And this time...
Lin Tian had managed to enter this Innate Illusion Formation.
He had seen this universe that resembled an apocalyptic wasteland, and the irregular star at its center, shaped like a misshapen ball cactus.
It had to be said that Lin Tian's opportunities and fortune truly placed him among those with the greatest providence in the Primordial World.
Lin Tian gathered his thoughts.
In an instant, he arrived before that strange, irregular spherical star.
The strange thing about this star was that, viewed from afar, it appeared infinitely large.
But having refined the Innate Illusion Formation, Lin Tian could ignore the strange, mystical illusions the star emitted and step directly before it.
As Lin Tian approached, the star suddenly shrank to an incredibly small size.
In a flash, the star contracted to the size of a fingernail and spun before Lin Tian.
At the same time...
Lin Tian spotted a faint little character on the star.
The character shifted endlessly beneath Lin Tian's gaze.
He could sense that it seemed to have compressed every divine ability, all of spacetime, and every dimension into a single character.
At his current cultivation realm, Lin Tian lacked the ability to discern exactly what that character was.
But this did nothing to hinder the wild joy in Lin Tian's heart.
Without hesitation, Lin Tian began refining the strange star before him, which now resembled a fragment of ancient jade!
"Devoured one strand of illusion origin power. Evolution points increased by 7,000." "Devoured one strand of transformation origin power. Evolution points increased by 6,500." "Devoured one strand of good fortune illusion origin power. Evolution points increased by 3,500."
System notifications rang incessantly through Lin Tian's sea of consciousness.
Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, another hundred thousand years passed.
Throughout those hundred thousand years, Lin Tian neither slept nor rested, never moving an inch as he raced against every passing second to refine this Creation Illusion fragment—the elusive "one" that had escaped from the Good Fortune Jade Disc.
A hundred thousand years later...
"Congratulations. You have obtained one strand of good fortune illusion origin." "Your evolution points have reached twenty-three million." "You have collected two types of origin required to advance to Great Encompassing Golden Immortal. Would you like to advance to the middle Great Unity Golden Immortal stage?"
At that moment...
Lin Tian emerged from the mental immersion of a hundred thousand years of cultivation and refinement.
"Advance."
Advancing to the middle Great Unity Golden Immortal stage did not require him to fuse the two origins, nor did it require him to evolve his innate foundation or race.
But once he stepped into the middle Great Unity Golden Immortal stage, his innate foundation would undoubtedly undergo a tremendous change.
Rumble!
Thirty-six stars suddenly rose around Lin Tian.
An indistinct projection of the Heaven-and-Earth Yin-Yang Great Dao stood amidst those thirty-six stars, unshakable as the divine needle that anchored the seas.
Those thirty-six stars were Lin Tian's thirty-six divine leaves.
The indistinct projection of the Heaven-and-Earth Yin-Yang Great Dao was Lin Tian's true body, the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine.
In an instant...
The once-indistinct projection of the Heaven-and-Earth Yin-Yang Great Dao abruptly seemed to take on substance.
The thirty-six stars that had orbited the Heaven-and-Earth Yin-Yang Great Dao suddenly blazed with vast, endlessly renewing vitality!
The projection of the Heaven-and-Earth Yin-Yang Great Dao suddenly seemed to become tangible.
For a strand of the good fortune illusion Great Dao had been added to the projection of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao!
At that moment...
The thirty-six stars Lin Tian unleashed could turn from illusion into reality, smashing any opponent into powder.
They could also turn from reality into illusion, their movements unfathomable even to gods and ghosts.
All these transformations depended on a single thought from Lin Tian.
Lin Tian laughed heartily, immensely satisfied with what he had gained this time.
His cultivation had also risen to the middle Great Unity Golden Immortal stage.
His advancement could hardly be called slow.
Amid his wild delight, Lin Tian also became certain of one thing: his current abilities were enough to crush all opposition in a region of the Primordial World!
Over these hundred thousand-odd years...
Lin Tian had gained a great deal within the Innate Ten-Direction Formation.
Next, it was time to travel through the Primordial Central Continent.
With a shift of his thoughts, Lin Tian stepped out of the Ten-Direction Formation, which spanned tens of millions of miles and had now become his personal innate formation.
Once Lin Tian stepped beyond its tens of millions of miles, the countless nine nether vines he had buried in the cave abode beneath Lone Peak Mountain immediately coiled up and brought out the Golden-Strike Divine Wood.
Then, from the hollow in the divine tree, out walked the Beast Emperor, who had spent over a hundred thousand years cultivating in seclusion!
Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!
The Beast Emperor had absorbed every last trace of metal qi and lightning qi from the Golden-Strike Divine Wood!
The Beast Emperor had stood nine zhang tall before entering seclusion, but its body had not grown any larger.
Instead, it remained nine zhang in size.
Out of habit, Lin Tian used his vines to make a gesture before the Beast Emperor.
It meant: head for Mount Buzhou on the Primordial Central Continent.
In the Primordial World of today, fierce beasts ran rampant and great battles erupted everywhere.
Only Mount Buzhou retained its sacred image as an untouched sanctuary.
Besides, Mount Buzhou held many opportunities. Going there to try their luck would be an excellent choice.
The Beast Emperor roared twice, then stretched out its two-zhang-wide paw and gestured three or four times before Lin Tian.
It meant that it, too, greatly longed to visit Mount Buzhou.
With that, they set off at once.
Rather than using his divine ability to traverse the void as he had before, Lin Tian rode on the back of the nine-zhang Beast Emperor, setting off for the Central Continent in an instant.
Having completely absorbed all the accumulated power of metal and wood within the Golden-Strike Divine Wood, the Beast Emperor could move just as quickly as Lin Tian's innate divine ability to traverse the void.
In the blink of an eye, they covered hundreds of thousands of miles.
After the Beast Emperor absorbed all the power of the Golden Strike Wood in the cave abode on the lone peak within the Innate Ten-Direction Formation...
The Beast Emperor looked imposing indeed. Its eyes shone with keen light, its fangs lay fully exposed, and its body was exceptionally robust and majestic. In particular, the blood-red millstone mark between its brows had grown even more vivid and brilliant, emanating a faint, uncanny divine radiance.
Although Lin Tian knew that the Little Beast Emperor's growth had much to do with absorbing the Golden Strike Wood, an innate material...
He also recalled the primordial variant that the Heaven-and-Earth Ancestor's avatar had mentioned back then.
Primordial World variants grew at astonishing speeds and possessed extremely powerful bloodlines. Otherwise, the Beast Emperor could never have made such terrifying progress in a mere two hundred thousand-odd years.
At the same time, Lin Tian even had a faint premonition.
When he had met the Little Beast Emperor hundreds of thousands of years ago, it had already survived the Nine Heavens Azure Lightning Tribulation and reached the peak Supreme Golden Immortal level.
And at present, there were only two paths to attaining Great Encompassing Golden Immortal on the Primordial Continent.
Then Lin Tian's little companion, the Little Beast Emperor...
It must have already settled on its path of advancement long before meeting Lin Tian: relying on its innate foundation as a Primordial World variant, it would ultimately attain the fruition of Great Encompassing Golden Immortal by advancing that innate foundation!
At the thought, Lin Tian could not help chuckling.
He patted the little beast's furry head, which was a full three zhang across.
"Little Beast Emperor, on this trip to Mount Buzhou, would you like to make a bet with me on which of us will step into the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm first?"
Roar! Roar! Roar!
Even as it raced along like lightning, the Little Beast Emperor did not forget to turn its enormous head and roar a few times at Lin Tian.
It meant that the Little Beast Emperor did not want to make that bet with Lin Tian. Even if it could advance to the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm first, it would stop and wait for Lin Tian, the straggler, to catch up, so they could step into Great Luo together.
You looking down on me?
Lin Tian was so annoyed that he laughed.
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