291: My name is Lin Fan, please kill me

That grand, cold will hovered above Lin Fan's Divine Soul, like a star high above the dust, quietly examining his clumsy performance.

There was no urging, no impatience.

It was as if watching an ant using all its strength to try and draw a comical picture of begging for mercy on the ground.

In Lin Fan's heart, the warning bells were no longer just ringing; they were crashing frantically, nearly shattering his Divine Soul.

He couldn't keep up the act anymore.

In the presence of this being, any disguise was like building a wall with thin ice under the sun—laughable and meaningless.

The other party had already seen through his greatest secret.

“Die once more.”

This command was not a test, nor a threat, but a pure curiosity stemming from a higher-dimensional lifeform.

A god who had been bored for billions of years had finally found a toy that could pique a sliver of interest.

Escape?

The entire Divine Silence Ruins was Its Domain. Every inch of space and every strand of Law here was an extension of Its will.

Never mind escaping; even moving a single finger now required all of his mental effort.

A trap?

Of course it was a trap.

An incomprehensible, unpredictable, and irresistible open scheme.

The other party intended to capture that fleeting 'Dao'—the System Origin that supported his existence and which even he didn't fully understand—during the split second between his death and resurrection.

Once captured, the result... was self-evident.

It would be a true death where both the System and the person were packaged and deleted together.

Fear, like the thickest deep-sea water, squeezed from all directions, threatening to completely crush his will.

However... deep within that extreme fear, the flame known as 'Seeking Death' that had already merged with his Soul was squeezed by this pressure, producing the most brilliant sparks.

High risk equals high reward.

Being personally erased by an existence of this level... what would the reward for a [Perfect Death] be?

A single step to the heavens?

The Origin of Law?

Or... a ticket to glimpse the Domain of gods?

Lin Fan's frantically beating heart gradually calmed down.

He would gamble.

Not gambling was like being a frog in warming water; sooner or later, he would be thoroughly researched and then quietly played to death.

By taking a gamble, there was still a chance to tear off the fattest piece of meat from this god at the moment of death!

Since he couldn't resist, then... he would actively cooperate.

He would use the most professional attitude to welcome a death of the highest specifications!

In an instant, the humble smile on Lin Fan's face, which looked worse than crying, vanished.

It was replaced by a nearly eerie calm.

His slightly hunched body slowly straightened up.

Under the pressure of the god that was enough to crush a galaxy, he was like a stubborn spear that had been bent by a gale but was now struggling to point toward the sky again.

This abrupt change caused a tiny ripple to appear in that eternally unchanging grand will.

It was as if It had developed a new interest in this ant's sudden change in reaction.

Lin Fan raised his head, his gaze piercing through layers of solidified space to look directly at the end of his perception—that giant 'eye' composed of the entire world.

His Divine Thought was no longer intermittent but became clear, stable, and even carried a hint of... solemnity.

“My name is Lin Fan.”

This calm self-introduction echoed within this absolute silence of the Void Realm, appearing incredibly abrupt and absurd.

The will did not respond.

Lin Fan didn't care either; he continued to speak to himself via Divine Thought: “As you wish, I can die once more.”

“However, I have a small request.”

The entire space seemed to solidify a bit more.

An ant about to be crushed to death was making a request to the foot that was crushing it?

Lin Fan ignored the suddenly intensifying pressure. His expression became incredibly serious, like a believer about to perform a sacred ritual.

“Since you wish to observe my death, I hope this will be a high-quality, high-specification, and high-standard death.”

He paused, seemingly organizing his words.

“First, please be sure to use your true level. Don't just slap me like swatting a mosquito. That kind of death is too ordinary; I've experienced it many times and it lacks novelty. It won't be of much help to your observation either.”

“I hope you can use a way that is... more creative, more aesthetic, and better reflects your level of existence to erase me.”

The divine will fell into a long silence.

It seemed that Its mind, which had existed for infinite ages and contained only rules and indifference, had encountered unprocessable logic for the first time.

An ant was teaching a god how to kill it?

And it was even complaining that the god's killing method... wasn't creative enough?

Lin Fan didn't give It time to think and continued to state his requirements.

“Secondly, I hope this death has a certain ‘educational significance’.”

His tone was sincere to the extreme.

“Your power contains the most fundamental principles of this Universe. If you simply erase me, it would be a terrible waste. I hope that in the process of being completely destroyed by you, I can personally perceive that supreme ‘Dao’.”

“For you, this is just a minor effort. For me, it is a supreme Opportunity. An... Epiphany of finding life through death.”

After speaking, he even cupped his hands toward the void from afar, like a humble student asking a teacher for guidance.

In the air, that cold will seemed to be more than just rippling now.

It carried a hint of... confusion.

It could not understand.

It had seen those who knelt for mercy, those who resisted frantically, and those who cursed in despair.

But It had never seen a lifeform that, when facing It, would so solemnly discuss how to make its own death more valuable.

Just then, a brand new power erupted from Lin Fan's body!

A faint dark-golden divine light seeped out from under his skin as his newly born Overlord Divine Body revealed its prominence in this world for the first time!

Within his golden Qi and blood, every strand of the domineering Divine Might originating from the Ancient God Remnant Blood was driven to the limit without reservation!

He didn't attack; he was purely displaying his changes.

He was showing how he had perfectly turned that 'Remnant Bone' into a part of himself!

This was a blatant, direct provocation!

Like a thief who stole a god's offering, instead of running away, he ate the offering clean right in front of the god and even smacked his lips to savor the taste.

“Look.”

A satisfied smile appeared on Lin Fan's face as he felt the power roaring within his body.

“Your blood is quite good.”

“It has made me stronger. So, to repay you and to allow you to observe more clearly, please use your strongest power and most fundamental Laws to see me off.”

“I am ready.”

“Come, please be sure to kill me in the highest-specification manner.”

Silence.

A long silence.

Then.

BOOM—!!!!

A pure 'wrath of will' that could not be described by any words, transcending anger and emotion, descended like the Origin of the Big Bang!

In the Divine Silence Ruins, all Laws, all matter, and all energy were frozen in this instant and then began to... disintegrate from their roots!

That grand, cold voice rang out once more, and for the last time, deep within Lin Fan's Divine Soul.

This time, it was no longer indifferent but carried an absolute majesty that judged all things and decreed the end.

“As you wish.”

“Ant.”

“I shall grant you... eternal nihility.”

[Warning! Warning! Hyper-dimensional erasure command detected: 'eternal nihility'!]

[Parsing command... Zzz... Parsing failed!]

[This command will irreversibly and completely delete the Host from all dimensions, including Karma, timelines, and the concept of existence!]

[Warning! Under this death mode, the resurrection success rate is... lower than 0.0001%!]

[System underlying rules are under unknown interference... entering forced hibernation...]

The System's notification tone carried a terrified screech for the first time before coming to an abrupt halt.

Lin Fan's heart sank to the bottom at this moment, but in the next second, it was ignited by an unprecedented feverishness.

Lower than 0.0001%?

That means there's still a chance!

The gamble paid off!

The reward for this death will definitely be beyond imagination!

In the split second before that terrifying power, which could return the entire Universe to nothingness, completely enveloped his body...

Lin Fan raised his head, facing that 'God's Eye' that could not be looked at directly, and a smile that was brilliant to the extreme and insane to the extreme appeared on his face.

He used the last of his Divine Thought to let out a roar that resounded throughout the Divine Silence Ruins.

“The times have changed, old geezer!”

This nonsensical shout, full of blasphemous intent, seemed to cause a trillionth of a second of imperceptible delay in the descending 'eternal nihility'.

It was as if this sentence had touched a long-forgotten memory of that ancient existence, buried in the deepest part of time.

But it was merely a delay.

The next instant.

Nothingness descended.