Myriad Paths

The vitality continues to erode.

Now, even the world will be destroyed.

Cracks were visible to the naked eye in the dome of the world, and the decaying vitality truly caused all the cultivation systems to begin to collapse from the bottom up.

Imagine that the shamans were unable to obtain "qi" through sacrifice and exchange to build their own inner world.

When the demonic aura and popular aura dissipate, humanity cannot gain strength through practice and the gathering of ‘people’.

Martial arts has almost disappeared because the inner energy of martial arts has disappeared. The change in vitality directly leads to changes in the nature of the chaotic energy, which in turn causes the foundation of martial arts inner energy to no longer be established.

The martial arts skills below the fourth level have become completely useless, and none of them can be practiced.

The basic levels of each orthodoxy are collapsing, and even the powerful ones cannot stop the spread of this thing, because the collapse of vitality starts from the beginning of time, which means that all things that depend on the birth of the universe will be affected.

Now it's just cultivation.

Soon, when the erosion of vitality begins to continue, all matter will begin to collapse. At that time, it will no longer be a matter of practice, and even all things will be destroyed.

Of course, judging from the current speed, it will take about four to five billion years.

In fact, it is quite long. For mortals, their lives have hardly changed.

If I have to talk about changes... probably, the martial arts masters who came and went have disappeared, and the powerful immortals seem to be dead.

The practitioners at the middle level are almost completely unable to operate. The practice system is almost non-existent, and most of them are directly destroyed because the younger generation has no way to 'get started'.

And those who have already started to practice will also find that their own strength and the energy in their bodies will become less when they are used a little less, or even when they are not used. After they are finally exhausted, they will only slowly fall into the appearance of a mortal.

Some cultivation systems are still struggling to support themselves using some special methods, but they are unable to resist this drastic change that has occurred since the beginning of the universe. I believe that it is only a matter of time before their cultivation will be completely annihilated.

This is the Dharma-ending era.

The spiritual energy is cut off, and the path of spiritual practice is interrupted.

But this is just the most superficial and obvious thing. After four to five billion years, all matter will collapse and collapse, and it will be impossible for mortals to survive by then.

Reality.

Only those with real strength can survive such a catastrophe.

As for the creatures in the world who have not reached the fourth level, they can only hope that they can be protected by the powerful ones.

The fourth grade can only barely protect oneself, and only the third grade can protect others incidentally.

The family tradition of having a third-grade powerful person is not in danger of being destroyed at the moment, but who can tell what will happen in the future?

What is the world like now?

Shen Shui Jing walks in the world.

She left Wushen Mountain. This time she mainly wanted to go to Luofu Mountain to see the situation in Luofu Mountain.

But around Luofu Mountain, she could clearly see that the fairy energy and wind that had surrounded Luofu Mountain in the past began to weaken.

When she walked to the outskirts of Luofu Mountain, she saw skylarks flying up to welcome guests.

Most of these little Taoist monsters were at the ninth or eighth level. They flew over one after another, transformed into little Taoist boys, and saluted one by one: "Real person!"

"Real person! Are you back?"

Shen Shuibi looked at these skylarks and saw that a lot of their spiritual energy had dissipated. It was only with the help of the power of Luofu Mountain that they could barely maintain it.

After all, for them, it is almost impossible for them to obtain the spiritual energy they need from the outside world.

The Taoist cultivation method emphasizes gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and gathering the essence of the five spirits, but now it is impossible to do it at all. The outside world is empty and there is nothing to pick from.

So Shen Shuibi waved her sleeves and scattered dozens of elixirs before going out.

Since there is no way to make up for it from the outside world, let's rely on elixirs.

"You guys keep it, by the way, how is the empress?" she asked.

Those skylarks happily put away the elixir and stuffed it into their mouths. The dark cloud patterns on their bodies began to dance, and they flapped their wings with energy. They chirped and thanked: "Thank you so much, Master! Your Majesty is on the mountain. I have your Majesty." Shelter, the mountain is different from the outside for the time being. I heard that there are piles of seventh-grade people dying of old age outside. In the mountain, from fifth-grade to ninth-grade people, they all rely on the power of the empress to survive for the time being. "

"The empress has opened a spiritual pond on the top of the mountain. If you can't hold on anymore, you can go and get some. But everyone knows that the mountain now relies entirely on the empress, so no one dares to take more."

At this time, another skylark asked again: "Yes, yes, Zhenren, my uncle is also a second-grade expert——"

Before she could finish her words, she was dragged back by someone else's skylark, covered her mouth, and flew away chattering.

Looking at these children, Shen Shuibi shook her head and walked towards the mountain.

All he saw along the way was gloom, and the various consequences of the exhaustion of vitality were already beginning to take shape.

Fortunately, there are still three levels left in Luofu Mountain and can survive, but if the situation continues to develop, in the future, when all the vitality is destroyed, even the world will collapse, right?

If the world collapses, then they will have no choice but to huddle in the ‘heavens’ created by Empress Luofu. At that time...

Live, they can definitely live. As long as Empress Luofu doesn't die, they can live no matter what.

But forget it about Zhudao.

It is almost inevitable that the path of the Tao will be cut off. Although there is no necessary connection between the pursuit of the Tao and cultivation, if you cannot climb the path of cultivation, you simply do not have enough technical means and ability to verify your Tao.

The Tao is a theory, but if your technical means cannot even do experiments, how can you verify the theory?

Without the technical system, all the theories will only become empty talk in the end.

The cultivation system and the technical system were born for a better pursuit of the Tao.

The magic is the verification of the Tao, and the Tao in turn promotes the birth of magic.

I just don’t know to what extent the destruction of the vitality will be this time.

Shen Shuibi even wanted to close her eyes and not face those difficult questions and the terrifying scene of decline, so as to try her best to escape into an innocent and false world.

Because she can already see the future, everything in the future will face death, terror, and pain.

Without protection, she can’t even get comfort from the heart of the Tao, and it is difficult to seek advice from reason.

Because Shen Shuibi is very clear about the current situation, she knows a lot, and has read many articles written by powerful people to analyze everything that is happening now.

Ordinary practitioners no longer have the time and energy to strengthen themselves. They are simply powerless to fight against the terror and oppression of the outside world.

She can only live in fear now, and does not believe that there is any tomorrow.

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The real universe is like an old piano.

After so many years of rumbling bass vibrations, it has finally stopped gradually, but it has already entered every aspect of this world.

It can be seen that many schools, sects, organizations and gatherings have exuded a corrupt atmosphere.

These corrupt atmospheres have already attacked many practitioners, making them depressed or crazy.

One way to deal with this huge atmosphere of decline is to be cynical and sarcastic. They use dancing, singing and drinking to relieve their worries, claiming that worrying about the future is a stupid thing for old people.

They talk about the destruction of the universe with a kind of suicidal enthusiasm, and put on a cynical or indifferent attitude, as if the declining universe cannot cause them any harm.

There are also some people who hold hope, hoping to study the decaying vitality, hoping to gain the ability to integrate themselves into the new cosmic order before the universe is destroyed.

Because according to history... this kind of thing is not the first time, the universe was not like it is now, and they only need to integrate themselves into the vitality after decay.

It's just...

Zombie Li Qi, watching everything.

But he didn't move, because those things had nothing to do with him.

He is already a second-grade.

Even if the vitality is polluted, he will be fine.

In fact, the powerful people above the third grade, at the very least, live in their own world, lose their mind and thinking ability, they have reached the other side beyond all normality and uniqueness, and the reason why they are still moving is only because they still need to strive to complete their flawless mission beyond the individual.

So, for zombie Li Qi, he has no need to take action, and in fact, he has no ability to take action.

Carrying Taiyi's body, he can't move.

Others did not dare to rashly move Taiyi's body. Even if Taiyi's body was not there, this body could not be touched by beings below the first rank.

Zombie Li Qi was able to rely on the Three Realms and the Sun and Moon to maintain his own stability, which was already very powerful. He could not do more.

The zombie demon prince was also missing, because the zombies were fully conscious. Except for their lack of hearts, everything was normal.

But... it just made people feel a little awkward.

Zombie Li Qi was a thing with high intelligence but no self-awareness.

They could think, understand, and speak, but they could not "feel".

They had no pain, could not see, and could not hear.

What was this like? Like a game player.

When playing a survival game, if the character was injured, the player could clearly see that there was a "severe pain" sign on his character, and could also see bleeding and his character limping.

But... did the player feel pain?

The player could understand that the character was in pain, but the player could not feel this pain.

Similarly, players can observe all kinds of things happening in the game, but they don’t know what the character sees.

Players can clearly see the strength, agility, constitution and other attributes of their characters, but they can’t feel the character’s ‘strength’, ‘speed’ and ‘health’.

For players, strength is just an attribute, not the touch of their own muscles, or the ease of their own exercise.

As long as the strength is enough, it’s fine, and your subjective feelings are completely meaningless.

The same is true for ‘eating and drinking’ in the game.

Unpalatable? Delicious?

These are actually not important at all, because you can’t eat them at all. If the food can’t bring you various buffs, then you will probably completely ignore food, after all, you can’t feel it.

Accommodation and medical treatment are the same.

Medical treatment does not need to care about pain or whether the treatment is comfortable or not, because the player only sees the health bar. As for the pain of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it is just a buff in the status bar, which doesn’t matter at all.

Accommodation, whether it is a thatched hut or a palace, is there any difference in the eyes of players? Even the scenery is the same.

No matter what the scenery is, the player sees the same thing. He can't feel the wind of the snow-capped mountains, the heat of the desert, or the salty seawater.

For him, everything is just the status on the status bar, and he has no feelings at all.

The key to self-awareness is to "realize that this is me".

But for zombie Li Qi, his current high intelligence cannot hang "I" on him.

From beginning to end, he is just an "AI" that looks at the status bar and acts, without "my feelings" in his heart.

No, he doesn't have a "heart" at all, so naturally there is no "my feelings".

If the location is placed in the realm of "desire realm" or "pure spirit", it will be found that zombie Li Qi has no way to enter.

He has no spiritual power and no mind.

So... what is the mind?

I don't know.

No one can understand how "mind" and "consciousness" come from.

Some people believe that the mind itself is actually a manifestation of "matter", and the so-called thought is essentially rooted in the movement of matter, but the existence of philosophical zombies like Li Qi has separated wisdom and thought.

Life can have wisdom, the ability to think, and the perception of the outside world, just like paramecium.

Paramecium can respond to the outside world. In a sense, it also has a certain degree of thinking ability and "wisdom", so... does paramecium have "self"?

Possessing wisdom and being able to think are not necessary conditions for "self" and "mind".

Zombie Li Qi has wisdom and can think, but he has no mind.

So... where is Li Qi's "mind"?

Where did the "heart" that was taken away go?

Zombie Li Qi doesn't care. Of course, he doesn't feel "not caring", but the way he behaves is that he doesn't want to find his heart back.

So, the situation is deadlocked.

Where can a person's mind be stored?

The mind is invisible and intangible, difficult to observe, and can only be felt by "other minds", but even other minds can always feel the existence of that high wall.

The high wall prevents people from understanding each other. People can only feel their own feelings forever, and it is difficult to understand the feelings of others.

It seems that what we can feel is only our own mind.

Even if we feel other people's feelings through the mechanism of "sympathy" and "empathy", it is just an illusion of talking to ourselves.

It's like, if you see the zombie Li Qi being beheaded, do you feel that the zombie Li Qi is in pain?

There may be phantom pain, but in fact the zombie Li Qi has no feeling.

So, how can we feel Li Qi's heart?

Is there anything that can accommodate subjectivity?