Chapter 806: 412. Seed of the Starry Abyss
"I have come to understand almost all of this."
Li Aozi took a deep breath and said.
"Is that so?"
Li Mingji placed one hand on his hip, and his voice rang directly in Li Aozi's heart:
"I think you haven't understood enough yet."
"We can talk after we fight." Li Aozi lit up the Sharp Blade.
The implication was that he intended to kill the Void Overlord Li Mingji and then seize his memories.
Li Mingji naturally saw through this, gently shook his head, and said straightforwardly:
"No, you should be aware that if we're done fighting, I'll have to be dragged back into the void."
"Is that so?" Li Aozi said calmly: "Since you don't want to fight, I'm not in a hurry either."
He was indeed not in a hurry because, out in space, Kappa (10) Qinlan Jiuge was there, and he wasn't concerned about time at all.
In fact, as he faced Li Mingji, a thought suddenly floated in his mind.
—To completely wipe out the Seed of the Starry Abyss. To claim everything as his own.
"No, no, no — dealing with such an enemy, it's more advantageous to strike later — that's your idea, everyone with a system thinks this way, I'm too familiar with it."
Li Mingji tapped his forehead and said:
"But it doesn't matter, for a long time, I haven't discussed this piece of history with anyone. Li Aozi, my 'son,' anyway, you plan to stall because you have a backup plan. I'm not lying to you; I also need time to descend, to wait for the complete form to traverse the Starry Abyss and come over."
Li Mingji raised his hand and said:
"Since we both plan to stall for time, why not make it a bit even — let's have a mutual conversation on how we've both come here — [God of the Present World] Leoz."
"Sure." Li Aozi nodded.
Li Mingji conveyed a portion of information, and Li Aozi's brain quickly processed it, unlocking and awakening some deeply buried memories.
At this moment, he wasn't medicated, and his soul-protection skills were sealed. Li Aozi's eyes were deep blue, the other half of his divine personality began to loosen, a flood of information intersected, and before the Iota (9) level mental capability, he continuously organized, smoothing out the logic to reenact those dusty past events.
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17 years ago, Frost Plated Republic, border village.
43-year-old Li Mingji sat on the riverbank smoking, quietly waiting.
When someone approached to ask why he was idly blowing the wind here, he just smiled, not saying anything more.
But those nearby surely didn't know he was waiting for a significant person.
The villagers more or less knew that the men of the Li family weren't of any use, they couldn't support the family, had no skills, and couldn't even control their children.
After President Madeleine's industrial reform, a large number of male workers were forced to resign, giving up their positions to the women of Frost Plated in order to secure votes from female citizens.
However, President Madeleine overlooked one issue: women are also people, and those who have received a good education disdain to do such low-level repetitive low-end labor.
Thus, all at once nationwide, due to President Madeleine's actions, 30 million unemployed people emerged, and low-end industry workers became rogue proletarians, left with nowhere to go.
At that time, people hadn't foreseen that this batch of unemployed workers would become a nightmare entwining Frost Plated for over a decade in the future. Most of them, driven by living needs, joined gangs. They became rampant smugglers, violent elements, and scam perpetrators.
During David Lyn's period, the Frost Plating Federation had to spend 40 billion annually on security management, just hiring bounty hunters to kill transcendent individuals formed an industry chain.
But that's all later talk.
For 43-year-old Li Mingji, all he felt was anxiety.
Time was drawing near, yet there were no signs of the anticipated arrival.
From the youngest child in his family being born, Li Mingji started hearing that call, which offered him heavy promises, explained the necessity of these actions yearly, trying to prepare his psyche to accept the reality and actively cooperate with it for action.
Even so, it was only until being unemployed today that Li Mingji decisively responded to the request.
The request coming from the Starry Abyss.
"Hoo..."
Li Mingji scratched his head, his fingers threading through his hair, while the river water reflected his visage: pale, flat, without any outstanding features of the Outer World mixed-blood face.
But only Li Mingji knew this was a disguise, this face was veiled from birth by an invisible layer, seemingly by something called a 'Cognition Filter.' Anyone who looked at him would subconsciously create a mental image sketching out such a face, which led to a subconscious ignoring of his existence.
"In the end, even this face doesn't belong to me, haha... damn."
Li Mingji held the cigarette, rubbed his forehead, trying hard to calm himself down.
He knew well what's happening to him.
First and foremost, he needed to understand one thing.
The essence of this world is the Six-Layered Starry Abyss: Layer Abyss, Border Abyss, Zhou Yuan, Mass Abyss, Nether Abyss, Primordial Abyss.
Each layer of the Starry Abyss is an independent cosmic with different civilization systems.
The other five layers of the Starry Abyss are projections of the Primordial Abyss, and the Azure Star he now lived on was merely the outermost cosmic layer of the Starry Abyss.
This is truly an unimaginable fact, that the cosmos would layer itself like an oil-water mixture. Frost Plated would definitely not teach such knowledge, as they couldn't comprehend so much.
Moreover, this time it came to him, asking him to sacrifice his body and will for the deities, representing the will of the Starry Abyss's self, a creator of creators, the source of all things, the origin of everything.