Chapter 951 Li Qi's Transformation

Shen Shuibi is also in this war. In fact, as an indispensable part of Li Qi's life, she will inevitably be involved.

If you have a good relationship with the third rank, you will naturally bear the corresponding risks.

Moreover, in these countless recollections, she will also retain every memory, and as a fourth rank, she will be more painful.

Li Qi will not be changed. The third rank is already a metaphysical existence and it is difficult to change.

But Shen Shuibi is not a third rank, she is a fourth rank, and the reality she possesses is only to be able to maintain herself in the recollection. She cannot resist it.

Li Qi is watching a writer who keeps repeating a story. She is a character in the repetitive story, but she can maintain herself.

This is actually... very painful.

Just like the endless recollection that Li Qi experienced when he was a fifth rank.

It is that painful.

Everything disappears, everything disappears, and only the lonely self is left.

This means that other things in this world often disappear, and no one can help her face these. In Shen Shuibi's world, the real existence is only herself.

There was an amazing sense of nothingness surrounding Shen Shuibi, and she even began to fear this self that was facing possibilities.

Because the constant refreshing of the world around her brought a sense of loneliness and nothingness.

No attachment, no shelter -

Lonely, abnormal, gloomy, cold.

We said before that people will feel warm and comfortable at home when they sink into the ordinary world, because others have arranged your identity and your way of life for you, and I don’t have to live facing possibilities.

It’s so convenient, comfortable, and warm, everything is in order, I feel like I’m at home. And fear pulls you out of your home and becomes an individualized, lonely self.

However, on such days, there is actually something you can believe in, that is, Li Qi who appears by your side every time.

This gave Shen Shuibi a great support.

In this world of nothingness and chaos, it is such a happy and beautiful thing to have a solid existence to walk with you.

It is precisely because of this that Shen Shuibi can persist in this endless timeline war.

But now, Shen Shuibi saw this atmosphere beside Li Qi.

That kind of... empty atmosphere.

She realized that it was time for her to support Li Qi.

So, she took the initiative to step forward, hugged Li Qi, and said to him: "I have always been here."

Li Qi smiled bitterly: "I know, but I will be gone soon."

"Is this tributary going to be cut off?" Shen Shuibi asked again.

"Well, in four minutes, to be precise... the fight has already started, I just came back to talk to you now." Li Qi explained.

This is indeed difficult to understand, because in Li Qi's case, he talked to Shen Shuibi, separated from Shen Shuibi four minutes later, and fought with the third level of humanity. These three things happened at the same time.

At the same time, many things happened, such as Li Qi was experiencing himself in other timelines, and was having various conversations and countless battles. All of this was happening at the same time in the eyes of Li Qi's 'body'.

At every moment, there were countless enemies to face, countless battlefields that needed them to clean up, and countless decisions waiting for them to finalize. This was the battle that Li Qi was fighting.

Time has no meaning, only sequence has meaning, and sequence only has meaning to Li Qi himself, and everything else can be ignored.

"Only four minutes... Then, before that--" Shen Shuibi wanted to say something, but that sentence seemed to be more difficult to say than she expected.

So she couldn't say it.

Li Qi just looked at her like this, looking a little helpless.

He almost guessed what Rabbit wanted to say.

"Li Qi, I seem to have become your weakness." Shen Shuibi smiled bitterly and shook her head, saying it in a different way.

"Weakness? Don't say that." Li Qi shook his head.

"In the next possibility, you can't leave me here, I'm a burden, maybe trying to abandon me can bring better results." Shen Shuibi immediately added.

She has realized this.

Because of her relationship with Li Qi, at some key points, humanity will attack Shen Shuibi's possibilities and try to deprive Shen Shuibi's history from Li Qi.

If Shen Shuibi is actively stripped away, it may be possible to take the lead.

"Impossible, I won't do that, you know." Li Qi stroked her hair and said calmly but firmly.

Rabbit shook his head and said, "It's better to do this. Anyway, after everything is settled, you can make everything start over, right?"

Even if it is temporarily separated, as long as Li Qi himself has a future, then as a third-rank official, he has a chance to restore everything.

But this goes back to the question.

Which history is "more real" and "more qualified" to be preserved?

Is it the history of Shen Shuibi's survival, or the history of her death?

There is no doubt that for Li Qi, the history of survival is more important. If he is allowed to choose, he will definitely keep the history that allowed Shen Shuibi to survive.

But...

But, in that case, wouldn't it be a fundamental denial of Shen Shuibi's existence?

When Shen Shuibi also became an object that could be manipulated at will, what exactly is this reality?

Is there anything else that can describe this except illusion?

"So I said, I won't give in on this step." Li Qi said.

Shen Shuibi didn't say anything, but buried her head in Li Qi's shoulder.

At this moment, Li Qi thought of the past. He had met a third-grade Zhongwei Bird Clan, and the other party's Tao heart collapsed because of the first-grade battle. (See Chapter 916 for details)

At that time, the third-grade Zhongwei Bird said to Li Qi: "My history was killed in the previous war. In the little time I was about to escape, I almost lost consciousness. When I regained my reaction, I found that my history was like a pig dismembered in a butcher's shop."

"If I had a little bit of backbone, I should have fought back and reduced my possibilities to zero. In this way, even if I can no longer interfere with the future, at least I can keep the present and continue to live in a closed space-time loop, looking forward to gaining new possibilities one day."

"But... I didn't do it. I chose to give in and did not interfere with the changes they made. I retained the possibility of continuation, but it made my past fragmented and turned into a dream."

This memory emerged in Li Qi's mind, and Li Qi suddenly realized the coming of some kind of danger.

When he had this feeling because of Shen Shuibi's matter-

If he really chose to "never give in" in the end.

Then, if he was caught in the tug of humanity, this so-called "never give in" would inevitably become the beginning of his possibility closure.

This is what Shen Shuibi meant by "burden".

You will never give in, so let's play tug-of-war.

When you play tug-of-war infinitely in the timeline, it means that you can never move forward. You choose to stay in the infinite retrospection of the past for those things.

This is the death of the third rank, that is: the possibility is zero.

Li Qi will stay in the past and will not go to the future or create new possibilities.

This made Li Qi sigh.

In order to maintain the possibility of going to the future, must Shen Shuibi be abandoned?

Then...

Abandon Lao Ma, abandon Uncle Six, abandon Shen Shuibi...

Abandon everyone you know, and be alone, then there will be no more shackles, light and neat, and it will not even be possible to attack Li Qi for his past, because he doesn't care at all.

Li Qi will naturally be "immortal".

Give up everything, abandon everything, and survive only for his own survival.

Just like... Xiantian.

Xiantian doesn't care about anything.

Nothing is needed.

Everything in the outside world doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether it's real or not. It has nothing to do with Xiantian.

Xiantian is a complete beast. If he was born as a non-rank, he would probably die as a non-rank, without any possibility of cultivation.

But he was born as a first-rank, similar to Haotian.

It's hard to imagine how such a thing was born, but he just appeared like this.

Because Xiantian doesn't care about anything.

Because Xiantian doesn't care about everything except himself.

He has no dispute with any existence, and he doesn't care about any interests or anything like that. He just needs to exist.

Therefore, Xiantian is the safest existence in this universe. If Li Qi learns from him, then there will be no problem.

But...

Li Qi suddenly reached out and hugged Shen Shuibi tightly: "I suddenly figured out one thing, Yu'er."

"What?" Shen Shuibi looked up.

Li Qi said slowly: "I have reached the third rank... No, after I reached the fifth rank, I have always had a weak attitude towards the existence of mortals. You still know what I looked like when I was at the ninth and eighth ranks."

"I just realized that the manifestation of the so-called 'nature' is not the so-called ultimate origin. It is not so empty. The so-called 'nature' is the things themselves."

Yes, 'nature' is not suspended above all things, but coexists with all things.

There is no 'metaphysical' existence in this world.

Li Qi noticed this.

He is not 'metaphysical', there is no existence 'higher' than 'form'.

Form, the appearance of all things, is the origin of all things.

So, there is no difference between 'real' and 'illusion' at all.

"If even all things themselves are false, then there is still 'Tao' to speak of? Right." Li Qi stroked Shen Shuibi's head and said so.

The rabbit looked at Li Qi, and vaguely saw the appearance of Li Qi in the past from him.

The previous Li Qi was very 'master style'.

A third-rank master, a powerful person who can travel freely in the universe, time and space cannot restrain him, and his power can penetrate the past and present, so naturally... his performance is also high and high.

He disappears on the spot with a light step, and can decide the world with a word. His words are followed by the law, and his magic power is boundless.

He looks at everything indifferently, and only seems normal to the people around him and those great beings above the third rank. Apart from that, Li Qi almost does not regard mortals as beings who can talk to him.

Because there is no need.

Countless sad individual lives, humanoids, fish-like creatures, snail-like creatures, energy bodies, elements, or high-dimensional lives like Laqi, including the fate of all other creatures.

In front of them, Li Qi was high above.

His attitude towards these creatures this time was by no means equal.

Li Qi's attitude was neither cold nor simple love.

Indeed, if you have to say, Li Qi respects them and loves them, but it seems that Li Qi, as a third-grade master, no longer has the desire to save them from the sea of ​​suffering, nor is he willing to help them get rid of the cruel influence of the environment.

Li Qi is willing to respect them, but no longer pity them.

In the endless cycle of reincarnation, Li Qi saw the mistakes and omissions of these lives, their limitations, their trivial characteristics, and their struggle between stupidity and clarity.

This kind of vacillation and mistakes has even become one of the essences of these lives. If you help them get rid of all this, it is to erase their existence, so Li Qi doesn't care about them, just maintains the existence of "them", and has no pity for their situation.

Because, for the master Li Qi, they are part of the possibility. As long as the "Tao" still exists, they will exist. Even if they are destroyed one after another, it doesn't matter.

Because all things are derived from "nature". As long as "nature" is maintained, life will grow out of the ground by itself.

This is the attitude of the master Li Qi towards them.

But a long time ago, Li Qi was not like this.

A long time ago, Li Qi was furious and risked his life just for justice.

But as he practiced, he became more and more aware of the fragility of mortals and the illusion of this universe, so he fell into a kind of confusion. He couldn't tell whether it was meaningful to interfere with this universe. He was still indifferent to the individuals of mortals, but he was always unsure about what attitude to take towards the whole of mortals.

But... at this moment, Li Qi finally determined his answer.

All things are not derived from "nature".

All things are nature itself.

All things are born by themselves, and things are created by themselves.

The outside world is not supported by the Tao, and the inside world is not caused by oneself. Things in the world seem to have a "Tao" that makes the world like that, but if you seek that metaphysical "Tao", the result can only be nothing.

Because things are created by themselves and do not depend on each other, each specific thing becomes an independent entity, and all things together are "nature".

With this answer, Li Qi looked at mortals, Shen Shuibi, and this endless reincarnation again, and he had a new perspective.

At the same time, he also made a new decision.

"Leave it to me." He whispered in Shen Shuibi's ear.