Suddenly!
White light spread outwards from Ye Fan as the center!
The unprepared Holy Emissary was sent flying by the white light!
"Rustle..."
Ye Fan, who had just died, staggered to his feet!
His movements were extremely strange, like a puppet on strings.
And there was still no sign of life on him!
This meant...
What stood up now was Ye Fan's corpse!
The corpse suddenly opened its eyes!
Within them was blinding white light, looking like two small light bulbs!
The Holy Emissary was blown far away before he could regain his footing.
Honestly, the scene before him was completely beyond his comprehension.
However, the Holy Emissary wasn't flustered at all and launched another attack at Ye Fan!
If I wasn't afraid of you alive, how could I be afraid of a corpse?!
Since I could kill you once, I can kill you ten times, a hundred times!
Until I completely obliterate you!
Gray energy streaks arrived in an instant!
Ye Fan's corpse seemed completely unaware, still standing there motionlessly.
Just as the attack was about to pierce Ye Fan's body again.
Suddenly!
"Whoosh!"
A mass of human-like white figures shot out from Ye Fan's body!
The attack that had instantly killed Ye Fan vanished upon striking the white figures!
Looking at their appearance, the Holy Emissary felt something was increasingly wrong!
Because they were clearly other Ye Fans!
Apart from the difference in their clothes, there was no other distinction!!!
The Holy Emissary waved his hands repeatedly, sending streaks of gray energy towards Ye Fan one after another!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—!"
In an instant, countless white figures shot out from Ye Fan's body again!
Except for their attire, they looked exactly like Ye Fan!
And their number...
Was precisely 99!
The Holy Emissary's attacks were all blocked by these white figures of Ye Fan!
At this moment, the Holy Emissary finally realized the seriousness of the situation!
Within his body was the power of rules bestowed by that adult!
Although it was just a tiny bit, it was far beyond what ordinary people could resist!
Just like the Ye Fan before.
Didn't he kill Ye Fan, who wielded two "bug-like" rule powers, back then?!
Yet, such terrifying attacks couldn't even scratch the corners of the white figures' clothes!
It was as if his rule power had completely lost its effect on them...
Unwilling to give up, the Holy Emissary attacked again!
The power contained within this strike was definitely his strongest in his life!
At the same time, the 99 white figures of Ye Fan also moved!
They all raised their right index fingers and pointed at the Holy Emissary in the air.
99 white lights appeared and shot towards the Holy Emissary!
Midway, the 99 white lights merged into one.
Although its size seemed unchanged, the emitted fluctuations had strengthened exponentially!
So strong that the Holy Emissary's just-launched attack was instantly melted away!
And the Holy Emissary himself, in despair, was pierced by the white light!
"Bang—!"
The Holy Emissary was sent flying far away.
After rolling several times on the ground, he barely managed to stop.
A hole the size of a bowl was blasted through his chest.
Strangely, the edges of the wound were extremely neat and clean, and not a drop of the blue liquid within his body had spilled out.
It looked as if that hole had been there since the Holy Emissary was born.
After taking this hit, the Holy Emissary finally fell completely silent.
Unlike other Saint Clan members who would detonate their gems for suicide, he simply lay on the ground, his fate uncertain.
On the other side.
After defeating the Holy Emissary, the 99 white figures of Ye Fan converged.
Finally, they merged into a fist-sized ball of white light that entered Ye Fan's head from above.
As the white light integrated, Ye Fan's damaged body rapidly healed!
In the blink of an eye, Ye Fan's body was completely restored!
The white light in Ye Fan's eyes dissipated, and his clarity returned.
A long-buried truth also surfaced completely!
At this moment.
Ye Fan finally remembered everything!!!
It turned out that in his previous 99 lives, he hadn't been tricked by the system.
On the contrary.
His successful traversal through 99 lives was entirely due to the systems!
They sacrificed themselves to allow him to live until now!
And all of this stemmed from a mysterious enemy!
As for the identity of that enemy...
Honestly, Ye Fan still didn't know.
He had crossed paths with them before, but it was only with a clone of that mysterious person.
As for the main body...
To put it bluntly, he wasn't qualified to face them yet!
And the root of all this stemmed from one event.
Just as Ye Fan had seen in the illusion before.
The continent he was currently on was just one of many worlds.
The entire planar system was constructed from countless such worlds!
The 99 worlds he had traversed were just a tiny tip of the iceberg.
Legend had it that the entire world system was created by a mysterious entity.
It was a creator-like existence.
And to create these worlds, two things were needed.
First, the power of rules.
Second, the power of origin.
The power of rules was equivalent to the world's skeleton, and the power of origin was equivalent to the flesh and blood that filled it.
To construct a complete world, both were indispensable!
As the Creator perished, the powers they controlled were scattered across countless worlds.
Ye Fan, by chance, found the location of the rule of immortality.
Unfortunately, something went wrong at the time, and he didn't obtain the complete rule of immortality.
Ye Fan was lucky, and later found another location of the power of rules.
It was during this time that Ye Fan first encountered a clone of that mysterious person!
However, even though it was just a clone, it was still something the Ye Fan of that time couldn't handle!
Ye Fan didn't even understand what had happened before he was instantly killed!
He had just obtained the incomplete rule of immortality not long ago, so he didn't revive immediately.
The clone of that mysterious person also believed Ye Fan was dead, and that's how he narrowly escaped.
By the time he revived, it was already over a hundred years later.
And the rule power he had found was naturally taken by the mysterious person.
Realizing how formidable the enemy was, Ye Fan decisively went into hiding.
But cultivation inevitably involved combat, and combat carried the risk of death.
Although Ye Fan was extremely cautious, he still couldn't avoid exposure.
He didn't know if there was some special induction between the powers of rules that he hadn't discovered.
Anyway, every time he revived, the clone of that mysterious person would appear...
The mysterious person seemed to have already acquired quite a few powers of rules.
At least, Ye Fan's incomplete rule of immortality seemed laughable in front of the mysterious person.
Crucially, it was the system that sacrificed itself, using the residual power of rules within Ye Fan to help him escape.
Ye Fan's cultivation reset with each traversal, which might be the reason the mysterious person could always find him.
It was just that the Ye Fan of that time hadn't realized this, always believing he was defeated because he wasn't strong enough.
So, after each traversal, he cultivated desperately, striving to reach a level where he could contend with the mysterious person.
As for why the system also revived, he attributed it to the rule of immortality.
Thus, Ye Fan traversed 99 times consecutively, yet still couldn't escape being utterly defeated by the mysterious person.
And the system was forced to die 99 times...
It wasn't until the 99th time that Ye Fan suddenly awoke!
The mysterious person was too powerful!
Continuing like this was not a viable solution!
Instead of repetitive cultivation, it was better to focus on merging and controlling the power of rules.
Although it was only an incomplete rule of immortality, its power was not to be underestimated if mastered!
After all, his previous approach was wrong; he had focused all his energy on leveling up, to the point that his mastery of the rule of immortality hadn't even reached the superficial level.
To be safe, Ye Fan made some preparations.
The first thing was to alter his memories!
He sealed all these truths within his spiritual sea and left a hint for his future self.
That hint was that the reason he traversed 99 times was entirely due to being tricked and killed by the system!
Ye Fan also knew his own flaws.
He was suspicious by nature, always harboring the thought, 'There are always conniving individuals trying to harm me.'
To make his future self believe this, Ye Fan specifically crafted these hints into memory images.
And the reason he went to such great lengths was to prevent his future self from cultivating again!
As one of the most "bug-like" rules among the powers of rules, the rule of immortality had its own characteristics.
Mastering the rule of immortality didn't require him to actively do anything.
As time passed, it would gradually complete itself.
Ye Fan reasoned that if he stopped cultivating, he wouldn't get involved in the battles of cultivators.
This would perfectly avoid the risk of exposure!
If he lived as an ordinary mortal...
Given his cowardly and reclusive nature, he would rarely get into conflicts with others.
If he were to die a natural death, he would smoothly reincarnate and wouldn't use the power of rules.
Even as a fallback.
Even if he were unlucky enough to be killed by a mortal, the power of rules required for revival would be negligible.
Such a small fluctuation would not be enough to alert the mysterious person!
This wasn't Ye Fan's wild imagination; it was based on experience.
For instance, when he was killed in a previous fight, the mysterious person didn't appear immediately after he revived.
Only as the number of revivals increased did the mysterious person show up.
This meant that his detection of Ye Fan's rule power wasn't that precise!
Ye Fan believed this plan was perfect.
As long as he continued to hide and develop slowly, he would eventually fully master this incomplete rule of immortality.
As for the system's appearance in this life...
It could only be considered unexpected...
After this traversal, his original system, perhaps due to being overworked too many times, finally completely collapsed...
And this new system bound itself to him while he was unconscious.
However, this system seemed rather weak, completely unable to detect the memories Ye Fan had sealed or the power of rules within him.
It always believed Ye Fan was an ordinary host.
And Ye Fan, due to the false memories he deliberately left behind from his past lives, harbored extreme animosity towards systems.
Thus, in this life, he embarked on a journey of wits and courage against the novice system.
Although both were victims, they inflicted harm upon each other.
Of course.
Looking back now, the system in this life was the more miserable one...
Not only was it driven to a breakdown by Ye Fan, but it eventually vanished into thin air...
Besides constantly seizing powers of rules, the mysterious person also set their sights on the powers of origin.
The method to obtain the power of origin of a world was quite simple and crude.
It only required the complete destruction of the entire world.
This was why the boss representing disaster and curse in the divine hall kept destroying various worlds.
It did so to help the mysterious person seize the power of origin!
What these Saint Clan members were doing now was exactly that.
Unfortunately, Ye Fan had either been battered or been in hiding for development in these hundred lives, leaving him no free hand to do such things.
If nothing went wrong, these so-called Saint Clan members were subordinates of that mysterious person.
And the powers of rules they possessed were likely bestowed by the mysterious person.
The fact that this Holy Emissary could kill himself with just a sliver of this bestowed rule power meant that the mysterious person had already accumulated a vast amount of rule powers and powers of origin!
The time left for him...
Was running out!
If nothing went wrong, the mysterious person would soon come looking for him!
He had to find more powers of rules before then, or he would be utterly doomed!
And if he died in this life, he would likely have no further chances!
Fortunately, he hadn't been completely passive in the past.
During his previous 99 lives, he had found some clues to the locations of powers of rules.
What he needed to do now was to rush to those places and seize the powers of rules before the mysterious person found them!
With each additional power of rule, his hope of survival increased!
However, before that, there was one more thing to handle...