Myriad Paths

This picture failed to capture Li Qi's charm, but it did capture his indifferent eyes amid chaos.

This is... Li Qi in Lingxiao's eyes.

She really couldn't grasp Li Qi's charm and didn't know how to draw his face and figure.

However, after observing her for so long, Li Qi's eyes had the most profound impact on her.

A look like...the sky.

The real Li Qi looked at the painting and smiled: "Although it is shameless, the painting is quite good."

After saying this, he took a look at the painting.

The eyes in the chaos of the painting suddenly became bright and vivid——

It was as if Li Qi opened his eyes himself.

Then Li Qi stretched out his hand and handed the scroll to Lingxiao: "You painted my portrait, then this will be your reward. You are a little different from others... I guess you really like painting."

If you really like it, you will have real passion.

Not forced by survival, not urged by the environment, nor pressured by others, but a complete love, a pursuit beyond the heart.

Her motivation does not come from the outside world, but from within.

Whether they are cultivating or studying, many people think, “I can make money if I learn well,” “My parents think it’s good for me to learn this,” and “It’s easy to find a job now if I learn this.”

There is nothing wrong with such a mentality. After all, survival is the top priority, but such learning is a kind of pressure for oneself.

All the stupid rhetoric of "pressure is motivation" is essentially pushing people forward. Pressure is indeed motivation, but its essence is still pressure. As long as it is pressure, the motivation to move forward comes from the outside world.

Once the external environment changes, for example, there is no pressure to survive, will you still have the motivation to hone your skills? Or should we just cling to our current achievements and continue to eat and die?

Relying on the motivation given by the outside world, you can't go far, unless someone deliberately allows the pressure to continue. Some "strict teachers" among strict teachers and disciples are good at constantly giving pressure without making people collapse.

Therefore, if you want to go long term, the motivation cannot come from the outside world, but must come from your own heart.

The Lingxiao in front of me, who was born in the upper class, had no pressure to survive, and because she truly loved painting, she continued to study hard until this point. Unknowingly, she had completed the process of "motivation coming from the heart".

Therefore, Li Qi chose to leave this painting here.

He has already seen that this painting may become Lingxiao's foundation, so he will leave it here.

"Senior...are you leaving?" Ling Xiao couldn't help but guess after seeing Li Qi's appearance.

At this point, when she observed Li Qi so carefully, she could already vaguely sense some of this mysterious Tongtian realm's thoughts.

"Yes, I've seen enough. I'm going to visit other places, and... I also have some guesses about my destination, which can be considered a fruitful harvest." Li Qi just smiled.

Lingxiao was silent and did not answer. She just quietly stepped aside and carefully observed every expression of Li Qi again, as if she wanted to draw another portrait of Li Qi.

Li Qi didn't seem to see it, or maybe he didn't care and just waited there.

Two days later, out of the three thousand people at the banquet, less than a hundred were left, and the others all died in the brutal fighting.

It was obviously agreed upon by everyone that one person would be fine if he took just a little bit, but he still had to fight desperately.

No point, competition for the sake of competition.

On the water table outside, an unexpected mechanism has been formed. They have formulated rules and implemented "sharing", thereby preventing other violent incidents from occurring.

Both of these things happened in the Immortal Heaven.

From this, Li Qi could get a glimpse of the intentions from the upper levels of Immortal Heaven.

He already had a suspicion in his mind, but he still needed a few clues to confirm it.

When the banquet was over, Li Qi waved his hand and released the remaining living people from his inner world.

They were filled with bowls of wine, and their bodies were filled with Li Qineitian's pure energy.

However, to Li Qi, this was just a drop in the bucket. They didn't get any of the truly valuable fifth-grade Dao Yun. Obviously, they didn't have the ability to pick Dao Yun.

After they came out, they were covered in blood and wanted to salute Li Qi.

Li Qi didn't say a word, just shook his head and left here immediately.

Disappeared out of thin air, without any nostalgia, just like he appeared out of thin air.

However, not long after he left, the lower class still started fighting after they had eaten. Only then did they realize...no one was in charge.

Lingxiao watched Li Qi leave, then looked at the painting in her hand, then smiled with relief and tore the painting into pieces.

She didn't know what a 'Douki' was, but she felt there was no need to keep this thing anymore.

The things in the painting are not in the painting, but in the heart, and it is useless to keep them.

Someone once had such confidence that he could draw bamboo without looking at it, and now she does the same.

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As for Li Qi, he went to other cities.

So slowly and quietly, he has been wandering in the real world for more than a hundred years.

During these more than a hundred years, he observed more than 200 cities, 1,000 settlements, and various wonders and wonders in the heavens.

I have visited other Tongtian realms and partially manipulated the local social development.

It has been almost a thousand years since he came to Immortal Heaven. During this thousand years, the various events he has experienced, various speculations, speculations, and clues collected, coupled with the cultivation techniques that Zhen Zhi Yun has explored, make him Li Qi finally came close to the answer.

This is not simple. Li Qi has collected a lot of things and explored many locations. He has been to the limits of the sky and sea, digging underground to the depths of billions of miles underground. Even he himself was pressed by the force of the earth's magnetism. Come up if you can't.

He even passed through the Heavenly Gate, went down and returned to the mortal world, and then teleported back and forth.

He is like a ghost, an experimenter, using the real world of immortality and the mortal world as his laboratory, constantly testing the answers he wants.

Li Qi left behind many legends, and many people admired him. He even extinguished the divine fire on himself more than once, because his existence led to the belief of many people, and there were many sects that specialized in him. Established, even if these believers actually don't know what Li Qi is and think that he is a part of God.

The long journey and long life allowed Li Qi to unearth the hidden truth of this first-class world bit by bit.

For example...he has never seen the fourth-grade Hedao realm.

Another example is that all those in the Tongtian realm are desperately trying to unite with the Tao.

Li Qi also searched everywhere for those in the Tongtian realm who were about to join the Dao, but unfortunately he could never do it because the number of people who joined the Dao was too small.

Time passed so slowly.

In the end, through these actions, Li Qi felt as if he had gotten his answer.

Namely: the truth about Immortal Heaven.

Another ten years passed, and Li Qi sat quietly, deducing what was needed for the sacrifice.

He wants to create a sacrifice, and through this sacrifice, he can verify his conjecture and directly communicate with the upper level of Immortal Heaven.

This was difficult, so he found a secluded place to conceive and deduce a little bit.

After ten years of super computing power, he was finally ready.

Armed with the answers and tools, it’s time to put all your conjectures into practice.

Li Qi held a classic heaven-sacrifice ceremony.

Li Qi was a Zhuren of the Earthly lineage, and he was originally best at offering sacrifices to mountains, rivers and earthly beings, but the top of the Immortal Heaven obviously could not be regarded as an Earthly Being, so he could only use the method of worshiping the heavens.

The jade is as round as the sky, there is nothing on the earth, only half of the sky is visible.

Li Qi prepared his sacrifice coins and put his jade in them, which looked like the blue sky.

The same is true for the altar itself. The color of the sky is dark, so the color of the sky is dark. However, although the sky is dark, it looks green when viewed from a distance. The color of the sky is dark, so the color of the sky is green.

The vessel used to worship heaven is a pottery gourd. Pottery and earthenware are used to recommend the genus of fermented grains. The article about the livelihood of the people describes the sky cloud in the suburbs of Houji, "Yu Dou Yu Deng", which is also used to recommend things.

Then use the gourd to offer wine to worship the heavens and preserve the quality, so the gourd is also used to honor the drink.

The ancestral temple sacrificial statue was used to offer sacrifices to heaven, as was used by the Taoist priest in Li Qijin's case, as stated above.

Where they offer sacrifices to heaven, they offer sacrifices to the circular hills.

The music of worshiping heaven is all performed with thunder drums.

The Supreme God of Heaven has nothing to call him. His body should be one, and he should prepare five kinds of wine and three kinds of wine. There should be a fire, and then there should be a main sacrifice, all with animals.

Li Qi was the one to preside over the ceremony and poured him wine.

Then walk out a straight line, which is called "the main road".

The big road is also a car used to worship the heaven, so it is called the big road. The big road is full of people. Because sincerity values ​​the small, it is said that the small is the most valuable.

After walking through the main road, Li Qi offered sacrifices to heaven.

Through the road, coupled with sacrifices and sacrifices, the power of communication in the sacrifice itself is formed...

This kind of power reaches straight to the sky.

Li Qi's body began to shake involuntarily.

In the words that others understand, this is ‘dancing the master’.

But this is actually the manifestation of Li Qi's consciousness being separated from his body and unable to control his body.

Wu Jin's consciousness left his body and drifted towards a new and unknown realm.

There, there is pure light.

Success! He communicated with Xiantian, and Xiantian responded to him!

The success of the heaven-sacrifice ceremony caused a grand white rainbow to appear in front of Li Qi's eyes.

Light, pure light.

Here, everything seems to melt, the power is so strong.

There is a special rhythm beating in the light that is emitted. If we use the words of humane Confucianism to describe it, it is the 'supreme good'.

The highest good is not kindness, but perfection in everything.

There is nothing in this light, but it seems to have everything.

Here, everywhere exudes an "all-encompassing" atmosphere, as if even the light itself can intersect to create perfect geometric patterns.

Li Qi seemed to hear the roar of the endless river flowing in time, and could also see the void across the worlds!

He could feel that after coming here, he was like a gear in the world, and every movement perfectly matched the rest of the world. Every move and everything meshed and rotated with each other.

All the gears are so harmonious that if any one piece is missing, it will not work.

He had sacrificed many things and communicated with countless gods, but this was the first time he felt this sense of oppression.

However, Li Qi smiled in relief.

Sure enough, the answer I guessed was true.

He has tried countless times and tested for a long time. Whether in the immortal world or the immortal world, all the things he has done, preaching, observing, provoking disputes, or other things, They all have only one purpose, and that is to show them to the real 'immortals'.

After reading it, Li Qi can use his own feedback to speculate on the true situation of Xiantian. Then by going back and forth like this, Li Qi may be able to find out something useful.

Knowing useful things can help Wu Dao and Xian Tian establish a friendly relationship, and even obtain this ally.

And now, after nearly a thousand years of hard work, Li Qi already knows what the top level of Immortal Heaven is like.

"Oh? What's the state?" At this time, a voice came from Li Qi's ear.

Li Qi knew in his heart.

This is... the voice of Immortal Heaven.

This is Xiantian's answer.

"Of course... there are no creatures above the fourth level. The fifth level, Tongtian realm, is already the pinnacle of the immortal world."

"Further up, after the union, there is only one and only first grade, and that is you...the Heavenly Dao of Immortal Heaven."

Li Qi talked eloquently and told the great being the answer he had observed.

"This is also the reason why Immortal Heaven can exist for a long time. After tens of billions of years and endless mining, it can still maintain the prosperity of the great source of heaven and earth. The fundamental reason is because there are no cultivators above the fourth level at all. For the first-level world Said, the consumption of the fifth grade is just a drop in the bucket."

Yes, this is the answer that Li Qi guessed, and it is also the reason why Li Qi dared to perform the heaven-sacrifice ceremony eighty years later.

"The lives raised in the entire Immortal Heaven are actually 'food'. The real 'practitioner' in the Immortal Heaven is actually you... the way of heaven." Li Qi looked at the magnificent light and sighed...

It’s really... the way of heaven.

All the practitioners in Immortal Heaven are just food. In the entire Immortal Heaven, only the first-grade Heavenly Dao who has awakened his will is free.

Therefore, the way of heavenly evolution is carried out to the extreme here.

The essence of Hedao is to be eaten by him!

Brutal fighting at the bottom, sifting, just for 'different tastes' of food.

Yes, Xiantian is not always so cruel, but for hundreds of millions of years, the 'harmony food' he wants is specialized in fighting, so that he can specialize in fighting.

Immortal Heaven is the cruelest world.

Life in this first-grade world has no way to survive at all! It is impossible for them to be detached from the beginning. All promotions and competitions are essentially to cultivate their own flesh in the direction that 'Heaven' likes'!

At the same time, the goal of this Tiandao is also the pursuit of Taoism. He wants the ultimate freedom, perhaps even the freedom to transcend his own worldly origin.

As a pure awakening of the first-order world, he has long been separated from the essence of the divine way, this extremely selfish and vicious world!

"The goal of your alliance with the witchcraft... I guess it is to know how the witchcraft can strengthen the source of heaven and earth, right? After all, this may be regarded as your cultivation method, so... the reason why Yao Ji disappeared is also because of you, right? "Li Qi respectfully maintained the sacrifice and said so. (End of chapter)