249: The Wrath of the Netherworld, the Counterattack on the Immortals

The Communication Talisman in Lin Fan's hand turned into flying ash.

That shrill roar, along with those blinding blood-colored flames, continued to burn in his mind and echo within his Sea of Consciousness.

The Qingyun Sect is about to be gone... Everyone related to him is going to die... Brother Lin, save us!

The Soul-deep sense of security that had just been brought about by establishing an Absolute Safety Anchor was torn to shreds in an instant.

Replacing it was a coldness sufficient to freeze the stars.

A killing intent so pure it reached the extreme, like a volcano that had been dormant for ten thousand years, erupted violently from within Lin Fan's body.

Boom!

With him as the center, the entire Mustard Seed World trembled violently. On the newly formed and not yet stable spatial barriers, thin strands of cracks even began to surface.

His calm face showed no expression.

No anger, no anxiety.

Only a field of dead silence.

However, it was precisely this dead silence that was ten thousand times more terrifying than any hideous roar.

The Netherworld Palace.

It was the Netherworld Palace again.

Good.

Very good.

Lin Fan closed his eyes. When he opened them again, all emotional fluctuations had vanished, leaving only absolute logic and coldness.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately took out the exclusive Communication Imprint Yue Xi had left for him.

With a movement of his Divine Thought, a message crossed the vast distance of space and was transmitted over.

“How can I return from the Spirit Realm to the Lower Realm's Mortal Realm? I need the fastest, most direct method.”

Only a few breaths later.

At the other end of the starry sky, Yue Xi, who was meditating on a spirit boat, suddenly snapped her eyes open.

She felt the heart-palpitating, icy killing intent in Lin Fan's message that was almost completely undisguised.

Something had happened.

She didn't press for the reason, immediately organizing the information she knew into a Divine Thought and quickly sending it back.

“Between the Spirit Realm and the Lower Realm, there exist indestructible world barriers and Law shields.”

“The normal route requires passing through specific ancient teleportation arrays, and one must pay a huge price; it takes an extremely long time.”

“If one tries to forcibly descend to the Lower Realm, even a Void Refining Cultivator will face frantic rejection and suppression from the World Will. One's cultivation will be forcibly suppressed to the Nascent Soul Stage or even lower. Moreover, when crossing the spatial barrier, the Physical Body will endure terrifying Law-based tearing; it is a near-death experience.”

“Most importantly, the suppression of the World Will is continuous. As long as you are in the Lower Realm, your power can never recover to the Void Refining realm.”

Yue Xi's information was clear and desperate.

A Void Refining expert descending to the Lower Realm, only to have their cultivation suppressed to the Nascent Soul Stage.

Then what would be the use of going back?

The Netherworld Palace dared to send people to the Lower Realm for revenge; the power they sent out would definitely not be something a mere Nascent Soul Cultivator could contend with.

Going back would be seeking death.

And it would be a completely meaningless death.

Lin Fan's knuckles turned slightly white from his grip.

This was the first time he felt an emotion called 'powerlessness'.

No.

That's not right.

He still had his final trump card.

“System.”

His Divine Thought sank into the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.

“Is there a way for me to descend to the Lower Realm immediately with my cultivation at its peak state?”

【Ding!】

【Analyzing feasible plans for the host...】

【Detected host's current state: Early Stage Void Refining.】

【Detected target world: Mortal Realm (Low-level Spiritual Qi plane).】

【Detected World Law rejection intensity: Extremely High.】

【Generating plan...】

After a series of cold notification sounds, the System gave an unheard-of, borderline insane plan.

【Plan Name: Reversing Heaven to Slay Immortals (Death Descent)】

【Plan Core: Utilize the transcendent properties of the 'True Absolute Safety Resurrection Anchor' to conduct a high-risk Divine Soul smuggling operation.】

【Execution Steps:】

【1. Use the 'Mustard Seed World' as a one-time springboard, consume all of the host's gou dao points, and detonate the 'Void Beast Core' to forcibly tear open a temporary spatial rift leading to the target Mortal Realm.】

【2. Host actively enters the spatial rift. During this process, the host's Physical Body will 100% be completely shredded and annihilated by the spatial storm and Law backlash, achieving a high-evaluation 'Rule-based Death'.】

【3. Utilize the hidden property of the System's 'Indestructible True Soul' to protect a sliver of the Origin True Soul carrying all of the host's cultivation, memories, and Law insights at the moment of physical destruction, passing through the rift to reach the Lower Realm.】

【4. The System will automatically lock onto the most primitive backup resurrection point the host previously set in the back mountain of the Qingyun Sect in the Lower Realm. Upon the Origin True Soul's arrival, it will use that anchor as a base to instantly reconstruct the Physical Body and restore full cultivation.】

【Warning: The success rate of this plan is lower than 10%. The spatial rift is extremely unstable, and there is a high probability that the True Soul will be obliterated during transit.】

【Warning: This plan will consume all of the host's savings. Once it fails, the host will, in a true sense, face the risk of total Soul annihilation for the first time!】

【Execute?】

The entire plan was insane to the extreme.

This was dancing on the blade's edge of world rules, gambling with his only 'immortality' trait.

If he won the gamble, a Heavenly God would descend to save everything.

If he lost, it would be complete and eternal extinction.

However, there was not the slightest hesitation on Lin Fan's face.

He even directly ignored the success rate of less than 10% and the warning of total Soul annihilation.

10%?

That's enough.

For him, as long as it wasn't 0%, it was worth a try.

The Qingyun Sect was the starting point of his path to immortality.

Zhao Linger and Fatty Zhang were among his few true bonds in this world.

If he couldn't even protect them, then what was the point of him cultivating this Great Dao of Longevity?

“Execute.”

Lin Fan spat out those two cold words in his heart.

He didn't make any farewells, nor did he reveal anything to Yue Xi.

This was a war that belonged to him alone.

Buzz—

The entire Mustard Seed World shook violently.

Lin Fan sat cross-legged in the center of the world. He unhesitatingly triggered that pitch-black core obtained from the Mid-stage Refining Void Void Colossus, which seemed to have a galaxy flowing inside it.

All the gou dao points he had accumulated were cleared at this moment.

An indescribable, extremely violent void power erupted from the core.