Myriad Paths

In the ecological warehouse, Li Qi, who had been talking big before, immediately noticed something was wrong.

Something happened to his daughter.

The next moment, he stopped greeting Jing Wuzhen, waved his hand, and a magical power from the third rank appeared.

The magical power of the third rank immediately penetrated the world, and the invisible fluctuations were almost imperceptible, but it really rippled out a movement of monitoring all things.

Observe the text in the sky, examine the principles in the earth, look up and down the two yi, manage all things, the supreme virtue is prepared in the dark, and the deification is connected to the essence.

Prepare the records, compile the pillar history, test the previous scriptures, publish the past edicts, and list the events in the local classics, as if everything is recorded in it.

This is the power from the great divination, which is indeed "publishing the past edicts, and listing the events in the local classics".

It is like a book of life and death, but all the past destinies and possibilities of all beings without reality are recorded in it.

Everyone is in it, and all the creatures who cannot be "free" are recorded in the book.

This is the magical power of Dabu Chongnian, and it is also the help he gave to Li Qi.

Obviously, Li Shiwei is also in it.

Li Qi began to read the information in it.

This made Jing Wuzhen immediately realize that Li Qi had discovered something, and she also drew out her heavy sword and was alert to the surroundings.

Li Qi could not have activated the magical power of the third level for no reason. This level of magical power must be extremely consuming and burdensome. What on earth did he discover to play like this?

On Li Qi's side, he flipped through the book and came to Li Shiwei's page.

There are a lot of information arranged here.

Li Qi took a look, closed the book, and the magical power dissipated.

"It's not time yet--" he said to Jing Wuzhen.

"Really? Then call me when it's time." Jing Wuzhen put away the sword and completely believed in Li Qi's judgment.

Although she could see that Li Qi was very anxious at the moment and seemed to be unable to hold back, he still held back.

At the same time...

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Xuanjing Mountain, where Li Qi and his wife's cave is located.

Here, Shen Shuibi is in a closed state of death.

It has only been a dozen years now, and it is still far from the originally planned thousand years. In fact, her sorting work has just begun.

Although the law of logarithms has been discovered, it still requires hard work to calculate a usable logarithmic table according to this law.

However, Shen Shuibi has done this kind of thing before.

For example, in alchemy, the essence of many materials is quite noble, the medicinal properties are difficult to tame, and the energy and even the qi in them are very high. It is difficult to kill them in a short time with ordinary means. They must be trapped and suppressed, and they must be processed with water grinding for more than ten years, which will consume their energy and spirit, and grind the medicinal properties to death, or tire themselves to death.

If you can't hold on, then naturally a furnace of good pills will be scrapped.

Therefore, she is still quite familiar with this, and this kind of work like pulling a mill can't scare her.

However, just as Rabbit was seriously calculating the logarithmic table and the data labor was doing tedious calculations, a stray thought suddenly appeared in her mind.

This shouldn't have existed. After so many years of cultivation, she had already mastered the art of nourishing qi and calming her mind. She could even sit in meditation for hundreds of years without any disturbance in her heart. If her thoughts were tested, it might be determined that she was in a vegetative state. But in fact, her thoughts still existed and she was still awake. She could even observe and analyze the outside world, but she was just "without thoughts and without ideas".

Now it has only been more than a decade, so she shouldn't have any distracting thoughts.

Something is wrong, what's going on? Shen Shuibi began to examine her heart, trying to find the source of this distracting thought.

It would be fine if she didn't look for it. She had just started looking, and in an instant, the world around her suddenly turned black.

The black fog enveloped the surroundings, and "noise" began to sound all around.

These sounds were sometimes deafening, especially when there were those hysterical shouts, which made the brain buzz and tremble, but more often, these sounds were just quiet whispers, as quiet as the buzzing of flies or tinnitus, but no matter what kind of sound it was, it was all lingering and could not be ignored no matter what.

Cold whispers, hazy phantoms, and the fear they brought were clearly imprinted in her mind.

Shen Shuibi knew something was wrong. This was a sign of being possessed.

Something was wrong.

She did not show any signs of being possessed, and her heart was stable. When she broke through, she did a good job of preparatory work, not relying on "guessing".

Some practitioners have unstable foundations,

but Shen Shuibi was different. Her breakthrough was a natural outcome, and she would not fall into such a dangerous situation.

In other words...

Was someone plotting against her?

Realizing this, Shen Shuibi did not panic. She clasped her hands together and chanted the mantra: "Taishangtaixing, respond to changes without stopping. Exorcise evil spirits and bind demons, protect life and body. Wisdom is clear, mind is at peace. Three souls are permanent, and the spirit is not lost-"

This is the "Purifying Heart Mantra".

I have said before that ‘language’ itself is powerful. The essence of magical powers such as ‘spells’, ‘calligraphy’, ‘talismans’ and ‘blessings’ is to use language to borrow the power of certain existence through a certain ritual.

Using a technique with a history is to use the wisdom of the predecessors to bless oneself.

The same is true for the Pure Heart Mantra in front of me.

Taishang, the original meaning is the highest, "Tai Shang", that is, the three Tai stars of the Big Dipper. This sentence means to call the Taoist ancestor. "Tai Shang" exists everywhere, is omnipresent, and can adapt to changes without stopping, so it is used to awaken the power of the Taoist ancestor.

It exorcises evil spirits and binds enchantments, protects life and body, and is followed by the sentence "Tai Shang Tai Xing, adapting to the situation without stopping", which means that the Tai Shang can be sensed everywhere and is everywhere. People who sincerely practice Taoism will naturally be protected physically and mentally, and no evil spirits or ghosts will be affected. Dare to invade.

After the incantation was recited, an invisible barrier rose around Shen Shuibi.

The surrounding sounds were much quieter.

"Second-born demon, right?" Shen Shuibi looked around: "You are so brave. This is the territory of Wushen Mountain."

"It's really... keen. We have surrounded Li Qi before, and it took him a lot of time to recognize our true appearance, but you only took one look." The voice of the Second-born Demon came.

"If you are like you, it is impossible to drag me into a demon. Moreover, this is the boundary of Wushen Mountain. Your ability to penetrate your thoughts must be the limit. If you really do it... you probably can't do it. ”

"So, why did you expend so much effort, break through so many blockades, and come to me?" Shen Shuibi asked.

"To convey a message." The black mist outside moved, and the image of the secondary demon transformed into the shape of a puppy, which looked cute and cute.

"Deliver the news? Oh, you want to break my Daoist heart and force me to escape, right? It's really the style of the devil, but... it doesn't matter." Shen Shuibi did not panic, but let the other party speak directly.

"Li Shiwei was given up by the Demon Prince, and Li Qizheng was strangled by ten Demon Lords. The winning rate is slim. You have to hurry up. If it really takes a thousand years to break through, the day lilies will be cold after you get out, and it will be too late. "The Second Life Demon said this.

His voice was playful, a bit joking, not serious.

But it is normal. The secondary demons are not real demons. In fact, they have independent will and personality, and some even hate the demons.

But no matter what, they are actually the tentacles of the real "Devil", derivatives of the Demon, or it can be understood as... distracting thoughts in the mind of the Demon.

Demons are giving birth to countless demonic thoughts every moment. Some of these demonic thoughts will naturally differentiate into 'secondary demons'. Some of the more important thoughts are level four, and many small and distracting thoughts are lower. The lowest is level nine. Taste.

Generally speaking, these 'more important thoughts' are things that the devil wants to accomplish recently, similar to: "I'm so annoyed... I want to take a bath but don't want to move..." "I really want to eat the new one opened in the city center. That store, but I can’t go there.”

At this time, 'secondary demons' will naturally be born, and these secondary demons differentiated by thoughts naturally have the instinct and motivation to complete this 'obsession'.

They would take the initiative to take a shower and go to the restaurant in the city center to eat. Although the devil did not ask them at all, and maybe they were not even aware of their existence, they would indeed take the initiative to do these things, as if this was the case. Things are the purpose for which they were born.

However, it is said that after they took a bath and went to a restaurant to eat, the demon himself would not feel anything.

The secondary demons are not doing this for the demons, and the demons don't care whether they do it or not. Many distracting thoughts are just a matter of a moment. In fact, there is no word 'goal' at all.

For example, the devil sometimes caught a glimpse of a world that was peaceful and happy, and an idea came to his mind to destroy the world. Then the next second, his own chaotic thinking was immediately pulled away, and he directly put it away. This idea has been forgotten and will not be put into practice. It is just a thought similar to ordinary people's "standing on a cliff and wanting to jump off". It just suddenly appears in the mind and then turns around and forgets. .

It's such a small thing, I won't remember it at all afterwards.

But...if this world is unlucky, a secondary demon will be born, and the lifelong goal and instinct of this secondary demon is to destroy the world.

The demon himself, if he doesn't pay special attention, may not even know that a secondary demon is helping him complete this fleeting thought.

But to this world, they have a terrifying enemy for no reason. This enemy will use all means to destroy them, even if they both die together.

However, due to the unique nature of 'reality', the most powerful secondary demons are only of the fourth grade, and the third grade is inevitably unique. A large number of secondary demons are only of the ninth grade, and they are all even the demons themselves may not notice. little thought.

However, even so, it is conceivable how messed up the universe has been by the demons, and how many people have been affected by the secondary demons as numerous as the sand in the Ganges River...it is impossible to count.

And Shen Shuibi also understood that the sudden appearance of the secondary demon meant that the demon had an idea and wanted to interfere with her.

And this idea was so important that a fourth-grade secondary demon was born, which shows that the demon was really troubled by this for a while. Even if he forgot about it later, at least he still attached great importance to this idea at that time.

In other words...himself

Shen Shuibi changed her mind, looked at the secondary demon, and said, "So, your purpose is related to me, what is it?"

The secondary demon who appeared in front of Shen Shuibi chuckled and said, "Well... how should I put it, what did I see just now? You want Li Qi to know all about you, but you also want to keep some fresh secrets for yourself. Women's hearts are really hard to understand." He completely skipped Shen Shuibi's question and started a new topic. "Reading minds? What you read may not be true." Shen Shuibi said. "It doesn't matter. Whether it's true or not, it's your 'heart'. Well... my goal has been achieved." The secondary demon in front of him said. "Oh? In other words, the demon's idea at that time was to know what I was thinking, right?" Shen Shuibi keenly caught the other party's implication. "Yes, the demon really wants to know what you and Li Qi think, so I was born. Although I don't like this purpose, but... mortals will fall asleep no matter how much they don't like it. This is instinct and cannot be resisted." No matter how strong your willpower is, you can never resist the instinct of sleep with willpower, you will definitely fall asleep. The same is true for the secondary demons. No matter what their subjective consciousness is, they cannot resist the reason for their birth. They will definitely achieve this goal.

However, the advantage is... if they complete it, then the shackles will be lifted, the compulsion from their birth instinct will disappear, and they will be free.

Although they are still secondary demons and tentacles of the demons, they can decide what to do. The demons themselves basically don't care about these secondary demons.

As long as the demons don't interfere, all these secondary demons are actually free.

However... Shen Shuibi heard from Luo Fu Niangniang that some of the secondary demons will chase the demons fanatically, gather around him, and even imitate the demons' every move.

This imitation even includes self-mutilation. The demons were sealed in the formless realm by the Buddhas of Buddhism and suppressed with the Pure Law, so many secondary demons took the initiative to apply the Pure Law on themselves, just to experience the demons' feelings.

This enthusiasm also caused countless sub-born demons to surround the demon wherever he passed, as if they were surrounding the messengers of the gods.

Although neither the gods nor the messengers were very friendly.

After Shen Shuibi confirmed the identity of the sub-born demon, she suddenly stopped the Heart Purification Mantra.

"Since your purpose is to know what I am thinking, why not come over and let's have a good talk." Shen Shuibi said to the sub-born demon.