Myriad Paths

There are two kinds of things in Taoism: "talismans" and "lu".

There is no need to say much about talismans, while the treasured lu is something like an ID card.

The transmission of the lu usually has two functions.

One is to record the name, Taoist name, master and Taoist rank of the practitioner.

A practitioner can only become a Taoist priest after a certain entry procedure and be listed in the Taoist lu. From then on, he is qualified to learn knowledge inheritance such as Taoist scriptures and precepts.

The skills are all protected. Without the treasured lu of the corresponding grade, it is impossible to remember and practice the orthodox Taoist skills. The lu is the list of Taoist priests.

The second is to record the names of gods. Only through the treasured lu can the Taoist methods performed be powerful in the ritual activities of fasting and offering sacrifices, such as which gods to summon and where to send them, so as to achieve the purpose of good weather and good harvests and suppressing evil spirits.

A wild Taoist priest without a treasured lu, even if he has Taoist skills, will find it difficult to perform fasting and offering sacrifices, let alone command gods.

According to the classification, when you first enter the Dao ritual, you will be granted the Mengwei talisman.

The sutras granted by the Mengwei talisman include 120 volumes of the "Fa Wen Jing", 360 passages of the "Da Zhang", 1,200 passages of the "Xiao Zhang", 300 volumes of the "Chao Tian Jiao Yi", 10 volumes of the "Xu Zhen Yao", 3 volumes of the "Yu Jing", 3 volumes of the "Zhi Yao", 60 volumes of the "Tai Ling Yin Yang Tui Qian Li", 5 volumes of the "Jing Zhu", 3 volumes of the "Tong Jing Wen", one article of "Xiu Yuan Ming Zhen Wen", and 1 volume of "Yu Bu Xing Gang".

Only after all these cultivation methods and techniques are practiced can you enter the next stage.

Then, after reaching the seventh grade, you will be granted the Vajra Cave Divine talisman and obtain the twelve sutras of the "Dong Shen".

After that, in order, there are Gao Xuan Lu, Sheng Xuan Lu, Zhong Meng Lu, and San Dong Bao Lu. Each of them has corresponding cultivation methods and various advanced means. There are many things to learn.

When you reach the third grade, that is, after "attaining the Tao and becoming an immortal", you can get your exclusive Bao Lu.

At this stage, the characteristic features are wearing a purple crown, a supreme seal, a Jingjing sword, a Huangning hat, and being granted the Three Officials' Ancestors' Certificate, the Ascension Certificate, the Five Emperors' Great Demons' Recommendation Certificate, the Thirty-two Heavenly Emperors' Certificate, and the Golden Elixir Secret of Flying Steps.

Of course, not everyone will dress so flamboyantly, but this is almost the "formal dress" of the earthly immortals, something like a uniform.

In this state, the talisman is their biggest weapon.

Zhang Zong's green Taoist robe, nine-color Li Luo cape, purple skirt, and nine-light jade pendant.

Unlike Li Qi, who was alone, Zhang Zong had a magic weapon.

When the talisman came out, Zhang Zong maintained his fist intention while pinching out the thunder method in his other hand.

The essence of the internal energy of martial arts is chaos.

In the chaos, the light and turbid air were first separated. When the two collided, thunder was born.

Among many magic methods, the thunder method has the greatest resistance to chaos.

Of course, in reality, thunder magic can't cause any damage to martial arts internal energy. It's just that the resistance is a little higher. Compared with other magic, thunder magic can withstand the erosion of martial arts internal energy for a longer time without collapsing.

If cutting Li Qi's magic is like cutting butter with a hot knife, cutting Zhang Zong's thunder magic will be like cutting meat. It's not impossible to cut, but there will always be a lot of resistance.

At the same time, when he freed up one hand to perform magic, the originally harmonious fist intention was also attacked with a flaw, and the martial arts internal energy followed the flaw and poured directly into his body.

But at this time, thunder penetrated Zhang Zong's body, and his inner world, including his flesh, was filled with divine thunder.

The martial arts internal energy stagnated.

At this moment of stagnation, Zhang Zong clenched his fists, and the treasure scroll bloomed!

Thunder is the exciting energy of yin and yang. When water is poured into the fire of forging, the sound of thunder will burst out. This is what Zhang Zong once said, the source of the three methods of water, fire and thunder in Taoism. He usually uses water and fire methods to make tea, which is actually a part of thunder method practice.

But he really likes to drink tea and collect tea leaves.

Let's not talk about these. When Zhang Zong burst out in this posture, the thunder method burst out in his body!

His inner world was completely filled with thunder, and the thunder of Shenxiao replaced his body in a fierce posture.

At this moment, Zhang Zong's martial arts and magic were completely contained in his body!

Zhongyou's pupils dilated and he immediately accelerated the pace of attack.

The intelligence said that Zhang Zong, who was a fourth-grade, had tied with the Demon Prince.

This tie was not that the Demon Prince let him go, but a real tie. The Demon Prince could not take Zhang Zong in this state.

Zhang Zong's martial arts and magic were completely integrated.

Moreover, not only that, he even penetrated the past and the future, and the Thunder of the Divine Sky protected his existence. Now Zhang Zong is a perfect numerical monster.

Martial arts, magic, existence, strategy, tactics, attack and defense, time and space entity, and even the timeline war that spread out from it, are all perfect.

However, his talismans and the magic weapons he wore on his body were faintly wailing.

Obviously, to maintain this state, the Shangqing Jinque Treasure Scroll that recorded all his information played an important role in it. It was the existence of the treasure scroll that made this method feasible.

Zhong You obviously realized this.

If a warrior is not good at fighting a timeline war, then he can only use one trick, that is, to defeat the opponent head-on.

Zhang Zong is good at all aspects, whether it is a head-on battle, a magic battle, or a timeline calculation and existence competition, he is very powerful.

But warriors don't need to face those things.

He just needs to beat Zhang Zong in the aspect he is best at.

Then let's try it!

Using his fist to determine the thunder, he punched out, and the thunder of the divine sky around Zhang Zong was forcibly suppressed. The heaven and earth shook in an instant, but... that was all.

The warrior continued to take the same action as he had just dealt with Li Qi, because he only knew this one way.

Here are the advantages of warriors, and here are also the disadvantages.

Zhang Zong, on the other hand, stared at Zhong Yu closely.

If you can win, there is just one problem.

Facing such a warrior, it is easy to win, and it is also easy to run away, but that will not have much effect on the situation of the battle.

Zhang Zong simply ran away, or defeated the opponent, but it would not have any substantive effect.

Don't even think about leaving after winning, because you can't kill. As long as you can't kill, the warrior will soon be able to join other battlefields with the help of humanity. To put it bluntly, everyone will break up and go to other places to fight.

If you really want to achieve "I've got you done, I'll go elsewhere", you need to hit the opponent until he loses his combat effectiveness.

But in that case...it would be so difficult, the physical body of a warrior is so powerful.

It's easy for Zhang Zong to decide the outcome, but if he wants to make the opponent lose his combat effectiveness or even decide between life and death, he has to overcome the warrior's own toughness.

Warriors are very durable, unlike Li Qi's sandbag that breaks into pieces with just two hammer blows.

but……

It's just a bigger, more resistant punching bag.

Watch me beat you until you can't take care of yourself!

To fight those metaphysical beings, you have to find ways to destroy the other party's principles, refute the other party's principles, make the other party lose its self-consistent existence, or seal the other party from the timeline.

But warriors are not metaphysical existences, and only enough power is needed to destroy warriors.

As for Zhong You, he was not discouraged. Although he was stopped by Zhang Zong, he did not think he would lose. His thoughts were actually the same as Zhang Zong's.

Kill or cripple the opponent, and then chase Li Qi.

Both sides are confident of winning, and no one thinks they will lose.

The battle resumes.

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At the same time, Li Qi had escaped from four or five nodes.

Every node is similar to Zhang Zong, and there will be corresponding people to help him resist the pursuit of humanity.

Li Qi is going through all the key nodes in his life. As long as he holds all these nodes, he will win and humanity will be blocked.

But if there is a place that is not guarded, then Humanity can march straight in, easily lock Li Qi's possibility, and complete their ulterior purpose.

In order to accurately find each node, Li Qi had to run around in his life, looking for places where he thought something might happen, or when he came to a node where humanity chose to take action.

This is actually very difficult.

No one knows which node is the key. Maybe Humanity's attack was a feint, and investing third-grade combat power there would tilt the situation. Maybe Humanity didn't discover the node he thought was important, and ended up taking precautions in vain.

However, humanity as the attacker is also uncomfortable.

They must accurately find the important things in Li Qi's life and then devote sufficient combat power.

If the combat power is estimated incorrectly, it will lead to the death or defeat of the third level.

Moreover, Wu Dao only needs to defend, but they have to take the initiative to attack, actively look for opportunities, and even finally find a way to get Li Qi in their hands.

This is destined to be a very difficult game for both parties.

Even Li Qi didn't know why he was the target.

I am indeed a little bit special, but is it really so special that I need to fight for it between two factions?

Li Qi didn't know, but he knew that now was not the time to think about those things. He needed to travel through the timeline as much as possible, looking for one node after another.

Traveling through endless time and space, looking for nodes in the time sequence, Li Qi felt... as if there were abyss all around, the future was also an abyss, the past was also an abyss, and the present was an endless black abyss.

He avoided and searched as much as possible, lowering his head to find and touch every stone, because every stone might trip him up and eventually fall into the abyss, where he would never recover.

The silent darkness and the invisible unknown are more terrifying than any fear you can imagine.

Wherever you look, you can't see anything certain. In the endless history, nothing is certain, only uncertainty itself.

Beneath the thick fog of theories and possibilities arises only incomprehensible obscurity.

The so-called deductions, the 'foreseeing the future' and 'divination' that frighten mortals are, in the final analysis, nothing more than the fog of numbers, and cannot play any role in this darkness.

In other words... the effect has long been offset by the opponent's deduction.

Intuition is more effective than eyes here.

Everything he experienced was simply a mist, and Li Qi felt that his understanding of 'his life' was nothing more than a phantom.

Even to myself, this seeming fact is nothing more than a confusing illusion.

Even the most sane people should question whether they are really sober or even whether they even exist.

To ignore this existential question would be to deceive oneself and others.

During the journey of pursuing life, Li Qi was misled and discovered that his original idea was wrong.

But Li Qi was also searching hard. This chase in the dark abyss was like an endless mirror.

His past was full of mistakes. The people he had met and the things he had experienced had all disappeared, but they had not disappeared... because Li Qi himself still remembered those things.

As long as Li Qi himself remembers it, it won't disappear...right?

But if you believe so firmly, wouldn't it mean that you have fallen into the trap of the devil?

This forced him to re-examine his life.

He has acquired reality and is proud of it. But what?

Li Qi created his own 'reality' and also recognized the reality of the outside world.

It was like a solid rock dropped amidst the rolling darkness.

This rock is not the vast universe, nor the boundless super time and space, but is small, and in the eyes of others, it looks like just a useless stone.

But it is this stone that is Li Qi's solid foundation.

All around, there was chaos, storms, and in the dark abyss, the raging waves were beating against the rock, seeming to break it into pieces.

Surrounding the rock, in the rolling darkness, vaguely appeared faces, things, and civilizations. Those things that are located in the sea of ​​illusion have no reality, but they are real. of sentient beings.

Around Li Qi's rock, they stretched out their hands desperately to grab Li Qi's rock. Their existence depended on Li Qi's rock. Although they knew nothing about it, they could only grasp Li Qi's rock. Only in this dark sea can we exist, otherwise we will sink and become part of the ocean.

But... Li Qi couldn't protect himself.

There are other rocks hitting Li Qi.

Every impact would cause the hands that were struggling to hold on to Li Qi's rock to be thrown away, and then turn into water splashes and fall into the ocean, their figures gradually blurring, and then disappear again.

The reality that relies on Li Qi's existence has been blurred and even intensified by the storm that other high-level beings have crazily stirred up.

Li Qi's life and all past history were in this state.

Beings whose Taoist hearts are not firm enough will be instantly annihilated just by falling into such a dark abyss. Their mentality cannot support them to fight such a war or search for that possible moment in the ocean of darkness.

Mortals could not witness this earth-shattering war. The third-level people fought against each other in the broken timeline of the world, fighting to the death.

Li Qi continued to face one crisis after another, and had to make major decisions again and again. There were not many simple principles to follow. Each choice would cause countless butterfly effects, and the butterfly effect would bring more consequences. Decisions, in turn, continue to create the butterfly effect.

This war... measured in somatosensory time, has lasted for hundreds of billions of years.

Sometimes, Li Qi would think about many things in this endless retrospective battle.

for example……

Is what he experienced really real?

He has met millions of different Uncle Six, and there are many different Uncle Six besides the first one he met when he was young.

Uncle Liu, who left the first impression on him, was a good man, but his methods were relatively weak. In the end, he failed to control the internal strife of the Paibo Gang. Finally, after his death, the Paibo Gang fell apart due to internal and external factors.

But in the war over Li Qi's life, Li Qi witnessed many sixth uncles.

Some of them were cunning, some were vicious, and some didn't accept Li Qi from the beginning.

Others were more kind-hearted and weak, so much so that they simply did not survive the competition from the Strong Gang.

Different Uncle Six, but the initial nodes are all the same. It's just that different life experiences have shaped him differently, just like a parallel world.

But the problem is...

Each of the Sixth Uncle has different possibilities and is also true. So many truths can change Li Qi's life. So how should Li Qi himself make a decision in this kind of thing?

It is true that Li Qi's body will not be affected, and these modified histories actually don't matter. As long as he waits until the war is over, he can re-fix the history, all changes will disappear, and everything will return to the 'first time' .

So, the following ones are all fake, right?

No, Li Qi's answer is: "It's all true." Every time, every sixth uncle, it's true.

However, if everything else is true, then why did Li Qi choose the first time? Shouldn't he treat everyone equally?

Since everyone is real, why is the first time so unique?

Moreover, it is far more than just Uncle Six.

Li Qi also met Lao Ma, who knows how many times.

Many times, Lao Ma succeeded. He had reached the seventh level of cultivation and was able to take risks with Li Qi.

Lao Ma, who was after the seventh rank, was very excited. He really liked the name Ma Ji. He showed off that his name was Ma Ji, and then he charged into battle with Li Qi. Even he didn't understand that the reason why Li Qi was with him was because he was with him. Prepare to change the future.

So, are these old horses who have lived to the seventh level fake?

Li Qi didn't help him, he reached the seventh level by himself.

He was still lazy and happy every day, flirting with mares, drinking, and was not restless at all, but he was no longer confused and had found his own way. Although his personality had not changed, many things had changed, and Li Qi no longer sighed and hated him. Iron no longer becomes steel.

Li Qi had never tried to go back to that level to make up for Lao Ma's regrets before, but now he was humanely realized in the human-witch war.

So……

When the war is over and the dust settles, assuming that Li Qi wins by luck, which old horse will he keep in the end?

It was the old horse who failed to break through to the seventh level and ended up old and regretful and died beside Li Qi.

Or is he an old horse who has found his own way, broken through to the seventh level, and continues to have fun with Li Qi?

Li Qi likes the second old horse, and the second old horse is also real.

But if you want to maintain the stability of history and the normal development of Li Qi's past, then Li Qi should eventually smooth out the waves caused by time disturbance and eliminate all history other than the 'first time'.

Should it be so?

Do we really want to insist that history is true?

So which period of history is 'more authentic' and 'more qualified' to be preserved?

So, what if you don’t insist on the so-called ‘truth’, but choose the history you want?

For example, let Uncle Liu stay for the first time because his life is already complete.

Then, let Lao Ma break through to the seventh level.

Li Qi will not have any problems because of this. As a third-grade person, his own existence has long been 'at ease' and does not depend on the outside world, so even historical changes will not affect him.

These are just part of his experience.

only……

Lao Ma and Sixth Uncle will actually change because of this. Can Li Qi really face the changed them naturally?

Li Qi obviously knew that all this was because of the war between humans and witches, and even his own choices, so they became what they were now.

Are they real?

After reshaping his life for hundreds of billions of years, Li Qi couldn't help but have doubts.

"Boss, why are you in a daze again?" At this time, Lao Ma next to him suddenly spoke.

Li Qizheng was sitting cross-legged on the sixth-grade old horse. According to the current 'development', the history of the old horse has been completely reshaped, so he has now transformed into a dragon and turned into a dragon, a kind of demon dragon.

At first glance, the Conglong looks like an ordinary dragon, but the difference lies in its mane and horse hooves instead of claws.

Now he is four or five miles long, which is more than enough for Li Qi to sit cross-legged on the dragon's back.

"Isn't it normal for me to be in a daze?" Li Qi looked at Lao Ma below and said with a chuckle.

"It's normal. It's just that it took too long today. Besides, boss, you don't usually look like that while being in a daze."

"What's the expression?" Li Qi touched his face. Even though he was already at the third level, he was not very good at reading other people's so-called 'expressions'.

Of course, understanding emotions is very simple, just read the mind directly, but looking at expressions is a subtle thing after all, and Li Qi doesn't like subtlety very much.

"How should I put it... It's like I'm about to die." Lao Ma said as he led Li Qi around the universe.

Li Qi was dumbfounded, but he immediately adjusted his expression and said, "Old Ma, tell me, if I could turn you into anything you want, would you accept it?"

"Are you asking this kind of question suddenly?" Lao Ma fell into deep thought.

Then, after thinking for a while, he said: "In that case, will I still be me? For example, boss, if you want to make me a fool, then if I really become a fool, won't I be finished?"

"Yes, but we usually change, right? You were not like this at the beginning. Why is there such a big difference in attitude between slowly changing over time and suddenly changing?" Li Qi sighed.

"Boss, I feel like you are thinking about something difficult, but I suggest you think less about these things, it's nerve-wracking." Lao Ma didn't care.

He seems to be a bachelor, and doesn't care about that at all. Anyway, now he eats and drinks well, and he is already at the sixth level. His talent has been exhausted, and it is impossible to make further progress. It is better to free his mind.

Anyway, he is already at the sixth level. There will be no shortage of food wherever he goes in this life, so why bother? He has always been very open-minded.

Li Qi looked at such an old horse, feeling helpless but also a little relieved.

If so, does it count as good? He can completely let this old horse continue to exist, but... all the old horses that have appeared before will disappear.

We often talk about ‘special people’.

So, who is considered special to the third grade?

Probably only a being with the same reality as Li Qi can say this.

Mortals are phantoms without reality. Li Qi can fabricate them at will. If he wants the old horse back, he can get any old horse back.

But...is it really the old horse that was retrieved like this?

No, why would you say no? He is Lao Ma. No matter how he asks, looks, or explores the other party's existence, he is still that wild dragon colt, and he has experienced many things with Li Qi.

What qualifications does Li Qi have to say that he is not an old horse?

It's just... it's not the old horse that I first met.

"Old Ma." Li Qi said, "Do you think it is necessary for people to immerse themselves in the past?"

Hearing this, Lao Ma suddenly turned back and looked at Li Qi.

He saw in the boss a sense of emptiness, powerlessness and helplessness without a goal.

But at this moment...

Lao Ma's body suddenly exploded.

Not only that, the spell has arrived, and the power from the third level has found Li Qi at this moment.

Li Qi's thoughts were immediately interrupted.

This is not the first old horse to be killed, but it doesn't matter whether he is killed or not, because as long as the past is reshaped, then... it will be as if none of this happened.

"You're in a confused state of mind." The descending third-level human being made a voice.

"Yeah, I'm confused." Li Qi sighed.

Why are you upset? He has obviously witnessed this kind of death hundreds of billions of times. In the timeline war, things that have no reality are like this.

If you wave your hand, it will come into being; if you cover your hand, it will die.

But why, this time... was there ripples in his mood?

Is it because hundreds of billions of deaths in the past have been superimposed until now and finally exploded? Or is it because of something else?

"Then we are almost winning." The descending third-level humane said so.

Li Qi didn't say much, because Wu Jin's third-level support had also arrived, and according to the plan, he should evacuate.

As for Lao Ma's death... that doesn't matter. As long as he can win, Li Qi can live as many times as he wants.

?

The doubts in Li Qi's heart were getting bigger and bigger.

He could indeed bring Lao Ma back to life, but he could no longer confirm whether the outside world was real.

The more he manipulates the foul power of the third grade, the more he feels a sense of fear and awe at the nihility of this world.

Li Qi's life has been significantly integrated into a strange state during this conflict, so that any significant change in his destiny will shake the foundation of other things.

However, Li Qi also realized that there was nothing he could do about it. This was the reality he was facing at the moment.

There is no point in worrying about whether the outside world is real...

Perhaps reality is meaningless.

Li Qi also thought of other solutions, such as...acknowledging the authenticity of every old horse. Every old horse is real. They just keep killing old horses and then create another old horse, as if It’s like traveling between parallel worlds, each time you kill an old horse in the parallel world.

But that would bring a new problem.

What is Li Qi struggling with?

If everything exists like a parallel world and does not affect Li Qi himself, then why does he care about it? You should only need to protect your own world, and don't need to pay attention to so many parallel worlds.

But the reality is that he must protect these histories. Otherwise, if the 'Li Qi' in these histories is caught, then he will also be caught as the 'ontology'. It can be seen that all of this is not a parallel world, but a parallel world. It is the only world that keeps coming back again and again.

But no matter what, Li Qi was tired.

As the focus of the war, he must meet all the 'nodes', while other third-level or second-level players only need to accept the nodes they are responsible for.

Li Qi's workload is the sum of all participants in the war. Because things happen in his life, he will fully experience everything everyone does.

Everyone's sense of time is completely different. After all, time has no meaning to the third grade. There is no need to discuss the correspondence of the timeline, only the correspondence of the events that occurred.

In this war, some people only feel that they have fought one or two times as foreign aid and fought for hundreds of thousands of years, while some people need to maintain a certain period of Li Qi's history, which has spent billions of years.

Li Qi will experience all the scenes. He has experienced hundreds of billions of years of somatosensory time here, so much so that he has seen too much, which has caused him to have some bad thoughts.

However...fatigue will not affect the third level. Even if Li Qi is tired, he will not hesitate at all.

Time continues.

Hundreds of billions of years have passed, and Li Qi has experienced almost all lives and developed many new lives.

In some lives, Li Qi did not experience the chaos in Qingwu City.

In some lives, Li Qi and Monk Chanzhi reconciled.

In other lives, he did not give birth to Li Shiwei.

Many different lives, this is another possibility, but these are just tributaries created to find Li Qi's flaws.

However, Li Qi had other insights into this.

Enlightenment from the world of desire.

The Desire Realm in Li Qi's body gave Li Qi a new understanding of these tributaries and different possibilities. From the Desire Realm, Li Qi could see... possibilities, which do not necessarily have to exist.

This world may be nothingness, but it has existed.

The same goes for the lives of tributaries like Li Qi.

The Li Qishengs of these tributaries should not have been born, but they happened to be born, just like this world.

There is no reason why it must exist. It doesn't have to exist at all, but it actually exists!

This surprised Li Qi.

Maybe what he saw was illusory in terms of structural details, and maybe these tributaries were even more illusory in the universe as a whole, but it was definitely related in character, and maybe it was even real in character.

It must be the real 'tributaries' that prompted Li Qi to realize that although they were false in an existential sense, they were spiritually real.

Another tributary of life... Here is the history of Li Qi not going to Chang'an to study abroad. Li Qi directly married Shen Shuibi.

"Li Qi." At this time, Shen Shuibi took Li Qi's hand.

Unlike the old horse, the rabbit has reality, and she is always aware of the occurrence of retrospection.

As a fourth-level person, she can maintain her consciousness during retrospection, although she can't do anything.

"I have been here all the time……"

She looked at Li Qi worriedly.

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