I Know Him

Most people would probably find it hard to imagine that Li Qi, a legitimate Shaman, was actually proficient in demonic arts and could even use them.

This is not just simple research; it's a true 'fall into the dark side'.

In reality, Li Qi had already fallen into the demonic path. He was deeply troubled by the Heavenly Demon, but others were unaware of it.

Who would have thought that a legitimate young master of Wushen Mountain would be carrying so many messy affairs?

However, putting aside the principles, just considering the effects, demonic methods are really useful.

However... the underlying principle is quite horrifying.

Demonic thoughts arise in everyone's heart, but from the perspective of the demonic path, all of this is a projection of one's own psychology. Since I am the only one in the world, these demonic thoughts are naturally also me. All demonic thoughts, memories, and even consciousness itself are projections of the demonic path practitioner's own self.

Since it's a projection of myself, it's normal that I can manipulate and guide it, right?

This is utterly absurd logic; it's obvious at a glance that this idea is impractical...

But in reality, they did it.

The meaningless operations performed under this absurd logic actually had an effect. The demonic path can indeed manipulate the demonic thoughts in other people's hearts, and even use these demonic thoughts to give birth to demons, thereby controlling memories, influencing consciousness, or even directly possessing the body, completely destroying a person's consciousness, and sitting in the victim's body.

Of course, there are different schools of thought in the demonic path, just like the Hundred Schools of Human Path and the Three Lineages of Shaman Path and their many branches.

The Four Demons are, of course, the main schools of demonic cultivation.

The Affliction Demon, this lineage of demonic paths can afflict the minds and bodies of sentient beings with greed, anger, and ignorance. It focuses on negative demonic thoughts and is the most notorious lineage of demonic paths. This type of demonic path is good at inciting negative emotions in other people's hearts, causing them to stray from the Way and desires, leading them to fall into depravity and become another person. In the end Dao heart, are unable to cultivate, and can only fall into the demonic path.

The Five Aggregates Demon is not aimed at the Dao heart, but rather at controlling the Five Aggregates, blurring the boundaries between consciousness and the physical body, making what you see, hear, and even touch no longer real, unable to distinguish between illusion and delusion, ultimately leading to ruin.

This is not just a simple illusion, because what the five aggregates see is the real thing. Therefore, ordinary methods of dispelling illusions and delusion are meaningless. Even those True Knowledge Dao Charm cannot discern anything wrong after the five aggregates have changed.

The cultivators of the Five Aggregates Demonic Path can even completely distort a person's senses, turning beauty into ugliness, good into bad, and black into white.

If Li Qi had to describe it... it would probably be something like the Saya no Uta?

The whole world has gone mad. Everyone is feeding on filthy, rotten flesh and blood, turning into monsters, but I'm the only normal one...

Or perhaps, I'm the only one who's abnormal?

In short, the Five Aggregates Demon are terrifying.

Then there's the Death Demon, which can be considered the demonic path in the usual sense, something most people can understand normally.

The core tenet of the demonic path is extreme solipsism; everything outside of oneself is meaningless. Therefore, the Death Demon lineage believes that everything is meaningless, merely a projection of their own self, so... let it all be destroyed.

It is said that all sentient beings, from all sentient beings, die young.

The most common type is the demon, the kind that burns, kills, robs, and does whatever it wants, committing all sorts of evil deeds.

Finally, what Li Qi learned was the Heavenly Demon, which refers to the methods Li Qi currently uses to manipulate demonic thoughts. In the future, these methods can even be developed into manipulating reality. This is a highly prestigious, rare, and aloof skill within the demonic path.

Li Qi, who directly observed and learned these things from the Heavenly Demon, can be considered a second-generation disciple of the Demonic Path, comparable to a direct disciple of the Witch God, although he himself was not happy about it.

The power of the Heavenly Demon lies in its recognition and manipulation of reality. In other words, the Heavenly Demon understands reality better than anyone else. It is precisely because of this understanding that it can more profoundly recognize the relationship between reality and its own mind, thus enabling it to control and influence reality.

So Li Qi reached out his hand.

Reality has become clearer.

He enhanced his senses through demonic means, making the entire real world more vivid.

Incredibly vivid information began to flood into Li Qi's sensory organs at an accelerated pace.

Old Ma waited quietly on the side, because he knew that when Li Qi started to use demonic methods, it meant that he was getting serious.

However, Li Qi is not yet capable of 'manipulating reality' because he doesn't believe in the absurd logic of the demonic path. Although the Heavenly Demon did manage to do it, Li Qi felt that the Heavenly Demon must have forcibly done it using his cultivation level, and must have used some other method.

His beliefs simply couldn't convince him to accept this absurd idealistic and solipsistic thought, which was completely contrary to his principles.

Therefore, Li Qi's current application of demonic arts is limited to the application of demonic thoughts and his own personal application.

Its application is also easy to understand.

Self-hypnosis, especially self-hypnosis while awake, can allow the body to perform at a higher level.

This is Li Qi's current application of demonic arts, and under normal circumstances, he wouldn't use it.

He absolutely could not accept the idea of solipsism.

Using this method, Li Qi began his investigation.

The reality is more vivid, therefore, the clues become clearer.

Li Qi began to gather all the information in the vicinity.

First, there's information about the mermaid girl.

Li Qi concealed himself and quietly followed Lei Fang as she left, confirming that she had indeed traveled five hundred miles and was still under the control of the demonic thoughts. Then he began to analyze Lei Fang's aura, using True Knowledge Dao Charm and Information Flow Vision to analyze whether anyone else had attacked her mind or body.

After confirming that there was no other aura on the other party, Li Qi decisively left, continuing to conceal his presence, and began searching for clues about the Bai family in the pearl field.

Li Qi intends to use demonic methods to find the clue he envisioned—

He needs to find the aura of the Flood Dragon.

In a sense, the Heavenly Demon does not deny the existence of objective facts; however, objective facts in themselves are meaningless, only those objective facts that are perceived by people have meaning.

A supernova explosion that occurs millions of light-years away is meaningless because it doesn't exist for Earth until its light reaches us.

One thing that cannot be perceived by others is nothingness.

Things exist because they are perceived; if they cannot be perceived, they do not exist.

The whole world is merely a construct of one's own perception. Based on this premise, there is no need to acknowledge the existence of others except oneself. This is the purest form of solipsism.

Objective facts only have meaning when perceived by the mind; therefore, then—

"So... Buddha Child, is this the perspective after awakening? Is the Awakening the World meant to give everyone this vision and this perspective?" A black Flood Dragon was speaking to a monk.

The monk was about twenty years old, but he wore a thick veil that covered his face, so all that could be seen was that he was bald.

"Yes, the enlightened one will gain greater power and the recognition of Buddhism. In this way, you can save nearly half of the challenges when you start your journey through water from the Western Paradise, because the Western Paradise will not stop you from traveling through water. You only need to focus on Wushen Mountain, and Wushen Mountain does not resist the Flood Dragon's journey through water. You only need to deal with the resistance of the righteous people. In this way, your chances of survival in the journey through water will increase from half a percent to sixty percent." The monk said this to the Flood Dragon.

"So, with such enormous benefits, you only want me to do some flawed things to that Wushen Mountain? Do you think he's a fool, or do you want to use me as bait? Buddha Child, the grudges between you seventh-rank beings shouldn't involve a fifth-rank being, especially a fifth-rank Flood Dragon." The black Flood Dragon gradually rose up, emanating immense pressure.

But then, a dragon's shadow rose from the sea.

The sea began to boil, dark clouds gathered, wind and thunder raged, night fell, heavy rain and lightning struck, and fire erupted from the sea, stretching for seven hundred miles without ceasing, creating a spectacular sight of fire on the sea.

A tiny figure floated on the fire in the sea, surrounded by blooming lotus flowers.

The sea was so hot and greasy that it seemed to have turned into a cauldron of boiling oil, with flames blazing fiercely within.

The monk set off the fire in the midst of the raging flames, bowed to the dragon, and his body and face were scorched.

Repeat this ritual once, then lie on the fire. When the firewood is exhausted and the fire is extinguished, your bones and flesh will all turn to dust, but your heart will remain, red and damp, with your liver, intestines, spleen and stomach still connected.

Then, a golden body was seen to reappear above the five internal organs and the Buddha's heart.

Her head was adorned with emerald green hairpins, and her body shone with purple-gold. Her spiritual light was all-pervasive, and all could see celestial flowers like snowflakes, falling in abundance and reflecting the light as they descended. The flowers were shaped like seven-inch plates, all shimmering with color, displaying the rarity of five colors and revealing the extraordinary appearance of six colors.

Thus, the heavenly flowers fell into the sea, the dragon's fire gradually died down, and the young monk stood unharmed in the sea, his body transformed into a golden Buddhist statue, completely unharmed.

"I naturally understand what you mean. I am not borrowing your help this time to threaten you. It is just to exchange what we have. Do you know that in our Buddhist sect, among the eight classes of gods and dragons, there is the second class of gods and dragons, and there is also the Nagarjuna Bodhisattva who can access the Dragon Palace, open the seven treasures, and bestow them upon all directions."

"In Buddhism, there are also ten dragon kings: 1. Virupaksha Dragon King, 2. Sagara Dragon King, 3. Cloud Sound Banner Dragon King, 4. Flaming Mouth Ocean Light Dragon King, 5. Universal High Cloud Banner Dragon King, 6. Virtuous Meaning Dragon King, 7. Boundless Step Dragon King, 8. Pure Color Dragon King, 9. Universal Movement Great Sound Dragon King, 10. No Heat Brain Dragon King."

"Just at the bottom of this Eastern Sea, there is the palace of the Dragon King Sagara, which is 80,000 yojanas in length and breadth. The palace has seven layers of walls, seven layers of railings, seven layers of nets, and seven rows of trees, all of which are decorated with the seven treasures."

"Sagara Heaven, along with Great Brahma Black Heaven, is one of the heavens, which shows that the dragon race also has a place in Buddhism. Why should you be hostile to me?" the monk said.

"Flood Dragon moves through the water, starting from the west, the vitality increases from half to sixty percent. Isn't this the beginning of the friendship between the two sides? A wise man may be suspicious, but he cannot be without strategy."

The monk laughed and said this.

The black Flood Dragon twisted its body restlessly, looking at the monk in front of it.

He knew that what the other party said was true. After the Buddhist sect killed the dragon in the Human Path, it took the initiative to accept a large number of Flood Dragon and help them travel on water. As a result, a large number of true dragons became protectors of the Buddhist sect, and even powerful beings such as the Virupaksha Dragon King and the Sagara Dragon King were born.

But what does this have to do with him? The monk in front of him is indeed Buddha Child, but can Buddha Child who behaves like this really represent Buddhism?

But those methods cannot be faked; they are absolutely genuine Buddhist techniques, and may even have the aura of a true Buddha.

That is the real Buddha! It is absolutely impossible for anyone in the world to be wrong or to imitate him. This must be the kind of skill and foundation that only Buddha Child could possess, which is why the Flood Dragon had no choice but to believe in him.

There's no way around it. Someone claims to be rich, shows you their private jet, and even takes you on a trip around the world. No matter how much you disbelieve it, they are rich.

The airplane couldn't be faked, the flight around it couldn't be faked either, and even the experience of the Awakening the World couldn't be faked.

If this can be faked, it means that the forger has become so powerful that it is beyond imagination, and there is no difference between it and the real thing.

"Alright, Buddha Child, I admit you're right, but I still don't believe your clumsy methods can fool that Wushen Mountain."

"I instructed those rural landlords in East Isle, and used the Mirage Castle to arouse his suspicion. I even deliberately arranged for a Reason Way priest to make him feel suspicious. But all of this combined... clearly exposes our existence. I don't know what you're planning to do to him, but with this kind of behavior, he will definitely make several preparations behind the scenes. If you let the fish get ready, you won't catch any fish." The Flood Dragon stared at the monk Ricci and said.

Yes, in his understanding, such a haphazard arrangement was simply stirring up trouble and deliberately letting the other party leave.

But the monk put his hands together and smiled slightly, saying, "He will. You don't understand this person. The more meticulous and watertight your arrangements are, the more cautious he will become, and he might even leave directly."

"It is precisely because of these flawed arrangements that he actively follows the clues to investigate. This is his weakness; he has a strong curiosity and wants to explore everything."

"Curiosity needs bait to be aroused. What is your bait? Unknown danger? Even the dumbest tortoise knows to avoid danger." The Flood Dragon couldn't help but say this.

"The Reason Way the Way of Evolution are the bait. Coupled with this flawed scheme, even if he is wary, he will definitely take the bait."

But the Flood Dragon persisted, wanting to know the reason. "I can't understand the connection between these two things. What is the connection between the flawed scheme and the knowledge of the Way of Evolution and the Reason Way? What changes could it cause to make him willingly enter the scheme? This is a scheme against a young master of Wushen Mountain. I still have a chance to extricate myself. You'd better explain things to me clearly, otherwise if I leave now, even the Buddha Child can't do anything to me."

Seeing the Flood Dragon's attitude, the monk sighed.

So he said:

"Because I understand him, I know his every thought..."

"It's like... understanding myself."