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

The underground river flows swiftly and is icy cold, carrying tiny fragments of rules—residues of rules washed in from all over the Dark Sun Forest.

Lin Xiao erected a thin, seven-colored shield, enveloping Nelly and himself within it, protecting them from the river's erosion.

The omniscient rules continuously scan the river ahead, planning the safest route.

Nelly closed her eyes, sensing the guidance of her destiny, and adjusted her direction from time to time.

"Turn left... There are three spatial rifts ahead; you need to detour..."

"There is a risk of collapse on the right-hand rock face, proceed quickly..."

"There is a regular vortex 300 meters below; you cannot sink..."

Under her guidance, the two avoided most of the dangers in the underground river.

Even so, the journey was still full of hardships.

The water pressure deep within the underground river was enough to crush the physical body of a fifth-tier expert, and fragments of rules in the water occasionally struck the shield, producing a piercing friction sound.

What's more troublesome is that some ancient creatures adapted to the harsh environment live in the underground river.

A hagfish, hundreds of meters long, leaped out of the darkness. It had no eyes and its body was covered with scales that could absorb the energy of the rules. It tore at the seven-colored shield with its jaws.

Lin Xiao had no choice but to use the manifestation rules to create a thunderous spear, which pierced through and repelled it.

Swarms of palm-sized corrosive jellyfish drifted by. Their bodies were transparent, and their tentacles secreted a mucus that could corrode space. Wherever they passed, even water would be temporarily evaporated.

Nelly used her newly restored luck talent to create a small-scale lucky deflection, causing the jellyfish swarm to inexplicably change direction and crash into the rock wall.

And so they traveled for a full hour through darkness and danger.

When a faint light appeared ahead, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

"arrive."

Lin Xiao was the first to break through the water and land on a damp rock platform.

Nelly followed closely behind, and the two looked around and found themselves in a huge underground cavern.

The cave is hundreds of meters high, with countless stalactites hanging from the ceiling, emitting a pale blue fluorescent light, making the entire space look like a dream.

In the center of the cave, a wide underground river continues to flow forward, ending at a vortex entrance that emits spatial fluctuations.

That is the entrance to the Forgotten Valley.

Lin Xiao did not enter immediately, but first checked the tracking situation behind him.

The omniscient rule scan results show that the wolf king's aura has been completely shaken off, and their location cannot be pinpointed at least for the time being.

The complex trap set at the cave entrance has also been triggered. Judging from the remaining fluctuations in the rules, the wolf king may have been trapped for longer than he expected, about three breaths.

"Three breaths is enough for it to fly into a rage, but not enough for it to track you here."

Lin Xiao analyzed, "But the Wolf King won't give up. It might mobilize the entire Shadowmoon Domain to conduct a thorough search of the eastern part of Dark Sun Forest, so we can't stay here for too long."

Nelly nodded, her gaze fixed on the entrance to the vortex: "My fortune-telling talent tells me that the flow of time inside the Forgotten Canyon is different from the outside world; it may be faster or slower. We need to be mentally prepared."

"A disruption of the rules of time...?"

Come to think of it, he has never actually met a survivor with the Time Talent.

Lin Xiao seemed to be deep in thought.

But for them now, this might not be a bad thing.

If time flows faster inside the canyon than outside, they have more time to recover and prepare.

If they are slower than the outside world, then even if the wolf king finds them here quickly, they will still have a chance to catch their breath.

"Let's go."

Lin Xiao pulled Nelly up, and the two of them jumped into the whirlpool.

After a dizzying moment, the scene before my eyes suddenly changed.

They stood on the edge of a cliff, with a bottomless canyon below and towering cliffs on both sides, covered with countless caves like a honeycomb.

The sky was an eerie purplish-gray, devoid of sun and stars, only filled with flowing, aurora-like, regular bands of light.

The most peculiar thing is the feeling that time brings.

Lin Xiao raised her hand and looked at her palm, clearly feeling the changing flow of time.

Sometimes it's as fast as if you've pressed the accelerator button, sometimes it's as slow as if you're stuck in a quagmire, and sometimes there's even a brief reversal.

"The rules of time here... are completely broken."

Nelly's face was somewhat pale; the shattered rules of time had interfered with her fortune-telling talent.

"Not only that."

Lin Xiao unleashed the omniscient rules, scanning the entire canyon.

The feedback he received made him frown.

The spatial structure of the Forgotten Canyon is also chaotic, with different areas having spatial dimensions ranging from three to seven, and it is constantly changing.

The rules are a hodgepodge, with fragments of rules from almost every area of ​​the Dark Sun Forest, and even some ancient and unfamiliar rules that have never been seen before.

This place is like a forgotten junkyard of rules, where all the remnants of rules that cannot be tolerated by the normal world are piled up. Over countless years, it has evolved into this bizarre and wondrous wasteland.

"Stay close to me and don't stray more than three meters from me."

Lin Xiao raised a seven-colored shield, this time adjusting the shield's frequency to dynamically change in order to cope with the ever-changing flow of time and the rules of the environment.

The two began to carefully advance along the edge of the cliff.

They hadn't gone far when they encountered their first danger.

In the open space ahead, the flow of time suddenly accelerated ten thousand times.

A flying insect that strayed into the area completed the entire process from hatching to aging and death in an instant, turning into dust.

Lin Xiao stopped in time, and the Omniscient Rule gave them a warning 0.3 seconds in advance, allowing them to avoid that time trap.

Next is a space folding area.

What appears to be a ten-meter-long path turns out to be folded seventeen times upon entering, with an actual distance exceeding five kilometers.

Nelly's talent for fortune-telling came into play here; she sensed the anomaly in advance and guided Lin Xiao to bypass the most complex folding nodes.

And so, the two of them struggled forward through the Forgotten Valley.

Along the way, they witnessed countless wonders:

A lake, its waters formed from frozen time, with fragments of scenery from various eras floating on its surface.

Ancient behemoths, medieval castles, futuristic metropolises...

A forest of stone tablets, with illegible characters carved on them. But when you gaze at them, the characters will rearrange themselves into a language you can understand, telling a forgotten history.

A group of wandering phantoms of rules, they are the obsessions left behind by the powerful who died here, eternally repeating a certain fragment of their lives in the shattered time.

Lin Xiao did not waste time exploring these wonders.

His goal was very clear: to find a relatively stable area as a temporary base, and then begin to look for an opportunity to advance to the seventh rank.

The omniscient rule continuously collects rule information within the canyon and analyzes the patterns contained therein.

Nelly's talent for fortune senses the direction of opportunities.

Finally, on the sixth hour after entering the canyon (it could be that only a quarter of an hour had passed outside, or it could be that a day had passed, it is not certain at the moment), Nelly suddenly stopped and pointed to a stone forest deep in the canyon.

"There... my luck is resonating strongly, as if there's something that's very important to us."

Lin Xiao looked in the direction she was pointing.

It was a stone forest composed of black boulders arranged in a regular pattern, with silvery, regular streams of light flowing between the crevices.

More importantly, the spacetime rules in that region are relatively stable, with time flowing only about three times faster than the outside world, and the spatial dimension remaining stable at four.

"It's a good place."

Lin Xiao led Nelly toward the stone forest.

The moment they stepped into the stone forest, both of them felt a strange tranquility.

The chaotic rules of the outside world are filtered and organized by the natural formations of the stone forest, becoming mild and controllable.

In the center of the stone forest, there is a clear spring. The spring water contains pure, attribute-free energy that can be directly absorbed.

"Let's rest here."

Lin Xiao selected the largest boulder and carved out a simple cave on its back.

He set up several layers of concealment and defense runes, and used the rule of universal convergence to stabilize the spacetime structure inside the cave, making it a temporary safe house.

Only after doing all this did he finally have the opportunity to seriously consider his next plan.

"Nellie, your injuries need time to heal, and the flow of time here is four times that of the outside world, which is an advantage."

Lin Xiao took out the remaining fragments of the Creation Saint Crystal and handed them to Nelly.

"Use these to gently nourish your essence, and I will help you adjust the rules and environment within the cave to accelerate the recovery process."

Nelly took the chip, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "What about you? Aren't you still looking for an opportunity to advance to the seventh rank?"

"That's exactly why I brought you here."

Lin Xiao sat down cross-legged, his eyes flashing with a thoughtful light.

"My Myriad Phenomena Returning to Flow rule has reached the pinnacle of the sixth level. Continuing to accumulate energy and rule fragments is not very meaningful. What I need is comprehension, a deeper understanding of the essence of the rule."

"And the Forgotten Canyon, a place with chaotic rules, is precisely the best place to observe the essence of rules."

"Here, the rules are not a well-organized system, but rather a primitive, chaotic state of conflict and integration."

"If I can understand this chaos and find the balance between order and disorder, perhaps I can reach the threshold of the seventh level."

Nelly understood: "Then how can my fortune-telling talent help?"

"Fortune, in essence, is a manifestation of probability rules."

Lin Xiao explained, "Probability is the only certain law in a chaotic system. I need you to guide me with your talent of luck when I try to comprehend it, so that I have a higher probability of encountering moments of inspiration and avoid potential backlash from the rules."

In other words, you are my lucky charm.

Nelly nodded solemnly: "I understand, I will do my best."

The two then began their training in the Forgotten Valley.

Nelly absorbed the energy of the Creation Crystal in the cave, slowly repairing her origins and talents.

Lin Xiao goes out every day, venturing into dangerous areas throughout the canyon to observe the evolution of the chaotic rules.

He once sat in the turbulent flow of time for three days, witnessing the entire process of a rule from its birth to its collapse.

He once traversed the folded space, personally touching the boundaries of different dimensions.

He collected hundreds of rule fragments and attempted to integrate, analyze, and recreate them using the rule of universal convergence.

In this process, the omniscient rule continues to evolve, extending from simply analyzing what already exists to deducing the unknown.

The precision of manifesting all things is getting higher and higher, from manifesting concrete props to being able to manifest abstract rules and concepts.

The scope of integrating everything is becoming increasingly broad, from integrating similar rules to attempting to integrate opposing rules.

Lin Xiao could sense that the barrier between the sixth and seventh ranks was gradually thinning.

Nelly's recovery is also progressing smoothly.

With the combined effects of four times the time flow rate and the Creation Crystal, her original injury has healed by 90%, her strength has recovered to the fifth rank, and the runes of her fortune talent have also been repaired by 90%.

More importantly, during this time together, she seemed to find the feeling she had when she was in the ruins.