174: Immortal Burial Secret Realm: Guardian Awakening and Comprehensive Improvement

That roar was not merely a sound wave.

It was a declaration at the Law level.

Under that sound, the violent and chaotic energy flow in the core area of the entire Burial Immortal Valley actually froze for a moment.

It was as if a runaway machine had its pause button pressed.

The next instant, in the deepest part of the valley, the dense immortal light mist that even Lin Fan couldn't see through began to churn violently, parting to both sides.

A blurry figure, so massive that it was difficult to describe with words, slowly, step by step, emerged from that mist.

It had no fixed form.

At times, it resembled a primeval giant beast reaching the sky, and at other times, it twisted into an indescribable geometric shape woven from light, shadow, and darkness.

Its very existence was a pollution to vision and Divine Sense.

Merely "seeing" it made True Person Jueying and the other Spirit Transformation Old Monster in the distance feel their Dao Heart being torn apart and their cognition being overturned.

A terrifying aura, far surpassing the Soul Transformation Peak, and even touching the threshold of Mahayana, pressed down like billions of divine mountains.

"What... what is that thing?"

A Late Stage Demonic Path magnate of the Soul Transformation Stage asked, his voice trembling uncontrollably.

True Person Jueying's face could no longer be described as pale; it was a despair like dead ash.

His cultivation at the Soul Transformation Peak, which he prided himself on, was as tiny as dust before this figure.

The calculations he had just made, those overt schemes to profit from others' struggles, were crushed into powder at this moment.

Greed was completely replaced by the purest fear, originating from the instinct of life.

Run.

They must escape from here immediately.

This was the only thought in the minds of all the Spirit Transformation Old Monster.

They no longer dared to harbor any covetous desires, and one after another, they burned their magic power, preparing to retreat out of the valley at all costs.

However, Lin Fan's reaction was completely opposite to theirs.

In the center of that destructive storm, his "body," reconstructed from energy, not only did not retreat but "raised its head," locking onto the emerging figure with a "gaze" that was almost greedy and fervent.

It's here.

Finally, it's here.

The wild monsters in the novice village were cleared; the final BOSS hidden in the deepest part of the dungeon finally made its appearance.

This was the ultimate experience package that could drop top-tier divine equipment.

There was no fear in his Divine Soul.

There was only the extreme thrill, mixed with excitement and madness, that a player feels upon seeing a World BOSS refresh.

He wanted to "disassemble" this BOSS in the most direct, brutal, and efficient way.

He wanted to force it to reveal all its attack patterns, all its skills, and all its weaknesses.

Without the slightest hesitation.

Lin Fan's figure, aided by a surge of energy turbulence, shot straight towards the massive Guardian Creature like an arrow released from a bowstring.

This scene made True Person Jueying and the others, who were preparing to flee in the distance, suddenly freeze.

Crazy.

This strange thing was completely insane.

Facing an existence that made their Dao Heart almost tear apart just by looking at it, it actually dared to actively provoke it.

The Guardian Creature also seemed to be "angered" by Lin Fan's ant-like actions.

From its twisted body, a blurry tentacle extended, seemingly slow but in reality ignoring spatial distance, lightly pointing towards Lin Fan.

There was no earth-shattering momentum.

No world-destroying energy fluctuations.

Wherever that tentacle passed, time, space, Law, all tangible and intangible concepts, silently annihilated, returning to the most primitive "nothingness."

Lin Fan's body, just before the tentacle touched him, was directly enveloped by that "annihilation" Domain.

He didn't even feel pain.

Because even the concept of "pain," along with the Divine Soul that carried it, was instantly and completely vaporized, completely erased from this world.

This was the most thorough and cleanest "death" he had experienced since entering the Burial Immortal Valley.

"Warning! Warning! Host has encountered a trans-boundary Law strike! Divine Soul Origin has suffered destructive impact!"

"Divine Soul integrity instantly returned to zero!"

"Activating highest authority..."

The System's alarm sounded with unprecedented sharpness.

Lin Fan's consciousness plunged into a terrifying void and silence, even more dreadful than a Heart Demon illusion.

Here, he couldn't feel himself, nor could he feel the outside world.

It was as if his very "existence" had been completely cleared.

The infinite resurrection mechanism seemed to have encountered a problem it couldn't immediately respond to for the first time.

Just as this eternal silence was about to completely assimilate his last trace of consciousness imprint.

A wisp of extremely faint, yet incredibly familiar, icy sharpness suddenly came from the end of the void, lightly touching his fading consciousness core.

It was Li Hanyue.

That sharpness carried the unique coolness and tenacity of her Dao Heart.

Far outside the forbidden zone, she might not have known exactly what happened, but the moment Lin Fan was erased, the Divine Soul connection of their Dao Companion alliance almost completely broke.

That extreme "emptiness" originating from the end of the Divine Soul connection shattered her spirit.

Subconsciously, she condensed all her will, all her worries, all her beliefs into a pure Sword Intent, which, against the connection, slashed towards that unknown abyss.

She didn't know if it would work.

She only knew that she couldn't let him just disappear like that.

This wisp of Sword Intent was negligible compared to the terrifying annihilation Law of the Guardian Creature.

But for Lin Fan, who was about to sink, it was like a lighthouse suddenly lit up in an endless ocean.

Within that icy sharpness, there seemed to be a hint of scorching anxiety and worry that she herself hadn't even noticed.

The interweaving of ice and fire caused a ripple to reappear in his silent consciousness.

"I... I'm not completely dead yet."

This ripple instantly transformed into a towering wave.

"Highest authority activated successfully! Consuming massive soul energy to reshape Divine Soul Origin!"

"Infinite Resurrection!"

Golden light finally glowed with difficulty in this void.

Lin Fan's figure condensed again in another area.

His "face" was paler than ever, and his Divine Soul Origin was still turbulent, as if he had just survived a spiritual dismemberment at the Divine Soul level.

"After dying from 'Final Annihilation', reward settlement is in progress..."

"Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the super rare ability: Final Law Analysis (Elementary)!"

"Congratulations, Host, your Indestructible Physique has achieved a Breakthrough under extreme pressure, and your resistance to Law-based attacks has greatly increased!"

"Congratulations, Host, your Dao Heart has been tempered on the brink of life and death, and your Indestructible Dao Rhyme is more condensed!"

A series of System prompts instantly pulled Lin Fan out of that feeling of weakness, and his eyes became incredibly bright again.

It was worth it.

This death brought huge gains.

He immediately activated the newly acquired "Final Law Analysis" ability and once again "looked" at the Guardian Creature's attack.

This time, what he saw was completely different.

It was no longer a blurry tentacle, but a whip of Law, formed by countless extremely intricate golden runes representing "order" and black runes representing "Chaos," intertwined and interwoven in a perfectly eerie proportion.

So that's how it is.

Its attack was not merely Chaos and destruction.

Instead, it was the "final" power produced by the perfect Fusion of order and Chaos, two completely opposite forces.

The appearance of the Guardian Creature also seemed to have completely activated the curse of the Burial Immortal Valley.

A curse power, a hundred times denser than before, instantly enveloped the entire valley.

The Spirit Transformation Old Monster in the distance felt their minds sink, their magic power circulation became sluggish, and an invisible sense of restraint pressed down on them, almost suffocating them.

But when this power brushed past Lin Fan's body, it was like a spring breeze passing through.

His "Curse Resistance," which had already been maxed out, made the impact he suffered negligible.

"Again."

A silent roar erupted from the depths of Lin Fan's Divine Soul.

Like a completely addicted gambler, or a madman obsessed with solving puzzles, he once again actively rushed towards the Guardian Creature.

He no longer dodged.

He wanted to use his body to withstand, to experience, to collect every attack pattern of the Guardian Creature.

"Pfft."

This time, the Guardian Creature did not extend a tentacle; a fissure opened on its blurry body, and a gray beam of light shot out, turning Lin Fan into dust on the spot.

"Detected killed by 'Chaos Ray', death method: Law Disintegration."

"Final Law Analysis experience +10."

Resurrection.

"Boom."

The Guardian Creature stomped its foot, and the space beneath its foot shattered layer by layer; Lin Fan was swept into the spatial turbulence, and his Divine Soul was torn into fragments.

"Detected killed by 'Dimensional Stomp', death method: Spatial Tear."

"Final Law Analysis experience +10."

Resurrection.

Charge again.

Die again.

Resurrection... Lin Fan entered a crazy "sacrificial" monster-grinding cycle.

He actively sought death again and again.

Using each of his annihilations to exchange for a line of precious System data.

This abnormal, cognition-defying, insane behavior left the few Spirit Transformation Old Monster who were already preparing to flee in the distance completely dumbfounded.

They stopped in their tracks, their faces filled with incomprehensible shock and stupefaction.

"He... he's alive again?"

"What exactly is this thing? Why... why can't it be killed?"

In True Person Jueying's eyes, that ash-like fear gradually replaced by a more intense, complex emotion mixed with greed and surprise.

He began to realize that his previous conjectures might all be wrong.

This thing was by no means a simple resurrection secret art.

No resurrection secret art could be effective under that "Final Annihilation" attack.

Unless... unless its form of existence had already transcended the category of "living beings."

It might be some forbidden existence, originating from the same source as this Burial Immortal Valley, or even the immortal realm fragment.

It was a living Secret Treasure left behind by the Immortal Realm.

This thought made True Person Jueying's heart pound uncontrollably.

His interest in Lin Fan instantly rose to an unprecedented level.

And in this crazy suicide attack, Lin Fan was not only gaining at the Divine Soul level.

Every time he resurrected, he reshaped his Physical Body at the intersection of the Immortal Realm Origin and the Final Law.

This was like using the highest Rank Immortal Origin as Materials and the most terrifying destructive power as a hammer, undergoing extreme forging again and again.

His Physical Body, in the process of being torn apart and reassembled repeatedly, became tougher and purer.

He could feel that his "Indestructible Physique" was quietly transforming towards a new level that he could not comprehend.

After another death and resurrection, Lin Fan's "gaze" pierced through layers of energy mist, firmly fixating on the core of the Law whip when the Guardian Creature attacked.

He had discovered it.

Deep within that perfect interweaving of order and Chaos, something more essential and completely different seemed to be hidden.

It was an ultimate mystery that he would need hundreds, or even thousands, of deaths to truly touch and understand.