"Then lead the way."
As the Spirit Awareness Lin Tian sent descended into the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's mind,
the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix brimmed with gratitude.
Its six demonic phoenix heads rose and fell, kowtowing incessantly.
It kept sending Spirit Awareness to Lin Tian:
"Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!"
Then it spread its tricolored demonic phoenix wings, spanning well over a hundred feet, raised its six eerily monstrous phoenix heads, and slowly took flight toward the depths of the Eastern Continent Mountain Range.
As it took flight, it sent Lin Tian another burst of Spirit Awareness: "Please follow me, Master."
The Little Beast Emperor beneath Lin Tian slowly moved his twenty-foot beast feet.
As he moved, he made two gestures on the ground with his feet for Lin Tian, who rode on his back.
He meant: Pick them off one by one, or catch them all in one net?
Lin Tian made a gesture with his Nine Nether Vine.
He meant: Adapt as we go.
Between Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor, unless something was exceptionally urgent,
they generally did not communicate through Spirit Awareness.
Seeing Lin Tian's gesture, the Little Beast Emperor indicated that he understood.
Then, with steady, measured strides, he slowly followed the Nine-Headed Demon Phoenix into the East Continent Forest.
There, in the East Continent Forest,
every ancient tree
towered as majestically as a mountain, soaring into the sky!
And the area each ancient tree occupied exceeded anything they had previously known.
Even the smallest ancient tree in the forest had roots covering at least hundreds of thousands of miles!
After all, this was the Primordial East Continent.
Here on the East Continent, practically any spiritual plant could grow as large as a mountain by drawing on the continent's greenwood spiritual energy.
In fact, this place called the Eastern Continent Mountain Range was a plain, not a mountain range.
According to the records in the Earth's Embryonic Membrane, the Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas, the main reason this stretch of the East Continent Forest was called a mountain range was that
every tree in the East Continent could be called a mountain.
After all, every tree stood more than ten thousand feet tall.
At the very center of the forest, there was even an ancient tree that soared a million feet into the sky!
Anyone whose cultivation had not reached the Profound Immortal realm or higher could not even look at that million-foot ancient tree in the middle of the Eastern Continent Mountain Range!
If a creature below the Profound Immortal realm looked directly at that million-foot ancient tree, it would suffer a backlash from the towering tree.
This Eastern Continent Mountain Range, covering untold tens of thousands of miles, was divided into seventy-two regions, each with different spiritual plants and ancient trees.
The vast majority of Primordial World creatures in this region belonged to the flying bird races.
As for aquatic races and other races that walked the land, they held no standing in this forest.
The seventy-two Fierce Beasts of the East Continent had driven them out of this forest a hundred thousand years ago.
"Devoured one strand of essence from the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's Three-Light Feathers. Evolution Points +3,650." "Devoured one strand of East Continent wood essence. Evolution Points +850."
System notifications kept ringing in Lin Tian's mind.
Earlier,
the reason Lin Tian had wanted to trade with the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix for its Life-Bound Spirit Treasure, the Three-Light Feathers,
was primarily that the Primordial East Continent was an extremely xenophobic continent!
Any creature not born on the Primordial East Continent would suffer the natural rejection of its heaven and earth.
Lin Tian's race was deeply incompatible with the East Continent.
As a result, he could not absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth or the essence of the sun and moon on this continent.
And Lin Tian's Evolution Points had yet to reach twenty million.
He was still eighty million Evolution Points short of a hundred million.
If he could not absorb even a trace of spiritual energy or the essence of the sun and moon while crossing the East Continent, this journey would be for nothing.
Moreover, even if the Little Beast Emperor used his greatest speed, racing toward Mount Buzhou on the Central Continent day and night without sleep or rest, crossing the East Continent would still take at least a hundred thousand years!
During those hundred thousand years,
if he could not absorb even a trace of spiritual energy or the essence of the sun and moon,
he would truly be taking an enormous loss.
Then, even if Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor reached the Central Continent safely,
those hundred thousand years would have been squandered, wasted for nothing.
That was why he had begun considering
trading with the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix for the three Three-Light Feathers that served as its Life-Bound Spirit Treasure.
And then,
that had led to the earlier scene.
However,
Lin Tian had never imagined that, to save its own life, the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix would immediately turn into a turncoat guide. It had even told him that it had seventy-one other Fierce Beast brothers and sisters, each possessing a different Life-Bound Spirit Treasure.
How could Lin Tian possibly refuse an unexpected windfall?
However, the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's surrender to Lin Tian, its voluntary offering of the Three-Light Feathers, and its subsequent turn into a turncoat guide
immediately became a bombshell.
The Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts had been on their way to rescue the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix, but the moment it became a turncoat guide and charged back into the East Continent Forest,
the seventy-one Fierce Beasts of all different shapes scattered like birds and beasts.
Only,
as the seventy-one Fierce Beasts turned into streaks of golden light and scattered toward their respective homes,
the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix, eager to prove its loyalty before its master,
had already seized a Three-Headed Peacock at the first opportunity.
Before this Three-Headed Peacock could even turn around, the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's innate divine ability had frozen it in midair.
At the same time,
the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix sent several bursts of Spirit Awareness to Lin Tian behind it:
"Master, this Three-Headed Peacock ranks sixty-ninth among the seventy-two Fierce Beasts of the East Continent."
"The Three-Headed Peacock is also my sibling of another race. Its Life-Bound Spirit Treasure is a Peacock Feather."
"This Peacock Feather can sweep away any treasure or creature below peak Supreme Golden Immortal!"
As the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix demonstrated its loyalty to Lin Tian,
the Little Beast Emperor, who normally never offered an opinion on anything,
extended his twenty-foot beast foot and made two gestures on the ground.
He meant: This Six-Headed Demon Phoenix really is a bootlicker.
Lin Tian swayed his Nine Nether Vine and made a gesture.
He meant: Every turncoat guide under heaven looks the same. No need to make a fuss.
Meanwhile, the Three-Headed Peacock, frozen in midair by the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix and unable to move,
had already spread the peacock feathers behind it into a fan!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Countless peacock feathers, like countless eyes, released eerie and utterly terrifying flashes of golden light!
The golden light shot like sharp arrows toward the vine and beast behind the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix!
But,
the arrow-like golden light from the peacock's fan had barely emerged before the Six-Headed Demon Phoenix, whose cultivation and divine abilities surpassed the Three-Headed Peacock's by one minor realm, sucked it all into its belly!
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