182: Sublimation of rules: fragment fusion and lingering affection

His reconstructed Immortal Body fell from mid-air.

Thud.

He crashed heavily onto the newborn earth, kicking up a circle of dust.

The exhaustion of surviving the calamity, like an inescapable tide, surged from the deepest part of his Divine Soul, instantly engulfing his limbs and bones.

The Immortal Light receded.

His aura was restrained.

He lay beside the altar, gasping for breath, his chest heaving violently.

The two rounds of "Heavenly Dao Reckoning" he had just experienced, especially the confrontation with the will of the "eye of the heavenly dao," had almost completely drained him.

His Immortal Body.

His Divine Soul.

Even the almost rogue "death-seeking" spirit he relied on to survive felt a weakness originating from its very Origin.

He just lay there, not wanting to move an inch.

The Dominator's authority over the world now seemed like a distant burden.

The Laws of Heaven and Earth buzzed in his ears, but failed to pique his slightest interest.

Just then.

A clear, pure, yet incredibly warm power slowly flowed in through the tightly bound covenant channel deep within his Divine Soul.

This power was like the first spring water melting from the Peak of the extreme northern snow mountains, carrying the vitality of all things reviving.

And like the gentlest clear spring, softly washing away every inch of injury left in his Immortal Body and Divine Soul by the Heavenly Dao's backlash.

Lin Fan's taut body unconsciously relaxed.

Through the covenant, he could perceive everything on the other end with incredible clarity.

That was Li Hanyue's worry.

It was her lingering fear.

It was her resolute determination to transmit power without reservation.

And even more, a deep, unyielding love and support, hidden beneath her cold exterior, now revealed without reservation.

An indescribable warmth surged in his heart.

Deep within his body, the Dao injuries that had been annihilated and reborn by the "Reckoning" power began to heal at an astonishing speed under the nourishment of this pure Yin power.

Lin Fan slowly closed his eyes.

His will, without the slightest hesitation, followed the path of that warm current, plunging into the deepest part of the covenant's imprint... Ice Crystal Valley.

Li Hanyue's pale face finally regained a trace of color.

She could feel that the violent and chaotic aura on the other end of the covenant was rapidly subsiding and stabilizing.

She knew he had made it through.

Her heart, which had been clenched in pain, slowly loosened.

And at this very moment, her Divine Soul trembled violently.

A familiar will, carrying a hint of dominance and tenderness, crossed the endless Void Realm and directly descended into her Sea of Consciousness.

This time, Lin Fan's will did not tease as it had last time.

It merely quietly transformed into a soft light, conveying the dangers it had just experienced as the most understated images to her.

The world-destroying gray storm, in his will, became a "slightly large sandstorm."

The "eye of the heavenly dao," capable of annihilating all things, was described by him as "a passerby with an unfriendly gaze."

And his own near-death counterattack was called "accidentally bumping into the other party."

Li Hanyue "watched" these embellished images.

Her Divine Soul, however, was fluctuating violently.

Through these understatements, she could perceive the true terror and danger behind them, enough to completely annihilate any living being.

A wave of lingering fear surged uncontrollably.

Followed by an uncontrollable heartache.

Then, a faint trace of exasperation.

This guy was always like this.

No matter how great the danger, in his words, it became light and breezy.

She did not respond with words.

She merely transformed her emotions into the gentlest ripples, gently soothing Lin Fan's equally exhausted will.

Don't be afraid anymore.

It's all over.

I am here.

This seamless Fusion at the Soul level transcended all words in the world.

Their hearts, at this moment, reached an unprecedented harmony.

Lin Fan's will clearly received her comfort.

He did not retreat.

Instead, he became bolder and more dependent.

That soft light slowly, once again, approached the Origin of her Divine Soul.

It no longer probed.

Nor did it tease.

Instead, with complete trust and intimacy, it gently pressed against her.

"Mm..."

Li Hanyue's delicate body trembled, and an almost inaudible moan escaped her lips.

Her Divine Soul felt as if it had been electrocuted.

A tremor, even stronger and more deeply ingrained than last time, spread throughout her body.

A captivating flush of crimson rose on her cold and peerless face.

From her cheeks to her snow-white neck, and then to her delicate earlobes, none were spared, all becoming burning hot.

Her heartbeat completely lost control.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

Each beat was like a drum, shaking her Divine Soul.

Her Divine Soul Origin, enveloped by Lin Fan's will, became incredibly soft, even radiating circles of joyful light.

This feeling was too intimate.

Too profound.

As if her deepest, most unknown secrets were seen clearly by him and gently accepted by him.

She abandoned all resistance.

Allowing her Divine Soul to be tightly intertwined with his will.

Yin and Yang complementing each other.

Perfectly blended.

In the silent valley, the ambiguous atmosphere reached its Peak in the unspoken exchange.

A long, long time passed.

Lin Fan's will, with a hint of satisfaction and reluctance, slowly retreated.

Leaving behind only a soft message, echoing directly in the depths of her Divine Soul.

"Help me."

Li Hanyue slowly opened her eyes.

Her eyes shimmered with watery light, no longer bearing any resemblance to the Mystic Ice Fairy who usually hung high above the Nine Heavens.

Without the slightest hesitation, she immediately fully circulated the "Mystic Ice Art," continuously transmitting the purest and most stable Yin power through the covenant.

This time, she became his "Dao Protector"... Burial Immortal Valley.

A knowing smile appeared on Lin Fan's face.

With the assistance of Li Hanyue's pure Yin power, his exhausted Divine Soul instantly recovered to its Peak state.

In fact, because of the profound Soul Fusion just now, his will became even more condensed and resilient.

He sat up cross-legged.

His gaze fell upon the "Heavenly Dao Fragment" in his Sea of Consciousness, which had become even more complete after absorbing the power of the eye of the heavenly dao.

It was time.

He immersed his entire mind into it.

Boom.

Lin Fan's consciousness seemed to be instantly pulled into a dimension that could not be described with words.

There was no up, down, or four directions here.

No past or future.

There was only an endless flow of Laws.

He "saw" it.

The birth of a world was the precise weaving of countless rules of order.

The destruction of a world was the collapse and disintegration of these rules.

This "Heavenly Dao Fragment" contained the mysteries of higher-dimensional "order" and "rules."

It was cold, ruthless, yet filled with supreme beauty.

Lin Fan's "Supreme Origin Dao Unraveling" within him, at this moment, began to operate on its own.

The Yin and Yang Qi flowed, forming a huge Dao diagram that enveloped this fragment.

Yin and Yang.

Life and Death.

Creation and Destruction.

The Dao rhyme of the "Supreme Origin Dao Unraveling" and the rules of order contained within this fragment were so perfectly matched.

Like two perfectly interlocking puzzle pieces, they found each other.

The Fusion began.

Lin Fan's consciousness was completely immersed in this deepest understanding of the world's Origin.

He seemed to have transformed into the Heavenly Dao itself.

From an absolutely rational perspective, he overlooked the birth and death of all things, and the flow of Laws.

He did not know how much time had passed.

He slowly opened his eyes.

The entire world, in his eyes, had completely changed.

No longer mountains, rivers, plants, and trees, no longer living beings.

Instead, everything had transformed into the most basic "data," composed of countless Law chains.

He had completely comprehended the operating principles of the "Heavenly Dao."

He extended a finger and gently pointed at an ancient tree beside him that had been affected by the recent catastrophe and had completely withered and died.

There was no Immortal Light.

No Spiritual Qi.

He merely, at a microscopic level, plucked the string of the ancient tree's most core "Law of Life."

The next second.

The charred deadwood, at a visible speed, burst forth with vigorous vitality.

The withered bark peeled off, and new green bark grew.

Tender green shoots sprouted from the cracked branches.

In just a few breaths, a towering tree, with lush branches and leaves, stood tall in its original spot again.

Lin Fan waved his hand again.

The flow of time in the entire Burial Immortal Valley began to become chaotic.

In some places, time accelerated, and flowers bloomed and withered in an instant.

In other places, time slowed down, and a falling leaf solidified in the air for a long time before slowly descending.

He could even clearly perceive that the Lifespan of every living being in this world was like a string that he could pluck at will.

If he wished.

He could make a living being exhaust its Lifespan in an instant, turning into dry bones.

He could also give a dying person a new Rebirth.

This ultimate control over rules brought an unprecedented and powerful feeling of dominating everything.

And as Lin Fan's understanding of higher rules increased.

The entire Cultivation World once again underwent drastic changes.

The Immortal Spiritual Qi between Heaven and Earth became incredibly dense, even beginning to liquefy, forming Spiritual Mist floating in the air.

Countless ancient Spiritual Veins that had long been cut off, self-repaired from deep underground, and regained vitality.

The Spiritual Qi concentration of the continent, in a short period, surged more than tenfold, faintly showing signs of a true Immortal Realm...

Qingyun Sect.

Zhao Linger, who was anxiously worrying about Lin Fan in the Alchemy Room, suddenly felt the Pill Furnace in front of her emit a clear hum.

The oppressive aura that had made it difficult to breathe between Heaven and Earth vanished into thin air.

In its place was an endless, extremely pure Spiritual Qi, frantically pouring into her body.

Her cultivation Bottleneck, which had troubled her for a long time, broke through with a resounding crack.

She suddenly looked up, gazing in the direction of Burial Immortal Valley, her beautiful eyes filled with longing and concern.

She knew.

All these changes were related to him.

He was changing the entire world in a way she could not comprehend.

The same thing also happened to Su Meier and other female companions who had close ties with Lin Fan.

Their cultivation, at this moment, achieved significant Breakthroughs.

Their longing for Lin Fan also reached an unprecedented height...

In the distant Void Realm.

The cracks on the face of the "Guardian of the Dao" that represented the heavenly dao will of this world became deeper and denser, like shattered porcelain.

His thoughts began to show unprecedented confusion.

He vaguely perceived.

That "anomaly" was no longer a simple "transcendent."

Lin Fan already possessed the potential to threaten the higher Heavenly Dao from the Law level.

His duty as a "Guardian of the Dao" seemed so pale and ridiculous in the face of Lin Fan's new power...

Burial Immortal Valley.

Lin Fan slowly stood up.

The fragment had completely merged.

His gaze became incredibly profound, as if it could directly pierce through the mists of time and see the profound mysteries deep within the Laws.

He clearly foresaw.

He had not merely "provoked" the Heavenly Dao.

Instead, he had, in the most crude way, overturned the chessboard of some ancient existence.

Next, what he would face would no longer be procedural pawns like "Heavenly Dao Reckoning."

But the true "chess player" behind the scenes.

The storm was coming.

Buzz—

Just then, the altar, which had just fallen silent, not only did not extinguish after experiencing two reckonings.

Instead, it began to vibrate violently.

It detached from the earth and slowly floated upwards.

Beneath its original position, a bottomless, pitch-black crack slowly appeared.

From within that crack.

A trace of extremely terrifying, ancient aura began to leak out, causing even the current Lin Fan to feel a pang of trepidation.

It was a primordial will, as if it had been Sealed for eons, filled with Chaos and destruction.

It was responding to the awakening of the altar.

The true "Era Calamity" was already imminent.

And Lin Fan.

Was the "Guide" who personally initiated this great calamity.

And the "Chess Eye" at the center of this calamitous storm.