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

At the boundary between the middle and outer layers of Fallen God Island, a faint barrier of rules stretches across the gray sky.

Lin Xiao hovered a hundred feet in front of the barrier, with a seven-colored halo slowly flowing around him.

After breaking through to the seventh rank, his perception of the rules increased by more than tenfold.

Looking at this barrier now, it no longer evokes the vague sense of danger it once did, but rather a clearer structural analysis.

[Fallen God Island Cognitive Filter: A rule barrier formed from the last vestige of willpower of a ninth-tier fallen being before death. Effect: Impairs the cognition of all beings below the seventh tier, preventing them from perceiving the true terror of the middle layer of Fallen God Island. Beings of the seventh tier and above are unaffected.]

Lin Xiao remained silent for a moment.

It turned out to be the case.

No wonder that when he was at the sixth level, although he felt that Fallen God Island was extremely dangerous, he did not have that feeling of despair that made it inaccessible.

It turns out there was a cognitive filter protecting him, or rather, the cognitive filter was deceiving him.

This led him to believe that although Fallen God Island was dangerous, it was not unconquerable.

Once you reach the middle level, the filter disappears, and that's when the real terror will be fully revealed!

Lin Xiao reached out and touched the barrier.

The moment his fingertips pierced the barrier, a chill flowed from his fingertips, rushing straight to Lin Xiao's soul.

That wasn't a coldness at the temperature level, but a chill at the level of rules.

Feeling the chill, Lin Xiaorang couldn't help but shiver.

That was the last lingering thought of a ninth-tier expert before his death, a chilling feeling that transcended countless years.

That obsession seemed to be telling him—

"Let's go back."

"This is not a place for you."

"You will die."

Lin Xiao withdrew her hand.

He took a deep breath.

Then, he stepped out of the barrier in front of him.

The world changed abruptly the moment they passed through the barrier.

The gray sky turned completely black.

It wasn't because the light disappeared, but because the concentration of the rules of death was too high, so high that even the concept of light was eroded, swallowed up, and even annihilated.

The ground beneath their feet was no longer cracked black rock, but an endless ocean of bones.

Countless enormous skeletons were piled up in layers, stretching towards the sky.

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

Even the smallest skeleton is a hundred meters long, and the largest is like a mountain, half-buried in the depths of the sea of ​​bones, with only the tip of the iceberg showing.

The aura of death permeating the air was no longer the faint smell of decay, but a thick, almost solidified, grayish-white mist.

With every breath, I could feel my life force slipping away.

Even though Lin Xiao had broken through to the seventh level, and even though the Myriad Manifestations True Self Rule was operating at full power around him, he could still feel that erosive sensation.

That feeling... was slow, but persistent.

Upon entering the middle area of ​​Fallen God Island and witnessing the scene just now, Lin Xiao gasped in shock.

The rules of omniscience unfolded in an instant.

The feedback made Lin Xiao frown.

Within a ten-kilometer radius around him, Lin Xiao sensed at least thirty-seven seventh-level auras.

That was a complete seventh-tier skeleton.

It wasn't the incomplete, weaker skeleton from the outer layer, but a true, complete seventh-tier skeleton that retained all its fighting instincts from its previous life.

Under Lin Xiao's omniscient rule of investigation, the strength of those thirty-seven seventh-order skeletons was almost as formidable as that of the Heavenly Venerable of the Wood Soul Domain.

These seventh-tier skeletons were in various states: some were wandering aimlessly, some were sitting quietly in the pile of bones as if asleep, and some were in groups of three or five, seemingly exchanging information.

Although Lin Xiao was unsure how the skeletons communicated.

The strongest aura among those skeletons was only eight kilometers away from Lin Xiao, and it was perched atop a mountain of bones made up of enormous skeletons.

The intensity of that aura had clearly surpassed that of an ordinary seventh-tier cultivator, touching the threshold of the eighth tier.

Skeleton King.

Lin Xiao did not venture deeper into the area rashly.

He concealed his presence, lurking in the shadow of a massive skeleton, and began systematically scanning his surroundings.

An hour later, he had a preliminary understanding of the middle area of ​​Fallen God Island.

First, the skeleton density here is far greater than in the outer layer; there is at least one level 7 skeleton within every ten square kilometers.

Sixth-tier skeletons are the lowest-ranking beings here. They act like servants, following behind some seventh-tier skeletons and performing various miscellaneous tasks.

Secondly, most of the skeletons here retain some of the intelligence they possessed in life.

Lin Xiao witnessed a seventh-tier skeleton commanding three sixth-tier skeletons to drag a fresh skeleton back to its territory, and then slowly absorbing the remaining fragments of rules within the skeleton.

Third, there exists some kind of hidden order here.

Although the seventh-tier skeletons do not invade each other's territory, they each have their own clearly defined boundaries.

Any outsider who sets foot in will be immediately attacked by the landowner.

However, the size of the seventh-tier skeleton territory here is only about ten kilometers.

Compared to the Celestial Venerables or Sovereigns of the outside world, the area of ​​the border they control is completely incomparable.

The Celestial Venerable of the Wood Soul Domain has almost complete control over the entire Wood Soul Domain, which is several times larger than Blue Star.

And then there's the ruler of the Dark Sun Forest, which is jointly ruled by nine rulers.

However, the Dark Sun Forest is at least nine times larger than the Wood Soul Domain.

Lin Xiao felt heavy-hearted about the vast difference in territory among the islands of Fallen Gods.

This implies that the number of seventh-tier skeletons on Fallen God Island is likely enormous.

As for the fourth point, it is also the one that Lin Xiao cares about the most.

Deep within this endless ocean of bones, there exists something extremely strange.

That thing had no aura, no regular fluctuations, and no perceptible trace of existence.

But Lin Xiao knew it was there.

If Lin Xiao's strength hadn't increased to the seventh rank...

If Lin Xiao's omniscience rule were still the false one as before, he probably wouldn't have been able to discover that extremely strange thing at all.

Even now, it would take Lin Xiao several days to fully comprehend the Omniscient Rule.

However, Lin Xiao already knew some of the origins of that thing.

That was something left behind when a ninth-tier expert fell.

It could be remains.

It might be an obsession.

It might even be something even more terrifying.

Lin Xiao withdrew his senses.

That thing doesn't seem to have the same energy core as that cognitive filter!

"That means... at least two ninth-tier beings have perished on this Fallen God Island!"

"Similarly, according to the analysis of various intelligence reports... this means that... before the misty world covered most of the universe, this Fallen God Island was already a forbidden area in this universe!"

With this in mind, Lin Xiao's omniscient rule quickly took effect.

Soon, Lin Xiao received a positive answer.

So he remained silent for a long time.

Then, he made an extremely rational decision.

"Retreat! This Fallen God Island... is not something I can study right now!"

Retreat is not a retreat, but a wise choice.

The water on Fallen God Island is extremely deep.

Having just stepped into the middle level, within a short distance, there are already thirty-seven complete seventh-tier skeletons and a Skeleton King who has touched the threshold of the eighth tier!

Even... there exists something incomprehensible deep within the middle layers!

Whether that thing was a prop or some kind of living creature, it was beyond Lin Xiao's current capabilities to touch.

Not to mention, the true core of Fallen God Island holds even more astonishing secrets.

That is a secret concerning the birth and death of the universe.

With his current strength, if he were to venture deep into enemy territory rashly, the mortality rate would be almost 100%.

This isn't cowardice; it's a clear understanding of one's own capabilities.

He had just broken through to the seventh rank, the rules were not yet fully stable, the divine kingdom belonging to the seventh rank had not yet begun to be created, and the Shattering Star Halberd had not yet been fully refined...

What he needs now is time to reflect, accumulate experience, grow, and mature.

Instead of knowingly going there in danger and needlessly throwing your life away.

Lin Xiao took one last look at the depths of Fallen God Island.

There, only one-tenth of the Misty World has been explored.

There lie countless secrets, countless opportunities, and countless dangers hidden there.

He will set foot there again someday.

But now is not the time to set foot there.

Lin Xiao turned around and sped back the way she came.

In the instant he passed through the cognitive filter, he returned to that relatively safe outer area.

A somber sky, black rocks, scattered skeletons, and a faint, lingering aura of death...

Compared to the middle area of ​​Fallen God Island, this place is simply paradise.

Lin Xiao did not linger; there was nothing left for him to need here.

He traveled outwards, through the outer areas, across the canyon where he had once fought, and through the place where the Shattered Star Halberd was buried.

Two hours later, he stood on the edge of Fallen God Island.

Behind them lay the eternal forbidden zone of death on Fallen God Island.

Before him stretched a terrifying sea of ​​mist, its gray-white waves crashing against him.

Lin Xiao stared intently at the sea of ​​mist surrounding Fallen God Island for a while, then shook his head.

"It seems this sea of ​​mist is still not its source!"

Moreover, the Fallen God Island, which remains incredibly resilient in the Sea of ​​Mist, is, in some ways, far more terrifying than the Sea of ​​Mist itself.

Lin Xiao's omniscient rules operated, imprinting the coordinates of Fallen God Island, the outer terrain, and the distribution of dangers in the middle layer into the depths of his consciousness.

Then, he turned and stepped into the barrier, his figure engulfed by the seven-colored light.

After Lin Xiao left, a subtle gaze emerged from the depths of Fallen God Island.

After scanning the spot where Lin Xiao had just stood, that obscure gaze seemed to reveal a momentary, anthropomorphic look of doubt.

Then, the gaze returned to the depths of Fallen God Island.