Myriad Paths

'Li Qi' spent a whole hour understanding what happened before and summarizing it.

Li Qi tried countless ways to escape from the endless torture of darkness.

One of the methods is to transmit the mind through the true knowing rhyme to the demonic clone outside.

But obviously, this attempt failed.

Li Qi transferred his mind, but his mind did not come out. It was still trapped in the cage, tightly locked by the five yin demon blood.

He must not look for other means.

Finally, after losing his sense of time and not knowing how much time had passed, he found a method that might work.

This method comes from Buddhism, from what Zen Master Kaiwen said: "Sounds, sounds, and forms originate from the mind. The mind of discrimination all falls into the wrong path. The Buddha regards non-form, and you mistakenly regard it as color. The Buddha regards non-appearance, and you mistakenly regard it as appearance."

Since the ‘phase’ in the five aggregates cannot be distinguished or detected, then abandon this and face the real world.

This is difficult, because without the 'phase', he cannot describe or understand the world.

This is similar to...

A person is literate and can use language flexibly, but he is locked in a cage, or even more extreme, he is blind or deaf-mute and can only read words by touch.

He has a loyal servant by his side who will carve what he sees on a wooden board and describe it to him so that he can understand what he saw through the words.

The only way for him to understand the outside world is through words, and the only way to describe the outside world is through words. So, when he chooses to give up words, how does he understand the outside world?

The answer is, I can't understand it.

Even if a piece of red paper was placed in front of him, he would not know it was red.

He didn’t know what ‘red’ was, he had never seen a color.

The only thing he understood was how to write the word red. He knew the word 'red', but he didn't know what it represented.

Color cannot correspond to text.

Li Qi didn't know what this color looked like anyway.

Li Qi is like this now.

In the past, what his eyes saw was the word "red". It was the word "red" carved on the wooden board by the servant Wuyun, but mortals would regard that as reality.

In fact, they have never really seen the color red, they just regard the shape of the word red as the word "red" itself.

What Li Qi had to do was to abandon his original understanding of the word "red" and then re-establish his perception of the outside world.

The first thing is to see red with your own eyes.

But, can a blind person see red?

There is no doubt that it is impossible.

But Li Qi is lucky. He has a sixth sense in addition to the five senses. This is his "eye", which allows him to open his eyes and see, not "red".

He first used magic to reconstruct his eyes.

This is very simple. It can be done by magic. There are many magic tricks in witchcraft that can observe things through thousands of mountains and rivers. The principle is not complicated. Just make an imaginary magic eye and send it out. This eye sees.

The other eye alone is meaningless. The information collected by this eye will still be sent to the five aggregates, and then the suppressed five aggregates cannot be processed, and Li Qi still can't see anything.

However, Li Qi changed the structure of the technique and transmitted what this eye saw to Zhen Zhi Yun.

This is also a meaningless behavior. Zhenzhi Yun cannot understand it, so he can only record this information as always.

But the behavior after that becomes meaningful.

Li Qi was going to pour this unprocessed information directly into his mind.

This is dangerous.

A person who has never opened his eyes and looks up into the sun may see a rainbow, or he may become completely blind, or even coma or die.

Think about it, after staying in a dark cellar for three days and coming out into the sunlight, people will faint...

Not to mention that a person who has never opened his eyes is receiving a large amount of information into his brain without any defense. That feeling is definitely more exciting than coming from the darkness to the sunshine.

But at that time, Li Qi was on the verge of madness, and he risked his own life to give it a try.

He actually almost died.

The 'real' information was much scarier than he imagined. The moment he came into contact with it, he realized the meaning of the existence of the five aggregates.

Without the five aggregates, all mortals would die.

The outside world is very dangerous, so mortals have evolved 'skin' to resist the erosion of the outside world.

The five aggregates are the skin of the mind.

A person without the five aggregates is like walking on the ground with his skin peeled off. Even the gentlest touch will cause intense pain.

This was the source of Li Qi's endless torture.

His weak mind could not bear this kind of impact. Even if Li Qi was already at level seven, he could barely hold on.

Red is not just red.

There are countless rays of light inside, each of which has different wavelengths and different images.

This is just one color. There are countless colors that make up the world.

That eye received information that was so magnificent that it could be called 'indescribable'. The information itself was nothing special, but there were too many of them.

He almost died from this level of information.

incredible.

Reality... turns out to be so lethal.

However, Li Qi was keenly aware.

This is the same as the thirty-two signs of the Buddha sculpture, and it is the second level of delusion.

What he thinks is true now is still not true.

Li Qi couldn't understand those information flows at all. It was purely gibberish. Although it could be decoded into a 'picture' seen by the eyes, it was obvious that Li Qi had no decoding ability. Decoding was something that only the five aggregates could do.

Such garbled characters may be understood as ‘pollution’.

Incredible, incomprehensible, and indescribable information flow washed away Li Qi's mind, trying to destroy his mind and turn it into complete fragments.

Fortunately...

For some reason, Li Qi felt a little used to it and relaxed.

Years of brainwashing had made him accustomed to the huge flow of information. Information containing infinite reality was indeed scary, but Li Qi was very pleased.

Just like a weightlifter who is blocked by a huge boulder, the professional counterpart is a yes.

Li Qi could hold on to this flow of information, but he couldn't hold on forever. A weightlifter would only lift for three seconds and put it down when the light came on.

If you keep lifting it, you will die.

He persisted for three seconds, and then decisively ended the magic eye.

There's enough information coming in.

Li Qi plans to encode this information and restore the fragmented information flow into picture information.

The difficulty of doing this is probably equivalent to translating an English book into Chinese without knowing English.

Almost impossible to do.

But it's not impossible. Li Qi is a smart man, and smart people are best at finding solutions. Before finding this solution, he had tried many methods.

First of all, Li Qi can confirm that these are image information, because these information are forcibly read from the magic-constructed eyes, Zhenzhiyun.

What is visual information? It can be roughly divided into color, graphics, spatial depth, and contrast between light and dark.

Then, this information can be regarded as a 'jigsaw puzzle'.

With the help of graphics and imagination, we first start to connect these messy information with the color of the graphics to "connect" at the level of meaning.

Arrange them from simple to complex, from concrete to abstract, and divide simple and direct information such as color into the first level.

If information whose meaning cannot be determined appears, it will be temporarily abandoned and classified as Level 2.

Make a simple combination based on the results of the first level and explore the basic organizational structure of the second level.

Based on the basic grammatical structure of the second level, more meanings are determined by adding meanings, which is calibrated to the third level.

Combine the third-level structures to form the final picture, check the logical sequence, and use this method to verify the first-level guesses. If a logical error occurs, it means that the first-level assumptions are wrong. Re-make the assumptions to achieve the final result. Comply with the third level of verification and common 'logical cognition'.

There may be phenomena where the meaning cannot be determined, but repeated confirmation with multiple samples can probably eliminate most errors.

Repeat.

Finally, these 'informations' are put together to form a picture.

This picture does not really exist, but is imagined by Li Qi.

What he could see and feel was still only a chaotic flow of information.

But he can use these information flows to decipher what they represent and what information flow represents what kind of picture.

If I have to describe it, there used to be five aggregates, and he could see the ‘image’ intuitively, just like the patterns on the computer desktop, the mouse, and the visual interface.

But now, he can only see a series of codes. Through these codes, he must figure out the entire "desktop" in his mind, and then operate.

It's very troublesome and extremely difficult, but this is the only way Li Qi can think of at the moment.

An ordinary person's brain would never be able to do this kind of thing, but after all, he is already at level seven, and his mind is far beyond that of ordinary people, so much so that he can complete this extremely difficult thinking process like a computer.

Fortunately, this time, he succeeded.

Li used this method to successfully reconstruct his own vision, albeit a fake one.

He could just rely on real-time translation to imagine what he should see at this moment from the chaotic information flow.

After rebuilding his vision, he rebuilt his hearing in turn, and then relied on these two senses to temporarily regain control of his body.

He still had no sense of touch, and touching his body only brought incomprehensible information flow. He also had no sense of smell or taste, and he could only rely on vision to control his body.

As long as he closed his eyes, he could no longer feel his body. He even swayed a little when walking and could not maintain his balance.

But the good news is... I finally woke up.

But according to tradition, good news must be followed by bad news.

The bad news is that after waking up, the demonic clone disappeared, and according to Lord Lingxiao, he ran away on his own and claimed to be Li Qi.

Li Qi didn't know what to say, but he felt... not good.

"Ahem, so your distraction gave birth to spiritual wisdom and you ran away?" Lord Lingxiao said to Li Qi.

These words were transformed into information in Li Qi's ears, and then transmitted to his mind, arranged into a pile of indescribable information.

Li Qi was stunned for a moment. That was because he was spending a lot of energy processing this kind of information. The flow of information that was originally solved quickly and directly by Wuyun, which was not difficult, seemed particularly difficult at this moment.

Process this information into vibration waves, then simulate what this shock wave should be like, and finally make up the sound.

After being stunned for a while, he controlled his mouth and said stiffly: "That's right, that's right. Lord of the country, can you help me cast a magic-suppressing method to help me suppress the demonic blood of the Five Aggregates."

It was difficult to speak like this because he didn't know what was going on with his mouth. He could only forcefully manipulate his tongue and then confirm what he said through skull resonance.

This made him talk like a robot. At this moment, he and Lord Lingxiao relied on this inefficient way of talking.

After hearing what Li Qi said, the Lord of Lingxiao also saw that something was wrong with Li Qi's state, and nodded in agreement: "If you need it, let's find a secluded place and rent a cave."

"Many...thank you." Li Qi nodded.

After completing the conversation and reviewing the prospects, Lord Lingxiao followed the traffic rules and parked Jade Road underneath.

Then, she supported Li Qi and rented a fifth-grade cave.

The price was very expensive. It actually cost a top-level seventh-grade magic weapon, and it was only rented for one day.

But it is a fifth-grade cave after all, so it is normal for it to be expensive.

Entering the cave, Lord Lingxiao began to cooperate with Li Qi's actions.

Li Qi commanded, telling her the specific situation of his five yin and five yin demon blood, and asked her to suppress the demon.

I have to say that the fifth-grade strong man is indeed powerful. Although he seems a bit weak in front of Li Qi, his power cannot be faked.

The Lord of Lingxiao stretched out his hand and saw countless Lingxiao flowers blooming on Li Qi's body.

These Lingxiao flowers took root in Li Qi's body. The roots penetrated into Li Qi's body and connected to his nerves, emitting a mysterious wave.

Li Qi knew that this was not a spell, but the essence of the Lingxiao Flower God.

She personally took root in Li Qi's body to suppress the five yin demon blood.

With Li Qi acting as an internal agent and reporting on the demonic blood of Wuyun, the Lord of Lingxiao began his own pursuit.

Li Qi could feel that something was chasing around in his body.

The demonic blood of the Five Agglomerates fled crazily as if it had a mind, causing Li Qi's body to moan in pain while the roots of the Lingxiao Flower God continued to spread.

That root system not only traveled through Li Qi's physical body, but also continuously transformed into a spiritual body, and even took root in his soul!

Mystical knowledge, mystical knowledge.

When Yin passes away, Yang has no scene.

Xiaoyao Beiyue, Ling Xiao leads the way.

Waving the mist and clearing the sky, giving up the spirit and keeping oneself at peace.

Under the influence of countless flower tendrils, Li Qi almost turned into a vegetative state. The roots connected to his blood vessels, chasing and blocking him, forcing the demonic blood to have no way out.

Then, the Lingxiao Flower God finally encountered the five yin demon blood, and then, a flower bloomed on the five yin demon blood.

She used the five aggregates of demon blood as a flowerpot and forcibly fixed it in place!

During this chase, Li Qi's personal world seemed to have undergone many changes.

First of all, countless flowers grow in the small world of the human body.

But it did not spread, but gradually formed spiritual peaks.

Ling Xiao is in service, and the spirit is sloughing off in the smoke.

Breathing in and out the six qi, it rises and falls in the nine heavens.

Wonderful things are channeled to the spirit, and you can't resist them.

It is full but not full, and the light is hidden.

It's so short, so filthy!

Along with the magical power that Li Qi could not understand, countless flowers gathered in the body and then withered.

It keeps blooming and withering, just like the cycle of life.

And that drop of five yang demonic blood is also trapped in this reincarnation, and it keeps fluctuating as the reincarnation dries up and flourishes.

When it dries up, the demonic blood dries up and is unable to escape.

When it is prosperous, the demonic blood is in full swing, and it must muster the strength to escape, but according to the method of withering and glory, it will suddenly wither away when the strength reaches its peak.

The flowers outside maintained this situation, and the many spiritual peaks condensed by the flowers in Li Qi's body maintained the Withering and Prosperity Technique.

It took a full ten hours for all this to be finally completed.

After completing all this, Li Qi felt that his suppressed five aggregates were back.

The king of mind finally has his loyal servant.

As the five aggregates recovered, Li Qi's five senses also recovered.

He once again established an intuitive feeling for the world, but... not so intuitive.

This crisis was passed without any danger, except that the demonic clone disappeared.

Even the Lord of Lingxiao looked exhausted.

She wiped her sweat and said: "Okay...I used the method of the four seasons of life and death to temporarily seal the demon blood. It should be no problem for more than ten years. During this time, you can go to the great witch and they should be able to completely Get rid of this thing, and then you will be fine, sir. So, when do we leave for Chang'an?"

She was a little anxious, because the five yin demon blood was not something she could solve, and using all her strength to suppress it for a short period of time was already her limit.

For the follow-up, let's let the young master's background deal with it, she has no choice.

"Give me some time, I need to... get familiar with it." Li Qi shook his head and stood up unsteadily.

Lord Lingxiao frowned.

To be honest, she still doesn't quite understand what happened to this young man.

But it doesn’t matter, he said wait a few days, then just wait a few days, it’s just a few days.

So, Lord Lingxiao said: "Then I will come back to you according to the time mentioned before, three days... oh, two days later."

"Who told you about three days?" Li Qi raised his head and asked.

"You, your clone." Lord Lingxiao said.

She had some doubts in her heart, what happened to this young man? Is there a gap in his consciousness and memory? Is it because of the demon blood?

"Oh...I understand, okay, then let's use the time you mentioned." Li Qi nodded, and he didn't dwell too much on it.

because……

He needs time to compare.

Lord Lingxiao left, and Li Qi changed to an ordinary cave.

There's no way, it's too expensive to rent.

After changing to a new room, Li Qi sat down and began to recall the past and then compare it with the present.

At the moment when the five aggregates were restored, he once again had an 'intuitive feeling'. However, after experiencing the time of losing the five aggregates, he realized that such intuition was so illusory and even unbelievable.

This sense is very intuitive and easy to use, but it is not real.

This, coupled with everything he had encountered before, made him realize one thing.

There is indeed a spiritual entity, and it is extremely closely related to the physical entity.

"That is to say...spiritual entities exist, but they do not operate in the material world, but they exist independently of the material world."

Li Qi tentatively touched, but he felt a 'boundary'.

The ‘boundary’ between spiritual and material.

You must know that even the soul is material in nature and a material entity. Li Qi has never really come into contact with the so-called 'spiritual entity' before.

But now, he has come into contact with it, he clearly sensed the spiritual entity, and touched the 'boundary' with matter.

The idea of ​​boundaries seems to be particularly important now.

Li Qi feels that it is crucial to see through "what I am".

He never realized that the theory of boundaries could actually work here.

It seems that... everything he encounters after reaching the seventh level is paving the way for 'I am what I am'.

coincide? Or……

Forget it, don't think about that.

As long as he returns to Chang'an, he can see with his own eyes the boundaries between material and spiritual things.

In addition, the previous perception of spiritual entities formed Li Qi's current cognition.

Under the accumulation of these things, it seems that there is only one layer of paper left. As long as it is pierced, you can see the question of "I am who I am".

Because Li Qi was very curious about one thing, that is... how the demon dragon that was cut into pieces to make a cave in the Tang Dynasty was resurrected, and how his body was assembled into a 'mind'.

After putting his pieces together, how did his mind revive in the physical body, and how did the spirit break this boundary?

This is the only answer that is missing, this is the only missing piece of my puzzle.

In addition to these, this crisis also made him feel something like clairvoyance.

He now had two views.

One is the intuitive feeling brought by the five aggregates, and the other is the data flow vision after abandoning the five aggregates.

There is no distinction between superior and inferior, but it is indeed a heterogeneous sense.

Before Li Qi restored the five aggregates, he could not understand what the data flow vision represented. He could only clumsily use exhaustive and logical reasoning to reorganize his previous vision.

As I said before, if you don’t understand English and translate an English book into Chinese, you can imagine the mistakes and omissions.

Now, Li Qi has both the data flow vision and the vision brought by the five aggregates, which means that he can understand both Chinese and English books, and the translation between them has become much easier.

Therefore, he discovered that as a human being, he was born unable to perceive and understand part of the structure of this world. He had to be exposed to real vision in order to perceive it.

The five aggregates shield and transform this part of the information.

This part of the information may be what the 'Celestial Eye' sees. Li Qi doesn't know what the Celestial Eye is for the time being, but this special data flow vision, he guesses, is part of the ability of the Celestial Eye.

After all, through this method, one can truly 'see through all forms', not be hindered by any illusions, and even be able to see through the mystery of reincarnation.

Li Qi now feels that all illusions are useless to him, because if there is an illusion covering him, then the data flow and what he sees with the naked eye will not match, and he will immediately realize that he is enveloped by the illusion.

The data flow vision is what the ‘mind’ sees.

Intuitive vision is what the ‘flesh’ sees.

The combination of the two can paint a picture that is closer to reality. Just like Li Qi, he is also an individual composed of body and mind.

only……

Currently, the data flow field of view still requires Zhenzhiyun as an ‘interface’, which will take up part of Zhenzhiyun’s power and weaken its scanning depth.

But Li Qi felt it was completely worth it. After all, he had only streamed visual and auditory data so far.

Just a little dizzy.

It will take time for the senses after the two fields of vision to overlap and to become familiar with the data flow field of view. He still cannot handle it freely now.

But practice makes perfect, and he was going to take a few days to get used to it. It just so happened that he had two days to try it out slowly in this relatively cheap cave and try his best to get used to it.

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Just when Li Qi put aside all doubts and prepared to practice habits, 'he' was finally freed from fear.

A day before, 'he' had been scared.

'He' discovered that he might not be Li Qi. Although he had all of Li Qi's emotions, memories, techniques, and even his body and thinking patterns, there were two things that did not recognize that 'he' was Li Qi.

The first one is the Cardinal of All Realms, the ultimate institution created by humanity, a second-grade magic weapon. ‘He’ cannot open Li Qi’s account, which shows that the Cardinal of All Realms thinks ‘he’ is another person.

The second is to really know rhyme.

Forced by fear and panic, 'he' fled to Baiyue in a hurry. After subconsciously scanning the surroundings with the rhyme of true knowledge, 'he' discovered——

I really know that Yun is missing.

The two pieces of evidence corroborate each other, but neither of them agrees that 'he' is Li Qi.

‘He’ still remembers how he was born.

'He' originally thought that he was Li Qi, but a day had passed and 'he' had already figured it out.

'He', who inherited all of Li Qi's thinking, has the same wisdom as Li Qi, so one day is enough for 'him' to calm down and think about how to deal with the situation at the moment.

The original 'he' was born because Li Qi took countless ways to save himself in despair. At the most extreme moment, Li Qi even thought of abandoning this body, pouring his mind into the demonic avatar, and then solving the five aggregates from the outside. The demon blood finally returns to its original body.

Very useful approach, but something went wrong.

Zhenzhi Yun can transfer information, but it does not have the function of ‘import and delete’.

In other words, Li Qi's mind did not go out, but was read and copied by Zhenzhi Yun and passed to the demonic clone.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of mind will not take effect, because the recipient must also have his own mind. This kind of chaotic "seizing" is meaningless. Even the most ordinary mortal can rely on the five aggregates to resist it.

But perhaps it was a coincidence that the demonic clone did not have these.

If not, it is actually not a good thing, and the information will not be effective.

Information needs a carrier.

The code engraved on the disc can be read and generate power, while the code engraved on the stone is just a series of patterns.

But... maybe it's really a coincidence. In this demonic avatar, there is a mind copied by the Witch God himself. This mind is blank. According to the Witch God, this mind is designed to gradually read Li's life a hundred years later. Qi Qi's mind was finally activated, giving birth to another Li Qi.

The purpose of all this is to urge Li Qi to realize "I am who I am" within a hundred years.

However, before waiting a hundred years, I really knew that Yun had completely copied Li Qi's mind one day ago.

Thus, ‘he’ was born.

"Am I Li Qi?" Looking at his hands, 'he' murmured to himself.

'He' has all of Li Qi's memories and emotions. 'He' even loves Shen Shuibi as much as Li Qi, and has the same passionate curiosity about the unknown as Li Qi.

"Why is he Li Qi?" 'He' said to himself, even his eyes became a little scary.

Those eyes were full of dissatisfaction and indignation at unfairness.

'He' has the same body and mind as Li Qi. Even if he stands in front of Shen Shuibi, Shen Shuibi cannot notice anything strange.

Those loves are real, and so are those memories.

Then why do you say 'he' is fake?

Why is that Li Qi sitting on the Jade Road the real one?

No one can tell. If it is demonic energy, then just replace the energy.

It won't take long, as long as he frantically absorbs the energy from the outside world, he will soon be able to transform his small world into exactly the same as Li Qi's. Anyway, they are running on the same 'Tao'.

‘He’ is Li Qi!

'He' roared, his cultivation exploded, and the power of the seventh level was fully displayed. The mountains under his feet collapsed, and all the water veins in the mountains were torn apart. The mountain god and water god among them fled in a hurry, but were crushed by the rolling cultivation. In one place, countless birds and beasts fled frantically from all corners of the valley, but most of them did not escape.

Within a radius of dozens of miles, as if punished by God, natural disasters began to fall.

When Wu Jin wants to subvert a certain place, he only needs to use his own small world to oppress the existing world. Under the conflict of rules, those weak who cannot resist the aftermath will naturally suffer a devastating blow.

The mountains changed their course, water veins were cut off, and the entire mountain lost its vitality.

‘He’ sat helplessly in the ruins.

Li Qi had never been so out of control before. Even after reaching the seventh level, Li Qi had always carefully controlled himself and never did anything that would have a huge impact. After all, doing so in the world was very dangerous and impolite.

But 'he' doesn't care about that anymore.

‘He’ was able to escape from fear and not go crazy yet, which is enough to show his mental toughness. If he were an ordinary person, he would have fallen into self-destruction by now.

In fact, it's not like 'he' hasn't thought about it.

Kill yourself so that there will only be one Li Qi in the world.

But just like what 'he' said just a few minutes ago, why is the 'Li Qi' opposite him true?

Why?

There is no difference between 'him' and Li Qi.

Even if the positions were swapped, 'he' believed that Li Qi would make the same choice as him.

‘His’ eyes became firm.

‘He’ also has the right and desire to live, and ‘he’ does not want to be a fake.

So, at this moment, the world around him turned dark.

In the darkness, a charming woman appeared in 'his' arms, sat on 'his' lap, and gently stroked 'his' face.

"You are Li Qi, right? I know, I know." Tianmo said softly.

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