Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 710

Chapter 708: Conditions for Breaking Through the Mahayana Stage

“How did I die? Where was I before I died?”

Jiang Li discovered that he could clearly remember every detail of his past life, except for his vague memories of his final moments.

“What happened?”

Jiang Li used magic to reconstruct the verdict, which had ordered him to be treated in a mental hospital.

“Am I mentally ill?”

Following the verdict, Jiang Li arrived at the hospital. He walked the corridors, flipping through medical records, and dusty memories flooded into his mind like a sea.

Finally, Jiang Li stopped in front of an ordinary bed.

It was on this bed that he died.

Absurdity, ridiculousness, pathos… a myriad of emotions too complex to express in words washed over him.

Jiang Li’s lips gradually curled up, eventually turning into a laugh.

“I remember now! I’m sick!” Jiang Li covered his face and laughed up to the sky, a laugh that was sad and helpless.

“So I’m sick! I’m a psychopath!”

The laughter echoed throughout the abandoned mental hospital, startling crows and causing them to flap their wings and fly away.

“How absurd, how ridiculous!”

“So I’m the only one who thinks energy is infinite!”

Jiang Li’s laughter faded, and he squatted on the ground, his laughter fading. He remained silent, like a clay sculpture.

“No wonder when Bai Hongtu and the others talked about how to break through to the Mahayana stage, I thought it was simple, but they couldn’t understand. It turns out there’s a misunderstanding between us.”

“I believe energy is infinite, but Bai Hongtu and the others believe it’s conserved.”

“My illness made me believe others don’t think energy is conserved, so I never steal resources, and I’ve never understood the thinking of those who do.”

“My illness also made me lose my memories of the mental hospital, and I think I’m just an ordinary person.”

“It wasn’t until I revisited that my memories were awakened.”

Jiang Li finally understood all the previous feelings of dissonance.

As he unraveled and analyzed the situation, his eyes gradually brightened, regaining their former spirit.

This incident didn’t have a huge impact on Jiang Li. If he could defeat Jiang Li at this level, then the inner demon tribulation wouldn’t be so difficult against him.

The Heart Demon Jie knew Jiang Li’s secret, but he knew it wasn’t a calamity for Jiang Li, and he couldn’t defeat him.

Jiang Li’s unwavering faith in the Dao left the Heart Demon Jie helpless.

“But am I truly ill?” A stream of spiritual energy appeared from nowhere in Jiang Li’s palm, clearly violating the law of conservation of energy.

The Kyushu spiritual energy couldn’t nurture Jiang Li, a Mahayana cultivator. The fundamental reason was that Jiang Li’s energy for Mahayana cultivation came entirely from within himself.

Therefore, Jiang Li could cultivate at any time and in any place, regardless of the concentration of external spiritual energy.

“Perhaps there are two conditions for breaking through to the Mahayana stage: one is believing in its existence, and the other is believing that energy is not conserved.”

“That makes sense.”

“I didn’t know the Mahayana stage was invented by Immortal Changcun before. After traveling to Jiuzhou, others were skeptical about it, but I firmly believed in its existence.” “

And I also believe that energy is not conserved.”

“With both of these conditions met, breaking through to the Mahayana stage will be a natural outcome.”

“The will of all living beings didn’t know how to break through to the Mahayana stage, but they knew I could save Jiuzhou, so they dragged me here.”

Jiang Li stood up, his face radiant and refreshed.

“The past is over. What I need to do now is establish order and fight the black tide. With luck, I can even go directly to the Possibility Convergence Area and solve the problem at its root.”

“By the way, why do I think energy is not conserved?” Jiang Li frowned, unable to understand the question.

“Never mind. Immortal Weng will give me the answer.”

Jiang Li put the question aside and returned to Jiuzhou, ordering the Human Emperor Palace to launch a rescue operation for the Zhoutian World.

“I’ve already given that order,” Commander Liu said expressionlessly, though a closer look revealed a hint of resentment.

The “Rescue Procedures for All Heavens and Myriad Worlds” clearly outlined the need for emergency rescue efforts for worlds on the brink of destruction, and everyone in the Human Emperor Palace knew about it except Jiang Li.

Jiang Li chuckled dryly.

“What happened? You look much more cheerful now,” Yu Yin offered a rare quip.

When Jiang Li learned that Lan Xing was in the Zhoutian World, his expression was frighteningly gloomy; no one had ever seen Jiang Li with such a terrifying expression.

“A big catch! Come on, Old Bai, Yu Yin, you two, come here.”

Jiang Li mysteriously summoned Bai Hongtu and Yu Yin. They

were at the same place, Jilei Mountain.

“What’s so mysterious?” Bai Hongtu was puzzled.

“I’ll show you how to break through to the Mahayana stage,” Jiang Li said with a rather smug expression.

Bai Hongtu: “…”

Yu Yin: “…”

“Go back, go back.” Bai Hongtu beckoned Yu Yin back. Jiang Li always spoke about breaking through to the Mahayana stage with the same few words.

Jiang Li held Bai Hongtu down and made him sit down.

Yu Yin remained seated throughout, showing no sign of returning.

“I’ll teach you this time!” Jiang Li vowed.

“You swear on a candied haws.”

“That’s too vicious! I swear on my immortal tribulation.” Jiang Li looked embarrassed.

“Alright, both of you, stop messing around and tell your story.” Yu Yin didn’t come here to listen to free crosstalk.

She’d been listening for five hundred years.

Jiang Li laid out the two conditions for breaking through to the Mahayana stage.

After hearing this, Bai Hongtu said, “Believing in the existence of the Mahayana stage is easy. With your example, who wouldn’t believe it?”

“But believing that energy is not conserved is difficult. For over five hundred years, we’ve believed that energy is conserved. Now you’re suddenly telling us that simply by believing it, we can achieve it.”

“If I could achieve anything I wanted, wouldn’t I have already succeeded in defeating you?”

Jiang Li said patiently, “Defeating me is impossible; it’s unrealistic, but energy is not conserved.”

Bai Hongtu: “…Do you want to listen to what you’re saying?”

Despite this, Bai Hongtu and Yu Yin still trusted Jiang Li’s judgment.

Experience had taught them that Jiang Li’s judgment was always accurate, as long as it didn’t involve love.

They were trying to overturn their previous understanding and reshape their worldview, believing that energy was not conserved.

“Mahayana stage, break!”

Bai Hongtu pointed toward the sky, his momentum resembling a rainbow, as if to overturn the world.

Then nothing happened, and Jilei Mountain remained cloudless.

Yu Yin didn’t shout it out loud like Bai Hongtu, but silently chanted in her heart, hoping to break through to the Mahayana stage.

Still, nothing happened.

Jiang Li frowned, wondering what had gone wrong.

Yu Yin suddenly asked, “When did you realize the non-conservation of energy?”

Believing in it was one thing, but actually achieving it was another. During their teenage years together, Yu Yin hadn’t noticed that Jiang Li could conjure energy from thin air.

Jiang Li was taken aback. “After I reached the peak of the Tribulation Crossing Stage, the power of sentient beings’ wills was bestowed upon me, allowing me to realize the non-conservation of energy and then break through to the Mahayana stage.”

“Does breaking through to the Mahayana stage require the power of sentient beings’ wills?”

Yu Yin nodded. “It’s quite possible, but only the Human Emperor can benefit from it, and neither of us are Human Emperors.”

Jiang Li smiled. He had studied the power of wills more deeply than Yu Yin. “The prerequisite for using the power of sentient beings’ will isn’t to become the Human Emperor, but to have a heart dedicated to serving the common good.”

Yu Yin suddenly realized, then asked, “The power of sentient beings’ wills needs to accumulate. Do we have to wait?”

Jiang Li held out a finger and gently shook it.

“You forgot, I forged a bronze cauldron specifically to contain the willpower of all living beings, leaving it to the next Human Emperor.”

“After breaking through the Mahayana stage, I haven’t used willpower again. Now the cauldron contains a full three hundred years of willpower.”

(End of this chapter)