Myriad Paths

Demons will die, mortals will die, and all living things will always die countless times--

It can even be said that they live just to wait for death.

Those mortals who think they have achieved "eternal life" have not actually achieved true immortality. Before they have reality, their immortality is just a slightly longer life, and there is no such thing as being away from death.

Because even the matter that makes them up will perish, and everything will be destroyed.

But Haotian should not die.

This is wrong. The soul of the world cannot die, not even one of its components.

The entire complete, eternal universe.

All the stars and planets in the sky, every atom and molecule, the distance, force, and interaction between them.

All the worlds, all time and space, all the land, sea, sky and the life in it...

All the days in the past, all the days in the present, and all the days in the future--

Can see all thoughts and all emotions, all regrets and all hopes.

A stone, a candle, a higher life, a village, even a galaxy, and every observable universe, there is nothing missing, every grain of dust in the true position of all things is here.

If Haotian dies, what will happen to all this?

The soul of this real universe will pass away.

It seems that he has noticed what Li Qi is thinking at this moment.

Tai Sui suddenly started a "performance".

He was demonstrating what the world would become when a new "Haotian" was born.

In Tai Sui's demonstration, a "gentle" Haotian disappeared.

Instead, there was a strong will that was a paradoxical mixture of vigorous vitality and extreme calmness. This will was so subjective that he had no "gentle" meaning at all.

Before this, every stone, sea, tree, air, and sun were saying different things.

But now, they are saying the same thing, praising the same Haotian.

The sea shares everything with the sun, the trees sing with the road, the earth is aware of the air, and the air is aware of the sea.

Every element in the natural environment coexists harmoniously with other elements around it, and everyone is one thing.

At that time, all living beings will become a "circle".

However, the size of each circle is different, and they are layered on top of each other.

Each self is like the center of a small circle, and the center of this small circle coincides with the center of a much larger circle.

All the centers overlap, and different circles, circles of different sizes, share a center.

Therefore, everyone's self meets this brand new 'Haotian'.

For everyone, they will face the brand new Haotian that is coming.

Tai Sui shows all this.

Li Qi looked at these...

Then, he suddenly said: "I understand Haotian now."

Tai Sui's huge eyes that occupied half of the planet suddenly frowned.

"It's better to draw more circles and circles in this world." Li Qi said so, then turned around and prepared to leave.

"You want to give up your own path for Haotian!?" Tai Sui shouted loudly, somewhat unbelievable.

"What nonsense are you talking about? This is my path. If I have to destroy the possibility of all living beings in order to destroy the devil, then I would rather shake hands with the devil and make peace." Li Qi replied.

"You can't make peace with the demon, you are handing your life to the demon!" Tai Sui continued to shout.

Yes, if Li Qi chooses not to destroy the demon and cannot proceed to the next step, then after the demon ends this period, Li Qi may really be killed by the demon.

Can he wait for the next step? Can he wait for such a long time after becoming 'Taikoo'?

However, Li Qi did not turn his head, just waved his hand and said: "If you are on different paths, you can't make plans together. I will go to Haotian to discuss it myself. If you have any opinions about me, you can fight me here."

After speaking, Li Qi walked towards the 'Heavenly Court'.

If anyone wants to stop him, then stop him.

Try to see if Li Qi is still the same as before, not good at fighting.

However, Tai Sui did not stop Li Qi.

He just disappeared here quietly, and when he left, he stretched out his long tongue and licked and ate several planets next to him.

It can be seen that he was not in a very good mood.

He didn't quite understand why Li Qi gave up.

According to previous understanding, Li Qi is not a firm supporter of Haotian.

Moreover, Haotian undoubtedly has a dispute with him, and he has sufficient reasons and completely unshakable determination to carry out the plan to destroy the demon.

And now, for Haotian, he chose to give up his plan to destroy the demon, and even gave up his life in the distant future.

It is really incredible, what prompted him to do this?

It is not uncommon for the second-grade to choose to give up his life.

Let's not talk about things far away. Yang Zhenqian chose to die because the road was cut off.

For example, when the human emperor fell, some second-grade people died for the way.

For example, in order to get closer to the opportunity of the road, the second-grade people of Wushen Mountain, who were suitable for the sun and moon, all fell.

Dying for the way is easy to understand for the second-grade, and it can even be said to be one of the few causes of death for the second-grade.

But Li Qi is too strange.

How could someone give up the path and take it upon himself to protect Haotian? It was as if the highest reality and the structure that supported everything were weak and helpless.

It could even be said that Li Qi's attitude was a kind of contempt for Haotian.

Haotian did not need his pity, nor did he need his "grace".

He was just a second-rank person, sacrificing his life to protect Haotian, what could he protect? Does Haotian need your protection?

What was going on?

What answer did Li Qi get?

Tai Sui didn't know.

However, he knew a universal answer.

People sometimes choose to migrate.

Sometimes it is to migrate their residence, sometimes it is to migrate their work, and sometimes it is to migrate their thoughts.

This is called "change".

People's ideas will change, and former atheists may become devout believers of gods because of something.

People's residences may change, and sometimes they will move from one place to another.

People's work will also change. If you are still doing this job today, you may very likely do another unrelated job tomorrow.

So, why did this change happen?

What made them leave their homes?

What changed their minds?

What made them leave all the jobs they knew and go to a completely unfamiliar place?

They even had to endure all the hardships and strangeness in between, and go through a mountain of procedures and various difficulties, many of which would make people lose their dignity and feel like beggars.

Why leave their familiar areas and go to that strange and difficult foreign jungle?

The universal answer is the same: people migrate and change because they are dissatisfied with the status quo and have hopes for the outside world.

People migrate because anxiety tortures them.

Because the tormenting feeling is that no matter how hard they work, all their efforts will have no results, and no matter what they have built in their lifetime, it will be demolished by others in one day.

Their own efforts are useless.

Their road to the future is blocked.

Nothing will change, and happiness can only be found elsewhere.

This kind of happiness is not necessarily rich, but also a comfortable environment. For example, if Li Qi lives in the dream city of the devil, he must be uncomfortable and want to raze that place.

Let a human cultivator live with a group of stupid demons who have no ambitions and live a life of idleness, and this human cultivator will also be disgusted.

This is because this environment is not suitable for them, and they will never get peace in this place.

They may be doing a very familiar job, but this job gradually becomes a torture, so that they are willing to give up the reward of the job and leave this torture and go to other jobs.

So, they will seek changes.

This change may not be a good thing. No one knows whether the new place is good enough, but at least the current place is not good enough and it is unbearable.

The gods want to disobey Haotian because of this reason.

So, is it also because of this reason that Li Qi gave up the plan to destroy the devil?

Tai Sui is not sure.

But it doesn't matter.

Report the matter to Di Jun and Di Hundun, and let them decide.

Even if they are both second-grade, there is a world of difference between having the title of ‘Emperor’ or not.

Among the gods, those with the title of ‘Emperor’ are all extremely powerful. Even the human officials with double-grade cultivation can hardly resist the ‘Emperor’ among the gods.

This is true for Emperor Chaos, and even more so for Emperor Jun.

Even ‘geniuses’ like the Demon Prince and Li Qi, who have terrifying background and accumulation, and are second-grade with such high level, cannot fight against the ‘Emperor’.

It is better to say that genius is just the threshold to entry.

If you can’t reach the level of genius, you are not even qualified to face the ‘Emperors’.

Even for many beings, even if the ‘Emperors’ are not first-grade, it is just because the road to the first-grade is too long.

But facing ordinary second-grade, the gap between the ‘Emperors’ of the gods is absolutely overwhelming.

In the ancient times, many gods were basically similar to Tai Sui’s current style.

Blood sacrifice, cannibalism, and love of war.

In fact, the demons of today are not as good as the gods of that time.

The various blood sacrifices of witches and shamans were all handed down from that time. The blood food and cruel habits of the gods are similar to those of Tai Sui today.

Except for some gods who are kind and gentle by nature, most of the primitive gods are tyrannical, and this tyranny does not come from their nature, but from a "social atmosphere".

At that time, the gods had to eat some high-level intelligent creatures when they gathered, because the whole atmosphere was violent and cruel.

In this atmosphere, how can the leaders of the gods be elected?

Obviously, it is impossible to vote.

The emperors basically fought their way out.

The ancient emperors were all fierce and ruthless people. They had a lot of heads from gods from all walks of life in their hands. Maybe the gods who died in the hands of the emperors were more than those killed by mortals.

For example, Emperor Yu, about whom there is a record: "Yu summoned all the gods to Mount Kuaiji. Fangfeng arrived later, and Yu killed and butchered him. His bones and joints were used as a carriage. This is great."

Emperor Yu summoned the gods to a meeting, and Fangfeng was late, so Emperor Yu killed him, tore him to pieces, and made his own car with his bones. This was even praised by the gods.

Emperor Gaoyang also once recorded: "The emperor killed the blue dragon in the east with Jia and Yi, killed the red dragon in the south with Bing and Ding, killed the white dragon in the west with Geng and Xin, and killed the black dragon in the north with Ren and Gui, which was to ban the world from traveling."

It can be seen what kind of style these "emperors" are.

In the past, mortals rebelled against the gods, killing gods today and shooting the sky tomorrow. In fact, there are traces to follow, so that in the end, the human way and the witch way parted ways, and the relationship with the gods was completely opposite, and they were also inseparable from these brutal gods.

It was not until later generations that the emperors finally restrained themselves a little.

When high-quality beings began to appear among mortals one after another, the emperors really changed.

Some of them are because of deterrence, and some of them are because they really realize the change. For example, after realizing the potential of mortals, Emperor Gaoyang chose to become the emperor of men, and then directly opened the sky and helped mortals find a way out.

Of course, there are other changes. For example, Emperor Jun was once friendly to mortals, until he saw that mortals were gradually becoming stronger and began to slaughter mortals.

The differences are endless.

But anyway...

Now that the emperors are falling apart, the later generations seem to have forgotten the power of the emperors.

Tai Sui shook his flesh and blood body, flicked his terrifying tongue, wandered in the void of the universe, spreading madness and death.

In this case, it is time for all living beings to see the power of the emperors.

Although... he himself is also very clear.

Among the emperors, the supreme existence.

The leader of all the "emperors", the supreme "Emperor of Heaven", is not so easy to get along with.

Everyone only sees the gentle side of the Emperor of Heaven.

But who still remembers the civil war among the emperors, when Haotian suppressed all the emperors?

But those are things that Di Jun and Di Hun Dun are considering.

Tai Sui just helps run errands and do some things that they can't do personally.

Only the 'emperors' know the specific plan to replace the emperor.

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As for the other side...

Li Qi, now came to the heaven.

On the heaven, Li Qi met Haotian.

In this place, everything seemed to be virtual.

The outlines of objects became difficult to recognize, and everything disappeared. Li Qi felt that he seemed to be floating in pure abstract darkness.

Then...

It was dawn.

The day came so quickly, but it was difficult to detect. The darkness around suddenly changed, the illusion condensed into reality, and everything suddenly became daytime.

Then, a great existence sat in front of him.

The emperor of heaven.