Chapter 798: Psychological Warfare
In the palace of Baiyue.
The palace floats in the sky, with a small hill below. The whole palace is well-arranged, like a landscape painting, but if you look down, you will find that the entrance below is unexpectedly desolate and daunting.
However, if you get used to it, you can feel a kind of tranquility like a pure cultivation.
Of course, the premise is that you are not affected by Li Qi's fourth-grade pressure, otherwise you will not feel tranquility, but will understand why it is "desolate" below.
Nothing dares to stay here, so it is naturally desolate.
Li Qi and Shen Shuibi are inside, looking out.
Originally, they didn't look out, but after Li Qi promised Shen Shuibi to tell her the plan, she stood up from Li Qi's arms and pushed him to the platform outside.
From here, you can see very far.
It was almost noon, and the soft sunlight passed through the northern horizon. The mountains were like broken glass, reflecting the light in all directions, and each peak was shining with blue and white halos.
These halos are runes of the surrounding formations.
Far away, you can see the land sinking in the cold horizon. This should not happen because the world is a continent and there is no horizon. As long as your eyesight is good enough, you can see hills millions of miles away.
But it is different here.
Some kind of purple, indescribable shield distorted everything slightly.
The light emitted by this purple shield made Li Qi squint slightly. If he didn't do this, he would be burned like a mortal looking directly at the sun.
Even so, it took him a while to adapt to the scenery in front of him.
Li Qi stared at the boundless sky and the vast distance, feeling a little excited about their grandeur, but he was used to it.
That shield is the "rule" set by humanity. Within this protective wall, the punishment of the world cannot come.
This is the power of the human master.
Li Qi was pushed by Shen Shuibi, getting closer and closer to the cold and clear clouds. He gently closed his eyes and enjoyed this moment with all his heart.
But he didn't enjoy it for a few seconds before he felt a gaze.
The rabbit stared at him closely, his eyes were unhappy, and he felt angry.
Li Qi smiled bitterly, waved his hand, and said: "Okay, I'll tell you now, I won't hide it, I just thought it was unnecessary before."
"Then tell me, now that decades have passed, what are you doing?" Shen Shuibi stood behind Li Qi, pressing his fingers on Li Qi's temples.
This position can be relaxed by rubbing, and Li Qi's dog head can be poked in by force.
"Isn't this building Baiyue? Don't you see? After decades, Baiyue's war potential has increased a lot." Li Qi pointed down.
"What's the use of improving these?" Shen Shuibi didn't understand.
Indeed, she didn't understand. In her opinion, the victory or defeat of the war is entirely in the hands of high-level practitioners. Although there are a lot of ninth-grade and eighth-grade practitioners in the past few decades, there are few seventh-grade practitioners, at most tens of thousands.
These forces have no effect on the overall situation of the war. Any random country leader will kill them all.
If we want Baiyue to have a real force that can influence the war situation, decades are far from enough. It will take at least ten thousand years.
Can the war zone last ten thousand years?
Impossible.
"Yu'er, tell me, what is the use of the mortal battlefield?" Li Qi asked.
Shen Shuibi answered in a serious manner: "Sometimes a straw is also useful. The ninth-grade army can surround and kill the eighth-grade, and the eighth-grade army can also surround and kill the seventh-grade. If the mortal battlefield can gain an advantage, we can gain an advantage. High-grade practitioners rarely make mistakes, and it is easy to have a long confrontation. Under this situation, the low-grade battlefield is more likely to have an advantage, which in turn affects the balance of high-grade combat power."
This answer is basically the same as in the textbook.
When the high-grade practitioners are of similar strength, they will basically defend themselves tightly. It is rare that one side is quickly defeated by the other side. The strength of both sides is at that level, and basically no mistakes will be made.
At this time, the victory or defeat of low-level practitioners is very important, because they are more likely to make mistakes and more likely to decide the victory or defeat. Even if the strength is equal, it is easy to have variables due to on-the-spot performance.
The variables below will naturally cause the support above, and then link the entire battlefield, and finally overturn the situation.
The defeat in the ninth-level battlefield will cause the eighth-level to be damaged, and the damage of the eighth-level will cause the imbalance of the seventh-level power. After the imbalance of the seventh-level, it may allow the sixth-level to find an opportunity.
So layer by layer, slowly grinding, although one or two times will not be a big deal, but if the ninth-level battlefield fails ten thousand times, it may allow a sixth-level to be seized by the opponent's sixth-level and create a gap.
This is the meaning of the existence of the lower-level battlefield, and this strategic significance can even be said to be not negligible.
You can't just give it up if you think it's troublesome.
Otherwise, in a fifth-level duel, the opponent's fifth-level will bring a bunch of sixth-levels to beat you up, as well as military spirit and formations. What will you do? Do you also have to bring your own little brother?
The sixth-ranks are here, can they also bring the seventh-rank minions to deal with the opponent's sixth-ranks?
The seventh-rank minions are here, and the opponent's seventh-rank minions bring the eighth-rank minions, so do you have to bring them too?
After this, the lower-level battlefield was born naturally, and it can follow this logic to affect the battle of the fifth grade.
Although the impact is very weak, and the death of hundreds of thousands of ninth-grade is insignificant, if the data continues to expand, for example, if the ninth-grade battlefield keeps losing, then the eighth-grade will also keep losing, and finally lose to the fifth grade.
"Yes, in this case, what's the problem with investing resources in the lower level when the high-grade battlefield cannot be easily invested now?" Li Qi asked back.
"It takes too long to see the effect, and this is not the top priority." Shen Shuibi gave his reasons.
"Isn't it?" Li Qi asked back.
But at this time, Shen Shuibi bent his index fingers with both hands, and the knuckles turned into drills, and began to poke Li Qi's temples, angrily saying: "If you keep keeping me in suspense, I will divide the bedroom into two!"
Li Qi is really, too irritating, do all witches like this?
Thinking carefully, it seems to be true. Most of the witches Shen Shuibi has seen like to keep people in suspense, especially like to talk in mysterious ways, as if they would die if they speak honestly.
Is it possible that all those who practice witchcraft are like this?
All the riddlers should die!
Li Qi's head hurts because of the drill, and he begs for mercy again and again: "Wait, wait, didn't I say it clearly! The center of the battlefield now is not the front line, but the interior of Baiyue!"
This sentence made Shen Shuibi stunned for a moment.
"Has the human come in?" She immediately realized the meaning and asked.
Li Qi rubbed his face and said, "It has come in a long time ago, can you still stop it? The other side is not incapable of the method of concealing the secrets of heaven. Now my ability to deduce is severely limited. Besides, the development of Baiyue is so rapid now, it must be the human method that can promote it so fast."
Shen Shuibi heard this, but did not reply, but counted with her fingers.
The shadow of the Bagua disk flashed around her, and a large amount of data was poured into her mind, and then output as a conclusion.
Shen Shuibi's brain is a one-track mind. She is not good at handling many things at the same time, but when she concentrates on doing one thing, her efficiency will be quite terrible.
Before, she never cared about the progress of Baiyue below. Her focus was on Li Qi and the front line. Now that she began to think seriously about Baiyue's affairs, she quickly came to a conclusion.
Not only did the human way come, but it also penetrated deeply.
This penetration is not because there are many people coming from the human way, but because the human way is too contagious.
It's like a real penetration reaction, that is, the high water molecule area (i.e. low concentration solution) penetrates into the low water molecule area (i.e. high concentration solution) until the water molecules on both sides reach a dynamic balance.
Humanity is a high concentration solution. Humanity has sufficient thoughts, brilliant civilization and technological level, while Baiyue has nothing.
Therefore, humanity just leaked a little bit, and Baiyue is like a sponge that absorbs water, greedily absorbing the thoughts and technologies of humanity.
Because the technology of humanity is far stronger than that of witch and demon, in terms of penetration... Baiyue seems to be more inclined to accept the technology and ideas of humanity.
Shen Shuibi frowned immediately: "In this case, the fall of Baiyue is also a matter of course. Why are you not in a hurry? Do you have a backup plan?"
Li Qi nodded: "Let it be. If the human way thinks they have a sure win, then let them win. First develop Baiyue, and then talk about other things."
"So you did it on purpose, deliberately not restricting the development of the human way, and even deliberately letting them in. The human way also knows that you did it on purpose. Now... it has changed from a hot war to a cold war, and the war has moved from the front line to the hearts of the people." Shen Shuibi judged.
"That's about it. It's hard to say more. In short, the current battlefield has moved here, and this is also a "Dao struggle", which may even be more intense and pure than other Dao struggles." When Li Qi said "here", he put his hand on Shen Shuibi's chest.
Where the heart is, is where this Dao struggle is.
This is a psychological battle.
The war does not take place on the front line, but in everyone's heart.
At the same time, the Baiyue people accepted many ideas. As long as they ignited the fire of thought, they would fight between heaven and man. These paths would continue to fight in their hearts, and finally, they would choose one of them to win.
Yes, it is not the path that wins, but the sentient beings choose the path.
In the end, Baiyue will go to the direction chosen by sentient beings.
It makes sense, but...
It is the same as the human way.
Li Qi also believed very confidently that Baiyue would choose the witch way.
Nothing else, the witch way is indeed superior to the human way, and he has no doubt about this.
To be honest, if they don’t even have this confidence, their Tao heart would have been shattered.
If they don’t even have confidence in their own path, and feel that they are not good at the beginning of the fight, then they can’t reach the fourth rank.
But it is this attitude that has given birth to the most interesting state.
They all think they will win, but there may be only one side that wins...
Who can win?
This thought came to Shen Shuibi’s mind.
I can’t help but sigh.
But the next moment, she took two steps back and screamed: "You shameless thing!"
Li Qi was about to say something -
But before he could argue, his wheelchair was lifted up by a force of air and thrown directly off the platform.
The terrain here is very high, and the distance is at least three or five miles.
Luckily, he is in good health.
Let's not talk about that, the Baiyue at this time is no longer what it used to be.
Dalu Kingdom, Lizhou.
This place is completely different from sixty years ago.
The first thing that is different is the city construction.
The city gates, towers, palace walls, corner towers, moats, roads, stone bridges, and corridors are lined up one after another. Not only do they retain the previous characteristics, but the scale has been expanded many times. Some ancient systems have been deliberately restored, such as the format of "left ancestor and right community" to match the situation of "front dynasty and back market".
Obviously, the emphasis on witchcraft still exists here.
With the expansion of the city, there will of course be new sites, and the main basis for the development of the new site is naturally the Lishui River with its natural lakes and its excellent water source. As an excellent grain transport waterway, Lizhou is an indispensable transit point for shipping, and now it has naturally become an important gathering center.
The expansion of the entire Lizhou City is not to become larger, but to become longer, extending along the Lishui River. Anyway, with the Lishui River, water transportation is convenient and there is no need to worry about operation.
Entering along the new city gate of Lishui River, you can see a big archway and a big stone bridge in front of you, which can be regarded as the vanguard of the city, but this is just a prelude.
After this point, from the big archway to the inner city gate, from the stone bridge to more stone bridges, you can see the whole city, ups and downs, ups and downs, surrounded by high buildings, the sun shines on the glazed tile roofs, shining beautifully.
Layer after layer of ups and downs lead all the way to the Lishui Wharf. At the four corners of the inner and outer cities and on each city gate, there are more than a dozen prominent points for sanitation, which are observation stations.
These observation stations on the city gates serve the arrow towers and corner towers farther away, which is to enhance the safety of the whole city. After all, strictly speaking, this is a war zone.
But despite saying so, the designer still seems to understand beauty. These arrow towers and corner towers have enhanced the ups and downs of the urban space.
Although these buildings for civilian and military purposes are irregularly laid out, the protruding points and the scattered altars, temples and gardens are still very beautiful with the straight streets and orderly deployment.
The entire city is divided into fifty blocks.
Walking here, looking at the plaster on the wall and the iron fence, the cold light on the water and the light of the magic weapons around make pedestrians dizzy.
Although thousands of backward buildings from sixty years ago have long been destroyed, the surroundings of the city have changed dramatically, and the river bank has lost its original appearance due to the erosion of time, the shadow of history has long been lingering in the streets and alleys of Lizhou.
Moreover, there is no boatman here, and the boats have been replaced by magic.