Arc 23The Plane Passage

Lin Heng forged two Primordial Chaos avatars, expanded the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and agreed to guard the planar passage. After defeating Lei Heita without killing him, he cultivated new laws while the Eight Great Imperial Clans plotted to expose him to the Hunt Clan.

  • Lin Heng obtained the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s Pure Jade Bone and accepted Xiang Nantian’s help, swearing to strike the Lei Clan after reaching the First Heaven.
  • Lin Heng broke through to the Primordial Chaos Realm and forged good and evil avatars from the Pure Jade Bone and Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus, while Ao Zhantian warned the imperial clans not to interfere.
  • Ao Zhantian explained Lin Heng’s duty to guard the planar passage, and Lin Heng agreed after learning that the Battle Heaven Pavilion would receive support during his absence.
  • Mei Chu and other groups joined the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and Lin Heng’s people killed Banbo’er after he insulted Mei Chu and challenged the pavilion.
  • Lin Heng assigned responsibilities to the pavilion’s leaders and prepared to leave for the planar passage, where he learned that Mei Chu’s grandmother was imprisoned by the Fire Clan.
  • Lin Heng fought Lei Heita, countered his attacks with a five-layered spatial black hole, and accepted Yan He’s decision to end the duel before either fighter died.
  • Yan He urged the Eight Great Imperial Clans to kill Lin Heng, while the Fire and Lei ancestors plotted to loosen the planar seal and let Hunt Clan experts through after him.
  • Lin Heng mastered several spatial and temporal laws, assessed the strength of his five-layered world, and received the Nine Sounds of Gods and Devils at Lantau Mountain.
Chapters 551–575 Vol. 6 Read

Ch. 551Rumors Spread

Yan Juetian left the Battle Heaven Pavilion after being forced into a costly deal, and rumors of a secret alliance with the Fire Clan spread across the Eighth Heaven. Ao Zhantian met Lin Heng to learn what had happened and warned him that the Fire Clan could attack again.

  • Yan Juetian angrily took Yan Ye and the other Fire Clan experts away from the Battle Heaven Pavilion after Situ Jiannan taunted him about their transaction.
  • Watching forces spread conflicting rumors across the Eighth Heaven, including claims that the Fire Clan and Battle Heaven Pavilion had formed an alliance or marriage pact.
  • At the Mirror Flower Water Moon Pavilion, the seven imperial clan patriarchs debated Yan Juetian’s visit and the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s survival, then decided to wait for the Fire Clan’s explanation and the Lei Clan Saint Emperor’s father’s return.
  • Ao Zhantian met Lin Heng at a mountain cliff and heard how the Fire Clan had launched its surprise attack and later paid compensation.
  • Ao Zhantian warned Lin Heng that the Fire Clan might attack again, while Lin Heng said he had chosen to fight his way toward the First Heaven; Ao Zhantian recalled his own similar resolve.

Ch. 552The Man in a Blue Robe

Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that the Five Ascender Factions would support him, and Lin Heng decided to leave the Battle Heaven Pavilion to search for treasures for his avatars and strengthen his cultivation. The blue-robed Lord Yu ordered Ao Zhantian to stop secretly protecting Lin Heng and let him face his own trials.

  • Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that the ascenders would back his actions, even if they brought war with the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
  • Ao Zhantian reported to Lord Yu, who revealed that he could not clearly divine Lin Heng's fate and instructed Ao Zhantian to stop protecting him in secret.
  • Lin Heng decided to leave the Battle Heaven Pavilion to find natural treasures for his good and evil avatars before returning to break through to the Primordial Realm.
  • Lin Heng promised to return within a hundred years and assigned Ao Lie, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan responsibilities for the pavilion and its disciples.

Ch. 553I Came to Look Around and Learn

Lin Heng obtained the Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus at the Drifting Snow Mountain Range, giving him a treasure for housing his evil clone. He went to the Lei Clan seeking a treasure for his good clone, but his excuse for visiting drew a surprised question from two guards.

  • Lin Heng heard the legend of Ao Zhantian’s bloody battle against the Eight Great Imperial Clans at the Drifting Snow Mountain Range and went there to sign in.
  • Lin Heng obtained the Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus, which Ao Zhantian had used to house his Primordial evil self, and wondered how Ao Zhantian had reached the Primordial Realm.
  • Lin Heng spent half a month signing in across the Drifting Snow Mountain Range but failed to find a treasure for his good self.
  • Lin Heng decided to seek a supreme thunder treasure from the Lei Clan and traveled to a point ten thousand miles from its sect.
  • Two Second-Grade Heavenly Venerable experts stopped Lin Heng, and he said he had come to look at the Lei Clan’s sect and learn from its construction.
  • One of the Lei Clan experts asked Lin Heng why he had come when construction of the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s sect had already been completed.

Ch. 554The Lei Clan's Olive Branch

Lin Heng accepted Lei Nuo’s invitation to the Lei Clan, where Lei Nuo offered him a guest elder position on behalf of the clan’s forefather. The forefather promised that Lin Heng could reach the pinnacle of the Nine Heavens within a million years if he agreed.

  • Lin Heng learned that the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s sect grounds had already been completed and met Lei Nuo, the Lei Clan’s representative in the Eighth Heaven.
  • Lei Nuo invited Lin Heng into the Lei Clan’s grounds and welcomed him with a lavish meal.
  • After drinking together, Lei Nuo asked Lin Heng about his plans and offered him a guest elder position with access to the clan’s resources.
  • Lin Heng questioned why the Lei Clan was recruiting him, and Lei Nuo explained that the proposal came from the clan’s forefather.
  • Lei Nuo relayed the forefather’s promise that Lin Heng would reach the pinnacle of the Nine Heavens within a million years if he joined.

Ch. 555Demon-Sealing Deathland

Lin Heng rejected Lei Nuo’s invitation to join the Lei Clan and searched for a treasure to house his Primordial Chaos avatar. After learning about the Demon-Sealing Deathland, he arrived at the site of a sect the Lei Clan had destroyed and found its dead spirits trapped in two tormenting arrays.

  • Lei Nuo offered to take Lin Heng to the Seventh Heaven, but Lin Heng refused to submit to the Lei Clan and left its grounds.
  • Lei Nuo explained that an important figure had been watching Lin Heng, so the clan had let him go rather than risk interference.
  • Lin Heng contacted Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao to ask about treasures that could house his Primordial Chaos avatar, but they knew of no available source beyond sacred lands or trading with the Thirteen Factions.
  • Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao told Lin Heng about the Demon-Sealing Deathland, where the Lei Clan had destroyed a sect and trapped its dead spirits.
  • Lin Heng traveled to the Demon-Sealing Deathland and saw that the Soul-Locking Array and Soul-Devouring Array kept the spirits imprisoned and in torment.

Ch. 556Pure Jade Bone

Lin Heng entered the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s former site, signed in to obtain Pure Jade Bone, and was mistaken for a Lei Clan member by the trapped souls. When the sect’s spirits attacked, Lin Heng fought back with all eight Powers of Origin, shocking their leader.

  • Lin Heng slipped through the Lei Clan’s arrays and signed in at the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s former site, receiving Pure Jade Bone that required pure soul power to activate.
  • Lin Heng approached the mountain and tried to explain to the sect’s spirit that he was an ascender, but it accused him of serving the Lei Clan.
  • Lin Heng challenged the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s account of its women seeking cultivation resources, then suspected the Lei Clan had spread false rumors about the sect.
  • The sect’s spirit sent thousands of Heavenly Venerable dead spirits against Lin Heng, and they merged into a giant soul body that struck his shield.
  • Lin Heng summoned the Eight-Origin Heaven-Piercing Spear and clashed with the soul body’s Yellow Springs Heavenly Abode, revealing that he possessed all eight Powers of Origin.

Ch. 557The Truth

Lin Heng stopped fighting the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s Xiang Nantian and protected the sect’s dead souls from the Soul-Devouring Array. After Xiang Nantian revealed how the Lei Clan destroyed his sect, Lin Heng showed him a duplicated jade bone, and Xiang Nantian offered to teach him its secret art in exchange for an oath.

  • Lin Heng and Xiang Nantian stopped their battle after recognizing that Lin Heng possessed all eight Powers of Origin.
  • Lin Heng used four array flags to shield Xiang Nantian and the other dead souls from the Soul-Devouring Array’s chilling wind.
  • Xiang Nantian told Lin Heng that Lei Wuhen had tried to seize the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s Pure Jade Bone and that the Lei Clan later wiped out the sect and killed him.
  • Lin Heng revealed that he had duplicated the jade bone in the array, and Xiang Nantian recognized it as his ancestor’s bone.
  • Xiang Nantian offered to teach Lin Heng the jade bone’s secret art and help him forge the strongest jade bone if Lin Heng swore an oath.

Ch. 558Supreme Pure Jade Bone

Lin Heng agreed to take revenge on the Lei Clan in exchange for Xiang Nantian’s pure jade bone secret technique and the chance to forge a Primordial Chaos clone. He accepted the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s decision to sacrifice their souls, and their soul power began nourishing the pure jade bone.

  • Lin Heng challenged Xiang Nantian’s demand that he avenge the Jade Bone Soul Sect by attacking the powerful Lei Clan.
  • Xiang Nantian offered to help Lin Heng forge a pure jade bone clone no weaker than his true body, and Lin Heng swore to strike the Lei Clan after entering the First Heaven.
  • Lin Heng objected when Xiang Nantian revealed that the sect’s thousands of Heavenly Venerables would give up Samsara and their soul power to him.
  • Xiang Nantian explained that breaking the array would alert the Lei Clan and endanger the sect’s last chance for revenge, and Lin Heng promised to exterminate the Lei Clan.
  • Lin Heng mastered the secret technique in one day, and Xiang Nantian and the sect’s thousands of souls began transferring their soul power into the pure jade bone.

Ch. 559Stirrings on All Sides

Lin Heng used the Jade Bone Soul Sect experts’ souls to prepare materials for his good and evil clones, then began breaking through to Primordial Chaos with all eight Powers of Origin. The Eight Great Imperial Clans feared his growing power, but Ao Zhantian vowed to fight them if they tried to harm him.

  • Xiang Nantian gave his final thanks as the Jade Bone Soul Sect experts’ pure souls fused into a vast mass for Lin Heng’s Pure Jade Bone.
  • Lin Heng used a Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus leaf to absorb the soul impurities, preparing materials for both his good and evil clones.
  • Lin Heng communed with heaven and earth and drew in energy and all eight Powers of Origin as he advanced toward Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage.
  • Ao Zhantian and other ascender experts arrived alongside the Eight Great Imperial Clans, whose leaders feared Lin Heng would undermine their standing.
  • Ao Zhantian broke Lei Zhanchen’s soundproofing restriction and warned the clans that the ascenders would fight them to the death if they attacked Lin Heng.

Ch. 560Primordial Chaos Body Cleansing

As Lin Heng broke through to Primordial Chaos, the ascenders forced the Eight Great Imperial Clans to let him proceed, and his breakthrough triggered an extraordinary Primordial Chaos Body Cleansing. Lei Jian recognized that Lin Heng was forming a first-class Primordial Chaos Spiritual Body and regretted letting him grow so powerful.

  • Ao Zhantian and the leaders of the ascender factions threatened war if Lei Jian’s Eight Great Imperial Clans attacked Lin Heng.
  • Lei Jian weighed the cost of war, then let Lin Heng break through while warning that he would not overturn the Nine Heavens.
  • Lin Heng broke through the Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerable realm, drawing a vast flood of Primordial Spiritual Qi that transformed his body.
  • Lei Jian recognized the gathering thunderclouds as a sign that Lin Heng was forming a first-class Primordial Chaos Spiritual Body.
  • Lei Jian regretted underestimating Lin Heng and felt his suppressed killing intent rise again.

Ch. 561Devouring Lightning

Lin Heng faced the Primordial Chaos Lightning Tribulation and attacked the golden dragon in the thunderclouds, using his newly comprehended Heavenly Punishment to make the dragon’s lightning backfire. He began absorbing the tribulation’s lightning power, leaving the spectators unsure whether he could withstand it.

  • Lei Jian regretted allowing Lin Heng to grow stronger, while Ao Zhantian warned him not to interfere.
  • The thunderclouds gathered above Lin Heng, and he answered the golden dragon’s roar with a more imposing dragon cry.
  • Lin Heng flew into the sky and struck the golden dragon with Heavenly Punishment, causing its lightning attack to explode inside its mouth.
  • Lin Heng raised his hands and absorbed the lightning power from the clouds and the golden dragon, prompting the Eight Great Imperial Clans to mock him and Ao Zhantian to defend his confidence.
  • Lin Heng strained under the absorbed lightning power as sweat covered his forehead and his body tensed.

Ch. 562Primordial Chaos World

Lin Heng used the Primordial Chaos Lightning Tribulation to forge good and evil clones from a Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus and Pure Jade Bone. After half a month, he completed the clones and created a Primordial Chaos World on the same level as the universe, though it remained empty and unfinished.

  • Lin Heng revealed his plan to use the lightning tribulation’s Power of Origin to forge Primordial Chaos Clones, drawing Ao Zhantian’s recognition and Lei Jian’s skepticism.
  • Lei Yinxin identified Lin Heng’s white treasure as Pure Jade Bone, while Ao Zhantian recognized the black lotus leaf as a Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus.
  • Lin Heng separated his good and evil obsessions and shaped the two treasures into bodies identical to his own.
  • Lin Heng infused the clones with soul power, the eight Powers of Origin, and Primordial Spiritual Qi as they endured the lightning tribulation for half a month.
  • Lin Heng and his clones awakened with overwhelming power, and the spent thunderclouds and heavenly opening disappeared.
  • Lin Heng inspected the Primordial Chaos World he had created and confirmed that its foundation matched the level of the universe, though it was still desolate.

Ch. 563I Am Not Alone on My Path

A cosmic voice summoned an unknown young friend after Lin Heng's Primordial Chaos world proved equal to the universe, while his two avatars emerged at a higher stage than he had. After the Eight Great Imperial Clans and other factions departed or sent representatives, Lin Heng went to the Battle Heaven Pavilion, where Ao Zhantian prepared to tell him an important warning.

  • A hearty laugh echoed across the universe as the words “I am not alone on my path” appeared in the skies, and the unseen speaker said they were waiting for a young friend.
  • Lin Heng recalled his good and evil avatars, who had reached the Primordial Chaos Earth Stage after absorbing most of the energy from his breakthrough.
  • Situ Jiannan invited the sects to celebrate Lin Heng's breakthrough at the Battle Heaven Pavilion, while Lei Jian sent younger Lei Clan members to investigate and traded threats with Lin Heng.
  • Lei Jian and the other imperial clan patriarchs departed, with the Fire Clan patriarch warning Lin Heng about the responsibilities that came with his breakthrough.
  • Ao Zhantian stayed with Lin Heng while the other factions departed, and more than a hundred Eighth Heaven factions arrived at the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
  • Lin Heng went with Ao Zhantian to a side hall, where Ao Zhantian prepared to warn him about something important.

Ch. 564Secrets of the Foreign Domain

Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng the history of the Foreign Domain’s invasions and explained that cultivators who reached the Primordial Realm had to guard the planar passage. Lin Heng reluctantly agreed to serve, though he remained concerned about the time and opportunities he would lose.

  • Lin Heng asked Ao Zhantian why he had come, and Ao Zhantian began recounting the history of the Foreign Domain’s wars with the Nine Heavens.
  • Ao Zhantian explained that the Hunt Clan had repeatedly invaded, plundered resources, and used Heavenly Concealment to send small groups into the Nine Heavens.
  • Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that every cultivator who reached the Primordial Realm had to guard the planar passage for a hundred thousand years or until an invasion was repelled.
  • Lin Heng objected to the long duty, but Ao Zhantian said it was a rule no one could evade.
  • Lin Heng reluctantly agreed to go when Ao Zhantian told him it was time.

Ch. 565Divisions of Primordial Chaos

Ao Zhantian explained the benefits of guarding the plane passage and advised Lin Heng on developing his Primordial Chaos World. Lin Heng left with a plan to expand the Battle Heaven Pavilion and discovered that his world had five layers, exceeding the known structure.

  • Lin Heng agreed to guard the plane passage, and Ao Zhantian promised him Source Stones, protection for the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and a time spirit treasure for its disciples.
  • Lin Heng told Ao Zhantian he could not freely shape his Primordial Chaos World or create life, so Ao Zhantian explained how its foundation and later development worked.
  • Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that living beings could be created through the Power of Faith and that Lin Heng's eight Powers of Origin made cultivators throughout the Nine Heavens compatible with him.
  • Ao Zhantian urged Lin Heng to use his absence at the plane passage to expand the Battle Heaven Pavilion and gather races, allowing him to build strength and protect himself from the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
  • Lin Heng considered the layers of his Primordial Chaos World and realized it had five, beyond the three known to Ao Zhantian and the unknown fourth layer of the two beings who transcended the Nine Heavens.

Ch. 566Do You Know Your Crimes?

At a celebration of Lin Heng’s breakthrough to the Primordial Realm, Mei Chu announced that the Fire Ghost Clan had left the Fire Clan to join the Battle Heaven Pavilion, prompting more sects to pledge loyalty to Lin Heng. After Banbo’er insulted Mei Chu and challenged the pavilion, Situ Jiannan confronted him and began listing his crimes.

  • Lin Heng arrived at the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s plaza with Ao Zhantian as representatives of major Eighth Heaven sects rose to greet him.
  • Mei Chu announced that the Fire Ghost Clan was leaving the Fire Clan to join the Battle Heaven Pavilion and that it would no longer have dual cultivation partners.
  • The Nether Flame Tribe and more than ten other sects pledged loyalty to Lin Heng, who welcomed them into the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
  • Banbo’er, patriarch of the Fire Longhorn Beetle Clan, insulted Mei Chu and the Fire Ghost Clan and accused the pavilion of threatening war.
  • Lin Heng instructed Situ Jiannan to handle Banbo’er, and Situ Jiannan accused him of disrespecting a Primordial Realm expert and insulting his fiancée in the pavilion.

Ch. 567Extermination of a Clan

Situ Jiannan ordered Ao Lie and the Zhantian Brigade to exterminate the Fire Longhorn Beetle Clan after Banbo'er insulted Mei Chu and the Fire Ghost Clan. Banbo'er attacked Situ Jiannan but was killed by an unseen force, and Situ Jiannan ended by formally introducing Mei Chu as his fiancée.

  • Situ Jiannan accused Banbo'er of insulting Mei Chu and ordered Ao Lie to lead the Zhantian Brigade in exterminating the Fire Longhorn Beetle Clan.
  • Banbo'er threatened Situ Jiannan, while other Eighth Heaven forces condemned Banbo'er and his clan.
  • Banbo'er transformed into a flaming bull and charged at Situ Jiannan, but an eight-colored cage trapped him and an unseen force killed him.
  • The gathered experts suspected Lin Heng had killed Banbo'er and grew more fearful of him.
  • Situ Jiannan had the disciples clean up and introduced Mei Chu as his fiancée.

Ch. 568The Former Patriarch of the Fire Ghost Clan

Situ Jiannan formally named Mei Chu as his fiancée, while Lin Heng prepared the Battle Heaven Pavilion for his coming absence at the plane passage. The chapter ended with Situ Jiannan revealing that the Fire Clan held Mei Chu’s maternal grandmother, the former patriarch of the Fire Ghost Clan, captive.

  • Situ Jiannan introduced Mei Chu as his fiancée, and Ao Lie returned with three hundred Battle Heaven disciples after wiping out the Fire Longhorn Beetle Clan.
  • Situ Jiannan accepted the weaker sects that returned to join the Battle Heaven Pavilion, explaining that they were under the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
  • Lin Heng told the pavilion’s senior members he would go guard the plane passage and assigned duties to Liu Ling'er, Ao Lie, Sun Yuan, Situ Jiannan, Mei Chu, and his two clones.
  • Liu Ling'er proposed a grand wedding for Situ Jiannan and Mei Chu, and Lin Heng promised to arrange it after he returned.
  • Situ Jiannan told Lin Heng that Mei Chu’s maternal grandmother, the former patriarch of the Fire Ghost Clan, was alive but imprisoned by the Fire Clan.

Ch. 569As Incompatible as Fire and Water

Lin Heng agreed to help Mei Chu rescue her grandmother from the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Origin Fire Prison and approved Situ Jiannan’s plan to strengthen the Battle Heaven Pavilion and seek allies. Ao Zhantian then told Lin Heng he would soon travel to the plane passage, where danger from the imperial clans awaited.

  • Mei Chu told Lin Heng that the Fire Clan was holding her grandmother in the Heavenly Origin Fire Prison in the Third Heaven.
  • Situ Jiannan proposed strengthening the Battle Heaven Pavilion, contacting other races, and capturing an important Fire Clan member to arrange an exchange.
  • Mei Chu suggested using the Water Race’s missing descendant as leverage, and Lin Heng decided to visit the Water Race after returning from the plane passage.
  • Ao Zhantian arrived on the eighth day and explained that pressure from the Eight Great Imperial Clans and instability at the plane passage had forced Lin Heng’s departure sooner than usual.
  • Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng to stay near Sikong Hong, an Asura Demonic Dao expert guarding the passage, and Lin Heng prepared to go despite the danger.

Ch. 570Life and Death Are Decreed by Fate

Ao Zhantian brought Lin Heng to the First Heaven plane passage, where the Eight Great Imperial Clans challenged his right to stay. Lin Heng agreed to a life-or-death duel with Lei Heita, and Ao Zhantian created an independent space for their fight.

  • Ao Zhantian entrusted Lin Heng to Sikong Hong, while Yan He and other experts from the Eight Great Imperial Clans openly mocked and threatened Lin Heng.
  • Ao Zhantian warned Yan He that the Fire Clan would not be able to protect him if Lin Heng came to harm, but Yan He insisted that danger was simply part of the plane passage.
  • Lin Heng challenged the Eight Great Imperial Clans' experts, and Yan He chose Lei Heita, a Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage cultivator, to fight him.
  • Lin Heng refused to summon a clone and declared that the duel should be a fight to the death; Yan He accepted and urged Lei Heita to use his full strength.
  • Ao Zhantian formed an independent space for the duel, while Yan He and Sikong Hong left subordinates behind to watch for a Hunt Clan attack.

Ch. 571Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasures

Lin Heng dominated Lei Heita in their duel inside Ao Zhantian's independent space, dodging hundreds of attacks without moving his feet. Lei Heita withdrew and summoned his Third-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure, a lightning spear, as the battle continued.

  • The ascenders and the Eight Great Imperial Clans separated and cleared a battlefield for Lin Heng and Lei Heita.
  • Lin Heng used Time Acceleration and Time Deceleration to dodge Lei Heita's opening punch and kick him several hundred meters away.
  • Lei Heita launched hundreds of accelerated punches, but Lin Heng avoided them without moving his feet, and Yan He realized Lin Heng was waiting for a chance to kill him.
  • A Lei Clan expert warned Lei Heita to stop wasting time, drawing ridicule from the ascenders and embarrassment from the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
  • Lei Heita ended his assault, summoned a lightning spear that was a Third-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure, and insisted that using it did not break his promise not to use his clone.

Ch. 572Admitting Defeat Already

Lin Heng overcame Lei Heita’s Primordial Chaos World pressure and absorbed his attack with a spatial black hole, despite still being at the Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage. Yan He admitted defeat to save Lei Heita, and Lin Heng left the confrontation intending to cultivate, while Yan He secretly planned to kill him later.

  • Lei Heita attacked Lin Heng with pressure from his Primordial Chaos World and the Fallen Star Spear’s Thunder Star Break.
  • Lin Heng shattered the pressure and absorbed Lei Heita’s attack into a spatial black hole formed from five layers of world power.
  • Yan He examined Lin Heng and confirmed he was still at the Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage, despite using a Primordial Chaos Profound Stage ability.
  • Yan He stopped Lei Heita and admitted defeat, choosing to preserve Lei Heita’s life rather than risk his death.
  • Lin Heng accepted the end of the fight so he could seek a breakthrough, while Yan He privately resolved to have him killed in secret.

Ch. 573We Must Never Let Him Leave Alive

After Lin Heng defeated Lei Heita, the ascenders explained Primordial Realm combat and sent him to cultivate in a time spirit treasure. Yan He concluded that Lin Heng’s talent posed a growing threat and called for the Eight Great Imperial Clans to kill him before he left the plane passage.

  • Lin Heng told Sikong Hong and the other ascenders that continuing to fight Lei Heita could have cost him dearly because he was unfamiliar with Primordial Realm combat.
  • Ao Zhantian and the others recognized that Lin Heng had improvised a spatial black hole during his first encounter with a Primordial Realm opponent, and they explained Primordial Chaos World power, laws, and spirit treasures to him.
  • Sikong Hong arranged for Lin Heng to cultivate in the time spirit treasure while the Eight Great Imperial Clans guarded the plane passage.
  • Lin Heng entered the time spirit treasure to cultivate.
  • Yan He told the Eight Great Imperial Clans that Lin Heng’s ability and future potential made him a threat, and urged them not to let him leave the plane passage alive.

Ch. 574One Wrong Move, and the Whole Game Is Lost

The ancestors of the Fire and Lei Clans plotted to loosen the plane passage seal and use the Hunt Clan to kill Lin Heng without triggering open war. Ao Zhantian learned the danger, but the old man in green chose to let events unfold, confident that Lin Heng’s unusual fate and the interest of his eldest senior brother would protect him.

  • The Fire Clan's ancestor and the Lei Clan's ancestor agreed to exploit the shift change to secretly loosen the plane passage seal and let Hunt Clan experts through after Lin Heng.
  • Ao Zhantian returned to the Heavenly Azure Wave Sea and reported to the old man in green, who warned that the Eight Great Imperial Clans might target Lin Heng through others.
  • Ao Zhantian offered to send Firmament Hall experts to guard the plane passage, but the old man in green told him to wait and see how Lin Heng handled the danger.
  • The old man in green explained that his eldest senior brother had called Lin Heng interesting, suggesting the powerful figure was watching over him.
  • Ao Zhantian accepted the old man's reasoning and promised to act cautiously in the ascenders' contest with the Eight Great Imperial Clans.

Ch. 575Nine Sounds of Gods and Devils

After three months outside and an immense span of cultivation inside the time treasure, Lin Heng emerged with greatly increased power and a First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure. He learned Nine Sounds of Gods and Devils at Lantau Mountain and considered seeking better sign-in rewards near the planar passage.

  • Lin Heng mastered laws including Space Freezing, Space Shattering, Time Stasis, and Spatial Teleportation during his secluded cultivation.
  • Lin Heng assessed his five-layered Primordial Chaos World and concluded that his full strength could rival an Earth Stage expert and let him escape many stronger opponents.
  • Lin Heng took up his spear, Fortress Breaker, whose Soul Devouring and Shattering effects could damage enemies and their weapons.
  • Lin Heng left the time treasure and signed in at Lantau Mountain, receiving Nine Sounds of Gods and Devils.
  • Lin Heng studied the nine-level sound technique and realized he could combine it with Dragon Roar and Tiger Howl.
  • Lin Heng wondered what reward he might receive by signing in closer to the planar passage.
Arc 23 of 46
Arc 23 of 46