My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2389 - 1776: The End

When the deity manifested, all traces of decay and clamor withdrew.

The True God revived, positioning Himself amid the shadows.

Everything reverted to its primal state.

Apart from the God, no other entities existed.

For His reemergence, He displayed no astonishment.

He simply persisted with His initial task.

Groping forward through the gloom, as though meticulously hunting for an item.

The obscurity proved too deep, making even for a god, progress immensely challenging.

An interminable voyage, lacking start or finish.

The deity slowly deteriorated.

Yet He remained unconcerned about His approaching end.

He even appeared to anticipate it.

Once the deity got fully engulfed by the darkness, an indeterminate span of time elapsed.

A spark of light abruptly flashed, and the deity materialized once more in the emptiness.

This represented [Real].

The freshly roused deity lingered in bewilderment briefly, as if recollecting certain matters.

Shortly after, He detected an anomaly.

Events unfolded contrary to His anticipations.

And...

Something essential was absent.

The deity’s eyes naturally shifted toward the shadows.

Yet discovered emptiness.

In that instant, a voice abruptly echoed within the deity’s mind.

"Are you searching for me?"

It belonged to Li Fan!

...

The viewpoint shifts back to Zhang Fan, who employed Zhen Shi Yin, Fake Yu Cun, Fishing, Life Cutting, Breaking Formation, Wangji, and more as fuel to kindle the blaze of True and False.

Within the realm of [All Gods Transformation].

Li Fan positioned himself cross-legged in the vacuum, witnessing Zhang Fan’s sights and grasping Zhang Fan’s understandings.

His left eye gleamed silver-gray, the right one ashen.

The scenery of the Mountain and Sea Map, needing just one final mark for completion, was abruptly finalized.

"What a magnificent boost!"

"The God creation Guests possess remarkable prowess; their insights surpass the Mountain and Sea, brushing against the God’s silhouette. Moreover, they preserve fragments of recollections through the Hai Zhen cycle. Seizing them outright would spark a fierce clash."

"In contrast to the present, where with minimal exertion, they surrender all voluntarily!"

"All for that faint chance of hope..."

"Hmph!"

"Thus, this marks the fruit of transformation."

The authentic self and the duplicate attained simultaneous insight: all existence is illusory, the Mountain and Sea perishes, and the True God revives.

Li Fan’s remaining time dwindled rapidly.

In a flash of myriad notions, with silver-gray and pallid gaze, it appeared to traverse innumerable rebirths and eternal epochs.

Spotting the sole path to shatter the impasse.

He retracted his sight, directing it to the Hai Zhen apparition that had hovered silently throughout.

"Across innumerable prior rebirths, you served as my golden finger, relying upon me."

"Now, the shift occurs."

Li Fan offered a soft smile.

The Hai Zhen apparition quivered faintly.

Not in reply to Li Fan’s statement, but due to the intensifying pull of the True God’s return, rendering True and False hard to sustain.

As if serenading a bovine, Li Fan paid it no heed.

Should a Hai Zhen truly possess independent awareness and respond now, the scheme would alter.

"The famed Hai Zhen stems from the True God’s Divine Technique."

"The True and False Changes form the foundation of [God]’s persistence. Absent the forging of True and False, the True God would dissolve in this perpetual spectral gloom."

"Yet through True and False Changes, the True God can resurrect from ruin time and again."

"Nevertheless..."

Li Fan glanced at the True God in the darkness, whose visage grew ever more savage.

"Each fresh emergence of the God differs from my Hai Zhen."

"It resembles a complete overhaul."

"True and False Dao, as the bedrock of God’s survival, wields such immense Divine Technique power that even True and False, along with the True God, cannot evade [Real]."

"The True God, much like the Mountain and Sea God creation Guests, falls prey to the reset."

"At best, faint impressions linger."

"Eternal yet ensnared in perpetual cycles."

"The True God seeks to shatter the deadlock, to flee fate. Hence, my entry as an intruder ignited it all."

"Thankfully, I wasn’t the initial sufferer of boundless rebirths. That role fell to the former him, the so-called [Shan Fan]."

"Shan Fan got ensnared, confined within the Mountain Sea. Unbeknownst for what reason, he beheld only the doomsday vista of Mountain and Sea’s downfall. Thus, driven by innate urge and disposition, he pursued [Salvation]..."

Upon this reflection, Li Fan let out a cold huff.

"And he progressively accomplished it. Bearing Divine Protection, grasping True and False, forging [Hai Zhen]. Stemming the collapse, bolstering a crumbling edifice. Regrettably, it was solely after arduously fending off Dao Yan and rescuing the Mountain Sea that he unveiled the hidden reality. The strife between Mountain, Sea, and Dao Yan was merely a spectacle orchestrated by the authentic [Mountain Sea] for ascension to godhood."

"This outlines what I inferred of Shan Fan’s ordeal. However..."

"It remained incomplete."

"A mere notion from Hai Zhen could overhaul the Mountain Sea. Shan Fan’s mastery of True and False had peaked."

"[Mountain Sea] stood no chance against him."

"Yet a concluding fragment of history evades my Spirit Consciousness, concealed within..."

"[Hai Zhen]."

"Prior to grasping True and False, I was distinct from Hai Zhen. But post-comprehension of True and False..."

"Hai Zhen embodies me, and I embody Hai Zhen."

Li Fan reached out, striving to contact the Hai Zhen apparition.

The figure, which had rippled ceaselessly before, abruptly gained steadiness, as though anchored.

It resembled frost dissolving into liquid, blending seamlessly with Li Fan.

"True and False inherently pertain to the True God."

"Yet now, having fathomed True and False, I fuse with it flawlessly."

"This stems from..."

"Shan Fan once was the True God!"

A glint in his eyes, Li Fan resolved firmly.

"Mere final preparations are needed." Li Fan peered downward, observing Zhang Fan on the verge of emerging from his epiphany, advancing toward him, a mischievous grin playing on his lips.

With a subtle flick of his finger, a form nearly indistinguishable from Li Fan materialized from nowhere.

Disregarding Li Fan in its vision, it fixed its stare below on Zhang Fan, quietly anticipating his approach.