Ghost Chariot had originally been several thousand zhang in size.
When it first began climbing Mount Buzhou, every step had been a struggle.
Never mind keeping up with the monstrously gifted vine and beast ahead-even moving its legs had been exceedingly difficult.
But after more than a hundred years of tempering under the pressure,
Ghost Chariot's body had slowly shrunk from several thousand zhang to roughly fifteen hundred zhang.
Originally left so far behind that it could not even see them, Ghost Chariot finally caught sight of the tail end of the procession after a thousand years, making out the back of its Master Lin, Lin Tian, in the distance.
Besides Ghost Chariot's body shrinking to roughly fifteen hundred zhang,
The stitches sealing the mouths on its twenty-seven faces also slowly came undone, one by one, under Pan Gu’s Pressure on Mount Buzhou!
Even the bloody tears beneath the eyes of those twenty-seven faces began to dry up slowly!
Several thousand years passed.
Ghost Chariot's body remained fifteen hundred zhang in size.
On this day,
It was finally drawing close to the vine and beast.
Wild delight filled its heart.
Meanwhile,
As Lin Tian climbed, the magical power within him never stopped circulating, constantly devouring and refining Pan Gu’s Pressure around him to obtain evolution points!
"Devoured a strand of Pan Gu’s Pressure. Evolution points +3,200." "Devoured a strand of Pan Gu’s Pressure. Evolution points +3,700."
Notification after notification rang out in Lin Tian's sea of consciousness.
As he obtained evolution points, the Pan Gu’s Pressure he endured also diminished little by little.
Though the effect was negligible, Lin Tian did not seek to lighten his burden. He wanted to temper the physical bodies of his Nine Nether Vine and Thirty-Six Divine Leaves!
At the same time, Lin Tian kept an eye on Ghost Chariot, whom they had left far behind.
When Lin Tian saw that Ghost Chariot's body had shrunk to fifteen hundred zhang, and that it was gradually keeping pace and beginning to follow behind him and the Little Beast Emperor, he felt deeply reassured.
Then he continued climbing Mount Buzhou without pause.
After they climbed past two-tenths of Mount Buzhou's height, the pressure on the mountain grew ever heavier!
Ghost Chariot, which had nearly caught up, was once again left farther behind with every step the vine and beast took.
After all, Mount Buzhou was a heavenly pillar, one of the Primordial Four Extremes after the World-Opening!
Its feet planted on the earth and its head touching heaven, it held up the firmament of the Primordial World.
As Lin Tian and his companions climbed higher, the scenery for hundreds of millions of li around gradually came into his view.
At that moment, gazing upon the vast, boundless expanse of the Primordial World, Lin Tian felt an inexplicable, profound insight rise within him.
This Primordial World, and Mount Buzhou beneath Lin Tian's feet, were all legacies left behind after Pan Gu's World-Opening.
Every blade of grass, every tree, every stone and mountain, and the boundless Primordial World held mysteries uniquely profound.
And since Lin Tian had left the three immortal mountains of Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou and set foot on the Primordial Continent,
This was his first time gazing out from such a height over the Primordial Land, which bore everything and all living things.
To him, the feeling was truly wondrous and strange.
No matter how one looked at it, even though Lin Tian had become the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine, an Innate Spirit Plant in both race and origin, and possessed the Devouring System, his heart still belonged to the human he had been in his previous life.
Yet regardless of what race Lin Tian had become, the conviction of having been born human sustained him. It was this simple belief in his humanity that had carried him through the endless years of the Primordial World.
Every notion and thought in his heart also took his belief that he had been "born human" as its foundation and starting point.
At this moment, this boundless world filled his heart with wonder and joy!
At the same time,
He felt a thread of happiness at being able to take part personally in the great torrent of this vast world's history.
However,
Lin Tian did not stop climbing. Leading the Little Beast Emperor behind him, he pressed toward Mount Buzhou's summit without a moment's rest, racing against every passing second!
"Devoured a strand of power from the Pangu Innate Formation. Evolution points +8,700." "Devoured a strand of power from the Pangu Innate Formation. Evolution points +7,500." "Devoured a strand of Pan Gu’s Pressure on Mount Buzhou. Evolution points +2,300." "Devoured a strand of Pan Gu’s Pressure on Mount Buzhou. Evolution points +2,700."
Ten thousand years later,
The vine and beast finally reached the mountainside of Mount Buzhou.
Halfway up Mount Buzhou lay a protruding plateau spanning tens of millions of li.
The moment Lin Tian stepped onto the plateau,
He immediately sensed two innate formations there, their auras soaring into the sky and their pressure terrifying!
The Dao patterns of these two innate formations resembled stars, unfolding one universe after another, each different from the last!
Moreover,
The two innate formations stood like gateways, guarding the left and right sides of the plateau halfway up Mount Buzhou.
If one could not pass through these two formations and gain their recognition,
Or lacked the ability to traverse them,
Then one could go no farther, nor continue climbing Mount Buzhou, this heavenly pillar that reached the heavens.
When Lin Tian saw these two innate formations, a strangely familiar yet exceedingly subtle feeling suddenly arose in his heart.
An unfathomably profound unfolding of heaven's mysteries suddenly surfaced in Lin Tian's sea of consciousness!
The Little Beast Emperor, who had ascended the mountainside plateau with Lin Tian, laboriously extended a three-zhang paw and gestured twice.
The meaning was: These two formations look familiar. Shall we break through them now?
Lin Tian extended his Nine Nether Vine and made a gesture to the Little Beast Emperor.
The meaning was: Wait for that oaf behind us.
Ghost Chariot, whom Lin Tian had called an oaf,
Had been left far behind by the vine and beast over these ten thousand years.
After all, the farther one climbed up Mount Buzhou, the harder the journey became.
Moreover, its body had remained fifteen hundred zhang in size, unable to shrink any further.
Yet marvelous changes continued to take place within Ghost Chariot.
Of Ghost Chariot's twenty-seven faces, nine now had their originally sewn-shut mouths unsealed!
With those nine faces unsealed, Ghost Chariot's abilities, divine powers, and cultivation arts had improved ninefold compared with before it began climbing Mount Buzhou!
Even as Ghost Chariot's divine powers and abilities advanced further, the pressure bearing down on its body grew stronger as it climbed higher up Mount Buzhou.
Correspondingly, although its speed had not slowed,
The vine and beast were simply far too monstrously gifted.
As a result, Ghost Chariot could never keep pace with them and was instead left farther and farther behind.
For Ghost Chariot, this was an exceedingly frustrating affair.
Yet precisely because of this, with every step Ghost Chariot climbed, it could feel Pan Gu’s Pressure tempering its body, making it a little stronger!
This increase in physical strength was something Ghost Chariot could tangibly feel.
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