Chapter 536: Dialogue

While Li Qi's mind was racing, his body's movements didn't stop. He quickly followed the Celestial Maiden to the giant wheel in the sky.

This giant wheel, with countless Buddha-Dharma turning on it, was said to lead to Mount Sumeru if one ascended from here.

The giant wheel was moved by the wind, which arose from water and fire, and water and fire arose from the earth, and the earth existed in the sky. As the giant wheel revolved, the Buddha-Dharma was vast, like an endless energy engine, supporting the existence of the sky.

This was the cycle of the entire Dakini Heaven.

In the Buddhist concept, there are the so-called 'Four Greats.'

Namely, earth, water, fire, and wind.

The 'Four Greats are empty' mentioned in Buddhism refers to these Four Greats.

The Four Greats are the 'creators,' the basic Materials that make up all things in the world. They can be used to refer to the entire world, and the Heavens are also worlds, so naturally they need the Four Greats as basic Materials.

Based on the Four Greats, the giant wheel is propelled to support a 'Heaven.'

What an ingenious design! It's a pity I can't go inside the giant wheel to see what it's like. If I could, Li Qi might not be able to resist directly unsealing his True Knowledge Dao Resonance.

If I were to scan this giant wheel with True Knowledge...

Never mind, let's not think about that.

Beyond this giant wheel, above it, there was a... wheat field?

Li Qi looked closely and found that it really was a wheat field.

The wind blew through the wheat, layer upon layer, the golden wheat ears full and firm, as if they would fall to the ground at any moment. It was a great harvest that would make anyone smile upon seeing it.

In this beautiful golden wave, a small house stood.

Li Qi nodded thoughtfully.

Just as Mahakala has the duty of subduing demons and Guanyin of Sending Children has the duty of reproduction and fertility, the White Fox King Bodhisattva has the duty of commerce, wealth, and harvest. These are their authorities.

The boundless wheat field above the giant wheel, which Li Qi estimated to be hundreds of thousands of miles wide, should be the manifestation of the White Fox King Bodhisattva's authority, right?

Harvest, wealth.

What a truly popular authority.

The Celestial Maiden who brought Li Qi here landed and suddenly transformed into a white fox.

The white fox was tiny, only a palm's size, and quite cute. Its several tails wagged high as it ran quickly forward.

Li Qi also sped up, traversing this boundless wheat field.

In a short while, he arrived in front of the small house.

The Celestial Maiden bounced into the small house, while Li Qi stood outside, cupping his hands, lowering his head, and respectfully waiting for the White Fox King Bodhisattva to appear.

After a moment, the wooden house creaked open, the little fox flew away, and another woman walked out.

Her aura... was unremarkable, nothing special.

Li Qi kept his head down, not directly looking at her face.

After all, she was a high-level existence with the Bodhisattva fruit position, so it was better to maintain respect.

The Bodhisattva fruit position is at least First Grade, and possibly even higher. It is said that the highest-ranking Bodhisattvas can sit as equals with Buddhas, and some Bodhisattvas have even voluntarily given up the Buddha fruit position.

Although I don't know why, it's enough to show their power.

First Grade... even among the Heavens, they are top-tier high-level beings. A mere gesture can shake the Heavens. Furthermore, he was now truly within a 'Heaven.'

Beneath his feet was Dakini Heaven. This was a true 'Lord of the Heavens.'

"Raise your head. Always keeping it so low, what does that look like?" A pleasant voice came.

Li Qi replied, "Thank you, Bodhisattva."

Saying that, he raised his head.

Then, his heart skipped a beat, and his breathing became much heavier.

Even though Li Qi could face Ling Xiao in her Flower Goddess state without changing his expression and look directly at the Peony Flower Goddess with a calm mind, he still couldn't resist under this face.

This was not some Dao Resonance, not some 'beauty of the Dao,' nor was it some kind of temperament.

Because the White Fox King Bodhisattva had obscured all these things, Li Qi, with his True Knowledge Dao Resonance sealed, couldn't perceive these deep-seated 'beauties.' With only his eyes, he could only see the most superficial 'appearance.'

But it was this ordinary appearance that almost pierced Li Qi's heart.

How could someone be so beautiful simply by their face? This isn't natural?!

Theoretically, without involving the 'beauty of the Dao,' a face, no matter how you shape it, has limits. After all, it's just a different distribution of muscles, bones, and skin. Some Cultivators can even casually sculpt their faces, making them look however they please.

Even Mortals can change their facial features through plastic surgery or disguise techniques, and for Cultivators, it's even simpler. How their face looks is entirely up to their mood.

However, all these theories failed in front of the face before him. It simply relied on muscles, bones, and skin to reach a level 'close to the Dao.'

To praise a spell or Divine Ability as profound, some would say 'skill close to Dao,' meaning that although this spell is not the Dao, it has almost demonstrated the level of the 'Dao.'

And the face before him, Li Qi's evaluation was 'beauty close to Dao.'

The normally very subjective thing called 'aesthetics' is different for everyone. For example, from the world's aesthetic perspective, the little rabbit is a typical cool beauty, but in front of the beetle people of the Holy Flame World, they would find Shen Shuibi's soft, white flesh disgusting.

However, with the White Fox King Bodhisattva, the definition of 'beauty' seemed to no longer be subjective.

'She' was objective beauty, absolute beauty, the real manifestation of the definition of 'beauty' in the material world. She didn't need any Dao Resonance; her mere existence was already demonstrating the existence of 'Dao.'

No matter what race or age group's aesthetic, they would likely come to the same conclusion as Li Qi when looking at this face.

As expected of the enchantress who could make the ancient Human Emperor so infatuated, as expected of one worthy of the words 'country-ruining.'

The woman before him, about to reach the age of fifteen, was, needless to say, peerlessly enchanting.

Her eyes, misty with lingering dew, her lips, radiant as the morning sun.

Her brows, glistening with immortal dew, her charming branches, leaning into the spring light.

Her graceful demeanor and exquisite quality embodied the essence of heaven and earth, admired by all. The corners of her eyes drooped downwards like withered sun, appearing pitiful yet making one hesitant to approach.

Indeed, Cultivators can change their facial features after learning specific spells, but Li Qi felt that no matter how much those immortal maidens who wished to make themselves beautiful racked their brains and exhausted their imaginations, they probably couldn't imagine this face.

In fact, Li Qi himself couldn't imagine it. Forget imagining, he couldn't even remember it.

He found that... once he closed his eyes and tried to recall the other party's face, he simply couldn't do it. That face was too perfect, with too many details, so much so that his memory was completely unable to reproduce it.

Yes, it wasn't some spell or Dao Resonance preventing others from remembering; it was simply because the amount of information and the number of details displayed by this face were so vast that even a Sixth Grade thinking organ couldn't completely memorize it.

Li Qi could easily achieve photographic memory, but like ordinary people, a Genius among ordinary people can memorize a book at a glance, but it's difficult to remember all the details of a painting, and even more so if that painting becomes a Formation composed of hundreds of millions of Talismans.

When he thought of this analogy, Li Qi was startled.

Wait, he seemed to understand where the other party's 'beauty' came from.

If a painting is composed of hundreds of millions of Talismans, just like the various divine Talismans of the Dao Sect or the sacrificial rituals of the Shaman, composed of many, many things, then it will truly possess power.

So, if paintings, Talismans, and rituals can be made this way, then why... can't a face?

Clearly, a face can!

The muscles, skin on the face... no, perhaps even the cells on the face, and even the more basic constituent parts within, act as components similar to 'Talismans.'

This is not just hundreds of millions, but even trillions!

Such fundamental properties form, through combination, this face...

Thus, this face also possessed 'power.'

Calling it a face, it was actually entirely the principle of a large Formation!

Li Qi immediately thought, what would happen if this method were applied to himself?

A flood of inspiration immediately surged in his mind.

Li Qi himself was quite familiar with the methods of the Dao of Reason, and also had some experience in the assembly and cultivation of Spiritual Artifacts. Using the concept of the Dao of Reason controlling the Spiritual Artifact body as a guide, with muscle cells and even bone cells as constituent parts.

Even the technology was readily available; he had the Shamanic Silkworm Artifact, and he was also a practitioner of Shaman Dao. Spiritual Artifact activation was one of the core skills for Shaman Dao practitioners.

Since metal can be made into Spiritual Artifacts, wood can be made into Spiritual Artifacts, leather can be made into Spiritual Artifacts, and many Spiritual Artifacts themselves are even made from bones and flesh, parts of demon beast bodies are basic Materials for refining Spiritual Artifacts.

All these can become raw Materials for Spiritual Artifacts, so... why can't his own body? It wouldn't even lose its vitality, because the essence of this thing is actually to train every cell from a lazy commoner into a soldier, letting them form a military Formation to exert more power.

Regarding the matter of cells forming a military Formation, he also had a mature plan, which was the 'Theory of Boundaries.' Moreover, Li Qi had studied military tactics in Chang'an, and he also had his own plan for how to form a military Formation.

If the human body's minor universe were reorganized using this method, perhaps his combat strength could still Breakthrough.

A complete implementation plan flashed through Li Qi's mind like lightning.

Indeed, frequent outings have their benefits. Just a glance at a First Grade powerful being's face gave him such great inspiration! Truly, learning has no end!

As Li Qi thought these things, he suddenly saw a face in front of him.

The White Fox King Bodhisattva had actively approached, leaning forward, curiously looking into Li Qi's eyes, as if wanting to know what kind of madman dared to be distracted while paying respects to her.

Li Qi suddenly realized... wait, he seemed to have been lost in thought just now and forgotten about the White Fox King Bodhisattva.

He broke out in a cold sweat, immediately lowered his head, and sincerely apologized: "Junior was momentarily distracted upon seeing the Bodhisattva. Please forgive me, Bodhisattva!"

"You haven't offended me in any way, why apologize? Besides, distracted? I see your mind is very stable, and you didn't even react much to seeing my face, instead you were thinking about how to improve the human body's minor universe. I really didn't know you were a Cultivation fanatic?" The White Fox King Bodhisattva smiled, not at all looking like a Bodhisattva, but rather like an innocent maiden.

She was neither like a Bodhisattva nor a Yaksha ghost, dressed in simple white clothes, an old-fashioned style, not a monk's robe.

So old-fashioned that it was... probably a relic. This style must be from ancient times, truly ancient, from the period before humans and Shamanes separated.

She looked at Li Qi with a smile.

However, Li Qi felt a bit uneasy. Although Li Qi had come to her voluntarily, dealing with a First Grade... it really was only possible to treat them with sincerity.

There was no deceiving them; they could easily see through what you were thinking. You could only move them with sincerity.

Seeing Li Qi remain silent, the White Fox King Bodhisattva spoke again, "That's not like you. I heard you already have a wife and even a daughter. You don't seem like someone who shuns women, so why are you still calm after seeing me? And you even have the leisure to consider Cultivation matters. Am I not beautiful?"

Upon hearing this question, Li Qi immediately bowed, this time a full ninety degrees, clasping his hands and placing them on his head.

This was a life-threatening question...

However, he also had an answer, he was just afraid of being hit for saying it.

But there was no choice, he had to say it.

Li Qi took a deep breath and replied, "Bodhisattva is naturally beautiful... but I think, not as beautiful as my wife."

"Pfft..." The White Fox King Bodhisattva couldn't help but burst out laughing.

If anyone other than Li Qi had said that, it would have been nonsense.

But Li Qi said it with such sincerity that even in the eyes of a First Grade, no fault could be found.

There was no problem to begin with. Li Qi genuinely believed that. He already knew that when dealing with a First Grade, he had to be sincere, so he would absolutely not lie.

This statement was from his heart.

Therefore, the White Fox King Bodhisattva did not get angry, but rather looked at Li Qi's face with a hint of nostalgia.

Li Qi noticed that the other party wasn't looking at him, but seemed to be seeing something else through him.

Seeing an object and thinking of a person.

Now, Li Qi was that 'object.'

This made Li Qi involuntarily think of something he had seen before.

According to the records of Shaman Dao, this person and the Human Emperor of yesteryear... were true loves, could this be true?

But just as he began to think in that direction, he suddenly felt his body stiffen.

Then, abruptly, he found himself seated inside the small wooden house, though he didn't know when it had happened.

"Alright, stop thinking about those irrelevant things. I know why you're here, and truthfully, I quite like your idea. But I want to ask you first, Young Master Li Qi, do you... know a characteristic of the Human Emperor?" the White Fox King Bodhisattva asked.

"A characteristic of the Human Emperor?" Li Qi thought for a moment.

He only knew one characteristic.

That was, Human Emperors tended to die young. As First Grade beings, hundreds of them had already been replaced, and their death rate was shockingly fast.