The hot war between third-rank cultivators had begun.
For some reason, a third-rank Human Path cultivator had actually taken the initiative to intercept Li Qi.
By rights, this should not have happened. Once Li Qi made a move, retaliating afterward would grant an advantage. Li Qi had made the first move, so he had exposed a portion of his own existence first.
The essence of third-rank combat was an intelligence war. Everyone inferred the weaknesses in the other's Dao Path, using deduction, calculation, and experiments under extreme conditions to continuously damage the other's Dao Path itself. There had even been cases like Zhu Fengdan's, where someone directly inserted conflicting Dao Rhythms into him and caused his self-collapse.
Though this would not endanger their lives, since third-rank cultivators would not die, it brought another consequence.
In the most serious cases, like that third-rank Human Path cultivator Li Qi had fought in the Immortal Heavens, the opponent had indeed not died. They had merely lost consciousness and the ability to interfere with reality, entering slumber while awaiting revival.
If one fell into such a state, then without anyone to protect them—or if that protection was forcibly breached—and someone locked away the possibility of their "awakening," then they would have to sleep forever. This was called Zero Possibility.
If every possibility of the future was traversed, every event in the past and future observed, and no matter what happened, one could never awaken, then that was one manifestation of Zero Possibility.
Beyond that, there were many other manifestations. One did not necessarily have to fall asleep for Zero Possibility to occur.
For example, trapping the other party in a nested cycle of inevitable destruction was like getting stuck with a dead save file in a game. No matter how they struggled, no matter