Myriad Paths

The Heaven Devouring Demon Nest.

This is a disordered land within a radius of ten thousand miles, where demons gather and occupy an area as large as a country.

Although it is not as big as those big countries, it is even more terrifying than some small countries.

The Heaven Devouring Demon Lord, whose identity and background are unknown so far, only knows that he has a Heaven Devouring magical power. When he uses it, he swallows the sky and the sun, and his momentum is extremely majestic. The sun is dark and the sky is dark, like a deep abyss descending.

It is very impressive, but as a signature move and representative magical power of a fifth-grade great power, it must be unique.

As the lord of the Demon Nest, the Heaven Devouring Demon Lord even named the Demon Nest after him. He also has the Six Heavenly Evil Demon Kings under his command. They are six toad spirits whose backgrounds have been figured out. They have become Daoists with the filthy air born from the Heavenly Evil, and they have become the sixth-grade Daoists. They also have their own power and surround the Heaven Devouring Demon Lord, with fierce power.

Under the power and prestige of these seven great demons, countless small demons have become vassals of the demon nest, fighting each other. Although they nominally obey the dispatch of the six demon kings of Tianhui, in fact, most of them gather their own forces, occupy the mountains and make a living.

The Baiyue Hundred Thousand Mountains are generally peaceful and orderly. Although there are contradictions and frictions between the various countries, there will basically be no major conflicts, so the existence of the Heaven Devouring Demon Nest is particularly abrupt.

However, after all, they are called demons, not just demons.

A simple demon is nothing more than a race, and there is nothing special about it, but those who are called demons are mostly extremely vicious and evil.

In fact, not only demons, but many magic ways, wanted criminals, etc., are also stationed in the Heaven Devouring Demon Nest. It has become a gathering place for the evil forces of Baiyue.

The demons are stationed in the Heaven Devouring Demon Nest, with dark clouds steaming, looting everywhere, and the people are living in misery.

Yes, the people are living in misery. The Heaven Devouring Demon Nest actually has the existence of "people".

The demons would go to plunder and eat people from time to time, after all... there are three innate treasures in the human body.

As a race with natural intelligence, humans have three innate treasures, so they are more nourishing than wild beasts. This is why most demons like to eat people.

Not only demons who eat people, but also many demons like to use humans as materials. For example, to refine a hundred souls banner, hundreds of souls are needed.

The three innate treasures are real "treasures" and can be used in many places.

Fortunately, under the restrictions of the Zhengjian Palace and the other three countries, the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest cannot spread out.

There are three countries bordering the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest, and they often go to war with the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest. The Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest often goes to these countries to plunder people, so the three parties have been strengthening the city defense at the border to prevent demons from invading.

This is the first time that Li Qi has seen such a thing as "war readiness" in this world, and the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest is fighting one against four, but it is not at a disadvantage. It is just restricted from expanding.

However, Li Qi also discovered on the way that the basic strategies of the three countries were to defend themselves and resolutely not go out. They would resist the demons when they came, but they would resolutely refuse to enter the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest.

The only one who really dared to go in and kill the demons was the Zhengjian Palace.

These were basically the gossips that Li Qi heard when he was on the road.

In fact, half a year had passed, and Li Qi had been rushing towards the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest. Along the way, Li Qi kept collecting information about the Zhengjian Palace and the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest.

After all, no matter what you do, you have to understand it first, and then act.

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Time flies, Li Qi left Qingwu City, and rushed all the way, and he was almost at the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest.

At this moment, he was at the border of Bailin Country. After leaving the border and crossing the town pass, he arrived in the direction of the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest.

And now, Li Qi was holding a sacrifice ceremony surrounded by the crowd.

Li Qi was wearing his usual clothes, and he didn't dress up in any special way, but he held a branch of a spiritual tree in his hand, and placed an altar in front of him, chanting loudly to the sky:

"People depend on food for their survival, and grain is the main source of food, and water is the basis of grain. Without grain, people cannot survive, and without water, grain cannot grow. Since this spring, the gods have been reluctant to rain, and there has been no flow in the lower world. The big rivers have shrunk, the small rivers have dried up, the fields have cracked, and the crops have withered. This basin is especially bad. Early rice is planted less because of lack of water, and mid-season rice seedlings are damaged because of lack of water. Now is the peak season for transplanting mid-season rice, but this place is still dry and rainless. Without water to prepare the fields, life and death are at stake."

"If the mountain god blesses the people, the people will respect the mountain god. If the mountain god ignores the people, the people will not believe in the mountain god. The upper and lower are related, and the gods and the people depend on each other."

"I hope the mountain god can distinguish clearly and not hide the mountain spirit!"

Li Qi read out the sacrificial speech, which was written very plainly, without many flowery words, for fear that the other party would not understand.

He was talking to the mountain god, because rain is actually mostly the work of the mountain god.

Clouds are the air of mountains and rivers, and come from rain.

Clouds are the air of mountains and rivers that evaporates into the sky, and they are not real "weather".

Therefore, there is no such thing as clouds among the six airs of the sky.

So when it doesn't rain, either there are powerful people who can transport water, or even draw endless water directly from the sea like a real dragon, otherwise it is better to ask the mountain god honestly.

After all, mountains and rivers depend on each other, and there must be water veins in the reserves of the mountain god, otherwise the mountain would not be a mountain, and there would be no room for a mountain god.

Under the hopeful gaze of many villagers, Li Qi waited in front of the altar for a while.

But the rain still didn't fall.

Li Qi was a little embarrassed, and the villagers also wailed and even complained.

However, Li Qi turned around and said, "Please be patient, fellow villagers, I'll be back soon."

After saying this, he whistled.

But I saw a strong dragon horse descending from the sky, covered in black scales, like black armor, with auspicious clouds at its feet. It was eight and a half feet tall at the shoulders. It was majestic and majestic. It had hanging hair on its sides. The horse's mane was carrying a subtle electric current. It raised its head and neighed. There seems to be thunder, falling from the sky, riding on the wind and clouds, and it is extremely majestic.

The dragon and horse came to the world, and the villagers knelt down and trembled in fear.

But he saw Li Qi get on the dragon horse, slap the horse's leg, and rush directly into the mountain of sacrifice.

The villagers looked at each other.

But within a few minutes, I saw the beasts in the mountains seemed to be afraid and ran away. The wind blew loudly, the clouds blew out mist, the sky and the earth were blurred, and there were rumbling sounds like rocks flying and sand flying.

After a while, I suddenly saw the clear air rising from the foot of the mountain, and reaching the bright and shining mountain, entangled and lingering.

There was a strange wind slowly falling, circling in the mountain, sometimes twisting and turning with the spirit, going up or down, and there was a flash of lightning, which kept turning with the strange wind, followed closely behind, and refused to let go.

Then, I heard thunder shaking, like a mountain collapsing, strange winds scattered in all directions, and they fled into the waves without a trace.

The lightning flashed again and he caught up.

About a quarter of an hour later, I saw black clouds falling from the sky, the sky was angry, and raindrops were falling.

First, it was as quiet as a bead moving around, and then it turned into a violent wave. Suddenly, it was like a heavenly creation. Thousands of horses jumped into the trough, and the sweet rain fell into the ground.

I saw Li Qi again and saw him walking out of the mountain pass. His face was the same as before, his clothes were as clean as new, and Shi Shiran returned to the altar.

The villagers were still stunned.

"Okay, now that the rain has fallen, I will take away a bit of your village's popularity as promised. The mountain god made an agreement with me that in the next three years, I will not dare to deduct water vapor again. In the next three years, I dare not say that the style will be good, but I will definitely Yushun."

Only after Li Qi finished speaking did the villagers react.

They all immediately trembled and knelt down. All their previous thoughts were gone. They all shouted "Bless me, great witch!" and kowtowed repeatedly.

"There is no need to salute, the mountain gods are unkind. In order to wish people, I should complain to people about their needs, but you must also remember that you can complain to the gods if they are unkind, but you should not make sacrifices that are disrespectful. As I said, up and down are related, and gods and people depend on each other. , All things are equal." Li Qi waved his hand.

After saying this, according to the previous agreement, he stretched out his hand and took a piece of the huge popularity gathered by everyone.

Then, he turned around and returned to the mountains.

Only a bunch of villagers who didn't know whether they heard or not were left behind, shouting "witchcraft" and kowtowing.

When he passed by here and was temporarily repairing it, he heard that the mountain god here stopped raining, so he took over the job, but as a reward, he would receive a bit of the popularity here.

Because it is collected after helping them, there is no causal entanglement.

The popularity collected is the process of Li Qi's cultivation, and his cultivation has become more and more sophisticated in this process.

However, he has been suppressing the cultivation of the spirit in his body. He has to wait for the opportunity mentioned by the Lord of Green Mountain before condensing the spirit. This will be more beneficial to his future practice.

Li Qi left the crowd and entered the mountains,

As soon as they entered, the old horse came close, barking regularly, and there was a weasel on the horse's back.

The Weasel's expression was extremely humane. When he saw Li Qi coming in, he immediately uttered human words: "This wizard must always be reasonable in life, right? I hate that unreasonable mortal. I treat him with kindness. He waits." Instead, you treat me with evil intentions. Whenever outsiders come, you only complain about your grievances. They don’t remember how I treated them. I just hid the bad temper and trapped them for a year to set an example. Then you knock on the door. What’s the point!”

It turns out that this weasel is the mountain god here.

Li Qi looked at the other party and replied calmly: "No matter how serious your grievance is, it is not right for it not to rain for a year. This area has not rained for a year. Let's not talk about people's life and death. Just talk about the surrounding mountains and forests, the wild beasts in the distance, and the river." Fish and shrimp, who hasn’t been harmed by you? As the god of a mountain, do you only enjoy the incense of Shinto but don’t do practical things?”

"Because of selfish desires, cutting off the water and vapor of a mountain is something you shouldn't do anyway. I am punishing you this time because of this. Since you have walked the path of God, you must know that God exists because of humans, and Shen is God. "After receiving the sacrifice, you have to do something." (Note: The inscription of the god is "Shishen", which means "altar" in ancient times, and Shen: the ancient variant of "electricity", which extends to nature such as thunder. Power.)

The weasel was originally confident and confident, but after hearing this, his momentum suddenly weakened by three points, and he whispered: "The rivers are drying up, the forests are drying up, and the beasts are wilting... That, of course, it is my fault, but that village is really too much!"

The Weasel became angry: "Originally, they always worshiped me, and I naturally blessed them with good weather, but then the Sky Swallowing Demon Nest came, and I gave up a dozen of my skills to protect a safe place. However, my strength was indeed inferior, and I was killed by the demon. After breaking through the maze, they took away three to four hundred people from that village... and then they smashed my statue and destroyed my shrine, almost cutting off my path to Shinto. How could I endure this?"

"How many people are there in the village?" Li Qi asked back.

The weasel was stunned for a moment, recalled, and replied: "About a thousand."

"In a village of more than a thousand people, three to four hundred people were robbed, and thirty to forty percent of the people were gone. Do you blame them for not continuing to sacrifice to you?" Li Qi asked again.

"Then you can't blame me. I lost a decade of cultivation to lay out the maze, and I did my best." The weasel was angry and no longer even afraid of Li Qi.

"Then talk to them. If you cut off the water veins without saying a word, how can you let them continue to worship you?" Li Qi waved his hand and said, "You have difficulties, and they have difficulties too. Humans and gods depend on each other, so how can they break up just because of a momentary anger? If you really lose them, how can you go on the path of Shinto? Do you think you are those great gods, and people worship you in a radius of thousands of miles, and it doesn't matter if one or two villages don't believe in you?" "The essence of Shinto lies in the power of Shen and the sincerity of Shi. Think about it yourself. It is not easy for the weasel clan to achieve enlightenment. You are also kind and dutiful. You continue to protect them for three years. What do you think?" After Li Qi finished speaking, he grabbed the weasel and threw it up the mountain. He no longer lingered here, got on his horse, and galloped towards the road. There is nothing to linger on. This scene is not uncommon in Li Qi's journey. He didn't know how many times he had done this along the way. Coordinate between humans and gods, humans and ghosts, ghosts and gods, and in all kinds of contradictions, as a Zhu Ren, stand in the center, deal with things in a righteous way, treat people with justice, resolve misunderstandings and contradictions, make fair judgments, and then collect their corresponding Qi.

This is one of the ways of Zhu Ren's practice.

Of course, if you feel that this is too tiring, you can also squat in the mountains and practice slowly, carving out the human body world bit by bit, and you can also be promoted.

But compared to Li Qi, it will be slower.

Every time Li Qi collects other Qi, he is filling his own human body world. For example, this time, he has the popularity of a village. After his human body world is perfected, a settlement similar to this village will appear.

According to the book, if your human body world can bear and get all types of "Qi" in the world, then his human body world can reach perfection.

However, if you collect Qi directly, you will be affected by cause and effect.

For example, if Li Qi directly takes the popularity of that village instead of balancing it in advance, he will be affected by the cause and effect of this village, which is not good for future development.

Some rural witches only realize that they can pick up other qi, but do not realize what will happen later. Therefore, their cultivation progresses rapidly in the early stage, but they have to pay thousands of times more in the later stage to repay their debts.

The way of witches is to be upright, so we must always be vigilant.

Otherwise, if we cannot repay, we will most likely change our ways, such as... joining the magic way, taking cause and effect as nourishment, and taking plunder as our mission from then on.

Li Qi rode the old horse and quickly returned to the roadside.

On the roadside, Shen Shuibi was dozing off.

That's right, standing.

(I forgot to post the links for the monthly ticket and recommendation ticket yesterday. I'll post them here for your convenience)