Li Qi examined the situation Li Qi had encountered.
From all manner of faint clues, Li Qi's will began to spread outward like a web.
In that instant, Laqi experienced what "terror" truly meant.
In Laqi's eyes, he could feel his very existence constantly fluctuating, and his memories beginning to change.
These changes left traces to follow, so Laqi's self-awareness did not collapse. He could clearly perceive the process of change, as well as the states before and after it.
He could clearly feel one "master" after another beginning to emerge in his past life.
Clearly, he had gone through that period alone.
Yet now, his altered memories told him that his master had been at his side during that time. Though his master had not changed anything that happened, nor offered him any protection, merely investigating through the time Laqi occupied.
Fourth-rank beings possessed incomplete reality. That incompleteness came from the fact that although they could maintain their own reality, they could not become another's reality.
In other words, they could exist in the world without needing a foundation. They could become their own cause, yet had no way to become someone else's cause.
This allowed him to notice the changes in himself, even though he was powerless to stop them.
Very quickly, another change occurred.
The master who had appeared earlier vanished again.
It was bizarre. In his memories, for example, his master had originally not been present at a certain ritual.
But just now, his master had appeared in those memories, standing beneath the ritual.
Then he discovered that his master was gone again—and had never been there from the very beginning.
This chaos in his memories caused Laqi unbearable pain, so much so that he nearly could no longer distinguish what reality was.
But in the