Myriad Paths

What does a hot battle at the third level look like?

It's actually quite straightforward.

Because, for 'metaphysical' existences, even 'history' itself is not heavy enough in front of the third grade, and reality will change because of their appearance.

Ideas and reality will influence each other, which is also a manifestation of Taoist Yin-Yang Tai Chi.

The positive and negative are combined into one, such as talking about life and death, survival, success and failure, gains and losses, benefits and harms, blessings and misfortune, right and wrong, right and wrong, right and wrong. All.

Although it is said: "The metaphysical is called Tao, and the metaphysical is called utensils." However, in fact, Tao and utensils are also integrated into one body. The upper and lower forms are actually two ends, and the form is the center. The so-called holding it From both ends, when talking about things, we must talk about things, when talking about tools, we must talk about Tao, just as when talking about heaven, we must talk about earth, and when talking about virtue, we must talk about karma.

In this way, the above and below must be summed up to see that they are integrated into one body, and that all things in the world are subject to endless changes. Therefore, the true meaning of "Tao" can be seen in this endless change.

In other words, the battle of the ‘Tao’ of the third graders will be intuitively reflected in the material world.

It is also normal. When the Tao changes, the universe will naturally change accordingly.

But in an abstract sense, there is no ‘battlefield’ in this battle, because both sides are affecting the fine-tuning of the entire reality.

For any kind of possible life like Third Grade, the space scope limited by physical constants is too narrow, and they compete head-on by promoting changes and repairing the laws of reality that all living beings rely on to survive.

For example, Li Qi, he is now directly interfering with the physical properties of the universe on a large scale to accomplish what he wants.

At this moment, the universe 'shrank' up.

As we all know, under normal circumstances, except for several macroscopic dimensions, three dimensions of space and one dimension of time, most of the other dimensions of the universe are extremely small, curled up on extremely tiny scales.

This curled-up dimension, one of them, unfolds.

After it is unfolded, it should be relatively large, about a millimeter.

Think of the dimensions unfolding at this moment as a blanket woven from the fabric of space and time. It stretches billions of light years into the past, is as wide, and is only a millimeter thick.

Kind of like the pages of a book.

And therefore, the unfolded dimensions became the center line, and the universe itself began to fold, using the previously unfolded dimensions as the crease.

Numerous worlds and creatures will not feel anything. For them, changes in dimensions will not cause any changes in their own existence, and it is even impossible to detect them, because they are in the book, and the book is open. Whether they are written together or co-written does not affect them at all.

As an ant crawling on a Möbius strip, whether the Möbius strip is open or curled up does not affect the world in his eyes, nor does it affect its continuous crawling.

However, for those outside the Möbius strip, it can be clearly felt that the structure of the universe has changed.

This change directly resulted in the inability to communicate energy due to the folding of the universe.

Among the many basic forces, only 'gravity' can propagate to other dimensions. Other forces cannot cross dimensions. They can only propagate between matter, and matter relies on the spatial dimension as a guide to move.

So, in this expanded dimension, gravity is strengthened.

In this dimension, the intensity of gravity is a billion times stronger than in normal places.

Even something as tiny as a human being can produce a significant gravitational field. A person standing opposite another person can feel the gravitational pull generated by the other person.

Everyone is like this, and celestial mechanics is even more ridiculous. If the solar system is moved here, the new gravity will instantly accelerate the earth's rotation speed to seventeen minutes per revolution like a spinning top.

Such a situation can almost instantly crush all celestial bodies into 'ruins', and in fact this is indeed the case.

Massive ruins collapsed and were born.

Then, gravity replaced electromagnetism.

Gravity is the weakest force at short distances, so electromagnetic force plays the main role in the bodies of living beings. However, in the dimensions that are unfolding at this moment, a large number of gravitational forces plus a billion times of gravity directly lead to the combination through gravity. Macromolecules of matter together... it's a completely different form of creation.

It is not composed of electromagnetic force, nor strong force, nor weak force, but a compound brought entirely by gravity.

Based on the new rules of gravitational chemistry, it is incredibly tight.

But through the special properties of gravity, that is, the fact that gravity can spread to all dimensions, Li Qi's power spread to all dimensions through the strengthened gravity.

In the next moment, gravity has spread to the entire desire world. Without anyone's intervention, gravity's ability to ignore dimensions has been brought into full play.

In the void, the body of a third-grade man was directly shattered.

Just now, Li Qi found his traces by folding the universe and using the gravitational disturbance when the universe folded.

However, after the opponent was shattered, he quickly recovered.

To be precise, he wasn't dead at all.

"Oh... Immortality is different from mine." Li Qi immediately noticed the difference between himself and the other party. The paths of both sides were different, and the sources of immortality were also different.

Li Qi's immortality comes from the fact that he is now a fundamental part of reality.

The so-called metaphysical is the clear and intangible. The vessel has success and failure, but the intangible is contained in the vessel to be used. It has never been successful, nor can it be destroyed. The vessel is worn out, but the Tao has never ceased.

If we use the metaphor of heaven's movement of things, spring and summer are life, and autumn and winter are death. The vitality of autumn and winter is hidden in the earth. The branches and leaves are dry, but the roots are strong. It is not that autumn and winter are eliminated and there is nothing left.

The essence of "spring and autumn" will not disappear because of the rotation of a year.

The hot and humid air of a steamer is flourishing and must go somewhere. If the cover is tight, it will be stagnant and not dispersed. These things will transform into each other. It seems that no one knows where to go, but they will return to the earth. But in fact, the flames that have been ignited will be extinguished and become flames, smoke, and ashes. However, the wood will still be wood, the water will still be water, and the earth will still be earth. It's just that they are faint and invisible.

Matter gathers and forms, and disperses and returns to the void. Qi is still qi.

Gathering and visible, dispersing and invisible, how can its body be unsatisfactory and false?

Therefore, gathering is also my body, dispersing is also my body, knowing that death is not extinction, can talk about nature.

This is the source of Li Qi's immortality.

But the other party is not like this.

"So fast, really amazing, and so sensitive, just touch and find the difference, still investigating my way, but... it's okay to tell you." A voice came to Li Qi's ears.

To be precise, this is not a voice, but a message.

"Things are like this, let alone those who are intangible and cannot be imagined. There has never been a hard-earned accumulation of years, and once it all turns into nothing, it is clear, so we say coming and going, bending and stretching, gathering and dispersing, and living and dead, but not talking about birth and death."

Li Qi frowned: "Oh, this is overturning the foundation of Buddhism. If you say so, you are not a demon."

Buddha and demons have a lot of similarities in their foundations. The two are similar to human witches. Although their views are completely opposite, they are actually built on the same foundation.

"Birth and death are just the vulgar sayings of Buddhism. If it is said that everything is dispersed without any residue, then where is the place where the Taiji is received and returned to in the chaos? It is also said that the creation is renewed every day without using its cause, but I am different. In this Taixu, I have obtained this endlessness, and I will eventually die but not be exhausted. This is the immortality beyond you." This third-grade person answered.

"Well... then, why do you want to stop me?" Li Qi just nodded, and then continued to fight with the other party, while asking the reason.

He has realized that this is the difference between the two cognitions of the origin of the universe being "existence" and "non-existence", which is actually the idea of ​​the Chongyou faction in the "dispute between existence and non-existence".

Is there a fundamental ultimate existence above the heaven and earth? This is something that many Taoist views are contradictory.

Based on the immortality of the other party, coupled with his contempt for the Buddha and the devil, then Li Qi can draw a conclusion.

The other party is not the devil, but the spirit!

He was indeed somewhat surprised. He did not expect that after making trouble in the Desire Realm for a long time, it was not the demons who came to stop him, but the spirits who were obviously not concerned.

It happened so fast that it seemed that a long time had passed, and even the real universe of the Desire Realm was folded by Li Qi with gravity as the center line, but in fact, all this happened within ten picoseconds.

Then, these ten picoseconds.

It was retraced.

Everything, everything, did not happen.

Then, it was repeated again.

Then, retracing.

Repeat, retracing, repeat, retracing, repeat, retracing——

In these ten picoseconds, the basic structure of the universe, the sudden change of yin and yang, death and life, ancient and modern, all reversed back and forth thousands of times.

But these thousands of times added up to less than one millisecond.

The attack and defense continued in this millisecond. Whether it was Li Qi or the other party, their carriers were shattered hundreds of times. This was simply "mutual instant kill".

As long as the opponent touches it, it means the death of the physical body. When the physical body collapses, it will inevitably need to use the "Tao" of the main body to reshape it, because a carrier that exists in reality is necessary to interfere with reality and perform magic. Even if it is not a physical body, it must interfere with reality in other ways.

It's just that Li Qi is more accustomed to the physical body, while the opponent constructs his own way of interfering with the world in a way similar to "pure spirit".

In this process, both sides are constantly understanding each other through fluctuations and information, and analyzing and understanding their enemies' cognition and construction of the origin of the world in repeated attacks and defenses.

For the battle of the third rank, physical destruction is fine, anyway, it has no effect.

The key is to really find the loopholes in the opponent's cognitive system in constructing the world.

However, since they have reached the third rank, their strict structure is impossible to find flaws easily, so this kind of hot war will inevitably develop to "beat you until you have flaws". In terms of specific performance, it is to create all kinds of extreme environments that you are good at, and then find the "paradox" in the opponent's interpretation in the extreme environment.

For example, the super gravity brought by Li Qi's folded universe, and the use of gravity to replace the aggregation of compounds, is an extreme environment, which is to test whether the other party can interpret this situation. If it cannot be done or the interpretation is problematic, then Li Qi will launch an attack from this aspect.

This is what both sides did in retrospect.

After thousands of attempts, they not only had super gravity, but also had many problems such as star tides, chaos soup, abnormal constants, etc.

Sometimes it is the summation of harmonic series that cannot take values, and sometimes it is the analytic continuation that cannot be expressed. If the old laws no longer hold, then what is the new way of operating in the fields originally constrained by them?

This is the kind of war Li Qi and the spiritual Taoist in front of him are engaged in.

This cannot even be described, because they are constantly reshaping reality every moment, and the creatures in the Desire Universe are not aware of this at all.

Because... when reality is reshaped, they will be reshaped too.

They cannot realize that they have changed because in their eyes, there is no change at all.

This is how the universe should be, and this is how it is naturally.

A world originally dominated by a white king, and then suddenly, the world line was reshaped and replaced by a black king.

So, in the eyes of the Black King, he has ruled the world from the beginning and has nothing to do with the White King. What is that?

Although it only appeared in their world for a second, in terms of 'setting', this is how it is.

Because of the setting, past memories are also given. Although the beginning of their lives only officially appeared a second ago, and all the past is fiction, in their own eyes, this is obviously not the case.

You must stand at level 4 or above to see all this, otherwise you will only think that you are 'real'.

This is the difference in reality.

A world suddenly appeared in the void, with a complete history and inheritance. Everyone has their own memories, but these memories... did they really happen? How do they ensure that they were not created just a second ago?

This difference in reality is the reason why a large number of fifth-grade Taoist minds collapse when they touch the fourth-grade.

Only now did Li Qi truly realize... If the battle of the third level is not restricted, how big the impact will be and how many will be affected...?

The battle between Li Qi and this unknown third-level existence has reshaped the universe of Desire Realm thousands of times. Not a single innocent person has died as a result, but they have been constantly distorted, and it is even difficult to describe whether they are still their original selves...

All existence seemed so nihilistic. Everything these creatures clung to and loved was wiped out and reshaped by the power of the third grade, but they knew nothing about it.

So, if we speculate from this perspective, in the material reality universe, the reason why the war did not turn out like this and allowed everything to develop stably... I am afraid there is only one reason.

God.

It is the gods who protect this world.

But there are no gods in the world of desire.

The demons are too lazy to care at the moment.

So the battle will only continue to spread to the mortal world.

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