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

Fallen God Island has no day or night.

Beneath the eternally gray sky, the rules of death rise and fall slowly like an invisible tide.

Lin Xiao had been exploring the outermost edge of this forbidden land of death for three whole days without rest or sleep.

It's not that I don't want to, but I can't.

The omniscient rule was compressed to its limit on this land, requiring dozens of times more effort to advance every kilometer. But Lin Xiao did not stop. Like a tireless machine, he scanned, marked, and filtered the outer area inch by inch.

Of course, with Lin Xiao's current sixth-level strength, it wouldn't matter if he didn't sleep for a month.

On the third day at dusk, Lin Xiao stopped at the entrance of a canyon shrouded in deathly mist.

An abnormal signal appeared in the scanning area of ​​the omniscient rule.

It's not a skeleton, not resources, but a kind of... extremely subtle resonance of rules.

Lin Xiao did not rush in, but instead concealed his aura and hid behind a boulder at the edge of the canyon.

The rule of "All Things Return to the Flow" was activated, completely adjusting his existence fluctuations to be consistent with the surrounding death environment.

Three minutes later, the signal source reappeared.

This time, Lin Xiao captured clearer information.

It was a piece of weapon wreckage.

No, that's not right.

Lin Xiao's pupils contracted slightly.

It's not wreckage, it's intact.

A fully-fledged Tier 7 weapon lies quietly embedded in a black rock deep within the canyon.

The omniscient rules, disregarding the consumption of resources, operated at full power, peeling away the interference of the death rules within the canyon layer by layer, gradually outlining the weapon's contours clearly.

It was a long halberd.

The halberd is about twelve feet long, with a deep dark gold color and countless fine, regular runes flowing across its surface.

The halberd blade is not metal, but is formed from some kind of crystal, translucent with a faint blue luster.

Even after countless millennia of the erosion of the rules of death, the sharpness of the halberd still sends shivers down one's spine.

Two ancient characters were engraved on the middle section of the halberd shaft. Lin Xiao didn't recognize the script, but the Omniscient Rule directly deciphered their meaning:

【Shattered Stars】

Shattered Star Halberd.

Tier 7 weapon.

Lin Xiao's breathing almost stopped.

At this very moment, a complete, seventh-tier halberd, with clearly discernible runes and rules, was stuck in the depths of the canyon less than eight hundred meters away from him.

Lin Xiao did not move.

He remained lurking behind the boulder, the omniscient rules continuously scanning every inch of space within the canyon.

Because there were three other auras surrounding that Shattered Star Halberd.

One path, seven steps.

Two paths, six levels.

Although the aura of a seventh-tier being was at least 30% weaker than normal, it was undoubtedly a seventh-tier being.

It was a humanoid skeleton, over five meters tall, with strangely dark red bones, holding a similarly rusted giant axe, sitting cross-legged three zhang away from the Shattered Star Halberd.

Its skull drooped, and the soul fire in its eye sockets was almost still, as if it had entered a kind of dormant state unique to the dead.

Two level-six skeletons stood on either side, one a shield warrior wielding a bone shield, the other an archer with a bow, both in low-power standby mode.

Lin Xiao quietly observed for a full hour.

He figured out the patterns of the three skeletons' movements.

The seventh-tier skeleton would raise its head once every half hour, scan its surroundings with its soul fire for ten breaths, and then lower it again.

The Tier 6 Shield Warrior adjusts its stance every quarter of an hour, and a faint, regular fluctuation flows across the surface of its bone shield.

The sixth-tier archer has the most acute senses, turning his head every so often, his soul fire in his eye sockets sweeping across the entire canyon entrance.

This is a tight defensive formation.

What's more troublesome is that there's some kind of subtle connection between the Shattering Star Halberd and the seventh-tier skeleton.

Lin Xiao wasn't sure whether the skeleton was actively suppressing the weapon, or whether the weapon was continuously absorbing the skeleton's power, but he was certain of one thing:

Once the seventh-tier skeleton is alerted, the Shattering Star Halberd will be activated immediately.

Forcibly taking it is impossible.

Even the weakest seventh-tier is still a seventh-tier, not to mention there are two well-coordinated sixth-tier skeleton guards.

Although Lin Xiao was confident that he could kill the seventh-tier skeleton, the process would inevitably involve a violent conflict, which could trigger a chain reaction and attract a horde of skeletons from the entire outer perimeter of Fallen God Island.

We must outsmart them.

Lin Xiao slowly withdrew his senses and constructed a deduction model in his mind.

The omniscient rules were operating at full capacity, recording and analyzing all the behavioral patterns of the three skeletons, while also considering the terrain of the canyon, the flow direction of the death rules, and the connection strength between the Shattered Star Halberd and the skeletons...

Three thousand seven hundred solutions were generated, filtered, and eliminated.

Finally, three feasible paths emerged in his mind.

Path A: Create bait to lure away the Tier 6 archers, kill the shield warriors first, then deal with the archers, and finally concentrate all your forces to kill the Tier 7 skeletons.

Success rate: 21%.

Risk: Once a Tier 7 skeleton emerges from its dormant state, it will immediately activate the Star Shattering Halberd, at which point it will face a double attack from both the Tier 7 weapon and the Tier 7 skeleton.

Path B: Wait for the seventh-tier skeleton to enter a deep hibernation period, use the Myriad Flows rule to sever the connection between the Shattered Star Halberd and the skeleton, take the weapon first, and then kill the skeleton.

Success rate: 34%.

Risk: Severing the connection will take at least seven breaths, during which time you cannot move or defend yourself. If detected by a sixth-tier guard, you will surely die.

Path C: Do not kill the skeletons, only take the weapons.

Success rate: 17%.

Risk: The Shattering Star Halberd has been corrupted by the rules of death for many years and has formed a deep bond with the undead. Forcibly separating it will trigger the weapon's self-destruct program.

Lin Xiao opened her eyes.

All three paths have a success rate of less than 40%.

But he was not disappointed; instead, a glint of light flashed in his eyes.

Because during the deduction process, he caught a crucial detail that he had previously overlooked.

There was a noticeable crack in the third vertebra of the seventh-tier skeleton's spine.

Those weren't new wounds from the battle, but permanent damage to the bones themselves.

The edges of the crack had been rounded, and the inside was filled with solidified dark red substance.

That was the blood clots of the deceased, preserved for countless millennia under the erosion of the rules of death.

What does this crack mean?

This means that the skeleton suffered a severe spinal injury while it was alive.

The spine is the source of power.

Whether wielding an axe to chop or operating a system, the spine is the central hub for power transmission. A permanent spinal injury can reduce its power generation efficiency by at least 40%.

More importantly, injuries sustained before death can become loopholes in the rules after death.

Lin Xiao's lips curled up slightly.

He has a solution.

The following day, Lin Xiao took no action.

He was like a stone, an ordinary skeleton amidst the aura of death, completely blending into the environment outside the canyon.

But he did do something, not nothing.

Every day, the omniscient rules continuously scan at the lowest power, recording every time the seventh-tier skeleton raises its head, every time its soul fire flickers, and every subtle sound of its bones rubbing together.

Once, twice, three times...

By the twelfth hour, Lin Xiao's understanding of the seventh-tier skeleton had surpassed its understanding of him.

He knew the exact duration for which its soulfire extinguished during deep hibernation.

Seventeen breaths.

He knew that the first point of force transmission when it awoke was always the damaged third vertebra, where there would be a regular 0.3-second delay.

He even knew that when the sixth-tier archer turned southeast every half hour, its perception blind spot would expand threefold.

That's because it was where its left eye was injured when it was alive, and it retained that habit even after death.

At the end of the twelfth hour, Lin Xiao made a move.

Instead of choosing any pre-planned path, he created a fourth path the instant the omniscient rule completed its final scan.

He manifested seven rule runes, each the size of a fingernail, each containing a different attribute.

The first rune, a fragment of the dream rules of the Nightmare Weaver in the Dream Realm, is extremely rare and insufficient to constitute an attack, but enough to give a dormant skeleton a brief and realistic dream.

The second rune, a reverse analysis of the death rules of the Dark Sun Forest, can briefly simulate the aura of a high-ranking undead, causing skeletons to mistake it for one of their own kind and approach.

The third to seventh runes are complex combinations of rules that interfere with perception, targeting the perception weaknesses of shield warriors, archers, and seventh-tier skeletons respectively.

Lin Xiao took a deep breath.

The rule of "all things returning to their source" has been implemented to its fullest extent.

Then, he activated all seven runes at the same time.

Within the eye sockets of the seventh-tier skeleton, the eerie green soul flames flickered slightly.

It had a dream.

In the dream, it returned to the moment of its last battle before its death.

The figure that had severed its spine was right before it. It was furious, it roared, it swung its giant axe, wanting revenge, but the old wound on its spine slowed it down by 0.3 seconds.

In those 0.3 seconds, its perception was completely suppressed.

At the same time, a rune simulating the aura of a high-ranking undead drifted into the depths of the canyon.

The soulfire of the sixth-tier shield warrior and the archer simultaneously turned in that direction, sensing the aura of a more powerful ally.

The aura emanated from the other side of the canyon; it was the unintentional release of the oppressive power of a sleeping skeleton king.

The two sixth-tier skeletons instinctively lowered their heads and suppressed their auras to show their submission.

Right now.

Lin Xiao transformed into an almost invisible shadow and cut into the canyon.

He wasn't fast, but every step he took was on the fluid gaps of the rules of death.

That was a safe path that the omniscient rules had spent a full twelve hours deciphering. Moving along this path would not cause any rule disturbances.

In three breaths, he passed the edge of a sixth-tier archer's perception.

Five breaths later, he was less than three meters away from the sixth-tier shield warrior, but the shield warrior was lowering his head and concealing his aura, his soul fire in his eye sockets fixed on the depths of the canyon.

Seven breaths.

Lin Xiao stood in front of the Shattered Star Halberd.

Three zhang away, the seventh-order skeleton was struggling on the edge of dream and reality, and the 0.3-second rule stagnation had not yet ended.

Lin Xiao did not hesitate.

He stretched out his right hand and placed it on the shaft of the Shattered Star Halberd.

The rule of "All Things Return to the Flow" invaded with full force, not by forcibly severing the connection, but by—

Deconstruct it using the omniscient rule!

The Shattered Star Halberd had slumbered on the Isle of Fallen Gods for countless millennia, corrupted by the rules of death and polluted by the aura of the undead. It longed to leave, to see the light of day again, and to drink blood once more.

Lin Xiao did not resist its desire, but instead resonated with it with her own will.

I am not here to enslave you.

I'm here to take you away.

The blade of the Shattered Star Halberd trembled slightly.

The tremor was so slight that even the seventh-tier skeleton three zhang away did not notice it.

But Lin Xiao sensed it.

That was the weapon's response.

He succeeded.

The connection between the Shattered Star Halberd and the skull was silently replaced by a connection with Lin Xiao.

The entire process took seven breaths.

Lin Xiao gripped the halberd shaft tightly and slowly pulled it out of the rock.

The moment the halberd blade detached from the rock, the soul fire in the seventh-tier skeleton's eye sockets suddenly ignited.

It woke up.

But it was too late.

Lin Xiao held the halberd in one hand, the blade pointing diagonally at the ground, and a seven-colored halo surged out from his body like a tide.

He already has weapons.

Next, it's time to test the sharpness of this seventh-tier halberd.