Myriad Paths

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

It was originally a planet without a sun, but there was a new sun rising and clouds breaking through the dawn.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that a virtual sun appeared out of thin air at this moment, rotating around the world like a satellite.

The wind stirred up, and in an instant, heavy rain fell out of thin air, turning everything into a torrent.

Endless water flow, with deep source and wide flow, from which all major rivers emerge, flowing from the south of the mountain.

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

Some of them have thousands of twists and turns, and they are flying springs in various caves in the clouds on the top of the mountain.

There are also ice melting in the severe winter, graceful mountains, clear wave shadows, and biting cold springs.

The water flow spreads into a river system, and the water system is continuous. It swirls westward with the sea, mixed with the currents, long rivers, big waves, surging waves, waterfalls often hanging, cloud shadows curling up, pouring endlessly.

The original dark planet suddenly appeared with many creatures at this moment.

The shadow of the crane is dancing, and the stinging insects are beginning to vibrate.

The fish bears the ice, the otter sacrifices the turtle and emerges.

Wild geese are flying to the north and swallows are flying to the south, and the vegetation is budding.

The field mouse turns into a turtle, and the rainbow begins to appear.

The water ducks are beginning to grow, and the doves are singing.

The stinging insects are bending over the ground, and the storks are singing loudly.

The weather rises and the earth's atmosphere falls.

The tiger and the leopard make love, the lychee sticks out, the earthworm and the worm make love, the pheasant and the chicken breast.

The peach blooms, the Cang Geng sings, the eagles and doves arrive, and the thunder makes its sound.

Molecular crickets chirp, earthworms emerge, fruits, bitter herbs and hair grow, and tofu grass turns into fireflies.

The weeds are dying, the wheat is coming in autumn, the antlers of mantises and antlers are undressing, and crickets are living on the walls.

The hawks and birds are buzzing, the cicadas are chirping, the rice and quinoa are blooming, and the soil is moist and warm.

Flocks of birds are showing off their shyness, stinging insects are living in the house, swan geese are visiting, and sparrows are turning into clams when they enter the flood water.

Chrysanthemums grow yellow flowers, jackals sacrifice animals, grass and trees turn yellow and fall, and pheasants turn into mirages when they enter the flood water.

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

Of course, this moment is calculated based on geological time. In fact, about 20,000 years have passed here.

In terms of geological time, 20,000 years is indeed a blink of an eye, and in such a blink of an eye, the entire planet has become full of vitality from the dead desolation.

Even here, it has begun to adapt to cultivation. After the creatures here are born, their talents will surpass most native civilizations.

Perhaps this is how one person attains enlightenment, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.

As the place of retreat that Li Qi temporarily chose, the moment Li Qi shouted "That's it", this place was destined to become a "place of shortcuts", and in the future it may even become a tourist attraction like "Li Qi once retreated here" exist.

Li Qi, on the other hand, was full of joy.

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

He now wants to understand the purpose of Yipin.

Why can these powerful beings be called ‘Heaven’, why are Heavenly Demons deprived of the ‘Heaven’ suffix, and why are the lofty heights of ‘Heaven’ not the reason why first-class people pursue them.

Li Qi understood one thing very early.

That is, all sentient beings themselves are not free, and this lack of freedom happens to be the way they rely on to survive.

For example, a rope can tie up a cow and make it work hard in the fields for a lifetime.

With the strength of an ox, can the rope really tie it? Can people really pull an ox?

But the cow didn't leave.

Because Niu is used to this, he feels that such a day is very good. Everything around him is familiar and everything is so accustomed.

Let’s not talk about things like cows. If you look at those creatures with advanced intelligence, you will find that it is the same.

An invisible shackles trapped these highly intelligent beings between three meals a day.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be three meals a day, nor does it have to be meals, but they must have an environment where ‘habits’ exist.

What is a habit?

The inertia you take for granted is a habit.

Cows and these higher intelligences all have their own inertia.

This inertia manifests itself in all aspects, for example, in three dimensions.

For ordinary people, three-dimensional space is commonplace and is a matter of course. However, in fact, space is not three-dimensional. This is common sense to many advanced civilizations.

The dimensions of space can even be increased arbitrarily, even approaching infinity, which does not cause any problems, so... why should we get used to the default space being three-dimensional?

In the same way, physical rules can also be changed, and the upper limit of the speed of light can also be changed. No environment is eternal. The universe is developing dynamically at any time and at any time. Things you take for granted may be fantasy in the eyes of others.

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

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

This is understandable and there is nothing wrong with it.

It is perfectly normal to choose the lifestyle you like. For example, Li Qi can live in infinite dimensions of time and space, but he is usually willing to live in three-dimensional time and space. This is no problem at all.

But...what if there is a problem with this?

What if this ‘habit’ is a shackles or a constraint?

Just like an old cow.

A rope can tie an old cow in the field.

A habit can tie up a second-grade person in the three-dimensional world.

How moisturizing and silent, and what a terrible shackles?

They have a free body in the world, but they are not free people in the world.

They seem to be free, but they are not involuntarily.

Perhaps some people will say that this is voluntary and self-selected.

At this time, the question comes.

Then, are people who voluntarily become slaves considered slaves?

Or, how can we get rid of "habits"?

You know, getting rid of habits can also be a kind of habit.

Looking for excitement and looking for an unfamiliar life, isn't this a kind of "habit"?

So, a big question is put forward, 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 get out of this shackle, right? This can even be extended to "subjective time".

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

Subjective time is the change and sequence 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, his own subjective time is definitely unchanged compared to himself.

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

Li Qi thought this was nonsense before.

Subjective time, how can it be gotten rid of? No matter what you do, your consciousness and changes will be marked by time. Although time does not exist, your changes themselves constitute part of the time sequence.

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

Li Qi originally thought so.

However, after a long period of closed-door thinking, he suddenly came up with an idea.

Is it also a "habit" and a "shackle" to think that subjective time is unshakable?

If subjective time is regarded as a shackle, how can it be transcended?

What kind of action and 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 even one's own time and space cannot be defined, and it has even surpassed the scope of all self-consciousness.

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

How can he break away from a metric that measures his own behavior? This is basically equivalent to how people can break away from the "self".

How can you transcend your "self-consciousness" and thus recognize "self-consciousness"? And all this must be kept in the situation where your self-consciousness is not damaged and you still have self-cognition.

It is very simple to eliminate self-consciousness, but to extract self-consciousness while allowing yourself to still have self-cognition is as nonsense as saying: "How to eat the cake without moving the cake".

Can it?

Unbelievable.

But... isn't the first grade an incredible existence?

And Li Qi's guess is "heaven".

How to transcend subjective time, and even transcend everything?

Although Li Qi doesn't know how to do it, it is obvious that the thing called heaven can do this.

So, how to get closer?

For this reason, Li Qi conducted a second level of thinking.

Can the impossible happen?

This question sounds stupid at first glance. How can the impossible happen?

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

Can something with a probability of 0 happen?

Obviously, of course it can.

Here, we have to apply the concept of infinity.

In the uniform distribution between one and two, if you 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, and the infinitely small probability is essentially equivalent to zero.

But as we all know, it is not impossible to choose, right?

You just pick a number and choose one of the events with a probability of zero to happen. There is nothing strange about it.

Bringing this infinite event into another scenario is like dividing infinity by zero.

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

However, using projective geometry, one and two are regarded as a straight line projected by light on the ball.

Each straight line has an infinity point. Parallel lines share the same infinity point. Non-parallel lines do not share the same infinity point. The infinity points of all straight lines in the same plane form an infinity straight line, and all infinity straight lines form an infinity plane.

So, can the infinity points of the lines 1 and 2, and their parallel lines, and even the infinite plane formed by them, be defined directly by the limit method in hyperreal numbers?

Then each 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 still a bit far-fetched, because in essence, there are many non-zero infinitesimals near zero, which replace zero.

But... can't we do this?

It is absolutely possible.

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

The key is to see what problem you are dealing with, and you can reasonably introduce the corresponding infinite concept.

So, on this issue, by using infinitesimals to replace zero, even if it is a trick, so what?

All 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 infinitesimals to replace zero is to replace "subjective time" with "heaven". In Li Qi's understanding at this moment, heaven is a simulation of infinitesimals, used to forcibly complete the difficult problem of "infinity divided by zero".

So, there is only one problem in front of Li Qi now.

That is, how to connect "subjective time" with "heaven".

This is still a big problem. After all, Li Qi is just "taking a trick" by analogy, and even took a trick twice, which is unreasonable.

This was just a small step for him, not a huge understanding that would break through the first level.

But it was enough.

Knowing the possible role of the ‘sky’ was enough to guide Li Qi’s efforts for many years to come.

Although Li Qi hoped to be faster, how much faster could he be?

If the second level wanted to move forward, all he had to solve were a bunch of contradictory paradoxes, and then find the one that was not contradictory among countless contradictions.

It was very difficult.

Li Qi was already satisfied with this closed-mindedness.

He stood up and shouted loudly: “So that’s it!”

The power of the second level leaked at this moment, and Li Qi was one step closer to the casting of the Ten Thousand Heavens. This leaked part of the power made this nameless planet enjoy all the blessings.

Li Qi stood up happily and looked around.

Well, this wandering planet should become a wonder. From Li Qi’s perception, many civilizations have noticed the abnormal state here, and superluminal spacecraft have already rushed here.

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

Li Qi was about to do something——

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

A huge, indescribable turbulence! Sweeping the entire universe!

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

This turbulence, this level of reality distortion...

This is——

The human emperor of this generation, has died? !