Chapter 896: Awakening the demon monkey

Li Qi obtained a large amount of information from the destruction of the Desire Realm.

At the same time, Li Qi also clearly recognized another fact.

That is… exploration.

That’s right, to understand the secrets of a Third Rank, what needs to be done is actually very simple: explore.

Contact, battle, or converse – in any case, establish a connection with anything related to a Third Rank, and then more information can be read.

It is clear that all Third Ranks themselves carry certain terrifying information.

Even Li Qi himself is no exception.

Yes, Li Qi had already noticed that when the Desire Realm was destroyed, the information on Li Qi’s body combined once again with the information of the Desire Realm’s destruction.

It was just like when the information on Huodou combined with Li Qi’s ‘prior knowledge’ to give birth to the hidden knowledge of demonic creatures.

And the reason, Li Qi had already learned from the information at the time of the Desire Realm’s destruction.

The essence of space-time is generated by the interaction between ‘basic units’.

A basic unit does not possess any history, nor does it possess any space.

And two basic units can give birth to the most fundamental space-time.

The more basic units, the more complex it becomes.

The distance between four ‘basic units’ requires six numbers to represent.

Which is similar to:

[ 1. 2. 3. ]

[ 4. 5. 6. ]

This form of representation.

Correspondingly, adding one more will become twelve numbers, the dimension will increase by another segment, and the complexity of space-time will rapidly advance.

So, how many Third Ranks are there in this Universe?

How complex is the space-time of this Universe?

Li Qi did not dare to imagine, he couldn’t even calculate it.

It was said before that the essence of spatial dimension is ‘direction’; being able to move in three directions means three dimensions.

So, each Third Rank will advance along ‘its own direction’, which means space will have additional dimensions equal to the number of Third Ranks, or, another way of saying it, it is precisely because of their ‘advancement’ that space has ‘direction’.

Direction, in fact, is defined by these Third Ranks.

Their advancement constitutes the various different directions of space itself, and their movement constitutes time.

Thus, this is why the ‘Third Ranks’ can manipulate space-time, can freely rewind, and can define things that have no substantiality.

This is the source of the Third Rank’s power.

Li Qi completely understood now.

At this moment, Li Qi had become a complete Third Rank, millions of years of accumulation were filled in an instant.

So, he looked at the surrounding Demon of Death Third Ranks and said, “No, there is still one thing unfinished. We agreed on a ‘breaking point’, and this alone is not enough.”

Lou Neifa was astonished.

Then, he sighed deeply: “Ah… so, you completely didn’t understand our profound meaning, did you?”

“But it doesn’t matter, although you are a Genius, there are always some areas where you are slow, and we are all used to it. So, if you want to break the situation, Your Excellency, please look at the Monkey brother’s claw in your hand. Oh, right, before that, please give us the Demon of Death’s Dao Resonance,” the Demon of Death Third Ranks said.

And Li Qi, after being reminded like this, suddenly froze.

Then, a massive amount of information flowed through Li Qi’s mind, he suddenly smiled with relief, and then said, “Indeed, indeed, a blind spot. I actually forgot this. Then the transaction is complete, please.”

All the Demon of Death’s Dao Resonance were taken by the Demon of Death Third Ranks.

But Li Qi also got what he wanted, that was enough.

Both sides successfully reached an agreement. Li Qi gifted all the Demon of Death’s Dao Resonance to the Third Ranks of the Demon of Death lineage, and he also obtained the knowledge he desired.

The Third Ranks of the Demon of Death lineage disappeared; they seemed to have many things to do.

And the Desire Realm had now returned to its original state.

However, Li Qi still keenly noticed that although the Desire Realm had recovered, the previous withering had indeed caused some loss to the Desire Realm.

This was not without cost; such withering would indeed damage the true Desire Realm Physical Body.

No, it can’t be called damage… it should be said that Li Qi had indeed eliminated a ‘possibility’ of the Desire Realm.

He truly destroyed a ‘possibility’ of the Desire Realm’s development.

However, just like mathematical solutions, based on the same arithmetic axioms, but due to undecidable hypotheses, different, even completely dissimilar solutions arise.

Because no logical System can contain enough concise arithmetic axioms to be complete, statements that can neither be proven nor disproven can always be deduced from the axioms.

And a logical System must enrich itself by taking those statements, whether true or false, as additional axioms. Therefore, by adding these true/false axioms, many different versions of arithmetic can be produced. For example, the difference between 1+2+3+4+5… = -1/12 and 1+2+3+4+5… = positive infinity.

Both can be valid, but they are mutually incorrect within their respective mathematical symbol Systems. However, this is done out of necessity, and to forcibly correct these “errors,” one must broaden the definition of infinite summation.

Therefore, due to this incompleteness, infinitely many mathematical variants will branch out like a tree.

What Li Qi and the Demon of Deaths did was cut off a ‘branch’, causing the entire tree to lose a possibility. That possibility had completely lost its change, losing all living properties.

Although for the great tree that is the Desire Realm Physical Body, it still has many, many branches, many, many possibilities, and even more possibilities will sprout in the future, and new shoots can still grow on broken branches.

But lost is lost. That one possibility has completely disappeared, becoming sustenance for Li Qi and the Demon of Death lineage, providing them with immense benefits.

And to be able to do all this… was because the Demonic Dao did not interfere; all Demonic Dao Third Ranks and above chose to ignore it.

This was actually quite strange; Li Qi had prepared for a big fight, but the Demonic Dao truly didn’t bother.

Did the Heavenly Demons truly not care?

Or was there another reason?

Hmm, let’s not talk about these for now, save them for later. There’s still serious business to do now.

Thinking this, Li Qi’s mind shifted, and his Physical Body also dissipated, then he arrived at the place where he first met the demon monkey.

Nothing had changed here, after all, this place was actually protected by a Third Rank.

That is, the demon monkey itself.

The demon monkey’s cultivation was only Fourth Rank, but its main body was a Third Rank. Therefore, under the protection of its Third Rank essence, the monkeys and their descendants nearby were not ‘withered’.

In the words of Mortals, this was an ‘Ark of the Apocalypse’. Under the destined apocalypse, only those beings protected by the Ark could cross the great sea and reach the other shore.

Returning to this place.

Li Qi saw at a glance that the demon monkey was injured, and not lightly; most of its surrounding monkeys and their descendants were annihilated.

As for the Demonic Sword Li Qi had given out earlier, it was by the demon monkey’s side.

Ah, sure enough, it came true?

Li Qi drifted over, flying: “Monkey brother, how did you end up like this?”

And when the demon monkey saw Li Qi, its somewhat dejected spirit suddenly lifted. Holding the Demonic Sword, he waved it at Li Qi and complained: “Brother, you’re here? What in the world happened? They actually dared to use what you gave them to hit me, and this thing, it hurts so much when it hits!”

“Oh? Hit you? What did you do for them to hit you?” Li Qi asked, feigning ignorance, walking forward.

“Just like usual, for amusement. But halfway through their amusement, they suddenly took out this thing to chop me. Thankfully, I was still more skilled, and now I’m fine,” the demon monkey said casually, seemingly not caring about those things at all.

And Li Qi looked around.

Indeed, the demon monkey’s ‘amusement’ was, as always, destroying worlds, creating dark realities, tormenting these monkeys and their descendants with demonic thoughts, letting their suffering provide a little bit of fun for the demon monkey.

This was also the demon monkey’s form of entertainment while imprisoned here.

How to put it… it very much fit the characteristics of a ‘demonic thoughts’.

A demonic thoughts, in fact, can be simply understood as ‘extreme’. Although there is no distinction between good and evil, generally, only extremely extreme cognitions can form a demonic thoughts.

Although this classification is actually completely incorrect, just like describing motion with Newtonian mechanics, it seems fine, but in essence, it’s miles off. However, in ordinary low-speed environments, it can achieve an ‘approximate’ effect.

Just like now.

The demon monkey’s attitude towards Li Qi was frank and sincere. He truly seemed to treat Li Qi as a brother, without any doubt, and was willing to help with all his might. All this was because when Li Qi first met him, he told him stories, explained history, and spent many years conversing with him. These things even moved the demon monkey to tears.

Therefore, he happily became sworn brothers with Li Qi, with pure innocence.

But at the same time, he was extremely violent and cruel to these monkeys and their descendants; extinction of species and clans happened frequently. Anyway, they were just weeds that could be spawned at any time, and their suffering was the source of the demon monkey’s pleasure.

Both of these were manifestations of the demon monkey, and this also allowed Li Qi to understand the demon monkey’s nature.

Initially, Li Qi gave the monkeys and their descendants a Demonic Sword to resist the demon monkey, but things did not develop as Li Qi had imagined.

In Li Qi’s imagination, the monkeys and their descendants might be able to achieve ‘understanding’ with the demon monkey through this, because if they possessed the same power as the demon monkey, then communication wouldn’t be a problem, right?

However, it was clear that it failed.

The demon monkey was not prepared to communicate with them. After being angered by the attack, it annihilated all surrounding civilizations, leaving only a few scattered individuals barely surviving in the world.

Then, Li Qi came, and he casually and happily chatted with Li Qi again.

This was where the demon monkey’s true demonic thoughts lay, the demon monkey’s nature.

A completely unrestrained heart, free thoughts without restraint, doing whatever it pleased, whether good or evil, simply following its impulses, unwilling to accept any shackles.

Laughing when happy, crying when sad. If angry, then annihilating everything, unleashing its malice to the fullest extent possible.

Looking at the demon monkey who was showing goodwill and greeting him, Li Qi suddenly said, “Monkey brother, what do you think would happen if I killed you?”

The demon monkey suddenly froze, then asked, at a loss: “Brother, you want to kill me?”

“No, no, I’m just curious to ask what would happen if I killed you? Do you know?” Li Qi corrected his statement.

Hearing this, the demon monkey finally breathed a sigh of relief, then relaxed and waved his hand, laughing: “Haha, why are you curious about that? If I die, I die, what else could happen?”

“I’m thinking, if you die, will this Seal be broken?” Li Qi looked at the ‘mountain’ that resembled a golden rod; it was the chains extending from it that bound the demon monkey here.

The demon monkey flew to Li Qi’s side and reached out to touch his head: “Is something wrong with you here? The Seal is meant to let me out. If you kill me, wouldn’t the Seal lose its meaning? Would it matter if it’s broken or not then?”

“No, that’s how you think now. Think carefully, is this Seal really meant to Seal you?” Li Qi retorted.

“So, you still want to kill me?” The demon monkey immediately understood the crux of the matter, his face full of disbelief, and some sadness and bewilderment.

If Li Qi wanted to break the Seal, then killing the demon monkey was indeed a possible attempt.

“What are you thinking? If I were going to kill you, I wouldn’t waste words with you like this. Why are you acting so sentimental like a woman? I’m telling you to use your brain, think about the reason for the Seal’s existence!” Li Qi punched the demon monkey, sending his body and his sorrowful face flying.

Is the characteristic of demonic thoughts simply pure? Sometimes, this personality is truly troublesome.

Li Qi truly wished he was facing a Demonic Overlord full of malice and schemes; that would actually be less of a burden.

The demon monkey was punched tens of millions of miles away, and the next moment he flew back. Now he was giggling: “Hahaha, so that’s it, I misunderstood, brother. So, brother, are you done with your business? Are you going to come back and give me a name?”

“Hmm, my business is temporarily concluded. No, I can’t say it’s concluded; what I need to do just happens to coincide with you,” Li Qi said.

Yes, it just happened to coincide.

Alas, he’s already Third Rank.

However… it’s good that he’s at least Third Rank.

After reaching Third Rank, it’s as if he knows he’s been assigned work by someone. He doesn’t not know what’s behind it, but clearly knows that someone wants him to do this.

And, all of this just happened to align with Li Qi’s interests, so Li Qi went along with the other party’s wishes.

This is also a good thing. After reaching Third Rank, at least he has a choice. He could have chosen not to come, but in that case, Li Qi wouldn’t have achieved his own goal.

“Then I will give you a name, and I am also preparing to break your Seal. I hope you remain calm.”

“Hmm?!” The demon monkey immediately became excited: “A name? What great name have you thought of for me? You left for tens of thousands of years before, you must have thought of a wonderful name!”

“It’s a wonderful name, called ‘An Xin’.”

Dong! As soon as the words fell, the Seal suddenly let out a loud bang!

Countless golden locks appeared behind the demon monkey! They even spread towards Li Qi!

The Demonic Dao, which had previously ignored Li Qi, also had seven Third Ranks appear at this instant, all looking at Li Qi.