And this star was merely one of the thirty-six stars within the Innate Sea-Covering Formation.
Its power was equivalent to the entire weight of a great world among the heavens, crashing down upon the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's back all at once!
The boundless might of a single star could crush not only a great demon at the peak supreme golden immortal level, but even a mighty being in the great luo golden immortal realm, if the Innate Sea-Covering Formation struck them squarely while they were unprepared!
However.
The Innate Sea-Covering Formation had already merged into Lin Tian's racial bloodline.
Aside from the origin law of the heaven and earth great dao, Lin Tian had also fused an illusion origin into it. This origin law of illusion, capable of turning reality into illusion and illusion into reality, revealed its profound mysteries and terrifying power at that moment!
The Nine-Headed Demon Phoenix looked as though the Immobilization Technique had frozen it in place, leaving it unable to move at all.
Yet upon its back rested that Innate Sea-Covering Formation, bearing infinitely crushing weight and shifting ceaselessly between illusion and reality!
"I surrender! I surrender!"
The Six-Headed Demon Phoenix immediately tossed out three tricolored feathers.
The tricolored feathers floated through the air, drifting ethereally toward the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine, who rode upon the Little Beast Emperor's back thousands of miles away.
Meanwhile.
Lin Tian had woven nine nether vines into a human form.
He rode upon the Little Beast Emperor's back, nine zhang above the ground.
His appearance told the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix, who had already offered three Three-Light Feathers in surrender, only one thing.
He, the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine, was very angry.
Lin Tian had always believed that harmony bred prosperity. He never drove others to utter destruction, much less slaughtered every opponent on the spot.
After all, on the Primordial Continent, the road to advancing through each realm had never been one traveled alone.
Gaining another friend offered far more benefits than gaining another enemy.
Even earlier.
His abilities and divine powers had clearly far surpassed those of this Six-Headed Demon Phoenix.
Yet Lin Tian had still used his cautious, sly, and amicable methods to conduct a "fair trade" with this demon phoenix.
Rather than simply killing this demon phoenix, devouring the Phoenix Clan's flesh and energy, and then claiming its exceedingly precious tricolored feathers for himself.
Even while the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix fled, Lin Tian had toyed with it like a cat chasing a mouse, rather than blasting it into dust with a single thought.
Instead, he had pursued the demon phoenix at an unhurried pace.
He had chased it out of the Eastern Continent's mountain forests, a region spanning tens of millions of miles, with a great show of force.
Only then had they drawn the attention of every Primordial World Creature in the Eastern Continent Mountain Range.
One lived but a single life. With even a little divine power or ability, one naturally had to display one's might before an audience.
When the three tricolored feathers, the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's Life-Bound Spirit Treasures, hovered in midair.
Every Primordial World Creature in the Eastern Continent Mountain Range was stunned, and an uproar boiled up to the heavens!
"Damn its mother! Is this really the lawless demon god I know, the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix that never bows its head to anyone?"
"Impossible! Even if the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix, at the peak supreme golden immortal level, can't defeat this vine and beast two against one, there's no reason for it to admit defeat just like that!"
"Even if the Nine-Headed Demon Phoenix can't beat this vine and beast, the Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts are coming to support it! It couldn't possibly surrender immediately like this! Unless this vine and beast can kill the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix on the spot, why would it voluntarily offer up its Life-Bound Spirit Treasures?"
"If you ask me, this is exactly how the Nine-Headed Demon Phoenix has always operated. Have you forgotten that incident a hundred thousand years ago, when it pretended to surrender, then turned around and devoured its enemy without even spitting out the bones?"
"Hehehehe! Here in the Eastern Continent Mountain Range, the elder brother has no business criticizing the younger. None of them has cleaner hands than the others. Which beast listed among the Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts is easy to deal with?"
The Primordial World Creatures watching the scene kept exclaiming.
One moment, they felt that Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor, this vine and beast, possessed heaven-surpassing abilities that were utterly terrifying.
The next, they felt certain that the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's surrender was merely a ploy to buy time.
After all, its allies among the Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts were already on their way.
But for all their exclamations, when they saw the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's allies stop rushing over one after another and settle down to watch the spectacle instead,
Every creature in the Primordial World immediately realized.
This affair might truly be something serious.
In an instant.
Lin Tian slowly withdrew the divine leaf that embodied one of the Innate Sea-Covering Formation's thirty-six stars, capable of being solid or insubstantial, real or illusory.
Once he reined in his might just a fraction.
The Six-Headed Demon Phoenix immediately felt as though it had received a grand pardon, seventy percent of the pressure on its body vanishing.
At that moment.
It took the initiative to hold up those three tricolored feathers.
Its wings, which spanned more than ten zhang when spread, folded beneath its flanks.
Keeping itself lower than Lin Tian, it slowly approached him like a little chick, holding up those three feathers.
It offered up the three Three-Light Feathers, the Life-Bound Spirit Treasures of the demon phoenix clan.
However.
Lin Tian now showed little interest.
He did not immediately store the three feathers offered by the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix within the spaces of his thirty-six divine leaves.
Instead, he sat impassively upon the Little Beast Emperor's back and sent the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix a message through his Spirit Awareness:
"Give me a reason not to kill you."
The Six-Headed Demon Phoenix trembled all over like a sieve.
With a thud.
Its phoenix legs, which had no joints and should have been incapable of kneeling.
Were forcibly broken by its own will.
Then it prostrated itself before Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor.
The pointed beaks of its six heads struck the ground as it kowtowed.
While kowtowing, it sent message after message to Lin Tian through its Spirit Awareness:
"This little phoenix had eyes, yet failed to recognize Mount Buzhou."
"This little phoenix brought its punishment upon itself by offending you, Master!"
"Whether you beat me or kill me, Master, this little phoenix will have no complaints!"
"However, besides these three Three-Light Feathers, this little phoenix also has seventy-one allies here in the Eastern Continent's mountain forests."
"Our alliance is known as the Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts. Every Fierce Beast possesses Life-Bound Spirit Treasures no less valuable than mine! If you spare this little phoenix's life, Master, this little phoenix is willing to guide you to them!"
Hearing the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix say this, Lin Tian was genuinely taken aback.
He truly had not anticipated this maneuver.
This Six-Headed Demon Phoenix, with its thick brows and large eyes, its honest, guileless appearance, and its loyalty supposedly reaching the clouds, had actually betrayed its organization the instant its life hung in the balance?!
Sure enough, here on the Primordial Continent, there was no loyalty or righteousness to speak of.
Any creature could turn hostile in an instant for whatever it needed or desired, trampling all its allies beneath its feet.
That was the reflection Lin Tian drew from this Six-Headed Demon Phoenix with its six heads.
Of course, it was merely a passing reflection.
Lin Tian calmly put away the Three-Light Feathers the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix had offered.
Then he sent it a message through his Spirit Awareness:
"Then lead the way."
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