Myriad Paths

Li Qi next to him was also a little surprised when he heard this.

The Demon Prince is actually so arrogant.

He actually wanted to confront Shariputra with both wisdom and force.

And... Judging from what happened next, the Demon Prince obviously won.

However, it is a pity that Li Shiwei was only in the seventh level, and she was just in the seventh level at that time. She could not understand the debate between the Demon Prince and Shariputra at all, and she had no way to narrate the matter.

It seems that no one was videotaping these debates, maybe there is some taboo.

All in all, the Demon Prince won both the debate and the military confrontation on that occasion.

"This is really... in line with the character." Yang Ning shook her head: "The Demon Prince... is really fascinating. It would be great if I could have a fight with him."

"I heard that my father had a fight with him, and my father won." At this time, Li Shiwei suddenly said: "Why do you feel that my father's reputation is not obvious and is only spread around the battlefield, but the Demon Prince is famous in the world?"

"Your father...well, how should I put it, he is relatively low-key, right?" Yang Ning said, then waved, raised her voice, and shouted to Li Qi who was pretending over there: "Li Qi! Stop pretending. ,come here!"

Li Qi was stunned.

Can Yang Ning actually see it? This is really——

This is unlikely to be done through perception. Li Qi is confident that he has been promoted to the fourth level. Yang Ning has absolutely no way to see clearly, so... Yang Ning purely relied on his understanding of himself to guess.

Although we haven't seen each other for so long, I didn't expect this sister-in-law to make such a judgment.

Now that he was exposed, he naturally stopped pretending, put down the cup in his hand, and walked towards Yang Ning's table.

When Li Qi arrived, Li Shiwei was obviously very restrained.

Even Yang Ning, who called him over, had a complicated expression.

How should I put it, when she really felt Li Qi's fourth-level power, Yang Ning always felt a little sour.

"I thought you wouldn't call me." Li Qize smiled and sat over.

"I didn't want to call you that. You're so annoying and so pretentious." Yang Ning curled her lips: "I really don't know what she likes about you."

Li Qi just smiled and didn't answer.

Compared with Yang Ning and Li Shiwei, he does seem a bit rigid, but there is nothing wrong with him. He really can't do such things as being wild.

"Okay, let's not talk about this. I just wanted to ask you, how did you defeat the Demon Prince in the first place?" Yang Ning asked.

"Well, you can't win a battle at the same level, so I thought of a way at that time, took some shortcuts, broke through at the last moment, and won by fighting high and low, but... the cost was not small, and I spent a lot of energy later. , and the teacher helped, so the sequelae were solved," Li Qi said with a smile.

He said it very easily at the moment, but this matter was indeed a bit difficult. He actually got rid of it after a real fight with the Supreme Being.

It's as difficult as climbing to heaven. Even if it were to happen again, it was really hard to say whether we could come back alive.

Li Qi's relaxed look made Yang Ning look at him again.

Then, Jinwu patted Li Shiwei and said, "It's not easy for your dad, either. You go and play for now. I'll ask him to come over and talk to you alone later."

"Aunt——" Li Shiwei wanted to say something.

However, in a sense, she inherited Li Qi's rules. Although she was a little dissatisfied, she still chose to leave on her own initiative to make space for her aunt and father.

After Li Shiwei left, Yang Ning sighed: "It's only been a while, and you're already at level 4..."

"It's not as easy as you think." Li Qi said.

"Of course I know it's not easy. How can it be easy to step into the fourth rank? I just... Oh, forget it, I don't know what to say, I can't explain clearly." Yang Ning's tone was a little subtle, and she couldn't tell what it felt like.

Mixed flavors, maybe that’s it.

They have lost the so-called 'jealousy' or 'admiration'. It is really complicated and difficult to describe what they are feeling. Even if she is already at the fifth level, it is difficult for Yang Ning to describe what she is thinking about now. .

All the thoughts were mixed together, and the preface and the follower were inconsistent. Just a second ago, I was talking about adventure with my little niece, but the topic inadvertently turned to Li Qi.

Whether it was accidental or intentional, even Yang Ning herself couldn't tell.

"There is no need to worry about these. Everyone has his own path, and walking fast may not be steady." Li Qi said.

This is not comfort, Li Qi thinks so from the bottom of his heart.

He is still trembling and cautious, not daring to slack off at all.

The higher you get to a high position, the more you feel like you are walking on thin ice. 'Tao' has nearly unlimited power. This power can shape the world. Today's real world is shaped by 'Tao'.

The Taoists want to understand the Tao and pursue the Tao, but the further they advance, the more they will discover the nihilistic nature of the real world and the solidity of the logical system itself.

The Taoists are trying to chase and control this power. They are looking for traces of 'Tao' in logic, theory, thought, and symbols.

Such power almost only succumbs to logic, or in other words, this is logic itself, and the world itself is born of logic in nothingness.

The more I understand, the more I fear this power, and the more I worry that I will go the wrong way.

In this case, 'fast' is not necessarily a good thing. If you just want to be fast, then directly joining the road is the fastest shortcut.

"It's not about whether it's fast or not, but... you can clearly know what you want, what you're afraid of, know where the road is, and you can also distinguish many forked roads at critical moments. This is much more important than practicing fast. There are too many. To be honest, I have thought about a lot of ways to go to the fourth level. There are hundreds of thousands of ways to go, but I don’t know which way to go, and I can’t tell which one is right. "Yang. Ning sighed.

What she envied most about Li Qi was also his true 'talent'. He had a completely intuitive sense of his own path, and he could always walk on it without hesitation.

"The more you struggle with these things, the less you can do it. What you have to take is your own path, not the right path. As long as you practice your own path, there is no such thing as severing the path, because You have reached your end, not the end of the road, but the end of you."

"If you follow the 'right path', even if you succeed in getting promoted, I think... you won't be able to continue on that path, right?" Li Qi said.

If you follow your own path, you may indeed be cut off, but it is your own path after all.

If we follow the path of our predecessors and absorb their experience, we won't get far.

But when Yang Ning heard this, he rolled his eyes: "It doesn't hurt when you stand and talk. The purpose of cultivation for all living beings is different. You are a genius. The Witch God has high hopes for you. Of course you can go your own way, even if you can only walk Your own path, because you have the task of opening up a new path, but we are different. Now I just want to become stronger quickly so that life in Luofu Mountain can be easier."

Li Qize continued to smile and said: "The path you choose to become stronger and protect Luofu Mountain is also your own path, isn't it? Who said you have to like your own path?"

"To put it simply, your own path... no matter how you choose it is your own path, but how many people don't regret taking it out? To put it bluntly, forget it, saying this to people like you is embarrassing yourself. That's all." As Yang Ning spoke, she felt a wave of irritation welling up in her heart.

It was really crazy that I would ask Li Qi to talk about these topics.

People don't have this kind of trouble.

But Li Qi continued: "Maybe you think it's all nonsense, but... in fact, it is still very useful. At least it can eliminate anxiety. I also had this kind of anxiety when I was promoted to the fourth rank, but later I discovered that, It’s actually of no use.”

"All things seek is nothing more than self-consistency."

Yang Ning just shook his head: "Self-consistency, so what if your self-consistency does not match reality?"

"If it doesn't match reality, then it doesn't match. Is the universe like this from the beginning? What if there is another possibility for the universe? Maybe not just another one, but countless other possibilities. As long as it can be established based on logic, If it has a complete description, it can actually be considered valid, right?”

"Look, for example." Li Qi said, stretched out his hand and waved out a piece of Taoism, covering the wine glass in front of him, and naturally re-described the surrounding 'space': "As long as you do this, you can combine the vectors of the three dimensions of the space. After stretching, translation, and rotation, a super-parallel polyhedron is formed. You see, some dimensions are flattened, and the scaling rate in that direction becomes 0. The scaling rate of the volume changes, causing it to lose part of its characteristics. Also, a direction is lost.”

With Li Qi's description and a less complicated description of matrices and determinants, space collapsed.

Space itself has not collapsed, because time and space do not exist at all, but the range in which matter can move in this space is only two directions.

In the ordinary world, this would have gone in three directions.

However, matrix A can be expanded into a three-dimensional space, but after left multiplication by matrix B, the new description generated, the world described by the newly emerged matrix C, can only be expanded into a two-dimensional space.

That is, there is one direction in space that is ‘flattened’.

It has been hit by dimensionality reduction. A direction that represents the scope of material action has been flattened. A new 'description' has limited space to this. The essence of space has not changed, but now matter cannot go in that direction. .

Space-time tells matter how to move. Now this small piece of space-time tells matter: "You can only move in two directions. As for why? Because other people told me this is the case."

Who told that?

Of course it was Li Qi, who was already at level four.

This is the power of the fourth grade.

Li Qi said easily: "You see, as long as you slightly change your interpretation of the world, the phenomena will also change. In fact, there is no change in the definition of matter or space. It's just... the interpretation is modified. , so everything naturally became like this.”

Yang Ning stared at the wine glass in Li Qi's hand.

This wine glass was 'flattened', but it was not flattened into a 'painting', but stripped away and turned into a 'thread'. These lines seemed to be infinite and constantly circling. , entwined, forming an extremely complex pair, but the special shape of the wine glass can no longer be seen.

This is still a wine glass. Yang Ning can feel that the nature of the matter in it has not changed, and the space itself has not changed. However, because there is one missing direction, it has become this continuous fractal curve, which can fill two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces infinitely. , and finally got a three-dimensional wine glass composed of voxels on a two-dimensional plane with both external and internal details.

Yes, the wine glass has been expanded into two dimensions and turned into an infinite fractal curve. The inside and outside of the wine glass are simultaneously displayed on a two-dimensional plane, but this two-dimensional plane is infinite fractal geometry and has the characteristics of filling in non-integer dimensions. Characteristics of space.

She didn't know what it was, but Li Qi had already shown it all to him.

In the real world, such a weird and confusing state cannot exist, but it can exist logically.

However, as long as it can exist logically, it means that this phenomenon can exist, because it does not violate logic, which means that there is no paradox, and if there is no paradox, just create this phenomenon.

Just like a brand new element in the laboratory, such as element No. 118 on the periodic table, the real universe absolutely does not exist, but as long as the logic is clear and there is a complete theory as the basis for its existence, then in the experiment In the room, it is not impossible to forcibly create this completely new element that the universe has never synthesized by itself.

In fact, humans already do this.

What Li Qi did was just a little higher than that.

The three-dimensional Hilbert curves composed of fractal geometry and material voxels that only exist in logical space and exist only in mathematical descriptions. These strange phenomena that he can describe can all be directly displayed as 'reality'. And what supports all of this is his Tao and cultivation.

Yang Ning stared at the wine glass, and she understood what Li Qi wanted to tell her.

But...she can't do it. It's one thing to understand the principle, but it's another thing to actually do it. This is the annoying part.

Then, Yang Ning turned her head and changed the topic: "Now I know why you are not liked by Shi Wei. Do you also like to talk about this when you are with her?"

Li Qi was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly. The dimensionally reduced space in his hand returned to normal, but the wine glass also twisted and collapsed, turning into a pile of scraps with no prototype.

Dimensionality reduction transformation is actually the projection of high dimensions to low dimensions. This transformation and projection is like flattening a globe and drawing it into a flat map. The information in it is definitely lost, so even if the space is restored, the loss It is impossible to retrieve the information, and naturally the three-dimensional form will not be restored.

This is entropy. Once information is lost, it will never come back.