The Long Road of Ten Thousand Paths
Chapter 838

Unleash the Slaughter

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In a slum within Dream City, a witch dressed in luxurious yet exceedingly daring clothes knelt before Li Qi, trembling with fear.

Practitioners of the Affliction Demon Lineage were not as arrogant as those of the Heavenly Demon Lineage.

For the Heavenly Demon Lineage, making them submit so simply was almost impossible. The Heavenly Demon Lineage embodied absolute selfhood. They did not think high-grade powerhouses were anything remarkable; they were merely one part of the world they had constructed.

As the sole subjective observer, they would never die. They merely had to struggle against the world they had constructed.

Because if they died, then the world would no longer hold any meaning.

Therefore, there must inevitably be a world that held meaning for the subjective observer.

For example, a revolver held three bullets. In other words, if one fired it at one's own head, there was a fifty percent chance of dying.

It was like the cat in Schrödinger's cat—there was a fifty percent chance of death and a fifty percent chance of survival.

Only at the very instant the trigger was pulled could a definite answer be obtained.

But under the many-worlds interpretation, two different universes would be created. In one, the person died; in the other, the person survived.

After conducting the experiment several times, one would discover that there was always one universe where that person never died. In other words, through such experiments, one experimenter would never die. No matter how many times he fired, he would survive.

This was immortality in terms of subjective consciousness.

The principle was simple. Only in the universe where the empty chamber jammed could the subjective observer's consciousness continue to exist, because in every other possibility, that person would be shot dead.

If this person continued to activate the machine

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