Chapter 975: Fragments

La Qi visited Liu Zheng.

The young man was very nervous, after all, he was visiting a Fourth-Rank.

But it wasn't considered rude, after all, he was a Young Master of Shaman God Mountain; although his Master had already passed away, his lineage was still alive, and he had everything he should have.

"Please come in. Are you La Qi? The one from Shaman God Mountain." Liu Zheng received La Qi in his Immortal Cave.

No, he couldn't be called Liu Zheng. He now called himself 'Kavaleng,' which he said was in his own language, but his civilization had been destroyed, so La Qi didn't know what Kavaleng meant. However, he just pronounced it as it sounded, and everyone understood it through elegant speech.

They were so unfamiliar with each other, but even so, Kavaleng could see the purpose of La Qi's visit, so he carefully scrutinized the Young Master of Shaman God Mountain.

So, La Qi said, "Yes, Senior Kavaleng, I am La Qi. My origins should already be written on the invitation."

"Young Master of Shaman God Mountain, not bad, a bit more likable than the Human Dao. You sent me an invitation before, but it didn't state your intention. What are you here for?" Kavaleng asked.

La Qi didn't directly ask, but instead observed the surrounding Immortal Cave.

This Immortal Cave was not in the world, but in the Void Realm of an extraterrestrial Universe, in the center of a desolate cosmic void, floating in the starry sky, undergoing Brownian motion.

However, because the surrounding five hundred million light-years were completely empty, no matter how it underwent Brownian motion, it wouldn't hit anything, and the temperature here was close to absolute zero.

This residence was truly a remote place.

Moreover, Kavaleng didn't seem to be in a very healthy state.

La Qi could see that the other party was a humanoid creature, with a sallow complexion, loose facial features, and a weak, translucent quality, as if his face was molded from dripping candle wax.

There were still some injuries on his body, but they looked very fragile, and even a few physical scars had not yet disappeared.

For a Fourth-Rank, this was very unusual, because even if a Fourth-Rank was about to die, they could easily maintain the dignity of their Physical Body; creating a Physical Body without injuries was simple.

So, Kavaleng keeping those wounds must be because he was in great pain, right?

However, the most telling sign of his pain was his eyes, with bloodshot whites and a lonely, pained look.

La Qi had seen such eyes before.

In the eyes of his Master's wife, Shen Shuibi, he had also seen such a gaze.

Evidently, Kavaleng had not completely escaped the influence of his previous life; this influence made him appear listless at all times, even displaying such pain.

So, he bowed slightly and then asked Kavaleng, "Senior, I heard that you are the Reincarnation of a Great Power, and also the first Great Power to revive in this war."

Kavaleng showed a disgusted expression and said, "If you are here because of Liu Zheng, please leave."

"No, Senior, I am not here because of Liu Zheng. I am only here to ask a question." La Qi said this, respectfully presenting a gift.

Kavaleng looked at the gift, and his expression softened a little. These were all things he needed for healing now, and it was clear that the other party genuinely had good intentions.

"Not for Liu Zheng, then for what?" Kavaleng asked.

At this point, he realized something, and then Kavaleng looked at La Qi: "I understand, you want to ask me about the relationship between Liu Zheng and me, right?"

"Exactly, Senior." La Qi nodded: "My Master, like you, also entered Reincarnation, but his re-cultivation has not yet finished."

"Our relationship is that there is no relationship." At this moment, Kavaleng answered directly.

"We are two completely different people, but he indeed holds a very important proportion in my life, but this proportion is essentially the same as you coming to find me now," Kavaleng said.

La Qi nodded.

He could understand the other party's meaning.

He and Liu Zheng had no connection whatsoever, but Liu Zheng still appeared as 'a certain character' in his life, bringing about huge changes to his life.

However, this change was not because he and Liu Zheng were the same person, but because of a coincidence, an intervention, just like La Qi visiting Kavaleng now.

La Qi visited Kavaleng, bringing a certain degree of change to Kavaleng's life. So, is La Qi Kavaleng?

Of course not.

Therefore, Liu Zheng is not Kavaleng; Liu Zheng is merely a 'noble person,' an 'Opportunity,' or perhaps... a 'disaster,' with no identity conflict whatsoever with Kavaleng.

"I know, you probably can't easily accept this answer, right?" Kavaleng looked at La Qi and said.

"There's nothing unacceptable, Senior, haven't you already done it?" La Qi said with a smile: "As long as something is true, then there's nothing unacceptable. My Master taught me that."

"That's good. I thought you were like those people who desperately want me to return to my previous life... I really don't understand what my previous life has to do with me, what do you think? What was your past life? As a Young Master of Shaman God Mountain, you should be able to find out, right?" Kavaleng asked La Qi.

"As for me... I have no past life, I am the first generation," La Qi said.

This made Kavaleng scrutinize La Qi from head to toe.

The first generation?

This was truly rare.

However, La Qi was not lying; as a Manifold Race, he was a spontaneously born high-dimensional life form. His thinking organ was self-folded from high-dimensional manifolds, and there was no concept of a past life for him.

"The first generation, huh... Then you are truly lucky." Kavaleng sighed, looking at La Qi with some envy.

"There's nothing to be lucky about. I have no interest in Reincarnation, and I don't believe that after I die, the one who Reincarnates will still be me. However, my Master did not die a natural death; he voluntarily entered Reincarnation and chose to re-cultivate, so I think there should be some difference from ordinary cases. Therefore, I came to Senior to ask about the specific situation," La Qi said.

"Hmm... If it's a voluntary entry into Reincarnation, there will indeed be a slight difference. The difference is probably that the True Spirit is complete," Kavaleng said.

La Qi was puzzled: "If the True Spirit is complete, then why does my Master still have so many fragments?"

"Having fragments has nothing to do with completeness, or rather... fragments have nothing to do with the True Spirit. Your Master's True Spirit should still be in the Underworld, and simply hasn't entered Reincarnation," Kavaleng said.

Saying this, he waved his hand, displaying things from his memory.

That was a scene from the Underworld.

He saw countless True Spirits, so many, incredibly broken, and then... he would encounter these people, and eventually fight endlessly with them.

All the 'fragments,' those increasingly massive 'Reincarnators,' each of them had experienced countless strange and varied experiences.

These Reincarnators weren't even on the same timeline; they could very well appear in different eras of the same world, for example, a thousand years ago and a thousand years later, two different people, yet the Reincarnation of the same person.

These Reincarnators acted separately, being born in different worlds far apart in both time and space.

This magical life transformed the fragments of the 'Third-Rank' itself into a completely different creature.

"So, for you who have collected all the fragments, what kind of experience is this?" La Qi asked the Kavaleng in front of him out of curiosity.

Kavaleng replied: "How to put it... Should I say that these numerous individuals merged into a single individual? Or is it that there is only one experience? To be honest, I don't know. These experiential individuals are still numerous, each with different but completely similar stories, but ultimately they all belong to me."

"I clearly know that I, Kavaleng, a person born from a white mist sphere, these are all different from every other identity. Under the guidance of fate, I gradually 'collected' and gained the experiences of every person, and at the same time, gained a clearer intellect. As the ultimate winner, I don't know if we are still many individuals or if we have already merged into one, but I suspect that this question can never have a clear answer, because ultimately, it is meaningless."

"Anyway, even now, I still have a clear self-awareness. I know everything that all the fragments know. The process of us jointly observing many worlds is a valuable treasure. This is also a process of self-reflection on the public psychological journey, sometimes from a woman's perspective, sometimes from the perspective of a certain beast."

"But no matter what, I perceive many unique natures and experiences, but when I dream, I occasionally perceive that some 'person' is about to 'awaken' within me.

"At that time, I will enter a state combining perception, thought, and imagination, which will be clearer than any experience you know of.

"At such times, I will merge with him. 'We' each, in a sense, become identical to others, and to some extent, each person's mind also becomes superior to the mind of any single individual among us."

"When all of us combine, this 'clarity' will link our previously unrelated experiences one by one, and for example, when we discover a never-before-noticed repetitive pattern or important meaning from confusing objects, at this time, our wisdom seems to have also merged."

"Clearly, this is enough to show that we are not unrelated individuals, but we have not lost our individuality. Although we have merged into a common mind, yet... let me think about how to put it." At this point, Kavaleng thought for a moment, silently pondering how to describe it.

And La Qi said: "Although the pronoun 'I' can now apply to 'you' as a collective, the pronoun 'we' also applies, right?"

Kavaleng nodded in agreement, clearly La Qi had grasped what he wanted to say, so he continued: "From one perspective, that is, from the perspective of consciousness union, we are indeed a complete individual, but at the same time, from a very important and personally very pleasant perspective, we are different from each other, every fragment is unique."

"Although there is indeed a single, common 'I,' there is also a diverse and varied 'we.' We are a community with distinct personalities, each contributing to this collective consciousness in their own original way, and at the same time, everyone is in the same boat, with subtle relationships between us."

"I am very clear that I am a unique member of a collective, and the most important point is... every one of our fragments is not Liu Zheng."

Kavaleng described the differences between his countless fragments and his main body. He admitted that having absorbed countless fragments, he was already a kind of collective will; although he had a clear 'self' existence, he would also be influenced by other fragments.

However, all of this had nothing to do with Liu Zheng.

"In the collective will, in my thoughts, there is no place for Liu Zheng. I hope you can understand this point," Kavaleng said.

After that, La Qi and Kavaleng talked a lot, all about Liu Zheng's current state and Kavaleng's current state. La Qi obviously wanted to understand what it was like for a Great Power to re-cultivate and return to being an ordinary person.

After several days of conversation, La Qi left with sufficient information, leaving behind equally sufficient gifts.

This conversation was very beneficial.

So, the next person to talk to is... Yao Ji.

That's right, La Qi knew that Yao Ji was also someone who had re-cultivated, and... in terms of the name 'Yao Ji,' she seemed to have a very good sense of identity with her past life.

But this time, when La Qi went to great lengths, asking everyone around, even entrusting his grandmaster Zhu Fengdan to find a Grand Diviner, he finally managed to find Yao Ji.

It turned out that Yao Ji had died with Li Qi.

No, it couldn't be said that she died with Li Qi; rather, Li Qi was killed by the aftermath when he fought against a Martial Artist...

This was truly hard to comment on.

But surprisingly, Yao Ji quickly resurrected. Reincarnation seemed to have almost no effect on her. Currently, she was acting as part of an 'Opportunity,' staying by one of Li Qi's fragments, serving as that fragment's personal beautiful young girl.

Moreover, in this life, she was no longer of the Shaman Dao. In this life... she was actually a little Dragon Girl, transforming into a proper pure-blooded True Dragon, currently just coming of age. It seemed that her Dao had also transformed into the Dao of Heaven’s Evolution.

Very marvelous, it was evident... the former Yao Ji of the Shaman Dao had also transformed in this way. It was truly unknown what the principle was.

So La Qi quickly rushed to Yao Ji's side, right?

La Qi was curious about one thing.

Why, as fellow Great Powers who re-cultivated, did Yao Ji herself not have any fragments?

If he figured this out, perhaps he could find a way to help his Master.

But he had to be careful; he shouldn't affect the 'Master' currently by Yao Ji's side.

Although La Qi didn't even know if that counted.

After all, it was just a fragment. (End of Chapter)