Chapter 848: Peeping in the Dark

In the ecological warehouse, Li Qi, who had been talking big before, immediately noticed something was wrong.

Something happened to his daughter.

The next moment, he stopped chatting with Jing Wuzhen, waved his hand, and a magical power from the third rank appeared.

The magical power of the third rank immediately penetrated the world, and the invisible fluctuations were almost imperceptible, but it really rippled out a movement of monitoring all things.

Observe the text in the sky, examine the principles in the earth, look up and down the two yi, manage all things, the supreme virtue is prepared in the dark, and the deification is connected to the essence.

Prepare the records, compile the history, test the ancient scriptures, publish the past edicts, and list the events in the local classics, as if everything is recorded in it.

This is the power from the great divination, which is indeed "publishing the past edicts, and listing the events in the local classics".

It is like a book of life and death, but all the past destinies and possibilities of existence without reality are recorded in it.

Everyone is in it, and all the creatures who cannot be "free" are recorded in the book.

This is the magical power of Dabu Chongnian, and it is also the help he gave to Li Qi.

Obviously, Li Shiwei is also in it.

Li Qi began to read the information in it.

This made Jing Wuzhen immediately realize that Li Qi had discovered something, and she also drew out her heavy sword and was alert to the surroundings.

Li Qi could not have activated the magical power of the third level for no reason. This level of magical power must be extremely consuming and burdensome. What on earth did he discover to play like this?

On Li Qi's side, he flipped through the book and came to Li Shiwei's page.

There are a lot of information arranged here.

Li Qi took a look, closed the book, and the magical power dissipated.

"It's not time yet--" he said to Jing Wuzhen.

"Really? Then call me when it's time." Jing Wuzhen put away the sword and completely believed in Li Qi's judgment.

Although she could see that Li Qi was very anxious at the moment and seemed to be unable to hold back, he still held back.

At the same time...

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Xuanjing Mountain, where Li Qi and his wife's cave is located.

Here, Shen Shuibi is in a closed state of death.

It has only been a dozen years now, and it is still far from the originally planned thousand years. In fact, her sorting work has just begun.

Although the law of logarithms has been discovered, it still requires hard work to calculate a usable logarithmic table according to this law.

However, Shen Shuibi has done this kind of thing before.

For example, in alchemy, the essence of many materials is quite noble, the medicinal properties are difficult to tame, and the energy and even the qi in them are very high. It is difficult to kill them in a short time with ordinary means. They must be trapped and suppressed, and they must be processed with water grinding for more than ten years, which will consume their energy and spirit, and grind the medicinal properties to death, or tire themselves to death.

If you can't hold on, then naturally a furnace of good pills will be scrapped.

Therefore, she is still quite familiar with this, and this kind of work like pulling a mill can't scare her.

However, just as Rabbit was seriously calculating the logarithmic table and the data labor was doing tedious calculations, a stray thought suddenly appeared in her mind.

This shouldn't have existed. After so many years of cultivation, she had already mastered the art of nourishing qi and calming her mind. She could even sit in meditation for hundreds of years without any disturbance in her heart. If her thoughts were tested, it might be determined that she was in a vegetative state. But in fact, her thoughts still existed and she was still awake. She could even observe and analyze the outside world, but she was just "without thoughts and without ideas".

Now it has only been more than a decade, so she shouldn't have any distracting thoughts.

Something is wrong, what's going on? Shen Shuibi began to examine her heart, trying to find the source of this distracting thought.

It would be fine if she didn't look for it. She had just started looking, and in an instant, the world around her suddenly turned black.

The black fog enveloped the surroundings, and "noise" began to sound all around.

These sounds were sometimes deafening, especially when there were those hysterical shouts, which made the brain buzz and tremble, but more often, these sounds were just quiet whispers, as quiet as the buzzing of flies or tinnitus, but no matter what kind of sound it was, it was all lingering and could not be ignored no matter what.

Cold whispers, hazy phantoms and the fear they brought were clearly imprinted in her mind.

Shen Shuibi knew something was wrong. This was a sign of being possessed.

Something was wrong.

She did not show any signs of being possessed, and her heart was stable. When she broke through, she did a good job of preparatory work, not relying on "guessing".

Some practitioners have unstable foundations,

but Shen Shuibi was different. Her breakthrough was a natural outcome, and she would not fall into such a dangerous situation.

In other words...

Was someone plotting against her?

Realizing this, Shen Shuibi did not panic. She clasped her hands and chanted the mantra: "Taishangtaixing, respond to changes without stopping. Exorcise evil spirits and bind demons, protect life and body. Wisdom is clear, mind is at peace. Three souls are permanent, and the spirit is not lost-"

This is the "Purifying Heart Mantra".

I have said before that ‘language’ itself is powerful. The essence of magical powers such as ‘spells’, ‘calligraphy’, ‘talismans’ and ‘blessings’ is to use language to borrow the power of certain existence through a certain ritual.

Using a technique with a history is to use the wisdom of the predecessors to bless oneself.

The same is true for the Pure Heart Mantra in front of me.

Taishang, originally means the best, and "Taixing" refers to the three Taixing of the Big Dipper. This sentence means calling the Taoist ancestor. "Taishang" is everywhere, omnipresent, and responds to changes without stopping, so this is used to awaken the power of the Taoist ancestor.

Exorcising evil spirits and binding demons, protecting lives and protecting the body, followed by the previous sentence "Taishang Taixing, responding to changes without stopping", means that Taishang is everywhere as he senses, and people who truly practice Taoism will naturally be protected physically and mentally, and no evil spirits dare to invade.

The spell was recited, and an invisible barrier rose around Shen Shuibi.

The sounds around were much quieter.

"Secondary Heavenly Demon, huh?" Shen Shuibi looked around: "You are really brave, this is the territory of Wushen Mountain."

"Really... sharp, we surrounded Li Qi before, and it took him a long time to recognize our true appearance, but you only took one look." The voice of the secondary heavenly demon came.

"If you are like this, it is impossible to drag me into the devil, and this is the territory of Wushen Mountain. You can penetrate the mind and it must be the limit. If you really do it... you should not be able to do it."

"So, why did you spend so much effort to break through so many blockades and come to me?" Shen Shuibi asked.

"To convey a message." The black fog outside moved, and the image of the secondary demon changed into a puppy, which looked cute.

"Convey a message? Oh, you want to ruin my heart and force me to come out of seclusion, right? It's really the style of the devil, but... it doesn't matter." Shen Shuibi didn't panic, but let the other party speak directly.

"Li Shiwei was abandoned by the Demon Prince, and Li Qi was being strangled by ten demon kings. The chance of winning is slim. You have to hurry up. If it takes a thousand years to break through, it will be too late when you go out." The secondary demon said so.

His voice was very playful, with a little joking meaning, not serious.

But it is also normal. Secondary demons are not real demons. In fact, they have independent wills and personalities, and some even hate demons.

But no matter what, they are actually the tentacles of the real "demon", the derivatives of the demon, or it can be understood as... the distractions in the demon's mind.

The demons are giving birth to countless demon thoughts every moment, and some of these demon thoughts will naturally differentiate into "secondary demons". Some of the more important thoughts are of the fourth grade, and many small distractions are lower, the lowest is the ninth grade.

Generally speaking, these "more important thoughts" are things that the demons want to accomplish recently, similar to: "I'm so annoyed... I want to take a shower but don't want to move..." "I really want to eat at the new store in the city center, but I can't go."

At this time, the "secondary demons" will be born naturally, and these secondary demons differentiated from thoughts naturally have the instinct and motivation to complete this "obsession".

They would take the initiative to take a shower and go to the restaurant in the city center for dinner. Although the demons did not ask them to do so, and they might not even be aware of their existence, they would take the initiative to do these things, as if this was the purpose of their birth.

However, it is said that the demons themselves would not feel that they took a shower and went to the restaurant for dinner.

The secondary demons did not do this for the demons, and the demons did not care whether they would do it or not. Many distracting thoughts were just a matter of a moment, and there was no mention of the word "goal" at all.

For example, the demons sometimes glimpsed a world that was peaceful and happy, and a thought of destroying this world popped up in their minds. Then, the next second, his own chaotic thoughts were immediately pulled away, and he directly threw this thought behind his mind and did not put it into practice. This was just a thought similar to the mortals' "standing on the cliff and wanting to jump down", which just suddenly appeared in their minds and then turned around and forgot about it.

It was a small matter, and he would not remember it at all afterwards.

But... if this world is unlucky, a secondary demon will be born, and the lifelong goal and instinct of this secondary demon is to destroy this world.

If the demon himself does not pay special attention, he may not even know that a secondary demon is helping him to complete this fleeting thought.

But for this world, they have a terrifying enemy for no reason, and this enemy will do everything to destroy them, even if they die together.

However, due to the unique nature of "reality", the most powerful secondary demon is only the fourth grade, the third grade is inevitable, and a large number of secondary demons are only the ninth grade, which are all small thoughts that the demons themselves may not notice.

However, even so, it is conceivable how the demons have messed up this universe, and how many people have been affected by the countless secondary demons... It is simply impossible to count.

And Shen Shuibi also understood that the sudden appearance of the secondary demon meant that the demon had an idea and wanted to interfere with herself.

And this thought is so important that it gave birth to a fourth-grade secondary demon. This means that the demon was really troubled by this for a while. Even if he forgot about it later, at least he still attached great importance to this thought at that time.

In other words... himself

Shen Shuibi turned his mind and looked at the secondary demon, saying: "So, your purpose is related to me, what is it?"

The secondary demon who appeared in front of Shen Shuibi chuckled and said, "Well... how should I put it, what did I see just now? You want Li Qi to know all about you, but you also want to keep some fresh secrets for yourself. Women's hearts are really hard to understand."

He completely skipped Shen Shuibi's question and started a new topic.

"Reading minds? What you read may not be true." Shen Shuibi said.

"It doesn't matter. Whether it's true or not, it's your 'heart'. Well... my goal has been achieved." The secondary demon in front of him said.

"Oh? In other words, the demon's idea at that time was to know what I was thinking, right?" Shen Shuibi keenly caught the other party's implication.

"Yes, the demon really wants to know what you and Li Qi think, so I was born. Although I don't like this purpose, but... mortals will fall asleep no matter how much they don't like it. This is instinct and cannot be resisted."

No matter how strong your willpower is, you can never resist the instinct of sleep with willpower, you will definitely fall asleep.

The same is true for the secondary demons. No matter what their subjective consciousness is, they cannot resist the reason for their birth. They will definitely achieve this goal.

However, the advantage is... if they complete it, then the shackles will be lifted, the compulsion from their birth instinct will disappear, and they will be free.

Although they are still secondary demons and tentacles of the demons, they can decide what to do. The demons themselves basically don't care about these secondary demons.

As long as the demons don't interfere, all these secondary demons are actually free.

However... Shen Shuibi heard from Luo Fu Niangniang that some of the secondary demons will chase the demons fanatically, gather around him, and even imitate the demons' every move.

This imitation even includes self-mutilation. The demons were sealed in the formless realm by the Buddhas of Buddhism and suppressed with the Pure Law, so many secondary demons took the initiative to apply the Pure Law on themselves, just to experience the demons' feelings.

This enthusiasm also caused countless sub-born demons to surround the demon wherever he passed, as if they were surrounding the messengers of the gods.

Although neither the gods nor the messengers were very friendly.

After Shen Shuibi confirmed the identity of the sub-born demon, she suddenly stopped the Heart Purification Mantra.

"Since your purpose is to know what I am thinking, why not come over and let's have a good talk." Shen Shuibi said to the sub-born demon.