Myriad Paths

In a separate courtyard of Taixue.

The two of them were talking and moving, heading towards Lord Blight's residence.

They were talking about their cultivation matters, and both of them were very anxious, because it was all related to their promotion below.

However, Lord Ying is different from Li Qi. He is not allocated housing in Chang'an because he needs to be strictly controlled in his scope of action. After all... even if he doesn't want to, some of the traces he misses will have huge consequences for ordinary people. threaten.

After all, he is also a seventh-grade person, and is a very powerful existence for ordinary people. Although he doesn't look like much in the Tang Kingdom, that's because this is the fairy world.

And in the fairy world... there are also mortals, so King Yin was restricted by Taixue.

Yes, theoretically speaking, these are not entities.

Now the two of them are going to the body of Lord Blight. Only in that place can Li Qi really start to adjust Lord Blight's physical problems.

"Classmate Li, this limit you are talking about is the source of my power? Why can't I still see it? How do I measure this thing?" Lord Yin asked Li Qi as he walked.

"This method can only be understood but cannot be explained in words. I also risked a narrow escape by injecting the demonic blood of the five aggregates into the five aggregates to obtain this method of observing and calculating boundaries. If I didn't have magical powers like clairvoyance, It’s very difficult to do that,” Li Qi said.

"Indeed... if it is too simple, it will be abnormal." Lord Yin nodded, feeling a little helpless.

Li Qi looked at Lord Bane. To be honest, he was a little surprised.

Mr. Epidemic is really... too normal.

As a virus aggregate, he is a bit too friendly, ordinary, and ordinary, and is even cautiously restraining his own abilities to prevent the endless plague from spreading.

However, it was obvious that he had been troubled by this.

Li Qi already knew the specific situation of Lord Epidemic in previous exchanges.

A piece of flesh and blood the size of a fist can gather hundreds of billions of viruses. Such a large number cannot be commanded by an arm. He himself cannot control the escape of countless powers, so he can only lock his body in A corner of Taixue was sealed with a formation to avoid endless trouble.

And the solution to this... happens to be Li Qiyou.

Just by dividing the boundaries between groups and individuals, and then controlling a large group as a single unit, you can greatly reduce the amount of operations required, and you can better control the body.

But the problem is, it’s hard to…

This large group must be exactly within the boundary between the individual and the group in order to complete the manipulation. So how to find this boundary?

Exhaustive?

There are trillions of viruses at every turn, how can we exhaust them all?

If the difference is only in quantity, then adding a little or subtracting a little is still acceptable. In this way, it won't take long to find a barely controllable range.

However, density and arrangement, and even individual strength, are also important basis for judgment.

Two people can be regarded as partners and judged as a whole, but if two people are thousands of miles apart, they can only be considered as two individuals.

But if two people are very strong, reaching the fifth or sixth level, thousands of miles away is just within reach for them, and they can still be regarded as a whole.

Under these various factors, exhaustive enumeration is almost an impossible task. This is a nearly infinite number of arrangements, which can only be optimized through algorithms, but cannot be forced to exhaustive by exploding computing power.

Lord Blight now also has some achievements, otherwise he would not be able to control his existing power, but these achievements cannot support his 'perfect' control of power, and some will still be leaked.

And Li Qi has a perfect method. He can use algorithms to calculate where this subtle limit is. Even if King Blight's control power is not enough and he can't do it, at least he has a direction to work towards and can gather his strength bit by bit. .

In exchange for this, Li Qi's request was that Lord Blight should tell Li Qi his thoughts on 'self', and both sides would get what they needed.

Facing the friendly Lord Epidemic, Li Qi said: "In order to show sincerity, I will help you adjust your body first. If it is possible, you can tell me your point of view."

"Actually, there is nothing to hide. Even if Mr. Li doesn't do this for me and asks me directly, I won't hide it. It's not a big deal." Lord Ying said.

"It's just that I won't be able to explain clearly here for a while. I still need to wait until you see my true body before you can understand my thoughts. Otherwise, my mouth will be clumsy and it will be difficult to express it."

"It doesn't matter, it's just these few steps." Li Qi said with a smile.

While talking, the two came to a house in Taixue.

Li Qi immediately realized that this house... was the entrance to a cave.

Does the body of Lord Plague need a cave to contain it? That's pretty awesome.

The two walked into the cave side by side, and the scene in front of them changed. In front of Li Qi... the boundless sea appeared.

There is an endless sea all around, and not even an inch of land can be seen. However, Li Qi can fly, so he is suspended in the sky, looking around to observe the situation around him.

This is...a planet?

Li Qi visually measured the arcs in the distance. Although they were all seas, as long as he looked far enough, he could calculate the arcs and then calculate the area of ​​the circle. Then he calculated the diameter of the circle, which is the diameter of the planet, and estimated the hole in the sky. the size of.

A simple calculation shows that the diameter of this planet is almost seven thousand miles, which is about the size of the moon.

Then... how deep is the sea under your feet?

Li Qi stretched out his hand, pinched out a ray of gold energy, and looked down.

The speed of gold energy is extremely fast, far exceeding the speed of sound, but it can't be detected for a while!

"This sea is about two thousand miles deep. Except for a rock core, the only thing in this cave is this water." Lord Yin next to him explained.

Li Qi nodded to express his understanding.

Well... there's a lot of water here.

Already hundreds of times more than the ocean on Earth.

"So, your true body?" Li Qi asked.

"The sea below is my true body." King Yin said.

Later, Li Qi saw with his own eyes that King Bian's body suddenly disintegrated again.

He 'died' again.

The countless viruses that made up the body dispersed and then fell into the sea.

Immediately afterwards, Li Qi immediately understood what he meant.

The sea became restless.

The endless sea water begins to surge!

The heavy rain fell without warning, and incredibly huge waves began to roll, far exceeding the so-called 'mad dog waves'.

Every wave is as high as Mount Everest. There are tens of thousands of such waves, spinning around Li Qi constantly!

Under these signs, Li Qi faintly discovered that there was a subtle fluorescence in the huge waves.

Immediately, this little bit of fluorescence began to flood.

The entire ocean began to glow.

A scene so beautiful that you can't take your eyes away.

The sky is bright and dim, and the cold jade is soaked into the curling kettle.

The vast expanse of clear waves is as clear as water, and the light penetrates the purple microwave, which is soothing to the heart.

Li Qi's eyesight could only see light in the water, which seemed like a dream, but fortunately, You Zhen knew Yun and could see subtle things, and he could clearly see the light source.

It was a small insect in the water.

Endless bugs.

These bugs are different and have different shapes. The big ones eat the smaller ones, the smaller ones eat the smaller ones, and the smaller ones are responsible for photosynthesis. Countless plankton-like bugs form a food web by themselves.

There are even some photosynthesizers that condense together to form a set of underwater forests similar to coral reefs.

Along with the rolling waves, Li Qi could also see that there were no 'fish' or other similar life forms in the entire sea, not even seaweed.

Everything happens among these glowing bugs.

And these bugs themselves are completely different. They produce and eat each other. They have a complete food chain with producers, consumers and decomposers.

This is not a cluster, but an... much more complex, interdependent, and coexisting ecosystem!

However, they are not big, they are just plankton.

But these plankton have a common 'will'. These countless plankton and countless 'viruses' of different shapes together form the existence of 'Epidemic King'.

Li Qi immediately understood what the situation was like without even needing to explain.

No wonder... He said that he was clumsy and it was difficult to describe the scene. He hoped that Li Qi would come to his body and see for himself.

I see.

This situation is indeed difficult to describe in ordinary words.

So... majestic.

A whole ecosystem larger than the entire earth.

There are algae-like viruses that float in shallow sea areas and can photosynthesize, taking on the role of producers.

There are viruses that lie on the seabed and continental shelves, surviving on sediment and marine snow debris.

There are predatory viruses like copepods that can hunt on their own and eat other viruses, assuming the role of predators.

There are also viruses floating in the deep sea that are happy with the situation.

There are also deeper and more terrifying deep ocean bottoms than the deep sea. Those in the desperate situation of life rely on the energy emitted by the planet to mutate, with cultivation and level of 'viruses'.

The ocean of this planet is two thousand miles deep. It is in the darkest seabed, in the absolute darkness where even the sunlight cannot penetrate. The 'little bugs' there have generally begun to possess cultivation. They began to use the geographical location to sift and struggle in the cruel environment, and then transformed with the help of spiritual energy, becoming "spiritual beasts" with grades.

However, after all, the virus is still too small. Even if it becomes a spiritual beast, it cannot have true intelligence. It can only be said to have basic instincts.

So... the 'Epidemic King' came into being.

Li Qi had already guessed what happened in the seventh-grade world in Lord Yin's hometown.

That hometown is probably divided into two parts: the continent and the sea.

The life on the continent was eventually devoured by the "plankton" or viruses from the ocean in a long struggle.

The common will of these plankton, that is, King Yin, was noticed by the world, and was eventually transferred to Chang'an as a whole and became a student of Taixue.

Why can Li Qi be sure that these plankton are viruses?

Because now he can also feel some kind of erosion, coming from the instinct of Lord Plague, the forces that escape from his control and are oppressing Li Qi's physical body, trying to infect him, turning his flesh and blood into nutrients for these plankton. .

Although with his seventh-level cultivation, King Yin couldn't shake him even a little bit.

But Li Qi was still amazed.

But while he was surprised, he also noticed what happened to Lord Blight's 'self'.

There is no need to explain at all. For a smart person like Li Qi, witnessing it with his own eyes is worth a thousand words.

King Blight... doesn't have a so-called 'mind' at all.

Li Qi believed that the "spiritual entity" that was extremely important for self-judgment was just a tool for maintaining his thinking. He didn't care about the "spiritual entity" at all, and naturally he didn't need to maintain self-identity.

"Classmate, as you can see, the 'self' that you attach great importance to doesn't seem to be that important..." The sudden seawater vibrated, and a sound came from it.

Lord Bane did not use that condensed body, but directly used the sea as a medium to make a sound.

Li Qi felt intense panic.

Because, in his information flow vision, he saw countless ‘epidemic kings’!

Thousands? No, no, no, far more than that number!

There are hundreds of millions of innumerable minds of the ‘Epidemic Lord’, all of which are ‘spiritual entities’ that can only be seen in the flow of information.

Each of these minds is the same as Li Qi's demonic clone. They have the same mind and the same memory. Each of them is Lord Plague.

And these 'epidemic kings' are devouring and killing each other without any psychological pressure, killing other 'epidemic kings', and then new 'epidemic kings' are constantly being born in this sea, each one is the same.

Just like... life itself.

Life itself is like this.

Constantly changing, constantly dying and giving birth to new ones, just like reincarnation.

Although these plague kings are very weak, not even as good as an ordinary person, and may not be able to defeat a one-horned fairy, they do exist.

No wonder Lord Blight doesn't care about death and reorganization, because he does similar things all the time.

Each plague king is individual, but they are also a collective. All the plague monarchs added up are the real plague monarchs.

It is so miraculous that although King Blight is only at the seventh level, he may be able to rely on this body to compete with the existences at the sixth level.

Without him, it is large in size and has a thick health bar, so it has a large error tolerance and a large output.

The ecosystem of a planet is all the body of the King of Epidemics. No wonder everyone in Chang'an praises the King of Epidemics as a rare species.

This is...another perspective?

Another interpretation of ‘I am what I am’, another answer.

It doesn't matter what self-identity is, or rather...the overall self-identity is not something like the mind, but a continuation from this natural world.

To be honest, this is even... very consistent with the idea of ​​​​Wood Dao.

Then... what is the 'self' that Mr. Epidemic cares about?

Li Qi looked at the sea below.

You can ask.