225: The Spiritual Eye that can break through delusion, did she see it?

Deep within the Fallen Soul Valley, inside a secluded mountain cave.

Lin Fan sat cross-legged, the majestic aura belonging to the Refining Void Realm circulating around him like a tide, finally slowly converging into his Dantian Qi Sea, completely stabilizing.

He opened his eyes, and a flash of sharp light quickly disappeared from their depths.

This period of over twenty days of reckless self-destruction had brought him unimaginable benefits.

Now, based purely on his true combat power, he was no weaker than any of the top Prodigies on the island.

On the other side of the cave, Liu Qingqing was silently organizing the Medicinal Pills in her Storage Pouch.

Her movements were light, and she occasionally glanced at Lin Fan with a complicated expression.

From initial terror to subsequent worry, and now, numbness.

She could no longer understand this Elder Lin at all.

He always created miracles in desperate situations, and yet, in the very next moment, he would place himself in an even deeper predicament.

The mysteries surrounding him were growing in number and becoming heavier.

Suddenly.

Lin Fan's eyebrow twitched almost imperceptibly.

Just a moment ago, he felt an extremely subtle sense of being spied upon, one that carried the implication of being locked onto, sweep over him.

The feeling was fleeting, almost like an illusion.

But his currently keen Divine Soul still accurately captured that trace of anomaly.

Someone was using a Secret Technique to track him.

Lin Fan felt no tension in his heart.

Instead, the blood belonging to the Reckless Self-Destruction Maniac, which had been quiet for a moment, began to slightly boil.

He had been fishing for so long.

Was a big fish finally going to take the bait?

He slowly stood up, walked to the mouth of the cave, and looked out towards the valley.

The expression on his face was still the heavy one of an impending storm.

But deep within his eyes, a flame named excitement was burning fiercely.

"Qingqing, I'm afraid we're in trouble."

He turned his head and said solemnly to Liu Qingqing.

"It seems like people have surrounded this place outside, and they mean us harm."

Hearing this, Liu Qingqing's face instantly turned pale, and the Medicinal Pill bottle in her hand nearly dropped to the ground.

She nervously stood up.

"Then... then let's hurry and leave!"

"No."

Lin Fan shook his head.

His eyes flashed with a light mixed with madness and determination, something Liu Qingqing had never witnessed before.

"This time, we're not leaving."

"Right here, we'll play a big game with them."

He had already begun calculating rapidly.

To be personally led and ambushed by the Crown Prince of the Ten Thousand Demon Divine Dynasty—the top favorite to win the current trial's leaderboard—who had laid down a net inescapable as heaven and earth.

Finally, fighting with all his strength but failing, he would be blasted into dust by the opponent's Supreme Demonic Technique.

This death script... surely it would warrant an S-rank evaluation?

Perhaps there was even a chance to push for the legendary S+?

His gaze swept towards the distance.

There, a long, narrow Spatial Rift, like a scar across the sky, quietly floated mid-air, emitting chaotic and dangerous energy.

The perfect stage was set... Rumble!

The entire Fallen Soul Valley began to shake violently.

Streams of incomparably powerful Demonic Qi soared up from all directions, forming a gigantic curtain that completely sealed off the entire valley.

"???

Get out here and die for this Prince!"

A cold and strange voice, like the Chilling Wind of the Nine Nether, resounded throughout the world.

In the center of the valley, atop the Throne piled high with countless skeletons, Yao Tianqi slowly stood up, his black and gold Dragon Robe billowing without wind, looking down upon everything below.

Behind him, experts from the Ten Thousand Demon Divine Dynasty, including Niu Mang, each took their positions, their fierce eyes scanning every inch of the land.

The inescapable net was already cast.

"Elder Lin!"

Liu Qingqing's voice was tearful as she tightly grasped Lin Fan's sleeve.

Lin Fan pulled her out of the cave, his face displaying an appropriately resolute and tragic expression.

"If you want to kill me, it won't be that easy!"

He roared, pulling Liu Qingqing, and frantically attempted to break out in one direction.

"Over there!"

Niu Mang bellowed gruffly, immediately turning into a streak of light and chasing after them.

A game of hunting and being hunted officially commenced.

Lin Fan appeared to be fleeing recklessly, but in reality, every step he took was precisely calculated in terms of direction and distance.

He led Liu Qingqing, charging left and right through the valley, narrowly escaping the Ten Thousand Demon Divine Dynasty's encirclement every single time before it could close.

This further solidified the judgment in the hearts of Yao Tianqi and the others that this person must possess some kind of Secret Treasure for Avoiding Misfortune and Seeking Good Luck.

During the chase, Yao Tianqi's patience gradually wore thin.

He looked at the slippery figure, like a loach, and a cruel sneer appeared on his handsome face.

"Playing such petty tricks in front of this Prince?"

"Force him into the 'Soul Shattering Abyss' for this Prince!"

The Soul Shattering Abyss he mentioned was precisely the final stage Lin Fan had chosen—that massive Spatial Rift.

Following Yao Tianqi's command, the encirclement began to shrink.

Streams of violent Demonic Techniques rained down from the sky, continuously compressing Lin Fan's dodging space.

Finally, Lin Fan was "forced" to the edge of the Soul Shattering Abyss.

Ahead was the bottomless Spatial Rift that devoured everything.

Behind him were Yao Tianqi, sneering and pressing closer step by step, along with his Yao Race army.

Despair.

This was a complete and utter dead end.

Liu Qingqing looked at the rift emitting destructive energy, her body trembling like a leaf in the wind.

Lin Fan shielded her behind him, his chest heaving violently, appearing as if his Spiritual Energy was exhausted, staring intently at Yao Tianqi.

Inside, however, he was ecstatic.

It's coming, it's coming!

The S-rank evaluation was beckoning to him!

Yao Tianqi slowly stepped forward, his eyes like those watching prey already caught in a net.

"Run."

"Why aren't you running now?"

"This Prince is very curious, who exactly are you, that you could hide for so long under the pursuit of my Ten Thousand Demon Divine Dynasty."

Lin Fan did not reply.

His plan had reached its final step.

But just as he was about to stage the scene of being forced to jump off a cliff, the corner of his eye suddenly caught sight of a figure that shouldn't have been there.

On the opposite side of the Soul Shattering Abyss, atop a solitary cliff.

A woman dressed in Plain White Palace Attire stood quietly there.

Her figure was peerless, her temperament cool and aloof, as if she didn't belong to this blood-colored world, but was a Fairy who had walked out of the cold Moon Palace.

There was no expression on her face, and her eyes were clear, profound, and indifferent.

Those eyes were staring straight at Lin Fan.

Lin Fan's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Who was this woman?

When did she get there?

Something was wrong.

Very wrong.

Under the woman's gaze, Lin Fan felt, for the first time, as if he had been stripped naked, seen through completely inside and out.

It was as if all his disguises and all his plans had become transparent jokes before those eyes.

Yao Tianqi also noticed the woman; he frowned but quickly dismissed her.

In his view, she was just an irrelevant passerby.

"Not speaking?"

Yao Tianqi sneered, raising his hand to launch a pitch-black Demonic Claw, aiming to seize Lin Fan's head.

"Then this Prince will personally tear off your face and see what you really are!"

The chance is here!

Lin Fan shouted inwardly, but his face showed an expression of despair and madness.

He abruptly pushed Liu Qingqing away.

"Hurry and go!"

Then, he turned around, seemingly ready to fight Yao Tianqi to the death.

Yet his movements appeared so clumsy under the pressure of the Demonic Claw.

His foot "accidentally" tripped on a protruding rock.

His body instantly lost balance.

His entire body "missed its footing" and plummeted toward the Soul Shattering Abyss behind him.

"No!"

Liu Qingqing let out a mournful shriek.

Yao Tianqi's Demonic Claw grasped nothing; he stared at Lin Fan falling into the rift, froze for a moment, and then flew into a rage.

"Want to die? It won't be that easy!"

He roared, about to rush over and retrieve Lin Fan's corpse.

However, just as Lin Fan's body was about to be swallowed by the Spatial Rift.

His final gaze locked onto the white-robed woman on the cliff.

He clearly saw.

From the woman's pupils, an incomparably brilliant Divine Light suddenly burst forth, like the Birth and Death of a Galaxy.

A power that surpassed his cognitive limits, penetrating the Law and reaching straight to the Soul Origin, instantly swept over his entire body.

Almost simultaneously.

In Lin Fan's mind, the System's warning tone sounded, unprecedentedly urgent and carrying an ultimate warning.

[Warning! Law-Level Prying detected. Disguise Protocol initiated!]

The next second, Lin Fan's consciousness was swallowed by endless chaos and tearing.

[Ding!]

[Host was forced to plummet into a Spatial Rift under the dual gaze of the Crown Prince of the Ten Thousand Demon Divine Dynasty and a mysterious powerhouse, dying from Spatial Turbulence strangulation!]

[Method of death is extremely tragic, the process highly dramatic, attracting the attention of multiple Top-Tier Existences!]

[Death Evaluation: S-rank!]

[Congratulations to the Host, you have received the reward: Spatial Law Fragment x1 (allows mastery of Elementary Teleportation ability), cultivation level increased to Mid-stage Refining Void!]

...Ten thousand miles away from the Fallen Soul Valley, in a hidden, uninhabited mountain valley.

The air slightly fluctuated, and Lin Fan's figure appeared out of thin air.

A majestic force exploded within him, directly boosting his cultivation level from the Early Stage of Void Refining to the Middle Stage of Void Refining Realm.

An esoteric understanding of Spatial Law was also deeply imprinted upon his Divine Soul.

With a thought, his body instantly vanished from its spot, appearing Ten Zhang away the next moment.

Teleportation!

"An S-rank evaluation... truly generous!"

Lin Fan suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, feeling the brand-new power.

However, the joy lasted only for a moment before being replaced by a deep chill.

He recalled the scene just before he fell.

That white-robed woman.

Those eyes that could see through everything.

And the System's unprecedented warning.

[Law-Level Prying]... This woman is definitely a huge problem!

What exactly did she see?

Lin Fan organized his thoughts, calmed his agitated mood, and stepped toward the mouth of the cave.

But just as he reached the entrance, his entire body froze in place.

His pupils suddenly contracted.

He saw that at the entrance of the valley.

That peerless white-robed figure was standing quietly there, as if she had been waiting for a long time.

The cold moonlight shone upon her.

She raised her head, and her indifferent yet profound eyes crossed the distance of the entire valley, meeting Lin Fan's gaze once again.