Awooo! Awooo! Awooo!
The Little Beast Emperor once again circled the golden-strike divine wood, flying up and down around its azure lightning and golden radiance.
There was no doubt about it.
The Little Beast Emperor loved this golden strike wood, with its lightning and western refined-metal attributes, from the bottom of its heart.
As for the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, which Lin Tian had already stored in his Purple Mansion Space and which was still evolving the Primordial World's Yin-Yang Great Dao, the Little Beast Emperor had no interest in it whatsoever.
At that moment.
Lin Tian recalled his earlier promise to the Little Beast Emperor: once they obtained the golden-strike divine wood, he would give it a great reward.
After all, the Little Beast Emperor had led him here, allowing him to obtain this fortuitous opportunity.
Since that was the case, there was nothing wrong with rewarding the little beast with the divine wood.
It also suited Lin Tian's usual generous, openhanded ways.
And now.
Lin Tian's most pressing task was to find another cave abode.
He needed to refine the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler he had obtained.
Especially the heaven-and-earth origin within the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler.
The heaven and earth origin was, at its root, the yin-yang two principles.
Divided, it could transform into the four symbols.
United, it could form taiji!
Although this origin would become fixed as heaven and earth origin once refined.
Before refining it, Lin Tian could comprehend the Dao of Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang within it. Whether united or divided, both were paths of cultivation that reached to the heavens in the Primordial World.
After Lin Tian entered the great unity golden immortal realm,
He began pondering the principles of the Great Dao and his own path.
Clearly, in the Primordial World he had known in his previous life, before Daoist Hongjun merged his body with the Heavenly Dao, there had been only two paths to becoming a Great Luo.
One was to be an innate great encompassing golden immortal.
"Innate" meant having already attained the Great Luo realm before Pan Gu’s World-Opening.
Yet only a scant few Chaos Demon Gods had escaped alive from beneath Pan Gu's Heaven-Opening Axe.
And just now.
The true body of the Heaven-and-Earth Daoist who had fought Lin Tian.
Belonged to the ranks of innate great encompassing golden immortals.
Although the suppression of the Primordial World had demoted him from Chaos Great Luo to the Great Luo realm.
His actual abilities still reached the Two Blossoms in Bloom stage of the Chaos Great Luo realm!
Aside from the innate Great Luo path, where one's innate Origin had already reached the Great Luo realm.
The other path was to become a merit great encompassing golden immortal.
During each immeasurable calamity, any race of the Primordial World that propped up the collapsing edifice and caused the world-destroying calamity to vanish without a trace could immediately advance from great unity golden immortal to the Great Luo realm!
These were great encompassing golden immortals attained through Great Dao Merit!
In other words, before the Primordial World's immeasurable calamity had begun.
Almost every route by which the creatures of the Primordial World could reach the Great Luo realm was closed.
One depended on birth, the other on merit.
Apart from those two paths, there was no third.
Only after Daoist Hongjun endured the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, fought a great battle against Luo Hou of the Devil Race, attained the heavenly dao saint realm, and merged his body with the Heavenly Dao would he teach, in the Purple Heaven Palace, a method for directly attaining the quasi-saint, Great Luo, and Chaos Great Luo realms through the Three Corpse Severance Method.
Only after Daoist Hongjun did a cultivation path into the Great Luo Realm, and even one leading straight to the Chaos Great Luo, open up.
At that moment, Lin Tian gathered his thoughts.
Then he looked in the direction where the Heaven-and-Earth Ancestor's primordial spirit had departed.
This battle with the Heaven-and-Earth Ancestor.
Had actually been Lin Tian's first great battle against someone in the great unity golden immortal realm since arriving in the Primordial World.
The Heaven-and-Earth Daoist, who stood two full realms above him at peak supreme golden immortal, had ultimately still fallen to him.
This gave Lin Tian tremendous confidence in his divine abilities and magical treasures.
Lin Tian collected the golden strike wood.
Then he stored the golden strike wood, which stood several hundred zhang tall, in the Purple Mansion Space within the Nine Nether Vine's divine leaf.
Awooo! Awooo! Awooo!
When Lin Tian placed the golden strike wood in his Purple Mansion Space.
The Little Beast Emperor, which had been leaping up and down around this Golden Strike Wood, would have none of it.
Its enormous, millstone-sized head.
Rubbed back and forth against the Nine Nether Vine that Lin Tian had transformed into his feet, over and over.
In this way, it expressed its displeasure at Lin Tian storing the golden strike wood in his Purple Mansion Space.
Lin Tian could not help being amused by the Little Beast Emperor's actions.
He sent the little beast a message through his Spirit Awareness: "Little Beast Emperor, what's the rush? Your own Purple Mansion Space isn't stable enough yet. Even though you've reached peak supreme golden immortal, the aftershocks of the Tribulation Lightning still haven't dissipated within it. If I placed this golden strike wood inside, it would suffer the nine heavens azure thunder tribulation again and be blasted to ash the instant it entered. Once you can freely control the changes in the lightning within your Purple Mansion Space, this golden-strike divine wood can be transplanted there."
Once Lin Tian said this.
Awooo, awooo, awooo...
The Little Beast Emperor leaped for joy again.
Lin Tian was in no hurry to leave this withered forest, which had become a barren wasteland stretching tens of thousands of li.
Instead, utterly calm, he gazed into the misty, distant depths of the Primordial World.
In the depths of the Primordial World, a strand of Spirit Awareness was probing him.
Clearly, this Spirit Awareness belonged to the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God, the true body behind the Heaven-and-Earth Ancestor's avatar!
But this strand of Spirit Awareness was exceedingly cautious.
The instant Lin Tian detected it, the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God's Spirit Awareness vanished without a trace!
It withdrew an unknown number of millions of li away, disappearing into the misty depths of the Primordial World.
Without hesitation, Lin Tian made a gesture that both he and the Little Beast Emperor understood to the little beast crouching beside him, over three zhang tall.
Then he unleashed his Void Traversal divine ability, heading in the opposite direction into the depths of the Primordial World.
In an instant.
He left the birthplace of the golden strike wood.
No matter how one looked at it.
Lin Tian had seized this Heaven-and-Earth Ruler from the Heaven-and-Earth Ancestor's avatar.
Alongside his secret delight, he still felt some unease.
After all, he had already drawn the attention of the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God, an innate mighty being of the Primordial World, an innate demon god whose cultivation had reached chaos great encompassing golden immortal.
Moreover, what he had seized was no ordinary magical treasure, but the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God's bonded spirit treasure, the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler.
This was a feud over their paths, one that would end only in death!
It was easy to foresee.
Even if the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God had not erupted into action against Lin Tian now, he would certainly come looking for him in the near future, and the two would have a proper showdown.
As Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor fled far away, several thousand years passed.
Lin Tian wanted to find a peaceful, safe place to enter seclusion and cultivate.
But he also had to get far away from the withered forest where the golden strike wood had stood.
At the very least, he had to get beyond the reach of the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God's Spirit Awareness.
After all, what Lin Tian intended to do next.
Was erase the trace of the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God's bonded imprint left on the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler!
Then he would refine the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler!
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