Myriad Paths

Li Qi was very curious.

What happened between the four demons in that distant ancient period?

The Death Demon absolutely treated everyone equally. No matter whether it was the Heavenly Demon, the Five Aggregates Demon or the Affliction Demon, he probably didn't want to let them go. All of them had to die.

Then, according to the relationship between the four demons, the Heavenly Demon would definitely not hesitate to step on the Death Demon. Probably, in the death of the Death Demon, the big guys from all sides made a lot of efforts.

And now, three of the four demons are extremely active. The Heavenly Demon even jumped out of the Formless Realm all day long at the risk of being beaten. It is estimated that the repeated jumping has long attracted the intervention of the Buddha.

The Five Aggregates Demon (doubtful) personally came forward to give Li Qi his true rhyme, and he used five strands at a time, and he is still active.

The Affliction Demon personally summoned the fighting force to join the battle between humans and witches, and it is unknown which side he is helping.

So, in the meantime, do you say that the practitioners of the Death Demon lineage have no intentions? Li Qi himself does not believe it.

But the question is, what are their intentions?

According to the usual guess, it should be to bring an end to all things, which is the ultimate goal of the Death Demon lineage.

If the witches want to build a natural world, and the human way wants to replace heaven with humans, then the world that the Death Demon lineage hopes for is a world with nothing.

Li Qi knows a lot about the Death Demon lineage. After all, he has disassembled and interpreted the Daoyun of the Death Demon, and therefore has gained a lot of knowledge and insights.

As a demon, they still have a clear and self-awareness. The Death Demon lineage fully understands their situation, but through the entire Dao of the Demon, they are convinced that the world is nothingness.

This world is originally meaningless and nothingness. The value and meaning of the pursuit are illusory, and this pursuit is futile.

Then, this form of manifestation of nothingness is the negation of vitality. Everything that denies the value of life in reality and makes vitality decline is the pursuit of nothingness.

This pursuit is a feeling, a sense of absurdity.

According to Li Qi's understanding of the lineage of the dead demons, they feel that the fact that they are "alive" is absurd. These thoroughgoing nihilists live in this world and feel that everything is absurd and meaningless. Everything anyone does is meaningless.

The source of this meaninglessness is actually that the world itself has no purpose and meaning of its own. As the saying goes, heaven and earth are not benevolent and treat all things as straw dogs. The world just exists there, neither good nor bad, neither sad nor happy. It is not nihilistic in itself, and the real source of the absurdity is that we humans always have to question the purpose and meaning.

Therefore, we who live in this world always project our expectations of purpose and meaning onto this world, but as we just said, the world itself has no purpose and meaning. Every time we want to ask the world for meaning, but the world has no response to us, so we always feel a deep sense of separation between our existence and the world itself, and this sense of separation is the source of nothingness.

The sense of nothingness makes the practitioners of the lineage of the dead demons feel that this world has nothing to do with me, and has nothing to do with any essence.

If the essence of the world and people is to survive, then people live just to live, and no one will commit suicide.

If the essence of the world and people is kindness, then people will be good to others when they are born, and there will be no evil in the world.

If the essence of the world and people is equal, then people who make more money will divide their money, and we will not feel the disparity in the world.

But it is obvious that people are of all kinds, and the world is the same. People have no essence.

People have all attributes, and the world also has all attributes.

So, it is equivalent to that people and the world do not actually need to have any essence or any attribute.

There will be infinite things happening in the world, and people can do infinite things, but no one has to do anything, and no world has to have anything happen.

So, since the essence of the world is nothingness, let it return to nothingness.

This statement seems very extreme, but in fact... Li Qi also has his own feelings about this.

For Li Qi, his practice is like this. Thinking itself is the root of pain. The more you think, the more painful it is.

The more you understand, the more you feel the insignificance of your life.

The outside world is like a dark continent. If you are a worm without eyes, you can only crawl for food. Although you are trapped by hunger and thirst, you can still have a little happiness.

But if you open your eyes, you will only face endless torture.

Thinking brings pain, but if you want to solve the pain, you can only think.

But that is just drinking poison to quench thirst.

You burn the light of your thinking, solve one pain, and then you will immediately face the second one.

This is like Sisyphus.

It's like pushing a boulder to the top of the mountain. Every time you reach the top of the mountain, it rolls down the mountain again, and all the previous efforts are wasted, so you keep repeating this thing endlessly.

Li Qi's journey of following the path is like this. When he reaches the level, he can only continue to pursue upward, break through once, and then pursue the next breakthrough?

Then, what the first-grade people pursue is just like this, right? What's the difference between them and Li Qi?

What's the difference between Li Qi and those seventh-grade people?

For example, love makes people happy, but in fact, as long as you love, you will feel heartache or even heartbreak.

This is destined.

From the moment you 'love', you are destined to lose love, because nothing is immortal, love will expire and deteriorate, and happiness is destined to decline from the moment it is born.

When happiness appears, it means boredom appears. When "life" appears in this world, "death" also appears.

do you love? Regardless of the answer, there is only one result, and that is failure.

Even if you win, the result is still defeat.

In a world where winning or losing means failure, what is worth pursuing?

If you want to keep your heart intact, don't love anything, but if you don't love anything, what's the use of your heart?

If I had to describe it in one sentence, it would be 'drawing the sword and looking around with a confused heart'.

I draw my sword against the world, but what's the use?

Everything points to the only ending, the only necessary ending, which is "annihilation".

Since the world itself is nothingness, let's return to true nothingness again, thus eliminating Sisyphean futility and ending all torture.

The Death Devil lineage believes that life will never have any satisfactory meaning and that all attempts are futile and illusory, then this will be a form of self-termination, which is negative and destructive to all spirits. It is a manifestation of the destruction of unpleasant ideals imposed by all things.

They want to deny and destroy a universe of total indifference.

This is part of what Li Qi learned from the Death Demon Dao Yun.

Of course, there are all kinds of people among them, and some death demon practitioners choose to kill themselves, but some still choose to help others to kill themselves.

As for the Death Demon itself...

According to Li Qi's observations and calculations, he should have both.

The Death Demon has a strong tendency to self-destruct. In other words, the Death Demon itself wants to commit suicide, even as a first-class person. In fact, Li Qi believed that the death of the original Death Demon was probably his own choice.

The Death Demon is not a fool. Doesn’t he know the consequences of declaring war on the entire universe?

Not to mention that it was the 'Great Controversy' at that time, a super-large-scale chaos caused by the incident of Chuan Dao Tian Xia.

The emperors, saints, shamans, gods, true immortals, Buddha, and even the great sages of the monster clan and the four demons will all preach in person, and everyone can listen, and there is almost no threshold.

All orthodox traditions are preached selflessly, and everyone can obtain the orthodox inheritance.

There are no arduous entrance tests or anything like that. The precious knowledge from Yipin has been widely spread throughout the universe, and everyone's cultivation speed is astonishingly fast.

Under such circumstances, the Death Demon still brazenly set off the destruction of the entire universe. This was probably driven by the urge to destroy the whole world, but also had a strong tendency to self-destruct.

Anyone can die, but there has to be something to die for anyway.

The final outcome is also known, and the Death Demon has disappeared since then.

And that era also ended because of this.

After all, the birth of that era was ultimately due to the attempts of the first-class people.

Yipin has the ability to reshape all realities. Therefore, during that period, there was unlimited energy, all heavenly materials and earthly treasures were at your fingertips, and all cultivation qualifications were complete. Even if you were born in that period, you could enjoy the opportunity to reach the end of the world in one step. of wonders.

However, this is not a 'natural' state. In fact, this prosperity is based on many first-class people actively spending their own power to maintain the world.

‘Haotian’, who is known for his gentleness, did not participate in this operation, but ‘Taiyi’ was very interested in it.

But the final outcome is well known.

With everything, the best resources, all the genius in the universe has not been wasted, everything is perfect, and everyone can grow in the way that suits them best.

But all this resulted in an epic Taoist struggle. The nine forces in the nine lands of the world were divided into 511 groups, attacking each other and fighting indiscriminately.

Nowadays, it is just a chaotic war between the three families of humans, wizards and dragons, and the universe has become like this. You can imagine what a war of that intensity was like back then.

Therefore, at that time, the power of the Death Demon was directly catalyzed to the extreme.

When this happens, the great leaders have to sigh. Even if they have all this, it does not mean that all living beings have wisdom and freedom.

Ultimately, they chose another path, that of inspiring more people through ‘diversity’.

A perfect world may not be perfect, but a diverse world should be exciting.

Therefore, in the current universe, there are miserable people and happy people, painful people and happy people.

Creatures with advanced intelligence will experience various situations and gain inspiration from them.

Whether there are few resources or many resources, they are essentially the same, they are all experiences. Experience and knowledge will turn into the accumulation of life, and then ignite the fire of thought.

Only the spark ignited by everything that one has witnessed throughout his life can illuminate the dark path of pursuing the path.

However, Li Qi was still very curious.

The realm of desire is a collection of projections of all reality, a soup of chaos formed by the condensed thoughts of all living beings.

So, what was the realm of desire like in that era?

What kind of desire realm will the desires of sentient beings at that time create?

Therefore, in this case... Li Qi may be able to touch the secrets of the Desire Realm by using his current method to explore the Desire Realm, and find past stories from the many directions of the Desire Realm.

Li Qi just did this, thinking, and constantly 'traversing' the entire desire world.

In this process, he sows seeds and spreads the concept of "nothingness", while also witnessing everything in the world of desire.

This work lasted four thousand and five hundred years.

Li Qi had never felt that time was so easy to pass. He obviously wanted to finish it quickly and go back. However, just by accident, thousands of years were wasted.

There is indeed a reason why the powerful ones have not appeared for a long time. Everything they have to do requires a lot of time and energy.

For example, if Li Qi wants to complete his plan now, then thousands of years have already been the result of his super overtime work, and it seems that there is still no end in sight.

Hmm... While maintaining things here, send a dharma body to find Shen Shuibi.

Miss my wife.

Moreover, I am also a little curious about what the little brat has developed into.

Although he could rely on deduction, Li Qi wanted to see with his own eyes.

Therefore, he separated a Dharma body and temporarily returned to the world at the cost of reducing his work efficiency.

In fact, the cost is not only reduced work efficiency, but also certain dangers.

The current Li Qi is not 'complete' in the world of desire.

Incompleteness is a disadvantage in battles at the same level. This is one of the reasons why Li Qi never wanted to go back.

But I couldn't help it.

Think about it, no one will take advantage of this opportunity to take action, right? After all, the Demonic Way has always had a neglectful attitude towards itself, and the Demonic Way above the third level all revolves around Li Qi.

At the same time, the Xuanjing Mountain Cave Mansion is located in the world.

As soon as the Dharmakaya arrived here, Li Qi felt an unknown aura.

Although the surrounding mountains and clear waters are still beautiful, the sun is shining brightly, and it seems that nothing has changed, there is a faint feeling of melancholy surrounding the surroundings.

The dark power lingered in the atmosphere of the mountain. Although mortals could not see it, it seemed particularly heavy to Li Qi.

But the next moment, this dark and melancholy atmosphere was swept away.

Because Li Qi is here.

Shen Shuibi turned into a stream of light and rushed out of the cave, hugging Li Qi.

"You bastard... you didn't even come back and left without even saying a word. The first thing I did when I came out of seclusion, Teacher Zhu told me that you went to the Realm of Desire..." Shen Shuibi held Li Qi tightly, and the calm and cold beauty was at this moment. Gritting his teeth.

"Don't you think this is okay? Where is Shi Wei?" Li Qi smiled.

"I locked her lute bone, which is under the root of the mountain." Rabbit replied. (End of chapter)