Arc 14The Lotus at Chaos’s End
Lin Xuan fought the Stone Man and awakened a lotus formed from his World-Destroying Law and Life Power, along with the Eerie Smiling Face. As the Red Phantom gained the upper hand, the face urged Lin Xuan to enter the great tomb and seek its expert’s opportunity.
- Lin Xuan’s attacks pushed the Stone Man to unseal more of his power, but Lin Xuan kept adapting and advancing his World-Destroying Law during their fight.
- The Stone Man unsealed his eyes and overwhelmed Lin Xuan, who survived the pressure by containing Life Power and the World-Destroying Law separately in his meridians.
- Lin Xuan’s two powers compromised and formed a lotus that created a Red Phantom capable of copying most of the Stone Man’s strength.
- Lin Xuan summoned an Eerie Smiling Face, whose black mist spread through the chaos and made the Stone Man wary of fighting it and the lotus.
- Lin Xuan rejected the Stone Man’s offers to leave the secrets at the end of the Sea of Chaos untouched, and the Stone Man attacked to defend his master’s charge.
- The Red Phantom fought the Stone Man while the Eerie Smiling Face and lotus revealed their own consciousnesses, and the Phantom eventually grew stronger than him.
- The Eerie Smiling Face urged Lin Xuan to enter the great tomb, described its owner as an ineffable expert who had surpassed his realm, and left Lin Xuan realizing how far beyond him the expert had been.