The battle continued.
Clearly, in terms of computational power, Li Qi, bolstered by True Knowledge, far surpassed his opponent.
The effects True Knowledge could exert were absolutely no weaker than the ruler, and True Knowledge carried no risk of being stripped away, because Li Qi was defending himself every moment.
The Li Qi of the past and the Li Qi of the present were fundamentally one.
Interfering with Li Qi at any point in time was equivalent to interfering with Li Qi at this very moment. That was the advantage Li Qi had gained after giving up retrospection.
The advantage of the Dao.
Laws, rules, all manner of regulations—even the laws of physics themselves—would change according to time, place, and environment.
Therefore, what mattered was learning to judge for oneself what could be done and what could not.
The basis for that judgment was one's own Dao.
Only with that could one move freely through the universe without fear.
Everyone's Dao differed, so naturally what they followed differed as well, and the methods they could employ were not all the same.
Obviously, in this third-rank Dao conflict, the Imperial Academy Jijiu could not utterly defeat Li Qi.
But Li Qi could not defeat his opponent either.
Just as Li Qi prepared to advance steadily, hold his ground, and then push forward at a measured pace, he discovered... that once he advanced to a certain point, the Jijiu's deduction speed would multiply!
The power of the third rank was already terrifying enough. Multiplying it was enough to scare one to death. Li Qi could not keep up at all and could only fall back into defense.
Li Qi more or less knew the reason for this.
This was the power of the Nexus of All Realms.
A second-rank Human Path artifact: