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

The waves of the misty sea gently lapped against the edge of the island. The grayish-white seawater collided with the black reefs, and the splashing water turned into tiny particles of death in mid-air, dissipating into the air.

Lin Xiao stood at the edge of the island, a seven-colored shield swirling around him, keeping the pervasive rules of death at bay.

Lin Xiao took one last deep look at the Sea of ​​Mist behind him, then turned around and walked towards the Fallen God Island.

However, he did not immediately venture deeper, but instead stood still, unleashing the full power of his omniscient rules, scanning every inch of space in front of him like a radar.

Feedback poured in like a tidal wave.

Preliminary calculations show that the total area of ​​Fallen God Island far exceeds that of Wood Soul Domain, and is even dozens of times larger than Dark Sun Forest, but his perception was severely suppressed here.

The concentration of the Death Rule was too high, so high that even the omniscient rule, a talent-level ability, was interfered with, and the detection range was compressed from tens of millions of kilometers outside to less than three kilometers.

Of course, this is also because Lin Xiao's omniscient rules are not yet complete.

"This is Fallen God Island..."

Lin Xiao murmured to himself, his seven-colored pupils reflecting the scene before him.

Before me lay a cracked, black plain, the ground as if it had been repeatedly crushed by some immense force, with countless spiderweb-like cracks stretching into the distance.

Occasionally, a ghostly green mist seeps from the cracks; it is a highly condensed form of the rules of death, and ordinary people will die upon touching it.

Scattered across the plain were some white objects; only upon closer inspection could one discern that they were skeletons—skeletons of all kinds.

Some are humanoid, some are animaloid, and some are even unrecognizable as to what species they were born as.

Most of these skeletons were incomplete; some were cut off by sharp weapons, some were smashed by blunt weapons, and others had regular erosion marks on their surface.

Lin Xiao squatted down and used the power of the rules to lift up a broken arm bone.

The result of the omniscient rule analysis made him frown.

[Skeleton Remains of Fallen God Island: A sixth-tier powerhouse in life, died approximately 120,000 years ago. Traces of the deceased's combat rules remain in the bones, now completely eroded by the rules of death. Current status: Completely dead, unable to transform into an undead.]

120,000 years.

The owner of this skeleton has been dead here for 120,000 years.

And there are hundreds or even thousands more skeletons like these ahead.

And this is only the outermost area of ​​Fallen God Island.

Lin Xiao put the arm bone back in place and continued exploring forward.

He walked very quietly, not because he was afraid of disturbing anything, but because in this completely unfamiliar and forbidden land of death, caution was the first rule of survival.

The omniscient rule continued to operate, forming a fan-shaped scanning area with a diameter of three kilometers centered on him.

Any anomalies within the scanning area will be marked: unusual fluctuations in regular concentrations, skeletons hidden underground, the lingering aura of death in the air...

Lin Xiao was like a sophisticated humanoid radar, moving forward slowly and steadily.

He gained nothing in the first hour.

Apart from endless skeletons and the aura of death, there was nothing on this plain.

There were no living creatures, no resources, and not even the most basic crystal fragments could be found.

In the second hour, the situation began to change.

One kilometer ahead, a moving signal source appeared in Lin Xiao's scanning area.

He immediately stopped, concealed his aura, and adjusted the seven-colored shield to the lowest power consumption mode using the Myriad Phenomena Return to Flow rule, making him almost blend into the surrounding death environment.

The signal source was moving slowly, not fast, as if patrolling aimlessly.

Lin Xiao held his breath and focused all his attention on the omniscient rules.

Three minutes later, the signal source came into view.

It was a skeleton.

To be precise, it was a humanoid skeleton about three meters tall, wielding a rusted giant sword.

Its bones were an unhealthy grayish-white, covered with fine cracks, and two eerie green flames flickered in its eye sockets.

What Lin Xiao cared about most was the fluctuation of rules around it.

That was the aura of a sixth-order rank. Although it was weaker than a normal sixth-order rank, it was undoubtedly a sixth-order rank.

"A sixth-tier skeleton..."

Lin Xiao silently assessed the situation in her mind.

This was the first skeleton creature he encountered after entering Fallen God Island. Judging from its movement, it should be a patrol unit responsible for perimeter security.

The giant sword skeleton was completely unaware of Lin Xiao's presence.

It wandered mechanically across the plain, each step causing the ground to tremble slightly, the soul fire in its eye sockets unconsciously scanning its surroundings.

When it reached a distance of about 200 meters from Lin Xiao, it suddenly stopped.

The eerie green soul fire turned towards the boulder where Lin Xiao was hiding, and froze for a full three seconds.

Lin Xiao's muscles tensed instantly, and the rule of the return of all things condensed into a complex attack rune in his palm.

Then, the giant sword skeleton turned its head and continued its patrol.

"...Didn't you notice me?"

Lin Xiao slowly opened his palm, and the runes dissipated.

It seems that the disguise ability of the All Things Returning to the Flow rule is equally effective against undead creatures.

He did not rashly attack the skeleton.

It's not that we can't beat them, but we're unsure what chain reaction killing them will trigger.

The danger on Fallen God Island is not just the skeletons themselves, but also the omnipresent rules of death. Will killing one skeleton attract more?

Could it even activate some kind of hidden restriction?

Until you figure these things out, keeping a low profile is the wisest choice.

Lin Xiao bypassed the giant sword skeleton's patrol route and continued to venture deeper inside.

In the third hour, he discovered a regular crystal fragment at the edge of a rift valley.

The crystal is deep purple, about the size of a fingernail, and its surface is shimmering with faint, regular lightning-like fluctuations.

Result of the omniscient rule parsing:

[Meteorite Crystal Fragment: A sixth-order lightning rule crystal, containing a small amount of the essence of lightning rules. It can be used for weapon crafting, array formation, or direct absorption. Status: Slightly contaminated by death rules; requires purification before use.]

Lin Xiao stored the fragments in her storage space.

Although it's contaminated, as long as it's brought back to the Alliance and given to Feng Yan or Yun Xi for purification, it will be a decent Tier 6 resource.

Although the alliance is not short of resources now, such high-purity rule crystallization is still precious.

In the fourth hour, he found a broken storage ring under a huge skeleton.

The ring's owner had long since turned to bones, but the ring itself was still barely intact.

Lin Xiao spent a great deal of effort to break the remaining restrictions on the ring and retrieve seventeen items from it.

Fifteen of them have been completely corrupted by the rules of death and have lost all value.

The remaining two items are a sixth-tier defensive shield generator, whose energy core has been mostly depleted, but whose outer shell structure is still relatively intact and can be disassembled for research.

The other item was a tattered animal hide scroll containing information about some ancient alchemical array. It was of little use to Lin Xiao, but it might be useful as research material for Xing Yan.

The fifth hour, the sixth hour...

Lin Xiao was like a scavenger in the desert, slowly and patiently searching on the very edge of this forbidden land of death.

He found several mutated spiritual herbs that had survived tenaciously in the deadly environment, dug up two sixth-order energy crystals that had been eroded by the rules of death but were not yet completely ineffective, and even stripped a usable fourth-order defensive inner armor from the remains of an unlucky fellow.

Although this item is of little use to Lin Xiao himself, it is still a decent reward to bring it back to the alliance and give it to the meritorious lower-ranking members.

But none of these gains were what he truly needed.

Lin Xiao stopped and looked up at the end of the plain.

That was the inner region of Fallen God Island, where the concentration of the rules of death was more than ten times that of this place, and more skeletons could be vaguely seen wandering in the mist.

And the outer area where he was located was about to be fully explored.

"Omniscient rules, summarizing the current exploration progress."

A 3D map immediately appeared in his mind, with the outer perimeter of Fallen God Island marked in light green, and about 10% of the area had already been scanned.

The map was dotted with dozens of markers, which were the coordinates of where he found the resources.

However, none of the markers exhibited the special fluctuations that a promotion opportunity should have.

"I didn't expect we'd only explored ten percent of the outer perimeter of Fallen God Island? And judging from this, the opportunity must lie deeper within that outer region!"

Lin Xiao murmured to herself, her eyes showing no disappointment, only calm.

This was expected.

If the opportunity to advance to the seventh rank were so easy to obtain, then Fallen God Island wouldn't deserve to be called the foremost of the three forbidden lands. Moreover, there's the Misty World causing trouble there.

He turned around, ready to continue venturing into the unexplored corners of the outer perimeter.

At that moment, the Omniscient Rule suddenly detected an extremely faint abnormal fluctuation.

The fluctuation came from underground, about two hundred meters deep, at the bottom of a rift valley three kilometers away from where he was standing.

It wasn't the fluctuation of the rules of death, nor the aura of a skeleton, but something else...

Lin Xiao examined it carefully, her pupils slightly contracting.

That's a resonance of rules.

Someone has set up some kind of formation deep underground on Fallen God Island. The formation is operating continuously, emitting extremely subtle ripples of regularity.

The frequency of this ripple resonated slightly with the universal flow rule within his body.

"This is……"

Lin Xiao's breath hitched slightly.

He did not rush to investigate.

In such a forbidden land, venturing into the unknown underground space is far too risky.

He simply imprinted that coordinate deeply into his consciousness, then withdrew his senses and continued to advance into the unexplored outer regions.

Not urgent.

The exploration of Fallen God Island has only just begun.

He still has plenty of time to uncover the secrets of this forbidden land of death.

and……

Lin Xiao glanced back at the faintly visible skeletal figure deep within the mist.

Before looking for an opportunity, he needs to thoroughly understand the rules of the island.

It is necessary to know the activity patterns of skeletons, the erosion mechanism of the rules of death, and where the truly dangerous beings are lurking.

Only those who survive have the right to talk about breakthroughs.

Lin Xiao withdrew his gaze, his figure once again merging into the aura of death, and like a ghost, he sped away into the distance.

Behind him, the eerie green soul flame flickered uncertainly in the mist.

The silence on the outermost edge of Fallen God Island had just been broken.