Time Reversal Talisman

Li Qi's cultivation level faltered, and his body began to tear apart.

The Heavenly Demon has many, many methods.

To deal with someone who is greedy, you must arouse their greed.

To deal with someone who is irritable and easily angered, you must provoke their anger.

To deal with the pure and kind, one must deceive them with lies.

To deal with the cunning and scheming, one should use sincerity to influence them.

They can always find the weaknesses in people's hearts and then make targeted adjustments; this is something that is almost deeply ingrained in the instincts of all demons.

The best way to deal with Dao Pursuer like Li Qi is to refute his Dao Path, make him doubt the Dao he is pursuing, and then Li Qi's cultivation and Dao heart will naturally crack.

Even though this wisp of demonic energy is currently devoid of consciousness, with sufficient energy and knowledge provided by another sixth-rank expert, it seems capable of easily pinpointing the flaws in Li Qi's Dao heart.

Because it wasn't the Heavenly Demon speaking; the Heavenly Demon doesn't speak.

Li Qi knew that he was essentially having a dialogue with himself. The Heavenly Demon did not understand anything about Human Path or Shaman Path. The Heavenly Demon was simply forcing him to confront the cracks in his own Dao heart, and then making them grow larger and larger.

The numerous 'Li Qi' figures that appeared before him were essentially his individual flaws in his Dao heart, reflections of himself from the Heavenly Demon.

The Heavenly Demon is like a mirror, reflecting all the flaws in Li Qi's cultivation, and then targeting them accordingly.

Wait, a mirror!

Li Qi was startled. He stopped trying to stabilize his cultivation and turned to look behind him.

Behind him, the Three Lives Ancient Mirror emitted a faint glow.

After such a long and long period of reflection, Li Qi's 'present life' has finally emerged.

The Three Lives Ancient Mirror easily revealed all of Li Qi's weaknesses, including not only his Dao heart, but also the weaknesses in his Technique Method and his body.

Four inches below the left armpit, there is a slight obstruction in the flow of Qi and Blood, which will be revealed when the person moves.

On his left knee, there were small scars left by the cable pulling on the kneecap, which Li Qi had never even noticed before.

The first joint of my right middle finger is crooked by half a bit. It was caused by being hit when I was carrying goods for someone before. I always thought it had healed, but I didn't expect the bone to be crooked. It seems that if I exert more than 200,000 jin, the force will deviate by a fraction of a millimeter.

Besides, there were many small scars. Li Qi always felt that he was very healthy, but when he looked into the Three Lives Ancient Mirror, it seemed that his whole body was full of flaws.

Technique Method are also included.

The Buddhist sorcery he used to resist the Heavenly Demon were originally thought to be perfect, but when the Three Lives Ancient Mirror looked into them, he saw that there were obstructions everywhere in the subtle operation. Nearly 10% of the energy was consumed in the internal friction, and there were also a lot of redundant mechanisms wasting energy and limiting output. They could be completely simplified.

But if you look closely at the Technique Method that Wushen Mountain taught him, although he still used them very crudely, and there were many obstacles in actual application due to his control ability, they were still perfect and without any redundancy. The structure of each Technique Method was so precise that it would be neither too redundant nor too inadequate.

Li Qi immediately understood.

The Technique Method he created and the Technique Method that Wushen Mountain taught his disciples were not even in the same league. It was laughable that he had been so smug before.

As for flaws in Dao heart, they have become much less frequent.

That demon actually knew how to use the flaws revealed by the Three Lives Ancient Mirror!

No, it's not about taking advantage of...

This celestial demon is working in concert with the Three Lives Ancient Mirror!

It seems that the Heavenly Demon itself was designed to fit the Three Lives Ancient Mirror!

The weaknesses that are revealed will naturally be known to the Heavenly Demon!

Li Qi didn't know what to say...

Is it fair to say that this is indeed the case?

After all, the Heavenly Demon belongs to Buddhism, as does the Three Lives Ancient Mirror, so it's only natural that the two are related.

Was this also part of the Imperial Academy Chancellor's plan?

This assassination attempt against me was quite a grand scheme.

However, Li Qi soon realized what was going on.

The other party probably wants him to die at the hands of the Heavenly Demon, which is why they have not launched a violent attack yet.

Since he himself died from the Heavenly Demon, and the Imperial Academy Chancellor died from the Chaotic Light, it would be an accident, and there would be no way to verify it.

But if I die from violence, even if the Imperial Academy Chancellor dies immediately, they will definitely find out that there is something fishy going on behind the scenes, which will inevitably implicate many people. So I must not let myself die from a violent attack.

With that in mind, Li Qi calmed himself down once again and faced the Heavenly Demon before him.

Opposite him, beyond the chaotic cosmic light, the Imperial Academy Chancellor was intently assisting the Heavenly Demon Qi.

He sensed that Li Qi seemed to have given up resisting, allowing his cultivation to continue to become chaotic.

This young master of Wushen Mountain couldn't resolve the internal conflict within his body, and the Heavenly Demon had its effect.

He continued to pressure Li Qi, and after a while, the other party would naturally explode and die, or fall into the demonic path in order to survive, using the demonic path to control the two laws within his body.

The Heavenly Demon continued his sermon.

They were talking about things that Li Qi couldn't refute, yet couldn't admit.

As long as these things are allowed to continue to take effect and continue to resonate in his mind, the rift between Human Path and Shaman Path within Li Qi's microcosm will grow wider and wider until it tears him apart.

As a sixth-rank official, the Imperial Academy Chancellor couldn't resolve the issue himself, let alone dare to interfere. The Human-Shaman Dao Contention, and Daoists has been going on for a long time, and some young person just wants to reconcile the two sides?

How laughable! Overestimating themselves, leaving such a huge flaw, they're practically handing food to the Heavenly Demon.

On the other side, Li Qi fell into deep thought.

He looked back at the Three Lives Ancient Mirror. Although this object helped the Heavenly Demon easily find the flaw in his Dao heart, the Three Lives Ancient Mirror had no intelligence and naturally had no bias. It would show weaknesses to the Heavenly Demon as well as to Li Qi.

He ignored the fact that his cultivation was gradually going out of control, because he knew that if he couldn't find a solution, suppressing it temporarily wouldn't work; he would eventually die anyway. It was better to put all his energy into thinking of a solution.

The conflict between the Shaman Path and the Way of Human Path is completely different in many ways, from rules and regulations to values, even the understanding of heaven and earth, and the development of Technique Method skills. The two sides do not even follow the same set of physical laws, because the rules of different worlds are subtly different, and the two Dao Lineage also have different ways of transforming heaven and earth.

The only thing they both adhere to is the one and only 'Great Dao,' which is the only thing that all the heavens and myriad realms share, truly permeating countless worlds.

However, whether this Great Dao exists or not remains a mystery, or... it only exists in the imagination of various Dao Lineage. Each Dao Path interprets the 'Great Dao' in its own way to explain the origin of the universe's existence, and each believes that it is right.

If this one and only 'Great Dao' did not exist, it would be impossible to explain the existence of everything in this universe; therefore, all Dao Lineage assume its existence.

Just like when we were on Earth, we made assumptions about mathematical laws. Regardless of whether these mathematical laws actually exist, we assume that they must exist. Then all scientific theories are derived from these 'assumptions' and then applied to reality.

This is also part of the 'Tao' of Earth; scientific thinking itself is a Dao Path.

"Then... I will also hypothesize a great path that can unify humans and witches," Li Qi murmured to himself, beginning his self-salvation.

Assumptions alone are not enough; we need to fill in the gaps.

Why can this great road unite humans and shamans? What are the characteristics of this great road?

These require not only assumptions, but also practice, using real-world situations to verify one's assumptions.

However, there is no time now to let Li Qi slowly put it into practice.

Li Qi believed that he couldn't possibly make assumptions and verify them now; if such a thing really happened, he would have died long ago.

Therefore, we should accept the 'Great Way' assumed by other Dao Path, because what other Dao Path have assumed must have been verified by a great deal of empirical evidence.

However, it cannot be based on Human Path or Shaman Path; it must come from a third party capable of mediating the matter.

This means that Li Qi must have a thorough understanding before he can apply it to himself. Otherwise, if he uses it with only a superficial understanding, not to mention that he is currently engaged in a Daoist struggle, even his perfectly intact body could explode due to careless actions.

Cultivators are able to control the immense power within their bodies entirely because of the 'Dao' (the Way). If the Dao is disordered, this energy will become uncontrollable.

As for the Cultivation Method, they are merely an auxiliary function and belong to the category of skills.

Skills are the application of the Way; the Way is the core guiding ideology, while skills are the practical methods of application.

If the Pythagorean theorem is the Tao, then manufacturing a rangefinder is the technology.

The human body, a microcosm, must also operate in accordance with the guidance of the Dao. Randomly introducing other Dao Path to guide the body is like arbitrarily changing the position of the heart, which will cause great chaos.

Previously, Li Qi managed the heavens and earth through the Shaman Path and the flow of qi through the Human Path, classifying them into categories to achieve the coexistence of the two Dao Path. He also used this method to resolve the Baiyue Dao within his body and successfully refine Guangyang.

But now, this superficial coexistence has been shattered by the Heavenly Demon.

The demon in disguise, Li Qi, had previously spoken about the differences in understanding of the Heavenly Dao between humans and sorcerers, proposing that "the principles of Heavenly Principle are the principles of humanity," making it difficult for Li Qi to govern Heaven with Shaman Path, otherwise the two would clash fiercely.

"Mediation...how to mediate?" Li Qi pondered anxiously.

Several minutes passed, Three Lives Ancient Mirror began to emit a painful buzzing sound, as if it was about to collapse. The power outage area outside had reached 504 miles.

Li Qi's body was already overwhelmed; his veins were bulging, his muscles were spasming, his Qi and Blood were churning, and his internal energy was in complete disarray.

At this moment, there were six different Li Qi in front of him, each speaking eloquently, and their sermons were constantly being delivered.

Meanwhile, the Imperial Academy Chancellor outside was methodically supporting the Heavenly Demon in gradually causing Li Qi's personal microcosm to collapse.

He wasn't in a hurry.

He's going to die anyway, and with things having escalated to this point, he has no way out.

Then the only way is to bury the young master of Wushen Mountain here as well, to repay his teacher's kindness.

However, Li Qi seemed to be in no hurry at all.

He was very familiar with the Great Way, which had been extensively proven through empirical evidence... a Great Way that could be applied here.

Indeed, there is one.

Li Qi calmed himself down and prepared to give it a try.

Now that our lives are at stake, there's no way we can stop now.

Li Qi directly extracted the last of the Great Shaman Divine Energy and poured it into the Three Lives Ancient Mirror as energy!

He wants to accelerate the Three Lives Ancient Mirror!

Speed up your journey to the second strand of True Knowledge Dao Charm, obtain the second strand of True Knowledge Dao Charm, and then begin Li Qi's self-rescue plan.

The energy of the Great Shaman is extremely refined, far superior in quality to that of the tributaries of the Dragon Vein. It's like putting a nitrogen tank into a car engine, instantly activating nitrogen acceleration!

It started accelerating like crazy, the Three Lives Ancient Mirror was speeding up the rewind, the mirror surface even began to shake, and some of it even cracked!

At this time, Li Qi sat down cross-legged, quietly thinking and waiting, while suppressing his chaotic internal energy.

However, there are limits to suppression.

About a minute later, Li Qi's body began to tear apart.

Dao Zheng reached his limit and could no longer suppress it.

The human body, a microcosm of the universe, collapsed, and the Heavenly Demon devoured his body. His cracked Dao heart could no longer control his cultivation!

His body emitted a violent sound, and a large amount of energy that was no longer under the control of the Dao scattered outwards!

Even the Inner Gods began to crumble, and one after another, the Inner Gods became chaotic, attacking each other, and all turned to ashes.

The Heavenly Demon let out a piercing howl. The surrounding 'Li Qi,' who was constantly preaching, all dissipated into demonic energy with a bang, and then transformed into chains, continuing to tear Li Qi apart at an accelerated pace.

The Imperial Academy Chancellor had been continuously supporting the Heavenly Demon from the outside, finally felt at ease.

At this point, Li Qi was already dead.

Moreover, he died from a cracked Dao heart and being devoured by a Heavenly Demon, which has nothing to do with him. The investigation can only trace back to the Heavenly Demon. Let Wushen Mountain go and talk to the Mara of Self-Transformation.

Next, as long as the Imperial Academy Chancellor also dies, everything will be unverifiable and completely accidental.

"Since that's the case, Li Cike, you've bid farewell to your mentor here, which can be considered as avenging part of the Minister's grievances. But I can't help with the feud between the academy and the Great Shaman." The Imperial Academy Chancellor knelt down in the direction of the Nanshan Academy, kowtowed, and murmured something.

The third-rank official who was executed by Zhu Fengdan had done a great favor for the branch of the Imperial Academy Chancellor.

Immediately, he rushed into the chaotic light of time, wanting it to tear him apart so that all traces could be completely erased.

But just before that, the Imperial Academy Chancellor suddenly braked.

Because he saw that Li Qi, who had already exploded, suddenly began to undergo strange changes around his body.

It's as if time has turned back.

The shattered microcosm of Li Qi's body naturally recovered, as if everything was rewinding. Li Qi's collapsed microcosm quickly returned to a quarter of an hour earlier, and his physical body, which was on the verge of death, actually returned to its previous state.

This is a life-saving method given to Li Qi by the Great Shaman: the Time Reversal Talisman!

"You insolent fool! You're stalling for time!" The Imperial Academy Chancellor roared, gritting his teeth!

He saw through Li Qi's plan at a glance; Li Qi wanted to use this thing to buy time!

This thing can't save Li Qi; the Time Reversal Talisman can't save Xia Li Qi's already cracked Dao heart.

Li Qi can only recover his physical body now, but it continues to collapse because he cannot control the cultivation within him.

But the collapse takes time!

This young master of Wushen Mountain must be planning to use this time for something. What plan has he come up with?!

The Imperial Academy Chancellor was alarmed, fearing that Li Qi might have another trick up his sleeve!