Chapter 852 An Unexpected Discovery
One hundred and seventy years have passed.
In a full one hundred and seventy years, the entire Dream City can be said to be completely renewed.
This is still an industrial city. After all, so many people must be fed, and farming cannot feed so many people. Productivity must be maximized.
However, the distribution efficiency has been greatly improved. The magic path has almost disappeared here. Li Qi governed this area in the way of witchcraft and began to cultivate the source of heaven and earth in a way that is "suitable" for this hot sand land, balance the natural cycle, and let everything run smoothly.
The so-called "cycle" is actually turning waste into treasure. Many times, some people's waste is actually the treasure of others. For tree monsters and some other creatures, septic tanks are buffets.
And the dead skin or menstrual products that the tree monsters think are meaningless are delicacies or even treasures for cultivation of other creatures.
Mineral creatures, such as mountain gods, sometimes have body secretions that are some kind of alloy or precious crystals, and many resources that humanoid creatures like may also be by-products of others.
In the final analysis, everything in this world is just "energy".
The ecosystem itself is a process of obtaining various substances from the atmosphere, water bodies, soil and other environments, entering the ecosystem through transformation, being reused by other organisms, and finally returning to the environment. This process includes both living and non-living things.
To put it more romantically, that is... we are all stardust.
The raw materials of every cell in your body are billions of years old, and the elements that make up "our" body all come from stardust, so "our" existence is much older than we think. And because other people's cells or microorganisms on their bodies also play a role.
And these stardusts are constantly circulating, constantly becoming part of others, and returning to ourselves. The only thing consumed in the process is "energy", and the substance itself is indestructible. The meat is eaten but transformed into other organisms, not disappearing out of thin air.
So, does the Dream City lack "energy"?
Not at all, there is too much. There are countless "artificial suns" here, providing endless energy for these people.
Then, Li Qi was also spreading Buddhism, hoping to suppress the desires and demonic thoughts that were expanding here with some of the ideas of Buddhism.
This is difficult, because the human body is a large collection of desires, and it is full of desires.
Desires always want to be satisfied, but... the satisfaction of a certain desire is also the disappearance of a certain desire.
Therefore, all enjoyments are not necessary, such as eating, and eating delicious food, but it only stays on the tip of the tongue for less than a second, and it is over after swallowing three inches of the throat.
This is the case with appetite and taste, and other desires are not the same? Immediate satisfaction means immediate disappearance.
The so-called sage time comes from this.
What follows is more emptiness and more new desires that need to be filled. This is the reason why "desires are difficult to fill" and endless.
There is a saying that goes, "If you are not full, there is only one worry, and if you are full, there are many worries." This is what this situation means.
Therefore, controlling the satisfaction of desires is an important means to curb demonic thoughts.
Li Qi promoted Buddhism and even went to the Western Paradise to invite some monks to help spread the Dharma in order to suppress the demonic path.
This is what Li Qi said before, "helper".
Since we want to completely transform this place, we might as well introduce Buddhism directly and let those monks deal with the evil ways. They are specialized in this and are very motivated.
Now, Li Qi is discussing with Shariputra.
That's right, Li Qi went to the West to ask for monks' help, but he didn't look for anyone else, but directly found Shariputra.
He went to find Shariputra about a hundred years ago.
As Li Qi expected, Shariputra agreed without hesitation when he heard that he was going to deal with the Dream City, and he also gave Li Qi a surprise. He brought his good friend, Maudgalyayana.
Among the Buddhist disciples, Shariputra is famous for his wisdom and is known as the "wisdom first", while Maudgalyayana is famous for his supernatural powers and is known as the "supernatural power first".
At this moment, Li Qi is discussing with Shariputra and Maudgalyayana about spreading Buddhism.
"You two, this is the recent situation. I have written a summary. The recent situation is very good. The demonic thoughts are suppressed very well. In the past 120 years, almost all the people have changed. According to your suggestions, I have placed Buddhist treasures at each of the 2.6 million nodes to form a formation to suppress the demonic thoughts. The monks who came to help have also been settled. They are basically evenly distributed. Recently, there are fewer people who have been possessed by demons."
Li Qi handed Shariputra and Maudgalyayana a summary. This is all the recent work situation.
If I use words, it will be too slow. It is better to give a summary directly for easy communication.
Shariputra still looks the same as before, with hands longer than his knees, and he looks thin and tall.
And Maudgalyayana is very tall and looks like a villager. His skin is bronze and there are traces of labor on his body. He was a fisherman before he became a Buddhist son. These are all left over from that time.
Both of them are of the fourth grade, and have achieved the Arhat fruit. Their body and mind are pure, and their ignorance and troubles have been cut off. They have escaped from life and death and achieved Nirvana.
Before this, Li Qi had never known what the Buddhist term "liberation from birth and death" meant. Now that he had reached the fourth level, he realized that the so-called "liberation from birth and death, and attainment of Nirvana" actually meant gaining reality.
At this moment, Buddhist practitioners are able to transcend the real world and feel at ease forever.
Facing the summary delivered by Li Qi, both Moggallana and Shariputra bowed respectfully to Li Qi.
"Thank you. Your Majesty is so dedicated to Buddhism and has such profound research. It is really admirable." Shariputra bowed, and then took Li Qi's summary with both hands.
"Yes, I am really grateful to you, Master, for being able to help the two of us spread Buddhism in the city of dreams. We must work harder." Moggallana was also very humble, clasped his hands and bowed his head to Li Qi.
Both Buddhist disciples have a good impression of Li Qi. This young master has the courage to attack the city of dreams, and dares to take the lead in bringing them here to carry out transformation. It is indeed amazing and powerful. It is not that they did not want to overdo the demonic path. , but the City of Dreams is still too difficult to obtain, and the challenge is too high.
Now Li Qi didn't know how to make all the fourth-grade demon kings give up guarding this place, so that their transformation seemed so logical and everything went smoothly.
"I asked you two to help me, but you two saluted me instead. Your help is very great. I believe that in about a hundred years, the city of dreams will be completely transformed. By then... ... If the demons want to get it back, they will have to fight us in a fourth-level battle." Li Qi said with a smile: "If there are less than twenty ordinary demon kings, it will be difficult for them to be our opponents."
"Young master, please do not take it lightly." Shariputra said: "If the demon king didn't take action, he must have a back-up plan. If they haven't taken action now, they must be planning something big."
"I know, and what happened to them... will most likely fall on my daughter. I'm fully prepared and there will be no mistakes." Li Qi said.
"Although this conversation seems to have happened...but I'm still a little worried." At this time, Moggallana took the initiative.
"The last time we met, I had already mentioned this matter to the young master, but the young master also said that he was prepared, but after all, preparation is preparation. If the devil has any unexpected means, let the young master use his own My daughter is too dangerous as a bet, so over the past few decades, I have been developing magical powers to observe this dream city with my clairvoyance."
"Having been brewing for decades? That's really... a waste of time for Buddhist disciples." Li Qi glanced at Moggallana and was a little surprised. He didn't know about this move. These Buddhist disciples really have a profound background.
Unlike Shariputra, who was indifferent, Moggallana had a fiery and straightforward personality, so he was quite proactive about these things. For example, this time, he actually planned it for decades to show off his magical powers.
When Li Qi saw this, he didn't refuse. He was indeed worried. The reason why he said he was "fully prepared" was that apart from the fact that he had actually made preparations, it was also part of calming people's minds.
Moggallana laughed: "Then let me see what clues there are under this dream city."
As he spoke, Moggallana did not hesitate and walked out directly. He leaned over his right shoulder, put his right knee on the ground, put his palms together toward the Buddha, and used his magical power.
Clear ears and eyesight
Moggallana is famous among the disciples of Buddhism for being the first in supernatural powers. Now he personally uses the divine eye, one of the six magical powers of Buddhism, and merges it with the divine ear. When the two are combined, his strength is enriched, his majesty is enhanced, he is energetic and brave, and his supernatural powers are doubled. Win!
The Buddha's energy goes directly to the Trayast Trio Heaven, and with the power of supernatural power, it goes up and down from the Trayast Triam Heaven!
When it descends, it turns into three treasure steps, among which are phantoms, ascending the seven treasure steps in the middle.
Moggallana recited loudly: "Such feelings, thoughts, formations, and consciousness are impermanent, and impermanence is suffering. Suffering is not me, and what is not me is not mine. Such a observer is called true contemplation. Such an observer, in the matter of form, Liberation, liberation from feelings, thoughts, actions, and consciousness!”
Between words, I saw his clairvoyance and saw through the illusion in an instant!
Liberated from form, feeling, thought, action, and consciousness, the five aggregates are all empty. His eyes and ears suddenly flooded with the past, present, and future of the dream city!
Li Qi was amazed next to him.
Moggallana... is indeed the number one in supernatural power. With this hand, even the five aggregates of demons cannot be covered. All demonic thoughts have no escape, and all living beings are reflected in his eyes!
The Arhat sees with the heavenly eye and senses the power of heaven and earth. Everyone has his or her own mind, and each mind has its own vision. The heavenly eye is penetrating, and it can be seen without limit. In the eye, the pure colors of the four great creations of the form realm can be seen.
The eyes of heaven see all sentient beings and objects in the six realms of the earth and below, whether they are close or distant, whether they are thick or thin, and all their colors cannot be illuminated.
Li Qi definitely couldn't do this kind of magical power.
You know, this is the world.
In the world, all supernatural powers and techniques will be suppressed, and the same is naturally true for Moggallana. Moreover, the nature of the world is very high. You may be able to easily penetrate the world and swim in the stars outside the world, but in the earth of the world, you can escape from the earth. , maybe after running away for thousands of miles, I have to take a breather.
Earth escape is like this, and detection spells are even more so. Li Qi's Zhenzhiyun will be suppressed in the world. Different from the "light-year" unit of "light-year" detection outside the territory, it is a bit difficult for Zhenzhi to scan a hundred thousand miles here. .
But Moggallana broke through this limitation...
No, it's not that this restriction was broken, but the tyrannical supernatural power that withstood the suppression and penetrated the entire southernmost part of the world!
The dream city of the Demonic Way is one of the nine lands in the world. Although the Demonic Way doesn't care much, as long as the land is not lost, everything else doesn't matter, but it is still in the world and occupies nearly one-ninth of the world's territory.
After decades of preparation, Moggallana gathered his strength and used his great supernatural powers to see through all of these nine-tenths!
Including the 30,000 miles underground, everything is exposed.
The divine eyes and ears scanned like a radar, everyone's face, everyone's causal line, from a speck of dust to the structure of the entire continental shelf, everything was known.
All this lasted only a few dozen seconds, and Maudgalyayana's eyes began to bleed, a large amount of golden blood spilled from the cracked eye sockets, and his ears began to twitch.
But he persisted for about 150 seconds, finally withdrew his magical powers, took a long breath, and then closed his eyes and ears.
Li Qi was not vague, and immediately took out a few expensive pills and handed them to Maudgalyayana.
He took the initiative to do this, and he couldn't let him take his own medicine.
Maudgalyayana took it and swallowed it in one gulp. It took a long time, about an hour.
Fortunately, for a fourth-grade, an hour is not very long, and they are still very patient.
An hour later, Maudgalyayana opened his eyes again and said, "Sure enough, there is a problem. The demonic energy suppressed by our fellow Taoists has become one underground."
"Underground? Thirty thousand miles below?" Li Qi asked.
"No, it's in the Dream City. We must act immediately. There are four nodes here, corresponding to the Heavenly Demon, the Death Demon, the Five Aggregates Demon, and the Affliction Demon. The four pulsations are connected together. Our action of "eliminating the demonic thoughts" has become a point of use for them!" Maudgalyayana said.
Sariputra nodded slightly: "In that case, let's go and stop them."
"Will there be no fraud?" Li Qi asked.
"There must be fraud, but... we are fourth-grade, and we still have the ability to resist risks in the world. Do you want to try?"
Li Qi, Jing Wuzhen, Sariputra, Maudgalyayana, exactly four fourth-grade, exactly corresponding to four.
"I am most proficient in the Pure Method, and my mind is also the purest among us. Leave the nodes of the Heavenly Demon to me." Sariputra said.
"I have come into contact with the blood of the Five Elements Demon, and I am most familiar with the Five Elements Demon." Li Qizhe said, and sent a message to Jing Wuzhen to explain the situation.
At this time, Jing Wuzhen had already arrived.
"I have the strongest killing power, so leave the Death Demon to me." Jing Wuzhen said.
"Then, I have the strongest magical power, and I am not afraid of the four. As for the trouble demon lineage, let me take care of it." Maudgalyayana nodded. (End of this chapter)