Chapter 648: New truth

What was Li Qi doing?

What happened to Li Qi?

It was actually very simple; he truly just actively entered the ritual.

Because… that delicious scent was approaching him.

Moreover, he also felt a kind of attraction.

Following his own feelings, Li Qi chose to proactively release his True Knowledge Dao Resonance.

Because a doubt had always lingered in Li Qi's heart.

Was True Knowledge Dao Resonance truly Heavenly Demon’s Dao Resonance or not?

It was known that he had once seen many True Knowledge Dao Resonances within the Heavenly Demon's eye sockets, and True Knowledge Dao Resonance also possessed the ability to self-mend.

Generally speaking, Dao Resonance does not have this ability; if it breaks, it is broken and cannot naturally mend, and the broken parts will still possess different functions of the original.

However, True Knowledge Dao Resonance is different; True Knowledge Dao Resonance possesses the ability to naturally mend. The True Knowledge Li Qi had obtained before naturally integrated, increasing his power.

He had always wanted to find the specific differences and the relationship between True Knowledge and the Heavenly Demon; he had always wanted to understand it clearly.

And now, right before his eyes, on the other side of the world, there seemed to be a Zhongwei Bird, being drawn by the same pull as Li Qi; it was approaching Li Qi, and it was also being pulled by the True Knowledge Dao Resonance.

Are Zhongwei Birds related to Heavenly Demons?

Or rather, is True Knowledge Dao Resonance actually unrelated to Heavenly Demon’s Dao Resonance, and the Heavenly Demon merely collects True Knowledge out of its own preference or for some purpose?

Perhaps by making contact, he could find out?

Therefore, Li Qi extended his Dao Resonance, and through True Knowledge Dao Resonance, connected with the Zhongwei Bird, which he normally couldn't contact, thereby triggering the ritual.

As a Invoker, he was naturally skilled in sacrificial rites, so he simply used the ritual and the entanglement of True Knowledge to actively begin a conversation with an unfamiliar Zhongwei Bird.

At this moment, the Invoker communicating with the Zhongwei Bird went from one to two.

To be honest… this feeling was very uncomfortable.

The entanglement of True Knowledge Dao Resonance allowed both sides to make contact, but Li Qi found that the other party was completely incomprehensible.

True Knowledge Dao Resonance read the other party's 'information,' but these information streams were pure noise, with no interpretability whatsoever. Li Qi tried to communicate using mathematical language, but he found that the other party could not understand what 'logic' meant.

No, it should be said that the other party had its own set of logic, and this set of logic was incomprehensible to Li Qi.

This was actually a very terrifying thing.

Logic is a very independent thing; regardless of language, logic itself should be compatible.

For example, 1+1 = 2; no matter what language it is written in, its inherent logic remains unchanged, because logic itself is the rule of thought. As long as this set of rules remains unchanged, then 1+1 will always equal 2.

The myriad worlds, countless worlds, essentially follow the same set of thought rules. Perhaps they have completely different brain pathways, different traditions, cultures, and histories, but the things they follow are the same.

But Zhongwei Birds are different; their 'rules of thought' are completely different from life in the material world, so much so that Li Qi was completely unable to communicate or understand them.

Through True Knowledge Dao Resonance, he communicated directly with the other party on a mental and even informational level, but… it was completely incomprehensible, almost like Java chatting with C++.

It was even more serious than that, because the differences in assembly language are only in parsing; the underlying layer is binary machine language. But… this divergence was almost like the difference between machine language and bioelectricity.

The exact same information, but simply incomprehensible.

He couldn't even observe his surroundings, because even True Knowledge Dao Resonance could only perceive gravity, but couldn't scan for specific existences.

These were true ghosts, completely unobservable.

But…

The other party gave up True Knowledge.

The other party's True Knowledge Dao Resonance merged into Li Qi's wisp, allowing Li Qi's True Knowledge to be enhanced once again!

After being enhanced again, True Knowledge could see deeper and further, even causing some bird-like and fish-like existences to appear before Li Qi's eyes, but… there was no light, as Zhongwei Birds simply don't interact with light.

There were many of these existences; they circled around Gui Xu, around Li Qi, even passing through Li Qi's body, but Li Qi felt nothing.

Gui Xu had a super massive material torrent, but these also had no effect on them.

The material world could not interfere with them, and likewise, they could not interfere with the material world.

The only thing that could connect the two was gravity.

Why is gravity so special?

Incomprehensible.

True Knowledge Dao Resonance still couldn't understand what kind of existence form this was, and Li Qi's wisdom couldn't understand what those chaotic information streams represented.

It was just… truly, genuinely enhanced.

Li Qi could clearly perceive all the information of the ritual. With just one scan, he had already learned this ritual developed by a Great Power.

But like everything True Knowledge had scanned, he knew what it was, but not why it was.

Li Qi finally chose to withdraw from the ritual.

But when he pulled his consciousness out of the ritual, he saw three people surrounding him.

Shao Chi, Youxiong Gong, and Yan Cong.

Li Qi immediately understood what had happened. Clearly, he had thought he had only entered the ritual for a few minutes and it was no big deal, but obviously… his perception of time was off.

Li Qi immediately waved his hand: "Sorry, I got pulled in. It's nothing serious. Have your communications been completed? How long has it been?"

"Five hours have passed. The communication is complete, and our mission is also complete, but… Captain, are you sure you're okay? You look a bit off." Youxiong Gong frowned.

"A bit off? What's wrong with me?" Li Qi looked at himself.

He didn't know until he looked, and when he did, he was startled.

His body was reorganizing in some form, even a bit illusory, but not completely illusory, and it was gradually solidifying, likely about to return to normal soon.

"This is… my Dao Resonance." Li Qi looked at his body, stretched out his hand, and gently clenched it. His body completely solidified, and at the same time, the information flow before his eyes increased by more than tenfold.

True Knowledge Dao Resonance had evolved, and he saw more things, but… it was a bit out of control, causing Li Qi's body to become 'informatized' just now.

This was something the Spirit Dao had done before: abandoning the Physical Body and completely Ascending to become a purely informational life form.

Now that it had recovered, it was normal.

"Let's leave here first. We'll talk about what happened to me later." Li Qi sighed.

The Shaman God personally told him that no one could manipulate his Karma now, nor could they trace him back, because he possessed true substantiality.

Li Qi believed this statement; the Shaman God had no reason to deceive him.

What a First Grade personally said would never be wrong, which meant that what was happening now was not being manipulated by some existence behind the scenes.

He'd review it carefully when he got back.

Zhongwei Birds were truly too difficult to fathom. Li Qi couldn't understand them, so he'd better go back and think about it.

Seeing that Li Qi was indeed fine, the others stopped asking questions.

They were all Rank five, they knew their own business, so there was no need to worry excessively. They were all adults and knew their limits.

Subsequently, the team packed up and left.

The group quickly departed, then split up, each returning to their respective war zones.

Everything was handled professionally; everyone was very professional and efficient, without any procrastination, demonstrating extremely high professional quality. This was the adult world.

However, after this incident, Li Qi applied to return to the command post.

He had been fighting for many years, completing countless missions and pushing the war situation in a better direction. It was time for a break; he planned to go back and study advanced True Knowledge.

Moreover, though it was said to be decades, he had actually experienced far more.

During this time, he had gone through countless reversions, and was almost used to it now.

Humans are truly amazing; even such painful things, if experienced enough, one can eventually get used to them.

The commander was Bo Yue, so Li Qi's leave request was naturally not difficult and was quickly approved.

Thus, ten-odd days later, through the nearest Star-Mansion Array, Li Qi returned to Bo Yue's command world, that Rank six world on the verge of death.

However, as soon as he arrived, Li Qi frowned.

What was going on?

Knowing it was a dying world, one who didn't know would think it was already dead.

This world was scarred and ravaged!

"Whoa… Bo Yue, what are you doing? How did it get like this? Did you extract power from the World Heart?" Li Qi descended from outside the world and came to Bo Yue's side.

Bo Yue was seated as usual in the center of the world cluster Formation, surrounded by numerous runes.

However, Li Qi could now even read what these runes represented, what information they carried. His True Knowledge, strengthened again, directly penetrated the exterior of the world cluster Formation and saw its essence.

He could even notice the power behind the 'Alliance' and the super-spatial communication used by the world cluster Formation!

It turned out that the world cluster Formation was also related to space-time!

Previously, Li Qi had considered the means by which Ordained Invoker obtained information during wartime.

Ordained Invoker had experienced the future and obtained information about future battles from it, but they intended to change it, so they erased it, thus ensuring the battle would never happen… so theoretically, Ordained Invoker shouldn't know.

At the time, Li Qi was very curious: what should be done with this suddenly extra information? (See Chapter 631)

Should it suddenly disappear? If it didn't disappear, would it cause a temporal paradox of information?

Now Li Qi knew.

This information did not disappear; this was information from the 'future'.

They were all within the 'Alliance' and the 'world cluster Formation'.

Of course, this wasn't to say that Ordained Invoker stored information here, but rather that the world cluster Formation itself was super-spatial; it possessed 'substantiality' and was not affected by the light cone.

No wonder the world cluster Formation in each war zone had to rely on a Rank three to be established, and each war zone would have a Rank three stationed there.

The world cluster Formation could transcend time; there, even beyond the 'light cone', time would not be delayed, and Karma was transcended in some way.

However, most Rank five only knew how to use it, but didn't understand its principles. Li Qi, through his enhanced True Knowledge Dao Resonance, saw its fundamental workings.

This… could it be that True Knowledge Dao Resonance could already involve non-substantial existences? Are those Zhongwei Birds I saw also non-substantial products on the same Rank as space-time?

Li Qi suddenly lowered his head and began to ponder.

"Hey, hey, hey? What's going on? You spoke to me first, why are you spacing out as soon as you arrive?" Bo Yue patted Li Qi, somewhat exasperated.

What was wrong with this person? He fell from the sky, then started greeting him, asking about the World Heart.

After asking, he started answering, only to realize that the person was spacing out and probably hadn't even heard him.

Never mind. As a good friend for so many years, Bo Yue knew Li Qi's character well and understood that he probably had some inspiration, so he waited patiently for a while.

But after waiting for a quarter of an hour, he still hadn't woken up, so he couldn't stand it and woke Li Qi up with a pat.

Li Qi then suddenly realized, looking up sharply: "Cough, cough… Sorry, I got lost in thought."

"So, did you hear what I said?" Bo Yue didn't blame him, just asked.

"No, please say it again." Li Qi walked over and sat down.

"I said, the destruction on these worlds wasn't done by me. It was your daughter. See, she's over there. She seems to have comprehended something, so this world became her training ground, and it got beaten up like this. You were busy outside, so I didn't tell you. Anyway, it's just a child practicing." Bo Yue said.

Li Qi felt nothing much, just as Bo Yue said, it was supposed to be like this.

"Alright, then thank you for looking after her these past ten-odd years. I'll go see her too. I plan to rest for two months this time. Assign me work after two months." Li Qi nodded.

"No problem. This time, with the cooperation of the Zhongwei Birds, they have already started manipulating the gravity wells, combined with the materials we prepared in advance, and a few demon stars, the Human Path's war fortresses are basically already crumbling." Bo Yue said.

Indeed, this was the Shaman Dao's tactic. The war fortresses were magnificent, forged from countless worlds, and had immense mass.

Therefore, by uniting with Zhongwei Birds and adding some demon stars, they forcibly broke through the gravitational limit, directly collapsing the war fortresses, turning them into Gui Xu, and instantly tearing apart these war zone fortresses.

Currently, the Zhongwei Bird part had been handled by Li Qi; the remaining parts were to be dealt with by other war zones.

"demon stars… Did the Demon Dao also join the war?" Li Qi asked.

demon stars, which are neutron stars enlightened, are unique products of the Demon Dao. There are even rumored demonized Gui Xu, also said to be the work of the Demon Dao.

The word 'demon' itself means to break common sense, to be abnormal and strange. The Demon Dao takes its name from this, for this very reason.

Bo Yue explained: "They haven't openly participated, but the Lord of Warfare in a few war zones have very good personal relationships with some Great Sage of the Demon Race, so they were persuaded to act. Alright, aren't you back for a vacation? Don't worry about these small matters. Go see your daughter; she's making rapid progress."

"Okay, then I'll go see her." Li Qi bid farewell to Bo Yue and moved towards Li Shiwei's direction.

And Li Shiwei had already seen Li Qi long ago.