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Lin Xuan found a small bead carrying Xuantian’s aura and took it, dispersing the black mist and revealing a vision of Xuantian. Although Lin Xuan believed the White Bead was Xuantian’s true legacy, it did not transform into the legacy after releasing its light.

• The Artifact Spirit realized Lin Xuan was searching for Xuantian’s Legacy and feared that Lin Xuan would use it to destroy him.
• The Artifact Spirit tried to approach Lin Xuan but stopped when the evil gaze threatened to invade him.
• Lin Xuan discovered a familiar bead at the center of the Xuantian Inheritance Land and picked it up.
• The White Bead released a terrifying aura that dispersed the black mist and filled the land with white light.
• Lin Xuan saw a vision of Xuantian as a young man in white holding a long spear and believed the bead was his true legacy.
• The White Bead failed to transform into Xuantian’s Legacy, and Lin Xuan’s smile froze.

Lin Xuan received the White Bead, but the Xuantian's Legacy did not recognize him, leaving him puzzled about why. The Artifact Spirit expected the hidden existence to kill Lin Xuan, but it did nothing, leaving the reason for its restraint unclear.

• The White Bead turned into an ordinary-looking bead and fell into Lin Xuan's palm.
• The Artifact Spirit laughed when the legacy did not appear, relieved that Lin Xuan had not gained Xuantian's power.
• Lin Xuan examined the bead and wondered why it had rejected him despite the Xuantian phantom's apparent approval.
• The Artifact Spirit expected the hidden existence to kill Lin Xuan, but the existence did not attack him.
• The Artifact Spirit stared at Lin Xuan in disbelief and hoped the hidden existence would finish him off.

A young man confronted the Artifact Spirit over its attempt to pressure the presence that had accepted Lin Xuan. He then told Lin Xuan that, despite surviving the Nine-layered Palace, he could not obtain Xuantian's Legacy because it did not acknowledge him.

• The Artifact Spirit realized the presence in the shadows had accepted Lin Xuan and demanded it consider its promise to Xuantian.
• The young man appeared and warned the Artifact Spirit that it would be dead if not for its connection to Xuantian.
• The Artifact Spirit invoked the young man's promise to Xuantian, and the young man withdrew his attack, leaving the Artifact Spirit gasping on his knees.
• The young man turned to Lin Xuan, praised his strength and luck, then declared that Xuantian's Legacy would not accept him.

Lin Xuan learned that Xuantian's Legacy rejected him because he would not become the successor Xuantian wanted. Instead, he had obtained the black power Xuantian left behind, whose ominous flames appeared before him and the young man.

• The Artifact Spirit mocked Lin Xuan, convinced he could not obtain Xuantian's Legacy.
• Lin Xuan explained that he understood why the Legacy had not chosen him, and the young man confirmed that Lin Xuan would have used it as a tool rather than becoming Xuantian's true successor.
• The young man revealed that Lin Xuan had obtained something more important: the black power Xuantian left behind.
• The young man shattered the black pillars and gathered their power into a mass of black flames, while the Artifact Spirit stared at it greedily.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the flames were ominous and could affect a person's mind, and he regarded them with both temptation and caution.

Lin Xuan approached the black flame and discovered that his gray mist could ignite into a flame of comparable level. When the young man demanded to know where it came from, Lin Xuan began explaining what had happened before he entered the Xuantian Great Tomb.

• The young man praised Lin Xuan for resisting the black flame and said it would have to acknowledge him for him to obtain it.
• Lin Xuan approached the black flame and sensed it resonating with the gray mist inside his gray-white mist.
• Lin Xuan separated some gray mist and held it before the black flame, causing it to burn into a strange gray flame.
• The young man was shocked by the gray flame’s power and asked Lin Xuan where he had obtained it.
• Lin Xuan said the flame was not his and began telling the young man what had happened before he entered the Xuantian Great Tomb.

Lin Xuan learned that the Eerie Smiling Face and White Lotus who had helped him were once Supreme Experts named Wusheng and Baihe, and that they had sent him into the Xuantian Great Tomb as part of their plan. He was left grimly aware that he had become their pawn.

• Lin Xuan questioned the young man about the Eerie Smiling Face and White Lotus, and the young man recognized them.
• Lin Xuan explained that Wusheng and Baihe had fused the Life Power and World-Destroying Law within him before he entered the tomb.
• The young man revealed that Wusheng had once rivaled Xuantian and that Baihe was said to be a river from the Highest Divine Realm.
• The young man warned Lin Xuan that Wusheng and Baihe had been laying out a game across the myriad heavens and had made him their pawn.
• Lin Xuan realized the two experts could have entered the tomb themselves but had sent him in with power comparable to Xuantian’s, leaving him grim and wary.

Lin Xuan realized Wusheng and Baihe had sent him into the Xuantian Great Tomb to bypass Xuantian’s formation and claim the power he left behind. The young man understood the scheme and grew grim at the prospect of Wusheng and Baihe taking Xuantian’s inheritance.

• Lin Xuan recalled that Wusheng and Baihe were as powerful as Xuantian and concluded they had made him a pawn in their plan.
• The young man explained that Xuantian had left a grand formation by his tomb that would activate and move it if a powerhouse of the same realm approached.
• Lin Xuan reasoned that Wusheng and Baihe had avoided entering the tomb because they knew about the formation and had sent him in their place.
• The young man realized Wusheng and Baihe might be seeking Xuantian’s power and became grim, since Xuantian had hoped someone would master the black flame and become the strongest sovereign.

A young man explained to Lin Xuan that Wusheng and Baihe had abandoned their original bodies in pursuit of strength and might have a scheme involving him. He told Lin Xuan to comprehend the black flame and revealed that it and the gray flame had once been one power, while Xuantian had hoped to use the black flame to restore other flames’ origins and wield their abilities.

• Lin Xuan reflected on how far Wusheng and Baihe had gone to become stronger, and the young man said many experts took similarly extreme measures.
• The young man warned Lin Xuan that Wusheng and Baihe might have a greater scheme involving him and urged him to comprehend the black flame to protect himself.
• The young man explained that the black flame and gray flame had been one entity before splitting into separate powers with their own consciousnesses.
• Lin Xuan questioned why Xuantian had not used the black flame, and the young man said Xuantian had planned to use it to restore the origins of all flames and wield their abilities.

The young man explained that Xuantian fell because he pursued the destructive natural force behind the black flame and lost himself to it. Lin Xuan learned why Wusheng and Baihe had survived with gray flames, then asked whether he should use the black flame to fuse with the gray flame within him.

• Lin Xuan questioned why he had not sensed flame power when he fought the Xuantian phantom, and the young man said Xuantian had lost himself to the black flame.
• The young man explained that Xuantian had sought the natural force of destruction behind the black flame and was killed after going mad.
• Lin Xuan asked why Wusheng and Baihe still possessed gray flames, and the young man revealed they belonged to an organization with at least five supreme experts.
• Lin Xuan concluded that Wusheng and Baihe’s allies had protected them, unlike the solitary Xuantian.
• Lin Xuan asked whether he should comprehend the black flame and fuse it with the gray flame within him.

Lin Xuan realized that absorbing the black flame and merging it with his gray flame was his only way to protect himself from Wusheng and Baihe. He studied the black flame’s overwhelming life force but could not yet understand its secrets.

• The young man warned Lin Xuan that Wusheng and Baihe would try to seize the black flame if he could not fully absorb it.
• Lin Xuan decided to merge the black flame and gray flame to gain the power to defend himself.
• Lin Xuan examined the black flame and sensed that its destructive aura contained immense vitality.
• Lin Xuan recognized that the black flame’s Life Power could make him nearly impossible to defeat, but he could not yet comprehend it.

Lin Xuan realized that absorbing the black flames and fusing them with his gray flames was his only way to protect himself from Wusheng and Baihe. He examined the black flames’ destructive yet immense life force but could not yet understand their secrets.

• The young man warned Lin Xuan that he needed to fully fuse with the black flames to survive Wusheng and Baihe.
• Lin Xuan concluded that he had to absorb the black flames first, then combine them with the gray flames within him.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the black flames carried a life force far beyond any he had encountered and could make him nearly impossible to defeat.
• Lin Xuan tried to discern the black flames’ secrets but failed to comprehend them.

Lin Xuan searched for a way to approach and subdue the deadly black flames, realizing that anything with vitality would be destroyed by them. He decided to use his transformed soul, and the young man warned him that damaging it could ruin his cultivation foundation.

• Lin Xuan realized the black flames were too dangerous to approach with anything that carried vitality.
• Lin Xuan considered how the black flames were his only bargaining chip against Wusheng and Baihe, so he had to gain control of them.
• After exhausting other possibilities, Lin Xuan turned to his unusually powerful soul as a way to approach the flames.
• Lin Xuan released wisps of soul aura, and the young man warned him that risking his soul could damage his cultivation foundation.

Lin Xuan believed his soul might be the only way to merge with the black flames, despite the young man's warnings about the danger. After searching for another option and finding none, Lin Xuan pressed to investigate the flames with his soul, and the young man finally agreed to let him risk it.

• Lin Xuan argued that his soul might be the only thing capable of merging with the black flames.
• The young man urged Lin Xuan to keep searching for another method rather than risk damaging his soul.
• Lin Xuan studied the flawless black flames but could find no weakness or alternative path.
• Lin Xuan proposed using his unusually strong soul to control the black flames, and the young man warned they might burn him or take over his body.
• Seeing that Lin Xuan remained determined, the young man finally allowed him to take the risk.

Lin Xuan tried to absorb the black flame with his soul, despite the young man's warning that the attempt could destroy him. After the flame consumed his first wisp of soul, Lin Xuan sensed it was absorbing rather than burning him and decided to try again with more of his soul.

• The young man agreed to let Lin Xuan risk absorbing the black flame but warned him to sever the merged soul if anything went wrong.
• Lin Xuan decided to absorb the black flame, believing it was necessary to protect himself from Wusheng and Baihe.
• Lin Xuan sent a wisp of his soul into the black flame, and it vanished almost instantly.
• The young man urged Lin Xuan to stop, but Lin Xuan sensed the flame was absorbing his soul rather than burning it.
• Lin Xuan drew on more of his soul to attempt the absorption again.

Lin Xuan argued that the black flames absorbed souls rather than burning them, and persuaded the young man to let him test them again. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan risking a tenth of his soul as the young man rushed to stop him too late.

• Lin Xuan told the young man that the black flames were absorbing his soul, not burning it.
• The young man hesitated because he feared for Lin Xuan, whom he regarded as the true successor of Xuantian's Legacy.
• The young man allowed Lin Xuan to try again, warning him not to use his origin soul power.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the black flames seemed conscious and drew a tenth of his soul toward them.
• The young man tried to intervene after sensing Lin Xuan use more soul power, but it was too late.

Lin Xuan was trapped inside the black flames’ silent inner world, where their power slowly consumed his vitality. He searched for a way to collect the flames but found no clue before reaching what seemed to be the world’s end.

• The young man tried to pull Lin Xuan from the black flames, but they absorbed and burned away all the power he used.
• Lin Xuan realized the black flames were slowly consuming his vitality, though they no longer burned his soul.
• Lin Xuan recognized that he had entered the core of the black flames and began searching for a way to collect them.
• Lin Xuan explored the lifeless black world, searching for a hidden force or flaw, but found nothing.
• Lin Xuan reached what seemed to be the edge of the world without discovering its secret.

Lin Xuan discovered that the black world was silently scorching away his soul as well as his life force. Unable to find the cause, he was left searching for a way to stop his soul from burning.

• Lin Xuan noticed that the black clouds in the sky were shrinking his soul.
• Lin Xuan observed that his soul kept evaporating, with the loss growing to more than one percent.
• Lin Xuan realized that the black world naturally restrained souls and was burning his soul faster than his life force.
• Lin Xuan searched the black world for the cause but found no clues beyond its lack of life.

As the black world’s flames rapidly consumed his soul and body, Lin Xuan discovered a faint wisp of black fog that controlled the flames. With little time left, he decided to risk fusing with it to survive.

• Lin Xuan searched the silent black world for a flaw as its flames consumed his soul and vitality faster and faster.
• After his soul and body became severely depleted, Lin Xuan spotted a faint wisp of black smoke.
• Lin Xuan appeared before the smoke and realized it controlled the black flames and was gradually devouring them.
• Lin Xuan decided to fuse with the black fog despite the risk that it might kill him.

Lin Xuan merged his soul with the black mist, triggering a black dragon of flames and unbearable pain that threatened to make his soul disintegrate. He endured until the pain began to fade, leaving his soul fully fused with the mist and covered in black markings.

• Lin Xuan drew out his soul power and charged toward the black mist, causing the black flames to form a dragon and attack him.
• Lin Xuan merged his entire soul into the black mist, which fused with his soul but caused intense, needle-like pain in his brow.
• Lin Xuan feared the pain would disintegrate his soul and destroy his cultivation, but gritted his teeth and endured it.
• The pain gradually faded as Lin Xuan became completely fused with the black mist, which left black markings across his soul.

Lin Xuan discovered that a black mark in his soul was absorbing the black flames of the black world, allowing him to summon flames far more powerful than his World-Destroying Law. He continued absorbing them but searched for a faster method, since the process was too slow.

• Lin Xuan examined the black mark fused into his soul and found no other changes at first.
• Lin Xuan realized his soul was slowly absorbing the black flames without his awareness, and briefly feared an unfamiliar consciousness had fused with it.
• Lin Xuan's sense of his soul returned as black flames bloomed within it, and the mark became a small flame between his brows.
• Lin Xuan summoned a black flame and concluded he could control it through absorption but had not truly mastered it.
• Lin Xuan sat in the black world absorbing flames and began searching for a way to speed up the process.

Lin Xuan struggled to absorb the Moon Demon's black flames after taking in one-tenth of them, leaving him unable to summon their power. He searched the black world for something else that could absorb the flames but found nothing, and continued looking.

• Lin Xuan decided to absorb the black flames slowly because he feared their power would overwhelm his soul.
• After absorbing one-tenth of the Moon Demon's black flames, Lin Xuan's soul stopped and could no longer summon them.
• Lin Xuan searched the black world for more black mist, which had absorbed the flames before, but found none.
• Lin Xuan reasoned that something else in the black world must be able to absorb the flames and searched for it.
• Lin Xuan found nothing after searching for a long time and continued looking for a way to absorb the black flames.

Lin Xuan found another faint wisp of black mist and merged his soul with it, but the process caused him unbearable pain. As his soul began splitting and changing, he suspected that living two lifetimes had caused the problem.

• Lin Xuan searched the black world until he found a faint wisp of black mist.
• Lin Xuan merged his soul with the mist and felt intense, needle-like pain.
• Lin Xuan realized his soul was splitting and differentiating as it underwent a major transformation.
• Lin Xuan failed to identify the cause of his pain and suspected it came from his soul rather than the black mist.
• Lin Xuan wondered whether his soul had developed a serious problem because he had lived two lifetimes.

Lin Xuan discovered that the black mist was threatening to split his two-life soul apart, but he suppressed the danger and began absorbing it. Despite the black mist’s resistance and mounting pain, he continued the slow process of taking it into his soul.

• As Lin Xuan absorbed the black mist, it exposed the hidden flaw in his soul and nearly split him into two people.
• Lin Xuan identified the black mist as the cause and used his willpower to suppress the pain and protect his soul.
• Lin Xuan sent his soul deeper into the black mist, causing it to part and merge into his soul.
• The black mist intensified Lin Xuan’s soul-piercing pain in a last-ditch attempt to stop him, but he endured it and continued absorbing it slowly.

Lin Xuan endured intense pain as he absorbed the black mist, causing the terrifying aura around him to grow stronger. He then began absorbing the surrounding black flames, confident that he would eventually absorb them all.

• Lin Xuan sensed a terrifying aura emerging as the black flame between his brows grew denser.
• Lin Xuan withstood the pain in his soul and forcibly absorbed the black mist despite its fierce struggle.
• The last of the black mist transformed into Lin Xuan's power, and his aura surged outward.
• The surrounding black flames rushed toward Lin Xuan and were absorbed by him.
• Lin Xuan opened his eyes, expressed confidence that he would absorb all the black flames, and continued absorbing them slowly.

Lin Xuan absorbed more black flames, gaining a faint trace of the aura of a Supreme Expert of Heaven and Earth, then searched the black world for more black miasma. He found a strange, scorched wisp and realized that black flames could escape from and injure black miasma.

• Lin Xuan absorbed black flames until the black miasma around him reached its limit, bringing his total to two-tenths of the flames in the black world.
• Lin Xuan noticed the remaining black flames seemed to avoid him and continued searching the black world for more black miasma.
• Lin Xuan found a wisp of black miasma in a remote corner, marked by faint traces of black flames.
• Lin Xuan concluded that black flames could break free from black miasma and scorch it in return.