Chapter 625: Promoting to the fifth rank

The accumulation is already sufficient.

Borrowing from the past, overdrawing from the future.

Thus, at this moment, he became wealthy.

With the help of that peculiar jade bead, Li Qi grasped the afterimages of the past and the gaps in the future, and his magical power increased threefold out of thin air!

This was not magical power forcibly increased, nor did it forcibly break through Li Qi's limits.

In fact, it had no side effects whatsoever.

Unlike ordinary Medicinal Pills or Heaven And Earth Treasures that increase cultivation, which stuff in a huge amount of chaotic Qi and require painstaking effort to refine in seclusion.

Li Qi currently had no time to refine; he was fighting a war.

Moreover, it wasn't just refinement; this kind of forcibly increased cultivation required a very long time of gradual assimilation. Even after refinement, it needed time to adapt.

It's probably similar to... Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, giving oneself a dozen shots of Sistarone, a steroid, to increase muscle.

The muscles indeed grew, but to use them flexibly, to truly transform them into controllable power, and to precisely perform all desired movements, required long-term practice and continuous medication. To solidify completely, it would take at least several hundred years.

This is why people like Li Qi are unwilling to use Medicinal Pills or treasures, because the time spent on refining and adapting, for a super Genius like him, might not even be as fast as his natural growth, wasting time and effort on refining and adapting.

Look at Liu Junyi. What kind of treasure can keep up with his cultivation progress? He doesn't even need to deliberately strengthen his training every day; just eating, drinking, sleeping, and cultivating daily allows him to advance by leaps and bounds. Ordinary people using treasures can't even catch up.

But now, Li Qi finally realized.

Not using treasures was purely because the treasures weren't good enough.

Just that jade bead from before, even Zhu Fengdan considered it a treasure. It directly pulled Li Qi's past, and now, the three bodies of the future, caused his cultivation to increase threefold out of thin air.

The cultivation increased at this moment showed no signs of disharmony.

It was his, completely and utterly his.

Even if it was temporary, because he could feel the treasure bead depleting and shrinking.

To be honest, using this treasure bead here made Li Qi's heart ache...

Because, compared to Li Qi's cultivation, which was a trivial matter, the things consumed by this treasure bead seemed even more terrifying.

The treasure bead was consuming itself through a method Li Qi couldn't understand or observe, breaking through the gaps in time and space, reaching out to the past and future to demand cultivation.

This kind of behavior... was like a civilization spending all the resources of an entire world to build a super spaceship, and then the spaceship burned thousands of suns to quickly travel to the other side of the Universe, borrowing a Ninth-Rank Spiritual Artifact from there.

Yes, it was a loan, and afterwards, another such journey would be required to return the Spiritual Artifact.

It was that wasteful.

Li Qi even started to feel distressed.

But, it couldn't be wasted.

Thousands of suns, already burned!

Could he just smash the Spiritual Artifact?

Shouldn't he use it quickly?

So, Li Qi directly sat down cross-legged and temporarily delegated command.

Then, with the threefold increase in cultivation, he began to solidify his Inner World!

He wanted to transform the虚 into the实, to Breakthrough to Fifth-Rank!

Li Qi's power began to erupt, solidifying the threefold cultivation.

Then he saw—

The stars return and circle the Celestial Pole, the Big Dipper moves and points to the directions, Qi ascends to Taiyi, essence sinks into the Nine Springs, the Dao is established, and all things take form!

This is the characteristic of the Celestial Pole Golden Elixir Method!

Li Qi used the Daoist method, taking his Nascent Soul as the Celestial Pole, to reconstruct the upper heavens of his Inner World!

At this moment, heaven and earth were created!

Li Qi was the Creator!

The heavens were extremely high, and a great sun emerged, melting gold and stone.

The moon took shape in the sky, and all yin transformed into rivers, spreading divine light throughout the eight abysses, merging vast transformations with mist and vapor, filling the Universe with phenomena, and aligning with Origin Qi to achieve merits!

Sun, moon, and stars, all celestial elements were complete.

Next, the lower earth.

The great earth emerged, two thousand eight hundred million miles east-west, two thousand six hundred million miles north-south, with four cardinal points, called the Four Desolations, Nine Yi, Eight Di, Seven Rong, Six Man.

Earth, the origin of all things, nurturing and growing, with vast numbers of species, the creatures of the Five Lands began to be born.

Heaven and earth converged, and thus, snow, rain, clear skies, thunder, lightning, fog, and rainbows burst forth between heaven and earth.

The four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter appeared.

She, Fu, Re, Han, La, Lü, Li, were established, regulating the celestial phenomena of sun, moon, and stars, respectfully granting the people their time.

Earth, wilderness, passes, ridges, cliffs, gorges, stones, dust, ravines, ditches, waves, springs, lakes, ponds, pools, streams, valleys, torrents, canals, wells, and fords began to appear within heaven and earth.

Numerous auspicious signs of creation followed one after another, including auspicious clouds, sweet dew, conjoined trees, spiritual mushrooms, azure Phoenix, lovebirds, crows, sparrows, swallows, doves, pheasants, horses, white deer, foxes, rabbits, and Zou Yu.

Solemn and harmonious, auspiciously singing and dancing, morning thunder, fleeting like spirits.

Within Li Qi's body, numerous anomalies appeared, but these should no longer be called 'anomalies'.

Because, this was not an 'anomaly'.

What is an anomaly?

An anomaly, that is, an image, so all that people imagine are called anomalies.

This character has the meaning of similarity, likeness, and can also refer to imitative behavior, referring to the external form of things.

An anomaly, by itself, refers to the emergence of certain existences that imitate other things, projecting a portion of their power.

But at this moment, these were not anomalies.

Instead, they were concrete, real existences.

Transforming the虛 into the实.

Li Qi had completely understood the essence of these things. The well of Chaos within his body continuously gushed out Chaos Qi, which then differentiated. The differentiated Qi formed matter, ultimately forming a complete world.

But these worlds needed a container for storage.

This container could not be Li Qi's body, because real things would burst Li Qi. Li Qi only weighed a little over a hundred pounds; containing some Qi was already good, but containing real things would be like kidney stones.

However, Li Qi had already prepared for this.

His foundation was completely sufficient for his advancement; only his cultivation was insufficient.

But now, with threefold cultivation, he was completely sufficient!

Within his body, a layer of distorted space appeared—

That was... a World Barrier!

That's right, Li Qi had long analyzed countless World Barriers and recorded their conditions.

It was all for today!

Speaking of understanding World Barriers, Yan Ke was certainly the strongest. Yan Ke could even create another World Barrier outside an existing one, compressing a world to the size of a projectile.

Li Qi didn't have such ability; that was Yan Ke's unique skill. But he had learned a lot about World Barriers from Yan Ke.

Distortion, and then... reshaping.

Knowledge of space, knowledge of boundaries, poured out of his mind, forming spells.

These 'Dao' began to transform into Law, into Technique.

Finally manifesting as Divine Ability.

The distorted space contained all the matter of the entire world, and then, through a profound connection, mapped it to Li Qi's Inner World.

Then, his body began to furiously absorb the Qi from the outside world.

Relying solely on cultivation to transform the虚 into the实 was basically impossible; it required actual matter from the outside world as filler.

Therefore, this required cultivation to support it.

But his cultivation at this moment was extremely, extremely abundant!

Then he saw, the Sixth-Rank world around Li Qi, which was about to die, began to collapse!

The sky crumbled, the earth's core collapsed!

The entire world, countless substances, oceans, continents, mountains, deserts, strong winds, everything in the world, collapsed towards Li Qi's body.

A massive, indescribable amount of matter was sucked into the World Barrier in Li Qi's hand.

The dying world was directly kicked by Li Qi, directly entering death.

These substances were disassembled into Qi, the Qi was condensed and concentrated into Chaos, losing all its original properties, and then the Chaos differentiated again, transforming into the matter within Li Qi's Inner World.

Moreover, one Sixth-Rank world was not enough!

Li Qi raised his hand and swiped it across the World Group Formation.

The Star-Mansion Array activated, and several worlds flashed. These unguarded worlds were teleported to Li Qi's side, and then directly exploded!

The matter within them was drawn closer by the great power of the Formation and the gravity around Li Qi, accelerating towards Li Qi.

An infinitely accelerating torrent of matter!

Extremely increased temperature and heat.

The brightness of the starry sky began to rise, as if a river of matter in the Void Realm was washing out bright light.

A river of matter stretching for hundreds of millions of miles, all converged into Li Qi.

He was like a return to ruin, incorporating all these substances that originally belonged to the Universe into the miniature heaven and earth in his hand.

Several worlds were devoured by him—

Under the guidance of his cultivation, they completely stabilized.

Li Qi's Inner World completely transformed the虚 into the实!

From this moment on, he was a Fifth-Rank World Master and a Child of Destiny.

Moreover, he was stronger than that.

He would not be bound by the world, because the world was his, and he was not the world's.

A proper Fifth-Rank world, from the Heavenly Dao, from the Law, to all the matter within it, all belonged to Li Qi himself, completely and utterly Li Qi's.

Li Qi opened his eyes, his entire being already floating in the Void Realm, because the surrounding matter had been plundered by him, forming his own world.

Truly his own, not just moving rocks back, which would only be called changing the location of matter, the composition of matter would still be governed by other 'Dao'.

He destroyed these substances, disassembled, reshaped, and compressed them into Chaos Qi, and then made them into matter as understood by Li Qi, only then could they conform to his Dao.

However, the Formation was still there. The World Group Formation did not have a foundation; the destruction of worlds did not affect it.

Li Qi opened his eyes and experienced his current strength.

This time... how could it be just a thousand times stronger?

Complete transformation from the虚 to the实. The ethereal mountain Qi of the past was now a real great mountain.

Within his Inner World, there was now truly a sun, a moon, countless mountains, Five Mountains and four rivers, stretching for a hundred thousand miles.

It was just a bit unusual to float in the Void Realm.

Confirming the time... Well, over three months had passed.

It was quite long, but not too long, within an acceptable range.

So, Li Qi formed a hand seal.

Around him, a world suddenly expanded.

The manifestation was similar to an 'anomaly', just like unfolding a Dharma form. Amidst a dazzling display of effects, a world surrounded by a World Barrier appeared beneath Li Qi's feet.

This world was not large, but it was undeniably Fifth-Rank.

There were often such worlds in the Outer Realms; although not large in area, their rank was extremely high. A single stone from within could be used as raw material for a Ninth-Rank Spiritual Artifact.

Li Qi's world was like this at this moment.

After the world expanded, the rich Spiritual Qi within it almost perfectly matched the concept of 'Great Source Prosperity'.

Li Qi stepped into his own world, and the World Barrier naturally parted.

This world was Li Qi's new organ, just like his hand, which he could control at will, as if commanding his arm.

But at this moment, Li Qi suddenly stepped into empty space, falling to the ground.

Emptiness, extreme emptiness of cultivation within his body!

The threefold cultivation from before had disappeared.

So Li Qi immediately felt a void within him.

But he took a deep breath, and within the world, mountains, rivers, sky, and earth produced countless pure Qi, which Li Qi inhaled through his mouth and nose.

His cultivation was replenished again, and... it was much, much stronger than before.

It was even stronger than the threefold cultivation just now.

And for the entire world, this was just a drop in the ocean.

Before this world dried up, Li Qi's life would not end, Li Qi's cultivation would always be full, and Li Qi would always be in his best state.

Even among those of the same Shaman Dao Fifth-Rank, few had a world as complete and of such high quality as Li Qi's.

Regarding this, Li Qi was also very surprised: why was this Fifth-Rank world of such high quality, and its Great Dao so perfect?

However, he immediately discovered the reason.

Because... Li Qi saw that the reason his cultivation disappeared was that the special power within the jade bead had been exhausted.

Thus, the link with the past and future was severed.

And the jade bead, having exhausted its power, shattered. All its Materials, along with other substances, melted into Chaos and entered this world.

Upon seeing this, Li Qi clasped his hands together and recited a Buddhist chant: “Thank you, White Chen Fox King Bodhisattva...”

But there was no response.

After thanking that, Li Qi changed to another etiquette and thanked again: “Thank you, Teacher.”

After doing all this, he sat cross-legged in his world.

This world was full of vitality.

Although there were no lives or plants yet, they would surely appear soon, as the world's vigorous vitality was fostering the earliest life.

After a few thousand years, native life should be born. If Li Qi was willing to foster it, perhaps a few decades would be enough.

But none of that mattered.

Li Qi just sat down and observed this world.

Immediately, he closed his eyes again.

The halo of the World Group Formation once again enveloped Li Qi.

Li Qi was sensing.

Sensing the situation on the front line.

He was already Fifth-Rank; was he still going to command from home?

Li Qi wanted to go to the front line personally! Before Liu Junyi broke through, relying on his current power, he would strike a heavy blow against humanity's defense line.

Liu Junyi wouldn't break through that quickly. Since Li Qi broke through first, he naturally had to make good use of it.

Confirming that the front line situation remained unchanged, Li Qi set off without hesitation.

The Star-Mansion Array clone here was swallowed by Li Qi when he devoured the world. He wanted to go to the nearest Star-Mansion Array.

Then, he would directly descend upon the front line through the Star-Mansion Array, letting the Fifth-Rank human cultivators witness Li Qi's current power!