46: Epic Harvest

The moment Lin Feng silently uttered the words "Gathering Skill" in his heart.

He felt his Mental Energy, like a breached flood, being frantically drawn out at an unprecedented and wild speed!

Lv3 [Gathering Skill] activated at full power!

A brilliant, dazzling emerald green light, almost solid, burst forth from his palm!

This light was no longer the gentle, silent state from before; instead, it transformed into a greedy maw filled with the Law of "stripping" and "Analysis," fiercely biting into the black life box suspended in the Void Realm, emanating endless death energy!

Buzz—!

The entire spatial interlayer trembled violently due to this intense energy collision!

The translucent black life box also seemed to sense an unprecedented threat!

The countless vengeful Spirit runes on its surface instantly came alive, emitting silent yet mournful wails, transforming into black energy chains, attempting to resist the erosion of the emerald green light!

Two completely different Law powers, at this moment, began their most primitive and direct confrontation!

Lin Feng only felt as if his brain was about to be torn apart!

The sharp pain of his Mental Energy being drained, combined with the Soul impact full of curses and grievances from the life box, doubly tormented his nerves!

His face instantly turned ashen, his body swayed precariously, as if he would faint the next second.

But he gritted his teeth, pouring every last bit of his willpower into this Gathering.

He knew this was his only chance!

Success or failure depended on this one move!

"Open...for me!"

Lin Feng let out a silent roar in his heart!

The emerald green light, as if receiving its final command, surged again! It instantly tore through the black energy chains, sweeping through like a broken bamboo, completely engulfing the entire black life box!

"Ding! Warning! You are attempting to gather a legendary item containing 'divinity' and 'immortality' Law..."

"Gathering Skill Rank too low, Analysis failed!"

"System detected that your talent 'Myriad Things Grow (S-Rank) (Incomplete)' resonated with the target energy..."

"S-Rank talent characteristic 'Origin Plunder' passively triggered!"

"Gathering Skill gained temporary Law amplification... Re-analyzing..."

"Ding! Analysis successful!"

"You used Gathering Skill on 'Ancient Lich's Life Box'... Gathering successful!"

A series of System prompts, even with golden and red warning fonts, swept through Lin Feng's entire consciousness like the most violent storm!

And what followed was an... epic, crazy harvest, enough to move any deity!

"Due to the gathering target containing extremely vast Soul and death energy, your Gathering Skill has gained epic proficiency!"

"Your skill 'Gathering Skill' proficiency is full, Rank increased to Lv4!"

"Your skill 'Gathering Skill' proficiency is full, Rank increased to Lv5!"

"Your 'Spirit' attribute permanently +5.0!"

"Your 'Intelligence' attribute permanently +3.0!"

"You plundered the 'Lich's Soul Origin,' your Mental Resistance permanently +10%!"

"Your talent 'Myriad Things Grow (S-Rank) (Incomplete)' absorbed pure Soul energy, incompleteness repaired by 1%!"

"You obtained 'Power of Death' (Epic) Talent Fragment * 1!"

"You obtained Skill Fragment * 1 for the Epic skill 'Soul Enslavement'!"

"You obtained Fragment * 1 for the Legendary item 'Philosopher's Stone'!"

"You obtained 'Ancient Lich's Legacy Memory' (Fragment) * 1!"

...Boom—!

Lin Feng's brain, upon seeing this series of miraculous gains, completely fell into a blank, blissful daze.

Gathering Skill, two Ranks up!

Spirit, surged by 5 points! Intelligence, surged by 3 points!

Mental Resistance, directly increased by 10%!

S-Rank talent, repaired by 1%!

And... epic talent fragments!

Epic skill fragments!

Even... legendary item fragments!

This... this was no longer a simple "upgrade"!

This was simply an... "Ascension" in one fell swoop!

However, Lin Feng had not yet had time to savor this unprecedented huge harvest.

An anomaly suddenly occurred!

...Meanwhile, in the center of the cavern.

The Ancient Lich, who had been sitting on the Skeletal Throne for hundreds of years without moving, suddenly had the two clusters of eerie purple Soul fire burning in its hollow eye sockets surge!

An indescribable, terrifying will, filled with endless pain and rage, erupted like a waking volcano!

"Roar—!!!"

A Soul roar, not like a human, or even any creature, filled with towering fury, instantly swept through the entire massive cavern!

The roar contained the purest Law of death, enough to freeze the Soul!

"Warning! You are affected by 'Lich's Wrath' (Divine Power pressure)!"

"Mental Resistance check in progress... Check failed!"

"You have fallen into multiple negative statuses such as 'Fear,' 'Confusion,' and 'Soul Shock'!"

"All your attributes are temporarily reduced by 50%!"

In the spatial interlayer, Lin Feng's body was struck by lightning!

He only felt as if his Soul was fiercely gripped by an invisible hand, then thrown into a cold abyss!

Boundless Fear instantly swallowed his rationality!

"Must... leave here!"

This was the only thought left in his mind, stemming from his instinct for survival!

And the black life box, its core energy gathered, also "cracked" and was covered in fissures due to the loss of Origin support, then shattered with a bang!

With the shattering of the life box, this spatial interlayer, which existed by clinging to the life box, also began to violently collapse!

The surrounding Void Realm energy currents became extremely violent, and spatial cracks, like black lightning, constantly appeared and disappeared around him!

Lin Feng ignored the spatial cracks that could tear apart everything, exerting his last ounce of strength, and lunged towards the direction he came from, the rapidly shrinking "exit"!

Just as his body rushed out of the spatial interlayer.

He saw... he saw those... eerie purple Soul fires burning with endless rage and killing intent!

The Ancient Lich had slowly risen from its throne!

Its withered, claw-like hand, across a distance of nearly a hundred meters, pointed remotely at Lin Feng!

A pure death energy, enough to freeze heaven and earth, began to rapidly condense in its palm!

It's over!

Lin Feng's heart turned cold!

He knew that once locked onto by that energy, he would be completely erased from the Soul level in an instant!

However, at this desperate moment of life and death!

A grander, more ancient, and infinitely majestic will, seemingly startled by the Lich's awakening, slowly awakened from the deepest part of this "King's Mine"!

An invisible, golden Law power, like a ripple, instantly swept through the entire cavern!

"System Announcement: Due to unknown reasons, the planar rules of the 'Abandoned King's Mine' have become chaotic..."

"All units above Rank 15 will be forcibly expelled/suppressed!"

The Ancient Lich, which was condensing death energy, suddenly froze!

Its powerful strength, which had even touched the threshold of divinity, was actually suppressed by this older, more domineering Law power, as if it had met its nemesis!

Its body began to become ethereal and transparent!

"No—!!!"

It let out a roar filled with unwillingness and venom, and finally, transformed into a purple streak of light, forcibly expelled from this plane by an invisible force!

And the four powerful Skeletal Knights also exploded under the sweep of this Law power, turning into bone dust filling the sky!

A shocking crisis, enough to destroy everything, was forcibly interrupted in such a dramatic and unpredictable way!

Lin Feng stared blankly at the scene before him, like immortals fighting, completely dumbfounded.

He didn't know what happened.

He only knew... he seemed to have survived... once again.

And, it seemed he had also turned misfortune into a blessing, becoming the only... beneficiary of this "planar cleansing"?