Myriad Paths

Li Qi couldn't find a way.

How could a mere second-grade master possibly do a way to transcend subjective time?

So, the demon was just lightly absorbing the power of Amitabha Buddha, playing with the Western Paradise, and playing with Li Qi casually.

Four and a half billion years later, the Western Paradise has been completely controlled by the demon.

Most of Amitabha Buddha's legacy was taken away by the demon.

Li Qi was no match for the demon. Although he had become the demon's evil thoughts, the demon didn't care whether he had one more or one less evil thought.

Every time the demon's evil thoughts flashed, it was like a hundred billion stars exploding, and the heat would be enough to evaporate the pagoda.

However, under Li Qi's patching, it did not evaporate, but melted, flowing with golden liquid, and began to flow.

The pagoda flowed down from the wreckage, rushed down, passed through the chaotic time and space, and finally cooled and condensed into another appearance, like a weird melting form self-molding through a complex network.

The turmoil of the devil's thoughts was very terrifying, and the unstable balance formed by the collapsed remains of the huge pagoda hid a huge crisis.

No, it can't be said to be hidden, because even a child can see that this thing may collapse completely at any time, and without the protection of the pagoda, Li Qi will be destroyed at any time.

But even if he is not destroyed, he still doesn't look very good.

He now looks like a mixture of flesh, blood, spirit and bones that has been violently stirred by the monster's giant claws.

The golden liquid after the pagoda melted fell from the sky and merged into his body. These golden liquids hardly glowed when flowing, but where it was injected, it splashed dazzling white hot metal droplets.

Under the chaotic array of time and space around, a black crack opened up. This was originally an ordinary flat area, but the gaze of the demon separated the possibilities here, revealing the crazy abyss in the depths of darkness.

Inside, you can see the corpse of a first-rank person. The only remaining pieces of Amitabha's body that are tangled in chaos are placed here, and the pagoda is slowly falling into it.

Everything is under the control of the demon. To be honest, although the demon knows why Li Qi does this, he still feels bored.

The feeling of everything being controlled is really boring.

The demon can clearly see everyone's thoughts, even the thoughts of other first-rank people.

However, for other first-rank people, it doesn't matter if their thoughts are known.

Even if the demon knows, what can it do? For the first-rank people, even if they think about it many times, many things can be false before they are realized.

So, before they really act, or even after they act, their thoughts may not keep up with their actions.

But for beings lower than the demon, the problem is very big.

He knows all of Li Qi's thoughts and ideas clearly.

What Li Qi wants to do, what he wants to do, what enlightenment he has, what decisions he has, and even what he knows and what secrets he has, the demon knows everything.

Such a world is really boring.

There are no evil thoughts in the world, only the Tathagata.

And now that Tathagata has passed away, only Li Qi and the Demon Prince are left in the world.

So the demon gave Li Qi and the Demon Prince enough time to develop, letting them swing, hoping that they can come up with something.

Unfortunately...

He was so disappointed.

It was really boring. The Demon Prince stood outside without any intention of coming in, but Li Qi was useless, thinking of plans that were impossible to succeed.

There was not even a theoretical success rate.

The demon had no expectations for Li Qi, and Li Qi could die.

The flickering evil thoughts gradually gathered together and turned into a long river of thoughts.

This long river was so terrifying that the spiritual fluctuations it stirred up made all living beings, all living beings in all time and space in the universe feel a palpitation for no reason.

It was like he had something... uh, on his mind?

For Li Qi, he could only see his body appearing, disappearing, and reappearing continuously and quickly, like a slide that kept appearing.

A strong sense of fear came, but he couldn't get out of it, like a moth caught by the uncovered burning brazier in the lighthouse.

He knew it was extremely dangerous and hot, but he ran towards the other side uncontrollably.

All the evil thoughts gathered together, and naturally, Li Qi was also a part of the evil thoughts. He lost the power of Amitabha and couldn't control himself.

The situation seemed irreversible.

Li Qi tried to resist.

He was going to use his magic to disrupt his mind.

But his magic was interrupted before he could use it.

He was going to use the remaining pagodas to resist.

However, when he wanted to call on those remaining pagodas, the demon had already changed the way in advance, and he couldn't keep up with that change.

Li Qi thought of other ways.

But he found that other ways had been blocked.

He changed 76,000 different self-rescue measures in one second, and then found that these measures had already been considered by the demon.

There were no loopholes.

The demon knew Li Qi even better than Li Qi himself.

Because the demon can see every thought of Li Qi and know every action he takes.

This is not to give up thinking and just hit randomly.

If you want to act, there must be traces. If you want to act in an orderly manner, you need to think in an orderly manner. Even instinct is a kind of thinking. It makes no difference to the demon whether the thinking organ is the brain or the muscle.

Li Qi had no chance.

So he merged into the demon thought.

Even more than that, when Li Qi merged into the demon thought, his perception was completely distorted.

To be precise, all his senses were integrated.

Now, the light and shadow he saw were like sounds to him.

He "touched" the sound of the flames, and even breathed the twists and turns in it. He heard the swirling smoke, he heard the flickering, and tasted the strange taste of the mocking shadows.

Colors became pain, heat, cold, and pressure for him.

Touch was taste for him. The touch of wood was now sour, and his fingers felt that the taste of touching his clothes was sweet.

And the sense of smell became touch. I don't know what smelled like velvet brushed against the face. The smell of molten metal smelled like being beaten by someone.

How to say it...

He is not blind, deaf, or without senses.

Feelings can still reach him, but all his senses are integrated and no longer differentiated.

The cold tastes like fruit, and the vacuum feels like being wet by waves, and the light from the starry sky torments his body like some disease.

In Li Qi, sound appears as a visual image, movement is identified as sound, color becomes sensory pain, touch becomes taste, and smell becomes touch.

He is not only trapped in the devil's evil thoughts; he is also trapped by his own kaleidoscope of cross-sensory signals.

This distortion of senses is obviously a method of the Five Elements Demon, but the devil seems to use it very smoothly.

And his body did not stop.

What is the fastest thing in this world?

Is it light? Or a powerful person moving at full speed?

No, neither.

The fastest speed is thought.

Nothing can reach faster than the speed of thought. As long as the thought moves, no matter how far away, it can reach instantly, even ignoring all obstacles.

For mortals, this so-called "thought" is nothing but an illusion and a fantasy.

But for the demon, with this trick, he can come and go freely even in the Human Palace in Chang'an.

The only thing that can suppress the demon is "nothingness".

That is a realm that even thought cannot reach.

But can Li Qi do it?

He can't.

So, after Li Qi was pulled into the demon's thoughts, he was forced to fly in endless time and space at the speed of thought, far exceeding all known speeds. The speed of light is simply the slowest one. His speed per second cannot even be described in light years, because he will cross countless observable universes every second.

His spatial speed is so amazing that his time axis is distorted, from the vertical straight line from the past to the present to the present to the future. He flashes along the axis of the new geodesic. This new cosmic time arrow, driven by the demon's thoughts, transcends the conventional laws.

And most importantly, the awareness of the mental space, the entire time axis and his specific point on it is innate to everyone, which is deeply buried by the trivialities of life. For Li Qi, they have already surfaced. He moves along the wavelength of the universe to other spaces and other times.

Li Qi watched in horror as all his possibilities were laid out in front of him.

For the demon, all of Li Qi's possible actions were laid out in front of him.

All of Li Qi's actions were "past tense" to the demon.

In the eyes of the demon, all of Li Qi's actions had been done. He had tried countless times, and every time the demon cracked it leisurely.

So, no matter what he did, the ending was failure.

The possibility ended here.

"Don't struggle, you can die." The demon said to Li Qi who had been sucked into his body.

Then, Li Qi was destroyed.

However, at this moment--!

"Huh?" The demon made a surprised sound.

Li Qi did not die.

He used a new trick.

It was a trick that he did not see.

Wait, why can't I see his thoughts? He shouldn't be able to resist.

There is only one thing in this world that can resist the prying eyes of the demon, and that is the Buddha.

So, what happened?

The demon was confused, but at the same time, he was also a little happy.

The next moment, he made a surprised voice: "Wait! You are not Li Qi!"

"So, what I saw was indeed Li Qi's reaction, but you are not Li Qi, and you also resisted my observation. This is the power of the Tathagata."

"Wow... Shang Fan?"

The demon called out the true identity of 'Li Qi' in front of him.

Only the power of the Tathagata in the world can resist the demon's evil thoughts, because only the Tathagata has achieved a similar 'emptiness'. He is a real existence without evil thoughts, so he is not subject to the scrutiny of the demon, and he also seals the demon.

"Can you also achieve emptiness? Oh, no, it's the formless realm. Your control over the formless realm is really amazing. It turns out that this thing has this function." The demon understood immediately.

This is a secret that even the demon does not understand.

The demon knows everything that everyone in the world knows, but if there is one thing that no one knows except the Tathagata, how can he know it?

"When did you change your identity?" The demon asked, "You even hid it from me, which is really surprising. The formless world can indeed conceal your thoughts, but it is impossible to conceal my perception."

The prince did not reply.

There is no need to explain so much to the demon. He came here to hide the truth from the demon, not to greet the demon.

He immediately started the next plan.

The formless world unfolds here.

The moment it unfolds, the demon applauded and cheered, "Oh! I understand!"

"You have integrated the Desire Realm, Li Qi's Ten Thousand Heavens, and the Formless World into one! No wonder I was wondering why Li Qi wanted to put the Ten Thousand Heavens into the Desire Realm, and why you wanted to suppress the Desire Realm with this! It turns out that you had already changed people at that time!" The demon immediately figured out why.

The plan of Li Qi and others was seen through by the demon at this moment.

The prince of demons studied Buddhism, the Great Tripitaka and the Great Tripitaka, all in order to better understand and control the formless world, because the formless world has a crucial property, that is, 'nothing', 'emptiness'.

Only this thing can resist the prying eyes of the demons, and this is the blind spot of the demons' vision.

They have long known the existence of this blind spot, so they have formulated two plans, one bright and one dark, to use the blind spot that the demons cannot see, and they are going to do something big.

The formless world has been brought into the body of the demon by the prince of demons, and the demons took the initiative to absorb it.

He wants the formless world to unfold inside the body of the demons!

Let 'emptiness' be displayed inside the demons, and let the formless world suppress the demons again!

However, facing the formless world unfolding in his body, the demons smiled and said: "Speaking of which, I have to thank you for helping me bring the formless world to my eyes, so I will accept it with a smile, and this hand is well done, is there anything else?"

After speaking, the expansion of the formless world stopped.

The demon stretched out his hand and took the colorless world out of his body, like holding a glass bead.

The colorless world was taken out intact.

The demon prince looked at all this in astonishment.

"Shang Fan, don't look like that, you don't really think you can beat me?"

"To be honest, even if I close my eyes and let you do whatever you want, you can't hurt me."

"But I'm curious about what else you can do. Come on, continue, let me see what tricks you have."