Myriad Paths

When Li Qi left Zhu Fengdan's cave, he was still in a daze.

Although things were just as Zhu Fengdan said...

If he treated these things as nonsense and ignored them, then these words would have no effect on him.

However, if he thought carefully and pondered them seriously, these words would become his death warrant.

He would really die.

When he wanted to put one of his ideas into practice, he was gambling with his life. Although the degree of danger was not as great as the pile of Taoism he had now, it was still very risky.

This was not practicing Zhushu

Zhushu was the kind of practice that was peaceful, safe, and even without bottlenecks.

The reason was also very simple. All the dangers, obstacles, and stones blocking the road were removed by the predecessors and flattened. A smooth road to the sky, just walk and it's done.

The difficulty of practicing Zhushu was simply outrageous.

Of course, it was just a comparison. Compared with those ordinary exercises, Zhushu was very simple to practice.

But promotion is still not that simple. Although all the pits have been filled and the forks have been marked, you still have to walk the road you should walk, and you won’t miss a step.

You don’t have the ability to walk on your own, so you can’t blame the technique.

And now Li Qi has taken the initiative to escape from the smooth road to heaven that Zhu Shu arranged for him, and ran to the rugged path to seek death.

But there is no other way.

If he doesn’t take the path, the demon will really make him pay the price.

Going is desperate, and not going is a sure death.

Alas.

However, Li Qi has recovered some sanity and did not continue to cling to these ‘insignificant’ things.

As Zhu Fengdan said, he actually has some time.

Apart from other things, the witch god also said that it is not easy for the demon to attack Li Qi.

The other world is the Desire Realm, which is suppressed by another world.

The original words of the witch god are: "Buddhism covers the world with the colorless world and suppresses the Desire Realm with the pure and quiet method."

The colorless world should be the corresponding to the other world, the special existence of the first grade, right?

The formless realm suppressed his Hua Zi Zai Tian, ​​just like the Buddha exiled the demon to the outer domain in the past. The demon was not as he imagined. Every time the demon attacked, he had to pay a heavy price. In places where Li Qi could not see, the demon was not doing well. Of course, this bad thing was for the first rank, and it was definitely not comparable to Li Qi. However, even the witch god said the "heavy" price, which must be very heavy. So Li Qi felt that the demon had attacked twice in a short period of time, and it was estimated that he would be quiet for a while. At least in this interval of a few years, he should not have any problems. Thinking of this, he suddenly felt someone pulling him. Looking back, he had walked out of the teacher's cave without knowing it, and walked in the wilderness of the witch god mountain for a long time. Lao Ma had been following him, and seemed to feel that his state was not right, so Lao Ma took the initiative to bite his sleeve and pulled him back. This also temporarily pulled Li Qi out of the vortex of thinking. At the same time, he suddenly woke up. My own cultivation has started to become a little disordered, and there have been some fluctuations in the small world of the human body.

When the mind is in disorder, it is impossible to control the cultivation.

Fortunately, it is still within the controllable range and can be repaired.

The collapse of the Tao heart and the direct self-explosion are not just legends or jokes, but are common occurrences in this world.

Practitioners can exert powerful power by relying on their own cultivation.

And they can control this power by relying on the "Tao" and "heart".

The Tao is the foundation, and the cultivation is a chaotic power. Only by relying on the Tao, and the techniques and skills derived from the Tao, can the cultivation be transformed from a bunch of rabble into an orderly army.

To describe it, it is probably...

The cultivation is a bunch of refugees, a huge accumulation of qi, which is very scattered, and there are contradictions and frictions. It is very difficult to control them. If you are not careful, they will backfire and make you explode.

The skills can filter out the qi you need, such as only absorbing water vapor, or refining it into internal qi.

Then, select and gather the required Qi, and then use the method to train them into a hundred-refined elite soldiers.

Such a hundred-refined elite soldier can execute the "tactics" according to the mind, that is, the magic, and exert stronger power.

And the most important thing is the heart, which is the commander.

Only a firm, strong heart that can control the Tao, the law, and the magic can control these soldiers and refugees and make them work for themselves without backlash.

Li Qi's Tao heart was in chaos, so his cultivation would naturally become scattered, and there was a tendency to become a rioter in his body.

Fortunately, Lao Ma woke him up in time, so that he didn't lose too much...

Li Qi touched the horse's head, shook his head and sighed: "Thanks, brother, alas, forget it, don't think about those for the time being, stabilize the Tao heart first."

Just after he finished this sentence, Li Qi was suddenly stunned.

Wait... heart? Is there any connection between that heart and the spiritual entity mentioned earlier?

Between the Tao heart and the illusory spiritual entity, perhaps...

He just thought so, and then suddenly turned his head and slapped himself.

This hit was very severe, his neck made a cracking sound, his cervical vertebra was twisted, and half of his face was smashed.

It was not red or swollen, but the skin was torn.

The old horse took two steps back, his face full of fear.

Did Li Qi lose his Taoist heart and go crazy?

Li Qi, on the other hand, took a wisp of anger in his hand and slapped it on the wound.

The strong vitality quickly healed his wounds and made the severe pain he felt disappear.

After being stimulated like this, Li Qicai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

That's just a thread, but don't think too much about it, there's plenty of time behind it.

Li Qi forced himself to suppress his thoughts of going deeper, because he knew that he would really explode if he continued.

"Old horse, you carry me on my back and we'll stay overnight. You should be able to find me, right?" Li Qi rode on the old horse and said.

The old horse nodded and roared to show that he knew.

Liesu is an important transportation point in Wushen Mountain, and its function is similar to that of Jintai in the Tang Dynasty.

The constellations are astronomical, and the herbs are geological. In winter, the grass and trees wither, but the constellations in the sky are still there. Therefore, it is said that "only half-seen in the sky", and there is a hub in the center. The welcoming Qi of these four seasons are all in the surrounding suburbs.

The so-called list of places refers to the numerous world groups.

I have to say that the names of these major roads are very good, and they are cultural people.

Li Qi was going to stay overnight and take a bus, and then return to Tang Dynasty.

He was going to put aside the controversies in his head for the time being and go to Tang Kingdom to put the demon dragon puzzle together and get the inspiration of the 'boundary' that he had always coveted.

Then... take those imperial students to travel to the Holy Flame Realm.

Shen Shuibi, Yang Ning, and a group of Tai students, together, things in the Holy Flame Realm should be settled.

After taking care of the Green Mountain God and convincing the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord, he would return to Taixue and concentrate on the remaining things he had to do.

This is what Li Qi planned.

He and Lao Ma left Zhu Fengdan's barren mountain with no vegetation.

It takes about ten days to get to Liesu, not long.

Counting these ten days, it has been more than a month since he left Tang State, and he will have a holiday in one month.

Therefore, Li Qi had to rush back within a month to pull the Tai students back and have enough reasons to go to the classroom to fight for the world.

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It takes more than ten days to get to Liesu.

This is the sixth day of Lao Ma’s journey.

As always, after the old horse got tired, Li Qi chose to find a place with beautiful scenery to land, and then rested for about an hour to regain his strength before setting off.

Lao Ma was adjusting his breath not far away, absorbing the clouds in the sky and replenishing his physical strength.

Li Qize found a pool of water, sat down around it, and started reading.

Cultivation means not stopping every day.

It is always beneficial to read more books and newspapers.

While he was reading, his ears twitched and he looked down the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, there is a very ordinary cottage.

Shanzhai is the basic unit of the human race within the jurisdiction of Wushen Mountain, so it is very common and not unusual.

However, at this moment, the cottage seemed to be being attacked by monsters.

Generally speaking, Li Qi would not care about such things.

Copycats have their reasons for copycats, and monsters have their reasons for being monsters.

The father-in-law said that the father-in-law was right, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was right.

After all, everyone is just trying to survive, so it would be inappropriate for Li Qi to interfere.

Just like a wild documentary director would never stop a polar bear from killing a seal. That's not right. Although it is a 'kind act', it goes against the laws of nature and will destroy the delicate balance and cause greater damage.

But this time, Li Qi frowned because he saw Buddha's light in the battlefield.

Why is there Buddha light?

Buddhist monk?

Li Qi stood up and said to Lao Ma: "Old Ma, you eat first and I'll go take a look."

After saying this, he stood up and rushed towards the stronghold down the mountain.

The seventh-grade man was very fast. The distance down the mountain was only a dozen miles in a straight line. In just two breaths, Li Qi arrived at the top of the battlefield.

He did not show up, but maintained the state of witchcraft's "body blending into nature" and looked down quietly.

The battlefield below is quite chaotic. There are probably hundreds of people and dozens of monsters.

Most of those monsters are herbivores, such as deer, wild boars, goats and the like.

Looking at the human race, they are also dressed as farmers and hunters. Most of them are natives of the village. There are not many serious fighting monks. Occasionally, they are just hunters.

The battle was fierce, with spells flying and blood splattering, but the casualties were always kept within double digits.

After all, there were only a few hundred people on both sides participating in the war, and the total number of people in the battle was less than 1,000. The casualties of 10% were already terrifying.

Li Qi took another look at the hillside that was the battlefield.

The mountains here are not big, covering an area of ​​only dozens of miles. Nearly half of the area is planted with cash crops by those human cottages.

It seems that it is another battle caused by the living space.

They will probably fight until both sides can no longer bear the casualties, and then sit down and talk.

Li Qi had no intention of intervening in such a fight. Who would he help if he interfered? Who is really wrong? Which side should we force to make concessions? How about playing 50 big boards each, and then letting them hold back and go back, waiting for him to leave before playing secretly?

None of them are suitable.

So just let nature take its course. Li Qi just continued to look around, trying to find where the Buddha's light was.

It didn't take him long, and soon he discovered the source of the Buddha's light.

Is a monk.

Of course, under normal circumstances, only monks can have the light of Buddha.

What Li Qi was afraid of was not an abnormal situation. Seeing that it was coming from the monk, he felt temporarily relieved.

The monk's cultivation level... Li Qi looked at it and saw that it seemed to be the eighth level, which was the highest in the entire battlefield.

The battles between the copycats and monsters were basically between ninth-level battles. Obviously, neither the monsters nor the copycats used their own eighth-level weapons to fight.

If one's own eighth-grade is dead, then he will completely lose the qualification to establish a foothold in this place, and will be wiped out by other things.

This is cruel natural competition and natural selection.

In the Wushen Mountain area, the per capita level and per capita combat power are so high. The main reason is of course the good spiritual source of heaven and earth cultivated by the powerful wizards.

The second reason is the screening effect brought about by competition.

Look at that monk over there.

He was on the edge of the battlefield, not participating in the battle, and he carefully hid himself.

However, every time someone or a demon was killed in battle, he would recite the Buddha's name, and then an undetectable Buddha's light would flash, attracting the soul of the deceased.

Now, there are dozens of confused souls in his palm.

These souls were protected from the damage caused by the spells in the center of the battlefield and the sun in the sky, and the monk seemed to be waiting for something.

Li Qi frowned.

This monk... wouldn't want to save these souls, would he?

It's not that Li Qixin is bad, but the monks he has met so far are not good people, and Buddhism has left a very bad impression on him.

Although theoretically, Li Qi knew that Buddhism should guide people to do good, the Zen wisdom monks in Guangyang left a deep impression on Li Qi.

Not to mention the Three Lives Ancient Mirror, as well as the White Horse Temple and Jashmateng that I saw in the book before. They are not good people. They basically have unclear connections with the devil, which leads Li Qi to this Orthodoxy is somewhat biased.

But the monk I met now seemed... to be doing good deeds?

Li Qi continued to watch for a while.

This monk was wearing a navy blue robe. He looked very young. He was only sixteen or seventeen years old. He was a novice monk.

Then, he discovered that the monk seemed to be collecting the souls of those who died in battle and preparing to redeem them.

But while Li Qi was watching, the monk suddenly raised his head and his eyes met Li Qi's.

Li Qi was stunned.

Did this eighth-level monk see him?

There is something.

The monk shook for a moment, and then immediately looked aside as if nothing had happened.

The acting is too poor and fits the age range that his body shows.

So, Li Qi floated down, crossed the battlefield, and stood in front of the monk.

Seeing that he couldn't hide it and was discovered, the young monk immediately clasped his hands together and said, "Senior Shaman, please...please ask the young monk to save the souls of the dead before interrogating them again, okay?"

This reaction amused Li Qi.

Quite conscious.