Chapter 695: Monsters and demons

Li Qi used a more ingenious method to resist this Third Rank Supreme Being.

One must know that Li Qi had the other party's head, but it had merely been absorbed by Li Qi. The absorbed part was once a component of Li Qi's Inner World.

Yes, when Li Qi first broke through to the Six Rank, he directly used Three Rank Law to construct his Inner World.

This directly led to the other party not dying, but instead achieving Dao Integration at this moment, absorbing the power of the Immortal Heaven to be fully resurrected.

Although now it seems... this is probably a conspiracy of the Human Dao.

But Li Qi used this conspiracy.

Previously, Li Qi's Inner World was constructed by this Three Rank's Law. In other words... this was Li Qi's own Dao. Li Qi's path also followed the other party's Dao. Regarding the importance of Law, Li Qi had never denied it, and could even agree with this point.

The 'Righteousness' and 'Justice' that Li Qi set for himself initially, the 'Justice' part, has been explained many times: it refers to the Laws applicable in most situations.

After Li Qi reached the Four Rank, his own Law had gradually begun to float above the Reality Universe.

This Three Rank's attack, including his Move, was completely seen through by Li Qi at this moment.

This was originally Li Qi's own Law. This could be considered mutual destruction, and both were Dao Integrations within the Immortal Heaven. Through this method, Li Qi transformed the other party's battle into his own internal struggle.

In other words, at this moment, Li Qi understood the other party's origins, but the other party did not understand Li Qi's origins.

He was fighting Li Qi and Zhang Zong, but Li Qi was fighting himself.

This instantly turned the battle into a somewhat... strange form. Li Qi no longer faced an enemy, but himself, only... a part of the enemy's power was mixed in.

Certainly, this Utmost Person had a way to deal with it. This simple method alone could not possibly win.

After discovering this, the Utmost Person changed his Move without hesitation, preparing to shift from destruction to absorption. Since Li Qi intended to turn all this into an internal struggle, then so be it...

He would directly control Li Qi's Inner World, and then completely possess and devour the other party from within.

This Utmost Person thought so.

But when he truly entered, he was shocked.

Inside Li Qi's body...

The Chaos made even him, a Three Rank, feel a headache.

Letting you in was a trap.

Inside Li Qi's body, there were jade beads gifted by the Buddhist Heavens and Dakini Heaven, Demonic Qi personally bestowed by the Heavenly Demon, Buddhist Qi gifted by Amitabha, a foundation constructed by the Celestial Pole Golden Elixir Method, pure Qi constructed by the Da Tu Shaman God, the gaze of Shamansan, and also Chang Xi's Yin Qi. In the area of Dao Integration with the Immortal Heaven, there was also a simulated component of Haotian's General, and furthermore, the divine Dao Chaos from the Fire Official.

All kinds of components, even his Three Rank Law, seemed insignificant among them.

Each thing was enough to take the life of an ordinary Five Rank, but all of them put together formed a delicate balance, allowing Li Qi's Inner World to achieve a certain self-consistency.

How to put it...

It can be said that Li Qi's cultivation now completely relies on bugs to operate. If the bugs were removed, he would have self-destructed long ago.

Such a chaotic Inner World resulted in this thousandth of a second loss.

But even so, it only made this Utmost Person return without success. There would only be a brief backlash, making him weak for a period of time, which would not cause any special effects or after-effects.

However... don't forget, Li Qi has two people on his side.

Currently, all the magical power has been handed over to Li Qi, and the Little Heavenly Master, at this moment, possesses the power of Heavenly Punishment. He does not need magical power.

In this thousandth of a second, the Three Rank's attack was temporarily halted by Li Qi's trick, but the Little Heavenly Master's attack did not stop.

Heavenly Punishment descended, precisely during this Utmost Person's period of weakness.

His attack and Li Qi's Inner World were mixed together, and he himself could hardly bear the backlash of the Three Rank attack, while simultaneously facing the descent of Heavenly Punishment—

Even this Utmost Person himself couldn't clearly say whether this was a pre-planned scheme or a coincidence at play.

It was just... when he suddenly realized, he found that reality had already been chosen, and Karma had been extended to the present moment.

And the one manipulating all this was Li Qi, right before his eyes.

This was a genuine Three Rank characteristic. The other party had mastered the Three Rank characteristic at the Five Rank, and upon ascending to the Four Rank, he used this Move on him.

It should have been impossible. If it were outside, if Karma were interfered with, he would have clearly seen it and would never have fallen for it.

But now, he had voluntarily entered Li Qi's body. Now Li Qi was not interfering with the outside world, but with himself. This was an internal struggle.

It was said before... that the area around Li Qi was a parallel world exclusive to him, which had gradually begun to break free from the constraints of the Reality Universe's Law.

When the Utmost Person wanted to use the Inner World structure to possess and detonate Li Qi from within, he had already voluntarily become a part of this world. At this moment, Li Qi had already begun to determine the future of his Inner World.

As for resistance, of course it was possible, but the Utmost Person was now unable to do so.

He now had to simultaneously resist the Karma selection, the pile of demons and monsters in Li Qi's Inner World, Li Qi's attempt to assimilate and suppress the other party's power, the backlash of using Three Rank power himself, and the Heavenly Punishment of the Little Heavenly Master had already arrived.

Thunder descended. This was true 'Heavenly Punishment'.

Under various factors, what Shamansan said happened.

Li Qi and the Little Heavenly Master won, at least for this instant.

But they hadn't fully won yet. This wasn't enough to instantly kill a Utmost Person. He still had the ability to drag Li Qi and Zhang Zong to their deaths together, and it was even possible that he would still survive.

A Utmost Person who had fallen in Realm was simply too strong.

It was just... the Immortal Heaven moved very swiftly.

The moment the outcome was decided, the instant this Utmost Person tried to counterattack, he had already completely vanished without a trace.

He was truly devoured by the Immortal Heaven.

And Li Qi finally let out a sigh of relief, his entire being instantly collapsing.

If the Immortal Heaven had been half a second slower, they would have all died with this Utmost Person.

However, the plan was complete.

This was what Li Qi had always intended to do. He had known since he first set foot in the Immortal Heaven, countless years ago, that the purpose of this trip was to showcase himself and prompt the higher-ups of the Immortal Heaven to make a decision.

Everything, absolutely everything, was merely to shift the Immortal Heaven' stance.

Including Zhu Fengdan's preparations beforehand, the game with the Human Dao, and Li Qi himself, all were just part of this display.

As for the Utmost Person, he had never even thought of defeating him; that was impossible, the gap was too vast.

But if the Immortal Heaven acted personally, that would be different.

What he did was not to defeat the Utmost Person, but to curry favor with the Immortal Heaven.

When Li Qi displayed this point, the Utmost Person's defeat was already sealed.

Returning to the original intention... isn't this what a Invoker should do?

Fighting is not what a Invoker should do. His true duty is 'communication'.

Li Qi sighed deeply and looked towards the Immortal Heaven.

He could feel his power waning.

The Immortal Heaven was 'spitting' him out, and he was falling from the Realm of Dao Integration. However... Li Qi was confident that he would truly advance to the Four Rank in the future.

He had already glimpsed the possibility of breaking free from this world through the Immortal Heaven and Haotian, and had even practically verified it. Now, all he lacked was time and accumulation; he needed a little time to reconstruct everything, and then he would arrive at that extraordinary Domain, truly breaking free from the constraints of the Universe's Great Dao.

However, before that, the Little Heavenly Master's mark quietly disappeared. Without the support of the Immortal Heaven, their Karma connection was severed, and they each returned to their own bodies.

I believe that after this matter is over, the Little Heavenly Master will immediately remove all of Li Qi's attire and disguise from himself, and will resolutely never impersonate anyone again in the future.

But no matter what, personally experiencing the power of the Four Rank must have been a special experience for him, although it's hard to say whether it was good or bad, it has already happened anyway.

Experiencing high-grade power in advance is not always a good thing. Otherwise, Great Powers would have long since mass-produced power experiences for their Disciples.

But such an experience is very likely to bring unknown results. Experiencing higher-level power does not necessarily bring a broader perspective. It is more likely to bring a narrow understanding like 'so the Four Rank is like this', which instead causes an obstacle to knowledge, severing their Dao path.

It's just... no matter what the Little Heavenly Master says, the Heavenly Masters must have agreed, right?

As for Li Qi himself, he was not constrained by such matters. He had already understood what 'Heaven' should be like through his experience in the Immortal Heaven.

While thinking about these things, Li Qi had already been spat out by the Immortal Heaven and arrived in the Void Realm.

Zhu Fengdan merely gestured to Li Qi, the direction of the gesture pointing to Yao Ji, and then rushed into the Immortal Heaven, evidently having something to do.

As for Li Qi himself, he looked at Yao Ji beside him.

"Give it back to me." Yao Ji extended her hand.

Li Qi didn't delay and indeed offered the Haotian General he had previously obtained with both hands.

Then Yao Ji didn't speak, or rather, she was too lazy to continue communicating with Li Qi, turned around, and left on her own.

From here to the nearest world is three billion light-years...

How long would she walk?

Forget it, let her be. Li Qi himself wasn't going to do that.

After that, Li Qi chose to sit in the Void Realm.

He would wait for Zhu Fengdan to come out of the Immortal Heaven, and then Teacher Zhu would take him away from here.

Anyway, it was impossible for him to run three billion light-years by himself; he would die running.

It was better to sit down and carefully recall and organize the differences he saw between Haotian and the Immortal Heaven.

The Four Rank Dao foundation that Li Qi saw and pondered.

What he pondered was not actually the nature of Haotian and the Immortal Heaven, because these natures were not the most important. These natures were their Dao paths, and Li Qi could never understand the Dao path of a First Grade.

A characteristic of the Four Rank is that it can ignore the Dao path limitations of the Reality Universe, for example... the Heavenly Dao limit of the speed of light can be broken by the Four Rank, because the Four Rank can define the area covered by the Law around him. Here, it is equivalent to a parallel world where his own Dao operates.

Through this point, new concepts can be extended, such as, what is the Heavenly Dao limit?

Li Qi observed Haotian and the Immortal Heaven, and from them, he broke through this point.

The essence of the Heavenly Dao limit is infinity, a physical infinity, roughly representing the speed limit of our spacetime, similar to how absolute zero is a lower limit, but it is not a mathematical infinity. This physical infinity in the Reality Universe is manifested as 300,000 km/s.

The speed of light is the upper limit of the speed of matter movement in this Universe. Any massive matter can only approach this upper limit but cannot exceed it. Similar to the nature of infinity, it naturally cannot be broken through.

Yes, in relative spacetime, speed can be infinitely superimposed, but it will eventually converge to c, which is the speed of light.

The infinite acceleration of an object is not acceleration in the usual sense, because the essence of acceleration is the superposition of rapidity. In high-speed spacetime, the 'speed' of low speed has become ineffective. When f approaches infinity and rapidity approaches infinity, the speed will converge to the speed of light.

The essence of acceleration is the increase of rapidity on the spacetime diagram. At this time, ordinary mechanics no longer works. Even if a massive object accelerates infinitely under the action of infinite force, and rapidity approaches infinity, the speed can only infinitely approach c, but cannot reach it.

This is the 'upper limit'.

But... having an upper limit means... there is something beyond the upper limit.

For example, every number has its reciprocal. The reciprocal of infinity is infinitesimal. If we draw another number line, the positive and negative directions of the number line can clearly distinguish two corresponding segments, which are opposite numbers.

Li Qi had said such words before. He called this correspondence on the number line the two sides of the Universe's 'Yin and Yang'.

And all opposite numbers have the same absolute value. Is this absolute value the essence corresponding to the two opposite numbers?

After looking at the Immortal Heaven and Haotian again, he had another absurd idea: can a number line... only have a fixed number?

Can there only be four quadrants?

If the Reality Universe has one side, then the Four Rank can perhaps be understood as the other side of the Reality Universe, the reciprocal, or the other end of the number line.

At the same time, it can be further expanded, for example... the three directions of spacetime can actually easily add a fourth direction, or even millions of directions, which means that dimensions can actually be added infinitely. Infinite dimensions logically exist completely.

It's just... that they don't exist in the Reality Universe.

However, as long as it is logically self-consistent, all this can be constructed by Li Qi himself.

This is the power of the Dao. The Dao—is higher than the Reality Universe.

This current Reality Universe is itself constructed by 'Dao'. It is natural for a brand new 'Dao' to create another non-real Universe.

Only by truly understanding 'Dao', being able to imagine and understand what a high dimension truly is, or what the limits are after breaking through the Heavenly Dao, then by thoroughly comprehending these, one can truly advance to the Four Rank.

Li Qi still needed to settle down properly.

Anyway, the matter of the Immortal Heaven has been basically resolved now. He has some free time, so he will think about it carefully while waiting for Teacher.

Thinking this, Li Qi sat cross-legged in the Void Realm, pondering, and then waiting.

Time passed slowly.

Soon, ten years passed.

Zhu Fengdan's figure emerged from the Immortal Heaven. He wiped his sweat.

Mission accomplished.

Then, he looked at Li Qi over there.