Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan and A Sheng fought at full strength, with A Sheng’s golden spear growing more powerful after he steadied his mind. By the end, A Sheng had proved capable of contending with Lin Xuan, though Lin Xuan still held a slight advantage.

• After A Sheng steadied his mind, Vast Light erupted from his body with suffocating power.
• Lin Xuan charged A Sheng and struck his golden spear, forcing A Sheng two steps backward.
• A Sheng praised Lin Xuan’s strength, then charged again with a more powerful golden spear.
• Lin Xuan and A Sheng clashed repeatedly, trading punches and spear attacks at tremendous speed.
• Lin Xuan recognized that A Sheng’s strength had risen sharply, leaving him only slightly weaker.

Lin Xuan steadily overwhelmed A Sheng in the Eighth Layer Palace, where the spreading gray-white mist made defeating Lin Xuan essential to A Sheng’s survival. Lin Xuan eventually suppressed A Sheng completely, and gray-white power gathered around his fists.

• A Sheng initially fought Lin Xuan skillfully on his home turf, but Lin Xuan’s fists gradually gained the advantage.
• A Sheng realized that if Lin Xuan suppressed him, the gray-white mist would fill the Eighth Layer Palace and trap him.
• A Sheng unleashed his strongest power and attempted to counterattack with his golden spear, but Lin Xuan knocked it back and kept him on the defensive.
• Lin Xuan’s punches grew more powerful until A Sheng could barely withstand them and became completely suppressed.
• Streams of gray-white power gathered around Lin Xuan’s fists as his aura grew even more terrifying.

Lin Xuan continued overwhelming A Sheng with increasingly powerful punches while A Sheng searched for a way to separate Lin Xuan’s unstable grayish-white power. When A Sheng tried to exploit an opening, Lin Xuan struck his golden spear instead and sent him stumbling back.

• Lin Xuan’s punches steadily injured A Sheng as Lin Xuan’s grayish-white power grew denser and A Sheng’s strength waned.
• A Sheng decided to use his Vast Light to separate Lin Xuan’s fused power and waited for an opening while defending himself.
• After enduring dozens of punches, A Sheng retreated and saw what he believed was a gap in Lin Xuan’s attack.
• A Sheng prepared to thrust his golden spear into Lin Xuan’s grayish-white power, but Lin Xuan changed his punch’s trajectory and struck the spear.
• Lin Xuan’s blow sent A Sheng stumbling backward, and A Sheng asked whether Lin Xuan had realized he was gathering power.

Lin Xuan continued to overwhelm A Sheng with relentless punches, leaving him unable to counterattack or escape. As A Sheng struggled to accept his defeat, Lin Xuan gathered terrifying gray-white power around himself once more.

• Lin Xuan recognized that A Sheng was gathering strength and mocked him before charging forward.
• A Sheng flew into a rage and attacked Lin Xuan with his golden spear, but Lin Xuan's fists forced him to defend.
• Lin Xuan steadily suppressed A Sheng until he could barely block the incoming punches.
• A Sheng resented Lin Xuan and wished he could stab him with his spear, but he remained unable to fight back.
• Terrifying gray-white power gathered around Lin Xuan again.

A Sheng unleashed the forbidden art of his Vast Light, gaining power beyond half a realm above his own to try to defeat Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan revealed that the gray-white mist filling the Eighth Layer Palace could also make him stronger, leaving A Sheng shocked.

• A Sheng admitted Lin Xuan had surpassed both former Xuantian and his present strength, but insisted Lin Xuan was not invincible among those of the same realm.
• A Sheng unleashed the forbidden art within his Vast Light, gaining power beyond half a realm above his own at the cost of never advancing further.
• Lin Xuan faced A Sheng’s transformed power without panic, having prepared a trump card of his own.
• Gray-white mist filled the Eighth Layer Palace, and Lin Xuan’s aura surged as the mist boosted his strength.
• A Sheng was stunned that Lin Xuan could grow stronger despite already seeming to have revealed his full power.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed A Sheng as gray-white mist filled the Eighth Layer Palace and steadily suppressed A Sheng’s Vast Light. A Sheng charged at Lin Xuan with his golden spear, hoping to end the fight quickly.

• A Sheng realized Lin Xuan had been hiding his true strength and feared he might lose to him.
• Lin Xuan raised his hand and sent the gray-white mist surging toward A Sheng.
• A Sheng unleashed golden light from his Vast Light to push back the mist, but it repeatedly recovered and attacked again.
• The Vast Light weakened as the mist pressed forward, and A Sheng admitted he had used all his strength without gaining the advantage.
• A Sheng charged at Lin Xuan with his golden spear, knowing he had to end the battle quickly.

Lin Xuan used the gray-white mist to form an endless stream of giant hands, forcing A Sheng to defend with his golden spear. A Sheng’s attacks grew slower as the hands kept appearing, leaving him at a severe disadvantage.

• A Sheng charged at Lin Xuan with his golden spear, hoping to kill him before the gray-white mist converged.
• Lin Xuan formed a giant hand from the mist and slammed it at A Sheng, who blocked the attack.
• As A Sheng pierced through each giant hand, more appeared, trapping him in an endless cycle of defense.
• A Sheng fought harder, but the gray-white hands formed faster and grew stronger in response.
• A Sheng swung his spear to keep pace with the hands, but his movements gradually slowed.

A Sheng was overwhelmed by Lin Xuan’s endless gray-white giant hands and realized he could not survive in the Eighth Layer Palace. He fled toward the Ninth Layer Palace, where a terrifying being was said to dwell.

• A Sheng struggled to block Lin Xuan’s giant hands, but his speed and strength could not keep up as they continued to decline.
• A Sheng realized that Lin Xuan’s gray-white mist left him with no way to fight back and that death awaited him if he stayed.
• A Sheng decided to flee into the Ninth Layer Palace, despite fearing the being said to reside there.
• A Sheng rushed toward the totem at the end of the Eighth Layer Palace to enter the Ninth Layer Palace.

Lin Xuan entered the Ninth Layer Palace after A Sheng, hoping to discover what lurked inside, but a shadowy giant hand seized A Sheng and began consuming him. Lin Xuan spread his gray-white mist through the palace and watched the hand, seeking information before it could attack him.

• Lin Xuan let A Sheng lead the way into the Ninth Layer Palace and told Qing Ling to remain in the Eighth Layer Palace.
• A Sheng smashed through the totem and entered the Ninth Layer Palace, but a shadowy giant hand grabbed him as he tried to flee back.
• Lin Xuan entered the palace and spread his gray-white mist while A Sheng struggled and slowly vanished into a black shadow.
• Lin Xuan assessed the threat posed by the hand and watched it carefully, but it did not immediately attack him.

Lin Xuan confronted the shadowy giant hand in the Ninth Layer Palace, refusing to retreat because he needed the Nine-layered Palace inheritance to grow stronger and protect the primordial wilderness. The hand attacked as he continued forward, and a black shadow began gathering above it.

• Lin Xuan approached the motionless shadowy giant hand, which warned him not to cross over and ordered him back to the Eighth Layer Palace.
• Lin Xuan refused to retreat, knowing he needed the inheritance to face threats to the primordial wilderness and reach the Other Shore.
• The shadowy giant hand threatened to kill Lin Xuan if he advanced, but Lin Xuan continued walking through its crushing aura.
• The shadowy giant hand condensed a black shadow above itself and sent it toward Lin Xuan as he watched it closely.

Lin Xuan used an endless series of gray-white giant hands to slow the shadowy giant hand as he advanced toward the Ninth Layer Palace. He discovered that the palace held a terrifying power unrelated to the shadowy giant hand.

• Lin Xuan sent gray-white giant hands against the shadowy giant hand, which smashed them apart and continued advancing.
• Lin Xuan's gray-white giant hands kept forming and slowed the shadowy giant hand, though its aura grew stronger.
• Lin Xuan walked toward the Ninth Layer Palace while his giant hands held back the attacker.
• Lin Xuan examined the Ninth Layer Palace and discovered its terrifying power was unrelated to the shadowy giant hand.

Lin Xuan realized that the Ninth Layer Palace contained a mysterious power beyond Xuantian’s control, even as he fought its terrifying shadow hand. He used gray-white hands to hold the shadow hand back while guarding against the unknown power, but the shadow hand grew stronger and pressed toward him.

• Lin Xuan recalled that the Ninth Layer Palace had changed and exceeded Xuantian’s control, and he sensed another mysterious power inside it.
• Lin Xuan kept part of his attention on the unknown power while defending himself from the shadow hand.
• Lin Xuan summoned waves of gray-white hands that collided with the shadow hand and blocked its advance.
• The shadow hand unleashed more terrifying power, destroyed Lin Xuan’s gray-white hands, and surged toward him under crushing pressure.

Lin Xuan fought the shadowy hand in the Ninth Layer Palace as it matched and surpassed his growing strength. He filled the palace with grayish-white mist, preparing to face the hand’s strongest power.

• Lin Xuan summoned grayish-white hands to hold back the shadowy hand.
• The shadowy hand revealed that it could grow stronger whenever Lin Xuan did and increased its power to suppress him.
• Lin Xuan spread grayish-white mist throughout the Ninth Layer Palace while his hands bought him time.
• The shadowy hand destroyed the grayish-white hands and charged toward the densest mist, unleashing an aura that suppressed the palace.
• Lin Xuan continued gathering grayish-white mist until it filled the Ninth Layer Palace.

Lin Xuan used his gray-white mist to fight the shadowy hand inside the Ninth Layer Palace. The shadowy hand split into nine, but the mist kept regenerating and began to suppress it as its fury grew.

• Lin Xuan unleashed his power into the mist and formed hundreds of gray-white hands to attack the shadowy hand.
• The shadowy hand smashed the gray-white hands apart, but the mist continually produced more.
• The shadowy hand split into nine and struck at the gray-white hands, which repeatedly re-formed.
• The gray-white hands shielded Lin Xuan from the shadowy hands’ divine abilities and counterattacked.
• The shadowy hands were gradually suppressed, and the shadowy hand grew furious and released an even more terrifying aura.

Lin Xuan confronted Black Xuantian, who resembled Xuantian but denied being him and revealed a connection to the powerful expert. Black Xuantian overwhelmed Lin Xuan’s gray-white giant hands with mutated Sky Power, leaving Lin Xuan to assess the dangerous force.

• Black Xuantian emerged from nine shadowy giant hands and remarked on Lin Xuan’s strength.
• Lin Xuan asked if he was Xuantian, and Black Xuantian declared that he was Black Xuantian and hated the Xuantian phantom.
• Lin Xuan sent gray-white giant hands at Black Xuantian, who countered with a black giant hand that destroyed them.
• Lin Xuan recognized Black Xuantian’s power as Sky Power and realized it had mutated, carrying extra killing intent and might.

Lin Xuan used gray-white mist to oppose Black Xuantian's powerful black Sky Power in the Ninth Layer Palace. Although Black Xuantian repeatedly destroyed Lin Xuan's mist-formed hands, they kept returning in greater numbers, and Black Xuantian began to notice the mist's unusual nature.

• Black Xuantian unleashed his purely black Sky Power against Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan filled the Ninth Layer Palace with gray-white mist and formed hands from it to attack the Sky Power.
• Black Xuantian's Sky Power destroyed Lin Xuan's gray-white hands, but the mist formed them again.
• The gray-white hands returned faster and in greater numbers each time Black Xuantian destroyed them.
• Black Xuantian furrowed his brows as he realized the gray-white mist was not diminishing.

Black Xuantian tried to overwhelm Lin Xuan with his Sky Power, but Lin Xuan’s grayish-white mist grew stronger and released a frightening aura. The chapter ended with that aura spreading through the Ninth Layer Palace and empowering the giant hands around Lin Xuan.

• Black Xuantian realized his Sky Power was running low while the grayish-white mist remained unchanged, and he suspected it contained an unknown power.
• Black Xuantian unleashed his full Sky Power to finish Lin Xuan before the strange mist could threaten him.
• Lin Xuan’s grayish-white mist churned and formed giant hands stronger than before to confront the attack.
• A terrifying aura burst from Lin Xuan’s mist, shot into the clouds, and made the Ninth Layer Palace tremble.
• Black Xuantian watched as the aura radiated from Lin Xuan and merged into the giant hands, making them far more powerful.

Lin Xuan’s strengthened gray-white giant hands repeatedly clashed with Black Xuan’s Sky Power, keeping him from gaining an advantage. Black Xuan realized Lin Xuan might eventually suppress him as the battle continued.

• Lin Xuan’s gray-white giant hand collided with Black Xuan’s Sky Power, and both attacks vanished.
• Black Xuan gathered more Sky Power while Lin Xuan formed another giant hand, and the attacks destroyed each other again.
• Lin Xuan continued launching giant hands at Black Xuan, who resisted with Sky Power that still slightly overpowered them.
• Black Xuan grew alarmed at how quickly Lin Xuan’s giant hands formed and declared that he had long been invincible among those of the same realm.

Black Xuan unleashed the full force of his killing-focused Sky Power against Lin Xuan, pushing him into the most dangerous crisis of his life. Lin Xuan’s gray-white hands could block the descending power, but they could not stop it from pressing closer.

• Black Xuan acknowledged Lin Xuan’s strength and decided to fight with everything he had.
• Black Xuan gathered his killing intent and Sky Power into a terrifying aura that made Old Huo grow solemn.
• Lin Xuan sent his huge gray-white hands toward Black Xuan as Black Xuan released his Sky Power from above.
• Lin Xuan used the gray-white hands to block the descending Sky Power, but its pressure continued to build and threatened to crush him.

Lin Xuan resisted Black Xuantian’s overwhelming Sky Power and revealed the power of his totem as his final trump card. Its strange gray-white force dimmed the Sky Power, and a terrifying message spread through the Ninth Layer Palace.

• Lin Xuan sensed that Black Xuantian’s Sky Power was more overtly aggressive than Xuantian’s and identified its lack of concealment as a flaw.
• Gray-white hands formed from the pressure around Lin Xuan and blocked the descending Sky Power.
• Lin Xuan began condensing the power of his totem behind him as his final trump card.
• Black Xuantian’s expression changed when the totem released an ominous, powerful aura.
• The totem’s gray-white force expanded and contracted, briefly dimming the Sky Power and sending a terrifying message through the Ninth Layer Palace.