My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2351 - 1755: The Overlapping Shadows of All Gods
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
"Right before meeting the True God in my last life, aside from the [True and False Dao], nothing else was with me."
"However..."
"That's hardly an issue."
Li Fan cast a look at the Hai Zhen interface.
It felt like the panel was revealing itself anew.
Rather than appearing in a rush, the text emerged character by character.
The intricate details that once filled it now broke apart and faded away, reduced to just a handful of lines.
Name: Li Fan.
Dao Path: True, False.
Great Dao Returns to Truth:
...
Within the Dao Path area, True and False pulsed rhythmically, as though they held every principle and element of existence.
The Great Dao True Hall, which had been built up before, stood completely vacant now.
Paths like the First Profound Yin, the Second Celestial Cycle, and others that the Dao had once seized, were all gone.
During the close of that prior life, in order to confirm the origins of the True and False Dao, Li Fan held on until the absolute final instant he could bear.
The God consumed it all.
Hai Zhen itself got torn apart and scattered.
Every ability stemming from the All Saints Path, along with every route inside the Great Dao True Hall,
got swallowed up by the awakening True God.
What lingered in Hai Zhen was solely Li Fan alongside the True and False Dao.
Yet for Li Fan at this moment, possessing true and false equated to possessing the whole.
All other matters paled in significance.
"False equals true!"
Li Fan fixed his gaze on the ever-shifting text ahead, remembering the pair of isolated glows that had wrapped around him at the conclusion of his previous life, plus his insights into the routes within the Great Dao True Hall.
An idea bubbled up within him.
From nothingness, creation sprang forth.
Lines of vibrant text materialized in the emptiness, inscribed from nowhere.
The First Profound Yin, the Second Celestial Cycle...
Including the All Saints Path on the Other Shore, everything appeared in sequence.
The empty Great Dao Hall filled up instantly with a variety of routes, glowing with splendor.
This matched precisely what Li Fan had commanded in the past.
Though it stayed within the bounds of what had existed originally.
Next, Li Fan imagined the [Dao Yi Mountain and Sea Map].
Regrettably, amid the churning Dao Yi mists, the Mountain and Sea Map took a basic shape but failed to fully restore its peak condition from when the Boundaryless Stele was present.
Positioned inside the Mountain and Sea Map, the True God Finger appeared far more vague and ghostly than earlier.
Without careful scrutiny, spotting it proved challenging.
"The shift from true to false relies entirely on my knowledge of existence. After endless cycles of rebirth, my command over the Mountain Sea Path suffices to back any notion I form."
"Still..."
"The True God Finger falls short."
The vision of starlight blanketing the heavens prior to the True God’s resurgence flashed once more in Li Fan’s spiritual awareness.
"Seeing the God is one thing, but grasping the God is another."
"Even drawing from my rebirth experiences, dissecting the God remains woefully insufficient."
"My past incarnation might have managed it, though."
With a shift in his thoughts, the Hai Zhen inheritance choice, held back for so long, at last surfaced.
Bypassing the earlier selections entirely, he jumped straight to the final entry.
An entirely fresh choice that had never shown up until now.
"[Gods List]."
Li Fan examined those three characters intently, yet refrained from picking it.
For an unknown cause, an eerie sensation welled up and ebbed away in his chest, refusing to settle.
"All Gods. What could that signify?"
Li Fan was well aware that Hai Zhen combined his myriad rebirth recollections, adventures, the All Saints Path, and the true-false transformation.
"The Gods List represents the realizations my earlier self gained upon beholding the reawakened True God. Yet why label it All Gods?"
Unbidden, Li Fan recalled the tales he'd encountered regarding the Creator God.
"A mighty Creator God vanquished his peers, seized their strengths, and reshaped them into every being across creation..."
"The sole documented account stems from Sun Piaomiao’s writings."
"In the Mountain and Sea Fables, all other elements align with the Mountain and Sea realms I've witnessed. Just this Creator God portion lingers as an enigma."
Li Fan wavered, avoiding an immediate inheritance.
Rather, once he had re-advanced to the Saint Realm through cultivation, gaining some measure of defensive capability, only then did he access it once more.
Starlight descended back to the ground.
The pitch-black chasm engulfed all that surrounded.
Xuan Huang, Origin, Mountain and Sea—none persisted any longer.
Amid utter emptiness, Li Fan faintly perceived certain ineffable presences encircling him.
Lying outside Li Fan’s ability to grasp or detect, they stayed invisible and incomprehensible.
Yet the intense transformations unfolding in the gloom reached his senses.
Abruptly, a single one of those ineffable presences vanished.
As though abruptly consumed by an unseen force.
Followed by the next, then another.
What was once the full "All Gods" dwindled to merely the final presence.
This occurrence lined up exactly with Sun Piaomiao’s description.
Enlightenment struck Li Fan: "Sun Piaomiao must have caught a hint of this moment through the Mountain Sea’s initial musings during its divine division. That’s how he penned the legend of the Creator God destroying fellow divinities."
"However..."
Li Fan’s brow creased faintly, sensing an off note.
"Without a Mountain Sea at this point, how would the Mountain Sea have knowledge of such a sight?"
The boundless obscurity lingered without fading.
It continued to whirl about Li Fan.
Li Fan pushed down his swirling uncertainties and silently anticipated the following development.
The duration for the "All Gods" to fade away stretched far longer in total.
Suddenly, a dim glow ignited, lighting up this inscrutable realm.
It let Li Fan catch hazy visions concealed within the shadows.
Numerous outlines layered atop each other, blending into a single form.
Like swallowing and grinding, but also blending and elevating.
From the multitude to unity, from unity to multitude.
Embracing everything, holding all within.
Yet within that, a subtle conflict stirred silently.
Li Fan appeared to witness two forms fighting to break free from the core.
Unlike the rest of the inscrutable, hidden presences, these two forms felt strikingly recognizable.