Myriad Paths

"Brother Guo, I'm here to tell you why your food tastes different. I figured it out."

Li Qi's words made Hai Hai Guo breathe faster, and the world within him was in turmoil.

Although he is a magic weapon... there is still some kind of leakage in his inner world at this moment, which directly leads to the occurrence of the vision.

But I saw the vision unfolding around me. It was the... ingredient warehouse for cooking sea pot?

Millet, millet, rice, beam, white millet, yellow beam, millet, and bamboo.

There are six grains, six animals, and six pure things. There are one hundred and twenty items of delicacies, eight precious things, and one hundred and twenty jars of sauce.

Six meals, one hundred delicacies, one hundred sauces, and eight delicacies are combined. Spring is more sour, summer is more bitter, autumn is more pungent, and winter is more salty. The most suitable meal is beef, sheep, millet, hog rice, dog beam, and wild goose and wheat. , Iris.

Tripe, kidneys, white sausage, quail, rabbit, fish and shrimp, chicken, duck, clams, crabs, mixed vegetables, aromatic herbs, crystal wonton, fried liver, crab, walnuts, glutinous rice, beans, pears, pomegranates, zucchini, quince , glutinous rice cakes, dumplings, salted black soybean, fermented sour wild rice, cakes, Japanese vegetables, bamboo shoots, wild fox meat, lotus soup, fragrant sugar, various fried things——

There are countless delicacies that are simply indescribable, forming a gourmet galaxy with billions of dishes!

This is a galaxy of gourmet food, and all food...but is for 'people'.

The next moment, all these visions disappeared, and he was swallowed by the sea pot again, because he had regained his consciousness and took back all the leaked power.

This gaffe made him a little embarrassed and said: "Brother, it's funny, I've been stuck for a while..."

Li Qi didn't tease, because he knew that his answer might be an opportunity to cook the pot!

Even if you answer incorrectly, you have helped the other party rule out a wrong answer, which is of great value.

Therefore, even though he was already at level 4, Bohaiguo still lost his composure when faced with such an impact.

"I understand, Brother Guo. You have been making preparations since I was at level seven, and you understand everything." Li Qi nodded, saying it was nothing.

"Then...brother, what's your answer? Why do the same dishes taste different when you eat them?" Fan Haiguo asked.

"Probably because I am a heretic." Li Qi said.

This answer disappointed Bo Hai Guo.

"If this is the only answer, then my brother is really... I naturally know the taste differences among races, but my cooking skills are enough to transcend races. Is there something behind my words?" Bohaiguo shook his head.

However, he still left hope behind his words, because he knew that Li Qi was already at the fourth level, so he definitely couldn't talk nonsense, and the other party's words must have deep meaning.

"There is no hidden meaning, it is very simple. I am a heretic, but the outsider is a bit... too far." As he said that, Li Qi put his hand on the sea cooking pot.

In the past, the demon used great supernatural power to bring Li Qi to the edge of the universe in an instant through the "Three Lives Ancient Mirror", and witnessed with his own eyes the spectacular scene of the universe "coming out of nothing". This scene inspired Li Qi and allowed him to understand the seven The true meaning of quality was able to break through the original constraints and be successfully promoted.

Now, Li Qi is imitating the magical power at that moment.

After reaching the fourth level, he is indeed qualified to lead people across huge distances in the universe.

If the speed of light is not changed, then the limit that ordinary civilization can observe is only tens of billions of light years. This range is roughly called the "observable universe".

But if they can transcend the law of cause and effect, they can break through the limit of the speed of light and travel among the stars that are normally unobservable and uninterferable.

If not, they will be trapped within the 'observable' range forever, unable to affect the outside world.

In a fifth-level world, if they do not rely on the fast universe system established by Tianxia, ​​they will most likely never be able to break through. Only civilizations above fourth-level can carry out this shuttle.

But Bohaiguo has never done anything like this.

After all, he is just a pot and has no interest in going to the edge of the universe every day. That has nothing to do with his Tao.

But at this moment, under Li Qi's invitation, he went to the edge of the universe.

What does the edge of the universe have to do with cooking?

In fact, in Li Qi's view, cooking itself is just a manifestation, as if the same principle can be used to make fireworks and cannonballs.

The essence of cooking is actually 'transformation', just like chemistry, it is a process of processing raw materials to turn them into another kind of gas.

This transformation is not even limited to being in the pot, but also includes changes in the body after eating it.

Li Qi once ate a delicacy called swordfish in the East China Sea. (See Chapter 449 for details)

The Taoist Sword Immortal brought his friends across the sea. The sword energy he casually waved fell into the East China Sea and turned into a fish, named Swordfish.

Swordfish is suitable for eating raw, cut into fish meat, mixed with dipping sauces and eaten together. When eaten into the mouth, it will be converted into sword energy again and stabbed out continuously in the body. These sword energy contain the sword intention of the sword immortal, So people often taste it, and they may learn a trick or a half from it.

Cooking skills were originally developed to process indigestible food into digestible food, and to process poison into edible food.

Konjac itself is poisonous, but after processing it becomes a delicacy.

This behavior is actually a 'transformation', transforming things into the type you need according to the rules of material operation.

After that, more techniques appeared, some to remove the toxicity of food, some to add flavor to food, some to enrich nutrients, and some to change the taste. All of these actually involve the most basic Ability, that is: transformation of material form.

Although this transformation is demonstrated through cooking techniques, the essence will not change.

Li Qi had already understood this transformation when he was worshiping the god Tu Yulei in the ghost market.

However, there is a limit to transformation, and Bohaiguo has reached this limit, and he can no longer transform matter into something more powerful.

"Brother Guo, you shouldn't have reached the fourth level of cultivation, right?" Li Qi asked Hai Haiguo when he came to the end of the universe.

"Well, how did you know?" Bohai Guo asked curiously.

"It can be seen that you should be a fourth-grade magic weapon yourself, and then spiritual intelligence was born from it, right? That's why you didn't realize this, which also caused your fourth-grade foundation to be unstable, and you may even be in danger of losing it. "Li Qi said, pointing to the edge of the universe.

Yes, even if the magic weapon is awakened and is born with the fourth grade, if your Tao cannot support it, it will lose the grade.

The path is everything, and all foundations come from this. If you cannot maintain it, you will lose quality.

Of course, this is not necessarily the only reason why items drop, but if your cultivation level cannot match your Taoist heart, it will definitely drop.

This is the dilemma facing Bohaiguo.

Li Qi wanted to help him solve this problem.

At this moment, Li Qi began to perform.

Convert? No, no, no, when you reach the fourth level, you shouldn't transform.

What the sea pot is about is creation, creating new material properties.

Just like the current universe.

He creates the substances he needs and then transforms them. In this way, the things he creates will have completely new properties.

This is what level four should do.

The reason why other people find the dishes he makes unpalatable, but Li Qi finds them delicious, is essentially because he wants to create something that has never existed, and this kind of thing must be contrary to existing things, otherwise it will It's not really a 'thing that never existed'.

And this kind of thing will naturally conflict with other people who are born normally, so other people will find it unpalatable.

Li Qi thought it was delicious because Li Qi came from a non-Buddhist religion and he fit in well with these dishes, which made him feel delicious.

Just like a robot chewing batteries, ordinary people will die if they chew batteries, but robots are different. Li Qi is a robot from the outside world.

Li Qi wanted to tell the other party this, and guided Bo Haiguo to observe the universe and watch the universe continue to expand to this day.

Yes, after the initial explosion, the universe is still expanding outwards, constantly creating new space, time and matter, seemingly endlessly.

Observing such a scene will help you figure out what you should do.

However, at this time——

Qiu Zhi followed.

Qiu Zhi interrupted Li Qi's performance without hesitation, and all the strange phenomena around him disappeared. They returned to the Taixue cafeteria and the cave where the sea pot was cooked.

This made Bo Hai Guo widen his eyes and stare at him angrily.

Li Qi also turned his head, frowned and looked at Qiu Zhi, and said, "Why bother? Blocking people's path is a matter of life and death."

"I'm not trying to stop him, I just want to ask in advance, Master, in what capacity are you speaking to Guo Penghai now," Qiu Zhi reminded.

There was an incident in the past where Li Qi owed humanity a favor, and it was about Shen Shuibi.

When Shen Shui Bi fell to the bottom, it was Human Dao who came out of the Emperor's Liquid and repaired her body. Li Qi also received the favor of Human Dao and inherited the cause and effect.

Of course Li Qi remembered this, and he had always cared about it because he knew that humanity would use this to demand repayment from him at some point.

However, there is a big difference if this favor is returned to Guo Penghai or to humanity.

"It's a bit stingy to be human like this." Thinking of this, Li Qi sneered: "Then just think that I am giving it to Brother Guo. What's the harm?"

But Qiu Zhi still shook his head and said: "It's not stingy, but there must be rules in everything. After all, Guo Penghai has an official position in the Imperial Academy. Although his position is not high, why did you do this transaction? "

This sentence made Li Qi glance at Guo Panhai.

This was something he didn't expect.

Guo Penghai has a position, and it is indeed easy to cause problems if he gives favors without authorization. Naturally, there is no such restriction in witchcraft, but this is a humane way.

The witches do not live in a specific and sufficiently binding social rule. The entire society controlled by the witches is in a state of nature——

If taken to an extreme, it can even be understood as a barbaric primitive society.

In this state of nature, there are no universal moral laws at all, such as not killing people at will, robbing at will, repaying debts, helping each other... none of these rules.

In the area controlled by Wu Jin, almost all life forms are free to develop according to their own interests and abilities without any rules.

However, in this case, because there are no rules to restrain people, out of the necessity of survival, and the simple evil aspect of human nature, it will cause some... seemingly tragedies. After all, there are not a few selfish beings.

In this natural state without any rules, everyone wants to grab as much benefit as possible for themselves out of selfishness or other ideas, and wants others to submit to themselves.

As long as some people are selfish, they are evil, and want to plunder others, then this natural state will develop into a jungle society, and the state between lives is a state of war of "all against all", a war in which everyone is fighting everyone else.

However, the witches do not think this is a bad thing. The witches believe that this is also part of the natural norm and will not last forever, because they have proved this.

Game theory such as the prisoner's dilemma has shown that if everyone only directly pursues the maximization of self-interest, it will not lead to the maximization of self-interest for everyone.

In other words, the direct pursuit of maximizing self-interest will lead to the loss of all interests together.

It is precisely because of this that after the initial absolute chaos, it will inevitably begin to be formalized, and some simple rules, constraints, and morals will emerge at this moment, and finally form a delicate balance.

This is the world that the witches know. This world will reach a perfect state in this balance. Everything will naturally become a state that is acceptable to all living things. This state cannot even be designed by human intelligence.

After all... how many civilizations are qualified to design an ecosystem? Not to mention the ecosystem of the entire universe.

This must be the power of nature, the perfect state that the universe naturally tends to, rather than the self-righteous design of humanity.

Things designed by humans will always have defects.

For example, now.

"Your rules are unreasonable, but they are just rules. Do you want to stop a person's path? Isn't following the path the most basic need of 'people'?" Li Qi looked at Qiu Zhi and said so.

Qiu Zhi said: "This is not to stop Zhu Dao, it's just to let him make a choice. If he takes it on with his position, he will inevitably have to bear the cause and effect of the original son and humanity, and we will not stop him. If he doesn't want to bear this cause and effect, then he has to bear it himself, and in this way, his position will not be affected in any way." "Guo Penghai, after all, the identity of Mr. Li Qi is delicate, so this is also a rule, you have to make a choice." Qiu Zhi looked at the cooking pot and said lightly. (End of this chapter)