My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2363 - 1761: Change of Goodwill
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
Innumerable God Slaying Transformations bore a [Real] that differed from the initial one, granting them the power to instantly reset the Mountain Sea.
At first, this reset was restricted to just one possibility.
Furthermore, it came with a cap of one hundred activations.
Despite these tight constraints, in typical scenarios, the God Slaying Transformations could still advance to the Transcendence Realm without issue.
Once they broke free from their existing possibility, the [Real] they possessed would undergo an "upgrade."
No longer bound to a solitary possibility, the reset now extended to a surrounding area near themselves. Yet, facing a Mountain Sea Saint of vastly greater strength, the [Real]'s influence would contract even more.
Additionally...
Should two God Slaying Transformations draw too near one another, both their [Real] would malfunction. A shared sensing link would also form between them.
Restoring the [Real]'s function required eliminating the rival and seizing their Creation.
The winner endures, with the [Real] regaining its power, and by absorbing the foe's [Real], their grasp on the True and False Dao deepens even further.
The defeated perishes.
But not in total oblivion.
Protected by the True and False Dao, they return to the [God Slaying Transformation] realm housing Li Fan’s actual body.
Memories and insights flow back to the true self.
Guided by [Real], all recollections are wiped clean prior to reentering the Mountain and Sea Reincarnation!
This loop persists until the Mountain Sea's downfall.
Forming and generating transformations for every god demands far more than a single night's work.
Li Fan himself, prior to acting, remained uncertain about the required buildup to god-slaying success. Still, he knew it stood as the sole approach to felling a god.
Thus, he proceeded without a second thought.
As moments ticked by, ripples began stirring in the serene Mountain Sea.
Drawing from Li Fan as the base model, endless transformations emerged, each with middling cultivation talent. Yet, relative to the original body, their initial conditions proved far superior in many cases.
Should the debut lifetime fail at cultivation, subsequent reincarnations, bolstered by foresight abilities, allowed them to embark on the cultivation journey with relative ease.
Achieving True Immortality rarely demanded over thirty lifetimes for deploying these transformations.
However, the leap from True Immortality to Transcendence loomed like an insurmountable gulf for nearly all transformations.
Roughly ninety percent of them, even after ninety reincarnation cycles, failed to uncover the transcendence method.
This predicament starkly opposed the cultivation route of Li Fan’s true body.
The Xuanhuang World and Primordial possibilities brimmed with traps and perils at every turn, yet for Li Fan, with his time-rewinding gift, they offered boundless chances. Seizing even one could unlock the Dao Path of Transcendence.
Most Mountain Sea possibilities operated differently, though.
Draining every option, talent, resource, and effort within a possibility often made forging a transcendence path an arduous ordeal.
If not, the vast array of Mountain Sea possibilities and its teeming inhabitants would have produced far more transcendent cultivators.
[Real], overseeing the transformations' scheme, swiftly detected this issue.
Without attaining the Saint Realm, no quantity of them qualified as true "changes."
Before the majority exhausted their [Real], it stepped in.
Not through outright bestowal, but by positioning aid strategically. Should a transformation relentlessly pursue the Dao of Transcendence to their final life and dying breath without surrender, fortune would shift in their darkest hour.
Upon transcending, the [Real] upgraded once more, doubling the reset chances.
Therefore, the road to becoming a saint held real promise.
Regarding those transformations that willingly abandoned hope in dire straits...
Their memories and experiences still returned to the true body, since they formed part of Li Fan.
Yet they escaped redeployment into the Mountain and Sea reincarnation.
Instead, [Real] eradicated them.
With the True and False Dao at hand, crafting endless transformations posed no strain on resources.
In contrast to the "failures" who transcended via [Real]'s subtle assistance,
those transformations who independently navigated the Dao Path of Transcendence deserved greater attention.
The [Real] apparition fixed its gaze on a specific spot within the Mountain Sea.
"Congratulations, Mr. Zhang, on that crucial step forward, shattering your bonds!"
The voice echoing beside his ear pulled Zhang Fan, an incarnation of the All Gods Transformation, from the elation of Dao-proving triumph.
Composing himself, he clasped his hands: "My deepest gratitude to Fellow Taoist Xuanyuan for your aid; without it..."
"With my own talents, I surely wouldn't have achieved this milestone."
The cultivator next to Zhang Fan grinned: "Instead of thanking me, express your thanks to the old fisherman elder."
Should Li Fan’s true body witness this, he would immediately identify the cultivator.
It was none other than King of Mystic Sky, Xuan Yuanhong!
Via numerous Divine Body deployment trials scattered across the Mountain Sea, one fortuitously became the King of Mystic Sky's confidant.
The world's enigmas truly defy prediction.
Zhang Fan, unaware of the true body's ties to King of Mystic Sky, simply nodded: "Without the supreme treasure from the old fisherman elder, I might never have even reached True Immortality."
With these words, he directed a respectful bow toward a distant seated figure.
Within his spiritual sense, memories of his cultivation odyssey flooded back unbidden.
Whether a blessing or a curse remained unclear.
Back when he lingered as a mere Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator, the hidden truth of his [Real] was unveiled by Xuan Yuanhong and the old fisherman elder.
To this day, Zhang Fan vividly recalls the terror and panic surging through him upon learning that the pair hadn't reset with the world.