Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas

Lin Tian looked at the ten lush, verdant branches of the Ginseng Fruit Tree spirit root laid before him. He did not immediately put them into his Purple Mansion Space.

Lin Tian appeared to have little interest in the ten Ginseng Fruit Tree branches.

Inside, however, he could not help being overjoyed!

Although one branch and ten branches made little difference to him, he could plant and nurture just one of these ten, then devour the remaining nine.

For anyone else, cultivating a Ginseng Fruit Tree would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

But Lin Tian had the Three Lights Divine Water in hand. He only needed to plant any one of the Ginseng Fruit Tree branches in his Purple Mansion Space, then irrigate it with copious amounts of Three Lights Divine Water. With this sacred healing water at his disposal...

As long as Lin Tian was patient, he could foresee a day when he would cultivate another Ginseng Fruit Tree with exactly the same properties in his Purple Mansion Space!

Meanwhile, his apparent lack of interest and his failure to put away the ten Ginseng Fruit Tree branches had already caught the keen-eyed Ginseng Fruit Spiritual Root's attention.

The Ginseng Fruit Tree immediately shook its branches and plucked a ripe, perfectly rounded ginseng fruit from where its foliage grew thickest.

Then it offered the fruit to Lin Tian and respectfully sent him a message through its Spirit Awareness:

"...Fellow Daoist Primordial Azure Vine...I have...only this one ripe ginseng fruit ready for use...I hope you...will not disdain it..."

Of course, fully immersed in his performance, Lin Tian still wore a look of distaste.

Then, as though reluctantly accepting it, he took the ginseng fruit offered by the Ginseng Fruit Spiritual Root.

When his vine caught that large, ripe ginseng fruit...

He still could not help feeling excited.

This was the very first ginseng fruit the Ginseng Fruit Tree had borne since the World-Opening of heaven and earth. Moreover, the potency and effects of this first fruit were over a hundred times greater than those of the fruits that would ripen later!

Of course, despite looking thoroughly disdainful in front of the Ginseng Fruit Tree spirit root, Lin Tian still accepted the large, ripe ginseng fruit with impeccable courtesy.

Then he tossed the ginseng fruit and all ten spirit root branches into his Purple Mansion Space as though throwing away clutter.

Next, looking utterly pained by the expense, he took ten drops of Three Lights Divine Water from his Purple Mansion Space, each shimmering with flowing colors and divine radiance.

The ten drops of Three Lights Divine Water appeared before the Ginseng Fruit Tree spirit root.

The Ginseng Fruit Spiritual Root had cut ten branches from its own body and offered the first ginseng fruit it had borne since the World-Opening of heaven and earth, bringing out everything it possessed. Its ultimate goal had been to exchange them for these ten drops of Three Lights Divine Water from Lin Tian.

At that moment, as the Ginseng Fruit Tree spirit root gazed at those ten drops of Three Lights Divine Water, brimming with boundless spiritual energy of heaven and earth and soothing it in body and mind, excitement stirred within it once more.

It sent Lin Tian another message through its Spirit Awareness: "I...thank you for your gift...Fellow Daoist Primordial Azure Vine..."

Then, immensely excited, it stored the Three Lights Divine Water in its own Purple Mansion Space.

At the same time, the entire Ginseng Fruit Tree trembled uncontrollably with excitement, its leaves fluttering down.

At that moment...

Lin Tian, however, looked deeply pained by the expense.

Compared with the mass he had brought out earlier, these ten drops of Three Lights Divine Water did not amount to even a single hair from nine oxen.

But with Lin Tian so immersed in his performance, how could he possibly fail to look both pained and helpless in front of the Ginseng Fruit Tree? If he was going to act, he might as well see it through to the end.

After all, by Lin Tian's calculations, since he could not erase the Ginseng Fruit Tree's spiritual intelligence—which would one day become Zhen Yuanzi, the Ancestor of Earth Immortals—he had to forge this favorable bond with it.

Now that Lin Tian had achieved his goal and obtained branches from the Ginseng Fruit Tree-

He no longer wanted to linger here. In any case, apart from this Ginseng Fruit Tree spirit root, there were no other usable Spirit Treasures within this Innate Formation.

At the same time, he had sensed a trace of wood origin within the Ginseng Fruit Tree's branches, vigorous beyond measure and surging without end!

With that, he only needed to find somewhere safe and absorb this trace of origin, and he could undergo racial evolution!

Moreover, this time he had truly struck it rich!

After all, he had wandered back and forth across the Primordial Continent for nearly a hundred thousand years before finally finding this trace of wood origin.

Now, with the wood origin, ren water origin, and thunder origin...

All three origins were finally in place.

Lin Tian suppressed his excitement and calmly prepared to leave at once.

Just as he was about to activate his Spatial Divine Ability, Void Traversal...

The Ginseng Fruit Tree suddenly sent another message through its Spirit Awareness:

"Fellow Daoist Primordial Azure Vine...thank you for granting me...such a tremendous opportunity and blessing...allow me to escort you...out of this great formation myself..."

No sooner had the Ginseng Fruit Tree finished speaking...

Than the scenery around Lin Tian, which belonged to the grotto-heaven world within the formation, suddenly changed!

As though the laws of heaven and earth were communicating with one another, the space governed by those laws abruptly twisted.

In an instant, light flashed and shadows swept past as mountains and rivers wheeled and shifted!

A passage leading out to the Primordial Continent opened within the Innate Formation!

This passage would allow Lin Tian to stroll out of the Innate Formation without using his Void Traversal Divine Ability.

"By turning Qian Kun and shifting mountains and rivers?! Altering the independent laws of the grotto-heaven world inside the formation...I never imagined you possessed such a supreme divine ability, Fellow Daoist Ginseng Fruit Tree!"

Seeing the Ginseng Fruit Tree's astonishing Star-River Rotation Divine Ability, Lin Tian could not help praising it.

"Fellow Daoist Primordial Azure Vine...you flatter me...I merely...borrowed the power of my Companion Spirit Treasure, the Earth's Embryonic Membrane...that is why I could display this divine ability...it is not an ability of my own..."

The Ginseng Fruit Tree honestly revealed the truth to Lin Tian.

The Earth's Embryonic Membrane?! In other words, the Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas of later ages?!

Lin Tian was shaken to his core!

He had already been about to stride out of this Innate Formation on his large feet formed from azure vines.

But when he heard the Ginseng Fruit Tree say that its accompanying spiritual treasure was the Earth's Embryonic Membrane...

Only then did he suddenly remember that, according to the Primordial World Secrets, Zhen Yuanzi, the future Ancestor of Earth Immortals, possessed this Companion Spirit Treasure whose power rivaled that of an innate Spirit Treasure: the Earth Book, the Earth's Embryonic Membrane.

The so-called Earth Book had evolved from the embryonic membrane of the Primordial Land.

In this primordial world, there were the Books of the Three Powers: the Heaven Book, the Investiture of the Gods List; the Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas; and the Book of Humanity, the Book of Life and Death!

With Lin Tian's knowledge of the primordial world, he knew full well just how powerful this Earth Book, evolved from the Earth's Embryonic Membrane, would be!