Lin Tian felt utterly frustrated.
What the hell was this?
He had only just emerged from one innate formation, only to encounter an even more badass one. Worse, his void-traversing divine ability was useless, leaving him barred outside!
Never mind anything else-the Spatial Traversal divine ability Lin Tian had just acquired failed completely against this island's formation, wiping away his earlier joy in an instant.
He was furious.
After stewing for a while, Lin Tian calmed down and began analyzing the situation carefully. These islands were concealed by an even more powerful Innate Grand Array, so there had to be treasures on them—and those treasures would definitely be no lower in grade than the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl!
Moreover, the energy and might contained within the Innate Grand Array before him were nothing an ordinary formation could compare with.
Otherwise, Lin Tian's Spatial Traversal divine ability would never have failed against it!
With a thought, Lin Tian immediately released his divine sense!
He wanted to investigate the islands shrouded by the innate formation.
After examining them repeatedly, Lin Tian made a discovery.
Apart from the mysterious workings of the innate formation, whose patterns he could not discern, he found nothing else on the islands.
And then?
Lin Tian chuckled and, with an attitude of "might as well give it a try," began refining the island-protecting formation!
To his surprise, refining the Grand Formation brought him an unexpected reward!
Just as he began his tentative attempt at refining it.
The system notification immediately rang out in his mind:
"Refined one-tenth of the innate formation's Dao patterns. Evolution points +320!"
Holy shit!
I can get evolution points this way too?
Surprise gave way to delight in Lin Tian's heart!
He immediately focused his mind and continued refining the innate formation that shrouded the islands!
Several thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
Because his cultivation realm was simply too low, Lin Tian made only a little progress in refining the Innate Grand Array.
Of course, over those thousands of years.
Lin Tian had already refined countless Dao traces from within this Grand Formation.
As a result, he had gained a considerable number of evolution points.
By then.
His cultivation had advanced to the late Profound Immortal stage!
His progress could truly be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.
Still, progress achieved through such slow, grinding effort came with the most tormenting kind of tedium: repeating the same task every single day.
Over those thousands of years, Lin Tian had wanted to give up several times, but then he would remember that treasures of astonishing power were certain to lie within this Innate Grand Array.
Moreover, the evolution points he gained through refining it were staggering.
In just a few thousand years, merely by refining this Innate Grand Array, he had almost filled his evolution bar.
At the same time.
Lin Tian's control over his own power grew increasingly adept!
All of this was thanks to the thousands of years he had spent patiently grinding away at refining it!
Years went uncounted in the Primordial World!
In another blink of an eye, a hundred thousand years passed just like that.
After a full hundred thousand years.
Lin Tian finally finished refining the Innate Grand Array!
And his cultivation had reached the peak of the Profound Immortal realm!
At that moment.
Lin Tian opened his personal status panel:
"Name: Lin Tian. Race: Primordial green leaf. Cultivation: None. Divine abilities: Bloodthirst, Spatial Traversal. Items: None. Origin space-spatial origin evolution: 99999/99999. Once the progress bar is full, the host can fuse with any origin to evolve his innate foundation!"
A hundred thousand years.
Lin Tian sighed inwardly.
After a full hundred thousand years, the progress bar was finally full.
Now, as long as Lin Tian found another type of origin, he could evolve his race!
Of course, I hope this island has the origin I want. That would make the full hundred thousand years I spent worthwhile. If not... then I'll damn well find the next one.
Grumbling inwardly, Lin Tian flashed into the island.
The instant he set foot on it.
The first thing that met Lin Tian's eyes was a towering mountain peak!
At first glance, it looked like a mountain.
But upon closer inspection, it was a gigantic stone stele!
The stele was square in shape.
Countless spirit mushrooms and immortal herbs grew across its surface, and moss densely covered its face.
In the center of the enormous stele, bold characters were carved with strokes like iron and hooks like silver: [Penglai Island].
At the sight of those characters, Lin Tian froze and sucked in a breath!
He had never imagined that this island would actually be the legendary immortal island of Penglai!
Heh, Heaven truly never fails those who persevere!
My hundred thousand years of effort weren't wasted!
Lin Tian remained excited for a long while before collecting himself.
He began searching all over Penglai Island.
The island truly lived up to its reputation as one of the legendary three Penglai islands!
It was absolutely a blessed grotto-heaven, filled with countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
In no time, Lin Tian discovered more heavenly materials and earthly treasures than he could count!
He could not help marveling once again.
Just then, a sudden disturbance came from the Purple Mansion space within Lin Tian!
Lin Tian immediately sensed that it was unmistakably coming from the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl.
Upon sensing that disturbance, delight surged through his heart!
Spirit treasures attracting one another!
Lin Tian guessed inwardly, There should be more Sea-Calming Divine Pearls here!
Guided by the attraction between the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
Lin Tian landed in a peaceful, secluded valley in an instant.
At the bottom of the valley lay a deep, clear pool.
When Lin Tian reached its edge, waves of spiritual energy radiated from the pool, rippling outward!
For a moment, streaks of auspicious light surged into the sky!
Lin Tian gazed calmly into the pool, whose surface reflected three colors: gold, silver, and purple!
But his gaze was fixed entirely on a white lotus seat floating upon the pool!
The white lotus seat bore thirty-six blossoms, each with 108 petals.
The entire lotus seat was as white as jade, radiating waves of gentle light that soothed the heart and mind.
Something stirred in Lin Tian's heart. He recalled that, in the legends of the Primordial World, three blossoms and nine petals constituted one grade!
Yet the lotus seat before him had thirty-six blossoms and a hundred and eight petals!
It could be classified as a full twelfth-grade lotus!
A secret account of the Chaos Green Lotus surfaced in Lin Tian's mind:
The Chaos Green Lotus had twelve leaves and twenty-four petals, with five lotus seeds forming at its heart.
Of the five seeds, one half-ripe seed became the twenty-fourth-grade Creation Green Lotus. Because it lacked the merit of opening heaven, the Heavenly Dao would not tolerate it, and it disintegrated into the Taiyi Horsetail Whisk, the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and the Green Duckweed Sword.
The remaining four unripe seeds became the twelfth-grade Merit Golden Lotus (owned by Daoist Jieyin, it later had three grades sucked away by Daoist Mosquito and became a ninth-grade lotus seat), the twelfth-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus (owned by Patriarch Minghe, with red lotus karmic fire attached to it), the Twelfth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus (owned by the Devil Ancestor Dao Luohu, its whereabouts unknown after Luohu's death), and the twelfth-grade World-Purifying White Lotus (whose whereabouts no one knew, though it was generally believed to be on the immortal island of Penglai).
He had thought he would merely find the remaining Sea-Calming Divine Pearls in this pool. Never had he expected to encounter the twelfth-grade World-Purifying White Lotus here!
At that moment, Lin Tian could sense that the twelfth-grade World-Purifying White Lotus definitely ranked among supreme-grade innate spirit treasures!
And this was only a half-ripe twelfth-grade World-Purifying White Lotus.
If the lotus seat fully matured, it could evolve into an innate supreme treasure!
Lin Tian was thrilled. I really hit the jackpot this time!
Then he took the twelfth-grade World-Purifying White Lotus and carefully placed it inside his primordial green leaf space.
After collecting the twelfth-grade World-Purifying White Lotus.
He looked toward the clear pool.
Endless ripples spread through its waters.
Gold, silver, and purple light flickered ceaselessly. There were definitely treasures in the pool!
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