Chapter 2084: Chapter 1606: The Game Breaks, Hai Zhen Returns
When Li Fan spoke these words, he was indeed prepared to become an infinite spirituality extractor.
If his conjecture was wrong and all of this was not a simulation but real reality, the saints, if they had spared him out of mercy before, would certainly not let him go after such a generous speech.
On the contrary...
Within the halo, an extremely strange atmosphere gradually engulfed him. The saints remained silent, yet beneath this death silence, a terrifying storm seemed to be brewing.
Like being continuously struck by turbulent waves, ripples appeared one after another on the silhouette of the nine saints standing.
The space where the saints were also fell into violent turmoil. Cracks like wounds spread instantly. The halo enveloping Li Fan twisted as well, as if ready to shatter at any moment.
The power imprisoning Li Fan thus exhibited a flaw. Li Fan managed to escape from a state of disintegration into countless fragments.
"It’s going to succeed!" Seeing the space of the saints appear as if about to crumble at any moment, Li Fan felt secretly delighted.
Yet, unexpectedly...
"Since that’s the case, we will fulfill your wish."
"In the future, when Mountain and Sea are fully restored and Dao Yan no longer exists, we will grant you liberation and count your contribution to saving the world as well!"
The cold words of the nine saints suddenly appeared after a long silence.
It was like being doused with a basin of ice water. Li Fan’s breath caught, and an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.
"Wait..."
However, before he could finish speaking, as if crushed by an immeasurable force, the distorted light ring around him completely shattered, transforming into myriad light spots, like snow flying across the sky!
Li Fan, extremely panicked, was thus completely exposed before the nine saints.
The pressure he felt was a hundred times more than before!
Originally, Li Fan thought the light ring in the saints’ space was a means for the nine saints to analyze and observe the cultivators who entered.
Now that the light ring shattered, Li Fan realized.
This halo was actually meant to protect the cultivators who entered here!
The figures of the saints were obscured because of this light ring’s blockade, allowing the cultivators to stand calmly in front of the saints.
Without the light ring’s protection...
In Li Fan’s eyes, the silhouettes of the nine saints expanded with an extremely terrifying speed. Within a breath, they transformed from the same size as Li Fan into nine immense giants he could not possibly observe.
The term "heaven-reaching and earth-standing" hardly described their magnitude.
Nine saints standing together, resembling a mountain or a sea.
Beyond the scope of Li Fan’s visual capability!
It was like being in Mountain Sea and naturally knowing the name of this mountain sea.
Surrounded by the saints, the names of the saints appeared in Li Fan’s spirit consciousness!
Mountain Lian!
Gui Hai!
Taiyi!
Guardian Hill!
Xing Cha!
Judge!
Stealer of Opportunities!
...
As each saint leapt into his view, Li Fan felt as if he was subjected to the pain of spiritual extraction again!
Not even seeing the full faces of the nine saints, Li Fan’s vision darkened, and he fainted completely.
"Is this my final fate...?"
In a daze, Li Fan seemed to witness numerous illusions. As if he experienced countless different outcomes of Mountain and Sea, he saw the disintegration of the Other Shore, the fragmentation of Mountain Sea, and the temporary retreat of Dao Yan...
Et cetera, et cetera.
Seeming both illusionary and real, hard to discern between truth and falsehood.
But in all these Mountain Seas, there was no existence of Li Fan, not even the qualification to be an ant. He was merely a pure bystander.
Or rather...
Fuel for the reboot of Mountain and Sea?
Truly trapped in this despairing situation, Li Fan’s heart was unexpectedly calm.
No fear, no regret, nor hatred.
Besides his unique attribute of being an observer, the critical reason was that in all these scenes he saw, the final outcome of Mountain Sea was always destruction.
Without exception.
The cycle of reincarnation restarting was just pointless struggle.
Li Fan even felt some pity and relief.
He had not fallen into such a despairing cycle of reincarnation.
Mountain and Sea Reincarnation, endless and unceasing,
Billions of light and shadows stretched like rivers, continuous and unending, engulfing Li Fan.
...
After an unknown time, a voice Li Fan was extremely familiar with sounded in the dark.
"[Simulation ended this time]"
Like a stone dropped into stagnant water.
Then countless ripples spread, gradually awakening Li Fan’s ice-sealed consciousness.
"This voice, so familiar."
"It is..."
"What was it again?"
"[Do you choose to overwrite the result from this simulation onto the current Mountain Sea?]"
Without responding to Li Fan’s confusion, the voice continued, cold to the extreme.
These words, like tiny stones continually thrown into the water, not only caused countless tiny ripples but also splashed numerous droplets!
Ultimately, they awakened Li Fan’s long-sealed memories.
"Hai Zhen! Right, this is Hai Zhen’s voice!"
As if breaking free from an ice-sealed state, the extreme joy in his heart, like warm flames, awakened Li Fan.
He savored the taste of this regained feeling, repeatedly chewing over Hai Zhen’s every word.
After a long time, Li Fan finally regained awareness.
"The end... The simulation ended?"
Like a thunderbolt that split the darkness, illuminating the surroundings.
Li Fan, as if leaping out from underwater, could finally breathe freely.
"In the final moments of the previous life, what exactly happened? My plan seemed to fail, and then I think I really became a machine for extracting infinite spirituality..." Li Fan shivered.