Lin Fan took the time to look around the small room with the light of the lantern.
He found that this really was just a small cave that didn't have a single thing in it. There weren't even any stalactites or stalagmites that were hanging or jutting out from the surfaces of this cave.
The ground was also strangely completely barren, almost as if it had been smoothed out so that there wouldn't be a single thing here.
No matter how one looked at it, this place was man made.
Lin Fan just gave a sigh and didn't know what to do.
But of course, he didn't panic at all since he could always escape from this place with the help of the system.
He had checked earlier and as long as he wanted, he could always use the system to leave. But before doing that, he wanted to think about where he had gone wrong on his way here.
As he stood there, he could feel something changing around him.
The concentration of life energy in the air was slowly getting stronger and stronger.
It didn't affect him much at first, but then it became much too strong for him to just stand there in.
The stronger that the concentration of life energy got, the more suffocating it was for him.
While one might think that this was a good thing for any cultivator since a higher concentration of life energy in the air would allow them to cultivate more efficiently, this wasn't the case when the concentration of life energy became too high.
Anything that was too concentrated was never a good thing.
That was because as the concentration of life energy increased in this place, as more and more life energy was forced into this finite area, it started pushing away everything else.
But the most important thing was that it was also pushing away Lin Fan.
So when the life energy concentration increased, Lin Fan felt like he was being squeezed by something. The space inside of this tiny room was being compressed by the concentrated life energy that was here.
If he didn't do anything…it wouldn't take long before he was also squished into a meat cube.
Lin Fan started suspecting more and more that this place was a trap, but he didn't have time to think about that. The more important thing to do right now was figure out a way to get out of this place.
There was the system's emergency escape…but it wasn't time to do that yet.
Even if he escaped with the system's help, he would have to come back to this place. So it was better to see if he could figure out this trap itself first and only use the emergency escape as a last resort.
Lin Fan didn't waste any more time standing in the center of this small room and started searching around himself for where the life energy was coming from. There was only so much space in this room and there had to be something that was pumping this life energy in.
He tried releasing his spiritual sense to find the source of this life energy, but he found that it was already too late. The life energy in this room was already too concentrated for his spiritual senses to penetrate through, so he couldn't move them more than a few centimeters away from him.
Once they got too far away, they immediately collapsed under the pressure of the concentrated life energy.
Even in the area around himself, he wasn't able to find the flow of the life energy with how compressed it was. It was just too slow moving for him to track it.
Since he couldn't find the source of it, he knew that he wouldn't be able to stop this room from filling up with more life energy.
Since there was no way of stopping more life energy from flowing in, then there was only one thing that Lin Fan could do.
He would have to use up the life energy that was gathered inside of this room.
If he could burn away that life energy, he would be able to slowly decrease the concentration of life energy in here.
But the problem was that he had to burn life energy faster than the amount of life energy that was filling this room and he wasn't certain that he would be able to do that. After all, he had no idea just how much life energy was being pumped in.
However, it wasn't as if the situation was giving him time to think about it.
So without any more thinking, Lin Fan sat down cross legged in this room and started sucking in the life energy gathered in this area for his cultivation.
The one upside was that with all of this concentrated life energy, his cultivation base started to soar. With all of the life energy that was gathered, the world inside of his dantian started to grow at an immense rate.
Even then…it still wasn't enough.
As he drew in the life energy around him, Lin Fan still felt the pressure on him getting stronger. Even if he was pulling life energy out of the space, there was too much of it being pumped back in than he could take out.
At this rate, he would be crushed by all of the life energy around him.
So while he sucked in life energy for cultivating, Lin Fan started using his void laws as well.
His void laws created a layer of black energy around him that started draining all of the life energy that was still left. With this void of life energy created, all of the life energy around him spilled in to take that space, which created a large flow of life energy towards around Lin Fan.
This allowed the void laws to suck in as much life energy as it could…but there was a problem.
The void laws sucked the life energy in and then converted it into life energy for Lin Fan, but there was only so much life energy that Lin Fan could store inside of his body. So there would be a limit to how long he would be able to use this void law.
To counter that, Lin Fan didn't hesitate to create a ball of energy in the air.
This ball of energy was quickly engulfed in flames and turned into a ball of fire that just floated there. However, it didn't remain idle as it became stronger and stronger. The flames of this ball of fire burned bright and strong, releasing a powerful heat.
Lin Fan didn't stop at just a single ball of energy.
There were several other balls of energy that quickly formed in the air before transforming into different things.
A ball of lightning, a ball of light, a ball of darkness, a ball of wind, and many other balls of other things appeared around Lin Fan.
These balls of energy released a lot of power, but that was what Lin Fan wanted.
He was using these balls of energy along with his control of these laws to release as much life energy as he could. That way, he would be able to use up all of the life energy that he received from his void laws.
But no matter how many different laws he used, he still wasn't able to reduce the pressure.
It wasn't increasing as much as before, but there was still a slight increase to the pressure that he felt around him. He knew that even if he kept this up, he wouldn't be able to reduce it by enough to prevent his death…
Not to mention, he had already reached the limits of how many laws he could use at the same time.
He had experience with this through his ability to combine laws, but there was a limit to how many laws he could control with one mind. So he eventually reached his limit and still found that it didn't reduce it enough…
He wasn't even to create an equilibrium to buy himself time to think of another plan…
So in the end, Lin Fan used his final idea.
The balls of energy disappeared and there were only the void laws that were around Lin Fan left. However, as time passed and one looked closely at it, they would see that the void laws around Lin Fan were getting bigger and stronger.
There was more and more of a gap being created between Lin Fan and the dense life energy around him.
It was as if the void laws themselves were getting stronger…and that was indeed the case.
Lin Fan had stopped feeding the life energy that he gained from the void laws into the balls of energy and he started feeding them into the void laws themselves.
This was something that he could have done a long time ago, but he had never done it before. That was because while it did strengthen his void laws, if they became too strong, he wouldn't be able to control them anymore.
But at this point, he really didn't have a choice.
He could only strengthen his void laws now and swallow up all the life energy around him, then he would deal with the consequences.
As he was doing so, he almost felt like he heard a faint voice saying something.
"He's…the…one…"
Lin Fan distracted himself for a second to see if he could find the source of this voice, but he wasn't able to find anything in the end.
So he focused on feeding the life energy into the void laws.
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