Although Lin Tian could not understand why this little beast's Tribulation Lightning for the Great Unity Golden Immortal Realm had been so perilous, so terrifying.
The Tribulation Lightning sent down by the Heavenly Dao had clearly been intended to put the little beast to death.
But no matter how he looked at it, this little beast had survived this Tribulation Lightning with his help. That meant they shared a fated connection.
He sent a strand of Spirit Awareness to the little beast. "Little fellow, your aptitude is extraordinary. Your future achievements will be no less than those of the current beast soul, Shen Ni! How about this? I'll give you a name: Beast Emperor. From now on, you'll roam the Primordial World with me and witness all the myriad faces of life. What do you think?"
Awoo, awoo!
The little Beast Emperor happily spun around in the hammock of green vines, clearly delighted with the name "Beast Emperor."
This little beast was the first companion Lin Tian had met in the Primordial World.
However, he had only obtained the ren water origin and thunder origin so far. He still needed one more to gather three origins.
Once he had gathered all three, he could immediately complete the system's evolution mission and evolve his race.
What followed was a long search for the third origin.
Even though Lin Tian's Spatial Divine Ability, Void Traversal, had already reached the point where he could cross tens of thousands of miles of space in an instant.
But.
The Primordial Continent was boundless, stretching endlessly in every direction.
Even with Lin Tian's Void Traversal ability at the Golden Immortal Peak, he could cover tens of thousands of miles in a single step.
He remained as insignificant as a speck of dust upon this Primordial Continent.
This journey with the little Beast Emperor lasted another tens of thousands of years.
Thirty thousand years later.
Lin Tian still had not found the third origin he wanted.
On this day.
He finally halted his ceaseless journey.
He had passed through a deep, deserted valley.
Possessing a Spatial Divine Ability, Lin Tian immediately sensed highly unusual spatial fluctuations within the valley.
With a thought, Lin Tian traversed space toward the valley.
At that moment.
Before the Quiet Mountain Valley, he discovered an innate formation that enveloped hundreds of thousands of miles around it.
Upon seeing this innate formation, born and nurtured by heaven and earth, naturally evolved from the laws of the world.
Lin Tian was immediately overjoyed.
Without a doubt, any place shrouded by an innate formation was certain to conceal treasures.
After all, over the past hundreds of thousands of years, Lin Tian had refined three innate formations, turning Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou-the three islands later generations would call supreme immortal islands-into his private possessions.
Now, facing this innate formation.
Lin Tian, whose Spatial Divine Ability, Void Traversal, had reached an extremely high level of mastery, could afford to regard it with disdain.
With a thought, he activated Void Traversal.
Taking the little beast reclining behind him along, he passed through the innate formation and entered it as easily as strolling through a courtyard.
Inside this innate formation was a grotto-heaven world distinct from the Primordial World.
The grotto-heaven world possessed its own independent set of laws governing its workings.
As Lin Tian stepped into this world, an array of wondrous phenomena unlike those of the Primordial World greeted him.
At the same time, the green vines on Lin Tian's body trembled incessantly.
The spiritual root planted within this grotto-heaven world had instantly shocked him speechless!
"Ginseng fruit?!"
Lin Tian gazed at the lush tree before him, its branches laden with plump, sizable humanoid fruits shaped like babies, and immediately recognized the spiritual root's origins.
This truly was unexpected!
He had thought he might find a spiritual treasure within this innate formation, something like the Twelfth-Grade World-Purifying White Lotus, the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, or the Black Water Flag of the Five Innate Directional Banners.
He had never expected that this innate formation hidden within the Quiet Mountain Valley would actually shelter the place where Ginseng Fruit grew and cultivated!
According to Journey to the West, ginseng fruit was also known as the Grass-Return Pellet. It flowered once every three thousand years, bore fruit after another three thousand years, and required a further three thousand years to ripen. Only after ten thousand years could it be eaten.
And over those ten thousand years, this ginseng fruit tree could produce only thirty fruits.
Each fruit looked just like a newborn baby, with all four limbs and every facial feature.
If a mortal merely caught a whiff of this Grass-Return Pellet, they could live for three hundred and sixty years.
If they were blessed with fortune as vast as the heavens and ate a ginseng fruit, they could live for forty-seven thousand years!
Of course, those effects were what Journey to the West recorded.
Yet the author of Journey to the West was no immortal, merely a mortal. Thus, rather than exaggerating the effects of the Grass-Return Pellet, or ginseng fruit, he had actually understated them.
Rustle!
Rustle!
Just as Lin Tian blurted out his startled cry at the sight of the ginseng fruit.
The Ginseng Fruit spiritual root sensed Lin Tian's call. Swaying, the spiritual root transmitted a faint, indistinct strand of Spirit Awareness:
"What exactly is ginseng fruit? I am an innate spiritual root... the Grass-Return Pellet."
He already has Spirit Awareness?!
At that moment, Lin Tian felt a slight jolt of surprise.
Lin Tian knew full well the origins and foundation of this Ginseng Fruit.
According to legend, the strand of Spirit Awareness born within the Grass-Return Pellet, Ginseng Fruit, eventually attained the Dao through cultivation.
He ultimately assumed a physical form, and the being born from that intelligence became Zhen Yuanzi, the renowned Patriarch of Earth Immortals in the history of the Primordial World!
For a moment, countless thoughts rose in Lin Tian's mind.
Clearly, the Spirit Awareness transmitted from the Ginseng Fruit spiritual root had come from Zhen Yuanzi.
That being the case, Lin Tian could only quietly abandon his original plan to transplant this Ginseng Fruit into his Green Leaf Grandmist Purple Mansion space.
After all, this Ginseng Fruit spiritual root had already developed intelligence. Although that fledgling intelligence did not yet know his own foundation or origins, if Lin Tian forcefully erased him, it would inevitably affect the karma of future generations and thereby violate the Heavenly Dao!
If that happened, Lin Tian would incur tremendous karma, ultimately becoming entangled in karmic bonds that would be difficult to resolve.
At that thought, Lin Tian felt a little unhappy.
Angry.
No matter how he looked at it.
He had entered this innate formation and discovered the Ginseng Fruit spiritual root, yet he could not erase the intelligence already born within it. Erasing that intelligence would mean that Zhen Yuanzi, the future Patriarch of Earth Immortals, would vanish because Lin Tian had wiped out the spiritual root's intelligence.
That would leave him entangled in the karma of future generations.
But disappointment was one thing.
Another thought arose in Lin Tian's mind: Erasing the spiritual root's intelligence would violate the Heavenly Dao. But if I take a branch from the Ginseng Fruit tree and transplant it into my own Green Leaf Purple Mansion space, that shouldn't incur any karma, should it?
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