Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• The chapter opens with the creation of the Primordial World: Pan Gu splits chaos with his axe, defeats most of the Chaos Demon Gods, holds heaven and earth apart, and eventually dies from his wounds. His body becomes parts of the world, while the fallen demon gods’ remains nourish it.
• Hundreds of thousands of years later, Lin Tian awakens in the Primordial World as an ordinary spiritual vine. Though excited to inhabit a world he knows from stories, he is discouraged by his weak origins and inability to act like the powerful beings he has read about.
• A system activates and reveals that Lin Tian can gain evolution points by absorbing spiritual qi, soil nutrients, or living creatures’ blood essence. At 1,000 points, he can evolve his race.
• Lin Tian steadily cultivates for thirteen days, learning that moonlight yields somewhat more points and that a wisp of dawn’s purple qi is worth ten. After capturing enough to reach the threshold, he chooses to evolve.
• The evolution succeeds: Lin Tian becomes a Bloodthirsty Vine and reaches the early True Immortal stage.

Character development

• Lin Tian moves from excitement about his new world, to disappointment at his lowly starting form, then to practical resolve once the system gives him a way forward.
• His patient experimentation—testing spiritual qi, moonlight, and purple qi—shows his resourcefulness and persistence.

Significant themes

• Transformation and self-improvement: Lin Tian’s humble beginnings are not fixed; effort and evolution can change his prospects.
• Adaptation and opportunity: He turns an unfamiliar, limiting form into an advantage by learning how to cultivate efficiently.
• Ambition in a vast world: The legendary history and powerful future figures give Lin Tian both a daunting context and a reason to pursue strength.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian’s main interaction is with the system, which explains how to earn evolution points and announces his successful transformation. No other living characters engage with him directly in this chapter.

Plot points and events

• After an evolution, Lin Tian’s vine body develops vivid blood-red stripes and sharp thorns, grows larger, and becomes much more dangerous.
• He resumes cultivating, but after more than three thousand years he is still an early-stage True Immortal. His status shows 3,765 of the 10,000 Evolution Points needed for another evolution.
• Frustrated by slow progress and isolation, Lin Tian decides to use his Devour ability instead of relying on cultivation alone.
• He frees his roots from the soil, shapes them into legs, and learns to move around.
• Lin Tian ambushes an immortal crane and drains its blood, earning 100 Evolution Points. He then hunts other creatures, including powerful Heavenly Immortal beasts, bringing his total close to 6,000.
• While searching for prey, he discovers a restriction around a small island and wonders if it conceals an innate formation.

Character developments

• Lin Tian grows more confident in his new, predatory abilities and adapts quickly to his thorn-covered body.
• His impatience with slow cultivation reflects his human-origin perspective: long periods of isolation feel unbearable, even though they are insignificant by Primordial World standards.
• He shifts from passive cultivation to active hunting, finding both an efficient route to evolution and a thrilling new pursuit.

Significant themes

• Evolution through struggle: Lin Tian’s strength develops through both cultivation and consuming other creatures.
• Patience versus impatience: His personal sense of time conflicts with the vast scale of the Primordial World.
• Predation and adaptation: His formerly gentle plant form becomes a mobile, lethal hunter.
• Curiosity and discovery: The mysterious island hints at a new opportunity—and possibly a hidden danger.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian surprises and kills the unsuspecting immortal crane, then goes on to prey on several other beasts.
• The animals he hunts are mostly unaware of him until he attacks; his concealment and stronger cultivation give him the advantage.
• No other character meaningfully engages with Lin Tian in this chapter, though his discovery of the island’s barrier sets up a possible encounter with whatever lies beyond it.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian discovers a mist-covered island protected by a defensive innate formation. He slips through it and explores, devouring the island’s mostly unintelligent creatures as he goes.
• In a cave rich with spiritual energy, he finds twelve unclaimed, mid-grade innate spirit treasures: the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. Together, they form part of the legendary set associated with the Innate Sea-Covering Formation.
• Lin Tian seals the cave and spends three thousand years refining three pearls. He realizes completing all twelve would take far longer at his current cultivation level.
• Instead, he draws on the energy stored in the refined pearls. After several months of absorption, his cultivation rises from early to late True Immortal, and he accumulates 10,000 evolution points.
• When Lin Tian attempts to evolve, his system requires him to incorporate an origin first. It explains that the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls contain a complete space origin. Lin Tian turns his attention to them as the most direct way to meet the requirement.

Character development

• Lin Tian’s initial excitement at finding treasure gives way to caution: he secures the cave before handling the pearls.
• He proves practical and adaptable, choosing to improve his cultivation with the pearls’ energy rather than spend thousands more years refining them.
• His ambition is tied to improving his origins and fortune, which he sees as crucial to success in the Primordial World.

Significant themes

• Fortune and opportunity: Lin Tian’s discovery illustrates how treasure and chance can transform a cultivator’s prospects.
• Origins and power: The system’s new condition emphasizes that a creature’s fundamental origin—not merely accumulated cultivation—matters for advancement.
• Patience and strategy: Lin Tian must balance slow treasure refinement against the immediate benefits of absorbing spiritual energy.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian’s main exchange is with his system: he eagerly accepts the chance to evolve, then learns that he must first obtain an origin. Its explanation directs him to the space origin within the pearls.
• There are no substantial encounters with other characters in the chapter.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian realizes the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl contains a space origin, the missing foundation he needs to form a Purple Mansion space and advance his cultivation.
• He extracts and refines the origin. The system announces a racial evolution to Primordial Green Leaf, costing all his current evolution points and advancing him to Early Profound Immortal.
• The transformation changes his fifty-six leaves from red to deep blue and greatly enlarges his vines. Their edges remain exceptionally sharp, now even leaving marks in the void.
• Lin Tian gains the divine ability Void Traversal, which lets him move through space at extraordinary speed. His system panel also records his new race, cultivation, and space origin.
• He tests the ability by escaping the island’s innate formation, successfully appearing outside it. However, when he tries to enter nearby islands—whose spiritual energy and auspicious signs suggest they may contain treasures—an invisible force repels him. Void Traversal cannot overcome their protective formation.

Character development

• Lin Tian’s cultivation and innate foundations improve dramatically, placing him among the Primordial World’s second-rate foundations.
• He is exhilarated by his new strength and divine ability, but recognizes that each further evolution will demand far more points. He jokes grimly about the enormous cost of reaching the Quasi-Saint realm, then focuses on the nearer goal of mastering the Profound Immortal stage.
• His curiosity and ambition remain strong: he immediately tests his new power and seeks access to potentially valuable islands.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian interacts primarily with the system, whose notifications explain the evolution’s cost, new race, cultivation advancement, and ability.
• His other notable “interaction” is with the islands’ innate formations: his new power gets him out of one protected area but is blocked when he attempts to enter another.

Significant themes

• Innate foundations and transformation: Lin Tian’s evolution brings a major increase in power, underscoring the importance of one’s underlying nature.
• Power with limits: Void Traversal is formidable but cannot bypass every ancient or innate defense.
• Ambition versus escalating cost: Each advance opens new possibilities while making future progress increasingly difficult.

Plot points and events

• Unable to pass through Penglai’s powerful innate formation, Lin Tian discovers that refining its Dao patterns earns him evolution points.
• He spends a hundred thousand years slowly refining the formation. His cultivation reaches the peak of the Profound Immortal realm, and his evolution progress bar fills completely.
• Once the formation is refined, Lin Tian enters the island and discovers it is legendary Penglai, rich in heavenly materials and treasures.
• His Sea-Calming Divine Pearl reacts to something nearby, leading him to a secluded valley and a clear pool.
• In the valley, Lin Tian finds and claims the half-ripe twelfth-grade World-Purifying White Lotus, a supreme-grade innate spirit treasure. He then turns his attention to the pool, sensing more treasures within it.

Character development and interactions

• Lin Tian shifts from frustration at being blocked to patient, determined effort, enduring a century of millennia-long work for the promise of power and treasure.
• The painstaking refinement improves both his cultivation and his control over his abilities.
• The Sea-Calming Divine Pearl acts as a guide, responding to and drawing Lin Tian toward another treasure. Lin Tian interprets this as spirit treasures attracting one another.

Significant themes

• Perseverance and reward: Lin Tian’s immense patience eventually grants him access to Penglai and its treasures.
• Growth through sustained effort: Refining the formation advances his cultivation, fills his evolution bar, and strengthens his command of his power.
• Hidden opportunities: What first appears to be an impassable obstacle becomes a source of evolution points and a path to exceptional treasures.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian discovers that the pool beneath the Twelfth-Grade World-Purifying White Lotus contains Three Lights Divine Water. Though each component is deadly on its own, combined they form a legendary healing medicine. He absorbs the entire pool into his Purple Mansion.
• The drained pool reveals twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls. Added to the twelve already in his possession, they complete the set of thirty-six.
• The united pearls form the embryonic Innate Sea-Covering Formation in Lin Tian’s Purple Mansion. Their power rivals the formation’s later form, and Lin Tian can control each pearl through their connection to his Purple Mansion.
• Lin Tian considers refining the full set, but realizes his current cultivation is insufficient. His full evolution bar means he can advance if he finds an origin.
• The White Lotus produces a Life Origin. Lin Tian refines it, gaining 3,200 evolution points and the divine ability Undying: he can regenerate so long as even a fragment of a branch or leaf remains.

Character development

• Lin Tian’s persistence is rewarded after he nearly doubted the value of spending a hundred thousand years refining Penglai Island’s protective formation. The discoveries deepen his confidence in his extraordinary luck.
• His excitement over the treasures gives way to practical ambition: he recognizes that he must strengthen his cultivation before fully mastering the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• The Life Origin grants him a powerful new form of resilience, making his survival and regeneration central to his growing strength.

Significant themes

• Perseverance and reward: Lin Tian’s long labor leads to treasures beyond his expectations.
• Accumulation of power: Individual treasures become far more potent when united, as shown by the complete set of pearls and their formation.
• Growth through evolution: Lin Tian’s progress depends on acquiring origins and overcoming the limits of his cultivation.
• Renewal and survival: The Life Origin embodies life’s regenerative force, reflected in Lin Tian’s new Undying ability.

Character interactions

• The chapter is largely focused on Lin Tian’s discoveries and internal reactions; no other characters appear directly.
• Lin Tian reflects on how Zhao Gongming and Ran Deng Daoist possessed only twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls in later ages, contrasting their incomplete set with his own complete collection.

Key plot points and events

• After spending 100,000 years refining Penglai Island’s innate formation, Lin Tian absorbs the life origin and evolves from a Primordial Green Leaf into a Primordial Azure Vine, reaching the early Golden Immortal stage.
• His transformation greatly strengthens him: his stem grows beyond 100 feet, and his twelve leaves can each manifest their own space. Their sharp edges can also unleash Wind Blades across a hundred-mile area. His Purple Mansion begins to brim with vitality.
• The system reveals that his next evolution requires nearly one million evolution points and three origins. It also explains that a cultivation art would accelerate his progress.
• Lin Tian decides to seek the Primordial Mystic Art, drawn to its name and its promise of cultivating both body and magical power. First, he gathers Penglai’s treasures into his Purple Mansion.
• Suspecting Fangzhang and Yingzhou lie nearby, he searches beyond Penglai. After a century, he finds Fangzhang Island and spends 30,000–40,000 years refining its formation—far less time than he needed for Penglai. Entering the island, he discovers the Fangcun Dao Tree.

Character developments

• Lin Tian becomes more powerful and increasingly confident in his abilities, though the next evolution’s steep requirements frustrate him.
• He remains ambitious and opportunistic: he plans to acquire a cultivation art, collects Penglai’s resources, and searches for the neighboring islands.
• He is cautious about drawing the Heavenly Dao’s attention, particularly through thoughts of Hongjun.

Significant themes

• Slow progress and perseverance: Vast stretches of time and difficult refinement underpin Lin Tian’s advancement.
• Evolution and hidden potential: The word “primordial” suggests a deeper connection to chaos and innate roots, though Lin Tian has no proof yet.
• Power through knowledge and resources: Cultivation arts, origins, evolution points, and spiritual treasures all shape future growth.
• Ambition balanced by caution: Lin Tian seeks greater strength while avoiding attention from overwhelming powers.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian consults the system about his evolution requirements and learns that practicing a higher-grade cultivation art would speed his progress. His other significant encounters are with the islands’ innate formations and, at the chapter’s end, the newly discovered Fangcun Dao Tree.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian finds the legendary Fangcun Dao Tree on Fangzhang Island. Its leaves bear traces of the Great Dao and can aid cultivation.
• When Lin Tian considers using the leaves to brew tea, the sentient tree panics and tries to flee. Lin Tian catches it, erases its newly awakened sentience, and plants it in the Purple Mansion grotto-heaven within one of his azure leaves, watering it with Three Lights Divine Water.
• He thoroughly collects Fangzhang Island’s treasures and debris, naming his private grotto-heaven “New Fangzhang.” Having already claimed Penglai and Fangzhang, he sets out to find Yingzhou.
• After a difficult search, Lin Tian finds Yingzhou and spends thirty thousand years refining its concealing formation. His cultivation advances to the middle Golden Immortal stage, and his mastery of Spatial Traversal improves.
• Inside Yingzhou, he senses and retrieves a treasure from a lake: the Northern Black-Yuan Water-Control Banner, an innate spiritual treasure.

Character developments

• Lin Tian grows stronger and more adept with space-based abilities during his long work on Yingzhou’s formation.
• He is portrayed as practical, acquisitive, and unsentimental: he treats spiritual treasures as tools and removes the Dao Tree’s sentience to prevent future conflict.
• The Fangcun Dao Tree briefly displays an independent personality, defending its leaves and attempting to escape, but Lin Tian suppresses it.

Significant themes

• Power and ownership: Lin Tian claims valuable places and treasures without hesitation.
• The instrumental treatment of sentient beings: He values the Dao Tree’s usefulness but denies its emerging autonomy.
• Cultivation through patience and fortune: Decades of effort yield higher cultivation and access to increasingly powerful treasures.
• Discovery and hidden opportunity: Each immortal island conceals rare spiritual resources.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian and the Dao Tree have a brief, comic confrontation: his thought of brewing its leaves prompts its indignant refusal and escape attempt, followed by his capture and removal of its sentience.
• Lin Tian otherwise interacts mainly with the islands and their treasures, using divine sense, magical power, and Spatial Traversal to locate and claim them.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian discovers the Northern Black-Yuan Water-Control Banner, one of the Five Innate Directional Banners, and realizes it can command all waters. He has already gathered several rare treasures and secured the innate formations protecting Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou.
• Sensing a breakthrough, he enters seclusion on Yingzhou. After a hundred thousand years, he reaches the peak Golden Immortal realm. His system’s evolution bar is also full, but racial evolution requires him to fuse three more origins.
• Lin Tian found a strand of Ren Water origin within the banner, leaving him two origins short. Since his current racial foundation limits further cultivation, he decides to leave the islands to search for origins, treasures, and a suitable cultivation method.
• After tens of thousands of years of travel—during which his mastery of Spatial Traversal improves—he reaches the primordial continent. He finds it overrun by enormous ferocious beasts and recognizes the danger of the looming Primordial Ferocious Beast Calamity.
• Lin Tian hides his aura by taking root in a mountain forest. A ten-thousand-zhang beast charges into the area, ending the chapter on an imminent threat.

Character development

• Lin Tian’s extraordinary good fortune continues, but reaching peak Golden Immortal does not make him powerful by the standards of the primordial world.
• His long cultivation has tested his patience and resolve, though he remains determined to keep advancing.
• Faced with the ferocious beasts, he becomes cautious and realistic, choosing concealment rather than risking a confrontation.

Significant themes

• Fortune and limitation: Lin Tian acquires exceptional treasures, yet his innate foundation still restricts his growth.
• Patience and perseverance: His progress depends on immense stretches of cultivation and travel.
• Scale and vulnerability: The vastness of the primordial world makes even a peak Golden Immortal seem small.
• Dangerous opportunity: The ferocious-beast age offers chances to find origins and treasures, but carries extreme risk.

Character interactions

• The chapter is largely focused on Lin Tian alone: he reflects on his progress, consults his system, and makes decisions about his next steps.
• His first encounter with the continent’s beasts is indirect; the charging giant beast poses an immediate threat, but no direct clash has yet occurred.

Plot points and events

• A colossal golden python, a Great Unity Golden Immortal nearing transformation into a flood dragon, storms into Lin Tian’s forest and terrorizes its inhabitants.
• Lin Tian ambushes it from hiding with Green Vine Bind-kill, piercing its organs before appearing beside it and cutting its still-living body into pieces with blades released by his twelve leaves.
• His vines devour the python, earning 8,000 evolution points. The kill does not advance his cultivation, however, because he still needs three kinds of origin to improve his innate foundation.
• Lin Tian openly patrols the forest for thousands of years. Beasts repeatedly challenge him and are eaten; eventually, the survivors learn to flee at his scent.
• After nearly a century without prey, Lin Tian discovers a deadly formation battered by azure lightning and filled with frightening roars. Sensing an opportunity, he waits tens of thousands of years as the heavenly tribulation continues.
• When the lightning subsides, a small, seemingly harmless beast appears in the shattered formation. Wary of its apparent connection to the Heavenly Dao, Lin Tian avoids provoking it and instead absorbs the surrounding lightning through his buried vines.
• Once he has devoured all the azure lightning in the area, the system announces that he has obtained one thunder origin, to Lin Tian’s delight.

Character developments

• Lin Tian’s confidence and control are clear: he calmly defeats a stronger opponent through planning, concealment, and well-timed abilities rather than a direct contest.
• Despite his appetite for prey and evolution points, he remains cautious around forces he does not understand, especially anything tied to the Heavenly Dao.
• His long stretch without challengers leaves him restless, but the lightning tribulation ultimately provides a more valuable opportunity than ordinary hunting.

Significant themes

• Predation and adaptation: Lin Tian turns the forest’s food chain to his advantage, and its beasts gradually learn to avoid him.
• Strength through strategy: A lower-ranked fighter can overcome a superior foe by exploiting surprise and combining abilities.
• Patience and opportunity: Lin Tian waits tens of thousands of years for the tribulation to end, then harvests its power.
• Power has requirements: Evolution points alone cannot improve Lin Tian’s foundation; he must gather the necessary origins.
• Caution before the unknown: Lin Tian chooses not to test the mysterious beast, whose apparent innocence conceals potentially immense significance.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian’s encounter with the golden python is a one-sided ambush: the python boasts over the forest, but Lin Tian kills it before it can use its innate ability or escape.
• The surrounding beasts and birds first watch the python’s display in fear, then are stunned by its sudden death. Over time, Lin Tian’s dominance teaches the remaining creatures to flee him.
• Lin Tian does not directly confront the mysterious little beast. He observes from a distance and interacts with the tribulation instead, quietly absorbing its lightning.

Key plot points and events

• After unexpectedly absorbing thunder origin from the ancient formation, Lin Tian is caught in a renewed and vastly intensified Nine Heavens Azure Lightning storm. The formation redirects the lightning toward him, forcing him to retreat and use his Devouring Ability to absorb the barrage, earning evolution points.
• Once the storm exhausts itself, Lin Tian attacks the phantom formation with his vines. Using the space origin held in his primordial leaves, he shatters the formation and clears away the remaining lightning.
• The tiny beast trapped inside is finally freed after enduring tens of thousands of years of daily tribulation. When it collapses from exhaustion, Lin Tian catches it in his vines and carries it in a hammock-like cradle.
• Months later, the beast wakes during their journey south. Lin Tian observes that it has reached peak Supreme Golden Immortal strength and predicts it may become a Beast Emperor.

Character developments

• Lin Tian remains cautious, retreating from danger even while absorbing the lightning. Though he initially wants to avoid involvement with the beast and its possible karmic ties, he accepts that their meeting may be fated and cares for it after rescuing it.
• The little beast survives its ordeal, gains extraordinary strength, and shows gratitude toward Lin Tian. It also displays a proud, playful side when he praises its potential.

Significant themes

• Survival through adaptability: Lin Tian turns a deadly lightning storm into a source of power.
• Fate and karma: His rescue of the beast complicates his desire to avoid karmic entanglements, while the thunder origin makes their connection seem meaningful.
• Liberation and renewal: The beast’s release marks the end of its long torment and the beginning of its journey with Lin Tian.
• Power and hidden potential: The beast’s rapid rise hints at its extraordinary origins and future role.

Character interactions

Lin Tian rescues and shelters the beast, then compliments its strength and predicts it will command other beasts one day. The beast responds with affectionate calls, gratitude, and smug delight, while Lin Tian is amused by its cute, boastful behavior.

Key plot points and events

• After helping a small beast survive a deadly lightning tribulation, Lin Tian names it Beast Emperor and invites it to travel with him. The beast happily accepts, becoming his first companion in the Primordial World.
• Lin Tian still needs a third origin to complete his evolution mission. He and the Beast Emperor spend tens of thousands of years searching, but find nothing.
• Lin Tian eventually senses unusual spatial fluctuations in a remote valley and discovers a vast innate formation. Using his advanced spatial ability, he and the Beast Emperor pass through it with ease.
• Inside lies a separate grotto-heaven containing a Ginseng Fruit tree. Lin Tian recognizes the legendary spiritual root and considers taking it.
• The tree already possesses spiritual awareness—apparently the nascent consciousness that will become Zhen Yuanzi. Lin Tian decides that destroying or transplanting the whole tree could disrupt fate and incur serious karmic consequences.
• He considers a compromise: taking a branch to cultivate in his own space, believing this might avoid interfering with the tree’s destined future.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian shows affection toward the Beast Emperor, naming it and including it in his travels. He is also ambitious and opportunistic, but weighs potential gains against the karmic dangers of changing fate.
• The Beast Emperor is cheerful and trusting, responding with excitement to its new name and accompanying Lin Tian on his long journey.
• The Ginseng Fruit tree’s awareness surprises Lin Tian by speaking to him and identifying itself as an innate spiritual root. Its emerging consciousness connects it to the future Zhen Yuanzi.

Significant themes

• Fate and karma: Lin Tian recognizes that interfering with the Ginseng Fruit tree’s destined development could alter the future and bring heavy karmic consequences.
• Companionship: The Beast Emperor’s arrival gives Lin Tian a loyal companion during his lonely search.
• Opportunity versus restraint: Lin Tian finds a rare treasure but must consider whether claiming it would violate the natural order.
• The vastness of the world: Even with extraordinary spatial powers, Lin Tian remains a tiny presence in the boundless Primordial Continent.

Plot points and events

• Lin Tian introduces himself to the Ginseng Fruit spiritual root as the Primordial Azure Vine, and the two exchange greetings.
• He downplays his cultivation, claiming he is only a Golden Immortal, while implying that a fortunate treasure has made his spiritual sense unusually powerful.
• Lin Tian displays Three Lights Divine Water, exaggerating its healing properties and warning that its separated components are poisonous. He then pretends to regret revealing it and hides it away.
• Eager to obtain some of the water, the Ginseng Fruit offers his rare first Grass-Return Pellet in exchange.
• Lin Tian acts reluctant, then proposes that the Ginseng Fruit add a branch to the trade. Convinced the exchange is worthwhile, the Ginseng Fruit eagerly offers ten branches.
• The chapter ends with the branches appearing before Lin Tian; the exchange has been agreed to, though the water has not yet been handed over.

Character development and interactions

• Lin Tian shows himself to be clever, opportunistic, and highly theatrical. He uses flattery, selective disclosure, and feigned reluctance to negotiate for more than he initially sought.
• The Ginseng Fruit is powerful but inexperienced and trusting. He admires Lin Tian, becomes fascinated by the Divine Water, and overestimates what a favorable bargain it is to trade away branches and his precious first fruit.
• Their polite conversation turns into a carefully manipulated negotiation: Lin Tian controls the pace and terms, while the Ginseng Fruit eagerly tries to secure the water.

Significant themes

• Deception and performance: Lin Tian’s acting makes a calculated scheme look like reluctance and generosity.
• Value and perspective: Each character judges the trade differently—Lin Tian wants the branches, while the Ginseng Fruit prizes the seemingly irreplaceable Divine Water.
• Power and inexperience: The Ginseng Fruit’s strength does not prevent him from being outmaneuvered by Lin Tian’s greater worldly cunning.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian trades ten drops of Three Lights Divine Water for ten branches of the Ginseng Fruit Tree and its first ripe fruit. Though he pretends to be reluctant and unimpressed, he is delighted: he can grow a new tree with the water and use the branches’ wood origin for his evolution.
• The Ginseng Fruit Tree is pleased with the exchange and thanks Lin Tian, who sees the bargain as a way to build goodwill with the spirit root rather than harm it.
• As Lin Tian prepares to leave the formation, the tree opens a passage back to the Primordial Continent by shifting the formation’s landscape and laws.
• Lin Tian praises the feat. The tree explains that it relied on its accompanying treasure, the Earth’s Embryonic Membrane. Lin Tian recognizes this as the Earth Book, also called the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and realizes its great significance.

Character developments

• Lin Tian carefully disguises his excitement, using a show of reluctance to make the trade seem costly while securing valuable resources. He also prioritizes a favorable relationship with the Ginseng Fruit Tree, whose future identity he knows.
• The Ginseng Fruit Tree shows gratitude and generosity, offering both branches and its first fruit. Its use of the Earth Book reveals that it has access to remarkable power, even if it modestly attributes the feat to its treasure.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian and the tree conduct a respectful exchange: the tree offers its most valuable growths, and Lin Tian provides Three Lights Divine Water.
• The tree then helps Lin Tian leave the formation, prompting his admiration. Its honest explanation about the Earth’s Embryonic Membrane sparks Lin Tian’s renewed interest.

Significant themes

• Deception and diplomacy: Lin Tian conceals his true enthusiasm to manage the bargain and preserve trust.
• Mutual benefit and relationship-building: The exchange benefits both parties and strengthens their connection.
• Hidden power and destiny: The tree’s future importance is foreshadowed through its identity as Zhen Yuanzi and its connection to the Earth Book.
• Patience and cultivation: Lin Tian’s plans depend on nurturing the branches over time and combining resources to advance his evolution.

Key plot points and events

• Ginseng Fruit explains the Earth Book, also called the Classic of Mountains and Seas or Earth’s Embryonic Membrane. It can enable instant travel, record treasures and the primordial world’s geography and creatures, and release earth aura that nourishes life.
• The Earth Book’s aura helped Ginseng Fruit develop into Zhen Yuanzi, the Ancestor of Earth Immortals. It also lets him connect his formation-bound grotto-heaven to the wider world.
• Lin Tian pretends to regret giving up so much Three Lights Divine Water, making Ginseng Fruit feel guilty. Ginseng Fruit offers half the Earth’s Embryonic Membrane in exchange for all of it.
• Lin Tian recognizes the potential value of even a fraction of the treasure, while Ginseng Fruit believes the water is an excellent bargain.
• Ginseng Fruit sweetens the deal by offering the essence and cultivation method of one of his innate abilities. Lin Tian realizes it is Universe in the Sleeve.
• After feigning painful reluctance, Lin Tian hands over the fist-sized mass of Three Lights Divine Water. Ginseng Fruit eagerly accepts it.

Character developments

• Lin Tian proves himself a calculating negotiator, concealing his excitement behind a performance of regret. He hopes to gain both part of the Earth Book and a powerful technique.
• Ginseng Fruit is generous but inexperienced and easy to manipulate. His desire for the Divine Water makes him believe he is the one securing the better deal.

Significant themes

• Deception and performance: Both characters act reluctant or guilty while pursuing their own advantage.
• Power and value: The exchange weighs immediate cultivation benefits against a versatile treasure and a rare ability.
• Knowledge as power: The Earth Book’s records, travel capacity, and nourishing aura make it valuable far beyond its role as a spiritual treasure.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian uses guilt and apparent self-sacrifice to encourage Ginseng Fruit to offer more.
• Ginseng Fruit responds by proposing a trade and adding Universe in the Sleeve to persuade Lin Tian.
• Their courteous exchange masks a contest of competing interests—though Ginseng Fruit is far less aware of the deception.

Key plot points and events

• The Ginseng Fruit Tree gives Lin Tian half of its earth fetal membrane and the divine ability Universe in the Sleeve. The system grants him 700 evolution points for acquiring the technique.
• Lin Tian leaves the tree’s secluded valley, finds a hidden cave, and refines a portion of wood origin.
• With all three origins gathered, he spends nearly one million evolution points. He advances to the early Great Unity Golden Immortal stage and evolves from Primordial Azure Vine into Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine.
• His new form gains a powerful freezing ability: its nether frost can seal thousands of miles, potentially ten thousand when fully unleashed. The system also extracts the thunder origin’s strongest trace and grants him Thunderbolt Force, a soul-striking lightning power capable of shattering the void.
• The ability’s aura overwhelms the little beast guarding the cave. Lin Tian brings it inside and calms it.
• Lin Tian asks whether he can fuse Universe in the Sleeve into his own racial bloodline. The system confirms it is possible, and he chooses to proceed.

Character developments

• Lin Tian becomes far stronger and transforms into a new, more formidable species. He is delighted by his new abilities and recognizes that his long wait for the thunder origin was worthwhile.
• The little beast remains Lin Tian’s sole companion and is vulnerable to the overwhelming force of his transformation, prompting Lin Tian to protect and comfort it.
• The Ginseng Fruit Tree shows affection and goodwill by gifting Lin Tian a prized technique and asking him to visit again.

Significant themes

• Evolution through patience and sacrifice: Lin Tian’s long wait yields an origin that enables extraordinary power.
• Power and responsibility: His transformation affects even his companion, so he restrains his aura and brings the little beast to safety.
• Cooperation and generosity: The Ginseng Fruit Tree’s gift helps Lin Tian grow stronger, while their farewell promises continued friendship.
• Boundaries overcome through cultivation: With the system’s aid, Lin Tian can potentially make another species’ exclusive ability part of his own bloodline.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian and the Ginseng Fruit Tree exchange warm farewells after the tree’s generous gift.
• Lin Tian shields the little beast from his new powers, showing the closeness and trust between them.
• Lin Tian consults the system about absorbing Universe in the Sleeve; after receiving confirmation, he eagerly authorizes the fusion.

Plot points and events

• Lin Tian completes a race evolution into the Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine, reaching the early Great Unity Golden Immortal realm. He gains the divine ability Universe in the Sleeve.
• His twelve vine leaves unleash the ability across an enormous range, drawing in spiritual energy and cutting through space. Combined with the vine’s innate cutting power, it becomes a formidable attack as well as a means of absorbing energy.
• The evolution consumes all his accumulated evolution points. His next major advancement will require 100 million points and ten kinds of origin, making further progress far more difficult.
• Lin Tian assesses his new strength: he believes he can defeat many mid- and late-stage Great Unity Golden Immortals, though stronger opponents remain dangerous.
• After discovering that the little beast enjoys his freezing ability, Lin Tian gives it a vast cave and surrounds it with a Ninefold Nether Vine formation. He freezes the cave with Ten Thousand Miles of Ice, and the beast immediately begins secluded cultivation.

Character developments

• Lin Tian is thrilled by his enormous power increase but quickly becomes discouraged by the system’s steep new requirements. He is more confident in his ability to protect himself, yet recognizes that gathering the resources for future evolution may require challenging powerful factions.
• The little beast shows a surprising preference for the vine’s freezing ability. It communicates through gestures and eagerly uses the frozen cave as a setting for cultivation.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian tests the little beast’s preferences through spiritual messages; the beast answers by drawing a cross and then a check mark in the dirt.
• Amused by its enthusiasm for the cold, Lin Tian creates and freezes a dedicated cultivation cave for it.

Significant themes

• Power comes at a cost: Lin Tian’s evolution dramatically strengthens him but resets his accumulated points and raises the next threshold.
• Growth brings greater challenges: Advancement now demands rare origins and likely conflict with established factions.
• Power and care coexist: Lin Tian uses his formidable abilities not only to test his strength but also to provide for the little beast’s cultivation.

Key plot points

• Lin Tian spends 50,000 years cultivating in a mountain cave, using Universe in the Sleeve to absorb spiritual energy and sun-and-moon essence across a ten-million-mile region.
• His evolution points increase by just over 900,000—less than one percent of the 100 million needed for the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm. He realizes active hunting and exploration will be far more effective than secluded cultivation.
• After recalling his Nine Nether Vines, Lin Tian finds his cultivation and abilities have grown more concentrated, and his body has shrunk to ten zhang.
• The little Thunder Beast, now three zhang tall and a peak Great Unity Golden Immortal, arrives excitedly and urges Lin Tian to follow it.
• The pair travel south for several hundred years, covering an immense distance. Lin Tian is astonished that the beast can sense a disturbance from farther away than even his Earth Book can detect. The chapter ends when they reach a desolate forest.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian shifts from patient, cautious cultivation to active exploration, seeking prey and the ten Origins he needs. Despite his frustration, he recognizes that his long retreat strengthened him in other ways.
• The little beast has grown dramatically and become the undisputed king of its mountain range. Its lively, eager behavior and extraordinary sensitivity to distant disturbances reveal abilities beyond its already formidable cultivation.
• Their long companionship has produced deep mutual understanding: the beast communicates its intentions through gestures, and Lin Tian readily follows its lead.

Significant themes

• Effort versus efficiency: Passive cultivation brings steady but painfully slow progress; active pursuit of opportunities may yield greater rewards.
• Growth through time: Both characters emerge from their separate retreats stronger, though in different ways.
• Trust and partnership: Lin Tian relies on the beast’s unusual instincts, while their established bond allows them to communicate with little explanation.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor discover a colossal, lightning-filled tree in the withered forest. Its unusual ability to retain both life and the essence of a lightning tribulation marks it as an extraordinary treasure.
• Lin Tian first identifies it as exceptional lightning-struck wood, potentially suitable for refining a top-tier magic treasure. On touching it, however, the charred bark falls away to reveal golden-strike divine wood, an even rarer material capable of producing a supreme houtian spiritual treasure—far surpassing the legendary God-Striking Whip.
• The Little Beast Emperor’s ability to detect the tree earns Lin Tian’s praise and a promised reward.
• As Lin Tian prepares to move the tree into his Purple Mansion, a powerful stranger arrives, orders him to stop, and immediately launches a lethal attack.
• Lin Tian counters with his innate divine ability, Universe in the Sleeve. Their powers collide, leveling the surrounding forest while the golden-strike tree remains untouched. The chapter ends with Lin Tian, the Little Beast Emperor, and the attacker facing off.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian shifts from surprise at the tree’s lightning power to excitement when he recognizes its true, higher-grade nature. He is eager to claim it but responds swiftly and forcefully to the ambush.
• The Little Beast Emperor is exuberant around the lightning and proves remarkably perceptive by locating the divine material. It celebrates Lin Tian’s promise of a reward, then turns alert when the stranger appears.
• The unnamed attacker is introduced as hostile and overwhelmingly powerful, choosing a killing strike rather than negotiation.
• Lin Tian praises the Little Beast Emperor for its discovery, while the pair respond together to the sudden threat.

Significant themes

• Rarity and escalating value: The revelation that the tree is not merely lightning-struck wood but golden-strike divine wood raises the stakes and promises a treasure beyond familiar legendary weapons.
• Power and danger: Acquiring great treasures invites conflict; Lin Tian’s discovery is immediately followed by a deadly challenge.
• Partnership and reward: Lin Tian recognizes the Little Beast Emperor’s contribution and promises to share the benefits of their journey.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian, the Little Beast Emperor, and a sentient Primordial Ninefold Nether Vine arrive at the Golden-Strike Divine Wood, where they encounter a white-haired Daoist in a Heaven-and-Earth Eight Trigrams robe.
• Lin Tian recognizes the Daoist as an avatar of the Heaven-and-Earth Ancestor, likely connected to the powerful Heaven-and-Earth Demon God. The avatar is a peak supreme golden immortal, far stronger—so he assumes—than Lin Tian.
• The Daoist demands the Golden-Strike Divine Wood, covets the Little Beast Emperor as a mount, and decides the Nine Nether Vine would make valuable crafting material. He pretends to offer both creatures discipleship, while secretly planning to erase their sentience and exploit them.
• The Daoist uses the laws of heaven and earth to suppress Lin Tian. Lin Tian remains calm, then reveals his strength and launches a counterattack.
• Thousands of Nine Nether Vines rise from underground and form an Eight-Direction Cage Formation around the Daoist. The vine’s Ten-Thousand-Mile Ice Seal traps and immobilizes him.
• The Little Beast Emperor, unaffected by the freezing power and strengthened by the icy environment, rushes toward the trapped Daoist. The chapter ends as a terrifying pink, millstone-shaped mark appears before the beast.

Character developments

• Lin Tian shifts from quiet observation to decisive action. Though he appears to be an early-stage great unity golden immortal, he has concealed power and is unshaken by the Daoist’s threats.
• The Little Beast Emperor is openly furious at the Daoist’s greed and eager to fight. Its resilience and speed within the ice seal show how well suited it is to the Nine Nether Vine’s domain.
• The Heaven-and-Earth Ancestor’s avatar is exposed as arrogant and predatory. His confidence in his rank leads him to underestimate Lin Tian and the others, leaving him trapped.
• The Nine Nether Vine demonstrates formidable control over its surroundings and the power to deploy a large-scale killing formation.

Significant themes

• Arrogance and underestimation: The Daoist’s belief that superior cultivation guarantees victory blinds him to Lin Tian’s hidden strength.
• Exploitation versus loyalty: The Daoist disguises selfish plans as an offer of discipleship, while Lin Tian and his companions act together against the threat.
• Concealed power and reversal: The apparent imbalance of strength is overturned when Lin Tian reveals the group’s true capabilities.

Character interactions

• The Daoist treats Lin Tian dismissively, demands his treasure, and openly appraises the Little Beast Emperor and Nine Nether Vine as possessions.
• The Little Beast Emperor urges Lin Tian to attack, but Lin Tian waits until the Daoist’s intentions are clear before responding.
• When the Daoist invokes his authority and threatens consequences, Lin Tian ignores him; the vine restrains him while the Little Beast Emperor closes in to strike.