Li Qi cast away all his power, then regained the Shaman cultivation system. Almost in an instant, he broke through from Subordinate Ninth Rank to Seventh Rank.
After all, he had once been a Second Rank Shaman. As his thought organs merged into heaven and earth themselves, the structure of Li Qi's cultivation rapidly moved closer to what he had once been.
It simply needed some time.
Li Qi's inner universe of old had been far too complex. It contained innumerable Dao rhythms and truths, enough to explain every law of different Observable Universes.
Moreover, Li Qi's own composition was unbelievably complex, and the movements within him could not be simulated.
Thus, even though Li Qi's cultivation expanded violently at an incredible pace without bottlenecks, like Vacuum Decay releasing immense energy outward with a thunderous boom, compared to the universe itself, it would still take countless billions of years before any visible effect could be found.
But that no longer mattered.
Because Li Qi had completely broken free from the gaze of the so-called "audience."
He had discovered long ago that there seemed to be "audiences behind the curtain" in this world.
His every action was being "voted on" by the audience.
Whenever he made a choice that "went against the audience," the audience would viciously show Li Qi the price of doing so.
As for those emotions, they had been brewed by the world itself. They were the "great tide" Li Qi was supposed to follow.
But Li Qi had glimpsed a flaw within them.
The "audience" did not actually have a choice. There was no state in which he had to do something for the audience to be satisfied.
The audience was merely the manifestation of a certain kind of "intuition."
What they sought was not Li Qi's