Survival for All: I can deconstruct projections and synthesize everything.

After the black giant finished doing all this, he immediately reported it to his master.

Although he did not receive a reply from his master, the giant knew that what he had done had made his master very satisfied.

Then, the black giant glanced at the initial ruins one last time before closing one eye to rest.

The ruins returned to silence once more.

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Lin Xiao returned to her safe house and sat down in a chair.

While pondering the scene in the ruins, I calmed myself down.

"Was that... fifth rank? Or sixth rank?" Lin Xiao thought back to the giant's head.

Just by looking at a part of the whole picture, one can get a sense of the size of the giant's figure from the size of its head.

"And that 'sun,' does the Misty World really have a sun?" Lin Xiao recalled the last message the deconstructed information had given him.

"Deconstructing the Black Sun: Estimated deconstruction timeframe: 100 years. Should we proceed with the deconstruction?"

"Yes!" Lin Xiao uttered a single word softly.

Soon, the countdown to the deconstruction began.

"Black Sun..." But Lin Xiao clearly remembered that the sun was exactly the same as the one he had seen in the original world.

"Deconstructing the Ruins Territory Steward: Estimated deconstruction time: 1 year. Deconstruction proceeds?"

"yes!"

"The ruins steward..." Lin Xiao sighed softly.

Judging from the appearance, the black sun behind the giant's shadow is of a much higher rank than the so-called ruin steward.

Lin Xiao was lost in thought about the scene she had just witnessed in the ruins, and she didn't even notice when Sheng brought Qian to find her.

"Xiao! You're back!" It was Sheng who interrupted Lin Xiao's thoughts when he saw that Lin Xiao hadn't noticed them.

"Huh?" Lin Xiao was startled at first, then her gaze suddenly focused on Sheng, as if she had just come back to her senses.

Lin Xiao didn't even notice that his gaze had been unfocused while he was pondering the black sun.

"Oh, Sheng, you're here?" Lin Xiao finally came to her senses after being woken up by Sheng's voice.

Sheng and Qian were both very worried about Lin Xiao, since he had been missing for more than a week after he went out.

After comforting Sheng and Qian, Lin Xiao kicked them out of the safe house.

Lin Xiao opened the Fog System and began to look through things that had already been deconstructed but that he hadn't had time to examine.

Source crystal structure completed.

The first target was the source crystal, which had already been deconstructed several days ago.

However, the trading mall was unavailable at the time, and Lin Xiao was also afraid that taking out the Source Crystal would cause immutable changes to the ruins.

After all, even fourth-tier powerhouses needed Source Crystals back in the Wood Soul Domain, so it's estimated that Source Crystals are also a kind of hard currency in the Ruins.

"Source Crystal, a fragment of the world's core..."

Lin Xiao was shocked when he saw Yuan Jing's first words.

Lin Xiao suppressed her shock and continued reading.

"Source Crystals are fragments of the world's core, formed from a destroyed world. When a world is destroyed, its core also collapses."

"Depending on the rank of a world, the number of source crystals formed after its core collapses varies, but even the lowest number of source crystals is trillions."

The World Core possesses multiple uses, but its effects are greater for beings of higher power levels.

This includes, but is not limited to, cultivation, healing, breaking through realms, enhancing items, sudden enlightenment, refining rules, and trading currencies.

The word "wait" is quite clever, as Lin Xiao reads the introduction about Source Crystal.

"However, if one's strength level is below the fourth rank, they will be unable to extract the effects related to the world core from the source crystal."

"When a certain amount of Source Crystals is collected, along with a bit of luck, it will automatically transform back into the core of the world."

"It can turn back into the core of the world?" Lin Xiao looked at the words in surprise.

So he quickly flipped through the pages, but after several pages, he still couldn't find the specific data.

Lin Xiao had no choice but to abandon this plan. To turn the Source Crystal back into the core of the world would require more than just a little luck!

Thinking of luck, Lin Xiao suddenly slapped his forehead: "I wonder how Nelly, Sikong Xinyou, and Lü Qiao are doing."

Lin Xiao was "sent" out of the ruins and returned to the place where he first entered. If the others were also alright, they would probably return to the place where they first entered as well.

"Pah! What do you mean we have to survive for 15 days? It's only been 8 days, and the ruins have already sent us out!" Lin Xiao snorted, cursing the ruins for being inhuman.

After finally managing to roam freely in the ruins, they were either targeted by the ruins or driven out by them.

Lin Xiao ignored the giant's head and the black sun, and just cursed the ruins as his territory.

As she continued cursing, Lin Xiao sighed, "I hope the three of them will be safe."

Afterwards, Lin Xiao searched for the names of several people in private messages and sent them a few messages, but none of them replied.

While worried, Lin Xiao had no choice but to close the private chat.

"I was planning to find some items in the ruins and then look for something that could help me advance to the third tier. But it seems I'll have to look elsewhere." Lin Xiao shook his head.

There are no items in the world trading shop that can raise your strength to the third tier, which is to be expected, because if they had such items, they would have used them themselves long ago, so why would they need to sell them?

After arranging everything, Lin Xiao began to organize her gains.

Lin Xiao obtained the following items from the ruins: Tier 4 Mental Protection Potion, Tier 3 Explosive Crossbow, Unknown Tier, Rebirth Cross, Tier 3 Mist Skeleton Claw Gauntlets, 4 Mist Skeleton Beast Teeth, and Tier 4 Mental Control Skill Book.

We'll leave out the remaining unwanted Tier 3 items for now.

The psychotropic medication had already been taken by Lin Xiaogang when he first obtained it.

The main focus now is on other things.

For example, that book on mind manipulation skills.

Lin Xiao will need three more days to deconstruct this skill book.

"Hopefully, this skill book will allow me to use the mental energy stored in my mental energy storage necklace!"

As Lin Xiao spoke, he temporarily put the skill book away, planning to deconstruct it in three days, synthesize it, and then use it.

The remaining items, besides the Rebirth Cross, include the Explosive Crossbow, the Mist Bone Claw Gauntlet, and the stinger of the Azure Spirit Wasp.

Lin Xiao then combined all these items into the Mantis Blade and the Ever-Changing Ring.

As for the Rebirth Cross, Lin Xiao still put it in the system's inventory. The Mist System explained that the Rebirth Cross could be used automatically even when it was put into the system's inventory.