Family cultivation of immortality: from Fairy Cat Valley to the Nine Divine Realms

When Zhang Xuan returned from the Sea of ​​Oblivion, his face was ashen, and his immortal essence was almost completely depleted.

Seeing that his breath was weak, Jiao'er's icy eyes flashed with a cold light.

"Husband..."

"It's alright, it's just that I've consumed too much energy." Zhang Xuan took an eighth-order golden pill and only recovered after the medicinal effects dissipated. "I'll summon the other True Immortals immediately; I have important news to tell you."

Three days later.

Deep within the Ice Soul Immortal Palace, six figures sat in rows.

Zhang Xuan and Jiao'er sat side by side in the main seat.

The others were You Wuyai, Human Emperor Wei Yuxuan, the blue-haired old man who had transformed into a ninth-order ancient whale, and the Heavenly Eclipse Ancestor.

"The Holy Ancient Heavenly Dragon is not dead. The Nine Divine Realms are merely the outer skin of its corpse. The central ancestral vein is deep within the Heavenly Dragon's spine..."

When Zhang Xuan revealed all the information about the old man in red robes, the dojo fell into a deathly silence.

After a long silence, the Celestial Ancestor said, "If that dragon is truly resurrected, wouldn't all our lifelong cultivation be for nothing but benefiting others?"

“The prophecy is just a prophecy.” You Wuyai’s voice was unusually calm. “But the resources of the Central Ancestral Vein are real. The Nine Divine Realms are becoming increasingly scarce in cultivation resources for those above the True Immortal level. If we do not find another way out, our cultivation will be trapped here sooner or later.”

“What Immortal Lord Wuya says is absolutely right.” The blue-haired elder, who had transformed into a ninth-order ancient whale, slowly spoke. “There are fragments of records in the inherited memories of the Ancient Desolate Whale Clan. In the secret realm of the organs of the Holy Ancient Heavenly Dragon, there may indeed be rare treasures from the Holy Ancient period, and even… complete fragments of the Heavenly Dragon Law.”

Human Emperor Wei Yuxuan nodded and said, "In that case, we must go, but how do we break through the barrier?"

All eyes eventually fell on Zhang Xuan.

With a thought, Zhang Xuan manifested a phantom image of the Chaotic Divine Sea behind him, and the Immortal Path stretched out before him. The Immortal Gate, guarded by nine dragon shadows, slowly emerged.

As soon as the immortal sect emerged, the spatial laws of the entire Daoist temple began to tremble.

“My path to immortality leads to this gate,” Zhang Xuan said in a deep voice. “The old man in red robes once said that I have a secret connection between my path to immortality and the origin of the Heavenly Dragon. If I can completely solidify the nine illusory dragons on the Nine Dragon Wall, I might be able to open the gate to immortality and draw upon its deeper power, directly connecting to the depths of the Heavenly Dragon organ interface.”

"The Nine Dragon Wall? A legendary sacred object that can connect to the nine major dragon veins?" Even Emperor Wei Yuxuan couldn't help but be moved.

“Exactly.” Zhang Xuan nodded. “But all nine divine dragon phantoms need to be fully solidified. We are still missing one. Solidifying the remaining divine dragon phantom is not difficult for me, but it will take time.”

"Then let's wait until the Immortal Gate opens, and then we'll all enter it together," Jiao'er said.

"Okay," everyone said in unison.

Zhang Xuan returned to the secret realm of the Immortal Gourd World

Within his chaotic divine sea, the immortal path stretched out like a dragon.

On the path to immortality, runes flow and the laws of the Dao manifest, among which are the locations where the Dharma Image is imprinted.

"The Supreme Dharma Form governs all spirits... The Time-Dwelling Mother Insect has now reached the peak of the eighth rank, only one step away from the ninth rank."

Zhang Xuan's thoughts raced as he turned his gaze to the hazy Beast Taming Realm on the Immortal Path.

Within the illusory realm, three enormous figures appeared and disappeared.

The Divine Winged Demon Bird has a wingspan of a thousand feet, and every feather is imprinted with ancient demonic patterns. As its wings flap, dark golden ancestral tribulation energy flows.

The King of Fungi crawls like a mountain range, with four illusory royal courts floating around it.

Between the two, the Time-Dwelling Mother is the largest.

It was no longer the mother worm that could only devour lifespan. After devouring the lifespan remnants of several Mahayana cultivators, its entire body turned into a translucent amber color, and countless fine time patterns naturally grew on its body.

Even more amazingly, a vertical pupil-like slit appeared on the back of the Time-Dwelling Mother Beetle, which was the Time Eye it evolved.

What flowed in his eyes was the sands of time that had almost solidified into substance.

“Three peak eighth-tier beasts, each with the potential to reach the ninth tier,” Zhang Xuan pondered. “But if we follow the proper path, it will take at least several thousand years of arduous cultivation. Perhaps…”

An idea took shape in my mind.

He connected with the path to immortality through his thoughts, and the mark of the Supreme Dharma Image slowly lit up on the path.

It was an extremely complex Dao diagram, in which myriad beasts galloped, each beast's shadow being the ultimate evolution of some kind of Beast Taming Dao.

"Using the Immortal Path as a guide and the Dao Diagram as a furnace, we fuse the essence of the three beasts to forge a ninth-tier immortal insect!"

Zhang Xuan formed hand seals, and the chaotic divine sea surged instantly.

The thirteen side branches of the Great Tree shone with dazzling brilliance.

"Supreme Dharma Image, open!"

With a shout, Zhang Xuan caused the Beast Taming Void Realm to detach from the Immortal Path and float above the Chaos Divine Sea.

The moment the Beast Taming Realm unfolded, all beasts howled and all birds fell silent.

A domineering aura, capable of ruling over heaven and earth and all living beings, spread out.

The Time-Dwelling Mother Insect, the Divine Winged Demon Bird, and the Fungal Insect King—three peak eighth-tier demonic beasts—simultaneously sensed the summons.

"Shi Qi, take the throne!"

Zhang Xuan designated it.

The Time-Dwelling Mother Insect emitted a joyful hiss, and its enormous body transformed into a stream of amber light, disappearing into the empty Master position in the center of the Supreme Dharma Diagram.

The moment it merged, the entire Beast Taming Void Realm trembled violently!

The phantom images of countless beasts simultaneously paid homage to the center, while the phantom images of hundreds of birds circled and danced, and the phantom images of swarms of insects prostrated themselves in submission!

"Divine Winged Demon Bird, Fungal King, offer your essence!"

Zhang Xuan drank again.

"Wow—"

The divine-winged demon bird cried out, its wings suddenly spreading wide to their maximum extent.

Instead of attacking, it started burning!

Each dark gold feather was engulfed in pure gold flames, the flames of its innate essence.

Within the flames, its thousand-foot-tall body began to melt, transforming into the purest primordial demonic energy, ancient demonic patterns, and the laws of wind and thunder...

All the essence flowed towards the Beast Taming Void Realm.

The same applies to the King of Fungi.

Its four illusory royal courts shattered with a roar, transforming into four-colored torrents of primordial energy that surged into the Beast Taming Realm.

The Beast Taming Void Realm is frantically devouring the essence of two peak eighth-tier demonic beasts.

In the center of the Beast Taming Realm, the amber light transformed from the Time-Dwelling Mother Insect grew increasingly intense.

It began to transform.

The originally translucent amber-colored carapace began to crystallize, and natural Dao runes appeared on each piece of carapace.

These runes are Dao pattern armor that naturally evolved after it devoured the essence of the two great demon beasts.

The insect's body is also elongating and undergoing metamorphosis.

From a bulky, mother-like form, it evolved towards a more slender form.

The Time Eye, which had split open on its back, began to expand, evolving from a single vertical pupil into three compound eyes.

Its left eye is dark gold, containing the ancestral demonic energy of the Divine Winged Demon Bird.

The right eye is a chaotic color, containing the four laws of the fungal insect king.

A miniature river of time flows through the central main eye.

The original head of the Time-Dwelling Mother Beetle began to bulge, and two pairs of curved, crystalline dragon horns grew out.

On the dragon's horns, patterns of time and space intertwine, and the faint sound of a dragon's roar echoes.

The mouthparts also evolved from serrated teeth that gnawed at lifespan to a more majestic beak of spacetime, with a rotating spacetime vortex visible inside as the beak opens and closes.

When the transformation reached a critical moment, Zhang Xuan made his move.

He took a step forward and entered the Beast Taming Void Realm, then touched his brow with his right index finger.

A drop of golden-red semen seeped out.

This is not ordinary essence blood, but rather the Dao source essence blood containing the fundamental source of his Immortal Burial.

The essence and blood dripped down, hitting the molted body of the maturing mother insect.