This was an innate spirit treasure that would shine brilliantly during the later Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
Lin Tian was once again overcome with delight.
The Northern Black-Yuan Water-Control Banner was one of the Five Innate Directional Banners.
The Five Innate Directional Banners had formed from the leaves of the Chaos Green Lotus!
If all five Five Directional Banners could be gathered, their combined might would rival an innate supreme treasure.
And this Northern Black-Yuan Water-Control Banner lying here was one of the Five Innate Directional Banners.
What were the Five Innate Directional Banners?
They included:
The Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner: ten thousand golden lotuses, nothing could break it; all evil retreated; Unaffected by All Laws.
The Eastern Green-Lotus Jeweled Banner: radiant relic light, calming the heart and stilling the mind; all evil retreated; Unaffected by All Laws.
The Southern Earth-Leaving Flame-Light Banner: confounding yin and yang, overturning the five elements; all evil retreated; Unaffected by All Laws.
The Western Plain-Color Cloud-Realm Banner: wondrous visions wreathed in mist, illuminating heaven and earth; all evil retreated; Unaffected by All Laws.
And this Black-Yuan Water-Control Banner governed the north, possessed the water attribute, and could command all waters!
"This is clearly tremendous fortune smiling upon me!"
Lin Tian secretly rejoiced.
Over nearly two hundred thousand years, Lin Tian had refined the innate island-protecting formations of the three immortal islands: Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou.
By the standards of his previous life, over a hundred thousand years was little different from eternity.
After all, someone who lived to a hundred could be called a venerable elder, but in this world, over a hundred thousand years meant practically nothing to the old monsters of the primordial world!
To obtain the complete set of Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, the Twelfth-Grade World-Purifying White Lotus, the Fangcun Dao Tree, and now this Northern Black-Yuan Water-Control Banner in just over a hundred thousand years-his fortune really was bursting at the seams.
To say nothing else, most old monsters at the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal realm or above in the primordial world could live as long as heaven and earth, yet even a lifetime of effort would rarely bring them the assortment of spirit treasures Lin Tian had obtained in those hundred-odd thousand years!
After obtaining the Black-Yuan Water-Control Banner, Lin Tian suddenly felt a stirring within!
At that moment, he discovered signs that his cultivation was about to break through!
He immediately carved out a cave abode halfway up Ying Mountain, where the spiritual energy on Yingzhou Island was richest.
Then he entered the cave abode and began secluded cultivation, hoping to break through to the Golden Immortal Peak!
A hundred thousand years passed in the flick of a finger.
To Lin Tian now, a hundred thousand years no longer amounted to much.
On this day.
Lin Tian slowly exhaled.
"Devoured a strand of spiritual energy. Evolution points increased by 350..."
"Devoured a strand of lunar essence. Evolution points increased by 660..."
"Congratulations! Your evolution bar is full. Once you fuse three origins, you may enter the next stage of racial evolution..."
System notifications rang out incessantly in Lin Tian's sea of consciousness.
He opened his eyes.
The instant he opened them, lightning suddenly flashed through the pitch-black cave abode!
Serpents of lightning darted everywhere, and the cave abode brightened beneath Lin Tian's gaze.
At the same time, an immensely powerful aura surged within him.
He had grown stronger!
And not merely by a little!
His cultivation had reached the Golden Immortal Peak!
With a slight stir of Lin Tian's thoughts.
He opened the system's status panel:
Name: Lin Tian Race: Primordial Azure Vine Cultivation: Golden Immortal Peak Divine abilities: Bloodthirst, Spatial Traversal, Undying... Items: Thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, Fangcun Dao Tree, Northern Black-Yuan Water-Control Banner... Origins: Space Origin, life origin... Evolution bar: 999999/999999 Evolution quest: Evolution bar full. Fuse three more origins to undergo racial evolution.
Looking at the system panel, Lin Tian was filled with countless emotions.
The journey thus far truly had been anything but easy.
After all, no matter how he looked at it, Lin Tian's soul and consciousness still belonged to a human who had transmigrated from Earth.
For him, these hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation had been an immense ordeal that wore away at his resolve.
Had his will not been firm enough, he would have suffered a mental breakdown from the tedium during those first tens of thousands of years after his transmigration!
"Phew..."
Lin Tian let out a long breath.
He sighed. "The evolution bar is finally full again..."
Alongside his delight, he also worried, unsure where he could find these three origins.
With his current innate foundation, the Golden Immortal Peak was already his limit. He could advance no further.
Even though his name bore the word "Hongmeng," that did not change the fact that his innate foundation and race were merely first-rate in the primordial world, rather than the very finest.
To continue breaking through, he had to find three origins and fuse them, evolving his race and improving his innate foundation. Otherwise, he could only squander his days in the primordial world.
However, during his seclusion, Lin Tian had carefully studied the Black-Yuan Water-Control Banner and discovered a strand of ren water origin within it.
But with only one strand of ren water origin, he still lacked two other origins.
"Let's go. It's time to explore the world outside!"
With that thought, Lin Tian immediately decided to leave the three Penglai islands and explore the primordial world. After all, with a world so vast, there would still be plenty of opportunities to unearth overlooked treasures and find origins for himself.
At the same time, Lin Tian also needed to find a suitable cultivation method.
After all, more skills were never a burden.
And besides.
Bloodthirst, a divine ability centered on devouring, could only unleash its tremendous potential once he entered the primordial world!
With that thought.
Lin Tian hesitated no longer. Riding the gentle breeze, he vanished from the valley on Yingzhou Island in an instant.
By the time Lin Tian left, the three innate formations on Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou already belonged to him. In short, these three islands were now his!
The primordial world was boundless. None knew how wide it stretched from east to west, or how far from north to south-a vast expanse without end!
Even using his Spatial Traversal divine ability, Lin Tian spent tens of thousands of years flying from Yingzhou before finally reaching the primordial continent!
Without enough origins to improve his innate foundation, his cultivation was restricted, but during this time, Lin Tian's understanding of Spatial Traversal deepened further.
Now, with the slightest thought, he could traverse hundreds of thousands of li through the void!
He was even somewhat faster than Kunpeng would be in later ages!
However, during this stretch of flight, because Lin Tian's cultivation had not broken through to the Golden Immortal Peak, he devoted himself to carefully studying and comprehending Spatial Traversal.
Over these tens of thousands of years, this divine ability also reached new heights. Now, with the faintest thought and a flash of his figure, he could traverse tens of thousands of li through the void.
Yet even so, flying from the three immortal islands to the primordial continent still took him tens of thousands of years!
That alone showed just how terrifyingly vast the primordial continent was!
By now, Lin Tian had reached the primordial continent.
The moment he set foot upon the Primordial Continent, the sight before him stunned him speechless.
The Primordial Continent spread before Lin Tian was in an age when Fierce Beasts ran rampant.
Even the smallest of these Fierce Beasts appeared to measure tens of thousands of zhang!
And Lin Tian's little body, a mere hundred-odd zhang long, could not even be considered an infant before these Ancient Era Fierce Beasts.
He grumbled inwardly, I thought reaching the Golden Immortal Peak meant I could swagger around the primordial continent. Who would have thought I'd still be a nobody before these Fierce Beasts! No one would believe it if I told them...
At the same time, a trace of quiet vigilance arose in Lin Tian's heart.
The Primordial Ferocious Beast Calamity, an immeasurable calamity, is already brewing here on the primordial continent. This is arguably the most dangerous moment in the primordial world's history. And right now, whether in cultivation or innate foundation, I'm utterly insignificant compared with these Ancient Era Fierce Beasts. In that case, I really must improve my realm, innate foundation, and abilities all over again.
With a grave expression, Lin Tian surveyed this primordial land overrun by Fierce Beasts.
A moment later.
He quietly slipped into the primordial land and found an immensely towering mountain range.
He slipped into the mountain forests of this range, and as he entered the woods.
An azure vine took root in the forest, all his branches and tendrils pressed against the ground. He concealed his aura completely, looking no different from an ordinary plant on the primordial continent.
Just as Lin Tian slipped into this mountain forest.
A savage giant beast, a full ten thousand zhang in size, came charging over with a roar.
It rushed into Lin Tian's hunting grounds...
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