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

The seven-colored energy ball was slowly pushed out from Lin Xiao's palm. The speed seemed slow, but in fact it had already locked onto all possible trajectories of Hei Jiu's body.

Within the omniscient rule's vision, Lin Xiao clearly marked all of Hei Jiu's weaknesses: the 3,700 energy paths within his body, the void of consciousness at the weak point of his soul, and the Qian Gui hub under his left scapula.

Hei Jiu sensed a deadly threat. This was the first time since he became a hunter that he had felt such pure killing intent and precise targeting from an opponent of the same level.

"Rule Reconstruction: The Wall of Ten Thousand Streams!"

Hei Jiu roared, his hands moving rapidly in front of his chest. Three thousand seven hundred threads of rules retracted frantically, attempting to construct an absolute defensive barrier composed of layers upon layers of all the rules in front of him.

Thousands of different types of rule energy intertwine to form an impenetrable fishing net.

Flames and frost merge to form a temperature insulation layer, space and gravity combine to create a distorted barrier, and light and darkness alternate to create an energy annihilation zone.

This is Black Nine's ultimate defense, which, in theory, is sufficient to withstand any attack of level six or below.

However, under the gaze of the omniscient rules, the internal structure of this seemingly perfect defensive barrier is revealed as if magnified by a microscope.

[Analysis of the defensive barrier's structure: 3,700 kinds of rule-based energy intertwine, with 4,321 energy convergence nodes inside]

[Node stability assessment: 97.8% of nodes experienced minor fluctuations due to rule conflicts]

[Optimal breakthrough path calculation in progress... Calculation complete: It is recommended to attack the following seventeen key nodes in the following order...]

The information flow was processed instantly within Lin Xiao's consciousness.

The colorful energy ball suddenly changed speed in the air, no longer rushing in a straight line, but moving forward along a strange spiral trajectory.

It first grazed the upper left of the defensive wall, where twenty-seven rules converge, among which the rules of light refraction and dark absorption are in natural conflict.

A ray of golden light separated from the surface of the energy sphere and precisely injected into the point of conflict.

"Click."

A barely audible cracking sound rang out, and the color of that small section of the defensive wall instantly dimmed by 30%.

Immediately afterwards, the energy ball swooped down to the lower right, and suddenly stopped just before impact, peeling off seven thin threads of different colors from the surface of the ball, which pierced into seven different nodes like scalpels.

Those are all transportation hubs that must be passed through when various rules of energy flow.

"Sizzle—!"

Inside the defensive barrier, a piercing sound of chaotic energy emanated, and the regular flow of energy began to stagnate in large areas.

Hei Jiu's expression suddenly changed drastically. He frantically mobilized his energy to try to repair the defensive barrier, but the omniscient rules had already predicted every repair move he made.

Under Lin Xiao's precise control, the seven-colored energy ball was like a top surgeon performing an extremely delicate operation. Each contact perfectly disrupted the key connections of the defense system, while avoiding triggering a large-scale energy backlash.

ten seconds.

In just ten seconds, the theoretically indestructible Myriad Flow Wall had more than 60% of its structure disintegrated from the inside!

"Impossible... This is absolutely impossible..."

Hei Jiu's voice finally trembled: "How could you possibly see through the trajectory of all the rules?!"

"Because I can see everything in the world."

Lin Xiao's voice was calm and even. The instant he finished speaking, the seven-colored energy ball suddenly accelerated, transforming into a streak of light, and pierced straight at the last and weakest point of the defensive barrier.

That is the mapping point of the void in Hei Jiu's consciousness on the external defense!

At the same time, Lin Xiao made a fist with his left hand, and more than 800 items in the Eternal Domain erupted simultaneously!

The Gravity Gloves created localized gravity anomalies to interfere with Hei Jiu's energy gathering. The phantom of the Devouring Shield pounced on the rule threads that tried to return to help, and the Ever-Changing Ring simulated hundreds of chaotic energy attacks in an attempt to disrupt Hei Jiu's perception and judgment.

This is a comprehensive suppression guided by the omniscient rules, with every move precisely timed to the critical moment when Black Nine launches its attack.

"No--!"

Hei Jiu let out a final roar, pouring all the remaining rule energy into the defensive barrier in an attempt to make his last stand.

But it's too late.

The seven-colored energy ball pierced through the final barrier of the defensive wall without any hindrance, just like a hot knife cutting into butter. At the moment of penetration, the internal structure of the ball changed.

The seven-element rule energy on the outer layer contracted inward, compressing the core's rules of shattering and annihilation to their extreme.

Then, it suddenly erupted just three feet away from Hei Jiu's brow.

There were no earth-shattering explosions.

That was an even more bizarre phenomenon of annihilation.

The seven-colored light rippled outwards like water, and wherever it passed, the regular threads shattered inch by inch, the energy paths collapsed one after another, and even the space itself began to show fine glass-like cracks.

Hei Jiu's body froze on the spot.

He looked down at his chest, where a hole the size of a fist had appeared. The edges of the hole were as smooth as a mirror, and no blood flowed out, because all matter was completely annihilated the moment it came into contact with the edge of the hole.

Even more frightening is that this void is slowly but irresistibly spreading outwards.

"So... this is the true power of rules..."

Hei Jiu murmured, the two eerie lights beneath his hood rapidly dimming: "Not quantity... but... depth and... control..."

His voice grew weaker and weaker, and his body began to dissipate into specks of light from the edges.

The three thousand seven hundred threads of rules, like a spider web that had lost its support, began to break, scatter, and eventually vanish into nothingness.

Black Nine, the Tier 5 Regulator, has fallen!

But what made Lin Xiao frown was that a faint light suddenly shot out from the body of the hunter who had just died.

Lin Xiao could clearly see that the faint light revealed Hei Jiu's calm expression.

Then, in the blink of an eye, the faint light disappeared into the higher layers of mist.

Lin Xiao wanted to stop him, but the light was moving too fast.

However, this also reminded Lin Xiao of the situation when he attacked and killed the fourth-tier hunter.

Every regulator at that time seemed certain that their death was a rebirth.

Therefore, they were very peaceful about death.

However, given Lin Xiao's current understanding of the Misty World, he would need to go further to gain a more detailed understanding of what lies behind it.

Even the omniscient rules cannot see through the situation behind this.

Lin Xiao hovered quietly in the void, looking at the place where Hei Jiu had completely disappeared. Apart from that faint light, there were only a few wisps of energy remnants that had not completely dissipated.

The omniscient rules automatically collect combat data.

The energy flow pattern at the last moment of Black Nine, the chain reaction of the collapse of rules, the trajectory of the dissipation of the soul, and so on.

All of this information was recorded, analyzed, and archived, becoming part of Lin Xiao's combat experience database.

The target has completely lost all vital signs.

[Rule parsing complete: Obtained a complete rule graph ×1 (containing 3,700 shallow rule structures)]

[The trajectory of the dissipated soul has been recorded: This can be used to deduce the weaknesses of soul-related rules.]

"Did you get a loot item?"

Lin Xiao exclaimed in surprise, then let out a long sigh of relief and slowly withdrew the Eternal Domain.

This battle may seem easy, but it was actually extremely costly.

The continuous operation of the Omniscient Rule places an extremely heavy burden on mental strength. The intense battle of the past ten minutes had already made him feel a slight sense of fatigue from the depths of his consciousness.

But the rewards were also enormous.

He not only verified the terrifying effect of the omniscient rule in actual combat, but more importantly...

Lin Xiao did not immediately return to the Eternal Alliance, but instead sat cross-legged in the void to digest the gains from this battle.

The omniscient rules slowly began to operate, and the complete rule diagram that had just been deciphered from Hei Jiu in his mind began to unfold.

It's not just a simple list, but a three-dimensional, dynamic diagram of the energy structure.

There are 3,700 rules, each represented by a different colored filament. The filaments are connected by fine lines, representing the interaction between the rules.

Some rules enhance each other (such as fire and explosion), some rules restrain each other (such as water and fire), and some rules can produce wonderful combined effects (such as the superposition of gravity and space can create a small black hole effect).

In Hei Jiu's hands, these rules were simply combined and used crudely, like a child wielding thousands of toy swords of different shapes.

Although the number looks intimidating, each sword is not sharp enough, and the wielding trajectories are chaotic.

But through the analysis of the omniscient rule, Lin Xiao saw something deeper.

"Rules... are essentially a kind of authority to interfere with the underlying logic of the world."

Lin Xiao closed his eyes in deep thought: "The reason why superficial rules are superficial is not because they are weak, but because users only touch upon their most superficial applications."

"For example, the Fire Rule. Black Nine can only use it to launch fireballs and increase temperature. But in the omniscient view, the deep structure of the Fire Rule contains a series of complex principles such as energy conversion, particle agitation, and the breaking and recombination of chemical bonds..."

Lin Xiao's consciousness was immersed in the analysis of the rule graph.

Gradually, he gained new insights.

"My eternal realm... is essentially the embodiment of the rules of 'creation' and 'manifestation.' The strength of the realm depends on what I can manifest and how I manifest it."

"I relied too much on the templates of the items before. The Demon-Slaying Shield was a shield, the Star-Breaking Twin Blades were blades, and the Ever-Changing Ring was about transformation. But why must we be confined to fixed forms?"

Lin Xiao opened his eyes, and the Eternal Domain unfolded naturally.

This time, he did not materialize any known items.

Within the domain, a seven-colored halo flowed, and countless points of light twinkled like stars.

With a thought, one of the points of light began to change.

It doesn't transform into swords and shields, but rather into a pure, sharp rule, without any physical form, only a concept.

Then, the second point of light transformed into a speed rule, and the third into a penetration rule...

However, the rules that had initially emerged quickly turned into a wisp of smoke.

Subsequently, all the rules that Lin Xiao had conjured were shattered.

"This...is it a failure?"

Feeling the dissipating power of the rules, Lin Xiao murmured to himself.

"No! The idea is correct; the only thing missing is the method!"

"It feels like... something's missing..."

Lin Xiao frowned and pondered for a while, and finally thought of a talent that he had almost forgotten.

"projection!"

"No, perhaps we should call it materialization from now on!"

Previously, it could only project props that it could touch and see.

But now that I can project what I imagine into my mind, then...

"To bring something to life through imagination—that is manifestation!"

With the support of the omniscient rule, Lin Xiao's thoughts raced faster and faster.

Suddenly, the progress of the talent source crystal, which was originally expected to take another six months to deconstruct, accelerated dramatically.

The progress of the Talent Source Crystal was advancing at a frantic pace.

Ultimately, it was decided within a very short timeframe.

"Seven days!"

"In seven days, I will receive the Talent Source Crystal again and upgrade the remaining Projection Talent to +2. Even the Synthesis Talent can be further improved!"

Lin Xiao had a feeling that only when his two talents improved once again would he be able to truly manifest the rules within the Eternal Realm.

"Seven days is a long time; I can wait!"

"It's time to go back."

Lin Xiao stood up, took one last look at the spot where Hei Jiu had disappeared, and then turned and flew towards the Eternal Alliance.

What he didn't notice was that shortly after he left, a very faint wisp of black mist seeped out from the spatial rift in that void, hovering in the air several times as if it were alive, before quietly dissipating.

At the same time that Lin Xiao returned to the Eternal Alliance.

Deep within the fog, in a dimension beyond the comprehension of common sense.

There is no concept of up, down, left, or right here, no perception of the flow of time, only countless constantly changing chaotic color blocks and distorted geometric shapes.

Occasionally, a huge shadow would sweep across the chaos, casting a gaze that would freeze the soul.

This is the deepest part of the mist.

It is also the location of the fifth-ranked figure in the mist.

Since a branch of the Dark Eclipse Cult has been defeated here, he must give a conclusion no matter what.

In that space, three humanoid shadows were having a conversation.

Their forms constantly changed, sometimes resembling humans, sometimes some kind of multi-limbed creature, and sometimes transforming into pure dark masses.

"Do we really need to break all the seals on the ruins?"

"There might still be one last batch of survivor materials nearby!"

"What's sealed inside those ruins is a rebellious race that's been imprisoned there for hundreds of millions of years!"

"And now is the most crucial moment for our Lord! Are we really going to let a piece of trash from the Seventy-Seventh Branch Church affect our Lord's plans?"

The two figures below were engaged in a heated conversation.

If anyone else were here, they would immediately sense that the two figures below were also eighth-tier beings, just like the Golden King.

And the figure at the very top...

His strength has reached the ninth level, clearly making him someone who can influence a small part of the universe with a single thought.