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Chapter 38, Chapter 39: The Way of Li Er

(PS: This is not Lao Tzu in the traditional sense, nor morality in the traditional sense, nor Tai Chi in the traditional sense. To be precise, everyone knows that I like magic reform, as long as it is reasonable magic reform, right?

?There is the original in infinity, so there is also Laozi and Tai Chi in infinity, don’t disturb me.)

Li Er carefully dragged his lame leg among the rocks.

Li Er has changed too much since he came to this so-called bloody battlefield.

First of all, it is naturally a change in thinking. In the past, Li Er was a cautious type. He would never take risks if he could not take risks. At the same time, he would avoid any actions, words, etc. that may bring danger. For example, when the three brothers

When discussing things about the guerrillas, Li Er would resolutely educate and even teach them a lesson.

Because he had witnessed too many deaths, Li Er was really cowardly. Even when his lover was taken away as a poll tax, he was able to endure it in the end.

Li Er felt that he was actually dead a long time ago, and the only reason he was still alive physically was because he couldn't let go of his two younger brothers.

But it wasn't until he fell into this bloody battle that Li Er realized that no one wanted to die. He was stubborn and cowardly. In fact, it was just because he was really a coward. He was afraid of death and wanted to live. He was such a despicable person.

He is a disgusting and despised person... It was because he was afraid of death that he watched his relatives being taken away as poll taxes. It was because he was afraid of death that he stayed in the tribe until the end. Because he

I always feel lucky that the next person to die will not be him, but someone else...

It wasn't until he landed in this bloody battle, faced with life and death, that he truly understood what kind of person he was. He wanted to live, because once he died, there would be nothing.

After the skeleton left, Li Er also left the place where he landed. According to the last statement of the skeleton, new undead creatures will be produced in this place from time to time. Those undead creatures may not have memories. Most of the undead creatures are just born.

They just have the killing instinct.

After leaving this area, Li Er came to an area of ​​piles of rocks and stone pillars, where he was attacked by some short but agile creatures.

This creature has a green-gray body, is only about one meter tall, and has no eyes. It only has very sensitive hearing. In this extremely dark underground area, the eyes are not as useful as the hearing, so when Li Er encountered

When he arrived at this creature, he was attacked by the creature with a wooden spear, which stabbed him in the thigh.

Fortunately, this kind of creature is very weak. Even if Li Er was injured first, Li Er would beat this kind of creature to death in the subsequent hand-to-hand fight with stones picked up casually on the ground.

Afterwards, Li Er ate the creature, and at the same time, he felt that he had become stronger.

It's not that eating the creature made him stronger, it's that he became stronger when he killed the creature.

This is completely in contrast to what the skeleton said.

In this land of bloody battles, killing, killing any creature other than yourself, will all bring about becoming stronger. This is the feedback given by the land of bloody battles, and it is also what tempts the creatures in the land of bloody battles to fight each other.

bait.

Even if Li Er is a human, this kind of strengthening is still effective, killing, becoming stronger, devouring...

Since then, Li Er has transformed into a hunter again. Even if he is only a mere human, even if he is still injured, he is patient and wise. However, this bloody battle place is too big, and the bloody battle has not yet completely begun.

All races are still preparing for a decisive battle, so on the edge of the bloody battle, there are still many weak creatures that have inadvertently entered the bloody battle, including animals, weak races, and some wandering monsters.

Li Er himself knows hunting skills. He wanders around the edge of the land, setting traps and making weapons with stones, branches, vines, etc. He is cautious enough and patient enough, and the weak creatures on the edge of the bloody battle land

, they often don’t have much sanity, and the same is basically true for those weak races, so Li Er has hunted at least hundreds of such creatures these days, and his strength has initially entered the first-order extraordinary level, but he does not have any extraordinary

Energy is just stronger, faster, and more resilient.

During this period, the skeleton came two more times. It was surprised that Li Er was still alive and had actually become a quasi-supernatural person, or a different person. Even if he was weak, he could beat any first-level supernormal person.

, but he did touch the edge of the extraordinary and became a veritable alien.

And Li Er also learned from the skull the names of the tribes or weak monsters he hunted. For example, the green-gray eyeless creature was a weak tribe underground called cavemen, and

Most of the monsters he hunted were extremely weak creatures.

But regardless of all races, although those monsters are weak, they are monsters after all. Some of their organs, or magic crystals, are somewhat useful, and the skeleton took these things away. The second time they came

At that time, I got Li Er a crossbow, twenty crossbow arrows, a fine steel dagger, and a bottle of healing potion that could quickly heal injuries if he drank it.

At the same time, the skeleton also told Li Er that the decisive battle was coming, because the signs of the resurrection of the Holy Spirit had appeared, and all races could no longer wait. The creatures in the lower plane decided to kill all the remaining creatures that were not in the lower plane.

It is believed that as long as this bloody battle land is occupied, the bloody battle land can open up the space leading to the location world. They must go to the material world before the Holy Spirit revives.

The creatures in the non-lower plane were also stimulated by the news that the holy gods were about to resurrect. The careerists, or in order to revive their holy gods faster, each mobilized a large number of troops to enter the bloody battlefield in vain.

To win in this bloody battle, one must either become a holy god oneself, or have their holy god directly resurrected.

This is a decisive battle of extremely terrifying scale. The skeleton does not know how this war will lead. After all, in its words, it is just a middle-level intelligent extraordinary undead creature. It can know so much. In fact,

Thanks to its immediate boss, a demigod lich who has a big mouth, he only knew it.

Once the decisive battle comes, although the entire bloody battlefield is huge, there will be no safe place. At that time, the entire battlefield will be transformed into a fighting place, even the edge areas.

"...The most terrifying lower plane is the bottomless abyss. No one knows how many layers there are in the bottomless abyss. It is filled with densely packed demons and other twisted creatures, the number of which is counted in trillions. This time the abyss demons decided to fight bloody battles

On the battlefield, I’m afraid their numbers can be so large that they can overwhelm the entire bloody battlefield.”

"In addition to the bottomless abyss, Baator Hell is also an extremely terrifying place. Although the number of devils is far less than that of demons, they are experts in war. Even the weakest devils are the most elite soldiers on the battlefield. Their

The order is so harsh that when fighting the abyss demons, they can even fight one against a thousand, and this time they will probably all come out in force."

"Also, the Abi Demon City where I am located is the location of the lower plane of the underworld. It is extremely vast and contains a land of death that cannot be explored at all. In the depths of this land of death, countless millions are buried and sleeping.

Billions of undead creatures are said to be born from life

Undead creatures have appeared in it since the beginning. We are the opposite of life. How many lives die, how many undead creatures are born in it. The number is probably more than that of the abyss demons. This time they will also come out to cleanse.

Angels and all positive energy creatures."

"In addition, the angel race and the positive energy beings in the heavens seem to have formed an alliance. They claim to purify the entire land of bloody battles, and they seem to have formed a terrifying and huge coalition."

"In addition to these, the elements of the elemental plane also want to destroy their old enemies on this bloody battlefield. The fire element versus the water element, the wind element versus the earth element, their number is also almost endless, as long as there are the four elements of earth, wind, water, and fire.

If the world exists, then they can be born almost endlessly. At the same time, in addition to the four basic elemental creatures, there are also some mutant elements. They hate their orthodox compatriots. In this bloody battle, all four elements will also be attacked.

The elements take action."

"Not to mention the gray dwarves, drow and other despicable guys in the underground world. They are like poisonous snakes lurking in the dark. As long as you are careless, their daggers will pierce the back of your head..."

"So...become stronger as soon as possible, and then find an underground shelter that is concealed and strong enough. Otherwise, as soon as this decisive battle begins, you will turn into a wisp of ashes on this battlefield, and you will never be seen again from now on."

You exist."

This was the last warning from the skeleton. Since then, the skeleton has never appeared again, and Li Er also knew that time was urgent, and he also felt a certain sense of urgency, a kind of pervading heart.

His anxiety kept telling him that time was running out.

Therefore, Li Er also accelerated his hunting and exploration of the edge areas of the bloody battlefield.

Perhaps it was because he had experienced life and death that Li Er saw himself clearly, or perhaps it was the specialness of this place. Li Er always felt that this bloody battlefield was calling him.

As Li Er hunted more weak races, wild animals, or weak monsters, his sensitivity to this call became stronger, and he even seemed to see a black and white shadow appear from time to time.

In front of him, there was some kind of existence that he could not observe, sense, or know. Li Er even saw the entire universe from this black and white. It was a feeling that he just knew that this was the universe, but could not describe it.

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Li Er also asked Skeleton about this question. After thinking for a long time, Skull replied that Li Er was a mark of some kind, or that he had been targeted by the bloody battle. Unless this bloody battle was completely over, he would never be able to Leaving this battlefield early, he has been recognized by the bloody battlefield as a member of this bloody battle, but this is not a good thing.

The bloody battlefield is conscious. This consciousness is similar to that of the various planes in the lower plane. It is a kind of terrifying and twisted pan-consciousness. The bloody battlefield will attract all creatures to fight to the end. The reward is that it will gradually change with the killing. Strong, and some creatures have extremely strong willpower and are not easily affected. Even if they are on this bloody battlefield, they will restrain themselves and avoid too many killings to avoid their degradation.

But the stronger the willpower of a creature, the greater its death on the bloody battlefield will improve this space.

That's right, the bloody battle space is not actually a dead thing in the true sense. It has some kind of life, so it will lure the beings who enter the bloody battle battlefield to fight with each other. It can be tempted by increasing the strength. If the other party's will is restrained, it can be restrained. , then it will be mentally confused, similar to what Li Er is experiencing now.

This made Li Er more and more fearful, he became more cautious when hunting, and his methods became more ruthless.

Because Li Er has figured out that the first need of all life is actually survival, even the so-called immortal life. It is just a difference in life form, but aside from life form, intelligence is the first basic core of life. , and the first need of intelligence is existence. If intelligence does not exist, then life itself will be meaningless.

Because of this, when Li Er faces his prey, no matter how pitiful or innocent it looks, as long as he chooses the prey, unless it is a human being, which is almost impossible, he will kill it without hesitation, and even make it It was used as bait to kill its fellow creatures. During this period of hunting, Li Er did this several times.

There are some weak tribes and some weak wild animals. They are not Li Er's opponents, especially if they are calculating mentally but not intentionally.

"The first need of life is to live. There is no right or wrong in killing at this moment, because only living can have everything. This is a natural choice. All lives that do not abide by this natural law have all disappeared."

This was Li Er's realization. In this bloody battlefield, every time he hunted and killed, in addition to his physical body becoming stronger, these various insights appeared in his heart. This was something that had never happened before.

Li Er found that he began to become strange. He began to pay attention to a series of things or objects that he had never paid attention to before, such as life, death, natural relationships, etc. This made Li Er himself very strange, and every time When he had a similar realization, the seemingly black and white world appeared in front of him. It seemed to be both black and white, or black and white, but when he looked carefully, it turned out to be chaos, neither black nor white. , and they are attacking each other, and they are also incompatible with each other.

Then today, something happened to Li Er. While he was hunting in secret, he saw a human being heading towards the trap area he had set. This made Li Er shocked. However, he was always cautious, so he didn't do anything at this time. He walked out rashly, but followed secretly.

This is a miserable human woman who looks young. Her whole body is covered with scars, including bruises, cuts, and puncture wounds. However, these wounds are not fatal. She staggers towards the trap area. , there is always blood flowing behind him.

Seeing that this human woman was about to enter the trap area, Li Er couldn't help but rushed out of the darkness. He grabbed the human woman and took her into the darkness. He arranged three people in the edge area. A simple shelter with food and some herbs he found. He could give her shelter and food, and he could also treat her injuries.

But at this moment, the female human grabbed Li Er, and threw herself up to entangle Li Er. At the same time, she shouted the words "caught, caught, caught". Then, a group of cavemen rushed in from a distance. There were humans, goblins, and two tall jackals.

These are basically the objects that Li Er usually hunts, but once the number increases, it is impossible for him to match them.

The situation was very urgent at that time, and Li Er almost didn't escape. But once those cavemen and other tribes got closer, dozens of them could easily tear Li Er into pieces.

And Li Er also paid the price. In order to hold on to him, the human woman used her nails, teeth, hands and feet together, and she was really merciless at all. She even planned to insert her fingers into Li Er's eyeballs and use her teeth. He bit his throat, and although Li Er escaped, his body was covered with scars, and even his heart was scarred.

After that, Li Er carefully tracked and investigated the movements of the low-level tribes. Finally, he found a half-eaten human skeleton in an abandoned camp of the low-level tribes. Judging from the size of the body, the skeleton was that of a woman. , and the height is the same as the woman Li Er planned to save at that time. The most important thing is that there is a child next to her. A very small child, probably the skeleton of a three or four-year-old child, no, just bones, Bones without even a trace of meat...

Both she and the child were eaten.

Li Er didn't know exactly what happened, why this human woman helped Wanzu to hunt him, and what other things happened in the end. The only thing he knew clearly was that this fellow human being tried to make him It fell into the hands of Wanzu, but failed in the end. Wanzu regarded this fellow human being as food, and the child was also eaten...

"...There is no clear dividing line between good and evil. The so-called good and evil are just camps determined by each life from its own standpoint."

Li Er buried the two corpses. He thought a lot in front of the corpses' graves, but in the end he did not come up with a definite answer.

In other words, if there are no questions, how can we get the answers?

After that, Li Er followed this low-level team of thousands of people and spent nearly ten days hunting them all. When he killed the last jackal in the team, Li Er ate the jackal. meat, he suddenly seemed to understand something.

"All of these are actually natural choices, or life must have choices in nature."

"If you want to live, you must kill. Plants are also living things, but because they don't have intelligence, no one thinks there is anything wrong with eating plants. Animals have weak intelligence, so killing animals is a fight among lives. The jungle eats the strong. But in the same way, strong people also have negative accumulation when killing."

"To resolve such negativity, one must stand in the camp of goodness, even if it is just to comfort oneself, or deceive oneself and others by standing in the camp of goodness. Only in this way can we resolve the negativity of killing, such as killing for survival.

Go on, for example, hunting animals for your wife, children, and tribesmen, etc."

"Similarly, evil deeds and people who do evil are not completely evil. For example, if I kill these races now, not only do they threaten me, but I also seek revenge for the innocent lives in their hands."

"There is no difference between all races and humans. It is just a dividing line between strength and weakness. Similarly, the stance of good and evil is actually no different from that of us humans, but they are all based on self-interest."

The thoughts in Li Er's mind kept rolling. Everything in the past and everything he was experiencing now were all transformed into various insights in his heart.

In Li Er's eyes, the universe that was both black and white, but neither black nor white, appeared again.

"Question...are you good or evil?"

Li Er fell into a daze at this moment. He couldn't even think, he only had instinct.

"No, I don't belong to good or evil, I just belong to me." Li Er answered instinctively.

"Question...do you want to be good?"

Li Er's instinct was to answer, but at this moment, the devoured bones of a human woman and a child appeared in his mind, and then Li Er replied: "No, I don't want to be a good person..."

In an instant, in this non-black and non-white space, the white part suddenly began to shrink, and black seemed to be about to become the entire space.

"Question...do you want to be evil?"

Li Er's instinct did not answer immediately. Those races emerged in his mind, not only the races in this bloody battlefield, but also all the races encountered in the material world and around the Li tribe, including

Thousands of races are chasing them in the Elf Forest.

These races are ferocious and terrifying. They are evil, but they are very powerful. Their power is reflected in the fact that they can deprive humans of everything at will, including life.

Li Er is envious of strength, because if he had enough strength, his second and third brothers would not die, and he would not be left alone on this bloody battlefield. If he had the strength...

But if the price for gaining power is to become evil...

Li Er seemed to appear next to a fire. He smiled ferociously, roasting a human woman and a child until they were brown, and then devoured them...

"...No, I don't want to be evil..." Li Er's instinct answered again.

Still in an instant, in this strange cosmic space, both white and black appeared at the same time. They intertwined with each other, attacked each other, and melted each other, but each was infinite and each had great power. At this moment,

Two unimaginably huge forces

All-round collision and bombing together, there was an extremely violent collision between white and black. Both white and black wanted to devour and digest each other. The universe seemed to be tearing apart, and chaos appeared between white and black.

, this chaos is destruction, and both white and black will be destroyed in it.

Li Er seemed to be in the middle of the white and black. The two blended into each other and were pulling Li Er to divide him into pieces. Countless whispers rang in Li Er's ears.

"Good, good, good..."

"Evil, evil, evil..."

"If you don't kill someone, they will kill you..."

"Power is everything, without power there is nothing..."

Li Er felt as if he had been transformed into countless parts, and each part was being torn out with the blending of white and black. Boundless pain came, and he felt that he was experiencing something more terrifying than death.

In this pain, Li Er's self is gradually being annihilated, and various past pictures keep flickering and disappearing, and the end of the picture is when he tried to save the human woman, the human woman grabbed him and tore him apart.

Bite him, poke his eyes with your fingers, trying to let all races catch him...

At that time, because of the emergency, Li Er did not look carefully, but in the death replay at this time, he actually saw the woman's eyes.

She...is crying...

Then the crying eyes cracked and dissipated, and the last scene was that Li Er used a trap to trap the last jackal among the weak tribes, and then let the jackal struggle and howl for mercy, he just silently walked up to kill him.

The dagger pierced the jackal's throat.

The look in the Jackal's eyes was fragile in the end, no different from that of countless tribesmen in the past when they were about to die.

"Those who are good to me are good, and those who are evil to me are evil. I don't want good, nor do I want evil!!!"

"I've figured it out, I've figured it out, I'm really too weak to decide my own good and evil, I..."

"I have to decide whether others are good or evil!!!"

Li Er suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes were black and white. The two gradually separated from each other. Black was black and white was white, forming two distinct halves of black and white. With Li Er's words, the black and white two

The color is still gradually changing.

"Yes, it's really too passive to say whether I am good or evil. So what if I am good? I am not bullied by taxes from all races, or I am driven into the lair of monsters by forest elves who claim to be kind!!"

"When I say I am evil, I am not just watching the woman and child being killed and eaten, and I am not helping them avenge them during the arduous pursuit. Then this evil must be too worthless!

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"So... I don't want to decide whether I am good or evil. I want to decide whether others are good or evil. Those who are good to me are good, even if they are evil, I also say that there is good in evil, and those who hate me are evil, even if they are evil,

It is good, but I also say that there is evil in it!"

"That's right, if you say you are good or evil, so what if you never say you are innocent! You have fallen behind!!"

"So instead of saying whether you are good or evil and then trying to justify and convince yourself, it is better to override it from the beginning."

"If I say you are good, you are good; if I say you are evil, you are evil!"

"This is my way!"

This series of thoughts burst out from Li Er's mind, and a bolt of thunder seemed to fall from the chaotic world, exploding the chaos. Black and white became clear, white rose, black sank, and then Li Er stood in the center, following

His thoughts gradually became complete, and as his words gradually fell, his thoughts and words turned into a golden bridge, vast and infinite, spanning the black and white, and the black and white revolved around the golden bridge, and then partially

Black merged into white, and part of white merged into black. It looked like there was me in you and you in me. Black and white formed a circle like a fish, and gradually sank into nothingness under the suppression of the golden bridge.

middle.

Then Li Ermeng woke up. He looked around, but he didn't see the black and white. But at this moment, he understood that the chaotic space that was neither black nor white that he saw during this period was not the bait of a bloody battlefield. Rather than attraction, it is something even more incredible, a great opportunity hidden deep in the bloody battlefield!

A great opportunity unique to him!

One of the top ten innate spiritual treasures...

Original name, Chaos Picture!

"I see……"

Only then did Li Er feel scared. In the space just now, he was almost wiped out by the chaos diagram.

Li Er only knew that the Chaos Diagram was one of the top ten innate spiritual treasures. This was the information Chaos Diagram had just given him, but he didn't know what the top innate spiritual treasures were and what the other nine were. Knowing that this Chaos Diagram is the most explosive among the top ten innate spiritual treasures, no one has ever controlled it since the beginning of the world.

There were dozens of predestined people before Li Er, and they all had the opportunity to obtain this Chaos Diagram, but the origin of this Chaos Diagram represents the original chaotic binary choice since the creation of the multiverse, whether you choose good or evil. , or choose yin, or yang, or even choose both good and evil, yin and yang. In the end, you will be assimilated into the extremely good and extremely evil, or the extremely yin and the yang. If you choose both, you will be directly absorbed into chaos. Annihilated.

There is always only one real choice, and that is neither good nor evil, neither yin nor yang.

Out of both and above both.

Instead of choosing, let me define and decide!!

"...So, it's up to me, no..."

Li Er looked into the distance. Although he couldn't see anything, he could imagine that there were countless races in the darkness, in the wilderness, and in the countless spaces.

"It is up to me to decide whether you are good or evil. Likewise, it is up to me to decide whether you are alive or dead..."

"That's right!"

Li Er laughed loudly, and then with a ferocious look on his face, he murmured: "I will decide, isn't this the best!"

(End of chapter)

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