What had happened, even if it was traced back, was undeniably real.
Suppose that the present Li Qi was traced back to when he had first become ninth rank. Would the life he had experienced then become nothingness?
No.
None of it was false.
Therefore, everything that had happened was real; it was merely a "different kind of reality."
Calling it "like an illusionary dream" was not quite accurate. Dreams were false, but these things were real.
Why did people say that dreams were false?
Because in a dream, there was really only yourself.
Suppose that in a dream, you and a girl loved each other. But did that girl truly love you? Or was she merely a fantasy of yours? That girl was actually part of you as well. At its core, it was you talking to yourself, so it was false.
Even if you followed the demonic path and could turn an illusionary dream into reality, at its core, that girl had no heart of her own.
Whether feelings were false and whether all this was real did not depend on whether that girl was "in a dream" or "in reality," but on whether she held the same feelings for you.
If that girl had her own will and loved you because of her own choices, what did it matter if she was an "illusionary dream"? Would dating a dream-creature make you explode?
If that girl would not respond to you, if she was merely a vegetative patient, then even if she was made of organic matter from reality, what difference would it make? Did that relationship truly exist?
To great powers, the boundary between reality and illusion became especially blurred.
An illusionary dream was an illusionary dream because all the information within it came from yourself. That