Recaps

Lin Heng provoked Inoue Bakyo into attacking him, relying on his armor to withstand the Samsara Realm cultivator’s strikes and humiliate him. As Inoue Bakyo charged again, Sun Yuan ambushed the Great Sun Race Nirvana experts with a thunder attack.

• Inoue Bakyo taunted Lin Heng and challenged him to rescue the two human women.
• Lin Heng stood still as Inoue Bakyo’s spear struck his defensive treasure and failed to pierce it.
• Lin Heng mocked Inoue Bakyo’s weapons, prompting him to unleash a saber attack that tore Lin Heng’s outer clothing but rebounded and injured Inoue.
• Inoue Bakyo lost his temper and rushed at Lin Heng again, while Lin Heng revealed a strange smile.
• Sun Yuan appeared behind Heavenly Desolation City and struck the Great Sun Race Nirvana cultivators with Thunder Dominates the Sky.

Sun Yuan joined Lin Heng’s fight against Inoue Bakyo, who tried to subdue the Five-Spirit Fierce Ape for the Great Sun Race. Sun Yuan broke through Inoue Bakyo’s Time Deceleration with his five kinds of Power of Origin and prepared to face him head-on.

• Inoue Bakyo saw that Sun Yuan had killed more than ten Great Sun Race Nirvana Realm cultivators and recognized him as a Five-Spirit Fierce Ape.
• Inoue Bakyo offered to spare Lin Heng and the two women if Sun Yuan went with him, but Sun Yuan charged at him with the Heaven and Earth Primordial Staff.
• Inoue Bakyo slowed time around Sun Yuan, while Lin Heng noticed Sun Yuan’s soul power surging and held back from intervening.
• Sun Yuan roared and used five kinds of Power of Origin to break through Inoue Bakyo’s Law of Time.
• Sun Yuan pointed his staff at Inoue Bakyo and challenged him to continue fighting.

Sun Yuan battled Inoue Bakyo while Lin Heng freed Yue Linglong and Miao Xiyin, who joined the fight against the Great Sun Race in Heavenly Desolation City. Inoue Bakyo used Time Deceleration and unleashed a soul-burning attack, and Sun Yuan countered with a powerful blow from the Heaven and Earth Primordial Staff.

• Sun Yuan and Inoue Bakyo fought evenly, though Sun Yuan had the advantage in spirit treasures and Inoue Bakyo held back from using the Law of Time to kill him.
• Lin Heng rescued Yue Linglong and Miao Xiyin from the gate tower, and the two women attacked the Great Sun Race cultivators.
• Lin Heng and the women drove the Great Sun Race into Heavenly Desolation City, where the fighting killed dozens of cultivators and spread through the city.
• Enraged, Inoue Bakyo used Time Deceleration to slow Sun Yuan and Lin Heng, then struck Sun Yuan with saber light.
• Sun Yuan survived, transformed into his true form, and destroyed the gate tower with a punch while redirecting his blow to spare Lin Heng.
• Inoue Bakyo activated Unbreakable Heavenly Might, and Sun Yuan retrieved the Heaven and Earth Primordial Staff and swung it at him.

Sun Yuan was gravely wounded by Inoue Bakyo, but the pressure triggered his breakthrough toward the Second Nirvana Realm. Lin Heng fed him the Samsara Sarira and faced Inoue Bakyo with the Killing Sword while Sun Yuan prepared to break through.

• Inoue Bakyo's saber light disarmed Sun Yuan, shattered his protective Chaos Spirit Treasure, and slammed him into the ground.
• Inoue Bakyo tried to strike the injured Sun Yuan again, but Sun Yuan's presence surged as he began breaking through.
• Lin Heng fed Sun Yuan the Samsara Sarira, and Sun Yuan said he needed the time it took to drink a cup of tea to complete his breakthrough.
• Lin Heng drew the Killing Sword, a first-grade Heavenly Venerable Origin Treasure, and challenged the weakened Inoue Bakyo.
• Inoue Bakyo attacked Lin Heng with his long saber, confident he could kill him.

Lin Heng used the Killing Sword’s Power of Killing to overwhelm and severely injure Inoue Bakyo, but Inoue Bakyo recovered to his peak by using a Samsara Realm cultivator’s one chance to return to full strength. Inoue Bakyo revealed that this recovery came at a price, leaving Lin Heng waiting to learn what it was.

• Inoue Bakyo attacked Lin Heng, but Lin Heng’s Killing Sword unleashed the Power of Killing and overwhelmed his saber.
• The Power of Killing pierced Inoue Bakyo, damaged his weapon, and left him too weak to fight.
• Lin Heng prepared to kill Inoue Bakyo and vowed to destroy the Great Sun Race, but Inoue Bakyo stood up and recited a saying about Nirvana and Samsara.
• Inoue Bakyo recovered his strength and presence without using a secret technique, leaving Lin Heng baffled.
• Inoue Bakyo explained that every Samsara Realm cultivator could return to their peak once if their soul remained intact, then asked Lin Heng if he knew the price.

Inoue Bakyo explained that restoring his body had permanently ended his chance to advance, then attacked Lin Heng and tried to kill Sun Yuan. Sun Yuan’s interrupted breakthrough sent his power into turmoil, and Lin Heng gave him an Everliving Creation Pill to help him reach the Samsara Realm.

• Inoue Bakyo revealed that using his body-restoring divine ability had left him trapped at First-Turn Samsara, then attacked Lin Heng at incredible speed.
• Lin Heng defended himself with the Killing Sword and Dragon-Soaring Indestructible Armor, but Inoue Bakyo turned his attention to Sun Yuan.
• Sun Yuan opened his eyes at Second Nirvana and traded a punch with Inoue Bakyo, who fled when Lin Heng attacked from behind.
• Sun Yuan’s presence surged out of control as the power of the Samsara Sarira erupted, and Inoue Bakyo mocked his interrupted breakthrough.
• Lin Heng realized Sun Yuan’s Samsara Realm soul could let him advance further if the rampaging power was calmed, and sent him an Everliving Creation Pill.

Lin Heng protected Sun Yuan while Inoue Bakyo attacked, then endured the Samsara Realm cultivator’s Time Deceleration and discovered the Law of Time. He broke free and prepared to counterattack Inoue Bakyo.

• Lin Heng gave Sun Yuan the Everliving Creation Pill and blocked Inoue Bakyo from reaching him.
• Lin Heng used Space-Time Confinement, but Inoue Bakyo shattered it with his soul power and trapped Lin Heng with Time Deceleration.
• As Inoue Bakyo attacked him, an unseen force stopped Yue Linglong and Miao Xiyin from intervening and told them it was Lin Heng’s opportunity.
• Lin Heng entered a still, dark state and perceived a seed’s repeating cycle of growth, eventually grasping Time Deceleration and the Law of Time.
• Lin Heng returned to the outskirts of Heavenly Desolation City, broke Inoue Bakyo’s Time Deceleration, and readied the Killing Sword to counterattack.

Lin Heng and Sun Yuan broke through to the Samsara Realm and defeated Inoue Bakyo, but Sun Yuan’s viciousness surged again. As Sun Yuan left to be alone, a Great Sun Race figure confronted Lin Heng and demanded that he submit.

• Lin Heng severed Inoue Bakyo’s arm, and Sun Yuan slammed him into the ground after both Lin Heng and Sun Yuan reached the Samsara Realm.
• Sun Yuan repeatedly crushed Inoue Bakyo with the Heaven and Earth Primordial Staff until his body and soul were destroyed.
• Lin Heng stopped Sun Yuan and watched him leave to spend time alone as the viciousness within him receded under Buddhist light.
• A strange, apparently nonphysical member of the Great Sun Race appeared before Lin Heng and demanded that he and Sun Yuan submit to the Great Sun Race.

Meichuan Qingming tried to recruit Lin Heng, who mocked his offer and refused. Ao Zhantian intervened, and Meichuan Qingming agreed that the Great Sun Race would leave Lin Heng alone until he went to the Ninefold Heaven in exchange for Lin Heng keeping its secret.

• Meichuan Qingming offered Lin Heng the Great Sun Race’s resources if he agreed to serve them.
• Lin Heng demanded rare medicines and treasures, then admitted he wanted the resources to strengthen his followers and fight the Great Sun Race.
• Meichuan Qingming threatened Lin Heng, but Ao Zhantian appeared and suppressed his killing intent.
• Lin Heng challenged Meichuan Qingming over the Great Sun Race’s past crimes and threatened to expose its plans concerning Tianjing Shrine.
• Meichuan Qingming offered not to attack Lin Heng before he reached the Ninefold Heaven if Lin Heng kept the secret, and Ao Zhantian accepted on Lin Heng’s behalf.

Lin Heng learned that Sun Yuan could remove his vicious Qi in the Ancient Buddha Temple’s Holy Water Buddha Pool, though access was restricted. After reaching Human Race territory, Lin Heng agreed to let Liu Ling’er and the others remain in the Ten Regions and build the foundation for his future sect while he and his companions went to the Ninefold Heaven.

• Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that Sun Yuan could cleanse his vicious Qi in the Holy Water Buddha Pool, but the Ancient Buddha Temple would require a tempting offer or the Beast Race’s influence to grant access.
• Lin Heng declined Ao Zhantian’s invitation to go to the Ninefold Heaven immediately, saying he had matters to finish in the Ten Regions, and Ao Zhantian warned him not to provoke the Great Sun Race in secret.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan left the Great Sun Region and traveled to Shengman City, where Lin Heng reunited with the four women and Situ Jiannan.
• Liu Ling’er proposed that Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan ascend first while she and the others stayed behind to recruit talented cultivators and prepare the foundation for Lin Heng’s future sect.
• Situ Jiannan explained that sects could gather the fortune needed for higher cultivation, and Lin Heng agreed to Liu Ling’er’s plan.

After gathering vast resources across the Ten Regions, Lin Heng left for the Ninefold Heaven with Sun Yuan and Situ Jiannan, while Liu Ling'er and the other three women stayed behind to build a force for him. The three men reached the Qian Yuan Sect through Heavenly Abundance City's teleportation array, and the women began recruiting disciples.

• Lin Heng gave Liu Ling'er the resources he had gathered and asked her to recruit and train only promising cultivators.
• Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan helped the group break through, while Sun Yuan warned Lin Heng that he needed a resource from the Ninefold Heaven before attempting the Samsara Realm breakthrough.
• Situ Jiannan contacted the Qian Yuan Sect, and Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan used its invitation letters to teleport from Heavenly Abundance City to the Ninefold Heaven.
• Liu Ling'er and the other three women watched the men depart, then Yue Linglong brought out Situ Jiannan's list of cities and promising prospects to begin recruiting disciples.

Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan emerged from the teleportation passage into a Thunderbird Clan attack on the Qian Yuan Sect and joined the battle. Sun Yuan rescued the wounded sect master, Xuchengzi, and crushed two Thunderbird Samsara experts, while Lei Qianshan rose from the ground to witness their defeat.

• Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan endured the teleportation passage and arrived at the Qian Yuan Sect amid the sounds of battle.
• Situ Jiannan identified the attackers as the Thunderbird Clan, and Lin Heng agreed to help the sect that had provided their passage.
• Lin Heng killed four Third Nirvana Thunderbirds with his Killing Sword.
• Lei Qianshan told the wounded Xuchengzi that he was attacking the Qian Yuan Sect over a source vein and had killed his own son to fabricate a grievance.
• Sun Yuan struck Lei Qianshan into the ground, then beat the two Second-Turn Samsara Thunderbirds attacking Xuchengzi into meat paste.
• Lei Qianshan burst back into the air and saw Sun Yuan had killed his two subordinates.

Sun Yuan used the Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff to kill Lei Qianshan, then helped Lin Heng defeat the Thunderbird Clan and turn the battle in the Qian Yuan Sect’s favor. After the battle, Xuchengzi welcomed Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan to a banquet.

• Lei Qianshan recognized Sun Yuan’s bloodline suppression and suspected he was a pureblood Divine Beast, but he did not realize Sun Yuan was a Five-Spirit Fierce Ape.
• Sun Yuan attacked Lei Qianshan with the Nine-Nine Overlapping Waves, broke his resistance, and killed him.
• Sun Yuan killed seven Samsara experts while Lin Heng cut down Thunderbirds, reversing the Qian Yuan Sect’s losing battle.
• Situ Jiannan slew the First Nirvana Realm Thunderbird he had been fighting, and the Qian Yuan Sect began cleaning up the battlefield.
• Xuchengzi warmly welcomed Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan and invited them to a banquet.

Lin Heng and his companions met with Xuchengzi at the Qian Yuan Sect, where Xuchengzi offered territory and resources in exchange for their help contesting a source vein. After explaining the Ninefold Heaven’s rivalries and tribute system, he proposed that Lin Heng’s new sect take over the Thunderbird Clan’s territory, and Lin Heng questioned whether that would make them rivals.

• Lin Heng checked in at the Qian Yuan Sect’s reception hall and received the Qian Yuan Sword, a High-Grade Chaos Spirit Treasure.
• Sun Yuan told Xuchengzi that the group planned to establish their own sect, prompting Xuchengzi to offer them territory and a third of the Qian Yuan Sect’s source vein.
• Xuchengzi explained that the source vein was contested by forces under the Jiang Clan of the Lei Clan, the Sun Clan of the Earth Clan, and Asura Island, and that the Qian Yuan Sect needed help winning its hundred-year martial contest.
• Xuchengzi described how the Ninefold Heaven’s forces paid tribute to powerful factions and how the Lei Clan and Earth Clan were joining forces against Asura Island.
• Xuchengzi proposed that Lin Heng establish his sect on the offered territory and take over the Thunderbird Clan’s lands, and Lin Heng asked whether that would put them in competition with the Qian Yuan Sect.

Situ Jiannan negotiated terms with Xuchengzi and uncovered the Qian Yuan Sect leader’s plan to use them to claim a newly discovered Source Vein. He proposed that Lin Heng secretly break through to the Samsara Realm before a sect competition, but Lin Heng learned that the breakthrough required a Source Crystal.

• Situ Jiannan offered Xuchengzi a Low-Grade Chaos Spirit Treasure in exchange for the Qian Yuan Sect’s help, and Xuchengzi accepted without demanding a share of their future Source Veins.
• Situ Jiannan gathered information about the Ninefold Heaven and learned that a sect competition would determine who could compete for a newly discovered Source Vein.
• Situ Jiannan deduced that Xuchengzi’s offer of land was meant to secure their help for the Qian Yuan Sect in the coming Source Vein contest.
• Situ Jiannan urged Lin Heng to conceal a breakthrough at the Qian Yuan Sect and suggested that Lin Heng and Sun Yuan join forces in the contest.
• Situ Jiannan explained that Lin Heng needed a Source Crystal, not Source Stones, to break through to the Samsara Realm.

Lin Heng used Source Crystals to break through to the Samsara Realm, unleashing a presence that alarmed the Qian Yuan Sect and impressed Sun Yuan and Situ Jiannan. Afterward, the white jade drew him into observing a seed changing through different flows of time, while his soul power surged.

• Situ Jiannan obtained more Source Crystals from Xuchengzi, and Lin Heng began his breakthrough with seventeen hundred crystals in a sealed chamber.
• Lin Heng refined his Source Power and absorbed the Source Crystals until a barb emerged from the sphere in his spirit sea, triggering his breakthrough to the Samsara Realm.
• Xuchengzi sensed Lin Heng's formidable presence and secretly planned to use him to seize the Source vein before joining forces with the Blood Demon Sect to kill him.
• Sun Yuan welcomed Lin Heng's breakthrough, while Situ Jiannan felt relieved that he had chosen to stand with him.
• The white jade rose above Lin Heng and cast light over him, revealing a sprouting seed that cycled through slowed, accelerated, and still time as Lin Heng watched for twenty days and his soul power soared.

Lin Heng mastered Time Stasis after spending twenty days comprehending the Law of Time, then concealed his breakthrough and claimed he could not fight in the coming battle for the source vein. Situ Jiannan and Sun Yuan later reported that Xuchengzi was secretly meeting someone with the presence of the Devil Race, and uncovered a deeper secret about Xuchengzi’s rise to the Samsara Realm.

• Lin Heng tested Time Deceleration, Time Acceleration, and Time Stasis after mastering the Law of Time.
• Xuchengzi questioned Lin Heng about his long seclusion, and Lin Heng claimed he had only been consolidating his realm.
• Lin Heng said he could not fight in the source vein battle, so Xuchengzi asked Sun Yuan to take his place and planned to seek another Samsara Realm expert.
• Situ Jiannan and Sun Yuan told Lin Heng that Xuchengzi had repeatedly met a stranger with the presence of the Devil Race in a nearby village.
• Situ Jiannan revealed that the village was populated by Xuchengzi’s descendants and that Xuchengzi’s cultivation to the Samsara Realm concealed an earth-shattering secret.

Lin Heng learned that Xuchengzi used the evil art Blood and Bone Linked to devour his own descendants, and Situ Jiannan proposed turning Xuchengzi’s scheme against him. At the Ninefold Heaven’s Hundred Sects Assembly, Lin Heng learned about the thirteen ruling forces and considered the divisions among the ascenders as war loomed.

• Situ Jiannan revealed that Xuchengzi had devoured two descendants and kept his family to strengthen himself, and Lin Heng recognized the evil art Blood and Bone Linked.
• Situ Jiannan suspected Xuchengzi had ties to the Blood Demon Sect and explained a plan to turn Xuchengzi’s plot against him; Lin Heng agreed to follow it.
• Lin Heng and the Qian Yuan Sect arrived at the Soul-Burying Mountain Range for the Hundred Sects Assembly, where representatives of the thirteen superpowers had gathered.
• Xuchengzi explained that the thirteen forces consisted of the Eight Great Imperial Clans and five ascender forces, with Firmament Hall the strongest among the latter.
• Lin Heng learned that Firmament Hall’s three hall masters could rival Saint Emperors and suspected the Eight Great Imperial Clans might exploit divisions among the ascenders if war broke out.

Lin Heng obtained the Ancient Void Physique at the Soul-Burying Mountain Range, where the martial competition among the sects was about to begin. Situ Jiannan accused Xuchengzi of misconduct and presented evidence, leaving Xuchengzi trapped as Asura Island and the Lei Clan turned against him.

• Lin Heng signed in at the Soul-Burying Mountain Range and received the Ancient Void Physique, which could absorb attacks into the Primordial Void.
• A Lei Clan man announced the start of the martial competition and warned that the ten lowest-ranked sects would be eliminated.
• Situ Jiannan interrupted the ceremony and accused Xuchengzi of lacking virtue, presenting a soul-recorded jade slip as proof.
• The Lei Clan man passed the evidence to Chen Yulin, who learned that Xuchengzi’s descendant had met the Devil Race, cultivated an evil art, and withheld Source Stones.
• Lin Heng accused Xuchengzi of slaughtering defeated Thunderbird clansmen, prompting the Lei Clan man to demand an explanation from Asura Island.
• As Xuchengzi tried to escape with Teleportation, Sun Yuan destabilized the space around him and blocked his retreat.

Xuchengzi exposed his ties to the Devil Race and was killed by an Asura Island expert, clearing the way for Situ Jiannan’s master to claim the Qian Yuan Sect. Chen Yulin then offered Lin Heng expanded territory if he placed in the martial competition and represented Asura Island in the contest for a new source vein.

• Xuchengzi denied Sun Yuan’s accusation, but Situ Jiannan revealed that his use of the Devil Race’s Blood and Bone Linked art had marked him with death Qi.
• Under Lü Ren’s hidden soul pressure, Xuchengzi blurted out that Xuehai Moluo cultivated Blood and Bone Linked, exposing the truth to the gathered sects.
• Chen Yulin ordered two Asura Island experts to act, and they killed Xuchengzi and Xuehai Moluo while Lin Heng remained unaffected by Time Stasis.
• Situ Jiannan asked Chen Yulin to let his master take control of the Qian Yuan Sect, and Chen Yulin agreed that the winner of the martial competition could claim it.
• Chen Yulin privately promised Lin Heng that placing in the top eight and representing Asura Island could earn him ten million li of territory for the Qian Yuan Sect.

Sun Yuan fought his way into the top sixteen of the competition, overcoming a Fire Ghost Sect cultivator with the Heaven and Earth Primordial Staff. He drew the Gold Origin Race's Jin Maohou as his opponent in the match for a place in the top eight, and the chapter ended before their fight began.

• Sun Yuan volunteered to fight in the martial competition while Lin Heng reserved his strength for the later struggle for the origin vein.
• Sun Yuan defeated the Five Baleful Intent Gate's Third-Turn Samsara cultivator in seconds and later countered the Fire Ghost Sect's invisibility before killing its fighter.
• Lin Heng told Sun Yuan that his Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff could break through the Time Acceleration used by many Sixth-Turn Samsara opponents.
• Sun Yuan drew blue number three, matching him against Jin Maohou of the Gold Origin Race in the match for the top eight.
• Jin Maohou warned Sun Yuan to forfeit before their battle began, noting the difference between his Sixth-Turn Samsara cultivation and Sun Yuan's First-Turn Samsara cultivation.

Sun Yuan battled Jin Maohou and grew stronger as he used their fight to practice the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff. As Jin Maohou transformed to boost his strength and defense, Sun Yuan chose not to reveal his true form and resolved to win by mastering the technique.

• Sun Yuan accepted Jin Maohou's challenge and fought him in close combat, matching the Sixth-Turn Samsara cultivator despite being at First-Turn Samsara.
• Sun Yuan used the Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff to knock Jin Maohou back, then began practicing the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff against him.
• As the fight continued, Sun Yuan's technique improved and his cultivation began showing signs of breaking through to Second-Turn Samsara, giving him a slight advantage.
• Jin Maohou transformed into a giant to multiply his strength and defense, while nearby sect members discussed the Gold Origin Race's ultimate move.
• Sun Yuan considered transforming into his true form but decided against it to avoid drawing the Beast Race's attention, and trusted that he could win by mastering the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff.

Sun Yuan continued fighting Jin Maohou after he transformed into a giant, then broke through with the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff and overwhelmed him. Jin Maohou surrendered, and Sun Yuan’s victory made his name known throughout the Ninefold Heaven.

• Jin Maohou transformed into a giant and struck Sun Yuan with his enlarged iron hammer, driving him into a deep pit.
• Sun Yuan emerged largely unharmed and unleashed the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff, knocking Jin Maohou and his hammer backward.
• Sun Yuan pressed his advantage, using repeated staff blows to trap and batter Jin Maohou while Jin Maohou’s golden body regenerated.
• Jin Maohou surrendered, and a force transported both fighters out of the battle space.
• Spectators discussed Sun Yuan’s upset victory over the sixth-turn samsara fighter, spreading his name throughout the Ninefold Heaven.

Sun Yuan defeated a Sixth-Turn Samsara cultivator, and Lin Heng assessed the match before the final eight were chosen. When the sects prepared to challenge Sun Yuan’s place, Lin Heng stepped in to face them himself.

• Sun Yuan complained that the golden-haired hou had surrendered before Sun Yuan could practice his staff techniques on him.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan reviewed the golden-haired hou’s mistakes, including his overconfidence and failure to use the Law of Time.
• Yu Changfeng, Keluoduo, and a Rock Race contestant gained the upper hand in their battle circles, and the remaining fights ended to determine the final eight.
• Chen Yulin announced that contestants could challenge anyone in the final eight for their place and the right to compete for the Origin Vein.
• As the sects focused on challenging Sun Yuan, Lin Heng stopped him and declared that he would handle the challengers himself.

Lin Heng challenged the hundred sects and killed a Fifth-Turn Samsara and a Sixth-Turn Samsara fighter with his Killing Sword, revealing extraordinary time abilities. The ascender factions moved to protect him from the Eight Great Imperial Clans, and Lin Heng taunted the remaining challengers to send someone forward.

• Lin Heng invited anyone in the arena to challenge him, and Xiao He of the Eternal Joy Sect stepped forward.
• Lin Heng used Time Acceleration to strike Xiao He from behind and kill him with one stroke.
• A Sixth-Turn Samsara merfolk attacked Lin Heng with a mixed-metal tang, but Lin Heng used Time Stasis and killed him within seconds.
• After Lin Heng defeated the two fighters, no one else dared challenge him, while the Eight Great Imperial Clans and the ascender factions argued over him.
• Lin Heng pointed his Killing Sword toward the factions under the Eight Great Imperial Clans and demanded that they send out an expert.