It was the beginning of September on the lunar calendar, and a heavy rain had just fallen over Yanjing.
Through the gradually slowing rain curtain, a taxi stopped at the entrance of a high-end residential complex.
Li Yi pushed open the car door, opened his umbrella, and got out of the taxi.
He held a small cardboard box in one hand and an umbrella in the other, walking towards the residential complex.
A few minutes later, he pushed open the door of his own house, sat on the sofa in the living room, and began to unpack the box in his hand.
He opened the box and took out a small plastic bucket.
After opening the lid of the bucket, he saw that it was filled with chocolate-colored spheres the size of a thumbnail.
Li Yi reached out and grabbed a handful of the snacks he named "Mai Li Su", popping them into his mouth one by one to taste.
Then he showed a satisfied expression, "Not bad, it's the taste I remember from my previous life."
Li Yi was a time traveler.
On his sixteenth birthday, his uncle called him to go hiking, and then he fell off a cliff.
After falling off the cliff, he didn't die, but instead found himself in this parallel world.
Perhaps due to the influence of spacetime turbulence, Li Yi's body shrank to the size of a three-year-old after he traveled through time.
This successfully sent him to an orphanage, where he smoothly obtained a legal identity in this world.
Then came adoption - his adoptive parents died in an accident - then another adoption - and he lived to this day, his eighteenth birthday.
His memories were interrupted by a text message notification.
Li Yi picked up his phone and saw that it was a balance change notification from the bank:
【Your account ending in 2366 has received 30,000,000.00 (interbank transfer), current balance 32,65......】
Along with the bank message, there was a WeChat message:
[Transferred three million to you, use it for now, if it’s not enough, ask me for more.]
The contact was labeled 'A Lan'.
Li Yi quickly found a kowtow emoji that said "Thank you, boss" and sent it over.
He switched apps and directly created a chat group on QQ.
He took a screenshot of the group QR code and forwarded it to several other groups, then sent a message to each group one by one:
[Funding is in place, new group has been created, staff from all departments please join the new drama group]
Li Yi was a very spontaneous person.
He acted on a whim, his thoughts were unconstrained, and he loved to play.
When he was sixteen, his history teacher belittled Qin Shi Huang as a tyrant and a despot in class.
Li Yi argued with the teacher in class, and as a result, the teacher called his parents for disrupting the class.
When he got home, he was even more angry, so he went through the trouble of visiting many authorities in the field of history and archaeologists.
He spent half a year creating the TV series script for "The Great Qin Empire".
Due to its highly restored costumes, props, and makeup, the actors' online acting skills, and its adherence to history, it was surprisingly well-received.
At seventeen, Li Yi saw people arguing online, with some saying, "Wuxia is dead."
He, full of contrarian spirit, didn't believe it, and spent another two months digging through his memories, creating a script for "The Legend of Condor Heroes".
And he brought wuxia back to life.
In between, he saw someone say that Chinese animation was inferior to Japanese animation.
He also made a season of "Oregairu" to show everyone the shock of Chinese-made Japanese animation.
This year, he turned eighteen.
Recently, he saw people discussing how today's horror movies are becoming less and less interesting.
Thinking that he had to make horror movies interesting again... he created the script for "Mr. Vampire".
He wanted to see if he could revive horror movies.
The three million he just received was the investment he secured with his own skills.
Now that the funds were in place, he began to pull together his team.
After sending the message, he suddenly felt a little thirsty.
Li Yi put down his phone and went to pour himself a glass of water.
When he came back, he saw that four people had already joined the group he created.
All-World Saint Teacher: "What demon are you, show yourself quickly!"
Peach Blossom Island Fugitive Daughter: "Chat group? What is this thing?"
The Great Qin's First Emperor: "Who are you ghosts? Why are you in my head?"
Cat Encyclopedia: "Chat group? It seems we've encountered one of those fantastical events from light novels."
He glanced at the nicknames and chat content of the four people in the group.
Li Yi was full of question marks, thinking, "What's going on?"
He thought these guys were going overboard.
They actually dared to role-play in the new group he made for the new drama crew... Shouldn't they bring him in?
He thought about it, put down his cup of water, and picked up his phone.
He was about to change his nickname to something like "Omniscient and Omnipotent" to suit his "group leader" status and then join the group.
He saw a small window pop up on his chat interface.
He clicked on it and saw a text introduction about the chat group.
The general content was that his future self would become the legendary "Omniscient and Omnipotent" Da Luo Xian.
Da Luo's results precede the cause, one certificate guarantees eternal certification.
As long as he achieved Da Luo in the future, his past self should also be Da Luo.
But for some reason, he, who was in the "present" time node, was still just an ordinary person.
This created a paradox with Da Luo's one-time certification guaranteeing eternal certification, where Da Luo existed at every point in time.
So, his Da Luo fruit manifested as this chat group to help him become Da Luo, creating a closed loop in spacetime.
Of course...
There is no path to Da Luo.
Spacetime closed loop, one-time certification guaranteeing eternal certification Da Luo, every one of them is "born with innate Da Luo."
So, the way for him to become Da Luo is not through some kind of cultivation.
There is no method in existence that can allow a non-Da Luo to cultivate into Da Luo.
And for Li Yi, who was supposed to be Da Luo, the way for him to become Da Luo is also simple:
The present Li Yi is only one step away from Da Luo: to correct the spacetime paradox, to accommodate the Da Luo fruit to form a closed loop in spacetime.
And "he" who is not yet Da Luo, only exists in the current spacetime.
In any other spacetime, "he" is Da Luo.
Therefore, as long as the "he" in the current spacetime interacts with other spacetimes.
Through continuous interaction, the concept of "he is Da Luo" in other spacetimes will permeate the current spacetime.
As the concept is gradually corrected, Li Yi can gradually accommodate his Da Luo fruit.
The moment the Da Luo fruit is completely accommodated, "he" in the present spacetime will become Da Luo.
At that time, spacetime will form a perfect closed loop, and he can become a true Da Luo that exists in the realm of concepts.