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

There is no day or night on Fallen God Island, only eternal darkness.

After leaving the canyon, Lin Xiao continued to venture deeper into the outer area.

The Shattered Star Halberd lay quietly in his storage space. The weight of that seventh-tier weapon did not become a burden; on the contrary, it made his steps more firm.

The omniscient rule continued to operate, scanning every inch of space within a three-kilometer radius around him.

After several days of adaptation, his resistance to the death rules of Fallen God Island has greatly improved, and the energy consumption of the Seven-Colored Shield has been reduced to 30% of its initial value.

But danger still lurks everywhere.

In the second hour, Lin Xiao encountered a wandering sixth-tier skeleton warrior.

It was a humanoid skeleton over four meters tall, wielding two swords, with eerie dark red soul fire in its eye sockets.

Its perception range is much larger than that of an ordinary sixth-tier skeleton. Although Lin Xiao discovered it in advance, he was unable to completely avoid its patrol route.

The battle erupted in an instant.

The dual-wielding skeleton was incredibly fast, its two blades weaving into an impenetrable net of blades, each strike carrying the dual power of cutting rules and the corrosive force of death.

With Lin Xiao's strength, there is absolutely no need to fear the skeleton's combat power.

But now, he wants to test the power of the Shattering Star Halberd.

The Shattering Star Halberd appeared in Lin Xiao's hand.

The moment the halberd clashed with the twin swords, Lin Xiao clearly felt the qualitative change brought about by the seventh-tier weapon.

The Shattered Star Halberd seemed to have its own life; every block and every counterattack was in sync with its will.

The 108 rule runes engraved on the halberd shaft lit up simultaneously, amplifying his power by more than 30%.

Take a breath.

In the blink of an eye.

The blade of the Shattered Star Halberd traced a tricky arc and precisely pierced the gap in the neck of the twin-sword skeleton.

The ghostly green soul fire flickered violently twice before going out completely, and the bones were scattered all over the ground.

Lin Xiao retrieved the Shattered Star Halberd and continued forward.

He had no time to waste cleaning up the spoils. The exploration of the outer area was nearing its end, and the opportunity to advance to the seventh rank had not yet appeared, so he had to speed things up.

In the fifth hour, he had to deal with two more sixth-tier skeletons blocking his way.

Holding a warhammer in one hand, he was heavily armored but slow-moving, and Lin Xiao used spatial teleportation to get behind him and kill him with a single blow.

The other is a rare mage-type skeleton that can manipulate the rules of death to condense them into various attack forms.

However, its casting animation was too long, and Lin Xiao used his omniscient rule to predict its trajectory in advance, so the Shattering Star Halberd pierced through its skull.

The three battles combined lasted no more than fifteen minutes.

In fact, with Lin Xiao's current strength, he is probably no match for even some weaker seventh-tier opponents.

The seventh hour.

Lin Xiao stopped in her tracks.

Within the scanning area of ​​the omniscient rule, an extremely special signal appeared.

It wasn't a moving signal source, but a fixed point that continuously emitted regular fluctuations...

That point was about 2.5 kilometers away from him, and it was due north.

According to the map of the outer area he had drawn over the past few days, that area is the core of the outer area, the boundary between the outer and inner layers.

Lin Xiao did not approach rashly.

He found a secluded rock crevice, concealed his presence, adjusted the scanning power of the omniscient rule to the lowest level, and began to continuously observe the signal point.

Half an hour later.

As observation data accumulated, the outline of that signal point gradually became clear.

It was a crystal.

A deep purple crystal, about the size of a fist, with an irregular, polyhedral shape.

The crystal floated three feet above a naturally formed stone platform, slowly rotating.

With each rotation, the surface of the crystal lights up with regular ripple-like waves that spread outwards.

And those ripples...

Lin Xiao's pupils contracted slightly.

The frequency of those ripples resonated faintly with the universal flow principle within his body.

The resonance is so subtle that it is impossible to detect without the ultimate analysis of omniscient rules, yet it does exist.

An opportunity for promotion.

Lin Xiao's breath hitched for a moment.

This is the goal of his trip.

But he did not act rashly.

Because the area around that crystal was not calm.

The stone platform is located in a circular open space with a diameter of about 300 meters. The ground of the open space is an eerie gray-white color, which contrasts sharply with the surrounding black rocks.

On that gray-white ground, at least seventeen skeletons lay silently.

It's not a skull, it's a skeleton.

Real, completely dead skeletons.

The owners of these skeletons were at least sixth-level powerhouses in life, because Lin Xiao could determine their rank from the texture of the remaining bones.

But at this moment, they are just a pile of lifeless broken bones scattered around the crystal.

What killed them?

Lin Xiao, fully aware of the rules, scanned the gray-white ground.

The feedback made him gasp in shock.

That patch of ground wasn't ground at all.

It was a deadly array composed of countless intricate runes of death rules.

The core of the formation is that crystal, or rather, that crystal itself is the formation's eye. Any living being that attempts to approach the crystal will trigger the formation's automatic counterattack.

Those skeletons are proof of the successive generations who went before them.

Lin Xiao did not rush in.

He continued to lie in wait and continue to observe.

Another hour passed.

He finally figured out the basic rules of this death formation.

The formation covers the entire circular open space with a diameter of three kilometers and is divided into three layers.

The outermost 1,000 meters is where the death energy erosion is triggered.

Any being below the sixth rank who enters will turn into bones within three breaths. Any being of the sixth rank who enters will have their life force continuously eroded by the rules of death, losing about one percent every ten breaths.

At the middle level of one kilometer, rule stripping is triggered.

The rules and structures within the body of the intruder will be forcibly analyzed, dismantled, and absorbed.

Among those skeletons, at least five had lost their fighting ability on this floor.

The inner 100 meters, which is the last area where the crystal is located, is where the Soulfire detonation is triggered.

Any living being that steps into this level will have its soul resonate directly with the crystal and then self-destruct within three breaths.

The three-layered formation is intricately linked and invincible.

But Lin Xiao noticed two details.

First, the formation operates automatically and has no controller. This means that as long as it is not triggered, it will not be targeted.

Secondly, the energy source of the formation is the crystal itself.

Each rotation of the crystal releases a portion of regular ripples, which are absorbed by the array to maintain its operation.

In other words, the energy of a crystal is finite.

Lin Xiao did not hesitate.

He began to make arrangements.

His first step was to find an area with a strong aura of death about one kilometer from the edge of the formation.

There lie the remains of at least twenty sixth-tier powerhouses. After countless years of erosion, the fragments of rules remaining in the remains have deeply merged with the aura of death.

Lin Xiao took out the Life Origin Talisman he brought from the Wood Soul Domain and buried it deep in the pile of bones.

The Life Origin Talisman is a life-saving item bestowed by the Celestial Venerable, containing pure life energy.

In a forbidden land like Fallen God Island, life energy is like a torch in the darkness, triggering a frenzied backlash from the rules of death.

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Less than a quarter of an hour after the Life Origin Talisman was buried, the surrounding aura of death began to stir.

The fragments of rules remaining in those skeletons were activated and began to violently conflict with life energy.

The conflict sparked a small-scale storm of rules, which in turn attracted the scent of death from further afield.

An hour later, a death vortex with a diameter of over 500 meters had formed in that area.

At the center of the vortex, the light of the Life Origin Symbol is dimming at a visible rate.

But that's exactly what Lin Xiao wanted.

In his second step, he placed seventeen fragments of the Illusionary Dream Rule projected from the Dark Sun Forest on another side of the edge of the formation.

These fragments originated from the realm of the Nightmare Weavers and contain extremely faint dream rules.

In the forbidden zone of death, the rules of dreams and the rules of death are incompatible, creating a blind spot at the level of rules.

It's like dropping a drop of ink on a blank sheet of paper; the ink itself isn't offensive, but it attracts attention.

This is exactly the effect Lin Xiao wanted.

The third step, which is also the most crucial step, is...

He took out the Shattered Star Halberd.

A seventh-tier weapon contains a complete seventh-tier rule structure, and the fluctuations of this level of rules are enough to attract the attention of any formation.

Lin Xiao did not bring the Shattered Star Halberd close to the formation.

He simply pierced the halberd blade lightly into the ground at the edge of the formation, then quickly withdrew it.

One in and one out, less than 0.1 seconds.

However, the seventh-order rule aura of the Shattered Star Halberd had already left a very faint mark on the edge of the formation.

The mark was too faint, too faint to trigger the formation's counterattack.

But it does exist.

Like a drop of ink that has already fallen onto that blank sheet of paper.

After doing all this, Lin Xiao retreated five kilometers away and found a secluded rock crevice to lie in wait.

Next, we just wait.

Wait for the formation to react to those three anomalies.

Waiting for the energy to be used up.

Waiting for that opportunity.

Two hours later, the formation began to show subtle changes.

The death vortex caused by the Life Origin Symbol was closest to the formation, and the violent death aura within the vortex continuously impacted the outer layer of the formation.

Although they couldn't break the formation, each attack consumed a portion of its energy.

The crystal's rotation speed was visibly slowed down by one-thousandth.

Five hours later, the effects of the fragments of the Dream Rule began to appear.

The rules of dreams and the rules of death are incompatible, and the formation created a conflict at the rule level when it tried to clear away the fragments.

Although the conflict was minor, it was enough to cause a brief stagnation in the operation of the formation.

Each pause lasts only a fraction of a second.

However, each time there is a blockage, a tiny gap appears in the outer layer of the formation's defenses.

Ten hours later.

Lin Xiao opened her eyes.

The scan results from the Omniscient Rule show that the array's energy reserves have decreased by about three percent.

Three percent doesn't sound like much.

But enough.

Because the formation is not human, it cannot judge which anomalies are threats and which are not.

It simply operates mechanically, mechanically consuming energy to deal with all anomalies.

Those three anomalies will persist and continue to consume its energy.

One hour, two hours, one day, two days...

Lin Xiao has plenty of patience.

He closed his eyes and continued to lie in wait.

Beneath the eternally gray sky of Fallen God Island, a death array slowly operates, and a deep purple crystal slowly rotates.

Meanwhile, three kilometers away in a rock crevice, a pair of seven-colored pupils were quietly watching all of this.

Waiting for that opportunity to arrive.