Myriad Paths

After the war in Baiyue ended, some people were happy and some were worried.

Those who are worried are naturally the human side——

At this moment, inside Supervisor Tiansi...

A Taoist priest in purple robe is reviewing the news from all the worlds.

This purple robe is the symbol of the 'noble nobleman'.

"Has Fu Dou come to an end... Hehe, the loss of Baiyue is worth it. The general of Zhennan Mansion is not dead, and the loss is within control... If the devil takes action, then Li Qi and Zhu Fengdan will not be able to take action for a while. , then we can gain advantage in the next twenty-four war zones.”

Although they lost in the Baiyue battlefield, they also exchanged other resources and learned about the trends of the demonic path, so they didn't lose too much.

After all, Wu Dao didn't actually get the Holy Emperor's relics, so this was essentially a lose-lose situation.

The only one who made a profit was Li Qi. Crushing the Holy Emperor's ruins made his weapon even bigger.

It's a pity that he is troubled by the demon, so he won't have to worry about it for a while.

He muttered to himself before moving on to other information.

The Baiyue battlefield is just one of many war zones. Although it is a bit special, it only involves the third and fourth grades.

He has a lot to deal with on such a battlefield.

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And the happiest people are none other than the sentient beings in Baiyue.

How heavy the world is.

Thinking about it, if you don't live in a free world, if you don't have enough strength to support yourself to gain a little bit of freedom, but you are completely oppressed by the world, then life will be so painful.

This matter has been confirmed by countless people and countless worlds.

In this universe, the infinite world, even in the corner, as long as you are oppressed by the world and forced to do those things, then you will definitely feel pain.

Life will feel happy when they do things and work because of their hobbies, because this is their nature. When they work, the joy of changing the world and creating things will wrap around their whole bodies.

But if this kind of labor becomes 'work', even if they are doing something they once loved, disgust will quickly sweep through their bodies.

It's obviously the same thing, and there's no difference between what you do, but when you do it yourself, it feels completely different than when you do it because of work.

And what the world does is to turn everything into this.

Free conscious activity is the nature of creatures with high intelligence. These creatures are naturally able to instinctively use their physical strength and intelligence to create the world, even if they are not paid.

Because the product after labor is completed, as well as the labor itself, are the best rewards.

However, when the purpose of labor is not to satisfy one's own needs, but is forced by the world to work for others, it will become a kind of pain and torture.

As a result, what you feel during the labor process is not happiness, but misfortune. You cannot freely use your physical strength and intelligence to work, but you are instructed by others to work, causing your body to be tortured and your spirit to be destroyed.

Moreover, it is not just one person who is oppressed by the world, but everyone.

Even those masters who think they are ‘free’ are actually suffering from the oppression of the world.

Landowners were freer than serfs, but they had to accept competition from other landowners and oppression from higher-level large landowners.

When you enslave others, you are also being enslaved by others.

When the world encourages people to enslave each other, then people will fall into a situation where they attack each other. You attack me, I attack you, you enslave me, I enslave him, and the cycle is endless. Everyone exudes competitive malice towards everyone else. Everyone wants to devour everyone else.

Under such circumstances, even those in the highest position have to worry about the resistance of their subordinates and the secret plots of other high-ranking people, and use all means to protect themselves. Needless to say, those at the lowest level have long been living as slaves. He has become weak, cowardly and numb. He has completely forgotten that he possesses high wisdom, which is the same high wisdom as a first-grade almighty. He has become like a donkey dragging a heavy chain in a muddle-headed way, living like an animal. , completely forgetting dignity and losing reason.

The world oppresses everyone and prevents everyone from being free.

But now, it's different.

The world of Baiyue and the heavy history of Baiyue's past were completely shattered. With the help of Baiyue's creatures and witchcraft, everything in the past was completely freed.

Baiyue's past world has been finally judged.

All the haze of the past is like a killed ghost. The ghost after annihilation cannot be resurrected, and history cannot go back. This is a certain thing.

History has once again proved that no matter how tenacious efforts are made to remain unchanged, the objective situation and the power of life will eventually change it.

"It's not just Baiyue, it also includes the entire universe." Li Qi said while enlightened.

The emperor's fluid flowed through his body, nourishing his body.

At the same time, when Li Qi was preaching, he was also describing everything that happened along the way to Baiyue.

Although Li Qi didn't know what each of the following people had gone through, he knew that it must have been...very hard.

For Baiyue to reach this stage, the efforts of these people are also indispensable, and it is they who have found Baiyue's 'Tao'.

What is ‘Tao’?

A Taoist true immortal once said: "The Tao is created by practicing the Tao."

The road is made by people. The road you have walked is your way.

Humanity also has great power, saying: "What follows from this is called Dao."

This means that the road points to a path from here to there.

Tao, there should be an ideal and goal to aspire to, plus human behavior and activities, to achieve this ideal and goal, it is called: Tao.

Therefore, the Tao must be determined by our ideals and completed by our actions.

The actions of all living beings must have their purpose. This purpose is achieved by practicing the entire process. Looking back, this entire process is the Tao.

Therefore, Tao is actually the cohesion of countless people's lives. It must be progressive and active, and it must have its own inner purpose and ideal.

From this deduction, the Tao is created by doing it.

Whoever walks on it is called his way.

Therefore, the Baiyue in front of him has ‘attained the Tao’.

Although their Tao is still very immature, they did find their own Tao in the collision between humans and witches. Although they are likely to merge into a certain great tradition in the future, that does not mean that they have lost their Tao. It's just that you have found your 'comrades'. Integrating into the Taoist tradition is not about losing yourself, it is about mountains and rivers.

Li Qi could see that Baiyue had broken through its own history and found its own path, and like a newborn baby, he stretched his head and looked at the vast land of the world.

This remote corner of the land, previously occupied by the Lord of Baiyue, was finally integrating into the world at its own pace.

Their own way has already laid the foundation.

This is their Taoist foundation, but... I think they will also have 'Taoist disputes' with others in the future, right?

There are many kinds of Tao.

For example, these are now classified into Shinto, witchcraft, humanity, etc.

That is to say, in terms of human Tao, since it is called Tao from this, then there can be many different ways from here to there, and from here to there, from there to here, they can all be called Tao, so then There can be opposite and opposing ways, and there are hundreds of schools of thought about inherent human nature.

Among them, the great road, the small road, the way of the gentleman, the way of the villain, the way of Yao and Shun, and the way of Jie and Zhou can all be called Tao.

So, in this world, you go your way, and I go mine.

Between the criss-crossing, some roads are like parallel lines. You can see me and I can see you, but they never intersect.

But some collide with each other. Sometimes friendship develops, and sometimes moral dispute develops. It depends on the specific situation.

The sage of humanity said: "If we are different, we will not conspire against each other."

"The Doctrine of the Mean" also says: "The Tao goes hand in hand without contradicting each other."

Moreover, sometimes the Tao is not feasible, as the saying goes: "If the Tao is not feasible, it will float in the sea on a raft." This refers to the great saying.

He also said: "Although it is a small road, there must be something to behold. If you go far, you will be afraid of mud." This refers to the small road.

"Yi" also says: "The Tao of a gentleman is long, and the Tao of a villain disappears. The Tao of a villain is long, and the Tao of a gentleman is extinguished."

Because there are opposite ways, if everyone is fighting for one way, this way will not work for a while. However, the way is natural, that is, it has to be walked by people. If no one walks, it will not work. Becoming is the way. Therefore, the path can be chosen. For example, I like to go this way, and you like to go that way. If there is a certain road that is easy to walk, then everyone will go to that one. Over time, this will become the great road.

The Great Dao Tong is not powerful because there are many people, but because the road itself can accommodate so many people walking together.

And now Baiyue has taken the first step.

As for what their paths will be like in the future, that is a matter for the future.

The emperor's liquid is gradually drying up, the moon is about to set, and the sun is about to rise.

Li Qi faced the fifth-grade Baiyue natives who gradually gathered in front of him and ended his sermon.

"Then, from today on, you will face the world, which may be a little strange. After all... you have been living under the suppression of the king before."

"But don't worry. There are creatures like you everywhere in this world. Baiyue... is a minority, at least in the world."

After Li Qi said this, the dharma body and the real body were completely integrated, and disappeared from the place with Shen Shuibi.

Many of Baiyue's newly-promoted fifth-rank people each saluted and sent them off to Wushen Mountain to wish them away.

Not all of them are good people, and many of them are even promoted through various evil means. But at this moment, Zhuren doesn't care about these. Good and evil are all part of nature. There can't be only wolves in this world, nor Probably just sheep.

This universe should have something wonderful about everything.

These newly promoted fifth-level people were ecstatically facing the brand-new Baiyue, the brand-new world that revealed their true appearance to them.

A new era has begun.

As the promoter of all this, Li Qi, he was not in a good mood.

Returning to his cave, he quickly walked to Li Shiwei's former room, opened the door, and looked around, trying to find the things Li Shiwei liked when he was a child.

Maybe relying on something full of childhood memories can wake her up.

Isn’t this happening a lot? Such things have happened in many places. She was just confused. As long as she awakened her memories, she could make everything happen again.

but……

Li Qi himself knew the answer, and his mind was spinning so fast that he couldn't even keep this fantasy in his mind for even a second.

He just walked into the room and sighed.

He knew.

Li Shiwei was very sober. The little bastard didn't need to be 'awakened' at all. She made the decision in a completely sober state.

She was not bewitched or deceived.

She accepted the magic way from the bottom of her heart... No, it was not that she accepted the magic way, but the path she chose, which just fits the magic way.

She was sober and rational. She grew up and chose her own way of understanding the world, and this was not something Li Qi could interfere with.

Forced interference was also possible. Just capture her and erase her memory and cognition. Li Qi's magic methods were very profound and could do this.

Speaking of the magic way, this little girl was still a little naive. Her father Li Qi had faced the devil several times with his own eyes, and his understanding of the magic way was completely beyond her imagination.

Or to put it simply, instead of erasing her memory and cognition, imprison her, let her 'reflect', force her to change her path, and use a long time to completely distort her cognition.

But are those useful?

It's meaningless. If Li Shiwei's mind is distorted, she will not be Li Shiwei.

What Li Qi wants is definitely not a daughter who is "obedient", "submissive" and "well-behaved" like a puppet. He hopes that Li Shiwei can grow up by herself, grow into what she wants, walk her own way, find her way, and then run without regrets until the end, even if it means martyrdom.

This is the greatest expectation of being a parent.

Li Qi would never interfere with this expectation, even though he knew that Li Shiwei had walked into some indescribable path of terror.

"Alas." Li Qi sighed and felt his temples throbbing.

At this time, he heard a creak and Shen Shuibi pushed the door in.

"Are you still worried?" Rabbit walked to Li Qi's side and asked.

"How can you let me rest assured? Can you rest assured?" Li Qi looked at his wife.

"What if I'm worried? I plan to break through the fourth level within a thousand years. Since the disaster has come, I will just face it. After I break through the fourth level, we will have enough ability to deduce, right?" Shen Shuibi said.

"Not enough, two fourth levels are far from enough." Li Qi shook his head: "I have to find a way to break through the third level, truly gain the ability to control everything, thoroughly master the law of cause and effect, and reshape reality from the root, maybe it will be enough."

"Don't worry, how long has it been since you broke through the fourth level? Don't be too anxious, you are also trapped, you know, compared to Shi Wei, your own evil thoughts... are not light." Shen Shuibi comforted.

Although she was also worried to death, she was still advising Li Qi to be careful at this time.

"Don't worry, I'm going to visit the great witch Yun Fang, maybe this senior can help me feel more at ease." Li Qi said, with a wry smile: "After all, we are in the same boat."

Shen Shuibi heard about the great witch Yun Fang. His disciple was possessed by the devil, and he did not choose the devil path like Li Shiwei, but was completely devoured by the devil's thoughts and his soul was destroyed.

He used the devil's thoughts in his heart as a guide, and reborn his disciple in his heart with his own memories and cause and effect, but this also made his own devil thoughts grow and unable to go further.

The third-grade cultivation and Tao heart allowed him to easily eliminate these devil thoughts, but he was unwilling to do so.

This is the terrible thing about the devil's way.

Being possessed by the devil is not because the devil's thoughts control you, but because you are willing to do so...

"It's also good to go to the great witch, then I will also go to the death pass later, and I won't come out until I break through. It should be no problem for about a thousand years."

"But... before that, hug me."

Li Qi turned around and hugged Rabbit before she finished speaking.

I'm not the only one who cares about my daughter's affairs.

(Volume 6, the end of the scenery outside the domain)

(Next volume - Volume 7, the road to chasing demons)