Chapter 993 Pull
The Demonic Path used a method that gave Li Qi a headache, and now the situation is deadlocked.
Yes, Li Qi can eradicate all the Dream Cities, which will definitely cause great damage to the Demonic Path. Many demons above the third level were killed in this war.
But... what about later?
Let Qidian touch the second-level demons? Li Qi led people to surround and kill the second-level?
In this case, the risk is greatly increased.
You know, Li Qi eradicated the Dream City in order to force these second-level demons to take action, so that he could pull the battlefield to his side.
But now, they simply let Li Qi slaughter and completely ignored any attack made by Li Qi.
By now, all the Dream Cities have been destroyed.
So what can Li Qi do?
If you can't do anything, then you will have the strength to organize an action next time, but you won't have the strength you have now.
Of course, the people of Qidian can find jobs again and be assigned immediately to govern the local area, turning from a war group into a builder.
But here comes the problem.
What to build?
The people of Qidian gathered because they were against the magic path, which was the root of their actions. If they were asked to build a new world, they could give a million different answers about what this new world would look like.
If they were asked to build it themselves, they would definitely fight.
But if Li Qi asked them to build it, would he have a perfect answer that would meet the vision of so many people in Qidian?
There is no doubt that there is no answer.
This is also Li Qi's path.
Li Qi's path recognizes the nature of contradictions, recognizes that this world may be contradictory from the source, and recognizes that the nature of this world may be irreconcilable, so... now his path is naturally disadvantaged in terms of finding the commonality of all things.
It is difficult for him to give an "ultimate answer", or in other words, Li Qi himself does not believe in the existence of the ultimate answer at all, so how to reconcile?
Even a large part of the people in Qidian do not want to build anything, they come with the belief of "eradicating evil".
They do not oppose the concept of the magic path, they just think that the magic path is very bad, so they come to kill bad people.
Yes, for them, the Tao dispute is not important, the so-called "good and evil" and "morality" are more important.
Obviously, morality and good and evil are just a derivative of the "Tao". Morality is not fixed. The same thing may be a good thing or a bad thing in the eyes of people with different "Tao".
But that's the way it is. Not everyone can observe the essence.
For them, what kind of war did they fight?
The people of Qidian destroyed the world without hesitation, demolished the Dream City, killed them, and even destroyed their souls, making them annihilate.
Of course, they would not do this to their companions, they only did this to "evil beasts".
This made Li Qi aware of the means of the magic way.
The Dream City was to be destroyed, and Qidian, who destroyed the Dream City... also took something into himself in the process of destruction.
People always extremely desire to be loved by others and hope to control their own destiny. Nothing can destroy people's psychological defenses more than hostility and deliberate aggression from their own kind.
Such internal strife can make people lost and confused, and no longer feel the meaning of the existence of this world, and eventually lead to the collapse of both the body and mind. In many cases, the pain and death caused by diseases and accidents are not terrible. The domination and trampling from one's own kind can arouse the deepest fear and disgust in people's hearts.
Therefore, Qidian must not fall into civil war because of the disappearance of the magic path. It is necessary to find something for Qidian to do. What is this thing?
Li Qi couldn't find it for a while.
This is really difficult.
If the magic path has done those unspeakable things, it can be easily regarded as the image of an ugly enemy, portraying them as evil existence, so that the Qidianmen hates the enemy and regards the opponent as a low-level creature and fights war, then this set will no longer work after the destruction of the Dream City.
The current Qidian has become a burden for Li Qi.
Li Qi can of course choose to disband Qidian and build another one at that time, but this will touch on another problem.
As an absolutely subjective sect, the most influential force on the magic path is naturally ‘will’.
The members of Qidian from the second to the ninth rank have been strictly selected. Their will has enough resistance to the evil thoughts, and can also suppress the evil thoughts to a certain extent, and all of this depends on ‘belief’.
This belief, to a large extent, comes from the collective consciousness and common condensation of Qidian. If it is lost, it will take a long time to cultivate it again.
It is probably about the same time as Li Qi established Qidian, and the effect may not be good, because this time there are not so many dream cities to help him brush up his record and train his troops.
For Qidian... No, it should be said that for all organizations, the worst thing is always lack of belief.
If there is a lack of belief, then death will be delayed for a long time, and it will definitely be painful to make this group embarrassed, so that it will never be organized again in the future.
It can even be said that the rot had already begun long before the death of this organization. When it really died, it was already a pile of maggots.
Li Qi didn't want to end up like that.
Moreover, during the reconstruction period, the Demon Dao would definitely take the opportunity to attack.
Perhaps the Demon Dao already knew it...
Qi Dian itself is a 'magic weapon'. These 'beliefs' forged by Li Qi are what Li Qi is going to use to confront the second-grade Demon Dao. They are subjective belief amplifiers inspired by the 'Desire Realm'.
But the Demon Dao didn't take the challenge at all, probably just waiting for Qi Dian to collapse.
Really... The Demon Dao's move of retreating to advance, allowing Li Qi to be beaten until he had nothing to fight, really hit Li Qi's dead spot.
Disband Qi Dian, or find him something to do?
Li Qi fell into deep thought.
Does he need to give Qi Dian another goal? For example... Daotong or something like that?
That is unlikely. Li Qi does not have a complete set of Taoist concepts that can be implemented, and he is not going to make Qidian a force dominated by Taoism. If that happens, the great bodhisattvas may withdraw.
If it becomes a Taoist, there will be a struggle of concepts, and the great bodhisattvas may not agree with Li Qi's views.
Therefore, Qidian must maintain the current group that is united by destroying demons, so it cannot put the swords into storage and let the horses go to the south mountain.
"It can be delayed for a while. Let them rest for a while in the name of celebrating the success." Li Qi made a decision.
During this time, he must find a reason for Qidian to continue to exist, and this reason cannot be to continue to fight against the demons.
How else can they fight?
There is no war for them to fight.
So, after Li Qi and other second-grade people discussed, they decided to let Qidian be responsible for construction, but not for civilization, but for building the infrastructure of those civilizations destroyed by the demons.
In Li Qi's words, this is called: "We destroyed their homes, we can't just walk away, what's the difference between that and the devil? So, help the refugees in the Dream City build planets."
This is the delaying tactic they came up with.
Use this to continue to maintain the organization's mobility.
Thinking of this, Li Qi began to summon the three-rank officials of Qidian.
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So, in a small meeting.
"Regarding the reconstruction of these planets, we have discussed and think it's a good idea. What do you think?" Li Qi said, looking at the three-rank officials below.
Qidian has a large number of three-rank officials, about a dozen, most of whom are absorbed, and one has broken through inside Qidian, and is a super genius.
These dozen people, plus Li Qi, are almost all the masters at the execution level.
As for the great bodhisattvas, as well as Yang Zhenqian, Zhu Fengdan, Jinhou and others, they are worship masters and group consultants. They usually do not participate in the operation and direction of Qidian, and are only responsible for helping Li Qi when he needs it.
After listening to Li Qi's words, the three-rank officials looked at each other.
Then, one of them stood up.
This was a fat man named Mu Yu, with a kind of "rich" look between his eyebrows. Looking at his ruddy complexion, the radiance of his really fat face, and the golden light radiating from his forehead, it is easy to guess that he is currently a proud figure in Qidian.
In fact, it is true. He is the most powerful person in Qidian besides Li Qi. As a third-rank person, he is naturally an important person everywhere, and the most important thing for him is that he is the original third-rank person of Qidian.
He was not recruited, but promoted by himself.
This identity made him a natural descendant of Qidian, and many people also regarded him as an important helper of Li Qi.
Mu Yu stood up and said, "Senior, if this is the case, then many places in Qidian need to be reformed. Although we can modify the past, Qidian should not use this method, right?"
"Yes, if it is not necessary, try not to use the method of backtracking, and the third-rank magicians may also intervene when you backtrack, which is too dangerous at that time." Li Qi nodded.
"Then, the energy required for the reform will increase too much. From now on, what should we do with the previously established legions? Or should we keep the legions unchanged and just increase the construction manpower?" Mu Yu asked.
Another third-grade master next to him said: "Just increasing the construction manpower will not only pollute the current 'belief', causing the Qi Palace to be unable to exert its full capabilities when fighting against the second-grade magic path, but also may be eroded by the magic path. The current manpower has been selected through thousands of trials and tribulations. One more is a burden and one less is a loss."
"In the absence of a way to go back, the reform will undoubtedly cause great damage to the Qi Palace, a magic weapon."
Everyone is talking about the truth, and there is nothing to refute.
The meaning of the existence of the Qi Palace is to be able to interfere with the progress of the magic thoughts with the belief of subjective will when fighting against the second-grade magic path. This entire force of countless people is combined for this.
If this goal cannot be achieved, there is no need for the Qi Palace to exist.
In the current situation, reforming the Qi Palace is equivalent to changing the oil and parts when a magic weapon composed of multiple third-grades is running and the engine is running.
A third-grade man said at this time: "I have a way. You see, the changes we are provoking now have almost all caused violent shocks in the local situation. All we need to do is transform this shock into construction. For specific ideas, you can Wait for me a few minutes."
After saying this, he began to write a specific plan. The third grade's mind was racing with plans. As long as he had a way, it would only take a few minutes of thinking to implement it.
He wrote one on the spot and then looked at the people around him.
Li Qi took a look and found that it was very detailed. The specific measures were to confuse the audience.
People tend to confuse strength with virtue, and almost everyone agrees that strong people always possess some great qualities.
This is actually nonsense. Power has nothing to do with greatness. The demon is so powerful, but when it comes to moral character, it is simply the lowest scum. It enjoys playing with all living beings, but people just like to think so, thinking that the demon also has the same qualities. A virtue worthy of its power.
And war is its greatest manifestation.
Most people agree that war is a hell of a horror.
However, more people believe that all actions of powerful beings have a sacred purpose.
Therefore, war has become sacred, and participating in war has become a great and sacred cause worthy of being devoted to it.
Taking advantage of this trend, we can actually express sideways that the nature of the world is for good. As long as we believe that the world is ultimately kind, distinguish good from evil, and promote war and construction as methods of punishing evil and promoting good, it can be like praising War praises construction like that.
There's just a problem.
This method is essentially fooling everyone, and this act of fooling can easily lead to bad consequences, such as... it can easily lead to the collapse of faith.
Li Qi looked at the plan and pondered for a while.
"It can't be used, but it can be slightly modified. Let's remove the publicity part and tell them directly that we want to build, and the construction is for the second-grade big plan, but we can't tell them for the time being." Li Qi said.
After speaking, he also made a plan.
After Mu Yu and others read it, they quickly passed the resolution.
The meeting ended quickly and everyone went about their own business.
Li Qize continued to sit here.
There is no doubt... there are loopholes in the plan just now.
This loophole is left for the devil.
Li Qi still hoped that the Demonic Way would take the initiative to attack. If possible... he really didn't want to go to that address.
Because, over the years, many people have gone to that address.
No one can come back.