Myriad Paths

The other side of the picture?

Li Qi couldn't help but glance back.

In other words, the back of the painting is blocked from the beam of the pot? Stop others from coming in?

Why is this?

"Senior, what do you mean, no one is allowed to come to Huliang now?" Li Qi asked.

"It's not that it's not allowed, it's just that there are too many people here and I'm tired of it. Put a cover over it. Passage is allowed on 1, 3, 5 and 2, 4 and 6 is prohibited. This way, half of the unlucky ones will be eliminated. If there are fewer people, everyone can sit down. Otherwise, the whole place will be packed by then, and a few people may be killed in the aftermath of the fight, which will not end well." The old Taoist priest waved his hand and said casually.

"Unlucky guy...that is to say, the person who was blocked?" Li Qi was a little surprised.

"If you are blocked, just block it. You are unlucky. It's not like I didn't leave any chance. The fact that you can't come means that you don't have enough luck. It's the two of you who have passed through the back of the paper and entered the painting. There is something. How do you do it? Arrived?" the old Taoist priest asked with a smile.

Facing the barrier set up by the third grade, it was really incredible that Li Qi and his group were able to pass through without knowing it, and even pass through the opponent's painting.

"Senior just said that we have bad luck and not enough fate. I guess the reason why we can get in is because we have the right fate." Li Qize replied.

This answer stunned the old Taoist priest for a moment.

Immediately, he laughed loudly: "Hahahaha! Indeed, indeed, since you can come in, it is fate. Miaji, Miaji, poor Taoist Lu Jian, I have met two friends here. Since it is fate, How about we go together?”

Facing a senior who was probably the third grade, it was certainly impossible for Li Qi to say those disobedient words, so he said: "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey. I also ask senior Lu Jian to go forward."

"You don't have to call me senior. Since you two are destined to be friends, you can just call me by my name. If you feel disrespectful, just call me brother!" The Taoist priest named Lu Jian was very free and easy. He waved his Taoist robe and said, He went out to the thatched cottage.

Li Qi pulled Shen Shuibi and hurriedly followed. Although the old horse could not change its size, it still twisted its body carefully, not daring to damage anything, and squeezed out from the door of the thatched cottage little by little.

As soon as he left the door of the thatched cottage, Lao Ma felt that the effect of the Dragon Suppressing Formation had disappeared, so he quickly shrank into a loach and hid in Li Qi's collar.

Huliang is such a dangerous place!

There is actually a Dragon Suppressing Formation! Why put a Dragon Suppressing Array in the house? !

Li Qi knew this problem.

Because when Li Qi was in the room, he also felt that his cultivation was sluggish, and even Shen Shuibi felt this way.

In that thatched cottage, there was not a dragon-suppressing formation, but an all-things-suppressing formation! Including but not limited to dragons.

Anything that goes in will be sluggish. If the cultivation level is too low, it will be like Lao Ma. All magical powers are imprisoned and cannot even change the size.

When the old horse was trembling, Li Qi and Lu Jian walked out.

What comes into view is the real pot beam.

Well……

Isn’t the real Huliang just a desert island?

However, there are quite a lot of people on this deserted island, including Taoist priests, Taoist boys, monsters, various dragons from the East China Sea, witches, monks, practitioners of humane arts, warriors, Buddhist monks, etc., etc., there are many so many people.

If you look around, there must be at least millions!

There are so many people, no wonder Lu Jian wants to pass the one, three, five, and ban the two, four, and six. If he doesn't control it, Huliang will really be crowded, and even Penglai will be filled with people. If there is a fight, it is estimated that the Taoist sect will be Not many people are willing to help clean up the aftermath. I'm afraid it will really kill two people.

As for the scenery of Huliang... it is indeed beautiful, but this kind of beauty, to put it bluntly, means good mountains, good water and good scenery. It is much better than ordinary places, and it also has the unique film filter of 'Daomen' Average effect, but...

That's it.

How can ordinary landscapes be so good? Compared with a place like Humanity, where even the sewer floor tiles in the entire city are paved with magic weapons, the shock is simply too weak.

Moreover, the great sources of heaven and earth are also very ordinary, unlike those at Wushen Mountain where you can feel the majestic pressure of heaven and earth and all kinds of monsters, poisonous insects and other things that are spawned anytime and anywhere.

Huliang, one of the three islands, is really ordinary...

However, after coming out of the thatched hut, Li Qi had already deeply understood the methods of Taoist masters, so he was in awe and was not too disappointed.

As Li Qi once said to Liu Shenzhi——

Whether it is brilliant, terrifying, solemn or simple, they are just decorative styles and do not represent the essence.

Come to think of it, this is just the decoration style of Huliang. It's not surprising. It's just that the decoration is a bit simple. It's like, everyone has laid the floor tiles, painted the walls, and applied seam glue, but only the Daomen side is still rough. house.

It's not that the rough house is unlivable, it's just that it's a bit shabby.

But these Taoist priests probably don't care.

For example, the thatched house just now is a real thatched house, not a magical palace pretending to be a thatched house. It is a shabby thing made of thatched grass. The old horse does not dare to toss it, for fear that it will fall apart and let those things fall apart. The real treasure falls to the ground.

Therefore, it is understandable that Huliang looks like this.

When she walked outside, Shen Shuibi's words became less frequent. Because there were too many people here, she was afraid of breaking the rules, so she hid behind Li Qi and almost returned to her original form.

Li Qi, on the other hand, looked very interested and said to Lu Jian in a familiar manner: "Brother Lu, how can this Huliang lead to Penglai?"

"You want to go to Penglai? Over there, there is a self-service fairy road. If it flashes once, it means someone has left." Lu Jian pointed to a mountain on the other side, which was constantly flashing light.

"Is it just there?" Li Qi was a little surprised.

"What else? It won't break, so it's quite convenient." Lu Jian said with a smile.

"Who...who built it? The Tang Dynasty's Jintai was built with the efforts of the whole country, so any large city can have a Jintai. So this Huliang was built with the joint efforts of everyone?" Li Qi was a little curious. asked.

I'm really curious.

Whether it is humane or witchcraft, there is a clear center that can call on everyone's strength and concentrate their efforts on things.

But the looseness of the Taoist sect is simply outrageous. Obviously Penglai cannot command other branches. For example, the Luofu Mountain in the deep water has nothing to do with Penglai at all. Everyone does not know each other. The person who died in Luofu Mountain was Penglai's eyelid. Not even a lift.

In this case, there is no joint force, so who built the fairy road of Huliang?

"Definitely not. If it were me, I would usually go to the human road and use their golden platform to travel. However, a true immortal said that I would have what others have, so I built this immortal road. There is only one, and we are not responsible for maintenance." Lu Jian replied: "But it is indeed easy to use, so the subsequent maintenance work will be handed over to those who need to use it. If you want to use it in the future, remember to be responsible for repairing it. , pay attention to your ability, do a good job in maintenance, after all, you use it and clean it up yourself, you understand?”

"That's natural, I understand." Li Qi nodded.

Sure enough, it really fits the image of Daomen.

Use it yourself and clean it up yourself.

Whatever you want to do, do it yourself, and bear the consequences yourself.

No one will care about you, and no one will restrain you. Everyone does what they want to do and makes their own friends.

The Ninth Blessed Land went to practice martial arts, the Seventh Cave Tian Luofu Mountain practiced self-cultivation behind closed doors, the Fulu Sect moved closer to Shinto, and the founder of the Maoshan Sect even had the blood of a true dragon himself, and had already become a true dragon, and was very close to the East China Sea. Recently, the Waidan sects are almost as close to each other as one family in Li Dao, while the Xianshi sect has gone to the human realm to become nobles and nobles.

Everyone is doing their own thing. Except for the ultimate goal, which is "eternal life and freedom", everything else is completely irrelevant and they don't know each other.

It truly implements the tenet of "I cultivate myself, it has nothing to do with you."

Li Qi continued to post, and Lu Jian continued to reply with a smile, giving Li Qi directions and telling some interesting anecdotes that happened in Huliang.

Li Qi wanted to have a few more words with his new friend Lu Jian, but the other party seemed to have lost interest. The previous bit of fate seemed to be a consumable and was used up. Unknowingly, Li Qi suddenly discovered , the other party disappeared.

It didn't disappear suddenly, but it was similar to chatting on social software. Everyone was very happy while chatting, but after a while, his profile picture turned gray.

On the dirt road in the mountains and forests, Li Qi scratched his head and said somewhat unconfidently: "Uh... did I make him unhappy?"

With no one else around, Shen Shuibi had the courage to speak at this time. She took Li Qi's hand and said, "Maybe this is just to take advantage of the excitement and return with all the excitement. She became interested because she saw us, but now the interest has disappeared." , and naturally left."

"It's really... chic." Li Qi shook his head: "You really have the style of a Taoist sect." He sighed.

When thinking this way, Li Qi suddenly became excited.

Wait, isn't this dangerous?

He immediately looked at Shen Shuibi and said worriedly: "If the people in the Taoist sect are really like this, you won't be 'satisfied' with me one day, right?"

When Shen Shuibi heard this, she pinched Li Qi and said angrily: "Senior Lu Jian and we are just casual acquaintances, but you and I share life and death and are together on the road. Are you telling me this now?"

As if she wasn't satisfied after pinching him, she leaned on Li Qi's shoulder and took a bite, leaving a tooth mark.

After that, he shrunk back to his original form, turning into a rabbit wearing a skirt that kept spitting out runes. His ears were draped over his eyes, and he no longer paid attention to Li Qi.

Li Qi held the rabbit with both hands and quickly comforted her, but she drooped her ears and refused to continue talking from the beginning to the end.

Lao Ma couldn't hold it back and snickered in his collar, but the laughter was a bit loud, so Li Qi heard it and pulled him out and gave him a beating.

Little boy, if I can’t hit a rabbit, why can’t I hit you?

While fighting and fussing, the group finally arrived at the 'immortal road'.

Li Qi had always been called Huliang before, but now he knew that this way of traveling in Taoism was called Immortal Road, which sounded pretty good.

He held Shen Shuibi in his arms and observed the movement of the Immortal Road, watching travelers one after another leading to the Immortal Road to where they needed to go.

Li Qi looked at it for a whole hour, and Lao Ma fell asleep on his shoulder. He really couldn't understand why Li Qi was so idle, watching people coming and going at the station door.

But Li Qi saw a lot of things that made him think deeply.

He discovered that there are no restrictions on activating the Immortal Road. Anyone can go there, but they need to consciously make up for the energy consumed and equipment lost.

It’s okay not to top up, it doesn’t matter, no one will care about you.

And through his observation, no one really cares. Everyone is too busy to care about whether you are conscious or not.

However, what is very strange is that although no one is supervising, Li Qi found that almost everyone completed this matter consciously.

Li Qi had previously thought that the Taoist sect was a loose organization that was "keeping to itself", so he felt there was something wrong with it.

After all, everyone knows that it is best to concentrate on doing big things. Everyone can supervise and build a good social cycle through the regulation of the system and the masses.

The Dao sect's idea of ​​"the world is big and I am the biggest", "I can do whatever I want and no one can control me" and "I am cultivating my immortality, you can just go away", seems to Li Qi to be quite irresponsible. , and at the same time, he also believes that the loose organizational structure of Taoism is the consequences of this mentality.

However, after observing this way, he found that it was not that simple to be alone.

The main reason is that these Taoist practitioners have truly achieved "self-care".

What does it mean to be alone?

Goodness means perfection. To be alone means to improve yourself silently. Although you are also isolated from the world, the essence is to improve yourself.

Everyone is so far apart and alienated from each other, but because they 'keep to themselves', they maintain a special balance.

This reminded Li Qi of a sentence he had heard before, also said by a Taoist ancestor.

That sentence is: "If you lose a penny to benefit the world, don't give it back; if you know that the world is dedicated to you, don't take it away. If everyone doesn't lose a penny, everyone will be detrimental to the world, and the world will be governed."

If you pluck a hair out of me and benefit the world, I won’t do it, but if the whole world is given to me, I won’t want it either.

I just have to be myself.

And when everyone does their best, and everyone reaches the level of "knowing the world and serving oneself without taking anything", no one will take advantage of anyone. Just like this fairy road, no one will think about it. Taking advantage of the Immortal Road.

Chickens and dogs hear each other, and they never interact with each other until old age and death, but they each take care of themselves, and everyone silently improves himself.

We are far apart, but each doing his or her own thing can still build a peaceful and perfect society.

Li Qi thought thoughtfully, and felt that he had understood something. No one would suffer any loss, and everyone would be detrimental to the world. It seemed that... this kind of "taking care of oneself" is not without its merits?

After standing for more than an hour, Li Qi nodded slightly and said in a low voice: "The true nature is not chaotic, all fate is intact, and it does not go or come back. This is called 'cultivation'. If it is like this, it can indeed be seen that it is 'true'."

After saying this, he strode forward and started the Immortal Road.