Myriad Paths

The difference between the Desire Realm and the real universe is that, except for tourists, there are no existences other than demons in the Desire Realm above the fourth level.

In other words, the real universe is protected by these beings.

In the real universe, Shinto has been doing this. Li Qi actually knew it. He had mentioned things like "Shinto protects the world" many times before. (There are too many so I won’t indicate which chapter it is)

Gods and earth protect the world. Of course Li Qi knows that. He has heard about it in many places.

But after he actually reached the third level and started fighting, he realized clearly for the first time what amazing things Shinto had done.

The reason why this universe and this reality can be maintained forever and become a continuing history can even be said to be maintained by Shinto.

Haotian regards all living beings as "equal". Under his cultivation, the seeds of illusion also bloomed into real flowers.

Obviously all living things, when they do not have reality, can be fabricated and distorted at will, just like Li Qi's battle with the spiritual path at this moment, destroyed one second and regenerated the next, and changed by various rules. And he didn't realize it at all.

But for such illusory things, the gods constantly maintain the state of reality and treat the survival of all living beings as an important matter. In this way, a traceable "history" is formed.

Otherwise, this universe would have been in chaos long ago.

After all, even a third-level battle can easily affect such a huge area, let alone the intensity of the current human-witch battle.

If there is no God's blessing, today's desire world is an example. The demons are too lazy to take action. They are busy making things. After all, the gods, five aggregate demons, and trouble demons have already personally set out. Obviously, they are going to make big moves. They simply ignored Li Qi's remarks about the Desire Realm.

It doesn't matter, they are just a group of things below the fourth grade. So what if they are destroyed by Li Qi?

If Haotian and Shen Dao treat everything in the world gently and maintain the continuation of this world, then Demon Dao doesn't care about this at all.

It doesn't matter, if Li Qi wants to destroy it, then destroy it. If it were normal, someone might stop it.

But now at this juncture, the devil is very busy, so the Desire Realm is up to you. Even if you destroy the Desire Realm...can you just build it again when the time comes?

Moreover.

Can Li Qi destroy the Realm of Desire?

This is probably something that many demons want to laugh about. The Realm of Desire is definitely not as simple as it seems. Even if Li Qi destroyed the universe of the Realm of Desire and exterminated all civilizations, what he did was probably deleting the archive.

But the game is still there, and the body of Desire World will not be damaged because you delete the save file. You can just play it again when the time comes.

Maybe there is no need to type it again, because there may be multiple archive backups, or even many different versions.

Moreover...even if Li Qi deletes the game,...the computer still exists.

To use a metaphor, is the essence of the world of desire an archive? Or a game?

It's probably not the case. The body of the Desire Realm is most likely a computer, and Li Qi can't reach that level at all.

Not to mention, the engineer who built this computer is still alive...

Demon.

The world of desire was created by the devil.

Thinking about it this way, this box has a lot of sets.

To the beings in the world of desire, they are NPCs in the game. Although they exist, they can indeed be tampered with at will. For example, Li Qigang's battle distorted reality thousands of times.

And Li Qi's modification of the archive has reached the level of the game itself, in other words... level three.

But the computer in Desire Realm most likely has more than one game and is a second-grade existence.

So, the devil who builds computers and writes games...

Forget it, don't think about that.

Li Qi kept his admiration for the gods and fear of the demons in his heart.

You still have to fight the enemy.

Li Qi continued to focus on dismantling the special environment created by the other party and correcting his thinking.

In the process, he also gradually became aware of the combat characteristics of the spiritual path.

It's strange. Logically speaking, the spiritual way is actually the same as the devil. It believes that the real world is nothingness and that the world itself is spiritual and is composed of things guided by thinking.

However, during the actual battle, he discovered that the spiritual path had a greater impact on the real world than Li Qi.

Spiritual Taoism believes that the world is made of ‘ideas’, and ideas give birth to all ‘phenomena’.

Just as there must first be a perfect 'circle', this abstract idea exists, and then there are spheres and prototypes in reality, it is only with the 'idea' that 'matter' can imitate the idea.

All natural and historical phenomena, including personal mental states, social and natural structures, and even the basic laws that make up the world, are the externalization of 'ideas', or can be understood as the spirit's pursuit of self-understanding. The external manifestations in the process, and gradually manifested through the historical process.

This historical process does not refer to the history of culture or civilization, but to time itself, that is: time is generated through material movement, and time is used to describe material movement. Then it can be seen that material movement is to 'get closer to the idea', That is, verifying the unity of matter and spirit through time history.

Numerous things each have their own properties and are divided into different categories. Obviously, at this point, it is very convenient to understand the existence of ideas from the perspective of the unity of all things.

Spiritual Tao first believes that all things are self-generated, and absolute nothing can produce anything. Therefore, when things are first produced, they are produced by themselves. Since they are produced by themselves, then things must have entities.

And this entity and idea can be understood by ‘I’, which means that I can also become the carrier of the idea. According to the nature of the idea, it is in other things, that is, in myself.

From this, the world begins to become the object of each individual. This action is an equally eternal and equally timeless beginning in each place. It is both his own beginning and the beginning of the world. Everyone seems to be in a kind of The eternal way begins anew, and at the same time his entire past, present, and future are posited as objects of his representations.

Therefore, under this set of logic, it not only proves the reality of 'self' and 'the outside world', but also shows the unity of one's own subjective consciousness and external material, but it has not yet reached the level of 'absolute'.

In this way, the spiritual way uses a different way of cognition from the demonic way to assimilate the world with subjective consciousness, rely on its own internal contradictions to act on its own, and then transcend itself, without the need to set up an independent "other" ” or “ultimate ontology” to create the world, only through the opposition between inside and outside, it can be a unity that contains the unity of differences within itself, thus dismantling the last barrier between thinking and existence, and finally reaching The unity of spirit and matter.

"The cognition of the spiritual path is really interesting, but in this case, the winner will not be determined for a while." Li Qi thought this way, the other party's cognition is quite complete, and he does not have the ability to easily find it in a while. flaw.

But enough is enough.

A second has passed between the words.

One second is already quite long for a third-level battle.

It has grown so long that mortals have noticed that ‘the world is changing’.

Some mortals with extraordinary talents and extreme sensitivity have become aware of the horrific changes in the world. They are frightened by this, some have their hearts broken, and some have gained enlightenment because of it.

But no matter what kind of benefits the mortals got, the battle between Li Qi and the other party was not over yet.

Just... one second is enough to react.

The next moment, all changes were stopped.

The seemingly endless offense and defense came to an end at this moment.

Lu Neifa took action, and he came to support Li Qi.

The nine cauldrons are shaking, there is a white rainbow penetrating the universe, the sky changes on its own, the hook star is dazzling, all the worlds are moving, the Taibai eats the Pleiades, the year star harms the tail of the bird, even if the energy first guards the tail, the disaster energy hangs down in the sky, the poisonous dragon Poor cooking, killing and eating blood, descending from heaven and earth, raising eyes to the sky, and setting up floating pestles are all signs of destruction.

But these are just appearances.

When the wind blows, the branches move, but the branches cannot cause the wind. It is the wind that makes the branches move.

Therefore, pheasants startle when thunder strikes, snakes come out when stinging, cranes chirp at midnight, and roosters crow in the early morning. These are just things that correspond to the sky.

These things just sensed the coming 'destruction', so they produced this 'sign'.

The moment the sign appeared, the third-level spiritual master immediately retreated and left the Desire Realm directly, disappearing without a trace.

The leaking method appeared in front of Li Qi, still in the state of the monster, and said: "Ah, I didn't catch it."

"You can't catch him." Li Qi shook his head: "The other party is still in good condition, and he is also very restrained."

In third-level battles, it is quite difficult to catch or completely kill the opponent. Basically, it will only occur in melee or siege. Only when the fierce battle between humans and witches is fought with such intensity will the third-level fall on a large scale.

Li Qi had often heard about the fall of the third rank in Chang'an before, even as often as once every few years. However, those were official positions. Even if the person died, the official position was still there, so there was actually no loss.

The dead one is just like Li Qi's previous body, it doesn't matter at all. Although it is really dead to the official position holder, it has no impact on this 'position'. (See Chapter 313 for details)

Being able to afford to die can be regarded as a unique advantage of human nature. Of course, it is talking about official positions, not macho men who have cultivated to the third level by their own strength.

"But why did Spirit Dao come to stop me? Is it your relationship?" Li Qi looked at the leaking method in front of him.

"Well, it's probably because you are leading the destruction of the desire world. Is it normal that there is someone in the spiritual path who can't stand it?" Lu Neifa said.

"What's wrong with Guan Lingdao about the world of desire?" Li Qi frowned.

"Then I'm afraid you have to ask Ling Dao, but it doesn't look like Ling Dao's choice. It should be the third-grade's personal decision, right? If you are worried, go to him and ask." Lu Neifa said .

"Then, I'll leave first. With this lesson learned, no one will come to interfere with you anymore. Please continue, Li Qi, we will also assist you."

Li Qi glanced at the Lu Nei Fa and said, "Even if the real realm of desire cannot be destroyed, are you still so happy?"

"Destruction is always good, and...how do you know that this is not destroying the real realm of desire?" Liu Neifa asked.

"Is it obvious? We only destroyed the material of the desire world, but it did not affect the essence of everything derived from it." Li Qi replied.

"Essence? Is there really an essence?" Liu Neifa replied casually.

"Yes...is it really essential? But this issue is not something that should be discussed now. Let's continue doing things." Li Qi said.

He did not dwell on this topic, because if he wanted to discuss this, it would involve another moral dispute, that is, the 'debate of existence and non-existence'. In fact, it means, does reality have an essence?

Is there an ‘absolute essence’ behind all phenomena?

Or do we mean that all phenomena themselves have their own essence? There is no such thing as ‘behind’.

Li Qi had no intention of getting involved in this debate, so there was no need to discuss it. If he had to get involved, he would have to fight both the war of witches and the war of existence at the same time, and he would be exhausted.

Putting aside the argument, Li Qi watched Lu Neifa leave.

The arrival of this third-level Death Demon forced the opponent back, and also gave Li Qi a more intuitive understanding of third-level battles.

'Combat power' in the usual sense no longer takes effect at the third level, just like Li Qi just had a fight. In fact, Li Qi's combat power has been the best among all levels since the seventh level.

Even if he can't defeat the Little Heavenly Master Demon Prince or something like that, he can still take care of ordinary savages. In fact, he has always been a relatively powerful type. This is due to his excellent knowledge. He really knows how powerful Yun is and his accumulation of knowledge. and the inheritance of various powerful spells from Wushen Mountain.

This is really powerful. Many of the spells in Wushen Mountain were invented by Wushen himself. They are absolutely ridiculously versatile and powerful. Compared with the self-created tricks of many "outside geniuses", they are simply crushing.

However, all of these ceased to exist after reaching the third level.

Combat power cannot be divided in this way at the third level.

These are not important. At the third level, even the cultivation itself seems so pale. It is more about solving problems than fighting.

In this state... I'm afraid phase is very important.

Dao Tu's restraint may even account for a large part of the outcome, because if there is no obvious restraint or a just siege, it is unlikely to determine the outcome in a hot battle.

No wonder, the third-level war will be conducted in a ‘war zone’ manner, because it is difficult to achieve results by fighting directly...

When he thought of this, Li Qi suddenly thought of his teacher, Zhu Fengdan, and the great wizard Mi Xin.

Wait, he seems to have fought three times in front of Li Qi, and killed three of his peers...

How did you do it?

Gotta ask.

Going right now! (End of chapter)