After Seclusion

Li Qi was taken aback.

It's very painful?

Why?

He feels nothing at all, and can't even detect anything unusual.

But even the sorcerer god said so...

Just thinking about the "extreme pain" the witch god spoke of made Li Qi feel like he was about to die.

He was filled with fear and anxiety, constantly scanning his body.

But I still didn't feel anything.

Witch Xian then said, "Alright, it's done. Now go. You can leave in 350 years. During this time, guard your mind and be prepared."

"Yes..." Li Qi didn't ask any further questions, but instead cupped his hands in agreement.

Then, he returned to the original spot.

The surroundings... remained completely unchanged.

I don't understand what the shaman meant by "extreme pain".

What is extremely painful?

As Li Qi was thinking about these things, he had already returned to the starting point, unchanged, except that the people around him were looking at him strangely.

What's going on? Why did this person suddenly rush out?

Could it be that his Dao heart has collapsed?

Then, a fourth-rank official came forward and said to Li Qi, "Your condition..."

"I'm fine... Sorry, I was just a little excited. I'll go back and calm down." Li Qi immediately waved his hand to indicate that he was alright.

After saying that, he immediately left and returned to his room.

With the witch god's guarantee, I felt somewhat at Anxin.

However, he still found it somewhat strange.

Why would the Heavenly Demon come looking for him again? Does he really want to drag him down with him?

However, given the Divine Ability powers of a second-rank expert, they can start over repeatedly, meaning Li Qi must have been tempted by the Heavenly Demon countless times.

One day, he will give in.

So why hasn't he given in yet? What is the Heavenly Demon thinking?

Or is it...?

The Heavenly Demon had no intention of submitting.

From the very beginning, the Heavenly Demon never intended to subdue Li Qi; his goal was to get the Witch God to place his bets on Li Qi.

The moment this idea came to mind, Li Qi's demonic thoughts began to stir again...

Then he quickly slapped himself.

Don't overthink it.

The Heavenly Demon is powerful, but the Witch God can deal with it, so I don't need to face the First Rank directly.

Let's just wait quietly for these 350 years.

Moreover, to be honest, Li Qi was still a little apprehensive...

Because the witch god said it was very painful.

What exactly is causing this pain? Could it be that it hasn't fully manifested yet?

In this state of anxiety, Li Qi began his house arrest.

Three hundred and fifty years have begun.

Time passed quickly. At first, Li Qi was still very anxious, fearing that he would not be able to endure that 'pain'.

But then he discovered there was nothing there.

There was nothing there, no problem at all, and absolutely no pain.

Everything was normal, even peaceful.

Li Qi can make any reasonable request, such as asking to see battle reports or books, and these will be sent to him, as long as he doesn't make any records or break through his cultivation level.

Therefore, Li Qi spent these 350 years so easily.

He thought it would be very long.

But with the occasional companionship and guidance from the spirit of Ranked Shaman, he even felt that... 350 years had passed so quickly.

Could you extend the timeframe?

The opportunity to receive guidance from Ranked Shaman is rare, and Li Qi benefited greatly. Although his cultivation could not break through, it stabilized, and he gained more methods for using and preventing the threads of cause and effect.

Over these 350 years, all sorts of people came and went, and Li Qi also learned about the situation outside through battle reports.

Clearly, the event that caused one-seventh of the battle line to collapse was avoided. With the victory in the vanguard battle, the Shaman Path and the true dragons suppressed the enemy from both sides, and the Human Path front had retreated a lot. The Great Wall had completely fallen.

The demonic path must have played a significant role in this, but Li Qi didn't know the specifics. He only knew that after the Demon Prince joined the war, the Human Path suffered a severe defeat on the True Dragon's side.

Li Qi also saw a very regrettable message in the battle report.

The Demon Prince personally killed the Plague Lord, leading to the defeat of a crucial battlefield for Human Path, which triggered a chain reaction, resulting in the destruction of thousands of war zones.

As for this friend who was willing to truly back down and keep his promise... let's just call him a friend for now, Li Qi ultimately failed to meet him.

And we'll never see them again.

But Li Qi couldn't say anything about the Demon Prince. What the Demon Prince did was perfectly normal, and could even be said to be very, very advantageous to Li Qi.

All I can say is... that's just how the struggle for power is; there's nothing we can do about it.

Therefore, Li Qi mourned the Plague Lord.

Because of this incident, Li Qi began to pay special attention to the Demon Prince's battle record... and then he read through the battle reports.

After the demonic path joined the war, there was no large army, only a large number of demon kings and Devil Lord joining the high-level war, and the Demon Prince was the only one below the fourth rank.

But this one, over a period of more than three hundred years, single-handedly fought his way through more than 160 war zones and killed tens of thousands of fifth-rank soldiers.

The Demon Prince, this name has become famous throughout the heavens, and he is praised by countless worlds as the strongest fifth-rank.

Li Qi carefully reviewed the battle report against the Plague Lord.

The advantage of the Plague Lord lies in the fact that he has countless brains, equivalent to countless fifth-rank cultivators, and thousands of times the cultivation level of an ordinary fifth-rank cultivator. He can exhaustively search for ways to forcefully break through the opponent's Technique Method.

But the Demon Prince, with absolute strength, absolute invincibility, and absolute domineering power, completely crushed the Plague Lord, telling Plague Lord with a devastating difference, "If you can list anything you want and find one that is useful, I'll admit defeat."

Yes, it's that domineering, and that simple.

Countless fifth-rank officials working together to come up with a solution are certainly formidable.

What if... this matter is not something a fifth-rank official can solve? What if no matter how many fifth-rank officials come, they absolutely cannot solve it?

Clearly, the Demon Prince succeeded.

No fifth-rank official in the world can deal with the Demon Prince; only a fourth-rank official can handle him.

Anyway, after seeing his battle tactics, Li Qi felt... he couldn't handle them.

After three hundred years of accumulation, the Demon Prince is no longer someone that a fifth-rank cultivator can handle. He has once again broken the theoretical limits and rewritten the upper limit of the fifth rank.

From this moment on, the world once again knew that... a fifth-rank official could achieve this level of skill.

After killing the Plague Lord, the Demon Prince even publicly challenged everyone, declaring that he would challenge all fifth-rank officials.

Just like he did when he was a seventh-rank official.

However... at the end of the battle report, it was stated that the Demon Prince left the battlefield because the Little Heavenly Master came to challenge him, and he directly abandoned the battlefield to fight the Little Heavenly Master alone, the specifics of which are unknown.

After reading it, Li Qi could only shake his head.

Is this what the Overlord Dao Foundation is all about? Is he truly destined to dominate all heavens and rule over all ages? What kind of script is this guy playing?

Overall, however, both the human-warrior battlefield and the human-dragon battlefield are progressing quite well.

It seems that Human Path is no longer able to fight against both major Dao Lineage at the same time, after all, it is really difficult.

At the same time, Li Qi also felt the price paid during these three hundred years, the price paid by the White Chen Fox King Bodhisattva.

In the 143rd year, during a period of seclusion, he sensed a 'power' that drained a portion of his cultivation.

They didn't even ask for his consent.

However, strictly speaking, Li Qi has already 'agreed', so there is no need to agree again now.

However, this portion of his cultivation was quickly returned, and Li Qi suffered no loss whatsoever.

It's very strange.

How exactly did they do it?

Could it be that... the past, present, and future are really just two sides of the same piece of paper?

What exactly is time? How does the law of causality exist?

In Li Qi's understanding, time is different for everyone; everyone has their own time, and this time is different from everyone else's.

This is a relative view of spacetime based on relativity, which means that everyone's perceived time is different, and time dilation can even occur under high-speed movement.

This phenomenon also exists in the universe. When you travel at high speed, time does indeed dilate, distorting spacetime and causing the time you experience to differ from the time outside.

For example, there are worlds with unusual cosmic light; some of these worlds are fast-paced, and some are slow-paced.

It's fast, just like the world in Yan Ke's hands. Under the special cosmic light, one day in the world is equivalent to many, many years in the world.

Slowly, thousands of years have passed outside, but the Heaven Creation inside is still not over.

However, this inconsistency can also achieve consistency at a higher level...

Many worlds have differences in cosmic light, but Li Qi experienced this in the Nexus of All Realms. The Nexus of All Realms can adjust these differences in cosmic light to achieve zero-delay communication between the two worlds.

Even if your time flows at different rates, you can all speak at the same pace without delay in front of the Nexus of All Realms.

It's strange, hard to understand, but that's the objective reality.

Li Qi touched upon the Heaven's Will and figured out cause and effect, but he could never understand the true nature of time and space.

What exactly is spacetime?

It's not just spacetime, but also probability; the same applies.

For example, Li Qi himself could understand the way of gods, and at the same time, he himself practiced the Shaman Path.

The so-called divine way is the great path that only gods can walk; humans can never walk on the divine way.

However, through learning like Li Qi, one can get closer to the divine way to some extent.

To give a concrete example, when a coin is dropped, before the coin falls, a person can never calculate whether the coin will land heads or tails; a person can only calculate that the probability of heads or tails is one in two.

Yes, it's a 50/50 chance, truly random. Eliminate all variables, ignore manipulation, air resistance, or simply treat the coin as a quantum decay. In any case, the coin is purely a 50/50 chance.

But it's impossible for a person to say that a falling coin will be 100% heads or tails; such a situation doesn't exist. Shaman Path can't do that; Shaman Path acknowledges the existence of probability.

But... Shinto is possible.

Probability can even be said to be one of the concrete manifestations of the 'Primal Gods'. It is said that the divine way can control an event with an extremely low probability to happen repeatedly, so that a coin will land on tails every time under controlled variables. Similarly, the Heavenly Way Limit to control the speed of light is also derived from the Divine Path Method.

The Primal Gods were 'heaven', the embodiment of objective laws themselves.

All other non-divine beings can only correctly transform the world by respecting and conforming to the laws of nature, ensuring that their subjective understanding aligns with objective reality, and proceeding from the actual situation. The divine way, however, is the world itself.

So, from the perspective of Shinto, what is the situation regarding 'objective reality,' including the relativity of time and space and the transformation of probability?

Li Qi's understanding of reality conflicted with objective reality.

Moreover... objective reality itself still conflicts with another objective reality, but these are all objectively existing in the universe.

It's strange, and hard to understand.

Li Qi could understand and even imagine that "behind all the differences, there must be a single great path," but this was just empty talk and clichés. Such empty talk could help him solidify the conflict of Dao Path, but before he truly found this great path, it would be difficult for him to continue to progress.

If things have absolutely no common ground and are incompatible, how can we find the underlying principles?

Li Qi has no inspiration yet.

But... it doesn't matter, we can deal with these things slowly in the future, anyway, we won't need them.

Li Qi was certain that as long as he continued to pursue cause and effect, his Dao Path the fourth rank was clear. At least before the third rank, he didn't need to rush these things; he could take it slowly.

However, the problem with the third rank is not these things at all, but the third rank Human Path remains in his body.

In order to quickly break through to the sixth rank, Li Qi chose to directly absorb and understand the Great Dao of the third rank of the Human Path Dao, which directly resulted in his understanding of the Human Path Dao being completely overwritten by the other party.

The other party gave Li Qi a complete answer.

Li Qi couldn't refute this answer; to Li Qi, it was absolutely correct.

So... as long as this answer is used, once the third rank is reached, the other party will naturally awaken from Li Qi's body, because this answer is copyrighted.

Well.

Take your time.

Thinking about all this, Li Qi's figure gradually left the cave.

Everything has been arranged. His confinement is over, and he can leave, but he still doesn't have a position. His specific position will be announced to him after he returns to the war zone where Shen Shuibi is currently located.

At the same time, he also left Zhu Fengdan's command and is now heading to the command of an unfamiliar high shaman.

Normally, he would continue to serve as commander, but this time it's not a vanguard war zone; it's just one of many ordinary war zones.

Having arrived in the outside world, the Liesu were already prepared.

In a flash, Li Qi was outside.

Then, through the Liesu, he arrived at the war zone where Shen Shuibi was located, which was something he had strongly requested beforehand.

Everything seemed to be back on track, and three hundred years was really nothing to Li Qi at this moment.

Just after he arrived in this unfamiliar war zone by Liesu, he was greeted by someone.

"Welcome, Young Master Li Qi." A local fifth-rank commander, who had already received orders, warmly greeted Li Qi.

"I'm sorry to trouble you to come pick me up, sir." Li Qi smiled.

But at that very moment...

Li Qi suddenly found that everything went black before his eyes.

Then, the world was reshaped.

The fifth-rank commander said the same thing, "Welcome, Young Master Li Qi."