Myriad Paths

It's hard to say...

How to confess?

Li Qi also fell into deep thought.

Fortunately, just like his reaction just now, Lingxiao Flower God didn't rush him.

Thinking and considering is still important.

Li Qi did need to think carefully, because he didn't want to tell Ling Xiao Flower God that his main purpose was to use the other party's momentum to return to the Tang Dynasty and join the Tang Dynasty's high-end social circle.

After all, the Lord of Lingxiao is not a fool. Everyone uses each other and everything on the scale must be equal. After Li Qi's main purpose is exposed, there is no need for her to pay more favors to invite those great monks.

It's not like she opened Fengde Temple, so persuading the monks to welcome Li Qi and inspect the Buddhist sculptures cost her a lot of favors.

So if Li Qi didn't say anything, using the other party's momentum to return to the social circle would be a waste of money.

After a while, Li Qi raised his head and said: "It's really hard to say this directly, but what can be said is that I encountered some troubles and wanted to find a spell that was at least the level of clairvoyance, so that it could help me get through it. This difficulty.”

"My teacher intervened in this matter, but he only gave me some tips and gave me a lecture. He didn't personally help me. But just these tips almost made my brain explode. Just when I When I was confused, I met a young monk. "

"That little monk had the rudiments of clairvoyance, so I came to take a look. I just wanted to know clearly and see if I could use it to solve my problem."

"As for what this trouble is... please forgive me for not telling you the truth. If I tell you, unless the Lord of Lingxiao is like me, he has a powerful teacher to protect him." Li Qi said.

"Is this so..." Lord Lingxiao listened to Li Qi's words completely.

Then, the two fell into a long silence again.

This time, it lasted for a full hour.

Li Qi was not idle during this time. He observed the expression of Lord Lingxiao, speculated on her psychology, and then tried to persuade her with more powerful words.

Li Qi really wanted to know what that thing was and see if he could use it for himself.

You must know that according to Li Qi's existing knowledge, if you want to learn clairvoyance, you must be at least fifth grade and above to be qualified to carry this kind of magic.

Otherwise, given the complexity of this technique, there is no way that the human body and the small world, which is not strong enough, can withstand it.

That the little monk was able to open the rudimentary form of Heavenly Eyes at the eighth level of cultivation means that if Li Qi can get this secret, maybe he can also open part of the Heavenly Eyes at the seventh level, and then he will have a little bit of leverage against the devil. .

Therefore, if possible, Li Qi did not want to give up easily.

According to Li Qi's observation of Ling Xiao Flower God during this hour, she... probably didn't want to give up the opportunity brought by Li Qi.

Li Qi speculated that the Lingxiao Flower God wanted to use the Lingxiao Kingdom to accumulate information and then make a comeback one day.

Of course, this comeback does not mean killing back.

Kill him back? Dreaming, who can she beat? Even if she practiced cultivation for another ten thousand years, she would still be crushed to death by one finger when faced with the famous scholar who wrote poems to criticize her.

The other party was a person with the same name as Liu Donghe, a great Confucian. Li Qi didn't know the specific cultivation level, but Liu Donghe was a fourth-grade Confucian, and he was a particularly strong one among the fourth-grade. He could take over as a high-ranking scholar at any time if he wanted to. Official position.

Being as famous as Liu Donghe shows that he is not too weak.

Therefore, Li Qi believed that her comeback was probably to use practical actions to prove that Ling Xiaohua was not a clingy person, so that the person who wrote the poem realized that he had made a mistake and apologized to her.

To be honest, this choice is a bit embarrassing. After being humiliated by the other party, you still have to prove it to the other party.

With the character of Lingxiao Flower God, it is probably quite difficult to accept.

Although it’s actually not that difficult to accept.

Because if a Confucian reaches the third level, he can be regarded as an upright person. This is not the level of a sour Confucian. If the other party realizes that he is wrong, he will really apologize.

Only in this way can it be regarded as "sincerity" in Confucianism.

If he can't even do this, it means that the other person's third grade is either a fake, or his path has been cut off and his character has changed drastically, and he is definitely not a 'celebrity'.

Cultivation, practice, practice, in the final analysis, must fall into 'action'. It is impossible for someone to go against his own path. He can go so far in humanistic Confucianism, which means that he must be very consistent with Confucian thought, and he comes from the heart. Inner approval.

Choose the path, and the path also chooses the person.

If you really have a idiosyncratic mind and cannot fit into these existing paths, then carve out your own path. Anyway, it is impossible to do one thing that is both yin and yang.

Gongfa will not dictate the way people behave, but Taoism will, and there is no need for supervision. As long as you violate the Tao you follow and believe in, you will naturally pay the price.

Li Qi's profiling ability is enough for him to become a detective, or a detective in the mortal world, and he is also a very top-notch one.

But now that he has reached the seventh level, this kind of ability is naturally no longer on the table.

After Li Qi's calculations, finding someone to compete with the famous celebrity in the past, and then completely defeating him, is most in line with the character of the Lingxiao Flower God, and is also the best result under the restriction of 'possible'.

The Lingxiao Flower God may refuse, but the reason for the refusal is definitely not 'dislike' or 'unacceptable'.

Therefore, the chance of success is very high.

Sure enough, after a little more than an hour, Lingxiao Flower God finally responded.

She looked at Li Qi seriously, her lips tightened first and then let go.

Obviously, she is the fifth-grade with an advantage, but now she is not as relaxed as Li Qi. It can be seen that she is getting more and more nervous.

The reason, Lingxiao Flower God thought, was also very simple.

Li Qi was not in any danger.

He was the son of Wushen Mountain. In the Baiyue territory, no one dared to do anything to him. As long as he gently called out the name of his teacher, a terrifying force would descend from the sky and instantly destroy all enemies.

Even if there was no teacher, there would definitely be a guardian hidden in the dark around him to escort them and prevent these geniuses from dying halfway.

Even in the Tang Kingdom, no one dared to take his life. He could do whatever he wanted unscrupulously. Even if he really did something bad, he would only get a scolding and he would have the opportunity to repent.

His bottom line was the bottom line of Wudao, and Wudao had no requirements for good and evil.

So when Li Qi did these things, at most he would fail and waste a little time, but there would never be any other additional losses.

But Lingxiao Flower God was different.

If she failed, she would lose miserably.

She was already miserable, having been driven from Tang to Baiyue, but if she lost this time, she would be even more miserable, and she might not have a chance to turn over again.

At the gambling table, people who bet heavily have different mentality from those who don't bet.

Li Qi can calmly analyze the pros and cons and read the information, but even if she has a much higher cultivation, she has to be affected by emotions.

She stared at Li Qi with jealousy and heavy breathing.

Li Qi was also looking at her.

Li Qi knew what she was thinking, because he had been trying to understand Lingxiao Flower God, although there was only a few hours.

Of course, she didn't know...

Li Qi bet more than her and faced something more terrifying than her.

She was just facing a great scholar, while Li Qi was facing the self-transformed demon.

Moreover, calling Zhu Fengdan's name would not only not have any response, but even the guardian could not be called out. Li Qi didn't have a guardian at all.

But anyway, Li Qi noticed that her cultivation was a little scattered, exuding a strong sense of oppression, almost suffocating Li Qi.

Physical suffocation.

As for the psychological suffocation... To be honest, the fifth rank is not enough. Although the fifth rank can crush Li Qi with one finger, Li Qi has seen too many big men, so he has established enough advantages psychologically.

Knowing this, Li Qi forced himself to take a long breath.

This is difficult to do, because in the opponent's scattered momentum, Li Qi's throat seemed to be strangled by something, and he had to encourage his cultivation to complete a sigh.

So, facing the Lingxiao Flower God who was tight-skinned and silent, Li Qi continued to encourage his cultivation, pulling his vocal cords and said: "Don't treat me as a death warrant, Lord, I am here to help you, you can treat me as a friend."

"It doesn't necessarily have to be a transaction between us, but mutual help. You help me solve the trouble, and I will help you solve the trouble. This way, a lot of trouble can be saved, and nothing will be lost."

Li Qi advised.

If possible, he hopes to solve the problem with words as much as possible.

After all, the secret of the Sky Eye is very important to him, and returning to the Tang Kingdom is also very important to the Lingxiao Flower God.

"Then let's do this." The Lingxiao Flower God seemed to have finally realized her own loss of composure. She put away her unintentional aura, stabilized her cultivation, and regained her composure.

After she regained her composure, she said, "I will take you to see the monks of Fengde Temple in Zunfo Mountain and introduce you to them, but whether you can ask the reason depends on you."

"Similarly, I don't count on you to pass on a message to me. It's my fate. What do you think, sir?"

"Great, let's do this. It's just a small favor for everyone, and no one will be in the way." Li Qi nodded immediately.

The Lingxiao Flower God immediately said, "Then let's do this. You go to Zunfo Mountain first, and then we go to Chang'an together. Don't ask each other about each other's situation, just do what we agreed on."

"Okay, but..." Li Qi stretched out his hand.

"Here is the certificate. Go to Zunfo Mountain, and they will naturally recognize you." The Lingxiao Flower God pulled out a hairpin from herself and handed it to Li Qi.

The hairpin was made of wood, and it seemed to be made of the stems of flowers and trees.

"Thank you, Lord. I will be back in seven days at most. I will take you to find Liu Canzhi then." Li Qi nodded and walked out the door without delay.

However, at the moment of leaving the door, Li Qi's eyes were stern.

Without stopping, he quickly went to the horseman to take away the old horse that was eating a lot, and quickly left Ezhou and headed towards Zunfo Mountain.

It was not until he left Ezhou that Li Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's a trick. Lingxiao Flower God knew I was coming..." Li Qi rode the old horse and talked to himself in his heart.

Lingxiao Flower God, you have been entangled for too long and struggled for too long.

This is very abnormal.

Because this matter is not worth her putting on a look of risking her life.

If this matter fails, she will just be driven back to Baiyue. Can the famous scholar who wrote a poem to criticize her at the beginning still hunt her down?

There must be other reasons for her to act like that.

Li Qi has two guesses.

First, that speculation that lasted for more than an hour was just a posturing.

In this way, she still pretends to think, which means that she has made up her mind a long time ago, but she just wants to delay it for a moment or two. This in itself means a lot of things. There must be something else behind her, she is just doing it for herself to see. .

The second thing is that the entanglement and deliberation are not just fake. She is really afraid and feels that she has staked a lot.

That meant that she had made a bet that she didn't know about, much more than what Li Qi had seen, enough to make her even a fifth-grade person tremble with fear.

Anyway, in Li Qi's opinion, the things on the table now are far from enough for him to look like this.

The old horse didn't understand those twists and turns. Anyway, he ran wherever Li Qirang went, leaving Li Qi sitting alone on the horse and thinking hard.

However, the clues are limited, and no matter how much you think about it, you can't draw many conclusions.

From the current information, the conclusion that can be drawn is that the matter of clairvoyance is probably not a coincidence, but someone deliberately arranged it for me.

As expected, such things as coincidental encounters can only be encountered by grassroots people who no one cares about.

As the master of Wushen Mountain, I cannot encounter coincidences.

Good adventures are arranged by elders.

Bad adventures are arranged by your opponents.

How could he let a so-called "adventure" that he didn't know the truth or the details of hit him in the face...

However, no matter what, I always have to take a look at this clairaudience.

Because I don’t know whether this is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, I’ll just do whatever I want until things are revealed.

Thinking like this, Li Qi soon arrived at Zunfo Mountain.

It's not far, less than a day's walk.

With Lao Ma's current speed of traveling thousands of miles a day, it would only take him a few days to travel to all the states and cities in Lingxiao Kingdom. He thought it would only take him two thousand miles to get out of one state, so quickly.

Zunfo Mountain is quite far away from Ezhou, but it only takes less than a day and night to get there.

From the outside, there is nothing unusual about Zunfo Mountain. It is just an ordinary mountain top, about a thousand meters high and covering an area of ​​forty or fifty miles in radius. It is not deep, but is full of people.

This circle is full of villages and towns, with a radius of forty to fifty miles, but millions of people gather here, forming a metropolitan area.

Li Qigang was also curious when he arrived, so he went down and asked these local residents.

the reason is simple.

Without him, if you live elsewhere, there are many dangers. You may encounter some mountain spirits and water monsters, and the demons and hungry ghosts will eat them up. Even if there are witches and gods in the village, you will inevitably make mistakes.

But there are those great monks near Zunfo Mountain, so no monsters dare to cause trouble nearby. Even if there are some who are bold and brainless, they will probably end up with nothing good.

Great monks do not kill animals, so if they catch such monsters, they will not kill them. Instead, they will leave them in the mountains, tie their heads tightly, and let them do cool labor in the temple, welcome guests, farm work, etc. In addition to working day and night, they also do homework and study Buddhism, using this method to encourage them to correct their evil ways.

This is really effective, so there are monsters, demons, ghosts and monsters protecting the Dharma in the temple, and they all worship the Buddha with devotion.

As a result, the residents at the foot of the mountain also respected Buddhism very much. They continued to burn incense day and night, and often collected money to erect a golden statue in the temple and repair the temple. This was considered a courtesy exchange.

And when you figure this out, you’re ready to climb the mountain.