Chapter 471 Abacus
Li Qi finally got rid of the bondage of the demonic energy.
To be free from all external appearances is to be formless. But if you can be free from appearances, your nature is pure, and you are free from appearances. You are not stained by any environment, which is called no thought. You are free from the environment in your own thoughts, and you are not born in the law. Don't think about all things, and eliminate all thoughts. When one thought is cut off, there is no other place to be born.
Since there is no other place to be born, the five aggregates will naturally be difficult to entangle.
So, Li Qi got rid of the entanglement of the five aggregates and really saw where he came to.
The underworld.
The red sky seemed like blood, and the overflowing dark clouds piled up above his head. The sky was dark, but there was still red light.
Floods, droughts, locusts, wind and hail, thunder and fire, landslides, water overflows, springs drying up, snow and frost occurred from time to time. Although the surroundings were extremely hot, they were full of other extreme weather, heat waves, cold waves alternated, seasons reversed, blood rain, acid rain, meteorites one after another.
All the open waters had either evaporated or turned into solidified blood clots. There were no fish in them, only zombies floating on top like dead fish, and the air was filled with a slaughterhouse-like stench.
There were also evil ghosts and demons, arranged in groups, with shackles and torture instruments, and countless tortured corpses. Their rotting steam and other weird things combined into extremely unpleasant and terrible poisonous gas.
No, those were not corpses! These people were still alive, they were suffering while alive!
The suffocating death cloud floated in the air, and the iron knives formed a forest, constantly chopping up the corpses that were not yet dead. After being chopped into pieces, a strong wind blew and restored their bodies.
But after the recovery, the iron knives chopped them down again and chopped them into minced meat again.
Infinitely repeated torture, endless torture.
Li Qi looked around, and everything here was very trance, as if trapped in a whirlpool.
The howling wind and countless extreme weather conditions were all rushing through it, mixed with the cries and echoes of people being tortured in the distance, who knew where.
Enveloped here was boundless despair... But if you look closely, every corpse, every rotten piece of meat, every disabled human figure that was barely alive, was piled up here in a disorderly manner, and no one knew when they were blown away by the severe extreme weather.
Infinite fires were born on the ground, burning oil pans, and countless large pots were seen in a row, with fires burning underneath, people were boiled in the pots, and the sounds of pain were all sour. The bodies of sinners were thrown into them by evil ghosts and Rakshasa, like live fish in a boiling oil pan, with nowhere to hide.
The boiling oil in the oil pan was constantly struggling and rolling like a fried fish and fell to the ground, so the ground was full of a foul-smelling grease sheen.
The frying pan dripped fat, and the fried bodies were swollen with vicious cysts, expanding like tumors. The air was filled with the smell of burnt hair and the foul smell of rotting flesh.
Outside the frying pan, on other flat ground, countless disabled zombies wandered here, these pieces of meat that had been tortured for who knows how long.
Li Qi could only call them pieces of meat, because except for their bodies, it was hard to say that they were still "alive".
Their minds had been destroyed, and even their memories might have been torn apart in this endless torture. They had no emotions at all. They would not laugh, nor cry, and would not care about anything. In the endless torture of hell, their vitality and hope had long been squeezed out.
Crushed souls and broken hopes, this is all that this underworld presents.
Here is the underworld, where sinners are tortured, and the depths of reincarnation.
Here, I am afraid they have long been separated from the world, right?
Li Qi suddenly understood.
She figured out how the real dragon named Ao Guangxiao and the "Demon Lord" pulled them out of the world and into the outer domain.
It was with the springboard in front of them.
Li Qi had already experienced it with his body. That kind of sudden jump, the silent appearance or disappearance from a certain level, should be the characteristic of the Ghost Gate.
After all, the "Ghost Gate" is the junction of the underworld and the world of the living, and it is an extremely terrifying existence for ordinary people.
This Demon Lord only needs to take advantage of the Ghost Gate and use the power of the Ghost Gate to pull the entire treasure ship to the underworld, and then use the underworld as a springboard to jump out of the domain.
In this way, it is indeed possible to circumvent the iron rule of the world's prohibition.
There is just one problem.
Jumping to the underworld through the Ghost Gate should not be such a simple thing. There must be other people behind the scenes to help.
That is, as mentioned earlier, the Ghost Emperor of the Ghost Gate?
Li Qi didn't dare to think about it. He punched himself to make himself sober, and then used magic to make his eyes clear and look at the battlefield at least ten thousand miles away.
Yes, the battlefield.
Over there, one can clearly see a statue and a real dragon, forming a circle, with a small figure in the center.
The statue is a demon head statue, with flames burning all around, like a demon head burning a palace, and the seven-treasure platform faintly falling apart!
The demon head statue has several braids of hair hanging down from his head, wears an ivory demon crown, a scarlet brocade, a gold skirt, a gold jacket, a cloud shoulder, a sleeved heavenly robe, a ribbon, shoes and socks, and has sixteen hands, each holding a gabala-like instrument.
There are bowls, alms bowls, dragon head pipes, small drums, zithers, chi, pipa, sheng, huqin, castanets, and clappers, each clapping, as if there is a lewd sound coming from it, gods and ghosts appearing in disorder, and suddenly demons and monsters are revealed, and even flags are raised to pass the meeting, and the sound of gongs and drums and shouting rumbles, making people dizzy.
Li Qiming did not hear those demon sounds, but just seeing them gave rise to countless demonic thoughts in his heart.
There was fear, joy, anger, and countless desires swirling in his heart, as if they wanted to devour his Dao heart.
Fortunately, Li Qi had experienced the training of the Heavenly Demon, and his Dao heart was steady.
He saw another real dragon next to him, which was thousands of miles long, with twisted coils and scattered strange shadows around it. Countless dragon scales were like city walls, swirling and spewing water from the Milky Way. The infinite power descended, and it even extinguished the boundless raging fire born in the hell soil. Only the magic fire of the demon head was still burning.
The real dragon and the demon king actually formed a pattern of water and fire, one cold and one hot, alternating against the great power of the Dao in the middle, as if they wanted to break his heavenly shield.
It seemed that the great power of the Dao took the initiative to leave the ship and fight the two alone, probably to save the ship, but the whole ship was still shrouded in the magic energy. Except for Li Qi, no one woke up from the magic energy. Everyone looked confused, and there was almost no difference from the walking dead in the hell outside.
Li Qi immediately understood the meaning, and used the law of heaven again, and then set up a simple altar to worship the outer world that had just been built around him.
The method of offering sacrifices to heaven was successful. The moment he did so, Li Qi immediately felt a thought.
This is the communication of thoughts achieved by the method of offering sacrifices, and it is also a common method for people to communicate with heaven, earth, people, gods and ghosts.
Sure enough, communicating with the heavenly law of this small outer world is actually equivalent to communicating with the senior of the way of reason, so that he can communicate with the other party.
Just now, when Li Qi used the method of witches to communicate with the heavenly law to form the outer world, he was already using the power of the other party.
The moment the communication was formed, Li Qi sent a message: "Senior! How is the situation?"
"The situation is not good. Two people are besieging me. I am temporarily unable to send out news to the outside world. I can't do anything except being trapped. By the way, I just felt that someone was borrowing my power. Is it you?" The great man of the way of reason replied to Li Qi.
Seeing that he could indeed contact the other party by using the method of offering sacrifices to heaven to communicate with the heavenly principles, Li Qi was overjoyed and relieved.
Being able to contact this great man meant that he could help.
So, Li Qi immediately said: "Thank you for your help, senior. Now I have awakened from the evil spirit and have the ability to move. What is the situation now? Can you tell me, so that I may be able to help you break the deadlock."
"You help me break the deadlock? Boy, you are only a seventh-grade. I see that you have a magic weapon that can shuttle between yin and yang. Run away, you can't help me." The great man of reason said so.
Li Qi shook his head and replied, "Senior, you can still help me wake up under pressure in the face of twice as many enemies, so how can I escape alone? Besides, there are still my friends on the treasure ship, and other people are traveling with me. I don't want to leave them alone and let them die while I live alone."
"You can't help me. A good heart can't do anything. Go, I will help you open a crack. It is most valuable for you to leave. After leaving, with your identity, I think you can definitely find other people from the Way of Reason and tell the Way of Reason about what happened here. After that, someone will come to avenge me and this treasure ship. This is the only thing you can do. Don't stay and die. If the things here can't be spread, then you and I may become unsolved cases." This fourth-rank great man of the Way of Reason said to Li Qi.
As he said that, on the other side of the battlefield, his stubborn look began to change, as if he wanted to forcefully take action under pressure to open a way for Li Qi to go out and report the news.
However, Li Qi felt a little strange at this moment.
It was obviously the Dragon Slayer Squad that caused the incident, so why did this great Li Dao take it on? He would rather die than let them check the treasure ship?
At this time, if he just gave in a little and let the Demon Lord and the True Dragon check it, he shouldn't die, right?
Or... Li Qi's heart sank, and he thought of another possibility.
The Dragon Slayer Squad was probably invited by Li Dao himself, so Li Dao took the responsibility decisively. The True Dragon should also know this, so he didn't go to find the Dragon Slayer Squad, but came directly to Li Dao.
Then... how did the Demon Dao get involved?
No matter what, we still have to continue communicating and get more information. We can't just leave like this. Besides, the other party said that he couldn't help, which obviously underestimated him.
Li Qi's thoughts are long, but they were completed in just a moment, so he immediately stopped the great master of the Way of Principle and said, "Don't worry, senior. If you help me escape at this time, not only will you completely lose your life, but you may not be able to take away the information about the real dragon."
"Information about the real dragon? Hmm...? Have you guessed it?" The great master of the Way of Principle groaned for a moment and immediately understood what Li Qi meant.
Obviously, this seventh-rank kid in front of him knew that there was information about the real dragon on the ship.
One of the little secrets of the Way of Principle.
Dissecting the real dragon and studying the secrets in the blood of the real dragon.
You know, the Way of Principle... never cares much about things like 'good and evil'.
"I don't care about the real dragon, but now that the Way of Demon has also intervened, I'm afraid there are other reasons. After all, the status of the people on this ship is too high. I have some clues about this." Li Qi added hurriedly at this time.
He had to make it clear quickly, because Li Qi had guessed the purpose of this fifth-rank scientific research ship.
On the ship there was the Young Master of Wushen Mountain and a genuine Buddhist disciple. Li Qi had not had much contact with the others for the time being, but he thought that their status would not be too low, otherwise they would not be qualified to board this fifth-grade treasure ship.
So, the purpose of this ship is to use the identities of these people to intimidate the real dragon or other forces, so that they dare not take action under the pressure of many forces.
Li Dao... really has a good plan.
However, for some reason, the real dragon and the demon path do not seem to be afraid.
No, it is not that they are not afraid, but they have other confidence. Li Qi thinks that they must have got other support to dare to do so.
"You? Oh, I understand. I thought the Buddha's energy that descended on the ship before was brought by that Buddhist son. It turned out that you brought it, so there will be an additional demon path fourth-grade descending... Well, then this time it is really self-inflicted, but you said there is a clue... Is there a way to break the situation?" The fourth-grade Li Dao smiled, his tone was a little helpless.
He did not blame Li Qi for attracting the demon path, or using Li Qi to vent something.
After all, he is also a fourth-grade existence, and he also knows that everything has consequences.
There will be such a disaster. In essence, Li Dao wants to use these disciples of big forces to protect himself, so it is natural to attract other enemies.
Therefore, he neither blamed Li Qi nor himself. Everything is probabilistic. There are risks when there are gains. People in the Way of Reason are always very rational, so rational that they are cold.
The Yangshou Tower in the Hell Way and the Monster Farm in the Human Way are all involved in these things. As craftsmen, they are the favorite tools of the major sects.
"The juniors don't have the means to break the situation, but they still have some ideas." Li Qi didn't know what the other party was thinking. He only knew that he had to find a way to escape now.
His witch sixth sense told him that if he really let this fourth-grade of the Way of Reason open the way for him, the result would probably be very bad.
Someone is watching him, someone is targeting him.
These are the words that the sixth sense keeps howling in his ears.
Li Qi has always respected his sixth sense, so he chose to stay and face it.
"But, in order to be more sure, please tell me the current situation. I'm afraid you don't know my ability yet. My understanding of the Way of Demon is definitely higher than yours." Li Qi said with false confidence.
At this time, being more confident can gain trust.
He was not worried about time, because the battle between four-rank masters was a slow process, and it would only take ten days or half a month, so the few minutes of talking were nothing.
"Really? Since you have made up your mind, let's do it. What do you want to know?" said the fourth-rank Li Dao.