Chapter 351: Talk

In Mount Luofu…

It might be in Mount Luofu.

Li Qi didn't know what to say; in any case, he suddenly found himself in Mount Luofu.

And it was the Mount Luofu of the past.

He dared not look around, so he switched to scanning his surroundings with True Knowledge Dao Resonance.

It was completely real, with no hint of illusion.

“Hmm… you arrived very strangely, but you didn’t lie, nor do you have any ill intent.” Empress Luofu nodded, “Stand up straight and speak, since you are Yu’er’s future Dao Companion.”

Li Qi buried his head even lower, even more afraid to stand up.

Not only because of the other party’s identity, but also because… the Empress Luofu before him displayed one of the characteristics of a third-rank Being.

Mind reading.

To be honest, Li Qi didn't know if this was a characteristic of a third-rank Being, but he had experienced this trick in front of all third-rank existences.

More accurately, this move wasn't mind reading, but rather reading everything.

People's shallow thoughts, which come from the brain or other thinking organs, naturally produce specific traces when these organs are thinking.

According to Zhu Fengdan, it seems that at that level, one can easily see these things, thus producing a passive mind-reading effect.

It’s not that they want to read, but that Mortal thoughts are too shallow; all thought processes, all information transmission at nerve endings, and even every strand of nerve current in the body, they see clearly.

It seems that in the eyes of third-rank Beings, this world no longer holds any secrets.

It sounds like nothing, but Li Qi could understand the effect just by thinking about it.

Observing ion movement with the naked eye, and to the extent of a single electron; although he didn't know if this world had elementary particles, at the very least, the observation accuracy could reach that magnitude.

And, without relying on Divine Ability or spell arts.

If it relied on Divine Ability, Li Qi, at seventh-rank, could now manipulate cells, just like the surgery the fox demon performed on him in Qingwu City, which also seemed to be at the cellular level.

But the size difference between that and a single electron was no less than the difference between a mountain range and a cell.

And the smaller it was, the higher the difficulty, because at that stage, light couldn't even reach it.

The size of those particles was far smaller than the size of a single photon, and he didn't know how third-rank Beings observed this world.

In any case, if it was optical observation, the limit was a single photon, but third-rank Beings had clearly broken through this limit.

What does this mean?

It means… that she can read minds, the Empress Luofu before him is a genuine third-rank Being.

What the hell…

Did he really Transmigrate?

“Although I don’t know what Transmigration is, I can probably understand the meaning, which means you came from the future? Hmm… I haven’t heard of it, but please speak properly; keeping your head down and silent like this will never make things clear.” Empress Luofu said, waving her hand.

The scenery before Li Qi changed, and he was forcibly straightened by an invisible force, sitting in a stone Immortal Cave.

Around them were ordinary stone caves, with a table in the middle, nothing more.

The nearby stones were still slowly forming; clearly, this was not a real stone cave, but a secret place temporarily created by Empress Luofu to hide their conversation.

And in front of him was Empress Luofu.

Li Qi's neck was controlled by an invisible force, forcing him to look directly at her.

Only when he truly looked directly at Empress Luofu could Li Qi feel the aura of an undisguised third-rank grandmaster.

Empress Luofu wore a Daoist robe.

She possessed an ethereal, Daoist demeanor, obscuring her brilliance and abandoning pretense and desire, holding the uncarved jade within the utmost purity, and leaving trivial matters outside of worldly customs.

How to describe it…

She was very beautiful, and her beauty was difficult to describe; Yang Ning and Shen Shuibi each inherited a part of her appearance, and these two different kinds of beauty were perfectly integrated in her.

Although serene, one could also feel vitality.

But on her, beauty was actually the least conspicuous trait; when truly looking at her, it was easy to overlook the fact that she was beautiful.

Because she wasn’t just physically beautiful, but also like gazing at a majestic immortal mountain, revealing a sense of immense pressure integrated with beautiful scenery.

But Li Qi felt his bones trembling.

It wasn’t because of anything else, but an instinctive fear.

That kind of unsuppressable, irrational feeling of oppression that arises after sensing the gaze of a high-level existence.

A firm will doesn't always work, especially when a third-rank Being is about to scrutinize you thoroughly.

That kind of fear and oppression, no matter how firm one's mind, cannot be resisted.

Li Qi now realized how gentle the third-rank Beings he had met before, including his teacher Zhu Fengdan, truly were, and how careful they were with him, to the point that he felt no pressure at all…

The Empress Luofu before him had no intention of harming him, but she was very curious about Li Qi, this ‘Transmigrator’, so she simply cast her gaze to observe.

Just this simple action made Li Qi’s bones scream.

But on Empress Luofu’s side, she was even more surprised.

This young man named Li Qi… how strange.

He practiced the orthodox Shaman Dao method, which should be the "Zhu" Book, an absolute orthodox Shaman, from the Invoker lineage of the three Shaman Dao branches.

However, his body not only contained traces of their Mount Luofu's Celestial Pole Golden Elixir Method.

The Military School of Thought method of the human Dao, traces of martial arts training, the Buddhist town Devil method, and also… Demonic Qi?

It seemed he hadn't practiced the Demonic Dao, but there were traces of Demonic Qi; had he ever been demonized? Or had he subdued a Demonic Overlord, but the Demonic Qi entered his body?

This person’s cultivation was so chaotic, yet there was order within the chaos.

Would there be such a freak among the younger generation of Shaman God Mountain in the future?

She carefully read Li Qi’s surface thoughts, knowing all the random things he was thinking.

For example, when he saw Yu’er, his mind came up with feelings like ‘wife’, ‘cute’, ‘so small’, ‘surprised’, ‘like’.

People’s thoughts and ideas are actually very messy, mostly fragments, and need to be organized before they can be spoken as coherent words.

But these chaotic and fragmented thoughts are traceable; through these surface thoughts, one can know what he is currently thinking.

For example, when he realized he was in Mount Luofu, thoughts like ‘Transmigration’, ‘past’, ‘future’ immediately popped into his mind.

These fragmented thoughts were not just words, but also images and sounds.

Empress Luofu even saw Shen Shuibi’s future appearance in advance and knew his relationship with Shen Shuibi.

A Dao Companion in the future, how interesting…

Empress Luofu only needed to deduce for a moment to know what he was thinking and infer the whole situation.

“So, you also don’t know why you came to this place, but you just suddenly arrived, and you were originally just watching recorded information?” Empress Luofu asked, looking at Li Qi.

Li Qi could finally move now; he immediately stood up and bowed, not daring to sit opposite her.

The other party was a third-rank grandmaster, and an elder, possibly even a mother-in-law; regardless of the identity, sitting opposite her was inappropriate.

After bowing, he respectfully replied, “Indeed, I also don’t know why I came to this place, or even how to go back, but…”

“Hmm, your body is disappearing. It seems you are going back. I can feel that the light of time is reorganizing on you. It will probably take about a quarter of an hour. Let’s communicate during this opportunity. Tell me some things. Maybe you can change the future.” Empress Luofu said with a smile.

Li Qi looked at his body in confusion.

He didn't understand why he would suddenly return to the past.

Is this possible?

Is this an illusion?

Perhaps he could verify it; Li Qi happened to have a way to verify illusions.

But he didn't need to say more; Empress Luofu immediately chimed in, “Oh, I understand. You’re still doubting. Then let’s see if this is an illusion. However, your method is indeed clever.”

After speaking, she completely understood Li Qi’s method, then raised her finger and tapped a few times.

In Li Qi’s surface thoughts, which he had just thought of, there was a very simple way to judge an illusion: creating turbulence.

The basic characteristic of turbulence is the randomness of fluid particle movement, with extremely chaotic trajectories, extremely rapid changes, and complete randomness, making it impossible to calculate or infer.

It is very difficult, almost impossible, to create true turbulence in an illusion; this would greatly consume the illusion creator’s computational power, and even directly lead to the inability to maintain it, causing the illusion to collapse.

This idea was very creative, and Empress Luofu immediately began to implement it after reading this point.

Vast energy flows began to swirl nearby.

Without purpose, they simply rotated and impacted, quickly forming complete turbulence.

Li Qi stared intently at the chaotic energy flows.

Soon, he discovered that these were indeed true turbulence, exhibiting complete randomness, unpredictability, uncalculability, and no discernible pattern.

Now there are two possibilities.

The first is that he indeed Transmigrated again, this time not across worlds, but across time.

The second is that it’s an illusion, but it’s an illusion indistinguishable from the real world, impossible to identify by any means, meaning the fake is identical to the real thing.

Is it possible?

Having a real third-rank grandmaster acting in front of him, and the stage set in Shaman God Mountain…

The Shaman God is right beneath their feet.

Which means… it’s most likely real?

“I don’t know if you are real, but I am real,” Empress Luofu said.

“Cough, cough… Niangniang, usually, when my teachers and they speak to me, they never look into my mind. Only then can we converse,” Li Qi coughed twice, then said.

Before, when he spoke with Zhu Fengdan and the others, they never looked at Li Qi. Now that he thought about it, it was a good thing they didn't.

When speaking with Empress Luofu, it was entirely her speaking; before Li Qi even opened his mouth, all his thoughts and ideas were already exposed.

“So, you think this is not good. Very well, then let’s do as you say. However, you are also about to return, so tell me about the future. If you are truly a person from the future.”

“Won’t this change anything?” Li Qi asked.

“If this can change the future, then it means that the events of this moment have also been changed,” Empress Luofu said calmly.

Li Qi was stunned for a moment, but after thinking carefully, he realized it was true.

As expected of a third-rank Being, her mind was sharp, and she instantly grasped the key point.

If the future could be changed by Transmigrating to the past…

Then it means that the current world must be the final outcome that has been changed countless times. Of course, the future might also change into something new, but the current one must have already been changed.

Li Qi hadn’t even realized it, but Empress Luofu easily grasped the key point. Indeed, high-rank powerhouses are not only strong in cultivation, but also possess top-tier wisdom.

Li Qi pondered and said, “So… either my arrival is inevitable, and without me, the future situation cannot be formed, and whatever I do is a predetermined event, part of a cycle.”

“Or, my arrival has nothing to do with the future, at least not my future, and nothing will change. At most, it will change your world, allowing you to know the future in advance and make plans.”

Empress Luofu nodded, “Exactly. So, you can completely speak about the future. There won’t be any problems at all.”

“You have at most another quarter of an hour. Tell me, don’t talk about why you came to this place; that’s not something that can be explained quickly. If you are truly Yu’er’s Dao Companion, then tell me what happened to Mount Luofu afterward. I read in your memory that Mount Luofu seemed to have been destroyed.” Empress Luofu said very calmly.

Even though she read about the future destruction of Mount Luofu in Li Qi’s shallow thoughts, she showed no sign of panic.

“Yes, Mount Luofu was destroyed. The human Dao made the move. Five or six Utmost Persons came here with the human emperor sword, demanding the Sun-Moon True Lead Cauldron to hand over the Dao opportunity.”

“The Sun-Moon True Lead Cauldron naturally refused. The human emperor sword suddenly struck, and it wasn’t the human emperor sword under normal circumstances; it was the human emperor sword after the human emperor injected Dragon Qi into it. The Sun-Moon True Lead Cauldron was directly cut in half, the sun and moon in the eight million worlds within the Cauldron fell, and the Dao was severed.”

“After that was the massacre. The heavens of Mount Luofu collapsed, the Sun-Moon True Lead Cauldron fell into a coma, and Niangniang used her last bit of strength to protect the two of them, fleeing towards Shaman God Mountain, but many accidents occurred along the way.”

“Even Shen Shuibi was forced to leave to attract the pursuers. In the end, only Yang Ning and you, Niangniang, remained, falling near White Snake Mountain. Fortunately, a Grand Invoker from Shaman God Mountain happened to be nearby and forced the pursuers back.”

“And the departing Shen Shuibi landed near me, coincidentally encountering me, who was desperately fleeing for my life at the time, and I picked her up. Then, we were both targeted by the pursuing Grand Invoker, who wanted to find Niangniang’s whereabouts.”

“Coincidentally, the Grand Invoker came because of me, so he entrusted me with the task of finding you, and I trekked with the rabbit for several months…” Li Qi paused here.

Damn it, he spoke too smoothly.

“Rabbit?” Empress Luofu frowned.

But she didn’t say much more, quickly skipping this chapter and saying, “Alright, no need to say more. I can pretty much guess what happened afterward.”

“By the way, show me your Celestial Pole Golden Elixir Method,” Empress Luofu said.

For some reason, Li Qi’s heart skipped a beat at these words.