Chapter 935: Shinto Scenery
The Shinto in front of him really opened Li Qi's eyes.
If it weren't for the fact that the Shinto Dharmakaya could be projected anywhere, anyone who saw this scene would suspect that they had come to the virtual cemetery of cyberpunk.
Countless people who had given up reality piled together, immersed in the virtual world, ignoring anything outside.
This is the scenery here.
Li Qi saw many "temples", almost filling the entire world. As far as the eye could see, there were temples, and the density was just like those buildings in the Dream City of the Demonic Path.
Densely packed with statues of gods, filled with statues of gods.
Just like the "Pantheon" or "Thousand Buddha Pagoda".
When you go in, the wall is hollowed out, and then one wall is full of statues of gods. These are all "true gods" who are projecting their Dharmakayas. Their golden bodies are placed here, all of them are the lowest seventh grade, and there are also higher grades.
Some strong people have the entire temple to themselves.
According to the characteristics of each god, the decoration of the temple is also different.
Some are blue and blue, red and purple rooms, with fairies on the left and feathered children on the right, with canopies reflecting the sky and feathers shading the courtyard.
Some are pure and empty, with a mirror, reflecting the dark, keeping themselves peaceful, a little away from the noise, no attendants, quiet and elegant.
Some are covered with gold, hundreds of kinds of incense and candles, gold and silver powder to paint the temple, and colorful carpets, with exquisite systems, and gold, jade and crystal as banners and tassels, which are very gorgeous.
Some are crystal palaces under the sea, cold and transparent gauze curtains, a small boat, and a beautiful woman waving.
Some are just a small wooden house with a wooden sculpture inside, nothing more.
Some are primitive and rough caves, with bonfires and various charcoal paintings and murals inside, as well as simple stone shrines.
There are towering palaces, magnificent murals, and golden murals on them. Walls, stained glass windows, and stairs are all carefully carved and decorated. The vast light bursts out from them, and the magnificent magic gathers here. The high-hanging emblem floats in the air, carrying all the glory of the church for thousands of years.
There is also a sea of blood. You can see many believers taking out their hearts with sharp knives. Hundreds of hearts are piled together, and rotten blood, smelly blood, and fresh blood are gathered into a ball.
The blade enters the flesh, but they don’t seem to feel pain. Instead, they are full of joy. They just feel that they have realized the meaning of life and can sacrifice themselves to God. What could be happier than this?
There are all kinds of temples, on the mountains, in the water, and in the sky.
Different doctrines, different legends, and different gods themselves have formed many indescribable ecosystems here.
This is... the northwest of the world, where Shinto is.
But, these so-called "gods" are actually no different from mortals.
True gods do not need faith at all, they are always there, and do not need to rely on other things. These so-called gods are just individuals of a certain race. They protect their own race, so those races also return faith and gradually develop into various sects.
They need constant sacrifices and faith to stabilize and strengthen their own power. They look very formal, but in fact they are far inferior to true gods.
Li Qi walked in these temples. In fact, he had just arrived for less than a minute.
But just a glance of true knowledge, the situation in the entire northwest, except for the mountain gate where those high-level beings live, everything else has been taken into account. There are no secrets below the fourth level.
As far as his observation results are concerned, the current "God Realm" is simply a place like a "safe Internet cafe".
For the lower-level gods, this is the current situation. The so-called "God Realm" actually gives them a safe place, a place where gods gather.
They are here, and then project the Dharma body out, so that the gods will not die and can do their own things with peace of mind.
Anyway, for the gods who already have golden bodies, they can have as many Dharma bodies as they want. As long as the original body is not touched by others, the death of the Dharma body will only make them weak or sleep for a while.
In the world, with the protection of the gods, these mortals who become gods after birth can get the greatest protection they can get. Enemies outside the domain will never be able to catch up with them and kill their original bodies.
In addition, Li Qi can't see anything within the scope of the gods.
The gods don't seem to care about anything else.
All mortals are outside the domain. In this area, only gods and servants exist.
"This is really extreme. Who came up with the stagnant court of gods?" Li Qi asked Yao Ji again.
"No one thought of it. It just developed naturally like this. I don't care about it, and Haotian won't care about it either. But if it's to add fuel to the fire... Taiyi, he likes sacrifices." Yao Ji curled her lips and said so.
Li Qi nodded.
It makes sense.
Unlike Haotian, who is indifferent and has no need for the outside world, Taiyi really likes to offer sacrifices.
Star officials like the "little lives" in their bodies very much, just like raising hamsters. As the "incarnation of heaven" in each region, although they do not need these little lives, as the "primates" in their bodies, they still have a friendly and gentle attitude towards mortals.
The way mortals express their "gratitude" is to offer sacrifices, communicate with gods through various rituals, and convey their gratitude or other emotions.
The original sacrifice played this role.
Communicating with the gods and conveying one's own thoughts, this is the whole meaning of sacrifice and ritual.
Later, after the witches broke away from the primitive worship of gods, sacrifice became a means of "communicating with all things". Anyway, the original function of sacrifice was just communication, and it didn't matter what it was.
Taiyi liked it, so the star officials followed suit, and the influence of the star officials was super huge. The area covered by these spiritual heavenly ways was not just a little bit.
In this way, "mortals who want to become gods" also began to use the sacrifice. They originally became gods by simulating the heavenly way by condensing the thoughts of all living beings.
Therefore, for these incense gods, sacrifice and believers became an important part.
It is a case of confusing cause and effect.
For real star officials, belief is just what they like, and collecting incense is fun and interesting.
But the mortal incense gods think that this is necessary for gods, so they begin to imitate this behavior, just like a group of monkeys saw humans playing football, they thought that as long as they could play football, they could become human.
However, it seems that this group of monkeys can play football well!
A small number of them learned to play football, read books, and screw with tools. As they learned, they became the Planet of the Apes.
Although they could not become natural gods, they could keep up with the pace of the true gods, so that the incense gods undoubtedly became a part of Shinto.
The "human ghost" lineage of the three Shinto veins was born.
Although most of the incense gods are still imitating monkeys, a very small number of them can indeed sit on an equal footing with the true gods, and the delusion of mortals to become gods has indeed been realized by them.
In a sense, it can be regarded as a good ending.
After all, the number of gods and earth gods is too small. If there were only gods and earth gods, Shinto might not have survived to this day.
To become one of the nine lands in the world, the human ghost lineage is really an indispensable component.
However, this situation must make Yao Ji very unhappy. According to Yao Ji's previous statement, she must be eager to kill all these people.
"Don't waste time on these mortals. It's time to find Xiangliu." Yao Ji urged. She didn't want to play the mortal observation game with Li Qi here anymore.
Although they had just arrived here for less than a minute, Yao Ji didn't even have this much patience for mortals, even if these mortals were wearing the name of gods.
However...
Li Qi ignored her and continued to observe the "gods" in front of him.
This is what he likes to do since he was a child.
Li Qi liked to move from one world to another a long time ago, and in this way, she learned about the "Tao", and in this adventure, her ability to use these "Tao" will continue to strengthen.
Every world visited will extend Li Qi's imagination, so as to further explore the truth of the entire universe.
This method is like absorbing all the experiences of other civilizations bit by bit through the "snowball" method. This is very important. Wandering from one world to another, Li Qi's experience is like a layer of strata, which is stacked up layer by layer, and finally formed a rich geological layer. Every layer dug down will appear deeper.
Such insights made Li Qi's ability stronger and stronger. At the level of his practice, his many accumulations piled up together have undergone qualitative changes, so that he has easily surpassed the scope that any single independent thinking without external help can imagine.
Li Qi's various insights and understandings have become rich and abundant because of the influx of various different thoughts, so that he can support his thinking, so that he can start writing the whole world again.
Thoughts are flames, and knowledge is firewood.
A flame without firewood cannot burn at all, and occasionally there will be a flash of inspiration that will turn into a wisp of green smoke because there is no fuel.
Firewood without flames is just a pile of garbage, which will only slowly decay, or occasionally be used by others to make houses or the like, and driven by others to become a role like a "human library".
Only when the two are combined can the most dazzling flames burst out.
That flame is enough to dispel the darkness on the road of chasing, allowing the blind worms to see this dark continent, find a path in it, and move towards the path.
Maybe one day, you can reach the end.
Yao Ji looked at Li Qi.
How to say it, at this time, Yao Ji missed the human way a little.
Although she hated the human way and these self-righteous mortals, but anyway...
At least, working with the human way, she didn't have to bite the bullet to observe these groups of low-level animals that had no high-level pursuits.
And with the witches, there was a high probability that she would have to deal with these low-level animals.
Forget it, Li Qi didn't say that she had to watch it anyway, she just closed her eyes and pretended to be dead and waited for time to pass.
Li Qi was also very clear about Yao Ji's attitude, so he didn't force her to study with him.
He just scanned it over and over again, reading the story from it.
Li Qi had the true knowledge rhyme, he could save those stories that no one remembered, and there were no witnesses or participants.
Of course, he also knew that it was impossible for these stories to fully interpret reality, because he understood that he was dealing with various statements. For the same thing, each narrator had his own version. It was from all the versions, from their number and intersection, that the true appearance of the world was produced.
Among the countless people, everyone spoke out loudly the truth that belonged only to him.
And Li Qi heard all of this, integrated all of this, and then became all of this, without losing himself.
Everyone had something to say, this person said two or three sentences, this person said half a page, and that person said more, two or three pages.
These were piled up, and then observed, recorded, and interpreted by a strange existence named "Li Qi", and finally made into a set of books that could explain all of this.
This book then had power.
Li Qi stood here and read it for about five months.
Yao Ji looked irritable during this period, but she was not impatient. Li Qi had come to see Xiangliu, and she would not lose skin if she waited a little longer.
So, time passed slowly.
During this period, gods constantly noticed that there was something wrong here. There were small gods of the seventh rank, and there were also gods of the fifth rank. Even some gods of the fourth rank or even the third rank passed by and felt Li Qi's scan, so they came to see the situation.
However, after seeing Yao Ji and Li Qi, they did not choose to interfere too much, but pretended not to see and ran away.
Obviously, although Yao Ji's identity is very secretive in other places, it is not a secret for the third rank within the Shinto.
Everyone knows that Yao Ji is the reincarnation of the former one. Although the reincarnation and the former body cannot be directly regarded as the same person, it is better not to provoke her.
Especially Yao Ji is still with Li Qi.
Li Qi is a famous person. His entanglement with the demon, plus his talent that can be ranked in the forefront of the entire universe, as well as his origin and Taoism, are actually quite famous, even more famous than Yao Ji.
So, when these two get together, it is clear that there is a big thing, so it is better not to get involved.
This is the cause and effect, even the immortals have to be afraid of it.
Many times, if it is related to some major events, and if this major event is a ‘critical node’, then if the big guys take action in the future, it will be difficult for you to escape.
The immortals of the Taoist hermit sect are afraid of this, so they basically hide their heads and practice hard, and are unwilling to cause trouble.
Only a very small number of reckless people will take the initiative to get involved in cause and effect.
For example -
Now there is a reckless man, coming towards Yao Ji.