The Horn of Counterattack

In an instant, Li Qi understood.

Shen Shuibi, of course, did not know how to summon herself, nor the honorary name she had just applied for.

So she chose... exhaustive search.

For example, the array diagram beneath Li Qi's feet, based on Li Qi's simple understanding of arrays, can be seen to be a divine summoning system.

The system input the parameters of Li Qi that Shen Shuibi knew, and then created an automated name calling mechanism that continuously generated respectful names that might be suitable for Li Qi, and kept calling Li Qi without stopping.

Then, this is just one of the thousands of formations on this array plate.

The entire array plate was densely covered with such automatic name-calling mechanisms. Various Dao Path, various methods, thousands of arrays and rare materials together constituted this... very valuable name-calling machine.

Every second, hundreds of thousands of different summoning methods can be generated here, including the divine descent of the gods, the covenant of the Shaman Path, the illusion of the Mirror Flower Water Moon of Reason Way, the method of connecting hearts of Human Path, the blood-summoning technique of the demonic path, and so on.

There were thousands of methods, each working automatically, constantly trying to summon Li Qi.

Li Qi could see the effects of these formations, but that was all he could do.

To put it simply, Li Qi knew the function of a mobile phone, but Shen Shuibi personally created the phone, attaching every transistor and hand-crafting all the chips and screen.

Let alone the technology, Li Qi couldn't even recognize some of the materials on this. But the effort required to integrate so many formations into one is unimaginable.

Moreover, this thing is really... expensive.

Leaving aside the materials that Li Qi doesn't recognize, the ones he does recognize are already priceless. Li Qi certainly can't afford them, even if he sells his eighth-grade gold energy, because there are four or five eighth-grade materials that are visible to the naked eye.

Not to mention the technical sophistication it contains, which is able to combine thousands of formations together. This is something beyond Li Qi's comprehension. If this thing were used to make Law Artifact, it would definitely reach the limit among the eighth grade, and probably even reach the level of half-step seventh grade.

Even for Shen Shuibi, accomplishing these things would be no easy task.

In particular, her cultivation had long been completely destroyed, and she was currently working hard to rebuild it.

She might be able to figure out the technical aspects herself, but she despises worldly and mercenary things the most. Just thinking about it makes Li Qi realize how much effort she has put in.

After understanding all this, Li Qi was somewhat moved.

However, seeing that the rabbit had turned her back because she was angry with him, Li Qi immediately realized what was happening, quickly walked over, and used his golden divine body to take her hand, saying, "Miss Shen—"

The rabbit stopped and looked back angrily.

Li Qi was naturally eloquent, so he had already prepared many flowery words in his mind, but after seeing her turn around, he held them all back and couldn't say them.

After a moment of hesitation, he awkwardly said, "Thank you for your hard work."

However, as soon as he said that, the rabbit's sullen expression disappeared.

She lowered her head, a little embarrassed but unable to suppress her pride, and hummed, "It's good that you know it's hard work..."

There's a feeling of wanting to show off, but also being too embarrassed.

Seeing this, Li Qi smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.

He grew bolder and reached out to pat the rabbit's head. "Okay, then leave the rest to me."

To his delight, Shen Shuibi did not put up any resistance.

Of course, in reality, she didn't react at all, as if Li Qi hadn't done anything, neither happy nor resistant.

The rabbit simply nodded. "Okay, then it's yours."

After saying that, she returned to her usual dazed appearance, stood obediently in place, and started following mode.

It was as if that lively person from just now was an imposter.

Li Qi was taken aback.

He doesn't even know what's going on... Why did he suddenly hang up?

So he patted Shen Shuibi on the shoulder. "Ahem, Miss Shen, wake up first. Can you tell me what has happened these past few days?"

Shen Shuibi regained her senses and looked at Li Qi with displeasure, her eyes seeming to say, "You're so annoying."

However, she quickly continued talking to Li Qi about what had happened a few days ago, trying to finish as soon as possible so she could get off work and do her own thing.

She is really bad at and hates doing such mundane things, and she also doesn't like interacting with the outside world.

Rabbits love to immerse themselves in their own world and quietly go about their business.

To put it nicely, this is called ethereal and otherworldly, untouched by worldly dust.

To put it bluntly, he suffers from severe social anxiety and is also autistic.

But bunnies are cute, so it's fine.

Besides.

Because of this trait, something happened that Li Qi was aware of, but Shen Shuibi remained completely unaware of.

Rabbit has always delegated these tasks to others, and she habitually relies on these "others," simply obediently following orders.

Previously, this person was Lady Luofu.

She has lived like this for countless years.

And now, this "other person" is Li Qi.

So, when there was no one she could rely on, the rabbit fell into her previous extreme agitation and couldn't calm down no matter what. But now that Li Qi has returned, she immediately calmed down.

Even she herself didn't realize that after Li Qi arrived, the anxiety in her heart had disappeared, as if a huge stone had been lifted, and she could return to her comfort zone.

As for Li Qi, he was naturally happy to see it happen.

He was overjoyed!

Several Chen later, Li Qi had a complete understanding of everything Shen Shuibi had done.

Rabbit also entered energy-saving mode again. She had been a bit overloaded these past few days, so she turned back into her original form, snuggled into Li Qi, and fell fast asleep with her ears in front of her eyes.

For her, completing this array and taking over the entire Lower Nine Gates were both very energy-consuming, especially the latter.

She was also very tired, so she nestled in Li Qi to rest.

However, even though it's a rabbit, it's wearing small clothes.

That's really thoughtful.

When it came to Li Qi, he immediately took over these matters and made his own plans.

The first thing to do, and the most urgent thing to do, is to find Wang Baiyan.

According to Shen Shuibi, and considering Wang Baiyan's previous actions, Li Qi has already made up his mind.

This little brat is a real bastard!

He didn't care about the disaster victims at all. His goal was to make Li Qi break the Blood Sacrifice, then incite demons to attack Guangyang City, and he would act as an outsider, betraying both sides to profit from it!

Wang Baiyan had no idea that the Blood Sacrifice was not actually to resist the Swallowing Heaven Demon Nest, but was merely a means for the Chanzhi to save himself.

The situation is now very clear, and the previous confusion is gone. Li Qi has sorted out the entire sequence of events.

Firstly, there are currently four forces in Guangyang besides Li Qi.

The first force is the Jianghu forces led by the Righteous Sword Palace.

Li Qi felt that these people could be trusted. He could tell from Zhang Lan that the Righteous Sword Palace, like himself, was completely self-sufficient and did not ask for any reward in their confrontation with the Swallowing Heaven Demon Nest, all for the sake of chivalry.

Zhang Lan also has a very good character. For the sake of the disaster victims, he actually took the initiative to fight two eighth-rank officials and was prepared to die together with them. He can be called a hero.

If they knew what was going on here, Li Qi couldn't imagine why they wouldn't get involved.

Therefore, before he left, he left a letter for Zhang Lan as a backup plan. (Chapter 187)

It shouldn't be long before we can move on to the next step.

Secondly, the local power structure in Guangyang City is essentially paralyzed. Based on Li Qi's own experience, he knows that the Guangyang Prefect has returned to the capital to report on his duties! (Chapter 174)

Li Qi hadn't understood it before, but now, upon closer inspection, it was as clear as the sun breaking through the clouds.

Nonsense, why wouldn't he run away and wait to die?! This person definitely rushed back to the capital of the Hundred Forests Kingdom to seek help. If he stayed here, he would definitely be one of the puppets of Chanzhi Zhi.

Therefore, this person must have decisively chosen to withdraw the army from the town after discovering that the Guangyang Sima and Situ had become puppets of the Chanzhi, set up a mountain and water formation to resist the Devouring Swallowing Heaven Demon Nest, and then hurriedly left to return to the capital to seek reinforcements.

But for some reason, no one came back to Guangyang City to rescue them. I wonder what happened in the capital of the Hundred Forests Kingdom. If the king had taken action, then the Chanzhi, who was only a seventh-rank monk, should have been captured easily.

Third, there is the Human Path force led by Wang Baiyan.

That is, the Jiannan Wang Family. Their purpose and methods are also very clear. There are two reasons why Wang Baiyan contacted Li Qi. One is to use Li Qi's Shaman abilities to communicate with the Heavenly Dao and help them take over a small world as their own resource world.

Another reason was that he hoped to use Li Qi to destroy the Mountain and Water Formation and the Blood Sacrifice. He linked the Blood Sacrifice with the Mountain and Water Formation, intending to mislead Li Qi into destroying the defenses of Guangyang City.

In this way, he and Li Qi saved the people, gaining widespread goodwill. They could also drag Li Qi, a disciple of Wushen Mountain, into the mess, helping him withstand the backlash from the Shaman Path. When the Shaman Path forces came to the rescue, he could easily pull Li Qi out to shield him, saying, "Who do you think you are?! This was done by the disciples of Wushen Mountain and me. Are you going to defy Wushen Mountain?"

Li Qi even had to stay behind to fight against the invasion of the Swallowing Heaven Demon Nest with him.

In this way, he used others to do his dirty work, dealt a blow to the local forces in Guangyang, and allowed Human Path to take deeper root in Guangyang Prefecture, subtly carrying out other plans there.

All of this was meticulously planned, something Wang Baiyan himself hadn't anticipated. The reason Guangyang's defenses were so weak was because of the existence of Chanzhi named Chanzhi!

The Blood Sacrifice was not due to the Mountain and Water Formation, but rather a conspiracy by the Chanzhi. Therefore, although the Blood Sacrifice was ultimately stopped, the Mountain and Water Formation still existed, Guangyang's defenses were sound, and the Swallowing Heaven Demon Nest could not be breached.

The appearance of the Chanzhi caused Wang Baiyan's entire scheme to come to naught, turning into nothing.

This brings us to the fourth faction.

That was Chanzhi Zhi himself.

Under the Black Heaven throne, a cultivator of the Dakini Heaven lineage, who has achieved the seventh rank of Dao, is an extremely terrifying powerhouse among the seventh rank. He was even able to face two seventh-rank cultivators, the Guangyang Sima and the Guangyang Prefect, by himself, killing one of them and driving away the other.

The Guangyang Sima, whom he killed, had become his puppet, a pawn in his manipulation of Guangyang's political situation, while the Guangyang Prefect had fled and had not returned to this day.

However, none of these were his goals. His goal was to obtain the true methods of Shaman Path, so as to balance the Buddhist and demonic thoughts in his heart and lay a solid foundation for him to reach the sixth rank.

Li Qi has now figured it out.

Back then, I only guessed half of it correctly.

This was all a setup; it was no coincidence at all!

That bald thief has probably been eyeing me for a long time!

These 100,000 people, the town gate, the White Rhinoceros Army, and everything before them were all part of a scheme orchestrated by this wicked monk to make him 'voluntarily' hand over the secrets of Shaman Path.

While he was doing good deeds all over Hundred Forests Kingdom, he set his sights on him.

All these coincidences were actually his arrangement.

He had long realized that he was from Wushen Mountain, so he had made arrangements in advance, deliberately causing himself to run into the White Rhinoceros Army. Based on his consistent tendency to do good deeds, he set up a 'Blood Sacrifice' scheme for himself.

He forced himself to use Blood Sacrifice, and ultimately offered up the Shaman Path.

Judging from his appearance, Li Qi had more or less guessed what was going on.

Chanzhi clearly possessed the method of nourishing the mind, yet he didn't use it on himself, instead decisively taking the Shaman Path method from his own mind.

Although they threatened me, they never completely broke off relations.

Clearly, there are two possibilities: one is that they are afraid of Wushen Mountain, so they dare not kill Li Qi directly.

Secondly, even if he consumes the heart, he will not be able to obtain the Shaman Path method; Li Qi must be 'willing' to do so.

Li Qi felt that there were probably two reasons.

If the Book of Blessings and the Divine Will Inheritance of the Technique Method in one's mind could be obtained by eating the Heart-Eating Technique, then Wushen Mountain might as well give up and not stand tall in the southwest of the world.

Li Qi had ample reason to believe that if the other party ate his heart and learned the technique, he would die in the next second.

Therefore, he didn't even intend to learn Shaman Path techniques, but instead forced Li Qi to work for him and help him develop methods to suppress demonic thoughts, rather than directly stealing the Shaman Path Cultivation Method.

The Tang Kingdom was located in the center of the world and its power was felt in all directions.

The Buddhist kingdom is located in the far west of the world, and is known as the Great Western Paradise Buddhist Kingdom.

The same goes for Wushen Mountain, which occupies the southwest of the world and is a force that can establish itself in the world.

The entire world, divided into eight directions and the center according to east, west, south, north, and center, was further divided into nine parts.

Since Wushen Mountain was able to occupy a portion of it, it was impossible for them to allow their teachings to fall into the wrong hands. It can be inferred that the monk was actually powerless against them and could only use this method to threaten them indirectly.

So, let's summarize the needs, capabilities, and position of the four forces in the middle.

Then a clear plan can be derived.

While the Chanzhi was experimenting with his method, Li Qi used a split-spirit technique to escape. Therefore, he never intended to fight Chanzhi openly from the beginning.

Damn it, a seventh-rank official bullying a ninth-rank official, taking advantage of the weak, then don't blame me for calling in reinforcements.