My Simulated Road to Immortality-Chapter 2371 - 1765: Zhen Shi Yin
"Who are you?"
The hand placed on the shoulder was ice-cold to the extreme. It even seemed to freeze all vitality within, affecting him.
Even though Zhang Fan instantly shielded himself with the True and False Changes, he still couldn’t completely escape the loss of vitality.
Despite being in the Saint Realm, Zhang Fan had seldom engaged in combat throughout his life of cultivation. Thus, he suffered a minor setback in this first battle after becoming a Saint.
Fortunately, although he had not proven the Tao with [Immortality], he had still benefited from it to some extent. The gentle power of Immortality flowed like a soft spring stream, countering the complete onset of freezing.
Gradually recovering from the sneak attack, Zhang Fan’s expression turned cold, his eyes as sharp as knives, locking onto the target in an instant.
Even if he didn’t know the other’s identity, as long as they were within perception, the Life Cutting Knife could strike!
And it wasn’t just one.
A slender jade hand appeared out of thin air, gently grasping the Life Cutting Knife.
Then, like a piece of white paper folding, the Life Cutting Knife split into two, two turning into eight. In just a breath, the knives fell like rain, descending ominously!
"Who are you!?"
"Who are you!?"
"Who are you!?"
It was both an inquiry and a suspicion.
Inquiring about the other’s identity and questioning the existence of the other.
The voice echoed like thunder, continuously striking down.
Aimed to erase the other party completely.
Paper Folding merged with Life Cutting, Wangji merged with True and False.
Upon seeing that pale point for the first time, Zhang Fan instinctively knew the other was powerful. Hence, he unleashed all his divine techniques as a gesture of respect!
The pale point groaned, and the hand pressing on Zhang Fan’s shoulder disappeared.
Yet, its radiance remained bright and stable as before, completely unaffected by Zhang Fan’s various Taoist techniques!
Clearly, all divine techniques were accurately targeted, but somehow, they entirely failed to have the desired effect.
"This feeling, the protection of True and False Changes?"
Zhang Fan was instantly taken aback in his spirit consciousness. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
But moments later, he realized something different.
"It’s not that it’s unaffected; rather, it seems as though he’s experienced and endured these many times before. He was already accustomed to all this, so he receives it as if not receiving it!"
Zhang Fan faintly felt that the power of this pale point might be even more unfathomable than he imagined. So after forcing it back, he did not act rashly again.
The light of the pale point dissipated, revealing its content and appearance.
An unremarkable, lean middle-aged man’s image.
"I am [Zhen Shi Yin]," the man cupped his hand and said with a faint smile.
"Zhen Shi Yin?" As soon as these three words appeared in his spirit consciousness, Zhang Fan felt an indistinct stirring in his understanding of the True and False Dao. It felt as if this lean man was somehow connected to [Real].
Zhen Shi Yin appeared no different from an ordinary mortal, but merely standing there, he exerted some pressure on Zhang Fan.
Zhang Fan retreated quietly, feigning ignorance, and said, "I don’t understand what you mean by the mastermind behind the scenes, Daoist Zhen."
Zhen Shi Yin did not expose Zhang Fan’s feigned ignorance, but straightforwardly revealed, "The mastermind behind this chaos in the Star Sea is naturally the master of the True and False Dao."
"As for you and them..."
"You’re all just avatars he created."
"Ava... Avatars." Zhang Fan was immediately stunned.
"Avatars? So that’s how it is."
Soon after, he awakened as if from a dream, understanding everything. He felt both relieved and somewhat bewildered.
The saying goes about not seeing the true face of Mount Lu because one is in the mountain. Zhang Fan had long subtly perceived the possible existence behind the scenes, and even managed to gradually transcend predetermined fate, comprehending numerous Mountain and Sea Extraordinary Dao Rules, and proving to be a Saint Realm.
Yet he instinctively believed that the true culprit behind the scenes was someone else.
And subconsciously dismissed the possibility that he himself could be an avatar.
Now Zhang Fan, realizing it late, responded.
Perhaps it was due to the subliminal influence from the old fisherman of Mountains and Seas and Xuan Yuanhong and others.
"It’s precisely because I always firmly believed I was an independent person, not someone else’s avatar. Perhaps this conviction allowed me to successfully inherit the Taoist principles and cultivate to prove becoming a Saint. Whereas if my spirit consciousness had any thought of being someone else’s avatar, even if just for a moment, the path to becoming a Saint would have been severed."
Having vaguely understood this, Zhang Fan couldn’t help but feel a slight sense of fortune.
"You may already know, Daoist, that the Mountain and Sea is in endless reincarnation."
"Endlessly breaking and vanishing, cycles without end."
"The matter of True and False is inherently illusory."
"Yet, in countless experiences, such a scene was truly the first time." Zhen Shi Yin pointed to the large tree standing in the Void ahead.
"And so, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to observe the True and False Dao up close."
Zhen Shi Yin’s words carried a distinct emotional fluctuation.
Regarding the matter of the Mountain and Sea reincarnation, Zhang Fan only had a vague speculation.
Hearing it confirmed from Zhen Shi Yin, he was not particularly surprised.
His focus remained primarily on the True and False Dao. So he asked, "Did you gain anything?"
Zhen Shi Yin chuckled once more, "If it can’t be seen, how can there be any gain?"
"The True and False Dao only favors one person. Even if I exhaust all methods, it’s impossible to touch or comprehend it. Although I had a premonition of this before, it wasn’t until this moment that I completely lost hope and gave up."
"Then why were you able to be preserved with us during the recent small-scale reset of the Mountain and Sea?" This was the only thing Zhang Fan couldn’t understand.
"Our continued existence is not because of our own power. Instead, we rely on the efforts of countless Heavenly Destiny Children before us." Zhen Shi Yin did not hide anything.
"We ourselves cannot comprehend or manipulate the True and False Changes, but we can influence and distort the thoughts of the Heavenly Destiny Child, causing them to willingly apply the power of True and False onto us."
