My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2390 - 1776: Finale_2
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
"So be it, allow yourself to emerge as the authentic self."
Li Fan murmured inwardly.
He ceased all resistance then, murmuring the incantation etched upon the Hai Zhen interface: "Turning the true to false, false and true."
Both his figure and the outline of Hai Zhen began to dissolve at the same moment.
Vanishing completely in the end.
Just prior to his awareness being engulfed by the void, he faintly caught the "true self" voice scolding.
"Why haven’t you returned!"
Following that, Li Fan appeared to forfeit his individual mindset.
Functioning mechanically, he embodied the True and False Dao, quietly observing Zhang Fan's desperate fight for survival.
While simultaneously carrying out the essential roles of [Real].
Right up to now.
Zhang Fan's destiny concluded, collapsing during the finale of Returning to God.
The True God awakened, then withered away and dissolved.
All existence reverted to the primal anchor.
Not Li Fan's personal starting point, rather the True God's foundational anchor.
Yet, differing from innumerable prior cycles, apart from the True God's core.
An additional awareness materialized as [False and True], persisting in this instant!
No sense of betrayal or rage arose within the True God.
Rather, it quietly sensed the altered True and False Dao inside, seemingly peering directly at Li Fan.
Li Fan showed no fear in return.
An immense gulf separates deity from humanity.
Even facing each other eye to eye, even after Li Fan's shift into [Hai Zhen], evolving into the god's "golden finger".
He remains unable to grasp the god's current intentions.
He simply realizes that Shan Fan once arrived at this juncture.
Next comes seizing control, supplanting the True God.
By becoming Hai Zhen, reverting to the primal anchor, and escaping the True God's imposed cycle.
Ousting the True God shifts from impossible dream to tangible reality.
Unconcerned by the enveloping shadows, the True God instinctively remains vigilant.
Li Fan's forthcoming task involves...
Methodically advancing, to seize the True God entirely.
In this instant, Li Fan at last comprehended Shan Fan's reason for halting here despite reaching it.
"I now transform into [Hai Zhen], already positioned in an unassailable spot."
"From here, by repeating these steps, I can seize and merge everything owned by god. Upon revival from decay, god vanishes, solely I remain."
"However..."
"To assimilate god's entirety equates to utterly consuming every aspect of the Divine Derivation of Mountains and Seas: every individual, every entity, every item, every Dao."
"Commencing with Bai Shuyue: Kou Hong, Dao Xuanzi, Xiao Heng, Zhang Haobo, He Zhenghao; Su Bai, Law Transmission, Celestial Doctor; Guardian Hill, Mountain Lian, Gui Hai, Taiyi; the old fisherman, Master of Slaying Destiny, Xuan Yuanhong..."
"Da Xuan Minor World, Xuanhuang World, Primordial, Other Shore, Mountain Sea, Void Realm."
"After my assimilation, when the Mountain and Sea Reincarnation reignites, they will no longer be. Utterly erased."
"Even if namesakes persist, they aren't the originals. Just extensions of me."
"..."
"Eradicating all life, attaining singularity."
"It's clear why [Shan Fan] refrained."
"Yet..."
"He abstained, but I shall proceed solo!"
Li Fan's determination stood firm, unyielding like forged steel.
This path was fated to stretch eternally.
Per cycle, only a single person, Dao, or item could be absorbed.
Yet, once infiltrated and reshaped by Li Fan, it detached from god's domain.
Belonging wholly to Li Fan instead.
This held true even back at god's primal anchor.
Comparable to ants hauling provisions, no matter the boundless expanse of Mountain Sea, eventual depletion arrives.
With the primal anchor fixed here, the True God might crave annihilation yet fail.
Even opting for mutual ruin leads back to the fixed era.
The True God appears unscathed outwardly, yet inwardly, a subtle shift has occurred.
"Now, initiate the cycle anew."
Li Fan's iron will clashed violently against the divine intent.
The freshly formed True God encountered yet another rift.
Mountain Sea surges forth, the cycle resumes!
"Fan Er..."
As Bai Shuyue's recognizable tone echoed nearby once more, Li Fan's eyes fluttered open.
Upon seeing Li Fan, Bai Shuyue momentarily stiffened, then recoiled in terror.
"Fan Er, what are you..."
Li Fan's face stayed impassive: "Aunt, my redemption begins with you."
Bai Shuyue's frame rigidified at once.
"Turning the true to false, false and true..."
The spectral whisper echoed without end.
Li Fan's shape dissolved fully amid the Mountain Sea.
Retaining merely the entity called "Bai Shuyue," yet truly "Li Fan."
"I transform into Hai Zhen, I transform into Shu Yue, I transform into all things."
"Fundamentally, no distinction exists."
"Bai Shuyue" looked out toward the Mountain Sea beyond Xuanhuang World, advancing onward to launch Li Fan's divine consumption cycle.
God's downfall proves inevitable.
Yet as god arises from ruin, circumstances have shifted.
Beyond [False and True], yet another facet of god's form bears Li Fan's mark.
Though minuscule against god's vastness.
It foreshadows an unavoidable fate for god.
The cycle reignites.
Within the infinite, abyssal gloom, god emerges and fades.
Akin to light flaring and dimming repeatedly.
Despite each glow enduring eons upon eons, with the timeline stretched further, this vast duration elapses swiftly.
As Mountain Sea encounters Returning to God once more, the whole realm plunges into a bizarre state.
Doom looms near, yet no trace of dread grips any beings or Dao paths.
Rather, all succumb to a peculiar confusion.
Gradually, that confusion ebbs, evolving into狂热.
Countless beings and every Dao path unite in clamor, proclaiming: "The time has come! The time has come!"
Calamity endures, everything merges into God!
But on this occasion, the reconvened True God adopts a fresh persona.
Li Fan.
An immense stretch has passed since the inaugural god-devouring cycle.