Chapter 950 The Butterfly Effect (8K Chapter)

Taoism has two things, ‘talismans’ and ‘lu’.

Talismans are self-explanatory, while the talisman is something like an ID card.

The transmission of talismans usually has two functions.

One is to record the name, Taoist name, master and Taoist rank of the practitioner.

Only after a certain entry procedure can a practitioner become a Taoist priest and be listed in the talisman. From then on, he is qualified to learn knowledge inheritance such as Taoist scriptures and precepts.

The skills are all protected. Without the talisman of the corresponding grade, it is impossible to remember and practice the orthodox Taoist skills. The talisman is the list of Taoist priests.

The second is to record the names of gods. Only through the talisman can the Taoist methods be manifested in the ritual activities of fasting and offering sacrifices, such as which gods to summon and where to send them, so as to achieve the purpose of good weather and good harvests and suppressing evil spirits.

A wild Taoist priest without a talisman, even if he has Taoist skills, will find it difficult to perform fasting and offering sacrifices, let alone command gods.

According to the classification, when you first enter the Dao ritual, you will be granted the Mengwei talisman.

The sutras granted by the Mengwei talisman include 120 volumes of the "Fa Wen Jing", 360 passages of the "Da Zhang", 1,200 passages of the "Xiao Zhang", 300 volumes of the "Chao Tian Jiao Yi", 10 volumes of the "Xu Zhen Yao", 3 volumes of the "Yu Jing", 3 volumes of the "Zhi Yao", 60 volumes of the "Tai Ling Yin Yang Tui Qian Li", 5 volumes of the "Jing Zhu", 3 volumes of the "Tong Jing Wen", one article of "Xiu Yuan Ming Zhen Wen", and 1 volume of "Yu Bu Xing Gang".

Only after all these cultivation methods and techniques are practiced can you enter the next stage.

Then, after reaching the seventh grade, you will be granted the Vajra Cave Divine talisman and obtain the twelve sutras of the "Dong Shen".

After that, in order, there are Gao Xuan Lu, Sheng Xuan Lu, Zhong Meng Lu, and San Dong Bao Lu. Each of them has corresponding cultivation methods and various advanced means. There are many things to learn.

When you reach the third grade, that is, after "attaining the Tao and becoming an immortal", you can get your exclusive Bao Lu.

At this stage, the characteristic features are wearing a purple crown, a supreme seal, a Jingjing sword, a Huangning hat, and being granted the Three Officials' Ancestors' Certificate, the Ascension Certificate, the Five Emperors' Great Demons' Recommendation Certificate, the Thirty-two Heavenly Emperors' Certificate, and the Golden Elixir Secret of Flying Steps.

Of course, not everyone will dress so flamboyantly, but this is almost the "formal dress" of the earthly immortals, something like a uniform.

In this state, the talisman is their biggest weapon.

Zhang Zong's green Taoist robe, nine-color Li Luo cape, purple skirt, and nine-light jade pendant.

Unlike Li Qi, who was alone, Zhang Zong had a magic weapon.

When the talisman came out, Zhang Zong maintained his fist intention while pinching out the thunder method in his other hand.

The essence of the internal energy of martial arts is chaos.

In the chaos, the light and turbid air were first separated. When the two collided, thunder was born.

Among many magic methods, the thunder method has the greatest resistance to chaos.

Of course, in reality, thunder magic can't cause any damage to martial arts internal energy. It's just that the resistance is a little higher. Compared with other magic, thunder magic can withstand the erosion of martial arts internal energy for a longer time without collapsing.

If cutting Li Qi's magic is like cutting butter with a hot knife, cutting Zhang Zong's thunder magic will be like cutting meat. It's not impossible to cut, but there will always be a lot of resistance.

At the same time, when he freed up one hand to perform magic, the originally harmonious fist intention was also attacked with a flaw, and the martial arts internal energy followed the flaw and poured directly into his body.

But at this time, thunder penetrated Zhang Zong's body, and his inner world, including his flesh, was filled with divine thunder.

The martial arts internal energy stagnated.

At this moment of stagnation, Zhang Zong clenched his fists, and the treasure scroll bloomed!

Thunder is the exciting energy of yin and yang. When water is poured into the fire of forging, the sound of thunder will burst out. This is what Zhang Zong once said, the source of the three methods of water, fire and thunder in Taoism. He usually uses water and fire methods to make tea, which is actually a part of thunder method practice.

But he really likes to drink tea and collect tea leaves.

Let's not talk about these. When Zhang Zong burst out in this posture, the thunder method burst out in his body!

His inner world was completely filled with thunder, and the thunder of Shenxiao replaced his body in a fierce posture.

At this moment, Zhang Zong's martial arts and magic were completely contained in his body!

Zhongyou's pupils dilated and he immediately accelerated the pace of attack.

The intelligence said that Zhang Zong, who was a fourth-grade, had tied with the Demon Prince.

This tie was not that the Demon Prince let him go, but a real tie. The Demon Prince could not take Zhang Zong in this state.

Zhang Zong's martial arts and magic were completely integrated.

Moreover, not only that, he even penetrated the past and the future, and the Thunder of the Divine Sky protected his existence. Now Zhang Zong is a perfect numerical monster.

Martial arts, magic, existence, strategy, tactics, attack and defense, time and space entity, and even the timeline war that spread out from it, are all perfect.

However, his talismans and the magic weapons he wore on his body were faintly wailing.

Obviously, to maintain this state, the Shangqing Jinque Treasure Scroll that recorded all his information played an important role in it. It was the existence of the treasure scroll that made this method feasible.

Zhong You obviously realized this.

If a warrior is not good at fighting a timeline war, then he can only use one trick, that is, to defeat the opponent head-on.

Zhang Zong is good at all aspects, whether it is a head-on battle, a magic battle, or a timeline calculation and existence competition, he is very powerful.

But warriors don't need to face those things.

He just needs to beat Zhang Zong in the aspect he is best at.

Then let's try it!

Using fist intention to control thunder, a punch was thrown, and the thunder of the divine sky around Zhang Zong was forcibly suppressed. Instantly, the world shook, but... that was all.

The warrior continued to attack as he had just done against Li Qi, because he only knew this way.

The warrior's advantages and disadvantages are here.

And Zhang Zong stared at Zhong You closely.

There is a problem with being able to win.

Facing such a warrior, it is easy to win, and it is also easy to run, but that will not have much effect on the battle.

Zhang Zong simply ran away, or defeated the opponent, but it would not have any substantial effect.

Don't think about leaving even if you win, because you can't kill him. As long as you can't kill him, the warrior will soon be able to join other battlefields with the help of humanity. To put it bluntly, everyone will separate and go to other places to fight.

If you really want to achieve "I'll deal with you and go to other places", you need to beat the opponent to lose his combat effectiveness.

But in that case... it's so difficult, the warrior's physical body is really powerful.

It's easy for Zhang Zong to decide the winner, but if you want to make the opponent lose his combat effectiveness or even decide life and death, you have to overcome the toughness of the warrior himself.

Warriors are very durable, unlike Li Qi's sandbag that breaks after two hits.

But...

It's just a bigger sandbag that's more durable.

I'll beat you up until you can't take care of yourself!

To fight those metaphysical beings, you have to find a way to destroy the opponent's principles, refute the opponent's reasoning, make the opponent lose his self-consistent existence, or seal the opponent from the timeline.

But warriors are not metaphysical beings, and destroying warriors only requires enough power.

On Zhong You's side, he was not discouraged. Although he was stopped by Zhang Zong, he didn't think he would lose. His thoughts were actually the same as Zhang Zong's.

Kill or cripple the opponent, and then chase Li Qi.

Both sides are confident of winning, and no one thinks they will lose.

The battle starts again.

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At the same time, Li Qi has escaped four or five nodes.

Each node is similar to Zhang Zong, and there will be corresponding people to help him resist the pursuit of humanity.

Li Qi is going through all the key nodes in his life. As long as he can defend all these nodes, he will win and the human way will be stopped.

But if there is a place that is not defended, then the human way can drive straight in, easily lock Li Qi's possibility, and complete their ulterior purpose.

In order to accurately find each node, Li Qi must run in his life, looking for the place where he thinks something might happen, or come to the node where the human way chooses to take action.

This is actually very difficult.

No one knows which node is the key. Maybe the place where the human way attacks is a feint, and investing the third-grade combat power there will cause the situation to tilt. Maybe the node he thinks is very important is not discovered by the human way at all, and the result is that the defense is in vain.

However, the human way as the attacker is not easy.

They must accurately find the important things in Li Qi's life, and then invest enough combat power.

If the combat power is miscalculated, it will lead to the death or retreat of the third-grade.

Moreover, the witch way only needs to defend, but they have to take the initiative to attack, take the initiative to find opportunities, and even find a way to get Li Qi in their hands in the end.

This is destined to be a very difficult game for both sides.

Even Li Qi didn't know why the target was himself.

He was indeed a little special, but was he really special enough to be fought over by two major sects?

Li Qi didn't know, but he knew that now was not the time to think about those things. He needed to travel through the timeline as much as possible and find nodes one after another.

Traveling through endless time and space, looking for nodes in the sequence, Li Qi felt... as if there was an abyss all around, the future was also an abyss, the past was also an abyss, and now it was an endless black abyss.

He tried his best to avoid, search, look down and touch every stone, because every stone might trip him up and finally fall into the abyss, and there would be no recovery.

The silent darkness and the invisible unknown were more daunting than all the fears imagined.

Wherever he looked, he could not see anything certain. In the endless history, nothing was certain. The only certainty was uncertainty itself.

Under the thick fog of various theories and possibilities, only incomprehensible obscurity was produced.

The so-called deduction, the "foreseeing the future" and "divination" that mortals fear, is nothing more than a fog of numbers, and it has no effect in this darkness.

Or... the effect has long been offset by the other party's deduction.

Intuition is more effective here than eyes.

Everything he experienced was just a mist, and Li Qi felt that his understanding of "his own life" was nothing but an illusion.

Even for himself, this seemingly fact is nothing but a bewitching illusion.

Even the most sober people should question whether they are really sober, and even doubt whether they really exist.

If you ignore this doubt about existence, then you are deceiving yourself.

In the journey of chasing life, Li Qi was misled and found that his original idea was wrong.

But Li Qi is also struggling to pursue, and this chase in the dark abyss is like an endless kaleidoscope.

His past has been changed with many mistakes and omissions. The people he met and the things he experienced have all disappeared, but they have not disappeared... because Li Qi himself still remembers them.

As long as Li Qi himself still remembers, it will not dissipate...right?

But if he firmly believes this, wouldn't he fall into the prison of the devil?

This forced him to re-examine his life.

He already has reality, and he is complacent about it. However?

Li Qi created his own "reality" and also acknowledged the reality of the outside world.

It was like throwing a solid rock in the dark with rolling waves.

This rock is not the vast universe, not the boundless super-time and space, but a tiny one, which looks like a useless stone in the eyes of others.

But it is this stone that is the solid foundation of Li Qi's existence.

All around, in chaos, storms, and the dark abyss, the constantly surging waves beat the rock, as if to break it.

All around the rock, in the rolling darkness, faces, things, civilizations, and those living beings in the sea of ​​illusions that do not have reality but exist in reality are vaguely emerging.

They were around Li Qi's rock, desperately reaching out their hands to grab Li Qi's rock. They depended on Li Qi's rock to exist. Although they knew nothing about it, only by grabbing Li Qi's rock could they exist in this dark sea, otherwise they would sink and become part of the ocean.

But... Li Qi himself could not be saved.

There were other rocks hitting Li Qi.

Every collision would cause the hands that were struggling to grab Li Qi's rock to be thrown away, and then turned into water and fell into the ocean, their figures gradually blurred, and then disappeared again.

The reality that depended on Li Qi's existence became blurred because of the storm that other high-level beings were crazy about, and even became more and more intense.

Li Qi's life and all his past history were in this state.

Those whose Taoism was not firm enough would be annihilated in an instant if they fell into such a dark abyss. Their mentality could not support them to fight such a war, and could not support them to find that possible moment in the dark ocean.

Mortals could not witness this earth-shattering war. The three-level beings fought each other in the broken timeline of the world, fighting to the death.

Li Qi continued to face crisis after crisis and had to make major decisions again and again. There were not many simple principles to follow. Every decision would cause countless butterfly effects, which would bring more choices and continue to cause butterfly effects.

This war... in terms of perceived time, has lasted for hundreds of billions of years.

Sometimes, Li Qi would think about many things in this endless retrospective war.

For example...

Was what he experienced really real?

He had seen millions of different uncles. In addition to the first uncle he met when he was young, there were many different uncles.

The uncle who left his first impression was a good man, but his methods were relatively weak. In the end, he failed to control the internal strife of the Paibo Gang. After his death, the Paibo Gang fell apart under internal and external forces.

But in the war against Li Qi's life, Li Qi witnessed many, many uncles.

Some of them were cunning, some were fierce, and some did not accept Li Qi from the beginning.

Others were even kinder and weaker, so that they did not survive the competition with the Lizhuang Gang at all.

Different Sixth Uncles, but the initial nodes are all connected, just different life experiences have shaped him differently, just like parallel worlds.

But the problem is...

Each Sixth Uncle is a different possibility, and they are all real. So many realities can change Li Qi's life. How should Li Qi make a decision in such a matter?

Indeed, Li Qi's body will not be affected, and these modified history actually doesn't matter. As long as he waits until the end of this war, he can fix the history again, all changes will disappear, and everything will return to the "first time".

So, the ones behind are all fake, right?

No, Li Qi's answer is: "They are all true", every time, every Sixth Uncle is true.

But if the others are true, why should Li Qi choose the first time? Shouldn't he treat them equally?

Since everyone is true, why is the first time so unique?

Moreover, it is far more than the Sixth Uncle.

Li Qi also met Lao Ma, I don't know how many times Lao Ma.

Many times, many times, Lao Ma has been very good, he has cultivated to the seventh rank and can follow Li Qi on adventures.

After reaching the seventh rank, Lao Ma was very excited. He really liked the name Ma Ji and showed off that his name was Ma Ji. Then he followed Li Qi to charge into battle, even though he didn't understand that Li Qi was with him because he was preparing to change the future.

So, are these Lao Ma who have reached the seventh rank fake?

Li Qi didn't help him, he reached the seventh rank by himself.

He was still lazy and sloppy, happy every day, teasing mares, drinking, and not at all restless, but he was no longer muddleheaded and found his own way. Although his personality did not change, many things changed, and Li Qi no longer sighed and hated him.

Li Qi had never tried to go back to that level to make up for Lao Ma's regrets before, but now it has been realized by human beings in the war between humans and witches.

So...

When the war is over and the dust settles, assuming that Li Qi wins by chance, which Lao Ma will he keep in the end?

Is it the old Ma who failed to break through the seventh rank, died of old age and regret beside Li Qi?

Or is it the old Ma who found his own way, broke through the seventh rank, and continued to have fun beside Li Qi?

Li Qi likes the second old Ma, and the second old Ma is also real.

But if you want to maintain the stability of history and the normal development of Li Qi's past, then Li Qi should eventually smooth out the waves caused by the disturbance of time and eliminate all the history except the "first time".

Should it be so?

Do you really have to insist that history is real?

Which part of history is "more real" and "more qualified" to be preserved?

So, if you don't insist on the so-called "truth", but choose the history you want?

For example, let the sixth uncle stay in the first time, because his life is already very complete.

Then, let the old Ma break through the seventh rank.

Li Qi will not have any problems because of this. As a third rank, his own existence has long been "free" and does not depend on the outside world, so even if history changes, it will not affect him.

These are just part of his experience.

But...

Old Ma and Uncle Six will actually change because of this. Can Li Qi really face them naturally after they have changed?

Li Qi clearly knows that all this is because of the war between humans and witches, and even his own choices, so they have become what they are now.

Are they real?

After reshaping his life for hundreds of billions of years, Li Qi couldn't help but doubt.

"Boss, why are you in a daze again?" At this time, the old horse next to him suddenly spoke.

Li Qi was sitting cross-legged on the old horse of the sixth rank. According to the current "development", the history of the old horse has been completely reshaped, so he has now turned into a dragon, a kind of demon dragon.

At first glance, the dragon looks like an ordinary dragon, but the difference is the mane, and it is not a dragon claw, but a horse hoof.

Now he is four or five miles long, and Li Qi can sit cross-legged on the dragon's back.

"Is it abnormal for me to be in a daze?" Li Qi looked at the old horse below and chuckled.

"It's normal, but it's just that it took too long today, and you don't usually show that kind of expression while you're in a daze."

"What expression?" Li Qi touched his face. Even though he was already a third-grade master, he was not very good at reading other people's so-called "expressions."

Of course, it's still very simple to understand emotions, just read their minds directly, but reading expressions is a subtle thing after all, and Li Qi doesn't like subtlety.

"How should I put it... It's the kind of expression that I seem to be dying soon." Lao Ma said this while taking Li Qi to wander in the universe.

Li Qi was speechless, but he immediately adjusted his expression and said: "Lao Ma, tell me, if I can turn you into anything you want to be, will you accept it?"

"Ask such a question suddenly?" Lao Ma fell into deep thought.

Then, after thinking for a while, he said, "In that case, am I still me? For example, if you want to make me a fool, then if I really become a fool, then I'm done for, right?"

"Yes, but we are also changing all the time, right? You were not like this at the beginning, why is there such a big difference in attitude between changing slowly over time and changing suddenly?" Li Qi sighed.

"It seems that you are thinking about something difficult, but I suggest you think less about it, it's exhausting." Old Ma didn't care.

He seemed to be a bachelor, and he didn't care about those things at all. Anyway, he was eating and drinking well now, and he was already a sixth-grade. His talent had been exhausted, and it was unlikely that he would make further progress. It was better to empty his mind.

Anyway, he was already a sixth-grade, and he would never lack food in his life. Why bother? He always looked at it very openly.

Li Qi looked at such an old Ma, helpless, but also a little relieved.

If that's the case, isn't it good? He can let this old Ma continue to exist, but... all the old Ma who appeared before will disappear.

We often say 'special people'.

So, who is special to the third rank?

Perhaps only those who are as real as Li Qi can say so.

Ordinary people are phantoms without reality, and Li Qi can fabricate them at will. If he wants Lao Ma to come back, then he can bring back any Lao Ma.

But... is it really Lao Ma who is brought back like this?

No, why should I say it's not? He is Lao Ma. No matter how you ask, how you look at it, or how you explore the other party's existence, he is the wild dragon colt, and then he has experienced many things with Li Qi.

What qualifications does Li Qi have to say that he is not Lao Ma?

It's just... not the Lao Ma he saw at first.

"Lao Ma." Li Qi said, "Do you think it is necessary for people to immerse themselves in the past?"

Hearing this, Lao Ma suddenly turned around and looked at Li Qi.

He saw the emptiness, powerlessness and helplessness without a goal in the boss.

But at this moment...

Lao Ma's body suddenly exploded.

Not only that, the magic has arrived, and the power from the third rank has found Li Qi at this moment.

Li Qi's thoughts were immediately interrupted.

This is not the first old horse to be killed, but it doesn’t really matter whether he is killed or not, because as long as the past is reconstructed, then… it will be as if nothing has ever happened.

“Your mind is in disarray.” The descended third-grade human being made a sound.

"Yeah, my mind is in turmoil." Li Qi sighed.

Why is he in turmoil? He has clearly witnessed this kind of death hundreds of billions of times. In the timeline war, things that do not have reality are like this.

Wave your hand to live, and turn your hand to die.

But why, this time... his mind has ripples?

Is it because the hundreds of billions of deaths in the past have finally burst out? Or is it because of something else?

"Then we are about to win." The descended human third-grade said so.

Li Qi did not say much, because the third-grade support of the witch had also arrived, and according to the plan, he should evacuate.

As for the death of Lao Ma... it doesn't matter. As long as he can win, Li Qi can let him live as many times as he wants.

?

Li Qi's doubts are getting bigger and bigger.

He can indeed bring Lao Ma back to life, but he can no longer confirm whether the outside world is real.

The more he manipulates the foul power of the third-grade, the more he feels a kind of fear and awe of the nothingness of this world.

Li Qi's life has been significantly integrated into a strange state in this conflict, so that any significant change in his fate will shake the foundation of other things.

However, Li Qi also realized that he could do nothing about it. This is the reality he has to face at this moment.

There is no point in worrying about whether the outside world is real...

Perhaps, reality is meaningless.

Li Qi has also thought of other solutions, such as... admitting the authenticity of every old horse. Every old horse is real. They just keep killing old horses and then create another old horse, just like traveling in parallel worlds, killing old horses in parallel worlds every time

But in that case, it will bring a new problem.

What is Li Qi struggling with?

If everything exists like a parallel world and will not affect Li Qi himself, then why should he care about it? He should only need to protect his own world, and he does not need to care about so many parallel worlds.

But the reality is that he must maintain these histories, otherwise, if the 'Li Qi' in these histories is caught, then he as the 'entity' will also be caught together. It can be seen that all of this is not a parallel world, but the only world that keeps coming back again and again.

But no matter what, Li Qi is already exhausted.

As the focus of the war, he must meet all the "nodes", while other third-grade or second-grade people only need to accept the nodes they are responsible for.

Li Qi's workload is the sum of all the participants, because the things happen in his life, so he will experience everything everyone does completely.

Everyone's sense of time is completely different. After all, time is meaningless to the third-grade, and there is no need to discuss the correspondence of the timeline at all, just the corresponding events that have occurred.

In this war, some people only feel that they have fought one or two battles as foreign aid and fought for hundreds of thousands of years, while others need to maintain a certain period of Li Qi's history, which has taken billions of years.

Li Qi will experience all the scenes. He has experienced hundreds of billions of years of sense of time here, so that he has seen too much, which has led to some bad ideas.

However... fatigue will not affect the third-grade. Even if Li Qi is tired, it will not let him hesitate at all.

Time continues.

Hundreds of billions of years have passed, and Li Qi has gone through almost all his lives and developed many new lives.

In some lives, Li Qi did not experience the Qingwu City Rebellion.

In some lives, Li Qi and Chanzhi monk reconciled.

In some lives, he did not give birth to Li Shiwei.

Many different lives, these are other possibilities, but these are just tributaries created to find Li Qi's flaws.

However, Li Qi has a different understanding of this.

The understanding from the desire realm.

The desire realm in Li Qi's body gave Li Qi a new understanding of these tributaries and different possibilities. From the desire realm, Li Qi can see... possibilities, which do not necessarily have to exist.

This world may be nothingness, but it has existed.

The same is true for these tributary lives of Li Qi.

These tributary lives of Li Qi should not have been born, but they were born, just like this world.

There is no reason for it to exist, it can completely not exist, but it actually exists!

This surprised Li Qi.

Perhaps, what he saw was all false in the details of the structure, and perhaps these tributaries were even more false in the universe as a whole, but they were definitely related in nature, and perhaps they were even real in nature.

It must be the real ‘tributaries’ that prompted Li Qi to recognize them, although they were false in the sense of existence, but they were real in spirit.

In another tributary of life… This is the history of Li Qi not going to Chang’an to study abroad, and Li Qi married Shen Shuibi directly.

“Li Qi.” At this time, Shen Shuibi held Li Qi’s hand.

Unlike Lao Ma, Rabbit has reality, and she has always been aware of the occurrence of retrospection.

As a fourth-grade, she can maintain her consciousness in retrospection, although she can’t do anything.

“I’ve always been here…”

She looked at Li Qi worriedly.

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