Myriad Paths

In the Xuanjing Mountain Cave Mansion, Li Qi didn't know why.

Um……

Forget it, it doesn't matter, just go to sleep. He hasn't slept for a long time. Anyway, his sixth sense didn't show any ominous premonition, so it must be fine.

Li Qi often has this kind of mysterious feeling, and most of it is very effective. This is essentially a reaction caused by the interaction between Wu Jin's inner world and the outer world.

But the rabbit is gone. The Taoist monk's inner world is highly independent and has almost no communication with the outside world. She only plunders the outside world and hopes to be left alone and independent. In other words, she will not interact with the world.

After getting up from sleep, Li Qi received invitations from some wizards. He was now at the fourth level, so he was naturally a super genius who attracted much attention. Now he had returned to the world and was confirmed to be fine, so many people invited him to the banquet. .

Li Qi couldn't refuse. He calculated the time and found that even if he went, it would only take four or five days. It was nothing, so he told Rabbit about the matter, then tidied up his appearance, prepared some gifts, and took them to the banquet. went.

As for the gift, it is the elixir made by Shen Shuibi. When the time comes, say: "Handmade by a humble wife." It will not lose face, but will appear to be close.

Shen Shuibi packed the elixir with her own hands and handed it to Li Qi. The two whispered a few words, and then Li Qi took the things and left.

After Li Qi left, Shen Shuibi sat alone in the cave for a day.

I always feel like I don't know what to do.

The daughter creates her story and experiences her life in the East China Sea.

Her husband went out to socialize. After all, these matters were left to Li Qi, and Shen Shuibi didn't want to go to a place with too many people.

What about yourself?

If she goes by the past, she should stay at home to practice and do things she likes.

But now, I always feel a little uninterested.

"Well, since I'm uneasy, I might as well go out and take a breath." Shen Shuibi thought so in her mind, so she got up and performed a spell. She saw that the pill furnace, medicine grinder, medicine bucket, pounding barrel and other things needed for alchemy were all separated. He flew there and packed them into different categories. Many of the medicines placed outside also returned to the hundred-eye cabinet.

After tidying up, she got up and came outside the cave.

Outside the cave, the breeze blows slowly, and the rustling Xiao comes, blowing the long hair leisurely, going into the forest to turn over the leaves and flowers, and gently holding the red orchid around the tree. The clouds have just passed, and there is a new rain of bean flowers, and there is tranquility in the shade. Ivy runs around the mountain and climbs up to the sun.

It had been raining continuously just now, and the ground was wet. The rabbit didn't like it, but she still liked a dry environment.

Shen Shuibi had already understood the realm of "thinking about heaven and earth, thinking about heaven and earth, and thinking about heaven and earth" many years ago. She only needed to erode the inner world here, and she could freely control all the natural environment in front of her.

But she didn't do that, and jumped directly off Xuanjing Mountain.

There were clouds under my feet, and they were swaying all the way to the foot of the mountain.

Speaking of which, I haven't visited Xuanjing Mountain very much. I used to be in a hurry, so I rarely have the interest to go out for a walk. Let's see what the area around the cave looks like.

Shen Shuibi actually knew every road in Xuanjing Mountain, but she actually got it directly with her super sense. She really didn't know what the scenery around Xuanjing Mountain looked like.

It's like you can see the infrared waves emitted by a pulsar billions of light-years away in the solar system through a space infrared telescope, and even accurately measure the rotation speed of the pulsar.

But this is fundamentally different from seeing the pulsar with your own eyes. You still don’t know what the pulsar looks like and can only estimate it through data.

So, it’s good to see it with your own eyes.

She began to wander in Xuanjing Mountain. She was different from Li Qi. If Li Qi did this kind of thing, he would like to measure the land with his feet, walk step by step, and watch Xuanjing Mountain from various perspectives.

But Shen Shuibi was different. She said she wanted to watch it, so she should finish it as soon as possible.

But he saw that she directly controlled the Soaring Cloud Technique and quickly circled around Xuanjing Mountain.

Well, I’ve finished reading it.

That's it, you can see all the weird things outside the territory, so what if it's just a Xuanjing Mountain? The surroundings are just like that, nothing unusual.

Okay, we’ve finished visiting Xuanjing Mountain, what should we do now? It's only been less than ten minutes since I left home.

Shen Shuibi was in trouble again.

If she doesn't do those things at home and doesn't go to practice, it seems that she really has nothing to do. Li Qi also had this kind of trouble in the past, but now Li Qi seems to have seen through these problems, and he no longer has this trouble.

But Shen Shuibi found that she suddenly felt alienated.

But when she thought about it carefully...it was just a feeling of alienation, nothing to worry about.

The "alone self" of Taoist practice does not care about this sense of alienation. What do the things in the external world have to do with me? Transforming the world is a matter for the secular sect. As a reclusive sect, Shen Shuibi is not so pretentious.

Thinking of this, the trouble in Rabbit's heart naturally disappeared. Being alienated from the outside world is a natural thing. Li Qi is a witch. What he pursues is not independence, but integration with heaven and earth. That's why he wants to Make connections with the outside world.

I don’t need it myself.

Then just do whatever you want, the so-called 'freedom' is what it is.

Rabbit relaxed, sat on the top of the mountain, thought for a while, and took out the jade flute.

Although she doesn't play it often, she does know how to play the flute, and she has taught Li Qi before. However, although Li Qi learned it, he was not interested in it.

The reason why she took out the jade flute was because she thought of something. Just some time ago, she heard the "original sound" emitted by Yao Wanchi at Guixu.

Why not try it here?

She took out the jade flute and tentatively began to imitate the original sound.

It's not about imitating the sound itself. She has no ability to produce sounds at that frequency. It's Guixu's breathing and she can't imitate it.

But to imitate that aura, that vast and vast ancient aura.

"Woo~" A whistle sounded.

This is still difficult, not that simple, because if you want to imitate the Qi, you need to understand the other party's ancient Qi, and then replace it with your own Qi, while also paying attention to the rhythm.

Because as I said before, playing these extraordinary musical instruments is not simply about blowing air into them. This thing will make different sounds based on different techniques and energy.

Li Qi tried it, blowing thunder gas into it, and the flute could make electric sounds.

Shen Shuibi began to prepare thousands of different kinds of Qi in detail, mixed them together, and blew them into the air ports in different proportions and times to make different sounds.

Perhaps due to luck, the sound of the flute just matched the original sound of Guixu.

The flute is a purifier, so it can purify away evil and filth, and it can cleanse away evil spirits and bring out the righteous sound. Therefore, Li He is good at playing it, and he can tailor the twelve sounds to correspond to the rhythm.

As soon as the flute sounded, the surroundings were immediately washed away, and the music began. As soon as the sound was heard, the mountains were swaying like waves. After a few times, there was the sound of fish and dragons performing in a hundred plays, with a cool and graceful character.

The surrounding terrain began to change, the mountains rose thousands of feet, and the mountains and rivers formed. The surrounding stones began to arrange and take shape according to the sound waves, and the dense waves began to form. The rocks rose up twice, with clear water flowing to the left, and sweet springs flowing to the right, endlessly surrounding. .

The flute chirps for extended periods of time, and the rabbit's jade hands are vigorous.

But I saw - red lips, bright teeth, beautiful face, jade appearance, chanting Qing Shang, starting to conquer the world.

As the tone continues, a sense of confusion gradually emerges.

The previous fish-and-dragon show was just a foreshadowing. What she wanted to play was not an ordinary sound, but to simulate the lingering sound of the moment when the universe was created.

The lingering sound from the beginning of creation, this sound includes everything that has ever existed, that has been born, that has passed away, and even that that will be in the future.

This is the remaining trace of the great movement of creation.

If there is a song that can sing "everything", it is only this one.

When Shen Shuibi played, the moment when everything was created appeared in front of her eyes.

She seemed to be vaguely aware of the turmoil that occurred at that moment who didn't know how many billions of years ago.

So vast and extraordinary!

This sound reveals many great and mysterious things. It is the initial glory and the final magnificence. The music fills the endless "nothing" around, and even time and space are born because of it! Music and echo flow in the endless void, so the void is no longer empty.

However, this so-called ‘Creation Movement’ is not actually a real thing.

This is just a metaphor, a certain kind of fluctuation created by the Tao at the beginning of that immeasurable time.

The reason why it is said to be the beginning of time that is 'unmeasurable' is because before that, there was no time at all. It was not a very long time, but it was 'unmeasurable'. There was no such thing as time at all, space and time. The law of cause and effect, and even logic itself, are chaotic. Before Haotian opens up everything, all these things cannot be measured. There is no length at all. It may be an instant or it may be infinite.

At this time, the 'universe' is created in a way that cannot be understood by creatures other than 'gods'. Calling this kind of fluctuation a movement is just for the convenience of understanding, because at the moment of creation, Hao At the moment when heaven opened up all things, there was indeed some kind of 'fluctuation'.

According to this form of 'fluctuation', the practitioners looked for a similar process, composing music and performing it, to create a more vivid 'metaphor'.

But even if it is just a metaphor, it is still powerful. Just like those Buddha statues, if you pray to the golden body of the Buddha statue, the great Bodhisattva or Buddha behind the Buddha statue can really hear you.

Shen Shuibi was immersed in this confusion, and she played many complex and subtle notes with her heart. These notes all have some of the characteristics of the "original sound".

It was difficult, though, with countless variations hidden within the pieces, so much so that she had to be completely committed to them just to sustain them.

This complete devotion also caused her to fall into a state similar to retreat, completely ignoring what was happening outside and focusing on the beauty of herself at this moment.

Yes, it was a wonderful experience, and the feeling brought by the lingering sound of creation surprised the rabbit.

While she was immersed, a quiet change was happening all around her.

Music became a force that influenced those natural, primitive spiritual beings and brought about some visible visions.

Beside Shen Shuibi, the originally gloomy drizzle disappeared.

The wind and rain opened up, and in the gloomy sky, only a circle of light seemed to appear around her. A closer look revealed that the dark clouds in the sky had opened a big hole, and the sunlight fell from there, illuminating only her. , the difficult-to-climb rock paved a path under her feet, as if waiting for her to step on it.

These visions began to become more and more grandiose, even to the point of being outrageous.

The nature gods began to raise their eyes, and those primitive and unintelligent gods began to raise their heads. Several huge phantoms began to appear, but they almost had no form. They looked like some huge irregular energy bodies, translucent. , there is a slight light.

But Shen Shuibi didn't notice this at all, she just continued to play the jade flute.

Unfortunately, in the next moment...

boom--

There was a crisp explosion, and the jade flute in her hand shattered directly. The debris flew out and even scratched her hand, causing Shen Shuibi's blood to drip on the ground.

The rabbit also woke up, and around her were the mountains that had changed.

Her first reaction wasn't surprise or anything, but rather speechlessness.

Uh...what will Li Qi say when he comes back?

The decoration that had just been changed seemed to have been changed again by myself.

He activated the golden elixir and began to heal the wound on her hand, but a Taoist charm blocked Shen Shuibi's wound, preventing her from forcibly healing it.

"Huh?" Rabbit's eyes widened, looking at the wound on his hand.

This Taoist rhythm... comes from the flute, which is the rhythm that I just played.

Those rhythms constitute Tao rhyme.

The jade flute couldn't bear it and exploded, so the Taoist rhymes naturally adhered to the fragments. It was these Taoist rhymes that hindered Chen Shuibi's healing.

However, it did not hinder her natural healing and natural blood coagulation, but prevented her rapid healing through cultivation.

These Taoist rhymes are resisting ‘change’.

Resist the power of practitioners to change reality.

Interestingly, this is also a good magical power, but it needs a good flute to carry it. The magical power displayed by this rhyme can suppress all other "forcibly change the world" magical powers and spells, and the changes imposed will be in this music Disappear into nothingness.

Within this range, all supernatural effects will not take effect unless one relies on cultivation and essence to forcibly break through the suppression of Tao Yun.

Shen Shuibi's body is not a mortal thing. When she was exploring the effect of Tao Yun, the wound on her hand had stopped bleeding and would heal on its own in a few minutes.

This feeling of natural healing is quite strange. All the injuries in her previous life were actually cured by magic. After all, she is a good doctor herself, and the treatment is naturally at her fingertips. There is no way to wait for it to heal on its own.

Natural healing, as well as the Taoist rhyme born from the lingering sounds of creation, also support nature and suppress other supernatural things.

Nature...what is it?

Rabbit's eyes suddenly widened as if he suddenly caught some inspiration.