My Endless Life.

Chapter 654 Let's Eat!

Whether fate will come to Li Qi is not important to him.

After witnessing the collapse, everything in the Myriad Star Realm seemed like child's play to Li Qi.

What's the point of fighting to the death for a little gain? In the end, nothing can stop the end of all things.

Therefore, Li Qi didn't have any particular thoughts about what Brina said.

He allowed Brina to stay by his side, or rather... accepted Brina's help in directly taking him to the location of the Heart's Desire mech parts.

It didn't take long to say goodbye to Anta.

Having completely succumbed to the allure of Richard's love, Anta, though worried that Brina might harm Richard, could only watch with tearful eyes as he and Brina left together.

Oh, and there's also Angie, the alchemical life form created by Li Qi.

Angie was the maid Li Qi hired for himself, responsible for taking care of his daily needs and also serving as a scout.

Li Qi can pull Angie's soul back at any time, so he can send Angie to dangerous places without any hesitation.

Such as now.

"Are you sure the Heartbeat Mech is here?"

Li Qi stared at the galaxy before him, now overflowing with flesh and blood, and asked with a hint of disgust.

Brina's cat ears twitched: "I won't lie to you, it's right here. This used to be one of the most prosperous areas in Krend, but it was also one of the places where the parasite first spread. One of the parts of Heart's Love is right here."

"One of them... her two arms were separated and sealed?"

"Well, actually it wasn't just her arms. Originally, her body was divided into nine parts. Apart from the torso, the rest were separated and sealed in different places."

"But later, perhaps out of consideration for their friendship, [Fate] personally collected her parts, divided them into three parts, and sealed them in various places, where they remain to this day."

Brina explained why Xinlian was sealed here, which made Li Qi even more curious:
"Why was Xinlian sealed away in the first place? Was it really because her pilot bewitched someone she shouldn't have messed with?"

"Hmm... I don't know much about what happened back then, and [Coordinates] doesn't mention it to me much either. But... it's said that it wasn't that simple. Apparently, the entire empire fell apart because of the pilot I love, and that's why her name became a taboo."

Brina also heard about that vast empire from fate.

In this story, the driver who is the object of Xinlian's affections plays a significant role.

Because she can be considered a 'femme fatale' in a certain sense, just like Su Daji to King Zhou of Shang, who, with her 'love,' personally pushed the empire down the road to destruction.

That's why her mech was split up.

(Is...is that so? Was my previous driver that skilled?)

After listening, Xinlian asked in a daze.

Although she remembered some of her past with the previous driver, her memories of the last period were extremely vague, and she had no recollection of why she was sealed in the World Sea.

Especially when she saw the Geminis guarding her parts and threatening to kill her, Xinlian felt extremely wronged.

They were comrades-in-arms before, and even if their relationship wasn't good, they shouldn't have gone to this extent, right?

But now, after hearing what her pilot did, Xinlian has come to understand the actions of the other mechs.

The fact that a vast empire collapsed directly because of the Heart of Love makes it less difficult to understand why the Heart of Love and the mechs that hold it are taken seriously.

"Then why aren't you stopping Xinlian from returning to its original state?" Li Qi asked again.

Brina laughed and replied, "Please, that was so many years ago. The pilots of the Legacy Mechs have all changed. Who cares about what happened back then?"

"Moreover, there are not only three large countries in the universe now, but also the ancient empire. The three countries are evenly matched. Even if you want to be a wicked empress who brings disaster to a country, you can only harm one at most, right?"
"Furthermore, if you really do harm them, we'd be overjoyed."

Brina seemed to have a hidden meaning in her words.

Li Qi quickly grasped the deeper meaning: "Aren't you serving Krend?"

"It's just a temporary service. We're merely Her Highness's mercenaries. We don't belong to anyone. If we really have to talk about affiliation..."

Brina pointed to the top of her head, then to the bottom:
"Then the only option is the ancient empire. We want to restore the glory of the ancient empire."

"Is this your dream?"

"No, it is the dream of [Destiny], but it is also what we are doing."

No wonder you helped the Revival Society.

The Revival Society's slogan is to restore the glory of the empire, which may have just struck a chord with Fate, which is why Brina went to help the Revival Society.

Of course, it's also possible that fate knew that reviving society would be the key to destroying the empire.

Did he know that the world sea was facing a disaster that no one could withstand?
This thought flashed through Li Qi's mind, but he didn't dwell on it further.

He checked with Xinlian to confirm that part of her was indeed there before turning to Brina and asking:

How do I get in?

"That's up to you. Anyway, I don't have the authority to get in here."

"Power... Could it be that [Fate] deliberately threw its parts here because it knows I possess power?"

Li Qi looked at Brina suspiciously. Brina shrugged: "I don't know, I'm just an employee."

"You better be."

Li Qi ignored what Brina was saying.

This woman was too unpredictable, and it was impossible to tell whether what she said was true or false. Li Qi was too lazy to distinguish between them. Retrieving the Heart-Loving Component and improving himself as soon as possible was what he needed to do right now.

The Heart's Love component still retains her rules. Retrieving these rules is equivalent to Li Qi traversing three small worlds, which can quickly elevate him to the ninth rank.

Once he reached the ninth rank, Li Qi was able to try out the method Sally had mentioned for preserving the World Sea.

Before obtaining the Heart Love Mech, they needed to find a way to enter this parasitic area. Li Qi's gaze lingered on this parasitic area for a long time before he finally gestured to Angie, signaling her to go and scout ahead.

Angie leaped into the nearest pile of flesh and blood.

But as soon as he entered that area, before he even came into contact with the flesh and blood, Angie's body began to deform, and his soul also underwent a certain degree of mutation.

"So dangerous?"

He pulled Angie's soul back, then created a new body for her and stuffed the soul back into it. Li Qi frowned as he looked at that area.

If this flesh and blood is indeed an erosion of some primordial remnant, it may carry the world will of that vanished world. Ordinary creatures that enter it will only be assimilated by it.

The fact that this thing has already invaded one star system after another, and that Krend has not used annihilation weapons to directly eliminate this area, proves that if this area were to be eliminated by force, the final result would probably be even worse.

The fact that this place has become like this is perhaps a result of Krend's violent purges.

How can one get inside?
"Hmm... wait a minute, what if it really contains the will of other worlds..."

Li Qi, who was originally quite troubled by this, suddenly had a method that seemed incredibly unbelievable to others.

His gaze shifted to the bloody wasteland, and he pondered for a long time before speaking to Brina:

“I’ll go there myself. If I don’t come back for a long time, don’t wait for me. I’ll go find the next part myself.”

Okay, be careful!

Brina waved casually at Li Qi, as if she wasn't worried about him getting into trouble at all.

Li Qi didn't know where her confidence came from. Perhaps it was because Li Qi's life or death meant nothing to her, so she wasn't worried at all.

But none of that matters.

Importantly, Li Qi is likely to be having a 'large buffet' that he has never had before.

Yes, the method Li Qi ultimately chose was to use his other power to try to devour the world's will that existed here.

The world's will contained within those parasitic flesh and blood.

Sally had said that the alchemical powers that Richie learned and transformed were not his original abilities.

He has only one fundamental ability, which is the 'power' that will allow him to reincarnate indefinitely.

This primordial power has many different abilities. One is that it allows Li Qi to reincarnate without consuming any resources, and another is that it devours the will of each world he enters.

Another thing is adaptation.

This ability will transform the fragment of the world that Li Qi consumed into a power that will allow him to better adapt to this world.

Because the music world is an ordinary world, there is no need to worry about safety issues, so Li Qi was given hearing.

In the world of gamblers, gambling skills are the mainstream, and one might not be able to survive without mastering them. Therefore, Li Qi was given the ability to observe other people's physical characteristics and even their abilities.

The magical world's talent was designed to give him the ability to protect himself more quickly, and the misty world granted him his abilities based on the same principle.

Even the interstellar world is the same.

Because this world was too dangerous and too powerful for Li Qi, in order to ensure that Li Qi could survive at birth, his innate ability gave him a 'heart of love'.

And using love as a guide, they chose one of the world's strongest families to ensure Li Qi's safety.

Based on this theory, if the flesh-and-blood galaxy in front of him can be considered a complete world, then when Li Qi enters it, his ability will automatically find a way out for him.

Li Qi only had one thing to do.

eat!
Eat with confidence!

Consume everything that might carry the will of the world! Use everything in your power to improve yourself!

"Thank goodness it wasn't really 'eating,' otherwise I probably wouldn't have been able to bring myself to do it."

Before devouring this area, Li Qi chuckled self-deprecatingly.

This was the first time he had ever done something so crazy, and he didn't know if he could succeed.

But if Sally wasn't lying to him, then he was certain that nothing would happen to him.

He may fail, but he won't die.

This is the source of Li Qi's confidence to do this.

(End of this chapter)