Wandao long distance

In a separate courtyard of Taixue.

The two were talking and moving towards Lord Plague's residence.

They were talking about their own practice, both of them were very eager, because it was all related to their promotion.

However, Mr. Epidemic is different from Li Qi. He does not have a Chang'an housing allocation, because he needs to be strictly controlled in the scope of his actions. After all...even if he doesn't want to, some traces he left out will cause huge harm to ordinary people. threaten.

After all, he is also a seventh-rank, a very powerful existence for ordinary people. Although it doesn't look very good in Tang country, that's because this is the fairyland.

And the fairy world... There are also mortals, so Mr. Epidemic was restricted by the Taixue.

Yes, in theory, none of these are ontologies.

Now the two of them are going to the Lord Epidemic's body, and only in that place can Li Qi really start to adjust the Lord Epidemic's physical problems.

"Student Li, the boundary you mentioned is the source of my strength? Why can't I still see it? How do I measure this thing?" Lord Pandemic asked Li Qi as he walked.

"This method can only be understood but cannot be explained in words. At the beginning, I also took the risk of dying and dotting the five aggregates of demonic blood into the five aggregates to obtain this method of observation and calculation of boundaries. If there is no magical power like the divine eye It would be very difficult to do it," Li Qi said.

"It's true...if it's too simple, it's not normal." Lord Plague nodded, feeling a little helpless.

Li Qi looked at Mr. Yan, and to be honest, he was a little surprised.

Mr. Epidemic is really... so normal.

As a virus aggregate, he is a bit too friendly, ordinary, ordinary, and even cautiously restraining his own abilities to prevent the endless spread of the plague.

However, it can be seen that he has been very distressed by this.

Li Qi already knew the specific situation of Lord Epidemic in the previous communication.

Flesh and blood the size of a fist can gather hundreds of billions of viruses. With such a large number, there is no way to command it like an arm, and he can't control the countless power to escape, so he can only lock the body in the A corner of Taixue was sealed with a formation to avoid endless disasters.

And the solution to this... exactly, Li Qiyou.

It is only necessary to divide the boundaries between groups and individuals, and then use a large group as a single unit to manipulate, which can greatly reduce the amount of operations required and better manipulate the body.

But the problem is, it's hard to...

This large group must be exactly within the boundary between the individual and the group in order to complete the manipulation, so how to find this boundary?
Exhaustive?
How can there be trillions of viruses at every turn?

If it is only a difference in quantity alone, then it is acceptable to add a little bit and subtract a little bit, so that it will not take long to find a barely controllable range.

However, density and arrangement, and even individual strength, are also important basis for judgment.

Two people can be regarded as partners and judged as a whole, but if two people are thousands of miles apart, then they can only be considered as two individuals.

But if the two are very strong, at the fifth and sixth ranks, the distance of ten thousand miles is just within reach for them, and they can still be regarded as a whole.

Under these various factors, exhaustive enumeration is an almost impossible task. This is a nearly infinite number of arrangements, which can only be optimized through algorithms, but exhaustive enumeration cannot be forced by overwhelming computing power.

Lord Plague also has some achievements now, otherwise he would not be able to control the existing power, but these achievements cannot support his 'perfect' control of power, and some will still be leaked.

As for Li Qi, there is a perfect method. He can use an algorithm to calculate where this subtle boundary is. Even if Lord Plague's manipulative power is not enough to make it happen, at least he has a direction to work hard, and he can gather his strength little by little. .

In exchange for this, Li Qi's request is that Mr. Epidemic should tell Li Qi his thoughts about "self", and both sides will get what they need.

Facing the friendly Mr. Yan, Li Qi said: "Then in order to show sincerity, let me adjust your body first. If it can be done, you can tell me your own point of view."

"Actually, there's nothing to hide. Even if classmate Li doesn't help me with this favor and asks me directly, I won't hide it. It's not a big deal." Mr. Yan said.

"It's just that I won't be able to speak clearly for a while here. You still need to wait for you to see my main body before you can understand my thoughts. Otherwise, my mouth will be stupid and difficult to express."

"It's okay, it's just a few steps." Li Qi said with a smile.

While talking, the two came to a house in Taixue.

Li Qi immediately realized that this house...is an entrance to the cave.

Lord Plague's body needs a cave to install it?That's pretty awesome.

The two walked into this cave side by side, and the scene in front of them changed, and in front of Li Qi... a boundless sea appeared.

Surrounded by endless sea, not half an inch of land can be seen, but Li Qi can fly, just suspended in the sky, looking around to observe the situation around him.

This is...the planet?
Li Qi visually measured the arc in the distance. Although they are all seas, as long as they look far enough, they can calculate the arc, and then calculate the area of ​​the circle, and then get the diameter of the circle, which is the diameter of the planet, and estimate the cave. the size of.

A simple calculation shows that the diameter of this planet is about seven thousand miles, which is the size of a moon.

So... How deep is the sea under your feet?

Li Qi stretched out his hand, squeezed out a wisp of golden energy, and probed down.

The speed of the golden energy is extremely fast, far exceeding the speed of sound, but it can't be penetrated to the bottom for a while!
"This sea is about two thousand miles deep. Except for a rocky core, there is only this piece of water in this cave." The Lord Plague next to him explained.

Li Qi nodded, expressing his understanding.

Then...there is quite a lot of water here.

Already hundreds of thousands of times more than the sea on the earth.

"So, your body?" Li Qi asked.

"The sea below is my body." Lord Plague said.

Afterwards, Li Qi saw with his own eyes that Lord Epidemic's body suddenly disintegrated again.

He 'died' again.

The countless viruses that made up the body dispersed, and then fell into the sea.

Immediately afterwards, Li Qi immediately understood what he meant.

The sea became restless.

The endless sea water began to surge!
The torrential rain fell without warning, and the unbelievably huge waves began to churn, far exceeding the so-called 'mad dog waves'.

Every wave is as high as Mount Everest, there are tens of thousands of such waves, and they keep spinning around Li Qi!

Under these signs, Li Qi faintly noticed that there was a subtle glow in the huge waves.

Immediately, this point of fluorescence began to flood.

The entire ocean began to glow.

The view is so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it.

The sky is infinitely light up and down, and the cold jade is poured into the curling pot.

The clear waves are as bright as washing, and the light runs through the purple microwave heart.

Li Qi's eyesight can only see the light in the water, like a dream, but fortunately he has the rhyme of truth, he can see subtle things, and he can clearly see the light source.

It was a small bug in the water.

Endless bugs.

These small insects are different and have different shapes. The big ones eat the small ones, the small ones eat the smaller ones, and the smaller ones are responsible for photosynthesis. Countless plankton-like small insects form a food web by themselves.

There are even some photosynthetic ones, condensed together, and combined into a set of submarine forests similar to coral reefs.

Along with those churning huge waves, Li Qi could still see that there were no 'fish' or other similar life in the whole sea, not even seaweed.

Everything happened in these glowing bugs.

And these worms themselves are completely different, they produce each other, eat each other, there is a complete food chain, there are producers, consumers and decomposers.

This is not a cluster, but a... much more complicated, interdependent and coexisting ecosystem!

It's just that they are not big, they are all plankton.

But these planktons have a common 'will'. These countless planktons and countless 'viruses' of different shapes together form the existence of 'Plague King'.

Without even needing to explain, Li Qi immediately understood what was going on with Mr. Epidemic.

No wonder... He said that he was clumsy and it was difficult to describe the scene. He hoped that Li Qi would come and see for himself in his body.

It turned out to be the case.

This situation is indeed difficult to describe in ordinary words.

So... magnificent.

A whole ecosystem bigger than the whole earth.

There are algae-like viruses that can photosynthesize and float in shallow sea areas, and take on the role of producers.

There are viruses that lie on the seabed and continental shelf, relying on sediment and marine snow debris to survive.

Like copepods, there are predatory viruses that can prey on their own and eat other viruses, and undertake the task of predators.

And in the deep sea, floating with the virus.

There are also deeper and more terrifying deep ocean bottoms than the deep sea. Those "viruses" with cultivation and grades are mutated by relying on the many qi emitted by the planets in the desperate situation of life.

The ocean on this planet is a full two thousand miles deep. We are in the darkest seabed, in the absolute darkness where even sunlight cannot penetrate. The 'little bugs' there have generally begun to have cultivation, They began to use the geographical advantages to screen and struggle in the cruel environment, and then transformed with the help of aura, becoming high-grade 'spirit beasts'.

However, after all, the virus is still too small. Even if it becomes a spirit beast, it cannot possess real intelligence. It can only be said that it has a basic instinct.

So...'Plague King' came into being.

Li Qi had already guessed what had happened in the seventh-rank world in Mr. Yan's hometown.

That hometown is probably divided into two parts, the mainland and the sea.

The life on the continent was finally swallowed up by the 'plankton' or viruses from the ocean during the long struggle.

And the common will of these plankton, that is: Lord Plague, was noticed by the world, and finally transferred to Chang'an as a whole, and became a student of Taixue.

Why can Li Qi be sure that these plankton are viruses?
Because now he can also feel some kind of erosion, from the instinct of Lord Plague, the power that escapes from him that he cannot control, is oppressing Li Qi's body, trying to infect him, turning his flesh and blood into the nourishment of these plankton .

Although with his seventh-rank cultivation base, Lord Plague couldn't shake him even half a point.

But Li Qi was still amazed.

But in the midst of surprise, he also noticed what was going on with Mr. Epidemic's 'self'.

There is no need for an explanation at all. For a smart person like Li Qi, witnessing with his own eyes is worth a thousand words.

Mr. Epidemic... There is no such thing as a so-called 'mind' at all.

Li Qi thinks that the "spiritual entity" that is extremely important to self-judgment is just a tool to maintain thinking for Mr. Yan. He doesn't care about any "spiritual entity" at all, and naturally he doesn't need to maintain self-identity.

"Student, as you can see, the 'self' you value so much doesn't seem to be that important..." The sudden sea water vibrated, and a sound came out of it.

Lord Plague did not use that condensed body, but directly used the sea as a medium to make a sound.

Li Qi felt intense panic.

Because, in his vision of the information stream, he saw countless 'Plague Monarchs'!
Thousands?No, no, far more than that number!
Hundreds of millions of minds of the "Plague Monarch" are all "spiritual entities" that can only be seen in the information flow.

Each of these minds is the same as Li Qi's demonic avatar, with the same mind and the same memory. Each of them is Lord Plague.

And these "plague lords" are devouring and killing each other without psychological pressure, killing other "plague lords", and then new "plague lords" are constantly born in this sea, each of them is the same.

It's like... life itself.

Life itself, is like this.

Constantly changing, constantly dying and giving birth to new ones, just like reincarnation.

Although these plague lords are very weak, not even as good as an ordinary person, maybe they can't beat a unicorn fairy, but they do exist.

No wonder Mr. Epidemic doesn't care about death and reorganization, because he is doing similar things all the time.

Each plague lord is individual, but they are also a collective, and all the plague lords add up to be the real plague lord.

Such a miracle, even though Lord Epidemic is only at the seventh rank, he may be able to rely on this body to compete with the existence of the sixth rank.

Without him, the volume is large, the blood bar is thick, the fault tolerance is large, and the output is also large.

The ecological circle of a planet is all the body of Lord Yan. No wonder Changan praises Lord Yan as a rare species.

This is...another perspective?
Another way of saying 'me for me', another answer.

Don't care about self-identity, or... the overall self-identity is not something like mind, but a continuation from this natural world.

To be honest, this even... fits the idea of ​​Wu Dao very well.

So... what is the 'self' that Lord Plague cares about?
Li Qi looked towards the sea below.

You can ask.