Chapter 1716: God Before Dan Hanzhen

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A familiar white mist emerged from the nutrient vortex.Without a sound.

At the same time, Shouqiu’s standing figure seemed frozen.The expression on his face was fixed, maintaining the exact moment he pointed his finger towards the New God.An invisible ripple spread out, and Shouqiu’s shadow shattered inch by inch.

Compared to the purple and azure light points, Shouqiu’s demise created slightly more commotion.He was no longer silently crushed like an insect; he even stirred up some ripples in the nutrient vortex.But that was all.Still unstoppable, he faded away with the wind.

However, Shouqiu, empowered by the Truth-Fiction principle, undoubtedly stood at the pinnacle of the Saints.His final Void-piercing Finger ultimately had a slight impact on the God.It caused some flaws to appear in the originally impenetrable nutrient vortex, the very birthplace of the God.

As a result, the Return to True white mist enveloped Li Fan.With Li Fan at its core, it gained a center and a source of power.The white mist no longer feared the so-called divine radiance; it surged forth grandly, rolling in from nothingness.

Such a commotion naturally did not escape the new “God’s” notice.As if gripped by an invisible giant hand, the rolling white mist instantly solidified.Then, as if repeatedly compressed with force, the white mist visibly became even thicker.

“When the true is taken for false, the false also becomes true!”Like a life-saving incantation, Li Fan chanted it rapidly in his mind.Though an instinctive reaction born of fear, it was indeed effective.

The frozen white mist surged again. Growing thicker and thicker, it blocked all external threats.The divine pressure seemed to vanish.In the world, there was nothing but the white mist and Li Fan within it. It was incredibly quiet, even suffocatingly quiet.

“Did it really succeed?” Li Fan thought with lingering fear. At that moment, the white mist suddenly began to violently vibrate.It was as if countless heavy fists were continuously pounding it from outside. Each time it was struck, the dense white mist became a little more transparent.Soon, beyond the white mist that had supposedly vanished, the surroundings became faintly visible again.And then…

A giant, cold, and merciless eye suddenly appeared at the edge of the white mist.Its gaze, indifferent and piercing, fixed on Li Fan, who was cowering within the white mist.At this moment, Li Fan’s heart felt as if it were being squeezed. He trembled and felt pain due to extreme terror.His mind went completely blank.Without him as the core, the white mist’s tendency to become transparent became even more apparent.It even showed signs of gradually dispersing!

“No! It hasn’t discovered me!”On the brink of life and death, after a brief moment of daze, his survival instinct made Li Fan’s thoughts race again.In a flash, countless thoughts raced through his mind, his thinking even more agile than usual.“Before, when I entered the New God’s sight, my divine sense felt as if it had been struck, and I completely fainted.”“That was when the New God was disguised as a corpse. Now, the New God’s eye is so close, yet my mind only went blank for a moment.”“The blankness was born of fear in my heart, not from the influence of the New God outside.”In an instant, Li Fan understood.Due to the concealment of the Return to True white mist, even though the New God’s eye was so close, it still hadn’t discovered him hidden within.It wasn’t that the God saw him.But that he saw the God.

“So, I wasn’t discovered after all.”As this thought arose, his terror naturally dissipated.The white mist instantly thickened again.

In a short time, many twists and turns occurred. And as Li Fan’s mindset changed, the Return to True white mist simultaneously changed accordingly, which he naturally noticed.“So this is how the Truth-Fiction transformation works.” With a sudden realization, Li Fan sat cross-legged, ignoring the sole eye of the God, which hung high like the sun.He tried his best to recall his past glorious achievements in his mind.“All the Saints of Mountains and Seas, and even the New God, were once rewound by a single thought of mine.”“No matter who ultimately seizes the divine position this time...”“They still cannot escape this destiny.”“True, and, False!”Li Fan’s eyes were calm; all fear and anxiety had receded.All that remained was absolute confidence.

The mist moved with his will.More and more white mist surged forth from nothingness.Rolling in, its speed grew faster and faster.For a moment, there was the whistling of wind and the rumble of thunder.Layer upon layer, they piled up one after another.The God’s sole eye was finally no longer visible.In the last moment before the divine eye vanished, a flicker of anger finally appeared in its otherwise calm gaze.Then, faint roars seemed to come from outside the white mist.

“It’s done!”Feeling the danger recede, Li Fan, having narrowly escaped death, couldn’t help but let out a long breath.Then, unexpectedly, a wave of weakness washed over him.He instantly felt dizzy and extremely weak.It was as if he had lost all his strength, able only to let himself be carried forward by the white mist.“The consumption was actually this immense?”Li Fan’s head felt heavy and muddled, his eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.He had originally planned to observe the subtle changes before and after the Return to True transformation.But he was helpless and failed. He simply fell into a deep sleep.

Anchored for 1 year.Initial anchor point.

When Li Fan regained consciousness, he still hadn’t fully escaped the dangers of his previous life.His body felt as if it had undergone continuous arduous training, aching all over.Moreover, this pain seemed deeply rooted in his divine soul, innate.Even when Li Fan rapidly cultivated to the Dao Integration Realm, this aching sensation did not completely disappear; it only slightly lessened.

Li Fan was not in a hurry to ascend to Immortality or access the Infinite Sea again.Nor was he in a hurry to choose the Return to True inheritance option.Instead, he reviewed his experiences from the previous life.“Truly, one small move can affect the whole situation.”“I really didn't expect that casually 'pulling wool from Suo' would lead to a result in the Divine Split War at the dawn of Mountains and Seas.”“The Mountains and Seas returned, and a New God was established. What a grand scene!”Even now, recalling the previous Divine Return Torrent, Li Fan felt deeply shaken.“Vast and mighty, annihilating everything. The Saints of Mountains and Seas were like ants. The power of this torrent itself was not much inferior to that of the New God. If I hadn't been protected by the Truth-Fiction transformation, I fear my end would have been like the other Saints, falling directly on the spot.”

His thoughts seemed to follow the Divine Return Torrent, back to the dawn of Mountains and Seas.Two white, one purple, and one azure point, along with the New God, all gathered within that immense nutrient vortex.“That white point…”Li Fan’s gaze narrowed.The memory he had recalled earlier resurfaced.“Fellow Daoist Fan, have we met before?”“The Mountains and Seas possess countless heroes; how can they all be deceived!” Li Fan savored these two sentences, his eyes involuntarily narrowing.“This white point, like Qiu Xinhui, the last Saint of Mountains and Seas, vaguely sensed the truth that Mountains and Seas were constantly being reset.”“After encountering me again, it developed a sense of vague familiarity and kept questioning.”“Although I never answered, after another cycle, this intuition of the white point still grew a few more points...”“It couldn't be stopped. That's why the lament 'the heroes of Mountains and Seas cannot all be deceived' arose.”“Hmph, still too pedantic. From the beginning, I should have just found some excuse to fool it. Remaining silent, isn't that just 'protesting one's innocence by burying silver where none was lost'?”“If it couldn't be deceived, I should have either killed and suppressed it, or cooperated wholeheartedly with it. To just let it grow along the way...”Li Fan shook his head slightly, disdainful of his past choices.

Recalling the scene he had witnessed at the end of time, when the Void Realm devoured Mountains and Seas, it was only at the last moment that the two white points leaped out.He was almost certain that after countless cycles of reincarnation, these two white points had probably vaguely realized that Mountains and Seas were constantly undergoing reincarnation.Although they might not know that the perpetrator was Li Fan, or rather, the Truth-Fiction transformation.But that didn't prevent them from hiding and biding their time.Until Mountains and Seas restarted.

“Being parasitic within Return to True is truly a bit unpleasant.”When Return to True resets, Mountains and Seas completely revert to their original state.But these two existences are like stains.Each reset, they still leave a faint imprint.“They certainly don't retain complete memories of their previous lives like I do. Yet, they should have an intuition similar to mine.”“If these two are like this, then what about that New God?”A sudden worry arose in Li Fan’s heart.However, after a careful consideration, his worries slowly dissipated.“Having past intuition isn't scary.”“What's truly terrifying is the God’s power.”“Back at this point in time, that New God is merely an ordinary Saint at the dawn of Mountains and Seas.”“In the Divine Split War, there are countless variables. Even if it were to happen again in this life, the victor might not necessarily be It.”

It must be admitted that the New God, having absorbed almost all the energy of Mountains and Seas, was indeed an existence far surpassing the Saints.The purple and azure points were already among the very few Saints who had survived until the end.Yet they were easily crushed by the New God.Even powerful beings like Silverglow and Pale, who could maintain their intuition within Return to True, had no power to resist before the New God and could only flee in disarray.The immense disparity was despair-inducing.

“Looking across Mountains and Seas, only the Truth-Fiction transformation can slightly affect the New God.”“I wonder if Elder Shouqiu can glean something from his ultimate killing move in the previous life.”Elder Shouqiu's True and False Finger definitely made contact with the New God.Even if it could hardly be called a “wound,” Li Fan believed that with Shouqiu's comprehension, as long as it made contact, he would surely gain something.“If it could be touched the first time, then the second, and even the third...”“Then it might not be impossible to contend with the God!”“However... that New God isn't truly in its perfect state yet.” Li Fan’s gaze sharpened as he thought this.All things in the world originated from the God.Leaving Li Fan aside, those two points, Silverglow and Pale, had not yet returned to the God.And then there was the nutrient vortex, which hadn't been fully absorbed by the God yet...“The New God I saw in the previous life was actually just a demigod.”“Compared to the true god once fragmented and shared by Mountains and Seas, there's still a huge gap.”“It's probably still no match for Star.”“The New God probably knows this itself. That's why it was willing to use such an unsophisticated tactic as feigning death, just to attract the four hidden points and complete its true transformation.”“Unfortunately, it didn't succeed.”“In that case, it was quite fortunate. A mere demigod was almost able to shake the Return to True white mist. If a true god had descended...”“Even so, It was not something ordinary Saints or ordinary methods of Mountains and Seas could contend with.”“At that time, I almost thought the Return to True white mist would be torn apart.” Before Li Fan's eyes, the New God’s pair of merciless giant eyes seemed to reappear.Even while deep in contemplation, Li Fan's heart involuntarily skipped a beat again. But the current Li Fan was no longer the one who would get traumatized by Mao Bao in the past.His mind steadied slightly, and he dispelled the influence brought by the New God.

“The Return to True white mist…”“The Truth-Fiction transformation.”With a thought, a twig appeared in Li Fan’s palm.It was purely created by Li Fan using the Truth-Fiction transformation.He clenched it tightly, his divine sense enveloping it, observing it meticulously without missing any detail.Then Li Fan began to try and recall his past glorious deeds.Although they were still countless fleeting fragments like a rushing river, as Li Fan contemplated in this manner, he truly felt as if he had returned to the past.His strength and confidence grew with each passing moment.“I think this twig should be even more real.”As this thought emerged, Li Fan keenly perceived that the twig in his hand indeed became a bit more 'true'!This was not merely a feeling; it could be concretely manifested in the duration this illusory creation could persist.“If purely by my mastery of the Truth-Fiction transformation, this twig could last at most...”“A thousand years without decay.”“But if it's combined with my past self's sense of mastery...”“It could actually last ten thousand years without perishing?”Li Fan was somewhat shocked.A mere mental augmentation actually made the effect of the Truth-Fiction transformation increase by more than tenfold!This was a discovery Li Fan made in his previous life during the critical moment when the New God was about to tear open the Return to True white mist.Now, as it was confirmed, his heart still surged with excitement and exhilaration.“Could this be called borrowing the power of my past self?”Li Fan naturally knew just how powerful his past self was.The Saints of Mountains and Seas, the gods of the Void Realm. Even Solitary Star, could all be reset by a single thought of his.If Li Fan could borrow some power from his past self, it would be enough for him to navigate the Divine Split War with ease.“Although... there are some side effects.”A new sensation of aching pain surged from the depths of his divine soul.Li Fan's hand went limp, and he almost failed to grip the newly created twig.“I can borrow power, but I must not exceed my tolerable limit.”“Otherwise...”“The injuries might be irreversible.” Li Fan understood this in his heart.“I need to rest well. But it's absolutely worth it.”The power borrowed from his past self would not vanish into thin air.Instead, it would deepen his understanding of the Truth-Fiction transformation and accelerate the recovery of his memories of his past self.When Li Fan had recuperated for a while and looked back at the torrent of past memories again,The flow of time seemed to slow down, allowing him to see more of the scenes within.“My past self's experiences are undoubtedly a treasure trove comparable to Mountains and Seas themselves.”“If properly utilized, I can quickly locate reliable and like-minded allies.”“Plus various insights into the Grand Dao...”However, Li Fan did not rashly delve into them.It wasn't until he had hidden in the Xuanghuang Realm for a hundred years, and the throbbing pain in his divine soul had completely disappeared, that he proceeded with the next step.First, he skillfully opened the Return to True panel, then chose to inherit...“Starlight Rhythm Abridgment.”The moment he made his choice, Li Fan felt as if the sky of the entire Xuanghuang Realm had dimmed.Not just the Xuanghuang Realm, or the Primal.But the entire Mountains and Seas as well.On the darkened backdrop, a strange radiance permeated and pulsed.It was like a heart beating rhythmically, or like a certain gaze continuously sweeping across.