Wandao long distance

Chapter 1028 Opening the Sky

So, when Li Qi decided to open the sky, he fell into deep thought.

What kind of space and time do I want to create?

What are the rules, what is the background, what kind of life exists, and what kind of possibilities are to be created?

Possibility may sound mysterious, but it is actually very simple in essence.

The so-called possibility is the path to what kind of future you can go to.

This is the probability of something happening, a quantitative indicator contained in things and indicating the development trend of things. It is an objectively existing thing, not an idea that is actively recognized.

If you want to reach a certain ending, for example, you want to become a hero, then there are many paths and choices to become a hero. For example, you can go to the most dangerous place to save people, or you can participate in a battle.

You have thousands of paths, and every time you walk through them, you realize a future and practice a possibility.

And now, I lock you in a cage.

Then, all your possibilities are limited. You can’t go to the most dangerous places to save people, and you can’t participate in any battles. You can only be trapped in a cage.

This cage will become a "critical node" in history.

If you want to do other things, you have to break through this cage first, that is, "master the key nodes."

If you can't break through, then you can't do anything, all your "possibilities" will be imprisoned in a cage. No matter what you want to do or what future you want to achieve, you have to break through the cage first.

The cage is a key node in history.

There are many possible images of a cage.

For example, if there is a real cage and a seal to lock people up, this is one possible way to lock them up.

Others block from another direction, such as 'aging'.

Why do young children have more possibilities than centenarians?

Because young children have a lot of time, which can be used to do things, while the elderly do not have much time, and as the time available decreases, the possibilities are also gradually decreasing.

It is also a feasible method to block a person's possibilities by restricting his future time and his abilities through aging. As the saying goes, heroes grow old and beauties grow old. After these restrictions are placed, even the greatest heroes will hardly be free, and their possibilities will naturally shrink.

These are all commonly used methods in the process of manipulating history, all of which are to control the development of possibilities and make them develop in the direction they want.

It's like a person. Li Qi wants to see him become a scholar, but he doesn't want to see him become an athlete. This is a struggle of possibilities.

Then let him fall somewhere and break his leg.

This is a 'cage'.

There are not many things he can do in the cage of "broken leg", reading is one of them, so his possibility of becoming an athlete is reduced, but his possibility of becoming a scholar is increased.

This process is called 'conclusion'.

If there is another third or second rank person who wants to interfere with history and stop Li Qi's actions, then he might take advantage of coincidence and bring a doctor to cure his leg, or simply develop a new drug and roll it out across this time and space to suppress Li Qi's leg-breaking tactics.

But the power required to bring in doctors and develop new drugs is different.

All of these things require effort, and this is not the only thing they have to interfere with.

How much effort should be expended on one thing to be worthwhile?

In the overall historical trend, how much effort should be put into where and how much effort should be put into?

  How to achieve the greatest possible closure with the least effort?

This is what you have to think about in the battle to manipulate history, and what is happening behind the scenes.

Many of these games are very interesting. For example, a certain mortal is extremely valuable because he only needs a little influence to affect the entire space and time. This kind of heroic figure can help those who manipulate history save energy and make changing history easier.

Originally, to prevent a possible world war, Sanpin would need to invest a lot of energy, but with this person, he only needs to be given a little start-up capital, and he can help Sanpin prevent the world war and bring world peace.

Then some events may change around this person.

How to find such people, how to use them, and how much resources to invest in them are things that need to be considered.

The same goes for the opponent, he may also look for such a person, or look for other nodes.

In the past, Li Qi had a friend named Yan Ke, who was also the young master of Wushen Mountain. When he was at the ninth level, he had a small world composed of special cosmic light. In the small world, he practiced this kind of thing all day long.

Now that I think about it, his master must have been laying the foundation for his path to the third level at that time.

This is what Li Qi actually did when he was fighting the world line war.

It looks ordinary and seems easy to understand. However, if the battlefield is expanded to every possibility of the endless timeline, the amount of calculation becomes extremely huge, and the "superiority" of the three grades will be distinguished.

Who has a deeper understanding of history, whose "Tao" can more easily influence reality,

Each Taoist school, or even each Taoist lineage, has different means of influencing history. For example, humanity prefers to change the entire world, fundamentally changing the entire system on this timeline, and then using the general trend to suppress others.

This trend will not be limited to a certain timeline. They will change at key points, and all possibilities for future development will become their "trend."

The demons, on the other hand, don't like to change so much. They like to change their 'thoughts' to cause subtle changes, which in turn creates a butterfly effect to affect more and more places.

This kind of struggle is also a manifestation of the struggle for the Tao, a change in the way of cultivation, and a specific way of applying supernatural powers and techniques.

When the second-rank ones compete for this possibility, they will choose to spread more branches, which is something that the third-rank ones cannot handle because their computing power cannot keep up.

  So, if we summarize all of this and put it on the matter of "opening the sky", what possibilities will be created?

Li Qi fell into deep thought, summarizing the so-called possibilities he had created in the past, as well as what kind of possibilities were needed to open up the world and create a new time and space?

What kind of future?

First of all, it must be 'more'.

Li Qi admits that this world has many possibilities, so "many" is an important indicator. Perhaps parallel world lines should be set up to make the world look like a mother-and-child space-time with infinite branches.

Every decision will produce a branch of time and space. Infinite choices will lead to infinite parallel worlds, and infinite parallel worlds will bring a variety of possibilities.

From the moment this independent period of time and space began, possibilities began to differentiate.

This will cause some burden to Li Qi, but it is not a big problem. He can fully afford it. However, Li Qi is worried about another problem.

Many times, the so-called "more" possibilities does not actually expand the scope of possibilities.

  This may sound strange. If there are infinite possibilities, then naturally all possibilities exist. How many more possibilities are there? Is there anything more than infinity?

Of course there is, because infinity itself is also divided into small and large. There are infinitely many numbers between one and two, but none of these numbers is less than one or greater than two.

Because, 'less than one, greater than two' is itself just a classification of possibilities.

Similarly, the infinite natural numbers arranged together, that is, all natural numbers from 0 to infinity, this possibility can be described as "the set consisting of all counting numbers", that is, this set contains all sets of "a certain type of possibilities".

This is the 'type of possibility'.

Given this type of possibility, it follows that there are obviously other types of numbers as well.

If you add other types of 'numbers', then infinity will be bigger than infinity, which is the relationship between apples and fruit.

Li Qi created all the apples.

As far as apples are concerned, there will be infinite apples here. Every kind of apple, as long as it meets the definition of an apple, will exist here. Infinite apples are in front of us.

But there is never a banana.

And if Li Qi created 'all fruits', there would be infinite bananas, infinite oranges, infinite dragon fruits and infinite pineapples.

The difference between infinite fruit and infinite apples is as great as the difference between infinite apples and finite apples.

It's like you say, here are all the 'fruits', but there is nothing else here except 'fruits'.

Then, to expand a little further, if Li Qi created 'infinite fruits', then fruit would also become a common element among them.

At this time, the possibilities will differentiate into infinite nuts, infinite walnuts, infinite almonds, and infinite cashews will also be put in.

This constitutes an 'infinity' of three different sizes, namely "apple", "fruit" and "fruit".

They contain each other, one bigger than the other.

This difference comes from the difference in the number of elements within the set.

It is very likely that Li Qiji will not be able to list all these rules one by one, because the types of fruits... are likely to be infinite.

The total number of such 'infinite types' may even be uncountably infinite.

What else is there above the fruit?

  Now that we have found something above the fruit, what next?

The set of all real numbers is uncountable.

The set of irrational numbers is equivalent to the set of real numbers, and the set of rational numbers is equivalent to the set of natural numbers. Equality means that the number of elements in the sets is equal. The cardinality of the real number set is much greater than the cardinality of the natural numbers.

Considering the universal nonlinear nature of nature, this actually sentences the possibility of such blind expansion to death - even if the universe can be quantized and discretized, the possibilities you face are still uncountable!

Therefore, even if Li Qi created infinite possibilities, he could not achieve "true infinity".

The so-called true infinity means finding an ultimate set that can contain all sets.

Of course, this is back to the old ways.

  Is there a set that describes all sets?

Of course it doesn't exist.

This is the same as the ultimate way.

Li Qi had already come up with the answer long ago, and even many mortals could come up with the same answer. Although the powerful ones could modify reality, the mathematical axiom system followed by everyone was not consistent, but this did not prevent Li Qi from coming to this answer.

Therefore, it is not advisable to pursue a "new time and space" that contains all possibilities, and Li Qi is unable to do this.

And under such limitations, how can we achieve the "multiple" possibilities set by Li Qi?

  Is there any way to increase this possibility besides creating branching timelines?

Li Qi frowned in deep thought.

We also have to consider whether his strength can support it. Blind pursuit will not work. Or should we just let it go? Let the mortals in the heavens develop freely and let them create their own possibilities.

But if that happened, the world created by Li Qi would become a square where anyone could come and walk around. It would no longer belong to Li Qi, and Li Qi would not be able to gain any benefits from it.

Just like the Desire Realm, the Heavenly Demon cannot control the Desire Realm at all. This thing is essentially ownerless and anyone can take it. Moreover, the Heavenly Demon itself does not seem to have any intention of completely controlling the Desire Realm, at least Li Qi can't see that.

However, when he thought of this, Li Qi suddenly reacted.

Yes, just like the desire realm.

What is not good enough about the desire realm?

If we talk about possibilities, the possibility of the Desire Realm is definitely something Li Qi should learn. Although even the devil himself cannot truly take the Desire Realm as his own, what does it matter?

All Li Qi wanted was more possibilities, and taking all these heavens for himself was itself a kind of limitation.

How can it be logical to add restrictions in advance but still want freedom?

Thinking of this, Li Qi had his initial idea.

In this case, we will create an open heaven, in which the rules of time and space can be easily changed. Such changes can be divided into two types. One is similar to the change in the Desire Realm, which relies on subjective will, but is much more difficult than the Desire Realm.

The other is to make the rules of space and time public as a shapeable "thing" and allow everyone to modify it, just like making the source code public.

But there is another question, that is, can this really create more possibilities? You know, when free competition begins, "homogenization" is a more likely state.

When a high-quality solution appears, everyone will follow suit and imitate it, but not necessarily innovate.

So...some variables are needed.

Then set the 'epoch'.

Every once in a while, various 'parallel time and space' will be connected, and different possibilities will be interconnected.

After that, it's...

Li Qi began to carve slowly.

(End of this chapter)