At this moment, on Li Qi's side.
Li Qi was handling matters in Dream City, preparing to uproot many of the Devil Path's arrangements here from their very foundations. Yet something continued to weigh on his mind.
Having Li Shiwei serve as bait and deliberately expose his weak spot so that the Devil Path could "seize the gap and slip in" had always been part of the plan.
Still, he could not quite set his mind at ease.
"Alas." He sighed.
"What, do you still feel that doing all this is meaningless?" Jing Wuzhen asked.
She had more or less come to understand Li Qi's attitude. In his eyes, once those Devil Lords returned, everything they were doing now would immediately be reversed, rendering it no different from having done nothing at all.
Completely meaningless.
But Jing Wuzhen was different. She felt that no matter what, it had meaning.
"No. I no longer think this is meaningless." Li Qi shook his head as he spoke.
"Oh? Is that the result of that enlightenment?" Jing Wuzhen asked curiously.
For fourth-rank cultivators, the things they firmly believed in were not so easily changed. Li Qi's sudden shift in attitude was likely inseparable from that enlightenment.
Li Qi sighed. "Yes, it has something to do with that enlightenment. By the way, do you know what 'temporal sequence' is?"
"Temporal sequence is the order in which things happen, isn't it? What about it?" Jing Wuzhen looked somewhat baffled.
Li Qi set down his work and looked at Jing Wuzhen. "In this universe, to great powers, everything is actually void—and it has been so from the very beginning. Think about it... the universe itself was something that came into being out of nothing."
"The birth of this universe had no purpose. Our existence has no