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

Two pieces of information appeared side by side in his mind, and the omniscient rule began to deduce the possibilities of the two events.

If Nelly were in the Shadowmoon Realm, given the Shadowmoon Wolf King's seventh-tier speed rules and tracking ability, two months would be enough to lock onto the target, unless Nelly possessed some special means to interfere with tracking.

For example, as the embodiment of the will of the misty world, she can mobilize a trace of the mist's origin to conceal her tracks, or use her ability to control fate to evade pursuit.

If Nelly is in the Bone Tomb, the simultaneous occurrence of the Skeleton King's collection of fresh bones and the abnormal golden fluctuations could mean that Nelly is using the rules of the undead as cover, or... that she has reached some kind of agreement with the Skeleton King?

Halfway through the simulation, Lin Xiao suddenly noticed the feedback from the monitoring runes.

He gathered his thoughts and turned his attention to the outside of the cave.

Three figures are emerging from the depths of the lava rift.

The leader was a tall fire demon with dark gold skin, and the flames surrounding him were condensed and pure.

The sixth-tier Flame Demon King is just one step away from the seventh tier.

Two fifth-tier Flame Demon guards followed behind him, scanning their surroundings warily.

This sixth-tier individual is also the only sixth-tier individual currently in action under the command of the Dark Flame Overlord.

When the Dark Flame Overlord attacked the Wood Soul Domain, he left him in the Dark Flame Territory to prevent other forces from launching an attack.

Lin Xiao emerged from the cave, and the two stopped simultaneously at a distance of one hundred feet.

"You are the messenger of the Bloodvine?"

The dark golden fire demon's voice was deep, carrying a rumbling quality like flowing magma: "I am the first general under the Dark Flame Overlord, Molten Core. The Overlord is very interested in your information, but needs more details to prove its authenticity."

Without wasting words, Lin Xiao directly conjured an energy projection, which was a battle scene he had recorded using the Omniscient Rule when he was observing the war zone a couple of days ago.

In the image, the energy flow gaps at the joints of the Crystal Peak War Puppet are highlighted, the strengthening fluctuations of the Blood Vine Corrosion Rules are broken down into a visual spectrum, and the chaotic trajectory of the rules when the Flame Demon Legion was defeated is clearly visible.

The pupils of the molten core contracted slightly.

The precision of the information in these images far exceeds what ordinary reconnaissance methods can obtain. Even if the Dark Flame Overlord himself were to take action, he might not be able to analyze the rules of the battlefield in such detail.

"These are samples."

Lin Xiao dispersed the projection: "If the cooperation is successful, we can continue to provide similar real-time battlefield analysis, and we will also share all the movements of the Bloodvine Domain in the Eastern Theater Command in advance."

After a moment of silence, the molten core suddenly spoke up and asked, "Are you truly the messenger of the Bloodvine?"

Lin Xiao's heart skipped a beat, but he remained outwardly calm: "Why do you say that, Commander?"

"Among the Bloodvine Queen's subordinates, no fourth-tier cultivator possesses this level of rule analysis ability."

The molten core's single eye stared intently at Lin Xiao: "Furthermore, although you simulate the life rule fluctuations of the Blood Vine, deep within you... there is a more complex rule structure. That is definitely not the power of the Blood Vine lineage."

As expected, a peak sixth-tier expert is not so easily fooled.

Lin Xiao secretly assessed the situation. The omniscient rule was already scanning the energy flow of the molten core, searching for the best solution.

Just as Lin Xiao was about to make his move and the atmosphere was gradually freezing, Molten Core suddenly changed the subject: "However, who you are is not important. What is important is what you can offer and what you need."

The Flame Demons need to maintain their Darkflame Territory, while Lin Xiao needs to obtain Nelly's location. At least for now, their goals do not conflict.

Moreover, Lin Xiao was even hoping that the atmosphere in the Dark Sun Forest would be even more chaotic.

The Flame Demon King stepped forward and lowered his voice, saying, "The Overlord asked me to convey that if you can help the Dark Flame Domain stabilize the eastern front over the next three months and find a way to weaken the Crystal Peak Domain's defenses, then the Dark Flame Domain can provide you with intelligence about that golden target!"

Lin Xiao's eyes narrowed slightly: "A golden target?"

How did he know that it was my target?

Two months ago, the Shadowmoon Wolf King went mad searching throughout the Dark Sun Forest for a target that emitted a golden aura.

"At first we thought it was some kind of treasure appearing in the world, but we later discovered that the target seemed to have extremely high stealth and displacement abilities, and could even temporarily shake off the pursuit of a seventh-level enemy."

Molten Core said, "Seven days ago, our sentries in the Bone Tomb area reported back that a similar golden fluctuation was detected again near the Lake of Decay on the southwestern edge of the Bone Tomb."

"But when our people arrived, this was all they found."

He took out a red grain of sand from his pocket; clearly, the yellow grain of sand did not belong to the Dark Flame Forest.

Looking at the grain of sand, Lin Xiao was startled: "Isn't this the red sand from the Red Sand Domain?"

Lin Xiao vaguely remembered that he had given the Crimson Sand Set to Nelly, and the Crimson Sand he saw now was something that was an extension of the Crimson Sand Set.

Lin Xiao took the Red Sand, and the Omniscient Rule was fully activated.

The analysis results quickly appeared:

[Crimson Sand: Contains traces of Crimson Sand Domain rules and fortune manipulation. The source of the fortune rules is 92.6% at the same frequency as the origin of the Misty World. The Crimson Sand Domain trajectory points to 72 random coordinates, all of which are misleading signals. Crimson Sand Generation Time: 6 days and 13 hours ago. Status: Expired decoy.]

This is bait.

Lin Xiao immediately understood that Nelly was not only evading the pursuit of the Misty World, but she was also actively releasing misleading signals to lead the pursuers in the wrong direction.

This red sand is one of the smoke bombs she left behind.

"Where did you find this?" Lin Xiao asked.

"Thirty miles west of the Lake of Decay, in a forest of withered trees polluted by the aura of the dead, our people discovered three similar patches of red sand there, all emitting faint golden fluctuations, but nothing else."

Molten Core said, "The Shadowmoon Wolf King also searched that area on the same day, but found nothing as well."

Lin Xiao put away the Crimson Sand, quickly analyzing in his mind: "Did Nelly deliberately leave traces at the edge of the Bone Tomb Domain to lure the pursuers to the Bone King's territory? Or did she really stay there before, but left early?"

"I need to go and see the Lake of Decay," Lin Xiao decided.

"Can."

Molten Core nodded: "But that area is now on the edge of the Skeleton King's territory. Although the old skeleton mainly focuses on collecting fresh bones, the undead legions patrolling the border are not to be trifled with. If you're going, you'd better be careful."

The two sides also discussed some details of the cooperation.

The Molten Core, representing the Dark Flame Domain, agreed to maintain symbolic pressure on the Blood Vine Domain on the eastern front, while Lin Xiao promised to provide an attack plan targeting the joint weaknesses of the Crystal Peak War Puppet within ten days.

After the deal was struck, Molten Core left with his guards.

But after the molten core left, Lin Xiao turned his attention to it: "Perhaps... there's a chance to recruit this guy, along with its entire clan, into the Myriad Spirits Alliance!"

After a moment of hesitation, Lin Xiao turned and left.

The Lake of Decay is located in the southwest of Darksun Forest, at the intersection of the Bone Mound Domain, the Poison Swamp Domain, and the Shadowmoon Domain.

The environment here is even harsher than in the Dark Flame Domain.

The lake water was a viscous, dark green, with decaying plants and the skeletons of unknown creatures floating on its surface.

Twisted, dead trees grow along the lake shore, their branches reaching towards the sky like dying arms.

The air was filled with the aura of the dead, a mixture of corpse poison and some kind of mental pollution. Ordinary fourth-tier powerhouses would begin to hallucinate if they stayed here for more than an hour.

When Lin Xiao arrived, it was already late at night. The sky over the Dark Sun Forest was always shrouded in dark red, with no stars, only the eerie light brought by the occasional turbulent flow of rules.

Strangely, the ground of the Dark Sun Forest, unlike other territories, is not shrouded in mist at night.

Lin Xiao hovered in the air a hundred meters away from the lake shore. The rule of all things returning to their source formed a filtering barrier around him, keeping harmful odors out.

The omniscient rules scan the entire area like radar, not missing a single abnormal fluctuation.

The lake was eerily calm, without even a ripple.

In the withered forest on the shore, pale skeletons could be vaguely seen half-buried in the black soil, with eerie green flames flickering in their eye sockets.

Lin Xiao first located the deadwood forest mentioned by the molten core.

There were indeed faint rule disturbances remaining there. The omniscient rule extracted seven similar red sand grains from the soil, dead wood, and air, all of which were ineffective decoys.

"The technique is very professional."

Lin Xiao assessed: "The spatial warp trajectories are meticulously designed to spread out in a network, with each trajectory pointing in a different direction. Three of them even point to the void turbulence zone outside the Dark Sun Forest."

"If it were an ordinary tracker, they would have been completely confused by these misleading signals long ago."

"It seems Nelly has grown quite a bit during this time!"

But Lin Xiao is no ordinary follower.

The rule of universal convergence begins to reverse-analyze these spatial trajectories, while the rule of omniscience filters out the true possibilities from a massive amount of interfering information.

An hour later, Lin Xiao came to a preliminary conclusion: all the bait fragments were generated at the same time, which was about seven days ago at noon.

The generation method uses a high-precision rule replication technology to split the original trace of fortune rule aura into hundreds of parts, and inject them into preset spatial warp coordinates.

"This means that Nelly herself wasn't here at the time."

Lin Xiao pondered: "She is remotely controlling the release of these decoys, and there are likely more than just this one release point."

He expanded the scanning range to include all regular disturbances within a radius of 300 kilometers in the analysis.

Sure enough, similar, but more concealed, bait remnants were found in five other directions around the decaying lake.

The release times of these baits varied slightly, with the earliest being twelve days ago and the latest four days ago, forming a misleading network spanning eight days.

"She is carrying out a long-term and planned disruption deployment."

Lin Xiao's eyes lit up: "This means that she has been hiding in a fixed location in the Dark Sun Forest for at least twelve days, and has enough resources to set up these smoke bombs."

So, where is that fixed location?

Lin Xiao began to build the inference model.

He input the coordinates, time, and rule strength of all bait release points into the model.

Combining the rule distribution of the nine domains of the Dark Sun Forest, the stability of the spatial structure, the concentration of the mist's origin, and other factors, the omniscient rule begins to calculate the most likely hiding place.

The simulation lasted for a full three hours.

During this time, Lin Xiao encountered three waves of patrolling undead soldiers. Although they were all low-level skeletons, he easily avoided them.

On another occasion, the lake surface in the distance suddenly rippled, and a huge skeletal water monster poked its head out, its eerie green eyes gazing in Lin Xiao's direction for a moment before slowly sinking back into the water.

Lin Xiao concealed his aura, not wanting to disturb it.

Finally, the results of the deduction emerged.

A holographic projection unfolded in front of Lin Xiao, showing a simplified map of the Dark Sun Forest.

Nine areas are marked with different colors, and thousands of decoy signal points are scattered like stars, but 70% of them are concentrated in three areas.

The western part of Shadowmoon Realm, the southern part of Bone Tomb Realm, and... the central part of Dream Realm.

"Dream Realm?" Lin Xiao frowned.

The Nightmare Weaver is the most mysterious of the nine rulers, skilled in the rules of dreams and illusions.

Within her domain, reality and dreams intertwine, and the rules and structure are extremely complex, making it one of the most difficult areas to explore in the entire Dark Sun Forest.

If Nelly is hiding in the Dream Realm, it does explain why the Shadowmoon Wolf King's pursuit of her has been fruitless for two months.

In the territory of the Nightmare Weaver, any tracking method will be interfered with by the rules of the dream, and may even backfire on the tracker himself.

But the Dream Realm is equally dangerous.

While the Nightmare Weavers don't often participate in external conflicts, they show no mercy to intruders within their territory.

According to intelligence, more than 30 people have died mysteriously in their sleep, including two sixth-tier powerhouses.