Wandao long distance

Chapter 1033 Death of the Human Emperor

It was clearly a dead planet, but the moment Li Qi shouted, the entire planet quickly became illuminated.

Originally it was a planet without the sun, but there was a rising sun and light breaking through the clouds at dawn.

Looking closely, it turned out to be a virtual sun that appeared out of nowhere at this moment, revolving around the world like a satellite.

The wind blew in the sky, and in an instant, heavy rain fell from the sky, and the water was surging.

The water flows endlessly, with deep source and wide flow. All the big rivers emerge from it and flow from the south of the mountain.

Some of these water flows quickly into the basin and become the source of the sea.

Some of them are winding and twisting, and are located in the clouds on the mountain tops, with springs in various caves.

  There are also severe winters when the ice melts, graceful mountains, clear waves, and cold springs.

The water flows into a continuous river system, swirling westwards along the sea, merging into one stream, with long rivers and huge waves, surging and violent, with waterfalls hanging down, and cloud shadows curling up, pouring down continuously.

The originally dark planet suddenly had many living creatures appearing on it at this moment.

The shadows of cranes dance, and hibernating insects begin to stir.

Fish swim up with ice on their backs, otters offer sacrifices to turtles.

The geese fly north and south, and the grass and trees begin to sprout.

When the field mouse turns into a quail, a rainbow appears.

Duckweed begins to grow on the water surface, and doves flutter their wings.

All hibernating insects droop to their knees, and cuckoos sing loudly.

The air above the sky rises, and the air below the ground falls.

Tigers and leopards mate, lychees grow out, earthworms and worms make friends, pheasants crow and chickens lay eggs.

The peach trees begin to bloom, the orioles sing, the eagles, doves and black birds arrive together, and then the thunder sounds.

Cicadas chirp, earthworms come out, melons, fruits and bitter vegetables grow, and rotten grass turns into fireflies.

All the grass dies, the wheat harvest is coming, the mantis sheds its antlers, and the cricket lives on the wall.

Hawks and sparrows are chirping, cicadas are singing, rice and quinoa are harvested, and the soil is moist and hot.

Flocks of birds are gathering food, hibernating insects are hiding in the houses, wild geese are visiting, and sparrows are flying into the water and turning into clams.

The chrysanthemums bloom yellow, jackals sacrifice to the beasts, the grass and trees turn yellow and fall, and pheasants enter the water and become clams.

The entire planet, imitating the ecology of the world, changed almost instantly.

Of course, this moment is calculated according to the geological time. In fact, about 20,000 years have passed here.

In terms of geological time, 20,000 years is indeed just the blink of an eye, and in just that blink of an eye, the entire planet has transformed from a dead and desolate place to a place full of vitality.

Even this place has begun to adapt to spiritual practice, and after the creatures here are born, their talents will surpass most of the native civilizations.

Perhaps this is the case where one person's success brings prosperity to the whole family.

As the place of retreat temporarily chosen by Li Qi, the moment Li Qi shouted "So that's how it is", this place was destined to become a "shortcut place", and in the future it may even become a tourist attraction such as "Li Qi once retreated here".

And Li Qi was filled with joy.

After a long period of seclusion, he finally took a step towards the second level.

He now understood Yipin's purpose.

Why can these powerful beings be called "Heaven", why are the Heavenly Demons deprived of the suffix of "Heaven", and why the loftiness of "Heaven" is not what the First-Rank people pursue.

Li Qi understood one thing very early on.

That is, sentient beings themselves are not free, and this unfreedom happens to be the way they survive.

For example, a rope can tie up a cow, allowing it to work hard in the fields all its life.

Given the strength of an ox, can a rope really hold it? Can a person really pull an ox?

But the cow did not leave.

Because the cow is used to it, he feels that such days are good, everything around him is familiar, and everything is so familiar.

Without talking about things like cows, if we turn our attention to creatures with higher intelligence, we will find that it is the same.

An invisible shackle trapped these highly intelligent creatures between three meals a day.

Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be three meals a day, nor does it necessarily have to be meals, but they must have an environment in which the 'habit' exists.

What is habit?

The inertia of doing something that you are accustomed to is habit.

Cows and these higher intelligences have their own inertia.

This inertia manifests itself in all aspects, for example, three-dimensional space.

For ordinary people, three-dimensional space is commonplace and is taken for granted, but in fact space is not three-dimensional, which is common sense for many advanced civilizations.

  The dimension of space can even be increased arbitrarily, even approaching infinity, and this will not cause any problems, so... why should we get used to assuming that space is three-dimensional?

Similarly, the laws of physics can be changed, and the upper limit of the speed of light can also be changed. No environment is eternal and unchanging. The universe is dynamically developing at all times and places. Things that you take for granted may very well be fantasy in the eyes of others.

But it is easy to say. In fact, everyone will get used to the environment in which they live, even Li Qi and other powerful people.

It’s not that they can’t adapt to an abnormal life, they just prefer the familiar life.

There is nothing wrong with this.

It is perfectly normal to choose the lifestyle you like. For example, Li Qi can live in infinite-dimensional space and time, but he usually prefers to live in three-dimensional space and time. There is no problem with that.

But...what if there is a problem?

What if this "habit" is a shackle, a restraint?

Just like an old cow.

A rope can tie up an old cow in the field.

One habit can tie down a second-level person in the three-dimensional world.

How gentle and silent it is, yet how terrible its shackles are?

You have a free body in the world, but you are not a free person in the world.

It seems free, but in fact it is involuntary.

Some may say that this is voluntary and self-selected.

At this time, the problem comes.

  So are people who voluntarily become slaves considered slaves? Or, in other words, how can one get rid of the "habit"?

You know, getting rid of a habit can itself be a habit.

Liking to seek excitement and an unfamiliar life, isn’t this a kind of "habit"?

  So, a huge question arises: how can we completely get rid of this shackles?

You always have to find an environment to live in. No matter what you do, you can't escape this trap, right? This can even be extended to "subjective time".

How can you get rid of the shackles of 'subjective time'?

Subjective time refers to the changes and timing that you feel.

In any case, when your needs change, your subjective time begins to flow. No matter how the powerful people travel through time and space, their own subjective time will definitely remain unchanged compared to themselves.

  So, is immersing oneself in subjective time also a kind of shackle, a habit?

Li Qi previously thought this was complete nonsense.

How can you get rid of subjective time? No matter what you do, your consciousness and changes are marked by time. Although time does not exist, your changes themselves constitute part of the time sequence.

In any case, this does not affect subjective time, that is, the existence of the self.

This is what Li Qi originally thought.

However, after a long period of seclusion and thinking, an idea suddenly came to him.

  Is it a kind of "habit" or "shackle" to think that subjective time is unshakable?

If subjective time is regarded as a shackle, how can we transcend it?

What kind of action, what kind of theory, can transcend subjective time?

Subjective time is the yardstick for defining one's own actions. If even this is abandoned, it means that one cannot even define one's own time and space, and has even surpassed the scope of all self-consciousness.

This is indeed difficult to understand and even difficult to think about. It is beyond imagination. Think about it carefully, under what circumstances can a self-consciousness transcend its own subjective time?

How can he escape from a metric that measures his behavior? This is basically equivalent to how a person can escape from the "self".

How can you transcend your own 'self-consciousness' and gain awareness of 'self-consciousness'? And all this must be done while your self-consciousness is intact and you still have self-awareness.

It is easy to eliminate self-consciousness, but to detach from self-consciousness while still being able to recognize oneself is like asking, "How to eat the cake without moving it?"

Can?

Incredible.

  But...isn’t the first rank an incredible existence?

And Li Qi's guess was "Heaven".

How to transcend subjective time and even transcend everything?

Although Li Qi didn't know how to do it, it was obvious that the sky could do this.

  So, how do we get closer?

To this end, Li Qi conducted a second level of thinking.

  Could the impossible happen?

This question seems obviously stupid at first glance. How could something impossible happen?

But if we change the word, remove the word "can", and replace it with "can something that cannot happen happen?"

Is it possible that something with a probability of 0 will happen?

Obviously, of course it is possible.

Here, the concept of infinity comes into play.

Between the uniform distribution of one and two, if we take any number, the probability of taking each number is zero.

Because there are infinite numbers in the middle, if you take a finite number from infinity, the result will be infinitely small. The infinitely small probability is essentially equivalent to zero.

  But as we all know, it’s not that there is no choice, right?

If you pick a number at random, one of the events with zero probability will happen. There is nothing strange about it.

Taking this infinite event into another context, it's like dividing infinity by zero.

Infinity divided by zero, this equation is obviously not valid.

However, using projective geometry, one and two can be regarded as a straight line projected by light onto the sphere.

Every straight line has an infinity point. Parallel lines share the same infinity point, while non-parallel lines do not share the same infinity point. The infinity points of all straight lines in the same plane form a straight line at infinity, and all straight lines at infinity form a plane at infinity.

  So, can the points at infinity of the straight line 1 and 2, and their parallel lines, and even the infinite plane they form, be defined directly using the limit method in hyperreal numbers?

Then every infinite sequence limit corresponds to an infinite hyperreal number. The order of infinity is obvious here, and the possibility of choosing a certain point becomes a higher-order impossibility.

From this perspective, it is actually a bit far-fetched, because in essence it is just that there are many non-zero infinitesimals around zero, which replace zero.

But... isn't it possible to do this?

Absolutely.

  I use infinitesimals to replace zero, what's wrong with that? Of course, Li Qi also knows that plugging an infinity into the entire number field will cause many algebraic problems, but so what?

The key is to see what problem you want to deal with and whether you can reasonably introduce the corresponding concept of infinity.

So what if we cheat by using infinitesimals instead of zero in this problem?

All of this is to solve the problem of infinity divided by zero, that is, to use this kind of specious method to "transcend subjective time".

Using infinitesimal quantities to replace zero means using "day" to replace "subjective time". In Li Qi's understanding at this moment, day is a simulation of infinitesimal quantities, which is used to forcibly complete such a difficult problem as "infinity divided by zero".

So, there is only one problem facing Li Qi now.

That is, how to connect 'subjective time' and 'day' together.

This is still a big problem. After all, Li Qi was just "taking advantage" by analogy, and he even took advantage twice. It is no problem to say that he is unreasonable.

This was just a small step for him, not a huge breakthrough to the first level.

But it is enough.

Knowing the possible role of "Heaven" is enough to guide Li Qi's efforts for many years to come.

Although Li Qi really hopes to go faster, how much faster can it be?

If the second-level cultivator wants to move forward, he has to solve a lot of contradictory paradoxes, and then find the one that is not contradictory among the countless contradictions.

It's very difficult.

Li Qi was already quite satisfied with this retreat.

He stood up and shouted, "That's it!"

The power of the second level was leaked at this moment, and Li Qi was one step closer to the forging of Wanbantian. This leaked part of the power brought all the blessings to this nameless planet.

Li Qi stood up happily and looked around.

Well, this wandering planet should become some kind of wonder. From Li Qi's perception, many civilizations have already noticed the abnormal situation here, and superluminal spacecraft are already rushing here.

Then he looked again, and found that many alien species born locally had already bowed down in the direction of Li Qi.

Li Qi was preparing to do something——

  But at this moment, his pupils dilated and his whole body shuddered!

A huge, indescribable turmoil swept across the entire universe!

  From the world, the Tang capital Chang'an radiates an unparalleled branch of possibilities!

This turmoil, this level of reality distortion...

This is--

The Human Emperor of this generation has died?!