Fortunately, Wang Yue and Shen Li were extremely powerful. The first time, they had been caught off guard and blasted into a pair of blackened lumps of coal, but they'd only suffered minor injuries. A little circulation of their magical power was all it took to recover.
After they figured out the pattern, whenever Wang Yue sensed a bolt of lightning, he immediately used spatial magic to move into the World in His Palm, avoiding any further trouble.
But none of that mattered. What did matter was that when the Heavenly Monarch's people went looking for Tianwaitian, they discovered a startling fact: Tianwaitian had vanished!
After Xing Zhi began thinking about refining Tianwaitian, he stopped spending much time in the little courtyard and often went out to explore.
Xing Zhi had always been a sickly man. The courtyard in the mortal world was protected by an array that concealed it from the heavens, so of course he couldn't die there.
But once he left the array, he didn't spend money on the medicine he needed to stay alive, so it wasn't long before he died.
After Xing Yun died, High God Xing Zhi reappeared in Tianwaitian.
Then Xing Zhi began putting his escape plan into action, refining all of Tianwaitian according to Wang Yue's experience refining the Void Heaven Abyss.
Over the past few decades, Wang Yue had already transformed the Void Heaven Abyss into a World in His Palm, so he had gained a much deeper understanding of spatial compression.
As his master, Xing Zhi was someone Wang Yue naturally wouldn't keep anything from, so he taught him everything he knew.
That was how Xing Zhi managed to secretly refine Tianwaitian and bring it into the palm of his hand. No one else could see what had become of