Chapter 934: Chapter 934
In Null's database, countless data streams were frantically refreshing.
She continuously traced data regarding Liberators. In theory, as an Intelligent Lifeform, all her information was stored in her internal database. A search should have been all she needed to retrieve any piece of information. This was especially since the data had already been unlocked and repaired.
But now, a search through her database yielded no results. This was no doubt an anomaly, as she could clearly feel this was a power she had witnessed before.
"A bug has occurred..." muttered Null in dismay.
She couldn't wrap her head around what was happening, and her logical faculties began to fall into disarray. Warning messages started flooding her core, each filled with the word "Error"!
Countless error warnings kept appearing. Even when she tried to shut them down or filter them out, more and more conflicts arose. Soon, her structural integrity began to deteriorate, bringing her to the brink of collapse.
Li Pin, oblivious to the uniqueness of Intelligent Lifeforms, couldn't imagine the impact his display of a Liberator's power could have on Null. He was too immersed in his own discoveries and the verifications yet to come to notice her abnormal state.
"The past true self, the present true self, the future true self..."
Merging of the true selves as one was what the Eternity Realm was. However, this concept lacked a key element—a crucial key that could guide him from false Eternity to true Eternity.
The very purpose of the future true self was to point out all causes and all effects. But to see through the essence of cause and effect, one must first sever all of one's own causes and effects—in other words, one's karma!
Just like how a cultivator must eliminate all external interference, including matter, energy, time, space, karma, and reincarnation before achieving Transcendence.
Li Pin's thoughts swirled until they converged on the most crucial point.
Eliminate all external interference...
Eliminating interference from matter and energy was doable, but what about spacetime, or even karma? Karma and reincarnation were the very foundation of existence. They were vessels of thought and the True Self.
As for spacetime, it was the very proof that the concept of True Self even existed.
Even if he could discard mass and exist entirely beyond the material world, how could he possibly escape spacetime and the cycle of karma? If he truly abandoned them, wouldn't the very concept of his existence vanish?
"Sole true self... sole true self..." Li Pin kept murmuring these words.
In the next instant, a flash of insight streaked through his mind. Check latest chapters at NoveI~Fire.net
An unprecedented realization surged into his heart.
Perhaps... abandoning mass, spacetime, and reincarnation didn't actually mean eliminating all external interference like the Transcendents did, but rather... mastering them!
At this point, Li Pin's thoughts burst forth with unprecedented clarity.
This mastery didn't merely mean absolute control in the traditional sense, but rather, the ultimate end of all things—ultimate mastery!
The method to achieve such mastery had never been external. It was internal!
Absolute mastery, ultimate mastery over all mass, spacetime, reincarnation, and karma was never really about "understanding" them.... It has always been about becoming a part of them. Become a part of mass. Become a part of spacetime. Become a part of karma, even reincarnation itself! From there, master the ultimate, and become Ultimate Eternity!
When the concept of Ultimate Eternity emerged, it was like a divine sword that cleaved through the fog and haze clouding Li Pin's heart, banishing it completely. The world before him became broader and brighter than ever, vast and lucid.
"Ultimate Eternity!" Li Pin muttered the term aloud.
"The key to Ultimate Eternity has never been to eliminate all external interference, nor to sever all karma. The key to this realm is summarization, merging, and convergence! Merging and converging all matter, spacetime, karma, as well as reincarnation. To make all things one, all things true, all things me! I will be the one and only!"
In his Inner Spirit world, the Phantom Space Technique trembled slightly, seeming to emit an indescribable profundity.
Amidst this profundity, he gradually realized the key to achieving Ultimate Eternity.
Mass originates from spacetime. By mastering spacetime, one can possess an infinite amount of mass. Spacetime gives rise to karma and reincarnation. As long as karma and reincarnation exist, and there's that initial strand of spacetime that represents the True Self, one can derive infinite spacetime and infinite mass.
In fact, to someone who attained Ultimate Eternity, spacetime and mass may no longer hold any meaning at all. If they want to, they can possess infinite spacetime, infinite mass....
Therefore, the true key lay in reincarnation and karma.
"Our cultivation is a process of unfolding and extension!" Li Pin muttered to himself, sorting everything out.
Starting with the material body of mortal flesh, it unfolds into the energy form of an Astral God. Then, from the Astral God, it extends to the Sacred Monarchs and Divine Emperors, who master space and time. It would continue on to the Divine Emperors who would unite spacetime as one. From there, it extended further into karma and reincarnation!
The moment a person comprehended karma and reincarnation, they achieved Liberation! At that point, cultivation had unfolded to its utmost limit. Everything that needed preparation was already fully prepared. What comes next was summarization, merging, and convergence!
Dao begets One, One begets Two, Two begets Three, Three begets all things.
Now Li Pin needed to reverse the flow completely.
"The one and only... True Self." Li Pin murmured to himself.
This phrase was such an apt description.
The process of convergence was accelerating rapidly in one direction—merging reincarnation and converging karma.
Once the convergence process began, it was irreversible. From here, only two outcomes remained—success or failure.
Like a warship that was dropping into a black hole, either the black hole led to another world, or the warship would be crushed into dust by the black hole. Regardless of the outcome, to any outside observer, the warship had already disappeared into the blackhole.
"Disappear..." Li Pin muttered.
In that moment, he suddenly understood the true meaning of disappearance.
"When a Liberator begins to converge karma as well as reincarnation, then all the karma and reincarnation that relates to them will naturally disappear. In other words, anyone with karmic ties with them will forget that karma, thereby forgetting they—the Liberator—even existed. That casualty and reincarnation spans across three periods of time... three modes of existence..."
Li Pin quietly sensed his inner world. Vaguely, in the depths of his inner spirit, silhouettes emerged one after another.
Standing in the future was the future him that pointed to all causes and all effects.
Standing in the present was the current him who comprehended Ultimate Eternity, understanding all as one, all as truth, all as self, and self as the only one.
There was also the him from the past, when, within the Supreme Ladder, he first realized the truth of his past True Self and couldn't help bursting into unrestrained laughter.
"Let me take you, the me from Earth, as the starting point of my past to realize the True Self. Let us together merge the past, fulfill the present, transcend the future, and seek the true ultimate, the true eternity, and glimpse the secrets of fate."
In that moment, Li Pin suddenly realized something.
"So I had already come into contact with such an existence long ago," he murmured to himself.
When a Liberator begins converging karma and reincarnation, all causality related to them disappears.
"Li Qiuxian," he muttered aloud.
So it turned out that he had already encountered an Eternal before!
Back then, in the Void Divine Treasure world, there had been an existence whom everyone seemed to have forgotten—his name was Li Qiuxian.
People clearly remembered that a mighty figure had once ushered in a glorious martial era, but no one could recall who he was. Only when Li Pin encountered the true Void Emperor did he learn of this person's existence from the records given to him.
Furthermore, the strange memory loss among those who had interacted with Li Qiuxian was almost identical to what the Crea tors were experiencing.
Then, was there a possibility... that Li Qiuxian was the peerless, stunning figure who had once shone brightly in the Ancient Astral World era? That he was the one who wielded the power of Eternity—the Eternal?
A sudden thought pulled Li Pin's mind back a few steps.
If Li Qiuxian was that Eternal, why had everyone else lost their memories of him but not Li Pin?
At that thought, a shiver like an electric shock shot through his entire body.
He finally understood everything.
During the Ancient Astral World era, the Transcendents and even the Creators had forgotten about Li Qiuxian's existence.
Within the Void Divine Treasure world, the people on Earth had forgotten Li Qiuxian existed.
Even figures like Regalheaven and Equiheaven had forgotten about Li Qiuxian. And yet, he, Li Pin, remembered it all with absolute clarity.
Furthermore, many events seemed complex, but they were also strangely coincidental.
For example, Creator Miao Ya, Creator Li, and Transcendent Black White had all suddenly awakened from their daze three hundred and thirty years ago. Their fear shifted from the unknown to the Power of Eternity. Or, for instance, how the description of Earth, the world from which the Void Emperor came, was identical to the Earth he himself came from.
That fact alone meant something.
And then there was Null. Before seeing him, Null hadn't repaired any data on the Dao Realm. But once he proposed the concept of the Dao Realm, such data was mysteriously restored.
And then there were the words he himself had uttered moments ago. That was the most crucial part.
"Let me take you, the me from Earth, as the starting point of my past to realize the True Self. Let us together merge the past, fulfill the present, transcend the future, and seek the true ultimate, the true eternity, and glimpse the secrets of destiny."
Perhaps these words were no coincidence at all. Perhaps it was resonance, a sort of mutual attraction orchestrated by destiny.
"Past, present, future..."
In this moment, everything became clear.
"So, my past true self was Li Qiuxian–the Eternal who shone brilliantly across all Creators' and Transcendents' lives and memories in the ancient Astral World!"