My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2379 - 1769: Kind Evolution
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
One year anchored.
"Ah!"
It was like emerging from a dream that stretched on endlessly; Zhang Fan's head throbbed as if it might burst apart.
His thoughts remained empty, clueless about his identity or whereabouts.
"Fan Er!"
Bai Shuyue hurried inside, her expression brimming with concern.
Her presence acted like a flare, lighting up the empty voids in his recollections.
Memories from before started emerging in sequence.
"Aunt?!" Zhang Fan blurted out on reflex, before passing out once more.
Three years passed.
"The clash against my true self turned out fiercer than I'd anticipated."
"We battled on both ends until exhaustion nearly claimed us, and the deadliest moment came when I triggered [Real] right near the close of the return to god."
"Over these three years, I've wielded True and False Dao ceaselessly, yet that intense starlight still flares up from time to time."
Lounging in his seat while gazing at the fading sun from the side, Zhang Fan lightly rubbed his temples that bulged a bit.
Forcing True and False Changes through such a fragile, ailing frame had kept him from total restoration, leaving even short reflections to trigger an automatic fatigue in his spirit.
"Fortunately, Aunt keeps looking after me." Zhang Fan thought with a sigh.
Right then, Bai Shuyue's call rang out: "Fan Er, dusk is falling; come inside for the evening meal."
She pushed Zhang Fan's wheelchair toward the dwelling and hand-fed him herself.
"Aunt, I can manage feeding myself now." Zhang Fan remarked with resignation.
Bai Shuyue knitted her brows: "You claimed that a year back, only to collapse right after. Recovery comes first. Though I'm no scholar, I grasp how sickness strikes like an avalanche and retreats like pulling a thread."
Without another word, she kept offering bites to Zhang Fan's lips.
That basic supper dragged on for thirty minutes.
Warm and enduring.
"Aunt's kindness shines so brightly, but my true self inflicted such horrors on her—worse than any animal! I didn't just control her as a marionette; the scheme to guide Aunt toward Sainthood fell flat too."
"Infusing True Spirit alongside True and False Dao could elevate even an ordinary person to Saint status. But I opted to aid strangers over her."
Zhang Fan shook his head in his mind.
To him, bonds varied in strength.
Morality, Fang Cun, Guardian Hill—none could rival Bai Shuyue's place.
"Taking over your form and shouldering your burdens."
"The wrongs you wrought, I'll atone for them."
"This life, I'll ensure Aunt and I escape the Xuanhuang World."
Zhang Fan resolved quietly.
Still, he held off on departing, choosing to heal steadily before anything.
Drawing from his true self's recollections, the Xuanhuang World proved perilously treacherous, where one tiny error could spell utter doom.
"What can I say—true to form for my true self. Holding the [Real] Supreme Treasure, battling through that realm was no small feat."
Weighing his prior life's path against his true self's, Zhang Fan conceded his own had been remarkably easy, bordering on absurd luck.
"Maybe my true self hurled endless avatars into Mountain Sea. Just someone fortunate like me made it to the finish."
"Regarding that last desperate fight, flipping the roles from intruder to master..."
"It stemmed purely from my unyielding determination and unbreakable resolve."
Recalling how he thwarted the return to god's final phase always filled Zhang Fan with a surge of pride.
"Scaling Mountain Sea's peak, facing the True God from below—my true self was a legend without equal. Yet, as the proverb states, 'The apprentice outshines the master.' I went a step further!"
Pride swelled in his chest, easing the pains in his flesh and Divine Soul alike.
Much later, his thrilled feelings subsided at last.
Zhang Fan rested on the bedding amid the shadows, murmuring [Real] under his breath.
Instantly, myriad glows resembling fireflies converged from the gloom around him.
They coalesced into a luminous panel, gradually revealing itself.
Yet resistance arose unexpectedly; the panel built at a glacial pace.
Now and then, odd gleams sparked, echoing the climactic starburst from his former existence.
Zhang Fan understood [Real] remained undamaged.
Rather, his present condition lingered with the True God's lingering traces unbanished. [Real] faced potential corruption, thus reacting on its own.
Zhang Fan tried again.
As the [Real] display grew wider, the starlight pulses quickened in rhythm.
The glows expanded, nearly mimicking the return to god's climactic surge.
Though Zhang Fan recognized the deception, it still jolted him.
"Never mind; I'll purge the God's remnants entirely first."
Zhang Fan emptied his mind and sank into slumber.
Ten years on, full strength returned to him.
In that span, Zhang Fan discreetly intervened to halt Aunt's decline in youth.
It slowed his mending a touch, but Zhang Fan deemed the trade worthwhile.
For the Cultivation route to appear natural, once healed, Zhang Fan swiftly employed True and False Mystical Power to reshape the Xuanhuang World's surroundings.
"Locals can't pursue Cultivation because of the Immortal-Ordinary Miasma."
"This rule of Heavenly Dao arose from Law Transmission defying Heaven and Earth's natural order."
Bearing his true self's inherited knowledge, Zhang Fan knew the Xuanhuang World and its history intimately.
He held no strong fondness for it.
"Obstacles cleared make things smoother."
A mere intent via True and False wiped Law Transmission and Celestial Doctor clean from existence in this realm.
As though they'd never been.
Freed from the perverse Law Transmission's hold, the Xuanhuang Heavenly Path gradually restored its rightful flow, accompanied by endless thunderous shifts.
A single look shattered the Immortal Extinction Array that bound the Da Xuan Minor World.
Some days afterward, during supper, Bai Shuyue remarked abruptly: "Fan Er, doesn't the air feel milder lately? Odd, since it was sweltering just before."
Zhang Fan agreed with a nod.
Cultivation methods need no deliberate sharing; with Spiritual Energy present, practitioners arise on their own.
Fifteen days hence, Da Xuan Minor World's inaugural Energy Refining Cultivator appeared.
Immortal Cultivation's pursuit dispersed unseen.
"Cultivation... if what they say holds, does that mean I can try it too?" Inside the chamber, Bai Shuyue sensed the vivid currents of Spiritual Power inside her, voicing her astonishment.
"And you, Fan Er?" Moments later, Bai Shuyue inquired anxiously.
"Don't worry, Aunt; I sense the Spiritual Power of heaven and earth too." Zhang Fan answered smilingly.
Bai Shuyue exhaled in relief: "The heavens favor us, the ancestors watch over!"
As Cultivation's way unlocked, they departed Da Xuan for the Xuanhuang World, chasing greater horizons.
Under Zhang Fan's hidden safeguarding, dangers stayed at bay.
Without hitches, they arrived at the Union of Dao Realm.
Law Transmission's collapse severed the Immortal path. Having advanced as far as possible in the Xuanhuang World, the pair resolved to venture into the Sea of Obscured Stars, hunting the fabled chance at Immortality.