Myriad Paths

Needless to say, what I experienced along the way.

Whether it is the various poisonous insects, miasmas, spirits, and spiritual herbs spawned by the powerful source of heaven and earth in Wushen Mountain, or the village residents living in it, they all live their lives in their own way as always.

However, among them, Li Qi picked some of the Lingshan Lingquan while he was on the road, mainly to catch some fish and get some herbs to enhance the fun of the journey.

If you have to rush quickly, just let Shen Shuibi drive to the outside of the territory. You will arrive in a short time. The purpose of going out is to relax.

The fish raised in Lingquan were delicious, but Li Qi was scolded for lighting a fire on the old horse's back.

Just scold me, Lao Ma himself doesn’t eat less anyway.

When I came to Liesu, I skillfully found a driver to activate the switch, completed the questions and tasks of Liesu, and then obtained the qualification to use it. In a blink of an eye, I came to the edge of Baiyue.

When they came to the edge of Baiyue, both of them had terminals, so they could easily obtain the basic entry permission from the cardinals of all realms, which was no problem.

It's just that Humanity has traffic control, so we can't let Lao Ma fly around at this time. Everyone landed, laughing and joking in the bustling streets, buying local snacks, and admiring the bustling night view of Humanity.

I have to say, the humane snacks are quite delicious and they really enjoy them.

The car was drinking embroidery, the moon was shining on the balcony, and a large shopping mall happened to be opened above the sky. Thousands of golden lotuses were scattered towards the sky street. The lanterns suddenly rose, and thousands of petals opened together. They gathered like fireflies and dispersed like stars. There are orioles singing, swallows dancing, and Sheng singing loudly.

After staying in Humane Road for one night, they took a local train the next day and quickly arrived at the local Jintai with a roaring sound.

Riding on Jintai, with another click, we arrived at the northeastern border of Humanity and Daomen in an instant.

Belonging to the Dao Sect, the northeastern part of the world is a peninsula and archipelago.

The Northeast is the junction of the north and the east. As we all know, the East China Sea is to the east and the ice fields are to the north. Therefore, the Northeast is a group of cold islands. Of course, this is the basic climate.

In fact, it doesn't matter what temperature Daomen wants this place to be.

In this northeastern land, there are large and small peninsulas and islands.

It is also commonly known as Three Islands and Ten Continents.

As for the ten major caves and the seventy-two small caves, they are widely distributed throughout the world, not necessarily in the northeast.

The Northeast is just the foundation of Taoism's orthodoxy. Since ancient times, Taoism has not forced anyone to stay in one place.

That would go against the idea of ​​being free and happy.

Freedom is essentially the ultimate pursuit of Taoism. This is a conclusion Li Qi got from the Shen Shuibi and Luofu Mountain exercises during this period.

What is freedom?

Follow your true heart, be unrestrained, and do whatever you want. This is the long-cherished wish of Taoist practitioners, and it is also their ultimate goal. The ultimate goal of the entire Taoism is similar to the human way of replacing heaven, and the absolute nature of witchcraft. Same.

Not coerced by desires, not bound by vision, not obscured by evil thoughts, not restricted by physics, not controlled by life and death, everything is unrestricted and free.

What they want is individual eternal life and eternal freedom.

Eternal life here does not mean living for a long time, but absolute "immortality". In other words, you will die when you want to die, and you can live when you want to live, and cannot be eliminated by any means.

Even if you can't seal it, if your heart is free, your body will naturally be free as well.

Eternal, unfettered, free and easy, this is the pursuit of all 'immortals', as shown by Shen Shuibi, Shen Shuibi does not care about the life or death of strangers, because it is not important to her at all .

She just wants to protect the people around her.

But this does not mean that those true immortals are all self-centered and cruel demons.

Because the difference between immortals and demons is that the freedom they pursue does not take pleasure in the suffering of the weak. It can even be said that they truly do it, taking the limits of the weak as their own limits, and forming an organic world with all things. overall.

"The Theory of Equality of Things" says: "Heaven and earth coexist with me, and all things are one with me." I am not nobler than all things, but all things are trapped in shackles, but I have jumped out of the cage and been able to truly experience these situations.

Moreover, true freedom also includes controlling one's emotions, not letting the joys, anger, sorrows and joys of the world disturb one's free and pure state of mind, and maintaining one's natural nature from beginning to end, while the outside world's benevolence and morality, worldly values, fame, wealth, political and religious etiquette These are all barriers that restrain and enslave people.

To truly transcend everything, beyond physical constraints, beyond spiritual constraints, beyond the constraints of life and death, beyond the constraints of earthly cause and effect, and finally reach the absolute place where there is no restraint, that is "freedom".

Cultivation, accumulation of cultivation, and cultivation of mind are all in order to achieve the ultimate "freedom", because you cannot do it out of thin air. Cultivation is the foundation for you to achieve all this. Therefore, Taoism has created many cultivation methods and techniques. To help yourself gradually move closer to this goal.

Of course, this is only the goal of the Hidden World Sect. After all, the Taoist practitioners Li Qi has come into contact with are basically from the Hidden World Sect, and the Taoist Sect actually also has the Revealed World Sect.

Regarding the Manifestation Sect, Li Qi had little contact with him. He only knew that the Manifestation Sect had close cooperation with humanity. Many Taoist priests even visited the homes of princes, and even opened Taoist temples in the Imperial Palace as national preceptors, and were given the privileges of noble nobles. identity.

I think both parties must have common interests, otherwise it would never be like this.

But the manifest sect is just a branch. The Taoist ancestor of the Taoist sect is the hidden sect, so naturally most of them are actually the hidden sect, including the Three Islands and Ten Continents, especially Penglai, which is the holy land of the Taoist sect, and is the core of the hidden sect.

Although there is no support within the Hidden World Sect.

Everyone is together for the sake of freedom, and each has some sect or personal friendship. In fact, it is impossible to form an effective and complete group.

Humanity can bring everyone's strength together, but in a loose organization like Taoism, everyone can do their own thing, and no one interferes with anyone else.

The dragon flew across the sky, and Li Qi looked at the sea below.

Countless islands, really countless.

Here, the practitioners seem to take the island as their own territory, and it happens that it is not difficult for practitioners of the fifth and sixth grades to create islands out of thin air, so there are many, many, many islands.

However, the world is too big, and this sea area is also very large, and it is still controlled within a certain range. It can be seen that these are still islands, separated from each other by more than tens of miles of sea, rather than being connected as a continent. .

Although for dozens of miles, for practitioners they are basically face to face, it is still very far away.

Li Qi looked around. He had not been to the Northeast Islands yet, so he should take a good look at the scenery.

The island is long, vast and vast, full of strange treasures and strange gaps.

The wind and clouds are changing, the red trees are buckling, the osmanthus shrubs are everywhere, the branches are strong and the stems are strong, and the corals are luxuriant.

A large number of coral reefs spread near these fairy islands, among which there are many fairies and more sea beasts. It feels like "the island is steaming with clouds and the sea, and the mist is connected to the jungle".

However, Li Qi could also see that there were almost no cities or settlements around, and there were just fairy mountains. There were occasional Taoist temples in the fairy mountains, few Taoists, sparsely populated, and almost no mortals.

It seems that if you don't practice, you don't deserve to be in this place.

"Yu, why are there so few mortals? How do you manage to recruit disciples and inherit the inheritance? It's impossible for them all to go outside the territory, right? People in the world are inherently better than those outside the territory. It's not cost-effective to recruit disciples outside the territory." Li Qi was curious. asked Shen Shuibi beside him.

Why do mortals still need to reproduce in the world?

This is because the stronger the world, the more talented the people living in it will naturally be.

For people in the ninth-grade world, it is extremely difficult to become a ninth-grade person. To become a ninth-grade person is to be the top existence in the world, to dominate the world, to be the supreme in martial arts, and only one among hundreds of millions of people.

But for a person in the first-level world, it would be much easier to become a ninth-level person.

As for Tianxia, ​​it is a world more powerful than the first-level world. People born in Tianxia are about one thousandth of the ninth-level world. In comparison, the gap is huge, a gap of several million times.

Except for Baiyue, which can probably reach one ten thousandth or even more, because this is where the Taoist struggle is, but even in Baiyue, it can still reach hundreds of thousands times.

Therefore, it would be really unwise to leave these natives in the world and go outside the territory to find disciples.

It's not like there are no people outside the territory. Those sporadic geniuses who break through the shackles of the world are indeed no worse than the people in the world. After all, the base number is there, what is one part in a few hundred million? Even if one comes out of trillions, there will be countless others coming out of the outside world, and some super geniuses will always be born among them.

Moreover, cultivation does not always depend on talent. The way of thinking, commonly known as the mind and intelligence level, is the more worthy of consideration. Therefore, the various sects do not always choose people from the world.

But the top talents born outside the entire territory are probably on par with Tianxia itself. Giving up on Tianxia is equivalent to abandoning nearly half of the available talents.

But Shen Shuibi shook her head and said calmly: "I don't know. I have never been to Penglai. In fact, we have no contact at all. We are complete strangers."

Well, that’s what the hermit sect is like.

We can hear the sounds of chickens and dogs, but we will never interact with each other until old age and death.

"That's really strange, but it's normal for you to be unfamiliar with some things when you're here for the first time. When you go to Penglai, everything will be clear to you." Li Qi nodded.

It's not necessary to know now that the place he is going to is Penglai. Penglai will definitely be able to access more things.

The old horse continued to cruise, speeding past the countless islands below.

Huliang is not far away, about two days away. It only takes a short nap to close your eyes.

As one of the "Three Islands", Huliang assumes the transportation function and is also a gathering place.

There is a saying in the book: "In the past, in the place where square pots were played, all the immortals followed each other. They would ride on a crane but not two ducks, and they would still make square pots when going back and forth."

This describes the grand scene of Huliang, and it is also a rare market place in Taoism. The so-called square Hu is Huliang, also known as abbot.

After all, everyone is human. Although most of them are just like Shen Shuibi, they still have basic transaction needs. When there are more people coming and going, it becomes like this. In the end, they even built teleportation points. Here it is.

Not long after, the two men and one dragon finally arrived at Huliang.

Here, we can finally see part of Daomen's production capacity.

The first thing that catches the eye are the erected peaks. Daomen seems to particularly like living in the mountains, but it is not without buildings.

The mountains are ethereal, the pavilions are exquisite, and five clouds are rising, but the world around them has become more 'bright'.

Swallows are flying, butterflies are frightened, white cranes are leaping, clouds are gathering for the first time, and phoenixes are dancing and ready to fly.

Countless boats are approaching Huliang from the sea. Huxuan Immortal Island is like clouds swallowing the boat, and countless boats are like a star palace. The water waves are swaying, and the spiritual energy is overflowing, which is very gorgeous.

There are also many flying magic weapons or mounts. For example, Li Qi and the others can see many flying peaks floating in the sky, and floating mountains are suspended in the mid-air.

There are gold ribbons hanging down from the treasure basket, and jade locks from the purple bags and ribbons. Countless gold ribbons are slowly falling from the fairy mountain to the bottom. Countless runes are written on them, each with its own magic. There are jade locks on the flying peaks. Connected, the jade chains link by link bind Feilai Peak together, preventing each of them from flying too far.

The precious light flashes, the five colors are dense, the pearls and green flowers are beautiful, majestic and majestic, the weather is majestic, shining across the sky, the golden powder flowing, splendid for two hundred miles.

As I got closer, there was sonorous music in the air, and a fragrant fragrance, which seemed to be the smell of elixirs, and not just one or two. There seemed to be a large number of elixirs and herbs here, and the smell emanating from them made people feel relaxed and happy.

Continuing to get closer, we are really close to the location of the Huliang. There are golden towers with dawn bells, thousands of households juxtaposed, jade-level immortal battles, sitting on thousands of palaces, brocades and bright sun, feathered clothes blowing in the sky, refreshing purple air, gazing at white clouds, and all kinds of fairy beasts and spirits. The land is full of favors, and there are many Taoist practitioners walking and running here.

They didn't seem busy, but were sitting leisurely doing their own things, even the Taoist boys. Time seemed to slow down here, and reality became more vivid here.

The biggest feature is that everything becomes very clear, as if a layer of film filters have been added. The mountains are more majestic, the water is clearer, the sky is bluer, and even the rolling sea of ​​clouds seems to be more vivid. Be energetic.

The flutes and drums soar in the sky, the haze connects, the stars capture the light, the lamps and candles are not bright, the wind blows the cloud beams, thousands of houses, nine pillars in the building, looking east to the peak of Lingshou, the moon shades the jade bed, looking to the west to the ridge of Huagai, the golden bamboo , Weirui prevents dew.

The human symbols are harmonious, the green sky is shaded, the dome is purple, and the beauty of immortality is the best.

Lao Ma looks majestic when he is out, but when he comes here, he really looks like a little loach, as if a passerby buying buns has wandered into the big scene of the movie.

"This is really...cool. I really didn't know that people from the Taoist sect like this kind of pomp." Li Qi sighed.

If these were visions or illusions, that would be fine. Li Qi had seen cooler illusions. After all, this was what he did.

But the scariest thing is that all of these! It's all true!

With less than level 3, this scene cannot be arranged!