Myriad Paths

The old man was sitting on the edge of the tree stump, with bags under his eyes and shirtless face, just like an ordinary old farmer.

Without reading, he is actually just an ordinary old farmer.

Li Qi walked up to him and called out again: "Chen Jilang."

Because Chen Jilang's name had been called before, but he didn't seem to hear it. Li Qi also noticed that the other party's ears were not good, so he increased his voice.

Now he heard it, and he raised his head with confusion and looked at Li Qi: "Young student, what?!"

He spoke loudly, obviously because of his hearing loss.

"Chen Jilang, how do you feel about your life?" Li Qi asked.

This question confused Chen Jilang. How could this young man who suddenly appeared ask such an inexplicable question? This made him suspicious. Instead of answering, he asked: "Hunter, who are you? How can you ask such a question?" talk?"

Li Qi smiled, waved his hand, and used illusion magic to cover the surroundings so that outsiders could not see what was inside. Then he flicked it lightly, and saw strange phenomena happening around him. Strong winds stirred up, blowing sand and rocks, and black clouds and white mist. , the scenery changes suddenly.

A pavilion shook, and waterfalls and springs flowed across the road. However, the surrounding space expanded. When the pavilion rose, a beautiful pool appeared next to it, and a painting boat suddenly appeared at the foot. The smoke covered the phoenix cover and the waves soaked. There are many flowers blooming in the beautiful boat, silver screen and golden house, and the pond outside the painting boat is filled with the fragrance of flowers. From time to time, you can hear big fish jumping in the waves, and birds flying on the shore. The pavilion and pavilions in the garden are brilliant and beautiful.

In just an instant, the surroundings had turned into a fairyland on earth.

Chen Jilang was stunned. He immediately knew that he had met an immortal. He immediately stood up, knelt down and worshiped, and called the immortal. He was very excited.

Li Qi helped him up and said to him: "Get up and talk, Chen Jilang, what do you think of your life?"

Chen Jilang suddenly began to think about everything.

Unlike other people, he likes to think about things since he was a child, and he thinks about things very quickly. Unfortunately, the things he thinks about are useless to reality. Although he always considers himself a 'smart person', he can also see through it in advance. There are many things, but seeing them through can’t change them.

An ordinary, somewhat clever little old man, this is the best interpretation of him.

But now, a god came to ask him about his life!

Could it be that he has a destiny?

So, Chen Jilang immediately thought: "If I answer the question correctly, can I also become an immortal?"

His inner drama is very rich. Just with the appearance of Li Qi, he has already imagined what he will look like as an immortal queen. At the same time, he is not idle either. He is still thinking about what good or bad things he has done in his life. Look. See if it can affect your own immortality.

When he was famous as a child prodigy, he bullied his neighbor Zhang Daling's family. This should be considered a bad thing, right?

But he also relied on his reputation to earn a memorial arch for the village, which was tax-reduced. Is this a good thing?

Many memories flowed like water, and the good and bad things he had done in his life emerged one after another. Chen Jilang began to think about it, which ones could be mentioned? What cannot be said.

But, what can’t be said, doesn’t the immortal know about it? That's an immortal, he must know everything. Look at this painted penthouse, it suddenly appeared, how incredible it is.

Should we say it or not? If you say it, you are no longer a good person, but if you don't say it, the other party won't know?

Wait, what if the other party is just testing their honesty? At this time, he told everything frankly. Anyway, he didn't do anything harmful. He felt that the most serious thing was secretly looking at the clothes posted by Widow Wang next door. At most, it was disrespectful to the elderly, so he should be fine. ?

Countless thoughts surged through Chen Jilang's heart, and all of them were seen by Li Qi.

All his thinking activities and mental movements were clearly seen by Li Qi.

Li Qi immediately realized that the other party's wisdom... was beginning to become dusty.

Regardless of whether this is Shariputra's wisdom or not, and regardless of other conjectures, the true spirit of the puppy has indeed gradually become dusty after experiencing three reincarnations.

The so-called wisdom is essentially the ability to process information.

Accepting information from the outside world, peeling off the cocoons, and then processing it into the content you need. This is the meaning of wisdom.

Knowledge and skills are not developed innately, but are acquired through practice and learning. In other words, any skills and knowledge we master are also input from others or the outside world, and are only integrated and integrated with our wisdom. After reorganization, it is just for my use.

But now, after three lifetimes of mortal life, Chen Jilang still has the ability to receive information, just like he memorized books and read poems when he was a child. People with high intelligence can easily memorize large amounts of information.

However, he lost the ability to process and integrate information.

He wrote down a lot of information, and he could even recall things from his childhood, but... this information was just stuck in his mind, unable to be smoothly output into useful information, nor could it help him make effective decisions. decision making.

In this case, wisdom... might as well not be needed.

There are two situations in which people are the most mediocre.

First, it is the most ignorant and ignorant stage of not knowing anything.

Second, they know everything and remember everything, but are unable to process the information well, and can only let it pile up in their minds like garbage.

There is a disease called hyperamnesia, which means you can remember all the information from the outside world.

He remembered everything he said and did clearly. As long as he thought about it, the things that had happened would appear in his mind like a movie. Unfortunately, these memories were disorganized.

He could recall the knowledge in the books he had read, but it was difficult to understand. It was even more difficult to recall and extract knowledge points in the exam, and it was not easy to understand knowledge.

Because memory does not equal understanding.

Swallowing memory in a hurry does not allow you to turn memory into knowledge. In other words, the food you eat must be digested to be nutritious. If it is not digested, it will only cause intestinal obstruction.

Only when the memory is completely broken down, abstracted, and understood can it be your own and applied to various places, and this process of collecting and disassembling is the embodiment of wisdom.

Li Qi only said one sentence, plus some mind reading, and he could see the problem at the moment.

Chen Jilang, his wisdom has lost half, so he is mediocre, that's it. The three reincarnations caused by Li Qi have caused problems for this unknown true spirit.

Seeing Chen Jilang hesitant, indecisive, not knowing what to say, but with a mess in his mind... Li Qi immediately made a decision.

First of all, no matter what, at this stage when Shariputra may have a demonic heart and Buddha nature is covered in dust, no matter whether the previous guess is right or wrong, wisdom must be preserved so as not to be completely lost.

And if he experiences the fourth reincarnation, it is hard to say whether he can awaken again.

Therefore, Li Qi decided that he could not let Chen Jilang die, and he must help him awaken the wisdom of his previous life.

Wisdom of the previous life... Tsk, it's a bit troublesome.

It is usually done when you are a minor to see through the mystery in the womb, but now he is already a centenarian, can he still do it?

Li Qi doesn't know, but he can try.

The method is very simple, just like in many myths and legends.

A mortal accidentally enters the mountains, sees a fairy, talks and communicates with the fairy, and then comes out of the mountain, but finds that hundreds of years have passed in the outside world without knowing it, and the mortal utensils in his hands have decayed.

So, Li Qi smiled and said to him: "It's just fate, so I asked the old man to talk about his life, that's all, come, let's eat and talk."

As he said, Li Qi clapped his hands.

Chen Jilang blinked his eyes, but found that there were many more maids around him.

These maids were like fairies, wearing green bird hairpins, pearl tassels, tassels, and dresses, shining with brocade and folds.

They came forward and moved, some of them brought wine to Chen Jilang and stood beside him.

Fruit plates, rice plates, wine cups, pots and bottles were placed.

All kinds of delicacies were presented one by one, which made this mortal old man stunned.

Li Qi picked up the wine glass and toasted him.

Chen Jilang quickly returned the gift and drank it all.

The banquet was filled with delicious food. A beautiful woman with new makeup and fragrant sleeves danced in the courtyard. She was dancing with a graceful figure and a zither.

Picking up a piece of delicious food with chopsticks, a strange smell filled his throat and tongue, and a spiritual light illuminated his lungs and liver.

A meal was like going to Tushita, singing and shouting to his heart's content. Chen Jilang had never seen such a scene before. He was immediately attracted and looked around, eating, drinking and watching, wishing he could grow two mouths, four hands and eight eyes.

All the things he had thought about before were naturally forgotten at this moment and disappeared.

Li Qi accompanied him to drink and drank 18 cups in a row, but he saw that Chen Jilang gradually became drunk. After a while, he fell asleep after eating and drinking.

Just after he fell asleep, he saw the maids, dancers, and singers around him, each of which changed with a bang. A closer look revealed that they were mountain cats, wild foxes, and squirrels, revealing their true forms.

These are the local mountain spirits and wild monsters, who were ordered by Li Qi to come here to entertain guests. Now that the banquet is over, they naturally left.

Li Qi said: "You can go and clean up. The banquet items are your reward."

These mountain spirits and wild monsters thanked Li Qi one after another, and then hurriedly went to grab the plates, dishes, lamps, bowls, wine bottles and other things. These are all magic weapons with magical powers.

Li Qi ignored these, but walked to Chen Jilang's side and gently pressed his hand on his forehead.

Now that Chen Jilang fell asleep, let's dream... a thousand years.

Li Qi wanted to use his magical powers to stimulate his dreams, so that he could simulate reincarnation in his dreams. In this way, he would refresh the other party's wisdom and awaken his past wisdom.

Li Qi did what he said, and activated his magical powers and began to weave a dream.

This method should be effective, but the specific situation needs to be known after practice.

In the dream, Chen Jilang began to experience his new life.

In his perspective, everything began to change. He got up from the banquet and opened his eyes, only to find himself back in his childhood, in the cradle.

Is this... an opportunity given by the immortal?

So, he began his second life in a daze.

But outside...

After the banquet, everything was moved away by those mountain spirits and wild monsters, even the table was gone. After all, for them, even the leftovers were priceless treasures.

Being able to be ordered by Li Qi was an opportunity they could not ask for, and they could only encounter it once by sheer luck.

Li Qi sat next to Chen Jilang and experienced life with him.

Under Li Qi's arrangement, the dream gradually unfolded.

After a thousand years of dreams, who can tell the truth from the lies? At least for Chen Jilang, all this is true.

Under Li Qi's arrangement, he will continue to experience new lives, just like those protagonists with unlimited rebirth abilities, constantly trying new things.

In this process, he will not die, he will only continue to be tempered until he regains his past wisdom, or shows that his wisdom has completely disappeared.

This kind of illusion uses the methods of the Five Agendas Demon. Li Qi can now use the power of the Five Agendas Demon very skillfully.

However, at this moment——

Li Qi suddenly raised his head and looked outside the barrier he had arranged.

Outside, stood a beautiful woman.

She is slender and graceful, dressed in white clothes, with her hair hanging down in a bun, which is reflected on the white clothes, as if ink is splashed on the clouds. She is slender and tall, with a sword behind her back. She has a heroic appearance. When the wind blows, she can see the white clothes making a hunting sound, and her hair blows in the wind. Piaoliang, what a female swordsman.

But seeing this man, Li Qi's heart sank, and his expression immediately became serious.

Demonic energy.

A touch of demonic energy has passed through his barrier and reached Li Qi's perception.

Demon!

"Young Li Qi!" The female swordsman scowled angrily, looking exactly like the tone and attitude a warrior should have.

But the next moment, the female swordsman swayed slightly and suddenly turned into a male monster.

That's - Ergou!

Ergou, as a golden-winged bird, has now transformed into a human form. He greeted Li Qi and said with a smile: "Senior Li Qi, do you still remember me? It is because of your arrangement that I became possessed. Look, Now that I’m possessed, I’m coming to find you again.”

After listening to Ergou's words, Li Qi took a deep breath.

Really know the rhyme sweeps across each other.

It can be confirmed that the two dogs are real and not phantoms.

wrong! It could also be fake. The feeling of ‘it’s real’ could entirely be caused by the demon.

After all, this is a demon.

Li Qi didn't dare to relax at all, and all the spells in his body that could be activated in advance were ready.

However, the demon did not come in, but stood obediently outside Li Qi's barrier. Through the demonic energy that penetrated, he continued to say to Li Qi: "What's wrong? Are you not talking?"

"That is to say...I guessed it right, right? Shariputra was indeed split into three parts, namely Buddha nature, wisdom, and Tao heart. Now the true spirit of Buddha nature and Tao heart has been changed because of my previous I ignored it and became possessed, right?"

"Why, aren't you going to grab the last one? Or are you unable to grab it? Do you have to borrow my hand to make Shariputra possessed?"

Li Qi stared at the other party and said this.