Chapter 642: Taking charge of the killing

A single Dao performance suddenly made both Li Qi and Bo Yue realize that the qualities the other possessed were exactly what they needed.

With a tacit understanding, the two immediately opened up and began to jointly construct the ‘Light Cone’.

All Karma, all space and time, were encompassed within the Light Cone.

Space and time were another manifestation of the law of Karma.

This Dao performance lasted for three hours.

The main reason was that there were too many things to do; there were countless tasks in the World Group Formation, and various intelligence reports piled up, making it impossible for the two of them to communicate properly.

But even just three hours of Dao performance were enough to provide very useful inspiration for both of them.

When it ended, the strange phenomena around them dissipated.

"…I feel like I’ve touched upon the path to Fifth Grade," Bo Yue said.

"I also benefited greatly," Li Qi nodded.

Although he hadn't found the path to Fourth Grade, Li Qi discovered that backtracking wasn't impossible to deal with.

It was simple: just escape the Light Cone.

Staying away from the war zone would naturally avoid such things.

Moreover, he himself seemed to be able to use the threads of Karma… No, they couldn't be called threads of Karma now.

Karma, to Li Qi, was no longer planar.

According to his previous thoughts, one cause led to many effects, but these causes and effects were all linear.

The essence of linearity was that one cause would lead to one effect, just like a line starting from point A and reaching point B.

After point A departed from the thread of Karma, there would be countless points afterward, but you had to reach point B first, then point C, even if points B and C were infinitely close.

This was a spatio-temporal relationship, a causal relationship within a plane, and also what Li Qi previously understood as Karma.

His previous 'Heaven's Will' was essentially about manipulating point A to point B, then affecting point C, controlling subtle, layered influences like a butterfly effect.

But now, the situation was different.

When time was no longer consistent, when a 'cause' departed from point A, it could simultaneously reach countless point Bs.

These countless point Bs were not on a 'plane', but in 'three dimensions'.

Just like a Light Cone, at the very apex of the Light Cone, the initial point of light could emit countless rays of light, and on each ray of light, there was a point B.

In the previous plane, the point of light only emitted one ray, but with the addition of a spatial and temporal dimension, the light rays dispersed in all directions, becoming countless.

It was like… worldlines.

Starting from point A,

The so-called cutting and backtracking was choosing one desired line among these countless lines leading to point B.

Point A to point B was infinitely close; in a plane, this distance could not be affected.

No interference, no calculation, not even Heaven's Will was needed; the so-called Heaven's Will was inherently an inferior method.

Your self-proclaimed Heaven's Will was no different from personally intervening, because when you started to manipulate, you were already in the game.

Just like a person in a two-dimensional plane manipulating events within that two-dimensional plane, even if he could achieve omnipotence, he himself had nothing to do with higher dimensions.

And for a person of a higher dimension, they only needed to observe the countless threads of Karma emanating from point A, observe the infinite consequences they brought, and then choose one of them…

Interfering with the world was an inferior method, a last resort, a remedial measure when things had already happened.

What was truly powerful was determining the future.

The future possessed countless possibilities; one cause could lead to completely different effects at different times.

Because the future was infinite, the possibilities were also infinite.

If you couldn't find the corresponding future, it only meant you hadn't seen the corresponding future.

Your control over the future depended solely on your observational ability.

At this moment, Li Qi suddenly realized something.

Backtracking was not for interference; Great Powers, perhaps, had never interfered with choices.

They backtracked to 'repeatedly observe'.

Limited by their observational abilities, they needed to observe again and again, from the infinite possibilities, to read through the gibberish printed by the monkeys, one by one, and choose the Shakespeare they wanted.

This was the monkey typewriter.

If infinitely many monkeys typed randomly on infinitely many typewriters for an infinite amount of time, then at some point, they would inevitably type out the complete works of Shakespeare.

Yes, Great Powers themselves might not be able to write Shakespeare, but as long as there were countless monkey typewriters, there would always be one monkey that could type out the complete works of Shakespeare!

Li Qi took a deep breath, his pupils trembling!

He realized another point: why Dao Orthodoxy would spread the Dao, pay attention to Mortals, and even actively maintain the living space for Mortals, and keep different living environments.

If Great Powers wanted to, it would be very easy to turn every place in the entire Universe into a paradise of enjoyment, but they still didn't do that.

That was because all worlds! All Mortals! All life! All beings with advanced intelligence and self-awareness were the 'monkey typewriters' raised by the Great Powers!

The Great Powers themselves didn't know how to write perfect works, they had no clue, but what if one monkey did it?

Infinite time, infinite monkeys, infinite works, and even infinite retries!

They would eventually observe the complete works of Shakespeare one day.

Li Qi stared blankly at the sky.

He had a new understanding of this Universe.

Li Qi realized that this was his possible path to Third Grade.

It was a bit funny; he didn't even know how to reach Fourth Grade, but he had found some clues to the path to Third Grade.

But at this moment—

"Hey, hey?" At this moment, Bo Yue patted Li Qi: "Are you dumbfounded? It can't be, you should have gained a lot, right?"

"No, just too shocked… I seem to have touched a little bit of the edge of Third Grade?" Li Qi looked at his palm, as if he saw some kind of 'choice' within it.

Bo Yue rolled his eyes: "Brother, do you want to see what grade you are? Don't think about those useless things. Even if you've touched it, it's not something you can solve now. I'll give you the 'Alliance' authority, hurry up and get to work! It's been piling up for three hours!"

"That's true, let's leave it at that for now, time to work, time to work." Li Qi smiled, then began to immerse himself in work.

Anyway, Bo Yue himself wasn't in a hurry to Breakthrough, so it was better to focus on the Human-Shaman War first.

He had already realized it.

Great Powers didn't mind monkeys turning into humans; as long as the monkey was willing to share the complete works of Shakespeare, anything was negotiable, and they would even actively help the monkey become human.

Then, let's continue walking down this path.

Thinking these thoughts, Li Qi began his work.

The work of the Zhang Lu Small Team was actually quite difficult; as the current leader of the Zhang Lu Small Team, he was responsible for confronting the Human Dao experts, tying them down, and giving the Shaman Dao army time to conduct large-scale operations.

Otherwise, the Shaman Dao legions would be easily contained by the Human Dao, using a kiting tactic to fight them to death without being able to retaliate.

But the number of people in the Zhang Lu Small Team was limited, and he needed to assign specific tasks, distinguish the priorities among countless requests for help, and judge where to support and where to let die.

Of course, he could also let the commander do this, and he would only be responsible for execution.

But the commander was Bo Yue, and Bo Yue was busy dealing with the three hours of tasks that had piled up from the previous Dao performance, so he simply handed these matters over to Li Qi.

He trusted Li Qi's ability very much, so he didn't hide anything and directly gave him the 'Alliance' authority.

Therefore, within the Alliance, Li Qi quickly reviewed the current personnel of the Zhang Lu Small Team.

The answer was that there was no one at all; those who died died, those who were injured were injured, and not a single one maintained combat strength.

He could only rely on himself and Shen Shuibi.

Hmm…

But, it would work.

He would leave Li Shiwei with Bo Yue; children shouldn't participate in the war.

"Then, let them recover well. I've looked at the situation, and my wife and I are enough." Li Qi stood up and said to Bo Yue.

"Huh? Just the two of you? That's the workload of an entire team." Bo Yue frowned.

"No matter, just help me take care of the child." Li Qi smiled, then left.

He and Shen Shuibi, the two of them, were enough.

— — — — — — — — — —

Time flew by, and two months passed.

Li Shiwei looked up, gazing at the gloomy sky.

This was a desolate world, long since succumbed to death, and now it was the command center of Bo Yue, the war zone commander. From here, he issued orders and formulated strategies that would affect billions of worlds through Formations and the 'Alliance'.

Li Shiwei stared blankly at the sky. She was very quiet, very accustomed to staying in the safe rear.

Her mind was racing.

Hmm… No matter how she thought about it, she felt that her father had a lot on his mind.

But it didn't seem to be a problem; her father had always been burdened with worries. In Li Shiwei's memory, he had never truly relaxed.

Even during joyous family occasions, he would always be lost in thought by himself during some free moments.

Her mother said that her father was thinking.

Was there really that much to think about? Li Shiwei used to think so.

However, when the Human-Shaman War broke out, as she watched the various messages from the front lines from afar, one day she suddenly found herself, like her father, often falling into contemplation without realizing it.

So, this was what adults worried about.

Since that day, Li Shiwei began to adopt her father's habits. From her former lively self, she gradually grew to prefer solitude and getting lost in thought by herself.

After a long period of contemplation and numerous trials in the Buddhist Kingdom, she finally made up her mind and found the Demonic Prince.

The events that followed were natural; she and the Demonic Prince came to the outer domain.

The Demonic Prince, through her, found Li Qi's location, successfully joined the battle, and ultimately helped her father turn the tide.

To be honest, she was very proud of this achievement.

But after that, her father was summoned by Ordained Invoker and disappeared for over three hundred years.

During those three hundred years, Li Shiwei and Shen Shuibi actually experienced many things.

For her mother, these things might not have been much, just ordinary time.

But Li Shiwei herself truly underwent training on the outer battlefield for one hundred and fifty years; she fought for one hundred and fifty years.

For the Little rabbit, it was a grueling and cruel one hundred and fifty years.

She killed no less than five thousand people.

They were 'humans' of the Human Dao.

If it was just about the lives killed, it would probably be in the millions, and as for the deaths she witnessed firsthand, she couldn't count them.

Warfare spreading across countless worlds…

How could one describe that scene?

Li Shiwei felt she couldn't describe it.

Looking out, as far as the eye could see, all the worlds you could perceive were engulfed in war.

When traveling to the front lines on world-class giant ships, everywhere within sight was like this.

For a Seventh Grade, this scene was truly too grand and cruel.

Li Shiwei made many friends, many of whom were comrades in life and death, even deeper in affection than Zhang You back then, people she could entrust her life to.

Only…

They all died.

Not a single one survived.

Li Shiwei herself almost died; she survived because Shen Shuibi made a choice at that time, unhesitatingly abandoning the outcome of an important battlefield and transferring to Li Shiwei's battlefield to save her.

At that time, Shen Shuibi exchanged the destruction of three worlds and the deaths of countless people for Li Shiwei's life.

Shen Shuibi naturally paid the corresponding price, but the good thing was that Li Shiwei no longer attempted to participate in battles.

She stayed in the safe rear, just as she was now.

"Sigh…" Li Shiwei sighed.

It was so frustrating, this feeling of powerlessness. She knew her parents had worries, but she couldn't help them at all.

In fact, the only way to put their minds at ease was for her to stay in the back and do nothing; that was best for everyone.

Li Shiwei was no longer a child.

She was a long-lived being who had experienced life and death, more than many others.

But still, it was like this.

This world was so vast.

Just then, the jade pendant at Li Shiwei's waist chimed: "Boss, the latest battle report is here."

"Okay, thank you, Stone." Li Shiwei nodded.

Stone, Li Shiwei's childhood companion, a Spiritual Artifact.

Now he was also Seventh Grade, and his speed of promotion to Sixth Grade was astonishingly fast; he probably only needed to discover all of his essence to naturally enter Sixth Grade.

After that, his talent wouldn't be able to help him, and he would have to walk the path himself.

Li Shiwei picked up the latest battle report. These were directly supplied by the command center, much more detailed and real than what was outside, very useful.

The Little rabbit quickly flipped to the Zhang Lu Small Team's page.

Annihilated four Fifth Grade Human Dao armies…

Thirty-six Fifth Grade combat strengths were destroyed, and six thousand worlds on the front line gained a respite.

Human Dao General Jin Rui, dual Fifth Grade, was captured alive by Li Qi.

Ah…

It had only been two months, and her parents had already done so much.

Was she… truly their child?

Was their blood flowing in her veins?

"I'm so useless."

A voice echoed in Li Shiwei's heart.

Wait… Was that her own voice?