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Chapter 981 I’m back

A hybrid construct named 'Li Qi', he witnessed his tortured past mental world.

Yet, 'Li Qi' does not indulge in self-pity or regret.

On the contrary, Li Qi smiled, like a person recalling the hardships of his childhood, without any dissatisfaction.

All the suffering of the fragments seemed to be fruitless pain, but it was just a small price to pay for the arrival of 'Li Qi'.

Suffering happened, but the whole past was fair, sweet and beautiful because of the coming of 'Li Qi'.

The arrival of 'Li Qi' compensated for the pain suffered by all the previous 'fragments'.

'Li Qi' is the paradise that the fragments long for.

In the few lives of the fragments.

Zhou Fang, or Little Restart, together with their peers in the universe, will continue to move forward at this moment, tempering Li Qi's understanding of the universe and achieving perfect insight.

  How to describe Li Qi at this moment?

A perfect spiritual body?

No, he is not a spirit.

Li Qi's state at this moment is hard to describe, it is exactly the same as Taiyi's, no matter what is used to describe it, it is not true.

He should be a spiritual body, because his material existence is not enough to describe him, but... there is no reason to call it a "spiritual body", but it would also be wrong not to call it a "spiritual body".

Because, no matter what Li Qi is at this moment, it will only contain more than spirit.

It simply means more than anything that can be expressed in mundane language.

From a human perspective, or even from the perspective of cosmic intelligence, this “more” is unclear and painful, an awe-inspiring mystery that demands respect.

"How do you feel now?" Taiyi asked Li Qi.

Li Qi sighed: "To be honest... it's not very good."

Li Qi looked at himself.

As 'Li Qi', he can see the tortured individuals in his body, but in Li Qi's eyes, they are also 'Li Qi', a 'Li Qi' standing at such a high level.

These weak, hazy beings once contributed their own dull and sad existences to create 'Li Qi'.

Li Qi couldn't describe this feeling. It was as if he was sacrificing himself for himself, and then feeling sad for himself.

He wasn't quite used to such grand gestures.

But...his second-rank status has been completely established, and Li Qi is now a genuine second-rank status.

An eye suddenly opened on Li Qi's forehead.

That was an eye of the devil, which now belonged to Li Qi, and contained more than fifty strands of true knowledge.

All the knowledge combined...

Li Qi finally figured it out.

Once upon a time, Li Qi looked for an answer to everything, and that was the Ultimate Avenue. Everything revolved around the Ultimate Avenue, and the Ultimate Avenue was the answer to everything.

But later, he discovered that acknowledging that there was an answer to everything was denying the basis of the existence of everything, and thus denying the authenticity of all things. So he denied this, which led to the beginning of the struggle and collapse of his inner world.

Then, he saw emptiness.

The Buddha's passing and the devil's choice made him feel that the world seemed to have no meaning again. It seemed that everything would eventually lead to the existence of "suffering" and there was really no need to struggle about anything.

Empty is indeed a very good answer.

Finally, he decided to witness with his own eyes what the so-called "emptiness" was, and under the advice of his master, he entered the cycle of reincarnation.

And now, the answer is clear in reincarnation.

All things are created by themselves without a creator. He said, "If we know that there is no creator, we know that things are created by themselves." Things do not need anyone's efforts, they will become what they are. The reason why a thing becomes what it is is that "it is not supported by the Tao outside, nor by itself inside." There is no entity at all.

However, "nature" itself still exists, but this nature itself is not the "real entity" of all things. All things have no entity, and nature is composed of all things.

In fact, all things are self-sufficient, or perfect, so there is no relationship of mutual restriction or mutual dependence between them.

So, this brings up a problem.

According to this statement...

Li Qi, and all his fragments, no longer have any inheritance relationship.

If the ultimate way does not exist, everything is free.

Then, the relationship between Li Qi and his fragments will be the same. Li Qi is no longer the source of the fragments, and the fragments can exist independently. This answer led to Li Qi's downfall.

However, in the end... Taiyi swallowed Li Qi into Ziwei Star and showed him another possibility.

This is also Taiyi's "preaching".

Taiyi’s answer was, stop pursuing convenience.

Weak beings like Li Qi grew up from the mundane world. They have a habit of summarizing and generalizing by doing subtraction, constantly reducing various things into simpler things for easier grasp.

This is easy to understand. Ordinary people's brains cannot hold so many things, so they prefer to abbreviate things and "summarize" them. It is best to condense ten thousand into "one".

Therefore, the abstract "one" is more in line with this aesthetic.

The ultimate avenue is such an answer.

It seems that if you master 'one', you master everything. In this way, the world is knowable, or at least there is a direction for exploration.

Therefore, 'one' is the only answer, the ultimate answer, the answer to all questions, the ultimate way, and the final solution to all things.

The conflicts between things are just some silhouettes of "one". If you grasp "one", you can grasp everything.

This is the highest pursuit of many people.

However, for gods like Taiyi and Haotian, who are born divine, there is another possible explanation for this.

Without the existence of "one", all things are in conflict with each other, more like unknowable darkness. Every exploration of the essence is an adventure.

The true Tao is not simple and beautiful, but more chaotic, terrifying, difficult to grasp, and irrational.

There is no "one", or in other words, every thing is its own "one", and every thing has its own properties, which may be conflicting.

They are not the silhouettes of some great being. The triangles and squares of the three-dimensional world are not the projections of a higher-dimensional geometric body, but they are simply triangles and squares.

They simply cannot blend together, there is no one path that accommodates everything.

Because of this property, different solutions can be generated for everything, because no logical system can contain enough simple arithmetic axioms to become complete, so it is always possible to deduce statements from the axioms that can neither be proved nor falsified.

Therefore, the universe has produced many different versions of incompatible logical axiom systems. Due to the incompleteness, infinite variations of "Tao" will fill the universe.

And the result of spreading it all over is Taiyi.

The same is true for Li Qi.

So, he frankly acknowledged the independence of the fragments, but this independence did not mean that they had become independent, just like the other star officials in Taiyi's body.

Taiyi is composed of four phases.

The four phases are composed of the twenty-eight constellations.

  So, the Four Phases are Taiyi?

Are the twenty-eight mansions the four phases? Of course not, they are all independent existences. Taiyi is Taiyi, the four phases are the four phases, and the twenty-eight mansions are the twenty-eight mansions. There is no such thing as the four phases and Taiyi being the same thing.

In this way, Li Qi and all the fragments achieved a unity.

The same is true of his inner world.

Since all things are self-sustaining and self-generating, it is normal for them to have conflicts. How many mortals with conflicts are there in Taiyi's body? Did Taiyi explode himself?

No, Taiyi is big enough to accommodate all of this.

As Li Qi is a 'half god', this nature is also applied here.

There are certainly many things in Li Qi's inner world, but these things are self-sustaining, self-used, and self-generated. Like Li Qi's fragments, they can be integrated with Li Qi into a higher-level existence.

After all this is put together...

It’s Li Qi, a second-rank official.

A chaotic aggregate, an incomprehensible polymer.

Looking up at his body, one can seem to see the clear blue sky and towering white clouds.

This sky seems to show the viewer its endless height.

But it is far more vast than millions of worlds or hundreds of billions of worlds.

What he will hold in his hands in the future will be infinite.

Every world, every possibility, and every individual has its own historical evolution and its own values, and will explore the possibility of pursuing happiness in its unique living environment.

There will be countless kinds of happiness, countless kinds of benefits, countless different basic realities.

At this moment, Li Qi has a universe that is unimaginably complex. When a creature faces multiple choices, it will choose all options. In this way, Li Qi's inner world has many different histories.

In Li Qi's current inner world, the evolution process is incredibly complex. There are many different choices at each stage, and there are many possible paths at each moment. However, Li Qi no longer needs to make a choice...

He can select all options at the same time.

Combined in this way, countless small branch possibilities, countless small, separate, independent possibilities will arise in every stage and every moment of his inner world.

These possibilities may even conflict.

But now, Li Qi, as an 'aggregate', has taken them all in, and is looking at all these contradictions and harmonies from a strange perspective.

Taiyi looked at Li Qi now and said, "Then, what about the demons——"

"Leave it to me." Li Qi said.

"Be careful." Taiyi said, and drove Li Qi out of here.

He didn't seem willing to say anything more to Li Qi, or maybe he was just a talkative person.

Li Qi took a look at himself now.

It's really amazing. With Taiyi's help, he maintains a complete self-awareness. At the same time, he is also an integration of thousands of collections, and all the fragments also maintain their complete personalities. There is no conflict between these two forms in him.

Is this the body of the "Star Official"? This power that takes everything as its own component is also a philosophy that frankly acknowledges the contradictions of the world.

Li Qi's nature as a 'half-god' was clearly revealed at this moment.

He maintained this posture and fell outside.

In the starry sky outside, the Demon Prince, who had taken off his mask, was leaning against Mo Hu.

Seeing Li Qi coming, Mo Hu immediately bent down and hid behind the Demon Prince. Although he couldn't hide because of his several-meter-long body, it was also a kind of attitude.

And the Demon Prince walked towards Li Qi.

The two creations of the devil, the two 'sons of the devil' met at this moment.

They existed as pawns to destroy Buddhism, and now after everything is over, the reason for them to meet again... is actually Buddhism.

Before the Buddha passed away, he spoke a lot to the Demon Prince and even predicted that the Demon Prince would become a Buddha in the future, just as he had said to Sariputra. Therefore, the Demon Prince was freed from the retribution of his evil karma.

Before Li Qi was reincarnated, he also talked to someone.

Golden Monkey 'Wukong'.

Now that I think about it, this name is quite interesting.

Goku, Goku.

Did Li Qi realize emptiness?

maybe.

Before the Buddha passed away, he did some things for the two demon sons. Now it seems that these things have obviously aroused the interest of the demons.

The devil lost interest after the Buddha's nirvana, but since then, these two demon children have become the focus of the devil's interest.

This counts as... Buddha and the devil finding something to do?

Li Qi didn't know, but it was obvious that he was no longer confused.

"I will leave your matter to the Demon Queen for now." The Demon Prince looked at Li Qi and said so.

Li Qi nodded: "Thank you."

The Demon Prince accepted Li Qi's thanks calmly, and then left with Mo Hu.

And Li Qi also took the opportunity to leave this place.

Now that he has finally woken up, there is one thing he can't wait to do before doing anything.

He arrived at Xuanjing Mountain at a high speed.

In Xuanjing Mountain, Zhu Fengdan and Prince Changqin had already been here.

Obviously, they all knew something.

  How long did Li Qi stay with Taiyi?

It must have been at least several hundred million years.

During this period, no one came over, which was enough to prove that it was the two of them who persuaded them.

Laqi and Li Shiwei were also standing in the back. Like Li Qi, he was very etiquette-abiding, so it would be better for him to stand in the back at this time.

However, the one standing in front was Shen Shuibi.

Seeing Li Qi coming here again, a familiar yet strange breath came, but Shen Shuibi stopped where she was.

  How many years, how many times? How many times has she admitted her mistakes?

Is it the same this time?

The rabbit was timid and stood there without moving.

Li Qi took a step forward, took out a hairpin from the void, came in front of her, looked at her short hair, and handed it to her: "I'm back, from now on... you can grow your hair longer."

Shen Shuibi was distracted for a moment.

Li Qi took another step forward and bowed: "Teacher, uncle, I'm back."