magic treasures and artifacts."

Jiang Sheng's tone carried a hint of regret, but if others heard it, they would be filled with envy and resentment. Even his fellow disciples would probably give Jiang Sheng a good beating to prevent him from acting innocent after getting the benefit.

Others who obtain a Golden Purple Immortal Talisman treat it as a treasure, wishing they could keep it at the bottom of a box and use it to break through their limits when they break through realms or to save their lives when they encounter a life-or-death calamity.

But Jiang Sheng is extravagant. Not only does he use the Golden Purple Immortal Talisman to temper his physical body and soul, but he also refines magic treasures and refines the Three Flowers and Five Qi. He even has extra money to refine other magic treasures. This is something a True Monarch of the Three Tribulations can do.
Clearly, Jiang Sheng was no ordinary True Monarch of the Integration Realm, much less a True Monarch of the Three Tribulations Realm.

A True Monarch of the Three Tribulations who is over 1,700 years old—let alone this 10,000-year period, even in this entire era, who else can achieve this?

Jiang Sheng is now only two thousand years old. He has been honing his skills at the Three Tribulations Realm for more than two hundred years. Now he is tempering his physical body and soul, refining the Three Flowers and Five Qi. He is walking with great composure. The Five Tribulations True Monarch is within Jiang Sheng's grasp. Jiang Sheng's only goal is Pure Yang!

No amount of planning and preparation is too much when it comes to ascending to Chunyang!

Inside the Xuanqing Palace, Jiang Sheng performed a hand seal to draw a golden-purple immortal talisman into his body, where it was placed into his liver to refine the green energy of the liver wood.

Five years later, Jiang Sheng could see through his internal vision that the wood energy in his liver was thriving and seemed to be condensing into a Dharma image.

The Dharma Image wears a green wood imperial crown and a green dragon robe. He sits high on the throne, elegant and otherworldly, surrounded by the primordial energy of green wood that symbolizes longevity, and radiates a golden-purple light. This is the Venerable Image of the Green Emperor Wood Sovereign.

This is the original form of the Azure Emperor of the Five Elements, refined from the wood energy in Jiang Sheng's liver through the blessings and merits of fortune.

With the initial tempering of the liver wood energy successfully completed, Jiang Sheng introduced another golden purple immortal talisman into his body, which entered his heart to refine the red energy of the heart fire. Another five years passed, and it was evident that there was a mysterious connection between Jiang Sheng's liver and heart. The Azure Emperor Wood King, who sat cross-legged in Jiang Sheng's liver, tempered the wood energy. The Azure Emperor Wood Energy, tempered by the Qi and merit, rose into the heart and transformed into fire essence within the heart. Faintly, the fire essence gathered in Jiang Sheng's heart and transformed into a Dharma image deity.

The Dharma image is crowned with a crimson fire imperial crown and adorned with a vermilion bird robe. He sits high on the throne, exuding a majestic and solemn aura. The surrounding area is filled with the inextinguishable source energy of crimson fire, radiating a golden and purple glow. This is the supreme image of the Crimson Emperor Fire Sovereign.

After the Crimson Emperor Fire Sovereign manifested, the Qi of Liver Wood and Heart Fire flowed into the Spleen Earth in succession, beginning to nourish the Spleen Earth's yellow Qi. Jiang Sheng also took the opportunity to draw the Golden Purple Immortal Talisman into his body to refine the Spleen Earth.

The Five Elements Converging at the Origin is a creation that connects the five elements of heaven and earth, and combines the essence of the five directions to achieve immortality and eternal life.

The Five Elements are the innate manifestations of the spiritual essence of the Great Dao gathered in the primordial universe. These innate manifestations are external forms created by the Great Dao. They are the innate essence of the primordial nature conceived by chaos when there is no supreme being who holds this Dao. They are formless and intangible, omnipresent, existing in the universe of the Great Dao without being seen or heard. They have no power to manipulate creation or reverse the universe. They are merely forms descended from chaos and conceived by the Great Dao. They are not irreplaceable.

If one says that the highest level of cultivation is to see the innate divine form transformed by the Great Dao; and that drawing the divine form of the Great Dao into one's body means that this path has reached initial perfection and one can glimpse even higher levels.

The highest realm of cultivation is to replace the form of the Great Dao with one's own Dharma form.

That level of attainment is the mastery of the Dao.

Jiang Sheng is still far from that level, but he can use his luck and merit to temper the five elements, refine the five energies, and manifest the five elemental forms to temper his own foundation.

Five years passed quickly. With the continuous nourishment of the liver wood energy and heart fire energy, a Dharma image slowly condensed within Jiang Sheng's spleen.

He wore a yellow earth imperial crown and a qilin robe, sat upright on his throne, dignified and peaceful, surrounded by the source of the vast yellow earth, displaying golden and purple light, and exuding the nature of the thick earth. This is the majestic appearance of the Yellow Emperor, the Earth Sovereign.

Over the course of fifteen years, Jiang Sheng successively used three golden and purple immortal talismans to refine his liver, heart, and spleen, transforming them into the forms of the three emperors of green, red, and yellow, and ultimately becoming the source of the three sovereigns of wood, fire, and earth.

Since the lungs and kidneys have not yet produced the Qi of metal and water, Jiang Sheng simply sealed the two Golden Purple Immortal Talismans into the lungs and kidneys. In the future, as long as he breaks through the fourth and fifth tribulations and passes through the complete five decays of heaven and man, under the nourishment of the wood, fire and earth source Qi nurtured in the liver, heart and spleen, the birth of the Qi of metal and water and the appearance of metal and water will be a natural outcome.

With the five Golden Purple Immortal Talismans used up, Jiang Sheng now has seven Golden Purple Immortal Talismans left. In the Xuanqing Palace, the seven Golden Purple Immortal Talismans surround Jiang Sheng, like the seven stars in the sky, shining brightly, illuminated by golden and purple light, divine and extraordinary.

A quick calculation revealed that forty-five years had passed. With a casual gesture, Jiang Sheng summoned the Slaughtering Trap and the Azure Lotus Array Diagram from his sleeve, followed by the Six-Tailed Soul Banner. Looking at the various magical treasures before him, Jiang Sheng nodded slightly.

In the past, Jiang Sheng mainly used the Qingping Sword and the Zhulu Xianjue Sword in his battles. He would only use the Qinglian Formation Diagram to fully unleash the power of the Zhuxian Sword Formation when he encountered an opponent he could not defeat. As for the Six-Tailed Soul Banner, Jiang Sheng had never used it.

It wasn't that Jiang Sheng had some kind of germophobia and thought the Six-Tailed Soul Banner was unlike a celestial artifact. After all, to be honest, the Four Swords of Slaughter and Deception were extremely fierce and their sharp edge and malevolent aura were nothing like celestial artifacts. Yet, Jiang Sheng used them without any burden.

Dharma treasures and implements are for protecting the Dharma and upholding its teachings. As long as they are useful, why worry about so much?

The reason why Jiang Sheng did not use the Six-Tailed Soul Banner was that he subconsciously kept a trump card for himself. After all, Penglai Lingyuan was famous throughout the heavens. Who did not know that Penglai Lingyuan wore a green crown and black robe, held a black Taiyi Qingping Sword in his hand, and had four magic swords symbolizing wind, thunder, water, fire, and purple?
However, very few people know about the Azure Lotus Formation Diagram. Those who have seen it are mostly dead, and the few remaining are all Jiang Sheng's Daoist friends.

The Six-Tailed Soul Banner was known to no one except Jiang Sheng, but Jiang Sheng never forgot to refine it. Every time he obtained rare and precious materials, besides refining the Qingping Sword and nurturing the Zhulu Xianjue Sword, the Six-Tailed Soul Banner devoured the most of Jiang Sheng's various rare treasures.

This was the trump card Jiang Sheng had left for himself. Just as when he was in the sixth realm of the mortal world, he often used feng shui techniques to impress others, who all thought he was not good at fire magic. But in reality, Jiang Sheng was more skilled in fire magic than anyone else.
"My method is to manifest the way of the end times and the last calamities through the three calamities and five difficulties, which are the way of the destruction of Yin and Yang."

"The Qingping Sword is my natal magic weapon. It is naturally compatible with Yin and Yang and can contain the three calamities, preserve the four symbols, encompass the five difficulties, and unleash the power of the seven cuts. It is connected to the end of the calamity and the end of the fortune."

As he spoke, Jiang Sheng looked at the Qingping Sword. He saw that under the tempering of the power of fortune and merit, the sword was surrounded by the three calamities of refining the void, and the wind, thunder, water and fire were transformed into various laws and Dao traces. The sword light was dazzling, as if it had differentiated into various sword moves.

Those are the five sword techniques of Jiang Sheng's Heaven-Slaying Sword Manual: Breaking all laws, severing time, cutting off cause and effect, observing the past, and performing creation.

Jiang Sheng then looked at the four magic swords, Zhulu Xianjue and Zhulu Xianjue: "Zhulu Xianjue uses wind, thunder, water and fire to create calamities and end times."

The four swords of annihilation and destruction hummed incessantly, their ferocious nature bursting forth with murderous intent. It was evident that wind, thunder, water, and fire were constantly intertwined on the four swords, gathering the final calamities and misfortunes, as if they wanted to sever time, pierce through space and time, disrupt cause and effect, and obliterate creation.

On the four swords of annihilation and annihilation, the Azure Lotus Array Diagram sometimes rolled up and sometimes unrolled. The wind, thunder, water and fire engraved on it surrounded the Azure Lotus, as if it wanted to encompass the universe and disregard time and space. On the Azure Lotus Array Diagram, the vast aura of calamity and doom spread out, gradually merging with the four swords of annihilation and annihilation to form a killing array.

With the fusion of the calamity and doom of the Azure Lotus Formation and the malevolent nature of slaughter and annihilation, this killing formation seems capable of reenacting the destruction of heaven and earth through earth, water, wind, and fire.

Jiang Sheng nodded, then looked at the Six-Tailed Soul Banner: "Heaven, Earth, Man, Calamity and Disaster."

"In times of calamity and misfortune, the Six-Tailed Soul Banner is clearly more suitable."

The Six-Tailed Soul Banner is a curse and spell, subtly connecting with fate and karma. It can enter the final calamity and avert disaster. Such a treasure, if nurtured by the Azure Purple Immortal Talisman, will likely become extraordinary in the future.

Putting aside everything else, its ability to dissolve heavenly secrets and shield cause and effect is unparalleled in its power. If Jiang Sheng were to encounter any trouble and need to activate this banner, he might face a calamity before the other party even realizes the impending doom.

While pondering, Jiang Sheng raised his hand and tapped repeatedly, successively casting six golden-purple immortal talismans into the Slaughtering Traps, the Azure Lotus Array Diagram, and the Six-Tailed Soul Banner. He used the power of his fortune and merit to temper these magical treasures, transforming them into Jiang Sheng's power, supporting him to advance triumphantly on the Great Dao.

As the six golden and purple immortal talismans were infused into the six magical treasures, the treasures were nourished by the fortune and merit, and their aura became increasingly extraordinary. Jiang Sheng did not stop, and once again used the Xuanhuang Qi to nourish the magical treasures.

Compared to merit and fortune, Xuanhuang Qi, as the secret of heaven and earth and the creation of the sun and moon bestowed by all the heavens and myriad realms, is the first-class treasure material for refining Qi and cultivating techniques in all the heavens and myriad realms, except for the pure Yang Qi which cannot be compared with the creation of chaos.

Jiang Sheng now possesses a full thirty-six strands of Xuanhuang Qi, enough to support the completion of the tempering of all of Jiang Sheng's magical treasures.

As streams of Xuanhuang Qi flowed into the Qingping Sword, the Slaughtering Traps, the Azure Lotus Array Diagram, and the Six-Tailed Soul Banner, these seven magical treasures, already nurtured by fortune and merit, were further refined by the Xuanhuang Qi. In an instant, azure rainbows swayed within the Xuanqing Palace, wind, thunder, water, and fire raged and danced, and ink lotuses blotted out the sky, transforming into Dao banners, while azure lotuses emerged from the calamity's end.
Its mysteries and wonders manifest endlessly, its radiant light and splendor flowing ceaselessly.

The practice of magic was so swift that the years passed in the blink of an eye, and another thirty years had gone by.

The doors of Xuanqing Palace remained tightly shut. Inside, Jin Yi Zhenjun and Yue Hui Zhenjun continued to harness the power of the sun and moon, transforming the vast spiritual energy into the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace, which was refining Jiang Sheng and various magical treasures.

At this moment, the Qingping Sword, the Four Swords of Slaughter and Traps, the Azure Lotus Array Diagram, and the Six-Tailed Soul Banner all received the blessings of fortune and merit, and also possessed the profound mystery of heaven and earth. They were extraordinary and radiant, and could tear through the void and shatter all laws at any moment. The flowing spiritual light and profound nature of those weapons were not like magic treasures of the Integration Stage, but rather like Mahayana Immortal Treasures.

No, even the most powerful immortal treasures may not possess such spiritual brilliance and profound nature; it would not be an exaggeration to call it a supreme treasure.

As it was a treasure refined by Jiang Sheng with his fortune and merit, and nurtured with Xuanhuang Qi, it was naturally no ordinary divine weapon or immortal treasure. Especially the Qingping Sword, although its current rank is still in the fusion stage, it has actually already reached the extreme of the ninth realm. It is just waiting for the right opportunity to ascend to the Pure Yang realm with Jiang Sheng and become one of the Pure Yang treasures.

"Come back, don't be playful, you all still need to be nurtured."

Jiang Sheng beckoned and took the Qingping Sword, the four swords of Zhulu Xianjue, along with the Qinglian Formation Diagram and the Six-Tailed Soul Banner into his body, storing them in his sea of ​​consciousness, purple mansion, and dantian for nourishment.

Among them, the Qingping Sword resides high in Jiang Sheng's sea of ​​consciousness, protecting Jiang Sheng's soul and stabilizing the wind, thunder, water, and fire in Jiang Sheng's sea of ​​consciousness. It is his natal magic weapon.

Furthermore, the four swords of annihilation, entrapment, and extinction are hidden in the Purple Palace, nurtured by the energy of the Purple Palace, transforming into the four symbols to display divine power, making them unparalleled weapons of attack.

The Azure Lotus Array Diagram and the Six-Tailed Soul Banner are located in Jiang Sheng's dantian. The Azure Lotus Array Diagram swirls within the dantian, while the Six-Tailed Soul Banner stands atop the array diagram. The azure lotus sways and shines, its ink-like aura hazy and profound, thus stabilizing Jiang Sheng's foundation and suppressing his spirit.

Nurturing these seven magical treasures consumed twenty-three strands of Xuanhuang Qi in Jiang Sheng, which was no small amount. However, Jiang Sheng was currently wealthy and powerful, and still had thirteen strands of Xuanhuang Qi available.

Recalling how he broke through the realm of immortals and gods to refine his emptiness and overcome the forty-nine heavenly tribulations to attain the Dao Fruit of the Cave Truth, only thirteen strands of Xuanhuang Qi descended from heaven and earth. Now, after refining various magical treasures, he still has so much Xuanhuang Qi left. Jiang Sheng couldn't help but chuckle: "The workings of fate and creation are truly wondrous."

"Thirteen strands of Xuanhuang Qi, after being used to temper the Dharma Robe, still have a considerable amount left. My physical body may be able to advance further because of this."

Looking at his palm, Jiang Sheng had a slight thought. One by one, the magical artifacts, including the Azure Jade Star-Picking Crown, the Mysterious Lotus Pattern Robe, the Azure Bamboo Cloud Crane Robe, the Bright Jade Glazed Belt, and the Cloud-Swallowing Four-Sided Shoes, were removed from Jiang Sheng's body. Then, Jiang Sheng infused wisps of Xuanhuang Qi into them to temper the magical robe.

This set of magical robes has been used by Jiang Sheng in his battles for a long time, and he will need them in the future. After being tempered, if there is an opportunity in the future, they can be further improved.

As wisps of Xuanhuang Qi flowed into the robes, the original restrictions and spiritual marks on Jiang Sheng's five robes and magical artifacts began to change. Nourished by the Xuanhuang Qi, hazy Daoist charm and mysterious patterns seemed to grow out.

"After refining it, use the remaining Xuanhuang Qi to nourish the physical body. Once this matter is settled, it will be time to attend the banquet at the Pixiang Palace."

"The first Dharma banquet in the Three Realms and the Great Thousand Worlds in two thousand years, and also the grandest banquet since the primordial gathering of all heavens and myriad worlds, it is truly something to look forward to." (End of this chapter)