Obtaining treasures, strengthening his origin

As the saying went: level up, slay monsters, collect treasures-caves, academies, and auctions.

Lin Tian had never expected that he, too, would get a chance to stumble upon treasures.

But the innate formation before him did not seem so easy to deal with.

The island covered more than three hundred mu, shrouded in white mist that made it impossible to see what lay within.

Small rivers surrounded the island.

The closer Lin Tian got to the island, the more concentrated he found the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him.

"I wonder what treasure it is. If it's an innate supreme treasure, I'll have it made."

Lin Tian suddenly let his imagination run wild.

But he was only saying it casually. Innate supreme treasures generally belonged only to beings with extraordinary origins.

An Innate Spiritual Treasure would be pretty good, too.

As he pondered, Lin Tian swam across the small river and finally set foot on the mysterious island.

The innate formation had no offensive function. Its main purpose was to keep others out.

Lin Tian gathered himself into a small ball, covered his surface with his power, and rolled into the innate formation with ease.

Completely breaking through the formation would require the strength of a Golden Immortal.

But opening a small hole only required the early True Immortal stage.

After entering the island, Lin Tian began exploring slowly.

There were many creatures on the island. Most had yet to develop sentience and possessed nothing but cultivation.

Lin Tian devoured these creatures as he explored.

By sensing the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth, Lin Tian chose the place with the densest spiritual energy on the entire island as his first destination.

It was a small cave.

After entering the cave, Lin Tian indeed found treasures.

Twelve pearls.

Each pearl was a mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

The twelve pearls hovered in the air, subtly aligned with the Heavenly Dao.

"As far as I remember, there aren't any famous pearl-type spirit treasures in the Primordial World. The most famous ones are, of course, Zhao Gongming's Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, but he had twenty-four. The numbers don't match."

Lin Tian watched the pearls as he approached little by little.

During the Investiture of the Gods war, Zhao Gongming had displayed tremendous might with his twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. Had his opponents not possessed the Falling-Treasure Coins, he would certainly have caused Western Qi and its allies enormous trouble.

After the Investiture of the Gods tribulation, the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls fell into Randeng's hands. He eventually joined the Western Religion and used the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls together with the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler to manifest twenty-four Buddhist realms.

He became a mighty Quasi-Saint, second only to the Saints!

That alone showed the power of the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

Lin Tian controlled his vines and swiftly swept up the twelve pearls.

The moment he obtained the twelve pearls, a piece of information appeared in his mind.

They really were Sea-Calming Divine Pearls!

Lin Tian was somewhat surprised.

According to the legends of the Primordial World, gathering all the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls would allow one to set up the complete Innate Sea-Covering Formation.

These twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls had yet to acknowledge a master, so they did not resist Lin Tian.

After obtaining the pearls, Lin Tian immediately went to the cave entrance and swiftly laid down dozens of restrictions.

This would prevent anyone from disturbing him.

Placing the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls before him, Lin Tian began refining them.

In the blink of an eye, three thousand years passed.

At the early True Immortal stage, Lin Tian had only refined three Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

Innate supreme treasures possessed 49 restrictions; top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures possessed 37 to 48 restrictions; high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures possessed 25 to 36 restrictions; mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures possessed 13 to 24 restrictions; and low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures possessed 1 to 12 restrictions.

Acquired spirit treasures had the same number of restrictions as Innate Spiritual Treasures, but because their restrictions were placed upon them after their creation, their power naturally fell short of Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Although the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls in Lin Tian's possession were mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, there were twelve of them. Combined, they naturally formed 36 innate restrictions!

"If my cultivation stays at this level, it'll probably take another nine thousand years to finish refining all these Sea-Calming Divine Pearls," Lin Tian muttered to himself.

"Right, these Sea-Calming Divine Pearls also contain vast amounts of spiritual energy of heaven and earth. I can put that to use!"

Lin Tian stopped refining them. He wanted to raise his cultivation realm first.

It had happened by chance: while refining the second Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, his cultivation had barely improved a little, leaving him just one step shy of the middle True Immortal stage.

He brought out the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls he had already fully mastered.

Vast quantities of spiritual energy immediately surged out of them.

Lin Tian had already sealed off the small cave he occupied.

The spiritual energy throughout the cave gradually condensed into liquid.

It was extraordinarily dense.

At the same time, Lin Tian began absorbing it rapidly.

Absorbed one strand of spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Evolution points +100.

Absorbed one strand of spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Evolution points +100.

Absorbed one strand of spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Evolution points +100.

This time, Lin Tian spent several full months absorbing it.

Early one morning, the system's voice roused him.

Ding! The host's evolution points have reached 10,000. Further evolution is now available. Would the host like to evolve his species?

By now, after absorbing vast amounts of spiritual energy of heaven and earth, Lin Tian's cultivation had risen from the early True Immortal stage to the late True Immortal stage.

He was only one step away from becoming a Profound Immortal.

With his evolution points reaching ten thousand, how could he possibly refuse to evolve?

In the Primordial World, origins and fortune mattered most.

With good origins came good fortune. People might even fight over the chance to take you as a disciple.

As for having good fortune, it was just like Lin Tian's current situation: while wandering around, you might get a chance to obtain a legendary treasure outright.

You could walk out the door and get struck by an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

"I want to evolve. Of course I want to evolve!" Lin Tian replied.

Ding! Evolution requirements have not been met. The host must incorporate one type of origin into his body.

What the hell!?

Wasn't this just getting his hopes up for nothing?

"Then what exactly is an origin, and where can I find one?" Though unhappy, Lin Tian could only question his system for the sake of evolving.

Origin power is mysterious beyond mystery. The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls contain space origin, while immortal cranes contain flight origin within their bodies...

After the system's brief explanation, Lin Tian more or less understood.

It turned out that creatures in the Primordial World all possessed some measure of their own origin within their bodies.

However, the origins of these immortal cranes were extremely weak. Only the origins of ten thousand Heavenly Immortal cranes could merge into a complete origin.

Lin Tian certainly would not overlook what was near to seek what was far away.

The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls contained complete space origin. There was no need for any trouble; he could obtain it with a reach of his hand.

At that thought, Lin Tian looked toward the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls hovering in the air.