Chapter 694 Choosing a Path

In the void, the master and the disciple sat opposite each other, doing Brownian motion in the universe like a meteor, floating randomly at a very fast speed.

But motion is relative. In a place like the void, no matter how you float, you will feel as if you are not moving in the same place. There is no reference for you to compare your speed.

As long as the two people are in a relatively static state, it doesn’t matter how they fly in the outer void, because they are still physically.

It’s like two people drinking milk tea and talking to each other face to face on the earth. Who can realize that the earth and themselves are rotating around the Milky Way in the universe at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per second?

"How is it? What did you gain?" Zhu Fengdan said to Li Qi.

"Thank you, teacher, it’s not bad... just a little torture." Li Qi sighed helplessly.

Even with Li Qi's mind, he was almost tortured to madness. Even now he has not recovered. So many billions of times of backtracking, most of Li Qi's life has been spent in Xiantian.

Yes, compared with the length of his life, this period of time in Xiantian has been much longer than his previous life combined.

"Look, I told you before I came here that it would be painful if you didn't erase your memories, but you refused to listen. Now you still have a chance to regret. Do you want me to help you erase these memories?" Zhu Fengdan smiled.

Li Qi shook his head decisively: "You have already suffered. Erasing it now is nothing more than deceiving yourself. Let's keep it."

"Okay, then keep it. By the way, do you want to practice again or return? I see that you are very close to the fourth level. Do you want to try the special cosmic light? I will arrange a distorted time and space for you. You can practice in it and come out after you have practiced enough." Zhu Fengdan asked.

"I'm afraid it won't work. If I am left alone to think, it will be difficult to continue to make breakthroughs. The influence of the outside world and the stimulation of the Tao from the real world are necessary." Li Qi thought for a while and shook his head.

Take now for example, if he wants to truly break through the limit of the speed of light, he must keep trying to figure out the limit of the Heavenly Dao, and distorting time and space will obviously change this kind of thing and produce subtle effects.

This is also one of the reasons why people generally do not use distorted time and space to practice. It is really useless and will affect the perception of the world. Distorted time and space not only adds time, but also adds many interference factors. Only practitioners of the eighth rank and below will hardly be affected.

But the eighth rank and below... To be honest, you don’t need to use this thing at all. This thing is not practical from the beginning.

"Try it, not to experience the limit of the heavenly way, but to experience different distorted time and space. You know it, right? Special cosmic light, gravitationally distorted time and space, even the strange time and space inside Guixu, as well as backtracking, and the cosmic light in the fairyland, although they can distort time, their essences are different, but these are all part of 'reality'. Experience it and settle it down, it will be good for you." Zhu Fengdan said so.

Li Qi looked at Zhu Fengdan... How to say it, the teacher seems to want to sell him special cosmic light?

"Is it... what did the witch god say?" Li Qi suddenly asked.

Zhu Fengdan's character is very clear to him. If nothing happened, he would have definitely run away and would not have said so much to Li Qi. He is the kind of parent who gives Li Qi fifty yuan to buy lunch for himself and then goes out to play mahjong for a day.

I can only say that it's a good thing that Li Qi is doing well.

So, Zhu Fengdan recommended this. In Li Qi's opinion, it is probably not his choice, but what the witch god said.

Zhu Fengdan did not hide it, but just smiled and said: "Yes, the witch god said that you may be more suitable for the distorted space-time environment than ordinary people. I think the reason may be that you are better at "looking inward."

Looking inward means taking everything to yourself and getting the answer from your own thinking, so Li Qi may be able to reap some benefits in the distorted space-time.

"Since the witch god said so..." Li Qi hesitated and wanted to say something.

But Zhu Fengdan interrupted him at this time: "Stop, don't say anything like "the witch god said so". This decision is up to you. I just told you this possibility. Don't change your decision because of the influence of the witch god."

Zhu Fengdan stared at Li Qi very seriously, wanting to see his choice.

"I think... yes, because I think that what I lack from the fourth rank now is just the accumulation of time, my understanding is enough, and I think I am right." Li Qi thought for a while and said so.

'I think I am right', this sentence means that Li Qi believes that he does not need external support on the road to breaking through the fourth rank, and he has already completed the part that requires external help to provide ideas.

This is actually quite demanding, because walking on the road is like walking on a dark continent.

You can't see clearly what is ahead, is it a pit or a cliff? Is it a broken road? Or a detour? Before really walking out, the cultivator himself does not know.

If you want to see the darkness in front of you clearly, you must hang a lamp. The name of this lamp is 'thinking', and the lamp oil needed for the lamp to burn is 'knowledge'.

Using knowledge as firewood and burning in the fire of thought, you can unveil the terrifying veil of the dark continent and barely see what the road ahead is.

Countless practitioners hang their own lamps, some big and some small, exploring the dark continent. If you are on the same path and walk the same path, the lamps of teachers and others can help you illuminate a little more, or you can help them.

However, the lamp can only illuminate the little bit in front.

No one dares to say that he can see the whole picture of this dark continent.

Everyone may make a wrong step.

Therefore, few people will choose to practice in the distorted time, which is equivalent to taking away the source of lamp oil. They can only walk slowly with the lamp oil reserves. Although they can walk faster, they can't regret it if they make a wrong step and fall down.

Therefore, when Li Qi said "I think I am right", he was saying that my lamp oil is enough, I have seen where the fourth grade is, and I am absolutely not wrong. Next, I can run with big strides. I don't have to worry about it before I run to the fourth grade, and I don't need to adjust the road.

This declaration made Zhu Fengdan stare at him for a few more times.

Then, Zhu Fengdan laughed.

The youthful spirit that he had never cultivated before the ninth rank, but he suddenly showed it now.

This spirit, coupled with enough confidence, is a momentum of soaring.

Of course, it is also possible to fall because of overconfidence, which is also a common thing. After all, who can guarantee that they are right?

But this spirit is enough to make Zhu Fengdan happy.

Sure enough, some things cannot be forced, but some things will appear unconsciously.

It takes no effort to find it after searching for it.

So, Zhu Fengdan didn't say anything, just waved his hand.

Around Li Qi, time suddenly closed

and expanded.

Now, for Li Qi, the time of the outside world has stopped, and for the outside world, Li Qi's time has also stopped.

They are in a state where they cannot interfere with each other and cannot communicate with each other.

Such a special cosmic light is even enough to tear apart the usual fifth rank, completely destroying his sense of time, and from then on he can't distinguish the present, the past, and the future.

But for Li Qi, this is already easy to bear.

He watched himself being sealed up, locked in the time expansion.

Li Qi exhaled deeply.

Then, let's get started.

He closed his eyes and began to use the answers he got to build his own 'Tao', and then through this 'Tao', he used the ability of the witch to create something out of nothing to produce matter to cooperate with it, and truly achieve the characteristics of the fourth grade.

That is: break through the constraints of other avenues, the limit of the heavenly way is the limit of the heavenly way, not my limit, my limit is only my own Tao.

This process must be bumpy, Li Qi's thoughts are still very messy, he needs to organize his knowledge into a book little by little, build a framework, and then fill in the content.

This is to build his own Tao, which can replace the Tao of this world, and he can't be careless at all.

From now on, any loopholes and paradoxes in what he builds will become his weaknesses in the future.

He has solved the formula of the universe, and now he needs to create a formula of his own. This formula must be able to describe everything and explain the reason for the existence of everything.

This is the true formula of everything, at least it belongs to Li Qi, and it can explain everything Li Qi knows.

If this formula works, he can be promoted to the fourth rank.

If there is an error, such as adding something like the 'cosmological constant' to make the formula valid, it will cause a crack in the Tao.

If a paradox occurs, it will become a flaw that others will target in the future, and this is a flaw in the entire Tao.

If the paradox is so big that the formula cannot be established, then the promotion fails, and you still need to work hard.

The formula of everything that describes the entire universe can explain all conventional phenomena in a unified theory, which is what Li Qi wants to do.

Only this level of 'Tao' can create something out of nothing, produce a parallel world similar to reality, and use this as a foundation to gradually establish itself as a level 'equal to the real world'.

When it really reaches the point where it is equal to the real world, it is the third rank.

As for the second and first ranks, Li Qi cannot understand them for the time being, but he already has some of the characteristics of the third rank. Manipulating cause and effect and choosing reality are the characteristics of the third rank, so he can now understand the third rank.

The knowledge that Li Qi had read in the past, everything he had witnessed, his thoughts, experiences, abilities, everything, will all be condensed into one at this moment, and he will summarize it into a unique "Tao" for him.

This "Tao" can describe everything in the world, and can summarize and explain everything that can be observed.

He must do it. If he can't do it, he can't be promoted.

Fortunately... he has time and a chance to regret.

This is not just one chance. He can do it many times in a lot of time.

It's just that some things... can't be done again.

It's like a math problem that you need to solve.

You may not understand the problem at all, but this is better. If you can't do it, you can't do it. You can only study, improve yourself, and do it later.

If your level is barely enough, then you may solve it wrong, which is the worst, because it will leave a permanent loophole.

Of course, the best thing is that your level is enough and you can solve it smoothly.

But the problem is... do you really know whether you are right or wrong?

Right or wrong, I'm afraid it can only be explained by the future.

But let's not talk about that for now. Li Qi completely put aside these distractions and began to use the abundant time brought by the distorted time to immerse himself in his own world.

The real 'own world', an independent and parallel world, a brand new world.

This is particularly difficult for Li Qi.

Because he is a patchwork monster.

Although the Taoist tradition of witches and shamans can accommodate a lot of impurities, coupled with the conjecture of the ultimate avenue of Taoism, and the monks who are the unity of Buddha and devil, who use subjective cognition to eliminate the idea of ​​discrimination, he can unify and use these avenues, but in the final analysis, these Taoist traditions are still in conflict.

Fundamentally, these Taoist traditions are different, and the worlds they construct are naturally in conflict.

It's like... one world is materialism, and the other world is idealism.

In the materialistic world, matter is primary, and matter determines consciousness.

In the idealistic world, consciousness is primary, and consciousness determines matter.

Regardless of whether they are objective idealists or something else, they always conflict over the attribution of the primary nature.

This is the Dao dispute, an irreconcilable conflict, a dispute over the essence of the world, and a war that absolutely cannot be compromised.

To build the world, it is necessary to determine what the primary nature is, and it is obvious that this is the difference between the Dao and the Demonic Dao.

The Dao naturally recognizes the existence of the ‘ultimate Dao’, believing that ‘there is a mixture of things’, and this world exists naturally. Practitioners only need to recognize this world and eventually reach the realm of ‘freedom’.

But the Demonic Dao does not think so. The Demonic Dao denies the existence of the ultimate Dao. In the eyes of the Demonic Dao, the material world and subjective cognition can go their separate ways.

The Spiritual Dao is actually the same, but the Spiritual Dao believes that there is no ‘subjective cognition’, but there is another first cognition, the first consciousness. Knowing this first consciousness is to know everything.

Li Qi wants to bridge this difference. He wants to define his own ‘primary nature’, that is, how he thinks he exists.

This is the tone of everything.

This must be determined before moving on.

But if this is confirmed... the Dao dispute will immediately break out. All the cognition in Li Qi's body and all the knowledge he has accumulated will break out at this moment.

The time to resolve all Dao disputes has come. Li Qi can no longer play multiple games.

He must understand clearly how this world is composed? (End of this chapter)