Myriad Paths

Just after the demon appeared, darkness enveloped everything, the surrounding light was completely still, and all movement stopped. Only Li Qi and the demon still maintained their original mobility.

Li Qi listened to the demon in front of him who looked exactly like him and even had the same temperament.

Then, Li Qi curled his lips: "I, Li Qi, like to say no to those who are self-righteous."

"So stop talking. As long as I bite you until you die, you won't be able to lie to me."

Li Qi simply closed his eyes and mouth and never said a word again.

But Heavenly Demon Li Qi didn't seem to feel dissatisfied. On the contrary, he tilted his head and continued: "However, even if I can control my own will, I will not do it like this."

"Because that would be too boring. The will controlled by me is equivalent to my will. In this way, there is no difference between him and my clone. In this way, it means that only 'I' in the world is still alive, and the others It’s just my clone, so what’s the point?”

"Besides, my will alone, no matter how much time and inspiration I have, my fantastic ideas are limited. Only when you people also have your own will, will thousands of ingenious ideas emerge. , will make the world colorful and make me less bored.”

Li Qi listened to the other party's words, but still closed his eyes tightly and said nothing.

He kept repeating in his mind: I can't hear, I can't hear, I can't hear, I can't hear...

But the demon didn't seem to care, and was still talking to himself: "By the way, do you know why I pursue meaning? Do you know what 'devil' is?"

"If you don't know, let me tell you."

"You see, I can easily manipulate all your senses. I can easily destroy your perception and then reshape it. With just a snap of my fingers, I can return you to your babyhood in your senses and let you continue to live through it. A childhood, finally completed a 'rebirth', everything is the same as it really is."

"To be honest, it's not difficult."

"Think about it, every day when you go home from Taixue, you look at the lights of thousands of houses on both sides of the road. How do you know that there are really families in so many rooms living the same life as you? You You haven’t visited each house, right?”

"How do you know that there are really countless people in the world, that there are really distant oceans and lands, that there are really so many people and so many things happening? Right? The most you can do is read some books and some maps. That’s it, the only other place you’ve been to is the Holy Flame Realm, and even the Holy Flame Realm is sailing on Xingcha. Is Xingcha really traveling? Is it possible that it just showed you a panoramic video?”

"Isn't the night scene in the distant view the texture in the game you played before? The farther away you are, the harder it is to see. In fact, it's just that the farther away you are, the lower the resolution is. When you close your eyes, the places you can't see at all are really Does it exist?"

"Ten thousand steps back, even if these are true, even if you have traveled to certain places, it only means what you saw at that time. When you come back, maybe it will disappear."

"As for other people, the number of people you often interact with is only a hundred or ten. The rest have either never been in contact, or only have a one-time relationship, and most of them only produce some audio, video, or even text. Communicate, do they really exist?”

"Look, you were videotaping with that person named Shen Shuibi before, right? How did you know that it wasn't me on the other side of the video? Can you tell the difference?"

"So think about it, if a demon, that is, me, wants to play with you, the cost is actually not that high. After all, there is only so much information you can accept, thousands of people, hundreds of scenes."

"Everything in the world can be fake. Since I can easily fabricate your senses, what can be guaranteed to be true?"

“The only real thing in this world is your own will, that is, ‘I’, which can be guaranteed to be true and reliable.”

"Even the devil may be fake. The only real thing is you."

"When everything in the world is false, life is meaningless, and everything is meaningless, the birth and death of life are like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. It has no meaning, it is just there. The ultimate search for meaning is not solution, but consciousness. To no solution.”

"When everything may be false and meaningless, the only thing that is meaningful and the only thing that is definitely true is oneself."

"The devil is me, I am the devil."

"Demon thoughts are actually meanings. They are actually imaginary creations of all sentient beings to support the bloated parts of all sentient beings that have grown beyond their essential needs at the thinking level. Without demon thoughts, there would naturally be no human nature. This There is no need for the world to exist, so life cannot resist the evil thoughts, which is part of their existence. Without the support of the evil thoughts, all sentient beings are meaningless. "

Li Qi listened to the demon talking to him.

I don't know why, but the demon actually started to preach to Li Qi, and it was not in a mysterious and mysterious way, but in a straightforward manner, using simple language to explain the essence of the demonic way.

Being a demon does not mean doing evil. If you do bad things and call it a demon, that would be too rewarding.

The essence of magic is to recognize this empty and false world, and then find the only meaningful thing in it.

That is ‘self’.

When everything in the world is false, then the only real and reliable existence is yourself.

It's like being in a huge virtual reality game. You can't tell whether other people are NPCs or players, but one thing you can be sure of is that you are definitely a player.

In that case, everything in the world is meaningless and only you are meaningful, so what should you do?

Of course it's just...playing.

Since there is no meaning anymore, there seems to be nothing else to do except to please yourself and act for the meaning of your own existence.

As a result, the devil began to do many strange things.

They are like a bunch of self-righteous players.

After what the demon said, Li Qi seemed to suddenly understand why the demon did so many vicious things.

Nothing special, just fun.

On the fourth day of the disaster, a group of players descended on a game world. Have you heard of it?

The people in the demonic path are just such a group of fourth natural disasters.

Their actions are completely illogical and do not follow any secular rules. Everything is done out of pure "intentions".

Li Qi seemed to understand the logic of magic.

Indeed, if the world is really as the Demonic Way says, then the Demonic Way does have its own set of world views and rules for dealing with things, plus the corresponding skills and techniques, it can indeed be called a path.

However, Li Qi didn't understand why he, in the form of a demon, wanted to tell him this.

However, he couldn't help but think according to the way of the devil. If the devil was really what he said...

It seems that all his motives can only be summed up as 'fun'.

Is it fun to say this to yourself?

Is it fun to control those things about yourself?

Li Qi didn't understand that he wasn't a person who could react particularly interestingly. He didn't go hysterical and crazy after being fucked by the demon. The stimulation to the demon shouldn't be too great.

Why does he pay attention to himself? And why are you telling yourself this?

Li Qi didn't know, but he still adhered to the single highest instruction of "I can't hear you" and refused to have any communication with the demon, regardless of whether what the other party said was reasonable...

Wait, Li Qi suddenly realized something.

Just now, did you feel that the devil’s path actually ‘makes sense’?

The moment this idea came to him, his little human world, which was still an empty shell, suddenly began to move.

As I just said, Li Qi's personal world is now an empty shell, because his cultivation has been scattered by him, and these scattered cultivations have been used by him as hooks to fish, and he has caught the devil Daoyun.

Li Qi couldn't hold himself steady anymore, he opened his eyes suddenly, it was broken! ! !

The devil took advantage of this moment to join the framework in his body!

Just because he 'felt a bit reasonable', his body suddenly started to function, and the demonic path silently joined his body just because of his 'thought'.

The path is not a sect.

If you want to join a sect, you can join, and if you want to leave, you can leave. The worst is to betray the sect.

However, the path is your body and mind, everything about you, the foundation of your cultivation, the source of your thoughts, the benchmark for all your actions, and the sum of everything you recognize from your heart.

People can betray anyone, but they cannot betray themselves. People can deceive everyone, but they cannot deceive themselves.

You cannot betray and deceive your own Word.

Since Li Qi felt that the magic way had a certain truth to it, he couldn't lie to himself. He didn't want it just because he said he didn't want it.

He also knew this, and knew that the demon wanted to take advantage of his recognition and distort his body!

Not to mention completely becoming a demon, but at least one nail must be inserted into it!

However, Li Qi responded immediately!

You must know that no matter how you talk about practice, it still needs to have a basis in reality. He can agree with the views of the magic way, but as long as he does not practice the magic way... and does not invest his cultivation into it, even if he has some agreement in his heart, it will not be visible on the outside.

The path is to talk about the mind but not the deeds, but when others observe, they can only talk about the deeds but not the heart.

Upon thinking of this, Li Qi immediately started to save himself!

He immediately began to close off his own little world of life and prevent his cultivation from recovering!

Then, it began to actively collapse the framework in the body!

Even if this would cause him to lose all his cultivation and become a mortal.

But I don’t care about that much anymore.

Close the small world of the human body to prevent the influx of Qi from the outside world.

Then the existing structures in the body will be broken down to prevent the devil from using them!

Li Qi knew that this might be in vain, because the demon really wanted to do something to him, and Li Qi was not qualified to resist.

But, you have to resist!

We must resist!

Even if we are facing a first-grade one, who knows if there is a glimmer of hope? What if this is just a demon clone? What if he is not a demon?

Right?

No matter how difficult it is, you have to do it.

However, what Li Qi didn't expect was that with his self-disintegration, the demonic path... began to encircle the territory?

Li Qibeng took one piece, and he took one piece.

no!

You can't do this. If you conform to the other party's wishes, you are taking the initiative to give away your small world to the devil.

Li Qi immediately changed his strategy. He let go of the small world of the human body and began to absorb the energy from the outside world. At the same time, he once again built the structure of the small world of the human body with humans, witches, and Tao as the core.

However, when he starts to build, he will definitely need resources and different Qi from the outside world to fill the small world of his body.

The demon just smiled outside and waved.

Countless demonic energy surged into the void.

Li Qi wants to rebuild his personal world?

Okay, I only give you one raw material, and that is demonic energy.

As long as you build, you will inevitably bring the introduction of the devil.

The gap is too big. No matter which way you choose, the outcome is already determined.

Li Qi had to use his brain again.

Think...observe, then make a decision.

How can such a thing be checked and balanced?

Immediately, a flash of lightning flashed in Li Qi's mind.

Then, he directly kneaded the sutra with one hand, sat cross-legged, and chanted: "The Bodhisattva has now reached the Great Bodhi Field. In order to realize the fruit of Anuttar Samyak Sam Bodhi, he will surrender all the demonic armies!"

"In order to perfect the ten powers of the Tathagata, the four fearless, and the eighteen different Dharma, universal for all transformations, let's roar like a lion!"

"Extensive practice of Dharma to all sentient beings, so that all sentient beings' Dharma eyes are pure, and they use the righteous Dharma. Subdue all evil and foreign theories!"

He wants to use Buddhism to quell the devil!

Li Qike has practiced Buddhism for a period of time, and he even has 108 ways to eliminate demons!

All the gods in the body sit cross-legged, disperse the body, and use the power of the Buddha to make a loud sound. The sound is full and even reaches the top, making a lion's roar, and following the sound of the same sound, it can be heard by all living beings!

Li Qi is really trying his best!

If the spirit in the body is dissipated, it will truly become a mortal. If you want to embark on the path of cultivation again, you will need to put in a hundred times a thousand times of effort.

Because the spirit in the body is essentially a part of the body. If it is damaged, Li Qi may have to be reincarnated to have a new one.

However, the demon still just smiled and nodded gently.

He had devoted great efforts to study and acquire the Dharma, but suddenly it transformed uncontrollably.

Li Qi's pupils shrank and he immediately realized what it was.

Buddha and devil are one!

He transformed into the God of Freedom and made Buddha and Demon one, and easily used Li Qi's own Dharma to reverse it and mix the demonic path into it without distinguishing one from the other!

Li Qi was completely desperate.

There was no way to resist. The other party didn't even cast any spells beyond the seventh level. He just said a few words to arouse the demonic energy, and then lightly distorted Li Qi's Dharma.

Li Qi's cultivation gradually stabilized, his body was reconstructed, and his cultivation returned to the seventh level.

Only this time...it's no longer a mixture of three orthodoxy.

But five!

Human, witch, Tao, Buddha, demon.

The characteristics of the five orthodox traditions are mixed in him.

The demon looked at Li Qi's complex energy with satisfaction and smiled.

"Look, isn't this very suitable? What about practicing the five-fold path at the same time, which is rare in the world? By the way, you don't have the corresponding spells and practices for the two branches of Buddha and Demon yet, right? Come on, I'll make it up for you. superior."

As he spoke, he pointed out, and the inheritance of divine will penetrated into Li Qi's brain!