Wandao long distance

Chapter 1005 Travel

Above the sky, under the layer of strong winds hidden by the clouds, Li Qi sat on the top of the long bridge.

Changqiao maintained its original shape, circling on the gale layer in a "swimming" posture, looking quite excited.

"So, Changqiao, what are you here for?" Li Qi asked the real dragon under him.

"Ah? I just saw you, Li Qi, here, so I followed you here!" Changqiao replied immediately.

Li Qi looked at the long bridge in front of him.

It really didn't seem like she was lying. She was very simple. She just spotted Li Qi and followed him happily.

This is also in line with her personality.

Li Qi made a gesture with his fingers and made some calculations. He found that there was no causal connection behind it, so he shook his head: "Well, you came by chance. I am exploring the Arctic Spirit Road. Do you know anything about it?"

"Oh, let's talk about the spiritual path. Okay, okay, I know these things best." Changqiao flicked his tail and said, "If you're here for a tour, I'll be your tour guide!"

"I'm not here for tourism. I'm here to investigate the situation in Lingdao. I see this place is full of illegal immigrants. It should be the same in the deep Arctic, right?" Li Qi asked.

"Li Qi, you will know all these things if you just take a look at them, right? You are a big shot now, you won't be confused by this, right?" Changqiao was a little confused.

  If he just wanted to see the situation of the entire Arctic, Li Qi could see it all with just a glance. Why use such a stupid method?

Li Qi smiled and said: "Sometimes those things are not so credible, it is better to experience it yourself to feel more realistic."

"Is listening to me also considered an experience?" Changqiao asked.

"Didn't I ask you to take me on a tour so I can watch and listen?" Li Qi said.

"Okay! Leave it to me!" Changqiao agreed immediately and excitedly set up a mirage pearl.

Mirage beads can create illusions, but they also have another function which is to record the details of the surrounding environment, basically replicating the surrounding objects one-to-one.

The so-called "mirage" is actually a projection of things in other places. The mirage pearl naturally has this effect. It can be said to be a camera of perfect quality that can even record touch and smell. For mortals with insufficient observation ability, it is basically exactly the same.

"Are you taking a picture of this thing to sell it?" Li Qi asked.

"Of course I won't sell it. I will definitely put it out there for everyone to see! I'm sure a lot of people will be envious of me." Changqiao said with a giggle, and you can tell that she has a really big heart.

You know, Li Qi is no longer the fourth-grade official he used to be. Many, many billions of years have passed, and Li Qi Changqiao can still treat it with this attitude. His psychological quality is really something.

Moreover, Li Qi discovered that Changqiao also had a feeling of "being proud of it".

It was as if Li Qi had succeeded and she was also benefiting from it.

Strange mentality.

But Li Qi didn't really care about it.

"That's all fine. Let's go inland first. On the way, you can also tell me about what you encountered while living here. You should be living here, right?" Li Qi asked.

"About that. I usually live next to the Yaowan Pond, but I also have a palace in the world, right nearby." Changqiao began to swim, talking to Li Qi as he headed towards the depths of the North Pole.

Li Qi just listened to her story.

In Changqiaokou, the Arctic is a very wonderful place because materials are quite scarce here.

Perhaps because Lingdao has made some arrangements here, this place does not have the rich resources that other places in the world have.

The primitive people that Li Qi saw were actually the common situation here.

Li Qi's guess that "life inside will be better" does not actually exist, even in the depths of the Arctic.

It seems that those 'treasures' do not exist naturally here. Even the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is so thin that it is unlike anything else in the world. Crops and various mineral veins are also very poor.

Moreover, in the Arctic... you cannot practice fasting.

Yes, Li Qi was also very surprised about this. This thing could not control him, but Changqiao had feelings and would get hungry in the Arctic.

You have to eat, and you will feel hungry, and there is no way to stop it even if you have reached the fourth level of cultivation.

This is also the reason why Changqiao came to this place.

Being hungry is actually a kind of enjoyment for her. If she is hungry first and then eats, the food will taste much better. Therefore, Changqiao built a temporary palace in the North Pole so that she can come here to eat whenever she has time.

It feels different.

However, if you look at it from the perspective of these stowaways, the Arctic is just two words.

"Barren." Changqiao spat out two words.

After she finished speaking, she looked down and said, "Li Qi, we're here. We've entered the inner circle of the Arctic. There's already a city. Do you want to go down and take a look?"

Li Qi nodded: "Okay, let's go down."

While speaking, he also looked down curiously.

He saw a city, which was not well developed. It was just like a small city in the feudal era. Its scale was not even as magnificent as the provincial capitals of Baiyue.

However, if the surrounding farmland is added in, the scale becomes huge.

In addition to the city itself, a large number of terraced fields can be seen around it. For centuries, the residents here have been patiently cultivating these rural farmlands.

They modified the forests by gradually trimming the slopes, large and small, into terraces suitable for planting.

Thousands of square miles of land were piled up by the locals, and the barren stone slopes were repaired into small pieces of flat land, and then the excavated stones were used to build stone walls for protection.

This is a work that took countless centuries to complete. It carefully carved out the entire scenery here. This unique beauty is so exquisite and natural that even Li Qi felt a little surprised.

This place is actually quite well done. From the perspective of Li Qi Wuzhi's aesthetics, it is quite good, and the balance between living creatures is very good.

Such a large-scale planting...is it really because of the need to eat?

It is impossible to practice fasting. It is a barren wilderness with thin spiritual energy from heaven and earth. This place is the poorest in the world. A better Feng Shui site in the ninth level world is more fertile than this place.

  Did Lingdao do it on purpose?

Li Qi didn't know, but he would know the answer soon, because Li Qi had released some of the "instincts" in his physical body.

As a second-rank official, Li Qi's existence itself will have an impact on the surroundings, and it is difficult for the environment to affect Li Qi in return.

For example, if Li Qi stands on the surface of a Guixu, Guixu itself will even evaporate faster because Guixu will distort time and space. But when Li Qi stands there, time and space will automatically stabilize to Li Qi's perceived time.

If Guixu wants to twist, it will need to expend greater energy, which will eventually lead to accelerated evaporation, and it may even disappear directly.

This is because Li Qi makes the world around him fit himself for his own comfort.

Of course, this is not certain. Li Qi can remove this power at will and allow the outside world to affect him.

He wanted to experience what it was like to be hungry in the Arctic. After releasing his control over the outside world, Li Qi clearly felt a special force awakening some of his most basic senses.

  The power of the spiritual path?

No, this is not the power of the spirit way, this is the nature of the world itself——?

That’s not quite right, right?

As a second-rank official, Li Qi was a little confused at the moment.

The feeling awakened by this power is not simply 'hunger', but feelings such as cold, warm, hungry, and nausea.

In other words, it awakens the subjective feelings that ordinary people experience every day.

However, this power obviously cannot interfere with existences above the third rank, so Li Qi's surroundings just now easily suppressed the effectiveness of this power.

Now that the suppression has been lifted, Li Qi suddenly felt "suffocated".

Why do I feel stuffy?

Li Qi thought for a moment, and then he suddenly took a breath subconsciously.

The stuffy feeling disappeared instantly.

Ah, it turned out to be such a simple matter. Li Qi just forgot to breathe. After all, for a second-grade cultivator, neither breathing nor hunger was necessary.

But, think about it... breathing, what a natural thing.

Breathing, eating, shivering, sweating, these are the most basic psychological feelings brought about by primitive instincts, and are also the most intuitive "psychological feelings".

There is no need for any acquired learning, you will be born with this feeling, it is something you have naturally and it is 'a priori'.

The so-called a priori knowledge is a kind of knowledge that is completely independent of empirical observation and can be acquired without the need for "experience accumulation". Therefore, it is called "a priori", which means "existing before experience".

This structure is not acquired from experience but is innate.

It is therefore conceivable that this a priori knowledge of the universal nature of the world is inherently universal and necessary.

Yes, the feelings and knowledge that can be accessed without learning must be closer to the essence. Otherwise, how do we explain the source of this knowledge?

  So how do you get this feeling?

Body? Receptors? Or...'consciousness'?

Li Qi suddenly realized that this might be some kind of opportunity for Ling Dao. This was not a power deliberately set up by Ling Dao, but the source of Ling Dao's original inspiration.

"Huh? Aren't you coming down?" Changqiao landed on the ground, surrounded by frightened people, but she was already accustomed to the gazes around her, and just felt that Li Qi was a little strange.

  What's wrong with my idol? Is he still in a daze?

"Oh... nothing, just thinking about something." Li Qi came back to his senses, feeling those primitive feelings in his body.

Babies don't need to learn to feel cold or warm.

Moreover, feelings of cold and warmth cannot be expressed to others. You will never be able to sense whether others are cold or warm.

This is what I once called the 'high wall' of self-awareness.

As long as this high wall is there, there is no way to understand others. Even if someone tells you that he is cold or hot, you cannot feel what he feels.

This is also the origin of the "I" in the magic way.

And if we put the perspective on the spiritual path...

While thinking about this, Li Qi walked down from the top of the long bridge and looked around.

The surrounding area looks like an ordinary town, and these stowaways are the people living there, but they have evolved from primitive people to the technological level of the feudal era.

In other words, it manifests itself as the feudal era.

If a mortal from the real feudal era were to survive here, he would probably not be able to survive at all.

And there were a lot of people watching.

You can also see several fifth-grade creatures flying towards this side. The pressure from the heaven and earth in the Arctic is relatively high, so the performance of these fifth-grade creatures seems to be significantly worse than that of the outside world.

But...it's also a good thing, right?

If they go outside, their combat effectiveness will be obviously improved, just like weight training.

Not long after, those fifth-grade masters appeared in front of Li Qi, and the idlers around were dispersed.

One of the fifth-rank people walked up to Li Qi and said, "You two, I am the mayor of Oulu City. May I ask you two..."

"We are just passing by as tourists. Don't pay too much attention to us." Changqiao swayed her body and turned into a human form, still the same gorgeous girl as before.

She was indeed dressed up gorgeously. Changqiao seemed to like dressing up gorgeously. Her whole body, from scales to eyes, seemed to be covered with sequins. Her nails were also very long and sparkling.

The skirt had a slit on one side, revealing the left thigh, with the faintly visible green dragon scales on it reflecting a rainbow-like light.

In Li Qi's eyes, it flashed like a light bulb.

It's just too ostentatious.

"That's right. We are just here to sightsee in the Arctic and see what's going on. We will never cause any trouble, so please rest assured." Li Qi said.

When the fifth-grade masters heard this, they seemed relieved.

After all, leaving aside Li Qi, just looking at Changqiao, the power of this real dragon is by no means ordinary. They probably cannot defeat this real dragon. Since the other party is willing to take the initiative to show goodwill and indicate that he will not cause trouble, it means that he is still sincere.

"In that case, we will not disturb you anymore. By the way, please keep this thing and wear it on your body. It can avoid many ignorant conflicts." The city lord said respectfully, and then took out a sign carved out of wood.

It seems that they are very experienced and have a complete set of procedures to deal with powerful people passing by.

No wonder the other people around also evacuated quickly.

It seems that the plot where the powerful pretend to be a fool and play the pig to eat the tiger is not common in the Arctic. There is a mature way to deal with passers-by here.

Li Qi took the plaque, which had some spells engraved on it and an energy crystal embedded on the back, giving the piece of wood special abilities.

It is probably similar to circuit boards and chips. Use silicon and tin to draw special patterns on a piece of plastic, and then hang a battery on it, and an electronic device is born. Chip design is actually not much different from drawing arrays.

At this stage, the technical means are all similar.

Li Qi took the wooden sign, said goodbye to the city lords, and walked towards a distance with Changqiao.

He was going to get something to eat.

Li Qi felt that he had caught it——

Captured the special features of the Arctic, what the spiritual path seeks.

(End of this chapter)