Chapter 1032: Complete possibility

Did he succeed in opening the Heavens?

Li Qi did not know.

However, he named this brand new Myriad Heavens, 'Myriad Heavens'.

He bestowed upon this 'Myriad Heavens' transcendent properties; this was a great undertaking that Li Qi achieved after racking his brains and spending countless eons.

Specifically, he granted all beings within this Myriad Heavens the power of 'choice'.

He gave all beings in this Myriad Heavens the property of 'self'.

That is... Li Qi's own nature, derived from the Star Officials.

The beings of Myriad Heavens, after death, will discover that they were originally a part of a certain existence.

And this existence is their 'true form'.

Yes, true form.

The lives in Myriad Heavens are finite, but their 'branches' are infinite.

An existence similar to the true form is the 'community' of every individual.

Imagine this.

Are you and your parallel Universe counterpart the same person?

Perhaps everyone has a different answer, but for Li Qi, it could totally be the same person, couldn't it? Just like Li Qi's countless fragments.

The life you experience is actually only an insignificant part of you.

In fact, when you have lived a lifetime, you will return to that unnamable true form, sharing endless possibilities, and viewing the infinite branches you have created in countless time-spaces.

And all the 'you's' from all parallel time-spaces gathered together constitute the true you; this you simultaneously experiences all branches of all time-spaces.

Does this you, who has experienced all branches, still have regrets?

Li Qi is very curious, so he is observing.

Such beings, they have Li Qi's blessing, which means they can simultaneously choose all their choices.

Attend the university in the east, or the university in the west?

Marry this person, or marry that person?

For beings on a single timeline, this is a multiple-choice question. After making a choice, they often look back and ponder, 'Alas, if I had chosen the other option, would things have been different?'

However, for the beings of Myriad Heavens, such a question does not exist.

This is the blessing that the beings of Myriad Heavens possess.

It is a gift bestowed upon them by Li Qi, allowing them to truly choose all possibilities in their lives. Each of them can experience every branch of their life and every feeling of their life.

So, after they have traversed all possibilities of all their lives, will they still have regrets?

Will they still have desires?

Will they still have new possibilities they wish to create?

What kind of life can such a blessing create?

This is Li Qi's creative idea.

This is the cultivation method Li Qi found for himself, a way to go further.

The Myriad Heavens he created is a step for Li Qi to probe possibilities.

When you have traversed all options, are there still other possibilities?

Li Qi does not know the answer yet, so he lets the beings of Myriad Heavens try for him, to help Li Qi find the answer.

Hopefully, they can explore it.

However, so far, no being in Myriad Heavens has explored the end of possibility and awakened into a whole.

They are all still in the 'embryo', in an 'egg' named Myriad Heavens.

When they awaken...

For example, Ennette, all Ennettes will condense into one, forming something similar to a Star Official. She has traversed all her experiences and history, some who died young, some who grew up healthy, some with crippled legs, some who bounced around, some who became planetary prospectors, and some who worked as secretaries in an office.

All these possibilities will form a complete 'Ennette'. Ultimately, this Ennette only needs to examine her inner self to see everything clearly.

When she is 'complete', she will unfold herself from Myriad Heavens. Thus, an 'apple' will embark on the journey of 'fruit'.

All Ennettes have been placed here, meaning all apples have been seen.

So, what should Ennette's next step look like?

Has she closed off? Because all possibilities have been completed, it is very possible for her to fall into a 'cycle'.

Or can she step into new possibilities?

If she steps into new possibilities, how will it be achieved?

Moreover, to ensure this is not isolated, Li Qi will repeatedly observe all this countless times; Ennette is just an ordinary being in Myriad Heavens.

And the entire Myriad Heavens, its space-time range is also infinite, though it is countably infinite.

When the infinite beings within the countably infinite range have traversed their uncountably infinite branches of possibilities, who will be able to take that final Breakthrough step?

Li Qi is looking forward to it.

However, when he was creating Myriad Heavens, he also suddenly thought of the Reality Universe.

What Li Qi did to Myriad Heavens seems similar to what the First Grades did to the Reality Universe.

By manipulating events occurring in the Reality Universe, they observe what kind of future the Reality Universe can nurture, and whether that future can be elevated to a possibility that affects the First Grades.

This is what Li Qi once called the 'infinite monkey typewriter,' but the infinitude of the Reality Universe is far, far greater than this countable infinitude.

As mentioned before, there are also levels of infinity. The difference between each level is as vast as the difference between finite and infinite—an absolutely unbridgeable gap. If one attempts to explore the ultimate of infinity, they will face an infinitely ascending staircase, each step a vast vista; each layer more expansive than the last.

Higher-order infinities, even large cardinal infinities, or even infinite cardinals, and even 'true infinity' or 'absolute infinity,' which include all ordinals as all the monkey typewriters.

This is also the method of the First Grades. Through such observation, they also use natural itself to create the possibilities they need.

If viewed this way, the Reality Universe is used through this method to explore the path forward for the First Grades.

The Reality Universe is the earliest born space-time, capable of independently nurturing existences of the level of Hao Tian and Immortal Heaven. Its complexity is terrifying, even capable of accommodating things at the level of 'All Under Heaven'.

Undoubtedly, the complexity and power of the Reality Universe far exceed the Myriad Heavens opened by Li Qi.

This reminded Li Qi of his previous deduction.

When you want to calculate the trajectory of a pebble, what is the most convenient way?

Apply a formula? Calculate? Use a function?

No, no, no, the fastest way is to pick up a pebble and throw it.

The path the pebble traces is the parabola.

No calculation can keep up with the speed of this pebble with the same energy output.

If you want to calculate the parabola faster than the pebble's actual trajectory, you have to expend much more energy than throwing the pebble; you need to build a supercomputer and consume a lot of electricity.

But throwing a pebble only requires a tiny bit of force.

This is also the power of natural.

Even if you give up the supercomputer and calculate in your brain, it's the same.

Calculating a parabola in the brain, a thinking organ, is no different from calculating it with a computer or similar device; a thinking organ is merely a computer on another level.

Therefore, the calculations simulated in the brain cannot match the efficiency of this natural world.

Calculations that transcend natural phenomena do not exist.

Either the speed is slower than natural, or the power consumption is greater than natural. If the speed is fast and the power consumption is low, it must be because the accuracy is not high enough.

If the accuracy is not high, and every atom composing the pebble is not calculated, then it is certainly fast.

Throw a pebble, and natural itself will give a precise and perfect parabola. No matter how complex the pebble is, no matter how many kinds of wind speed and air composition there are, the pebble will follow the 'correct path', more accurate than any deduction.

Deduction can at most achieve 100% overlap, which means simulating the natural Universe.

natural itself is the highest level of existence, more advanced than all deductions and calculations.

Therefore, true deduction is to become one with natural phenomena themselves.

By skipping several layers of technological innovation, one directly leaps to becoming a natural phenomenon itself.

Thus, for the Great Powers of the First Grade, calculation becomes indistinguishable from natural phenomena.

When 'the calculation process and the Universe are indistinguishable,' it can actually be understood that everything that happens in this Universe is the calculation process of the First Grades.

Yes, because calculation is natural phenomenon itself.

The process by which natural phenomena appear is the process by which the First Grades' deductions proceed; the two cannot be distinguished.

This is the birth of the 'Reality Universe', and this is also the truth of the Universe's re-opening.

That's right, when calculation itself becomes inseparable from natural phenomena, then the 'Universe' and 'history' that everyone now perceives appeared.

This approach completely shattered the space-time structure.

A speed that transcends natural phenomena is impossible. Therefore, what Li Qi did, 'opening the Heavens,' was essentially constructing such a natural phenomenon, allowing the natural phenomenon to calculate on behalf of his thinking organ.

It is conceivable that the deductions made using the Reality Universe will be grander than Myriad Heavens.

If we think forward from this logic, it seems... all the Myriad Heavens should be imitating the progress of the First Grades, right?

The Myriad Heavens opened by Li Qi is the same as what the First Grade did, just with differences in quality and methods. One is calculating with a supercomputer, while the other is laboriously reading paper strips with a hand-cranked calculator.

Then...

Li Qi glanced at the Desire Realm in his hand.

Was the Desire Realm also born for this reason?

So, what kind of possibility did the Heavenly Demon of Enjoying Others’ Emanations, as a First Grade, want to explore to create the Desire Realm?

If one can comprehend the function of the Desire Realm, will they be able to find the purpose of the Heavenly Demon of Enjoying Others’ Emanations?

Li Qi held Myriad Heavens in one hand and Desire Realm in the other, looking at the two time-spaces.

From the perspective of the internal beings, the time-spaces of the two worlds do not interfere with each other. However, due to Li Qi's existence, the two time-spaces are essentially still interacting and are not completely unrelated.

This is also the essence of all time-spaces.

Although there is more than one timeline, it can even be said that everyone has their own unique timeline, which is the origin of relative time. But from a larger perspective, all these timelines form a time network, in which all things interact with each other.

It is precisely because everyone's subjective time intertwines that 'objective' space-time differences arise, leading to things beyond subjectivity.

Others' subjectivity is one's own objectivity. When one basic unit looks at another, the objective world itself is formed, and thus the concept of 'relative' emerges, and space-time is thus formed.

If there were only one elementary particle in the Universe, there would be no space: space is the interval between particles. At the same time, there would be no time, because time is used to measure changes in intervals.

Li Qi already knew this fact when he was at the Third Grade.

Assuming the Universe has only one basic unit, then this Universe is essentially static, with neither time nor space. No matter how this basic unit moves, there is no 'relative' to speak of.

But, as long as the Universe has two basic units, there is space representing the distance between the basic units, and time representing the change in that distance.

Thus, the Universe began to move.

As the number of basic units increases, the Universe will become more and more complex.

The relative motion between basic units contains different possibilities of the Universe's history. Arranging the basic units one by one will reveal the activities of all basic time-spaces in the Universe, which is also describing the history of the Universe, including all possible arrangements of matter.

And 'Myriad Heavens,' such as Li Qi's Myriad Heavens, seems to be something even larger than a basic unit. If a basic unit, that is, the Third Grades, is a node in this time-space network, then places like Myriad Heavens, Desire Realm, and Heavens of the Formless Realm, which possess independent time-spaces, are more like a 'small network.'

Upon realizing this, Li Qi's eyes suddenly widened!

Wait, if that's the case—

Then, as stated long ago, the names of the Great Powers are obviously meaningful.

Are Great Powers whose names contain 'Heaven,' such as Immortal Heaven, Hao Tian, and even the Shaman God of Shaman Dao named Cang Tian, similar to Great Powers whose names contain 'Emperor?'

A name containing 'Emperor' indicates that he is a high-ranking Heavenly God, one of the leaders of the Heavenly Gods.

So, does having 'Heaven' in their name indicate that they were once Myriad Heavens?

Then the question arises: another name for the Desire Realm is 'Heaven of Others’ Emanations,' and the one who created the Desire Realm is the Heavenly Demon of Enjoying Others’ Emanations.

No one named these great existences; their names also reveal some secret.

Then... a conjecture popped into Li Qi's mind.

Is the Desire Realm, perhaps, the exuviae of the Heavenly Demon of Enjoying Others’ Emanations?!

Was the Heavenly Demon of Enjoying Others’ Emanations once one of the 'Heavens?'