My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2327 - 1741
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
Positioned right at the brink of the swirling vortex, so close that the New God was almost within his grasp.
However, its actual appearance stayed hidden from view.
He could merely catch sight of a gigantic dark silhouette positioned amid the whirlpool, quietly drawing in endless streams of radiant light.
It appeared to be in a deep slumber, showing no signs of any energy pulses.
Without directing one's gaze toward it, it felt like it wasn't there at all.
This stood in stark contrast to the overwhelming force displayed when the Shadow of God surged into his thoughts, immediately rendering Li Fan senseless.
"Daoist Guardian Hill, just what has transpired here?"
"Why does it feel like..." Li Fan voiced his confusion, brimming with bewilderment.
"Evidently, I'm not alone in this misconception. The New God has genuinely perished." Guardian Hill drew in a labored breath, looking utterly drained.
"The New God is dead."
With a subtle confirmation stirring in his core, Li Fan stared forward in a stupor.
The sensation shifted abruptly.
The godly silhouette towered imposingly, remaining grand and beyond approach.
Yet inside it, the anticipated divine will was absent.
Resembling a hollow husk, it was simply carrying out the New God's duty to consume all in its path.
Li Fan concentrated briefly, then jolted in surprise as he realized the enormous shadow before him was emerging from the emptiness within his Spirit Consciousness. He promptly shut his eyes shut, refusing to look further.
Only after the Shadow of God had fully dissipated from his Spirit Consciousness did he manage a faint exhale of relief.
"Even if it's merely God's Corpse, we can't afford to pursue it while we're wounded like this."
"Even in our strongest condition, the best we could manage is self-preservation." Despite lacking their earlier bond, Guardian Hill swiftly grasped Li Fan's intentions and cautioned him.
Although hesitant, Li Fan attempted once more and reluctantly conceded that Guardian Hill spoke true.
The Mountain and Sea Return to God signifies a total upheaval of every power across the realm.
Everything has been squandered, leaving the New God right before them as the sole victor.
Beneath the immense deluge, the All Saints could merely dissolve away like insects swept by the gale.
Li Fan and Guardian Hill had endured up to this point solely through the safeguard of True and False Changes.
Glancing about, every element of the Mountain and Sea had withered and disappeared.
Just untainted luminous energy persists, swirling quietly in the unending coil.
Cascading toward the core Shadow of God.
Once the vortex gets entirely drawn into God, that's the moment the New God fully manifests.
Yet an unforeseen turn has taken place, who could have foreseen it.
The New God collapsed before it ever ascended!
"From the dawn of Mountain and Sea, the All Saints battled fiercely over Divine Split. They could scarcely dream that divinity, seized in an instant, would conclude so suddenly." As the vortex meandered onward, Li Fan repeatedly peered over his shoulder.
Examining the shape of God's Corpse.
He even attempted to sense and draw in the nearby radiance.
Yet it was neither Tao nor Mountain Sea.
Nor any element Li Fan had come across in previous Reincarnations.
It appeared designed purely as sustenance for forging the New God.
After experimenting with numerous techniques, including Great Dao Returns to Truth, he failed to harness even a fragment.
His sole option was to concentrate wholly on God's Corpse.
Suddenly, Li Fan recalled the elusive form he had glimpsed in the Returning God Flood.
A spark ignited in his mind: "Perhaps he lingered there all this time, anticipating the New God's demise? Predicting this very occurrence? In that case..."
Intention trails the mind.
True and False Changes wrapped around his form once again, snugly.
Fully concealed amid the boundless glow of the vortex, utterly undetectable.
"May that individual reach us promptly." Li Fan quietly tallied the time left until immersion into the Shadow of God, all while biding his time.
Time's passage remained a mystery.
By the point Li Fan had plunged midway into the vortex, the shadow's effect persisted even without direct sight, seeping through True and False Changes to invade his awareness.
And then dominate.
The mounting dread in his chest proved impossible to quell, so Li Fan halted his impulse to revert to Hai Zhen, eager to witness more developments.
"It ought to arrive any moment now."
In that instant, beyond the vortex, no additional specks of light streamed inward.
The shadow appeared to have finished devouring the entirety of Mountain and Sea.
Mountain Sea has ceased to exist.
The lone remnant in the world lingers in the vortex's outermost luminous band.
Sustenance for God.
"Why hasn't the Void Realm stirred? Or perhaps, trapped within the vortex, I can't detect whatever lies beyond the light band?"
"Apart from myself, does something else hide within this space?"
The image of God dominated most of his mind.
Li Fan exerted every effort to avoid beholding it, battling to fend off the shadow's invasive taint on his consciousness.
Against these riddles, Li Fan's recollections from myriad prior Reincarnations proved better shields. As he started delving into those histories, the form of God faded subtly.
Like clutching at a lifeline, Li Fan plunged into the torrent of his former experiences.
Though hazy still, he discerned far more than in typical times.
"In one cycle, I truly faced the emergence of the New God. And Hai Zhen did reset the world."
"Yet as in my own path, once the New God arose, it swiftly crumbled..."
"Such a thing has never transpired."
"What caused the New God's destruction?"
Shielded by both the deluge of memories and True and False Changes, Li Fan inched nearer to the divine shadow.
Proximity so intense he nearly unveiled its mystery.
Right then, the figure Li Fan had anticipated at last appeared.
A brilliant white glow pierced the vortex's external light ring, rapidly penetrating the sustenance around God's Corpse.
As if foreknowing the chaos inside the vortex, it wasted no time, barreling directly at the central standing shadow.
The once-calm radiant sustenance erupted into a raging tempest, seeking to overwhelm this bold trespasser.
The fury of God, truly a burden no mortal can withstand.
Even though that white glow counted among the rare few who outlasted the Mountain Sea Return to God Great Calamity.