Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan’s gray-white power met Black Xuantian’s Sky Power on equal terms, forcing Black Xuantian to reveal another trump card. Lin Xuan continued clashing with him, intending to use his stamina to wear Black Xuantian down.

• Lin Xuan’s gray-white power clashed evenly with Black Xuantian’s Sky Power and blocked its advance.
• Black Xuantian acknowledged Lin Xuan’s strength and unleashed a hidden power that fused with his Sky Power.
• Lin Xuan revealed that he had used his strongest trump card to force Black Xuantian to reveal his own, planning to outlast him with his inner power.
• Lin Xuan and Black Xuantian sent their powers crashing together again, shaking the Ninth Layer Palace.

Lin Xuan and Black Xuantian clashed with their strongest powers, each believing he could outlast the other. Lin Xuan's gray-white power began to suppress Black Xuantian's Sky Power, leaving Black Xuantian unable to understand the totem behind Lin Xuan.

• Lin Xuan and Black Xuantian fought in midair as their powers collided, unable to decide the winner quickly.
• Both men relied on their endurance, believing their power would last longer than their opponent's.
• Lin Xuan's gray-white power gradually suppressed Black Xuantian's Sky Power.
• Black Xuantian realized his strongest power was inferior to Lin Xuan's and stared at Lin Xuan's totem, trying to uncover its secrets.

Lin Xuan and Black Xuantian drew on their powers and fought at close range after Black Xuantian launched a desperate counterattack. Lin Xuan's physical strength proved superior, and he drove Black Xuantian backward.

• Black Xuantian gathered Sky Power and chose to attack before Lin Xuan could fully suppress him.
• Lin Xuan released power from his totem as gray-white energy surged toward Black Xuantian.
• Black Xuantian wrapped Sky Power around his body and charged Lin Xuan, who welcomed the close-quarters fight.
• Lin Xuan and Black Xuantian exchanged punches and each retreated a step after their first clash.
• Lin Xuan struck Black Xuantian's fists repeatedly and forced him backward, leaving Black Xuantian's expression ugly.

Lin Xuan outmatched Black Xuantian, who then borrowed a hidden power from the Ninth Layer Palace. As the strange black power emerged and surrounded Black Xuantian, Lin Xuan braced himself for what came next.

• Lin Xuan's strength surpassed Black Xuantian's, leaving Black Xuantian furious and helpless.
• Black Xuantian released a power beyond the Sky Power, and Lin Xuan recognized it as resembling a force from the end of the Ninth Layer Palace.
• Lin Xuan stepped back and saw streaks of strange black power flow from the end of the palace toward Black Xuantian.
• Black Xuantian revealed that he had used Forbidden Power by forcibly communicating with a hidden force behind him and borrowing its strength.
• Black Xuantian's borrowed power surged until the surrounding space began to warp.

Lin Xuan recognized that Black Xuantian was using the terrifying power Xuantian had once comprehended, but realized it was borrowed and would not last. He avoided Black Xuantian’s attacks and kept retreating, leaving Black Xuantian’s smile fading as the fight continued.

• Black Xuantian charged Lin Xuan with the power Xuantian had once comprehended.
• Lin Xuan recognized the dangerous power and retreated while using his gray-white aura to fend off Black Xuantian.
• Lin Xuan realized Black Xuantian’s power was borrowed and decided to stall until it disappeared.
• Black Xuantian pursued Lin Xuan and attacked repeatedly, but Lin Xuan dodged every blow.
• As Lin Xuan continued retreating without being hit, Black Xuantian’s smile gradually faded.

Black Xuantian relentlessly pursued Lin Xuan through the Ninth Layer Palace, but Lin Xuan’s speed let him evade every attack. As Black Xuantian’s borrowed power began to fade, Lin Xuan taunted him, and Black Xuantian suddenly accelerated enough to reach him.

• Black Xuantian repeatedly attacked Lin Xuan but could not catch or injure him.
• Black Xuantian sensed that his borrowed power was gradually fading and feared Lin Xuan would overwhelm him once it ran out.
• Lin Xuan mocked Black Xuantian for relying on borrowed power, provoking him into a furious roar.
• Black Xuantian drew on his mysterious power to increase his speed and reached Lin Xuan, who noticed the sudden change.

Black Xuantian’s overwhelming power nearly matched Lin Xuan’s speed, but he could not land a hit while attacking. Lin Xuan revealed that his own speed was also beyond his limits, leaving both sides racing against the loss of their power and stamina.

• Black Xuantian repeatedly attacked Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan evaded each strike during the brief pauses in Black Xuantian’s attacks.
• Black Xuantian struggled to choose between maintaining his speed and using his overwhelming power, since either choice left him unable to catch Lin Xuan.
• Black Xuantian considered that only another version of himself could help trap Lin Xuan between them.
• Lin Xuan continued pushing beyond his limits and gambled that his speed would disappear at the same time as Black Xuantian’s mysterious power, though Black Xuantian still had plenty left.

Lin Xuan kept evading Black Xuantian, whose borrowed mysterious power made his attacks terrifying but was gradually fading. They both relied on Forbidden Power to maintain their speed, leaving the pursuit to a contest over whose power would last longer.

• Black Xuantian relentlessly pursued Lin Xuan with frightening punches, but Lin Xuan avoided fighting him head-on.
• Lin Xuan waited for the mysterious power borrowed by Black Xuantian to dissipate, knowing it would leave him unable to keep up.
• Black Xuantian angrily accused Lin Xuan of using Forbidden Power to run and insisted his borrowed power would last longer.
• Lin Xuan maintained his full speed as Black Xuantian charged after him, since even a brief mistake could let Black Xuantian catch him.

Lin Xuan discovered that his speed had slowed, but Black Xuantian’s speed weakened even more, leaving him unable to catch Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan kept his distance and waited for the mysterious power sustaining Black Xuantian to disappear.

• Lin Xuan noticed a slight drop in his speed as Black Xuantian pursued him through the Ninth Layer Palace.
• Black Xuantian realized Lin Xuan had slowed and charged after him, but his own speed weakened by an even greater amount.
• Black Xuantian failed to close the widening gap and despaired as Lin Xuan escaped his reach.
• Lin Xuan watched from a distance as Black Xuantian’s mysterious power gradually disappeared, waiting for the moment to kill him.

Lin Xuan kept evading Black Xuantian as the mysterious power drained away, leaving Black Xuantian at only thirty percent of his peak strength. When Black Xuantian demanded to know why Lin Xuan still had not attacked, Lin Xuan suspected he was hiding more power.

• Black Xuantian realized his borrowed power and even his own strength were disappearing, while he could not catch up with Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan continued through the Ninth Layer Palace at full speed, wary of the mysterious power and waiting for Black Xuantian to weaken further.
• Black Xuantian's aura fell first to seventy percent and then to thirty percent of its peak.
• Black Xuantian angrily asked why Lin Xuan would not attack, and Lin Xuan sensed he was concealing some of his power.

Lin Xuan waited until Black Xuantian’s borrowed power dwindled before killing him in the Ninth Layer Palace. Afterward, Qing Ling approached Lin Xuan, who reprimanded her for leaving the Eighth Layer Palace.

• Lin Xuan avoided Black Xuantian’s desperate attack by darting through the Ninth Layer Palace until his power fell below ten percent.
• Black Xuantian admitted defeat and lamented that he would perish before surpassing Xuantian.
• Lin Xuan struck Black Xuantian dead with a huge gray-white palm.
• After killing Black Xuantian, Lin Xuan coughed up blood and reflected on how dangerous the battle had been.
• Qing Ling approached Lin Xuan, and he asked why she had not stayed in the Eighth Layer Palace.

After Black Xuantian died, Lin Xuan searched the Ninth Layer Palace for the mysterious power but could not find it. He discovered a strange black wall in place of the palace’s Xuantian totem and shattered it.

• Lin Xuan searched the Ninth Layer Palace for the mysterious power, but it had disappeared after Black Xuantian died.
• Qing Ling asked Lin Xuan what he was looking for, and he told her he was searching for a kind of power.
• Lin Xuan concluded that something had gone wrong with the mysterious power and noticed a faint black patch at the far end of the palace.
• Lin Xuan found that the black wall was colder than absolute zero and sensed something strange about it.
• Lin Xuan pointed at the black wall and shattered it.

Lin Xuan explored the black palace marked as Xuantian’s inheritance and discovered that its central stone pillar contained a hidden white world. There, he confronted a mysterious face that acknowledged his ability to find it and faced him coldly.

• Lin Xuan entered the black palace marked as Xuantian’s inheritance and suspected that something within the inheritance had developed a consciousness.
• Lin Xuan searched the empty palace and concluded that the inheritance might be hidden in its central stone pillar.
• Lin Xuan touched the pillar, passed through it, and entered a white world concealed inside.
• Lin Xuan called out to the presence hiding in the white world, and a face appeared in the sky.
• The face acknowledged Lin Xuan’s ability to detect it and declared that nothing there could belong to him anymore.

Lin Xuan confronted the Nine-layered Palace’s Artifact Spirit, which had gained its own consciousness and claimed Xuantian’s inheritance. After the Artifact Spirit attacked him, Lin Xuan released his gray-white mist, but it erased the mist with an aura of spatial power.

• Lin Xuan recognized the face in the sky as Xuantian’s unexpected complication and identified it as the Nine-layered Palace’s Artifact Spirit.
• The Artifact Spirit admitted that it had developed its own consciousness and claimed the inheritance belonged to it.
• Lin Xuan provoked the Artifact Spirit, which churned its white world and sent waves of terrifying aura crashing down on him.
• Lin Xuan released his gray-white mist, but the Artifact Spirit countered it with white aura that made the mist vanish.
• Lin Xuan sensed spatial power in the Artifact Spirit’s aura, and the Spirit confirmed that he had seen through its power.

The Artifact Spirit used the power of space to prevent Lin Xuan’s gray-white mist from spreading, limiting his strength and pursuing him across the white world. Lin Xuan remained unable to unleash his full power as the white aura filled the realm and the Artifact Spirit vowed to butcher him.

• The Artifact Spirit said its control of space kept Lin Xuan’s gray-white mist from spreading and left him unable to challenge it at full strength.
• Lin Xuan recognized that his strength had been reduced while he and Black Xuantian were already injured, and he cautiously evaded the Artifact Spirit’s attacks.
• Lin Xuan moved a thousand li away, but streams of white aura pursued him wherever he went.
• The white aura spread throughout the white world as Lin Xuan nearly ran a full circle around it.
• The Artifact Spirit mocked Lin Xuan’s inferior strength and told him to wait to be butchered.

Lin Xuan was trapped in the Artifact Spirit’s white world, where white aura relentlessly pursued him. While secretly spreading seeds of his gray-white mist, Lin Xuan grew faster than the attacks, leaving the Artifact Spirit unsettled but still convinced its world would prevail.

• Lin Xuan kept releasing gray-white mist as the white aura destroyed it, using the unnoticed ashes to plant mist seeds throughout the white world.
• The Artifact Spirit taunted Lin Xuan and relaxed after believing he had exhausted his methods.
• Lin Xuan dodged the white aura while traversing the world, and his speed continued to increase.
• The Artifact Spirit realized Lin Xuan had become faster than the white aura and reacted with alarm and savagery.
• The Artifact Spirit insisted that speed would not help Lin Xuan because the entire white world belonged to it.

The Artifact Spirit attacked Lin Xuan inside its white world, but his growing speed let him evade its white hand. The Artifact Spirit then revealed the White Mountain Range, whose aura made Lin Xuan sense danger.

• The trembling white world gathered power as Lin Xuan continued planting gray-white mist seeds throughout it.
• The Artifact Spirit sent a huge white hand after Lin Xuan, but his increased speed let him escape its grasp.
• Remembering how Lin Xuan had defeated Black Xuantian, the Artifact Spirit resolved to kill him.
• The Artifact Spirit rushed to the edge of the white world and revealed the White Mountain Range, whose aura alarmed Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan faced the Artifact Spirit as White Mountain Peak split open to reveal an ancient character whose pressure made Lin Xuan’s eyes sting. He secretly spread gray-white mist seeds throughout the White World and transformed it into a gray-white world, startling the Artifact Spirit.

• Lin Xuan retreated to the edge of the White World and watched the Artifact Spirit from a distance.
• White Mountain Peak split open, revealing an ancient character that caused Lin Xuan’s eyes to sting when he looked at it.
• Lin Xuan continued scattering gray-white mist seeds throughout the White World while pretending to be weak.
• Lin Xuan clenched his right hand and released the seeds, turning the White World gray-white.
• The Artifact Spirit reacted with surprise and asked when Lin Xuan had spread his power throughout the world.

Lin Xuan’s gray-white mist overwhelmed the Artifact Spirit’s white aura, proving his power superior. The Artifact Spirit refused to accept its defeat and grew more ferocious.

• Lin Xuan revealed that he had spread his power throughout the white world while fighting the Artifact Spirit.
• The Artifact Spirit tried to overpower the gray-white mist with its white aura before unleashing its strongest power.
• The gray-white mist repeatedly regrew and suppressed the Artifact Spirit’s white aura.
• The Artifact Spirit realized its power was inferior to Lin Xuan’s, but grew more ferocious rather than accept defeat.

The Artifact Spirit failed to expel Lin Xuan’s grayish-white mist with its white aura and turned to the ancient character in the shattered White Mountain Peak. Lin Xuan cautiously faced the new threat as the Artifact Spirit claimed it had prepared for a genius who passed through the Nine-layered Palace.

• The Artifact Spirit tried to combine the white power in the white world to expel Lin Xuan’s grayish-white mist, but the mist resisted it.
• The Artifact Spirit realized its white aura could not destroy the mist and shifted its attention to the ancient character in the shattered White Mountain Peak.
• Lin Xuan sensed the character’s terrifying power and stayed vigilant at the edge of the white world instead of charging forward.
• The Artifact Spirit told Lin Xuan that it had devised a way to deal with a genius who passed through the Nine-layered Palace hundreds of millions of years earlier.