Chapter Summaries

Jin Qiong and Lin Xuan clashed as their golden and gray-white powers repeatedly matched, despite Jin Qiong's advantage of being half a realm higher. Jin Qiong gathered an even more oppressive aura while Lin Xuan summoned his gray-white power again, and their fight continued.

• Jin Qiong saw that Lin Xuan's gray-white power matched the golden power pouring from the Golden Portal, despite her higher realm.
• Jin Qiong sent waves of golden power at Lin Xuan, and he countered with gray-white power.
• Lin Xuan and Jin Qiong's forces collided and vanished, leaving Jin Qiong humiliated that she could not overwhelm him.
• Jin Qiong gathered an even more terrifying aura as Lin Xuan summoned his gray-white power again.

Lin Xuan and Jin Qiong escalated their powers in the Fourth Layer Palace, but neither could suppress the other at first. Lin Xuan then demonstrated that he could unleash stronger gray-white power even faster than Jin Qiong, leaving her to realize she was no match for him despite her higher realm.

• Jin Qiong gathered the Golden Portal's power and clashed with Lin Xuan's gray-white power, but their attacks repeatedly canceled each other out.
• Frustrated that she could neither defeat nor suppress Lin Xuan, Jin Qiong summoned a second Golden Portal and attacked with both golden powers.
• Lin Xuan rapidly spread stronger gray-white power throughout the Fourth Layer Palace and neutralized Jin Qiong's attack.
• Lin Xuan immediately launched another wave of gray-white power, which Jin Qiong narrowly evaded.
• Jin Qiong realized that even with a half-realm advantage, she was no match for Lin Xuan.

Jin Qiong unleashed the power of both Golden Portals against Lin Xuan, but their attacks continued to cancel each other out as his strength grew. She switched to an endurance contest, while Lin Xuan remained confident he could outlast her.

• Jin Qiong drew out all the power of both Golden Portals in an attempt to suppress Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan formed a gray-white hand and sent it crashing into Jin Qiong's golden hand, and the two attacks canceled each other out.
• Jin Qiong was shocked that Lin Xuan's power kept growing despite her greater accumulated strength.
• Jin Qiong decided to compete with Lin Xuan in endurance, and Lin Xuan welcomed the challenge.

Lin Xuan fought Jin Qiong in the Nine-layered Palace and proved superior in both strength and endurance. Jin Qiong began to run out of power while Lin Xuan continued to conceal the last half percent of his strength.

• Jin Qiong and Lin Xuan clashed as their golden and grayish-white hands repeatedly collided.
• Jin Qiong grew jealous and enraged after realizing Lin Xuan surpassed her despite being half a realm lower.
• Jin Qiong unleashed the power of her Golden Portal without holding back, but Lin Xuan kept blocking her attacks.
• Lin Xuan gathered power faster than Jin Qiong, leaving her nearly exhausted and fearing she would soon lose.

Lin Xuan outlasted Jin Qiong as their powers clashed, leaving her exhausted and unable to continue fighting. He summoned a dense gray-white hand to end her life.

• Jin Qiong realized she had to kill Lin Xuan before her strength ran out and unleashed the power of the Golden Portals in a final battle.
• Lin Xuan met Jin Qiong's attacks with the fused power of the World-Destroying Law and Life Power, which matched her force while he remained full of energy.
• As the Golden Portals' power dwindled, Jin Qiong grew pale and despaired at the prospect of dying from exhaustion.
• Jin Qiong asked who Lin Xuan was after he fought for dozens of days and nights without tiring, but Lin Xuan remained silent about being mistaken for a reincarnated great figure.
• Lin Xuan gathered dense gray-white power into a huge hand, and Jin Qiong watched in despair as he prepared to kill her.

Lin Xuan killed Jin Qiong, found the staircase to the Fifth Layer Palace, and entered an Illusionary Realm that recreated memories of a blue planet. There he confronted a mysterious girl who said his soul and memories did not belong to this world.

• Lin Xuan killed Jin Qiong with a grayish-white giant hand.
• Lin Xuan shattered the Xuantian totem in the Fourth Layer Palace and revealed the staircase to the Fifth Layer Palace.
• Lin Xuan entered the Fifth Layer Palace and recognized its scene of a blue planet as an Illusionary Realm built from his memories.
• Lin Xuan drove away the illusion and rejected the girl who appeared amid bell chimes.
• The girl told Lin Xuan that his soul and memories seemed not to belong to this world.

Lin Xuan confronted the Green-robed girl, who had learned about his past through her unusual power and challenged him with illusion arts. After his gray-white hand dispersed her green mist, she claimed that something was wrong with his soul.

• The Green-robed girl questioned Lin Xuan about the memories she had seen, including his life on Earth, while he remained silent.
• Lin Xuan said he had lost the desire to kill her, and the Green-robed girl asserted that her illusion arts could ensnare even Xuantian.
• Lin Xuan attacked with a massive gray-white hand, which scattered the Green-robed girl's green mist.
• The Green-robed girl acknowledged Lin Xuan's strength but declared that she could still affect him because something was wrong with his soul.

Lin Xuan questioned the Green-robed girl about her claim that something was wrong with his soul, and she said his soul appeared to have a layered structure. He suppressed her illusion magic with his grayish-white power but left her unharmed, demanding an explanation.

• Lin Xuan asked the Green-robed girl how she had detected a problem with his soul.
• The Green-robed girl said her illusion arts had revealed that Lin Xuan’s soul had a layered structure.
• The Green-robed girl tried to trap Lin Xuan in the Illusionary Realm, believing his previous battles had weakened him.
• Lin Xuan used his grayish-white power to disperse the Green-robed girl’s green mist.
• Lin Xuan spared the Green-robed girl and demanded that she explain what was wrong with his soul.

Lin Xuan walked through the Green-robed girl's illusion-filled mist without using any power, leaving her unable to stop him. He asked her again where the problem with his soul lay.

• The Green-robed girl released strange green mist and claimed Lin Xuan had not fully suppressed her.
• Lin Xuan entered the mist, ignoring its seductive laughter and illusions.
• The Green-robed girl retreated as Lin Xuan approached, astonished that he resisted her illusion power.
• Lin Xuan passed through the mist and asked the Green-robed girl where the problem with his soul lay.

The Green-robed girl tried to trap Lin Xuan in blue mist and illusions, but his spiritual power rendered them ineffective. She retreated before him, searching for another way to stop him.

• The Green-robed girl filled the area with blue mist and illusions to make Lin Xuan lose himself.
• Lin Xuan walked through the mist unharmed, forcing it aside without using any ability.
• The Green-robed girl realized her illusions could not overcome Lin Xuan's spiritual power and retreated as he advanced.
• The Green-robed girl stopped using blue mist and began considering another method to deal with Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan pressured the Green-robed girl to reveal what was wrong with his soul, but concluded she could not see it and walked past her. As he prepared to break through the Xuantian statue and enter the Sixth Layer Palace, she claimed that two souls had fused inside him.

• Lin Xuan's willpower overcame the Green-robed girl's illusion arts, leaving her unable to stop his advance.
• Lin Xuan pressured the Green-robed girl to learn whether she knew what was wrong with his soul, but saw that she only sensed something strange.
• Lin Xuan walked past the Green-robed girl and headed to the end of the Fifth Layer Palace.
• The Green-robed girl called after Lin Xuan, then claimed that two souls had fused inside him.
• Lin Xuan paused as he was about to break through the Xuantian statue and proceed to the Sixth Layer Palace.

The Green-robed girl explained that Lin Xuan’s soul remained divided because he had not accepted his life in this world. As Lin Xuan prepared to enter the Sixth Layer Palace, she asked to follow him, and he agreed on the condition that he would not protect her.

• The Green-robed girl told Lin Xuan that his two souls had not fused because he refused to acknowledge the soul tied to this world.
• Lin Xuan realized that her explanation could account for the flaw in his soul and prepared to leave for the Sixth Layer Palace.
• The Green-robed girl asked Lin Xuan to take her along, saying she wanted to reach the Eighth Layer Palace and believed he could pass through all nine layers.
• Lin Xuan warned the Green-robed girl that he would not protect her if she followed him, and she was free to keep up.

Lin Xuan and Qing Ling explored the Sixth Layer Palace, a strange paradise with no visible creatures, until its guardian Pan Jin appeared. Pan Jin accused Qing Ling of betraying the Nine-layered Palace, and Lin Xuan charged at him.

• Lin Xuan warned Qing Ling that the bamboo trees were poisonous, and she told him her name was Qing Ling.
• Lin Xuan and Qing Ling continued through the empty Sixth Layer Palace, where Lin Xuan suspected its master was hiding.
• A terrifying aura emerged and weakened Qing Ling, so Lin Xuan stood in front of her to shield her.
• Pan Jin appeared and accused Qing Ling of betraying the Nine-layered Palace, while she challenged him about remaining imprisoned there.
• Pan Jin called Lin Xuan a lackey, and Lin Xuan charged at him, surprising Pan Jin.

Lin Xuan protected Qing Ling from Pan Jin’s poisonous power and overwhelmed Pan Jin with his own strength. Pan Jin’s poison failed to affect Lin Xuan, and the fight ended with Pan Jin blasted to the ground.

• Pan Jin unleashed azure poisonous power, but Lin Xuan shielded Qing Ling with a gray-white barrier.
• Lin Xuan charged Pan Jin and sent him flying with a punch, while Pan Jin’s poison had no effect on him.
• Pan Jin gathered more poisonous power and attacked Lin Xuan from all directions.
• Lin Xuan summoned a huge gray-white hand that shattered Pan Jin’s poison and sent him crashing to the ground.

Lin Xuan’s immunity to poison left Pan Jin unable to stop him from reaching the Seventh Layer Palace with Qing Ling. Pan Jin considered pursuing him to seek revenge but ultimately stayed behind, intimidated by Lin Xuan’s power.

• Pan Jin failed to understand why his poison power had no effect on Lin Xuan, while Han Ju kept retreating to avoid him.
• Lin Xuan protected himself and Qing Ling with his gray-white power and continued toward the Seventh Layer Palace despite Pan Jin’s attacks.
• Pan Jin unleashed repeated waves of poison power, but Lin Xuan ignored him and opened the entrance to the Seventh Layer Palace.
• Lin Xuan and Qing Ling entered the Seventh Layer Palace, leaving Pan Jin humiliated and helpless.
• Pan Jin considered following Lin Xuan and joining forces with the Seventh Layer Palace’s master, but gave up because Lin Xuan seemed too powerful.

Lin Xuan and Qing Ling entered the dark, freezing Seventh Layer Palace, where Lin Xuan challenged its hidden presence. Lan Wu revealed himself, and Qing Ling recognized him as a notorious Demonic Sect genius responsible for slaughtering more than a hundred trillion lives; she took shelter behind Lin Xuan.

• Pan Jin abandoned his plans to continue toward the Seventh Layer Palace and closed his eyes to bury his humiliation.
• Lin Xuan and Qing Ling entered the pitch-black Seventh Layer Palace, where Qing Ling shuddered at the cold and terrifying surroundings.
• Lin Xuan demanded that the hidden presence show itself, then unleashed his black-and-white power and struck the palace with a giant gray-white hand.
• A black light blocked Lin Xuan's attack, and a hoarse voice from the palace's center spoke.
• Qing Ling identified the voice's owner as Lan Wu, a fearsome Demonic Sect genius who had killed more than a hundred trillion lives.
• Lan Wu appeared and fixed his gaze on Qing Ling, who hurried behind Lin Xuan in fear.

Lin Xuan fought Lan Wu in the palace, countering his speed and attack with gray-white power. Lan Wu was sent flying along with the Scythe of Death, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lan Wu admitted that Lin Xuan's strength had surprised him but claimed that neither Lin Xuan nor Qing Ling could defeat him.
• Lan Wu vanished into the darkness to evade Lin Xuan's attack, then appeared behind him with the Scythe of Death.
• Qing Ling warned Lin Xuan, who quickly gathered gray-white power and punched at Lan Wu.
• Lan Wu charged at Lin Xuan with the bloodlust-shrouded Scythe of Death, aiming to sever his right hand.
• Lin Xuan's punch struck the Scythe of Death and sent both Lan Wu and the weapon flying backward.

Lin Xuan repeatedly overpowered Lan Wu, first knocking him back and then punching him into a crater. After Lan Wu’s third failed attack, he recognized that Lin Xuan had the advantage in raw strength and decided to change his approach.

• Lin Xuan blocked Lan Wu’s Scythe of Death and knocked Lan Wu and the weapon backward.
• Lin Xuan rushed in and punched Lan Wu into the ground, leaving him buried in a crater.
• Lan Wu climbed out and charged at Lin Xuan, then vanished into the palace’s darkness.
• Qing Ling searched for Lan Wu, but Lin Xuan stopped her and struck as Lan Wu emerged with the Scythe of Death.
• Lin Xuan’s fist knocked Lan Wu and the scythe backward again, so Lan Wu abandoned a direct contest of strength.

Lin Xuan trapped Lan Wu in a gray-white cage after tracking him through the darkness. Lan Wu used his dark energy to vanish from within the cage, leaving his escape unresolved.

• Lan Wu concealed himself in the darkness to try to kill Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan immediately found his position.
• Lin Xuan’s gray-white hand pursued Lan Wu, and after Lan Wu cut it apart, it transformed into mist and trapped him in a cage.
• Lan Wu slashed a crack in the cage, but the mist quickly sealed it.
• Lan Wu covered the cage with dark energy and vanished from inside it, surprising Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan used his gray-white power to trap Lan Wu after discovering Lan Wu could transform into mist. Lan Wu was surrounded by the mist with no escape as Lin Xuan continued his attack.

• Lan Wu escaped the gray-white cage and recognized that Lin Xuan wielded both the World-Destroying Law and Life Power.
• Lin Xuan summoned numerous enormous gray-white hands, and Lan Wu tried to retreat.
• Lan Wu blocked Lin Xuan's attacks with the Scythe of Death and the Death Longsword, but the hands transformed into mist around him.
• Lan Wu realized the gray-white mist had surrounded him and blocked every escape route.
• Lan Wu tried to drive the mist away, but it repeatedly re-formed and charged at him.