Chapter 883: Chapter 881

In the Void Realm, Li Qi, who was talking with Lou Neifa, looked pained.

It was fine not knowing, but once he knew these things, he felt like he didn't want to do it anymore. Could he resign? He wanted to leave Shaman God Mountain and become a free person.

It seemed he couldn't. Li Qi couldn't get past himself; Shaman God Mountain had paved the way for him, so no matter what, he couldn't just abandon his responsibilities at this time.

However, precisely because of this, the Great Powers of Shaman God Mountain must also be having a headache, right? They urgently needed new talents like Li Qi to help them with this kind of work…

Lou Neifa, seeing Li Qi covering his forehead, said, “As a Great Shaman, to act like this is truly unseemly.”

“Easy for you to say, why don’t you do it?” Li Qi rolled his eyes.

“Why should I? Rather, with your current state, the guys from the Heavenly Demon lineage would be very pleased,” Lou Neifa said with a fake smile.

“That’s true, I can’t leave them an opening.” Li Qi patted his face, collected his thoughts, removed distractions, and let his mind wander within his True Spirit, clearly distinguishing each thought, then plucking out the extraneous ones.

“So, these are the specific details. How to proceed… do you need my help?” Lou Neifa asked with a smile.

“Your help? Oh, even your own Demonic Dao people want to kill? The Demon of Death lineage is truly…” Li Qi looked at him.

“My own people? You’re thinking too much. There’s no such thing as ‘my own people’ to me, and it’s the same for them. Why don’t you ask other Demonic Daos if they’d consider me a companion?”

“This is truly amazing. I’m genuinely curious, how exactly do you manage to stand your ground when you have absolutely no cooperation?” Li Qi shook his head.

“We aren’t completely without cooperation. In fact, when it comes to ‘cooperation,’ apart from the Spirit Dao, no one cooperates better than us. The Demonic Dao is very united,” Lou Neifa corrected.

“United, yes, that’s true.” Li Qi nodded. He actually understood.

The Demonic Dao was not united, but they weren't fools either; they knew what was most beneficial for themselves.

Temporarily abandoning personal interests for group interests, or setting aside grievances for cooperation—all of this was essentially for ‘my interests.’

If ‘I for all’ could lead to ‘all for me’ and achieve their desired goals, then the Demonic Dao would not be stingy with cooperation.

It was a very strange ecology; even though all Demonic Daos were selfish, they could work together wholeheartedly for their selfish goals, and in this process, they fully trusted their partners.

However… this also depended on their Divine Ability.

For example, Li Qi and Lou Neifa.

They were typical examples of having their own hidden agendas, but after their superficial thoughts merged, both sides understood each other's intentions, allowing them to cooperate in the best possible way without touching either party’s bottom line.

In a sense, the Demonic Dao, who disliked cooperation the most, actually possessed the most convenient ability to cooperate.

In contrast, Dao Orthodoxys like the Human Path, which focused most on cooperation, had extremely high standards for ‘individuals,’ making it difficult to integrate, and each individual also had a high degree of independence; cooperation was possible, but not cooperating was also very strong.

“Alright, the information has been largely shared. If you need help, you can still find me. So, can I have my reward now?” Lou Neifa asked.

“Just the deposit for now.” Li Qi smiled, handing over the wisp of Demon of Death’s Dao Resonance he had obtained from the demon monkey: “I’ll still need your help later. Once everything settles, I’ll pay the rest. My credit should still be valid, right?”

He didn't give the Dao Resonance from the monkey's paw, worried it might have issues.

“Of course, I understand. But… everything settling, huh? This is truly a grand plan of yours. Even with my help, it’ll be very difficult to succeed, won’t it?” Lou Neifa said.

“I’ll do my best and leave the rest to fate,” Li Qi replied.

“That’s truly ironic. Aren’t you and I ‘Heaven’?” Lou Neifa said.

“Are we? I don’t feel it. If so, then the only answer is ‘there’s always a Heaven beyond Heaven.’ I’m just trying my best to plan a few things,” Li Qi sighed slightly.

“But to those below, aren’t the things you and I plan the very things that determine their destiny? Every action of ours, this time, will shake the entire Desire Realm. To them, calling it a divine punishment is not an exaggeration. However, I want to express my support here. I fully agree with your plan and will cooperate wholeheartedly. If necessary, I will even have other cultivators from the Demon of Death lineage come to help,” Lou Neifa said with a slight smile, though that smile was somewhat cruel.

“Good, it’s best if you like it. Then, I’ll take my leave for now. I also need to make some preliminary preparations.” Li Qi nodded slightly, then stood up and left.

The two bid farewell there.

And Li Qi left directly, beginning his journey in the Desire Realm.

That’s right, a journey. Li Qi's Clone numbered in the billions, transforming into countless Dharma bodies with his divine characteristics, beginning to explore the endless worlds of the Desire Realm.

He witnessed the light of hundreds of billions of suns, wandering through numerous bizarre worlds—warm worlds, terrifying worlds, despairing worlds, joyful worlds, silent worlds—

The Demonic Dao worlds were even more splendid, or perhaps… more bizarre, than the ordinary worlds outside?

Due to the influence of mental power, combined with various Chaos fluctuations, this world exhibited significant regional characteristics.

For example, the despairing steam world Li Qi was in before was a world influenced by the Demon of Death’s Dao Resonance, and all worlds in that surrounding area would face this influence.

Correspondingly, in different regions, under different influences, the situations faced by the worlds would be completely different.

This regionality would even manifest in the cosmic blocks.

In the Reality Universe, there was a very important statistical result called ‘isotropy.’

Isotropy refers to the property where a material's characteristics do not change with direction, meaning that the measured performance values of a certain object are completely identical in different directions, also known as homogeneity, a property where physical properties do not change with the direction of measurement.

Laws measured at point A in the Universe would still be valid at point B, even if there were tens of millions of light-years between points A and B.

But in the Desire Realm, this was completely different. The Universe here was not uniform; it exhibited anisotropy. Every certain direction, the Universe would experience complete Chaos in various properties.

It wasn’t the first time Li Qi had seen those star-exploring flying boats suddenly disintegrate mid-flight.

It wasn't because there was a problem with their flying boats, but because their civilization’s ‘scientific laws,’ which countless people had studied their entire lives, were themselves regional.

As soon as they crossed that line, the Universal constants would undergo a super drastic change, and their flying boats, even their bodies, would immediately disintegrate and disappear.

Every cell of theirs was held together by molecular bonds and electromagnetic forces, but if they crossed a certain line, the speed at which electrons combined to form atoms would increase, and the speed at which atoms combined to form molecules would also increase, causing the entire person to directly crack apart.

Moreover, this would lead to an increase in the melting and boiling points of matter, causing evaporators to stop working, and even certain bodily fluids that needed to remain liquid, such as ‘blood,’ to directly solidify.

All of this would even affect large celestial bodies. For instance, stars are composed of gas and tend to collapse due to their immense self-gravity, but the heat generated by thermonuclear reactions in their core produces outward jets of gas and radiation. The outward pressure of these jets neutralizes the inward gravitational collapse, and when the two forces balance, the star remains stable.

But if certain constants changed, then the balance would be broken. Once one side gained the upper hand, the star would immediately begin to mutate. Unstable stars would immediately seek a new equilibrium, and the signs would be that they would become brighter and spin faster. The best outcome would be a supernova explosion, with stellar material ejected into space, while another good outcome would be a direct collapse into a ruin.

As for what the bad outcome was?

Li Qi didn't know either.

Or perhaps the star would directly turn into some kind of demonic monster and devour everything around it.

This was the Desire Realm. People's worship of the ‘sun,’ whether they believed it to be warm and benevolent or fierce and tyrannical, as long as there was enough time and enough intent, all of it would come true.

The worship of the sun would truly transform the sun into that.

In short, in the Desire Realm, rules were constantly changing. Everything required a strong will to maintain stability. This was fundamentally not a material Universe.

To survive in such a place, there was only one method you could employ: ‘firmly believe you are right.’

The more you believed, the more you could change the surrounding world, and even forcefully reverse the outcome of events. As long as you firmly believed you were right, even if an experiment was done incorrectly, you could still get the correct result.

But in doing so, falling into the Demonic Dao became a natural progression.

This was the warm nest of the Demonic Dao.

It wasn't a ‘farm’ like City of Dreams; the Demonic Dao truly regarded the Desire Realm as a seed cultivation center. Here, a continuous stream of Demonic Dao Geniuses emerged.

Thinking about it carefully, the Demonic Prince was also born in the Desire Realm.

So… sigh.

Forget it, don't think about these things.

Li Qi thus wandered among numerous worlds, trying his best to ‘explore the entire Desire Realm’ to understand all of its power.

That’s right, the entire thing!

Although the size of the Desire Realm could be said to be almost infinite, there were still traces to follow.

For example, the number of prime numbers is infinite, but all prime numbers have the same properties, so only one Dharma body is needed to ‘traverse’ all natural numbers.

So, prime numbers, even numbers, odd numbers, real numbers, prime numbers, and so on, numbers of various properties, only require one Dharma body, just like rules of various properties. Only one Dharma body is needed to understand a part of the different rule areas of the Desire Realm.

Through this kind of induction, it was possible to traverse infinite worlds with a finite number of Dharma bodies.

In this way, even if the Desire Realm itself was infinite, like Hilbert’s Hotel, it could still be described by a ‘function.’

This was the power of ‘domain,’ and the Third Grade could establish their own ‘domain.’

However, in reality, it was just a clumsy imitation of the Desire Realm.

The Desire Realm was the creation of the Heavenly Demon, and such a creation was something that the current Li Qi could not fully understand. He also couldn't imagine how such an infinite Desire Realm was put together, nor could he grasp its essence.

But, by breaking down the different blocks of the Desire Realm, Li Qi could, through such means, forcefully ‘understand’ this Desire Realm whose essence was superior to his own.

The so-called ‘incomprehensible’ was essentially the existence of a function outside the domain, but Li Qi temporarily didn't know what that function was, nor could he solve for the correct answer.

However, the Desire Realm itself would provide the answers. These answers were the ‘phenomena’ that the Desire Realm presented.

In other words, the Desire Realm was a black box. Input emotions, and it would automatically spit out results, just like a calculator. Input numbers and formulas, and it would spit out calculation results.

Although Li Qi didn't know the internal structure of the calculator, he could use the results to forcefully ‘shoot the arrow first and then draw the target,’ forcing out the process. Even if the forced-out process wasn't necessarily correct, you could at least say whether the result matched.

Therefore, Li Qi used this method, forcefully substituting functions within his existing domain. The results produced in this way were actually usable, so he temporarily used the functions within this domain to represent the functions outside that domain.

However, although it was said this way, it didn't mean that the function outside the domain looked like the function inside the domain, similar to… achieving the effect of multiplication through addition.

Three multiplied by three would be written as ‘three plus three plus three.’ It looked troublesome, and it actually was troublesome, but because Li Qi didn't understand multiplication, he could only calculate it this way.

It looked wrong, but it was a necessary evil.

But no matter what…

As long as it worked, he wouldn't ask for anything else. Li Qi didn't expect to fully grasp the Desire Realm at the Third Grade. Perhaps even the First Grade couldn't do that. To truly understand the Desire Realm, besides the Heavenly Demon itself, there was probably no one else.

As for why he needed to understand the Desire Realm?

This was Li Qi’s plan.

Through the power of the Demon of Death’s Dao Resonance, combined with the inferences from the previous world, Li Qi already knew the method to influence the entire Desire Realm: ‘emotions.’

If that was the case, by guiding all aspects of the Desire Realm towards self-destruction, causing all beings to ‘reach the end of their缘,’ then the Desire Realm would also wither away due to its own characteristics, right?

This plan perfectly aligned with the Demon of Death lineage’s ideas and was exactly what Li Qi wanted to do, so Lou Neifa basically agreed without any hesitation.

It was evident that the Demon of Death lineage was also quite interested in destroying the entire Desire Realm, and the internal divisions within the Demonic Dao were clearly discernible.

Or perhaps not divisions; this was the true essence of the Demonic Dao.

Extreme egocentrism.

Besides ‘me,’ nothing else mattered.

However… in that case, the attitudes among the Four Demons became very intriguing.

The Demon of Death, without a doubt, even wanted to kill the three First Grade Demonic Dao Heavenly Demon.

So, when the Demon of Death died back then, the other three lineages of the Demonic Dao must have also taken action, right?

What happened in ancient times? (End of this chapter)