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

The Tide Swordsman hovered above Wood Soul City, the pale blue water light surrounding him already somewhat dimmed.

He glanced at the City Lord of Wood Soul City beside him, then looked at the two terrifyingly large figures amidst the vast army in the ruins in the distance, and finally sighed.

"Lord of the City, Brother Lin Xiao, I apologize."

The Tidebringer's voice carried a hint of weariness: "The Wilderness Council has sent a message for the third time urging me to return. They still need me to oversee things there. I... I have to go."

The city lord of Wood Soul City, though his expression was solemn, still nodded in gratitude, saying, "Thanks to the swordsman's invaluable assistance these past two days, the entire Wood Soul Domain will forever remember this kindness. Please travel carefully. If the Clear Stream Wilderness ever needs our help again, Wood Soul Domain will not hesitate to lend a hand!"

The Tide Swordsman waved his hand: "It's alright. If we have to say, a long time ago, Wood Soul Domain helped us in the Clear Stream Wilderness a lot. Besides, we're allies, aren't we?"

As soon as the Tide Swordsman finished speaking, his gaze fell on Lin Xiao, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

He could clearly sense that in just two days, the young man from the Eternal Alliance had a completely different aura.

It is not a simple increase in energy, but a deeper and more all-encompassing resonance of rules.

"Brother Lin Xiao, you..." The Tide Swordsman hesitated, unable to finish his sentence.

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "A slight breakthrough, swordsman, there's no need to worry. Leave the matter of the Wood Soul Domain to me from now on."

The Tidebringer gave Lin Xiao a deep look, then said nothing more.

With a flicker, he transformed into a streak of azure light, tearing through the void and hurtling towards the Clear Stream Wilderness, disappearing into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

With the departure of the Tide Swordsman, the defensive pressure above Wood Soul City suddenly increased.

Grum and Tiamat clearly noticed this change, and the two massive figures took a step towards Wood Soul City almost simultaneously.

"Finally, one less annoying bug is gone."

Tiamat's crimson vertical pupils flashed with a cruel light, and her ten-thousand-meter-long serpentine body writhed in the void, its dark golden scales reflecting an unsettling eerie light.

Grum, the giant figure formed from pure darkness, lowered slightly, his deep voice echoing across the battlefield like rolling thunder: "The barrier of the Faith Array has weakened. Today is the day Wood Soul City is destroyed."

The city lord of Wood Soul City's expression immediately became extremely solemn.

He looked at Lin Xiao and said urgently, "Brother Lin Xiao, the Tide Swordsman has left. I alone absolutely cannot withstand the combined attack of the two of them. The city's protective formation can only hold for another half an hour at most. If the sixth-tier battlefield in the void falls..."

"The city lord only needs to maintain the great formation."

Lin Xiao interrupted him, her voice calm yet carrying an undeniable confidence: "Those two, leave them entirely to me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xiao's figure disappeared from the spot.

The next instant, he appeared in the void outside Wood Soul City, blocking Grum and Tiamat's path.

Compared to those two enormous figures that blotted out the sky, Lin Xiao's figure appeared so small, but the seven-colored aura of rules flowing around him caused the atmosphere of the entire battlefield to freeze.

Grum's dark face was expressionless, but his deep pupils suddenly narrowed: "It's you... the human who commands the battlefield. You dare to stand alone in front of us?"

"Huh? You look kind of familiar to me?"

Tiamat scoffed, her forked tongue flickering: "Fifth rank? No… just an ant that barely broke through to the sixth rank. Do you think your breakthrough will change anything?"

Lin Xiao did not answer them.

He closed his eyes, then opened them again in an instant.

The rule of "All Things Return to the Flow" is activated!

An omniscient perspective unfolded like a tide, and every energy path, every rule node, and every subtle flaw in the combat habits of Grum and Tiamat was clearly presented in Lin Xiao's consciousness in the form of a three-dimensional image.

At the same time, the rules governing the manifestation of all things also quietly came into operation.

On the city wall of Wood Soul City, the leader of the Green Bamboo Demon and several fourth-tier Wood Soul Domain experts nervously looked up at the sky.

They could sense that the upcoming battle would determine the fate of the Wood Soul Domain.

"Can Lin Xiao really take on two opponents at once?"

A newly appointed elder of the Treant race asked in a trembling voice, "Those are two sixth-tier beings! Even the City Lord is absolutely no match for two experts of the same tier!"

The leader of the Green Bamboo Demons gripped the Green Bamboo Spear tightly and said in a deep voice:

"Believe him. You haven't seen him fight the leader of the Dark Eclipse Cult, nor have you seen how he killed two fifth-tier Crystal Devouring Elders in an instant."

He paused, then added, "And he's so much stronger now than he was back then."

The elder of the Treant race wanted to ask something more, but when he glanced around, he saw that the veteran experts who had experienced the battle in the Dark Sun Forest looked relieved.

It was as if they had absolute trust in Lin Xiao, who was in the void.

Before they finished speaking, the battle in the void had already broken out.

Tiamat was the first to make a move.

Its massive body appeared clumsy, yet its movements were as swift as lightning. Its snake tail, like a dark golden bolt of lightning, tore through the void and swept towards Lin Xiao's waist.

Wherever its tail passed, the space was compressed into visible ripples, and the Dragon Devouring Poison Mist followed closely, turning that area into an eerie dark green.

This attack contained the shattering rules of the Dragon-Eating Serpent clan's innate talent and the corrosive properties of Dark Erosion Energy. If an ordinary sixth-tier cultivator were hit head-on, they would be severely injured even if they didn't die.

However, Lin Xiao only raised her left hand.

The rule of manifesting all things was activated, and a circular shield with a diameter of no more than three meters appeared out of thin air.

The shield's surface is not metal, but rather composed of countless fine silver lines interwoven together, with pure refraction and dispersion rules flowing within the lines.

Imagine this item in your mind and set it as a sixth-tier item, then the deconstruction will be completed instantly.

Then, the shape of the prop is created through projection, and then the power of the rules is manifested by the rules of manifestation. Finally, the power of the rules is synthesized into the prop.

A Tier 6 item for Tiamat has been crafted.

The omniscient rules are also comprehensively analyzing everything about Tiamat.

[Based on the analysis of the omniscient rules: Tiamat's tail strike's core destructive power is concentrated at three points on its tip, with 73% of the energy being physical impact and 27% being rule-based erosion. It is recommended to materialize a mirror-like refraction shield to deflect the physical impact by 45 degrees, and to channel the rule-based erosion into the void turbulence through the dispersion of rules.]

The snake's tail lashed heavily against the silver shield.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

The silver patterns on the shield's surface suddenly lit up, and Tiamat's tail strike, with its terrifying power capable of shattering mountains, was strangely deflected upwards as if it had hit a slippery mirror.

At the same time, the attached Dragon Devouring Poison Mist and Dark Erosion Rules, like water flowing through a sieve, were broken down into countless fine streams by another set of patterns on the shield, silently seeping into the surrounding spatial rifts.

For the first time, a look of astonishment appeared in Tiamat's enormous vertical pupils.

Although it didn't use its full strength in this attack, it still used seven-tenths of its power, yet it was neutralized so easily.

"How is this possible?!" Tiamat roared, its serpentine body suddenly twisting, its blood-red maw opening wide, and a concentrated, dark golden breath gushing out.

This time, it used its primal power—Dragon's Breath, which contains the triple rules of devouring, corrosiveness, and poison, and is one of its most powerful attack methods.

Wherever the dark golden breath passed, the void seemed to be devoured by an invisible giant mouth, leaving a dark trail that could not be healed for a long time.

Lin Xiao remained standing in the same spot, her expression calm.

The omniscient rule has completed the trajectory of the breath, energy composition, and rule combination analysis 0.3 seconds in advance.

The rules of all things are reflected in a synchronous response.

He made a fist with his right hand, and a strangely shaped spear materialized in his palm.

The spearhead was as transparent as crystal, yet a wisp of leaping golden flame was sealed inside.

That was a wisp of the original projection of the Phoenix Flame Divine Fire, which, after being strengthened by integrating the rules of all things, was given the triple characteristics of purification, penetration, and explosion.

[Analysis of the weaknesses of the Dragon's Breath: There is a 0.02-second energy gap at the junction of the three rules. The core of the breath has an extremely high temperature but weak outer defenses. It is recommended to use high-penetration attacks to directly strike the core, so as to neutralize the corrosion through the purification rule and trigger an energy backlash through the explosion rule.]

Lin Xiao pulled his arm back, his body like a fully drawn bow, and then hurled the crystal spear.

The spear transformed into a golden streak of light, moving at a speed beyond the limits of perception.

It did not shoot at the breath itself, but precisely pierced a barely perceptible ripple in the dark golden energy field surrounding the breath.

"Pfft—"

A slight penetrating sound was heard.

The crystal spear pierced into the breath without any resistance, and the golden flames sealed within the spearhead suddenly erupted.

The purification and corrosion rules clashed violently, while the explosion rule acted as a fuse, instantly igniting the already unstable energy structure within the breath.

"BOOM—!!!"

The Dragon's Breath exploded in mid-air not far from Tiamat.

The dark golden energy surged back wildly, enveloping Tiamat's own head within it.

It let out a painful and furious roar, and several of the hard scales on its head were charred and rolled up, with purplish-black blood gushing out like a fountain.

"Tiamat!" Groom's deep roar echoed.

He finally stopped watching and realized that the human in front of him was no ordinary sixth-order being.

The shadow giant's body suddenly expanded, and endless darkness surged from within it, transforming into a giant hand that covered the sky, slamming down towards Lin Xiao's head.

This giant dark hand was not a simple physical attack; a miniature black hole-like vortex spun within its palm, emanating a terrifying suction force and an aura of annihilation.

This is Groom's signature ability, Dark Abyss Palm.

It can drag everything it touches—matter, energy, even rules—into the depths of darkness and annihilate it completely.

On the walls of Wood Soul City, all the spectators held their breath.

The power of this palm strike was several times more terrifying than Tiamat's attack just now; the entire void trembled and groaned under the force of the palm strike.

The city lord of Wood Soul City turned pale and muttered, "This is Grum's true strength... How will Brother Lin Xiao withstand it?"

The leader of the Green Bamboo Demons, his eyes fixed on the battlefield, suddenly whispered, "Look, Brother Lin Xiao is... laughing?"

In the void, facing that enormous, dark hand that blotted out the sky, Lin Xiao's lips did indeed curl into a slight smile.

From an omniscient perspective, the composition of the Dark Abyss Palm is crystal clear.

At its core is an unstable pseudo-black hole rule model, supported by 731 kinds of shallow rules of darkness, gravity, and devouring. The energy supply node is located at the third shadow rib below Groom's right scapula.

"A very flashy move."

Lin Xiao said softly, "It's just... a pity, it's too bulky."

He neither chose to confront directly nor dodge.

The rule of "all things returning to their source" is operating at full capacity.

Manifesting all things!

Twelve slender, silver-white nails appeared around Lin Xiao, each nail engraved with complex spatial sealing runes.

Merge everything!

Lin Xiao combined the unstable energy characteristics he had just analyzed from Tiamat's breath with a part of the penetration rule of the Green Bamboo Demon leader and injected it into the silver nail.

Omniscient Rules!

In an instant, the twelve most critical of the seven hundred and thirty-one support nodes of the Dark Abyss Palm were calculated.

"go."

The twelve silver nails transformed into streams of light, and at extremely tricky angles, they avoided the suction field in front of the giant dark hand and nailed into twelve inconspicuous shadowy folds on the edge of the giant hand.

Grum suddenly felt a momentary disruption in his connection with the Dark Abyss Palm.

The twelve silver nails were like sharp thorns piercing blood vessels, not only blocking the flow of some of the rule energy, but also creating a tiny gap in the balance of rules he had carefully constructed.

For a highly complex attack like the Dark Abyss Palm, which combines multiple rules, even a tiny gap can trigger a catastrophic chain reaction.

The pseudo-black hole vortex at the center of the giant dark hand suddenly went out of control and began to frantically devour the surrounding dark energy.

The structure of the giant hand itself began to disintegrate from the inside, and countless black cracks spread like a spider web.

Grum grunted, his massive figure staggering backward, a cloud of black mist exploding from his right shoulder.

That's a manifestation of the energy supply node being impacted by a backlash.

He had no choice but to forcibly sever his connection with the Dark Abyss Palm, allowing the terrifying attack to annihilate itself in mid-air, transforming into a dark storm that swept through the surrounding void.

After the storm, Lin Xiao remained suspended in the same spot, her clothes fluttering, and she was completely unharmed.

Dozens of uniquely shaped, rule-based creations floated around him.

There are rotating ice crystal prisms, leaping lightning networks, and ever-renewing vine barriers—all defensive measures that were preemptively manifested based on the omniscient rule, in response to potential attacks from Groom and Tiamat.

"He...he seems to have known all along how the other party would attack," a fourth-tier Wood Spirit elder from the Wood Soul Domain said in a trembling voice, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"Every time it's perfectly timed, every time it's resolved with minimal cost... This isn't a battle, it's more like..."

"It's like solving a problem."

The leader of the Green Bamboo Demons took over the conversation, his tone tinged with shock: "What we saw was him calmly writing down the solution steps after he already knew the answer."

The City Lord of Wood Soul City took a deep breath, and his gaze toward Lin Xiao completely changed.

He originally thought that after Lin Xiao broke through to the sixth level, it would be difficult enough if he could barely hold off one of them, but he did not expect such an overwhelming situation!

"Survivors... truly live up to their reputation... especially these... survivors who have fully matured!"