Great Perfect Mirror Wisdom

The Cloud Whale floated high in the sky, drifting with the wind.

Pale light curled around his body. The turbulence stirred by his song swirled around him, like fireflies surging in the dark, like the Milky Way falling into his midst.

His song echoed melodiously through the heavens, its circling notes chanting loosely, clean yet desolate.

Listening to the song, Li Qi gradually seemed to calm down as well.

"Since you have no name, I'll call you Cloud Whale. Cloud Whale, you're quite extraordinary," Li Qi said once he had settled himself.

"All living things in this world are unique. All are extraordinary. You are the same," Cloud Whale replied.

The voice sounded directly within Li Qi's heart, while Cloud Whale's physical body continued singing without pause.

"Why can you directly see my thoughts? This seems different from my method. I directly scan your thinking organs, while you... are merely unranked. You shouldn't be able to scan my inner thoughts," Li Qi asked curiously.

Before him, Cloud Whale could not lie. So long as any method related to scanning surfaced in Cloud Whale's mind, Li Qi would immediately know the key to it.

For an unranked being, even if the other party could read minds like him, Li Qi would still hold an absolute advantage in conversation.

Yet Cloud Whale answered, "A method? What is a method?"

Li Qi could clearly read that the other party truly did not know what a method was.

Thinking about it carefully, that made perfect sense. This Cloud Whale had no cultivation whatsoever. He had never cultivated at all!

How, under such circumstances, could he read minds?

Li Qi was thoroughly puzzled.

Still, he felt that they could continue communicating.

So Li Qi no longer spoke aloud, instead relying on pure thought to speak