Myriad Paths

In the boundless void, the stars in the sky were shining in the air, the fluorescence was dazzling, and the surrounding waves were like the sound of mountain drums, but there was no sound, or rather... no mechanical waves.

The extremely magnificent constellation body condensed and turned into a giant eye, looking at Li Qi from a very far distance, like an angry lion, with shadows falling in the sky and waves of sun flames, as if it contained the Dharma Realm, and the majestic power was so great!

If it is said that the Taoist pot cave and the Buddhist mustard seed world are small and big, and the emphasis is on the demeanor of "the mountains and rivers are deep and have an image in the pot, and the world is wonderful and boundless in the gourd"...

Then Shinto is completely different, and does not engage in those empty things.

Big is big, there is no such thing as seeing the big in the small.

An ordinary star official, should the cultivation be of the fifth rank?

His body is half a light year long, and he himself is a world group! It is not a refining, his body is a world group.

No wonder it is called "Shinto", no wonder it is called "Innate God".

...Li Qi felt that the fighting power of the Shinto was probably ridiculously strong. It would be difficult for practitioners of the same level to confront these gods in terms of direct power, right?

Really, in terms of the depth of mana alone, the opponent's strength is probably more powerful than Shen Shuibi's... uh, if you calculate, it should be 100 million or 200 million times, right?

No kidding, there is such a big gap in the strength of mana. The mana of this star official is even more than 100 million times deeper than the mana pool of ordinary practitioners of the same level.

However... fighting power does not rely entirely on mana, and his body is too big, which is also a disadvantage.

After all, it is difficult to mobilize such a large body. I don't know how much it will be lost on the way. If the body of the Shinto is a human body, then other practitioners are like bacteria or viruses in a fight.

Although the human body is large and strong, it may not be able to defeat the virus.

But... Shinto should have a way to make up for it, right?

Looking at the opponent's magnificent body, Li Qi seemed to understand why he didn't see many orthodox Shinto practitioners.

The Shinto monks he had seen before were all "mortals who wanted to become gods". They were originally mortals, but they tried to become gods by gathering faith or occupying terrain.

For example, the most common mountain and water gods, some of them are human, some are demons, anyway, they are not born gods. They expelled or suppressed the gods who had not yet awakened, and then sat on the throne themselves, usurping the position of the true god of a piece of mountain and water.

Becoming a god through faith is even more illusory. By transferring something like "collective consciousness" to oneself, they can condense a golden body and achieve Shinto.

This method is really... how to say it...

tricky.

It will never touch the slightest surface of Shinto orthodoxy.

The reason why gods are gods is because... they are born.

There is no need for faith. It is the mortals who actively beg to believe in them to obtain gifts, not that they need the faith of mortals.

There is no need to occupy the terrain, because they are the terrain itself.

Now think about it, what is the so-called "heavenly way"?

When refining the Heavenly Dao of the Lingchou Realm before, Li Qi had already analyzed that the Heavenly Dao is actually the sum of collective consciousness and natural forces.

Isn't faith the embodiment of collective consciousness?

Terrain, to put it bluntly, is the power of the world itself.

All the Shinto monks Li Qi had seen before were just poor imitations of these two methods.

As for the real Shinto, those 'orthodox gods' do not have such a need at all. They do not need to imitate. They are the objects of imitation by other mortals.

God is the Heavenly Dao of the world. All gods are the Heavenly Dao itself that has awakened spiritual wisdom!

And high-level gods are the Heavenly Dao of more than one world. For example, the star official in front of him is the collective will of a small world group! The life living in his body does not need to communicate with the outside world. They don't even need their own will, so these worlds are closed.

Just be pious and worship, because 'God' is an objective existence and is the supreme power that transcends all the great powers of this world.

After seeing the real God, Li Qi took a deep breath.

No wonder they all say ‘innate gods’. Sure enough, only those who exist innately can be considered gods. It’s ridiculous that ordinary things can become gods through cultivation. How can ordinary things become gods?

It’s just a case of imitating others.

Then…are all the worlds around the fire real gods?

There are two Dao veins of the gods, one is the Ziwei Tianting vein, and the other is the Taigu Xingguan vein…

At this time and place, where Li Qi is, the gods he faces must be Xingguan. So, the Xingguan vein means that they are all real stars and the world’s heavenly Dao?

What do the gods of the Tianting vein look like?

Li Qi became curious, but he didn’t stop the work at hand. He maintained the ceremony of inviting the gods and said to the Xingguan: “I have met the Xingguan. May I ask your name?”

“My name is Xin Zhao. Why do you call me?” The Xingjun responded.

Li Qi stood in his position and could only see a huge eye, which was made up of several worlds and nebulae. The shadows in it were faintly visible, just like... the famous photograph "Eye of God" that he had seen before.

As for more places, they were really invisible, which was beyond the limit of Li Qi's vision.

Li Qi saluted first, and then said: "Xin Zhao Xingjun, I come from Wushen Mountain, and I am a descendant of Zhu people. I come to visit the big fire, but I don't know the etiquette and the way. I specially ask the gods to talk and hope that Xingjun will guide me."

"It turns out that he is from Wushen Mountain. There is no need to say anything about it. By the way, I have another question for Zhuren. Do you... know why there is a divine word in Wushen Mountain?" Mr. Xin Zhaoxing was very attitude. Okay, but suddenly asked an inexplicable question.

This question stunned Li Qi for a moment, and he had not yet reacted.

But Li Qi came to his senses in the next second. This was a test, and he wanted to see if he was really the orthodox of Wushen Mountain.

So, Li Qi replied: "Just like the god in the body, the witch Tao takes itself as the world, and it is similar to some methods of the Shinto. The word 'god' and the title of the witch god are all coincident with the manifestation of the Tao." The meaning of the world.”

Although this answer may not be correct, it obviously touches on some deeper information, which is enough to prove Li Qi's identity.

Lord Xin Zhaoxing nodded slightly when he heard the words, but saw an abnormal gravitational fluctuation in the space around Li Qi.

The moment the gravitational fluctuation appeared, a golden body of a god slowly emerged here. It should be the incarnation of Xin Zhaoxing Lord.

Seeing this incarnation, Li Qi suddenly understood the meaning of the 'golden body' method and how Shinto could make up for such a huge disadvantage of the original body.

Just rely on the golden body.

Li Qi also knows how to create a golden body, but the golden body Li Qi creates is very weak. If he divides it into too many parts, his own body will become weak and the golden body will not be very strong.

But...the Shinto golden body, with the powerful magic power of these real gods, making millions of golden bodies is like eating!

No wonder Shinto can respond to prayers. As long as someone sets up an altar, they can descend at will in the heavens. They have even reached agreements with other Taoist traditions. For example, Taoist sects also have divine methods, and they can invite the true god to the lower realm of Dharmakaya with just one sentence.

That's not because the magic of inviting gods is powerful, but because the magic power of the true gods is so powerful that there are so many dharma bodies that they can appear in millions of places at the same time!

Their bodies may not be good at fighting. After all, although the way of heaven is strong, it is easily influenced by others. This endless golden body is the fighting method of the orthodox god!

This is really, really awesome.

Li Qi watched the golden body take shape and sighed.

The golden body gradually took shape, turning into a majestic and mighty man, and then he handed over to Li Qi: "Zhuren wants to visit Huo Huo but doesn't know the way, so please come with me, and I will lead the way for Zhuren."

"Thank you Xingjun." Li Qi also quickly thanked him.

"Follow me." Mr. Xin Zhaoxing didn't show much respect, but he wasn't scornful either. After saying these words, he silently led the way.

Li Qi hurriedly followed without saying a word, remaining solemn and flying all the way.

Who knew that this flight would take three and a half years.

In the void, the silent body of the god flew forward, and Li Qi followed behind, not stopping for a moment.

He could have flown faster, but near here, Li Qi discovered that although it was still the outer void, the Dao was more than 10% stronger, and the limit of the Heavenly Dao expanded to 1.5 times at most.

Beyond this number, even Li Qi cannot continue to improve. You must know that in a place like the Spiritual Silk World, Li Qi can easily distort to thousands of times.

A kind of solid and majestic pressure pressed on the space near the fire. This pressure could even be said to be comparable to the pressure of the great avenues in the world.

From the fire... not necessarily, it may be from the pressure from all the 'star officials', which forcibly consolidated the nearby avenues, so that Li Qi could not twist them at all.

In the past three years, Li Qi passed by about dozens of similar star officials. They did not appear in person, but they all greeted Li Qi and Xinzhao star officials.

Li Qi discovered that Shinto does not have social systems and forms in the conventional sense.

Because it's not necessary.

The number of real ‘gods’ is too small.

There are only a few hundred star officials in this extraterrestrial spectacle, all of whom know each other, and most of them have nothing to say.

The lifespan of the world is too long, and for the ‘gods’ who appear as the world’s heaven awakens spiritual wisdom, time is even more meaningless.

These star officials are all at the seventh level, which belongs to the infant stage. Immortality is a natural thing for them, and no one in heaven will die of old age.

However, Li Qi was a little confused.

What is the relationship between these 'god stars' and the 'demon stars' formed by the demon clan's enlightenment of stars outside the territory?

There seems to be a lot of similarities between the two, and there must be a reason.

However, in addition to the interpersonal relationships of these star officials, Li Qi also discovered some not-so-good points.

Sometimes, you always need to rest when traveling for a long time. After all, Li Qi is not a perpetual motion machine, nor does he have hundreds of millions of mana reserves like the star officer in front of him.

If it were an ordinary void, Li Qi could easily achieve permanent motion, but the void here was suppressed by the fire, and even the limit of heaven was suppressed to 1.5 times, so it would take hundreds or thousands of times more power to achieve it. Achieve this speed.

So sometimes, the star officer would let go of the world barrier and let Li Qi go in to have a rest and regain his breath.

After entering, Li Qi also saw the world and civilization inside Xingguan's body.

The worlds that make up Star Officer's body... there is indeed life in them.

But the lives inside seem to have their desires stifled. No, it cannot be said to be strangled, but... These lives are born in a world with real 'gods'. They only need to worship the gods to receive blessings, so naturally You will lose your desire to explore the outside world.

A devout believer in Shinto? Can you understand it this way?

That’s pretty much it, anyway.

Do you have to say they are unhappy? Li Qi didn't think so.

Compared to worlds like the Spiritual Silk World and the Holy Flame World, this Shinto world must be very happy. They are absolutely rich in material terms and very rich in spirit.

There is no group of people happier than them, right? They are stable and happy, with neither too heavy worries nor possible crises.

The gods shroud the world, gently blocking out all dangers and sufferings. The creatures in every world are as carefree as if they were soaked in a jar of honey.

Spiritually, they have faith to support them, and materially, they have gods to satisfy them.

They don't even need to practice, because the gods can directly 'bless' them and forcibly upgrade their ranks, just like what Heaven does to the Son of Destiny.

No, in fact, this is the Son of Destiny, because practitioners of the Xingguan lineage are themselves the way of heaven in the world after awakening their consciousness.

Everything is so... dreamy.

Compared with the indigenous world, the lives in the Shinto world are typical rich second generation, and they are also the kind of playboys who don't have to work hard and can just sit back and enjoy the efforts of the gods.

Everyone thinks that the second generation of rich people are bad, they are prodigal, they get something for nothing, so how many people don’t want to be the second generation of rich people?

If you advise them to fight on their own, they might even call you crazy and disturb their normal lives.

How should I put it? Everyone has his own blessings. Li Qi couldn't say anything. For them, this kind of life is not bad.

If you leave the embrace of the gods and go outside to make a living on your own, will you really live a good life?

After several years of traveling in this uneventful way, Li Qi was getting closer and closer to the fire.

Another unremarkable day passed, but Li Qi was on tenterhooks.

Because the fire is already very close, only tens of thousands of miles away.

Tens of thousands of miles sounds very far, but in the outer void, it is basically equivalent to face to face.

But here, the oppression of the surrounding avenues is even stronger than in the world.

Of course, it is not that he is actually stronger than the world, but that the oppression of the world is more moisturizing and silent. Although it is strong, it cannot be felt.

But here, the oppressive feeling of the fire has caused Xinzhaoxing Lord's Dharma Body to begin to collapse.

However, Li Qi was fine.

Without him, I'm used to it.