Chapter 1484: Chapter 1482: How Do You Know I’m Not the Exception?

"Ant! Kneel down and die for me!"

Lan Zhengqing’s aura surged like a river in flood, sweeping across everything, overflowing through the entire room.

Every corner was crammed full of his terrifying, overwhelming aura.

Outrageous!

Shaking in terror!

In the span of a single breath, Lan Zhengqing had already rushed in front of Lin Fan.

The frigid fist arrived right on its heels.

The air first froze into blocks of ice, then was smashed apart one by one by Lan Zhengqing’s fist, ice shards flying, a bone‑piercing chill bursting out.

Lin Fan’s first reaction was to run.

The words Instant Escape were already on the tip of his tongue, about to be spoken, but in that instant, he hesitated.

Am I really going to run?!

His eyes burned as he stared at that surging fist force.

His brows tightened!

"Lin Fan?! What are you doing?!" Emperor Jade suddenly popped out in his mind, speaking in panicked alarm.

Lin Fan being alive at all was already a huge stroke of luck.

By rights, he should’ve died back when he fought Tian Lu. If Tian Lu hadn’t been carrying Lan Zhengqing’s orders, Lin Fan would already be nothing but a mist of blood.

Having walked out of a brush with death, he should have cherished his life even more.

But not only did Lin Fan feel no fear, he didn’t even budge as he faced that crazy, crashing pressure.

Had he gone mad?

How could he still be this calm!

"Hurry up and go, if you don’t go now it’ll be too late! You finally survived, do you really want to die again?! If you die this time, that’s it for real, you’re never coming back!" Emperor Jade said anxiously, watching that oppressive aura come closer and closer. If she could drag Lin Fan away, she would’ve done it ages ago.

She hated that she had no hands or feet, no way to physically touch Lin Fan, and could only nag with her one mouth.

But it was completely useless, because Lin Fan had no intention of listening to her at all.

"Emperor Jade, if I run, are you saying I’m guaranteed to survive?" Lin Fan said flatly, expressionless.

"You... what do you mean?" Emperor Jade jolted, her voice trembling.

"I’m saying, whether I stay or run, it’s not like I’m guaranteed to live, right."

"What I do know is, if you keep standing here without moving, you’ll definitely die! If you hurry and use Instant Escape, there might still be a sliver of hope."

"Might... heh heh..."

Lin Fan suddenly started laughing, a light, faint laugh!

Emperor Jade was completely stunned.

The fire was already burning his eyebrows and he still didn’t have the slightest sense of urgency. What was this, did he really want to die?!

With his current Spiritual Power, there was no way he could forcefully withstand Lan Zhengqing.

If he didn’t run, there was only one path—death!

"What the hell do you want to do, are you seriously planning to take it with just your flesh? Stop dreaming, that’s impossible! Your body can’t bear two hundred billion jin of weight at all. If that lands on you, you’ll be crushed into meat paste in an instant! Don’t be stupid, dodge!"

"Emperor Jade, if I keep hiding, does that mean I get to keep living in the Five Elements Realm?"

"..."

"Then what’s the damn point of coming to the Five Elements Realm? To get beaten up? If I don’t face these crises head on, how am I supposed to raise my Cultivation Realm? You know I’ve been stuck at Ninth Rank Saint Emperor for a long time, and I’ve never found a way to break through. Now, I feel like this is a chance, to use the Power of the Dragon Bone to convert Lan Zhengqing’s pressure."

Emperor Jade gulped hard with a heavy swallow, her face ashen.

She understood what Lin Fan meant.

When someone stays in a certain Realm too long, they get shackled by that Realm.

Especially when they’re about to step into the next Great Realm.

Like Ninth Rank Saint Emperor, like the Ninth Layer of the Path‑Breaking Realm... there were far too many examples. Plenty of people just couldn’t take that one step forward, so they could only stay stuck in that Cultivation Realm forever, muddling through their entire lives.

Being mediocre for life!

Lin Fan obviously didn’t want to be that kind of person. He might be best at fighting above his level, but staying too long at Ninth Rank Saint Emperor meant his Power couldn’t move up another rung.

So when facing a Middle Heavenly Venerate like Lan Zhengqing, he’d feel extremely strained, even to the point of not being an opponent at all.

He had to break this shackle!

He couldn’t be imprisoned in Ninth Rank Saint Emperor for life.

So.

He had to risk everything!

The way he was going to risk it was to let someone at a higher Cultivation Realm than him attack him with full strength.

He would use this one frenzied strike to blast open the Qi within his body, and to a certain extent absorb the opponent’s Spiritual Power.

Like a remedial student learning from a straight‑A student.

The top student has already understood this hard problem, so the remedial student goes and asks for their experience.

The difference was, Lin Fan’s way of learning was getting beaten up.

The harder the beating, the higher the chance of success—but correspondingly, the higher the chance of death.

Risk and opportunity coexisted!

High risk, high return, high danger!

This method had been used by many Cultivators in the past, but those who actually succeeded were pitifully few—you could say that out of ten million people, maybe one would succeed.

So this method was rarely seen. After all, people only had one life, and most still treasured their own lives.

Only a few true lunatics, the type you’d call Martial Fanatics.

In order to pursue a higher Cultivation Realm, they’d do things this insane.

Anyone even remotely normal wouldn’t volunteer to get the crap beaten out of them.

There were already very few Martial Fanatics like that, and those among them who succeeded were even rarer than phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, you could count them on your fingers.

And now.

Lin Fan actually wanted to use this method to break the shackles of Ninth Rank Saint Emperor. Emperor Jade just couldn’t accept it.

"You do know... you might die, right?!"

"I know."

Calm.

A level of calm he’d never had before!

Once he’d made his decision in his heart, nothing could change Lin Fan’s mind.

Not Emperor Jade, not even death!

Living a cowardly, compromised life, suffering humiliation and abuse in the Five Elements Realm—he’d rather charge toward death and use his life as a wager to completely shatter the shackles of Ninth Rank Saint Emperor.

Lin Fan didn’t say all this out loud, but Emperor Jade already felt his stubborn Divine Sense.

With no other choice.

She could only let out a soft sigh.

"The odds of success with this are way too low! From what I know, almost no one has ever pulled it off."

"Without exception, they all ended up as wrongful spirits."

"Lin Fan, you still have a chance now, why don’t you think about it again? Think about the Divine Phoenix—what will she do if you die? And Zhu Qilue and Zhu Ruoling, are you planning to just abandon them too?"

Emperor Jade was still trying, trying to make Lin Fan turn back and not take this stupid step.

In her eyes.

This move was just too stupid!

Lin Fan clearly had better choices, so why did he insist on doing this?

Damn it!

She really couldn’t stop Lin Fan. No matter how much she said, it was useless; Lin Fan simply had no intention of listening to her.

If she could, she really wanted to slap Lin Fan hard across the face.

"How do you know I’m definitely going to die?"

Suddenly.

Lin Fan spoke out of nowhere, a faint smile tugging at his lips.

Emperor Jade was stunned on the spot.

"This..."

"How do you know I’m not that exception?"

"Lin Fan... you..."

"You want me to stop dreaming, right? Can’t be helped—your daddy here just loves to dream. And what’s more, your daddy’s gonna turn those dreams into reality!"

Lin Fan roared, his eyes blazing with a razor‑sharp light, aggressive and unyielding.

Emperor Jade was directly startled by Lin Fan’s imposing aura.

"Even if the whole world doesn’t believe in me, even if even you, Emperor Jade, think I’m going to die—then all the more I want to try! I want to see if things are really like you said, that no one can survive walking the path against the heavens!"