My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2328 - 1741: Easier In Than Out
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
Engulfed by the boundless glow all around, its intensity halved in a mere blink.
But the ferocious drive behind it showed no signs of slowing.
Right away, it ripped through a section of the swirling chaos, surging toward the border of the Shadow of God.
As though the following instant would thrust it straight into the God’s Corpse.
Seize God’s Creation!
Li Fan, who had been watching quietly, sensed his pulse halt abruptly in that split second. An urge rose within him to step forward and challenge it head-on. In the end, though, he proved helpless, and Guardian Hill’s steady guidance helped banish his wild impulses.
Still, certain concealed presences refused to stay as mere spectators.
Deep in the raging whirlpool, precisely when the white glow neared impact with the God’s Corpse, three varied lights exploded into view without warning.
One white, one purple, one green.
This additional white glow matched exactly the aura Li Fan had picked up earlier at the Infinite Ocean Floor.
Now, the duo crossed paths once more, but everything felt utterly transformed.
Li Fan hid amid the obscurity, while the counterpart basked in the illumination.
Spotting the other anew triggered a rush of images in Li Fan’s Spirit Consciousness.
"Mr. Fan, have we met before?"
A slender, ghostly silhouette posed the query with elegant poise.
Li Fan offered no reply.
Beyond them, the furious onslaught of Dao Yan’s immense wave loomed in faint outline.
Putting aside further reflection, the pair united to battle the looming catastrophe.
…
"This marks the fourth time I’ve posed this query, yet Mr. Fan persists in silence?" The elongated form’s tone rang out once again.
However, the Mountain Sea backdrop had shifted into something profoundly altered.
The once-vibrant and lively setting now lay shrouded in gloom and utter deathly silence.
And the former allies, who had progressed side by side, now faced each other in mounting hostility.
In response to the slender figure’s inquiry, Li Fan upheld his quiet demeanor.
"Hmph."
"Refusing to respond—"
"Invites death."
Myriad brilliant white beams ignited at once, chasing away the shadows for a fleeting moment.
Every beam resembled a lethal blade, its killing intent soaring skyward.
Aimed squarely at Li Fan.
…
"Mr. Fan, have we—as before—"
"Met previously?"
Yet another recurring vision unfolded.
This time, the slender form repeated the question.
Yet, unlike the myriad Reincarnation loops prior, a faint difference emerged.
Li Fan opted for continued quiet.
But the cultivator’s shape revealed no fury.
Rather, it adopted a contemplative look.
"When the True turns False—"
"False becomes True."
Across endless cycles, Li Fan detected each minute shift.
He sharply spotted the oddity in the slender figure and, without delay, triggered True and False Changes to overhaul the Mountain Sea.
"Countless heroes in Mountain Sea, how could we deceive them all—"
A drawn-out sigh echoed forth.
…
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The violent tremors from brutal clashes yanked Li Fan back from old recollections.
With no chance to mull over its deeper meaning, Li Fan focused solely on the unfolding events.
The white, purple, and green lights, arriving after the first, surprisingly blocked the pioneering glow from passing the Light Ring’s edge.
As the four lights merged, Li Fan at last discerned the contrast between the pair of white gleams.
Concealed amid the God’s nourishing turmoil, and hinting at a past connection to Li Fan, gleamed a starry silver-white spark.
Whereas the glow from the external realm, which had skimmed by Li Fan earlier, carried a pallid, deathly hush.
Despite their apparent likeness, they embodied entirely divergent Dao Paths.
Regarding the purple and green shades...
Li Fan lacked the moment to reflect, for fresh developments gripped the spectacle.
There, the ashen light that shattered the calm got halted by the trio of opposing gleams.
It halted briefly, then whipped around in swift retreat.
Bursting backward with force, the white streak shredded the whirlpool anew. It mirrored its arrival by fleeing once more!
"Is it fleeing from the challenge, or..."
What chilled Li Fan to the core wasn’t solely the ashen light.
The remaining three lights, after a short hesitation, abruptly dispersed in every direction.
Desperate to break free from this colossal whirlpool.
"Bang! Bang!"
Li Fan’s heart began thumping with wild intensity.
The light ring encircling the vortex’s outer limit abruptly grew faint.
The churning tides of the nourishing maelstrom plunged into total stillness in a heartbeat.
Next...
At its heart, the God’s Corpse—which Li Fan regarded as long lifeless.
Abruptly, its eyes snapped open.
Four streams of light pierced into the God’s gaze.
Positioned upon the God’s form, they vanished from Li Fan’s line of sight.
Trailing right after came the azure light, nearest to the Shadow of God.
It dissolved without a trace, stirring not the faintest disturbance.
Witnessing this, the surviving white and purple lights accelerated sharply.
The ashen light had already slammed against the vortex’s farthest barrier.
However...
Easy to come, hard to leave.
That dim white ring was no longer so easy to pierce as before.
Under the fierce collision, the pale light suddenly shrank by a few degrees.
Yet it did manage to create a breach.
Flickering several times, the pale light successfully escaped.
And the silvery-white dot, representing an elongated figure, also followed the pale trace and escaped before the encirclement closed in.
As for the purple light, it was not so lucky.
Like a mosquito, easily pinched to death by an invisible hand.
The purple dot was suddenly wiped away.
Easily solving these two concealed pests, the God did not appear.
Nor did it choose to pursue the two white dots.
The nutrient vortex remained in a stationary state.
The outermost light ring of the vortex flickered on and off.
It seemed like the God’s sight was sweeping continuously within the vortex.
As if searching for something.
Li Fan dared not make a sound, struggling to maintain the Illusion as Reality state on himself.
At this moment, he finally understood.
There was no God’s fall!
It was all merely a trap laid by this newly ascended God.
Crude, yet extremely effective.
After all, no one had ever seen the scene after successfully seizing God’s Creation.
When facing a God’s Corpse without resistance, along with an endless supply of nutrient essence.
Even the remaining Saints find it hard to resist such temptation.
After all, that’s why they came here to compete for the Divine Split.
Even if someone might have anticipated that it could be a trap.
But once the other Saints made a move, others are bound not to hold back.
The act of seizing a God, to hesitate even for a step, is to hand over the Creation to others!
Knowing it’s a trap, they must still strive to contend.
It’s a trap, and also an open scheme.
"Already testified as a New God, yet still resorts to such insidious tricks to kill."
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Easy to come, hard to leave.
That dim white ring was no longer so easy to pierce as before.
Under the fierce collision, the pale light suddenly shrank by a few degrees.
Yet it did manage to create a breach.
Flickering several times, the pale light successfully escaped.
And the silvery-white dot, representing an elongated figure, also followed the pale trace and escaped before the encirclement closed in.
As for the purple light, it was not so lucky.
Like a mosquito, easily pinched to death by an invisible hand.
The purple dot was suddenly wiped away.
Easily solving these two concealed pests, the God did not appear.
Nor did it choose to pursue the two white dots.
The nutrient vortex remained in a stationary state.
The outermost light ring of the vortex flickered on and off.
It seemed like the God’s sight was sweeping continuously within the vortex.
As if searching for something.
Li Fan dared not make a sound, struggling to maintain the Illusion as Reality state on himself.
At this moment, he finally understood.
There was no God’s fall!
It was all merely a trap laid by this newly ascended God.
Crude, yet extremely effective.
After all, no one had ever seen the scene after successfully seizing God’s Creation.
When facing a God’s Corpse without resistance, along with an endless supply of nutrient essence.
Even the remaining Saints find it hard to resist such temptation.
After all, that’s why they came here to compete for the Divine Split.
Even if someone might have anticipated that it could be a trap.
But once the other Saints made a move, others are bound not to hold back.
The act of seizing a God, to hesitate even for a step, is to hand over the Creation to others!
Knowing it’s a trap, they must still strive to contend.
It’s a trap, and also an open scheme.
"Already testified as a New God, yet still resorts to such insidious tricks to kill."