Chapter 637: After retreating

Li Qi was stunned.

Very painful?

Why?

He felt nothing at all right now, not even the slightest abnormality.

But since Shamansan said so…

Just thinking about the 'very painful' Shamansan mentioned, Li Qi felt like he was going to die.

He was filled with dread, constantly scanning his body.

But, he still felt nothing.

Shamansan also spoke at this moment: “Alright, it's done. You may leave. After three hundred and fifty years, you can go out. During this period, guard your Dao Heart and prepare yourself.”

“Yes…” Li Qi didn't ask further, but cupped his hands in acknowledgement.

Then, he returned to his original spot.

Around him… there was no change at all.

He couldn't understand, what exactly did Shamansan mean by 'very painful'?

What was very painful?

While thinking about this, Li Qi had already returned to his starting point, with no changes at all, only the people around him looked at him strangely.

What's going on? Why did this person suddenly rush out?

Could it be that his Dao Heart collapsed?

So, a Fourth Grade cultivator came forward and said to Li Qi: “Your condition…”

“I'm fine… I apologize, I was just a little excited. I'll go back and calm down.” Li Qi immediately waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.

Having said that, he immediately left and returned to his room.

With Shamansan's assurance, he felt somewhat at ease.

However, he was still a little strange.

Why would the Demonic Lord still come looking for him? Did he really just want to drag him into the mess?

But, according to the Divine Ability of a Second Grade mighty figure, they could restart endlessly, so Li Qi should have been tempted by the Demonic Lord countless times.

Surely, there would be a time when he would give in.

So, why hadn't he given in now? What was the Demonic Lord thinking?

Or…

Did the Demonic Lord not want him to give in at all?

From the very beginning, the Demonic Lord never intended to subdue Li Qi. His goal was to make Shamansan bet on Li Qi.

This thought immediately caused demonic thoughts to sprout in Li Qi again…

Then he quickly slapped himself.

Don't think too much.

The Demonic Lord was powerful, but Shamansan was there to deal with him. He didn't need to face a First Grade directly.

It was better to quietly wait for these three hundred and fifty years.

Moreover, to be honest, Li Qi was still a little nervous…

Because Shamansan said it would be very painful.

What exactly was very painful? It couldn't be that it hadn't erupted yet, could it?

With this uneasy feeling, Li Qi began his house arrest.

Three hundred and fifty years began.

Time passed quickly. At first, Li Qi was still terrified, afraid that he wouldn't be able to endure that 'pain'.

But after that, he found that there was nothing.

There was nothing at all, not a single problem, no pain whatsoever.

Everything was normal, even peaceful.

Li Qi could make any reasonable request, such as asking to see battle reports or books. These would be delivered, as long as he didn't make any records or Breakthrough his cultivation.

So, Li Qi easily passed these three hundred and fifty years.

He thought it would be a long time.

But with the Ordained Invoker's occasional companionship and guidance, he even felt that… three hundred and fifty years passed so quickly.

Could it be extended?

Opportunities for Ordained Invoker's guidance were not common, and Li Qi benefited greatly. Although his cultivation couldn't Breakthrough, it became stable, and he gained more methods for using and guarding against the lines of Karma.

During these three hundred and fifty years, various people came and went, and Li Qi also learned about the outside situation through battle reports.

Apparently, the incident that caused one-seventh of the front line to collapse was averted. With the victory of the vanguard battle, the Shaman Dao and True Dragons suppressed from both sides, and the Human Dao's front line had retreated significantly. The Great Wall had completely fallen.

The Demonic Dao must have played a considerable role in this, but Li Qi didn't know the specifics, only that after the Demonic Prince joined the battle, the Human Dao suffered severe defeats on the Dragon side.

Li Qi also saw some regrettable news in the battle report.

The Demonic Prince personally killed the Lord of Pestilence, leading to the defeat of an important Human Dao battlefield, which caused a chain reaction, destroying thousands of battle zones.

Regarding this… friend, who was truly willing to retreat and keep his promise, let's call him a friend for now, Li Qi ultimately couldn't meet him.

And, he would never see him again.

But as for the Demonic Prince, Li Qi couldn't say anything. What he did was completely normal, and could even be said to be very, very beneficial to Li Qi.

One can only say… Dao contention is like this, there's no other way.

Because of this, Li Qi mourned the Lord of Pestilence.

Because of this incident, Li Qi specifically started paying attention to the Demonic Prince's achievements… Then, he read through the battle reports.

After the Demonic Dao joined the war, there were no large armies, only a large number of Demonic Kings and Demonic Lords joined the high-end warfare, and the Demonic Prince was the only one below Fourth Grade.

But this one individual, in over three hundred years, single-handedly broke through more than one hundred and sixty battle zones, killing over ten thousand Fifth Grade cultivators.

The name Demonic Prince had already become famous throughout the Universe, praised by countless worlds as the strongest Fifth Grade.

Li Qi carefully reviewed the battle report of that encounter with the Lord of Pestilence.

The Lord of Pestilence's advantage was that he had countless brains, equivalent to countless Fifth Grade cultivators, and thousands of times the cultivation of ordinary Fifth Grade cultivators, allowing him to exhaust all possibilities to forcefully break the opponent's spells.

But the Demonic Prince, with absolute strength, absolute invincibility, and absolute domineering power, completely crushed the Lord of Pestilence, telling him with a devastating disparity: “You can try to exhaust all possibilities; if even one is useful, I lose.”

Yes, that's how domineering, that's how simple.

Countless Fifth Grade cultivators working together to find a solution is certainly formidable.

But what if… this matter simply couldn't be solved by a Fifth Grade? What if no matter how many Fifth Grade cultivators came, there would absolutely be no way?

Clearly, the Demonic Prince achieved it.

No Fifth Grade in the world could handle the Demonic Prince; only a Fourth Grade could deal with him now.

Anyway, Li Qi looked at his fighting style and thought… he couldn't handle it.

After three hundred years of refinement, the Demonic Prince was simply not someone a Fifth Grade could deal with. He once again broke theoretical limits and rewrote the upper limit of the Fifth Grade.

From this moment on, the world once again knew that… a Fifth Grade could reach such a level.

After killing the Lord of Pestilence, the Demonic Prince even publicly challenged all Fifth Grade cultivators.

Just as he did when he was a Seventh Grade.

However… at the end of the battle report, it was stated that the Demonic Prince left the battlefield because the Young Heavenly Master came to challenge him. He directly abandoned the battlefield and faced the Young Heavenly Master alone, the specifics unknown.

Li Qi shook his head after reading it.

Is the Overlord Dao Foundation like this? Is it truly dominating the Universe and standing alone through all ages? What kind of script is this person following?

But overall, whether it was the Human-Shaman battlefield or the Human-Dragon battlefield, progress was quite good.

It seems… the Human Dao no longer had a way to simultaneously contend against two Dao Orthodoxy, after all, this was truly difficult.

At the same time, Li Qi also felt the price of the White Fox King Bodhisattva during these three hundred years.

In the one hundred and forty-third year, during a seclusion, he felt a 'power' that siphoned off a portion of his cultivation.

It didn't even ask for his consent.

However, strictly speaking, Li Qi had already 'agreed', so there was no need to agree again now.

But very quickly, this portion of cultivation was returned, and Li Qi didn't lose anything.

Very strange.

How was it done?

Could it be… that past, present, and future are truly just two sides of a single sheet of paper?

What exactly is time? How does Karma truly exist?

In Li Qi's understanding, time is different for everyone. Everyone has their own unique time, and this time is different from everyone else's.

This is a relative spacetime view based on relativity, meaning—everyone's subjective experience of time is different, and time dilation can even occur under high-speed movement.

This also exists in the Universe of this world. When you travel quickly, time dilation indeed occurs, and spacetime will be distorted as a result, leading to your experienced time being different from the outside world's time.

For example, worlds with peculiar cosmic light, some are fast, some are slow.

For the fast ones, like the world in Yan Ke's hand, under peculiar cosmic light, one day in the world outside is many, many years inside.

For the slow ones, thousands of years pass outside, but the creation of the world inside hasn't even finished.

But at the same time, this inconsistency, at a higher level, can achieve consistency…

Many worlds have cosmic light differences, but Li Qi experienced in The Axis of All Realms that The Axis of All Realms could adjust these cosmic light differences to achieve real-time communication between both sides.

Even if your time flows differently, in front of The Axis of All Realms, you can communicate without delay and speak at exactly the same speed.

It's strange and difficult to comprehend, but this is an objectively existing reality.

Li Qi touched upon the will of Heaven and grasped Karma, but he always failed to comprehend true spacetime.

What exactly is spacetime?

And not just spacetime, but also probability, it's the same.

For example, Li Qi himself, he could understand the Divine Dao, and he himself was of the Shaman Dao.

The so-called Divine Dao refers to the great Dao that only Gods can walk. Humans can never walk on the Divine Dao.

But through learning like Li Qi's, one can approach the Divine Dao to a certain extent.

To give a concrete example, when a coin falls, before it lands, a person can never calculate whether it will be heads or tails. A person can only calculate that the probability of heads or tails is one-half.

Yes, one-half, truly random, eliminating all variables, ignoring technique, air resistance, or simply treating the coin as quantum decay. Anyway, no matter what, this coin is purely one-half.

But a person cannot say that the falling coin will be 100% heads or tails; this situation does not exist. The Shaman Dao cannot do this; the Shaman Dao acknowledges the existence of probability.

But… the Divine Dao can.

Probability can even be said to be one of the concrete manifestations of the 'First Gods'. It is said that the Divine Dao can cause an extremely improbable event to occur repeatedly, making a coin land on tails every time under controlled variables. Similarly, the Heavenly Dao limit that controls the speed of light is also derived from Divine Dao methods.

The First Gods are 'Heaven', the Incarnation of objective laws themselves.

All other non-Divine Dao existences can only correctly transform the world by respecting laws, conforming to laws, achieving subjective conformity with objective reality, and starting from reality, while the Divine Dao… is the world itself.

So, from the perspective of the Divine Dao, what is the situation with 'objective reality', including the relativity of spacetime and the transformation of probability?

Li Qi's understanding of reality conflicted with objective reality.

Moreover… objective reality itself still conflicted with another objective reality, but these all objectively existed in the Universe.

Very strange, very difficult to comprehend.

Li Qi could understand and imagine that 'behind all differences, there must be a unique great Dao', but this was empty talk, platitudes. Such platitudes could help him stabilize Dao conflicts, but until he truly found this great Dao, he would find it difficult to progress further.

How can one find the great Dao behind things that have absolutely no commonality and cannot be compatible?

Li Qi hadn't found inspiration yet.

But… it doesn't matter. These things will be slowly resolved in the future, they won't be needed anyway.

Li Qi was very certain that as long as he continued to pursue Karma, his Fourth Grade Dao path was very clear. At least before Third Grade, he didn't need to worry about these things; he could take his time.

However, the problem of Third Grade didn't lie in these matters, but in the Third Grade Human Dao remnant within his body.

His decision to directly absorb and understand the Third Grade Human Dao's understanding of the Dao in order to quickly Breakthrough to Sixth Grade directly led to Li Qi's understanding of the Human Dao being completely overwritten by the other party.

The other party gave Li Qi a complete answer.

Li Qi couldn't refute this answer; for Li Qi, this answer was completely correct.

So… as long as he kept using this answer, when he reached Third Grade, the other party would naturally awaken within Li Qi, because this answer was copyrighted.

Alas.

Take it slow.

Thinking about this, Li Qi's figure gradually left this grotto-heaven.

It had been arranged. His confinement was over, and he could leave, but he still had no duties. Specific duties would be assigned to him by someone after he returned to the battle zone where Shen Shuibi was currently located.

At the same time, he also left Zhu Fengdan's command. Currently, he was heading to the command of an unfamiliar Great Shaman.

Normally, he should continue to serve as a commander, but this time it wouldn't be a vanguard battle zone, just one of many ordinary battle zones.

Upon arriving in the outside world, Star-Mansion Array was already prepared.

With a whoosh, Li Qi arrived outside.

Then, through Star-Mansion Array, he arrived at the battle zone where Shen Shuibi was located, which he had strongly requested earlier.

Everything seemed to be back on track. Over three hundred years was truly nothing to Li Qi at this moment.

Just as he took Star-Mansion Array and arrived at this unfamiliar battle zone, someone greeted him.

“Welcome, Young Master Qi.” A local Fifth Grade commander had already received orders and welcomed Li Qi enthusiastically.

“Thank you for coming to pick me up, sir.” Li Qi smiled.

But just then…

Li Qi suddenly found his vision go black.

Then, the world reorganized.

That Fifth Grade commander spoke the same words: “Welcome, Young Master Qi.”