The hybrid construct named "Li Qi" witnessed the tormented spiritual world of his past self.
Yet "Li Qi" felt neither self-pity nor lingering regret.
Instead, "Li Qi" smiled faintly, like someone recalling the hardships of childhood, without the slightest resentment.
The suffering of all those fragments seemed like fruitless pain, yet it had merely been the small price paid for "Li Qi" to arrive.
The suffering had happened, but the entire past was fair, sweet, and beautiful, because "Li Qi" had arrived.
"Li Qi"'s arrival compensated for all the pain endured by the previous "fragments."
"Li Qi" was the paradise the fragments had longed for.
In the fragments' few and fleeting lives.
Zhou Fang, or Little Reboot, along with their peers throughout the universe, would continue onward at this moment, tempering "Li Qi"'s understanding of the cosmos and achieving perfect insight.
How should Li Qi's current state be described?
A perfect spiritual entity?
No, that was not right. He was not a spiritual entity.
Li Qi's present state was difficult to describe. It was simply identical to Great One's; no matter what was used to describe him, it would not be true enough.
He should, by all rights, have been a spiritual entity, because his material existence was insufficient to define him. Yet... there was no reason to call him a "spiritual entity," but not calling him a "spiritual entity" was also wrong.
Because no matter what Li Qi was at this moment, he contained only more than spirit.
His meaning could only exceed every meaning found in mortal language.
From the perspective of humanity, even from that of cosmic intelligence, this "more" made one unable to see clearly. It was painful, an awe-inspiring mystery that commanded solemn reverence.
"How do you feel now?" Great One asked Li Qi.
Li