Myriad Paths

After a long time, Li Qi and Zhu Fengdan left the place where Xiantian was.

Li Qi remembered this place, which does not belong to the real universe, but only belongs to a link in the ‘coordinate system’.

For mortals, this place does not even exist at all, and it cannot be found from any connection between time and space. There is no causal relationship between this place and the outside world.

In fact, this is the same as the gap with reality.

For mortals without reality, they cannot realize that their lives are not as stable as they originally thought. At a certain time point in their experience, suddenly time and the past are completely erased and become phantoms.

Then, these erased ‘phantoms’ are ‘non-existent’ for mortals.

These are things in fantasy, and they will never be able to touch these ‘non-existent histories’.

And Xiantian created his own branch time and space in this ‘non-existent history’, so under normal circumstances, Xiantian will not be found without obtaining coordinates.

He shrank in his tortoise shell, did not negotiate with anyone, and did not exist in time and space that anyone could interfere with.

Then the question came.

... Zhu Fengdan, how did he get the coordinates of Xiantian?

This may be a secret, but Li Qi is not going to ask what the secret is.

No need to ask.

After leaving Xiantian, Li Qi can see that Xiantian is hiding in this place, so the things he created cannot interfere with the so-called "real time and space" in the outside world.

This is the power of Li Qi's creation. In the evolution of general time and space, it cuts into this causal chain. Because of the power and completeness of this form constructed by Li Qi, the branch established by Li Qi seems to have life, will travel through eternal time and space, improve itself, and even take the initiative to break the shackles of the creator.

This is what Taiyi looks like, so Xiantian is very interested in being able to learn this kind of thing, and is even willing to help Li Qi for this.

"Xiantian's matter is done, so the next step is to wait for Wu Xian to leave. During this time, I will teach you how to act!" Zhu Fengdan said to Li Qi.

"Well, okay." Li Qi agreed immediately.

Zhu Fengdan was very satisfied with Li Qi's answer. He snapped his fingers and the two of them teleported to a hidden space and time.

This place is not as isolated as Xiantian, but it is also difficult to find. This is a space and time where possibilities have been cut off. There is no one in it. There will be no one in tens of millions of centuries.

In this timeline where possibilities have withered, everything has withered, possibilities and changes have completely died, nothingness occupies everything, and there are corpses and shadows everywhere after the destruction of the universe.

But in fact, there are no corpses or shadows, there is only a piece of nothingness. The so-called corpse shadow is just an illusion, an illusion brought to people by this nothingness.

Here, Zhu Fengdan clapped his hands, and a Milky Way stretched across the sky.

This Milky Way is in the void and looks sparkling.

This is a spiral nebula with a diameter of 100,000 light years, and its shape is very similar to the Milky Way.

The distance where Li Qi and Zhu Fengdan are located is relatively close, so it is not enough for them to observe the complete shape of the entire galaxy. In fact, from their position, they can only see that half of the sky is covered by this nebula.

This nebula emits a silver and red light intertwined, and is dotted with some colorful halos caused by scattered colors.

These halos are all stimulated by cosmic rays.

Large groups of light fog and halos of different colors cover the sky, just like the sea under the night light hanging in the sky, the sparkling spots of light are constantly surging, emitting faint silver light.

Beautiful galaxies, but this kind of thing will not surprise Li Qi and Zhu Fengdan.

They have witnessed more beautiful scenery, and the light emitted by a mere cantilever galaxy is nothing strange. Li Qi is still waiting for Zhu Fengdan's explanation.

Zhu Fengdan's hand gently picked up a piece of something similar to a "jade piece". This kind of jade piece is scattered in the surrounding space, with an absurd density, just like snow in winter, everywhere.

The jade piece is very thin, similar in size to a USB flash drive, and is translucent green, but when it is illuminated by light, it can reflect different colors.

He held the jade piece and said, "These book spirits are what we want to learn."

Li Qi raised his eyebrows.

Of course he knew what those jade pieces were.

It was a carrier of book energy with extremely high density. The small piece in Zhu Fengdan's hand was enough to store all the information generated in the history of a sixth-grade civilization.

And the seventh-grade civilization can already travel between galaxies and colonize millions of light years.

If it is a weak civilization that has not yet left its own planet, even if the records of the entire civilization are stuffed in, it can only occupy a few hundred billionths of the storage capacity of a jade piece.

And now, it is countless pieces of such jade pieces that form a spiral galaxy.

You can imagine how much information this nebula stores.

This is a nebula with a diameter of one billion light years, containing endless information, and even enough to write down the history of every second of every person and every insect in hundreds of trillions of observable universes.

It is no problem to say that this is memorizing the multiverse log.

This amount of information is not small, even for Li Qi.

"It's a technical job to take other people's things. Ordinary means can't find loopholes in these people's hands, so the first lesson is to memorize other people's methods first."

"Aren't you good at memorizing? This should be your strong point, right? Come, this is just one person's. If you want to break through Wu Xian's protection, I count... There are about seventy people, don't make a mistake."

Zhu Fengdan raised his thumb and pointed to the nebula behind him.

Li Qi closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Although there is no air here, it doesn't prevent him from doing this.

Then, he reached out and picked up the first piece.

"Then please explain it to me one by one, teacher."

"Okay, okay."

The master and apprentice began their own teaching in this void where there was nothing.

And to be honest, this seems to be the first time Zhu Fengdan has given Li Qi a serious lesson. He used to let him go completely.

But in front of the power of the second and third grades, the so-called letting go is actually no different from watching him grow up.

But this can only be felt when the child grows up. Before Li Qi became a powerful person, he once complained that Zhu Fengdan didn't care about him.

But those are things in the past. Now Li Qi has his own things to do, and he has inherited Zhu Fengdan's Taoism, and he is even ready to go further.

This is good.

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And on Xiantian's side.

This wild beast left his own reality and came to the reality jointly constructed by other first-grade people, which is the so-called "real universe".

This is the ultimate Colosseum, a battlefield where first-grade people entangle and fight with each other.

Xiantian is always afraid to come here.

Once involved in the struggle, he can't confront other first-grade people head-on. Although the second-grade people can't fight him, it's difficult for him to fight other first-grade people.

He can only play one role.

His existence can theoretically contain other first-grade people. As long as he exists, a first-grade person must be left to guard against Xiantian.

You can also leave him alone, but other than the first-rank, no one else can deal with Xiantian. If Xiantian starts to fight and no one is watching, it is hard to predict how much trouble he can cause.

Therefore, Xiantian's position is very delicate.

On the one hand, he can do what the first-rank can do, so he must be treated as a first-rank.

On the other hand, he is quite different from other first-ranks, which makes Xiantian very random. No matter which side, they must be careful to treat Xiantian and guard against him doing stupid things under stimulation and pressure.

There have been many games between the human and witch paths against Xiantian. This unstable element is really a bomb for all parties, but he happens to be the biggest variable.

If one thing goes wrong, Xiantian will jump back and forth, and then he may jump to somewhere, causing a lot of things.

However, for Xiantian... this kind of thing is also what he fears the most.

Xiantian cannot control the variables here. Here, reality will always make random mutations. There are countless possibilities for the evolution of reality, but the chain of cause and effect will always be closed.

The causal chain will be closed in countless realities.

This is what Xiantian fears the most.

The closure of the causal chain is difficult to judge. No number is magical, and no special number can circle this possibility. Once, twice, three times, or just write a random garbled number, it is possible.

In other words, the causal chain may be closed at any time and under any circumstances. The randomness is infinite. This is "true infinity", not "infinity in the finite".

It's like you can draw an infinite number of circles with a pencil, but each circle can only circle a certain area. Countless circles are "infinity in the finite". No matter how many circles there are, each circle is fixed. Even if all the circles are added together, there are actually traces to follow and can be deduced.

But this "real universe" does not follow this rule. The causal chain will always close again and again in different realities, but each time it will cause specific things to happen.

Due to the uncertainty of reality, Xiantian will be uneasy every time he appears in this place.

He is afraid that he will be killed by the sudden possibility.

"Hey, a rare guest." At this time, Wu Xian appeared behind Xiantian.

For Xiantian, any Yipin will pay special attention, especially Wu Dao who has reached an agreement with Xiantian.

"Don't you hate coming to this place the most? Why did you come here on your own initiative this time?" Wu Xian said to Xiantian.

"I came here for our previous agreement. I think there are some problems with this agreement and it needs to be changed." Xiantian said so.

"Oh?" Wu Xian's eyes swept over Xiantian.

The personalized concept, the mind born from the law, this is Xiantian.

And now, this personalized concept actually has its own subjective initiative, instead of letting the instinct of survival continue to manipulate it?

This change made Wu Xian realize something, so he smiled and said, "Did Li Qi and Zhu Fengdan ask you to come? They want to steal the Desire Realm?"

Xiantian was startled and immediately replied, "No, why do you think so?"

"What else can I think? However, I can't let go of your matter. This is an open conspiracy. You are here, which means that your changes have reached a point that I can't ignore. I can only ask the guards to pay attention." Wu Xian shook his head: "So, Xiantian, what are you going to do with me?"

"I really hate talking to you, as if I'm the only fool." Xiantian grumbled in complaint: "So, Lingdao..."

"Don't worry, I won't let Lingdao catch you, and you're probably unexpected to be here, right?" Wuxian laughed.

Xiantian didn't say anything.

Wuxian continued: "They should be very anxious, so I should act."

Wuxian had arranged it from the beginning.

Wuxian himself couldn't call Xiantian, because Xiantian was very cautious, and Xiantian didn't trust these first-grade people, so he needed to rely on other people.

The best candidate is Zhu Fengdan.

And to find Zhu Fengdan, the best lead is Li Qi, and Li Qi can only play a role if he goes to Lingdao, because... Xiantian is Lingdao's bait.

This is a secret.

But... it can't be called a secret, it's actually very easy to guess.

Xiantian is the 'personalized law', which is something many people know.

For Lingdao, Xiantian is actually their ‘opportunity for the Great Dao’.

The so-called law of personification can actually be understood as the ‘idea’ of awakening self-consciousness, and what it looks like when the ‘idea’ as an objective reality has personification is something Lingdao has always been curious about.

But Wu Xian is not ready to hand over Xiantian, and he also wants Lingdao’s things.

Before, it was a battle between humans and witches, and he couldn’t spare his hands.

Now he has spared his hands.

So, all this revolves around Wu Xian’s will.

Just wait and see how Lingdao will respond.

If Lingdao can’t help it... Wu Xian will have a chance to go ‘for the second time’.

As for Li Qi and Zhu Fengdan?

The thing about the Desire Realm depends on his ability.

If he can get it, it’s his.

If he can’t get it, don’t blame Wu Xian for not giving him a chance.

He is already a second-grade, and he must figure out what to do, what to do, and how to do it.

Wu Xian didn't think Li Qi didn't know this. In addition to Xiantian's attraction and importance to Lingdao, Li Qi's information was not wrong, so he should make the right choice.

So, Wu Xian showed a kind smile and looked at Xiantian.

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"Then, teacher, are you ready?" Li Qi asked, feeling his full head.

"That's right, Wu Xian must be arguing with Xiantian now. The old man must have gotten everything by himself, not through others, so don't believe him, he won't really hope that you will go to Lingdao."

"I know, so... Xiantian won't be killed, right?"

"Who knows."