Chapter 294: Fighting for the Dao in the Body
The fight with the Imperial Academy was much harder than Li Qi had imagined.
He knew Li Qi very well, more than Li Qi thought he knew.
If the opponent could exert all his strength, then Li Qi would probably not last even a second.
Li Qi was able to achieve the current results because the opponent could not exert additional influence through the chaotic cosmic light.
Even the Imperial Academy had not tried to use other means.
The opponent was tied up, and such a confrontation was not a fair fight at all.
As the initiator of this fight, the Imperial Academy not only suffered a violent backlash from the chaotic cosmic light before he started, resulting in a loss of 50% of his cultivation.
Moreover, he actively manipulated the demonic energy of the Heavenly Demon, and had to overcome the influence of the chaotic cosmic light, and needed to suppress the backlash of the eggshell around Li Qi. He got half the result with twice the effort. Out of 100 points of strength, at most 5 points could be put into practice, and the rest was all wasted on the way and resisting the backlash.
Li Qi felt that the opponent must have other tricks, but he didn't know why he had to use the demonic energy of the Heavenly Demon.
This is like two armies fighting. One side needs to travel through mountains and rivers, cross the ocean, send out 100 people, 95 will die on the way, take out 100 kilograms of food and grass, 95 kilograms will be eaten on the way.
However, on the other side, I am resting and waiting for the opportunity to tire myself out. I can fully exert my 100% strength and have an extremely huge advantage.
Normally, no one would choose such a brutal confrontation. Even if they did, they would only ask for trouble.
But the Imperial Academy Minister did it, because he was strong enough, so strong that even if he only had half of his strength, he would be enough to crush Li Qi.
Sixth rank, even if he was restrained and only used half of his strength to manipulate the demonic energy of the sky demon to fight against him, it was not so easy to deal with.
For example, now.
What he did in the Holy Flame Realm, if viewed from the perspective of witchcraft, was partly against the principles of witchcraft.
Therefore, the other party used the magic energy to transform Li Qi into a human being, and asked Li Qi whether he agreed with humanity.
There is no need to say "yes" or "no", it is not important.
People can deceive others, but they cannot deceive themselves.
As long as Li Qi's heart of Taoism is shaken by this shout, then the 'Tao' he uses to restrain the countless strands of Qi in his body will fall into conflict.
His little world in the human body will fall into the dispute between man and witch.
Taixue Cheng knows his Taoism too well, and he can see Li Qi's background clearly, so he directly points to the root, and through the shout of the demonic spirit of the sky, he wants to make Li Qi fall into the Taoism dispute.
Man, or witch?
Or... there is a simpler way.
Fall into the magic way.
As long as he enters the magic way, these disputes will no longer have any effect on him.
The magic way is arbitrary and does not need to care about these rules at all.
This is also the most common reason for falling into the magic way, that is, falling into the conflict of Tao, and finally giving up and choosing the magic way, so that all disputes can be resolved.
This is also the purpose of Taixue Cheng!
After Li Qi fell into the magic way, it was natural for him to take action.
Dangerous!
Being discovered by others, it is so passive!
Li Qi fell into deep thought again after this shout.
His current path is mainly based on the witch path, combined with some human methods, to refine Guangyang, which has become the basis of his cultivation.
Cultivation is the Qi accumulated in the human body, and the Tao is the ultimate rule to support the movement of these Qi.
If the Tao is messed up, the Qi will also be messed up, and the cultivation will conflict with itself, and the consequences will be disastrous.
If there is no solution, the most straightforward way is to fall into the magic path and use the magic path to control these Qi.
But using the magic path is not as simple as saying it, it means that you recognize the values of the magic path, because the values themselves are also the embodiment of the Tao. If you don’t recognize the magic path, you can’t use it even if you want to.
Tao is not a method.
The technique is the method, and the Tao is the rules that you recognize and practice from the inside out, and it is not something that can be changed at will.
That’s why it’s troublesome.
After being asked, Li Qi fell into silence.
Human? Witch?
From a human perspective, plundering these worlds outside the domain is simply natural. People need wood to burn fire and cook, so do you need to ask when you go out to chop wood? No one will think this is wrong.
If there are no resources, just take them. Mineral veins are underground and are to be used. When forests grow, they are either cut down for firewood or left to resist wind and sand. Rivers must be used to build water conservancy projects. Of course, useful animals and plants are cultivated, useless ones are ignored, and harmful ones are eliminated.
All things take "people" as the highest priority. If you want to mention protection, it must be because protection is more beneficial to people. In essence, it is still to protect the interests of people, even nature.
It is right for rivers to flow naturally, but what's the problem with building water conservancy on them? You say that's unnatural? Nature must also change for people!
But from the perspective of witches, you should only take what you need. People and other things are part of nature.
As I said before, this nature is not something like flowers, plants, and trees, but all the positions of all things in the world, and it is where all things in this universe should be.
The stability of the entire environment must be maintained. Everything in the world has its own position. You can change your own position, but you cannot destroy a certain position, because that will cause the already stable world to change again.
This world was originally a mess, only the ‘Tao’ is unchanging. After such a long time, all things in the world have been perfected under the guidance of the ‘Tao’, just like the building blocks that have been built.
You can replace parts, but there is no need to overturn the entire building block, because that will only lead to chaos again.
What the witch maintains is the stability of the entire world, and what they pursue is the perfect eternal existence.
Heaven, earth, people, gods, and ghosts each have their own duties and positions. The Tao is the destiny, and all things are self-righteous.
A person or other life can change its own state and promote itself to another position, but the position itself cannot change. This building block itself is perfect, and any modification to it is destroying it.
This represents two completely different values, and Li Qi’s approach in the Holy Flame Realm is to jump between them.
Just like his current path.
How to be compatible?
Li Qi fell into deep thought and said the answer he had thought of when he was refining Guangyang:
"The way of heaven is to give birth to all things, growing in spring and summer, withering in autumn and winter, being strong in youth and weak in old age, competing in strength, competing for the leader, different energy but the same work, all of which are the reason why heaven forms the year."
"The way of man is to govern all things, ploughing in spring and weeding in summer, harvesting in autumn and storing in winter, cutting wood and drilling through mountains, smelting metals, formulating rituals and laws, distinguishing between the old and the young, different things but the same work, all of which are the reason why people are formed."
"What heaven can do, man cannot; what man can do, heaven cannot do."
Li Qi said so.
Hearing this, the face of the Taixue Cheng outside changed.
Li Qi was trying to explain the way of heaven and the way of man, and then trying to find his place in it!
He is only an eighth-grade! How dare he?
If this is wrong, his cultivation will collapse immediately, and the Dao dispute will directly enter an irreversible level!
However, although it was unexpected, the Taixue Cheng quickly calmed down.
This is actually in line with the arrangement of the Imperial Academy. If Li Qi fails, then the magic way is almost his only way out.
He also understood what Li Qi said.
Li Qi's meaning is very simple.
The way of heaven, that is, the law of nature, is to choose, which is achieved through the transformation of strength and weakness or the competition of the jungle. Through natural selection, everything will naturally tend to perfection.
Trees can become extinct, but without trees, there must be other producers. What is important is the "way" behind it, not the trees themselves, which are just appearances.
The way of heaven has already arranged perfect positions through the laws of nature. All positions have been laid out. It depends on who can sit in the position they deserve.
As for who can sit, it is naturally chosen through the competition of the jungle.
The way of man is the rule of law, which stipulates the norms through etiquette and law. Etiquette is the upper limit of morality, and law is the lower limit of morality. It is not through natural selection, but through artificial selection, and the perfection in hope is achieved through human arrangement.
The arrangement of heaven is the perfection of heaven, which is fair to all things in the world.
The arrangement of man is the perfection of man, and talents do not want to be fair to other things.
This is what Li Qi just meant.
If the Imperial Academy Minister were to evaluate, he would say that Li Qi was talking nonsense and that what he said was simply treasonous!
However, this was not for him to judge.
Li Qi said this to the Heavenly Demon.
In essence, Li Qi had to overcome his doubts.
If Li Qi wanted to prove that he was right, he had to convince himself, otherwise the Heavenly Demon would devour his body, his Dao heart would collapse, and his human body would fall into a Dao struggle.
Therefore, after being shocked, the Imperial Academy Minister immediately calmed down.
Since Li Qi had already begun to try to crack the Heavenly Demon's demonic energy, he couldn't stop.
Then, he controlled the Heavenly Demon's demonic energy and used the next method on Li Qi.
Li Qi was already soaked in sweat, but he didn't realize it.
His brain was running fast, constantly thinking about his own "Tao", a "Tao" that could not be eroded by the words of the demonic thoughts.
However, before he could get an answer, he saw that in the chaotic cosmic light, the Heavenly Demon's demonic energy was spinning again and turned into a second Li Qi.
This demon Li Qi began to preach and ask questions again:
"If the legal system is complete, it is right for the public and wrong for the public, and those who follow the way will be rewarded and those who violate it will be punished. The rewards and punishments are strict, and people know the reasons for good and bad fortune, they will not thank the heaven, nor will they resent the heaven. The way of heaven is a passerby, and only the law of nature works."
"The legal system is partially destroyed, rewards are not perfect for good, and punishments are not perfect for evil, so people are prone to doubt the relationship between the way of heaven and the way of man."
"The legal system is completely destroyed, right and wrong are reversed, treacherous people are rewarded, and upright people are punished. Justice cannot control their tyranny, and punishment cannot punish evil. People lose confidence and can only rely on heaven for their lives."
"Is it?"
This question immediately made Li Qi dumbfounded. His previous thoughts that he tried to sort out were completely scattered by this question.
This is not questioning Li Qi, but simply asking a question.
Since Li Qi proposed the position of man and heaven, then the inner demon at this moment asked: This is the position of man and heaven now, right? This is the position of man and heaven that you think, right?
The inner demon seemed to know what Li Qi's Tao was like, and directly put forward a point of view.
In fact, Li Qi thought so.
When he distinguished the position of man and heaven, he held this point of view, and used this cognition to balance the difference between man and witch.
The witch believed that he was the balancer between heaven, earth, man, gods and ghosts, but people scoffed at this point of view.
However, before Li Qi could continue to think, the demon began to preach eloquently!
"Being credible without speaking is the way of heaven. Wu Xian of Shang and Shi Yi of Zhou, all those who imparted it were their fathers, and those who received it were their sons. They always used the father to make their sons. The nature of heaven is human; the human heart is the trend. Establish the way of heaven to determine people."
"The principles of heaven and the trend of heaven are all used by people. Therefore, sincerity is the way of heaven; thinking about sincerity is the way of man!"
"The nature of heaven and the naturalness of human affairs are all natural principles. They are true and without falsehood. They do not need to think and try, but follow the way calmly. This is also the way of heaven-"
Li Qi, the incarnation of the devil, talked endlessly, saying one sentence after another, but he mainly expounded two arguments.
He supplemented the previous content about the relationship between heaven and man, and it was very detailed.
He said it was a devil, but in fact it was the Taixue Cheng who was preaching.
He classified the relationship between man and heaven into ‘reason’ and ‘trend’
“reason” refers to the law of development of things, and “trend” refers to the objective trend of development of things.
Both are inherent properties of objective things. Things “must have numbers in them”, and “reason” exists and “trend” is born.
All things and everything change, and they are inseparable from “reason” and “trend”.
The rotation cycle of the changes in the sky and the stars can be measured, and the length of day and night can be determined, all because of the existence of “reason”.
The sky is high and does not fall, and it runs without stopping, because it has its own trend, which is the ‘trend of the operation of heaven’s law’.
Then, he divided the understanding of things into “reasoning” and “ignoring”.
“Reasoning” means that people can conquer nature by understanding and mastering objective laws, and do not attribute everything to heaven.
“Ignorance” means that people do not understand objective laws, do not believe in themselves, attribute everything to the control of “heaven”, and believe in destiny.
Witchcraft is ignorance of reason.
Humanity is naturally reasoning.
In reality, it is the law and etiquette of humanity. This is the collection and embodiment of humanity. The law can suppress people's arrogance, and the etiquette can resist people's cowardice.
The law makes violent people become disciplined, and the etiquette makes cowardly people brave. Not everyone can understand the original meaning of "Tao", so these two things should be used to regulate everyone, so that humanity can be practiced throughout the world.
So the Tao of Reason is willing to follow the Tao of Humanity, because the Tao of Humanity can help the Tao of Reason to explore the Tao of Heaven, rather than blindly let the Tao of Reason succumb to the Tao of Heaven.
Under the Tao of Witches, the Tao of Reason can only be the follower of the Tao of Heaven, not the explorer.
The ancient human race split into the Tao of Witches and the Tao of Humanity for this reason.
The more Li Qi listened to the demon's preaching, the more cold sweat he had.
Because he could not refute these words, these theories were all recognized by him, and he could not go against his Tao heart to say wrong.
Even! These principles he recognized have been implemented by him in the Holy Flame Realm.
However, these things are contrary to his Tao foundation!
His foundation of Taoism was the sorcery he had been studying, but he could not refute the mixed humanistic methods.
Li Qi's little world began to become chaotic!