The Special World of the Samsara Palace

Lin Hanzhou picked up his teacup, a smile tinged with reminiscence and emotion appearing on his lips.

He took a sip of tea and spoke with a smile.

"Yes, it has indeed been a long time, Huang Xi."

Lin Hanzhou put down his teacup and looked at the renowned empress of the age before him, his eyes showing a hint of familiarity and ease.

"I don't even know how long it's been since we last parted ways in the Tianyuan Realm."

"I never imagined we'd meet again here."

When the Great Emperor Huang Yu—or rather, Huang Xi, who had a past relationship with Lin Hanzhou in the Tianyuan Realm—hearing the long-forgotten name "Huang Xi," her delicate body trembled slightly, and a deep sense of nostalgia appeared in her eyes.

"I never expected that we would meet here."

She looked at Lin Hanzhou, parted her red lips slightly, and whispered a shocking secret in a calm tone that only the two of them could understand.

"As you can see, I am now also a reincarnated being of the Samsara Palace."

After he finished speaking, a brief silence fell over the white jade pavilion.

A gentle breeze swept by, blowing down a few glowing petals from the Imperial Palace's spirit tree, which drifted gracefully onto the stone table between the two.

Lin Hanzhou had already anticipated this, and it could even be said that this was the most reasonable explanation he could deduce.

In the vast and boundless universe, there are countless universes, as numerous as the sands of the Ganges.

This universe, known as "Nine Heavens and Ten Earths," is by no means the ordinary starry sky where powerful beings can freely tear through the void and travel to it.

When Lin Hanzhou transmigrated to this universe, he already knew about the special nature of this universe.

The true nature of these Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is that of a fragment of a celestial realm that fell to the mortal world due to an unknowable calamity countless years ago!

It is precisely because it is tainted by the supreme karma and primordial aura of the Immortal Realm that the world barrier of this universe is so strong as to be outrageous.

Let alone ordinary powerful beings who traverse the stars, even a great emperor born in this world, bearing the mark of the Heavenly Heart, and known for his unparalleled combat power, would find it incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to break through the barriers of this universe from within and transcend it on his own.

Even if, hypothetically, some peerless and amazing emperor were to forcibly break down the barriers of this world, the crack would instantly repair and reassemble itself.

To truly move freely in and out of this universe, or to forcibly break through the boundaries from the outside, one must at least reach the legendary realm of a True Immortal, who transcends all paths!

Only the true immortal laws can disregard the rule rejection of this immortal realm fragment and tear open a stable interdimensional passage.

The Huang Xi before us, though possessing unparalleled talent and ability throughout the ages, even defied the heavens to attain enlightenment in this universe, becoming the Huang Yu Emperor who suppressed the world.

But Lin Hanzhou knew very well that when Huang Xi parted ways with him in the Tianyuan Realm, she was still a long way from the realm of a True Immortal.

She clearly couldn't possibly possess the strength of a true immortal to cross the barriers between the heavens on her own.

Since the possibility of forcibly breaking through the boundary using one's own strength has been ruled out, then in this vast universe, the only great power that Lin Hanzhou knows of that can disregard the barriers of the Immortal Realm fragments and send a living being into this place is the mysterious and unpredictable transcendent force that spans all the heavens and myriad realms and regards countless universes as its testing grounds—the Samsara Palace.

This was also the guess that had already vaguely arisen in his mind when he first sensed that familiar aura in the starry sky.

However, although he knew the other party's channel of arrival, there was one thing that Lin Hanzhou found particularly puzzling.

He put down his empty teacup and gazed intently at Huang Xi before him.

From her exquisitely beautiful eyebrows and eyes to her arrogant and domineering figure, and the unique five-colored Nirvana Divine Fire Law that surrounds her, everything about her is exactly the same as she was back in the Tianyuan Realm, with almost no difference.

This is where it's unreasonable.

As a veteran who has spent many years in the Samsara Palace, Lin Hanzhou is very familiar with the palace's regular reincarnation mechanism.

Normally, reincarnation in the Samsara Palace involves stripping the soul of the reincarnated individual and placing it into the Heavenly Cycle of the target world, where it is reborn through the womb of a native being of that world.

This conventional method of soul reincarnation means that the reincarnated person will have a completely new physical body in the new world. Their appearance, physique, and even innate aptitude will be profoundly influenced by the cause and effect and bloodline of the target world. It is absolutely impossible for them to be exactly the same as their appearance in the real world, let alone perfectly inherit the great laws they control.

"Did you enter this world in your true form?"

Lin Hanzhou didn't hide his doubts and asked directly.

Upon hearing Lin Hanzhou's question, Huang Xi on the other side was slightly taken aback.

A look of obvious surprise and confusion appeared in her eyes, which had been filled with tenderness from the long-awaited reunion.

"Of course."

Huang Xi raised her eyebrows slightly, seemingly very surprised that Lin Hanzhou would ask such a common-sense question, and she asked in return.

"Aren't you the same?"

Before Lin Hanzhou could answer, Huang Xi straightened her expression and spoke slowly with a hint of explanation in her tone.

"This world is not one of those ordinary worlds where souls can be reincarnated."

"In the Samsara Palace's mission list and world database, it is a very famous and extremely dangerous [large-scale battlefield world], codenamed 'Nine Heavens and Ten Earths'."

"According to the official world background description provided by the Samsara Palace, this universe is indeed a huge fragment left behind after the collapse of a certain supreme immortal realm in the ancient era."

"For this reason, it is said that this world contains unparalleled opportunities and remnants of immortal substances that can enable one to ascend to immortality and transcend the cycle of reincarnation."

At this point, a fiery light flashed in Huang Xi's usually cold eyes as she looked at Lin Hanzhou and continued speaking.

"After learning about the situation in this world and the elusive opportunity to become an immortal, I did not hesitate to apply to enter."

"I also thought I'd come in and take a look, get some experience, and see if I could find a chance to become an immortal in this cruel starry sky."

"I never expected to run into you here."

Hearing Huang Xi's candid words, Lin Hanzhou remained outwardly calm, but deep emotions were stirring within his profound eyes.

A thoughtful expression slowly appeared on his face, and his fingers unconsciously tapped lightly on the jade tabletop.

"So that's how it is... a large-scale battlefield world..."

Lin Hanzhou silently pondered this word that felt both familiar and strange to him.