My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2337 - 1746: Battle of the Void Realm’s New Gods
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
It appears that the Boundaryless Stele, aware of the fate awaiting it—being consumed by the New God—holds its ground solidly in the Void, resisting the immense Returning God Flood without any alteration whatsoever.
"It can actually resist the force of the return to God..."
Li Fan's eyes flashed briefly, and his Divine Sense scanned over the Boundaryless Stele, searching for the secret behind its unyielding position in the Void.
The leftover essence of Mountain and Sea flowed like a mighty river heading east. It all gathered and fused into the swirling vortex of nourishment at the dawn of the New God's era. Still, the Boundaryless Stele remained like an immovable rock beside the river, undisturbed.
Positioned atop the stele, Li Fan observed the chaos engulfing Mountain and Sea, feeling a distinctive sensation stir within him.
"This stele..."
"It gathers the essence of Mountain and Sea, yet remains separate from it all. It also acts as a mirror, showing the carvings of diverse Taoist Principles from Mountain and Sea. What could its true origin be?"
Suddenly, Li Fan remembered the vision he had perceived upon first encountering the Mountain and Sea Boundaryless Stele.
Beyond the realms of Mountain and Sea, in the enigmatic and unexplored depths, at the concealed site of creation. Abruptly, a stele emerged, as if springing forth from inside Mountain and Sea. But it also seemed to have descended into Mountain and Sea from some external realm.
Hills churned wildly, waves crashed everywhere. Mountain and Sea fused together, thus forming no boundaries.
"Is it possible, as the Three Saints claimed, that it's a leftover fragment from a God, or maybe..."
"Something that exists on the same level as a God?"
With these ideas racing through his mind, Li Fan made his decision.
At the conclusion of this world, he would stay right here by the Mountain and Sea Boundaryless Stele. He intended to watch the New God's arrival and observe what happens to the stele when the New God Star emerges.
"Maybe I'll get the opportunity to refine my Dao Yi Mountain and Sea Map again using this Boundaryless Stele."
A surge of excitement filled Li Fan's heart, and suddenly a Dao Yi Bug materialized in his grasp.
Even typical Saints struggle to leave lasting imprints on the Boundaryless Stele. Trying with a mere Dao Yi Bug is even harder.
As anticipated, it couldn't be held within the stele. The moment the Dao Yi Bug appeared, it dissolved into wisps of inky hue and scattered away on the breeze.
Then, Li Fan started to slowly ramp up the count of Dao Yi Bugs.
One, then a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand...
None of them could endure for a single moment, all vanishing inside the stele.
Only when the quantity reached ten billion did the Mountain and Sea Map etched on the backs of the Dao Yi Bug horde begin to form, allowing it to persist just a bit longer.
"This might work..."
Li Fan sharply noticed that while the horde briefly fought to survive, a real transformation was indeed happening on the Boundaryless Stele.
Yet, once the horde faded away, those fresh carvings disappeared right along with it.
"The Dao Yi Bug's engraving of Mountain and Sea counts as a true Dao Path. So, it naturally etches marks on the Boundaryless Stele, much like other Taoist Principles. Actually, what's left on the Boundaryless Stele represents the truest form of the Mountain and Sea Map." An insight struck Li Fan.
He pushed the horde's numbers even higher.
A billion, then ten billion strong, forming a full Mountain and Sea scene.
Combined with Li Fan's own realizations, "Mountain and Sea Without Boundary" serving as the ultimate finishing stroke.
As the Dao Yi Mountain and Sea Map fully formed, the ten billion Dao Yi Bugs all erupted in an eerie Dark Light, blending together into a single entity.
Resembling an ink-splashed depiction of Mountain and Sea, where mountains rise and fall dramatically, waves crash with furious intensity. Countless Daos came alive inside it.
It truly captured the essence of actual Mountain and Sea, manifesting right away and almost slipping from Li Fan's grasp. Drawn irresistibly toward the returning vortex at Mountain and Sea's origin.
Under the Boundaryless Stele's restraining force, the ink glow of this Dao Yi Diagram swirled, mountains trembled, waves boiled over, and Mountain and Sea united as one, managing to challenge the stele for a fleeting instant.
The summons of the mountains, the thunder of the seas—the Shadow of Mountain and Sea gradually etched itself onto the Boundaryless Stele.
The Boundaryless Stele's purpose lay in Mountain and Sea Without Boundary. It showed a particular resonance with anything involving Mountain and Sea.
As the Dao Yi Diagram's Mountain and Sea vision grew more brilliant, drawing nearer to the authenticity of Real Mountain and Sea.
This stele, amid the Returning God Flood, suddenly stirred and plunged directly into the Dao Yi Mountain and Sea Map!
Without hesitation, it rushed toward the key final stroke that Li Fan had added through his profound understanding.
Bang!
As though destined, it settled perfectly into place.
With that single mark, within the Mountain and Sea Map, upheavals flipped heaven and earth.
Like a heavenly brush dipping into ink, endlessly reshaping the structure of Mountain and Sea.
Ink flowed like drifting clouds, shrouding everything in Mountain and Sea.
Ink tones spread, gradually fusing Mountain and Sea into a seamless whole.
Before the Boundaryless Stele had intervened, Li Fan hadn't seen his own drawn Mountain and Sea Map as rough.
But after the Boundaryless Stele provided that crucial completion and took over.
Comparing the versions before and after.
That's when he understood his efforts had been nothing but awkward imitation.
This updated Mountain and Sea map, even as just a painted image, gave Li Fan the vivid sense of genuine Mountain and Sea.
"It's not simply a Dao Path of Mountain and Sea—it's Mountain and Sea in its very being!"
He had planned only to borrow the Boundaryless Stele to refine the Dao Yi Map, but surprisingly, the stele itself jumped into the artwork.
What an unexpected delight!
Enlightened by the stele, the Dao Yi Mountain and Sea Map achieved flawless completion, beyond any further changes.
"Dao Yi's reverse side bears the form of Mountain and Sea."
"It captures the scenery of Mountain and Sea, but at its heart..."
"The essence stays as Dao Yi."
Li Fan looked out toward the Void Realm's Dao Yan, lying beyond the Mountain and Sea's Returning God Flood.
The ink-tinted Mountain and Sea cleared a route, split apart the flood, and Li Fan dashed forward into the Void Realm.
The Dao Yi Diagram, radiating the aura of Mountain and Sea, quickly drew in many Dao Yans that approached on instinct. The ink billowed wildly, clashing violently against the Dao Yans.
In a brutal clash like dragons battling tigers, the Dao Yans at last recognized the true nature of their foe.
It felt faintly like "one of their own"!
Even though this kindred form was strangely configured and somewhat less potent.
That common origin, however, was clearly identifiable.
So the fight came to a sudden halt.
They didn't fully pull apart from one another; rather, they blended together smoothly, like fish swimming at ease in water!
Seeing this unfold, Li Fan couldn't stop himself from nodding in quiet approval.
"The Dao Yi Bug, after merging with Mo Sha, naturally carries the power of Dao Yan. But at the start, its structure was too fragile to endure inside Dao Yan, much less adapt to it."
"However, with my adjustments, weaving in the Taoist Principle of Mountain and Sea. And plus the Boundaryless Stele's ultimate refinement..."