Myriad Paths

In the palace in Baiyue.

The palace is floating in the sky, with a hill below it. The entire palace is arranged in an orderly manner, like a landscape painting. But if you look down, you will find that the entrance below is unexpectedly desolate and intimidating.

However, if you get used to it, you will feel a kind of peace and tranquility.

Of course, the premise is that you are not affected by Li Qi's fourth-grade coercion, otherwise you will not feel the tranquility, but will understand why it is 'desolate' below.

If nothing dares to stay here, it will naturally become desolate.

Li Qi and Shen Shuibi were inside, looking out.

She didn't look outside at first, but after Li Qi promised Shen Shuibi to tell the whole story, she stood up from Li Qi's arms and pushed him to the outside platform.

From here, you can see far and wide.

It was nearly noon, and soft sunlight penetrated the northern horizon. The mountains reflected the light in all directions like broken glass, and each peak shimmered with blue and white light.

These halos are the runes of the surrounding formations,

Further away, you can see the earth sinking in the cold horizon. This would never happen because the world is a continent and there is no horizon at all. As long as your eyesight is good enough, you can see millions of people. hills beyond.

But it's different here.

Some kind of purple, indescribable shield slightly distorted everything.

The light emitted by this purple shield made Li Qi squint slightly. If he didn't do this, his eyes would be burned like a mortal looking directly at the sun.

Even so, it took him a while to adapt to the scenery in front of him.

Li Qi looked intently at the boundless heaven and earth and the vast distance, feeling a little excited about their magnificence, but he was used to it.

That shield is the 'rule' established by humanity. Within this shield, the world's punishment from heaven cannot come.

This is the power of the Grand Master of Humanity.

Li Qi was pushed by Shen Shuibi, getting closer and closer to the cold and clear clouds. He gently closed his eyes and enjoyed this moment wholeheartedly.

But before he could enjoy it for a few seconds, he felt a glare.

The rabbit stared at him closely, his eyes unhappy, and he felt irritated.

Li Qi smiled bitterly, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, I told you, I won't hide it. I just didn't think it was necessary before."

"Then tell me, now that these decades have passed, what are you doing?" Shen Shuibi stood behind Li Qi, pressing his hands and fingers on Li Qi's temples.

In this position, you can relax it by rubbing it, and you can poke Li Qi's dog head in with force.

"Isn't this building Baiyue? Didn't you see it? Over the past few decades, Baiyue's war potential has increased a lot." Li Qi pointed downwards.

"What's the use of improving these?" Shen Shuibi didn't understand.

She really doesn’t understand. In her opinion, the outcome of the war lies entirely in the hands of high-grade practitioners. Although there have been a lot of ninth-grade and eighth-grade practitioners in the past few decades, there are very few even seventh-grade practitioners, with tens of thousands at most. Just one,

These forces have no effect on the overall situation of the war, and any country leader who comes just kills them all.

For Baiyue to truly have the power to influence the war situation, a few decades is not enough, it must at least take ten thousand years to start.

Can the war zone last for ten thousand years?

impossible.

"Yu'er, tell me, what is the use of the mortal battlefield?" Li Qi asked.

Shen Shuibi replied sternly: "Sometimes a straw is also useful. The ninth-level army can surround and kill the eighth-level army, and the eighth-level army can also surround and kill the seventh-level army. If we can gain one point of advantage on the mortal battlefield, we can gain one." High-level practitioners rarely make mistakes and are prone to confrontations for a long time. In this situation, low-level practitioners are more likely to have advantages on the battlefield, which in turn affects the balance of high-level combat power. "

This answer is basically the same as in the textbook.

High-level practitioners, when their strength is about the same, will basically defend to the death. It is rare that one party is quickly defeated by the other. The strength of both parties is at that level, and basically they will not make mistakes.

At this time, the victory or defeat of low-quality practitioners has a lot to say, because they are more likely to make mistakes and it is easier to decide the outcome. Even if they are of equal strength, it is easy for variables to occur due to on-the-spot performance.

The variables below will naturally lead to reinforcements from above, which will then link up the entire battlefield and finally overturn the situation of the battle.

The failure of the ninth-grade battlefield will cause damage to the eighth-grade, and the damage to the eighth-grade will cause an imbalance in the power of the seventh-grade. After the seventh-grade is unbalanced, the sixth-grade may be able to find opportunities.

Such slow grinding, layer by layer, although once or twice won't make much difference, if a ninth-grade player loses ten thousand times on the battlefield, maybe a sixth-grade person will be able to seize the opportunity and create a gap with the opponent's sixth-grade. Come.

This is the significance of the existence of lower-level battlefields, and this strategic significance cannot even be ignored.

If you don't find it troublesome, just don't do it.

Otherwise, in a fifth-grade duel, if the opponent's fifth-grade opponent comes to attack you with a lot of sixth-grades, as well as soldiers and formations, what will you do? Do you want to bring your little brother with you too?

The sixth-grade people are here, can these sixth-grade ones also bring their seventh-grade brothers to deal with the opponent's sixth-grade ones?

The seventh-grade boys are here, and the other party’s seventh-grade brought an eighth-grade boy, so do you want to bring them too?

After going back and forth like this, the lower-level battlefield was naturally born, and following this logic, it can affect the battles of the fifth level.

Although the impact is very weak, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of ninth-level players are insignificant, but if the data continues to expand, for example, if the ninth-level players keep losing on the battlefield, then the eighth-level players will have to keep losing, and finally lose to the fifth-level players.

"Yes, if that's the case, then what's the problem with investing resources below when high-grade battlefields can't be easily invested?" Li Qi asked rhetorically.

"The results are too slow, and this is not the top priority." Shen Shuibi said her reason.

"Isn't it?" Li Qi asked.

But at this time, Shen Shuibi bent her index fingers with both hands, turned her knuckles into drill shapes, and began to poke Li Qi's temples. She said angrily: "If you keep showing off, I will divide the bedroom into two!"

Li Qizhen is so irritating. Could it be said that even Wu Jin likes this?

Thinking about it carefully, it seems to be true. Most of the shamans Shen Shuibi has met like to show off their opinions, especially those who talk in a condescending manner, as if they will die if they speak honestly.

Could it be that even if you practice witchcraft skills, you can't be like this?

Die to all the Riddlers!

Li Qi's head hurt from being drilled, and he repeatedly begged for mercy: "Wait, wait, wait, didn't I make it clear? The center of the battlefield now is not the front line, but inside Baiyue!"

This sentence made Shen Shuibi stunned for a moment.

"Has humanity come in?" She immediately noticed the meaning and asked immediately.

Li Qi rubbed his face and said: "I've come in a long time ago, can you still stop me? It's not like I can't use the method to conceal the secrets of heaven. Now my ability to deduce has been severely restricted. Besides, now Baiyue The development is so rapid, it must be driven so quickly by humane methods. "

When Shen Shuibi heard this, she didn't reply, but made some calculations with her fingers.

The shadow of the Bagua disk flashed around her, and a large amount of data was poured into her brain, and then output into conclusions.

Shen Shuibi's mind is single-minded. She is not good at handling many things at the same time, but when she concentrates on doing one thing, her efficiency will be terrible.

She had never cared about the progress of Baiyue below before. Her focus was on Li Qihe and the front line. But now that she began to think seriously about Baiyue, she quickly came to a conclusion.

Humanity not only came, but penetrated deeply.

This kind of penetration is not because there are many people coming to Humanity, but because the appeal of Humanity is too strong.

It is like a real osmotic reaction, that is, the area of ​​high water molecules (i.e., low-concentration solution) infiltrates into the area of ​​low water molecules (i.e., high-concentration solution) until the water molecules on both sides reach a dynamic equilibrium.

Humanity is a highly concentrated solution. Humanity has sufficient ideas, brilliant civilization and technological level, while Baiyue has nothing.

Therefore, humanity is just a small leak. Baiyue is like a sponge absorbing water, greedily sucking up the thoughts and technologies of humanity.

Because the technology of humanity is far stronger than that of witches and monsters, in terms of penetration... Baiyue seems to be more inclined to accept the technology and ideas of humanity.

Shen Shuibi immediately frowned: "In this case, Baiyue's fall is a matter of course. Why aren't you anxious? Do you have a back-up plan?"

Li Qi nodded: "Let nature take its course. Humanity thinks they have a sure chance of victory, so let them have a sure chance of victory and develop Baiyue first, and then talk about other things."

"So you did it on purpose, deliberately not restricting the development of humanity, and even deliberately letting them in. Humanity also knows that you did it on purpose. Now... it has changed from a hot war to a cold war, and the war has moved from the front line to the hearts of the people." Shen Shui Bi judged.

"That's pretty much it. It's hard to say more. In short, the battlefield has been moved here. Moreover, this is also a 'Dao dispute', which may even be more intense and pure than other Dao disputes." Li Qi said, 'Here ’, he put his hand on Shen Shuibi’s heart.

Where the heart is, is where this Taoist struggle lies.

This is a battle of the mind.

The war does not happen on the front line, but in everyone's heart.

The Baiyue people who have accepted many ideas at the same time, as long as they ignite the fire of their ideas, they will fight between heaven and man. These paths will continue to fight in their hearts, and in the end, they will choose one of them to win.

Yes, it is not the path that wins, it is the path chosen by all beings.

Finally, Baiyue will go in the direction chosen by all sentient beings.

Very reasonable, just...

Same as humanity.

Li Qi was also very confident that Baiyue would choose the witch path.

Nothing else, the witch way is indeed superior to the human way, he has no doubt about this.

To be honest, if they didn't even have this little bit of self-confidence, their Taoist hearts would have been riddled with holes.

If they don't even have confidence in their own path, and if they feel like they're not good at the beginning, they won't be able to reach the fourth level.

But it is this attitude that creates the most interesting situation.

They all think they will win, but maybe only one side will win after all...

Who can win?

This thought came to Shen Shuibi's mind.

I can't help but sigh.

But the next moment, she took two steps back and screamed: "You shameless thing!"

What did Li Qigang want to say——

But before he could quibble, his wheelchair was lifted by a force and thrown directly from the platform.

The terrain here is very high, and the distance is at least three to five miles.

Fortunately, he is in good health.

Not to mention those things, Baiyue at this time is no longer what it used to be.

Dalu Country, Lizhou.

This place is completely different from what it was sixty years ago.

The first thing I saw was different was urban construction.

City gates, towers, palace walls, turrets, moats, roads, stone bridges, and corridors are all arranged one after another. They not only retain their previous characteristics, but also expand their scale many times, and some ancient structures are deliberately restored. For example, the format of "Zuozu Youshe" is in line with the situation of "the former dynasty and the later market".

Obviously, the emphasis on shamanism still exists here.

Of course, there will still be new sites for urban expansion, and the main basis for the development of new sites is naturally the Lishui River, a natural lake and its excellent water source. As an excellent waterway for grain transportation, Lizhou is an indispensable transit point for shipping. , and now it has naturally become an important gathering center.

The expansion of the entire Lizhou City is not getting bigger, but getting longer, extending all the way along the Lishui River. Anyway, with the Lishui River, water transportation is convenient and there is no need to worry about transportation.

Entering along the new city gate of Lishui, you can see a big archway and a big stone bridge in front of you, which can be regarded as an avant-garde for the city, but this is just a prelude.

After this point, from the big archway to the inner city gate, and from stone bridges to more stone bridges, you can see the whole city rising and falling together, surrounded by tall buildings, and the sun shines on the glazed tile roofs, shining Gives off a beautiful light.

Level after level of undulating terrain leads all the way to Lishui Pier. At the four corners of the inner and outer city and on each city gate, there are more than a dozen sanitation protruding points, which are observation stations.

The observation stations on these city gates serve the arrow towers and turrets further away. This is to enhance the security of the city. After all, strictly speaking, this is a war zone.

But despite saying this, the designer still seems to understand beauty very well. These arrow towers and turrets actually enhance the rhythm and ups and downs of the urban space.

Although these buildings for civilian and military purposes have an irregular layout, the resulting prominent points and the scattered layout of many altars, temples and gardens, combined with the straight streets and well-organized layout, are still very beautiful.

The entire city is divided into fifty squares.

While walking, I stared at the plaster on the wall and the wrought iron fence. The cold light from the water and the light from the surrounding magic weapons made pedestrians feel dizzy.

Although thousands of backward buildings from sixty years ago have long since been wiped out, the city is surrounded by changes, and the riverbank has been washed away by the years and lost its original appearance, the shadow of history has long lingered in the streets and lanes of Lizhou. lane.

Moreover, not a single tracker can be seen here, and the boats have all been switched to magic-driven ones.