Recaps

Lin Xuan defeated Jun Wu and the Divine Silkworm in the Second Layer Palace, then fought the Black Phoenix and the woman in black in the Third Layer Palace. The woman in black revealed the Eerie Smiling Face within her, and Lin Xuan faced its Destruction Power with nearly all his strength.

• Lin Xuan defeated Jun Wu and the Divine Silkworm, destroying the Second Layer Palace with the World-Destroying Law.
• Lin Xuan entered the Third Layer Palace and fought the Black Phoenix until a woman in black intervened with Spatial Power.
• Lin Xuan battled the woman in black, breaking through her spatial attacks as both revealed more of their concealed strength.
• The woman in black gathered an ominous aura that formed an Eerie Smiling Face, and she remembered that Xuántiān had defeated and trapped her in the Nine-layered Palace.
• Lin Xuan recognized that the Eerie Smiling Face wielded Destruction Power beyond his World-Destroying Law, but resolved to face it as an equal.
• The Eerie Smiling Face formed a cage around Lin Xuan, but he broke through, struck it, and marked its face.
• The Eerie Smiling Face unleashed a tide of Destruction Power, and Lin Xuan used ninety-five percent of his strength to pierce through it.

Lin Xuan defeated the Eerie Smiling Face’s guardian and Jin Qiong, learning more about the powers within him before entering the Fifth Layer Palace. There, the Green-robed girl’s illusions failed to overcome him as he pressed her to explain what was wrong with his soul.

• Lin Xuan overwhelmed the Eerie Smiling Face and the woman in black, then heard the Eerie Smiling Face explain the powers within him and his need to forge his own paths with World-Destroying Power and Life Power.
• Lin Xuan spared the Eerie Smiling Face, learned how to reach the Fourth Layer Palace from the woman in black, and entered the palace through a passage beneath Xuantian’s statue.
• Lin Xuan battled Jin Qiong, whose Solar Power, Golden Power, and Golden Portals could not overcome his grayish-white power.
• Lin Xuan outlasted Jin Qiong in a battle lasting dozens of days and nights, then killed her with a giant grayish-white hand.
• Lin Xuan shattered the Xuantian totem, entered the Fifth Layer Palace, and rejected its Illusionary Realm based on his memories of Earth.
• The Green-robed girl said Lin Xuan’s soul had a layered structure, but her green mist and illusions failed to ensnare him.
• Lin Xuan walked through the Green-robed girl’s blue mist unharmed as she retreated and considered another way to deal with him.

Lin Xuan fought through the Seventh Layer Palace, defeating Lan Wu and the Death God with his gray-white mist. He entered the Eighth Layer Palace with Qing Ling and began a fierce battle with its guardian, A Sheng.

• Lin Xuan learned from Qing Ling that the flaw in his soul came from refusing to acknowledge the soul tied to this world, then let her follow him toward the upper palaces.
• Lin Xuan protected Qing Ling from Pan Jin’s poison and forced his way into the Seventh Layer Palace.
• Lin Xuan trapped Lan Wu in gray-white mist, but Lan Wu detonated his soul and gave control of his body to the Death God.
• Lin Xuan repeatedly overpowered the Death God, whose attempts to recover his strength and escape failed against the mist.
• The Death God sacrificed his remaining lifespan, warned Lin Xuan about the guardians above, and was devoured by the mist.
• Lin Xuan and Qing Ling entered the Eighth Layer Palace, where A Sheng emerged from its central sun and identified himself as its strongest guardian.
• Lin Xuan and A Sheng exchanged attacks, and Lin Xuan judged A Sheng stronger than the Xuantian phantom while keeping part of his strength concealed.

Lin Xuan defeated A Sheng’s attempts to resist him and pursued him into the Ninth Layer Palace, where Black Xuantian confronted him with mutated Sky Power. Lin Xuan countered with his inexhaustible gray-white mist and began unleashing the power of his totem.

• Lin Xuan overwhelmed A Sheng in the Eighth Layer Palace, even as A Sheng unleashed a forbidden art and raised his power beyond its former limits.
• A Sheng fled into the Ninth Layer Palace, where a shadowy giant hand seized him, and Lin Xuan followed while telling Qing Ling to stay behind.
• Lin Xuan fought off the shadowy hand with gray-white mist and giant hands as he discovered a mysterious power within the Ninth Layer Palace.
• Black Xuantian emerged from the shadowy hands and identified himself, while Lin Xuan recognized that his black Sky Power carried mutated killing intent.
• Black Xuantian and Lin Xuan traded attacks, with the gray-white mist continually producing new hands even as Black Xuantian’s Sky Power destroyed them.
• Black Xuantian unleashed his full Sky Power, but Lin Xuan’s mist grew stronger and formed giant hands that could meet it head-on.
• Black Xuantian gathered his killing intent and Sky Power into a crushing attack, while Lin Xuan used gray-white hands to hold it back.
• Lin Xuan began condensing his totem’s power, and its ominous force briefly dimmed Black Xuantian’s Sky Power and reverberated through the Ninth Layer Palace.