Wandao long distance

Chapter 986 Controlling Evil Thoughts

The universe is full of people like Wang You.

Of course, they may not all have the same experience as Wang You, but what they encounter is roughly the same.

Each type of person has different characteristic marks, each has its own unique virtues and vices, its own mortal sins.

These people have two souls and two natures. They have both beautiful and rational things as well as cruel and hateful things. This shows that they are chaotic and complex and do not have a "simple" nature.

They declare war on themselves. The two aspects of a person's soul and body are mortal enemies, irreconcilable and specifically against each other.

This is exactly what Li Qilie understood.

All living things do not have a common "nature"; all things are contradictory in themselves.

Because we want to be lazy and keep things simple, we summarize and do subtraction, constantly reducing various things into simpler things, which makes it easier to grasp.

If we reduce everything to "one", then if we master "one", we will master everything. It is a very convenient idea.

But in fact, this itself is wrong, or rather... Li Qi thinks it is wrong.

In Li Qi's view at this moment, there is no "Tao", no "root" that can easily explain everything, just like a person, in fact, has no "nature".

Do humans have nature?

Do groups of people, all people, have a common 'nature'?

If one believes that there is an ultimate way, a 'root', then one should believe that all the chaos of man has a nature, and all the chaos of the crowd has the same nature.

But if, like Li Qi, you deny the existence of the "root", you will find that all chaos is just because of confusion and contradiction, just like the unknowable darkness. Everything is inherently contradictory. There is no metaphysical thing to unify everything. Everything is naturally contradictory, just like mathematics can never be complete.

Mathematics and logic can never avoid the problem of self-reference, and therefore cannot be complete. Therefore, there is no formula that can explain all problems.

The ultimate way no longer exists.

Therefore, Li Qi could see all kinds of contradictory temperaments mixed together in them. They could feel both happiness and pain. The two were hostile to each other, yet also intertwined and coexisted with each other.

This contradiction is common in everyone. For example, those who pursue power are destroyed by power, those who pursue money are destroyed by money, those who are humble are destroyed by servility, and those who pursue pleasure are destroyed by pleasure.

It is the same reason why everyone will experience the same thing in the 'Qi Dian'.

They can achieve their goals through the almost unlimited wealth in Qidian, so they will become more and more arbitrary. No one can give them orders, and they don't have to act according to other people's wishes. Those who come to Qidian are ultimately free to decide their own words and deeds.

Everyone can get what his true inner impulse drives him to pursue, and Li Qi gives them absolute freedom.

They are no longer bound, and so much wealth is enough to completely expose and display their "inner hearts", and this exposure is almost destined to be chaotic.

They will find that they have no control over the desire to expose themselves.

Unlimited wealth and almost infinite power can magnify their every thought and make all their contradictory thoughts become reality.

Some people are sometimes kind and amiable, wanting to save the world; and sometimes they are violent and evil, wishing nothing but destruction.

When these thoughts are only hidden in the heart, they are just a thought and will not have much impact. People usually just think about them and forget about it.

However, Li Qi gave these people the ability to realize all their ideas.

In this way, all people's contradictions and confusions can be completely transformed into real things happening. If they lack self-control, they will allow their thoughts to control themselves.

They may feel this is 'freedom'.

However, some smart people may have realized that this kind of "freedom" is actually death.

When one truly has almost unlimited wealth, everyone's evil thoughts will be revealed, and once revealed, they will fall into immense loneliness.

When you no longer need to establish various relationships, and when all kinds of people have nothing to do with you, even the self inside you will be split apart.

Because even oneself has nothing to do with oneself anymore, and people will slowly suffocate to death in the increasingly thin air.

Even if these people are full of desire and good intentions, and open their arms to accept constraints and live together with others, it is too late. Now no one will pay attention to him as a "free man".

In fact, it was not that people hated him or disliked him. On the contrary, because of his wealth and property, they could easily have many friends and many people liked him, but all he got was friendly attitude. People invited him to be their guest and wrote him cordial letters, but no one really approached him, and he did not have any sense of closeness with others.

No one can understand these people. After his inner self is completely exposed, everything around him slips away. He has no ability to establish various relationships. Neither will nor desire can help him overcome this force.

They will go crazy and want to smash something, destroy some precious merchandise exhibitions, or even slap themselves, leaving their faces swollen and bruised, to make a scene, to shatter the halo of those worshipped star idols, to give a few tickets to alien planets to a few disobedient children, or to seduce a little girl, disrupting the normal social order.

This is all due to their inability to control their own thoughts.

They will step into the ranks of loneliness and even commit suicide because of it, and it is real "suicide".

It is wrong to call all people who commit suicide suicides. Many of these people commit suicide due to accidental reasons, and suicide is not necessarily their own will.

Only a completely voluntary disappearance like this can truly be counted as a suicide.

But there is a way around it.

That is to control your own thoughts based on your own reason, complete self-control and understanding of the world.

Just like Li Qi.

Li Qi had enough power to realize his every desire and every thought, but Li Qi obviously did not do so. He controlled his power very well, so he could suppress the evil thoughts in his heart.

These are the people Li Qi wants to screen.

A person who, after being given enough power, can still suppress his own thoughts.

Only people like this can join the ranks after Li Qi.

The screening mechanism lasted for about 100 million years.

  In the end, Li Qi... could be considered a success, right?

There are many, many people in the universe who can suppress their thoughts to a certain extent.

Li Qi rarely says the word "evil thoughts" nowadays, because honestly speaking, it can be said that all subjective wishes are "evil thoughts", and the more persistent one is, the more obsessed one becomes.

Being obsessed with a lifelong dream is a person's greatest obsession. Is it possible to get rid of it?

Therefore, evil thoughts cannot be... or at least are difficult to get rid of, unless you reach the state of emptiness.

What is needed, therefore, is control, not removal.

Control your thoughts, suppress your desires, and use clear wisdom to recognize what thoughts are necessary and what are not. Indulgence and suppression are also the yin and yang sides of the Tai Chi diagram, and all contradictions are like this.

Now, it's time to close the net.

On this day, at this moment, all the "qualified people" had the same person appear in front of them.

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Bai Lu is a second-generation underworld resident from the underworld.

The reason for saying this is that she was indeed born in Tianxia, ​​but her parents were not native to Tianxia, ​​but came from outside the territory.

And the place where she was born was not very good either. She was born in the dream city of the devil.

Her parents were transferred to the City of Dreams through the magic way, and then they spent a lot of energy to smuggle to the other half of the City of Dreams, which is the half of Li Qi's Taoist temple.

Half of the Dream City still belongs to the magic world, but the other half is actually Li Qi's dojo, although Li Qi rarely comes here.

Because Li Qi was difficult to defeat, when the Demonic Path began to seriously defend this area, even a second-grade demon would find it difficult to defeat him.

The reason they were able to come here and get half of it as a dojo was entirely because the evil sect did it on purpose. They just wanted Li Qi to be contaminated by the evil sect.

Anyway... Li Qi is one of us.

As another son of the Heavenly Demon besides the Demon Prince, Li Qi's identity should not be a secret among the high-ranking members of the demon sect.

However, even if Li Qi cannot actually control this place, he can indeed create a better environment for this half of the place, at least much better than the City of Dreams.

Therefore, this also formed another peculiar pattern, that is, for people from outside the domain, their best way to come to the world is to go directly to the City of Dreams through the magic way, and then find a way to go to the half of Li Qi's Taoist temple.

This has even spawned a whole industrial chain.

The City of Dreams even used Li Qi's dojo as an advertisement, and used the existence of Li Qi's dojo as "hope", as the carrot hanging on the pig's head.

Then, they opened up many smuggling channels so that people could continue to stimulate their potential, strengthen their desires and beliefs for this little bit of starlight.

You know, sometimes, the act of 'going to the promised land' itself can become an obsession. When there is such an obsession, especially in the days before completion, people can burst out with extremely terrifying faith and willpower.

And this kind of willpower is what the devil wants.

The Demonic Path was not reluctant to send two people over, because as long as there were two examples, there would be two thousand determined idiots who believed they could do it and would come over voluntarily.

So, as a result of this, coupled with the destruction of Buddhism, the population of the City of Dreams actually increased by more than two or three times.

Under the desolate half-light night sky, under the indifferent gaze of billions of stars, in this gloomy world, hope is the most precious treasure for people in despair, and the devil's way is to take this most precious treasure for himself.

But Bailu was a lucky one. Her parents successfully found their other half, a place that was much better, and gave birth to Bailu, making her a native of the world.

But Bai Lu’s good luck obviously does not stop there.

When she grew up, she accidentally discovered a cave, from which she discovered endless wealth.

Countless elixirs, magic weapons, various types of skills, spells, techniques, blueprints, and even various spiritual materials, fairy gold, divine iron, and spiritual herbs.

She kept these things carefully and told no one.

This is not because she is stingy, but because she knows that if it is exposed, it will bring disaster.

Bai Lu was born in the City of Dreams, and she knew very well what kind of people these people were.

But...she didn't give up on them either.

In fact, after Bai Lu obtained the endless wealth, she used it carefully to improve her cultivation, increase her strength, and then... rescue more people from the City of Dreams.

She certainly wouldn't try to fight against the entire Demonic Path, but among the thousand people in the Demonic Path, she could put one person in as bait, as a successful person. So, with her help, could she let in two people?

The two of them didn't dare to think about it, but even if they could let in just one person, it would be enough. In this way, one person out of ten thousand people could escape from that hell.

Don't underestimate one of these ten thousand people.

How many people are there in Dream City?

That's measured in trillions.

In other words, Bai Lu can save many, many billions of people.

That's a lot.

The reason why she did all this was very simple, because she and her parents were rescued in this way.

The person who saved them was named "Maudgalyayana". Although this monk cannot be found now, she still remembers him in her heart. Her dream since childhood was to become a person like Maudgalyayana.

Therefore, Bai Lu put all her strength into this and was not pulled by the endless wealth. To her, wealth existed for her goals, but wealth itself had no appeal to her.

She needs money, but that doesn't mean she loves money.

All this is just for her dream. Cultivation, wealth, and knowledge all exist for this purpose.

She even knew that the Demonic Path had probably already discovered her existence.

However, precisely because of Bai Lu's "dream", the Demonic Path did not care about her. It can even be said that the Demonic Path allowed her to do these things.

Modao likes people who have dreams and are determined the most.

When her heart of Taoism is broken and her evil thoughts are rampant, it will be an extremely delicious dish.

This situation has been going on for many years.

Bai Lu's life also stabilized.

However, on this day, on an ordinary morning, when she finished a lot of paperwork last night and was about to drink something to refresh herself -

A man appeared in front of her: "Want something to drink? I'll get it for you."

Li Qi said this.