"So... beyond eternity lay the true ultimate that represented every cause and every effect..."
Li Pin emptied his mind.
He let his thoughts flow slowly through his heart.
"A realm that represents... destiny?"
His past True Self, present True Self, and future True Self began to merge at this moment.
As the radiance of the Destiny Art flowed, the entire world seemed to freeze solid.
Not only the past and present, but also...
The future.
As time gradually froze in this state, only his thoughts could move freely within this stillness.
Throughout this process, neither the past nor the present showed any unexpected changes.
Li Pin guessed that this was because they had already happened and existed in a fixed state.
So long as he could successfully comprehend them and set them in motion, their fusion would naturally fall into place like water flowing into a channel.
The key was...
The future.
As he attempted to enter this state where the True Self was one and only, everything around him gradually began to change.
Because everything representing the past, present, and even future had frozen solid.
The only thing that could move was his mind.
This dislocation between absolute stillness and absolute motion made his thoughts seem to peel away from himself, rising and rising and rising again.
No, this peeling away did not refer merely to his body, but...
The universe.
Even the universe was insufficient to describe it. Rather... all of spacetime!
Like the concept of parallel spacetime.
Every parallel spacetime contained more than one universe.
The reason Li Pin felt that his thoughts were separating from the universe was because he had only ever come into contact with this universe and only recognized this universe. But that did not mean this spacetime contained only one universe.
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