192: My death is a declaration you cannot understand

Within Ice Crystal Valley, that Void Refining power—originating from nothingness yet transcending it—flowed softly.

Lin Fan held the weightless, delicate body in his arms, his brows locked in a tight frown.

To his touch, he felt only a bone-chilling cold.

It was a deathly stillness where even the Soul began to freeze after the life force had been completely drained away.

His heart was pierced by a sharp pang of pain.

Warm power, mixed with his own life Origin, poured continuously and frantically into Li Hanyue's body through their long-intertwined Soul Covenant.

It wasn't the scorching heat of fire, but a kind of 'warmth of creation' that reignited the concept of life from the very bottom layer of existence.

Under the washing of this power, her Divine Soul, which was on the verge of shattering, was repaired and mended bit by bit.

The horrific cracks on her Immortal Body and those hideous wounds also began to heal slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The newborn skin was even more translucent and crystalline than before.

On Li Hanyue's jade-like face, which had been as pale as paper, a faint trace of color finally returned slowly.

Her long eyelashes trembled slightly.

Slowly, she opened her eyes.

Those cold, beautiful eyes that once burned with brilliant silver-white immortal light were now filled only with endless weakness and exhaustion.

But when she saw Lin Fan's face right before her, filled with heartache and urgency...

A beautiful and reassured smile slowly curled at the corners of her mouth.

This smile made Lin Fan's heart ache even more.

He lowered his head and pressed his lips gently against her cool forehead.

His voice, carrying a trace of uncontrollable trembling and infinite tenderness, whispered in her ear.

“My Dao is complete because of you.”

The sentence was transmitted unreservedly through the Soul Covenant.

Li Hanyue blinked weakly.

Lin Fan's figure was clearly reflected in her eyes as a layer of mist uncontrollably gathered.

Within them was an affection so thick it could not be dispersed.

She could clearly feel Lin Fan's power flowing through her limbs and bones; the feeling was intimate to the extreme, making her whole body feel somewhat soft.

Through the Soul Covenant, she could even feel the unmasked heartache and cherishing within Lin Fan's heart at this moment.

This made her entire heart feel as if it were soaked in warm spring water, both warm and soft.

Just as the atmosphere in Ice Crystal Valley became incomparably warm and quiet...

A sudden change occurred.

That cold, playful 'scrutinizing' gaze from a higher dimension descended.

Buzz—!

The entire world seemed to let out a silent wail.

Laws were retreating.

Space was freezing.

Even time seemed to slow down.

The spiritual energy that had been flowing cheerfully inside Li Hanyue's body instantly became sluggish.

The bit of cultivation she had managed to recover was once again deathly suppressed under this pressure so grand it was beyond comprehension.

It was an absolute crushing force originating from a higher level of life.

The color instantly drained from Li Hanyue's face, revealing unmaskable horror and worry.

However, Lin Fan only held her tighter.

He raised his head, his gaze penetrating through endless space to stare directly at the source of that calamity.

In the center of Burial Immortal Valley.

The massive abyssal crack was no longer calm.

It was silently and slowly expanding toward both sides.

As if the mouth of a giant beast that had slept for billions of years was slowly opening.

This time, what spread out from within was no longer chaotic pollution.

Instead, it was twisted chains of runes shimmering with an inexplicable luster.

Lin Fan didn't recognize a single one of those runes.

But with his Half-step Void Refining Realm, he could instantly discern their essence.

Those were projections of the Law of the Universe.

They were the manifestation of rules from a higher world.

They were spreading out from the depths of the crack like viral tentacles, beginning to forcibly pierce into the Heavenly Dao rules of this world.

To perform an 'anchoring.'

Where they spread, a mountain rock began to digitize without warning, decomposing into countless tiny points of light, and in the next instant, it reorganized into a strange crystal that completely defied the physical rules of this Realm.

A Spiritual Plant not far away had its concept of 'life' forcibly altered; it withered instantly, and from the ashes of its withering, a pitch-black flower composed of pure 'Death Law' bloomed.

Lin Fan's heart sank instantly.

He immediately understood the opponent's goal.

This time, it wasn't devouring.

It wasn't destruction.

Rather, it was to completely 'reconstruct' this Realm.

To format this world from the root of its rules and then install its own System.

To completely incorporate this Realm into its own System.

This was billions of times more terrifying than simple destruction.

An unprecedented weight pressed down on Lin Fan's heart.

He was no longer fighting simply to 'seek death' and farm rewards.

Nor was he simply seeking a Breakthrough to 'become stronger.'

He looked at Li Hanyue in his arms; though her aura had recovered, she was still weak.

On her beautiful face, the paleness from burning everything for him still remained.

He thought of Zhao Linger and Fatty Zhang back in the Qingyun Sect.

He thought of this world, which had only just recovered a trace of vitality from the shadow of the Refining Void Remnant Image.

He knew.

His true mission had arrived.

He could no longer treat himself as a player who could delete his account and start over at any time.

Because the 'save file' of this world now held an inseparable meaning for him.

Through the Soul Covenant, he transmitted an incredibly firm thought to Li Hanyue in his arms.

“Don't be afraid.”

Then, he spoke softly, his voice filled with powerful confidence and tenderness.

“It's going to get a bit 'noisy' next. Close your eyes and trust me.”

Li Hanyue looked at him.

In those deep eyes, she saw a flicker of a frantic flame she had never seen before.

That flame made her heart leap in fear, yet inexplicably, it made her feel incredibly at ease.

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something.

But in the end, she only nodded heavily.

“Mm.”

She knew that this was no longer a battle she could intervene in.

The only thing she could do was trust.

Unconditionally trust the man before her.

Lin Fan gently set her down and laid out the sturdiest protective barrier for her, constructed from his Void Refining power.

Then, he turned around.

Stepping out once.

His figure crossed the distant space and appeared directly before that expanding abyssal crack.

Violent spatial turbulence raged around him, yet it couldn't even flutter the corners of his clothes.

He faced that conceptual darkness capable of devouring everything.

He also faced that cold scrutiny from a higher dimension.

In the distance, those Spirit Transformation Old Monsters who had survived the disaster had their Souls frozen under this pressure; like flies in amber, even their thoughts had almost stopped.

They could only watch with wide eyes.

Watching Lin Fan perform a frantic act that overturned their lifelong understanding.

He did not summon any Magic Treasure.

He did not construct any defense.

He even proactively dispersed his protective spiritual light.

He proactively opened up his Half-step Void Refining Origin.

He opened up his Immortal Soul.

He opened up all his connections with this world.

Before that high-and-mighty 'chess player,' he turned himself into an undefended, naked existence.

And then.

Toward that abyss, toward that grand will...

He revealed a nearly crazed smile, filled with endless provocation.

That cold and indifferent will seemed to experience an imperceptible flicker because of this.

As if in doubt.

What is this ant doing?

Lin Fan gave it no time to think.

His mind sank into his Sea of Consciousness.

That 'Heavenly Dao Fragment' that had completely fused with him during the Void Refining Tribulation was now pushed to its limit by him.

He didn't use it to repair the world.

Nor did he use it to resist the invasion.

He treated it as a lever.

A fulcrum that was about to move the entire world.

And what he wanted to move was that ultimate 'Void' power he had just comprehended, which could define everything.

In the depths of his heart, he issued the most insane command ever to the existence that had accompanied him through countless deaths and rebirths.

“System.”

“Are you ready?”

“Let's put on a display of fireworks that even a god won't understand!”

Boom!

The moment his words fell.

Lin Fan's entire aura began to become extremely unstable.

He didn't choose to self-detonate.

That was too low-level.

He chose a more ultimate, more conceptual method of self-destruction.

He proactively triggered the 'Void' power he had comprehended and began to erase the concept of his 'existence' itself from within.

His body did not explode.

Instead, it began to collapse inward frantically.

Light distorted around him.

Space formed a rapidly spinning vortex centered on him.

Even time seemed to be dragged along, about to be pulled into that patch of absolute 'nothingness.'

His entire being was turning into an energy singularity.

A conceptual black hole with 'self-deletion' as its core.

His target was not the abyss.

Nor was it that 'chess player.'

It was those Law chains that were spreading and attempting to rewrite this world.

You want to use your rules to overwrite my world?

Then.

I will use my 'non-existence' to pollute your 'rules.'

My death will be an ultimate declaration that you will never understand, and can never delete.