Breaking through to the eighth layer was even more difficult.
After Chen Xuan swept the outer remnants of the Supreme Battlefield clean, the remaining shattered immortal artifacts lay in the deeper core region. Every one of them was exceedingly precious, but their numbers were far fewer.
It took him a year to push the seventh layer to its bottleneck, then he remained stuck there for nearly half a year. During that time, he hunted several high-level Sovereigns of various races who had entered the Supreme Battlefield, using them as supplementary nourishment. Only then did he finally cross that threshold one day.
The eighth layer of the Infinite Origin True Seal.
The moment the eighth layer of the True Seal formed, the space deep within the Supreme Battlefield seemed to tremble faintly. Ancient auras sleeping within the wreckage were stirred by this newborn, powerful force, like silent ripples spreading across the floor of a still abyss.
Standing at the very core of the Supreme Battlefield, Chen Xuan looked through layer upon layer of spatial obstruction toward that gate in the depths of the void once more.
That ancient Immortal Gate was much clearer than before. Most of the golden specks in its outline had solidified, and the faded traces of the immortal character upon its surface were faintly discernible.
He drove the power of the eighth-layer True Seal forward. Silver-gray radiance shot out, and this time, the gate visibly trembled. The golden specks across its surface lit up one after another, flickering violently like awakened stars, only to gradually dim again after a while.
One more layer.
He needed to raise the Chaos Infinite Seal to the ninth layer before he could knock open that gate. But the remaining wreckage in the Supreme Battlefield could no longer support the accumulation needed