Chapter 369 Dilemma

Vision hallucinations and phantom limbs are not good enough to describe Li Qi's feelings at this moment.

It is similar to... another strange disease he had heard of before, the "Anton blindness" he had heard of in another world.

For people with this disease, the visual field area in their brains is generally completely destroyed, and they have basically lost all their vision and become completely blind.

However, another area in their brains that processes visual information is not damaged, and it still feels that everything is normal, and then processes visual information as usual.

He obviously can't see anymore, but his brain doesn't realize it. He still feels that he can see, and in fact, he can "really" see, but what they see doesn't match reality.

This kind of patient is actually blind, but he thinks that his strength is okay and he can see things.

Li Qi did see things, because what people usually see is the scene processed by the brain, not the real scene.

The brain helps people block and correct blind spots, retinal inversions, and many things that are not clear or blurred areas outside of focus, so that people can see the "normal field of vision", or the corrected field of vision.

People originally see with the ‘corrected vision’.

The only difference is that in the previous corrected vision, the eyes collected the external situation, then transmitted it to the correction area, then corrected it, and finally transmitted it to the visual area to get what people see.

For patients with Anton blindness, the eyes can no longer collect the external situation, but the correction area of ​​the brain is still working. They will work without any external information input, producing a bunch of random visions to maintain the illusion of ‘still seeing’.

For the brain, this makes no difference. The brain has always been processing the information transmitted by the correction area. The brain cannot realize whether this information is real external information or a bunch of miscellaneous random information.

This is where Anton blindness comes from.

Li Qi feels that his current situation is a bit like this, although he can survive without a brain now.

However, he does not have Anton blindness, but Anton all sensory syndrome.

Just after his own five aggregates were exposed by those magic bloods——

He lost all perception of the outside world.

It turned out that his senses could only draw information from the five aggregates from the beginning to the end, just like the brain of mortals can only read information from the correction area to form vision.

His senses could not skip the five aggregates to perceive the outside world. They were not for this purpose from the beginning of their birth. They were only responsible for reading the five aggregates.

After the five aggregates were suppressed by the five aggregates, Li Qi completely lost all his perception and sank into a layer of illusions that were not illusions.

What is an illusion that is not an illusion?

It's like Anton blindness.

He couldn't see, and when he thought he could see, the chaotic information from the outside world formed everything he saw, but none of this information matched the real world.

He couldn't hear either, but he thought he could hear, and there was really a sound coming from his ears.

Even including touch, taste, all his senses, all failed, and they were still operating randomly.

It was very difficult for Li Qi to just stand up, because people need the touch of the soles of their feet to maintain balance, and the cochlea in the hearing to sense the gravity level, so that they can stand up and walk.

Now, his cochlear implants are not working, and he feels dizzy, as if he is in a randomly operated drum washing machine, and he can't rest for a moment.

There are reincarnation-like hallucinations in front of him, which makes him confused, and he can't even close his eyes because he is blind.

Countless voices are coming to him, and he can't tell which sentence is his real hearing and which sentence is made up by his mind.

The skin all over his body is touched, stroked, torn, and bitten almost every moment, which are illusions caused by messy information.

The sense of touch is completely out of order, which brings not only confusion to the external skin, but also to his stomach.

How does the stomach work? First of all, the skin in the stomach also has a sensitive sense of touch. After sensing the arrival of food, these stomachs will start to work, but now, all the skin and all the epithelial tissues are disordered, which makes Li Qi's whole body wrong. His stomach is sometimes full, sometimes hungry, and sometimes nauseous.

His sense of smell felt different smells at every moment, stench, fragrance, strange smells that he didn't know how to describe, changing every minute and every second.

Including all five senses, none of these feelings were illusions, but they made Li Qi fall into a more terrifying confusion than any illusion.

He couldn't control himself, didn't know where he was, didn't understand whether he was standing or lying, couldn't tell whether he saw light or darkness in front of him, and he didn't even know where his hands were.

Under normal circumstances, people have to use touch and vision to judge where their hands are, but now Li Qi couldn't figure out what kind of posture he was in. He couldn't control his muscles, because any attempt to control his muscles would bring feedback of unknown things.

He wanted to raise his hand, and then his arm felt blocked, but the next second the feeling of obstruction disappeared again.

How can people judge whether they have touched something? Is the burning sensation suddenly coming from the hand caused by touching fire or an illusion? Am I lying on the bed or floating in the air?

I can't tell, everything is unclear.

The whole world has become an illusion.

Li Qi was deeply trapped in this quagmire of illusion, struggling in severe pain.

Of course, such a struggle actually requires great calmness.

The twisting of maggots before death is also a struggle, but it is useless. What Li Qi did was to struggle to survive, so he had to be calm.

First, he decisively cut off his control over his body to prevent all the hallucinations from making him do strange things.

After cutting off the control of his body, he relied entirely on muscle memory, without relying on any senses, to straighten all the muscles in his body and maintain an upright posture, so that at least he would not appear in a posture that was too dangerous.

But even so, Li Qi didn't know what his current situation was.

His "heart", or the center of all his thoughts and activities, whether it is called the soul or the true spirit, in short, his spiritual entity has completely lost the perception of the outside world.

His spiritual entity is completely disconnected from the material entity.

Originally, the five aggregates are the connection point between the mind and the body. The mind understands the body through the five aggregates, and the body accepts the adjustment through the five aggregates, thus forming a person.

Of course, only Buddhism believes this. Other paths do not recognize the five aggregates. Although they also recognize a certain connection, they all have their own opinions.

Different interpretations of phenomena and using their own theories to explain the world are also a feature of different paths.

There is no right or wrong. Before the ultimate avenue is revealed, everything is unknown. Each path just encompasses the world in its own way.

But in any case, Li Qi is now indeed suppressed by the five aggregates of the five aggregates, which is enough to prove that the five aggregates are not empty talk, but have a solid foundation.

However, although this made Li Qi extremely painful and even suffered endless torture, he has not failed.

Yes, he did not give up.

In the endless illusion, he completely lost his sense of time. The lack of time cognition made him completely confused about everything.

Under this torture and desperate situation, Li Qi sighed.

To be honest, he didn't know if his body sighed, but his heart really sighed.

He struggled for a long time, and in this desperate situation, he came up with many ways to find a way out for himself.

At first, he tried to use his heartbeat or pulse to time and maintain a basic sense of time. The sense of time is the rule for people to do things. It is with the sense of time that there is a perception of speed, and then other criteria for judging movement are extended.

Without the sense of time, people will further lose their ability to move.

But Li Qi failed. Needless to say, his pulse was completely disordered, and Li Qi also found that the heartbeat he felt was completely chaotic.

With the five aggregates sealed, he couldn't even feel his own heartbeat.

His heart was like a king imprisoned on the throne. The king desperately wrote documents and issued orders, sending these orders to every place in the kingdom.

But no place would reply, and there would be no response. The king didn't even know whether the order was effective. He didn't know what happened in those places. Did those kingdoms really belong to him?

In fact, of course it is. It can be seen from Li Qi's body twitching from time to time that the command is taking effect, but the reply from the body to the mind is gone. Both sides are torn apart, causing Li Qi to suffer this torture.

Li Qi had to use the most clumsy method to count, that is, to divide part of his attention and start counting.

But this is almost useless, it can only be said to be better than nothing, because he soon found that his counting behavior must also be based on a sense of time. Without the guidance of a sense of time, he counted fast and slow, completely deviating from the goal of timing.

But he still counted, even if it was useless, at least it could help him stay awake.

This behavior is still useful, but Li Qi himself doesn't know it.

It is his attempt to stay awake that keeps his body instinctive.

This instinct and muscle memory allow Li Qi's body to respond to external stimuli. Although he is like a fool, at least when he is supported by someone to walk, he will move, and when he is placed on a chair, his body will sit down by itself.

When being questioned, although he could not say anything logical, he could always come up with a few words, although they were random and difficult to understand.

Again, like a fool.

After failing to gain a sense of time, Li Qi was forced to endure another torture.

He didn't know how long he had been in a daze.

It was possible that he was just stunned, but it took a long time, or it was possible that he felt it was a long time, but it was actually just a moment.

This was a deeper torture for the mind, and he would be greatly disturbed even if he wanted to do something.

If he were an ordinary person, he would be dead now.

Fortunately, Li Qi was already a seventh-grade, and his body was not so fragile. Even if he didn't eat, drink or sleep, he could still be alive and kicking for at least a hundred years.

This made him take the second action.

He tried to reconstruct his senses, using methods other than the five aggregates.

Seriously, this is very, very difficult.

Li Qi had no idea about anything other than the five aggregates, and he realized this only after he tried to do it.

It turned out that the whole world was projected onto the five aggregates, and his mind knew nothing except the five aggregates.

Just like the king mentioned before, this king had never been to the land he ruled, he just read reports and issued orders.

The king never left the throne, and the five aggregates, a loyal minister, would continuously send the king reliable reports, so that the king could know the situation of the entire kingdom without leaving the throne.

From the beginning to the end, his mind had only been exposed to the five aggregates. Now that he was separated from the five aggregates, it was too difficult for him to rebuild his senses.

But Li Qi still found a breakthrough.

In addition to the five aggregates, the king had another spy who explored the outside world for him.

That was Zhen Zhidao Yun.

True Knowing Yun is Li Qi's sixth sense. This has been said many times before. Every time he uses True Knowing Yun, it feels like a blind man suddenly grows eyes, and a deaf man suddenly grows ears. He looks at the world from a new, weird, and indescribable perspective, which can give him extraordinary observation power, and the things observed through this organ will be firmly imprinted in his mind and difficult to forget.

This is a benefit, which allows Li Qi to remember many things.

It is also a disadvantage. This level of information flow shock has almost killed Li Qi several times. Fortunately, his brain is good and he has held on. Now he has become accustomed to this shock.

In other words, Li Qi wants to know whether True Knowing Yun has gone through the five aggregates?

After trying for an unknown period of time, he was frustrated to find that the information collected by True Knowing Yun also had to be analyzed and disassembled through the five aggregates before it could be perceived by the mind.

But it's not all bad news.

There is good news, that is, the True Knowing Rhyme is not his sense organ, the True Knowing Rhyme is still in effect, and the massive information flow is still pouring into his head, but without the analysis of the Five Elements, he can't understand it.

This represents one thing.

Unlike the other five senses that have been fixed on the Five Elements, the True Knowing Rhyme can be manipulated. He can manipulate the True Knowing Rhyme and then connect the True Knowing Rhyme directly to his mind.

Without going through the Five Elements, directly feel the world through the True Knowing Rhyme.

Li Qi doesn't know what the consequences will be, nor does he know if his mind can bear it.

But this may be the only way for him to get out of trouble, after all, he can't suppress the Five Elements Demon Blood.

If he can't do this, he will try another plan.

Completely guide his mind out, abandon this body, and activate the demonic energy clone to carry the mind.