Myriad Paths

Li Qi was stunned.

He was stunned when he heard what Tianmo told him.

Li Qi always thought that he was somewhat special, for example... he was a time traveler.

For example, he knew a lot of knowledge, and he had all kinds of strange ideas.

And so on.

But now, Tianmo announced that he was actually ordinary.

"Oh, why that expression? Don't you believe it? Haven't you realized yet? Your life can't be traced back to the moment before you came to this world."

"Because you were born at that time, and I created you at that time."

Tianmo's expression was full of fun.

You see, no matter what you become, Li Qi, I always have a way to invade your closed heart.

Tianmo's charming smile, angelic eyes, and a blood-red heart, thump, thump, seemed to match the frequency of Li Qi's beating.

Her eyes seemed to say: "My dear Li Qi, those plots are designed for you, fictional plays, in fact, are all illusions, only if I stay with you all the time, it is real."

"What? Don't you believe it?" The demon rode on Li Qi's shoulders and gently placed his hand on his head.

At this moment, Li Qi's inner world was reshaped.

"Remember? The god in your inner world is the demon king, and there is also a demon from the lineage." The demon revealed the mystery. (See Chapter 861 for details)

"Desire Realm, Demon King, plus you... you are my child."

"Lie..." Li Qi struggled to speak.

"Really?" The demon didn't say much, just touched Li Qi's head, and then looked at the first-class people around him.

The Desire Realm swelled out of Li Qi's body!

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred! ! !

A golden stick suddenly appeared from the void, and then hit the demon's neck with a stick!

Endless time and space and world lines were disturbed.

The universe is no longer accurate. This stick makes the world blurry. It is a mass of inexplicable dense matter and violent rays, which is constantly expanding, and even the spirit is infinitely separated in it.

The universe is compressed, and each of its components is shrinking, while at the same time pulling.

Each basic energy center is initially consistent with the accurate universe, but they separate from each other to produce cosmic space.

The unit of cosmic matter shrinks and the wavelength of light becomes shorter.

Although the volume of the universe is limited, these spaces are boundless and centerless relative to matter, just like an expanding sphere has no boundaries and center, and the expanding world line of the universe is also boundless and centerless.

However, just as the surface of a sphere has an external "three-dimensional" point as its center, this mass of cosmic matter also has an external "four-dimensional" center point.

But at this time, the universe was "pierced", and a hole was poked by the golden stick in the middle of the centerless sphere.

This hole began to collapse, which is why the universe became shaky.

Explosions and collapses occurred at this moment.

This mass of chaotic gas that was crowded and exploded continued to expand, first the size of a planet, then the size of a star, then the size of a galaxy, and finally the size of tens of millions of galaxies.

So much so that it swallowed up the demon.

During the collapse, matter became increasingly rarefied, the light became increasingly dim, and it became increasingly calm.

The pressure of the expansion of the universe and the desire of its components to combine together conflicted with each other, and the result was that the superpower of the universe was re-formed, forming a strange substance that was unknown.

The demon was shattered by this stick.

However, the material body was meaningless to the demon, and she was reborn again.

The other first-class seemed to be ready to move.

Li Qiji was unable to move.

"Monkey, you are very unhappy after being sealed for so long, right? Did this stick let you vent your anger?" The demon's body recovered again, and everything around it recovered as well, as if nothing had happened.

"And you, you have lost a chip, are you going to fight me now? Or are you going to continue to use me as a pawn?" The demon looked around with interest.

It seemed very excited that it had been completely unsealed, so it kept provoking the surrounding situation.

The golden monkey appeared completely, without saying a word, and just swung the second stick.

The body of the demon split into a second one, which caught the stick lightly, and then disappeared at the same time as the golden monkey.

Obviously, the demon was not willing to fight here. She was still waiting to see the reactions of other first-grade people. Fighting with others was really not beautiful, so... the golden monkey wanted to fight, so go somewhere else to play with him.

"Well? So, why don't you do it? I'm still waiting for all of you. Now is a good opportunity, isn't it?"

However, soon, the demon noticed that no one seemed to be ready to take action, and the reason was... the Tathagata.

The Buddha put his hands together and smiled and said: "Bo Xun, you have everything under control, but... your two children seem to be out of your control, and... all the excitement you have experienced will eventually turn into 'emptiness'. Our ending is already doomed."

After speaking, the lotus seat completely withered, and the Buddha entered Nirvana, just like that.

There was no brilliance or movement, as if a mortal had "transcended" and disappeared on the spot, as if he had never existed.

He no longer stopped himself from remaining, but truly came to the "emptiness".

This may not be death.

If it is always impermanent, if it is painful but not painful, if it is not dependent on, if it goes away but does not go away, if it returns but it does not return, if it is permanent but not permanent, if it is broken, if it is permanent, if it is sentient beings but not sentient beings, if it exists, if it does not exist, if it is real it is not real, if it is True or not, if it is destroyed, it is not destroyed, if it is secret, it is not secret.

True detachment, true colorlessness.

Neither dead nor alive, just detached.

From now on, the 'fate' between Buddha and all sentient beings is over.

When the fate ends, then no living beings will see the Buddha again, and the Buddha will no longer see any living beings.

From then on, as far as all things are concerned, Buddha will no longer exist, and as far as Buddha is concerned, he will be completely cut off from all things.

If the 'Buddha' does not interact with anything else, does not have any impact on anything, cannot be confirmed by the senses, and can never be confirmed, then it can be considered that the 'Buddha' does not exist.

Real ‘emptiness’, real ‘detachment’.

A transcendence more complete than death.

Break away from cause and effect, break away from reincarnation, break away from karma.

The devil said that the Buddha confuses all living beings, and all living beings confuse the Buddha.

Now, this sentence is no longer true, Buddha no longer exists.

Even, in a certain sense...the transcendent Buddha may have surpassed the 'First Grade'.

Of course, that's just a possibility, specifically...who knows? It is impossible to prove it anyway, because the ‘Tathagata’ no longer exists.

At this moment, I saw the withered lotus platform and listened to the Buddha's last words...

The demon's original interest seemed to be poured with cold water at this moment.

She glanced at the dying rosette of the Buddha. The endless secondary demons behind her died at this moment, and all the secondary demons disappeared.

Down-hearted.

"Then we'll see."

She said this without knowing who she was talking to.

After finishing speaking, she didn't even bother to look at Li Qi and the Demon Prince, and just disappeared.

Buddha has truly achieved "emptiness".

As the enemy of the Buddha, the demon seemed to feel the existence of "emptiness" at this moment.

Li Qi also stayed where he was. He didn't know what he was going to do at this moment.

Confused and confused, this is how Li Qi felt at this moment.

He was so determined to reconstruct the inner world and completely reshape his own path, all for the sake of the war between human witches and the fight against heavenly demons.

But now...

What's that? what's the function?

The moment the demon left, Li Qi seemed to feel lost.

However, the world of desire is still expanding and has not stopped, but it seems that all of it is meaningless.

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Unknowingly, the demonic thoughts in Li Qi's body calmed down.

The expansion of the realm of desire continues.

An eye suddenly grew on Li Qi's forehead, a vertical pupil on his forehead.

That is... the demon's other eye, its existence is like the ancient mirror of three lives in Chang'an.

In this eye, there are fifty rays of true knowledge.

Coupled with the realm of desire in Li Qi's body, true knowledge is integrated into it, and Li Qi's power expands in an incredible way.

But he still didn't bother to pay attention to that. He was just reviewing what the demon said.

What time traveler...

What a special existence.

What are the so-called ‘third far’ and ‘fourth far’.

It turned out that it was all fabricated. From the beginning, Li Qi's existence was just a game.

So... the Humanity Grand Tutor, the first-class man who once rescued Li Qi... Li Qi raised his head and looked into the distance.

The other party smiled at Li Qi.

Li Qi understood.

This action to destroy the Buddha has already started from that time. (See Chapter 332 for details)

Li Qi's existence was just to make Wu Dao stop at this time and not interfere in this war.

Wu Xian appeared behind Li Qi.

He stared at Li Qi, because at this moment, Li Qi's power was expanding, and it didn't even have anything to do with the path. Li Qi was forced out of it.

The power of the Desire Realm and one of the demon's eyes gave Li Qi incomparable power.

However……

His Taoist heart is dying, and his understanding of the world is changing.

This world... is meaningless, including him, Li Qi. His birth itself is a lie.

In this universe, there are no time travellers, so naturally there can be no 'accidents'.

Li Qi himself is a trap created by magic and humanity.

It was to give the demon a chance.

The existence of Li Qi caused demons and humans to continuously invest their energy in him and lay out a shocking lie. This allowed the witches and gods to make wrong judgments and choose not to rescue Buddhism.

In this way, the World Honored Tathagata can see the final appearance of Buddhism.

Let the World-Honored One Tathagata see what "Buddha confuses all living beings" means. Therefore, the demons can finally persuade the World-Honored One Tathagata to choose to enter annihilation, give up the last attachment, and choose to transcend.

The Tathagata has a great cause, which is called "enlightening the world".

This 'karma' itself is a huge obsession. Only by giving up this point can all living beings become Buddhas.

Tathagata exists, and there is only one Tathagata in the world.

Only when the Tathagata disappears can there be thousands of Tathagatas in the world.

Now, the demon has finished her work and her purpose has been accomplished.

From Li Qi's birth to now, everything has been for this purpose.

So……

Demon Prince, is it the same? The Demon Prince was bred to be invincible, and the first opponent he lost was Li Qi.

Therefore, the Demon Prince regarded Li Qi as a thorn in his side.

The Demon Prince's obsession with Li Qi can almost be described as 'unreasonable'.

It is precisely because Li Qi is so important to the Demon Prince that the Demon Prince can sustain himself in the endless reincarnation.

Even the third-level Bodhisattvas dare not be exposed to the evil thoughts, the endless calamity of death, and the endless karma. He has endured it. Even though his personality has been wiped out in it, he still remembers Li Qi.

In the end, he became such a demon prince. When he came to the Buddhist kingdom, his demonic thoughts flowed across the world, and even directly polluted the central whirling world, severely injuring several third-level people, and forcing Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to bear it himself.

This was also a key move. The appearance of the demon prince completely overwhelmed the situation. In the end, humanity was able to destroy the formless world. The demon escaped from the trap and convinced the World Honored Tathagata.

No one can defeat Buddha, not even the demons, so we can only let Buddha take the initiative to leave the world.

Are both Li Qi and the Demon Prince like this?

The so-called chess pieces are nothing more than that.

hehe.

Li Qi became increasingly aware of the emptiness of this universe.

This world itself has no meaning and no need for meaning. No matter how much meaning you find for yourself, you will eventually find that in the hands of beings at a higher level, there is nothingness.

So... the so-called 'higher beings', such as those of the first grade, aren't they like this?

Isn't there a higher being, a greater being, controlling those first-level beings?

For example, there is someone who is secretly planning to guide these first-class people to achieve the ending they want.

Assuming that this great existence beyond the first level is real——

So, is the great being who controls the first-class people behind the scenes controlled by someone else?

Will he also be restrained by some kind of force and forced to do something he doesn't want to do? Will he be suppressed by other forces at a higher level and be breathless, and he can only think about the meaning of life intermittently? Does he also have to bow his head in order to survive?

If so, is he bowing his head in order to survive? Is it because of other people's opinions of him that he is forced to make plans and guide the first-class people to accomplish a certain purpose.

Are those beings who control this 'great being' free again?

So, what is the difference between these great beings and Li Qi's current situation?

After all, it’s still nothingness, isn’t it?

Maybe Buddha is right.

Everything is originally "empty". If you pursue those things, you will end up with only "empty".

Precisely because I had too much longing for the meaning of this world at the beginning, I was particularly disappointed when I realized more of the reality.

All the brilliance that once existed in life will eventually need to be repaid with loneliness.

Everything is ultimately 'empty'.

Li Qi thought this, and his cultivation level quietly broke through to the second level.

This is not because he has become stronger, but because the Desire Realm has matured in his body, and he was forcibly dragged into the second level by the Desire Realm.

This is not his power, he is just an accessory product of the desire world.

So...is this even true for cultivation?

Li Qi sighed.

But at this time, a pair of hands suddenly hugged Li Qi.

"I'm here……"

Shen Shuibi's voice sounded behind him.

(The Road to Chasing Demons ends, and tomorrow we will enter the final volume of Beyond the Sky.)