Chapter 754: Yao Wanchi attacks

Li Qi used a very simple method to instead stir up the Nascent Heavenly Demon's demonic thoughts.

Yes, this is the most miraculous point: as Nascent Heavenly Demons, who are pure demonic thoughts themselves, extensions of the True Heavenly Demon, they also possess demonic thoughts.

This is actually quite normal; as long as they have self-awareness, demonic thoughts can almost certainly be said to exist.

This also gave Li Qi a faint guess.

As long as there is high-level intelligence, there will inevitably be demonic thoughts, so what exactly is the essence of demonic thoughts?

demonic thoughts can give birth to demonic thoughts, just as worlds can give birth to worlds, creating an infinite nesting doll effect, similar to the idea of a 'book that wrote all books' that he thought of previously.

A book that wrote all books, did it write about itself?

If it did, then it means that the book that wrote all books contains another book that wrote all books, and inside that is another, and another, leading to an endless, nested loop.

The birth of demonic thoughts within demonic thoughts is the same: demonic thoughts gives birth to lesser demonic thoughts, and lesser demonic thoughts gives birth to even lesser ones, never stopping.

Expanding to a larger scope, such as this Universe...

The Universe contains everything, so does the Universe contain Universes?

If the Universe contains Universes, then there are Universes within the Universe, and within this Universe there are still Universes, just like... 'the Heavens'.

Isn't the so-called 'Heavens' just like this? Those are all Heavens created by Great Powers opening up their Inner Worlds.

In other words, the Universe can give birth to Universes...

As these thoughts surged, he seemed to have an inspiration, yet also seemed not to.

He was quite familiar with this feeling, as for Li Qi, Epiphanies basically happened every day.

But now they were fighting, so he decided to keep the 'demonic thoughts' conjecture in his mind and ponder it later.

Immediately, Li Qi began his operation.

It was very simple: since the Nascent Heavenly Demon was demonic thoughts itself, being able to manipulate demonic thoughts would have an immeasurable impact on the Nascent Heavenly Demon.

If he were to truly clash head-on with the opponent, Li Qi would probably be delayed for a very long time.

Now, by catching them off guard, using the demonic thoughts in the opponent's heart as a guide to influence all their actions, it would be an irresistible killing move.

Indeed, as soon as Li Qi did this, almost instantly, the towering Demonic Qi receded.

What Li Qi's many Divine Abilities could not achieve, under Demonic Dao methods, produced immediate and striking results with ease.

The Nascent Heavenly Demon quickly dispersed, and all its Divine Abilities and spells also collapsed.

However, the Nascent Heavenly Demon's eyes narrowed, and then, it actually self-detonated!

A Fourth Grade self-detonation! All its cultivation completely dissipated!

Li Qi frowned slightly.

Self-detonation? What good would that do?

Self-detonation as a method was already easy to avoid at Fifth Grade, and at Fourth Grade, it was completely ineffective.

Thinking this, he gently waved his hand, and the space in front of him collapsed and folded, one 'dimension' of space being drawn out of thin air, losing its 'direction' towards Li Qi.

No matter how great the energy, to reach Li Qi, it needed a 'path', and a path inevitably had a direction.

Now, Li Qi directly removed the 'direction' leading to himself; no matter how powerful or far-reaching, it was impossible for it to reach Li Qi, and even a massive explosion could not harm him.

For a Fourth Grade, pure energy was already meaningless; now, in battles, the winning strategy was always the understanding of the 'Dao', the analysis and confrontation of the true principles of all things.

This confrontation was, in fact, a Dao dispute.

Just like Euclid's Fifth Postulate, it could not be proven true or false from the first four postulates.

Acknowledging this postulate leads to Euclidean geometry, while denying it leads to non-Euclidean geometry.

Therefore, after this divergence, those pursuing mathematics split into many factions: one faction acknowledged it, another denied it, and some moderates felt that as long as it worked, it was fine. The Dao of contention lay here, and both sub-Domains could be researched normally, without affecting the application of the research, and could even exist simultaneously in the real world.

Just like the Nascent Heavenly Demon's 'non-existence' against Li Qi's 'existence' before, that was what could truly affect Li Qi; a self-detonation, a pure energy burst, was like a breeze to Li Qi, easily turned off.

But right after the self-detonation ended—

Demonic Qi swept over again!

Li Qi abruptly unfolded his Inner World, intending to use the rules of the world to suppress and bind the opponent!

At this moment, True Knowledge Dao Resonance swept through, and the Demonic Qi that had previously disintegrated from the self-detonation re-gathered, forming a brand new 'Nascent Heavenly Demon'.

That's right, a brand new one!

Li Qi had previously controlled the opponent's Divine Abilities by manipulating demonic thoughts, causing them to collapse, so that Nascent Heavenly Demon had decisively self-detonated.

And then, from the corpse of the Nascent Heavenly Demon, a brand new Nascent Heavenly Demon was reborn.

It possessed the same memories, but its demonic thoughts was completely different, meaning the vulnerability had been patched.

At the cost of a Fourth Grade's death.

No... it couldn't be considered death.

Although one Nascent Heavenly Demon's consciousness dissipated, a new consciousness quickly emerged from the demonic thoughts.

A brand new Nascent Heavenly Demon, possessing the same Divine Abilities and the same way of thinking, but the demonic thoughts that Li Qi had manipulated had completely dissipated.

Certainly, this brand new Nascent Heavenly Demon would also generate new demonic thoughts, but that would require Li Qi to re-analyze and grasp it.

And Li Qi believed that if he were to grasp it again, the opponent would not hesitate to self-detonate a second, or even a third time.

Life held no meaning for the Nascent Heavenly Demons; they were originally just tentacles of the Heavenly Demon.

Although they possessed self-awareness, this self-awareness apparently held little significance for them; they could abandon it at any time, just as leukocytes in the body can undergo apoptosis for the sake of the main body at any time.

"You just seemed to think you won..." The Nascent Heavenly Demon's Dao sound came again, and he continued, "Is this all you have? If so, then wisdom has fallen into my hands, Sariputra's resurrection has failed, and I have won."

Saying this, the illusion ended.

The moment the illusion ended, Sariputra's Dao Heart, Buddhist nature, and wisdom were all obscured.

The battle had lasted long enough for the Nascent Heavenly Demon to completely lead Chen Jilang into the Demonic Dao.

Chen Jilang's wisdom was already obscured, becoming muddled and confused, tormented for three lifetimes in the dream, willingly entering the Animal Path, abandoning thought.

Sometimes, wisdom is a torment; it's better to actively abandon thinking.

From Chen Jilang's perspective, he had experienced countless pains, and all these pains came from wisdom.

If a person merely knows more but lacks the ability to change, pain will constantly torment him, and this is everything the Heavenly Demon brought to him.

Thus, he eventually went mad, abandoning thought and wisdom, allowing them to be obscured.

The Nascent Heavenly Demon began to retreat.

The goal had been achieved.

However, Li Qi smiled and sat cross-legged in place.

His Inner World surrounded him, the natural order flowed, the sun, moon, and stars moved continuously, pure Yin and pure Yang, one dark and one bright, the Qi of righteousness filled the surroundings, like the clear insight of heaven, without partiality, assisting only virtue and eliminating only evil.

When pure Yang was at work, it was like a warm breeze bringing forth all things, and plants of all kinds, lush and flourishing.

When pure Yin flowed, it was like mountains high and swamps deep, appearing dim, the wilderness utterly tranquil, silent.

This state was not for showing off; it was merely Li Qi's natural appearance when he didn't suppress his Qi. The Qi expressed by his Inner World was naturally like this; normally it was suppressed, but now he had simply let it go.

He watched the Nascent Heavenly Demon rapidly retracting its Demonic Qi, preparing to leave.

However, just as the Nascent Heavenly Demon was about to leave—

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

A faint hum was heard.

With the fluctuation of a certain sound, all things in the world began to fluctuate.

They truly began to fluctuate...

Li Qi even felt that the 'pixel points' that made him up began to tremble, and this world began to show 'static'.

The world has pixels, this is beyond doubt.

The so-called pixels are the 'smallest units', the smallest meaningful measurable length; anything smaller than this length is in the unobservable range, and things smaller than this smallest unit do not exist, or rather, cannot interfere with the macroscopic world at all.

When matter begins to tremble at this smallest unit...

The entire world seemed to be performing a grand symphony!

Both Human Dao and Shaman Dao ancient texts recorded: "Great music harmonizes with Heaven and Earth, great rites align with Heaven and Earth!"

Music, its clarity resembles Heaven, its vastness resembles Earth, its beginning and end resemble the four seasons, and its circulation resembles wind and rain.

The five notes are Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zhi, Yu.

Shang, meaning 'chapter' or 'mark', signifies that things are mature and can be measured.

Jiao, meaning 'touch', signifies things touching the ground and emerging, bearing thorns and horns.

Gong, meaning 'center', residing in the center, extending to the four directions, initiating life, and serving as the纲 (main principle) for the four notes.

Zhi, meaning 'blessing', signifies things flourishing and abundant with blessings.

Yu, meaning 'shelter', signifies things gathering and being covered by a shelter.

The 'Explanation of Music' says: Gong is called 'heavy', Shang is called 'agile', Jiao is called 'constant', Zhi is called 'alternating', Yu is called 'willow-like'.

The sound resembled the melodious pipes, with five changes and four harmonies, Heaven and Earth in harmony, and all things gathering!

With the emergence of the zither's sound, the smallest units of space-time suddenly began to demonstrate their influence on the Dao!

Yang is the 'lü' (pitch standard), Yin is the 'lǚ' (pitch standard), collectively called the twelve lunar pitches.

The music of the Divine Dao Heavenly Emperor was called 'Xian Shi' (Universal Bestowal), meaning: "The Dao is bestowed upon the multitude, hence called Universal Bestowal."

The music of the ancient Shaman God was called 'Wu Jing' (Five Stems), meaning: "The Dao has roots and stems, hence called Five Stems."

The music of the former Demon Emperor was called 'Liu Ying' (Six Blossoms), meaning: "The Dao has splendor, hence called Six Blossoms."

The music of the ancient Human Emperor was called 'Da Zhang' (Great Chapter), meaning: "Benevolence and righteousness are greatly practiced, and laws and regulations are clearly manifested, hence called Great Chapter."

These were all musical compositions displayed by Great Powers.

As the music resonated, all matter and energy in this area also began to vibrate.

The essence of music is 'waves'.

And waves exist widely in all things.

Countless subtle 'strings' began to undulate, vibrating in a unique oscillation mode.

The constantly trembling one-dimensional strings began to evolve the entire world!

First, the most basic 'Qi', then 'Qi' formed macroscopic matter, and these matters then exhibited various different properties, and within these properties was the manifestation of the 'Dao'.

Li Qi didn't understand it. Although he knew it was 'music', he didn't understand its specific effects or methods, so he simply waited calmly in place.

Because he knew whose hand this music came from.

Above several world belts, where the Guixu is located, at the center of the Myriad Demon Reservoir World—

That was a pulse akin to gravitational waves!

The originally calm Guixu of the Myriad Demon Reservoir World erupted with sound; it was a tremor that resonated throughout the entire galaxy cluster!

Gravitational waves are generated by colliding black holes and pulsars; these gravitational waves are the sound of oscillations in the space of the Universe!

The pressure waves released by the black hole, because the pitch of the sound waves produced in a supermassive black hole is almost indescribable, like a kind of ancient desolation, this sound is significantly below the limit of Mortal hearing, but Li Qi could clearly capture it.

That was the roar from the Guixu!

Just hearing this sound felt like falling into the deep sea...

No, that wasn't the deep sea; that was the event horizon of the Guixu.

This sound seemed to carry memories; listening carefully with closed eyes could evoke billions of years of time since the Universe's beginning.

That colossal black hole, it continuously rotated, continuously emitted this sound, and continuously drew everything around it into its darkness.

In Li Qi's heart, half was vastness, half was fear.

The boundless ancient times seemed to be contained within this music; an intense 'beauty' shocked all living beings who heard this sound.

The macroscopic smooth space-time and the microscopic violent quantum fluctuations of space-time all began to tremble at this moment.

Desolate and magnificent, it was both a call and a quest, both questioning and answering, and it was also as if that Guixu was using sound to narrate the most fundamental mysteries of all things in the boundless Void Realm of the Universe!

This was—the voice of Yao Wanchi!

The Realm Lord of a Second Grade World, at this moment, emitted a sound.

The Nascent Heavenly Demon suddenly felt... the world before him was cut off.

The world turned into pixel points, every Planck-scale pixel began to oscillate, and with the trembling of 'pixel points' even smaller than matter, Qi, or even light, the Nascent Heavenly Demon felt that every wisp of his Demonic Qi was no longer under his control.

This was the power of a Second Grade, while the Nascent Heavenly Demon was merely a Fourth Grade.

Although he was a Heavenly Demon's tentacle, the Heavenly Demon's main body was currently suppressed in the Heavens of the Formless Realm, and having come out so many times, presumably he wasn't having an easy time either.

Li Qi even suspected... that besides the one time in Chang'an, all other times the Heavenly Demon appeared, it was a Nascent Heavenly Demon.

But all that didn't matter.

Then he heard the Nascent Heavenly Demon speak with difficulty: "Yao Wanchi... you dare to attack me, aren't you afraid my true body will come for you?"

Yao Wanchi, however, did not reply.

The reverberation of the trembling Dao continued, and the Nascent Heavenly Demon only felt his body was not his own; even the most basic elements forming his thoughts were already chaotic, and he could no longer maintain the existence of high-level intelligence.

The Nascent Heavenly Demon could not understand.

Why? Why would Yao Wanchi attack at this moment? One should know that the opponent should be completely neutral. Was there any meaning in taking the risk of provoking the Heavenly Demon to keep him?

One should know that Sariputra could not return; his wisdom, Dao Heart, and Buddhist nature were all obscured, and even the Buddha could not save him. (End of Chapter)