Conditions for Breaking Through to the Great Ascension Stage

"How did I die? Where was I before I died?"

Jiang Li discovered that he could clearly remember every detail of his previous life, except that his memories of the time before his death were exceedingly hazy.

"Did something happen?"

Jiang Li used a spell to reconstruct the verdict. The court had sentenced him to treatment in a Mental Hospital.

"I had a mental illness?"

Following the verdict, Jiang Li came to this Mental Hospital. As he walked through its corridors and flipped through medical records, sealed memories flooded into his mind like seawater.

At last, Jiang Li stopped before an ordinary hospital bed.

He had died on this bed.

Absurdity, ridicule, sorrow... all manner of complex emotions beyond words surged into his heart.

The corners of Jiang Li's mouth slowly curled upward, until he burst into laughter.

"I remember now. So I was sick!" Jiang Li covered his face and threw back his head in laughter, the sound bleak and helpless.

"So I was sick! I was a lunatic!"

His laughter echoed through the abandoned Mental Hospital, startling the crows into flapping their wings and scattering in a flutter.

"How utterly absurd. How utterly laughable!"

"So I was the only one who thought energy was infinite!"

Jiang Li's laughter gradually faded. Then he crouched on the ground, no longer making a sound, silent as a clay statue.

"No wonder when I explained to Bai Hongtu and the others how to break through to the Great Ascension Stage, I thought it was simple, yet they couldn't understand. Our perceptions had diverged."

"I believed energy was infinite, but Bai Hongtu and the others all believed energy was conserved."

"My illness made me think everyone else also believed energy was not conserved, which was why I never fought over resources and could