Myriad Paths

The banquet was over.

Li Qi said goodbye to his relatives and friends, and then spent some time with Shen Shuibi.

During this time, Shen Shuibi finally felt at ease.

Rabbit's personality has not changed much, or... for their almost immortal life, change is a rare thing.

In this regard, Li Qi is really changeable, but this qualification... is likely to come from his identity as a demon child.

Changeable, fickle temperament.

But for a dead otaku like Shen Shuibi, it is completely different. Rabbit's temperament is very stable.

After all, personality is ultimately shaped by one's own path. The path is a collection of worldview, life view, and various concepts, knowledge and wisdom.

For high-quality immortals, there is no doubt that their path is very stable, and there is no big thing that will not change.

This is like those old people. The older they are, the more things they experience, and their concepts will become more stable... or "stubborn".

After becoming stubborn, unknowingly, the obstacles of knowledge and views will appear.

With the obstacles of knowledge and understanding, progress has become a difficult thing, just like they find it difficult to learn to use the most advanced electronic products, because this thing does not exist in their "Tao".

Of course, this is not absolute. Some people's "Tao" can accommodate new things and learn and understand them quickly, but this is just because their Tao is easier to absorb new things, which does not mean that their "Tao" can be easily changed.

Their Tao makes them good at learning new things... Then, this actually means that they will not quickly become stubborn and conservative and unwilling to learn things in a short period of time.

This is also a kind of stubbornness, isn't it?

As life becomes longer and longer, their concepts will naturally become stable, and their personalities, views on the world, and ways of dealing with people will also become like this.

But Li Qi is different. He will really change his concepts in a very short period of time, such as hundreds of thousands of years, which is not long for immortals. In this period of time, he suddenly changes his concepts. This is also a manifestation of his rapid progress.

In short, Rabbit has not changed as always. She is at ease again, and all her worries and fears in the past have disappeared.

They often whispered to each other, as if to make up for the silence of many years.

He even picked clothes for Shen Shuibi, which was unusual. This would never happen before. In the past, Li Qi rarely cared about these trivial matters. After all, he and Shen Shuibi didn't care much about these external things.

What surprised Shen Shuibi even more was that Li Qi was nitpicking about it. He invited those weavers and refiners, complained that their materials were not beautiful enough, and rarely put on airs, showing arrogance in front of these people, making these refiners and weavers tremble, fearing that their things were not good enough, so that they had to use their best materials and craftsmanship easily.

He had never bought anything from any refiner before, but this time he asked about everything, even the tailor's style.

As for Shen Shuibi, Rabbit said almost nothing during this process, just lowered his head with a half smile, trying to avoid Li Qi's sometimes questioning and sometimes puzzled eyes.

She hid herself, as if she didn't want to expose her little joy in front of the refiner and the weaver, which made her feel unhappy, but this unhappiness was caused by happiness, which surprised the rabbit at her own dishonesty and a little shy, but she was even more unwilling to show shyness, so she simply restored herself to her original form.

A rabbit with runes popping out of its body was held by Li Qi, picking the works of those skilled refiners, and the scene was a little funny.

But later, Shen Shuibi seemed to be gradually accustomed to it. When the two traveled outside the domain, he pulled her into his arms, with their heads close together, and they were face to face, without any explanation or explanation. Even if there were people next to them, Shen Shuibi still didn't feel uneasy.

But these times were short after all.

In about a hundred years, Li Qi had to leave, after all, he had something important to do.

He quickly said goodbye to the rabbit. This time the separation was cheerful. She just asked him to be careful and not to make so many things. Li Qi naturally agreed and then set off.

This time, Li Qi was going to visit his sworn brother. Although the other party recognized him unilaterally, they did become sworn brothers.

Golden Monkey, Sun Wukong.

Before, Li Qi always felt that he had no similarities with him. The so-called sworn brotherhood was just a play in the Desire Realm with the suppressed demon monkey.

But now, looking back, Li Qi has vaguely sensed that something is wrong.

First of all, the demon monkey, not the golden monkey, was what Li Qi encountered and was suppressed.

The demon monkey is the third grade, but the golden monkey is the second grade. Is there any connection between the two? Or is the demon monkey a manifestation of something?

Besides, there are many stories about the golden monkey. Li Qi doesn't know whether they are true or false, but what he knows is... before he "traveled", no... it should be said that the knowledge he thought he knew before "traveled" was actually instilled into him by the demon.

There is no traveler at all. He just thinks he is a traveler, but in fact, all his memories and cognition were given by the demon at the moment when Lishui appeared.

The reason why they are similar is just because... the demon is willing.

Therefore, Li Qi's impression of the monkey may also be instilled by the demon. Then when Li Qi released the golden monkey in the desire world, his judgment of the golden monkey may also be boring.

Considering this level of consideration, the monkey in his impression has no reference, and his cognition of the golden monkey and the demon monkey may be different.

Therefore, Li Qi decided to find this golden monkey to understand the real "Tang Dynasty" and the real "seeking scriptures", and then judge why the other party really wants to recognize him as a sworn brother.

Li Qi left as soon as he said he would. After asking about the other party's cave, he immediately rushed there.

It is a cave paradise in the southeast of the world's demon clan, called "Huaguo Mountain", where many monkey demons live, and there is a demon clan great saint sitting in it. It can be said to be the world's holy land for monkey demons.

Monkey demons are considered to be gifted among all demon clans, and the main reason is still that: they look like humans.

The human body is Haotian's body, and the human body is a small world, which is a kind of tribute to Haotian.

Imitating Haotian's body can really gain strength and talent.

It can even be said that before the birth of other first-grade people, when there was only Haotian, the only natural first-grade person in the universe, the entire universe was Haotian's "inner world".

Today, the inner world of thousands of creatures is just a poor imitation of Haotian.

And monkeys are actually a kind of "humanoid creatures", so compared with other monsters, they are naturally much smarter and more convenient to practice, and there are naturally many powerful ones among them.

For example... Golden Monkey.

Thinking of this, Li Qi had a headache.

Li Qi used to dare to say that he should understand part of the Golden Monkey, but now he has completely let go of his memories and knowledge before the time travel, so it is better not to believe these things.

Then, the matter of "Tang monks going to the West to seek scriptures" needs to be reconsidered. Li Qi is going to come here to see the Golden Monkey's body and read the real intention of the journey.

Because, he now knows... the Golden Monkey and the Heavenly Demon actually have grievances. Perhaps the original journey to obtain the scriptures was itself the process of the Golden Monkey suppressing the Monkey King.

Thinking about these, Li Qi has already arrived at the Flower and Fruit Mountain.

As a paradise in the southeast of the world, the scenery here is quite good.

The mountains are covered with pine and fir, wild cranes, white clouds and blue smoke, and the scenery is bright and peaceful. There are nine thousand miles of verdant and eight thousand miles of green mountains, layer upon layer, with white silk waterfalls, streams and streams pouring out of the gorge rocks, flying beams and hanging rivers pouring into the gullies, and falling from the sky in anger, and the collapse is about ten miles away.

The flowers in the forest are scattered, floating in the orchids, the mountain birds are chirping, and sometimes they make sounds in the trees. The wind is clear in the valley, the scenery is beautiful and the mountains are beautiful, the peaks and cliffs are carved, the wonders of nature are exhausted, and the valleys are dark.

It was like a ghost, with precious trees and magical herbs, lush branches and green leaves, bird flags fluttering in the scenery, beasts covering the clouds, resting on the rocks, shaking the waves, and reaching the earth's axis below and the stars above, pulling the Xiang and Han rivers.

Li Qi stepped into it, and saw the mountains growing by themselves, the four rivers and nine rivers, the numerous stars, breathing in the clouds and mist, deep and unfathomable, far and unreachable.

Of course, this is for ordinary people, as long as you know a little about the method of flying clouds, you can travel freely in it.

But you must be careful of the many monsters here. After all, this is where the monsters live, and it exists as an archipelago. From here, you can cross a section of the sea and come to the human country of Tang. Go north and cross another sea, and you can come to the Taoist gate.

In the past, there was a monkey king here who went through this journey in order to seek immortality.

Li Qi also came to this overseas archipelago, stood on the top of the mountain, and looked around.

Where the demons are, the scenery is more bizarre, just like the green here is greener, the white is whiter, and everything is more vivid.

At the same time, here, like the demon world, there is a feeling of "being alive" everywhere. The ground, the sky, the surrounding trees and the air, as well as the wind, all have an indescribable beautiful feature.

Li Qi knows that this is because the demons encourage all living things to be more colorful. For the demons, they are generally unwilling to succumb to the "normal way".

And this view of not succumbing to the "normal way" is actually recognized by Li Qi to a certain extent.

This "uncommon" of the demons is probably part of Taiyi's continuous contradiction, and Li Qi seems to be able to feel this sense of contradiction at this moment.

However, his current body structure is similar to Taiyi, and he will not be affected by this contradiction.

The moment Li Qi came here, the golden monkey's eyes had already seen him. Li Qi could clearly see that he was looking at him in the waterfall.

The fire eyes and golden pupils are really sharp and difficult to avoid.

"Where the mysterious saints travel and where the immortals live, it's really a good place." Li Qi said, then took a step and came to the waterfall.

The waterfall is surging, the peaks are steep, the clouds are high, the stones are turning and the trees are growing, and the sound can be heard for hundreds of miles.

The water falls and hits the boulders in the mountains, and the water mist boils and lingers. Under the sunlight, there are rainbows hanging in the sky, the sound of water and the cry of monkeys, and the mixed sounds of the heroes are continuous and melodious.

This waterfall is a first-class spiritual spring. The water mist from the impact sprinkles on all the creatures around it, nourishing their bodies and making the creatures here have much better qualifications for cultivation.

The trees are also blessed, so there are flowers and fruits all over the mountains around, and various spiritual fruits bloom and hang all year round, which is dazzling.

When Li Qi came here, he saw many baboons, gorillas, monkeys and the like, some of which were born with different species, but most of them were vegetarians, eating the flowers and fruits here, playing here one by one.

However, they were not barbaric, and even built houses and had their own city-states. They were well-dressed, but they still couldn't hide their monkey appearance, but they also looked a little cute.

Li Qi just glanced around and went straight to the back of the waterfall.

Behind the waterfall is the secret cave of Lingyuan, which spits out the source far away. It is the ancestor of the spiritual spring here and the real origin of this blessed land. It is called "Water Curtain Cave".

The golden monkey happily jumped out, not wearing the majestic armor, but a monkey body covered with green leaves, and ran over surrounded by monkeys and descendants: "Brother, you have finished your training, why do you want to sit with me now?"

"Brother Monkey, last time the demon attacked, you fought with him for me, I remember it in my heart, so I just woke up and came to see you and talk about our things." Li Qi bowed and then presented a gift.

The gift was naturally something that only the second-grade people could show off. What Li Qi brought was some fruits from Wushen Mountain that were cultivated with his own Dao rhyme.

Wushen Mountain has abundant natural resources, and there are many natural spiritual fruits, which have their own style, but most of them are definitely not profound enough, after all, no one has cultivated them specifically.

So before Li Qi came, he purified these spiritual fruits with his own Dao rhyme, which should be considered unique in the world.

He handed the spiritual fruit to the monkeys who were gathered around him. The monkeys took it happily, and no matter who gave it to them, they sent it to the golden monkey one after another.

The golden monkey took one at random, and then scattered all the fruits to the monkeys and their descendants around him.

Li Qi could see that these monkeys and their descendants were extraordinary. There were many who practiced the immortality method, and the strongest ones were actually fourth-grade! They were all spiritual monkeys.

The golden monkey laughed and said, "Haha, I knew you would come to talk to me about this. Let's go in and talk. Do you know what is under my water curtain cave?"

Li Qi asked, "What is it?"

"Underneath me is the Dragon Palace. The scenery over there is beautiful. Let's go over there and talk!" said the golden monkey.