When 'God' Decides To Start Over

Chapter 1099 417: Then Let the Heavens Shatter_3

Now that he couldn't find the gold coin here, it seemed to confirm this possibility.

"No, if I really used the gold coin to leave, it would mean that I no longer exist in this universe in the future world. I shouldn't be able to enter. Now that I'm in, it means I haven't used the gold coin to leave this universe, so the gold coin must still exist." Li Boyang pondered aloud.

"Are you sure not being in this universe and completely disappearing are the same thing? And have you forgotten about the child I mentioned just now?" Li Xiu said with a smirk.

"The fact that the child could open the Gate of the World means she also had a gold coin. This means, in the future where I brought her out, the gold coin still existed. And when she left the Fantasy World with the gold coin to the Real World, since the same object cannot exist simultaneously, a gold coin merged or disappeared, much like two Bu'Ers cannot exist in the same space. But because that gold coin originally came from another Future Illusion Realm, its existence was an anomaly, possessing attributes of the other future. So even if the gold coin has disappeared here in the current future, the coin from another future hasn't... But in this Future Illusion Realm, the gold coin indeed doesn't exist, so its entry is still affected by the rule that non-existent things in the future cannot enter the Future Illusion Realm..." The more Li Boyang spoke, the more convoluted it became, even he couldn't be sure whether the gold coin still existed.

"You don't need to make it so complicated. Simply put, if you don't succeed, that gold coin will still exist. If you succeed, that gold coin will disappear, so you cannot succeed." Li Xiu said.

After listening, Li Boyang looked at Li Xiu and said coldly, "No, there's another possibility. As long as I don't use the gold coin before this future, the gold coin will still exist, and it won't be restricted by the rules, and will reappear."

"That's true, but there's a precondition: if I destroy this Future Illusion Realm now, do you think that gold coin will still exist?" Li Xiu said with a smile.

Li Boyang clearly couldn't be sure whether the gold coin, which already had attributes of a future fantasy object, would still appear after the fantasy future was destroyed.

"You also can't be sure it definitely won't reappear," Li Boyang pondered aloud.

"Fifty-fifty, that's why I said we should bet." Li Xiu said lightly, "I'm willing to bet, are you?"

Li Boyang looked at Li Xiu with a complex expression and after a long time, suddenly laughed, "Indeed a good calculation, you've calculated all of this just to seek an opportunity to gamble with my life. Fine, I'll give you that chance."

"That's exactly what I wanted." The radiance on Li Xiu's body grew more magnificent, with the Hua Mei Demon Armor continuing to evolve under his infusion of energy, as if gathering the divine brilliance of the heavens into a Divine Garment. For a normal person, standing in front of him wouldn't be possible. Even a glance might be enough to melt them into nothingness.

Li Boyang's full head of white hair danced wildly, with the purple aura and spiritual light on his body continuously rising. The distinctly different energies of purple and white were perfectly combined on his body, transforming into yin and yang energies. The purple and white colors circulated on him like a taiji.

The energy on both men had reached a terrifying extreme, yet they both restrained themselves fully, not allowing any energy to release outward for fear of directly destroying the Future Illusion Realm.

"Do you know why I was defeated by the man undefeated through the ages?" Li Boyang stoically restrained himself, looking at Li Xiu with fiery eyes.

"I don't know, and I don't want to know," Li Xiu said indifferently.

Li Boyang, however, ignored whether he wanted to know, and spoke to himself, "Because my form of Purple Qi Eastward is extremely firm and yang, and excessive rigidity leads to breaking. Therefore, in the final battle, I couldn't support myself to the end, and collapsed first. My defeat wasn't due to being outmatched, but because I was not perfect enough."

Li Boyang appeared to be lost in memory, continuing to speak, "After defeat, I became a prisoner, trapped in that prison. There, I met someone who was clearly a mortal person but seemed to be heaven-reaching in realm. With his help, I finally comprehended the supreme Dao and thought of a way to compensate for my own shortcomings to reach perfection."

"Just a pity, in that prison, I couldn't find anything to compensate for my lack. I originally thought I would have to return to the main universe to achieve that supreme perfect body. Unexpectedly, I came here and met Tang Tianzhen and his Innocent and Guileless Stream, which showed me another path."

"So?" Li Xiu calmly asked while looking at Li Boyang.

"I use spirit as yin, energy as yang, combining yin and yang to achieve a unified body. The present me is already perfect. Although due to the universe's inherent limitations, my strength cannot return to former levels, in this universe, I am already the body of perfection, an invincible existence in this universe." Li Boyang looked down on Li Xiu as if he were a god.

"If you're an invincible existence, why do you fail time and again," Li Xiu chuckled.

"That's because in prior choices, I hadn't yet achieved the perfect body." Li Boyang's eyes had turned into taiji symbols, the purple and white hues slowly rotating within them, as if containing the mysteries of all things in the world.

"Originally, I wanted to leave this battle... for that man undefeated through the ages... but fine... a person like you... if you could cultivate in the main universe... as long as you don't perish prematurely... might not be inferior to that undefeated man... and worthy of battling me..." Li Boyang's demeanor grew increasingly serene, his eyes seemingly devoid of any emotion, his entire being as if merging with heaven and earth.

"Dao births one, one births two, two births three, and three give birth to all things. This is the natural Dao, but I go against it, turning all things into one, so this move I call Dao One." Li Boyang slowly raised a hand as he spoke, "I am one, and all existence is born of my Dao. I am heaven, heaven is me, my Dao is the heavenly Dao."

With that voice like the celestial mandate, Li Xiu's eyes only saw Li Boyang's hand, as if it was heaven, earth, all things, the firmament, the universe, and the stars, everything within that hand.

Li Xiu found himself unable to sense the world's existence, unable to feel the flow of energy, unable to even sense up, down, left, right, heat, cold, bitterness, or sweetness. The world no longer existed, so how could he perceive all things in the world.

His world was only that one hand, like the Celestial Mandate.

Li Xiu couldn't move, couldn't feel, only helplessly watching that hand descend, as if falling into a world within a palm.

Li Xiu's expression remained extraordinarily calm, or rather it shouldn't be called calm, nor indifferent, but rather completely void of any emotion.

As if in his eyes, the world was no longer the world, just countless data without souls or emotions.

Li Xiu forcibly triggered his Spiritual Sense, reversing the extraction from the Demon Armor, pushing his Spiritual Sense beyond limits, breaking past his limits repeatedly.

Fissures appeared on the Hua Mei Demon Armor, releasing a white mist that rose continuously, with the floating garment tails melting and disappearing like snowflakes in the mist.

Even the mighty Hua Mei Demon Armor couldn't withstand Li Xiu's forceful maneuver, beginning rapid collapse.

Red mist also rose from Li Xiu's entire body, emanating from his mouth, eyes, nose, and from every inch of his flesh and skeleton, permeating even from each cell, especially from his head, where the blood mist surged like fireworks.

Of course, that wasn't real mist, but his blood; his Spiritual Sense had surpassed its limits, and even the Cosmic Body struggled to withstand such extreme exertion.

In his vision, there was no longer that hand obscuring the sky, just streams of data remaining.

"If you are the sky... then let this sky... shatter..." Li Xiu's hand slowly extended toward those countless streams of data.