"Fellow Daoist... Fellow Daoist Nine Nether Vine, let's talk this over. Let's try not to come to blows..."
At that moment.
The Yin-Yang Chaos Demon God's divine sense no longer maintained its towering composure. Instead, it pleaded with Lin Tian in utter panic through its Spirit Awareness.
Lin Tian ignored it.
He continued accelerating the collapse of the laws within the independent world formed by the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine.
Then.
In an instant.
Every law and every stretch of space within this independent world formed by the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine collapsed!
They disintegrated into powder!
Even.
Under the countless impacts, Lin Tian's true body, the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine, began to crack, both along his ancient, lusterless Nine Nether Vine and across his heavy, razor-sharp Thirty-Six Divine Leaves.
However, the Three Lights Divine Water nourished him constantly.
And Earth's Embryonic Membrane shielded him.
The cracks vanished without a trace as soon as they appeared.
In a flash.
Light and dust became one.
The entire independent world formed by the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine.
Collapsed in an instant into a black point of limitless weight!
A faint, almost imperceptible aura of divine sense suddenly began to emerge from the depths of that black point!
Then.
Within that aura, a tall Daoist slowly appeared. He had white hair and a youthful face, wore a loose Daoist robe divided into black and white, and held a mirror bearing the interlocking Yin Yang fish of Taiji.
The old Daoist turned his stern, sinister face toward Lin Tian and transmitted a message through his Spirit Awareness:
"Fellow Daoist Nine Nether Vine, I have no wish to make an enemy of you. Cultivation is no easy feat, and who knows how many ages you endured to become an Innate Spirit Plant of such an exalted grade? But if you still refuse to stop, then whatever the future holds, I will pursue you through heaven and beneath the earth, and we will not rest until one of us is dead!"
The old Daoist manifested from this strand of the Yin-Yang Chaos Demon God's divine sense was still using the toughest tone to say the most cowardly words.
Lin Tian could not help being amused by him.
"My thirty-six Myriad Heavens Worlds happen to lack a world spirit for one of them. Your aura is rich, and your divine sense contains world laws of its own. Would you be willing to become the world spirit of one of my thirty-six Myriad Heavens Worlds?"
Lin Tian calmly transmitted this message to the Yin-Yang Chaos Demon God's divine sense through his Spirit Awareness.
In truth.
At that moment, he was not negotiating with this strand of a Chaos Demon God's divine sense.
He was giving the old Daoist a final ultimatum.
Next, Lin Tian would either grind this strand of divine sense out of existence, or it would obediently acknowledge him as its master and become the world spirit of one of his thirty-six Myriad Heavens Worlds.
But.
As a demon god who had escaped the World-Opening Divine Axe before Pan Gu split heaven and earth, when had he ever suffered such humiliation?
"How dare you, brat! I am a Chaos Demon God born in chaos alongside Pan Gu, and I once fought him for three thousand rounds without defeat! At my former realm, I was a Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal with five flowers blooming! You greenhorn dare set your sights on me? Aren't you afraid my true body will come knocking, grind your bones to dust, and scatter your ashes, you Innate Spirit Plant?!"
Although the old Daoist was no longer dressing timid words in a tough tone, his speech still carried a hint of pleading.
He merely hoped that this Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine, who yielded to neither soft words nor hard threats and seemed to have seen through all his tricks, would leave an opening in the net.
After all, if he truly became the world spirit of one of the worlds within this Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine.
Then, as a Chaos Demon God, he would have no face left at all.
"In that case, Fellow Daoist Yin Yang, you wish to die?"
Lin Tian calmly transmitted another message through his Spirit Awareness, then gently swayed his Nine Nether Vine.
The Thirty-Six Divine Leaves suddenly transformed!
The good fortune illusion origin and the heaven and earth origin immediately manifested within this independent world of the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine, which had already collapsed into a black point!
"The heaven and earth origin?!"
At that moment.
The old Daoist's heart and spirit shattered, and he cried out in alarm.
"Yes, the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler."
At the same time.
In an instant, Lin Tian manifested before the old Daoist formed from the Yin-Yang Chaos Demon God's divine sense the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler he had already fused into his innate bloodline.
As the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler manifested, phantoms of the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls circled it, forming the Thirty-Six Circumcelestial Star Formation... the Innate Sea-Covering Formation!
Had I known, I wouldn't have gone so overboard showing off. Bringing out the Innate Sea-Covering Formation and revealing the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler's aura would have been enough to show off before the Yin-Yang Mirror, another Chaos Demon God.
Lin Tian silently grumbled to himself.
At that moment.
The old Daoist formed from the Yin-Yang Mirror's divine sense was already certain that the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, a Chaos Demon God on par with him, had fallen into the hands of this seemingly unremarkable Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine!
Otherwise, the Qiankun Chaos Demon God could not possibly have given his natal spiritual treasure, the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, to this Nine Nether Vine for nothing.
The old Daoist manifested above the collapsed black point trembled all over, his beard fluttering without any wind. Stammering, he transmitted another message through his Spirit Awareness:
"May I ask, Fellow Daoist, if I become the spirit of one of your Myriad Heavens Worlds, can you ensure that my divine sense will not perish?"
Now, the old Daoist formed from the Yin-Yang Mirror's divine sense had truly admitted defeat. Even his confidence to dress soft words in a hard tone had vanished completely.
He had no choice.
The phantom of the Heaven-and-Earth Ruler that had just manifested before him was the genuine article!
What filled the old Daoist's heart with terror was this: the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine had actually refined the supposedly unrefinable Heaven-and-Earth Ruler into one of the divine abilities within his innate bloodline!
Such an ability truly made his heart quake.
Even Pan Gu, who could slay three thousand Chaos Demon Gods within chaos and then bring about the World-Opening, could not possibly have attained the level of this Nine Nether Vine while at the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal realm.
Thinking of it this way.
The old Daoist formed from the Yin-Yang Mirror's divine sense instead felt somewhat consoled.
The Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine possesses such vast divine abilities. Even if I become the spirit of one of the Myriad Heavens Worlds within him, it would not disgrace my majesty.
Of course, this was also his final consolation to himself.
Lin Tian did not answer the Mirror of Yin and Yang Daoist's message. Instead, his incomparably terrifying pressure swept through this independent world once more.
"Fellow Daoist! Fellow Daoist Nine Nether Vine... I am willing, willing to become the world spirit of one of your worlds! Please stay your hand..."
Lin Tian gave a faint, cold snort.
Inside, however, his heart was already bursting into bloom with delight.
If he had forcibly acted to refine this strand of the Yin-Yang Mirror's divine sense.
Then he would have become entangled in immense karma reaching through the Great Dao all the way back to before Pan Gu's World-Opening.
Such karma was truly difficult to bear.
But now.
The Daoist Yin-Yang's divine sense was willing to take the initiative and become his world spirit.
Then, while obtaining the Yin-Yang Mirror's origin, he could also gain its divine sense as his world spirit, and even obtain the supreme treasure that was the Yin-Yang Mirror itself!
Three birds with one arrow. Utterly perfect.
Lin Tian stirred his Nine Nether Vine slightly.
He immediately swept the Mirror of Yin and Yang Daoist's divine sense, which had appeared above the collapsed black point, into the Myriad Heavens World of the Thirty-Six Divine Leaves!