My Endless Life.

Chapter 648 The World
With a loud bang, Li Qi felt as if something exploded inside his head.

It's like someone dropped a nuclear bomb on flat ground.

Earth.

This term is not uncommon in the interstellar era.

Li Qi was able to find that at least 1,368,000 star systems had the same name for their main planets.

But the 'Earth' that Sally could call so, that Richard could be so shocked by, is... and there is only one.

Li Qi traveled to the world before.

That clear, azure world—a world Li Qi may never be able to return to.

I don't know how much time has passed; it could be a few seconds, a few minutes, or even a few hours.

Li Qi felt as if a very long time had passed before his consciousness gradually returned, and he asked Sally:
"So, you... are time travelers?"

“We are all time travelers,” said the man next to Sally. “That’s something she didn’t tell you.”

"I don't think it's the right time."

Sally refuted the man's words.

Then she looked at Li Qi and said, "After all, even if you know all this now, you are powerless to change anything. You haven't even reached the pinnacle of this world, let alone transcended it."

"This...this world...what kind of world is this? What are you talking about?"

Li Qi's mind went blank the moment Sally uttered the word 'Earth,' and he was now completely confused, unable to comprehend what Sally was saying.

The man asked, "What do you think the World Ocean is?"

"The world... formed oceans?"

"What about beyond the ocean?"

The man continued to ask.

Li Qi understood what he meant this time.

But when he understood, Li Qi suddenly felt like laughing. His expression was quite interesting; the corners of his mouth wanted to turn up, but after twitching a couple of times, they calmed down.

In his jewel-like red eyes, there was confusion and absurdity, and then he said:

"Worlds beyond worlds, and then new worlds, an endless nesting doll? What about you?"

"If we leave this world sea, there will be no new world."

Sally seemed to understand Richard's feelings, and she patiently explained:

"Your universe... oh, the World Sea, among us [Transcendent Ones], is called the [Lost World], and it is also the world where Transcendent Ones are the least likely to be born."

"There are only two worlds that exist in parallel with this world: [Fantasy] and [Projection]. You don't need to consider either of these worlds, because they are irrelevant to you."

"Can you explain it?"

Li Qi calmed down and asked the two of them.

Sally shrugged, indicating that she didn't care, and then looked at the man next to her.

The man sighed and said, "Alright, alright, I'll explain. After all, I'm a newbie."

He turned to Li Qi and asked, "You watched the movie before you time-traveled, right?"

"Ah."

"That makes the explanation of the [fantasy] world easier. That world is a fantasy world that contains all kinds of fantasy, such as 'movies,' 'anime,' and 'novels.'"

"What about the Lost World?" Li Qi asked again.

The man continued, "Guess where the fantasy world came from?"

"How...did you get here?" Li Qi couldn't answer for a moment.

The man immediately answered: "The creations of Earthlings have formed a complete world here. Don't you find that strange?"

"..."

"So the answer is that the fantasy world is a world that exists after being constructed, stabilized, and understood by the collective spirit of the people of Earth."

"All the worlds in the fantasy world have works on Earth, even if they are just small works that no one pays attention to, they still have a place in that world."

Li Qi gradually came to understand what the man meant.

Simply put, all sorts of works imagined by people on Earth will become real things in the "fantasy" world.

This is the essence of [Fantasy].

"And the [Lost]... is a world formed by the collection of various thoughts that people have forgotten, forgotten, and discarded. These worlds do not exist in the real world. Oh, maybe there are similar ones, but they will never be the same."

The man's explanation also made Li Qi understand the meaning of the word "loss".

People generate countless ideas every moment, but they also discard these ideas every moment.

This is especially true for creators.

Cartoonists, screenwriters, novelists, painters... even just storytellers have more stories in their minds, and more stories to discard.

These abandoned stories will come together in this world, forming various worlds that are logically consistent, seemingly similar, yet completely different.

They are the existences formed from abandoned thoughts.

That's why it's called "loss".

Although Li Qi felt that calling it "abandonment" would actually be more appropriate.

"So the projection is a projection of the Earth?" By drawing inferences from one instance, Li Qi guessed the meaning of the last universe name.

The man smiled and nodded: "That's right, but... there's something slightly different."

"What's the difference?"

"At least Earth doesn't have supernatural abilities yet... probably, but the projection world does." In other words, the projection world is also a kind of fantasy world, in which worldviews such as 'rebirth,' 'supernatural,' 'cultivation,' and 'superpowers' will coexist with the Earth projection.

These are worlds that seem the same as the real world, but are actually completely different.

Wait… Li Qi suddenly remembered what the man had said earlier, and he looked up and asked:

"You said 'there are no supernatural abilities yet,' what do you mean by 'now'? Did Earth not have them originally?"

"I don't know," the man shrugged. "But even if it didn't exist before, it certainly will in the near future."

"why?"

"What do you think collapse is?" The man seemed to like answering questions with rhetorical questions, but it had to be said that this did indeed make Li Qi think.

He thought for a long time, then suddenly his eyes widened as he received an unbelievable answer:

"Is the Earth... collapsing this way?!"

"No, quite the opposite." The man finally became serious and said earnestly, "It is we who are collapsing towards reality... or more accurately, all the worlds here are beginning to gradually merge with reality."

"And that void that none of you can see through is reality."

"Then... what will happen after it collapses? What will it become?"

"I don't know, nobody knows right now, but what's certain is that, apart from us transmigrators who originally came from Earth, and those who have transcended the limitations of the universe, anything else that collapses into reality will disappear..."

"And in reality, those who absorb these 'nutrients' will begin to possess extraordinary abilities. This is what is called... um, 'spiritual energy revival'?"

The man paused briefly, as if giving Li Qi time to process the information.

When it was almost time, Sally, who was standing nearby, picked up where the man left off and said:

"But you don't need to think about these things now. What you need to do now is go back to where you should go back to, and become a transcendent being in the shortest possible time. Only in this way can you protect the people you want to protect."

"Go...go back where?" Li Qi asked blankly.

"The Realm of Myriad Stars, the end of your journey."

Sally said that.

“The Myriad Star Realm…” Li Qi murmured to himself, then said, “But… I was rejected by the Myriad Star Realm because of my power, and I comprehended the Dao in the Cangxuan Realm…”

“You don’t need to worry about any of that,” Sally interrupted Li Qi.

Li Qi was stunned: "Don't we need to worry about it?"

"Yes, don't worry about it. You just need to keep improving yourself. You don't need to worry about anything else."

Sally spoke earnestly to Li Qi, then patted him on the shoulder and concluded:

"This is our last meeting before we become transcendents, and I believe... we will meet again, so... goodbye?"

Why is it a question?

This question flashed through Li Qi's mind one last time, and then, in a blur, his figure disappeared from the spot.

……

After their conversation, both Hongling and Yueling fell silent.

Because they discovered that Richie was missing.

"…broken."

Yue Ling didn't even notice the candy she had dropped on the ground. Her consciousness instantly filled the entire last place, but she found nothing.

Then she repeated:

"Oh no, something terrible has happened."

Richie is missing... it's actually a minor matter.

Although the children of the Xel'Nak family are indeed important, and Charlotte's status as a great-great-grandson is also significant, Moonbell is a saint. If she loses someone else's child, she can simply apologize and go look for him herself, and that will be the end of it.

What really bothered her was something else.

Richie was lost right under her nose.

The implications of this are chilling if you think about them carefully.

Yue Ling is a saint.

However, there is no precise division for the tenth order.

There are no distinctions like beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels. A saint is a saint, and a tenth-level being is a tenth-level being; there is no difference in strength between them.

Since neither of them can beat the other, and neither of them can win, there is no point in them fighting.

Therefore, if Richie can disappear in front of Moon Bell, it means that he can also disappear in front of other saints.

The most terrifying thing is the meaning behind this.

This proves that there are people even more powerful than saints... who took Richie away.

"Master..."

Hongling also realized what was happening and immediately felt a wave of fear.

She also understood the significance of this.

"Ling'er, come with me... come with me!"

After searching for a while without finding it, Yue Ling said to Hong Ling with a slightly nervous and excited expression.

After her initial panic, Yue Ling calmed down and gradually remembered the legend that circulated among the saints.

The transcendent...

Only a transcendent being can silently take someone away in front of a sage!
There are those who have transcended! Right here in this final place!
It was precisely because she had figured this out that Yue Ling seemed quite excited.

If the transcendent beings are truly in the final place, then this world... might really be saved!
(End of this chapter)