Thus, when Li Qi decided to create heaven, he fell into deep thought.
What kind of spacetime was he going to create?
What rules, what underlying tone, what kinds of life would exist there? What sort of possibilities was he truly going to forge?
Possibility sounded mysterious, but its essence was actually quite simple.
A possibility was a path leading to the future you could reach.
It was the probability of an event occurring: a quantitative indicator contained within things themselves, one that foretold their developmental trend. It was something that objectively existed, not some notion decided upon by someone's will.
If you wanted to arrive at a certain ending—for example, to become a hero—then there were many roads and choices that could lead you there. You could go save people in the most dangerous places, or you could take part in a battle.
You possessed thousands upon thousands of roads. Every time you walked one of them, you realized one future and put one possibility into practice.
But now, suppose a cage locked you up.
Then all your possibilities would be drawn together. You could no longer go save people in the most dangerous places, nor could you join any battle. You could only remain trapped inside the cage.
That cage would become a "key node" in history.
If you wanted to do anything else, you first had to break through that cage—in other words, "grasp the key node."
If you could never break out, then you could do nothing. All your "possibilities" would be imprisoned within that cage. No matter what you wanted to do or what future you wished to realize, you first had to break the cage.
The cage was history's key node.
And a cage could take many forms.
For example, an actual cage—finding a