Chapter 774: Stop
"Brother Guo, I came here this time to tell you why your food tastes different. I figured it out."
Li Qi's words made the cooking pot breathe faster and his inner world turbulent.
Although he was a magic weapon... his inner world still leaked at this moment, which directly led to the occurrence of strange phenomena.
But the strange phenomena around him unfolded. That was the cooking pot's... food library?
Millet, millet, rice, sorghum, white millet, yellow sorghum, glutinous rice, and chaff.
Six grains, six animals, six clears, 120 delicacies, eight precious things, and 120 jars of sauce.
Six meals, hundreds of delicacies, hundreds of sauces, and eight delicacies are all here. Spring is more sour, summer is more bitter, autumn is more spicy, and winter is more salty. In addition, there are suitable foods, such as beef, sheep, millet, pig, dog, wild goose, and fish.
Head, tripe, kidney, white sausage, quail, rabbit, fish, shrimp, chicken, duck, clams, crab, stewed meat, fragrant herbs, crystal sashimi, fried liver, crab, walnut, glutinous rice, beans, goose pear, pomegranate, chestnut, quince, glutinous rice cake, dumpling, salted bean curd, roasted sour bean curd, cake, and vegetables, beetle, wild fox meat, lotus soup, fragrant candy, and various fried foods--
The countless delicacies are simply indescribable, forming a galaxy of delicacies, in which there are billions of dishes!
This is the galaxy of delicacies, all the food...but it's all for 'people'.
The next moment, all these strange phenomena disappeared and were swallowed into the belly of the cooking pot again, because he had recovered his consciousness and took back all the leaked power.
This loss of composure made him a little embarrassed, and he said: "I'm sorry, brother, I've been stuck for a while..."
Li Qi didn't tease, because he knew that his answer might be the opportunity to open the cooking pot!
Even if his answer was wrong, he helped the other party eliminate a wrong answer, which was of great value.
Therefore, even though he was already a fourth-grade master, Cooking Sea Pot was still a little out of control when facing such an impact.
"I understand, Brother Guo, you have been preparing since I was a seventh-grade master, and you understand everything." Li Qi nodded, indicating that it was nothing.
"Then... Brother, what is your answer? Why does the same dish taste different to you?" Cooking Sea Pot asked.
"Probably because I am an outsider." Li Qi said so.
This answer disappointed Cooking Sea Pot.
"If this is the only answer, then brother is really... I naturally know the taste differences brought by races, but my cooking skills are enough to transcend races. Brother, do you have any hidden meaning?" Cooking Sea Pot shook his head.
However, he still left hope behind his words, because he knew that Li Qi was already a fourth-grade master, so he would definitely not talk nonsense, and the other party's words must have a deep meaning.
"No hidden meaning, it's very simple. I'm an outsider, but the outside is a little... too far." As he said that, Li Qi put his hand on the cooking pot.
In the past, the demon used great magical powers to bring Li Qi to the edge of the universe in an instant through the 'Three Lives Ancient Mirror', and witnessed the spectacular scene of the universe 'creating something out of nothing'. This scene inspired Li Qi, allowing him to understand the true meaning of the seventh rank, break the original shackles, and successfully advance.
And now, Li Qi is imitating the magical power of that moment.
After reaching the fourth rank, he is indeed qualified to lead people through the huge distance of the universe.
If the speed of light is not changed, then the limit that ordinary civilizations can observe is only tens of billions of light years. This range is probably called the 'observable universe'.
But if they can cross the law of causality, they can break through the limit of the speed of light and travel in the starry sky that is normally unobservable and cannot be interfered with.
If not, they will be trapped in the 'observable' range forever and cannot affect the outside world.
If a fifth-grade world does not rely on the fast universe system established by the world, then they will most likely never be able to break through. Only civilizations above the fourth grade can travel through this.
And Cooking Sea Pot has never done such a thing.
After all, he is just a pot, and he has no interest in going to the edge of the universe every day, which has nothing to do with his Tao.
But at this moment, at Li Qi's invitation, he went to the edge of the universe.
What does the edge of the universe have to do with cooking?
In fact, in Li Qi's view, cooking itself is just a manifestation, just like the same principle, which can be used to make fireworks and shells.
The essence of cooking is actually "transformation", just like chemistry, it is a process of processing raw materials to make raw materials into another kind of gas.
This transformation is not even limited to the pot, including eating, changes in the body, are the same.
Li Qi once ate a delicacy in the East China Sea, called swordfish. (See Chapter 449 for details)
The Taoist sword fairy, crossing the sea with friends, casually waving the sword energy, fell into the East China Sea, and turned into a fish, named swordfish.
Swordfish is suitable for eating raw, cut into fish slices, and eaten with dipping sauce. When eaten, it will be transformed into sword energy again, and constantly pierce out of the body. These sword energies contain the sword intention of the sword fairy, so people often taste it and may comprehend a trick or two from it.
The original development of cooking was to process indigestible food into digestible food and poisonous substances into edible food.
Konjac itself is poisonous, but after processing, it becomes a delicacy.
This behavior is actually a "transformation", according to the rules of material operation, things are transformed into the type they need.
After that, more techniques appeared, some to remove the toxicity of food, some to add flavor to food, some to enrich nutrition, and some to change the taste. All of these actually involve a most basic ability, namely: the transformation of the form of matter.
Although this transformation is shown by means of cooking, the essence will not change.
And this transformation, Li Qi had already realized when he was in the ghost market, offering sacrifices to Shentu Yulei.
However, there is a limit to transformation, and Cooking Sea Pot has reached this limit, and he can no longer make the matter more powerful.
"Brother Guo, you shouldn't have cultivated to the fourth rank by yourself, right?" Li Qi asked Cooking Sea Pot when he came to the end of the universe.
"Well, how do you know?" Cooking Sea Pot asked curiously.
"It can be seen that you should be a fourth-rank magic weapon, and then spiritual wisdom was born from it, right? That's why you didn't realize this, which also led to your fourth-rank foundation being unstable, and you may even face the risk of losing your rank." Li Qi said, pointing to the edge of the universe.
Yes, even if the magic weapon awakens, so it is born as the fourth grade, but if your Tao cannot support it, it will drop in grade.
The Tao is everything, all the foundations come from it, if you can't maintain it, then you will drop in grade.
Of course, the reason for the drop in grade is not necessarily only this, but if your cultivation can't match the Tao heart, it will definitely drop.
This is the dilemma facing Cooking Sea Pot.
Li Qi is going to help him solve this.
At this moment, Li Qi began to perform the law.
Transformation? No, no, no, you shouldn't transform when you reach the fourth grade.
What Cooking Sea Pot has to do is to create, to create new material properties.
Just like the universe now.
Create the material you need, and then transform it. In this way, the things he creates will have completely new properties.
This is what the fourth grade should do.
The reason why other people think the dishes he makes are unpalatable, but Li Qi thinks they are delicious, is essentially because he wants to create something that has never existed, and this kind of thing must be contrary to existing things, otherwise it can't be considered "things that have never existed".
And this kind of thing will naturally contradict other people who are born normally, so other people will find it unpalatable.
Li Qi thinks it tastes good because Li Qi comes from the outside world, and he just fits these dishes, making him feel delicious.
Just like a robot chewing a battery, ordinary people will die if they chew a battery, but robots are different. Li Qi is a robot from the outside world.
Li Qi wanted to tell the other party this, and guide Cooking Sea Pot to observe the universe and watch the scene that the universe is still expanding.
Yes, after the initial explosion, the universe is still expanding outward, constantly creating new time and space and matter, seemingly endless.
Observing such scenes will help Cooking Sea Pot figure out what he should do.
But at this time-
Qiu Zhi caught up.
Qiu Zhi interrupted Li Qi's performance without hesitation, and all the strange phenomena around him disappeared. They returned to the cafeteria of the Imperial College and Cooking Sea Pot's cave.
This made Cooking Sea Pot widen his eyes and stare at him angrily.
Li Qi also turned his head, frowned at Qiu Zhi, and said, "Why bother? Blocking someone's path is a matter of life and death."
"I'm not blocking him, I just want to ask in advance, sir, what identity are you talking to Guo Penghai about now." Qiu Zhi reminded.
There was an incident in the past, Li Qi owed a favor to the human world, about Shen Shuibi.
When Shen Shuibi fell from grace, it was the human world that gave out the Emperor's Flowing Juice to repair her body, and Li Qi also received the favor of the human world and accepted the cause and effect.
Of course Li Qi remembered this, and he even cared about it all the time, because he knew that the human world would use this to ask him to repay it at some point.
However, if this favor is returned to Guo Penghai or to the human world, there is a big difference.
"It's a bit stingy to be like this." Thinking of this, Li Qi sneered: "Then consider it as a gift from Brother Guo, what's the harm?"
But Qiu Zhi still shook his head and said: "It's not stingy, but there must be rules for everything. Guo Penghai is an official in the Imperial College after all. Although his position is not high, why did you make this deal?"
This sentence made Li Qi look at Guo Penghai.
This is something he didn't expect.
Guo Penghai has a position, and it is easy to cause problems if he shows favor without authorization. Wudao naturally has no such restrictions, but this is human.
Wuzhi does not live in a specific social rule with sufficient binding force. The entire society controlled by Wuzhi is in a natural state-
If it is extreme, it can even be understood as a barbaric primitive society.
In this natural state, there is no universal moral law at all, such as not killing people at will, not robbing at will, paying debts, helping each other, etc. These rules are all gone.
In the area controlled by the witches, almost all life is free to do as it pleases, allowing its own interests and abilities to develop without any rules to constrain it.
However, in this case, because there are no rules to constrain people, out of necessity for survival and the simple evil of human nature, some... seemingly tragic events will occur. After all, there are not a few selfish lives.
In this natural state without any rules, everyone wants to get as much benefit for themselves as possible out of selfishness or other ideas, and everyone wants to make others surrender to themselves.
As long as some people are selfish, evil, and want to plunder other people, then this state of nature will develop a jungle society, and the state of life is "all people against all people." ” a state of war, a war in which everyone is fighting everyone else.
However, Wu Jin does not think this is a bad thing. Wu Dao believes that this is also part of the natural norm and will not last forever, because they have proven this.
Game theory such as the prisoner's dilemma has shown that if everyone only directly pursues self-interest maximization, it will not lead to self-interest maximization for everyone.
In other words, the direct pursuit of maximizing self-interest will lead to the loss of everyone's interests.
Because of this, after the initial absolute chaos, formalization will inevitably begin. Some simple rules, constraints, and morals will emerge at this moment, eventually forming a delicate balance.
This is the world that Wu Jin knows. This world will reach a perfect state in this balance. Everything will naturally become a state that is acceptable to all living beings. This state is even beyond the design of human intelligence. of.
After all...how many civilizations are qualified to design ecosystems? Not to mention the entire ecosystem of the universe.
This must be the power of nature, the perfect state of the natural tendency of the universe, rather than the self-righteous design of human nature.
Things designed by humans will always have flaws.
For example, now.
"Your rules are unreasonable and just rules. Do you just want to stop a person's path? Isn't it the most basic need of a person to follow the path?" Li Qi looked at Qiu Zhi and asked me said.
Qiu Zhi said: "This is not to stop Zhudao, it is just to let him make a choice. If he takes over with his own position, he will inevitably bear the karma of the original master and humanity, and we will not stop him. And if he doesn't want to bear the responsibility, then he has to bear it personally, and in this case, his position will not have any impact. "
"Guo Panhai, after all, Mr. Li Qi's identity is delicate, so this is also the rule. You have to make a choice." Qiu Zhi looked at the Panhai pot and said calmly. (End of chapter)