188: Cracks in the Eternal Will: Weakness Emerges

Lin Fan's roar was not a sound wave.

It was an invisible probe, a Law-piercing attack, compiled by him and Li Hanyue, precise to the extreme.

It ignored spatial distance and the obstruction of Chaos.

It precisely pierced into the deepest part of the vast, illusory body of the Refining Void Remnant Shadow.

There lay the ancient 'scar' that had been suppressed for eons and had long since fused with its Origin.

"Om—!"

A roar not belonging to the material world exploded in the depths of everyone's Souls.

Above the altar.

The vast body of the Refining Void Remnant Shadow, which had maintained an indifferent posture, for the first time, trembled violently.

It was no longer a simple distortion of Law.

Instead, it was an uncontrolled collapse, from the inside out.

Countless pitch-black cracks, deeper than the Void Realm, spread wildly across its surface.

From these cracks, what gushed out was no longer the relatively 'stable' Chaos Qi from before.

Instead, it was a more twisted, more tyrannical, pure 'Annihilation' Qi, filled with the meaning of destruction and ending.

The nature of the entire Burial Immortal Valley's 'pollution' completely changed at this moment.

If before it was like ink slowly spreading in clear water.

Then now, it was like pouring an entire bottle of sulfuric acid into this world.

Space was wailing, and Law was melting.

The Remnant Shadow was enraged.

Or rather, its suppressed, most primitive instinct was completely ignited.

A more terrifying will, far exceeding any previous one, locked onto Lin Fan.

This time, it was no longer a simple 'erasure'.

That will transformed into an invisible chain, following Lin Fan's Karma connection with this world, and began to frantically trace back to the past.

What it wanted to obliterate was not just the 'present' Lin Fan.

It wanted to completely strip the concept of Lin Fan's 'resurrection' itself from the rules of this world.

It wanted to find the 'source' that allowed him to die and be reborn, and completely pollute, assimilate, and define it as eternal Annihilation.

This was a deeper, more insoluble, fundamental 'death'.

Lin Fan's Immortal Soul, at this instant, felt an unprecedented suffocation.

It was an attack targeting 'rules' themselves, which even the 'Suicidal System' could not immediately react to.

His existence seemed to become a line of text in a book, and that power was about to burn this book, along with the author who wrote it... In Ice Crystal Valley.

Li Hanyue's delicate body suddenly stiffened.

The last trace of color on her cold and peerless jade-like face completely faded, turning as pale as ten-thousand-year Mystic Ice.

Through the Soul covenant, she felt it.

She felt that supreme and terrifying Annihilation will, tracing back to its Origin.

It was like a venomous snake, following the covenant, biting at the most core Origin mark of Lin Fan's repeated resurrections.

Once bitten, Lin Fan would no longer have the possibility of resurrection.

He would face true, eternal demise.

A panic more piercing than any before gripped her Divine Soul.

But, precisely in this extreme panic, an even more extreme resolve instantly engulfed everything.

The hazy mist in her beautiful eyes was instantly replaced by a burning Immortal light.

Her Taiyin Origin, her Mystic Ice Art, which she had Cultivated for a thousand years, at this moment, burned fiercely like a raging fire, without reservation.

That was not an outburst of power.

That was a sacrifice, turning everything of herself into fuel.

"You mustn't!"

A trace of bright red blood overflowed from her red lips, turning into the most enchanting blood-colored ice crystals in the extremely cold air.

Her will, her Dao of protection, all her emotions.

At this moment, they condensed into an unprecedented, pure concept.

Protection.

There were no enemies in front of her.

But all her power transformed into an invisible yet indestructible barrier.

That barrier did not block any external attacks.

It precisely, resolutely, lay before Lin Fan's Origin mark of resurrection.

It lay on the inevitable path of that tracing Annihilation will.

She used all of herself to build the last line of defense for him.

Using her 'existence' to block the 'Void Realm' that could swallow everything.

That Annihilation will violently collided with this barrier forged by Li Hanyue's burning life.

Li Hanyue's delicate body trembled violently.

She let out a muffled groan, and traces of blood seeped from all seven orifices.

Her Divine Soul seemed to be torn apart in this collision.

But that barrier held firm, not retreating an inch.

Her protection successfully bought Lin Fan that most crucial, fleeting moment... At the moment of being completely swallowed by that Annihilation will, Lin Fan was experiencing his third, and deepest, 'death'.

He felt his past being altered.

He felt his future being stripped away.

His existence was being 'forgotten' by the world's rules themselves.

However, amidst this ultimate Annihilation.

Li Hanyue's all-burning protective will, like a scorching light, forcibly illuminated his consciousness that was about to extinguish.

He 'saw' her.

He 'felt' her desperate resolve.

That warm current, mixed with heartache and an indescribable surge, washed over his Immortal Soul.

Immediately after.

He used this hard-won, final moment.

He completely submerged all his consciousness into this 'death' itself.

He no longer resisted.

He actively embraced and analyzed the Law of 'Annihilation'.

His Supreme Origin Dao Unraveling operated at an unprecedented speed.

He infinitely pulled, collided, and fused the two opposing concepts of 'life' and 'death', 'existence' and 'Void Realm', within his consciousness.

A brand new door, leading to a higher Realm, burst open in his heart.

So that's how it is.

The so-called Void Refining... is not simply controlling the Void Realm.

Instead, it is creating 'rules' within the Void Realm.

It is defining 'eternity' within annihilation.

The 'Annihilation' of that Remnant Shadow is a Dao.

And his 'resurrection' is also a Dao.

The moment he completely understood this point.

His Heavenly Dao fragments shone brightly.

The 'Suicidal' System finally found its anchor point and restarted.

Resurrection, beginning... In Burial Immortal Valley.

Within the pure Annihilation Void Realm that enveloped Lin Fan.

A speck of light reappeared.

But this time.

The moment the light speck lit up, the tyrannical Annihilation Qi around it, capable of tearing everything apart, actually surged back into the light speck like a tide.

It was not dispersed.

Instead, it was absorbed.

Lin Fan's figure rapidly reconstructed in the light.

His flesh and blood, his Immortal Soul, during the process of condensation, were like a red-hot branding iron, frantically absorbing the surrounding ice water, emitting sizzling sounds.

Those Annihilation Laws that could instantly obliterate Spirit Transformation Old Monster now became the best nourishment for him to reshape himself.

When Lin Fan's figure, for the third time, appeared completely in its original spot.

All distorted Laws and tyrannical Qi in the hundred-zhang space around him were swept away.

That space returned to purity.

It was even more stable and clearer than before the anomaly in Burial Immortal Valley.

A phenomenon of 'anti-purification' appeared, centered around Lin Fan.

Above the altar.

The vast body of the Refining Void Remnant Shadow completely froze.

The hideous Law cracks on its surface, spewing Annihilation Qi, not only did not heal but became even clearer and deeper.

It was as if each of Lin Fan's resurrections was using an invisible carving knife to reopen and deeply engrave its 'scar'.

Its power was continuously being consumed by Lin Fan's 'counterattack'.

All the Spirit Transformation Old Monster clinging to life were dumbfounded.

Their eyes were wide like brass bells, and their mouths were open wide enough to fit their fists.

What did they see?

That man, after enduring that deadly attack capable of tracing back to the Origin.

Lived again, for the third time.

Moreover, he not only lived.

He seemed to have seized some power from that death.

The place where he stood became a pure land of its own.

This was no longer a miracle.

This was a divine miracle.

A divine miracle capable of completely pulverizing all the worldviews they had established throughout their lives of Cultivation.

Their despair, though still thick and unyielding.

But right within that dark abyss of despair, a tiny, almost negligible seed called 'hope' quietly fell.

Perhaps... this monster named Lin Fan really can...

Just then.

The Refining Void Remnant Shadow, which had been frozen, slowly turned its hollow 'eyes' made of Chaos towards Lin Fan.

A chaotic yet extremely threatening thought, for the first time, clearly swept through the minds of everyone present.

"Anomaly..."

"How..."

"Undying?"

This was no longer an instinctive roar.

This was a genuine, incomprehensible question from an ancient will.

With the appearance of this question.

Deep beneath Burial Immortal Valley, from within that crack, a power far more terrifying and profound than before began to slowly awaken.

It was as if this enraged program, after multiple failed attempts to eliminate the virus, finally decided to use the lowest-level permission to format the entire hard drive.

Lin Fan landed, his body swaying slightly.

His first action was to immerse his mind into the Soul covenant.

"Hanyue!"

His voice carried a hint of unprecedented urgency and heartache.

In Ice Crystal Valley.

Li Hanyue's delicate body, burning with Immortal light, suddenly went limp the moment Lin Fan resurrected, slumping to the ground.

The disappearance of the protective barrier caused her to suffer a terrifying backlash.

At this moment, her Qi was extremely weak, and her Divine Soul was covered in spiderweb-like cracks, as if it could shatter at any moment.

Hearing Lin Fan's voice, she slowly opened her beautiful eyes, stained with blood, but a pale yet exquisitely beautiful, reassuring smile appeared on her lips.

"You... are fine... that's good..."

"Don't speak, steady your mind!"

Lin Fan's will, carrying an undeniable command, simultaneously poured an incomparably pure life Origin, freshly analyzed from the 'Annihilation' Law, mixed with the restorative power of his Supreme Origin Dao Unraveling, frantically into Li Hanyue's body.

He unreservedly opened up all his insights from his third death, his understanding of the true meaning of Void Refining, to her.

Li Hanyue's Divine Soul began to slowly stabilize under the nourishment of this power.

Her eyes sparkled with shock and enlightenment.

Their consciousnesses, once again, deeply fused.

The 'Order Domain' they had jointly constructed, after absorbing these insights, began to emit a faint but incomparably pure light.

That light, in this chaotic Burial Immortal Valley, was like a flickering candle.

Faint, yet possessing the supreme potential to purify all pollution.

While healing Li Hanyue, Lin Fan raised his head to meet the Remnant Shadow's 'scrutiny'.

He won.

He won this third gamble.

He also completely understood.

The core weakness of this Refining Void Remnant Shadow was not a lack of power.

Rather, it was its identity as the 'suppressed one'.

Its Origin was restricted and polluted by an even older, more powerful 'Suppression Law'.

All its attacks were twisted and deformed products under this restriction.

And his 'Suicidal System', capable of infinite resurrection, its rule priority seemed to subtly override this 'Suppression Law'.

Therefore, each of his resurrections objectively helped this Remnant Shadow to resist and analyze that 'Suppression Law'.

Each death was a reverse dismantling of the shackles on its body.

He found a way to completely defeat it.

The price would be an unprecedented, extreme risk.

He wanted to turn his next death into a key.

A key that could temporarily 'unlock' parts of the shackles on the Remnant Shadow.

Then, detonate all its power to impact that true 'cage' that had suppressed it for eons.

The moment this insane plan took shape in Lin Fan's mind.

His mind suddenly trembled.

An indescribable, bone-chilling coldness, without warning, rushed from his spine straight to his crown.

That was not the pressure from the Refining Void Remnant Shadow.

That was a gaze.

A gaze, incredibly vast, incredibly ancient, carrying endless majesty and cold 'malice'.

As if piercing through layers of time and space, passing through the endless Void Realm.

From an unimaginable, higher dimension, it fell upon him.

If the Refining Void Remnant Shadow was a chess piece on the board.

Then the owner of this gaze was the true 'chess player' holding the pieces.

He had been discovered.