The moment Li Qi obtained this answer, his inner world collapsed.
Within Li Qi's body, the struggle of Daos began.
Long ago, when Li Qi made his breakthrough, he had once envisioned an "Ultimate Great Dao" within his body. (See Chapter 295 for details.)
At the time, Li Qi had faced a difficult problem. Within him existed both the Human Path and the Shaman Path, and the two conflicted with each other, as irreconcilable as fire and water. If Li Qi wished to contain both, he needed a solution.
Otherwise, he would explode.
So, borrowing the Daoist sects' theory, he envisioned an "Ultimate Great Dao."
At the time, Li Qi defined this thing as follows:
"Dao," or "laws," "reality," or whatever else one might call it, were merely names that all living beings had presumptuously bestowed upon that thing. It could not be described; every description of it was wrong.
"It" could unify every level: the microscopic and the macroscopic, waves and particles, time and space, reality and illusion.
All things moved reverently around the "Dao." Everything was established around the "Dao." The existence of the whole world because of it contained no paradoxes, no theoretical conflicts. The existence of "it" was the cornerstone of all rationality.
All worlds were presentations of it from different angles. Like an irregular geometric body, it appeared to have different shapes when viewed from different directions, yet in truth, it had never changed.
This "Dao" was the ultimate metaphysical existence, the ultimate concept above all forms.
With this thing, Li Qi could afterward accommodate Buddha and demons, humanity and shamans, even other Dao Lineages. His ability to effortlessly wield the arts of many Dao Lineages also came from the reconciliation of this "Ultimate Great Dao" within him.
The reason he had not exploded even