Myriad Paths

Just when Li Qi was about to close the rift, he suddenly felt a wave of will coming behind him.

There was no animosity, though.

Moreover, the surrounding time has also stopped, and all matter is fixed.

Unable to move, the material has been locked.

The only thing that can move is the mind.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to intervene, time has stopped." A voice came from behind Li Qi.

The voice was weird, and I couldn't tell the gender, but it sounded nice and had a crispness like music.

Because time has stagnated, Li Qi's own body and cultivation have also been stopped. In other words... he can't move now. The 'time' of the material world has pressed the pause button here.

It's simply appalling power.

You know, this is not as simple as it sounds, although it seems not simple... But now, the time of reality and thinking are misaligned.

All movements in the real world have come to a standstill. Whether it is absolute zero or "entropy has reached its maximum", in short, the internal energy has returned to zero and matter has become stagnant, but at the same time, thinking has not stagnated.

Time is still passing in his mind, reality and thinking are completely misaligned, and Li Qi can't even figure out what the principle is.

How can it be?

From a subjective perspective, there are actually two timelines? Although Li Qi knew the existence of relative time, this was too relative!

Li Qi suppressed the shock in his heart and wanted to mobilize his perception and Zhenzhiyun to look back and see what was talking to him.

"Don't look, you can't see me, or...you will never know what 'I' is." The voice said.

"Senior... came to look for me, why?" Li Qi calmed down and asked.

There should be no hostility, otherwise, there will definitely be a corresponding first-class person taking action now. He is watched by the Witch God, and the first-class people themselves will be wary of each other, so that if one moves, the others will remain silent.

You must know that the devil has paid a huge price to come to you. There is no reason why others should not pay.

"You are very talented, and I want to impart some knowledge to you." The voice said.

Following the other party's words, Li Qi's mind was also running rapidly.

Who is going to come suddenly at this time?

"Don't think so much, I am... the five-aggregate demon." The voice said.

If Li Qi's heart hadn't stopped now, his heartbeat would have stopped immediately.

First grade, five-aggregate demon.

Damn it, the devil really has a grudge against me.

What are you doing? One of the four demons actually came to see me in person and said that I was very talented...

You can't say it's wrong, Li Qi himself knows that no matter what, he can actually be regarded as a 'genius'.

"Don't think too much. As I said, I have no hostility. I just suddenly discovered your existence. It's so dangerous... I took over a drop of my blood when I was at level seven, and then nothing happened. I even got angry because of it. And having gained the ability to see through the Five Aggregations and receive information directly with his mind, Li Qi... No wonder the Heavenly Demon likes you so much, I started to like you a little bit too," the voice of the Five Aggregates Demon said.

Unlike Tianmo's bewitching and seductive tone, Wuyun Demon's tone sounds very 'normal', just like a rational, objective and calm netizen typing with you.

However, it still made Li Qi couldn't help but shudder, even though his physical body didn't move at all.

"Senior is joking, what virtue can I have..." Li Qi's thinking was a little stiff, and his words were a little dry.

"No, you can. Don't worry. As I said before, I have no hostility and I'm not going to ask you to bear anything. I just want to tell you some knowledge."

"Do you know what is the most important thing in this world?"

"senior……"

"Answer my question, this is a first-level teaching. You should understand what an opportunity it is, right?" said the Five Yun Demon.

Li Qi wanted to take a deep breath to relieve the tension, but unfortunately he couldn't. He could only simulate this action in his mind, and then forced himself to calm down.

Don't care about whether the other person is a first-class person, just listen to the other person's knowledge.

As if he felt that Li Qi's state of mind had calmed down, Wuyun Demon asked again: "Then... tell me, what is the most important thing in this world."

"It's the essence, which is the 'Tao' that exists before all existence." Li Qi replied.

"This is the view of witchcraft and Taoism. The 'Tao' of Taoism and the 'nature' of witchcraft both exist before everything else." The Five Aggregates Demon did not crazyly think that subjective consciousness is everything, but seriously and Li Qi started to analyze.

"The reason why Taoism is called 'Taomen' is that they use the virtual 'ultimate road' as a guide. The shamans integrated this view and proposed that 'Tao follows nature'. In essence, you are at this point There is a common ground, so there is no dispute between Taoism and Wu Jin, and the relationship is very good. It is also because of this that you and your wife can get along well. "

"But can you recognize that essence?" The Five Aggregates Demon asked: "Has Li Dao analyzed this issue?"

Li Qi was a little surprised by how organized the Five Yun Demon was. He originally thought that all demons were mentally ill, but the Five Yun Demon spoke too logically.

It's completely like a normal person, not a demon. It may even be the 'Five Aggregate Demon', one of the four ultimate beings of the demon.

Yes, Li Qi still doesn't fully believe that the other party is the Five Yun Demon. If he says it is, then that's it? Li Qi also said that he was a witch god, but he could still bluff people of seventh and eighth grades who couldn't tell whether he was a witch god or not.

However, Li Qi did not stop answering, but said: "Yes, Li Dao has given the answer."

Li Dao's understanding of the 'ultimate avenue' is actually very simple, that is, 'there is no ultimate avenue', or in other words, 'the ultimate avenue is unknowable'.

Because there is no limit to "why". Even if you find the "ultimate avenue", you can continue to ask: "Why is there the ultimate avenue?"

As long as you keep asking, this question will have no solution. Unless there is an answer that is completely logically complete and can solve all self-referential problems and agnosticism in any form instead of ignoring them, only then can it prove the ultimate way. existence, or in other words, proves itself to be the ultimate avenue.

The nature of this question is difficult. The key is, how to make a question answer itself?

This is not the previous question. For example, if a book contains all the books in the universe, does this book contain itself?

If it contains itself, then it means that part of this book also contains all the books in the universe, and then this part also contains all the books in the universe.

The recursion goes on infinitely.

Shen Shuibi gave the answer to this question, which is 'fractal'. Local self-similarity is possible. A pattern with infinite details can achieve 'one is whole, and whole is one'. The characteristics of a certain part are the infinite whole. all characteristics.

However, if the problem is slightly modified.

Becomes: “One answer answers all questions, so what’s the problem with that answer?”

An answer that answers all questions, what is his question?

So, how does this ‘answer’ answer this ‘question’?

All of a sudden, it got stuck again.

This is natural. If it is not stuck, it means that the ultimate avenue has been found.

It is precisely because it is not found that it is stuck.

Li Qi shook his head and said: "This question is meaningless at the moment. Unless all questions are exhausted and then this answer can be answered, there is no way to prove that this answer can answer all questions."

"You are right, this question itself is meaningless, because there is no magical power that can exhaust all questions, so this question cannot be verified." The Five Aggregates Demon said.

"It is precisely because of this that you should realize that in this universe, what is important is never the essence or appearance, but the 'interpretation'."

After Wuyun Demon finished speaking, he did not continue.

Because it's enough.

Li Qi's talent and understanding can definitely be understood.

If he cannot understand, then he is not worthy of the Five Aggregates Demon to continue talking.

Li Qi, on the other hand, was suddenly stunned.

What matters is not the essence, nor the appearance, but the ‘interpretation’.

What is the nature of this world and is it important? What is the world we see like, and does it matter?

For example, the event 'saw a red light' occurred.

What is the nature of red light? Is it ‘red’, or ‘electromagnetic waves of a specific wavelength’, or ‘hot’, or some extended meaning like ‘sun’?

There is no way to investigate the essence of red light. Just like what was demonstrated before, no matter how you explore the essence, you will eventually find that it is nothing and endless "why". The reason is because of this answer. And gave up chasing the ultimate avenue.

So, what is the appearance of red light?

Is it ‘red’? Or something else?

No, it actually doesn't matter, because for the five aggregates demon, just twisting the five aggregates slightly, the red light will turn into blue light, maybe even into an apple or an orange.

Yes, twisting the five aggregates and twisting information into another form is what the five aggregates demon lineage is best at.

So, for the five skandhas demon lineage.

I saw a red light. Is this red light real?

Li Qi thought for a while.

The answer turned out to be: yes!

No matter what, to your subjective consciousness, the red light is real.

I saw red light, and that was red light. Even if I was actually color-blind, or my mind had been distorted by the demon of five aggregates, to my subjective consciousness, that was red light.

In the same way, the same is true in this world.

How I perceive this world is what this world is like.

My cognition is what this world looks like, because no matter what the nature of this world is, it can only enter my subjective consciousness in the way of being "cognized by me".

This is ‘the important thing is not the performance, nor the essence, but the ‘interpretation’. ’

The most important thing in this world is how "I" "interpret" this world.

Why seek the ultimate avenue?

Just because I want to interpret this world.

Looking at it this way, the five-aggregate demon lineage is extremely insane!

What they pursue is not the interpretation of objective reality, but the interpretation of their own subjective will!

Therefore, what the Five Aggregates Demon distorts is not the human senses, but the interpretation of the world by ‘consciousness’, and takes the interpretation of the world into their own hands, so...the world is left to their final say.

There is no such extreme and crazy self-centeredness as the devil.

It is not as violent and destructive as the death demon.

but……

That feeling of being aloof, self-centered, and treating the world as a toy in one's hands is not weak at all.

Sure enough, it is still the devil's way.

However, Li Qi couldn't figure out why the Five Yun Demon came to him.

"Senior... I understand your conclusion, but I'm afraid I can't agree with it for the time being." Li Qi said.

"I don't need your approval. I just told you all this. By the way, let me give you another gift." said the existence who claimed to be the five aggregates demon.

Then, Li Qi suddenly felt that there were five more strands of his 'True Knowing Rhyme'.

There were five strands in total, even more than Li Qi had held before.

"This thing can make you directly aware of the existence of 'information', and also allow you to understand the so-called 'interpretation' more intuitively. It's a very good thing. For you... it can be regarded as returning the thing to its original owner." Wu Yun The devil said so.

The next moment, time begins to flow.

Everything has returned to normal.

Li Qi was finally able to move, which made him unable to help but look back.

Looking back, there was nothing, everything seemed like it had never happened.

But... I really know the rhyme, and the intensity has increased... probably, to the fifth power.

That's right, it's a multiplication, not a fivefold increase, but an increase to the fifth power.

Li Qi unfolded his true knowledge, just for a moment, this Tao rhyme... No, this is not just the level of Tao rhyme, this is a usable 'Tao principle'!

The so-called "Tao Yun" is actually the manifestation of the world, wonders, magic weapons, or the remains of the "Tao" of high-level practitioners.

And a complete avenue is the embodiment of a practitioner's life.

Although the true knowledge in Li Qi's hands does not reach the level of a complete avenue, it has already broken away from the level of 'dao rhyme'. It is no longer a wreck. If you have to describe it... it should be called 'part'.

"Part of it?" Li Qi couldn't help but sigh, feeling that true knowledge was spreading infinitely in the world of desire, and he could easily obtain hundreds of times more information than before.

Moreover, it seems that it can continue to expand without reaching the limit at all. The reason why it only expands to a hundred times is because Li Qi can only process so much information for the time being.

It was Li Qi who reached the limit, not Zhenzhi.

So, if it is complete ‘true knowledge’, what is the effect?

Demonic way, what do you think? (End of chapter)