Was Li Qi's mind within the Three Realms?
It was, and it was not.
The true difficulty in communicating with something like the mind lay in the fact that people communicated with one another through language.
That language could be body language, the language of colors, some other spoken language, or even mathematical language. But no matter what, communication between people had to be founded upon language.
All symbols and formulas likewise had to be built upon a shared language of the world.
Only after such language had drawn nourishment from every scientific discipline, artistic category, and philosophical thought could it operate within people's minds, attaining perfect and fully realized pure existence.
Through such language, the actions of great powers became a passage from change to existence, from possibility to actuality.
After all, even if one wished to understand the world, language was indispensable.
To describe and comprehend the world also required something akin to mathematical and logical language to define it.
But could the mind truly be defined by language?
Clearly, anyone with a mind would feel that language was painfully inadequate. It was difficult for language to express one's thoughts; even the most exquisite language, including the language of "music," could not fully articulate one's inner world.
Yet that was precisely what the Grand Music Master was trying to do, was it not?
Relying on his extraordinary mastery of music, the Grand Music Master wished to condense and elevate information into a meaningful metaphor, allowing Li Qi's mind, his life, and the entire world to be guided, adjusted, and foretold by that music.
Such transmission was subtle, difficult to understand through "reason" or "wisdom."
Therefore, Zombie Li Qi could not understand it.
Zombie Li Qi possessed complete wisdom, yet he alone lacked feeling. To him, such music was