Chapter 700 - 11: Walking the Path Alone, Supreme of a Lifetime

Chapter 700: Chapter 11: Walking the Path Alone, Supreme of a Lifetime

"Is it destined?"

Even though Li Xudou had gradually accepted his identity as the "cause of all effects."

But when he heard Dayi say this, he couldn’t help but feel a bit helpless.

To this day, Li Xudou had roughly figured out his uniqueness and understood why Li Boyang had taught him the special Divine Power [Returning to Heaven and Returning to the Sun] in the first place.

The Path of Causality he pursued was different from other paths.

The Path of Causality emphasizes that there is a cause and an effect, everything has an origin, everything has a destination.

To attain this Path of Causality, one must gather infinite causes and effects within oneself, eventually becoming either the origin or the end of causality.

In other words, if one truly wants to achieve something on the Path of Causality, then traversing through time and space is a shortcut, and also a necessary path.

Not to mention, from the day he was born, Li Xudou was burdened with immense causality.

He was a wager between Li Boyang and Emperor Hao, a game, born as a unique embodiment of causality.

Li Boyang exists in the "present," Emperor Hao in the "past," and Li Xudou symbolizes the "future."

If Li Boyang wins this game, then Li Xudou will become the Primordial Celestial King.

If Emperor Hao wins this game, then Li Xudou will become the embodiment of the Celestial Emperor.

Of course, the outcomes of becoming the Primordial Celestial King or the embodiment of the Celestial Emperor are completely different.

If Li Xudou becomes the Primordial Celestial King, Li Boyang will in the future entrust the Six Desire Heavens to him, and the Primordial Celestial Demon will vanish.

If Li Xudou becomes the embodiment of the Celestial Emperor, then Emperor Hao will be reborn in his identity in the future, completely escaping the fate of death.

When Li Xudou first discovered this truth, it was impossible for him not to be disheartened.

However, as he traversed time and space again and again, and had a suitable identity and timely causality in each timeline.

Li Xudou gradually realized that the path of his future is decided by himself.

Whether it’s the Primordial Celestial King or the embodiment of the Celestial Emperor...

Those were just paths decided by others before he was born.

The Primordial Celestial King was merely a fallback option given to him by his master, not the only choice for his future.

So, at that moment, Li Xudou awakened.

He would walk his path, and his future would neither be as the Primordial Celestial King nor as the embodiment of the Celestial Emperor.

He would be like his master, spreading wisdom and Divine Power to all beings, becoming the challenger his master had always anticipated.

But before that, what Li Xudou first needed to do was sever the causality between himself and Emperor Hao, refusing to become his embodiment in the future.

Just like the Path of Time his master had attained.

The Path of Causality would also become the only path spanning across the past, present, and future.

This kind of path attainment has its pros and cons.

The advantage is that fundamentally no one can monopolize a path like Li Xudou; he is the embodiment and manifestation of the grand path of causality.

The disadvantage is that once he succeeds in attaining the path, there will only be one Li Xudou in the world forever, with no so-called counterparts in different timelines, nor any past or future versions of Li Xudou.

—Walk the grand path alone, the sovereign of one life.

This unique way of attaining the path both aligns with Li Boyang’s philosophy and integrates Emperor Hao’s long-cherished wish; it is a grand path belonging solely to Li Xudou.

So the question now arises, how did Dayi, who hasn’t attained the path, know about Li Xudou’s identity?

Thinking of this, Li Xudou’s gaze toward Dayi turned peculiar.

"Why do I feel like you’re even more of a... trickster than my teacher?"

Not knowing what adjective to use, Li Xudou finally used the term "trickster" to express his current perception of Dayi.

"If the Tao Ancestor knew how you evaluated him, I think your childhood might have been miserable."

With a slight smile, Dayi appeared wise and amiable as if he were truly an elder.

If not for knowing in advance that two years later he would fire the "Unrestrained Shooting" to ultimately end Emperor Hao, Li Xudou would find it hard to associate him with the former sun-shooting hero.

"Don’t change the subject!"

"You still haven’t told me how you recognized me!"

The Celestial Eye on his brow suddenly opened, and Li Xudou’s perspective escaped this dimension, transcending this space-time.

But no matter whether standing from a dimensional or space-time perspective, the Dayi before his eyes still seemed like an ordinary person.

His body was already running on fumes, his energy long depleted.

Dayi was still alive now purely because he believed it wasn’t his time to die yet.

Although it sounds unbelievable, this is the power of the Heart Path—a solipsistic ability to alter objective reality based on one’s own cognition.

"Because... the path you’re walking now is the one I wanted to walk."

"Unfortunately, I don’t have your determination and resolve, nor can I forsake everything I now possess."

Finally not beating around the bush, a hint of nostalgia appeared on Dayi’s face.

Since the Battle of the Sun-Shooting... no, to be precise, since he learned of Heng’e’s identity, Dayi hadn’t smiled in a long time.

To this day, Dayi couldn’t even distinguish whether he loved Chang’e or Heng’e.

"I hate those ’selves’ in parallel worlds."

"Even if they are another possibility of mine, I still dislike them."

"I am who I am. I am Dayi, a child of the Eastern Yi, and Chang’e’s husband..."

"My life’s trajectory is the journey of my heart along this path. With the slightest deviation, I wouldn’t be the person I am today."

Seeing the astonishment on Li Xudou’s face, Dayi’s smile grew even brighter.

"Just as you replaced a part of my life, completing a segment of my past..."

"In some unknown parallel world, you are even Dayi, the hero who accomplished sun-shooting."

"But do you consider yourself to be me?"

Vaguely understanding Dayi’s meaning, Li Xudou silently shook his head.

As the "cause of all effects," he could be anyone in the world, could bear any portion of causality in the world.

Yet he always remained vigilant about one thing: he would forever be Li Xudou—neither the embodiment of the Celestial Emperor nor a substitute for anyone else.

"You see, I think the same way."

"Even though those selves in parallel timelines lived lives similar to mine..."

"The real me is the only one, that is the me standing before you now."

As he spoke, the smile on Dayi’s face gradually disappeared, replaced by a kind of forlornness mixed with contradictions.

"No one can replace another person, even if they possess the same appearance, the same life, and even the same thoughts..."

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