Chapter 1071: Chapter 1069: Li Qizi: I Endure Through the Ages in the Mortal World 5
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
Li Qizi had not smiled in a very long time.
He could no longer remember when the last time he smiled had been.
He only remembered that the last time he smiled seemed to be because he had heard Gushe was called True Demon Old Mother.
But that had been a million years ago, or perhaps two million.
Li Qizi could not remember.
After leaving yet another Cosmos thrown into turmoil by the War of Heaven and Man, he continued to drift through the dark, dead silence of the Void Boundary Sea.
This time, he did not know how long he had drifted.
He had forgotten time, keeping company with eternal loneliness.
Like a shadow that could never draw near the sunlight, passing by one Cosmos after another that brimmed with life.
He had even begun to grow numb to loneliness.
Like a true stone.
A hundred years, a thousand years, even ten thousand years without a single thought stirring.
He felt as though he were already dead, yet he knew he was still alive.
Li Qizi did not know how long this state had lasted.
A million years, or two million?
It doesn't matter.
He didn't care.
But his mind had grown active again recently.
Because in the dark, dead silence of the Boundary-Wall Void Sea, he had picked up a flower.
A flower still in full bloom.
It should have been cast outside its Cosmos by some nearby great Cosmos, a flower meant to express goodwill.
It had to be said that this was a very foolish act.
It only exposed that Cosmos’s information and coordinates, inviting unnecessary danger.
But to Li Qizi.
This flower, sent by some unknown great Cosmos.
Was the finest gift he had received amid the darkness and solitude of a million years.
He did not care who the flower’s original owner was.
He only cared about this touch of life, as if blooming in a barren desert.
He carefully stored the flower, placed it safely, and tended to it with the utmost care.
And so he passed his birthday, which should have been his three millionth year, or perhaps his four millionth.
But where there is blooming, there is withering.
Even though Li Qizi spared no spiritual power in carefully tending and nourishing this flower within the Void Boundary Sea.
As time passed, as the Void Boundary Sea’s empty, dark dead silence endured.
The flower ultimately began to wither.
Li Qizi grew somewhat deranged.
He guarded the withering flower, unmoving, unshaking, not even blinking.
Just like that, he fiercely stood guard before the flower.
Until the final petal withered, leaving only a bare stem.
He could no longer endure the loneliness in his heart that burned like fire. He put away the flower that was now only a stem, and then without a shred of hesitation retraced his path back.
He was going back.
He was going to see Heaven-Abandoning Emperor, to see Wan Teng, to see Gao Tianyou, to see anyone he knew.
If he did not go now, he would go mad.
Truly go mad.
Back then, Lin Qi had guided him into becoming one of the Nine Spirits of the Dream Bubble Shadow, granting him eternal life and a mighty power that grew alongside the Dream Bubble Shadow.
But it had not given him a state of mind to match it.
Though his origin was now a wisp of pure, flawless Innate Spirit-Light, representing the most blazing beauty of human nature.
But just like those Divine Spirits in the Divine Spirit Realm back then.
They too were God-Spirits enshrined from the most beautiful and blazing parts of the human heart, and could accompany the Human Realm day and night.
Yet in the end, after merely a few million years passed, there was still the calamity of corruption.
Let alone Li Qizi.
He lived in seclusion, far from all the beauty of the mortal world, drifting alone through the dark, dead silence of the Void Boundary Sea.
To endure until going mad after several million years.
Such a Li Qizi was already outstanding enough.
But in the endless passage of time, being merely outstanding was far from enough.