At this moment, he suddenly perceived that there seemed to be other existences within the dark clouds, akin to thunderclaps in broad daylight.
Thoughts sealed in ice, layers upon layers shattered.
Li Fan’s consciousness swiftly recovered.
"Do I devour the God? Or does the God devour me?"
"So close."
Surveying his entire body, Li Fan instantaneously understood his current predicament.
"Just like the moment before the True God descends."
"Except, the descent of the True God is the return of all things to God, death and rebirth."
"And now, it is borrowing a corpse to revive a soul!"
Li Fan, heedless of the ever-growing urging power accumulated in the dark clouds, calmly contemplated.
"How can devouring a God be a trivial matter? Any thread within these dark clouds can feign reality, creating past true experiences."
"Like my rude, direct devouring, even if I can barely swallow it all, the result is only one."
"The fallen True God, using my body, returns once more."
"Just one step away from God, everything thereafter packs back to the time before occurrence."
"The distance from Mountain Sea, the departure from all things, is not an illusion. It is that they indeed no longer exist."
Deep within, Li Fan somewhat realized.
The place where Mountain Sea divides Spirit is not time and space in the usual sense.
But it takes the state of the [True God] as the axis of evolution.
The instant of the True God’s fall, at its most plete, marks the beginning of the Mountain Sea dividing Spirit.
When the Mountain Sea dividing Spirit ends, the divine body dispersing without a trace marks its end.
With each step closer Li Fan devours the divine body, ing nearer to the plete state of the True God.
And thus arrived at the initial moment here.
Thinking of Mountain Sea, Li Fan immediately cleared a long-held doubt in his heart.
Why would Mountain Sea accept "division" for something as tempting as devouring a God?
Every human has the desire for exclusivity.
Even for mundane cultivation treasures, there is an instinct to monopolize. Not to mention the power of a True God?
"It’s not that they are unwilling, but they really cannot."
"If Mountain, or Sea, tries to pletely devour the God, the oute would be like mine now."
"Instead, it would bee the material for True God’s revival."
"Only when the two promise, Mountain and Sea depend on each other, can they jointly resist the divine might."
Li Fan understood in his heart.
Mountain Sea at least has each other for pany, whereas Li Fan, walking this road, is destined to be alone.
Luckily, his original goal was not to devour the God.
But to observe the mystery of the God’s fall!
"Now, although still unable to see the plete divine body, it is barely enough."
The urging from the massive dark cloud, like water in a dammed lake, continues to accumulate.
Gradually shifting from urging to pulsion.
Li Fan knew he didn’t have much time left, so he calmed his mind, observing.
"Hopefully, this relatively intact corpse can leave traces."
Among all the divine bodies Li Fan devoured, there was no clue about how the God fell.
There wasn’t any memory, either.
Purely Taoist Principles and Laws.
The cornerstone of all creation, the fundamental principle of existence.
ing to his senses, Li Fan even admired himself for swallowing this large ’stone.’"
Such labor is not futile.
The divine body’s dark cloud, boundless and endless.
But now Li Fan can sweep across it in his mind.
Just a thin line away from incarnating as God. Li Fan’s observation is like an out-of-body experience, observing his own corpse.
Seeking clues to his own demise.
After the first examination.
"All the Tao, all the Laws, are perfectly flawless, without the slightest damage or anomaly."
Li Fan pondered, sweeping a second time with the Divine Sense.
The conclusion was still the same.
"An event that causes the fall of a God must be earth-shattering. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a huge scar. Why is everything so normal now?"
Li Fan found it hard to understand.
"Could it be that only by being a God can I know the cause of the God’s fall?"
But clearly, if Li Fan really takes this step, not even Hai Zhen could save him.
"The True and False Dao, as long as the [God] hasn’t truly appeared, can be reversed again and again."
"But if I return to God..."
"The True and False Dao, once in God, can no longer be reversed."
Li Fan was very clear about this, so he suppressed the newly arisen thought of Godhood.
Preferring to live forever in the destructive Reincarnation, maintaining his independent will.
Unwilling to bee the so-called God and lose himself.
Li Fan, not giving up, continued to observe the divine body again and again.
But the instinctual revival of the God was being harder to suppress.
A large dark cloud gradually lost control.
Li Fan felt as he remained inactive for a long time, the divine body was gradually rejecting him.
Or more accurately, the dammed lake created by that instinctual drive was about to break the mountain stones’ blockade. Reviving autonomously.
And standing in front of this mighty force, Li Fan would be smashed to pieces by the divine might.
"Before the True God’s revival, I must return truly. Otherwise, it would be an irreparable situation..."
Li Fan finally decided.
Although this time he could not glimpse the mystery of the True God’s fall, devouring the body, he learned all the laws and all things of the world.
If he fully digests what he gained, Li Fan’s understanding of the True and False Dao might surpass his former self. Reach an unimaginable realm.
By then, except for being unable to recreate God itself.
All creation and extinction between Mountain Sea are within Li Fan’s thoughts.
"Such a harvest is enough."
"Digest for a while, then e back to observe!"
Upon this thought, Li Fan was ready to return truly.
But in that instant, as he witnessed the increasingly agitated True God’s dark cloud, his heart suddenly moved.
"Only the True God can witness the mystery of the God’s fall."
"In that case, do not hinder the God’s revival."
"The True and False Changes lie in my hand, the God is not a God. There is a fleeting opportunity..."
Li Fan’s eyes flashed, finally making a decision.
With thoughts soaring, he no longer obstructed. The intent to revive spread across the dark cloud like a rushing flood.
A moment later...
Li Fan felt the endless dark cloud disappear from his sight.
After being stunned for a moment, he reacted and looked up.
In the endless darkness and void, it was as if a star lit up.
Like the divine’s single eye, descending upon the world.
Starlight scattering, spreading faster than all things returning to God at the end of Mountain Sea.
Everything Li Fan saw and felt was consumed by starlight.
And then indeed, he felt the power of return from above.
The True and False Dao, originating from God, must return to God now.
Having experienced similar scenes, Li Fan was not panicked.
Supporting himself arduously with his intent.
Vision tightly fixed, finally revealing the true visage of God.
At the same time, paring it with the fallen divine body he saw before.
Time seemed frozen at this moment.
Li Fan, ignoring his safety, was seeking an answer.
The starlight grew more brilliant and dazzling.
Filling everything.
And just at this moment, the starlight suddenly all retracted.
The world plunged into dark death silence once more.
Li Fan almost thought it was an illusion caused by the starlight reaching its peak.
But soon, he realized something was wrong.
In the darkness, it seemed there was a massive, invisible presence quietly standing in front of him.
If Li Fan were in the state when he first arrived in Divine Split, he would not clearly see the truth of the God.
But after countless years of devouring God, he was enough to witness the scene before him.
True God, sitting on the ground.
Perfect body, no longer perfect due to an empty spot between the brows.
...
The True God, shapeless and formless, naturally has no so-called brows or sitting.
Li Fan only applied his own understanding to God.
Attempting to prehend, explain everything that happened to the fallen God.
Thus, he saw a God, supposed to be high and ascending, overseeing all beings, somehow sitting on the ground.
Thus, he saw a God, supposed to have a flawless divine body, with a void appearing between the brows.
Sitting on the ground is due to severe injuries.
And the reason for being severely injured and on the brink of death, is due to that spot between the brows.
"Is this the mystery of the God’s fall, I diligently sought?"
Li Fan fixed his gaze on that spot, as if enchanted.
For some reason, he felt a thread of familiarity from that spot.
Rumbling sounds came.
True God sitting on the ground, seemed to be trying to stand again.
Like a gust of wind passing by, True and False Changes, teetering.
About to fly unrestrained toward the sky, where God is.
"Return... Truly!"
Li Fan took a final look, trying to engrave that inexplicable spot deep in his Spirit Consciousness.
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