In the gloomy cycle of reincarnation, amid a violent thunderous boom, all of Li Qi's consciousness vanished here.
He cast away everything.
His memories, personality, self-awareness—everything, all of it—was left outside reincarnation.
Such a thorough abandonment also tore away every demonic thought that had bound him.
It could even be called...
On another level, cutting off flesh to return it to his mother, stripping out bones to return them to his father.
Everything that belonged to the Heavenly Demon was returned to the Heavenly Demon.
Since the Heavenly Demon had created Li Qi, since Li Qi too was the "Heavenly Demon's own child," then take it all back.
Cultivation, fortuitous encounters, personality, memories—I wanted none of it.
Severing past bonds, cutting off the present.
Only, in the course of this "return," Witch Xian intervened and seized the Desire Realm itself, which counted as recovering a portion of what had previously been lost.
But it was not quite so simple. Now that the schemes of both humans and demons had succeeded, the shamans had fallen into a disadvantageous position on another level, while Buddhism had utterly collapsed.
The momentum to Destroy Buddha had now been established, and the Human Path was frantically devouring all of Buddhism's legacy.
Perhaps this was the reward the Heavenly Demon had promised them.
White Horse Temple of old, that "Source of Buddhism in the Central Plains," began broadcasting.
Riding this wind, the Human Emperor began pushing for the unification of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, seeking to use Confucianism's power of digestion to absorb all the ideas of the Manifest World Faction of Daoism and Buddhism into the Human Path.
The Human-Shaman War was over.
There was no need to keep fighting. The Human Path's goal had already been achieved.
Even if they continued fighting the shamans,