The Innkeeper

The Gon in front Lex was taller than him, its bulky frame covered in metallic spikes instead of hair towering above him like a behemoth. This close, the suppression almost like there was a snake wrapped around his body, constricting him, choking him. His lungs refused to pull in air, and a cold chill traveled down his spine reminding him of a time when he used to feel fear.

Amidst the chaos of battle, surrounded by locusts, Gon and the mercenaries, Lex stood still and continued to look at the member of the Gon race in front of him, and wondered if that’s all there was to it.

"Is that it?" Lex asked, his gentle yet curious voice spreading through the cacophony of the surrounding battle. "Is that all you can muster after being so superior?"

Lex was genuinely unimpressed. To be fair, the suppression that Grimshaw had on Jack was far superior to what Lex was feeling now, and even that had not stopped Jack, so for this to stop Lex was totally unimaginable.

The Gon looked down at Lex, a savage brutality in its eyes, yet it neither spoke, nor did it move to attack Lex in any way. That is because... it simply couldn’t. Lex could have a physical body, he could turn entirely into a soul, and he could turn into thought as well.

In reality, while it appeared that Lex stood in front of the creature, that was just a projection. Lex had dismantled its defenses and entered inside its mind. It should not have been this easy, it really shouldn’t have. They were an entire realm apart, so even if Lex could win, it should have been a struggle. Yet it wasn’t.

Lex’s cultivation technique was finally beginning to show just how overpowered it was. Unlike Regal Embrace, which had obvious results in the form of giving him an unbreakable defense, his new cultivation technique seemed too unfocused, and too spread out. In truth, whatever it did, it just kept building Lex’s foundation, strengthening him from the very base, right up until he had reached an unbelievable level.

Lex’s physical strength was already stronger than a normal Heaven Immortals in the lower levels. What truly kept him weaker than them was his inability to interact with Relational laws.

However, after two decades of meditation and cultivation, as well as the strengthening feedback from resisting entering into the next realm, Lex had entered a realm of power which made it entirely unfair to consider him a normal Earth Immortal.