Lin Tian stood before the Innate Ten-Direction Formation and began refining it!
Since he wanted to cultivate in seclusion without worry, he naturally had to refine this formation into his own innate killing formation first!
"Congratulations! You have devoured a strand of killing energy from an Innate Formation. Evolution points +700." "Congratulations! You have devoured a Dao pattern from an Innate Formation. Evolution points +650."
As Lin Tian began refining the Innate Formation, system notifications rang incessantly in his mind.
Another five thousand years passed.
On this day.
Lin Tian's countless Nine Nether Vines danced up and down like spirit snakes within the Innate Formation, which spanned tens of millions of miles.
At that moment, Lin Tian had finished refining the Innate Formation, making it his own. No living creature could cross its forbidden boundary by even half a step.
Only now was he truly safe and free of worry.
Even if the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God possessed heaven-defying abilities, he could not send his spiritual perception through this seamless Innate Formation, which generated its own laws, to investigate how Lin Tian was refining the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler.
Then Lin Tian carved out a blessed grotto halfway up the Lone Peak, which stood millions of zhang tall.
He entered the cave abode to cultivate in seclusion.
Inside the cave abode.
Lin Tian swayed his twelve divine leaves as he floated lightly in midair. Suddenly, Thirty-Six Paths of treasured light shot out of the Purple Mansion Space within his divine leaves!
These Thirty-Six Paths of treasured light were the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
The Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls arranged themselves in the number of the Celestial Cycle Stars, clustering around the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler like stars surrounding the moon.
Suddenly, divine radiance shone in every direction, manifesting stars and Yin Yang inside the cave abode.
Although the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls had yet to begin working together, they already displayed the rudimentary form of an innate grand formation.
Without hesitation, Lin Tian began refining them.
"Devoured an Origin imprint from the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler. Evolution points +7,000." "Devoured a strand of spiritual energy from a Sea-Calming Divine Pearl. Evolution points +600." "Devoured a strand of Qian Kun energy. Evolution points +550."
This refinement lasted a full hundred thousand years.
Time flew like a shuttle, and the days sped past like arrows.
In the Primordial World, years held no meaning.
Through the scouring passage of those long years, Lin Tian had completely refined the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls!
Next.
He would fuse them with the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and evolve the Thirty-Six Heavens.
At this moment.
Over those hundred thousand years, Lin Tian had long since erased the Heaven-and-Earth Demon God's imprint from the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, which had originally been the demon god's life-bound spiritual treasure.
Moreover, the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler had absorbed Lin Tian's own life-bound energy as the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine.
At this moment.
The Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, now completely refined into Lin Tian's own life-bound spiritual treasure, hovered above his head.
Around the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, Thirty-Six Paths of treasured light orbited in the shifting patterns of the Celestial Cycle Stars.
The two supreme treasures made Lin Tian look like a lofty god reigning above all.
Thirty-Six Heavens Worlds—if I don't fuse them now, what am I waiting for?
After shouting this inwardly, Lin Tian activated the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls simultaneously.
The two supreme treasures whirled madly as they fused!
As the two masses of shimmering, multicolored divine radiance gradually merged...
In an instant.
Rumble!
A thunderous crash sent the entire void shaking violently.
Countless streams of frenzied light converged, taking the shape of an Innate Formation.
"This is the Innate Sea-Covering Formation."
At the heart of the grand formation stood the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, while the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls around it evolved into thirty-six spaces.
Each space formed a Grotto-Heaven World of its own, and each grotto contained its own Qian Kun!
Those thirty-six Qian Kun became thirty-six Myriad Heavens Worlds!
Still not entirely certain, Lin Tian extended a thread of divine sense into the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
Delighted surprise immediately filled his heart!
He discovered that every Sea-Calming Divine Pearl now contained an exceedingly stable Grotto-Heaven World, with each Myriad Heavens World generating its own distinct laws of heaven and earth.
Every Sea-Calming Divine Pearl contained the power of a Myriad Heavens World!
When facing an enemy, he only had to unleash the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, and the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls would strike simultaneously!
Moreover, each divine pearl contained an entire world. Even simply smashing them into his opponent could bludgeon them to death!
If he unleashed all thirty-six Thirty-Six Heavens at once, even a Great Encompassing Golden Immortal could not withstand such monstrous bombardment!
This ability was more than ten times as formidable as the Heaven-Flipping Seal wielded in later ages by Guangchengzi, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable's foremost disciple. After all, this was the Innate Sea-Covering Formation.
As Lin Tian controlled these thirty-six Myriad Heavens Worlds, shock filled his heart.
This was an entirely new power he had encountered, and its might was terrifying beyond compare.
Compared with the enhanced version of [Universe in the Sleeve] that he had previously improved and fused with the system's help, this power was actually similar in terms of laws, but far stronger and easier to control.
With fine control over the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, Lin Tian could make them dance through endless tricks.
At that moment, Lin Tian was confident that if he encountered the Heaven-and-Earth Ancestor's avatar again, he would never let even a thread of the ancestor's Primordial Spirit escape. Before it could flee, he could smash both the avatar and its Primordial Spirit to pieces, then suppress them within the Myriad Heavens Worlds of the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls!
At that moment.
A system notification suddenly rang out in Lin Tian's sea of consciousness:
"Ding! An external power suitable for integration has been detected. Integrating it into the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine will enable a change in form. Does the host wish to proceed?"
Lin Tian was momentarily taken aback. Could this external power be the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls?
He was stunned.
The system was actually asking him to integrate the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls into his Nine Nether Vine body?!
If he merged these two items into his Nine Nether Vine body, he would lose both Spirit Treasures entirely!
Whether the thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, which rivaled an innate supreme treasure, or the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, whose quality had already reached that of a houtian spiritual treasure, both were supreme treasures that could only be encountered by chance, never sought at will, on the Primordial Continent.
Of course, the system would compensate Lin Tian for his loss in another way.
His life form would also undergo an earth-shaking transformation.
Weighing the benefits and drawbacks, Lin Tian sank into deep thought.
No matter how he looked at it.
The Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls were two exceedingly rare supreme treasures.
Once he fused them into himself, he would lose two things he could rely on.
Yet although the power of magical treasures could bolster a cultivator's combat strength and confidence, it was ultimately only external power.
It was nowhere near as reliable or tangible as being strong himself.
If my life form changes after fusing these two supreme treasures into myself, then my bloodline will likewise be perfected and elevated...
After Lin Tian weighed the benefits and drawbacks in his heart.
Lin Tian decided what he should do.
He hesitated no longer and instructed the system to immediately fuse both the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls into his Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine body.
"Fuse them immediately!"
A system notification rang in Lin Tian's mind.
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