286: Welcome to the Law Graveyard

In the dark Universe, that sword-shaped starship had finally reached the end of its journey.

Ahead lay a vast, dark red nebula that the eyes could not measure.

It wasn't like an ordinary nebula composed of dust and gas, emitting a soft light.

This nebula was alive.

Countless minute, twisted Law cracks, invisible to the naked eye, spread through it like a spiderweb. Occasionally, a spatial rift would slice through the Void Realm like a shark's dorsal fin, silently swallowing all matter in its path. At other times, the flow of time in a certain area would suddenly accelerate or slow down, causing a star that had burned for billions of years to be extinguished into ash in an instant, only to be reignited like a rewound tape in the next moment.

Extinction, withering, chaos, and frenzy.

This was the Law Burial Ground.

The Divine Silence Ruins.

On the main control screen, the AI "Black Sail" issued the highest level of alert, with a piercing red light flashing continuously.

"Warning: The Law disorder level in the Star Domain ahead exceeds the safety threshold by 9999%."

"Warning: High-frequency spatial cutting, random time turbulence, and Silent Extinction Light detected..."

"Recommendation: Immediately stay away from this area."

Lin Fan stood before the light screen, looking at the data representing absolute death, but a warm smile appeared on his face as if he had arrived at a new home.

This was the place.

He turned off the piercing alarm and personally controlled the starship, which moved like a nimble fish, slowly sailing toward the edge of that deadly nebula.

He did not rush in recklessly.

With a thought, a Detection Puppet forged entirely from Profound Gold flew out from the starship's launch port, cautiously heading into the nebula.

Less than three breaths after the Puppet entered the dark red nebula.

Ssh.

A black crack, thinner than a strand of hair, flashed past the Puppet's side without warning.

In the next moment, that Detection Puppet, which was strong enough to withstand a full-strength strike from the Refining Void Realm, was sliced smoothly down the middle, and along with its internal Formation core, it was annihilated into the most basic particles.

On the screen, the signal was instantly cut off.

Lin Fan's eyes lit up.

This death efficiency was simply unparalleled.

He took a deep breath, parked the starship in the shadow of a massive meteorite, and then his figure flashed, appearing directly in the cold Universe outside the starship.

No protective Magic Treasure, no protective spiritual light activated.

He faced that chaotic Law graveyard with just his Physical Body.

An indescribable, massive suction force came from deep within the nebula, as if it wanted to pull his Divine Soul in along with it.

Instead of retreating, Lin Fan Advanced, actively approaching the nebula.

His steps were slow, each one like dancing on the edge of a blade. His Divine Sense was highly concentrated, sensing the Law cracks that were constantly being born and destroyed around him.

He was like the most experienced hunter, looking for the perfect "hunting" angle.

Finally.

He stopped.

To his front left, an inconspicuous spatial rift was slowly forming. It was like a crease on a scroll, devoid of any worldly aura.

You're the one.

Lin Fan adjusted his posture, acting like an unlucky fellow who had accidentally slipped. His body "stumbled," and he crashed into that rift at just the right moment.

No pain, no sound.

The moment his body touched the rift, it was as if a pencil mark had been erased by an eraser; half of him was cleanly wiped from this world.

[Ding! Host detected to have died from high-level spatial Law cutting. Death was clean and swift. Death experience evaluation: Excellent!]

[Overlord Saint Body analyzes the root of death. Reward obtained: Spatial Law Fragment x1!]

...In the shipyard at the deepest part of the Blood Crow Base in the Netherworld Meteorite Field.

On the Resurrection Point forged from Absolute Beginning Divine Stone and Void Divine Gold, a flash of light appeared, and Lin Fan's figure manifested out of thin air.

He moved his unharmed body, closed his eyes, and sensed carefully.

A profound flow of information appeared out of thin air in his Divine Soul. It was about the most fundamental composition of space, the supreme principles of tearing and healing.

The originally indestructible Body Integration Stage Bottleneck seemed to have a microscopic looseness before this new insight.

It works!

A look of genuine pleasure appeared on Lin Fan's face.

Without any hesitation, he activated the teleportation Formation again, and his figure instantly returned to the starship on the outskirts of the Divine Silence Ruins.

Walking out of the starship with practiced ease, he stepped into that paradise of death once again.

This time, his goal was even clearer.

He bypassed those violent spatial rifts and followed a strange fluctuation that made even time freeze, arriving at a peculiar area.

The space here was stable, but time was like a broken clock, sometimes flowing rapidly and sometimes coming to a complete standstill.

Lin Fan saw a meteorite that shimmered with an eternal metallic luster one second, and in the next, it turned into decaying dust as if it had experienced billions of years of weathering.

He did not hesitate and stepped in.

Hum!

An irresistible force of aging instantly enveloped his entire body.

His black hair turned gray, withered, and finally fell out at a speed visible to the naked eye. His tall, straight body hunched in an instant, and his skin was covered with deep wrinkles and age spots.

Vitality was being crazily drained at this moment.

In just one breath.

Lin Fan went from a Cultivator in his prime to a withered skeleton whose very bones had decayed, finally collapsing into the Void Realm with a "clatter" and turning into dust.

[Ding! Host detected to have died from time Law erosion, experiencing the complete Reincarnation from life to death. Death experience evaluation: Outstanding!]

[Overlord Saint Body gains insight into the True Meaning of Time. Reward obtained: Time Law Insight (Minor Amount)!]

...On the Resurrection Point, Lin Fan opened his eyes again.

In his Divine Soul, the insight regarding time made his thoughts seem to run a bit faster.

"Again!"

The third time, the fourth time, the fifth time... Lin Fan was like a child who had discovered a new continent, tirelessly traveling back and forth between the Resurrection Point and the Divine Silence Ruins, enjoying the experience of various novel ways to die.

Struck by the Silent Extinction Light, he evaporated instantly, with not a single atom remaining.

[Ding! ...Reward obtained: Law of Extinction Resistance (Elementary)!]

Caught in a chaotic Five Elements Law storm, his body underwent the entire process of turning into metal, wood, water, fire, and earth in an instant, finally becoming an indescribable mixture.

[Ding! ...Reward obtained: Five Elements Law Affinity (Slight Increase)!]

...While Lin Fan was immersed in the joy of farming rewards, he didn't notice that deep within the Divine Silence Ruins, a bizarre existence was disturbed by his repeated "corpse-running" behavior.

It was a strange life form composed purely of spatial Laws that could not be seen with the naked eye and could only be sensed with the Divine Soul.

It had no fixed form, no intelligence, only the instinct to devour and assimilate spatial energy.

It was like a ghost, wandering the Divine Silence Ruins for endless ages.

Initially, it was only attracted by the trace of pure Origin aura that escaped when Lin Fan died. To it, that aura was a supreme delicacy.

So, it quietly approached and killed Lin Fan once.

[Ding! Host detected to have been killed by the "Spirit of Space." The method of death was highly targeted. Death experience evaluation: Perfect!]

[Overlord Saint Body analyzes high-dimensional spatial power. Reward obtained: Spatial Law Fragment (High Quality) x1!]

On the Resurrection Point, Lin Fan felt that Spatial Law Fragment, which was of much higher quality than before, and a flash of surprise crossed his eyes.

There's such a good thing?

So, he returned to the Divine Silence Ruins once again and precisely found the location where he had died before.

Sure enough, that faint, strange fluctuation still remained in place.

Lin Fan pretended to be unaware and wandered back and forth nearby.

Ssh.

The familiar death descended.

[Ding! ...Reward obtained: Spatial Law Fragment (High Quality) x1!]

"Again!"

Lin Fan was like someone who had found a Treasure Trove where he could infinitely fleece wool, beginning his frantic provocation.

Time and again, he resurrected, appeared, and was killed near that "Spirit of Space."

And that Spirit of Space was also tireless.

In its simple instinct, it only felt that its luck had exploded today, actually encountering a "food spot" that could refresh infinitely.

However, after Lin Fan was killed by it for the tenth time.

This unintelligent Law creature seemed to sense something was wrong from its instinct.

There's something wrong with this "food"!

Buzz—!

Just as Lin Fan appeared before it once again, full of expectation and ready to welcome the eleventh "Perfect Death."

That mass of Spirit of Space suddenly erupted with an unprecedentedly violent fluctuation!

It was enraged!

Lin Fan only felt his vision blur, and the surrounding scenery spun instantly.

It was no longer that dark red nebula, nor was it the cold Universe.

His surroundings had turned into a boundless, pure white world composed of countless twisted, folded, and misaligned mirrors.

Up, down, left, right, in all directions, there were reflections of himself, each reflection presenting a different posture in a different mirror.

He had been dragged into a pure Spatial Labyrinth constructed by that Spirit of Space using its own Origin!

That violent intent clearly transmitted to the depths of Lin Fan's Divine Soul for the first time.

—[Devour... you!]