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The words of the messenger had not yet completely faded away.

Suddenly, the star trail runes beneath Chen Feng's feet erupted with a dazzling silver-blue light, and he was torn into an endless sea of ​​stars by an irresistible force.

The feeling of weightlessness lasted only one ten-thousandth of a second.

When Chen Feng regained his footing, he found himself in a vast maze.

The maze's passageways are several meters wide, with stone walls standing on both sides.

Every brick and stone here is gray, giving it an extremely rustic appearance.

However, the ground where Chen Feng stood was a glowing channel constructed from some kind of mysterious crystal, and beneath Chen Feng's feet were golden cracks that resembled a spider web.

Chen Feng frowned and tentatively took a step forward.

The moment my foot landed, there was no expected crystal resonance, only an extremely faint "click" sound, like glass shattering.

The sound was as light as a snowflake falling on the water, yet it made the hairs on Chen Feng's body stand on end instantly.

[Lucky Contract System: Error! Stepping onto an unauthorized star path node!]

[Lucky Contract System: The 17th Dimensional Space Folding has been activated! It cannot be stopped! It cannot be avoided!]

Two scarlet system warning boxes exploded almost overlapping each other, then instantly distorted and disappeared on Chen Feng's retina.

In the next 0.1 seconds, Chen Feng didn't even have time to react.

The glowing crystal ground beneath his feet was the first to disappear.

It is not shattering, nor collapsing, but rather unfolding, folding, twisting, and compressing simultaneously in seventeen completely different directions.

Chen Feng's left eye saw that his left foot was being stretched into an infinitely thin line, extending backward along the timeline, all the way to the moment he was born.

His right eye saw that the same left foot was being compressed into a singularity with no volume.

Just as all perceptions were unfolding in an extremely bizarre way, Chen Feng heard a frequency that transcended the limits of human perception.

It sounded like space itself was being crushed.

In almost a few seconds, Chen Feng's alloy-like bones began to decompose, his dark red blood stopped flowing, and his muscle fibers were broken down into the most basic amino acid chains.

Even the Dark Emperor Devouring Body fully erupted at this critical moment.

Black energy surged from Chen Feng's body like a tsunami, attempting to devour the surrounding spatial energy. However, this time, the Dark Emperor Devouring Body seemed to have encountered something it could not resist.

The moment the Devouring Body's energy came into contact with those distorted spatial dimensions, it was instantly decomposed and assimilated, becoming part of the star trails.

"puff--"

The shattered Chen Feng suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

My own perception finally stopped at the moment when my memories and emotions were completely stripped away...

Then, time went backwards again.

It wasn't the time of the entire maze, but the time that belonged to Chen Feng.

"Click."

The same faint sound of glass shattering rang out again.

Chen Feng reappeared in the same spot where he had stepped wrong. His foot was still suspended in mid-air, only 0.1 centimeters away from the point of death.

Chen Feng quickly took a few steps back, panting heavily.

[Lucky Contract System: Reset from the death loop]

[Lucky Contract System: Current Death Count: 1]

[Lucky Contract System: Warning! With each death, the Exorcist's soul will be left with an irreparable crack. After more than 1000 deaths, you will completely lose your self-awareness.]

Chen Feng slowly slid down to sit on the ground.

Letting all the muscles in my body tremble uncontrollably...

The death I just witnessed was not an illusion.

Even now, the excruciating pain of being brutally torn apart still lingers deep within his soul. It's as if an invisible, cold chisel has carved a deep, bone-revealing crack into the very core of his being.

The crack emanated a chill that made him feel inexplicably weak.

Chen Feng slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers slowly clenching and then relaxing.

The palm was intact, warm, and strong.

Every cell in the body was exactly the same as before death, as if the terrifying destruction had never happened.

But only Chen Feng himself knew that something had changed—he had died once.

In another dimension, on another timeline, another version of him is forever repeating the process of being folded and crushed by seventeen-dimensional space. His flesh and blood have turned into dust in the star trails, and his soul is nailed to the cold crystalline walls, day after day, year after year, until the end of the universe.

"call--"

Chen Feng let out a long breath, forcing himself to calm down.

This wasn't the first time he had experienced death.

From the day he entered the Combat Academy, he had teetered on the brink of death countless times, but none of those deaths had made him feel so utterly powerless as this one.

His proud Dark Emperor Devouring Body fighting mentality couldn't even be shaken by a single spatial fold.

This is the terror of the sub-civilization; they do not control power, but rather the underlying logic of how the universe operates.

Chen Feng closed his eyes and replayed in his mind all the sensations he had just experienced at the moment of death, as well as the location and timing of his fall.

He didn't miss a single detail, from the faint "click" sound to the eerie visual effect of the folding space, and finally to the last moment when his soul was being stripped away.

again and again.

Until the fear in my heart gradually faded away, replaced by a cold rationality.

[If a demon slayer dies more than 1000 times, they will completely lose their self-awareness.]

Chen Feng opened his eyes, his expression grave.

The messenger of Jueya once said that 1 second in the outside world is equivalent to 72 days in the maze.

This means that even if Chen Feng had been gone for hundreds of years, it would probably only be a matter of minutes for Xiao Ning outside.

Furthermore, the system explicitly mentioned the issue of the number of deaths.

Each failure leaves an irreparable crack in Chen Feng's soul. When he dies more than 1000 times, Chen Feng will completely lose his self-awareness.

Dying a thousand times sounds like a lot, but for this star trail maze with 3600 passages, it seems far too few.

This, in turn, exploits the weakness of the demon slayer's impure soul.

......

Chen Feng returned to the starting point and lightly tapped the air with his fingertip.

There was no smooth blue light flash as usual.

The interface of the Lucky Contract system froze for a full three seconds before finally appearing.

The once clear font now had distorted jagged edges, and silver-blue gibberish flashed across the interface, as if it would be torn apart again by the rules of Jueya at any moment.

[Lucky Contract System: Tactical Planning Function Activated...]

[Lucky Contract System: Deep suppression of the rules was detected, and the computing power utilization rate is only 36.2%]

[Lucky Contract System: All computing power has been allocated to the basic model of the Star Orbit Maze, and the tactical planning function has been activated]

[Lucky Contract System: Begin recording all host action data—spatial coordinates, landing timing, energy fluctuations, soul reactions, seventeen-dimensional spatial folding trigger conditions, individual time reset mechanism...]

[Lucky Contract System: Begin building the basic model for the Star Trail Maze...]