Chapter 966: New life

Within the gloomy Reincarnation, with a violent crash, Li Qi's entire Spirit Soul vanished.

He abandoned everything.

Memories, personality, self-awareness, everything, he left outside of Reincarnation.

Such a complete abandonment also allowed him to tear away all the demonic thoughtss that shackled him.

This could even be said to be…

On another level, severing flesh to return to the mother, carving out bones to return to the father.

Everything that belonged to the Heavenly Demon was returned to the Heavenly Demon.

Since the Heavenly Demon created Li Qi, and since Li Qi was also the 'Heavenly Demon's Kin', then, he returned everything.

Cultivation, fortuitous encounters, personality, memories, he wanted none of them.

Severing past ties, breaking off the present.

However, during this 'return' process, Shamansan intervened and snatched the Desire Realm itself, which was considered a partial recovery of what he had lost before.

But it wasn't that simple; now that the Human Race and Demon Race's schemes had succeeded, it also led to another level where the Shamanes fell into a disadvantage, and Buddhism completely collapsed.

Now, the momentum for the destruction of Buddhism had been established, and the Human Race was furiously absorbing all of Buddhism's heritage.

Perhaps this was the reward the Heavenly Demon had promised them.

The White Horse Temple of yesteryear, that 'Source of Buddhism in the Central Plains', began to spread its influence.

Riding this wave, the Human Emperor began to push for the unification of the three schools: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, attempting to integrate the ideologies of the Manifested Daoist Faction of the Dao Sect and Buddhism into the Human Race through Confucianism's digestive capacity.

The Human-Shaman War ended.

Because there was no need to continue fighting; the Human Race's objective had been achieved.

Continuing to fight the Shamanes would not yield a decisive victory, and after the destruction of Buddhism, the Buddhist Kingdoms of the Western Regions had now been established as the 'Protectorate of the Western Regions' by the Human Race.

The Human Race truly swallowed the entire Buddhist Kingdom and is now in the process of digesting it.

This giant beast feigned a movement, using the momentum of the Human-Shaman War to consume the neighboring Buddhist Faction, and now it has retreated to its lair to begin digesting and growing; all the absorbed nutrients will transform into muscle, becoming nourishment for the next assault.

When it reappears next time, the Human Race will undoubtedly be stronger.

What kind of countermeasure could Shamansan devise with the Desire Realm in his possession?

This was not something Li Qi could consider; let Shamansan handle it, that was a matter for the great figures to contemplate.

As for Li Qi…

He had already fallen into a deep slumber.

The great wheel of Reincarnation swayed, lulling him to sleep.

The Heavenly Demon gave birth to him, nurtured him into that form, then took him away when he grew up, and Li Qi finally made his own resistance.

He abandoned everything the Heavenly Demon had given him, leaving nothing behind, just like the lotus root of the past, even more extreme than the lotus root; he didn't even want his consciousness.

A profound mystery enveloped Li Qi.

As he sank into the darkness, a mournful curtain swayed above Reincarnation.

An ocean composed of souls, a bitter sea where countless suffering souls struggled, like swaying, churning curtains, and surrounded by them, Li Qi entered.

The great wheel that crushed flesh and blood groaned, bones and flesh cracked and popped.

The suffering souls opened their throats, letting out the loudest and most terrifying moans, as if sending Li Qi off on his final journey.

At this moment, Li Qi remembered Zhu Fengdan, Shen Shuibi, Li Shiwei, La Qi, his teacher, wife, daughter, and disciple.

He subconsciously resisted.

Like a giant, he struggled and resisted, constantly thrashing in the swamp of the bitter sea, splashing mud everywhere, but sinking deeper and deeper.

Until his struggles completely ceased, exhausted, he let out a deep cry like a dying bull, his mouth already filled with the water of the bitter sea, and his outstretched arms stiffened.

He had voluntarily thrown himself into Reincarnation, yet he still struggled, perhaps he was still unwilling to lose those things, but it no longer mattered.

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This was a spaceship civilization.

They believed that being confined to a planetary surface was too backward, so building spaceships and navigating the Universe was best for the development of civilization.

They built vast fleets of spaceships; peaceful spaceship civilizations would trade between stars, like merchant caravans traversing the desert, moving through the void desert between stars, exchanging goods with various civilizations while also developing themselves.

And the less peaceful spaceship civilizations were cosmic nomads; they would plunder every place on their path, especially planets with life.

One must know that life is the most precious asset in this Universe.

Across the entire Universe, a tree is far more valuable than an equal weight of gold.

Life is a miracle catalyzed by billions of years of environment; even if it's just a tree, a flower, or some local indigenous species, its complexity exceeds that of spaceships from some lower civilizations.

It should be known that the complexity of life far surpasses that of spaceships unable to travel faster than light; every cell contains billions of years of accumulated experience, and these are valuable assets.

And the nomads, they plunder these assets and transform them into the driving force for their civilization's advancement.

Moreover, these assets are reproducible; life self-replicates.

Therefore, taking control of assets themselves while preventing others from obtaining them is their modus operandi; they will collect the local ecology and then extinguish it.

However, currently, this spaceship civilization is of the more peaceful kind; they generally only trade and rarely exterminate.

This civilization calls itself '#￥%… …', which is a transliterated word and very difficult to pronounce because they primarily communicate through 'telepathic communication'.

However, if translated by meaning, they call themselves 'Limitless'.

The spaceship civilization named Limitless still roams in the vacuum of the Universe.

However, at this moment, they are staying within a nebula; these nebulae are concentrations of matter in the vacuum and also the cradles of stars; in form, it resembles a long river winding through the Universe, with an actual length of about five hundred light-years.

This is a giant molecular cloud gathered by gravity, capable of giving birth to stars; as the molecular cloud continuously collapses, pressure increases and temperature rises, gradually forming protostar embryos.

When the nuclear fusion energy within a protostar embryo is sufficient to counteract its own gravity, a new star is declared born.

This nebula can probably give birth to around fifty thousand stars.

After the star-forming activity ends, the remnants of these stars will become planets, and finally, individual star Systems will form.

This process is very slow and can last for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years.

And now, within this nebula, there are already many formed star Systems, and they are precisely arriving at this juncture to collect those nascent civilizations.

For these nascent civilizations, they possess various primitive technologies, and it is highly likely that some ingenious ideas, as well as their own physical bodies and local species, are valuable acquisitions.

Traveling within a denser nebula produces sound; as long as there is a medium, sound can propagate.

Amidst a powerful yet gentle hum, a silver colossal spaceship slowly ascended.

Zooming in, inside this spaceship, one could clearly see the ecological capsules located within, where square building complexes were densely arranged.

The length of this spaceship exceeded nine hundred li, almost as large as a major city, with its tail slightly flared outwards, forming a narrow triangle, and two particularly conspicuous swept-back tailfins installed on it.

Tailfins have no function when flying in space, but this spaceship has the ability to navigate within an atmosphere, so its overall design still conforms to fluid dynamics, all for the purpose of landing within an atmosphere.

The airship gradually descended from outer space, quickly reaching a low altitude of two thousand meters, where it hovered for a moment, as if fully enjoying the newly found free air.

The Limitless, their race, is a special life form that originated in harsh space environments; although they are humanoid life forms, they can swallow and digest all kinds of food.

Their digestive organs are extremely powerful, theoretically capable of digesting all matter in this world.

However, the Limitless Race… let's call them that for now, also have their own dietary culture, so generally speaking, they don't eat things indiscriminately.

If extremely hungry, they can temporarily fill their stomachs with many inorganic substances, which will not affect their health, but it is a humiliation and torment.

If incredibly hungry, they would also choose to eat things like rocks and soil, but the degree of humiliation is enough to make them prefer to starve for a period rather than eat stones.

And in their dietary culture, 'Qi' is very popular; by breathing, they can ingest almost all types of Qi into their stomachs and digest it.

This provides very little energy, but it can be eaten anytime, anywhere, and they won't gain weight, being considered a healthy diet, similar to vegetarianism and intermittent fasting.

Then, the airship smoothly turned, finally locking onto the planet's pole; as the roar grew louder, the airship began to accelerate, flying towards the North Pole.

It wasn't obvious at first, but the speed increased rapidly thereafter; at an altitude of two thousand meters, this giant airship effortlessly skimmed through the air, quickly sliding towards the North Pole at the edge of outer space.

Inside a room of a building within this city-sized spaceship, a Limitless Race member was nervously holding an egg in his hands.

The Limitless Race are humanoids, appearing very similar to the Human Race of the world, but with significant internal differences, the biggest of which is that they are oviparous.

This Limitless Race member before him was named Abo.

He was the controller of the current spaceship, 'Leiding City'.

This company was a subsidiary of the Limitless Control Group, and the Limitless Control Group was a large-scale enterprise headquartered in the world-class spaceship, which was their main city, 'Central City'.

Overall, Abo could be considered a high-ranking member of the entire civilization, one of the top theoretical scientists in the entire civilization.

And now, his child was about to be born, but he felt nothing about it because he had more important matters to attend to.

At this moment, on the wall screen display inside the room, an aerial view of the planet's polar region appeared; this area located in the northern part of the planet slowly moved across the screen, gradually shrinking.

Abo distractedly watched the screen, his mind wondering what had happened over the past few days.

During this time, his experimental project, "Control of Interference Fields of Sub-atomic 'Qi' at the Microscopic Level," had progressed quite smoothly.

The Limitless Control Group was very interested in his project; the Executive Board, composed of executives, had been closely monitoring his experimental reports, as they all knew the project had promising prospects.

If possible, this research might even advance the entire civilization.

He had built an experimental device, utilizing a mysterious Domain he had accidentally discovered, to create a "Domain Controller"; this was the result of Abo's six hundred years of in-depth research into various Domains, and it was expected to become the most successful project since the group company's inception.

Abo's experiments confirmed that when this mysterious Domain he controlled penetrated solid matter at a specific intensity, reactions would occur in the vicinity of the atomic nucleus, leading to measurable changes in the output results.

Thus, Abo used three synchronously intersecting Domains to perform grating scans on certain specific Materials, which allowed him to obtain enough information to construct a color 3D model identical to the original object, with sub-atomic precision, even accurately depicting the electron cloud!

These Domains could scan the interior of objects, so obtaining a holographic image of their internal structure was effortless. Due to this property, combined with the inherent high-magnification function of this method, they could even clearly produce the specific internal structures of all known Materials and elements.

This could have a huge impact on Materials science; if successful, no product in the entire civilization could rival it.

It was obvious that the progress in such a fundamental applied science would drive countless technologies throughout the civilization to advance by leaps and bounds, and might even elevate the civilization's level!

Through this method, they could perfectly monitor cellular metabolism, perfectly replicate biological bionics, and replicate nervous Systems.

It could have a huge impact on metallurgy, crystallography, molecular electronics, engineering inspection, and quality control; after dissecting the sub-atomic composition of matter, they could even easily synthesize the most complex chemical elements.

This technology had infinite possibilities.

But just before, the group suddenly asked him to immediately drop all his current work and rush to the current planet as soon as possible.

The group clearly understood his project's progress, yet they still wanted him to interrupt his work, which was particularly strange.

Abo knew that although the group seemed to be discussing it with him, from their tone and attitude, Abo had no choice but to go.

Because of his technology, he had always enjoyed a very high degree of autonomy within the company, and situations where there was no choice rarely occurred.

Clearly, the civilization as a whole believed…

That this matter was now more important than his research.

Could this be possible? (End of this chapter)