Li Qi had a premonition that he would settle the karmic entanglement between himself and the demonic path in the Desire Realm. But... he had not expected that after the universe of the Desire Realm completely withered away, the vast flood of information that poured forth would directly reveal the connection between the Desire Realm and his "Dao Field."
After the Desire Realm withered and shattered, Li Qi noticed that at least eight Third Ranks from the Death Demon lineage had sent him messages. They had become "acquaintances who merely nodded in passing."
In other words, all of them had taken part in this operation.
Nine... ten including himself.
Ten Third Ranks had brought about the Desire Realm's own demise, allowing these Death Demon Third Ranks to carry out a colossal experiment equivalent to a real universe—as though they had raised an entire universe full of hamsters.
How many civilizations had existed in that process?
Too many to count. It was fundamentally impossible to count them all.
A world contained more than one civilization. This was especially true for high-rank worlds. A Fourth-Rank World, for example, could itself encompass several Observable Universes, spanning hundreds of billions of light-years. Rivers of stars filled it, countless superclusters lay scattered within, and different life might arise on every planet, even every star. The civilizations within were innumerable, more numerous than dust within a nebula.
Of course, a Fourth-Rank World could also merely be a flat land beneath a round sky, stretching tens of millions of li in every direction. Yet the quality of life within it would be absurdly high. It all depended on the nature of the world.
But even so, how many Fourth-Rank Worlds did the Desire Realm contain?
Certainly, the Desire Realm had no non-demonic-path beings above Third Rank. In