Chapter 770 Meeting with Humanity
Avoidance and retreat are absolutely impossible for humanity.
For example, keeping a low profile is a strategy that should be adopted in many places.
After all, when facing a strong enemy, as long as you pretend to be timid, belittle yourself, and kowtow to others, you can deceive your opponent and gain precious breathing time, which is really great.
Throughout the world, there are many examples of successful use of this strategy to turn defeat into victory. Most practitioners who make good use of this strategy will be praised and praised as "sleeping on straw and tasting gall" and "bearing humiliation and bearing heavy burdens", and thus avoid many catastrophic disasters, achieve a comeback, and become a good story for a while.
However, this is not the case for humanity.
Even though humanity is well versed in history, and even has been in deep trouble several times, such as the great rebellion that humanity experienced thousands of years ago, the demon army and the rebels had already invaded Chang'an, but in the end humanity still did not choose to "keep a low profile", but instead blew up the dragon vein and survived from death.
Perhaps a certain individual of humanity will choose to bow his head temporarily for the final victory, but at the strategic level of humanity as a whole, even though they deeply know the role of bowing their heads, they never disdain to use it.
When they are on the road of "replacing heaven with human beings", they certainly know that they will face many enemies.
First of all, the witches will never accept their views. Replacing heaven with human beings is simply absurd nonsense in the eyes of witches.
As the Shinto to be replaced, even if Haotian has never expressed his opinion on this, many high-ranking priests also express their disapproval of humanity's approach.
The magic path is even more afraid of chaos in the world, not to mention that there are many high-quality worlds outside the domain that are not used to humanity.
The road of replacing heaven with human beings is destined to be bumpy.
However, when facing various severe difficulties and surrounded by tigers and wolves, humanity as a whole has always appeared openly, crushed the opponent with a majestic demeanor, and walked past all the blockers with an absolute kingly attitude, and never engaged in hiding their strength and keeping a low profile, bowing their heads and doing small things.
In this case, Li Qi went to the camp of the human way alone. The human way would never close the door and not see him, even if they knew clearly that Li Qi was here to spy on him.
With this view of the human way, Li Qi did not delay too much. He finished the things here, left a Dharma body as a terminal for communication, and then immediately went to the border between humans and witches, that is, the southern border of the human way.
Almost instantly, Li Qi arrived at that place. Now the spatial distance is no longer a limit for Li Qi.
He can easily travel billions of light years, and the time it takes is incredibly short. Because he has reality, the "law of cause and effect" is no longer effective for him, and he can easily break the speed of light.
If a creature without reality exceeds the limit of the heavenly way and breaks the law of cause and effect, then the existence without reality will die directly.
Because they cannot survive by themselves alone, if the law of cause and effect is broken, then the "cause" of his existence will be gone, and his own "result" as an existence will also disappear, and the whole person will disappear directly.
This is the lack of reality. Ordinary people rely on the entanglement with this world to exist, but the high-quality cultivators with reality have no other reason for their existence, only because of themselves, and they do not need to rely on a certain "reason" to maintain themselves.
Ordinary people without reality rely on too much, relying on the physical rules of the outside world to maintain their own materials, relying on the law of cause and effect to ensure their own existence, relying on the continuity of time and space to ensure the continuity of their actions... and so on.
But for practitioners with reality, these are not needed, they only rely on themselves.
This is "freedom".
This is a realm that ordinary people without reality cannot understand, and it is also the reason why high-quality masters can break various cosmic rules at will.
This difference also makes ordinary people feel a huge sense of oppression in front of Li Qi... It's like facing another universe...
For example, at this moment.
Li Qi stood in the southern border of humanity.
It was already evening, and the twilight was dim all around-
The afterglow of the setting sun scattered a dim light, shining on the waterfall and the pool, reflecting the colorful and gorgeous rainbow next to the figure.
These lights reflected Li Qi, making his shadow longer and more conspicuous in the sunset.
Li Qi looked up and looked at the southern border in front of him.
The huge city wall was built on the mountain road, and the army on it could be seen. The generals were strict in military discipline. Once the order was issued, the soldiers, barriers, flags, and the troops were strong and heavy. Each was in order. The barriers were spinning in the sky, and the gods were lightning. Everything was in order.
The city wall was magnificent and thousands of feet high. There were countless formations on it, engraved with white tigers and unicorns, shining and beautiful, and various cultivators followed. Its majesty was indeed unparalleled in the world.
However, the beacon towers on the city wall were carved from the tops of mountains and rivers, with ridges after ridges and peaks after peaks. The narrow places were bottomless and the roads were deep.
Such a huge wall, and stretching for hundreds of thousands of miles, is full of magic weapons. If every part is activated, this wall can even stop Li Qi. However, it can easily cut off the mountains and rivers, and even the sky's strong wind layer, achieving full monitoring of land, water and air, and blocking the road of Baiyue.
This kind of wonder is really rare.
Moreover... you can clearly see the difference between Baiyue and the human world. Separated by a wall, Baiyue is almost all wilderness, and monsters and other creatures dare not live here, so it looks particularly cold and desolate.
But on the other side of the wall, the human world was as prosperous as ever, with red flowers on the ground, elegant music, harmonious people, and strict order. There were many schools, prosperous trade routes, offerings and rewards, and dense crowds, praising virtue and benevolence.
However, those were all relatively far away, and now the soldiers on the wall were a little nervous.
The soldiers clenched their weapons in their hands and looked at the part of the formation they mastered. They felt fear in their hearts, because the person in front of them... was their great enemy this time.
The other party went deep into the enemy camp alone and even stood in front of the enemy formation. This approach brought a great sense of oppression to the ordinary soldiers of the human world.
At this time, a general of the human world came out and waved his hand fiercely: "All troops, listen to the order! Form a formation!"
With his order, the soldiers who were a little trembling before immediately became alert and took action.
But there were thousands of troops thundering and thousands of cavalry!
The spears pierced through the clouds, the feathered flags swept away the neon, the flags were raised, the wind was cut off, the soldiers were full of energy, and the whole city wall was activated, spitting flames and wind, and spraying wild and mountain, the sun and moon were dimmed, and the mountains and rivers were shaken.
However, in Li Qi's view, it was like a wild beast on the side of the road, baring its teeth, with its hair standing up, making a mighty and terrible appearance, just to scare the enemy away.
Unfortunately, it couldn't scare Li Qi.
Li Qi looked up at the thousands of feet high city wall in front of him, and said softly: "Wu Shen Mountain... Zhu Ren Di God lineage, Li Qi, come to pay a visit."
As Li Qi spoke, a breath descended.
The soldiers who waved flags around and encouraged the formation and military spirit also stopped.
There was no need to pretend, their backbone, the commander who could fight against Li Qi in front of him, came.
A strong man with a beard fell from the city wall.
He was wearing a bright armor, and his demeanor and actions were extremely calm and steady, with a firm gaze.
If Li Qi's last opponent, Liu Junyi, was a modest gentleman like a willow branch in the wind, with a pure aura, then the strong man in front of him was a mountain, and would not be shaken by the breeze.
He landed on the ground without making a huge noise, but only left two footprints.
Then, the general walked over and looked down at Li Qi.
Yes, it was a look down, because he was too tall, more than two meters. Li Qi's figure and height were not bad, but compared with the other party, he was like a little chicken.
Just as Li Qi guessed, Ren Dao would never choose to shrink his head. Even if the other party knew clearly that Zhen Zhiyun existed, he would stand up directly.
"Young Master Li Qi, I am Qiu Zhi, the commander of Zhennan Prefecture of Tang State." The other party looked at Li Qi and introduced him like this.
The various prefectures of the Tang Kingdom are the military deployment units of the human world, including Zhennan and Zhenbei, which are roughly similar to the configuration of military regions and are led by the third-rank "general".
Under the general, there are Zhechou Duwei, whose ranks are not fixed. The upper prefecture is the upper fourth rank, the middle prefecture is the lower fourth rank, and the lower prefecture is the lower fifth rank. Zhennan Prefecture is definitely the "upper prefecture".
If the opponents that Li Qi had collided with before were all other geniuses, then... what Li Qi encountered at this moment was not a genius, but an old strong man.
Maybe the opponent is not as talented as Liu Junyi or the Demon Prince, but the experienced techniques and steady aura make Li Qi feel pressure at this moment.
This pressure comes from "deduction".
Just after the other party showed up, Li Qi had almost scanned the other party. Although he dare not say that he understands 100%, it is estimated that it is almost the same.
In this case, with the power of the fourth rank, it is enough to deduce the battle. Just in the moment, Li Qi has deduced... or predicted the results of hundreds of thousands of wars.
There is no doubt that the winning rate is 40:60, Li Qi 60:60.
The extra "one" is the effect of the Devouring Heaven Demon Lord.
Sure enough, the level is about the same.
However, such divination or deduction... is just a simple estimate, and it cannot be taken seriously. After all, Li Qi cannot deduce the third rank behind him.
So, Li Qi nodded and responded to the other party: "Is the general of Zhennan Prefecture confronting my teacher? It looks similar... In other words, are we, the master and apprentice, facing the entire Zhennan Prefecture?"
"The entire Zhennan Prefecture? No, not really. The strength of the entire Zhennan Prefecture is enough to crush Baiyue. It would be a waste to mobilize all of them to deal with you. This would require the loss of the results of the battlefield outside the domain, which is not cost-effective." Qiu Zhi said.
There are many aspects to consider when it comes to combat power. It is impossible to invest too much power just for a certain local battlefield. That is not cost-effective. How to invest the right forces at the right time and achieve the desired results is a course that commanders have to practice.
This is the case now. The witch and the human are now fighting on four fronts. The war is spreading across the infinite world. Every minute and every second, trillions of worlds are burned to ashes. With this intensity of battle, even the combat power of both sides is a bit stretched.
At this moment, if another Baiyue battlefield is opened, the power that can be invested is also limited. Assuming that the entire Zhennan Prefecture is invested, it can indeed crush Li Qi and easily get the Holy Emperor's ruins, but a large part of the battlefield outside the domain may collapse.
"Yes, but in this case, things are not that simple. General Qiu Zhi, Baiyue now has more than 300 fifth-grade people, but I see that the number of people you have drawn is less than 100." Li Qi glanced at the wall behind him and said so.
"The rulers of the Baiyue Kingdom? They are just a bunch of trash. I have a total of 87 fifth-grade people here. In terms of combat power, they are enough to kill the rulers of the Baiyue Kingdom a hundred times, and there will not even be any casualties." Qiu Zhi said.
This is very impolite, but it is true.
The high requirements of humanity for "people" are simply unimaginable. In many countries outside the domain, humanity is called the "country of perfect people" and the "ideal country". The reputation of people in humanity outside the domain is quite polarized.
Although they have a bad attitude, for many worlds, humanity can be "absolutely trusted". Their official documents do not lie, and they always face all challenges with the most full attitude. Their abilities are surprisingly high. Everyone is a "protagonist" and a "hero". Although they may have various personalities, they are good at different things, and even have many shortcomings, they are all real "people" with their own persistence in their hearts.
It can even be said that despite their different personalities, everyone is Pavel Korchagin, and they are all tempered steel.
Therefore, many worlds are willing to be driven by humanity, hoping to become such a "perfect person", moving towards them and believing in the power of humanity.
And humanity is generally friendly to them. Although they are not on equal terms, they are willing to cultivate their heart for the Tao and let them get out of the period of "large paramecium".
The extreme style of humanity makes their reputation very extreme. Those who like humanity think that humanity is an ideal perfect country, and those who are harmed by humanity think that humanity is a cold and arrogant executioner.
In this personnel selection situation, if the scattered Baiyue lords go to war with the opposite side...
One-on-one may barely escape, and some lords with stronger combat power may even win.
But if it is ten against ten, they will be beaten into pig heads.
Even if it is fifty against ten, there is basically no winning rate.
If more than three hundred people go together and fight against more than eighty on the opposite side, they can't even escape. Everyone will die here, and the human side may even be unscathed.
How to say...
Li Qi can't refute it.
So he decisively changed the subject and said, "But humanity is the attacker. I have set up a copper wall and iron wall, waiting for the general to come and die."
This made Qiu Zhi laugh. (End of this chapter)