The Jade Emperor and Yang Jian Engage in an Acting Showdown

The first and second-rank Great Celestial Venerables of the Heavenly Court, with their sleeves rolled up, were currently digging foundations, sawing wood, planing lumber, and carving windows…

They looked exactly like a construction crew.

They were all working desperately to build houses for Zhang Yifan.

Where was the slightest trace of the aloof Great Celestial Venerables they usually were?

If the cultivators of the Primordial Era saw this scene, they would surely exclaim in shock, thinking they had seen a ghost.

Great Celestial Venerables building houses for a mortal?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

"Work hard, everyone."

The Jade Emperor urged Wu Qu Xing Jun, Yuan Hong, and the other gods to work diligently on building the houses, and then went to sit down.

Before he could even sit, Zhang Yifan kicked him in the backside.

"What are you sitting down for? Doesn't that big bird need scalding and plucking?"

"Ah? I'm going to scald and pluck it?" the Jade Emperor asked, stunned.

"If you're not going, do you expect your father to go?" Zhang Yifan said impatiently.

The Jade Emperor became dejected. He, the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Haotian Shangdi, the Great Celestial Venerable, was actually going to scald and pluck.

The problem was, he didn't know how to pluck.

He'd never done it before.

"Uncle, I'll help you," Yang Jian quickly stepped in to smooth things over.

"Mm, alright," the Jade Emperor was very pleased with Yang Jian's actions. His great-nephew had always been very perceptive.

Thus, the Jade Emperor and Yang Jian went to fetch water.

The kitchen.

This kitchen was very large, about sixty square meters. In the center was a large cutting table, with a rack for hanging kitchen utensils in the middle.

Dozens of various kitchen utensils and knives hung on the rack, gleaming brightly and catching the eye.

On the other side of the kitchen were numerous ingredients and dried goods.

The Jade Emperor sighed, "This is my father's kitchen for the first time. I didn't expect it to be so big, with so many utensils and ingredients. Even the Emperor's imperial kitchen wouldn't be much more than this."

"Yeah, and look at this cleaver. It looks really good, actually radiating the aura of the ancient Primordial Era." Yang Jian saw an ancient-looking cleaver stuck in a wooden chopping block and couldn't help but praise it. He reached out to pick it up.

But as he grabbed it, Yang Jian froze. He couldn't pull it out.

"Hmm?"

Yang Jian was surprised. What was going on? It was just a cleaver, could it be that heavy?

He tried to pull it out again with more force, but the cleaver on the chopping block remained completely still.

"What the heck is going on?"

Yang Jian was shocked again. It couldn't be, a cleaver, how heavy could it be?

Yang Jian gripped the cleaver's handle with both hands, braced one foot against the table, and pulled with all his might, trying to pull the cleaver out of the chopping block.

He used all his strength, his face turning red from the effort, but he still couldn't pull the cleaver out!

"Ahhh..."

Yang Jian gritted his teeth, pulling and tugging with all his might. The physical strength of a Quasi-Saint at the early stage was unleashed to its extreme, but he still couldn't lift the cleaver.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing Yang Jian struggling to pull out the cleaver, unable to move it, the Jade Emperor asked curiously, "Are you performing street performance art from the mortal world?"

"Great-nephew, your performance art practice is excellent. You're making a light object look like you're lifting something weighing ten thousand tons, and your expression is spot on. Oh, look, even your arm muscles are bulging."

"Your control over your body's muscles has reached an incredibly refined level. Even the Wu Clan, who once cultivated their physical bodies, would marvel at your control."

"Uncle applauds you."

The Jade Emperor said this and actually started clapping.

At that moment, Yang Jian's hand slipped, and he fell to the ground.

"Wonderful, wonderful! This fall further demonstrates the depth of your acting. If your maternal grandfather runs out of money in the future, you can go perform on the streets and earn him a lot of money."

Yang Jian's face flushed with embarrassment. He felt a bit humiliated. What street performance art? He clearly couldn't lift it!

And acting? Control over his body?

"Uncle, you flatter me! Your nephew primarily cultivates his primordial spirit, and my control over my physical body is still very weak, far inferior to yours."

Yang Jian patted his backside, his face not betraying any emotion as he lied, saying this insincerely.

"That's only natural. I have cultivated my physical body," the Jade Emperor said without humility.

"Please, Uncle, enlighten me a little." Yang Jian cupped his hands.

"Then I shall enlighten you." The Jade Emperor did not refuse.

"Watch, you have to do it like this to show that you can lift something heavy with ease." Walking to the chopping board, the Jade Emperor casually reached for the cleaver.

Huh?

He couldn't move it?

The Jade Emperor put a bit more strength into it.

Huh???

Huh huh huh????

What's going on?

The Jade Emperor was shocked. He couldn't even lift a cleaver?

"Nephew, I must admit I am inferior to you in my control over my body!" Yang Jian chuckled inwardly, but still cupped his hands and praised the Jade Emperor.

Good lad!

The Jade Emperor was secretly angered. He thought Yang Jian was showing off, but it turned out this cleaver was strange!

But this blade was truly astonishing.

With his peak Quasi-Saint strength, he couldn't move a cleaver?

The Jade Emperor didn't believe it. He unleashed his Quasi-Saint power, his arm muscles bulging like coiled dragons, gathering immense, unparalleled strength in his arm.

"Lift!"

The Jade Emperor grunted, but no matter how hard he tried, the cleaver remained completely still.

"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!"

Yang Jian clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Uncle, your body refinement skills probably make even the ancient Ancestral Witches sigh in regret! This ability to lift heavy things with ease has reached the pinnacle."

"Uncle's performance art is sure to amaze the world. If Maternal Grandfather runs out of money later, Uncle's skills will definitely earn him vast riches. He could even establish a sect with no problem."

Damn it!

He dared to mock me?

"Get lost!" The Jade Emperor glared at Yang Jian and kicked him.

"Hahahaha!"

Yang Jian dodged with a laugh, his stomach aching from mirth.

The Jade Emperor ignored Yang Jian and stared at the cleaver with shining eyes. "This cleaver is actually so heavy? Even with my peak Quasi-Saint physique, I can't budge it an inch. It's too astonishing."

"Hmph, a mere Quasi-Saint, like an ant, trying to shake this Great Dao Artifact?"

Suddenly, a voice entered the ears of the Jade Emperor and Yang Jian.

Boom!

The Jade Emperor and Yang Jian were greatly shaken, looking at the cleaver before them with disbelief.

Did that cleaver just speak?

Did this cleaver gain a spirit?

A Great Dao spirit?

"Great Dao Artifact?"

The Jade Emperor and Yang Jian were utterly horrified.

This cleaver was actually a Great Dao artifact?

Holy crap!

The Jade Emperor and Yang Jian immediately leaned closer, staring at the cleaver, wanting to sense the existence of the Great Dao Laws.

But no matter how they tried to perceive it, they couldn't feel anything.

"My father is too awesome, a mere cleaver is a Great Dao Artifact?"

"Maternal Grandfather is too terrifying!"

Yang Jian also nodded heavily. "With this treasure, what do we have to fear from Saints? We can just slice them up, like cutting vegetables."

The Jade Emperor and Yang Jian were now filled with unparalleled admiration for Zhang Yifan, respecting him even more.

"Hahahaha, if this cleaver were in my possession, who in this Primordial Era could oppose me?" The Jade Emperor suddenly laughed, overjoyed.

A Great Dao Artifact!

The fragments of Great Dao Laws in the food were already terrifying enough, but they never expected there to be a Great Dao Artifact in the kitchen!

If this supreme treasure were to appear in the Primordial Era, it would surely cause all the Saints, and even Dao Ancestor Hongjun, to fight tooth and nail for it!

At this moment, the Jade Emperor felt even more confident in confronting the entire Primordial Era!

Even if Zhang Yifan, his father, didn't make a move, borrowing some of his treasures would be enough to handle many crises.

"This matter must be kept secret, understand?"

The Jade Emperor said to Yang Jian with great seriousness.

"Yes, Nephew understands."

Yang Jian bowed in response.

Yang Jian naturally understood the weight of this cleaver.

It was an existence that even the Heavenly Dao would fear and be wary of!