Chapter 373 The Tenderness of the Demon (8K2 Large Chapter Plus Additional Content)

‘Li Qi’ spent a whole hour to understand what happened before and summarized it.

Li Qi tried countless ways to escape from the endless dark torture.

One of the methods was to transmit his mind through the true knowing rhyme to the demonic clone outside.

But obviously, this attempt failed.

Li Qi transmitted his mind, but his mind did not get out. He was still trapped in the cage and locked tightly by the five aggregates of demonic blood.

He had to find other ways.

Finally, after losing his sense of time and not knowing how long it had passed, he found a method that might work.

This method comes from Buddhism, from what Master Kaiwen said: "Sound, color, and appearance are originally born from the mind. The mind of distinction is all in the wrong way. The Buddha is not color, but you are color. The Buddha is not appearance, but you are appearance."

Since the ‘appearance’ in the five aggregates cannot be distinguished or perceived, then abandon it and face the real world.

This is difficult, because without the ‘appearance’, he cannot describe or recognize this world.

This is similar to...

A person who can read and use language flexibly, but he is locked in a cage, or more extreme, he is blind and deaf-mute and can only read words by touch.

He has a loyal servant beside him who will carve what he sees on a wooden board and describe it to him, so that he can understand what he sees through words.

The only way for him to understand the outside world is words, and the only way to describe the outside world is words. So, when he chooses to give up words, how can he understand the outside world?

The answer is that he cannot understand it.

Even if a piece of red paper is placed in front of him, he does not know that it is red.

He does not know what "red" is, and he has never seen the color.

The only thing he understands is how to write the two words "red". He knows the two words "red", but he does not know what these words represent.

There is no way to correspond to words for colors.

Li Qi does not know what this color looks like anyway.

This is what Li Qi is like now.

In the past, his eyes saw the two words "red". Those were the two words "red" carved on the wooden board by the servant Wuyun for him, but ordinary people would take that as real.

In fact, they have never really seen red, but just took the shape of the word red as ‘red’ itself.

What Li Qi has to do is to abandon the original cognition of the word ‘red’ and then re-establish the perception of the outside world.

The first point is to see red with your own eyes.

But can a blind person see red?

Without a doubt, it is impossible.

But Li Qi is very lucky. He has a sixth sense besides the five senses. This is his ‘eye’, which allows him to open his eyes and see, not to see ‘red’.

He first reconstructed the eye with magic.

This is very simple, it can be done with magic. There are many magics in Wudao that can observe things through thousands of mountains and rivers. The principle is not complicated. Make a fictitious magic eye, and then send it out, and see things with this eye.

Another eye alone is meaningless. The information collected by this eye will still be sent to the five aggregates, and then the suppressed five aggregates cannot process it, and Li Qi still can't see anything.

However, Li Qi changed the structure of the magic and transmitted what this eye saw to Zhenzhiyun.

This is also a meaningless behavior. Zhen knows that Yun can't understand it, so he can only record this information as usual.

But the subsequent behavior is meaningful.

Li Qi is going to put this unprocessed information directly into his brain.

This is very dangerous.

People who have never opened their eyes, looking up at the sun, may see a rainbow, or they may be completely blind, or even comatose or dead.

Just think about it, if you stay in a dark cellar for three days and come out into the sun, you will faint...

Not to mention that a person who has never opened his eyes, receiving a lot of information without any defense, that feeling must be more exciting than coming from the dark to the sun.

But Li Qi was close to the edge of madness at the time, and he risked his life to try it.

In fact, he almost died.

The "real" information was much more terrifying than he imagined. The moment he came into contact with it, he realized the meaning of the existence of the five aggregates.

Without the five aggregates, all mortals would die.

The outside world is very dangerous, so mortals have evolved "skin" to resist the erosion of the outside world.

And the five aggregates are the skin of the mind.

A person without the five aggregates is like walking on the ground with skin peeled off. Even the lightest touch will bring intense pain.

This is the source of Li Qi's endless torture.

His weak mind cannot accept this kind of impact. Even though Li Qi is already a seventh-grade, he almost didn't hold on.

Red is not just red.

There are countless rays of light in it, and each ray is different, with different wavelengths and images.

This is just one color. There are countless colors that make up the world.

That eye received information that was so magnificent that it could be called "indescribable". This information itself was nothing special, but the amount was too much.

He almost died under this level of information.

Unbelievable.

Reality... It turns out to be so lethal.

However, Li Qi was keenly aware of it.

This is the same as the thirty-two phases of the Buddha statue, which is the second level of confusion.

What he thinks is real now is still not real.

Li Qi cannot understand those information flows at all. They are pure garbled codes. Although they can be decoded into the "pictures" seen by the eyes, it is obvious that Li Qi does not have the ability to decode them. Decoding is something that only the five aggregates can do.

Such garbled codes may be understood as "pollution".

The incredible, incomprehensible, and indescribable information flow washed over Li Qi's mind, trying to destroy his mind and turn it into complete fragments.

Fortunately...

For some reason, Li Qi is somewhat accustomed and relaxed.

After years of brainwashing, he has long been accustomed to the huge information flow. The information containing infinite reality is indeed terrible, but Li Qi is very relieved.

It's like a weightlifter is blocked by a huge rock. It belongs to the professional counterpart.

Li Qi supported such information flow, but he couldn't hold it all the time. Weightlifters will only lift for three seconds and put it down when the light comes on.

If you keep lifting, you will die.

He also persisted for three seconds, and then decisively ended the magic eye.

There was enough information pouring in.

Li Qi was going to encode this information and restore the broken information flow into picture information.

The difficulty of doing this is roughly equivalent to translating an English book into Chinese without knowing English.

It is almost impossible to do it.

But it is not that there is no way. Li Qi is a smart man. Smart people are best at finding ways. Before finding this way, he had tried many ways.

First of all, Li Qi can confirm that these are all image information, because these information are all read by Zhen Zhiyun from the eyes constructed by magic.

What is visual information? It can be roughly divided into color, graphics, spatial depth, and light and dark contrast.

Then, this information can be regarded as a "puzzle".

With the help of graphics and imagination, start to connect these messy information with graphic colors and "connect" at the meaning level.

Arrange from simple to complex, from concrete to abstract, and divide simple and direct information such as color into the first level.

Information with uncertain meaning will be temporarily abandoned and marked as the second level.

Based on the first-level results, a simple combination is made to explore the basic organizational structure of the second level.

Based on the second-level basic grammatical structure, more meanings are determined by adding meanings and marked as the third level.

Combine the third-level structure to form the final picture, check the logical order, and verify the first-level guess in this way. If a logical error occurs, it means that the assumption of the first level is wrong. Re-assume so that the final result meets the third-level verification and meets the common "logical cognition".

There may be a phenomenon that the meaning cannot be determined, but multiple samples and repeated confirmations can probably eliminate most errors.

Repeat this.

Finally, these "information" are pieced together to form a picture.

This picture does not exist in reality, but is imagined by Li Qi.

What he can see and feel is still only a messy information flow.

But he can use these information flows to decipher what they represent and what information flow represents what kind of picture.

If I have to describe it, there were five aggregates before, and he could see the "image" intuitively, just like the pattern, mouse, and visual interface on the computer desktop.

But now, he can only see strings of codes, and he must use these codes to imagine the entire "desktop" in his mind, and then operate it.

It's very troublesome and difficult, but this is the only way Li Qi can think of at present.

If it were an ordinary person's brain, it would never be able to do this, but he is already a seventh-grade after all, and his mind is far superior to ordinary people, so that he can complete this extremely difficult thinking process like a computer.

Fortunately, this time, he succeeded.

Li Qi successfully rebuilt his vision with this method, although it was fake.

He can only rely on instant translation to imagine what he "should see" at this moment from a chaotic information flow.

After rebuilding his vision, he rebuilt his hearing in turn, and then relied on these two senses to temporarily restore his control of his body.

He still has no sense of touch, and touching his body only brings incomprehensible information flow, no sense of smell, no taste, and even control of the body can only rely on vision to adjust.

As long as he closes his eyes, he can no longer feel his body, and even walks a little shaky and can't maintain balance.

But the good news is... he finally woke up.

However, according to tradition, there must be bad news after good news.

The bad news is that after waking up, the demonic clone disappeared, and according to the Lord of Lingxiao, he ran away by himself, and claimed to be Li Qi.

Li Qi didn't know what to say, but he felt... not good.

"Ahem, so, your clone gave birth to spiritual intelligence and ran away by itself?" Lord Lingxiao said to Li Qi.

These words were transformed into information in Li Qi's ears, and then transmitted to his mind, arranged into a pile of indescribable information.

Li Qi was stunned for a moment. That was because he was spending a lot of energy to process this kind of information. The information flow that was originally solved quickly by the five elements and was not difficult at this moment seemed particularly difficult.

Processing this information into vibration waves, and then simulating the situation that this kind of shock wave should have, and finally making up the sound in his mind.

After the moment of shock, he manipulated his mouth and said stiffly: "That's right, Lord, can you help me cast a magic spell to suppress the five elements of magic blood?"

It was difficult to speak like this, because he didn't know what was going on with his mouth. He could only manipulate his tongue and confirm what he said through skull resonance.

This made him speak like a robot. For an hour, he and Lord Lingxiao had been talking in this inefficient way.

After hearing Li Qi's words, Lord Lingxiao also saw that Li Qi was not in the right state, and nodded and agreed: "If you need it, let's find a secluded place and rent a cave."

"Thank you...." Li Qi nodded.

After completing the conversation and reviewing the prospects, Lord Lingxiao parked the Jade Road below according to traffic rules.

Then, she supported Li Qi and rented a fifth-grade cave.

The price was very expensive. It cost a top-level seventh-grade magic weapon, and it was only rented for one day.

But after all, it is a fifth-grade cave, so it is normal to be expensive.

After entering the cave, Lingxiao King began to cooperate with Li Qi.

Li Qi commanded and told her the details of his five elements and five elements of magic blood, asking her to suppress the demon.

It must be said that the fifth-grade strongman is really powerful. Although he seems a little weak in front of Li Qi, that power cannot be faked.

Lingxiao King stretched out his hand, but saw countless Lingxiao flowers blooming on Li Qi's body.

These Lingxiao flowers took root in Li Qi's body, the roots pierced into Li Qi's body, connected to his nerves, and emitted a mysterious wave.

Li Qi knew that this was not a magic, but the body of the Lingxiao Flower God.

She took root in Li Qi herself to suppress the five elements of magic blood.

With Li Qi as an insider and reporting the five elements of magic blood, Lingxiao King began his pursuit.

Li Qi could feel that something in his body was chasing east and west.

The Five Elements Demon Blood seemed to have a mind and was escaping madly, causing Li Qi's body to groan in pain, while the roots of the Lingxiao Flower God continued to spread.

The roots not only traveled through Li Qi's body, but also became spiritualized, and even took root in his soul!

Mysterious and secular knowledge, hungry and spiritual.

When the yin passed away, the yang had no scenery.

Free and easy Beiyue, Lingxiao led.

Waving the mist and the sky, abandoning the spirit and being quiet.

Under the rooting of countless flower tendrils, Li Qi almost became a vegetable. The roots connected to his blood vessels, surrounded and intercepted, and forced the demon blood to have no way to go.

Then, the Lingxiao Flower God finally touched the Five Elements Demon Blood, and then a flower bloomed on the Five Elements Demon Blood.

She used the Five Elements Demon Blood as a flowerpot and forcibly fixed it in place!

This chase seemed to have caused many changes in Li Qi's human world.

First, countless flowers grew in the human world.

But it did not spread, but gradually formed a series of spiritual peaks.

Ling Xiao is the servant, the spirit sheds and rides on the smoke.

Breathing in and out the six qi, rising and falling in the nine heavens.

Wonderful things are spiritual, and they are not rushed.

Full but not overflowing, hiding the light and shining.

Beyond its limit, containing the truth and eliminating filth!

Accompanied by the magical power that Li Qi could not understand, countless flowers gathered in the body and then withered.

Constantly blooming and withering, just like the reincarnation of life.

And that drop of five elements of magic blood was also trapped in this reincarnation, with the reincarnation of withering and flourishing, constantly fluctuating.

When withering, the magic blood shrank and was unable to escape.

When flourishing, the magic blood was full and must have encouraged strength to escape, but according to the method of withering and flourishing, it would suddenly wither when the strength reached its peak.

The flowers outside maintained this situation, and the many spiritual peaks formed by the flowers in Li Qi's body maintained the technique of withering and flourishing.

It took a full ten hours to finally complete all this.

After completing all this, Li Qi felt that his suppressed five elements had returned.

The king of mind finally had his loyal servant again.

As the five elements recovered, Li Qi's five senses also recovered.

He once again established an intuitive feeling of the world, but... not so intuitive.

This crisis was passed without any danger, except that the magic clone disappeared.

Even the Lord of Lingxiao looked exhausted.

She wiped her sweat and said, "Okay... I will temporarily seal the magic blood with the method of four-season life and death reincarnation. It should be no problem for more than ten years. During this time, you can go to the great witch. They should be able to completely eliminate this thing. By then, you will be fine, young master. So, when do we set off for Chang'an?"

She was a little anxious, because the five elements of the magic blood were not something she could solve. It was already the limit to suppress it for a short period of time with all her strength.

For the follow-up, let the background of this young master solve it. She had no choice.

"Give me some time, I need... to get familiar with it." Li Qi shook his head and stood up unsteadily.

Ling Xiaoguo Lord frowned.

To be honest, she still didn't quite understand what happened to this young master.

But it didn't matter. He said to wait a few days, so let's wait a few days. It's just a few days.

So, Ling Xiaoguo Lord said: "Then I will follow the time we said before, three days... oh, two days later, I will come to you again."

"Who told you three days?" Li Qi looked up and asked.

"You, your clone." Ling Xiaoguo Lord said.

She was a little confused. What happened to this young man? Was there a gap in his consciousness and memory? Was it because of the demon blood?

"Oh... I see. Okay, then let's go with the time you said." Li Qi nodded. He didn't dwell on it too much.

Because...

He needed time to compare.

The Lord of Lingxiao left, and Li Qi changed to an ordinary cave.

There was no other way. It was too expensive to rent.

After changing to a new room, Li Qi sat down and began to recall the past and then compare it with the present.

At the moment when the five elements were restored, he had an "intuitive feeling" again, but after experiencing the time of losing the five elements, he realized that such intuition was so illusory and even unreliable.

This sense is very intuitive and easy to use, but it is not real.

This, plus everything he encountered before, made him realize one thing.

There is indeed a spiritual entity, and it is closely related to the material entity.

"That is to say... the spiritual entity exists, but it does not operate in the material world, but exists independently of the material world."

Li Qi tried to touch it, but he felt a "boundary".

The boundary between spirit and matter.

You know, even the soul is essentially material and a material entity. Li Qi had never really come into contact with the so-called "spiritual entity" before.

And now, he has come into contact with it, he clearly perceives the spiritual entity, and touches the "boundary" with matter.

The boundary theory seems to be particularly important now.

Li Qi feels that it is crucial to see through "I am me".

He never realized that the boundary theory can actually play a role here.

It seems that... everything he encountered after reaching the seventh rank is paving the way for "I am me".

Coincidence? Or...

Forget it, don't consider those.

As long as he returns to Chang'an, he can see the boundary between matter and spirit with his own eyes.

In addition to the previous perception of spiritual entities, they together constitute Li Qi's current cognition.

Under the accumulation of these things, it seems that there is only a layer of paper left. As long as it is broken, you can see the issue of "I am me".

Because Li Qi was very curious about one thing, that is... the demon dragon that was cut into pieces and made into a cave in Tang Kingdom, how did he resurrect, and how did his body combine to form a "mind".

After putting his fragments together, how did his mind revive in his body, and how did his spirit break this boundary?

This is the only answer missing, and I am my puzzle, this is the only one missing.

In addition to these, this crisis also made him feel something that he didn't know if it was a clairvoyance.

He now has two perspectives.

One is the intuitive feeling brought by the five aggregates, and the other is the data flow perspective after discarding the five aggregates.

There is no difference between high and low, but it is indeed a heterogeneous sense.

Before Li Qi restored the five aggregates, he could not understand what the data flow perspective represented, and he could only clumsily use exhaustive and logical reasoning to barely reconstruct the previous perspective.

Just like what I said before, if you don't understand English, you can imagine the mistakes and omissions in translating an English book into Chinese.

Now, Li Qi has both the data stream vision and the vision brought by the five aggregates, which means that he can understand both Chinese and English books, and the translation between them has become much easier.

Therefore, he found that as a human, he was born unable to perceive and understand part of the structure of this world, and he must be exposed to the real vision to perceive it.

The five aggregates blocked and transformed this part of information.

And this part of information may be what the "heavenly eye" sees. Li Qi does not know what the heavenly eye is for the time being, but he guesses that this special data stream vision is part of the ability of the heavenly eye.

After all, only in this way can one truly "see through all forms and colors", not be hindered by any illusions, and even be able to peek into the mystery of reincarnation.

Li Qi now feels that all illusions are useless to him, because if an illusion covers him, then the data stream and what the naked eye sees will not match, and he can immediately detect that he is covered by an illusion.

The data stream vision is seen by the "mind".

The intuitive vision is seen by the "flesh".

The combination of the two can depict a picture that is closer to the truth. Just like Li Qi, he is also an individual composed of a body and a mind.

But...

At present, the data flow vision still needs the true knowledge rhyme as a "transfer interface", which will occupy part of the power of the true knowledge rhyme and reduce its scanning depth.

But Li Qi thinks it is completely worth it. After all, he has only achieved visual and auditory data streaming.

It's just a little dizzy.

The senses after the overlap of the two visions and the familiarity with the data flow vision all need time. He still can't handle it freely now.

But practice makes perfect. He plans to use a few days to adapt. It happens that there are two days. He will try it slowly in this relatively cheap cave and try to get used to it.

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Just when Li Qi put aside all doubts and prepared to practice habit, 'he' finally got rid of fear.

One day ago, 'he' felt very scared.

‘He’ found that he might not be Li Qi. Although he had all of Li Qi’s emotions, memories, techniques, and even his body and thinking patterns were exactly the same, there were two things that did not recognize ‘he’ as Li Qi.

The first was the Cardinal of All Realms, the ultimate mechanism created by humanity, a second-grade magic weapon. ‘He’ could not open Li Qi’s account, which meant that the Cardinal of All Realms thought ‘he’ was another person.

The second was True Knowing Yun.

In the midst of fear and panic, ‘he’ fled to Baiyue in a panic. After subconsciously using True Knowing Yun to scan the surroundings, ‘he’ found that ——

True Knowing Yun was gone.

The two pieces of evidence corroborated each other, and neither recognized that ‘he’ was Li Qi.

‘He’ still remembered how he was born.

‘He’ originally thought that he was Li Qi, but a day had passed, and ‘he’ had figured it out.

‘He’, who inherited all of Li Qi’s thoughts, had the same wisdom as Li Qi, so a day was enough for ‘he’ to calm down and think about how to deal with the current situation.

The birth of "him" was because Li Qi took countless ways to save himself in despair. At the most extreme time, Li Qi even thought of abandoning this body, pouring his mind into the magic clone, and then solving the five elements of magic blood from the outside, and finally returning to his original body.

It was a very useful approach, but something went wrong.

Zhenzhiyun can transmit information, but it does not have the function of "import and delete".

In other words, Li Qi's mind did not go out, but was read and copied by Zhenzhiyun and passed to the magic clone.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of mind will not take effect, because the receiver must have his own mind, and this chaotic "possession" is meaningless. Even the most ordinary mortals can rely on the five elements to resist it.

But perhaps it is a coincidence that there is no such thing in the magic clone.

If not, it is not a good thing, and this information will not work.

Information needs a carrier.

The code engraved on the CD can be read and generate power, and the code engraved on the stone is just a string of patterns.

But... maybe it's really a coincidence. In this demonic clone, there is a mind that the witch god copied personally. This mind is blank. According to the witch god, this mind is designed to gradually read Li Qi's mind after a hundred years, and finally activate and give birth to another Li Qi.

The purpose of all this is to urge Li Qi to understand "I am me" within a hundred years.

However, before a hundred years, Zhen Zhiyun copied Li Qi's mind completely one day ago.

So, 'he' was born.

"Am I Li Qi?" Looking at his hands, 'he' murmured to himself.

'He' has all the memories and emotions of Li Qi. 'He' even loves Shen Shuibi like Li Qi, and has the same fanatical curiosity about the unknown as Li Qi.

"Why is he Li Qi?" 'He' said to himself, and even his eyes became a little scary.

That look was full of resentment and indignation at unfairness.

‘He’ has the same body and mind as Li Qi. Even if he stands in front of Shen Shuibi, Shen Shuibi can’t detect any difference.

Those loves are real, and those memories are real.

Then why do you say ‘he’ is fake?

Why is the Li Qi sitting on the Jade Road real?

No one can tell the difference. If it is demonic energy, then just replace the energy.

It won’t take much time. As long as he absorbs the energy from the outside world crazily, he can quickly turn his human body into the same as Li Qi’s. Anyway, they are all running on the same ‘Tao’.

‘He’ is Li Qi!

‘He’ roared, his cultivation exploded, and the great power of the seventh rank was fully displayed. The mountains under his feet collapsed, and the mountain and water veins were all torn apart. The mountain gods and water gods fled in panic, but were crushed by the rolling cultivation and shattered to the ground. Countless birds and beasts fled frantically from corners of the valley, but most of them did not escape.

For dozens of miles, natural disasters began to fall, as if they were punished by God.

When a witch wants to overthrow a place, he only needs to use his own little world to oppress the existing world. Under the conflict of rules, those weak people who cannot resist the aftermath will naturally suffer a devastating blow.

The mountain range changed its course, the water veins were cut off, and the whole mountain lost its vitality.

‘He’ sat helplessly in a ruin.

Li Qi had never lost his composure like this before. Even after reaching the seventh rank, Li Qi had always carefully controlled himself and never did things that had a huge impact. After all, it was very dangerous and impolite to do so in the world.

But ‘he’ didn’t care about that.

‘He’ was able to escape from fear and not go crazy, which was enough to show his mental toughness. If he were an ordinary person, he would probably have fallen into self-destruction now.

In fact, ‘he’ had thought about this.

Self-destruction, so that there would be only one Li Qi in the world.

But as ‘he’ said just a few minutes ago, why is the ‘Li Qi’ on the other side real?

Why?

‘He’ is no different from Li Qi.

Even if they switched places, ‘he’ believed that Li Qi would make the same choice as him.

‘He’s’ eyes became firm.

‘He’ also had the power and desire to live, and ‘he’ didn’t want to be a fake.

So, at this moment, the world around him turned black.

In the darkness, a charming woman appeared in his arms, sat on his thighs, and gently stroked his face.

"You are Li Qi, right? I know, I know." Tianmo said gently.

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