ragginovel Chapter 1745 A New God Descends Upon the World
Chapter 1745 A New God Descends Upon the World
Chapter 1745 A New God Descends Upon the World
This ethereal emptiness is fundamentally different from being swallowed by the void.
Despite the encroachment and destruction of the Dao, the mountains and seas as a whole still exist. They remain fragmented, like trees riddled with holes from being gnawed away. As long as the great tree has not collapsed, the saints who can move freely between the mountains and seas can use their abilities to avoid the collapsed areas and still maintain their own survival.
But the emptiness of mountains and seas now seems like a raging fire starting from the roots of a tree. The raging fire, from beginning to end, has completely engulfed mountains and seas, and nothing can escape it.
Even though the saints have hidden themselves in the illusory realm, they have only changed their location. Their connections with the mountains and seas remain. The invisible fire will follow this mysterious connection to bury the saints!
"In the battle of the divided spirits, Shan Hai actually lost?"
As the saints were shaken, an immense fear instinctively arose in their hearts.
This is a sign that it is about to perish.
When the mountains and seas are gone, a new god will be crowned. All that the mountains and seas received from the god, and all that all living beings received from the mountains and seas, will return to them.
As long as one hasn't transcended the mountains and seas, and the timeframe falls after a moment of distraction, one will find it difficult to escape this calamity.
The saints gazed at the other side of the mountains and seas, where countless years of history seemed to have transformed into points of light, flowing and converging towards the beginning of the mountains and seas.
At first, it was silent, but then as the radiance continued to gather, it gradually became a mighty force.
Even though there were often illusory realms blocking its way, the giant waves only needed to gently lap them over.
Faced with this unstoppable tide, even the saints, from the very beginning of the mountains and seas, felt an attraction akin to a homecoming. Even though they could temporarily maintain their balance, traces of energy were already beginning to leak uncontrollably from their bodies.
It's not just the mountains, seas, and all living beings.
Even the illusory realm cannot escape this change.
In the darkness, shadows seemed to surge and churn. Countless dark threads flew out from the void, rushing rapidly towards the beginning of the mountains and seas.
As if forcibly separated and pulled apart, a huge roar and a screeching friction sound emerged at the same time.
"Even those that were once devoured by the Void Realm could not escape it. This..."
"Who exactly is the Divine Diviner?"
At this momentous time, Li Fan's attention was focused more on the mountain and sea stone slab.
Petrified mountains and seas, compared to their normal state, are more resistant to this kind of regression.
But not many.
Despite persisting for almost twice as long, he ultimately could not escape his destiny of returning to the gods.
Like gusts of sharp wind, the undulating patterns on the stone slab were gradually smoothed out. The various principles that Li Fan had previously comprehended on the Mountain and Sea Stone Slab were swept away by the torrent and headed towards the new god at the beginning of the Mountain and Sea.
Eventually, the so-called hard stone slab gradually turned into countless grains of sand and disappeared.
“Zhou… Fellow Daoist Hui, what you just said about returning to the Void Realm, I… am willing to give it a try.” At this critical moment, Duan Chen spoke first.
The trend of returning to God is intensifying.
During this period of hesitation among the saints, not only had nearly a tenth of their own existence vanished, but their forms had also become increasingly unstable. They were like a pool of ink that had been stirred up, flowing uncontrollably towards the beginning of the mountains and seas.
Even the influence that the saints could exert on the outside world was dissipating significantly. Specifically, the saints' voice transmissions became intermittent and as faint as the buzzing of mosquitoes.
If Li Fan weren't currently at his peak, he might have been overlooked in this grand spectacle of the Mountain and Sea Gods returning to their realm.
Even when all the saints were in distress, Li Fan was still able to maintain his peak strength.
The reason was that the moment Li Fan noticed the change, he used the illusion to shroud himself.
He exists between truth and falsehood, and even when faced with the overwhelming tide of divine influence, he can remain calm, composed, and at ease.
If the mountains and seas are a mighty river flowing eastward toward the East China Sea, then the alliance formed by Li Fan, Shouqiu, and Daode is a small boat on that river.
Although they could not stop the overwhelming force of the river, they could at least protect themselves for the time being.
Li Fan ignored the calls of the saints for the time being, and instead frowned and asked, "What does Shouqiu think of this new god?"
"Although I have seized the fruit of the Mountain and Sea Divine Realm..."
"I'm afraid he can't be called a true god. At best, he's just another version of the Mountain and Sea realm," Shouqiu said succinctly.
Li Fan couldn't help but smile: "At the very least, in the Hall of the Great Dao Returning to Truth, all the Daos remain unmoved. At the very least, the changes between truth and falsehood that we hold remain as stable as Mount Tai."
"We are like this, and I imagine there are others like us in the mountains and seas. Compared to that true god, we are still far inferior."
"There's even the Void Realm. Although the Void Realm was forced to regurgitate the mountains and seas it devoured, it didn't actually disappear. Not to mention [Star]. This new god will inevitably have to confront the Void Realm. I think it's just another cycle restarting, and in the end, he still can't escape the fate of being born as a lone star." Morality nodded in agreement.
“However…” Shouqiu seemed to have foreseen something, and his expression suddenly turned solemn.
"Compared to the old Mountain and Sea, this new god probably won't sit idly by and wait to die. After it finishes dealing with the old Mountain and Sea, what it will probably do is absorb us remnants."
"It's alright, when the time comes, let him taste how powerful it really is!" Li Fan chuckled.
Having awakened a portion of his past memories, Li Fan had no doubt about whether he could truly suppress this new god.
In countless cycles of reincarnation, scenes like today have appeared before.
But in the end, everything can always be reset.
"Indeed, one can return to the stars with a single thought, and naturally, one can also dissipate from the divine realm with a single thought."
"Let us go upstream and get a closer look at the true face of that new god," Li Fan said, squinting his eyes.
Shouqiu and Daode should naturally follow suit.
"As for the other saints..."
In the great tide of the return of the gods, the saints have long been unable to maintain their own identities.
Only distorted afterimages remained, their faces unrecognizable, still shouting something at Li Fan.
However, their connection with reality has become increasingly weak, making it difficult even for Li Fan to hear them clearly.
"However, the foundation of the Great Way still exists."
"Rather than let the new god benefit, I'd rather benefit myself."
"Let us enter the Great Dao and return to our true nature!"
The so-called return to the void was just a deception to delay the inevitable. Now that the saints were powerless to resist, Li Fan no longer concealed his intentions and revealed his sharp fangs.
With a wave of his sleeve, he captured all the struggling afterimages of the saints.
Stealing fortune, fortune-telling, prophecy, karma judgment, star chart...
Indeed, lines of characters quietly appeared on the panel.
Some were already there, but after this absorption, they have become clearer. Others are newly enshrined, adding bricks and tiles to the hall of the Great Dao's Return to Truth.
As for the astonishment and feelings of the Sages, Li Fan naturally didn't care.
While savoring the flavors of the saints, they followed the torrent of returning gods and sped towards the beginning of the mountains and seas.
Without the obstruction of the illusory realm, and riding the wave of overwhelming power, their speed was incredibly fast. In the blink of an eye, they had traversed one-fifth or one-sixth of the eons of time.
However, as Li Fan got closer to that new god, the sense of destiny he felt became stronger and stronger.
Even with the protection of the transformation between truth and falsehood, its own existence and foundation of cultivation gradually fell into turmoil.
They had no choice but to stick together with Shouqiu and Daode for warmth.
“A new god is being conceived. Even though we have not yet seen its face, we can tell from its momentum that it is extraordinary.”
Morality and Shouqiu were moved to express their feelings.
The trinity, in the blink of an eye, traversed another 50 billion years.
We have come a step closer to the beginning of the mountains and seas, to the location of the new gods.
With Li Fan's current understanding of the transformation between truth and falsehood, it will ultimately be difficult for him to maintain the Great Dao of Time Reversal under the new god's control. The winds of destiny returning to the gods distort and deform the transformation between truth and falsehood, making it seem as if it might break apart at any moment.
"At this point, the Cosmic Cloak is no longer of any use to me."
Li Fan did not insist any further and decisively abandoned the Great Dao of the Universe.
Golden rays of light scattered throughout the surrounding torrent. Having shed his outer garments, Li Fan immediately felt the pressure he was under lessened.
The transformation between truth and falsehood no longer needs to be maintained by anything else, as long as the intention to protect Li Fan exists.
Morality follows the same principle.
Only by guarding the hill can we still persevere.
As the helmsman of this small boat, he continues to lead it toward the new god.
"I see Fellow Daoist Fan seems to be searching for something along the way. Is it the two white dots hidden within the mountains and seas that we saw before?" Shouqiu asked while driving.
Li Fan nodded: "At the end of time, the mountains and seas were lost to the void. Everything was gone, except for two white dots that leaped out. Facing the encroachment of the void, their tenacity was even greater than that of the entire mountains and seas. This shows the strength of these two white dots."
"However, they are extremely well hidden. Apart from the final fate of the Lone Star descending to earth, I have never seen their faces. Now that the mountains and seas have returned to the gods, the illusory world has been swept away. This is the best time to observe them. But..."
Li Fan frowned slightly: "I've already traversed most of the mountains and seas in my life, yet I still haven't seen any trace of them. Strange..."
"The mountains and seas have not yet completely disappeared; they may still be able to hide. Let's observe further."
The closer you go to the beginning of the mountains and seas, the faster the return speed.
The journey to the new god's location is now only a few billion years away.
Even Shouqiu had to abandon his own path.
All that remained for the three of them was their shared consciousness, aboard a small boat called the Transformation of Truth and Falsehood.
"The true master of immortality must have perished in the battle of the divided spirits."
"For some time now, I have been enjoying the path to immortality all to myself."
"Compared to the past, I do have different insights. I just don't know if I can compete for the position of the Lord of Immortality."
Shouqiu suddenly spoke up.
"Hmm?" Li Fan felt a little strange upon hearing this.
Because they were in a state of perfect harmony, he was completely unaware of Shouqiu's enlightenment.
It took me a moment to understand.
Not only the three-person path, but even the effect of "unity of purpose" gradually disappeared as they got closer to the beginning of the mountains and seas.
Even though we've known each other for so long and gone through so much together.
A sense of vigilance instinctively arose in Li Fan's heart.
The unity of purpose had not completely failed, and Li Fan's thoughts were naturally sensed by Shouqiu and Daode.
They couldn't help but chuckle: "Fellow Daoist Fan, you really are... cautious."
"It seems that only by being of one mind and one heart can we truly put your mind at ease."
"However, it's always better to be safe than sorry."
Li Fan didn't feel embarrassed by their teasing.
"With his ability to guard the hill, he can easily capture the mere Lord of Immortality."
"Furthermore, we might be able to win this battle of divided spirits in our next life..."
Li Fan was speaking when he suddenly stopped.
In that fleeting moment, amidst the rapid flow of the current, I caught a glimpse of a standing figure.
The small boat carrying Li Fan and his two companions, carried by the great momentum of the Returning Gods, sped towards the beginning of the mountains and seas.
And that figure seemed to remain unmoved amidst the torrent.
The two passed each other in an instant, and Li Fan could only catch a vague glimpse of them.
"just……"
“It’s one of the two white dots,” Li Fan said confidently.
Appearance and physique can be faked, but that unique aura cannot be changed.
"But it wasn't the one I met when I first entered the boundless ocean."
"But its strength is equally unfathomable."
Li Fan, now amidst the torrent of returning gods, was acutely aware of just how terrifying the devouring power emanating from the new gods truly was.
But the figure from just now still had an air of nonchalance.
He seemed slightly surprised by Li Fan, the passerby who brushed past him, but didn't follow to find out what was going on.
Instead, they chose to remain dormant and observe.
"Has Shouqiu seen through the other party's true nature?" Because the effect of being of one mind and one heart had weakened a bit again, Li Fan took the initiative to ask.
Shouqiu pondered for a moment, then shook his head slightly.
“Now that all paths have returned to the divine, all paths within the mountains and seas should be affected. But that figure is unaffected? It’s truly strange. Moreover…”
"He neither goes nor leaves. He seems to be waiting for something."
"Waiting? Could it be..." Li Fan sensed something, suddenly looked up, and gazed ahead.
The last billions of years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Upon reaching this point, the speed suddenly slowed down.
Like a hundred rivers converging, the essence of life from all periods of time, from mountains and seas, all converge here, forming a dazzling and mysterious vortex.
Still, rotating.
To devour, to project outward.
Converging, bursting forth.
……
Numerous contradictions abound, yet the existence of that one force at the center of the vortex allows all mutually exclusive entities to coexist.
God.
It was not an intentional spying.
Instead, the moment they saw this enormous vortex, the figure of God spontaneously leaped into their view.
Then his thoughts were turned upside down and shattered into pieces.
All other consciousness ceased to exist, only the image of God echoed endlessly.
Li Fan never expected that even if it was just a new god replacing the mountains and seas, even if it was just a new god still in the process of being conceived.
Their power was also terrifying.
Even if there are changes of truth and falsehood in protection, even if the three saints are of one mind and rely on each other.
Under the shadow of the god, his will was easily shattered.
They had virtually no power to resist.
A small boat capsized and fell into a huge whirlpool.
Along with all things in the mountains and seas, they slowly converged towards the new god in the center.
After losing consciousness for an unknown period of time, Li Fan gradually regained his senses.
In a daze, he recalled what had just happened, and upon observing his current situation, he was filled with horror.
Although it seemed like he had been asleep for a long time, he had not gotten much closer to God.
The speed at which the new god digests the essence of the mountains and seas doesn't seem to be particularly fast.
Li Fan had only gotten a little closer to the vortex.
The reason I came to my senses...
It was because morality sacrificed itself, nourishing itself with its remaining willpower, and with Shouqiu's continued nurturing, that Li Fan was awakened.
"Fellow Daoists, observe the new god ahead."
"Something seems off."
Shouqiu's weak voice came from behind him, and Li Fan's heart stirred, so he looked in that direction.