Myriad Paths

In the blink of an eye, seventeen years have passed.

In the past seventeen years, Li Shiwei and Zhang You have followed this giant ship and wandered through the thirteen worlds. Each of these thirteen worlds has its own story and its own epic.

However, in the endless realm, all epics are commonplace and all stories are commonplace.

When the scale crosses the category of endless outer territory, everything that is special is no longer special, and all sacrifices are no longer sacrifices. Countless worlds, countless civilizations, the lights of those civilizations flicker, but apart from themselves, there are very few Someone care about them.

However, Li Shiwei gradually became famous and began to be known as a 'hero' on the ship.

Nothing else, because in every world she shows... how should I say, the qualities of a righteous hero?

Ever since the sea hunting world, she seems to have been obsessed with heroes?

She is no longer limited to taking action against savage beasts, but also does things to uphold justice on the ship. After one incident after another, she seems to really enforce the law impartially, and has done many things on the ship with her own identity and strength.

So, in one world after another, she has always implemented this identity and style.

Thirteen worlds and fifteen years, Li Shiwei's reputation has spread to many worlds and civilizations.

The former captain, the one Li Shiwei always called 'leader', became the new supervisor of this giant ship, so Li Shiwei inherited his position and became the new captain, responsible for the five tasks of this giant ship. One-third of the security.

Her status is getting higher and higher, her reputation is getting higher and higher, but...

However, his cultivation has been stuck at the peak of the eighth level, with no signs of loosening at all.

There is only one path open to her, and that is to use worship and reverence as the basis of Taoism, use the method of Shinto to condense faith, achieve immortality, and become a wild god.

However, it is impossible for her to take this path. Li Shiwei, who was born in Wushen Mountain, knows very well that this kind of belief in becoming a god has an unstable foundation and is also an extremely inferior method in Shinto.

It's another ordinary day. Li Shiwei is on vacation today, and Zhang You is still at work.

Li Shiwei sat on her chair. Now she no longer needs to live in a double dormitory. As the captain, she has her own independent area. It is even a cave, which provides various conveniences for practice.

On this huge ship, there are very few such areas, so it is considered the captain's prerogative.

Li Shiwei sat in her chair.

She seems to have matured a lot and is no longer the cute little girl she was before.

However, the little bastard has cultivation after all, and he is also the son of the Moon Essence. He has extraordinary blood and can live for hundreds of years even if he does not practice cultivation, so he still looks very young, as if he is twenty years old.

"Boss, have you decided not to follow the divine way?" The stone has hardly changed. It is still the same, but its cultivation has improved a lot and has reached the peak of the eighth level.

To a stone, a thousand years is just a snap of the fingers. To a spirit like him transformed from jade, more than ten years are no different from yesterday. In theory, a stone is immortal after birth.

After all, it is basically a sixth-grade treasure, but it has not developed its true power. As long as it slowly develops its potential, sixth-grade is almost a certainty.

"I'm sure I won't follow the divine way. I pinched this off at the beginning, but...I'm really a little surprised, why is it not at level 7 yet?" Li Shiwei looked at her hand, a little confused.

"It's normal. You are only in your thirties, so you are still very young. You are already very powerful at the eighth level." Shitou comforted him. Seventh level was too difficult after all.

Live forever.

How big an achievement is it to attain immortality? How could it be so simple?

Li Qi achieved immortality in the first place because the demon took him back to the edge of the universe. He listened with his own ears to the majestic echo of the opening of the universe and witnessed the opening of infinite time and space. The universe is growing every minute and every second. There are new worlds being generated, seemingly endless.

How could Li Shiwei have this opportunity? So naturally I can only slowly explore on my own.

"Well, it's just that it's hard to get useful opportunities on this ship. You've done a lot of things in the past ten years, boss. Should your curiosity be satisfied? Why don't you go home? Find Zhuren?"

"Although the world is not big, after all, there are many powerful people gathered together. When you return to the world, you will get a lot of enlightenment." Shitou suggested to Li Shiwei.

"No need. When I came out, I was eighth grade, and when I went back, I was still eighth grade. How can I have the nerve to see my father? Besides, seventh grade already has some features. Let's wait until we succeed." Li Shiwei shook her head: "Wait for fourth grade If you are not ready at the age of ten, go back. My father is already at the sixth level, and my mother is at the fifth level. More than ten years is nothing to them, it is nothing. If you are still like this at the age of forty, it is not too late to go back. " Li Shiwei sighed.

Shitou didn't feel anything at all, but continued to remind: "If you want to find an opportunity above the seventh level, you should still go to the world above the sixth level, but our route seems to be wandering around the seventh level world, and there is no sixth level world. That is the mission of other ships, by the way...Boss, this ship is about to enter the cycle route. The cycle of once every twenty years is coming soon. After the next world ends, the next one will return to the Holy Flame Realm. , and then the Sea Hunting World. With your character, you shouldn’t be too lazy to go this time, right?”

"Looping route...ah, the next one will be looping." Li Shiwei suddenly realized this.

In the beginning, this ship went to Hunting Sea Realm to collect goods once every twenty years.

That is to say, the route of this giant ship is to make a circular voyage around a specific area. After completing a circle of collection, it will take people back to the distribution center of the Holy Flame World to unload all the collected things and replace a group of crew members. Then walk again.

In other words, it is difficult to see new scenery while staying on this ship.

Li Shiwei was convinced: "Indeed, this should be considered. I will go to the leader now. He is now the management of this ship. He should be able to approve my resignation. I have stayed here long enough and I have some savings." , we should still make our own way.”

Of course, she was still the resolute person she had been before, doing whatever she was told. It was a vacation anyway, so she went straight away.

Set off straight away, non-stop.

Many people greeted her on the road, shouting "Captain Li!" and so on. Everyone was saying hello to her.

After all, because of Li Shiwei, many bad things on the ship were solved. The businessmen who traveled with the ship also got relative fairness because of Li Shiwei, so her reputation was very high.

Li Shiwei greeted these people casually, but without delay, she quickly came to the office of the former facially paralyzed captain.

Dong-dong-dong, knock on the door gently.

"Please come in." It was still the cold voice, and the leader had not changed at all.

He is a seventh-grade man, more than two thousand years old, and decades are far from enough time to change her.

It's just that changing Li Shiwei is enough.

Li Shiwei pushed the door open and looked at the former captain, now the management of the giant ship: "Boss, I have something to do with you."

"I'm really not used to it. When did you learn to knock on the door? The last time you came to see me... was five years ago, right? The door was kicked open at that time." The former captain still looked expressionless. , but it has more emotional color.

It must be an illusion, his tone and expression did not fluctuate, but the content made people feel a bit ridiculous.

Li Shiwei didn't care about the ridicule, but said: "I know how to knock on the door when I am born, it just depends on whether I want to or not. Leader, after this life is over, it is time to return to the Holy Flame Realm? The voyage will be repeated."

"Yes, it's going to be a cycle. Oh, I understand what you mean. If you don't want to cycle, then I can apply for a different ship for you, a new route, and a different world this time." The captain seemed to see through Li Shiwei's thoughts at a glance. What.

Obviously, he knew that Li Shiwei would never cycle this route again.

"No need, I want to resign. I know almost everything about the Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, I have recently discovered some commonalities. I am going to delve deeper into this aspect and see if I can use it to build my own seventh-grade Taoist foundation." Li Shiwei waved her hand and said.

"Commonality? Oh? What commonality? Tell me?" the captain asked expressionlessly.

To be honest, this kind of exchange is quite awkward. The captain can obviously say words with emotional content, but his tone and expression never change, including his eyes, which are always stagnant. It makes people feel creepy and uncomfortable.

"That is to say, I have now... viewed more than a dozen worlds, and come into contact with thousands of civilizations on the ship. Some civilizations were even developed on the ship." Li Shiwei considered the words and began to explain.

Yes, there are many civilizations that are unique to being on board a ship.

This kind of giant ship that is two thousand miles long and has the ability to be self-sufficient in the endless void can be said to be a small world in itself. Some races in this kind of giant ship will even thrive inside the ship, forming a set of completely dependent on the giant ship. , does not enter the civilization of any world.

And these races have naturally become good helpers and assistants to the Chamber of Commerce. Many of the chores in the ship are done by this race, and they do it better and more skillfully than others. All the Chamber of Commerce pays is to let them live here. Just inside.

To a mortal race, this kind of ship that wanders between worlds with a cycle of twenty years and an expected lifespan of tens of thousands of cycles is even more terrifying than those worlds.

This is what Li Shiwei has learned. As she sees more and more of the world, Li Shiwei understands more and more about these civilized races. She knows the history, habits, temperament, practice methods, and their unique traditions of thousands of races and civilizations. All have their own perceptions and opinions.

Then, she discovered some commonalities among them.

Some common denominators that all civilizations and races follow.

Whether it is aquatic life in the sea, mineral life in the land, plant civilization, ship civilization, or all aspects of humanoid race formation, there are tens of thousands of races, and they seem to have different life characteristics and different traditional customs. , and there are different paths of spiritual practice.

However, among these differences, Li Shiwei saw that they all seemed to be following the same thing.

However, she couldn't see clearly yet.

Her intuition told her that this might be her seventh-grade opportunity.

Therefore, she resigned at this time and prepared to wander outside the territory on her own, looking for commonalities among different civilizations.

This is also in line with the Taoism she practices.

Li Shiwei is a practitioner of Taoism, and the first assumption of Taoism is that there is a "supreme avenue". Everything is the evolution of this avenue, and everything is a derivative of this avenue.

The so-called "Tai Chi generates two rituals, two rituals generate four images, and four images generate Bagua", or "Tao generates one, one generates two, two generates three, three generates all things", or even "nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth" are all these arguments. It comes from this.

As a Taoist practitioner, Li Shiwei is planning to lay the foundation of her own seventh-level Taoism by looking for commonalities, so there is no problem at all.

She herself feels that this is a very good direction, so she is ready to work hard in this direction.

Therefore, she had to see more, explore more worlds, and study more civilizations in her lifetime, instead of being on a ship and coming into contact with these existing civilizations.

The captain persuaded: "You can see many different scenery on a different ship if you are on the ship of the Chamber of Commerce. You don't have to resign in such a hurry. The job of the Chamber of Commerce is not easy to find and it is difficult to get in. You are more or less the same now. You are a junior middle-level person. You should know that your power is much higher than that of an ordinary eighth-level person. How many worlds must obey your orders? "

"I suggest you not to resign. With this position, it will be much easier for you to collect epics and civilization processes. Sometimes you only need an order, and they will take the initiative to hand over their history to you. If you resign, you will be alone. It will be very difficult to collect these things by then.”

But Li Shiwei shook her head: "No, in this case, I can't tell what the commonalities are. Even if I find the commonalities of these worlds, can I distinguish whether these 'commonalities' are brought by the Chamber of Commerce or exist naturally? ?”

The captain was speechless for a moment.

This is indeed the truth.

By doing these things in the Chamber of Commerce, these worlds will naturally have a new commonality, that is, 'they are all related to the Chamber of Commerce.'

It is difficult to determine where this commonality comes from, so it is necessary to eliminate variables, see the world that has never had anything to do with the Chamber of Commerce, and eliminate all possible influencing factors to determine the final commonality.

If found, then Li Shiwei's seventh-grade Taoist foundation should have an explanation.

The captain then said: "Indeed, you are right, well... In this case, you are about to leave, so I will give you a gift. I know that a seventh-level world that has never been set foot in by the Chamber of Commerce may be able to help. you."

Li Shiwei raised her head and said happily: "Is there such a good thing in this world group? I have already prepared to go to other world groups, and I have to be the leader. Okay, then I will accept this offer!"