Myriad Paths

The battle with the Demonic Path began.

Li Qi finally saw it at this time.

The Demonic Path is actually... not that scary.

Once the battle starts head-on, if the First-Ranks don't intervene, it seems... not that difficult to fight the Demonic Path to a draw?

With the appearance of the third Second-Rank Demonic Path, everything began to be "controlled".

If there are smarter and more sensitive "living beings", they may realize... that they have become part of the battle.

The power of the powerful began to shuttle between the mind, matter, history, and time and space.

You can't see any strong influence in the battle of the Second-Rank.

Things like blowing up billions of light years with one hand rarely happen to the Second-Rank.

Unless they risk their lives, their power will not be so conspicuous, and they will not be so manic.

And what is the battle of the Second-Rank more like?

More like... evolution.

There is a pair of big hands in the dark, controlling everything and manipulating the direction of history.

Living beings will be intertwined in the general time and space until someone cancels the change.

The supernova explosion is so magnificent that you can see the magnificent eruption beyond the galaxy with your naked eyes in space. All the galaxies in the area cannot compare to such a dazzling explosion. The eruption can easily be thousands of light years long.

From the side, it looks like a ray of light extending along the inner edge of the information spiral arm, erecting a high wall around the star with a width of millions of kilometers and a length of thousands of light years.

How magnificent, right?

But who is controlling the supernova explosion?

It is the most subtle, the most inconspicuous, the "behind the truth" in the smallest things like an apple falling down.

Whether it is a supernova explosion or an apple falling down, it is "they" behind it.

Everything is arranged, including my meeting with you, everything is man-made, they have analyzed the characteristics of all things long ago, obviously, including the behavior and reaction of all life, the trajectory and change of all matter, and the rotation with many dimensions of time and space as the axis is in progress.

The world is like a puppet, they know what key to press and what action the puppet will do.

The rules of physics, the development of history, and even the thinking of the human heart are all in their control. Their war does not have any special magnificent scenes, but it is more shocking than anything else.

Li Qi did not manipulate history. That is what the magic way does. What Li Qi has to do is to defend history.

However, in such a war, Li Qi suddenly saw...something, how to say it?

Perhaps it can be called: "observer".

It is a mysterious thing made of black and gold metal, which exists parallel to the entire universe. The outline is elegant, and the clean and neat lines seem to show a certain geometric beauty.

But just like there are differences between Euclidean geometry and non-Euclidean geometry, this thing made of black and gold metal follows different geometric rules.

The machine itself is composed of curved keels and countless energy veins. Compared with the universe, this machine looks like a giant whale stranded on the beach.

The universe is a beach, and it is a giant whale, trapped here, unable to move, and can only communicate with the outside world through various channels connected to it.

Because of these 'pipes' and 'veins', this machine has a bunch of messy grids around it, which are composed of many energy pipelines and physical pipelines.

In some places, these plug-in things extend from the history of nothingness to the real world, and are hung with dazzling equipment. In many places, there are also bundles of conveyor pipes of twisted devices, which make people feel like they will suffer from intensive phobia after seeing them.

Moreover, there are many practitioners who are working hard in the middle. Their figures are all over every corner. Some stand on the height of the machine, some stay on the time stream, and some shuttle through the maze composed of countless equipment, equipment and accessories.

In the dimensional maze, they fly in the narrow passages built temporarily, and many people stand directly on the edge of the battlefield between Li Qi and the magic way.

They are wandering around there. A little further away, a small group of people are surrounding a large portable display screen, gesturing at the information on it, and are obviously in a meeting to discuss something.

People are working calmly and steadily, and the whole scene is busy and orderly.

They were watching the battle, using this machine to observe the war between Li Qi and the Demonic Path.

In the gaps of history, at the nodes of time and space, anywhere on the battlefield, they used the giant whale-like machine to read the infinite possibilities of Li Qi's battle.

Moreover, a huge, almost indescribable torrent of energy ran through it from beginning to end.

Li Qi glanced at them.

That is... the Cardinal of All Realms.

The observers next to them, those who were holding meetings, repairing, and observing at the same time, were the Heavenly Supervisors?

The human way is really quite idle.

However, Li Qi still saw the situation of the Cardinal of All Realms from it.

Indeed... this thing can hardly interfere with the outside world.

This thing is a "mirror" suspended above the universe and parallel to the universe. It is suppressed by the universe and cannot move, but it can reflect many things.

However, it looks like it has suffered a lot of damage. From the perspective of those who are constantly repairing it, the Cardinal of All Realms seems to have been deeply damaged.

Is it caused by the war between humans and witches?

However, now is not the time to look at them, we have to continue fighting against the devil.

Li Qi calmed down.

At the same time, Guanshiyin Bodhisattva arrived at this moment.

The tide of battle began to tilt.

More and more second-grade players joined the battle, and the battle situation became more three-dimensional.

History begins to diverge, possibilities tangle together, and the various endings present a vast array of aisles and byways more complex than any maze.

Every second-grade man must go through the entire maze without missing a single step, otherwise it will be impossible to understand what happened in this battle.

If you cannot understand it, you will naturally not be able to participate in the war.

And this maze is increasing in complexity every minute and every second at the speed of Gounard's arrow. The computing power of each second-level must be used in the tangled history to determine which node will affect the key situation.

The powerful ones searched along the forks of history one by one, and they knew exactly what they were looking for.

They stop from time to time and use skilled movements to dismantle an object of interest, or to find the source of the circuit behind an event or character.

The structural design of history and time and space was understood by them and integrated into it - the powerful ones spread out the entire universe to make design drawings, carefully looked at these plans, and examined every detail.

Then they understood.

After that, they went to war.

This is a melee between the second grade. Although to the real universe, nothing seems to have happened, in fact a lot of things have happened, but these things have been erased. The future and the present, the past and the future exist at the same time.

An apple exists in states such as 'hanging on a tree', 'rotting', 'falling to the ground' and 'sprouting into a new tree' at the same time, and what distinguishes the two is just a state similar to a 'time slice'.

And the apples in each state will become the 'chess pieces' of the second-grade people, used to create the environment they need.

The so-called second-grade war is essentially just a change in the environment.

It's not a duel between two tigers, it's just individual force.

It is a duel between the rainforest and the desert. The swamps are spreading outwards, desertification and soil erosion are also approaching the rainforest, and the environment is fighting——

Tigers played a minimal role in this.

Behind all these battles are wind, rain, thunder, changes in water and soil, everything and all natural phenomena, whether tigers, rabbits, monkeys, or trees, they are just adapting to changes in the environment. , they are just ordinary lives that change to adapt to the environment. They are part of the environment, no different from the stones on the roadside.

This is more simple than the third-level battle.

In the final analysis, the battle of the third level still involves a competition between magic and magical powers. Although you can travel around the nodes of time and space, it is usually the main body that fights. It can only affect more realities through changes in the battlefield, and then benefit yourself. Just create more advantages for your own purposes.

But the second-level battle...even the battle itself no longer exists.

They do their own things, such as Li Qi creating Qidian, and the inner demons have been building a dream city in the hearts of everyone in Qidian.

By the time they're done, they'll either realize they've done nothing, or they'll win.

If you win, that's naturally the best.

If the effort is in vain, it is just looking for something to start over.

Calling it a battle... is inappropriate.

For example now——

"The fight started, are you still here drinking tea?" Shen Shuibi looked at Li Qi.

"I'm fighting." Li Qi said with a smile.

"The battlefield doesn't seem to have spread." Rabbit looked at the sky.

"Wrong, we are in the middle of the battlefield." Li Qi explained.

With that said, Li Qi picked up the tea cup in his hand and poured it on the ground.

The tea disappeared before it even hit the ground.

Shen Shuibi frowned slightly, stretched out her hand to make the secret, and calculated the timing.

"The weather is changing. The nature of the cup of tea just now has changed? In other words, there are constant changes happening around us?" Shen Shuibi looked around.

This situation is actually not uncommon, nor is it dangerous for the fourth grade.

Things like 'different-dimensional cracks' or 'abnormal events' will appear in many places.

Some other force suddenly appears in a certain civilization, or a certain country suddenly discovers that a house is connected to an abnormal dimension, and you can go in to explore it, or even go in to gain some power.

Abnormal invasions, various strange events, occasional space movement, hallucinations that appear from time to time, but... everything seems to be fake, reality is still running, and nothing special will happen.

There are just some lucky ones.

They will respond by hearing calls in their sleep, accidentally looking in the mirror in the dead of night, and accidentally leaving themselves alone when entering and exiting the elevator.

Then, what awaited them was strange things.

For example, a mortal fled his home and began his escape the night a fire broke out in his home.

They turned around, and we fled from the raging fire in the city, from all the darkness of the past, from all the ghosts of the past. We took almost nothing with us, had no plans for the future, and made no decisions about what had happened. Explanation, because...it was the fire they lit themselves.

They wrote to their brother, they wrote to the bank, and then they received a formal letter and two sets of legal documents.

But these mortals did not read the documents, or even glance at them, because after he scribbled his name, the papers also burned.

Since then, the outside world seemed to be calm, and no more things came to him. He finally spent a year or so of unreliable peace.

Then, there were some changes, and he was forced to move to another place, and then to another place, until the turmoil ended, and we finally came to a peaceful place, and finally came to this small lakeside resort, where we were comforted again, settled down, and continued to live our precious, unchanged and peaceful life, completely closed ourselves off, without needing or wanting anyone else.

All this was because of what they saw in their closets. They believed that they must be cursed. After burning down the house, they had this year of peace, here by the beautiful lake.

Only by this lake, there is peace.

But recently, I began to become restless again, and I couldn't help but recall the past.

There is a small dark cloud in my heart - it's there, lingering.

However, the family members would never mention it to each other. They were very restrained. If they couldn't control themselves and wanted to say it one day in the future, they would definitely cut off their tongues before they had time to say it.

Until one day, one night, they couldn't fall asleep because they were too nervous, because they were afraid of nightmares, afraid of dreaming of scenes that they couldn't face or control, afraid of dreaming of things that I wanted to forget forever.

So, when I really fell asleep in a daze before dawn, what slid past their eyes like slides were scenes that they wanted to forget countless times.

Until many years later, this lakeside mansion became a famous ruin, with several lunatics living in it. It was said that they were once elegant and decent people, but they had a family hereditary mental illness.

Many, many years later, several young people came to this antique house to "test their courage" -

The door to another world quietly opened.

It was filled with many thoughts, dream-like thoughts, strange physical laws, completely different ecological environment and indigenous creatures that could almost destroy people's minds.

But this is not an isolated case.

This is a battlefield created by the collision of two laws and two "ways".

Li Qi's side, the side of the magic way, is squeezing all dimensions and all history, and countless strange things have been born from this.

However... this is not a hot war.

Both sides are just doing their own things.

Li Qi's side is almost done.

His real purpose——