305: Choked to death while drinking water, and comprehended the law of destiny!

In front of the spherical void space on the Crimson Flame Star, which had been erased by the clash of Laws.

Lin Fan stared at the flashing System prompt in his field of vision, his breathing momentarily catching.

[Do you wish to consume 'one wisp of Heavenly Dao Karma' to upgrade the System to Version 2.0?]

Heavenly Dao Karma—that was a good thing.

To use one wisp to gamble on an unknown System upgrade?

Lin Fan's brow furrowed into a knot.

It wasn't worth it.

It was like trading a whole Divine Beast for a blind box. What if it turned out to be a 'Thank You for Your Patronage'?

His gaze fell once again upon the ancient Star Map.

The place Old Ancestor Tieshan had marked on this Star Map was not just the Land of Heavenly Condemnation.

There were over a dozen other dangerous areas, large and small, emitting ominous auras.

“This menu just served an appetizer; I haven't even tasted the main course yet.”

Lin Fan muttered, tracing his finger across the Star Map.

His fingertip finally stopped on an area not far from the Crimson Flame Star, yet possessing an equally bizarre aura.

[Star Tomb of the Abandoned].

According to the ancient text on the Star Map, it was a cursed Star Domain. Any living being who stepped into it would become entangled by misfortune and eventually die in the most bizarre and unimaginable ways.

“misfortune?”

Lin Fan's eyes lit up.

That sounded far more technically demanding than pure energy annihilation.

“Black Sail, lock onto the new coordinates.”

His Divine Thought directly transmitted the coordinates of the Star Tomb of the Abandoned.

“Target: Star Tomb of the Abandoned. I like that name.”

[Instruction confirmed. Constructing Warp Channel...]

The ripples spread out again, and Lin Fan's figure vanished from the spot once more... Cold, dead silence, rust.

This was Lin Fan's first impression of the Star Tomb of the Abandoned.

He appeared inside a massive, abandoned Interstellar Port.

Tens of thousands of ancient warships were moored within the port, but every single one was covered in thick cosmic dust, their hulls riddled with rust, as if they had been abandoned for tens of millions of years.

The eerie thing was that there were no signs of battle.

Everything was neat and orderly, as if everyone in the port had evaporated at the exact same moment.

An invisible, oppressive aura enveloped the entire space.

It made one feel... completely uneasy.

Lin Fan took a deep breath and took his first step onto this land.

Crack.

The seemingly indestructible alloy floor beneath his feet cracked open without warning.

Lin Fan's body instantly lost balance and he tumbled forward.

If he were an ordinary Cultivator, a single thought would be enough to stabilize his posture.

But Lin Fan didn't.

He allowed himself to fall.

Thump!

His forehead, precisely and squarely, hit a sharp metal corner that had jutted up from the crack in the floor.

The angle was tricky, the force accurate.

[Ding! You have died due to 'Accidental Fall'...]

[Death Quality Assessment: Pathetic.]

[Calculating rewards...]

[Congratulations, Host, you have received a special reward—Comprehension of the Law of Luck (1%)!]

Lin Fan, who had revived on the spot, touched his unharmed forehead, a look of pleasant surprise on his face.

Instead of rewarding some basic Medicinal Pills, it directly rewarded Law comprehension!

Although it was only 1%, this was the Law of Luck!

A supreme Law that was even more ethereal and harder to grasp than conventional Laws like the Five Elements or Space!

“Professional!”

Lin Fan couldn't help but praise it.

He raised his head, examining the silent port with great interest.

Just then.

A piece of metal debris, the size of a fingernail, long since detached from its orbit, was gently nudged by a negligible wisp of Solar Wind on the distant starport dome.

It began to fall.

As it passed through the thin layers of atmosphere, its trajectory was micro-adjusted billions of times by dozens of factors, including gravitational fields, magnetic fields, and energy turbulence.

Finally, it transformed into a streak of light barely visible to the naked eye.

Precisely hitting Lin Fan's glabella.

[Ding! You have died due to 'Object Falling from a Great Height'...]

[Death Quality Assessment: Unlucky.]

[Congratulations, Host—Comprehension of the Law of Luck (1%)!]

Lin Fan, who revived again, smiled even brighter.

“Again!”

He felt like he had discovered an incredible Treasure Trove grinding spot.

He started strolling around the port.

After only two steps, he tripped over his own feet and died from a flat-ground fall.

[Comprehension of the Law of Luck +1%!]

Seeing a rest area, he wanted to sit down and take a break, but the chair immediately fell apart the moment he touched it. He sat on the ground, and a spring that popped out precisely pierced him from his tailbone straight through his Crown of the Head.

[Comprehension of the Law of Luck +1%!]

Feeling thirsty, he retrieved a bottle of pure water, tens of millions of years old, from a perfectly sealed vending machine.

The water quality was fine.

He took a sip.

Then, he choked to death.

[Ding! You have died due to 'Drinking Water Suffocation'...]

[Death Quality Assessment: Preposterous.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have received a special reward—Comprehension of the Law of Luck (2%)!]

“Hahahahaha!”

Lin Fan finally couldn't hold back and burst into laughter.

This was too much fun!

This wasn't some Land of misfortune; this was clearly a paradise tailor-made for him!

Just as he was dying joyfully and the progress bar for the Comprehension of the Law of Luck successfully broke through the 10% mark.

His world changed.

In his vision, the entire port was still silent.

But in his Law perception, wisps of black thread, invisible to the naked eye and resembling viscous petroleum, were wrapping around every inch of space and every speck of dust here.

These were the materialization of 'misfortune'.

And all the black threads were ultimately converging towards one direction.

The deepest part of the port, the Central Control Room.

The misfortune there was so dense it had solidified into a pitch-black ocean.

“The big BOSS?”

Lin Fan's treasure hunting radar activated instantly.

He suppressed his smile and walked cautiously toward the place where the misfortune was densest.

As he proceeded deeper, he experienced more and more varied ways to die.

Being smashed by a falling light tube.

Being electrocuted by a leaky circuit.

He was even shaken to death by a shockwave produced when two inert gases in the air underwent an unprecedented random annihilation reaction.

When he finally reached the entrance of the Control Room, sporting over twenty percent Comprehension of the Law of Luck.

He saw the center of that ocean of misfortune.

A transparent, almost dissipated illusory figure was curled up in the captain's chair, trembling.

It was a Remnant Soul.

Lin Fan's appearance made the Remnant Soul shudder violently. It raised its head, its hollow eye sockets filled with shock.

“You... How could you... walk all the way here?”

Its voice was intermittent, full of disbelief.

In its perception, this living person hadn't been contaminated by even a trace of misfortune!

The terrifying misfortune that could instantly kill Body Integration Stage mighty figures automatically dissolved when it approached within three feet of his body, as if meeting its nemesis!

Lin Fan looked at him, then at the dense, solidified black lines of misfortune wrapped around him, deep in thought.

“Are you a survivor here?”

“A survivor?” The Remnant Soul let out a sharp, tragic laugh. “I am not a survivor, I am the curse itself!”

“I was once the Son of Destiny of the previous epoch, bearing the Luck of an entire era... Just one wrong step led to me being despised by the Heavenly Dao, forced to endure endless misfortune for eternity, trapped here, unable to live or die!”

The Remnant Soul 'stared' intensely at Lin Fan, its emotions growing agitated.

“I see it! In you, I see the hope of ending all this! You... you are here to save me and grant me release, aren't you?!”

Lin Fan didn't even have time to speak.

The Remnant Soul suddenly burst forth with unprecedented light.

It voluntarily sacrificed its last wisp of true spirit!

“Take it! This is the only gift I can give you! My life's... misfortune!!!”

Boom—!

All the black threads of misfortune accumulated in the Star Tomb of the Abandoned over billions of years instantly transformed into a surging black torrent, following the purest Origin of Misfortune generated by the Remnant Soul's burning, and wildly poured into Lin Fan's body!

Lin Fan's consciousness was instantly overwhelmed.

He felt as if he experienced billions of unimaginable deaths in a single instant.

Walking down the road and being cut in half by a dimensional rift that appeared out of thin air.

Snapping his fingers, triggering a chain spatial collapse, and being compressed into a singularity.

Even a thought flashing through his mind caused his Soul to overload due to the sheer volume of information, resulting in him immediately undergoing Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.

Finally.

When he unconsciously glanced at a smooth metal plate nearby.

He saw his own reflection.

It was a face so handsome it defied description by any language; its very existence violated the aesthetic balance of the Universe.

An unprecedented collapse, stemming from the conceptual level, occurred.

[Ding! You have died due to 'Reality Logic Paradox triggered by your own excessive handsomeness'...]

[Death Quality Assessment: Incomprehensible!]

[...Calculating rewards...]

[Congratulations, Host, you have received the ultimate reward—Origin of Misfortune (Complete)!]

[Congratulations, Host, Comprehension of the Law of Luck has increased to 80%!]

When Lin Fan reformed his body, he felt the entire world was refreshed.

The Remnant Soul's final wisp of consciousness echoed in his mind.

“Be careful... of the 'Persons of Destiny'... they... are the Heavenly Dao's... chess pieces...”

Lin Fan hadn't had time to fully process that sentence.

A new System prompt made him tremble.

[Detection shows that the 'Law of Luck' and the 'Origin of Misfortune' are highly compatible. Fusion can be performed to create a brand new 'Luck-type' Divine Ability.]

[Please name your new Divine Ability: _______]