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

High above the Dark Sun Forest, the celestial phenomena suddenly changed.

The dark red eternal sky was forcibly torn open, and four indescribable beings manifested from the ripped void.

The leader was draped in a flowing gray-white mist robe, his face shrouded in layers of mist, except for his eyes, which resembled two cold gray stars.

He is the true ruler of the Dark Sun Forest, an eighth-tier being named Dark Sun.

That pitch-black sun is his true form, while his current human form is his avatar in preparation for battle.

The three opponents also exuded terrifying pressure from the eighth rank.

On the left is an old man wearing the distinctive gray robes of the Dark Eclipse Order, holding a constantly spinning black vortex in his hand, which is the manifestation of the rules of annihilation.

In the center is a female figure covered in dark gold armor, with eerie blood-red runes flowing across it, emanating an ominous, corrosive aura.

On the right is a constantly shifting purple mist, within which countless pained and distorted faces can be vaguely seen—the wails of souls being devoured.

"Dark Sun, hand over those two survivors."

The elder of the Dark Eclipse Cult spoke, his voice like the scraping of metal: "They have been targeted by the God of Mist. If you don't hand them over, your Dark Sun Forest will cease to exist once the God of Mist awakens!"

The dark sun hovered in the void, its grey robes fluttering without wind, its voice as indifferent as the cold wind from the heavens: "In my forest, to seize those I tacitly approved and protected... the hand of the Misty World has stretched a little too far!"

"In that case, there's nothing more to say."

A shriek emanated from the purple mist on the right, and countless soul tentacles shot out from it, each one entwined with different curse rules, causing even space itself to decay in their wake.

The dark sun didn't even move.

He merely raised his eyes slightly.

A pure black light shot out from his eyes, containing a terrifying rule that forcibly merged the two opposing concepts of darkness and sunlight.

The moment the light touched the soul tentacles, the tentacles began to grow in reverse, the rules of the curse were forcibly reversed, and instead began to erode the purple mist itself!

"Rule reversal?!"

The purple mist was both shocked and furious, and hurriedly severed the contaminated tentacles, instantly shrinking its size by 30%.

But this is only the beginning.

Dark Sun slowly raised his hand, palm facing upward.

The sky over the entire Dark Sun Forest suddenly darkened, not by turning black, but by having all the light forcibly drawn away and condensed above the palm of the Dark Sun, forming a pure white sphere of light with a diameter of a hundred miles.

Countless fine black lines flowed across the surface of the sphere of light; these were the binding chains formed by the forced compression of the rules of darkness.

"Dark Sun Realm: Reversal of Light and Darkness"

Dark Sun said softly, pushing the ball of light forward.

The ball of light slowly flew towards the three eighth-tier beings. It wasn't fast, but wherever it passed, the rules began to change fundamentally.

The concepts of light and darkness are reversed; the sunlight that should have illuminated everything becomes as black as ink, swallowing everything.

But the shadows emitted a blinding white light, purifying everything.

The three eighth-ranked individuals simultaneously changed color.

This kind of conceptual reversal at the rule level has touched the realm of the fundamental laws of the universe, a technique that only a true peak eighth-order expert can master!

"Join forces!" the woman in dark gold armor roared, her body enveloped in swirling crimson runes that transformed into a blood-red barrier covering a hundred miles. "Erosion of the Divine Realm - All Things Return to Corruption!"

The elder of the Dark Eclipse Cult formed hand seals, and the black vortex rapidly expanded, transforming into a desolate abyss that devoured everything: "Desolate Black Hole - End of All Things!"

The purple mist screamed as it spewed out billions of soul fragments, each burning with purple soul flames: "Wraiths Burn the World - Soul Annihilation!"

Three eighth-order rules simultaneously collided with the slowly flying light-dark reversal ball.

There was no sound or explosion at the moment of impact.

Only the madness of rules leads to their annihilation and regeneration.

Centered on the point of collision, the spatial structure within a radius of tens of millions of miles began to collapse, revealing the boiling void turbulence beneath.

The flow of time became chaotic; in some areas, time accelerated ten thousand times, in others it reversed, and in still others it stopped altogether.

Below the Dark Sun Forest, countless creatures looked up in terror at the sky, gazing at the battlefield that had become a meat grinder of rules.

The Shadowmoon Wolf King had already led his remaining subordinates back to the core of the Shadowmoon Domain and activated the strongest defensive array.

It hovered above the Moon Shadow Altar, its left eye silver-white and its right eye pitch black, staring intently at the battle high in the sky.

"An eighth-tier battle... as expected, it's not something I can participate in."

The wolf king muttered to himself, his voice still carrying a hint of lingering fear.

If it had insisted on killing Lin Xiao just now, it would probably have been caught up in that battle and turned to dust by now.

It now finally understands why Dark Sun has always tacitly allowed Lin Xiao to move around in the forest; that ancient being has been playing a much bigger game from the very beginning.

But it was merely a piece on the chessboard that almost jumped off the board.

"Pass down the order."

The Wolf King turned to the Shadow Wolf Elders prostrate beneath the altar: "All outposts, immediately retreat to the core territory. From this day forward, Shadowmoon Domain enters a state of full defense. No one is permitted to leave without my permission."

"But... what about those abandoned areas?"

An elder hesitated and said, "The Blood Vine and Crystal Peak are already stirring and have begun to encroach on our borders."

"Let them devour us."

The Wolf King's voice was icy: "Compared to being crushed by the aftershocks of an eighth-tier battle, what does losing some borders matter? Once this battle is over, once the Dark Sun... or the Mist World has a result, we'll recalculate the gains and losses."

It looked up at the sky.

The battle there has reached a fever pitch.

Dark Sun fought against three opponents single-handedly, yet held his own in no way.

His grey and white robes fluttered in the storm of rules, and every gesture, every step, triggered a chain reaction at the level of the rules.

Although the Light-Dark Reversal Ball was temporarily blocked by three eighth-order rules, it was not destroyed. Instead, it continued to grow stronger while absorbing the opponent's rules.

The elder of the Dark Erosion Cult was the first to notice something was wrong.

"He's feeding that ball using our rules!"

The old man roared, "We can't keep this up! We must attack his main body directly!"

The three immediately changed tactics.

The woman in the dark gold armor transformed into a streak of blood-red light, hurtling directly towards the dark sun. The blood-red runes on her armor ignited, and she crashed into the sun like a meteorite.

The purple mist dispersed into billions of tiny soul spikes, shooting towards the dark sun from all directions, each spike locking onto a rule node.

The Dark Erosion Elder, on the other hand, did everything he could to maintain the annihilation black hole, desperately holding back the light-dark reversal sphere.

Faced with this sudden attack, Dark Sun finally made its move.

He took a step forward.

At this very step, it seemed as if the rules of the entire Dark Sun Forest resonated with him.

Countless gray-white rays of light rose from all parts of the forest, the anchor points of rules that the Dark Sun had buried in the forest over millions of years, and now they were all activated.

"Dark Sun Divine Realm - All Things in the Universe"

The sound of the dark sun resounded throughout the heavens and earth.

Centered on him, a gray domain suddenly unfolded, covering the entire void of the Dark Sun Forest.

Within the realm, time, space, matter, energy, rules... all concepts of existence began to reorganize according to the will of the Dark Sun.

The blood-red light struck the edge of the domain, as if hitting an invisible wall, and its speed decreased sharply.

After the soul spikes entered the domain, their direction began to distort, and some even turned around and shot back towards their own masters.

Even the dormant black hole began to become unstable under the influence of the domain, with fine cracks appearing on its surface.

"This is... the prototype of a divine kingdom?!"

"This guy! We were all wrong! I'm afraid that even if the seven great ones fought him one-on-one, they wouldn't be able to defeat him quickly, except for the God of Mist!"

"How is that possible? Those seven adults are ninth-tier beings!"

The three eighth-level beings were simultaneously shocked.

The Divine Kingdom is a realm that only ninth-order beings can fully master. It is a perfect fusion of rules and will, and the cosmification of one's own existence.

Initially, they mastered the domains, then the rules, and finally, they merged the domains and rules together to create different divine kingdoms.

Although Dark Sun has not yet fully reached the ninth level, the nascent divine kingdom has already proven that he is only one step away from that realm!

Having the rudiments of a divine kingdom, one can even contend with a ninth-tier descendant.

"withdraw!"

The Dark Corruption Elder acted decisively, retracting the Annihilation Black Hole and attempting to escape by tearing through space.

"Since we're here, why rush to leave?"

The sound of the dark sun was like the tolling of a death knell.

He stretched out his hand and made a grasping motion in the direction of the old man with dark erosion.

The space around the old man instantly froze, and then began to collapse inward, compressing the old man's body into a black sphere the size of a fist.

A despairing gray light flowed across the surface of the sphere, proof that the old man had been permanently sealed away.

Dark Sun put away the black sphere and looked at the remaining two.

The woman in dark gold armor and the purple mist exchanged a glance, both seeing the fear in each other's eyes.

"The God of Mist will not let you go!" the woman shrieked, burning all her essence and transforming into a streak of blood light that broke through the domain's seal and disappeared into the depths of the void.

The purple mist also wanted to escape, but Dark Sun was unwilling to let a second one go.

He pointed with his hand.

A grayish-white beam of light pierced through the core of the mist.

The mist let out a final shriek, and billions of fragments of souls scattered and flew everywhere, but the true spirit at the core had been completely annihilated.

The battle ended quickly.

Dark Sun stood in the shattered void, his grey-white robe still spotless.

He stared for a moment in the direction of the eighth-ranked person who had just fled, pondered for a while, and finally shook his head.

Then, he looked down at the trembling Dark Sun Forest, and then towards the direction of the Eternal Alliance, a deep light flashing in his eyes.

"The seed has been planted... Now, it's up to you to grow to a certain extent, Lin Xiao."

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure slowly disappeared, as if he had never existed.

Only the shattered void and the lingering fluctuations of the eighth-order rules prove that a great battle, enough to change the landscape of the Dark Sun Forest, had just taken place here.