233: In the small world of Vientiane, die first at the beginning.

The tearing sensation of weightlessness vanished abruptly.

Lin Fan's feet landed on soft, decaying fallen leaves, emitting a faint, muffled sound.

The surrounding light was dim.

The air was thick with the scent of rotting vegetation, mixed with a violent and primal Spiritual Qi; inhaling a single breath made his Meridians feel a slight sting.

This was an endless primeval dense forest.

Every ancient tree was unimaginably huge, their canopies blotting out the sky, and their gnarled roots coiled on the ground like giant pythons.

What was most unsettling was that the dark canopy above would often split open without warning, revealing a pitch-black gap.

That was a spatial rift.

Silent and soundless, yet exuding a terrifying aura that devoured all things, like guillotines hanging over the heads of every living creature.

"A good place."

Lin Fan whispered, quickly suppressing his aura, his entire being seemingly merging into the shadows.

This place, known as the "Myriad Realms Small World", had chaotic Law and was riddled with danger.

To others, this was a desperate situation.

But to him, it was the perfect stage.

Every danger here was a potential treasure chest of rewards.

With a slight movement of his mind, he felt the nascent, cold, and domineering Nether Bloodline Power within his body.

This power was strong and possessed the characteristic of eroding all things.

But at the same time, it was also a signal.

That guy named Blood Shadow would certainly be able to sense this same-source power.

Before figuring out the details of this world, this trump card could not be easily exposed.

He carefully crept under the shadows of a giant tree, his Divine Sense spreading out like liquid mercury, vigilantly scouting everything around him.

Suddenly, his footsteps paused.

A strong sense of crisis came from the front left.

It was a pure, ferocious aura originating from a predator at the top of the food chain.

Lin Fan narrowed his eyes, his body pressed against the tree trunk as he looked in that direction.

In a clearing a hundred meters away, a giant tiger the size of a small hill, its body covered in black and white demonic markings, was lying there feigning sleep.

Every breath it took caused the surrounding space to distort slightly.

In front of it, a half-meter-long spatial rift, like a docile pet, flickered in and out of existence with its breathing.

Void-Rending Demon Tiger.

A primordial variant that fed on spatial power, possessing the strength of the Refining Void Realm upon adulthood.

And the one before him, with its vigorous aura, had clearly reached the peak of the Void Refining Late Stage.

Lin Fan's heart remained calm, or rather, he began to feel a bit excited.

A perfect test subject.

He had just acquired the new ability "Dao Foundation Contamination" and was worried about having no place to test its quality.

Going head-to-head, he was definitely no match for this Demon Tiger.

But he hadn't intended to go head-to-head anyway.

Lin Fan's figure was like a phantom, silently circling around from the other side, picking up a stone and throwing it forcefully in the direction of the Demon Tiger.

The stone cut through the air, accurately striking the eyelid of the Void-Rending Demon Tiger.

"Roar!"

A deafening tiger roar instantly exploded.

A terrifying sonic storm swept out, causing the surrounding giant trees to shake wildly, scattering fallen leaves everywhere.

The Void-Rending Demon Tiger snapped its eyes open, its golden vertical pupils filled with the rage of being disturbed.

It instantly locked onto Lin Fan's position.

The next moment, its figure disappeared from where it stood.

Lin Fan's scalp tingled intensely.

He did not hesitate to employ his movement technique, dodging to the side to the absolute limit.

"Sshhh."

A pitch-black claw mark flashed across the spot where he had just been standing, and even the ancient tree, which would require dozens of people to encircle, was silently sliced into two.

"Such fast speed."

Lin Fan's figure appeared dozens of meters away, inwardly assessing the situation.

This beast's attack actually tore through space directly.

The Void-Rending Demon Tiger, having missed its strike, became even more manic; it roared and transformed into a blurred black shadow, pouncing over again.

Lin Fan did not retreat, but advanced instead.

He chose not to run, but instead started playing hide-and-seek with the Demon Tiger within this area.

His movement technique was agile and eerie, always able to dodge fatal attacks by a hair's breadth at the critical moment.

For a time, beast roars echoed continuously in the forest, and the sound of space being torn apart was incessant.

Large swathes of forest were destroyed, and the ground was covered in crisscrossing, pitch-black claw marks.

"Idiot, come and chase me."

"Is that all you've got? It's not even enough to scratch your grandfather's itch."

While dodging, Lin Fan did not forget to use words to provoke it frantically.

The Void-Rending Demon Tiger's intelligence was not low; it could understand such mockery.

Its eyes had turned blood-red, and it had completely fallen into a berserk state, its attacks becoming increasingly reckless, seeking only to tear this damned human before it to shreds.

"That's it."

A sharp glint flashed in Lin Fan's eyes.

After narrowly dodging another claw strike, he intentionally revealed a flaw, letting the Demon Tiger's claw wind leave a shallow bloodstain on his arm.

A drop of crimson blood, laced with a trace of eerie black Qi, dripped from the wound.

Lin Fan flicked his finger.

This drop of blood was silently flicked onto the wound on the tiger's paw pad, which had been cut by gravel when it slapped the ground just moments before.

The entire process was as fast as lightning and extremely covert.

After doing all this, Lin Fan immediately retreated explosively, putting distance between them.

The Void-Rending Demon Tiger initially paid no attention to that insignificant wound.

But soon, it felt that something was wrong.

A cold, eerie, and incomprehensible power was frantically surging into its Meridians from its wound.

The vast and immense demonic power within its body, as if encountering a nemesis, began to become chaotic and berserk.

Its Meridians sent waves of excruciating pain from being corroded.

"Roar?"

The Void-Rending Demon Tiger let out a low, pained, and confused roar.

Its movements began to slow, and the aura of space-tearing on its body became extremely unstable.

"What's wrong? Didn't you eat?"

"Come on, continue."

Lin Fan's voice came again, filled with undisguised mockery.

He seized the opportunity and stuck close to it again, constantly jumping back and forth around the Demon Tiger, stimulating it in various ways.

The Void-Rending Demon Tiger was completely enraged.

It abandoned all technique and gathered all the out-of-control power in its body onto its single horn.

"Hum."

A point of extreme black light condensed on the horn on its forehead.

That was it compressing its spatial power to the extreme, preparing to unleash its innate Divine Ability, a fatal strike.

But at this very moment, the power of contamination within its body completely erupted.

"Pfft."

The Void-Rending Demon Tiger spat out a mouthful of black blood, and the power condensed on its horn instantly went out of control.

The space beneath its feet shattered with a roar.

A huge, irregular spatial rift, like the gaping maw of an abyss, suddenly appeared.

The Void-Rending Demon Tiger's massive body, in a state of rage and loss of control over its power, could not stabilize itself at all, and it plunged headfirst into that rift.

Before it died, its blood-red beast pupils were filled with unwillingness and despair.

It did not understand why it would die like this.

But just as half of the Void-Rending Demon Tiger's body was swallowed by the rift, its out-of-control Divine Ability power also transformed into a destructive black beam, shooting explosively toward Lin Fan's direction.

This final, desperate counterattack was extremely fast, and its power was terrifyingly unparalleled.

Lin Fan stood in place, a smile of "plan successful" on his face, not dodging at all.

"Boom."

His body was instantly struck by that black beam, directly annihilated into the most basic particles.

【Ding!】

【Host won with wit, used a borrowed knife to kill, and successfully utilized the newly acquired ability and environmental factors to kill a Void Refining Late Stage powerful enemy without injury!】

【Method of death: Killed by the out-of-control Void-Rending Demon Tiger's final counterattack, the process was highly dramatic and spectacular!】

【Comprehensive evaluation: B+!】

【Congratulations to the Host, received reward: Spatial affinity slightly increased, "Void-Rending Claw" skill book x1!】

A light flashed.

Lin Fan respawned at a safe anchor point a hundred meters away, completely unharmed.

He felt the information added to his mind, as well as his body's keener perception of the surrounding space, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Insidious and domineering, it's truly too insidious and domineering."

"This 'Dao Foundation Contamination' is simply a divine skill essential for home, travel, and backstabbing people."

Having finished testing the new ability, it was time to collect the loot.

Lin Fan arrived at the Void-Rending Demon Tiger's lair, a huge cave carved out by spatial power.

The cave was empty, except for an unknown animal hide spread on the beast bed in the deepest part.

The animal hide looked very ancient, and some broken lines and markings were drawn on it with a primitive script.

"A map?"

Lin Fan picked up the animal hide and examined it carefully.

He couldn't understand the text on it, but from the direction of those lines, he could barely recognize that this was a map.

The end of the map was marked with a blood-colored skull.

Next to it, three twisted characters were written.

Lin Fan subconsciously mobilized a trace of Nether Bloodline Power and injected it into his eyes.

The map in his field of vision instantly became clear.

The three characters also seemed to come alive, turning into information that flowed into his mind.

"Burial God Valley."

And at the same time he used the Nether Bloodline.

Lin Fan's movements suddenly stiffened.

He felt a faint, extremely weak response of same-source power coming from a very distant direction.

"Blood Shadow."

He was indeed in this Small World too.

And, that direction...

Lin Fan looked down at the animal hide map and matched the direction from which the sensation came with the markings on the map.

It was surprisingly consistent.

They were going to the same place.

"Burial God Valley."