What was Li Qi's true objective?
It was what he had confessed to Shen Shuibi.
He hoped to create a world the demonic path could not interfere with, a world where all living beings could break free from its control.
He hoped that every cultivator could live without a "Dao enemy."
Thus, exterminating demons was naturally one means, but exterminating them was impossible—at least, impossible at this stage.
So Li Qi's current plan was to curb the demonic paths' interference with the real universe, prevent them from wantonly encroaching upon history and reality, and at least make it less easy for them to plunder sustenance.
Li Qi had not lied about this objective, nor had he needed to.
However... destroying Dream City could not accomplish that.
Li Qi was also Rank Two, so he naturally understood the power of Rank Twos. A Heart Demon, for example, could effortlessly drag all of Dream City out from within people's hearts.
It was simply too easy.
For those mortals, eradicating Dream City had been a great undertaking built over countless years, generation after generation, paved with innumerable lives and seas of blood. Yet Li Qi knew that it was nothing more than a trivial matter.
It was no great undertaking at all. It was merely a "move" in a battle between Rank Twos.
Then what method did Li Qi intend to use to stop the demonic path?
Look instead at the battlefield now.
Throughout the universe, across countless times and spaces, including the past and present, "dimensional leaks" had appeared everywhere. This was the effect the battle between Rank Twos had on the universe.
Within these leaks, even time had become chaotic. People were often sent to times and spaces they knew nothing about, or cast into the past and future.
In short,