Myriad Paths

"So, you got the Desire Realm?" Prince Mo said to Li Qi.

"Yes, it's right here." Li Qi stretched out his hand and showed the Desire Realm.

The gathering of all desires, the reflection of the thoughts of all beings, the gathering place of the 'intentions' of all things, the echoes of all thoughts repeatedly wavered here.

Prince Mo nodded with satisfaction.

This is the Desire Realm, so beautiful, the thoughts brewing in it are really hard to describe, but it is indeed magnificent.

And Li Qi looked around: "So, why did we meet here?"

All around, there is something like a 'Scripture Pavilion'.

This is a pagoda, transparent from top to bottom, with an unknown number of layers. Inside, there are 300 million billion statues of the Buddha, in which offerings, respect, respect, praise, and spread the infinite Dharma.

The ground is made of glazed glass, and rows of precious trees are lined up. The golden ropes are used to demarcate the road. There are scattered precious flowers, which are all pure and clear. There are infinite lights. There are countless voice-hearers, and there are no demons. Each floor is more than three feet high, shaped like a palace, decorated with seven treasures, hanging silk banners and canopies, and statues stand in the car. There are attendants of the gods, all carved with gold and silver, hanging in the air, beating drums, blowing conch shells, and hitting cymbals.

In each floor, there are countless books and Buddhist scriptures. Behind each statue of the Tathagata in different forms, there are different scriptures. According to the different postures of the Buddha statues, the things recorded are also different.

Looking at the number of floors, the number is really not small.

"I am reading the Great Tripitaka here. Later, I am going to look at the Taisho Tripitaka built by humanity. Maybe I can compare some things, but... these are all the words of the Tathagata, so they should be more orthodox, right?" The demon prince looked up at the pagoda.

This is where the "Great Tripitaka" is stored. This pagoda is a collection of all the Buddha's words, which were sorted out by Ananda and Upali, two Buddhist disciples, based on their memories. In the end, this vast amount of information was verified and verified by Kasyapa one by one, and then compiled into a book, classified according to different categories, and stored in this pagoda.

In the entire pagoda, I don't know if there are only Li Qi and Prince Mo, and there are many monks here, but they are just two or three big cats and small cats.

"You seem to be very interested in Buddhism." Li Qi put away the desire world: "So should I wait for you to finish studying all these Buddhist teachings? Or should I start now?"

"Wait for me, I think I will be more confident after I finish reading these, and I won't be in a hurry. I will prepare more. This is also your style." Prince Mo continued to bury his head and continued to read.

Li Qi nodded: "Okay, then come to me when you are better."

After speaking, he got up and walked out of the pagoda.

After walking out of the pagoda, you can see that the outside is an ordinary world, and the pagoda is just an ordinary seven-story pagoda, not as exaggerated as it looks inside.

This is a primitive world. The feudal era has not arrived yet. It is still in the peaceful primitive tribal period. The pagoda was built here as a kind of "miracle" here.

The natives believe in the miracles here, and Buddhism cannot expel them.

In fact, the natives are latecomers. At the beginning, these remnants of Buddhism just found a newly born planet to live, but now they have been here for too long, and this planet has evolved intelligent creatures.

Although they are still in the primitive and ignorant period, these natives have a preliminary understanding of Buddhism, and they are inevitably affected.

Buddhism did not reject them, and accepted them as disciples, so they quietly survived on this planet.

After Li Qi walked out of the pagoda, he greeted Kasyapa: "Thank you for your hard work, Venerable."

Kasyapa bowed to Li Qi: "These are all things I should do, and the great witch is the same, but... I have to say one more thing, Maudgalyayana has died to destroy the devil, the two of you... should also think carefully."

"When the Buddha was alive, did he allow the devil to be so rampant?" Li Qi asked back.

Kasyapa shook his head.

"So, what we do is just like this. Venerable Kasyapa and Venerable Ananda are better at passing on the Buddhist teachings, and the matter of destroying the devil, just leave it to me." Li Qi smiled.

Just as Li Qi and Kasyapa were talking, a little monk walked in.

Seeing Li Qi inside, the little monk hurriedly bowed and then retreated.

Just by going in and out like this, Li Qi had already seen the clues.

He moved his eyes to Kasyapa: "At this time, is there anyone who wants to target you?"

The second-rank can easily see the heart of the little monk, so when the other party came in, Li Qi already knew all the causes and consequences.

"After all, the Great Tripitaka is still very valuable. Many high-level civilizations want to see it. It's okay to see it, but some want to take it away, which is not okay. But let me deal with it." Kasyapa bowed his head slightly, then stood up and wanted to deal with it.

"Leave it to me, I will do it once and for all." Li Qi held down Kasyapa.

The current lineage controlled by Kasyapa can't even find a second-rank. Kasyapa is already the highest in cultivation. Although the third-rank has a foothold in the universe, it is still difficult to be completely stable.

After all, there are still many third-rank and even second-rank civilizations in this universe.

Kasyapa watched Li Qi leave.

Perhaps it is a good thing to let Li Qi express his attitude.

After all, the current situation is indeed not very good.

As for Li Qi, he appeared outside the atmosphere of this planet.

Outside the atmosphere, Li Qi could see a fleet.

The Eye of the Devil on his forehead opened and took a glance.

This is a third-grade civilization, which is already very powerful, but they do not have a third-grade individual strongman, but their civilization itself has reached the third grade.

Just a glance, Li Qi can confirm that this is a noble race with character.

They speak gently and behave elegantly.

Their actions are quiet, reserved, confident, and most importantly, they are extremely rational.

Li Qi reads their minds and can be sure of their logic of action, so this is a basically peaceful and friendly advanced civilization.

Why does this kind of civilization dislike war?

Li Qi continued to read down.

Then he suddenly realized.

That's it.

The technology of this civilization allows them to travel through time and space, allowing them to have incomplete reality when they do not have the third-grade characteristics. They have a technology called "eternal time and space" that allows them to peek into the past and the future, and a group of "eternal technicians" are responsible for manipulating this complex control method.

Through their unique algorithm, they control reality and timeline in eternity.

Therefore, the "eternal technician" is the actual ruler of their civilization, and his authority is even higher than that of the "leader" in different time and space.

However, Li Qi can see the pain of those "eternal technicians" here.

He found that these eternal technicians would select their successors in different world lines, and then let them become an "eternal technician" after training.

This process is extremely painful.

Generally speaking, the selected novices will completely leave their own world lines and their families.

They will spend many, many years slowly getting in touch with the truth.

Slowly, they will find that they are completely different from ordinary members of civilization in the process of performing tasks again and again.

The novices will have different reactions, but generally not very good.

Many novices will become unable to eat at all. They are like injured little animals, gathering together to seek spiritual comfort, using time and space ethics to make pale and powerless jokes, pretending to be happy.

But they all know that they have completely changed, and they may not even have their parents.

Because if they return to the original timeline, they will see that their parents have a new son, as for who they are? I don’t know. Anyway, my parents don’t know me, society has no record of me, and I don’t exist at all.

Who gave birth to me?

How did I come into being?

They thought about these terrible questions again, and then laughed weakly because of each other’s jokes, as if they could be strong in this way.

These lonely young people found that they had nothing but eternity.

There is no way to return to the past. There is no law prohibiting them from going home. It’s just that they have recognized the terrible and cruel truth -

Home no longer exists, or it has never existed, and they even wiped out that reality with their own hands.

Many years later, they will become an excellent eternal technician, who can calmly face the past and future that they are constantly reshaping, but they will never forget that experience.

This is the eternal law of this third-grade civilization. They don’t have a third-grade individual strongman, but through the sacrifice and inheritance of such individuals, they have also built their own eternal time and space.

However, this is also a flaw in their "path".

The way to become an eternal person planted a flaw in their Dao heart. Even if they became skilled and excellent eternal technicians in the future, these thoughts still lingered in their hearts.

This flaw made them particularly vulnerable when facing the devil's thoughts. The devil is their natural nemesis.

"So, they want to seek help from Buddhism? However, they don't believe in these monks, so they choose to take it themselves." Li Qi said to himself, and then stood in front of the fleet.

Countless fleets, spanning dozens of light years.

There are star-sized motherships and single-person flying boats in the fleet, and all the fleets combined are a huge array that can affect the existence of the third rank.

It is more appropriate to say that it is a formation than a fleet.

Li Qi stood at the edge of the formation.

He waved his hand gently, and he could see that outside the countless portholes, a faint light flashed, which was the beginning of all things and the end of chaos.

These time ships were forced to move forward, and the atmosphere gradually became thicker. Water, fire and earth, swept by the sweeping wind, hit the surface of the spacecraft. Cracks gradually appeared on the thick portholes. The spacecraft lost control and kept shaking and swaying in the hot mud.

But the next moment, one second before Li Qi attacked, the spacecraft launched an attack.

They attacked before Li Qi attacked, so that they could interrupt Li Qi's actions, and everything Li Qi did after that would be canceled.

It should have been like this.

After all, for them, creating reality from history is an act of pursuing their ideals from infinite possibilities, that is, constantly cutting away from infinite figures to finally form a limited and unique outline.

But Li Qi is different from them.

In Li Qi's view, all history exists at the same time, and all world lines do not conflict. There has never been an option to "erase reality". You just choose history, not erase history.

Therefore, attacking Li Qi and interrupting Li Qi's actions cannot cancel the consequences caused by Li Qi.

This is the suppression of the third grade by the second grade. In the reality that Li Qi knows, the reality that the third grade thinks is no longer effective. They think they can interrupt Li Qi's actions in the past and cancel Li Qi's future. Little do they know that in Li Qi's path, the future he created has nothing to do with Li Qi.

Things exist by themselves.

The future exists by itself. It does not mean that Li Qi created the future, so if Li Qi is killed, the future will not exist.

Therefore, Li Qi was interrupted, but the future was not interrupted.

So, the fleet of this civilization in this timeline was destroyed.

The eternal technicians still exist. They panicked and immediately knew that the people in front of them were not their enemies.

However, Li Qi waved again.

Because reality exists at the same time, whether it is alive or dead, the existence of this fleet is vague before the possibility is zero, and it is impossible to judge life or death.

Therefore, under Li Qi's magical power, this fleet came back.

They still kept their memories, so they immediately looked at their bodies in horror.

Then, they used all their observation abilities to look at Li Qi over there.

Li Qi waved at them.

This civilization immediately understood what happened, and then they quietly retreated.

Li Qi frowned.

He hurriedly chased after them, shouting as he chased: "Stop! Don't go!"

He just wanted to persuade the other party not to use force. If you want to come to listen to the teachings and learn Buddhism, you can discuss it! Those monks are easy to talk to! If you say you want to see the Tripitaka, they will definitely not refuse!

In the end, Li Qi still chased the other party back.

Until the end, these people were full of vigilance and disbelief, and even felt that they were forced to go in and learn the Tripitaka.

However, when they really got the permission to enter the Great Tripitaka, they thought...did they do something wrong?

Jiaye was also confused by Li Qi's attitude...

If it was Jiaye, he would probably let the other party choose by himself instead of using such semi-forced means.

But no matter what...

Li Qi was sending a signal to the outside world.

The Great Tripitaka, all the records of the words of the Buddha during his lifetime -

Now, it is open for free.

Anyone can come and see it.