My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2339 - 1747: God Once Altered the Mountain Sea
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
Starlight falls from above, oppressing every single thing!
Even without fully arriving, the Lone Star sends forth a single beam of light, powerful enough to smash all in its way.
The Void Realm Dao Yan, beholding its sovereign, stands frozen in reverence.
Swept up by the starlight, it vanishes completely.
The Mountain and Sea Boundaryless Stele, on the verge of crumbling and retreating, under this untainted glow, unexpectedly takes shape anew.
It no longer looks like a standing stele, but rather...
A broken finger!
This finger, enduring for countless ages, appears eroded by storms and time, stripped of any typical "finger" look. It resembles a lone peak, defiantly towering over the realm.
Yet everyone who beholds it gains instant clarity in their spiritual awareness.
This is the God’s Finger.
Or, to be precise, the True God’s Finger.
Boom!
As this realization dawns, it feels like the fallen True God bridges across eras and voids, pressing down casually with one finger.
The Dao Yan devouring whirlpool bursts apart and scatters right away. The billions of lions, facing the True God Finger, crumble in a flash.
Even with the aid of True and False Changes, Li Fan senses his whole cultivation vanishing, the Mystic Mother Dao fading away like mist, merging back into the endless Primordial Chaos.
And the brilliance from the Lone Star gets twisted by force, then snapped.
The restraints vanish, the True God Finger folds in on itself immediately, disappearing entirely.
Seconds later, the starlight erupts a thousand times brighter.
Overwhelming the entire view.
Having seen the Lone Star's arrival earlier, Li Fan stays calm, whispering inwardly.
"Hai Zhen!"
In that instant, time appears to flow backward.
The wildly bursting starlight, hit by an unseen force like a fierce gale, turns around abruptly.
No matter how unwilling, held down by Hai Zhen's invisible grip, it fails to retreat to its source.
As the starlight withdraws, shadows swallow up all.
Not sure how much time passes, though it feels like mere moments.
Like the initial gleam of sunrise, cutting through the gloom.
A beam of starlight emerges again, lighting up the cosmos.
But for some reason.
The starlight endures just briefly, as though detecting a presence.
The glow abruptly fades, vanishing for no clear cause.
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"True God Finger!" Li Fan, snapping awake, still lingers on the scene where the Mountain and Sea Boundaryless Stele emerged under the Lone Star.
His eyes narrow a bit, imitating the motion, pushing toward empty space.
"Destroy the Saint, shatter the Void Realm, pulverize the starlight."
"No surprise it's the remnant of a former True God."
Infused with the essence of the True God Finger, even as a fresh mortal upon waking, Li Fan's light press into the void makes the whole Da Xuan Minor World quiver faintly.
Thunder rolls across the heavens, like they're fracturing, with fissures appearing and webbing out.
The Immortal Forbiddance Formation sealing the Da Xuan Minor World breaks apart at once, allowing threads of Spiritual Energy to pour in from the Xuanhuang World.
What's more, the enigmatic Finger Power pierces straight through to the Xuanhuang's Outer World.
In the Immortal Ruins, the Enlightened Immortal senses a sharp discomfort, on the verge of stirring.
But Li Fan presses it back down, forcing it to subside.
As if the recent recollection is erased, the Hungry Immortal sinks once more into deep meditation.
Throughout, the Hungry Immortal detects no hint of outside interference on his being.
"Where the Finger Power extends, alterations happen freely. Regardless of cultivation level or realm."
"This is just the essence I'm imitating."
Li Fan pulls back his hand, focusing on the tip of his finger.
The True God essence has already faded away. Back to a simple mortal form. Nobody would guess it could unleash such otherworldly might.
"The countless cultivation stages across Mountain Seas are just labels set by folks like us cultivators. Truly, they're gauged against the Mountain Sea itself. Crossing the Mountain Sea means transcendence. Matching the Mountain Sea marks a Saint."
"But all that lies between Mountain Seas stems from the God. When the True God Finger descends, it seals the destiny of Mountain Seas. Drawing on its wonder, to warp and reshape the lives inside the Mountain Sea comes as naturally as flipping a palm." Wielding the True God Finger in mortal flesh brings Li Fan no strain.
Li Fan dimly feels this ties to his prolonged insights from cultivating True and False Changes.
"For others, forget a mortal shell—even at Saint Realm, handling this godly skill so effortlessly would be impossible. But me..."
"Shaped by True and False Changes through all these years, I've turned into something else entirely."
Li Fan lingers on the sensation of wielding the True God Finger moments ago, altering and reshaping the Hungry Immortal.
Simply compelling him to overlook the outer shifts, slipping back into contemplative trance. Yet it plainly overwrote the other's mind.
Remember, though the Hungry Immortal barely registers to Li Fan these days, he's a cultivator teetering on the edge of the Nameless True Immortal Realm.
Still, treated like a plaything, toyed with at a mortal's whim.
What if Li Fan regains his Saint cultivation?
What if Li Fan delves deeper into the True God Finger's essence?
Honestly, it's tough to picture.
"If Hai Zhen can reboot the Mountain Seas in a blink, the True God Finger holds the power to revise the Mountain Seas. On that level, their strengths match. No wonder, after grasping True and False Changes, I could sense the True God Finger so readily."
"Yet an artifact like this..." Li Fan furrows his brow, searching his past life's endless memory loop for any sign of the True God Finger.
Maybe because Li Fan's history is so immense, only fragments surface now. Or perhaps, battling the Void Realm to the bitter end, Li Fan overlooked this Boundaryless Stele concealed amid the Mountain Seas.
In any case, Li Fan recalls no visions tied to the True God Finger.