Chapter 731: Looking Out at Ruin

"Caidie!"

Li Qianjun watched as Meng Caidie's body was pierced through by the combined force of ten powerful kings; his eyes were wide and bloodshot, his face filled with disbelief.

Just a moment ago, while he was dodging an attack, Meng Caidie had been hit because she could not evade in time, and it was a powerful joint strike that had directly pierced through her body, soul, and True Spirit.

He could no longer feel the aura of life in Caidie.

The boundary between life and death was, at this moment, so blurred.

It arrived in an instant.

Caidie was dead!

"Why did you attack Caidie! Weren't your targets me? Why kill an innocent person?"

Li Qianjun did not believe Meng Caidie was already dead; he held her body in his arms, wanting to attempt a rescue, while glaring at the ten malicious enemies surrounding him and roaring.

"Fellow Daoist Li, you are too naive. Having walked onto this Zhanchang, who dares to claim they are innocent, and who is not stained with blood? In the Eternal bloodbath of this battlefield, how do you know you haven't killed our friends and family?"

The ten powerful kings firmly surrounded Li Qianjun.

At this moment, Li Qianjun's state and aura were somewhat off, and out of caution, they did not seize the opportunity to attack. In any case, with only one person left, there was no need to worry about a mishap.

"Lucky fellow, I said your misfortune had arrived; did you not take it to heart? But it is a pity for this woman; could she be your Dao companion? Tsk, she died quite cleanly."

"As expected, your good luck cannot bless those around you; it seems the intelligence was not wrong. If your own luck cannot bless those around you, it means this kind of luck will bring disaster to those around you; you should have realized this."

"You were too close to her. If she had stayed away from you earlier, or never known you, she would not have died, would not have died here; however, there is no such thing as a regret pill in this world."

These king-level powerhouses spoke coldly, wanting to break Li Qianjun's mental defenses with their words. But at this moment, Li Qianjun remained silent and turned a deaf ear; he was using all his strength to save Meng Caidie.

Repairing the body, repairing the soul, repairing the True Spirit, reversing time and space, modifying Reality—he had exhausted every means... but Meng Caidie, his Caidie, still did not come back to life.

On that corpse, there was not a trace of the aura of life.

Li Qianjun's heart was in complete chaos. Why! Why was there no reaction! He had clearly repaired everything about Caidie and reversed time, so why?

Why must the events of the past be reenacted again!

In the past, he had also been that powerless.

Now he was countless times stronger than his past self.

Yet, he was still just as powerless?

The world before his eyes, everything he saw, suddenly turned gray; looking around, all he saw were dilapidated ruins, with no place for him or Caidie to reside.

"Pain, it is truly too painful."

The Wudao Gong artifact spirit muttered to himself as he watched this scene.

"I still have one question, though: is this woman named Meng Caidie truly the person in Li Qianjun's heart?"

He looked at the indifferent Li Heng beside him and asked.

"No, the person originally in his heart has already died completely, died in the mouth of a Calamity monster; neither reversing time nor modifying Reality can save her."

Li Heng shook his head and said.

"Then why is this Meng Caidie so similar to the person in Li Qianjun's heart? It is truly too much of a coincidence, or is Meng Caidie your creation, my lord?"

The artifact spirit asked cautiously.

If it were the latter, he would really have to be careful.

"Yes and no. The appearance of Meng Caidie did indeed come from my hand, but what truly created her was not me, but the Great Void and the longing in Li Qianjun's heart."

"What does that mean?"

"The Great Void possesses infinite possibilities. I merely found one possibility, a possibility in which a woman named Meng Caidie existed, and then caused that possibility to collapse into Reality."

Li Heng said indifferently.

"So that is how it is. But since that is the case, couldn't one also find a Reality where the person in Li Qianjun's heart did not die? Wouldn't that be equivalent to a disguised resurrection?"

The Wudao Gong artifact spirit was even more confused.

Li Heng shook his head and sneered.

"I just said it: the person in Li Qianjun's heart died in the mouth of a Calamity monster, so I never found such a possibility at all. What do you think the truth of that is?"

The Wudao Gong artifact spirit fell silent.

He understood the subtext in Li Heng's words very clearly.

There were only two truths.

Either after that person died in the mouth of the Calamity monster, all possibilities concerning her were erased. Or, Li Heng's power was still insufficient to find that possibility.

But given his understanding of Li Heng's current strength.

The latter possibility was extremely slim.

"Poor Li Qianjun."

The artifact spirit sighed with some pity in his heart.

"Alright, don't waste your time sighing in your heart; it is your turn to go on stage. Emotion is a miracle, not a hard rule of the Great Void, so it is troublesome; I still have to send some 'golden fingers' over."

"Otherwise, it won't be an outburst, but rather he will just die there."

"But this is also training for you, isn't it?"

Li Heng looked at the artifact spirit with a smile.

Then, with a kick, he sent the artifact spirit and the Wudao Gong tumbling down onto the Upper Battlefield, falling beside Li Qianjun, who had just lost his lover, was surrounded by ten powerful kings, and was already somewhat deranged.

"Turning dark makes one ten times stronger; washing white makes one three parts weaker. I don't expect you to reach the level of turning dark, but by doing this, the growth speed of this kid should be able to pick up."

Li Heng watched Li Qianjun attacking his enemies like a madman and said indifferently. Although he was the one who had single-handedly brought about this scene of parting, he felt no burden in his heart at all.

This was not because he was cold-hearted.

It was because, in his view, as long as one's strength was sufficiently powerful, no matter how many or how deep the partings were, they were only temporary, not a permanent loss; one day, they would reunite.

Just like the person in Li Qianjun's heart, who had been completely sentenced to death by definition and could not be resurrected by any means in the Great Void. But if he were willing to spend Source Power to act, she could still be resurrected.

This is the perspective and the gap in ability between the strong and the weak. Not to mention, if it weren't for the good luck he had bestowed, Li Qianjun would have long since died in the previous targeting by the Taiji Emperor.

That situation was even more miserable than the present.

"Work hard; today's parting is only for a future reunion. Otherwise, even if Meng Caidie did not die here, you would not be able to protect her, and she would eventually leave. With a dream for a surname and a butterfly for a name, illusory and elusive, how could she be so easily grasped and kept by your side?"

Li Heng muttered to himself.

Although it is possible to create a King-level powerhouse out of nothing through this method of collapsing possibilities, this effect is not permanent; it will be corrected by the Great Void as time passes, eventually returning to the Infinite possibilities.

Otherwise, he would have long since used this method to farm Source Power.

After arranging everything, Li Heng withdrew his gaze.

He had already given Li Qianjun such a massive cheat; if any accidents were to happen during his future growth that still required his extra attention, he might as well just find a block of tofu and bash his head against it.

Next is just waiting for the seed to sprout and grow.

But come to think of it.

It is also time for a new round of fishing and harvesting...