Normally, a "severing of karmic ties" at this level would not make a person disappear. After all, beyond interpersonal relationships, there were many other karmic connections.
But the power of the Death Demon was involved now. Nothing that happened would be strange.
With that in mind, Li Qi advanced toward the Death Demon's remains.
Throughout the process, he conducted countless deductions.
Countless in the most literal sense.
After gathering parameters once in the Desire Realm, he could simulate them within his inner world. Using the power of turning the unreal into the real, he created roughly six thousand worlds of different types and races, then forcibly deduced their endings.
The final result was a technique capable of resisting the Death Demon's death: a technique for forging karmic ties.
It was more or less enough.
At this point, Li Qi somewhat missed the peculiar cosmic-time technique of his old friend Yan Ke, the young master of Wushen Mountain.
That was a third-rank method.
It sealed away a world, then created peculiar cosmic time within it. Yan Ke's master had asked another great power to create it. (For details, see Chapter 231.)
By finding a world that naturally possessed peculiar cosmic time, sealing it away, and even reducing its mass, it could be carried around like a glass marble.
Then, the nature of that world would not change in any way. Even while preserving its peculiar cosmic time, it could allow consciousness to enter and make subtle manipulations within.
When consciousness entered such a place, the time differential would ordinarily tear apart practitioners lacking substantial reality. That was where one's technical skill was tested.
A third-rank being used great divine powers to compress the world without changing its nature, while also allowing the mind to enter without dying from a lack of