Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan faced three ferocious beasts that kept retreating instead of joining forces. He targeted the strongest beast in the center and pursued it as all three fled.

• The three ferocious beasts each hoped another would attack Lin Xuan, but all retreated instead.
• Lin Xuan mocked their lack of teamwork and struck at the central ferocious beast, the strongest of the three.
• The central ferocious beast fled, fearing Lin Xuan after seeing how quickly he had killed the Tongtian Giant Beast.
• The other two ferocious beasts matched the central beast’s retreating speed, though they were weaker than it.

As their retreat became unsustainable, the three fierce beasts agreed to join forces against Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan shattered their combined defense with his gray-white power and trapped them with no way to escape.

• The fierce beast on the left suggested confronting Lin Xuan together, and the one on the right agreed.
• The middle fierce beast accepted his two younger brothers’ proposal, and all three unleashed their strange laws.
• Lin Xuan attacked with his fused World-Destroying Law and Law of Life, releasing gray-white power from his fist.
• The three fierce beasts formed a protective barrier with their laws, but Lin Xuan’s attack shattered it.
• Lin Xuan’s gray-white power surrounded the three fierce beasts and blocked every possible retreat.

Lin Xuan defeated three ferocious beasts in the First Layer Palace, then confronted the Red Eyes hidden in the black mist. The Red Eyes attacked him with a huge black hand, and Lin Xuan countered with a gray-white hand.

• Lin Xuan erased three ferocious beasts with gray-white radiance.
• Lin Xuan advanced through the gathering black mist and heard a sinister voice warn him to leave.
• Lin Xuan reached the Red Eyes and accused them of being a filthy thing hiding in the First Layer Palace.
• The Red Eyes unleashed killing intent and formed a huge black hand to strike Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan raised a gray-white hand from beneath his feet to meet the black hand.

Lin Xuan fought the Red Eyes in the First Layer Palace while concealing most of his strength for the palaces ahead. After Lin Xuan’s attacks forced the Red Eyes to take him seriously, the Red Eyes unleashed even more black mist.

• The Red Eyes expressed surprise that Lin Xuan had blocked its giant hand, but claimed it was invincible in the First Layer Palace.
• Lin Xuan wondered whether the powerful beings he had encountered at his realm were part of a design left by Xuantian, then challenged the Red Eyes.
• The Red Eyes sent another black giant hand at Lin Xuan, and Lin Xuan shattered it with a hand formed from gray-white power.
• Lin Xuan explained that he had concealed his strength to avoid alerting the beings in the eight palaces ahead, and that he had used nearly sixty percent of his power.
• The Red Eyes acknowledged Lin Xuan’s strength, released more black mist, and saw its black pupils turn red.

Lin Xuan faced the Red Eyes as it transformed its black mist into a more terrifying red aura. The Red Eyes prepared a powerful attack while Lin Xuan formed a grayish-white hand beneath his feet, leaving their confrontation poised to escalate.

• The Red Eyes strengthened its black-mist hand, but Lin Xuan shattered it again with a grayish-white hand.
• The Red Eyes turned the palace’s black mist red, releasing an ominous aura and a bloody stench.
• A red hand with black patterns formed behind Lin Xuan as a grayish-white hand condensed beneath his feet.
• The Red Eyes declared that its strengthened divine ability would defeat Lin Xuan and dismissed him as an outsider.

Lin Xuan blocked the Red Eyes' strongest attack, leaving them shaken and preparing to fight with their life. He held back his true strength and tried to sense whether anyone else was watching, but the Nine-layered Palace shut out his divine sense.

• The Red Eyes attacked Lin Xuan with a red hand, and Lin Xuan countered with a grayish-white hand; the two powers dissipated after colliding.
• The Red Eyes retreated and acknowledged that Lin Xuan's power rivaled theirs at their peak.
• The Red Eyes released more of their red power and declared that Lin Xuan was worthy of dying by their hand.
• Lin Xuan tried several ways to send out his divine sense and check for observers, but the Nine-layered Palace blocked every attempt.
• Lin Xuan restrained himself from using his full power because he did not want the other palaces to take notice of him.

Lin Xuan attacked Red Eyes while still suppressing his strength to sixty percent, shattering its divine abilities and forcing it to retreat in fear. Red Eyes realized Lin Xuan had been using the fight as a whetstone to grow stronger.

• Lin Xuan struck Red Eyes with a fist, and Red Eyes answered by sending its red-mist giant hand down at him.
• Lin Xuan shattered the giant hand and continued breaking Red Eyes' divine abilities as the battle progressed.
• Red Eyes grew horrified and retreated, questioning whether humans were still weak as they had been in ancient times.
• Red Eyes realized Lin Xuan had been growing stronger alongside it and accused him of using it as a whetstone.

Lin Xuan forced Red Eyes to reveal his ultimate form, but Red Eyes's huge red hand still could not match Lin Xuan's power. Lin Xuan charged at him, leaving Red Eyes relying on the hand in the sky to block the attack.

• Red Eyes realized Lin Xuan had used him to gauge the Nine-layered Palace's guardians and felt humiliated and afraid.
• Red Eyes released nearly all his blood mist and revealed his ultimate form, gathering it into a huge red hand.
• Lin Xuan dismissed the red hand and gathered gray-white energy into his fist.
• Lin Xuan charged at Red Eyes so quickly that Red Eyes could not form another hand to stop him.
• Red Eyes controlled the huge red hand in the firmament and hoped it would block Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed Red Eyes, destroying their giant red hand and repeatedly punching them, but could not break their unusually sturdy body. Red Eyes had no way to escape and was forced to keep fighting as Lin Xuan questioned what they were.

• Lin Xuan punched Red Eyes and sent them flying, but the blow did not shatter them.
• Red Eyes summoned a giant red hand and attacked Lin Xuan, who destroyed it with a grayish-white giant hand.
• Red Eyes realized they could not defeat Lin Xuan and tried to retreat, but there was nowhere to go in the First Level of Nine Heavens Palace.
• Red Eyes charged again and summoned another giant red hand, which Lin Xuan smashed apart before punching them once more.
• Lin Xuan's second punch also sent Red Eyes flying without breaking them, despite his use of more than sixty percent of his strength.

Red Eyes unleashed his blood-colored flower illusion, but Lin Xuan shattered it with his strength and confronted him. Lin Xuan rejected Red Eyes’ offer to let him pass and used the World-Destroying Law to attack him.

• Red Eyes filled the palace layers with enchanting red strands that formed horrifying blood-colored flowers with human heads.
• Lin Xuan raised his power to seventy percent and smashed the blood-colored flowers with repeated punches.
• Red Eyes was exposed and offered to let Lin Xuan enter the second layer, but Lin Xuan refused to spare him.
• Lin Xuan struck Red Eyes with the World-Destroying Law, making him roar in pain.

Lin Xuan destroyed the Red Eyes with the World-Destroying Law, clearing the red mist from the First Layer Palace but finding no entrance to the Second Layer Palace. While searching the palace, he discovered tattered clothes resembling those worn by the human race in the Primordial World.

• The Red Eyes begged Lin Xuan to kill them as the World-Destroying Law tore them apart.
• Lin Xuan saw the blood of nearly three hundred trillion unjustly killed lives and unleashed more of the World-Destroying Law.
• The Red Eyes exploded, and the red mist vanished from the First Layer Palace.
• Lin Xuan searched for the Second Layer Palace's entrance but found nothing, then concluded he needed to solve the palace's mechanisms.
• Lin Xuan noticed scraps of clothing in the palace's northwest corner and was startled by their resemblance to clothes from the Primordial World.

Lin Xuan found a scrap of clothing that led him to suspect a terrifying outsider had reincarnated in the primordial wilderness and reached the Nine-layered Palace. He deciphered the first totem and passed its trial, causing the First Layer Palace to tremble.

• Lin Xuan found a scrap of clothing and speculated that an outside powerhouse had reincarnated as a human in the primordial wilderness.
• Lin Xuan continued through the palace and found a totem depicting Xuantian on a stone wall.
• Lin Xuan realized that Xuantian’s smile responded to the spiritual power he directed into the totem.
• Lin Xuan immersed all his spiritual power in the totem, and Xuantian announced that he had passed the first trial.
• The First Layer Palace began to tremble.

After leaving the First Layer Palace, Lin Xuan entered the Second Layer Palace and discovered that its wall carvings could come to life. He fought a golden dragon brought forth from a totem, but it survived several powerful blows.

• Lin Xuan suspected powerful outsiders were inside the Nine-layered Palace and climbed the stairs to the Second Layer Palace.
• Lin Xuan noticed that a dragon totem had changed position, realizing the palace’s carvings could move.
• Lin Xuan punched the wall, causing a golden dragon to emerge and attack him.
• Lin Xuan struck and kicked the golden dragon, sending it flying and breaking it apart, but its remarkable defense kept it from dying.

Lin Xuan discovered that the golden dragon was connected to the wall totem and could not be killed while its image remained intact. When he attacked the totem, a Qiongqi emerged, and Lin Xuan realized the creatures inside the totem were their true bodies.

• Lin Xuan repeatedly punched the golden dragon, suppressing it but failing to kill it.
• When the golden dragon was badly wounded, Lin Xuan saw cracks spread across its image on the totem.
• Lin Xuan attacked the totem, but it emitted golden light and released a Qiongqi.
• Lin Xuan recognized the totem creatures as the beasts’ true bodies and struck the charging Qiongqi.

Lin Xuan fought Qiongqi, the golden dragon, and a pair of synchronized Twin Fierce Beasts in the second palace, suppressing all four with ease. He suspected the creatures he had faced were only pawns, but he could not identify the strongest beast among the many totems.

• Lin Xuan quickly suppressed Qiongqi and turned his attention to the palace wall’s many totems.
• Two black-lit Twin Fierce Beasts emerged and attacked Lin Xuan alongside Qiongqi and the golden dragon.
• Lin Xuan battered all four beasts, whose strength and speed were far below his own.
• Lin Xuan held back much of his power while searching the totems for the strongest fierce beast, but their complicated images left him unable to find it.

Lin Xuan raised his strength and overwhelmed the four Fierce Beasts guarding the walls, leaving the Golden Dragon and Qiongqi near death and badly injuring the Twin Fierce Beasts. He continued attacking the Twin Fierce Beasts while the terrifying existence hidden among the totems remained unrevealed.

• Lin Xuan sensed a terrifying existence concealed among the Fierce Beast totems and decided to kill the four beasts in front of him to draw it out.
• Lin Xuan increased his strength and smashed the Golden Dragon and Qiongqi to the ground, while cracking their totems and seriously injuring the Twin Fierce Beasts.
• Lin Xuan attacked the Twin Fierce Beasts again, and they charged him with precise, coordinated teamwork.
• Lin Xuan raised his strength to seven-tenths and suppressed the Twin Fierce Beasts, smashing deep trenches into their bodies with his fists.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed the Twin Fierce Beasts, who hoped the injured Golden Dragon and Qiongqi would help them. A powerful Kirin Fierce Beast emerged from the wall, and Lin Xuan realized the beasts were connected to a strange power that originated there.

• The Twin Fierce Beasts tried to retreat, but Lin Xuan struck and suppressed them with a relentless barrage of punches.
• The Twin Fierce Beasts looked to the badly injured Golden Dragon and Qiongqi for help, but both had lost their combat strength.
• A Kirin Fierce Beast emerged from the wall with an aura stronger than Red Eyes’s.
• Lin Xuan recognized that the beasts carried the same strange power from the wall and concluded they were fake.
• The Twin Fierce Beasts denied Lin Xuan’s claim and charged at him.

Lin Xuan realized the fierce beasts on the wall might all be one entity and decided to break them one by one to expose it. He attacked the Kirin Fierce Beast with the World-Destroying Law, leaving it and the Twin Fierce Beasts stunned as the gray mist descended.

• Lin Xuan saw fear in the fierce beasts’ eyes and concluded they had long suspected they were connected.
• Lin Xuan decided to defeat the fierce beasts individually to draw out the hidden existence.
• Lin Xuan charged the Kirin Fierce Beast, tore through its flames, and released the World-Destroying Law.
• The Kirin Fierce Beast tried to retreat but was enveloped by the gray mist, while the Twin Fierce Beasts watched in alarm.

Lin Xuan killed the Kirin Fierce Beast and the Twin Fierce Beasts with the World-Destroying Law, then confronted the supposedly dead Golden Dragon and Qiongqi. He learned that they knew forbidden secrets but faced a choice between revealing them and dying at Lin Xuan’s hands.

• Lin Xuan extinguished the Kirin Fierce Beast’s flames with the World-Destroying Law and reduced it to ash.
• Lin Xuan enveloped the Twin Fierce Beasts with the World-Destroying Law and turned them to ash.
• Lin Xuan saw the Golden Dragon and Qiongqi feigning death and threatened to kill them if they kept pretending.
• Lin Xuan asked the Golden Dragon and Qiongqi to share secrets in exchange for their lives.
• Qiongqi said that revealing their secrets would trigger taboos and kill them, while Lin Xuan warned that refusing would also mean death.

Jinlong revealed that the Master of the Second Layer Palace was a monster formed from the palace’s ferocious beasts and was unable to act. Lin Xuan spared Jinlong, but a hidden voice challenged his decision, leaving Jinlong and Qiongqi terrified.

• Jinlong redirected Lin Xuan’s questions to Qiongqi, then exposed the secret of the Second Layer Palace.
• Jinlong said the Master could not act and was formed from all the ferocious beasts combined.
• Lin Xuan realized that Jinlong, Qiongqi, and Qilin were scattered powers belonging to the Master.
• Lin Xuan said Jinlong could live, but an eerie hidden voice asked who had said Jinlong could live.
• Lin Xuan stepped in front of Jinlong as Jinlong and Qiongqi reacted in fear.