Chapter 644: Li Qi’s experience

While Li Shiwei rested with Bo Yue, Li Qi continued to battle outside.

Time flew by.

In the center of a battlefield outside the Realm.

Li Qi watched the Shaman Dao soldiers charging.

To be precise, it wasn't Shaman Dao itself, but a world under Shaman Dao's jurisdiction.

This world was a Fifth-Rank world, and its Realm Lord… in Li Qi's opinion, was not a good person.

At this moment, this Realm Lord was beside Li Qi, watching his people launch suicidal charges, and said with a smile, "Lord Zhang Lu, after three more waves of charges, you can make your move."

"I can also make a move directly now, without these people dying. The opposing general is not my opponent," Li Qi sighed, shaking his head, and said, looking at the battlefield below.

"By no means. If Lord Zhang Lu acts prematurely, it would be counterproductive; the damage caused by these people living is greater," that Realm Lord said.

Yes, this was why Li Qi felt he was not a good person.

This Fifth-Rank Realm Lord was actively sending his people to their deaths. These people trusted him wholeheartedly, and among them were also Geniuses and wise individuals.

But these people trusted him with all their hearts because he was their Realm Lord, their civilization's ancestor, a great ancestor who had led their world millions of years ago.

But he didn't care about any of this; his only goal was his own advancement.

Therefore, he used righteousness and lies to deceive these young Geniuses who trusted him wholeheartedly into dying, so that he could devour them.

However, Li Qi didn't stop him; he didn't intervene at all. Instead, he cooperated with the other party, because they still needed to work together to defeat the Human Dao general later.

The other party was responsible for blocking the Soldier Qi, while Li Qi was responsible for shattering the opposing general.

Li Qi was not a bleeding heart. If he had spoken to stop it, it would have delayed the Human-Shaman War.

Furthermore, if Li Qi had interfered, those young people being sent to their deaths might not have agreed themselves, and might even have turned hostile towards Li Qi.

To awaken them would require a lot of energy, and Li Qi didn't have that much time.

He was a good person, only doing good deeds when it was within his power.

Only bleeding hearts choose to do good deeds in all circumstances. Li Qi wasn't that idle. After so many years, he had experienced countless battlefields and had long since learned to get used to it.

Still, looking at the young people charging into the front lines one after another… Li Qi still felt some emotion, even though it had nothing to do with him.

By now, Li Qi already possessed one of the qualities a long-lived being should have.

That was to disregard some unimportant things.

In the Myriad Realms, there are too many things. Every minute and every second, there are countless joys, sorrows, pains, and pleasures. One cannot manage them all. When one lives long enough, one must get used to disregarding some unimportant things, such as the lives of these young people.

These young people must have thought they were making their own decisions, right?

People always think they can make independent choices, but in reality, everyone's room for choice has long been predetermined.

The prerequisite for independent thinking is knowing that one cannot think independently, to recognize one's situation, to know one's limitations, and only then can one gain a little freedom within those limitations.

Just like Li Qi facing the Great Powers.

Three more rounds of charges.

The Realm Lord saw that it was almost time and said, "Lord Zhang Lu, the moment has arrived."

"Good," Li Qi also stood up.

Both disappeared from their original positions at the same time.

The next instant, the Death Qi brought by the deaths of countless young people swept over the Tang Nation's Soldier Qi, temporarily suppressing it for a moment.

It was in this instant that a Dharma Idol descended from the sky, and invisible Karma lines entered the legion.

Spiritual Artifacts malfunctioned, spells collapsed, Inner Worlds became chaotic, and there were even instances of slipping.

Countless coincidences appeared in an instant…

Li Qi's Dharma Idol began to manipulate Karma.

Immediately after, came the curses.

The opposing Tang Nation general didn't even have time to react before he felt his body starting to go wrong.

Blood and Qi stagnated, internal organs shut down, meridians developed chronic illnesses, and evil Qi of all kinds—Void Evil, Real Evil, Thief Evil, Subtle Evil, and Righteous Evil—entered his body simultaneously.

All five body parts were afflicted by evil.

His Inner World directly stagnated, his cultivation went out of control, and he self-destructed on the spot!

With a loud bang, all the soldiers around him were swallowed along with him!

The self-destruction caused by a Fifth-Rank losing control of their cultivation was extremely terrifying. A gigantic lightning tree stretched across the Void Realm, spanning hundreds of millions of miles!

That must have been the opponent's Dao Foundation.

This lightning tree did not flash by; instead, it tore a huge luminous mark across the Void Realm's firmament. From then on, the sky was split in two. Accompanied by echoing roars, dazzling waves and currents spread at the speed of light along the lightning-cloud-formed channel, and lightning surged towards countless worlds under the pressure of voltage, producing a bright and dazzling flash.

Lightning snakes bit into the spherical objects in the Void Realm—those were the surrounding Sixth-Rank and Seventh-Rank worlds participating in the battle.

The worlds were caught by the lightning snakes and dragged to the side of the lightning tree—

The lightning tree was lush with branches and leaves! It bloomed with electric sparks, and the worlds were hung on its branches like fruits.

Since even worlds were treated this way, the surrounding legions were needless to say. The general's self-destruction directly engulfed them. In just an instant, an ordinary Human Dao army was completely annihilated, disappearing without a trace.

Li Qi clasped his hands, and a gigantic Star Official appeared in the Void Realm.

The Star Official spread its arms, embracing the lightning tree.

Then, it pressed it into its own body.

The terrifying power brought by the self-destruction was thus easily resolved by Li Qi.

Thereupon, the Star Official disappeared.

"Alright, this is resolved. Farewell," Li Qi didn't stay for another second, directly bidding farewell, and then drove his Ghost Carriage, beginning to fly towards the Star-Mansion Array.

As part of the Zhang Lu Small Team, he had many more decapitation missions to handle and would not be confined to one place.

Again and again, again and again.

Once the mess here was dealt with, he had to go put out fires there.

This was the job of the Zhang Lu Small Team, day after day, constantly putting out fires on the battlefield.

Whenever a battle situation began to turn unfavorable, all battle zones would call upon the Zhang Lu Small Team, hoping for support.

And Li Qi and the battle zone commander, Bo Yue, needed to distinguish which battlefields urgently needed support, how to plan routes, and how to allocate combat power.

After all, Li Qi would also get tired. If he continuously fought against powerful enemies, he could easily exhaust himself, and then not only would he fail to provide support, but he would also get himself trapped.

"Yu'er, what's your situation?" Li Qi contacted Shen Shuibi through the Alliance.

"My efficiency is a bit lower than yours. Out of the 237 battlefields on my planned route, I've resolved sixty," Shen Shuibi replied.

"I'm a bit faster than you; I've already handled 140. So, if I pass by some of the worlds on your route, I'll help you deal with them," Li Qi said.

Shen Shuibi's message also came: "En, that's also good for the warriors on the battlefield; many fewer will die. It's just… you're so much stronger than me now."

This sigh was heartfelt.

Who would remember that a few hundred years ago, Li Qi was just an ordinary unranked Mortal, while Shen Shuibi was still a lofty Fifth-Rank Fairy?

Then, suddenly one day, the Immortal was cast down to the Mortal world, and at the same time, the Mortal began to climb upwards.

Thus, two parallel lines that would never intersect now met.

Shen Shuibi felt that she was already a Genius; advancing to Fifth-Rank in nine thousand years was a terrifying achievement among many Fifth-Rank cultivators.

One must know that outside the Realm, due to the widespread existence of long-lived beings, there were many who advanced to Fifth-Rank in hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. Some with poor talent even wasted tens of millions of years.

Tens of millions of years was an extremely long period of time, even for long-lived beings.

In contrast, a few hundred years was just an instant for many long-lived beings.

And Li Qi, in such an instant, transformed from a Mortal into an existence capable of overturning world clusters, an existence that Shen Shuibi could feel at ease following.

Now, Li Qi had walked ahead of Shen Shuibi. The rabbit followed behind him, watching his back, becoming his support, holding him up when he retreated.

And in the future, she would probably be left further and further behind, right? Li Qi would walk faster and faster, until Shen Shuibi could no longer see him.

This feeling was truly… hard to describe.

However, Li Qi didn't care about these things. He couldn't quite understand Shen Shuibi's feelings. After a brief connection, he continued his busy journey.

Continue working. The faster these matters were handled, the fewer people would die.

On Shen Shuibi's side, however, there was a sense of wistful loss.

However, she quickly cheered up.

This was a good thing.

Neither of the couple dwelled on this. They continued to complete their respective tasks, diligently working on the Human-Shaman War.

After all, this was their own responsibility, and they all worked very hard.

For Li Qi, he began to experience everything a long-lived being should experience.

A battle zone commander sits in the grand rear, strategizing and deploying troops.

He can see the entire battlefield, but it's difficult for him to truly experience what the front line is like.

The Zhang Lu Small Team, however, is the exact opposite. The Zhang Lu Small Team finds it difficult to see the full picture and needs to rely on the commander to confirm their actions, but they can personally experience the battlefield.

On such battlefields, one can see many, many different scenes, different worlds, and different people.

When serving as a commander, the data in his eyes now transformed into living people.

There were the noble, the despicable, all sorts of appearances, all sorts of Dao paths, all clearly presented before Li Qi.

Every world had a complete story; they all had their own worldviews and values.

For example, he saw a race similar to an ant colony.

Only similar, not a true ant colony.

In the Void Realm, there existed cluster life forms, where all individuals of an entire civilization existed for the collective, or rather, the entire civilization had only one mind, which was the cluster mind.

Such life forms generally started at Seventh-Rank. Even if individual members were unranked, the civilization as a whole could exist for a long time, and the entire civilization was considered a single cultivator.

But the race Li Qi saw was not like this; they were even more peculiar.

Each of their individuals was independent, and everyone had a clear self-awareness, but their culture and Dao Orthodoxy encouraged absolute rationality, where the collective was greater than all individuals.

In this civilization, where every person possessed independent thought, they achieved the same level of complete instrumentalization and operation as an ant colony, so much so that they wouldn't bat an eye at sacrifice. Even leaders could easily die to satisfy the needs of the collective.

Here, the word 'sacrifice' didn't exist, because it was taken for granted. It wasn't a collective consciousness, but a consensus reached by everyone.

This was a civilization that treated life as fuel, and everyone was accustomed to it.

It was very peculiar. Through 'Dao Orthodoxy,' they managed to turn everyone into this state, yet under this collective consciousness, they still possessed completely independent self-awareness and the innovative capacity of a group.

The group's innovative capacity and the individuals' resource integration capabilities were even more extreme than Human Dao.

Human Dao respects every individual; they do not force sacrifices and fully respect every person, achieving true equality for all.

But this civilization completely disregards the existence of all individuals; everything is for the 'majority.' The group will force individuals to die, and individuals merely serve as bewildered sacrifices, rarely finding a reason to die.

Among the many civilizations Li Qi had seen, this was considered extreme.

But soon, Li Qi discovered that all of this was merely due to his limited knowledge.

There were too many strange civilizations.

One civilization consisted of peculiar parasites. They were like brains, seeking out uncultivated worlds—worlds without intelligent life.

Then, they would sow seeds, a peculiar 'nerve bundle,' or, as Li Qi understood it, a 'brain.'

That's right, this civilization would implant brains into those primitive beasts. These brains would develop rapidly, quickly generate 'self-awareness,' and give birth to intelligence, eventually transforming a group of beasts into a complete civilization within about five thousand years, even capable of Void Realm exploration.

The brains and self-awareness that these civilizations relied on and prided themselves on were all implanted by this race; their brains were the biggest parasites.

The brain is the most important, the brain is the core of thought, the brain controls everything in the body—all of this… was quietly told to them by the brain.

So, when they began to explore the Void Realm, this parasitic race would descend, and all the fruits of this civilization's own efforts would become resources, even the world itself would become part of their race.

But this was not forced; it was a kind of 'Alliance.' These civilizations all had their own consciousness and Divine Souls; it was just that the brains gave them a common understanding, allowing them to unite.

Thus, diversity, countless races and civilizations, with the help of the parasitic brains, gathered together, forming a powerful Fifth-Rank Alliance.

Was it an Alliance, or a civilization dominated by parasites? Even Li Qi couldn't tell, because all these individuals had self-awareness, but part of their self-awareness came from the parasitic brains.

There were also many, many miraculous life forms.

There were also some assembled life forms, consisting of several different species, none of which possessed the ability to think individually, but they could combine with each other to become a Body Integration life form. This life form could cultivate and become an individual.

However, the species that made up this life form had different lifespans, so they would die of old age and be replaced every so often. Each replacement would cause a drastic change in their temperament and memory loss, but they still maintained their 'self.'

Was this truly a 'self'? Li Qi didn't know either.

One could only say that the Void Realm was vast, and full of wonders.

Time continued to flow.

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