In truth, it was hardly surprising that the Little Beast Emperor believed Lin Tian could not surpass it in a short time and step straight into the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.
The Little Beast Emperor was a rare species of the Primordial World.
The moment its spiritual intelligence awakened, it had been subjected to endless lightning tribulations.
Once those tribulations passed, it was already at the peak supreme golden immortal level.
Only a single opportunity separated it from the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.
One could say it could step into the ranks of Great Encompassing Golden Immortals at any moment.
Brimming with pride all along the way, the Little Beast Emperor carried its master, Lin Tian, on its back and raced west toward the Central Continent with an unrivaled imposing air.
Traveling from here to the Central Continent of the Primordial World...
Without a landmark or a direction to follow, one would lose track of where one was within two days of wandering.
But Lin Tian possessed Earth's Embryonic Membrane and the Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas. Naturally, there was no chance of him losing his bearings or taking the wrong road.
By now, hundreds of thousands of years had passed since Lin Tian left the Three Immortal Islands, crossed the Eastern Sea, and set foot on the Primordial Continent.
According to the records in the Earth Book, the place where Lin Tian first landed on the Primordial Continent was considered part of the Primordial World's Eastern Outskirts.
The place where Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor met was also in the Primordial World's Eastern Outskirts.
They had been heading west ever since.
The withered forest where they harvested the Golden Strike Wood still lay within the Primordial World's Eastern Outskirts.
In other words...
Lin Tian's current location lay on the border between the Eastern Outskirts and the Primordial World's Eastern Continent.
There was no telling how far the journey from the Eastern Continent to the Central Continent would be.
Even the Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas could not directly indicate an exact distance.
The distances marked in the Earth Book were generally calculated using the time it would take a heavenly immortal, the lowest-ranked creature in the Primordial World, to traverse them.
According to the Earth Book, a heavenly immortal creature of the Primordial World would need ten million years to cross the Eastern Outskirts from east to west.
As for the Eastern Continent, a creature of the Primordial World at the Heavenly Immortal Realm would need thirty million years to cross that region from east to west.
Standing at the easternmost edge of the Eastern Continent, Lin Tian could not help feeling speechless when he saw that distance.
To him, that distance was rather absurd.
Even though both he and the Little Beast Emperor were already Great Unity Golden Immortals, incomparable to heavenly immortal creatures of the Primordial World.
Still...
At his fastest, he was only about a hundred times faster than a heavenly immortal Primordial World Creature.
With that in mind, he no longer felt like arguing with the Little Beast Emperor beneath him about which of them would reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm first.
He patted the Little Beast Emperor on the head, then raced off toward the west.
However...
Before leaving, there was a stalk of Golden Strike Wood that Lin Tian had stored in the Myriad Heavens World within the Thirty-Six Divine Leaves.
To his surprise, Lin Tian discovered that this stalk of Golden Strike Wood, which the Little Beast Emperor had drained into dregs, actually contained a strand of Geng Metal Origin!
With that...
He only needed to gather seven kinds of origin, and once his evolution points reached one hundred million, he could step straight into the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm!
Before they knew it, tens of thousands of years had passed.
On this day...
An exceedingly bizarre scene unfolded in the Primordial World's Eastern Continent.
Deep within Eastern Continent Mountain, on the Primordial World's Eastern Continent.
Amid boundless mountain forests.
A Nine Nether Vine roughly thirty feet in size, glowing with a faint blue light, took human form and rode on the back of an exceptionally ferocious Thunder Beast ninety feet in size.
They raced wildly onward, golden light flashing amid lightning and thunder!
One vine and one beast chased a Six-Headed Demon Phoenix at the peak supreme golden immortal level, hurtling out of the mountain forest!
For a moment...
Throughout the forests of Eastern Continent Mountain in the Primordial World's Eastern Continent...
All the Primordial World Creatures turned to watch, clicking their tongues in utter shock.
"Isn't that the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix, ranked fifty-sixth among our Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts? Its cultivation is at the peak supreme golden immortal level! It throws its weight around this region, and no one dares face its edge. Now it's actually being chased away?!"
"That Thunder Beast is far too savage!"
"Are you blind? Is it the Thunder Beast that's savage? Clearly, the spirit vine sitting on its back is the truly savage one!"
"Exactly, exactly! That Thunder Beast looks like it's already at the peak supreme golden immortal level, yet that spirit vine can actually be its master! That spirit vine is definitely no ordinary being!"
"Looks like the heavens over our Eastern Continent are about to change!"
"Yes! Ever since the Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts divided up all the natural treasures and blessed grottoes of the Eastern Continent three million years ago, life has been unbearably stifling for us younger creatures under their tyranny!"
As Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor, one vine and one beast, chased the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix through the heavens and across the earth...
And burst out of the forests of Eastern Continent Mountain...
All the Primordial World Creatures watching believed Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor had come to seize power from the Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts.
Meanwhile, as Lin Tian pursued the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix and shot out of the forest like lightning...
The Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts, allied with the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix and bound together like branches of the same tree, had already noticed what Lin Tian was doing.
They all flew toward the Eastern Continent's forests.
But...
How could Lin Tian possibly wait for the notorious Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts to surround him and the Little Beast Emperor?
All he wanted was the peculiar tricolored feathers on this Six-Headed Demon Phoenix.
When he first encountered the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix, Lin Tian had initially spoken politely to it, seeking a trade.
In other words, he had tried his old trick again, hoping to conduct a "fair trade" with this six-headed Magic Beast using the same method he had previously used with the Ginseng Fruit spirit root.
But he had never expected that the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix would not only want to seize the drop of Three Lights Divine Water he offered in trade, but also refine both Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor into its slaves!
Could Lin Tian tolerate such banditry-forcing a transaction on him and even trying to steal their bodies?
And so...
A clash erupted in their very first exchange.
Then the scene turned into Lin Tian riding the Little Beast Emperor, chasing the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix and fighting all the way out of Eastern Continent Mountain's forests.
At this moment...
Lin Tian gently shook the Thirty-Six Divine Leaves.
Instantly, a terrifying, ponderous power of the myriad heavens erupted.
Rumble!
In an instant, a tremendous roar burst forth as the void shattered, and heaven and earth abruptly changed color!
Clearly, it was merely an innate spirit vine whose cultivation did not seem high, yet it could unleash an incomparably terrifying, monumental force, so heavy it left others suffocating!
For a moment, every creature watching within millions of miles was immediately struck with terror!
At the same time, those allies among the Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts who had intended to rescue the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix all slowed their steps along their respective routes.
One after another, they watched from behind the ramparts.
They did not dare plunge straight into the battlefield and confront Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor head-on.
The Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts were immediately gripped by shock and uncertainty!
Across hundreds of thousands of miles...
As this crushing pressure erupted, like a falling star...
A tremendous bang rang out.
A star suddenly flashed out of the void and settled lightly onto the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's back!
Rumble!
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