In no time, Lin Xiao, along with Zi Ling and the others, returned to the Myriad Phenomena Pavilion’s trading ground.
They were soon settled in a room on the third floor.
Because Lin Xiao had mentioned needing to enter seclusion, Shi Jindou arranged a private room for him.
Naturally, the trading ground was surrounded by the pavilion’s top experts.
Both the Pavilion Master and Vice Pavilion Master were present, ensuring that any attempt to probe would trigger a swift response.
Moreover, no one else knew exactly which room Lin Xiao occupied.
“Since the Sheng family is targeting me so relentlessly, I no longer need to feel guilty about refining the Prosperity Wall!” Lin Xiao’s eyes narrowed as he thought, “Now, I’ll seize this chance to refine the Prosperity Wall again.”
With that, he swallowed the second cloaking pill Zi Ling had given him. Once it took effect, his figure vanished from his own sight.
His quick departure from the crowd wasn’t just to evade threats from various forces; he also planned to take advantage of the moment to refine the Prosperity Wall.
With all the Martial Emperors gone, it was the perfect opportunity to act. Since the Sheng family was set on targeting him, he saw no need to hold back.
With his body cloaked, his aura concealed by the Heavenly Eye, and his prior experience, Lin Xiao was confident that even the vigilant guards of the Myriad Phenomena Pavilion wouldn’t detect him.
He gently opened the window, using his spiritual energy to float out silently.
After closing the window, he cautiously left the trading ground, heading toward the left side of the city gate’s wall.
It didn’t take long for Lin Xiao to reach the wall.
This was the exact spot where the Stone Clan powerhouse had previously refined, leaving a gap of several miles, located on the left side of the city gate.
At this moment, most people were drawn to the right side of the city gate, where a new gap spanning dozens to hundreds of miles had just been created, with countless individuals still investigating.
Moreover, the Prosperity Wall’s anomaly hadn’t yet faded, with beams of light still rising from the beacon towers.
Refining just a small piece of the Prosperity Wall at this gap should go unnoticed.
Standing at the left edge of the gap, Lin Xiao scanned the surroundings. Seeing no one nearby, he sighed inwardly, “With the Martial Emperors drawn away, refining a corner now should be less nerve-wracking.”
With that, he activated his Heaven-Sealing Stone Hand, pressing one hand against the stone wall.
“Sss!” His hand seemed to drink in the wall like a whale, as the high-grade stone essence within the Prosperity Wall turned into a torrent of stone qi, surging wildly into his hand’s sea.
“My hand’s sea is equivalent to a ninth-stage Martial Venerable. This refining should push it to the equivalent of a first-stage Martial Monarch!” Lin Xiao thought.
His ninth-stage Martial Venerable hand’s sea had already defeated Yang Xiu, a fourth-stage Martial Monarch. The power of a Martial Monarch-level hand’s sea would be unimaginable.
But at that moment, something unexpected happened.
Lin Xiao suddenly noticed that the Heavenly Eye, previously undetectable near his dantian, began to stir.
It started moving from near his dantian, swiftly flowing to the back of his right stone arm.
Then, inexplicably, his Heaven-Sealing Stone Hand stopped functioning.
His stone arm abruptly reverted to human flesh.
Next, the Heavenly Eye flowed into his arm, reaching his palm.
“What’s happening?” Lin Xiao was startled.
He had no control over the Heavenly Eye, which was usually impossible to sense.
Since it entered his body, it had only stirred once before, during the refining of the Origin Spirit Pool, when it suddenly absorbed the entire pool.
Now, moving again, it likely meant…
“Sss!” As expected, Lin Xiao felt an endless stream of stone qi surge through his palm into the Heavenly Eye.
The Heavenly Eye vibrated faintly in his palm, as if eagerly devouring the energy, causing his hand to tingle.
Strangely, the surface of the stone wall before him showed no signs of disturbance.
“The Prosperity Wall is disappearing again!”
“Who is it? Who’s refining Prosperity City?”
“Quick, stop them!”…
At that moment, shouts of alarm rang out from the right side of the city gate, dozens to hundreds of miles away.
Though distant, the booming voices of those powerhouses still reached him.
Then, a series of thunderous explosions followed, with massive waves of energy and tremors erupting from afar.
The immense fluctuations and waves spread along the Prosperity Wall’s perimeter.
Clearly, a group had noticed the wall disappearing without a visible culprit and was attacking the vanishing section.
Lin Xiao was horrified. The Prosperity Wall spanned a thousand-mile radius. He was refining at one end, yet the wall was vanishing at the other. Was the Heavenly Eye absorbing stone qi from there as well?
Sure enough, something even more shocking occurred.
Within a dozen breaths, he saw the Prosperity Wall to his left begin to vanish, approaching his position.
The speed grew faster. He glimpsed the distant wall disappearing, and in the blink of an eye, it reached his palm.
The speed was beyond comprehension.
The horn and the towering beams of light also vanished entirely.
The beacon towers had disappeared as well.
Clearly, they had been absorbed by the Heavenly Eye.
At that moment, many were dumbfounded. The vanishing speed was too fast for them to keep up.
Those attacking recklessly were equally stunned, ceasing their strikes.
Lin Xiao stood frozen in shock.
The entire Prosperity Wall, except for the section connected to the city gate on his right and the gap on the right side, had been refined? The wall encircling the thousand-mile Prosperity City was gone?
In other words, nearly the entire Prosperity Wall had been devoured by the Heavenly Eye in his hand, leaving only the city gate’s wall?
Compared to the thousand-mile wall being refined, the earlier gaps of a few miles and dozens to hundreds of miles by the Stone Clan powerhouse were insignificant.
What expression would Sheng Qianyu have upon seeing this, after chasing the Stone Clan powerhouse?
He’d likely be furious enough to spit blood or leap in rage.
But there was no time to think. From all directions, the Sheng family’s roars echoed, resounding through the heavens, as if people at every point were about to explode with anger.
“Run!” Lin Xiao thought immediately.
Though cloaked, if someone got too close and detected him, the consequences would be unthinkable.
He couldn’t withstand the Sheng family’s wrath or that of the countless people present. Even if he escaped by luck, when the Martial Emperors returned, not even the Spear Dragon Sect Leader could protect him.
At the same time, Lin Xiao felt helpless. He had only intended to refine a small piece quietly.
Now, nearly the entire Prosperity Wall was gone, causing an earth-shattering commotion.
And he hadn’t gained any benefit; all the gains had been swallowed by the Heavenly Eye… But as he prepared to leave, a thought struck him. His gaze shifted to the remaining wall connected to the city gate on his right, and he thought, “In for a penny, in for a pound…”
