Chapter 998 Karma
What is Li Qi's real purpose?
In fact, it was he and Shen Shuibi who confessed.
He hopes to create a world where the devil cannot interfere, hoping to free all living beings from the control of the devil.
He hopes that all those who practice Taoism will have no 'enemies of Taoism'.
Then, exterminating demons is naturally one of the means, but exterminating demons is impossible, at least not at this stage.
Therefore, Li Qi's current plan is to curb the interference of the demons in the real universe and prevent the demons from intruding on history and reality, so that they can at least not plunder food so easily.
For this purpose, Li Qi did not lie, and there was no need to lie.
However... to achieve this, it cannot be achieved by eradicating the City of Dreams.
Li Qi is also a second-grade person, so he naturally knows the power of second-grade people, such as inner demons, who can easily pull out all the dream cities from people's hearts.
It's so simple.
Eradicating the City of Dreams, for those mortals, was a great undertaking that took many, many years, generation after generation, and countless people to pave with their lives and blood, but Li Qi knew that this was just a small matter.
This is not a great achievement, it is just a 'move' in the second-level battle.
So, what method is Li Qi going to use to stop the evil way?
Let’s look at the current battlefield.
In the universe, in countless time and space, including the past and the present, "different dimension leaks" have appeared everywhere. This is the impact of the battle between the second grade on the universe.
In this kind of leakage, time also seems to be chaotic. People are often sent to a time and space that they are completely unaware of, or they are sent to the past and future.
All in all, the stability of time and space has disappeared, and mortals can travel through various time and space through various cracks.
At the same time, the power of dreams has been greatly enhanced, and subjective consciousness may even effectively affect the material in the real world. The power brought by subjective initiative is beyond imagination.
"Abnormal things" have increased in number, and unusual things have begun to appear widely. These are evidence that the devil is invading reality.
The Bodhisattvas also took action.
Then, more and more second-grade people joined the battle.
Second-level Bodhisattvas began to arrive in large numbers, and more demons appeared in the demon path.
The more participants there are, the more possibilities there are. Every time a participant takes action, the possibilities increase by one.
How many possibilities are there?
Just like the Tower of Hanoi.
The number of steps in the n-story Tower of Hanoi is at least 2 to the nth power minus 1 step.
Therefore, a relatively simple 8-layer, at least 255 moves.
When the number of layers n = 64, at least 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 steps must be moved. Assuming one step per second, 31536000 seconds in ordinary years and 31622400 seconds in leap years, that is to say, 584554049 seconds are needed. It took 253 years to complete.
So how many n are there now?
The answer is that n has reached the level of the Gregorian number.
They have taken action so many times that they can no longer count. How many steps does the current Hanoi Tower take?
It's actually a very simple arithmetic, but the final number is too big to be written here.
Some of the keen ones among all living beings have begun to realize what the infinity they are exploring is.
They came into contact with those great beings through the cracks in different dimensions, and even talked to them directly, trying to 'accommodate' them, or using their power and human lives to constantly test the nature and power of these things.
In the end, the wise ones among them already knew what it was——
This is... a prison surrounded by infinite space and time. This prison imprisons all their possibilities. In the end, they are destined to become extinct.
Because they can't create any possibilities outside of this prison.
So, they became extinct.
He died peacefully in a time that was as ordinary as natural extinction.
Originally, many lives and civilized races would have been exterminated.
Even without the intervention of second-level battles, the civilization itself may become extinct. This extinction may last for a long time. For example... the civilization has developed a virtual reality, causing the entire civilization to indulge in nothingness and become unwilling to reproduce and become extinct.
It is also possible that civilization has hibernation technology, everyone wants to hibernate, everyone wants to go to the future, and no one wants to live in the present and fight for the future.
So, in the slumber of hibernation, civilization became extinct.
This is a normal thing. The extinction of civilization is likely to be a long process. Slowly, slowly, the entire society and all individuals will die.
But here, things are a little different.
These civilizations are not simply extinct.
The process of their extinction lasted for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, and there were repetitions during this period, but in general, they found that they could never get out of their cage.
The cage of possibility has bound them. Even if they achieve immortality for all individuals, even if they can travel through the universe and conquer galaxies, they still cannot escape from this prison of infinite time and space.
Eventually, their birth rate dropped to a minimum and they became extinct.
This is all caused by the eternal time and space that covers all things.
It can be seen that they have developed various navigation technologies countless times, such as hyperspace navigation, light speed navigation, and even time travel, all for repeated exploration and search in dead space and space.
However, every attempt will fail. Every time, these civilizations can only return to their own cages and eventually be swallowed by time, or fall asleep, or die, or fall asleep with the help of anesthetics.
This endless cage eliminates the possibility of all living beings moving towards glory.
But... this is exactly what Li Qi wants to create.
His battle with the magic path was deliberately led to this result.
This kind of cage will lead to two results.
Either, after severe tests, these civilizations will continue to move forward and reach the peak of development.
In this way, they will be driven to continue to progress and conquer new things after the advent of the other dimension.
You must know that in order to make progress and sustainable development, the emergence of difficulties is indispensable, and overcoming difficulties will be the ladder of progress.
However, at this time, the voice of the devil came: "Your chess pieces will be used up soon, right? When everyone is destroyed and all possibilities are over, what else can you use to stop us?"
Yes, from the current situation, Li Qi is at a disadvantage.
"The Golden Monkey has not made a move yet." Li Qi said: "Are you so sure that I am at a disadvantage?"
"The Golden Monkey? Haha, you may not know it very well, right? He is not Sun Wukong." The devil replied.
Just this answer is enough to scare people.
Who is the Golden Monkey? Is it the Heart Demon? Is it Monkey Hair? Is it Liu Er? Or who else?
But Li Qi just chuckled: "What does it matter if it is Sun Wukong?"
The Golden Monkey had told him a long time ago. Just like Li Qi, the Golden Monkey himself did not know what he was, but he didn't care at all. He had already walked out.
No matter who he is, what the Golden Monkey wants to do will not change, so that's all.
"That's true. You are quite open-minded. Aren't you worried that he is a demon?" The Demon of Karma said again: "At this time, the pressure brought by the betrayal of the Golden Monkey is great, right? So you are unwilling to send him to the battlefield?"
"I didn't even call the teacher, so what if I don't call the Golden Monkey?" Li Qi turned his head and looked at the void.
Their conversation was naturally conducted in the void. For them, there was no difference between separating two dimensions and talking face to face.
"Well... that is to say, you still have many back-ups, so I will wait." The Demon of Karma said so, and then stopped talking.
The war is still going on.
Possibilities are still being closed one after another, and the world that Li Qi's Tao can interpret is getting fewer and fewer.
The same is true for the great bodhisattvas who participated in the war.
There are more places that have lost the light of the great bodhisattvas, all because the Demonic Dao is blocking their possibility of interfering with the outside world and blocking all media.
And the Golden Monkey, Zhu Fengdan and Prince Changqin still did not make a move.
This led to the Demonic Dao not making a full-strength move. For example, the second-grade demons such as Yin Mo were also on guard against Li Qi's back-ups.
However, the Demonic Path still relies on its current advantages to gradually squeeze the space of Li Qi's battlefield.
This will last for many, many years, and will include many, many things.
One world after another is invaded, swallowed up, and falls into destruction. This is the Demonic Path "confining" them, suppressing the events they can interfere with, and then limiting their possibilities.
The battle against the key nodes of history can no longer kill the second-grade, that can only be effective on the third-grade, and the interference with the second-grade is to "limit his interference range."
In this way, the Demonic Path is clamping them step by step.
If there are no other second-grades to contain, Li Qi's range of activities will become smaller and smaller, and he will eventually be confined and "sealed."
As for killing, it should be unlikely, Li Qi's backhand has not been fully forced out.
In this way, the battle continued for a long time.
When the last consciousness disappeared, and when Li Qi's inner world completely became "single", the Karma Demon spoke again: "Are you still not going to attack?"
"Is it necessary?" Li Qi said: "By the way, let me ask you a question. You are good at creating karma. Have you ever thought about the death of sentient beings, such a huge karma, where did it go?"
"Ha... Is this your backup? I don't know where it went, but I know that no one in this world is better at manipulating karma than me, so there is nothing to worry about." The Karma Demon replied.
"If you are the best, how were these karmas stolen?" Li Qi asked back.
The Karma Demon chuckled and said: "Of course I asked you to steal them. You are stealing karma and preparing to bear it by yourself. Do you think I don't know? It's just that when you take out those karmas, the battle will end."
"So that's the case, then I'm relieved." Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
After he finished saying this-
Karma exploded!
The karma generated by the death of sentient beings counterattacked in full at this moment!
The Karma Demon's main body gently hooked his finger.
Li Qi's accumulated karma was like a flood, but in front of him, the flood was like a good dog, bowing its head obediently.
"You want to suppress me with karma, what do you think?" The Karma Demon did not absorb the karma, but controlled it outside. Although he mocked Li Qi, it was just his habit.
In fact, he had already treated this batch of karma as the highest standard of dangerous goods.
At the node of history, his Dharma body examines the coming and going of each karma, and peeks into the origin and development of this batch of karma through the cracks of time.
However, at this moment——!
"Are you the Karma Demon?" A voice came from the karma.
"Third Grade?" The Karma Demon felt the owner of this voice and was shocked for a moment.
Third Grade, dare to interfere in the direct battle of the Second Grade?
Seeking death?
But he did not waste too much time. Almost in the next moment, the Karma Demon had already directed the karma to the other party.
The karma of the destruction of all living beings is not qualified to be borne by the third grade. The heart of Tao is broken and the inner world collapses. It is almost inevitable. If you can't bear it, it is normal to directly return to zero.
It is caused by the karma of body, speech and mind, and the mind is colorless and cannot be seen, so all false laws gather.
There is no master, no self, and it is different according to the karma, but there is no creator in it.
All laws are inconceivable, like a dream.
If you look at the demon body, it is born from hundreds of thousands of evil virtues. All aspects are evil and dark, covering the crowd. The countless free Brahma kings will not appear again.
The eye root is heavily obstructed by sins and filth, and it moves evil karma. It speaks falsely, frivolously, harshly, and slanderously, praises evil views, and speaks useless words. There are many miscellaneous evil karmas, fighting and destroying chaos, saying that the law is not the law, and all evil karma thorns come out from the tongue root, and the wheel of righteousness is cut off from this tongue. Such an evil tongue cuts off the seeds of merit. It speaks many things in the wrong sense and praises evil views like fire adding fuel, just like a fierce fire hurting sentient beings, like a person who drinks poison and dies without sores and warts.
All thoughts are not good, creating endless evil karma and endless, just like monkeys, and also like glue, greedy everywhere and pervading all six roots.
The karma of the six roots, branches, flowers and leaves, are all full of the three realms and twenty-five places of birth. They can also increase the twelve sufferings of ignorance, old age and death. The eight evils and eight difficulties are all in the sutra!
The Karma Demon attacked a third-grade!
But——!
The Karma Demon felt a strong backlash.
Those karmas, those karmas that should have belonged to the Karma Demon, at this moment, including all the karmas that the Karma Demon had mastered, all backfired!
A third-grade, backfired on the second-grade!
That endless karma, even the Karma Demon himself had never felt it!
This is how Li Qi prepared to deal with the Karma Demon.
Use the devil to control the devil.
Let the Karma Demon feel the real "karma retribution"!
The retribution of black karma!
The Demon Prince once polluted the Central Possa World, and even Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva could not handle the karma.
The Demon Prince once swallowed the retribution of black karma and held Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. His capacity had already reached the level of the second grade when he was retributing black karma.
And now, it's not just karma.
The Karma Demon clearly felt a force.
The nemesis of the demon path, even the Heavenly Demon was sealed by it!
This is... the colorless world that should have been destroyed! ?
In the hands of the Demon Prince!
And it's far from over!
His aura is still rising!
Now... using this great melee, using the 'consciousness of nothingness' of the infinite prison creatures who died, the demon prince who recasts the formless realm will rely on the support of these things to devour the karma demons and ascend to the second level! (End of this chapter)