What a terrifying giant hand.
Even Li Qi felt his hair stand on end as he watched.
Too terrifying.
This was a hand that spanned an unknown distance, so vast, so impossible to oppose.
Li Qi didn't even know if the darkness in the depths of the starry sky was its natural state, or if the appearance of this giant hand had obscured all light behind it.
Invincible.
All are ants.
Li Qi's eyes widened.
And in the next moment.
The hand, crossing such a vast distance, stopped instantaneously.
The battle cries of the soldiers echoed through the vast starfield.
Xu Qingfeng's eyes held a gravity never seen before.
Behind him, the Heavenly Dao will of the incredibly prosperous small world revealed its authority to the best of its ability.
This was all the strength they could muster, not an iota left unused.
"Kill!"
Xu Qingfeng's voice rang out, but in the next moment.
Xu Qingfeng's body couldn't help but tremble slightly.
For where the giant hand had appeared.
All the armies, generals, and soldiers he had gathered had vanished like foam.
Whether they were the expendable soldiers with cultivation at the Dao Integration or Void Return stages.
Or the leading generals, skilled warriors even among the Mahayana cultivators.
All of them, without exception, disappeared as if they had never existed.
Seeing this, even Li Qi's eyes stung.
He blinked reflexively.
And in that brief moment of blinking, everything changed.
The scene plunged into darkness.
The once vast starry sky, filled with soldiers, now appeared utterly empty.
There were no corpses, no bloodstains.
But to Li Qi at this moment, this scene was more chilling than a battlefield littered with corpses and flying limbs.
Beside him, the once prosperous small world had long since shattered, falling into deathly silence.
The Heavenly Dao within, which had already reached the peak of Mahayana, was now completely broken.
And the giant hand that had previously slammed down from the depths of the starry sky did not reappear.
Silence, deathly silence.
After an unknown amount of time.
A figure, incredibly weak, weaker even than an ordinary person, slowly emerged and approached the fragmented Heavenly Dao will.
He retrieved the broken Heavenly Dao will.
Grabbing a shard of the shattered small world, he used the last vestiges of his strength to form some array patterns.
The fragmented Heavenly Dao and the weak figure stepped into it and vanished completely.
Li Qi watched this scene in silence, no longer needing to continue.
There was no need to watch any further.
This final array pattern, likely formed countless years ago, must have malfunctioned, transforming into the chaotic, distorted space that was now revealed to their sight.
And since the current situation, occurring after an unknown span of time, had come to pass, there was no need for further speculation.
The heavily injured Xu Qingfeng had likely not survived his lingering breaths, but had instead perished completely.
"Mahayana peak cultivators, Mahayana peak Heavenly Dao will. It seems reasonable, after all, that's only one step away from becoming an immortal, so such divine means are normal."
At the same time, Li Qi gained some understanding of how the fragmented Heavenly Dao will, merely by radiating pressure, could produce Dao fall fragments, and why Xu Qingfeng's bones, dead for an unknown time, possessed such terrifying power.
After all, that was the Mahayana peak.
In such a terrifying realm, even a minuscule difference within the same major realm could lead to a vast disparity.
Let alone the difference between the Mahayana and Tribulation Crossing stages.
Although the Mahayana cultivator had been dead for countless years, and only bones remained.
A brief comparison would show that for a peak Tribulation Crossing cultivator to deal with a peak Dao Integration cultivator.
Even without using their cultivation, relying solely on physical strength, a single punch could likely shatter countless peak Dao Integration cultivators; the fundamental difference was indeed similar.
As Li Qi was contemplating this.
Suddenly, the world spun.
When Li Qi regained his senses, his vision had returned to his own body.
The skeletal hand that had rested on his own had once again lowered, and the fragmented Heavenly Dao will within his embrace had silently vanished.
Immediately thereafter, before Li Qi's eyes, Xu Qingfeng's bones began to fade, turning into dust within a few breaths, also disappearing into nothingness.
Watching this scene quietly.
Li Qi's eyes held a complex emotion.
After all, he was a bystander who had witnessed many of Xu Qingfeng's life experiences.
Once, these "first loves" had grown together for so long.
Now, they had both completely disappeared from the world, their only remaining trace perhaps being the memories within Li Qi's mind.
"At least I don't have to find a good burial spot for you."
Li Qi couldn't help but smile faintly, speaking to the empty void.
However, the smile on Li Qi's face soon faded.
With a thought.
Not long after, in the distant starry sky.
Three figures arrived rapidly.
Yinchuan, seeing Li Qi in such a dishevelled state, was inwardly startled.
"Lord!"
"It's nothing, I'll be fine after a few days of recuperation!"
Li Qi said calmly, signaling Yinchuan to say no more.
Upon hearing Li Qi's words, Yinchuan looked at Li Qi's current state, his mouth twitching slightly.
He found it hard to believe that a few days of recuperation would suffice; it might take hundreds of years. But alas, since Li Qi did not wish to elaborate, he could not pry further.
Subsequently, Li Qi did not say much more to Yinchuan.
After a brief remark, he signaled Yinchuan to leave.
Yinchuan, obeying orders without question, departed immediately.
Only Li Qi and his two innate spirit puppets remained at the scene.
Following this, Li Qi directly handed over all the spatial rings in his possession to the spirit puppets.
The contents of these spatial rings were the spoils of Li Qi's journey.
"You two, take these spatial rings back to the Earth Void Realm together."
"Understood."
Upon hearing the command, the two spirit puppets also left directly.
As for Li Qi?
He was already a dying man at this moment and would undoubtedly use the reset.
For convenience, he chose to reset directly back to the Earth Void Realm.
And there was a crucial point.
That was, he was not entirely certain if Xu Qingfeng had left any countermeasures on him.
If Xu Qingfeng had no countermeasures, it would be fine.
But if Xu Qingfeng had indeed left some countermeasures on him, although he had seen many of the man's life experiences, the things he saw might only be what Xu Qingfeng wanted him to see.
Li Qi did not want to become powerful later only to be possessed.
Such a possibility had to be guarded against; after all, he had read many fantasy novels before his transmigration.
Better safe than sorry.
Immediately, Li Qi willed it.
"Reset!"