txolops Chapter 1757 Finally Solving the Mystery of Mountains and Seas
Chapter 1757 Finally Solving the Mystery of Mountains and Seas
Chapter 1757 Finally Solving the Mystery of Mountains and Seas
Starlight diffused.
Its aura of standing proudly above the world gradually became apparent, and the True God's Finger actually materialized and reappeared in the world!
It seems that for Xinghui, the allure of this severance far outweighs that for Li Fan.
As far as the eye could see, all the radiance converged toward the finger of the true god.
Even the light spot that occupied most of Li Fan's body was abandoned without any hesitation.
As he gradually regained control of his body, Li Fan felt as if he hadn't fully adapted. He felt completely out of place with this body, every part of him stiff and rigid.
"Being bathed in starlight for a moment feels like being away from the world for eternity."
The extreme physical discomfort caused Li Fan's thoughts to become somewhat rusty as well.
However, driven by their survival instincts, they did not forget the dangerous situation they were in.
The mind moves with thoughts, and the transformation between truth and falsehood brings blessings upon oneself.
It was like suddenly being draped in a raincoat during a violent storm. My mind and body entered a state of utter tranquility and peace.
With the corrosive sensation dispelled, Li Fan's thoughts and supernatural abilities returned to normal.
Observing the unusual changes ahead.
There should only be one true God's finger in the world.
Therefore, when the starlight shone and the True God manifested in the world, the Boundless Monument, which originally existed in the mountains and seas, immediately fell into turmoil. The foundation stone was gone, leaving only the traces of the Dao left by the saints. In the end, it could not withstand the destiny of the Boundless Mountains and Seas.
The traces of the great road are like fragile tree branches, breaking off inch by inch.
The existing fusion of mountains and sea suddenly appears to separate!
Inside the Xuanji Ring, due to the severe side effects of using the Ruyi, the three saints closed their eyes and suppressed the Ruyi once again.
"Ok?"
At this moment, the Sage of Lianshan was the first to notice the strange changes in the mountains and seas.
Lianshan represents all civilizations and beings that have ever attempted to connect mountains and cross seas. Their strength and foundation can be largely built upon the integration of mountains and seas.
At this moment, the mountains and seas manifested a state of separation, and He was naturally most affected.
The mountain that was originally shoulder-high seemed to rise up inexplicably, far away from the mortal world.
Even though the bridges of Lianshan tried their best to extend and repair the cracks, the speed at which the mountains and seas separated far exceeded the speed at which the Lianshan Saint could mend them.
buzzing...
When the gap exceeds a certain limit, faint cracking sounds can be heard between the mountains and the sea.
The sound echoed and reverberated.
Ordinary living beings are unaware of this.
But all those who attained true immortality felt a sense of impending doom, and their faces showed fear.
The immortal stands atop the Upper Mountain, connecting to the boundless sea.
He possessed the lofty power of an immortal, and thus wielded boundless supernatural abilities.
But at that moment, the bridge connecting the mountain above collapsed with a deafening roar.
The immortals on the bridge, naturally, could not escape their fate and fell down with it.
The aura of his cultivation level plummeted rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Saint, transcendent, nameless, true immortal.
Regardless of one's level of attainment, strength, or the struggle involved, it is unavoidable.
They all fell to the realm of mortals.
How can one wield the infinite when one is merely a mortal?
Being trapped in the Dao's obliteration, one cannot protect oneself and will perish in an instant.
If one seeks refuge in the mountains and seas, one will suffer a backlash from the vast and majestic power of the boundless ocean, turning into a part of the boundless sea.
With the disappearance of the Boundless Mountain and Sea Monument, in that instant, 99% of the True Immortals and above cultivators in the Mountain and Sea region perished. The remaining lucky ones, though still struggling, were destined to perish.
because……
The mountains and seas have awakened!
Without the True God's Finger, the mountains and seas separated, reverting to their original form of devouring the gods. Countless fallen cultivators within the mountains and seas transformed into nourishment, returning to the mountains and seas. This caused the previously dying mountains and seas to recover some of their essence and blood in an instant, as if they had swallowed a powerful tonic.
Even if we don't say they've returned to their peak form, they at least have the strength to make a final, desperate attempt.
More importantly, the will of Shan Hai, which had been distorted and rewritten by the True God's Finger, has returned to normal.
The mountains stretch endlessly, standing majestically.
The vast ocean reflects the universe.
Two wills that truly represent the mountains and seas descended upon them.
When mountains and seas merge, they intertwine, creating a chaotic and unclear landscape. Only instinct exists in the darkness.
But at this moment, it is divided in two: the mountain is just a mountain, and the sea is just a sea.
Each independent will, after separating from the other, becomes incredibly prosperous.
At this point, the three saints were in different situations.
Although the three saints were also affected by the anomaly and fell to the mortal realm, they still survived for various reasons.
As if sensing what was about to happen, the Sage of Lianshan looked at the other two and sighed, "All good things must come to an end..."
Before he finished speaking, the Sage of Lianshan—not a single figure within the mountains and seas, but all his manifestations—transformed into streams of light and vanished into the mountains above.
The Saint of Returning to the Sea also responded with a soft sigh.
Countless blue lights floated, surging into the boundless sea with endless possibilities.
Finally, there was the Great Sage Taiyi.
Countless figures vanished as if evaporated. The Great Yi, and indeed the infinite Dao of evolution it represented, all returned to the mountains and seas!
Mountains and seas have given rise to countless great paths and endless living beings.
But at this moment, they were all recovered.
Everything returns to its most primitive state!
Just like the beginning of the separation of the mountains and seas.
……
The strange changes that have occurred in the mountains and seas are already astonishing.
However, compared to the changes caused by the collision between the starlight and the True God's Finger in the void, it seems insignificant.
It was as if they had obtained the key to escape.
Centered on the True God's Finger, endless starlight spread out in an instant.
Compared to the lone star that Li Fan had seen descend to earth, the starlight before him seemed much gentler.
At the very least, the virtual world can still survive under the starlight.
At the very least, Li Fan was still able to barely maintain the state of alternating between truth and falsehood, and continue to observe.
As the endless starlight began to appear, for a fleeting moment, one could vaguely make out the blurry figure hidden behind the starlight.
But as the starlight expanded millions of times in an instant, Li Fan's vision was completely obscured.
"Could it be my imagination?"
Li Fan was filled with doubt and surprise.
However, he soon had no time to think about the problem anymore.
Starlight spread endlessly from the depths of the void.
As the central node of the star's descent, the True God's Finger seemed to sense the increasing radiance around it and began to undergo further changes.
What changes is not the finger of God itself, but its "posture".
It's an extremely mysterious thing; it's clearly just a severed finger, yet it can make all sorts of different movements.
Each one represents a different supernatural power and effect.
What Li Fan had seen before was that the "Boundless Mountains and Seas" was a distortion of the will of mountains and seas, causing them to merge.
But now, the fingers shift, pointing instead to a sky full of stars.
In an instant, the glittering starlight seemed to lose its color. It went from bright and dazzling to a dull black and white.
The entire void became dark as a result.
The starlight, no longer bright, is like a weapon that has lost its sharpness; the threat is greatly diminished.
As Li Fan looked up and gazed into the distance, a faint feeling arose in his heart that he could now resist the influence of the transformation between truth and falsehood, even without the aid of this change.
However, Li Fan did not rashly risk his life, as the changes before him were quite unexpected.
"What's going on? Why is the True God Finger attacking Star Radiance instead?"
"The Lone Star and the Finger of the True God—shouldn't these both be contingency plans left by the gods? Was the Lone Star sent to earth to merge the mountains and seas?"
The facts unfolding before his eyes completely contradicted Li Fan's guesses.
While this aroused Li Fan's doubts, it also subtly touched upon the truth about gods, mountains and seas, and stars.
"Since there is a discrepancy between the identity and motivation and the actual actions, then we need to deduce it anew."
"Among the three, Shan Hai is both the culprit and the victim of the distraction."
"True God Finger..."
"It exudes a faint ancient aura. Furthermore, with a single finger, it rewrites the will of mountains and seas, bringing about the fusion of mountains and seas. With another finger, it disperses the starlight across the sky, re-imprisoning the lone star. Such power, such divine ability, can only be possessed by a true god."
Li Fan was the first to confirm this.
"Finally, there's a star."
What exactly is a star?
At the end of each cycle, a lone star descends and engulfs everything.
It is obvious that the stars seem to be a contingency plan left by the true god, so that they could be destroyed, devoured, and reborn.
A lone star descends upon the world, annihilating mountains and seas, and eradicating the ethereal realm.
This is the rebirth of a new god.
Li Fan had always thought the same way.
But is that really the case?
The sight of the True God's Finger sealing the Starlight completely shattered this conjecture.
"The stars are not true gods?"
"That star..."
There are no other known options that can serve as the answer.
If stars are not gods, then...
Stars represent mountains and seas.
"Stars are mountains and seas? Stars are mountains and seas!"
The moment this thought flashed through his mind, Li Fan was shaken to his core. The shock of the stark contrast almost caused him to lose control of his protective aura, which had been alternating between true and false, and he was exposed in the battle between the True God and the Starshine.
"How could this be? How could this be?"
Li Fan forced himself to calm down.
But a premonition had already risen in his heart, so that he knew the ending he had deduced before he even thought about it.
In my mind, endless memories of my past self surged forth like a burst dam, impossible to suppress any longer.
It exploded and burst open with a deafening roar.
Countless figures floated by, countless scenes from the past burned like kindling.
Ultimately, it all coalesced into an overwhelming and irrepressible sense of resentment.
And endless rage born of despair.
This was Li Fan's last emotion before making the decision.
This is also the reason why Li Fan exists today.
"I see." Li Fan's expression became extremely strange.
Gazing at the game ahead, his icy demeanor acted like a calming anchor, methodically sorting out all his resentment and anger.
Things that I once couldn't accept, Li Fan now sees as...
But little.
"But I feel it's a bit unfair to you."
Li Fan gave a light scoff.
With the support of past memories, everything becomes logical and natural.
Li Fan no longer had any doubts.
"If stars are not stars, then stars are mountains and seas."
"The idea of mountains and seas devouring themselves seems absurd. But if we consider the fixed destiny of mountains and seas merging together, and the attributes and actions of the True God Finger..."
"Then everything can be explained."
"When time returns to the time when the true god fell and the mountains and seas were divided."
A bizarre scene suddenly appeared before Li Fan's eyes.
In the darkness, two invisible, ferocious creatures seemed to be silently gnawing at something.
Greedy and hedonistic.
The true god has vanished, and two new gods are about to be born.
but……
Suddenly, a feeling of fear spread through Shan Hai's heart.
After consuming a portion of the god's body, they gradually acquired some of the god's abilities.
Therefore, it seems that one can, to some extent, foresee future events.
They saw that the true God did not completely disappear after His death.
It was as if the one eye of God was still coldly watching them.
As long as mountains and seas exist, the true god's finger will appear.
Mountains and seas gradually merged, eventually returning to nothingness.
Only pure energy remains.
On this boundless, warm bed, on the corpses of mountains and seas.
The true God will be reborn.
The true God will return once more.
The remains of the true god suddenly became unpalatable.
As a newly born god, Shan Hai naturally did not want to end up like the food in his mouth.
Having foreseen its own destruction, Shan Hai then deduced countless possibilities.
But in all the endings, there is no scene showing them surviving.
The final blow before the true god's fall annihilated all chances of a comeback for the mountains and seas.
Shan Hai has no chance of winning.
Having just undergone a metamorphosis and rebirth, it is about to embark on a path destined for destruction.
How could the two newly born deities possibly accept this?
Even ants try to survive.
Let alone the gods?
After completely devouring the body of the true god, an unknown amount of time passed.
After countless eons, with the combined power of mountains and seas, they devised the only possible way to turn defeat into victory.
"Since the mountains and seas are doomed, then..."
"Let the mountains and seas perish."
"To bury oneself completely, and then to be reborn before the true god is resurrected."
"Is this your way of survival?"
Li Fan's gaze seemed to pierce through the dark void, reaching directly to the will behind it.
In my mind, the image of a lone star descending upon the world and engulfing everything flashed through my mind once again.
"The existence and activation conditions of the True God Finger are the existence of mountains and seas."
"As the void realm was invaded, the mountains and seas were no more, and the True God Finger also returned to nothingness and vanished without a trace."
"The only feared opponent has finally disappeared. The stars, or the reborn mountains and seas, are eager to descend."
"Nothing else is allowed, only myself shall exist."
"I am the only one left, I am the only one born, I am the only one victorious."
"It turns out that the Void Realm Annihilation was nothing more than a tool for the mountains and seas to perish."
"It turns out that all of this was just a carefully crafted play."
"All living beings in the mountains and seas, including Lian Shan, Gui Hai, Tai Yi, Shou Qiu, and Dao De, are merely characters in a play."
"As long as they follow the plan and complete the performance as scheduled, then everyone will be happy."
"The true god has completely fallen, and the new god is without worry."
"The grand play has ended, and a new god has ascended."
"Perfect."
"But just so..."
Li Fan let out a long sigh.
Not for any other reason than for the departed [Li Fan].
"This great show has been interrupted by someone who shouldn't have been there."
"The self-destruction of mountains and seas was, in his view, an extremely terrible disaster. Living beings were suffering, and he wanted to save them from this calamity."
"If it doesn't work the first time, try a hundred times. If it doesn't work the hundred times, try a thousand times, ten thousand times."
"Countless times."
"Finally, finally, finally..."
"Turning the impossible into the possible. Breaking the script set by [Shan Hai]".
"'Shan Hai' has finally won. But..."
"Then how can the script continue?"
Just as predicted by [Shan Hai].
The mountains and seas endure, the true god's will is indestructible.
The illusory realm is gone, the Dao is annihilated.
Mountains and sea merge, yet they have not disappeared.
Thus, the Mountain and Sea were enraged.
The troublemaker Li Fan has finally revealed his true colors.
For the [Mountains and Seas], even countless reincarnations are but a fleeting moment. They are utterly indifferent to it.
But Li Fan actually shattered the script they had set.
Then Li Fan must die.
then……
Starlight shone across the mountains and seas, the saints drew their swords against each other, and the mountains and seas regarded Li Fan as an enemy to be exterminated.
At this moment, Li Fan truly understood why he had shed that tear back then.
It's not despair.
Instead, they were utterly despondent.
No longer resisting, letting what he once protected pierce through his body.
But fortunately, at the last minute, he changed his mind.
Thus, Li Fan came into being.
……
After understanding the past, Li Fan did not feel much anger.
The actions of Shan Hai are beyond reproach.
If it were him, he would have done the same.
but……
"If you can do it, so can I."
Li Fan looked at what was in front of him with utter calmness.
Mountains and seas, the illusory realm, and stars.
Then, out of nowhere, he thought of something else.
Even the mountains and seas that devoured the corpses of true gods could foresee their own defeat and demise.
So, when that fallen true god set up the True God Finger, did he really not think of a countermeasure against the Mountain and Sea Golden Transcendence Shell Plan?
"unless……"
"Let someone from outside the play come and break the plan of mountains and seas."
"This is the reason why I am in this state."
Suddenly, a scene from long ago flashed into Li Fan's mind.
That was his life before he traveled through time.
Both parents are alive, and there are both sons and daughters.
"Fuck you!"
"You'll all die for me!"