Lin Tian was immediately overjoyed.
"Now that's interesting. I thought this tidal power was one of heaven and earth's mysteries, not something intrinsic to Mount Buzhou. Who would've thought it really was Mount Buzhou's own origin power!"
In that case, as long as he kept devouring it, this origin power would fall safely into his pocket.
As Lin Tian secretly rejoiced,
he also began to realize that this tidal origin was directly connected to Mount Buzhou's pressure!
This origin power had always existed within Mount Buzhou itself, and it could control that pressure as vast as an infinite universe!
That realization delighted him even more.
If he could obtain an origin of pressure as formidable as an infinite universe,
then even if he encountered a Great Encompassing Golden Immortal in the future, he would only need to release this pressure. Even someone that powerful would have to kneel before it!
After his initial delight,
Lin Tian gathered his focus.
The reason Lin Tian treated these two innate formations with such caution was that he believed they might genuinely differ from all the innate formations he had encountered before.
After all,
when he had obtained the good fortune illusion origin, he had encountered an Innate Illusion Formation concealed within an Innate Ten-Direction Formation-a formation nested inside another formation, like two layers of nesting dolls.
And here, on the platform halfway up Mount Buzhou, there were actually two innate formations resembling gateways.
That made Lin Tian extremely wary.
That was why he refused to act himself. He had to let Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor work on them together while he stood guard nearby.
If anything did happen, he might as well let the little ones test the waters first.
"Devoured one innate formation Dao Mark. Evolution points increased by 3,700."
"Devoured one Innate Ten-Direction Formation Dao Mark. Evolution points increased by 2,500."
"Devoured one strand of Mount Buzhou formation pressure. Evolution points increased by 6,700." ```
At that moment,
he had originally thought that while the Little Beast Emperor and Ghost Chariot refined the formations, he would be unable to devour or absorb any of the formations' Dao Mark power.
Yet, to his surprise,
even with Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor refining the formations, he could still devour them for evolution points, without losing a single point.
Lin Tian could not help gently swaying his Nine Nether Vine, feeling refreshed and utterly delighted!
At the same time,
while the Little Beast Emperor and Ghost Chariot refined the formations, he continuously devoured the Dao Marks of both formations and Mount Buzhou's tidal origin!
His evolution points kept shooting upward.
Time swiftly passed.
Fifty thousand years went by in the flick of a finger.
During those fifty thousand years, countless Primordial World Creatures climbed up from the foot of the mountain, reaching its midpoint with tremendous difficulty.
Those who could climb this far were almost all at the peak of the great unity golden immortal realm.
Every one of them was stunned upon seeing this platform, which spanned tens of millions of li and was completely shrouded in vines.
The vines covering Mount Buzhou's halfway platform were ancient and weathered.
Thirty-six heavy, razor-sharp divine leaves grew upon them.
No matter what divine abilities these Primordial World Creatures employed, they could not budge the vines or divine leaves in the slightest!
In other words, throughout those fifty thousand years, no living being could pass this halfway platform on Mount Buzhou's only path.
Their climb was cut short halfway, their path collapsing before them.
Lin Tian paid no attention to the various Primordial World Creatures who used all manner of divine abilities to climb halfway up Mount Buzhou during those fifty thousand years.
Nor did he strike down the various Primordial World Creatures who came before his Nine Nether Vine and devour their flesh and blood.
After all, casually slaughtering the different Primordial World Creatures here on Mount Buzhou could entangle him in tremendous karma.
The most likely outcome would be making an outright enemy of the Qilin Clan at the mountain's foot.
That would conflict with Lin Tian's fundamental objective of eventually uniting every force in the Primordial World that could be united.
Besides, with his current capabilities, Lin Tian truly had no need to devour any Primordial World Creature below the great luo golden immortal realm.
Otherwise, Lin Tian could have devoured every Great Unity Golden Immortal Primordial World Creature he encountered on his journey from the Eastern Continent.
A being in the great unity golden immortal realm yielded far too few evolution points-no more than 1,500 at most.
It was troublesome and laborious.
Master Lin truly had no interest in such a paltry number of evolution points, especially when they came with tremendous karmic entanglements.
One day,
Rumble!
Rumble!
Within the dim, lightless expanse of tens of millions of li covered by the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine,
Heaven and earth suddenly began to shake!
Even Mount Buzhou, that pillar holding up the heavens, swayed incessantly!
Lin Tian was still continuously devouring Mount Buzhou's tidal origin and the Dao Marks of the two formations.
At that moment, delight surged through his heart!
Those fifty thousand years had not disappointed him.
Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor had finally refined both formations completely!
In an instant,
two ancient, decaying auras suddenly flew out of the formations.
At that very moment,
Lin Tian's Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine abruptly unfurled, and the Thirty-Six Divine Leaves shone with 108 different kinds of starlight!
The Innate 108-Cycle Star Formation immediately manifested!
He had waited fifty thousand years.
This was the very moment he had been waiting for.
As the Innate 108-Cycle Star Formation manifested across tens of millions of li, countless impossibly heavy Myriad Heavens Worlds crushed this expanse of space until its laws collapsed!
For a moment, reality and illusion alternated, Qian Kun evolved, and all light vanished from the world!
Within the tens of millions of li covered by the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine,
Lin Tian first threw both Ghost Chariot, who had unlocked twelve faces and whose nine heads had become exceedingly uncanny, and the Little Beast Emperor, who released the Post-Heavenly Earthly Branch Slaying Formation as the Twelve World-Destroying Demon Disks surged violently, into the Myriad Heavens Worlds within the Thirty-Six Divine Leaves.
Then divine light suddenly burst from the Nine Nether Vine's thirty-foot true body!
Space origin, thunder origin, geng metal origin, heaven and earth origin, ren water origin, illusion origin, and all the other origins erupted simultaneously!
The earth, water, wind, and fire that had already been crushed apart immediately re-formed within the space created by the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine!
Suddenly,
a faint, flickering presence emerged as the two formations shattered, and a furious shout that seemed to come from the depths of ancient chaos immediately rang through Lin Tian's sea of consciousness:
"You insolent brat! How dare you!"
Lin Tian sneered inwardly.
Sure enough, Chaos Demon Gods were hiding inside these two innate formations!
That ancient, decaying voice of intimidation
was extremely similar to the voice of the Heaven-and-Earth Ancestor's avatar from before.
Lin Tian had confirmed his suspicions.
He simply did not know which Chaos Demon God from before Pan Gu split heaven and earth this was!
However, one thing was obvious.
This strand of a Chaos Demon God's divine consciousness hiding within the two innate formations halfway up Mount Buzhou did not actually qualify as even an avatar.
Presumably, the demon god had used a strand of divine consciousness to refine these two formations halfway up Mount Buzhou, hoping to obtain the precious treasures within them!
Lin Tian sneered repeatedly and transmitted a strand of spiritual consciousness: "Why wouldn't I dare? You've skulked inside my Nine Nether Vine for tens of thousands of years, you old geezer. You really have no shame!"
Lin Tian's spiritual transmission exposed what the demon god had been doing for all those tens of thousands of years.
Between the two formations,
countless rays of light suddenly rose!
At the same time, a Nine Nether Vine identical to Lin Tian appeared in midair!
Yet its appearance was completely reversed from his. Wherever Lin Tian's divine leaves grew, the leaves on the Nine Nether Vine hovering in midair appeared on the opposite side.
"A mirror image?!"
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