noffsinger Chapter 1764 Mortals are the only thing
Chapter 1764 Mortals are the only thing
Chapter 1764: Mortal One and Only
"When he actually tasted it, Li Fan realized that the countless versions of himself he saw in his sea of consciousness were not simply illusions, or perhaps just faces disguised with a similar exterior, used to intimidate others."
And they are all, truly, genuinely, Li Fan himself.
With each face that entered his stomach, Li Fan could clearly feel his own fear, resentment, and despair.
They even each have their own unique life experiences.
They were all similar to Li Fan, starting from humble beginnings and cultivating diligently until they reached the initial stage of the Divine Transformation of the Mountain and Sea.
Even though Li Fan knew perfectly well that such a thing had never happened in the real world, as he swallowed the food, memories of what was supposed to be his "food" involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
It's as if these are all things I've experienced in my past reincarnations!
"The ability to create a perfect fake..."
"But even if it really was me in the past, so what?"
"I'll swallow it all without hesitation!"
"Regardless of your origins or background, you will all become resources for my enlightenment."
Li Fan remained completely calm and composed as he devoured and digested countless versions of himself.
There was not even any confusion in her thinking due to the countless additional memories that appeared out of nowhere.
He simply regarded it all as what Li Fan had experienced in countless reincarnations.
"What do his experiences and his karma have to do with me?"
“I only enjoy his gifts. Everything else is negligible.”
Li Fan felt at ease, as if this was how things should be in the world.
He remained unmoved by the countless curses he received from himself.
His mind was not shaken in the slightest by the act of devouring his own divine thoughts.
The vortex of consciousness churned and slowly devoured all the faces.
Then he looked up again at the divine body above.
"The reason why so many distracting thoughts arise is actually due to the side effects of the Devouring God."
"But what I have absorbed so far is but a drop in the ocean..."
"Eat and digest at the same time."
As Li Fan finished digesting his first bite, the noise from the mountains and seas completely faded away from him.
It seemed as if only he and his fallen body remained in the world.
Li Fan ate in this solitary and persistent manner.
With each bite, he seemed to understand more. At first, Li Fan would savor every flavor.
But later, as the novelty wore off, Li Fan simply chose to ignore it.
They just swallow things whole, caring only about the act of "swallowing" itself.
The power of the gods is an indescribable delicacy for any cultivator in the world. Even saints of mountains and seas would fight to the death for the chance to taste it.
But what about the second, third, or even countless bites?
The scale of the fallen divine bodies is immeasurable.
Even finishing the meal became an unbearable burden.
Li Fan felt uncomfortably full, but the divine body in front of him had only shrunk by one-thousandth.
With more and more memories of his own reincarnations accumulating in his mind, Li Fan would occasionally feel disoriented.
I've forgotten my name, my origins, and why I'm here.
Only a single obsession in his mind sustained his continued act of devouring.
After Li Fan finished eating one-third of his divine body, he felt as if he had disappeared.
He was no longer [Li Fan], but had become part of a vast dark cloud.
Once fallen to the realm of the true god, it has been revitalized through this newborn organ.
I had a vague feeling that something was wrong.
However, the inertia that had developed over countless years made Li Fan continue to mechanically devour himself.
The deathly still clouds seemed to have changed somewhat.
Some extremely ancient consciousness is slowly reviving within it.
Li Fan was completely unaware of this.
Seeing the dwindling amount of uneaten material remaining in the divine body, instinct continued.
While completing the task, I also want to get out of this endless torment as soon as possible.
Mortals devour gods.
This journey was far too long.
So long that Li Fan had forgotten himself and why he had set out in the first place.
Countless years have passed.
Because he hadn't thought about things for so long, Li Fan seemed to have completely lost his own will.
The massive divine body of the dark cloud was now reduced to a single, incomplete piece, which had not yet been transformed.
With Li Fan's current abilities, he only needs one last bite to finally complete the long path of devouring gods.
The vortex swirled slowly, and dark clouds gradually seeped into it.
But at the last moment, Li Fan suddenly stopped.
"This feeling is..."
"disturbed?"
After pondering for a long time, Li Fan finally recalled the emotions surging in his heart.
"And fear and anger."
Having devoured most of the divine body, he is no longer a "mortal" in the ordinary sense.
Li Fan felt that all the emotions within him were completely unfamiliar.
"How could I have become like this?"
"how so?"
Thoughts that had been frozen and stagnant for a long time naturally began to function again.
Just one more thing and the transformation will be complete.
Li Fan, however, deliberately paused.
It was as if the mighty river flowing eastward was suddenly blocked.
A certain emotion is gradually accumulating and brewing.
When it accumulates to a certain point, an instinctive urge arises. This change would not normally occur when the body is destroyed.
But at this moment, we are only one step away from God's revival.
A vast consciousness within the dark clouds is about to awaken.
As if in a dream, I instinctively reached out.
"Ok?"
Sensing the urging from "others," Li Fan couldn't help but frown.
Having spent countless years devouring divine bodies in solitude, he had long since become accustomed to being alone.
Suddenly realizing that there seemed to be something else in the dark clouds was like a thunderclap in broad daylight.
My frozen thoughts shattered layer by layer.
Li Fan's mind quickly returned to normal.
"Will I devour God, or will God devour me?"
"so close."
Looking at his entire body, Li Fan instantly understood his current predicament.
"Just like the moment before the true god descends."
"However, the descent of the true god is the return of all things to the god, and the rebirth of the dead."
"And now, it's a case of being resurrected through a corpse!"
Ignoring the growing urging force of the dark clouds, Li Fan calmly pondered.
“Devouring gods is no ordinary matter. Any wisp of cloud here can be used to create a fake account of a real past experience.”
"If I swallow it so roughly, even if I manage to swallow it all, there will only be one outcome."
"The fallen true god has returned through my body."
"They are only one step away from God, and all that follows is contained before it even happened."
"The distance from mountains, seas, and everything in the world is not an illusion. It means that they truly no longer exist."
Li Fan vaguely understood.
The place where the spirit of mountains and seas divides is not space and time in the ordinary sense.
Instead, it takes the state of "True God" as the axis of evolution.
The moment when the true god fell, at his most complete state, was the beginning of the division of the mountain and sea into spirits.
When the division of the spirit into mountains and seas ends and the divine body vanishes without a trace, that is the end of the division of the spirit into mountains and seas.
As Li Fan devoured the divine body step by step, he got closer and closer to the complete state of a true god.
And so we arrived at the very beginning of this place.
Thinking of the mountains and seas, Li Fan suddenly understood a long-standing question in his mind.
Given the irresistible temptation of devouring gods, why would the mountains and seas accept the "division" of it?
Everyone has the desire to be exclusive.
Even worldly treasures for cultivation are instinctively coveted. How much more so the power of a true god?
"It's not that I don't want to, but that I can't."
"If it were a mountain or the sea, and either of them tried to completely devour a god, their fate would be just like mine now."
"On the contrary, it will become the material for the resurrection of the true god."
"Only when the two sides compromise and the mountains and seas depend on each other can they jointly resist the divine power."
Li Fan understood.
Even mountains and seas have companions, but Li Fan is destined to be alone here.
Fortunately, his initial goal was not to devour the gods.
Rather, it's about witnessing the mystery of the fallen god!
"The current situation, though still not enough to see God's complete body, is barely sufficient."
Urged on by the massive dark clouds, like water dammed in a lake, the pressure builds up more and more.
Gradually, the urging has transformed into prompting.
Li Fan knew that he didn't have much time left, so he calmed his mind and began to observe.
"Hopefully, this relatively intact body will leave some clues."
Among all the divine bodies that Li Fan devoured, there were no clues about how the gods had fallen.
They don't even have any memory of it.
They are all pure principles and laws.
The cornerstone of all things, the fundamental principle of existence.
When Li Fan came to his senses, he admired himself for managing to swallow such a large "stone".
Such hard work is certainly not in vain.
The divine body is shrouded in dark clouds, vast and endless.
But now, Li Fan can sweep them all away with a single thought.
He was only a hair's breadth away from becoming a god. Li Fan's observation could be described as the soul of the deceased leaving their body to observe their own corpse.
He was trying to find clues to his own death.
I observed it the first time.
“All paths and all laws are perfect and flawless, without the slightest damage or abnormality.”
Li Fan pondered for a moment, then scanned the area a second time with his divine sense.
The conclusion remains the same.
"Anything capable of causing the fall of a god must be earth-shattering. I wouldn't be surprised to see a huge scar. Why is it so normal now?"
Li Fan found it somewhat difficult to understand.
"Could it be that only by becoming a god can one know the reason for the fall of a god?"
But it's clear that if Li Fan really takes that step, even Zhen Huan won't be able to save him.
"The true and false paths can be reversed and restarted time and time again as long as the [God] has not yet truly appeared."
"But if I return to God..."
"The true and false paths of the Great Dao have also entered the realm of the divine. There is no way to repeat the same thing again."
Li Fan was well aware of this, so as soon as the thought of becoming a god arose in his mind, he suppressed it fiercely.
They would rather live forever in the cycle of destruction and reincarnation to maintain their independent will.
They also absolutely refuse to become so-called gods and lose themselves.
Undeterred, Li Fan continued to observe the divine body again and again.
And God's instinct for resurgence is becoming increasingly difficult to suppress.
The massive dark cloud gradually spiraled out of control.
Li Fan felt that as he remained motionless for a long time, his divine body was gradually developing a sense of rejection.
Or, more accurately, it is the dammed lake formed by instinct, about to break through the mountain's barrier and spontaneously recover.
Li Fan, who stood in the way of this overwhelming force, would be shattered by this magnificent divine power.
"Before the true god revives, one must become the true one. Otherwise, there will be no hope of redemption..."
Li Fan finally made his decision.
Although he failed to glimpse the mystery of the true god's fall this time, he devoured the body and gained complete knowledge of all laws and things in the world.
If Li Fan were to fully digest what he had gained, his understanding of the true and false Dao might surpass his previous level, reaching an inconceivable realm.
At that time, nothing can be replicated except by God himself.
The birth and death of everything between mountains and seas are all within Li Fan's control.
"This is enough."
"Let's digest this for a while before we come back to investigate!"
Thinking of this, Li Fan was about to actually do it.
But in an instant, he witnessed the increasingly turbulent dark clouds of the true god, and a thought suddenly struck him.
"Only the true God can see the mystery of the fall of God."
"If that is the case, then do not hinder the resurrection of God."
"The choice between truth and falsehood is in my hands; then even a god is no longer a god. There is even a fleeting moment of opportunity..."
Li Fan's eyes flickered, and he finally made up his mind.
The will arose, no longer obstructing or hindering. The desire for revival, like a rushing flood, instantly swept away the dark clouds.
After a while...
Li Fan felt that the endless dark clouds had disappeared from his sight.
After a moment of stunned silence, he realized what was happening and looked up.
In the endless darkness and nothingness, a star seemed to light up.
Like a god with one eye, descending upon the world.
The starlight spread far and wide, faster than the return of all things to the gods at the end of the mountains and seas.
Li Fan's sights and feelings were completely consumed by the starlight.
And indeed, I felt the power of returning from above.
The true and false paths both originate from the divine, and should now return to the divine.
Having experienced a similar situation before, Li Fan remained calm despite his shock.
Relying on willpower, I persevered through hardship.
With a fixed gaze, his true appearance was finally revealed.
At the same time, it was compared with the fallen divine bodies he had seen before.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
Li Fan disregarded his own safety, seeking only an answer.
The starlight shone even brighter.
It permeates everything.
In that instant, the starlight that filled the eyes vanished completely.
The world was plunged into darkness and silence once again.
Li Fan almost thought it was an illusion caused by the starlight bursting out to its extreme.
But he soon realized something was wrong.
In the darkness, it seemed as if a huge, invisible entity stood silently before me.
If Li Fan were in the state of first attaining the Divine Transformation in this world, he would certainly not be able to see the true face of the god.
But after countless years of accumulating knowledge through devouring gods, he had enough to witness the scene before him.
The true God sits on the ground.
A perfect body is no longer perfect because of a hole between the eyebrows.
……
The true god is formless and without appearance, so there is no such thing as eyebrows or sitting posture.
Li Fan was simply applying his own understanding to the concept of God.
They attempted to understand and explain everything that happened to the fallen true god.
Then he saw that the god, who should have been high above and looking down on all living beings, was somehow sitting on the ground.
Then he saw that the body of the god, which should have been perfect and flawless, had a hole between its brows.
He sat on the ground because he was seriously injured.
The reason he was so badly injured and on the verge of death was because of that spot between his eyebrows.
"Is this the mystery of the fall of the gods that I have been searching for?"
Li Fan stared intently at that point, as if bewitched.
For some reason, he felt a sense of familiarity with this.
Boom boom boom...
A huge noise was heard.
The true God, sitting cross-legged on the ground, seems to be trying to stand up again.
Like a gust of wind, truth and falsehood shifted, leaving the structure teetering on the brink of collapse.
You must keep flying towards the sky, where the true God resides.
"Really!"
Li Fan took one last look, determined to etch that inexplicable detail deeply into his mind.