Demon Pool Makes a Move

Li Qi used a very simple method, yet it stirred the demonic thoughts of the secondary celestial demon.

Yes, that was the most wondrous part. As pure demonic thoughts themselves, as the tendrils extended by the true celestial demon, the secondary celestial demons also possessed demonic thoughts.

This was actually perfectly normal. So long as they possessed self-awareness, demonic thoughts could almost be said to be inevitable.

It also gave Li Qi a faint conjecture.

So long as there was higher intelligence, there would inevitably be demonic thoughts. Then what exactly was the essence of demonic thoughts?

Demonic thoughts could give rise to demonic thoughts, just as worlds could give rise to worlds. It would create infinitely nested Russian dolls, like that book he had once considered—the 'book that contained every book.'

Did a book that contained every book contain itself?

If it did, then within the book that contained every book, there was another book that contained every book. Within that one was another, and another upon inspection—endless, falling into a nest of Russian dolls.

It was the same with demonic thoughts giving birth to demonic thoughts. Demonic thoughts gave rise to lesser demonic thoughts, which gave rise to still lesser ones, never stopping.

Expanded to a greater scale, such as this universe...

The universe contained everything. Did the universe contain universes?

If the universe contained universes, then there were universes within the universe, and universes within those universes, just like... the 'heavens.'

Were not the so-called 'heavens' precisely like this? They were all heavens born from mighty beings carving open heaven and earth.

In other words, the universe was something that could give birth to universes...

These thoughts flooded in. He seemed to have found inspiration, yet also seemed not to have.

He was rather familiar with this