Ox Ghosts and Snake Gods

Li Qi a more ingenious method to resist this high-ranking Perfected Person.

It should be noted that Li Qi did possess the other party's head, but it was absorbed by Li Qi. The absorbed part was originally a component of Li Qi's inner world.

Yes, when Li Qi broke through to the sixth rank, he directly used the third-rank Dao principles to construct his inner world.

This directly led to the fact that the other party did not die, but instead merged with the Dao at this time, absorbing the power of the immortals and heavens to be completely resurrected.

Although it seems now... this is probably Human Path conspiracy.

But Li Qi took advantage of this conspiracy.

Once upon a time, Li Qi's inner world was constructed by this third-rank Dao principle. In other words... this was Li Qi's own Dao, and Li Qi also followed the other party's Dao Path. Li Qi never denied the importance of the law, and could even agree with it.

The "righteousness" and "justice" that Li Qi initially established for himself, the "justice" of which has been explained many times, is simply the law applicable in most situations.

After Li Qi reached the fourth rank, his own Dao principles began to gradually emerge in the real world.

At this moment, Li Qi completely pierced through the third-rank official's attack, including his moves.

This was originally Li Qi's own Dao principle. Everyone was killing each other, and they were all merging with the Dao within the Immortal Heaven's body. In this way, Li Qi turned the other party's battle into his own internal strife.

In other words, at this moment, Li Qi knows the other party's background, but the other party does not know Li Qi's background.

He was fighting against Li Qi and Zhang Zong, but Li Qi was fighting against himself.

This turned the battle into a rather strange form. Li Qi was no longer facing an enemy, but himself, only... a portion of the enemy's power had been mixed in.

Admittedly, this Perfected Person had a way of dealing with it; simply using this method would not have been enough to win.

After discovering this, the Perfected Person did not hesitate to change his tactics, preparing to shift from destruction to absorption. Since Li Qi was prepared to turn this into internal strife, so be it...

Let him directly control Li Qi's inner world, and then completely possess and devour him from within.

This is what this Perfected Person thought.

But when he actually went inside, he was shocked.

Li Qi's body...

The chaos was giving even a third-rank official like him a headache.

Letting you in was a trap.

Within Li Qi's body are Jade Bead bestowed by the Buddhist Heavens and the Dakini Heaven, demonic energy personally granted by the Heavenly Demon, Buddhist energy bestowed by Amitabha Buddha, a base constructed by the Polaris Golden Core Method, pure energy constructed by the Great Earth Shamanic God, the gaze of Witch Xian, the Yin Qi of Changxi, the area of Immortal Heaven and Heavenly Dao Integration, a component resembling the Vast Heaven Dao Charm, and divine chaos from the Fire Official.

The various components, and even his three-tiered Dao principles, appear insignificant among them.

Each of these items was enough to kill an ordinary fifth-rank official, but when they were put together, they formed a delicate balance, allowing Li Qi's inner world to achieve a certain self-consistency.

Well...

It can be said that Li Qi's current cultivation level is entirely dependent on a bug; if the bug were removed, he would have already self-destructed.

This chaotic inner world resulted in this loss of one-thousandth of a second.

However, this only resulted in the Perfected Person returning empty-handed, causing only a temporary backlash that weakened him for a period of time. It would not have any special impact on him, and there would be no aftereffects.

But... don't forget, Li Qi has two people on his side.

Currently, all Law Power has been given to Li Qi, while the Little Heavenly Master, who now possesses the power of Heavenly Punishment, does not need Law Power.

In that fraction of a second, the third-rank attack was temporarily halted by Li Qi's trick, but the Little Heavenly Master's attack did not stop.

The Heavenly Punishment descended precisely during this Perfected Person's period of weakness.

His attack mingled with Li Qi's inner world, and he himself could hardly withstand the backlash of a third-grade attack, while simultaneously facing the impending Heavenly Punishment—

Even this Perfected Person himself couldn't say whether it was premeditated or a coincidence.

But... just as he realized it, he discovered that reality had already been predetermined, and the cause and effect had been extended to the present moment.

The person who manipulated all of this is none other than Li Qi, who is standing right in front of us.

This is a genuine Rank 3 trait. The opponent had already mastered the Rank 3 trait when he was Rank 5, and then used it on him when he was promoted to Rank 4.

It would have been impossible. If it were outside the realm of cause and effect, he would see it clearly and would never have fallen for it.

But now, he has entered Li Qi's body on his own initiative. Now, Li Qi is not interfering with the outside world, but with himself. This is internal strife.

As mentioned before... the world around Li Qi is a parallel world that belongs only to him, and it has gradually begun to break free from the constraints of the Principle of the real universe.

When the Perfected Person wanted to use the inner world's structure to possess Li Qi, who had imploded, he had already willingly become a part of this world. At this point, Li Qi had already begun to decide the future of the inner world.

As for confrontation, it is certainly possible, but the Perfected Person of today can no longer do so.

He now has to fight against the causal selection, a bunch of demons and monsters in Li Qi's inner world, and Li Qi's attempt to assimilate and suppress their power, while he suffers the backlash of using his third-grade power. Moreover, the Little Heavenly Master's Heavenly Punishment has arrived.

Thunder descended; this was true 'Heavenly Punishment'.

Due to a number of factors, the situation described by Witch Xian occurred.

Li Qi and the Little Heavenly Master, at least won for this moment.

But he hasn't completely won yet. This isn't enough to kill a Perfected Person instantly. He still has the ability to drag Li Qi and Zhang Zong to their deaths, and it's even possible that he will still survive.

A Perfected Person has fallen from grace is truly too powerful.

However... Xian Tian's movements were extremely agile.

The moment the outcome was decided, the instant this Perfected Person wanted to retaliate, he had already vanished without a trace.

He was truly devoured by the immortals.

Li Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and his whole body collapsed instantly.

If the immortals had been even half a second slower, they would have all perished alongside this Perfected Person.

However, the plan was completed.

This is what Li Qi has always wanted to do. He knew this since he first set foot in the Immortal Heaven many years ago. The purpose this time is to show himself and let the higher-ups of the Immortal Heaven make a decision.

Everything was simply to shift the attitude of the immortals.

The preparations made by Zhu Fengdan beforehand, the struggle with Human Path, and Li Qi himself were all just one part of this demonstration.

He never Perfected Person considered defeating his opponent; it was impossible, the gap in skill was too vast.

But if the immortals themselves take action, that's a different story.

What he did was not to defeat the Perfected Person, but to curry favor with the Celestials.

When Li Qi demonstrated this, the downfall of the Perfected Person was already inevitable.

Returning to our original intentions... isn't that what Shaman should do?

Fighting is not Shaman should do; his job is 'communication'.

Li Qi sighed and looked at Xian Tian.

He could feel his strength waning.

The immortals are 'spitting' him out; he is falling from the Dao Integration realm, but... Li Qi is already confident that he will truly advance to the fourth rank in the future.

He has already glimpsed the possibility of escaping this world from the Immortal Heaven and the Heaven of Hao, and has even verified it in practice. Now all he lacks is time and time to settle down and reconstruct everything. Then he will arrive in that extraordinary realm and truly break free from the shackles of the Great Dao of the Universe.

However, before that, the Little Heavenly Master's mark disappeared silently. Without the support of the Celestial Realm, the causal connection between the two was severed, and they each returned to their own bodies.

I believe that after this matter is over, the Little Heavenly Master will immediately remove all of Li Qi's attire and disguise from his body, and will never impersonate anyone again.

Regardless, personally experiencing the power of a fourth-rank cultivator must have been a unique experience for him, even if it was for better or worse.

Experiencing the power of high-grade items in advance is not always a good thing; otherwise, powerful beings would have already been giving their disciples a free trial of such power.

However, such an experience may bring unknown results. Experiencing higher levels of power may not necessarily bring a broad perspective, but rather a narrow understanding such as "so this is what the fourth rank is like", which may create Cognitive Obstruction and cut off one's Dao Path.

But... no matter what the Little Heavenly Master says, it seems that the celestial masters have already agreed, right?

As for Li Qi himself, he was not constrained by such matters. Through his experience in the Immortal Heaven, he had come to understand what 'Heaven' should be like.

While Li Qi was thinking about these things, he was spat out by the immortal and arrived in the void.

Zhu Fengdan simply gestured to Li Qi, pointing towards Yao Ji, before rushing into the Immortal Heaven, clearly indicating that she had something to do.

As for Li Qi himself, he looked at Yao Ji beside him.

"Give it back to me." Yao Ji reached out her hand.

Without delay, Li Qi presented the Vast Heaven Dao Charm he had previously obtained with both hands.

Then Yao Ji didn't say anything, or rather, she was too lazy to continue communicating with Li Qi, and turned around and left on her own.

It's three billion light-years from here to the nearest world...

How long will it take her to walk?

Forget it, let her be. Li Qi himself doesn't intend to do that.

After that, Li Qi chose to sit in the void.

Once Zhu Fengdan emerges from the Immortal Realm, Teacher Zhu will lead me away from here.

Anyway, it's impossible for him to travel 3 billion light-years on his own; he'd die anyway.

Let's sit down, recall, and sort out the differences between Haotian and Xiantian that we have seen.

The four grades of Dao foundation that Li Qi saw and pondered.

What he was thinking about was not actually the nature of Haotian and Xiantian, because these natures were not the most important. These natures were their Dao Path, and Li Qi could never understand the Dao Path of the first rank.

The characteristic of the fourth rank is that it can ignore the limitations of the Dao Path in the real universe. For example, the speed of light, Heavenly Way Limit, can be broken by the fourth rank because the fourth rank can define the area covered by the Dao laws around itself. Here, it is equivalent to a parallel world in which its own Dao operates.

From this point, we can extend to new concepts, such as what is the Heavenly Way Limit?

Li Qi observed Haotian and Xiantian and thus discerned this point.

The essence of the Heavenly Way Limit is infinity, which is infinity in a physical sense. It roughly represents the upper limit of our spacetime speed, similar to how absolute zero is a lower limit, but it is not mathematical infinity. This physical infinity is manifested in the real universe as 300,000 km/s.

The speed of light is the upper limit of the speed of matter in the current universe. Any matter with mass can only approach this limit but cannot exceed it. Similar to infinity, it cannot be broken through.

Yes, in relative spacetime, speeds can be infinitely added together, but they will eventually converge to c, which is the speed of light.

The infinite acceleration of an object is not acceleration in the usual sense, because the essence of acceleration is the superposition of speed. In high-speed spacetime, the low-speed 'velocity' has become invalid. When f approaches infinity and speed approaches infinity, the velocity will converge to the speed of light.

The essence of acceleration is the increase in speed on the Spacetime Map. At this point, ordinary mechanics no longer works. Even if an object with mass is accelerated infinitely under the action of infinite force, the speed will approach infinity, but the velocity can only approach c infinitely, and cannot reach it.

This is the 'upper limit'.

However, having an upper limit means... there is something above that upper limit.

For example, every number has its reciprocal. The reciprocal of infinity is infinitesimal. If we draw a number line, we can clearly distinguish two corresponding segments, namely opposite numbers, in the positive and negative directions of the number line.

Li Qi had said something similar before, referring to this correspondence on the number line as the two sides of the universe's 'yin and yang'.

And all opposite numbers have the same absolute value. Is this absolute value the essence of the correspondence between two opposite numbers?

After looking at Xiantian and Haotian, another absurd idea popped into his head: can a number line only have a fixed number?

Can there only be four quadrants?

If the real universe has one side, then the fourth grade can perhaps be understood as the other side of the real universe, the reciprocal, or the other end of the number line.

At the same time, it can be further expanded. For example, the three directions of spacetime can actually be easily expanded to include a fourth direction, or even millions of directions. In other words, dimensions can be added infinitely, and infinite dimensions are logically possible.

It just doesn't exist in the real universe.

However, as long as it is logically consistent, Li Qi can construct all of this himself.

This is the power of the Tao, which transcends the real universe.

The real world we live in is itself constructed from the 'Tao', so it is only natural that a new 'Tao' would create another unreal universe.

If one truly understands the 'Tao' and can imagine and comprehend what a higher dimension is like, or what the limits are after breaking through the Heavenly Dao, then one can truly advance to the fourth rank by thoroughly comprehending these concepts.

Li Qi needs to take some time to reflect and mature.

Now that the matter of Xiantian has been basically resolved, he has some free time. He can use this time while waiting for his teacher to think things through.

With that thought in mind, Li Qi sat cross-legged in the void, pondering and waiting.

Time passed slowly.

Ten years passed quickly.

Zhu Fengdan's figure detached from the celestial realm, and he wiped away his sweat.

Fortunately, I did not fail in my mission.

Then, he looked at Li Qi over there.