Chapter 908: Space

What does it feel like... to see?

La Qi tried to describe this feeling to himself in his heart.

Actually, it could still be described as 'touch'.

On closer thought, the so-called 'vision' was essentially his body folded into a special shape, receiving impacts from the outside world. It was just that these impacts were relatively weak, being images formed by photons constantly striking the retina; the retina and photons were in direct contact.

The essence of visual cells was proteins and nerve cells folded into special shapes by membranes, which then constantly received the impact of photons, underwent deformation, and thus produced electrical signals that could be understood.

So, in essence, this was also a form of touch, no different from his body as a Manifold Race folding and colliding with itself.

The eyes were extremely sensitive, sensitive enough to feel the minute impacts of photons, analyze their different wavelengths, and turn them into 'vision'. It was actually no different from touch; both were just 'membranes' striking each other.

However, for La Qi, this was a bit troublesome.

For the Human Race, analyzing such impacts was entirely instinctual, requiring no learning, no need for the brain to understand how to control the heartbeat or breathing; these functions were preset, innate.

There was no need to know the principles of balanced movement and phonation—those were built-in hardware functions. There was no need to additionally learn memory capacity—that was a built-in algorithm. Even many visual-spatial perception abilities were ready-made software innate to the brain.

Evolution over countless years had already completed such learning and the accumulation of hardware and software iterations. Thus, life achieved the Legacy of evolution within a limited lifespan.

Genes solved all the difficult problems of the knowledge explosion, so every individual didn't have to learn balance like La Qi just to control their body, or learn to perceive the impact of light to distinguish things. If one truly had to learn it... it would definitely be harder than imagined.

Fortunately, La Qi was of the Manifold Race, who naturally possessed super-powerful information processing capabilities, and he was already at the Seventh Grade.

In just a few minutes, he had quickly learned this special sense of touch; after all, it was just another touch algorithm.

After another few minutes, he had become familiar with all the folding information of various parts of his body, clearly understanding how every cell folded, how it worked, what form it took, what properties were folded out, and how it should be used. He had clearly perceived and learned it all.

Then, he opened his eyes and looked at the 'Shadow' before him.

No, the name was 'Li Qi', right?

"...What is going on? And what is your purpose?" La Qi took two staggering steps, but he quickly adapted to a world with gravity and physical substance.

Li Qi watched La Qi, who was gradually turning from a lump of folded high-dimensional membrane into a human form, and then pointed behind him: "Look at that."

La Qi turned his gaze in that direction.

Then, he saw... regions of high energy levels and low energy levels.

That was where he had come from.

So, he had been living in such a place?

Were the so-called high and low energy levels actually the manifestation of 'Yin and Yang'?

Yin and Yang, the sun and moon, and then there was 'Celestial Pole'—the place where all dimensions revolved, that absolute center, was the top of the 'Mexican Hat' and the birthplace of the Manifold Race.

There, dimensions were curved, and in the rapids of the River of Dimensions, turbulence would occasionally occur.

Thus, intelligent life would emerge from the turbulence. Most would be terrified the moment they broke away and would immediately fall back into the dreamlike Great Whole.

But some could still escape, like virtual particle pairs escaping near a black hole, fleeing from the Event Horizon and turning into Hawking Radiation.

Therefore, many slender existences were slowly sliding across the chest of expanding spacetime.

So that was how his race and world had appeared.

La Qi watched all this and then looked back at Li Qi.

"Then... they must be my creators. And what about you?" La Qi looked at Li Qi and asked.

"Me? Uh, I'm a passerby. But if I have to define the relationship, I'm your creator's husband. Oh, half-husband, the other half is brother-in-law. Of course, I know you don't know what these mean yet."

"Here is a book. You can read it and learn the knowledge inside so that you can communicate with me properly." Li Qi handed him a book forged purely from Book Qi.

The Manifold Race had no concept of a husband; they didn't even have family structures. Reproduction relied on collective resonance, and they had no concept of gender, so La Qi needed to learn these from the book.

"Why did you choose me to leave that place?" La Qi asked.

"You have talent, a talent different from other Manifold Race members. I appreciate you; you are a Genius." Li Qi said, "Moreover, I found that your processing ability even exceeds mine when I was young."

Saying this, Li Qi gave a gentle push: "Read the book first. After you've finished, we'll talk about what comes next."

La Qi was pushed to the side.

He scanned his surroundings once more, then chose to sit down and began to read.

Li Qi also continued to immerse himself in the world created by the Wu Tu Sisters. He was sensing the evolution of these worlds because he had discovered that this was the 'Foundation' of the Wu Tu Sisters.

Yang Ning... was about to reach the Fourth Grade.

Shen Shuibi also seemed to be able to use this to comprehend a newer level. The secrets of the Celestial Pole Golden Elixir Method seemed to be surfacing, and Li Qi was also paying close attention.

"I think I understand. My existence can help you comprehend that thing, right?" La Qi said.

Li Qi had already pushed him aside and was preparing to do his own thing, but La Qi's words drew his attention back.

"You can actually understand that?" Li Qi manifested a Dharma Body and said.

"You said I have talent, didn't you? So it seems you have the intention of nurturing me. I have value to you, so... what part of me is able to attract your attention?" La Qi asked cautiously.

He had already felt the greatness of the 'Shadow' before him.

Only then did La Qi realize that he had actually been coexisting in a mist-filled world with an existence so vast that its entire body could not be glimpsed.

These giant entities stepped over the heads of the Manifold Race, invisibly ruling over everything. But they were too large, so people only felt the great wind stirred up when they walked by, yet could not truly know why the great wind had arisen.

The barrier of information was the mist, but even without this mist, when it stood right before your eyes, you could only see the fur on its toes; you still could not understand what it really looked like.

To call the other party a tyrant who is the Sovereign of reality was by no means an exaggeration.

Although the other party seemed very kind, his mere existence was enough to bear the title of a tyrant. He didn't need to perform any actual acts of cruelty because his existence was an act of violence against all reality.

His existence was an insult to 'reality', an insult to other living beings, mocking their nothingness. With his own stability, he displayed the nothingness of other living beings to the fullest.

Before him, all things would doubt themselves.

This was a violence more terrifying than slaughter; slaughter was at least between equals.

If the essence of slaughter was the destruction of one thing by another...

Then Li Qi's existence was the evidence of the destruction of all things. He didn't need to lift a finger; because of his substantiality, all things naturally lost the meaning of their existence.

Therefore, Li Qi's existence was essentially equivalent to the destruction of all things. He proved that all things were utterly meaningless, including an existence like La Qi, who was of no use at all.

What kind of slaughter could compare to this?

He didn't need to act, nor did he need to show his arrogance. He simply existed, and all things lost their value of persistence, and he hadn't even looked up.

That was why La Qi used the term 'Creator'.

But this thought made Li Qi surprised once again.

"You... didn't collapse?" Li Qi asked.

"Why... should I collapse?" La Qi was puzzled.

"Normally, even some Fifth Grade... oh, just think of them as people many times stronger than you. Even people much stronger than you would collapse after realizing this."

Li Qi pressed further: "Moreover, they wouldn't even be able to perceive this. Tell me, how did you learn of my power?"},{