Myriad Paths

Outside the territory, inside a small spaceship.

The flying boat is very simple, but the simplicity is just decoration. In fact, the performance of this thing is very terrifying. It has reached the peak of the fifth-grade magic weapon and is the limit that the Demon Prince can control.

He cannot control the fourth-grade magic weapon. Even if the fourth-grade magic weapon can break through the limits of heaven, the Demon Prince himself still cannot break through, so he will die if he is carried by a fourth-grade magic weapon. This requires him to slowly adapt.

That’s right, adapt.

The Demon Prince has fully understood the power of the fourth level, and he has made all preparations for his promotion, but given the nature of his demonic path, he still needs to slowly change his 'concept'.

For the devil, this requires sufficient psychological preparation to change one's subjective concepts.

This is difficult. It is similar to the fact that although we all know the wave-particle duality of particles, and we all know that matter itself is a ‘wave’, it also has stable properties on a macroscopic level.

However, it is still difficult for everyone to get used to recognizing matter as a wave. In daily life, they even subconsciously ignore the "wave" properties of matter and directly treat it as a stable particle state.

This is that although knowledge has been gained, the ‘concept’ has not changed.

The magic path relies extremely on the cognition of subjective will, so even if the Demon Prince has recognized some clues of the fourth level, he still cannot truly reverse his inherent understanding of the world.

After all, this inherent knowledge has been accumulated bit by bit over the past many years, and it may take him an equally long time to change this 'habit'.

After all, not everyone can break through easily. For most people, it is extremely difficult to score 100 points in the exam. It is clearly written in the textbooks, and it was written hundreds of years ago. The old people know the almanac, but they just can't understand and use it.

It is difficult to break through the path. For many people with poor talents, it is very difficult to even learn existing knowledge, let alone break through oneself and create brand-new knowledge.

Create new knowledge and incorporate it into your own path to update your understanding of the world, summarize the value structure of the material in the universe, and then use this understanding as a guide to 'invent' something that can actually Techniques and magical powers that change one's own strength and push one's cultivation to a higher level.

This complete set can be regarded as a 'breakthrough level'.

It is very difficult. It is no less difficult than upgrading from a first-level civilization to a second-level civilization. What is needed is an all-round breakthrough.

First, you need to correctly understand the world, and then use your own understanding to summarize and transform the world so that your state matches your own understanding. This is the entire process of "breakthrough".

Countless people are stuck in the middle, unable to move, because they neither know what the world is like nor can they creatively transform it.

If you ask a person from the feudal era to understand that matter is a "probability wave", even if the answer is told to him, he may not be able to understand it, because his entire worldview does not support such a conclusion.

This is the case with the Demon Prince. He has reached a conclusion on his own, but cannot accept it. He is currently struggling with his own subjective will. In other words, his 'measurement' is not enough.

His 'capacity' cannot accommodate this conclusion. At present, he cannot accept this 'fact' that is completely incompatible with his previous concepts.

It's like a baby can't accept that "invisible things still exist".

For young children, they only think that things exist when they see them. Once something disappears, the baby will think that the thing does not exist.

Because the concept of objects has not yet been fully formed with babies, for children at this stage, the existence of objects is not independent. The world is linked to the child's own actions and perceptions.

In other words, children believed that the reason objects were only partially exposed was because they were disappearing rather than being obscured by other objects.

Therefore, when a baby starts to try to hide and seek, it is training to increase his capacity, indicating that his cognitive ability has developed to a new level.

When he completes the training, the child's understanding of objects will gradually change from "the object disappears when it disappears" in infancy to "although the object disappears in front of my eyes, it still exists."

This is the typical cause of the law of cause and effect, namely: "the object does not change".

In other words, life must be able to understand that when an 'object' disappears, it still exists, and can also understand where the 'object' goes. This fact will form the basis for mortals' cognition of the world, namely: The permanent schema construction of objects is closely related to the entire spatiotemporal organization and causal relationship of the real world.

Now, the Demon Prince needs to break this cognition of object permanence and go back to the "if I can't see it, it doesn't exist" in his infancy, the world is nothingness, and his own cognition is also nothingness, and go in this direction, completely Subvert your own solidified cognition.

He also needs some time to grow his tolerance and allow himself to accommodate these completely different and conflicting concepts.

He still needs to live longer and see more, and the time for this kind of adaptation may be as long as the time he has been alive.

However, considering the age of the Demon Prince, this so-called change actually does not take long, ten thousand years is more than enough.

If you put it outside and say that someone has broken through to the fourth level in ten thousand years, it might scare a lot of people to death.

Outside the territory, there are many people who have lived for ten thousand years and are still at the seventh level.

Even the notorious Demon Prince is actually working hard for his cultivation. He is not just waiting for his cultivation to come from the sky. In fact, even if he has the top talent and the Taoist charm from the 'Earth Mother' , if you don’t make corresponding efforts, you won’t be able to reach the point where the Demon Prince is now.

Li Shiwei, who was nearby, watched the Demon Prince training, just like a baby playing hide and seek. The baby would hide things and then take them out, constantly trying to verify the 'object permanence'.

The Demon Prince is constantly trying to train himself to 'disappear' things outside his subjective awareness, and then 'create' them, thereby training himself to recognize the emptiness of things, so as to make his subjective will The existence that completely replaces the 'law of cause and effect' will no longer need objective things to support itself from now on.

Having also recognized the possibility of the fourth rank, Demon Prince and Zhong Minglou adopted two completely different methods. It can be seen that even if they are both fourth rank, they may take completely different paths.

Although they reach the same destination through different paths, the "different paths" themselves are their biggest difference. This difference is the source of conflict in all Taoist disputes.

Watching the Demon Prince's exercise, Li Shiwei was puzzled. She took the initiative to step forward and asked: "Uncle Mo, why do we have to leave the world?"

"There's no reason, I just came here casually." The Demon Prince replied casually, blocking Li Shiwei's words.

It's as simple as it comes, it's the most rogue and common 'reason' for magic.

"Impossible, is it because of my father? I heard that Li Qi came to Hot Sand, defeated four demon kings, refined one of them, and then left in a swaggering manner," Li Shiwei said.

"Really? He's quite capable, one against four." The Demon Prince said noncommittally and continued to focus on his training.

"It's not Yi Yi. He also brought a warrior with him. It was two people who joined forces. It seems that they are determined to target the devil." Li Shiwei said.

"Oh." The Demon Prince responded.

"Uncle Mo, you should know something, right?" Li Shiwei refused to give up.

At this time, the Demon Prince put down his training, turned around, and glanced at Li Shiwei.

Li Shiwei’s hair stood on end immediately! A biting coldness hit her, as if she was being targeted by a ferocious beast. Her blood and muscles were frozen almost instantly, and her heart slowed down.

But corresponding to the cold feeling, she began to sweat crazily, and the cold sweat quickly soaked her clothes.

With just one glance, Li Shiwei fell silent.

"Be quiet, I'm not your father. If you think there's any problem, you can go back now." The Demon Prince said calmly, then turned around and continued his training.

Li Shiwei stopped talking, just sat back and watched the Demon Prince practice.

The Demon Prince did not shy away. You could clearly see his training method. In his hand, he held a fifth-grade orb, which could be used as a magic weapon raw material, but here it was just a tool for playing.

This orb will disappear when the Demon Prince closes his eyes, and will appear again when he opens his eyes.

Then, he pinched the orb with his hand, and it disappeared from the place where he couldn't see it. When he took away his covering hand, the orb appeared here again like magic.

Within my sight, it exists.

If it is out of my sight, it will disappear into thin air.

All of this depends entirely on ‘me’. These things have no reality and depend entirely on ‘my’ observation.

When you open your eyes, the flowers bloom, when you close your eyes, the flowers are silent.

The real world gives all things the foundation of existence, and now the Demon Prince can also give things or even deprive things of the foundation of existence.

Yes, Li Qi is completely different. Li Qi's fourth rank cannot deprive others of their existence. Although he can choose the future, rewrite reality to a certain extent, and make himself equal to reality, he can make himself To the extent of self-existence, the existence of others is also given by the real world and cannot be taken away easily.

The Demon Prince is different. Not only does he endow himself with reality, but he can also deprive things without reality of their foundation of existence, causing them to disappear completely, achieving 'existence erasure'. ’

What a terrifying ability.

Li Shiwei witnessed all this, closed her eyes and stopped watching.

It doesn't matter whether it's Uncle Mo or his father, it's the same.

The things they touched were absolutely beyond her reach, and it was difficult for her to catch up with their footsteps even if she tried her best. Even the things they usually talked about, the things they came into contact with, everything, she couldn't help, even They are not qualified enough to understand.

It was this feeling of powerlessness that made her choose the devil's path and use it to break through to the fifth level.

Although... after she broke through, she found that she was in the way again.

Her father could win without her help at all, so she went to the devil for help, which instead caused Li Qi to get into even greater trouble.

Li Shiwei also ran away from her father because of this.

Yes, escape. She couldn't stand the fact that she was useless, and couldn't stand the fact that even if she gave up her original persistence and fell into the devil's path, she could still only cause trouble to her parents.

For this reason, she came to the Demon Prince to find a place to establish her cone.

Unfortunately, after only a short while, the Demon Prince had already fully demonstrated a fact.

He doesn't need Li Shiwei, it's Li Shiwei who needs him.

In other words, even when she was next to the Demon Prince, Li Shiwei was still the one causing trouble.

Thinking about it carefully, she has not been very popular since she was a child. No one has praised her as a "charming" person, and basically no one likes her. The Great Witch Yun Fang may be the friendliest to her, but that is because Yun Fang Fang Dawu is very friendly to everyone.

In the end, no one accepted her. Her parents took care of her because of their duty to give birth to her, but this kind of protection made her more aware of her own situation.

She lives in this world because of her parents' mercy. Other than that, she actually has no value in this world.

She depends on others, but no one depends on her.

She longed for power, because power could make her independent, help her nurturing parents, or help Uncle Mo in front of her, but even though she had obtained power that was unimaginable in the past, she found that she had given up. The power gained in exchange for so much is simply not as good as one of the opponent's fingers.

From beginning to end, she was like a clown, pulling herself up and moving herself.

No one cares about her efforts and sacrifices, nor her help.

There are always some people who are indispensable and some people who are dispensable.

The two are interchangeable, and a person can be dispensable in one place and indispensable in another.

For example, a father with average ability is dispensable in his workplace, but he is an indispensable pillar in his own family.

Therefore, for this father, his family is his value and his spiritual support. Although he is not good at work, he can survive many difficult difficulties for the sake of his family.

But Li Shiwei is different.

She deeply realized that she was dispensable, and that was true everywhere.

She is not needed anywhere, she cannot find her worth at all, and she is no one's support.

She is not likable, and some may even wish she would not appear at all, as it would make her annoying to see her.

Facing the Demon Prince who ignored her, Li Shiwei stood up.

She subconsciously touched the jade pendant around her waist.

But after realizing this, she let go.

Shitou talked too much and was not pleasant to listen to, so she sealed it away and just carried it with her, but she didn't want to listen to Shitou's verbosity.