Chapter 894: So that's it

The transformation of demon race creatures is quite mysterious and profound.

This seems to be something etched into the ‘cultivation method’ of all Demon Dao cultivators; as long as you cultivate a Demon Dao cultivation method, you will inevitably have a complete transformation method.

This transformation method is simple to learn, very easy to understand, and even an idiot can operate it; it can be said that anyone with a bit of thinking ability will not make a mistake.

But it is this simple and convenient thing that can achieve what only transformation techniques of First Grade and above can do.

It has been said many times before that transformation techniques are not comparable to illusion spells.

Ordinary illusions, such as illusion spells, although they can change external appearance or grow a few arms and legs, their essence has not changed. (See Chapter 844 for details)

However, true transformation techniques, like shapeshifting, can completely change the essence. When a Shaman transforms, she can truly produce a physical Inner World; this is the level of transformation.

It's not 'becoming like something,' but 'becoming something is something.'

As a foundational ability of the Ninth Grade, transformation is possessed by every demon race creature, and it can reach such a level. One can imagine how much effort the Great Sage of the Demon Race have put into it.

Thinking this, Li Qi's body disappeared from beside Huodou and then walked over from a distance.

Huodou also stood up from the ground, her demon race body receding, transforming into human form.

This transformation made Li Qi frown again.

Huodou completed ‘two transformations’ right in front of him.

Li Qi vaguely felt that he had grasped something.

However, although there were still many things he didn't understand, he figured that this was all Huodou could tell him.

Having understood some secrets of the demon race this time, Li Qi bowed his head and saluted, “Thank you, Senior Huodou.”

“Seeing as you called me Master's wife before, I won’t charge you. Go, you should have things to do in the Desire Realm, right? It just so happens that I’m quite free lately. If you need help with anything, just call me,” Huodou said.

Li Qi understood and immediately changed his address, “Thank you… Master's wife.”

“See, you’re still very sensible,” Huodou laughed loudly, then transformed into flames and disappeared, leaving only distorted air and scattered sparks.

Li Qi, however, gave a wry smile.

Did this count as selling out his Master?

Forget it, he wouldn’t think about it. Anyway, whether it worked out or not wasn’t up to him. Let it be, he couldn’t help him take off his pants anyway.

Besides, what was wrong with Huodou?

She was also beautiful, and although she was somewhat young, her demeanor was enough. Age was not an issue; she could just change it, it was a small matter.

But those were not things Li Qi needed to consider. He would wait for his Master to come to him when he had a need.

It wasn’t Li Qi boasting, but in this regard, he was his Master’s Senior.

This was the confidence of marrying early!

Thinking these thoughts, Li Qi’s body also disappeared, returning to the Desire Realm.

Arriving in the Desire Realm again, all around was the boundless Void Realm and turbulent space-time. Due to the previous battle, the Desire Realm was still emitting a large amount of aftershocks.

But none of that mattered; it would eventually subside.

Li Qi immersed his thoughts within it, and his Physical Body also dissolved, becoming a prominent ‘Outer Realm Spectacle.’

Maintaining this posture and immersing himself in the Desire Realm, Li Qi continued his work.

After that Spirit Dao cultivator retreated, the process of guiding the entire Desire Realm to its demise became extremely smooth.

Li Qi easily continued to advance the entire process, with no one interfering, and with Lou Neifa providing support. The Demonic Dao cultivators also ignored Li Qi.

And then… fifteen thousand years passed just like that.

The many worlds of the Desire Realm had already accepted the concept that ‘the Universe must perish,’ and so… the Universe truly began to decay.

The collective ‘thoughts’ of trillions of worlds began to stir up waves in the Desire Realm.

Li Qi began to create that ultimate stillness.

In the infinite expansion of the Universe, there was no warm comfort. As space continuously expanded, even the last protons would disintegrate.

All matter would turn into an indescribable, incomprehensible, and extremely tiny cloud of ‘Qi,’ and the Universe’s expansion would continue to pull these remnants apart. Eventually, every wisp of Qi would be completely torn apart, dismantled to an indescribable degree, to the point where space itself could not exist. They would become the sole existence within their own Observable Universe.

In other words, the Observable Universe would be subdivided to its lowest point, unable to organize any ‘changes,’ with no information left to preserve. Cosmic space would fall into ‘stillness’ at the Planck scale, because without information, there would be no energy. This place would become absolute zero and be completely locked by the speed of light limit.

And at this point, the complexity of the Universe would drop to zero, everything would return to zero, all things would stop, and the Universe would be eternally unchanging.

This is ‘death.’

To be born is to take shape and emerge; to die is when all transformations cease and numbers run out.

When everything undergoes change, that is ‘life.’

And when all changes are exhausted, that is the true meaning of ‘death.’

To give an analogy, it’s like you had a very comfortable sleep, but afterwards, you won’t remember how you felt when you were comfortably asleep.

This understanding was embedded into the cognition of the beings in the Desire Realm.

Everyone’s thoughts synchronized; the beings of the entire Desire Realm thought of the same thing in an instant.

That’s right—even if time was not synchronized, even if everyone’s time was not synchronized due to the speed of light and the principle of relativity, and everyone was not on the same time plane, a thought still occurred ‘simultaneously.’

This is very difficult.

It must be known that time itself is not synchronized, meaning different people have their own different time periods.

Mass distorts time and space, and the time of objects moving near such massive celestial bodies will be affected, leading to time dilation. The most famous example is that time flows much slower near a black hole than on Earth.

And in daily life, this also needs attention.

For example, most typically, satellite positioning Systems must consider time dilation, because satellites orbiting the Earth experience time dilation based on speed and gravity, which leads to discrepancies between time on the satellite and time on Earth. If this error is not eliminated using the time dilation formula, the error in the satellite positioning System will be very large.

A satellite and the ground on a single planet can produce a time difference.

Then it is conceivable that in the entire Universe, with so many celestial bodies, so many worlds, so many spectacles, and even including subjective meanings of various kinds—

And the reference frame for this ‘simultaneity’ was Li Qi.

Li Qi served as this ‘absolute reference frame.’ He used himself as the time dial, and then allowed places throughout the Universe, which were at different times, different speeds, and even different time axes, different worldlines, and different physical laws, to achieve ‘consistency’ simultaneously.

This is the great power of the Third Grade.

It is even sufficient to serve as the crucial ‘ether’ within a certain range.

Yes, a certain range.

To say all places, Li Qi is far from qualified. To become a truly ‘absolute reference frame,’ it is not something a Third Grade can achieve.

But within the scope of the Desire Realm, it was barely achievable.

In short, at this instant, the entire Desire Realm achieved ‘consistency.’

All life, all power, all will, all ‘higher intelligence,’ at this moment, believed that the Universe would perish.

The Universe of the Desire Realm, at this instant, began to change!

In just a flash, the Universe began to wither.

Everyone seemed to see a reflection appearing before them, each person having two, thus forming a huge, shimmering golden net.

This was because light reflected endlessly around the central space-time twist, a light-speed barrier encircled everyone, and the entangled shadows gradually transformed into blue or red.

The Universe was like a hot air balloon constantly being filled with time, expanding relentlessly. This physical process continued mercilessly.

The black holes of superclusters rapidly evaporated, their event horizons distorted. It could be seen that as the outer matter collapsed towards the center, cold, monstrous waves were stirred up on their surfaces.

The great river of consciousness was draining, drying up.

Here there was not even a trace of shape. No outline, no color, no time, no order.

The desperate energy contained here always randomly boiled in a quantum mechanical manner. Sometimes, in the purely accidental fragments that erupted, there would be a trace of order, a dazzling twist of quantum foam, a unity of space-time that had been torn apart, becoming a boiling probability foam.

Free energy was gradually decreasing, approaching zero, and time was continuously stretching, tending towards infinity.

The river of time slowly flowed into the unmarked sea.

The ocean… fell silent.

All things, all things, fell silent.

The Desire Realm entered death in that instant, and all things dissipated.

And so, Lou Neifa appeared beside Li Qi.

It could be seen that his cultivation… was advancing by leaps and bounds, his Aura continuously climbing. That faint Demon of Death’s Dao Resonance almost overwhelmed Li Qi’s Aura.

“The death of the Desire Realm and the practice of the Demon of Death’s Dao Resonance have brought you significant gains,” Li Qi said with a smile.

This must be what Lou Neifa wanted.

Utilizing his own observation by the Heavenly Demon and the current state of the Demonic Dao, Lou Neifa and the other Demon of Death lineage planned the current demise of the Desire Realm.

This was a huge ‘experiment.’ Through such a demise, they could collect a lot of data, and all this data would be used in their journey of pursuing the Dao.

If not for Li Qi, someone would have probably interfered by now, but because of Li Qi, all these were blocked, and even if a Spirit Dao Third Grade came, he was repelled.

Everything went so smoothly.

Lou Neifa returned a smile: “Wasn’t this agreed upon from the beginning? Then, next, it’s your turn.”

After tens of thousands of years of effort, Lou Neifa and the Demon of Death lineage’s goal had been achieved.

So, Lou Neifa would complete the remaining ‘breakthrough’ points that Li Qi needed.

“Then, finally, you’ve already obtained what you wanted, the prerequisites you needed, haven’t you?” Lou Neifa asked.

“More or less,” Li Qi nodded.

“Then, witness, the true Desire Realm.”

Lou Neifa suddenly cast a spell.

Li Qi immediately felt that his ‘foundation’ produced a certain resonance.

Through this, he suddenly gained some insights, unraveling some past mysteries.

What was Li Qi’s foundation?

Undoubtedly, it was the world itself.

Li Qi refined one-eighteenth of the world, which was half of City of Dreams, and then, as the ‘Di Qi (Earthly Qi)’ and ‘Heavenly God’ of that place, combined with the power of a Shaman, he was able to advance after harmonization.

Half of City of Dreams was Li Qi’s Dao field.

It was previously mentioned that the Ninth Blessed Land was the Dao field of ‘Demon-Slaying Heavenly Venerate.’ (See Chapter 789 for details)

It can be seen that ‘Dao field’ as a means of advancing one’s foundation is actually quite common. What is utilized is actually the rank of the world as a First Grade world.

But such an advancement has a drawback.

It is the questions Li Qi experienced before…

Although he became stronger, he didn't know why.

Why? Why was he Third Grade? Why did he suddenly become so strong? Where did his power come from?

This is a very serious problem. For Dao seekers, they would rather not have a sudden advancement.

The so-called ‘solid foundation’ actually refers to clearly understanding the composition of your own power, knowing that this place needs to be done this way, that place needs to be done that way, and understanding that the reason I do this is to develop better results in the future.

This is like building your own card deck; every card must be clearly understood in its use to fully unleash the deck’s power.

This is having a solid foundation, a systematic and comprehensive understanding of oneself, and a long-term and stable plan for the future, rather than acting on impulse.

And those with an unstable foundation are like someone who just copied a powerful card deck, doesn’t understand the combos, doesn’t know how to play the deck’s combinations, doesn’t know how to add new cards, and even doesn’t know how to summon the deck’s hidden boss…

Is such cultivation useful?

Suddenly giving a Mortal Fifth Grade cultivation, he would ultimately only embark on a path of self-destruction. Perhaps only a very few exceptions would be able to ascertain the source of their power.

And for the Third Grade, it is also the same.

However, the difference is that Third Grade cultivators generally have stronger minds and are more resolute. Their success rate in exploration is higher.

Because from Fifth Grade to Peak Fourth Grade, only one in billions will remain. Those who remain are elites, great individuals qualified to advance to Third Grade.

Therefore, for them, directly bestowing the dangerous method of advancement through ‘Dao field’ can become a feasible approach.

A massive amount of information was interpreted by Li Qi.

“The principle of the Dao field, so that’s how it is,” Li Qi sighed in his heart.

As mentioned before…

All confusion, all hardships, ultimately boil down to a single phrase: ‘So that’s how it is.’

The Dao field, so this is how it operates.

The rank of the Third Grade, it’s like this…

The difference between Dao and Dao Resonance, the support of the world as a First Grade world…

All of this emerged after the collapse of the Desire Realm.

This information, it turns out, had always been inscribed deep within the Desire Realm.

And, not only that…

It has been emphasized many times.

The Desire Realm is ‘the sum of all realities.’

He already understood why the Third Grade cannot be spoken of, and where this power comes from!