Chapter 396 The Answer to ‘I Am Who I Am’

Why am I me?

Li Qi used to be unable to figure it out. He had made guesses and practiced from countless aspects, such as the body, spirit, self-identity in all aspects, unified memory, etc.

But he was always a little far away from the answer. He did not have enough experience and experience.

Just like when the cultivation is not enough, no matter how hard you try, you can't break through. The foundation can only rely on accumulation.

For example, there is a question that he has never figured out.

He and Shen Shuibi have a deep relationship. But one day, Li Qi will die. At this time, Li Qi has the ability to create a "demon clone" that is exactly the same as himself but does not know that he will die. Will he do it?

This clone is no different from the outside world.

So, will Li Qi create such a completely identical clone to continue to accompany Shen Shuibi in front of his former self?

When Li Qi thought about this question, the answer he got was... maybe, but the premise is that he is really going to die.

Self-identity gave in to this question.

Li Qi is willing to abandon his self-identity to let another self live in his place.

Then look at the body again. From Yijun, Li Qi got a possible answer, which is "the mind is useless."

Does "Li Qi" refer to a monk who walks upright and can think, or the mind attached to this monk?

Yijun thinks it is a monk, not consciousness.

Li Qi used to think it was consciousness, but after seeing Yijun, he was not sure.

However, just a few days later, Yuzao of the Miscellaneous Family gave him another answer.

That is, the two are a divisible whole.

It is a whole, but it can be divided. After reorganization, it will affect each other, but it does not affect the self.

This is not Li Qi's answer, this is Yuzao's answer.

But from the general, Li Qi can also get some inspiration. It is this inspiration, like the last straw, that pierces the last layer of mist that hinders Li Qi's vision.

All of Li Qi's perceptions are fully open, including the traditional five senses, as well as the information flow vision and the true knowledge rhyme, all activated to the maximum extent.

He is perceiving the world around him.

The world around him is changing because of his perception and actions. Even if he just watches, it will bring a certain degree of influence.

Yes, this is the answer.

Influence.

When he met many mountain gods and those ghost witches in Wushen Mountain, he thought about influence.

Li Qi still remembers when he suddenly realized the word "influence". At that time, he sat down and pondered for a long time.

Now, he realized the existence of influence again...

And this time, it seems that he can understand "cause and effect"?

All things in the external world are caused by causes, and then the causes produce results, and the results become the next causes, one by one, in a cycle, forming a cause and effect network covering the entire world.

Li Qi's consciousness suddenly opened up, and many obscure things in his mind suddenly became clear.

In this world, nothing is absolutely independent, and everything must be related to other things to some extent.

This is the source of influence.

If you are really absolutely independent and have no connection with this network, then you do not exist for other things, and there is no need to discuss non-existent things.

When you can be recognized by other beings as existing, you have fallen into this big net. You are seen, heard, and encountered by other beings, and you can also see, hear, and encounter other beings.

The things that interfere with each other in this way enter this net and become one of the threads.

All living beings are in the net of cause and effect.

All things, objects, people, and many existences are connected to each other in various ways. This "way" even includes perception, that is, hearing and seeing, which can all generate connections.

These connections are intertwined as soon as they move, such as looking at someone, or even having a relationship with someone, and someone in turn affects you.

Such ties and connections are cause and effect.

There is a cause and there is a result, and the result becomes a new cause, and the cause and effect flow endlessly.

Cause and effect are like countless crisscrossing silk threads, forming countless "nets" that are fluttering and gathering and dispersing.

This big net of cause and effect covers everything, and everyone is a thread in this net. When two threads intersect because of a certain behavior or accident, an intersection will be generated.

These intersections are embodied as all things in this world. Li Qi remembered that he had seen this kind of intersection in the Buddhist scriptures, and the Buddha called it "fate".

The so-called origin and extinction of fate is the intersection of the lines of cause and effect and then separation.

Everything in this world is born out of fate. There is fate, so there are all the things you see, hear and feel.

This big net is the world itself. The big net itself does not exist. What exists is the negotiation between cause and effect. It arises from fate and disappears when fate ends.

This is why Li Qi wants to fully open his perception.

He wants to capture the impact of his "influence" on the world.

And he did it.

The accuracy of the information flow vision is not enough, but now Zhen Zhiyun can clearly perceive the impact of Li Qi's every move on the outside world.

Whether it is his own pressure or the airflow brought by his actions.

These air currents collide with the air currents from the outside world, sometimes they will disappear, sometimes they will spread out and produce other consequences, such as making a leaf sway.

The leaf sways, and it may cause the insects on it to fall, which in turn affects more things.

The butterfly effect is about this. A butterfly fanning the breeze is the cause.

The cause of the butterfly fanning the breeze becomes the result of air flow, and the result of air flow becomes the cause of other things.

This cycle of cause and effect eventually set off a storm thousands of miles away.

Similarly, other things are also causes, and the results they cause will also affect Li Qi along the big network of cause and effect, just more or less.

The few who can connect with Li Qi are the people around Li Qi, who have the greatest influence on him.

Those who have great influence, their figures, appear extremely magnificent in this big network of cause and effect, and every move can involve countless causes and countless results.

After understanding this, Li Qi finally understood what "self" is, and he handed in a paper that he thought was perfect.

‘I’ is the ‘cause’ that belongs to the causal network.

Mind, body, memory, all are meaningless things, just appearances.

The real self is the center that connects countless causes and effects. This center is the cause of oneself and the effect of others.

If there is a Li Qi who is more real than the demonic clone, and is exactly the same, no matter in mind, body, or memory, this clone Li Qi is exactly the same, but as long as you examine his position in the causal network, you can easily find the difference.

In the causal network, each position is unique, and there can never be two identical causes and effects in the world.

Memories can be stripped away, but the causal effects of things done cannot be stripped away.

Everything can be copied, but only things done cannot be copied. Even if there are the same memories, it is just ‘thinking that you have done it’. In fact, the replica has not done or experienced those things.

Not only do practitioners have cause and effect, but objects, even a piece of information, a sentence, a beam of light, all have their own cause and effect and influence on the outside world.

Influence is the wave of the ‘cause’ extending out in this causal network. The more influential you are, the more other ‘results’ you can influence.

In this way, everything is connected.

The answer has been obtained.

‘I’ is the unique cause of me.

‘I’ is also the creator of countless ‘results’.

And this connection is the unique ‘I’.

It cannot be replaced, copied, or confused.

After figuring this out, Li Qi suddenly felt that everything in front of him was much clearer, the context of many events was clear and discernible, and his own existence was no longer illusory.

Whether it is the Lord of the Plague, the Demonic Li Qi, the Fish and Algae, and the Demonic Dragon, or all things in the world, their existence is so vivid and lively, no longer illusory.

Previously, Li Qi was tortured by the illusion of the Heavenly Demon, and almost thought that the world was illusory and could be modified at any time.

And now, the foundation of this world has become solid again.

This time, even the illusion of the Heavenly Demon cannot shake the reality of the world.

Li Qi let out a long sigh and couldn't help but sigh.

To think clearly about these things, experience is necessary. You must have seen and heard them before you can think of them.

Thinking is the fire burning in the mind.

And knowledge and experience are the firewood for the fire of thinking.

Li Qi has never had such a deep feeling, feeling that what the saint said, "Learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous" is so correct.

If it is just thinking, there are not so many events to give Li Qi as raw materials for thinking, and he can't get this answer even if he thinks hard.

Moreover, his luck is particularly good.

It would be difficult for ordinary people to get his experience and knowledge accumulation.

I am afraid that ordinary fifth-grade people can't find a few existences like Yijun even if they go through a lot of worlds in the heavens.

The third-grade Dazhu personally preached to him, using the most suitable way for him, and talked about the "self" problem for a whole day, asking him to go back and think slowly. Each of these questions hit the key point. Li Qi spent most of his time thinking about these questions, and the answers he got from them gave a lot of help.

The only five-element demon blood in the world that has been processed by Mahakala is probably the bowl in his hand. I don’t know how many drops are in that bowl... but anyway, all the heavens and the worlds know it.

And the fish algae in front of him, the test subject of the human miscellaneous family, took the initiative to show up and talk to him.

Well, if it were an ordinary casual cultivator, if he wanted to collect these experiences, he would probably need to travel in the heavens and the worlds for tens of thousands of years, and he might not meet it.

Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief, woke up from his meditation, and looked at the fish algae in front of him.

In this way, the way the fish algae exists no longer surprised him.

She is a unique person, and she has left her own unique traces in this world in her own way.

Whether this trace is left by the mind, the body, or something else, it doesn’t matter, those are just superficial.

This unique trace is the fish algae, even if she changed her name, it doesn’t matter, even if she has life, whether she is born, or artificially created, it doesn’t matter.

This has nothing to do with the cornerstone of her existence.

Yu Zao stared at Li Qi's face, even her lively personality was not lively at this time.

Because Li Qi's cultivation suddenly changed.

"What's wrong with your human body? Li Qi, you didn't break through, did you?" Yu Zao asked in disbelief.

How could it be possible that he broke through in the blink of an eye in front of her?

Is this the genius who has practiced for four years to reach the seventh level?

How can it be more outrageous than myself, a man-made person? Isn't my talent the highest theoretical value at present? ! This is what the ancestor said personally!

Yu Zao was shocked, her eyes and mouth opened as round as each other.

She saw with her own eyes that Li Qi's human body began to change from "virtual to real".

Li Qi's cultivation did not improve. After all, the improvement of cultivation requires a little bit of practical training. After researching the blueprint of the machine, it must be actually manufactured before there will be a machine. The machine and cultivation will not appear out of thin air.

Therefore, Li Qi did not change his cultivation, but the structure of the entire human body.

The same cultivation will produce different results depending on the different ways of use.

Different structures can have very different utilization rates. This is the importance of the skills. With the same level of cultivation, the power exerted by high-quality skills may be even dozens of times stronger.

He seemed to have mastered some skills, which made his originally illusory human body become extremely solid, so that the power exerted could be increased by several times.

For the seventh rank, the increase of several times is a very terrifying value.

"Nothing, just thinking about some things clearly. Thanks to Yu Zao, I can agree to this deal, but... the details need to be discussed. I still won't sell the entire witch silkworm, but some things that are not so core technology, we can solve them through technology exchange. What do you think?" Li Qi shook his head and looked at Yu Zao, saying so.

Yu Zao made up for the last gap for him, so as a reward, some non-core technologies can indeed be exchanged.

Exchange the technology of the miscellaneous family.

Li Qi is also very interested in how Yu Zao, the artificial person, can achieve consciousness conversion.

Talk, everything can be discussed.

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At the same time, outside the endless domain, where the Dharma image of Amitabha Buddha is.

"Foolish boy, I have explained the cause and effect. Do you understand?" Amitabha sighed and said to the demonic Li Qi.

At this moment, the demonic Li Qi had shaved his head and put on a monk's robe, just like a monk.

The demonic Li Qi put his hands together: "Disciple has understood, it turns out that this is the case. Thank you Buddha for clearing up my doubts. Disciple will no longer be troubled by the demons from now on."

However, when he thanked, he also showed a bitter smile.

Please Buddha to clear up my doubts.

The doubts were solved, but for his future path, I am afraid that it will leave a huge hidden danger.