My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2379 - 1769: Kind Evolution

One year anchored.

"Ah!"

Waking as if from a terribly drawn-out dream, Zhang Fan sensed his head pounding with intense pain.

His thoughts stood empty, holding no awareness of his identity or present circumstances.

"Fan Er!"

Bai Shuyue hurried inside, her expression brimming with concern.

Her presence acted like a flame, lighting up the empty areas of his recollections.

Past events started emerging in sequence.

"Aunt?!" Zhang Fan called out on reflex, before passing out once more.

Three years passed.

"The clash with my true self turned out even fiercer than anticipated."

"We battled until both were almost depleted, and the gravest moment came when I triggered [Real] right near the close of the return to god."

"Despite these three years of ceaselessly employing True and False Dao, that intense starlight still flares up from time to time."

Lounging in a seat while gazing at the setting sun from the side, Zhang Fan lightly massaged his somewhat bulging temples.

Forcing True and False Changes through a fragile, ill body had left him from fully mending his debilitated condition, and even short reflection tires his mind right away.

"Fortunately, Aunt keeps looking after me." Zhang Fan thought to himself with a sigh.

Right then, Bai Shuyue's call rang out: "Fan Er, dusk is falling, come inside for the meal."

She pushed Zhang Fan's wheelchair back indoors and fed him herself.

"Aunt, I can manage eating on my own now." Zhang Fan remarked with resignation.

Bai Shuyue knitted her brows: "That's what you claimed last year, only to collapse again. Let's prioritize getting better. Though I'm not well-read, I grasp that old saying: sickness strikes like a landslide and departs like pulling a thread."

Without another word, she kept offering bites to Zhang Fan's lips.

A basic dinner stretched over thirty minutes.

Warm and enduring.

"Aunt is so kind, but my true self treated her in such awful ways—truly more beastly than an animal! I not only controlled her as a marionette, but the scheme to guide Aunt to Sainthood fell apart completely."

"With the power to embed True Spirit and incorporate True and False Dao, even an ordinary person could ascend to Saint. Instead, I aided outsiders."

Zhang Fan shook his head in his mind.

To him, bonds vary in closeness.

Morality, Fang Cun, Guardian Hill—none of them measure up to Bai Shuyue.

"Taking over your form and shouldering your burdens."

"The wrongs you wrought, I'll make right."

"This life, I vow to escort Aunt away from the Xuanhuang World."

Zhang Fan resolved quietly.

Yet he held off from departing, choosing to restore his health steadily first.

From his true self's recollections, the Xuanhuang World proved remarkably perilous, where even a minor error could spell irreversible doom.

"What can I say—befitting my true self. Even wielding the [Real] Supreme Treasure, battling through that realm shows real prowess."

Contrasting his prior life's path with his true self's, Zhang Fan conceded his own had been far easier, bordering on absurd luck.

"Maybe my true self hurled innumerable avatars into Mountain Sea, and only a fortunate soul like me endured to the finish."

"Regarding that last desperate fight, flipping invader to master..."

"It stemmed purely from my unyielding determination and unbreakable resolve."

Whenever the memory of thwarting the return to god's climactic phase hit him, Zhang Fan swelled with pride unavoidably.

"Scaling Mountain Sea's peak, facing beneath the True God—my true self was a legend without peer. Yet, as the proverb states, 'The apprentice outshines the master.' I went a touch further!"

His chest filled with elation, easing the wounds in body and Divine Soul alike.

After a while, his thrilled feelings settled at last.

Zhang Fan rested on the bed amid the shadows, murmuring [Real] under his breath.

In the instant that followed, myriad glowing specks like fireflies converged from the surrounding gloom.

They assembled into a luminous display, gradually revealing itself.

Yet resistance arose unexpectedly, causing the light panel to build at a snail's pace.

And odd gleams flickered now and then, echoing the concluding burst of starlight from before.

Zhang Fan understood [Real] remained undamaged.

Rather, in his present condition, remnants of the True God's sway lingered uncleared. [Real] might face corruption, so it resisted on instinct.

Zhang Fan tried anew.

As the [Real] panel widened further, the starlight pulses quickened sharply.

The glow expanded, nearly mimicking the return to god's final surge.

Though Zhang Fan recognized it as mere deception, it still jolted him.

"Never mind, I'll purge the God's remnants thoroughly first."

Zhang Fan emptied his mind and sank into profound slumber.

Ten years on, full restoration came.

In that span, Zhang Fan worked discreetly to halt Aunt's aging advance.

While it somewhat hindered his own healing pace, Zhang Fan deemed the trade worthwhile.

To render the Cultivation path appear natural, right after mending, Zhang Fan deployed True and False Mystical Power to reshape the Xuanhuang World's surroundings.

"Mortals in this place can't cultivate because of the Immortal-Ordinary Miasma."

"This rule of Heavenly Dao arose from Law Transmission defying Heaven and Earth's logic."

Drawing from his true self's knowledge, Zhang Fan knew the Xuanhuang World and its history well.

And he held no strong fondness for it.

"Whatever blocks the way, better off gone."

With a single notion of True and False, Zhang Fan wiped Law Transmission and Celestial Doctor straight from existence in that realm.

As though they had never been.

Freed from the contrary logic's restraint, Xuanhuang Heaven Path gradually restored its usual flow amid ongoing tremors.

A mere look shattered the Immortal Extinction Array that barred the Da Xuan Minor World.

Some days afterward, during dinner, Bai Shuyue remarked abruptly: "Fan Er, do you sense the air feeling nicer lately? Odd, it was sweltering not long back."

Zhang Fan affirmed with a nod.

Cultivation methods require no deliberate promotion; with Spiritual Energy present, cultivators arise on their own.

Fifteen days later, Da Xuan Minor World's inaugural Energy Refining Cultivator appeared.

News of Immortality Cultivation propagated silently.

"Cultivation... by their accounts, doesn't that let me practice as well?" Inside the chamber, Bai Shuyue detected the evident circulating Spiritual Power in her body, voicing her astonishment.

"And you, Fan Er?" Moments later, Bai Shuyue inquired anxiously.

"Don't worry, Aunt, I sense the Spiritual Power between heaven and earth too." Zhang Fan answered smilingly.

Bai Shuyue exhaled in relief: "The heavens favor us, the ancestors protect!"

As Cultivation's road unlocked, the pair departed Da Xuan, venturing into Xuanhuang World for greater horizons.

Under Zhang Fan's hidden safeguarding, dangers stayed at bay naturally.

Without hitches, they arrived at the Union of Dao Realm.

With Law Transmission's collapse severing the Immortality path, after reaching the limit in Xuanhuang World, the duo chose to explore the Sea of Obscured Stars, chasing the fabled chance at Immortality.