My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2311 - 1729: Chronicle of a Hundred Billion Years
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
Lian Mountain embodies the civilization of the Mountain and Sea.
Gui Hai symbolizes the creatures inhabiting the Mountain and Sea.
Taiyi captures the essence of the Dao within the Mountain and Sea.
Representing the Mountain and Sea in essence, the Three Saints stand as its core.
Driven by Li Fan's influence, the Three Saints immerse every Saint inside the Xuanji Ring into their vast recollections.
Not drawing from the era of the Mountain and Sea's Divine Split.
Instead, originating from the moment the Taichu Immortal Realm started to crumble, as the Mountain and Sea slowly fused together.
Since these serve as mere memory fragments, they lack distinct, tangible forms as separate entities.
Saints converge as shimmering points of green light.
The sights and sounds perceived by the Three Saints project like three glowing panels before the gathered Saints.
Though it's just observation, the Three Saints channel immense, mysterious forces to deliver a deeply engaging immersion.
Barely distinguishable from undergoing the events firsthand.
Via the Three Saints' perspective, a faint outline of the genuine Taichu Immortal Realm emerges. What was once an abstract notion of history now solidifies into vivid reality.
Emerging post the Divine Split of the Mountain and Sea, the Taichu Immortal Realm developed during the nascent phase of the Mountain and Sea's formation.
Maybe due to the Immeasurable True God, the Mountain and Sea failed to engulf it completely. Or at the True God's demise, the Mountain and Sea didn't claim every remnant.
Regardless, the Taichu Immortal Realm harbors numerous bizarre entities born naturally, including those that devour the Dao itself. Beings clash in rivalry, with some yearning for the Mountain and Sea's divine devouring fortune.
Competition rages among all, fostering boundless vitality.
Free from limits, unshackled by rules, unbound by prohibitions.
Survival or demise, existence or oblivion—who prevails depends solely on strength.
The duration of the Taichu Immortal Realm remains a mystery. Yet even the Mountain and Sea faces inevitable ruin, meeting its end on this fateful day.
Innumerable tiny black voids erupt across every part of the Taichu Immortal Realm.
Resembling terrifying maelstroms, these voids swallow all nearby matter without mercy.
The core principles upholding the Taichu Immortal Realm dissolve into them in an instant.
Desperate creatures scatter in panic, abandoning their battles entirely.
Green light points pulse rapidly, as the Saints' minds entwine in shared reflection.
"The Taichu Immortal Realm—what an awe-inspiring, colossal realm, birthing endless Dao and myriad lives. To think it shattered amid the Mountain and Sea's fusion!"
"No matter its splendor, it was just another experiment of the Mountain and Sea. Once the Mountain and Sea grasps its fate through the fusion, such attempts get discarded naturally."
"Sprung from a mere whim of the Mountain and Sea, then snuffed out by another..."
"Even the Three Saints' hearts stir with dread at this sight."
"This catastrophe mirrors our own desperate fight before Dao Yan's arrival. We've endured it all, yet it turns out the ancients faced the same eons ago. Viewed this way, the Mountain and Sea cycles like an immense wheel of rebirth."
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The Taichu Immortal Realm's breakdown unleashes a tempest that ruthlessly engulfs the surviving beings. Even mighty figures like the Three Saints become mere specks adrift in gales, powerless against the Mountain and Sea's overwhelming tide, reduced to frantic efforts just to endure.
Only moments before, the Saints chatted freely, but as time surges forward, they plunge into the Mountain and Sea's chaotic downfall, their voices fading into silence.
In that instant, they grasp how blessed they were under the Taichu Immortal Realm's protection.
Though it echoes the all-consuming Dao Yan calamity, the core differs profoundly.
This gale embodies the Mountain and Sea's ultimate purge, eradicating all foreign elements.
Everything once tied to the God, left unclaimed, now faces total reclamation.
Beyond the Mountain and Sea, nothing endures.
No entities transcend, none eclipse the Mountain and Sea.
Enduring the gale demands fusion into the Mountain and Sea itself.
Spanning millions of years, the tempest at last calms.
Were this not a mere glimpse through the Three Saints' memories but a direct ordeal, the surviving Saints might number fewer than one in ten.
With the godly essences fully integrated, the Mountain and Sea unveils its true visage.
The Infinite Sea cradles every potential reality.
Devoid of time's grasp, speckled with starlight, cycles of life and death swirl endlessly, birthing and vanishing within.
Upper Mountain rises grandly, intangible yet embodying perpetual vigor and stability. It acts as a steadfast support, ensuring the Infinite Sea's potentials persist.
Interlinked, the Mountain and Sea appear separate but rely on one another deeply.
"Fellow Saints, this ancient Mountain and Sea... it differs greatly from the version we know later on?"
"The evolved Mountain and Sea, with its claimed endless potentials, still bows to the River of Time's constraints, like vast rivers merging into one flow. Yet in this primal era of the Mountain and Sea..."
"Potentials ripple outward like waves on a serene lake, rising and fading without disturbing the Infinite Sea's core. Against today's turbulent Mountain and Sea, this original state feels far more secure. So why pursue a forced union?" The query echoes unspoken in the Saints' minds.
Yet such musings belong to distant watchers. Those trapped within fixate on a single drive.
Survival above all!
Against the former vast paradise of the Taichu Immortal Realm, the newly shaped Mountain and Sea enforces rigid laws.
Harsh, even ruthless at times.
No power endures indefinitely. Much like the Infinite Sea's fleeting potentials, birth and demise evade control.
Even those who once reveled and clashed unbound in the Taichu Immortal Realm now wither quietly.
For the old era's inhabitants, the Mountain and Sea's fresh edicts prove brutally unforgiving. Still, they establish a robust, enduring harmony.
The rise and fall of potentials adhere to hidden rhythms. Starlight flecks dance across the waters, yet the pond stays utterly still.
Upper Mountain looms as a guardian at the water's brim.
In mutual support, Mountain and Sea achieve perfect equilibrium.
Most old allies have vanished. The Three Saints retreat into dormancy within the Mountain and Sea, either merging fully or biding their time.
This primal Mountain and Sea radiates profound serenity.
Potentials unfold in the simplest ways.
Lacking true sentient life, resembling primitive growths like algae instead.
But as light specks vary in the Infinite Sea,
the potentials' shapes grow increasingly diverse.
Certain potentials spawn aware beings.
Amid the Mountain and Sea's severe laws, the Three Saints slip into these realms for brief relief.
Beside the innate offspring of potentials, the Three Saints from the Taichu Immortal Realm embody authentic "Saints."
Refraining from any meddling, the Three Saints watch in quiet vigil.
Detecting an impending collapse, they escape swiftly, resuming their vigil in the Infinite Sea.
Ages drift by unnoticed.
Absent any mishap, this tranquility might persist eternally in the Mountain and Sea.
Yet on this day, the Infinite Sea erupts in sudden, fierce agitation.
The Star Sea blankets the heavens like a flawless mirror, apparently mirroring vistas outside the Mountain and Sea.
Gazing upward, the Three Saints yearn to glimpse beyond.
But only scattered visions flash by, instantly revealing the cause of the Mountain and Sea's unrest!
Post-devouring the God, the Mountain and Sea strives to uphold a timeless "eternity."
Without origin or conclusion, it claims perpetual being.
Success appeared assured.
However...
Now, beyond the Mountain and Sea, time flows onward in silence!
All while the Mountain and Sea remained utterly oblivious before!
As though an unblinking gaze observed from the start to the finish.