Three thousand years passed in the flick of a finger.
Over those three thousand years, Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor, one vine and one beast,
raced ever deeper into the Primordial Continent without stopping for a single step.
During that time, the Little Beast Emperor grew from thirty feet to fifty feet in size.
And within those huge beast eyes, whose cuteness could once melt the hearts of all things, two lightning-like marks had slowly formed over those three thousand years of racing, gleaming within the pupils.
Moreover, before the Little Beast Emperor attacked, those eyes immediately turned into blood-red gems. The instant an attack began, a strange red millstone formed wherever that gaze converged.
Once the phantom of that millstone appeared,
all life within tens of thousands of miles would be devoured by the Bloodstone Millstone!
Even Lin Tian, who knew the secrets of the entire Primordial World inside out, could not work out just what the red millstone condensed by the Little Beast Emperor's eyes actually was.
Even as a mere projected phantom, the red millstone's power rivaled that of a houtian spiritual treasure!
Over those three thousand years,
the more Lin Tian learned about the Little Beast Emperor, the more astonished he became. This Beast Emperor among Primordial Exotic Beasts had origins and innate roots shrouded in mystery.
Had he not known the Little Beast Emperor well enough, Lin Tian might even have wondered whether there was a system inside that body too.
Three thousand years later,
Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor had crossed a boundless lake.
All manner of Primordial Exotic Beasts lived within that lake.
Every one of them had a considerable cultivation level. Those in the Golden Immortal Realm and even the Great Unity Golden Immortal Realm were everywhere.
However, Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor were already as swift as lightning, able to cross tens of thousands of miles in an instant. They had no need to clash head-on with these Primordial Fierce Beasts in the Golden Immortal Realm or below the middle stage of the Great Unity Golden Immortal Realm.
Before those Fierce Beasts discovered any trace of Lin Tian and the little beast, the vine and beast were already far away.
On this day,
Lin Tian stopped.
Before him lay a boundless, peculiar mountain range, shaped like a lotus in full bloom.
At the center of the range, a mountain peak thrust into the sky.
The peak rose untold millions of feet high.
Surrounding that peak was an Innate Ten-Direction Formation, born of heaven and nurtured by earth.
This Innate Ten-Direction Formation enveloped a span of ten million miles!
Lin Tian gazed at the innate formation, his heart swelling with delight.
In his three thousand years of racing across the land, he had not encountered a single innate formation.
Even when he had come across formations, they were acquired formations surrounding the territories of various powers.
At this point, Lin Tian would never take the initiative to provoke such powers.
This innate formation, on the other hand, covered tens of millions of miles.
It was ten times larger than the four innate formations surrounding the Ginseng Fruit Tree and the three immortal islands of Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou combined!
Moreover,
this Innate Ten-Direction Formation manifested a wisp of innate chaos qi and formed a world unto itself. The laws of heaven and earth it unfolded were thousands of times more extensive than those within the Ginseng Fruit Tree's formation!
Lin Tian felt both delighted and conflicted.
Surely other innate mighty beings on the Primordial Continent had already noticed the location of an innate formation like this.
Yet this formation showed not the slightest sign of having been refined.
That proved one thing.
Even mighty beings in the Great Luo Realm could not refine this formation.
But for Lin Tian, who could devour and refine any formation and traverse any void, this formation might as well not have existed.
Lin Tian set aside his reflections.
With a vine, he picked up the Little Beast Emperor, who was sitting beside him like a large dog.
Then he took a single step forward.
The vine and beast effortlessly entered the Innate Ten-Direction Formation that covered tens of millions of miles.
However,
when Lin Tian stepped into the formation,
he discovered
that the endless mountain peaks he had seen from outside the formation suddenly vanished from his sight.
What appeared before him instead was a barren land.
At the center of that barren land, a lone peak thrust into the sky.
This solitary peak rose millions of feet high.
Cautious and steady as he was, Lin Tian
did not immediately begin refining the formation or cultivating.
He spent several full years with the Little Beast Emperor, the vine and beast turning every inch of the tens of millions of miles within this innate formation upside down.
In the end, he discovered
that this ten-direction formation contained no innate Spirit Treasures or magical treasures. Not only were there no Spirit Treasures or magical treasures, but there was not even a single heavenly material, earthly treasure, exotic flower, or rare herb in this barren land spanning tens of thousands of miles.
This left Lin Tian deeply surprised.
But surprise was one thing.
On this day,
Lin Tian used his vines to retrieve the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, which shimmered with a deep blue-green hue, from the Purple Mansion Space within his twelve divine Nine Nether Vine leaves.
Although he had found no treasures within this immense Innate Ten-Direction Formation,
the formation could keep the wisp of the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God's Primordial Spirit imprint, which had been searching for him all this time, outside its bounds.
When Lin Tian once again took the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler out of his Purple Mansion Space after several thousand years,
a measure of delight could not help rising within him.
Rumor had it that the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler were mutually dependent and gave rise to one another. Once combined, they could evolve into the Thirty-Six Heavens Worlds and form the Innate Sea-Covering Formation!
Hundreds of thousands of years earlier,
when Lin Tian obtained the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, he had already finished refining all thirty-six pearls.
Although he could barely wield the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, he would need to refine them further if he wanted to combine them with the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and evolve the thirty-six heavens.
Over these several thousand years,
the reason Lin Tian had been in no hurry to refine the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler
or erase the wisp of the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God's imprint upon it
was chiefly that he had not found a place safe enough to enter secluded cultivation.
And now,
this Ten Directions Innate Grand Formation spanning tens of millions of miles
was unquestionably a sufficiently safe place.
Still, the cautious Lin Tian was not satisfied with relying on an innate formation he had yet to refine.
Before refining the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls together, Lin Tian's first task was to refine this terrifyingly powerful Innate Ten-Direction Formation.
He tossed the Golden Strike Wood out of his Purple Mansion Space.
The Golden Strike Wood, thousands of feet tall, stood before the solitary peak, gleaming with golden light as lightning serpents burst out in all directions.
Then Lin Tian gestured to the little beast.
The Little Beast Emperor immediately understood what Lin Tian meant.
The fifty-foot Little Beast Emperor rushed into the hollow beneath the Golden Strike Wood's roots.
The moment golden light and lightning flashed together, secluded cultivation began.
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