A faint smile rose on Lin Tian's face.
For him, the Spirit Vine True Self, his arrival in this Primordial World Plane had merely been a matter of using Daoist Hongjun as a bridge into this plane. His immediate purpose was to merge his Spiritual Bright Stone Monkey Spirit Vine avatar in this plane into his Original Self's Sea of Consciousness, thereby merging with and devouring this plane's Journey to the West Calamity.
After all, this plane's Karmic Calamity had already reached its end. Even if he continued making changes, he could not truly alter the established outcome of the changes in the Journey to the West Calamity plane.
With the course already set, he had no need to expend further effort.
If he pushed too far, the power would immediately collapse.
Lin Tian's Original Self had always exercised precise restraint in such matters. He would never lightly allow them to affect his Original Self.
"I, Daoist Hongjun, thank you, Spirit Vine Daoist Friend, for your assistance with the Great Dao! You and I first met by the wayside, but after working together several times, you have become both a teacher and a friend in my heart! Words of thanks cannot repay such a great kindness. If I attain Great Dao Singularity, you will forever be my teacher, Spirit Vine Daoist Friend."
At that moment.
That indescribable, pitch-black mass of flesh collapsed in an instant into Daoist Hongjun's usual appearance as the Dao Ancestor of the Daoist School.
Within the Purple Heaven Palace, he solemnly bowed to Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian, clasping his hands as he spoke those words.
As Daoist Hongjun spoke to Lin Tian.
He drew a faint, flickering figure out of the Sea of Consciousness between his brows. It was a human figure steeped in the