And with this fusion...
Another thousand years passed.
On this day...
"Fused the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler and Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. Divine ability acquired: Thirty-Six Heavens World Divine Power!" "Life-form transformation in progress..."
A thousand years later, the system's notification rang out in Lin Tian's mind as he cultivated in seclusion.
Immediately afterward, streaks of radiant divine light flashed across the divine leaves of Lin Tian's Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine form.
His form immediately began to change.
Since this was not an improvement to his innate foundation, the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine, which had already shrunk to sixty feet, did not change in size.
The only things that changed were the twelve divine leaves on Lin Tian's body.
The divine leaves swayed lightly, enveloped in a sky full of starlight, as new tender leaves gradually took shape.
A full twenty-four new leaves grew.
Together with the original twelve, Lin Tian's Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine now bore thirty-six Nine Nether Vine leaves.
At the same time...
A phantom image of the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler appeared within Lin Tian's chest.
Within the Nine Nether Vine's main stem, it faintly became the central axis connecting the thirty-six Nine Nether Vine leaves.
Within this Qian Kun phantom, the world laws and the dao of Yin Yang of thirty-six different worlds unfolded.
Yet before Lin Tian...
Lay the ashes of the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
And the Innate Spiritual Treasure that had once shimmered with a deep azure aura, the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, had likewise become a length of charcoal.
"That's it?!"
Looking at the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, which had been devoured into ashes, Lin Tian could not help panicking.
He had fused the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler into his body, combining the two supreme treasures into one, but the result did not seem particularly satisfying.
Just twenty-four more leaves and a Qian Kun phantom—and that had cost him two supreme treasures?!
What a terrible deal!
Lin Tian grumbled inwardly without end.
It hurts!
He would have been lying if he said it did not.
No matter how he looked at it, Lin Tian had spent untold effort acquiring the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and the Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler.
Even setting everything else aside, the time alone added up to at least two hundred thousand years.
Now they were gone, just like that.
How could his heart not ache?
Still, heartache or not, life had to go on.
But as the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler turned to ashes and dispersed between heaven and earth...
The spatial origins belonging to the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl and the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, along with the Innate Sea-Covering Formation, vanished as well.
A thought stirred in Lin Tian's mind.
He gently swayed his thirty-six divine leaves.
Rumble!
A vast, overwhelmingly powerful surge of spatial energy suddenly erupted from the Thirty-Six Heavens Worlds within those thirty-six divine leaves!
At the same time...
The cultivation abode Lin Tian had carved out inside this Lone Peak, spanning more than ten thousand miles...
Was immediately burst apart by those thirty-six divine leaves!
Rocks collided wildly throughout the abode, and every stone and all the soil within the mountain were crushed into powder!
They flew into the Myriad Heavens World within the thirty-six divine leaves.
The Lone Peak, a full several million feet tall...
Snapped in half in that instant!
Rumble!
Rumble!
Within the Ten-Directional Innate Formation...
Heaven shook and earth quaked, and everything went dark!
The once-clear heavens were immediately shrouded in boundless dust.
In the blink of an eye...
Lin Tian waved his countless Nine Nether Vines and unleashed his Spatial Traversal divine ability, crossing hundreds of thousands of miles in a single step.
At the same time...
He drew the Golden-Strike Divine Wood, several hundred feet tall and situated beneath Lone Peak Mountain, into the Myriad Heavens World within his thirty-six divine leaves.
At this moment...
The Little Beast Emperor was cultivating in seclusion inside the hollow of the Golden-Strike Divine Wood and would not emerge anytime soon.
If the Lone Peak came crashing down on the Golden Strike Wood, things would really get interesting.
The Lone Peak broke in half.
Though the several-million-foot-tall Lone Peak fell with crushing force, it could not break through the Innate Ten-Direction Formation that Lin Tian had already refined.
The mountain and its shattered rocks crumbled, turning into powder.
And all of this...
Was actually a chain reaction caused by Lin Tian inadvertently waving his thirty-six Nine Nether Vine divine leaves.
Without question, Lin Tian had been completely unprepared for this cascading disintegration.
"Holy shit..."
Lin Tian was utterly stunned.
Just a moment ago...
He had merely swayed the thirty-six divine leaves on his Nine Nether Vine and nearly burst apart the Innate Ten-Direction Formation that covered tens of millions of miles.
As for the Lone Peak, several million feet tall, it had been instantly crushed into powder by the terrifying, all-encompassing Innate Sea-Covering Formation!
At the same time...
He saw...
The rocks and dust left by the Lone Peak immediately transformed into thirty-six distinct stars within the innate formation.
They hung within the innate formation.
The laws that had been chaotic and shrouded in gloom...
At a single thought from Lin Tian...
Immediately began operating throughout the Innate Ten-Direction Formation spanning tens of millions of miles, with fundamental laws formed from the four origins: space origin, Ren water origin, thunder origin, and wood origin.
In an instant, the murky grotto-heaven world regained its lawful order.
At the same time...
All the dust...
Also transformed into countless stars at a single thought from Lin Tian.
They formed thirty-six constellations stretching across those tens of millions of miles, their pinpricks of starlight adorning the dome of the Innate Ten-Direction Formation.
Lin Tian, who moments earlier had been inwardly complaining about destroying two innate supreme treasures...
Now immediately fell into wild delight.
This deal had clearly not been a loss-he had made a killing!
According to the laws of the Primordial World, whenever an Innate Spiritual Treasure or supreme treasure was fused into a race's bloodline, its power would inevitably be greatly diminished.
Even if its power was not greatly diminished, enormous deviations would arise because of differences in the race's innate foundation and bloodline.
For instance, the Innate Sea-Covering Formation had originally been an innate formation created by fusing two supreme treasures.
Once Lin Tian fused it into his own innate bloodline, there was a very high chance it would become an Acquired Water-Covering Formation.
Innate versus acquired.
Sea-covering versus water-covering.
Only two words differed.
Yet the difference was as vast as heaven and earth.
Water-covering could mean the power of a pond, or perhaps that of a small lake.
It could not be mentioned in the same breath as sea-covering.
As the dust left by the Lone Peak became stars adorning the sky above the innate formation...
And began manifesting the laws of heaven and earth belonging to four distinct origins-space origin, Ren water origin, thunder origin, and wood origin...
"Congratulations. You have acquired a heaven and earth origin." "Your evolution progress has reached 10000000/99999999."
Nearly a hundred thousand years had passed since he advanced to the early stage of Great Unity Golden Immortal.
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