Spiritual Way Observer

Within the Illusionary Reality Domain, Li Qi's head exploded.

However, his inner world was temporarily unharmed. By transferring his thinking organs into his soul, he was able to temporarily retain his full thinking ability.

Originally, his head should have been severely injured after it exploded, because the body and inner world are closely connected and can influence each other to some extent.

But this was the Illusionary Reality Domain, and through 'imagination', his mind immediately returned to normal.

The moment he recovered, Li Qi was about to explode again, but before that, he immediately looked up, trying to retract his true knowledge.

He saw it... True Knowledge Dao Charm in the Illusionary Reality Domain.

He only then realized...

If the Death Demon Dao Charm can obtain enough power to manifest within the Illusionary Reality Domain, then the True Knowledge Dao Charm can obviously do the same.

However, Li Qi had become so accustomed to True Knowledge Dao Charm was a part of him that he subconsciously ignored this situation.

But now, True Knowledge Dao Charm has emerged and tells Li Qi that it is also the actual Daoist rhyme.

"This, this..." Li Qi looked up and was stunned to see that True Knowledge Dao Charm was constantly expanding.

Everything is in the process of 'decomposition'.

Yes, everything, including the magical Law Treasure Li Qi imagined, other things within the Illusionary Reality Domain, and even that Death Demon Dao Charm, was decomposed by the ever-expanding Reality Domain.

But true knowledge does not absorb them; it is not devouring, but simply decomposing them, and then... perceiving their essence.

These essential elements, transformed into pure information, were then transmitted to Li Qi.

Countless pieces of information, far exceeding Li Qi's processing capacity.

But...

Li Qi wasn't afraid; on the contrary, a huge, strange idea popped into his head.

This is the Illusionary Reality Domain, this is... a place where wishes come true. As long as your imagination can support it, even a mortal can create a star.

So he immediately began to imagine.

Imagine your information processing capabilities increasing dramatically, by a factor of ten thousand!

This did not exceed the limits of his imagination.

It's difficult for someone to imagine the answer to a calculus problem, or to imagine four-dimensional space, because you have to understand these things to imagine them.

However, it's difficult for a person to build muscle on their own, but it's not difficult to imagine themselves as a muscular man. Muscles are built up by quantity, and quantity... is not difficult at all in the face of imagination.

No, perhaps it's hard to imagine super-large numbers like Graham's number, Asankhyeya, and Mersenne prime, but ten thousand times, one hundred thousand times, is something almost anyone with an education can imagine.

Then...

Li Qi's information processing ability began to increase rapidly.

True Knowledge Dao Charm was still expanding, seemingly without limit. Soon, all life forms adventuring within the Illusionary Reality Domain sensed a powerful decomposition scanning force being directed at them.

This stance is neither offensive nor hostile; it simply sweeps across the surface, replicating all 'intrinsic attributes' into an information flow, and then transmitting it to some being.

The so-called intrinsic properties are the basic properties of things. For example, electrons, photons, or neutrons have definite values for their mass, charge, and spin. If these are changed, they are no longer electrons, photons, or neutrons.

Intrinsic attributes are the most fundamental properties of things and their root.

All of this was thoroughly investigated by True Knowledge Dao Charm, who then transmitted it to Li Qi without reservation.

Li Qi was already feeling that one head wasn't enough.

Even if information processing capabilities increase tenfold, the amount of information continues to rise as True Knowledge Dao Charm expands.

But it doesn't matter.

This is the Illusionary Reality Domain. If 100,000 times isn't enough, then let's go for 1 million times, 10 million times.

The magnitude of the increase is irrelevant to imagination.

The hardest part of imagination is going from 0 to 1.

It doesn't matter how many zeros follow the 1; it makes no difference until a certain magnitude is reached.

For example, Graham's numbers are so numerous that the numbers after them are almost impossible to count. Even if all the atoms in a universe 90 billion light-years wide were used to write them, and each atom could write a hundred numbers, it would still not be enough to write the fifth exponential tower of Graham's numbers.

The Graham number has 762,557,948,4987 layers of index tower.

This level of scale truly requires imagination.

Clearly, Li Qi could never reach that level.

The magnitude he's using now, such as tens of millions or hundreds of millions of times, doesn't require imagination at all. He can fully understand it and can even achieve that level himself through time and painstaking effort.

Now, he doesn't need to put in the effort.

All he needs to do is 'make his wishes come true'.

In the Illusionary Reality Domain, all imagination becomes reality. For a fifth-rank cultivator like Li Qi, who can completely control his own thoughts, he can become extremely powerful here.

As a result, his thinking continued to expand, and his information processing ability continued to grow, just like the 610 God Card was upgraded to a 4090ti.

Knowledge and information exhibit an 'emergent effect'.

When a person's knowledge accumulates on a large scale, it will eventually "emerge" to a certain extent.

It's like some people spend a long time learning knowledge but don't achieve great success, and their spoken language is still hesitant and stuttering. But one day, they suddenly make a breakthrough and become able to have fluent conversations.

Since you've learned 1 and 2, you can form the numbers 12 and 21, as well as some variations.

But if you learn the ten numbers from 0 to 9, you can combine them to form all the numbers without any limitations.

It's just eight more numbers, yet the resulting combinations are infinitely numerous. This qualitative change resulting from a quantitative change is called 'emergence'.

Generally speaking, it is also called 'completing the last piece of the puzzle'.

Right now, Li Qi is experiencing this kind of 'emergence'.

With the improvement of information processing ability, coupled with the continuous expansion of True Knowledge Dao Charm, countless pieces of information flooded into the brain. Most of them were very ordinary information, such as information about other people and other items. However... some were different.

For example, the information of the Death Demon Dao Charm.

For example, the Heavenly Demonic Dao Charm that makes up this extraterrestrial wonder of the Illusionary Reality Domain, as well as the Spiritual Daoist Aura itself.

It was only with the blessing of the Illusionary Reality Domain itself that True Knowledge Dao Charm quickly expanded to the same size as the entire Illusionary Reality Domain.

In other words, everything and everything within the Illusionary Reality Domain was encompassed in Li Qi's mind.

Normally, he would have been stuffed to death.

But he had expanded his thinking ability by hundreds of millions of times through imagination, and these information flows flowed completely into Li Qi's brain.

And so, in that instant...

Li Qi felt a sense of 'ascension' after his mind fully absorbed the Illusionary Reality Domain.

His spirit seems to have reached a new level.

The originally lifeless spiritual energy, after all the details were filled in and the entire Illusionary Reality Domain was completely deciphered, transformed from 'dead' to 'alive'.

In that instant, Li Qi suddenly heard someone speaking to him.

"Ah... you're beyond my expectations, kid. You did a great job, but... you cheated. That doesn't meet my requirements."

"Demand?" Li Qi was taken aback.

But the other party did not answer Li Qi's question. Instead, he continued, "However... since the requirements have been met, although they are different from my original purpose, we can't just leave it like this. Kid, come up and have a chat?"

"Come up? Where to?" Li Qi still didn't understand.

But he knew one thing.

The Illusionary Reality Domain... is alive.

The spiritual aura here is not unowned; it's just that it's usually left there. The only one that's truly unowned is the Heavenly Demonic Dao Charm.

"Of course, come up here—to the real world, are you willing?"

The real world?

What a boastful tone! I'll have to see for myself now.

Although Li Qi still doesn't know exactly what's going on, he can roughly guess that the Illusionary Reality Domain is probably similar to the Fortuitous Encounter Ruins, and is some kind of filtering mechanism.

But he triggered this screening mechanism, and at this moment the other party seemed to feel bad and prepared to invite him.

Who is this powerful being?

Li Qi was curious, but he knew he was under the watchful eye of the Witch God, so he didn't panic. He firmly believed that no one could control his fate now.

Li Qi nodded, "I would be honored to accept your invitation, senior—"

Before he could finish speaking, Li Qi felt his spirit detach from his body.

It's not some low-level method like astral projection.

Instead... it was the pure spirit that was separated.

Pure spirit, which had previously existed in Li Qi's conjecture, existed as two entities: a material entity and a spiritual entity. These two entities coexisted and gave birth to Li Qi as "I".

In other words, the interaction between these two factors is the 'cause' of Li Qi's birth.

But now, one thing has been removed: Li Qi's spirit, his true, pure spirit—not a soul or any other special material existence, but simply his 'spirit'—has been extracted from his matter.

However, Li Qi could still sense that his consciousness and matter were connected to some extent, but only to some extent; the two were no longer one.

And so, he saw a whole new world.

A world composed purely of information flow.

This world is closely connected to the external material world, yet it exists independently.

Here, Li Qi saw countless 'projections'.

That is the projection of matter here.

The projection of a certain life form, a certain world, a certain race, a certain city, a certain stone, a certain river, a certain mountain in this world, through a concept that Li Qi cannot understand, these information flows come here and are projected into this world of information. This information can directly point to the location of a certain object in the universe.

Similarly, the information flow pointing to Li Qi also exists here. If the information flow here is modified, it can even cause corresponding changes to Li Qi's physical body.

It's like modifying the 'code' of the thing 'Li Qi'.

Yes, that's a very fitting analogy: 'code'.

The physical world is the graphical interface, while this is the code layer; the two are closely related yet inseparable.

So... if we take it a step further? Could we consider this place to be the 'Tao'?

Li Qi had once suffered the torment of the Five Aggregates Demonic Blood, and had come to understand the difference between the Five Aggregates and information, and also knew that information was the essence of perception.

Therefore, when he actually received these information streams, he did not panic, but quickly processed the information and began to discern the surrounding scene.

He soon discovered that the information flow here formed the scene that was the area where his physical body was located.

In other words, in terms of information flow, this place is a replica of the material world, completely indistinguishable, except... there is no matter here, only information.

But... what's the difference between information and matter?

Li Qi didn't know for the time being. He only understood that in this world of pure spirit and information, as long as one had access to the information flow vision, or rather... the Daoist Dao Rule Reader, this place was actually no different from the material world.

The spiritual world is, in itself, two sides of the same coin as the material world.

Spirit and matter are inherently interdependent.

Just as Li Qi was pondering these things, a vortex appeared before his eyes.

A vortex of information flow that Li Qi could not comprehend appeared before Li Qi.

Li Qi was very familiar with this vortex; he had read the True Knowledge Dao Charm before, and it was the spiritual rhyme that made up the Illusionary Reality Domain.

That's not quite accurate... It should be said that the spiritual path's essence was only a negligible part of the other party's body.

"I... I heard that the Spiritual Way Great Power here has perished." Li Qi looked at the other person with some curiosity.

Wasn't he supposed to be dead? Why can I still see him?

"That's right, he has fallen. However, I have nothing to do with him. I'm just here to continue this unfinished business. After all... dancing with the Heavenly Demon is very dangerous. Not everyone can succeed. We can only pass the baton slowly." The vortex transmitted a clear message to Li Qi.

"So... where is this?" Li Qi looked around. What exactly was this Illusionary Reality Domain? What mechanism had he triggered to be able to face this powerful spiritual being?

By the way, what rank is the other party?

"I am a second-rank cultivator. As for why you came here, it's because of your Dao aura. It's truly impressive... Unfortunately, it's not yours. It doesn't meet our requirements," the second-rank cultivator said.

"Does it not meet your requirements?" Li Qi tilted his head, somewhat puzzled.

The second-rank Spirit Daoist appeared very amiable and easy to talk to. He said calmly, "Well, this Illusionary Reality Domain is used to find things that even we have never imagined. The so-called 'what you think, you become' means using information and imagination, with the help of the power of the Heavenly Demonic Dao Charm, to turn them into reality and make them a part of us. This may be the opportunity to achieve the first rank of the Spirit Daoist."

"We have found something we never imagined before, which is your Daoist aura, but... this is meaningless. Your Daoist aura is not replicable and does not have the potential to become an opportunity. But after all, you have completed the challenge here, so we should at least see you."

Li Qi understood. The Illusionary Reality Domain... so that's its purpose.

So he asked, "Then... besides me, has anyone else accomplished something 'unthinkable'?"

"Yes," the other party answered frankly.