Chapter 388 The True Body of the Lord of the Plague

In a courtyard of the Imperial Academy.

The two were talking and moving towards the residence of the Lord of the Disease.

They talked about their own cultivation, and both were very anxious, because it was related to their promotion.

However, Lord of the Disease was different from Li Qi. He did not have a house in Chang'an, because he needed to be strictly controlled. After all... even if he didn't want to, some traces he missed would pose a huge threat to ordinary people.

After all, he was also a seventh-grade, a very powerful existence for ordinary people. Although he didn't look so good in Tang, it was because this was the fairyland.

And the fairyland... there were mortals, so Lord of the Disease was restricted by the Imperial Academy.

Yes, in theory, these were not the bodies.

Now the two of them were heading to Lord of the Disease's body. Only in that place could Li Qi really start to adjust Lord of the Disease's physical problems.

"Student Li, is this boundary you are talking about the source of my power? Why can't I see it? How can I measure this thing?" Lord of the Disease asked Li Qi as he walked.

"This method can only be understood but not explained. At the beginning, I also risked my life and death to inject the Five Elements Demon Blood into the Five Elements, and only then did I get this method of observing and calculating boundaries. If you don't have a magical power like the Sky Eye, it's difficult to do it." Li Qi said.

"Indeed... if it's too simple, it's abnormal." The Lord of the Disease nodded, a little helpless.

Li Qi looked at the Lord of the Disease, to be honest, he was a little surprised.

The Lord of the Disease is really... too normal.

As a virus aggregate, he is a little too friendly, ordinary, and even carefully restrains his own abilities to prevent the endless plague from spreading.

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

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

A fist-sized piece of flesh and blood can gather hundreds of billions of viruses. Such a large number cannot be controlled at will, and he himself cannot control the countless power dissipation, so he can only lock the body in a corner of the Imperial Academy and seal it with a formation to avoid endless disasters.

And the solution to this... happens to be Li Qi.

You only need to divide the boundary between the group and the individual, and then manipulate a large group as a single unit, which can greatly reduce the amount of operation required and better manipulate the body.

But the problem is that it is difficult...

This large group must be exactly in the boundary between the individual and the group, so that the manipulation can be completed. How to find this boundary?

Exhaustive?

How to exhaustively enumerate the number of viruses that are trillions at any time?

If it is just a difference in quantity, then adding a little or subtracting a little is acceptable, so it won’t take long to find a barely controllable range.

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

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

But if the two are very strong, at the fifth or sixth level, thousands of miles away are just within reach for them, and they can still be regarded as a whole.

Under these factors, exhaustive enumeration is almost an impossible task. This is a nearly infinite number of arrangements, which can only be optimized through algorithms, but it is impossible to force exhaustive enumeration with explosive computing power.

Yijun now has some achievements, otherwise he cannot control the existing power, but these achievements cannot support his "perfect" control of power, and some will still be leaked.

Li Qi has a perfect method. He can use algorithms to calculate where this subtle boundary is. Even if Yijun's control power is not enough and he can't do it, at least he has a direction to work hard and can gather his power little by little.

In exchange, Li Qi's request is that Yijun should tell Li Qi about his ideas about "self", and both parties will get what they need.

Facing the friendly Yijun, Li Qi said: "In order to show sincerity, I will help you adjust your body first. If it works, you can tell me your own views."

"In fact, there is nothing to hide. Even if Li doesn't help me with this and asks me directly, I won't hide it. It's not a big deal." Yijun said so.

"It's just that I can't explain it clearly here for a while. You still need to wait until you see my real body before you can understand my thoughts. Otherwise, I'm not good at speaking and it's hard to express."

"It doesn't matter. It's just a few steps away." Li Qi said with a smile.

As they were talking, the two came to a house in the Imperial College.

Li Qi immediately realized that this house... was the entrance to a cave.

The real body of the Lord of the Plague needs a cave to contain? That's pretty amazing.

The two walked into the cave side by side, and the scene in front of them changed. In front of Li Qi... there was an endless sea.

There was endless sea all around, and no land could be seen, but Li Qi could fly, so he just floated in the sky and looked around to observe the situation around him.

Is this... a planet?

Li Qi estimated the arc in the distance. Although it was all sea, as long as he looked far enough, he could calculate the arc, and then deduce the area of ​​the circle, and then get the diameter of the circle, which is the diameter of this planet, and estimate the size of this cave.

A simple calculation shows that the diameter of this planet is about 7,000 miles, the size of a moon.

Then... how deep is the sea under your feet?

Li Qi stretched out his hand, pinched out a wisp of golden air, and probed down.

The speed of the golden air was extremely fast, far exceeding the speed of sound, but it could not reach the bottom for a while!

"This sea is about two thousand miles deep. Except for a rock core, this cave is only water." The Lord of the Disease next to him explained.

Li Qi nodded, indicating that he understood.

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

It is already hundreds or thousands of times more than the sea on Earth.

"So, your body?" Li Qi asked.

"The sea below is my body." Lord of the Disease said.

Then, Li Qi saw with his own eyes that Lord of the Disease's body suddenly disintegrated again.

He "died" again.

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

Then, Li Qi immediately understood what he meant.

The sea became restless.

The endless sea water began to surge!

The rainstorm fell without warning, and the incredible waves began to roll, far exceeding the so-called "mad dog waves".

Each wave was as high as Mount Everest. There were tens of thousands of such waves, circling around Li Qi!

Under these signs, Li Qi found that there was a slight fluorescence in the huge waves.

Then, this fluorescence began to spread.

The whole ocean began to glow.

It was a beautiful scene that made people unable to take their eyes away.

The sky was infinite, and the cold jade was immersed in the clear ice pot.

The clear waves were as clear as water, and the light penetrated the purple waves and moistened the heart.

Li Qi could only see the light in the water, which seemed like a dream, but fortunately he had the true sense of rhyme, which could see the subtle things, and he could clearly see the light source.

It was a kind of insect in the water.

Endless insects.

These insects were different and had different shapes. The big ones ate the small ones, the small ones ate the smaller ones, and the smaller ones were responsible for photosynthesis. Countless small insects like plankton formed a food web by themselves.

There were even some photosynthetic ones, which gathered together to form a set of underwater forests similar to coral reefs.

With the rolling waves, Li Qi could also see that there were no "fish" or other similar life in the whole sea, not even seaweed.

Everything happened in these glowing insects.

And these insects themselves are completely different. They produce and devour each other. There is a complete food chain, with producers, consumers and decomposers.

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

However, they are not big, they are just plankton.

But these plankton have a common "will". These countless plankton and countless "viruses" of different forms together form the existence of "Epidemic King".

Even without explanation, Li Qi immediately understood what the situation of the Epidemic King was.

No wonder... he said that he was not good at speaking and it was difficult to describe the scene. He hoped that Li Qi would come to his body to see it for himself.

So that's it.

This situation is indeed difficult to describe with ordinary words.

So... magnificent.

An entire ecosystem that is larger than the entire earth.

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

There are viruses lying on the seabed and continental shelf, relying on mud and sea snow debris to survive.

There are predatory viruses that can prey on themselves and eat other viruses, similar to copepods, and they take on the task of predators.

There are also viruses floating in the deep sea that are content with what they have.

There are also deeper and more terrifying deep ocean floors than the deep sea, where those "viruses" with cultivation and grades have mutated in the desperate situation of life, relying on the many gases emitted by the planet.

The sea of ​​this planet is a full two thousand miles deep. 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 advantages of the terrain to select and struggle in the cruel environment, and then transformed with the help of spiritual energy to become "spiritual beasts" with grades.

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

So...'Epidemic Lord' came into being.

Li Qi has already guessed what happened in the seventh-grade world of the Yijun's hometown.

That hometown is probably divided into two parts: the continent and the sea.

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

And the common will of these plankton, that is, the Yijun, was noticed by the world and was eventually transferred to Chang'an as a whole and became a student of the Imperial Academy.

Why can Li Qi be sure that these plankton are viruses?

Because now he can also feel some kind of erosion, from the Yijun's instinct, those forces that he cannot control and escape, are oppressing Li Qi's body, trying to infect him, and turning his flesh and blood into nutrients for these plankton.

Although with his seventh-grade cultivation, the Yijun can't shake him at all.

But Li Qi is still amazed.

But in the midst of his surprise, he also noticed what was going on with Yijun's "self".

There is no need to explain. For a smart person like Li Qi, witnessing it with one's own eyes is better than a thousand words.

The Lord of the Epidemic... does not have a so-called "mind" at all.

The "spiritual entity" that Li Qi thinks is extremely important for judging oneself is just a tool for Lord of the Epidemic to maintain thinking. He does not care about any "spiritual entity" at all, and naturally does not need to maintain self-identity.

"Classmate, as you can see, the "self" that you value so much does not seem to be that important..." The sea water suddenly vibrated, and a voice came out of it.

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

Li Qi felt a strong panic.

Because, in his information flow vision, he saw countless "Lord of the Epidemic"!

Thousands? No, no, no, far more than that number!

Hundreds of millions, countless "Lord of the Epidemic" minds, are all "spiritual entities" that can only be seen in the information flow.

Each of these minds has the same mind and memory as Li Qi's magic clone. Each of them is Lord of the Epidemic.

And these 'Epidemic Kings' are devouring and killing each other without any psychological pressure. They kill other 'Epidemic Kings', and then new 'Epidemic Kings' are constantly born in this sea, each of them is the same.

Just like... life itself.

Life itself is like this.

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

Although these epidemic kings are very weak, even worse than an ordinary person, they may not be able to beat a rhinoceros beetle, but they do exist.

No wonder the epidemic king does not care about death and reorganization, because he is doing similar things every moment.

Each epidemic king is alone, but they are also a collective. All the epidemic kings added together are the real epidemic kings.

So magical, although the epidemic king is only the seventh grade, I am afraid that he can rely on this body to compete with the sixth grade existence.

No other, large size, thick blood bar, large tolerance, and great output.

The ecosystem of a planet is the body of the epidemic king. No wonder Chang'an praised the epidemic king as a rare category.

Is this... another perspective?

Another way to interpret ‘I am me’, another answer.

Not caring about self-identity, or rather… the overall self-identity is not something like the mind, but a continuation of the natural world.

To be honest, this is even… in line with the idea of ​​witchcraft.

Then… what is the ‘self’ that Yijun cares about?

Li Qi looked at the sea below.

You can ask.