I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

”My name is Yi Fan.”

”I am a liar who loves to deceive.”

”Throughout my life, I have firmly believed that lies will persist forever because that is my talent, my ability.”

In the memory scene, Yi Fan returned to being alone.

He would occasionally look into the mirror and talk to himself in the reflection.

Today was no different.

”Talking to myself in the mirror every day gave me an idea.”

”If I use ’lies’ to recreate ’myself’ and let him grow again to the height of Tier Eight Peak, when lies and truth merge, isn’t it possible to easily break through to Tier Nine?”

”Lies need to be built upon truth. This plan presents no issues for me because the person who knows oneself best can only be oneself.”

So he immediately got to work.

Yi Fan successfully crafted a ’self’ using lies.

But initially, it wasn’t real enough.

It needed more stories of its own and a character design.

Thus, a disillusioned drifter named ”Yi Fan,” who resented being a Combat Spirit Contract Master due to the death of his Contracted Spirit and lived depending on a Dancer, was born.

Lies are built on truth.

As for the design of other identities, for someone with a Lying Talent, who has reached Tier Eight Peak and is the Commander of the Eighth War Zone, it’s not a challenge.

”The contents of that Mysterious Stone Tablet have all been deciphered.”

Yi Fan looked at himself in the mirror and spoke in a calm tone.

”It seems to be about the ’truth’ of this world. How pathetic, the world we know is merely a single fruit on a tree.”

”And the pinnacle that my teacher pursued all his life, along with my former dream of defending Great Xia, are as insignificant as ants in the eyes of terrifying beings like the Primordial True Insect, laughable.”

”I didn’t tell my teacher this ’truth.’ I decided to digest it on my own and then seek more answers.”

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”I found a way, a way that could solve everything once and for all.”

”But whether this approach works needs further verification, however, before that, I can now complete the preliminary preparations.”

”Let me list a to-do list:”

Yi Fan looked at the mirror in front of him and talked to himself.

”First thing: Gather the four divine substances left after the fall of the Primordial True Insect. They are the Sea of Blood that nurtures divinity, the Insect Race Origin that mutates the Fruit World, the Silent Divine Heart that turned into the Moon, and the Void Origin at the core of the Devouring Dao.”

”Second thing: Verify whether the ’lies become reality’ ability is feasible. The method of verification is to merge two Tier Eight Peak ’selves.’ If the fusion is successful, surpassing Tier Nine, then it proves the method is indeed feasible.”

”Third thing: Fabricate a sufficiently real lie as a container and perform the fusion using the ’lies become reality’ ability at the end.”

The first two tasks require long preparation time and can’t be rushed.

As for the third task, it can indeed be prepared immediately.

Yi Fan already decided what this sufficiently realistic lie would be.

She will be the second person after ”Yi Fan,” woven by the Lying Talent, based on the truths of Bai Shuang and Red Iris.

She also has her own name, ”Crimson.”

”Based on the relationship between Crimson and Yi Fan, only thus would Crimson believe in her own existence.”

”Because nothing is more genuine than emotion.”

No one stipulates that something false cannot become true, that the Dao of Lies cannot lead to the other side.

The purpose of Crimson’s existence is to verify for Yi Fan whether gathering the four divine substances of the Primordial True Insect [Silent] can resurrect divinity.

Now, the verification for resurrecting it has already succeeded!

The last thing Yi Fan needs to do is to merge with the fictional, already-divine ”Crimson,” like the fusion of his ”self” through the ’lies become reality’ ability by the fountain in Deep Blue City.

His plan has always been singular.

That is, to become a god!

The memory fragment ends here.

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The scene returns once again to reality, on Blue Star.

”I’m sorry.”

Under the gaze of [Crimson], Yi Fan, who had started melting into a mass of red blood muck, heard his voice emerging from that mass of red.

”I tricked you.”

”You are not really Crimson, nor are you a lover I deeply love. From the beginning, you have always been a lie, a lie fabricated by me.”

”Now, the lie is lifted.”

Each time Yi Fan finished a sentence,

the divine body, which almost filled the universe outside Blue Star, flickered and swayed.

When he spoke ”the lie is lifted,” the body of the divine [Crimson] started to disintegrate and dissolve from the Divine Heart at its core!

”Yi Fan!”

”Yi Fan!”

”Yi Fan! You liar!”

A shrill and unwilling voice exploded in Yi Fan’s ears.

Such a process didn’t last long.

At the moment Yi Fan completely dissolved into blood, he finally accomplished the last step of his plan.

Lift the lie, merge with divinity, construct the true self!

The disintegration of the divine body ceased.

The flickering light became stable again.

The only difference was that its outline began to change; it was no longer the original form of [Crimson], but slowly transforming into a man.

That was, [Yi Fan]!

”So this is... the power of a god?”

”Teacher, do you see, I’ve succeeded.”

[Yi Fan] spread his arms, and the stars in the entire cosmos began to be drawn by an invisible force, revolving around Him.

He merely raised an arm, and a star was instantly devoured, disappearing without a trace.

He looked down at the blue planet.

As if through an infinite distance, He met the eyes of his only remaining standing junior, Han Zhan.

”Why?” On Blue Star, the heavily injured Han Zhan murmured and asked.

His voice was deep, but he believed, He could hear.

”If it was just to become a god, to step beyond the Realm of Transcendence, surely there were many other ways.”

”Why?” Han Zhan repeated the question again.

He wanted to know an answer.

”Because just that is not enough.” [Yi Fan]’s enormous divine body showed no act of speaking, but His voice resonated clearly in Han Zhan’s ears.

”Just becoming an existence in the Realm of Transcendence is not enough.”

”Do you know how many Saints it takes to kill a Primordial True Insect [Silent]?”

”Do you know what realms exist beyond the Realm of Transcendence?”

”Do you know why the Primordial True Insect wants to devour those Fruit Worlds?”

”No, you don’t know.”

”Just that is not enough!”

As [Yi Fan] spoke, all the stars in the Blue Star Fruit World were being pulled toward Him.

On Blue Star, beams of light in various colors appeared one after another.

Those were the origins of this Fruit World!