My Simulated Road to Immortality Chapter 2390 - 1776: Finale_2
Previously on My Simulated Road to Immortality...
"Allow it to unfold, let you embody the true self."
Li Fan thought inwardly.
At that point, he stopped fighting back, murmuring the inscription etched on the Hai Zhen interface: "Turning the true to false, false and true."
His figure, together with the outline of Hai Zhen, began to dissolve at the same time.
Ultimately vanishing completely.
Right before his awareness was engulfed by the void, he faintly caught the "true self" voice scolding.
"Why haven't you come back!"
Following that, Li Fan appeared to lose his individual thinking.
He functioned mechanically, embodying the True and False Dao, quietly observing Zhang Fan's desperate fight to survive.
While simultaneously carrying out the required roles of [Real].
Up to this instant.
Zhang Fan's destiny concluded, collapsing at the close of Returning to God.
The True God awakened, then withered away.
All things reverted to the initial anchor.
Not Li Fan's starting point, but the True God's fundamental origin.
Yet differing from innumerable prior cycles, apart from the True God's core.
Another awareness emerged as [False and True], persisting right then!
The True God showed no signs of betrayal or rage.
Rather, it quietly sensed the evolved True and False Dao inside, as though gazing intently at Li Fan.
Li Fan remained undaunted.
A vast gulf separates deity from human.
Even facing each other directly, even after Li Fan's shift into [Hai Zhen], serving as the god's "golden finger".
He could not grasp the deity's current intentions.
He simply knew that Shan Fan had arrived at this stage before.
Next came taking control, supplanting the True God.
Having become Hai Zhen, reverted to the primal anchor, and escaped the True God's imposed cycle.
Usurping the True God was no longer impossible, but genuinely feasible.
Unconcerned by the encircling obscurity, the True God instinctively defended.
And Li Fan's subsequent task is...
Step by step, to seize the True God entirely for himself.
Now, Li Fan at last comprehended why Shan Fan, having progressed this far, opted to forsake it.
"I have now become [Hai Zhen], positioned in an unassailable realm."
"Furthermore, by repeating these maneuvers, I can seize and merge everything owned by the deity. Upon revival from decay, the god will vanish, replaced solely by me."
"However..."
"Merging all of the god's essence signifies utterly consuming the entirety of the Divine Derivation of Mountains and Seas: every individual, every entity, every item, every Dao."
"Beginning 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."
"Should I assimilate them, when the Mountain and Sea Reincarnation recommences, they will no longer exist. Utterly erased."
"Even if namesakes persist, they won't be the originals. Just extensions of me."
"..."
"Extinguishing all life to attain singularity."
"It's clear why [Shan Fan] refrained."
"Yet..."
"He passed on it, but I shall proceed solo!"
Li Fan's determination stood firm, unyielding like steel.
This path was fated to stretch endlessly.
Each cycle allowed assimilation of just one person, one Dao, or one item.
But once altered and reshaped by Li Fan, it escaped the god's possession.
Rather, it fully belonged to Li Fan.
Even when reverting to the god's primal anchor, that held true.
Similar to ants hauling to their nest, no matter how immense the Mountain Sea, a day would come when it lay barren.
And with the origin fixed here, even should the True God pursue annihilation, success would elude it.
Even opting for mutual ruin, it would still loop back to the set moment.
The True God appeared unscathed, yet within, a subtle shift had occurred.
"Thus, let the cycle ignite anew."
Li Fan's iron will clashed violently against the divine intent.
The freshly formed True God confronted splitting once more.
Mountain Sea ascends, cycle reignites!
"Fan Er..."
As Bai Shuyue's recognizable voice echoed nearby again, Li Fan's eyes fluttered open.
Looking at Li Fan, Bai Shuyue momentarily stiffened, then backed away in alarm.
"Fan Er, what's happening to you..."
Li Fan's face stayed impassive: "Aunt, my path to salvation starts with you."
Bai Shuyue's form rigidified instantly.
"Turning the true to false, false and true..."
The ethereal 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 become Hai Zhen, I become Shu Yue, I become everything."
"Fundamentally, no distinction exists."
"Bai Shuyue" peered toward the Mountain Sea beyond Xuanhuang World, advancing onward to launch Li Fan's divine consumption cycle.
The god's downfall proved inevitable.
However, upon the deity's rebirth from ruin, circumstances had shifted.
Besides [False and True], yet another facet of the god's form bore Li Fan's mark.
Though minuscule against the god's vastness.
It foretold an unavoidable fate for the deity.
Cycle restarts.
Within the boundless deep gloom, god emerges and fades.
Resembling light flaring and dimming repeatedly.
Despite each glow enduring eons, with the timeline stretched further, this vast duration flashes by.
As Mountain Sea greets Returning to God once more, the whole domain plunges into a bizarre state.
Doom nears, yet every being and every Dao path displays no trace of dread.
Instead, they sink into a peculiar confusion.
Then the confusion slowly ebbs, morphing into mania.
Myriad beings, every Dao path, unite in their roar: "The moment arrives! The moment arrives!"
Calamity endures, all revert to God!
But this instance, the reconvened True God adopts a fresh guise.
Li Fan.
It had been an exceedingly lengthy span since the inaugural god-devouring cycle.