187: Rules Analysis: The Secret of Resurrection

Lin Fan raised his hands, forming a slow yet incredibly strange seal in front of his chest.

That wasn't mobilizing spiritual power.

Nor was it outlining Laws.

Instead, it was defining a space of "emptiness."

The space in front of him didn't tear or twist; instead, it collapsed inward with a more fundamental logic.

A pure, conceptual "void" appeared in his palm.

This was not any known Divine Ability.

This was a technique unique to him, forcibly comprehended and temporarily created based on his first death experience.

Hand of Nothingness.

He wanted to use the "Nothingness" he created to touch the "Chaos" of that Remnant Shadow.

He wanted to proactively provoke it, forcing the opponent to reveal more of the operational logic of "erasure."

The invisible hand, formed by the "void," silently reached towards the massive Refining Void Remnant Shadow above the altar.

It didn't stir any energy fluctuations.

It didn't even attract anyone's attention.

But the moment it appeared, the Chaos Qi around the Refining Void Remnant Shadow, which had been indifferently still, suddenly contracted inward, and then, boomed as it expanded.

Not a counterattack.

It was a devour.

The void, representing "Nothingness," couldn't even maintain a momentary stalemate in front of the more Advanced, more overbearing "Chaos" before being completely submerged and assimilated.

Immediately after.

The expanding Chaos swallowed Lin Fan whole, along with a hundred zhang of space around him.

Lin Fan's figure disappeared again.

This time, he didn't even show the process of being "erased."

He was simply covered by a chaotic nothingness.

His existence, along with his recent provocation, was forcibly "rewritten" into non-existence by a higher-level power.

But this time.

Lin Fan was no longer completely passively enduring.

In the last instant before being devoured, he pushed all his Immortal Soul perception to the extreme.

Like the most daring explorer, he voluntarily leaped into an unknown abyss, only to see every inch of the abyss's rock walls during the fall.

He captured it.

He clearly captured the essence of that power.

It was an unreasonable "reverse tampering" with rules.

You create "Nothingness."

It defines the concept of "Nothingness" itself as part of "Chaos."

You try to "exist."

It tampers with the foundation of "existence" to "require attachment to Chaos."

This was an almost unsolvable, dimensionality reduction strike belonging to a higher-dimensional existence... Ice Crystal Valley.

Li Hanyue's heart, which had just settled back into place due to Lin Fan's revival, was now suddenly clenched tight.

The other end of the Soul Alliance once again fell into that "blankness" that made her Divine Soul ache.

But this time, she was not consumed by fear and sorrow.

Because Lin Fan's enlightenment, the trace of the mystery of "rule tampering" he finally captured, had been completely shared with her through the alliance.

She understood Lin Fan's intention.

She also anticipated the characteristics of this "death."

Her will, at this moment, became incredibly calm and precise.

She no longer, like last time, used all her strength to impact that nothingness.

She gathered all the purification and protection power within the "Order Domain" she had built with Lin Fan.

In the depths of her Divine Soul, a flawless ice crystal, exuding an absolute zero aura, slowly formed.

Upon that ice crystal, her entire understanding of the word "protection" was imprinted.

It also carried her unquestioning, absolute trust in Lin Fan.

"Go."

Li Hanyue's mind stirred.

This pure Order ice crystal, without the slightest hesitation, precisely entered the original point where Lin Fan's consciousness had last dissipated, following the already "blank" alliance channel.

It didn't go to resist that Chaos.

It merely, at the center of the Chaos, opened up a tiny, almost non-existent, absolutely pure Domain.

What it protected was not Lin Fan's life.

But the incredibly precious "trophy" he had just obtained in that crazy death expedition.

That latest enlightenment regarding the core logic of the Refining Void Remnant Shadow... In the deep darkness of consciousness, it was even more profound and chaotic than last time.

Lin Fan's last trace of Origin imprint was being fundamentally contaminated and assimilated by the power of "tampering."

However.

Just before he was about to completely merge into Chaos.

The light of the Heavenly Dao fragment lit up again.

Immediately after.

A cold yet familiar power descended precisely.

That Order ice crystal, in the core of his rapidly dissipating consciousness, released its purest protective power.

Like a safe, it firmly locked away the enlightenment Lin Fan had just risked his life for, isolating it from the contamination of Chaos.

The Heavenly Dao fragment provided the "rules" for revival.

The Order ice crystal protected the "core" of the revival.

The mechanism of the "Seeking Death" System was triggered again.

"Buzz—"

Revival, once again, began savagely at the center of Chaos.

This time, the reconstruction was not starting from scratch.

Instead, it was a targeted "reverse compilation" carried out with the perfectly preserved "enlightenment."

Lin Fan's consciousness, during the reconstruction process, was clearer than ever before.

He was like the most brilliant hacker, having personally experienced all the logic of a firewall, now writing a "backdoor" for himself that could perfectly bypass it.

Burial Immortal Valley.

At the center of the chaotic nothingness that had swallowed Lin Fan.

Space began to flicker with subtle, imperceptible Law light.

Within the light, a figure, once again, rapidly coalesced from nothingness.

Flesh and blood regenerated.

Immortal Soul reconstructed.

Lin Fan's figure, for the third time, appeared in everyone's line of sight.

He landed safely back on the ground, unharmed.

He didn't even show the slightest irregularity in his breathing.

He just stood there quietly, a subtle, Law-level halo shimmering around his body.

That halo was incompatible with the Chaos Qi of the Refining Void Remnant Shadow.

Yet, it carried a faint, homologous sense of mastery over rules.

Above the altar.

The massive Refining Void Remnant Shadow, for the first time, showed a visible stagnation.

The speed of the surging Chaos Qi around it slowed for an instant.

In its indifferent, hollow "eyes" that overlooked all things.

The ripple of "confusion" became even more apparent.

If the first revival was an "accident" it couldn't comprehend.

Then this second, unharmed revival, with even a subtle improvement in its aura.

Had already touched the blind spot of its inherent "rule cognition" as a higher-level existence.

A supreme program encountered a strange "file" that could not be deleted or formatted.

Its power instinctively began to increase its output.

The pressure of the entire Burial Immortal Valley suddenly increased severalfold.

The degree of spatial distortion became even more violent.

The sky was rendered a pure gray.

The earth dissolved, turning into flowing chaotic magma.

"Ah—!"

Finally, a Transformation God Ancestor could no longer bear this triple suppression from the mind to the body, and then to the Law level.

A withered old monk from the Western Desert, his Golden Body Dharma Aspect, instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

The last divine light in his eyes was completely swallowed by despair.

He did not choose to make a futile attack like that Old Ancestor from the Eastern Desolate.

He chose to end it.

"Buddha is merciful..."

He murmured, and his Golden Body Dharma Aspect exploded with a boom.

That terrifying energy, enough to destroy a giant city, failed to stir even a decent ripple in this space contaminated by Chaos.

The energy, at the moment of explosion, was assimilated and absorbed by that supreme power.

Becoming another nutrient to nourish that Remnant Shadow.

Seeing this scene, the last trace of hope in the hearts of the remaining Spirit Transformation Old Monster was completely extinguished.

Even death had no meaning.

And Lin Fan's existence formed the most dazzling, most extreme contrast with their despair.

He was like a madman leisurely strolling amidst an apocalyptic catastrophe.

Every time he was swallowed by the catastrophe, he would emerge unharmed again.

Even the expression on his face became increasingly relaxed.

The Spirit Transformation Old Monster looked at Lin Fan with eyes that had changed from initial shock and incomprehension to a deep unknown, mixed with awe and fear.

This man.

This man named Lin Fan.

What kind of monster was he, exactly?

Lin Fan didn't pay attention to the "background characters" who were about to collapse.

He bent down, panting softly, wiping away the cold sweat on his forehead that had appeared from extreme thinking.

When he straightened up again, a terrifying light shone in his eyes.

He won.

He won this second gamble.

An unprecedented enlightenment exploded in his sea of consciousness.

He caught a glimpse of the essence of that Refining Void Remnant Shadow.

Its power originated from the "tampering" of rules.

But its "tampering" was not created out of thin air.

Rather, it was a kind of instinctive repulsion and contamination based on its own nature as a "suppressed entity."

It was using its own "Dao" to contaminate the "Dao" of this world.

And in every extreme "erasure," it would inadvertently expose the aura of its suppressed, most core "scar."

That was the source of its power, and also its most fundamental, tiny "rule loophole."

The Supreme Origin Dao Unraveling within Lin Fan's body, after absorbing this trace of enlightenment, operated even more smoothly.

He even felt that his defense against this "conceptual" attack had greatly improved.

He raised his head, looking at the massive Remnant Shadow again.

This time, he could "see" more things.

He could clearly see that beneath the ethereal shell of the Remnant Shadow, countless tiny, constantly self-repairing yet constantly fracturing Law cracks were spread.

That was its wound.

Lin Fan's mind, at the first moment, sank into the Soul Alliance.

This time, he didn't just transmit information.

He unreservedly opened up to Li Hanyue, like baring his Soul, all his recent death experiences, the analysis of the "rule loophole," and the images of the "Law cracks" he saw in his eyes.

This was no longer a simple sharing.

Instead, it was a deep Fusion of consciousness with consciousness, without reservation.

In Ice Crystal Valley.

Li Hanyue's delicate body trembled violently.

A massive torrent of information, far exceeding all her cognition, even beyond the limits of her understanding of the "Dao," surged into her Divine Soul.

She "saw" everything Lin Fan saw.

She "experienced" the thrilling death analysis Lin Fan had gone through.

She even "felt" Lin Fan's extreme excitement and tremor in that instant when he dissected the "rule loophole."

Their consciousness had never been so tightly intertwined.

The "Order Domain" they had jointly forged began to undergo a qualitative change under this deep Fusion.

It was no longer merely a defensive "Divine Armor."

It began to become tougher and more agile.

Within the Domain, Lin Fan's Supreme Origin Dao Unraveling power and her Mystic Ice Art Origin were no longer simply Yin and Yang complementing each other.

Instead, a new will, belonging to both of them, began to flow.

That was the unique crystallization born after merging Lin Fan's "seeking death" courage with her "protective" resolve.

An unspeakable warm current, mixed with heartache, pride, and burning love, washed over Li Hanyue's heart, which had been frozen for a thousand years.

Her clear, autumn-water bright eyes, at some point, had been completely covered by a hazy mist.

Her Divine Soul even trembled slightly due to this extreme emotional resonance.

"I... understand."

Her voice, for the first time, actively, with an irrepressible tenderness, echoed in their shared will Domain.

"We can utilize that 'scar.'"

"Yes."

Lin Fan's will, with a reassuring power, responded to her.

"It only 'tampers' and 'contaminates.'"

"Then we will give it a target it most wants to contaminate, yet can never completely contaminate."

An even bolder, crazier plan instantly took shape under their shared will.

They no longer needed to passively endure "erasure."

They would take the initiative to attack.

They would turn Lin Fan's next "death" into a purposeful, precise "sacrifice."

They would use Lin Fan's life as bait.

To fish for the "instinct" of that Refining Void Remnant Shadow.

Thereby, dragging this seemingly invincible Remnant Shadow into the rule trap they had set.

Lin Fan slowly opened his eyes, withdrawing from that deep Soul Fusion.

He could feel that Li Hanyue's will was firmer than ever before.

And his own Battle Intent had burned to its peak.

He took a deep breath and soared into the sky again.

But this time, he didn't rush towards the Refining Void Remnant Shadow.

His gaze bypassed the massive figure, falling upon the abyss crack behind it, which was constantly spewing out Chaos Qi.

That was where it came from.

And it was the source of its power.

Lin Fan's chest began to rise and fall slightly.

A new power, mixed with his Supreme Origin Dao Unraveling power and Li Hanyue's Mystic Ice protection power, brewed in his throat.

Immediately after.

He let out a low, yet incomparably penetrating roar towards the dark crack.

"Roar—!"

This roar did not contain any sound wave attack.

What it contained was a special Law fluctuation, jointly compiled by Lin Fan and Li Hanyue.

That fluctuation passed through layers of space.

Precisely, it produced a faint resonance with the deepest, ancient "scars" on the Refining Void Remnant Shadow.