Chapter 528 The Strange West Heaven

Li Qi did not delay for too long. After dealing with the last things, he set off for the West. This time he went alone. After all, the scheduled itinerary did not take too long.

Four months to travel, and the rest of the time to visit the masters in the West, get their guidance, and then go home.

It's that simple.

As for the fact that Shan Xuanyu and Li Shiwei did not control their emotions, Li Qi told Shen Shuibi before leaving, and Rabbit would handle these things well.

Who would have thought that a big stone that had stood for two thousand years without practicing actually had a piece of Shan Xuanyu hidden inside?

Or, Shan Xuanyu was the real body, and it was the stone outside that covered his mind and made him look stupid.

It's really interesting.

But Li Shiwei was very boring. Although she was only half a year old and showed the characteristics of her parents who liked to think, which made Li Qi like her very much, but Li Qi found that she really couldn't control her emotions.

This may be called "the innocence of children".

It is precisely because of innocence that it is particularly easy to be controlled by emotions.

When she is happy, she is very happy. When she is thinking, she is very focused. So... when she is angry, she is also very manic.

Shitou is her friend, but she completely forgets about this matter when she is angry.

She must let Shen Shuibi teach her to control it.

Li Qifei thought so in mid-air.

However, as he thought about it, he suddenly lost his mind.

Li Qi realized something.

If the innocence of children is the reason why they make so many unwise actions, then what is the reason for Li Qi to think twice before doing anything and be careful and cautious?

Children are innocent, so is Li Qi's own conservatism... because of innocence?

Li Qi is good at thinking. He immediately associated his daughter's actions with himself. If it is said that not being able to control emotions is innocence, then being able to control emotions means that the mind is too heavy?

And if the mind is too heavy, it is impossible to let emotions penetrate? If you can't experience emotions, will joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness become lighter? Will some of the source of motivation disappear?

Li Qi knew that emotions were the driving force behind many things, and might even be the driving force behind... courage.

However, without other clues and hints, Li Qi could no longer think further.

Thinking is fire, and fire needs firewood to burn, and firewood is your knowledge, your insights, and your experiences.

Thinking without experience is just fantasy, and experience without thinking is no different from dead things.

Therefore, there is a famous saying among human saints, called "Learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous."

Li Qi is like this now. He wants to go deeper from this perspective, but he finds that he has no corresponding knowledge and experience, and can't continue to think.

So he can only give up.

"Alas, I still don't know much, I live too short, and I see too little." Li Qi sighed. He obviously had a good idea, but unfortunately he was limited by his knowledge and couldn't go deeper.

Then keep these in mind. Isn't going to the West to solve the problem of insufficient knowledge?

Li Qi thought about this and continued to speed up.

The West is directly adjacent to Wushen Mountain, so most of the time is spent rushing to Liesuo.

Wushen Mountain is in the southwest, while Buddhism is in the extreme west. Which kind of direct contact is it?

I came to Liesuo and started it skillfully. Then, in a flash, I came to the border between Wushen Mountain and Xitian.

Crossing the border between Xitian and Wushen Mountain, Li Qi looked into the distance.

Wow...

Desert.

It's really a desert, no...it can't be called a desert, because it's not pure yellow sand, there are actually simple grass leaves and some gravel on it.

To be precise, it should be called...Gobi, right?

The world is a roughly circular continent, floating in the boundless void. There is no world barrier. It is just wrapped in a layer of strong winds, maintaining the peace inside, and there is a downward gravity from nowhere. Outside the strong wind layer, there are two moons and suns of the same size floating, rotating around the world.

The terrain of this circular continent is high in the west and low in the east, so the water will naturally flow eastward, all the way into the East China Sea, and then fall down into the void at the end of the East China Sea, forming a rare super waterfall in the world, and then be swept up by the strong wind layer and circulated to the whole world.

Therefore, as the highest point in the terrain, almost all the water in the West flows downward, merging into the Central Plains, the southwest and the northwest. It is not that there is no water here, but the water will slip away quickly. Under such scouring, it is naturally a mixture of desert and grassland.

A thin layer of rock debris covers the earth, which is the trace of the scouring of the sea of ​​water. Large pieces of sandstone, limestone and chalk form the ground, and some tenacious grasses raise their heads from the gravel with difficulty.

The scenery is desolate. If people live in such a place, I am afraid it will not be too good, right?

This reminds Li Qi of the desolate plateau stone desert.

Buddhism... doesn't it say that it is compassionate? Shouldn't we just transform the natural environment like humans do, so that everyone can be happy?

For the powerful people in the world, it is not a difficult thing to modify the natural environment, right? Human weather forecasts are divided by year, and the weather every day can be seen.

Then... why don't those compassionate Buddhas change the natural environment of the Western Paradise? Instead, let ordinary people suffer in this environment?

Oh, maybe I'm overthinking. Maybe it's only the outside that's like this. If you walk inside, you can see the place made of seven treasures mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures.

Li Qi thought so.

So he stepped forward and walked into the Western Paradise.

The surroundings were barren. Some wild animals and vegetation could be seen, but generally there was nothing special. It was just an ordinary place, and the source of heaven and earth was not very strong.

Li Qi walked in the Gobi Desert for more than a day and finally saw a little green. That was... an oasis in the stone desert?

If there is an oasis, there should be people.

Quickly approaching that place, but after a while, Li Qi saw the main body of the oasis.

Roughly speaking, there are several lakes, not big, only three or four miles wide. In Wushen Mountain, it can only be called a bathing pond, but it is already precious in this place.

Water is the source of life. For mortals, water is an indispensable thing.

Therefore, in this oasis, there are several markets surrounding it, forming a settlement.

It should be a market, right? Li Qi could see that many mortals with rough skin and abnormal blush on their faces were living there.

Li Qi landed on the ground and walked towards it in the form of blending into nature.

They were all mortals, so naturally they couldn't see him. Li Qi just entered the market and observed their daily lives.

This observation lasted for two days.

Li Qi shuttled through the mortal world like a mysterious ghost, checking the situation of the mortals everywhere.

However, no matter how you look at it, these mortals... are very ordinary.

This is not an agricultural society, but a kind of life following water and grass. Judging from their appearance, this oasis does not exist all the time, but only exists at this time of year.

When the oasis is dry, they will move to other places.

Regarding this, Li Qi saw it from their houses. The houses they lived in were not permanent residences, but tents and some houses with built structures, which were easy to dismantle and take away.

At the same time, there were many livestock, obviously nomadic people.

Among these people, there are naturally practitioners, but most of them are around the ninth rank, and the vast majority practice martial arts. Only a few monks practice Buddhism, or... the path of enlightenment.

The strongest person in the entire settlement is an eighth-rank warrior, a middle-aged woman called "Mom" by others. She uses two curved swords, which are quite powerful among the eighth-rank, but in Li Qi's opinion, she still belongs to the category of mortals, the kind who practice by themselves and rely on talent and luck to advance. If she can be promoted to the seventh rank, she may be able to contact the real world of practitioners in the world.

In other words, there is not a single truly systematic practitioner in this settlement.

Li Qi is very confused.

Indeed, whether ordinary people can embark on the path of practice actually depends on whether the Taoist sect is willing to preach.

For example, in the human way, their academy is completely free and compulsory. Everyone must go through the education of the academy, in which the concept of humanity and the corresponding skills will be transmitted. From practice resources to skills to teachers, all are handled by the court.

In other words, for the human way, these residents are born knowing the existence of the world of practitioners. Everyone is a part of it, and they don't think it's strange. Everyone can practice. As for the cost and resources of practice, they are supported by the violent plundering of the human way outside the whole domain and even in the world.

In Wushen Mountain, whether you can embark on the road of practice depends on your luck. Wushen Mountain does not prohibit the spread of any Taoist tradition, even including the human way. You can get in touch with all Taoist traditions in theory, as long as the other party is willing to accept you. Wudao does not actively spread, but it will not stop you from practicing, so Li Qi can often see those mountain people who come out of the mountain to worship.

This is the case with the human and witch ways, and other natural attitudes are also different. The demon way is keen to enlighten all things and make them demons. The Taoist sect is extremely strict with mortals. Not only does it prevent other Taoist sects from preaching, but it is also unwilling to train new people. It is difficult for mortals living in the Taoist sect to practice.

Li Qi is still very curious about their talent screening mechanism. It can't be...no, right?

As for the Buddhist side, it is even stranger.

Li Qi had never seen such a strange scene. No one stopped him. There was really no one to stop him. Li Qi was rampant in the vicinity and found that there were actually quite a lot of primitive cultivation sects in this place.

He saw some shamans who could communicate with spirits. This was actually the original witch, but the witch has long since left this primitive stage and has long been advanced. I don’t know how the shaman inheritance here has been preserved.

He also saw a lot of Taoist techniques, not the Taoist ones, but a kind of primitive skills similar to talismans, which looked like the prototype of talismans, but were too different from the Taoist divine talismans today, just like the difference between single-celled organisms and blue whales.

This situation reminded Li Qi of something Shen Shuibi said to him when he and Shen Shuibi first met a long time ago.

Preaching the world.

Once, many Taoist sects decided to preach the whole world, but later caused a big mess, so they were cancelled, but this incident caused many fragments of Taoist sects to be scattered everywhere, becoming the skills that many ordinary people rely on for survival.

In those places of Baiyue and Taoism where it is difficult to come into contact with practitioners, the productivity of ordinary people is almost entirely maintained by the fragments of these skills.

"No way, Buddhism is compassionate and enthusiastic about spreading the Dharma. They build temples all over the world, but why is my territory like this?" Li Qi muttered to himself, feeling puzzled.

It is known to the whole world that Buddhism likes to spread the Dharma. They even enjoy spreading the Dharma, so many people think that they are arranging cause and effect.

On the demon side, they created a Buddhist son, and later cooperated with the Heavenly Court to forcibly convert a demon saint into a Buddha.

On the human side, the monk Kassamoteng went to Luoyang alone and built the White Horse Temple, established the famous "Central Earth Buddha Source", and spread the Dharma in the Central Plains.

On the Shinto side, Buddhism also has a close relationship with the Heavenly Court. The legendary Four Heavenly Kings, Dhritarashtra, Virūpākṣa, Visūtra, and Vaisravana, are the four Dharma protectors of Buddhism, and are also the guardians of the gate of the Heavenly Court. They use their vast and boundless magic power to forever suppress the gate of the Heavenly Court, which shows the connection.

There is no need to say much about the real dragons. The eight divisions of heavenly dragons are well-known, and many dragon kings have become the forces under the command of Buddhism. In the past, Li Qi had seen the visualization picture, which contained 5.7 billion real dragon thoughts.

Not to mention these, even on the Taoist side, they also had a high-ranking Bodhisattva go there and worship Tianzun. With the method of "Buddha and immortals are actually of the same origin, hanging the pearl of Muni, condensing from the spirit, refining the golden elixir and achieving the fruit position", he achieved the position of Bodhisattva and heavenly immortal at the same time.

In addition, let alone the entanglement with the devil, the Buddhist scriptures also publicize the weaknesses of the devil all over the world, point out the footholds of the devil, and even point out the footholds of the four demons, and there are also ways to crack them.

This style of sowing seeds all over the world, spreading the law everywhere, and wanting to pull a loudspeaker to shout on the street, will do nothing in their own territory and let these mortals grow normally?

Li Qi didn't know what it meant, but after observing for a few days, he couldn't see anything wrong.

Maybe if the shackles of the real know rhyme were untied, something else could be seen, but it was not necessary.

These things should be answered when you meet a real Buddhist practitioner.

Li Qi already knew where the Buddhist practitioners here came from. They all came from an organization called "Ningma".

The Ningma organization always wears red hats and spreads Buddhism everywhere. Every once in a while, the monks of Ningma will come to this kind of settlement to preach. If there are smart ones, they can understand Buddhism and embark on the path of practice.

Li Qi is not going to wait for Ningma in this settlement.

He is going to take the initiative to find it.