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On Xuanjing Mountain, near Li Qi's cave abode, he was currently questioning a rat.

"Sowing seeds?" Li Qi tilted his head.

"Yes, sowing seeds, eating fruit... then, then we should sow seeds for other plants. That's the principle the old man in the nest taught me." The little mouse trembled, but still said, "If we don't, there will be fewer and fewer fruits in the future."

Li Qi nodded and said, "That's right, that's how it should be. Go then."

The little mouse, feeling as if it had been granted a pardon, quickly squeaked and ran away.

Li Qi's gaze followed the rat's path, True Knowledge Dao Charm his senses extended further inward, he saw the rat disappear into its hole.

Inside the mouse hole, an old mouse of the ninth rank, its fur all withered and white, was reciting classic texts to a group of hairless little mice, holding a book no bigger than a thumbnail.

The little mouse quickly ran inside, and only then did it calm down and stop being so scared.

Li Qi looked away and took a deep breath.

He absorbed the intense vitality and Spiritual Qi into his body, feeling the power contained within... Li Qi looked around at the scenery again.

As far as the eye can see, almost everything on this land, the rivers, the trees, and all kinds of creatures possesses sentience and has been transformed into spirits by the powerful Heaven and Earth Great Source.

These spirits are not necessarily demons, but rather pure 'elves'.

From grand scenes like snow, moon, wind, and flowers, to small items like bottles, chimes, combs, and even withered stems and fallen leaves, spirits appear in everything.

Neither the visible nor the invisible can conceal its wondrous nature, nor can the myriad phenomena hide its spirit.

Furthermore, their appearance is not a drain on resources, but rather a gradual strengthening of the Heaven and Earth Great Source. Their cultivation is not like that of the Daoist and Human Path, which collect Spiritual Qi Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and earth and expel impure energy. Instead, they strengthen the Heaven and Earth Great Source as a whole.

The Daoist cultivation method involves taking away what one needs and then gathering more. When they cultivate fire magic, they need Fire Qi, so they go to places with Earth Fire to seize Earth Fire or go to the heavens to pluck heavenly fire for their cultivation.

This is pure plunder for heaven and earth. The cultivation method of the Daoist sect aims to achieve the 'unique self'.

Therefore, if the Daoists collect too much, the world may even dry up, because the essence of the world has been consumed and taken away, and then they will leave this place.

They call this departure 'ascension'.

But Shaman Path is different.

These spirits, like Shaman, cultivate and improve, but... they are still part of nature and will not separate from nature. They are still part of the entire cycle, only... they gradually become more and more important. Their 'position' is getting higher and higher, and they can influence more and more things.

But he is still a part of it, he has never left it and will never leave it. As he becomes stronger, the Heaven and Earth Great Source also gradually becomes stronger.

Li Qi suddenly realized why he no longer resisted certain special energies.

Demons find the human presence in cities annoying, Human Path find the miasma in the wilderness bothersome, Daoists find the Yao Qi pungent and foul, and Buddhists naturally dislike demonic energy and have many methods to counter it.

But the Shaman Path the only one who didn't feel anything about these energies. He was used to everything and didn't find anything special about them.

All of this is because it is all part of the universe; it exists naturally, so there is no conflict between them.

No matter how powerful you are, you are still a part of the universe.

You cannot exist outside the universe. Even if you really leave this world, you are still just outside the 'box', and the outside of the box is also part of the universe.

Therefore, the only thing you can change is your location, not the world itself.

"I see, I see," Li Qi sighed.

He understood.

With his cultivation at the sixth rank, he became much calmer and his foundation became more solid.

However, given the current situation, he could no longer feel joy; the thought of Shen Shuibi going to the front lines weighed heavily on his mind.

Now that we can see the true scenery of the Shaman Path, it's time to take a good rest. He was granted the title of a seventh-rank Orthodox God, and even with the help of the Ancestor's Mansion, he was still somewhat exhausted.

Conferring titles upon gods requires a great deal of resources. Minor demons who request titles for mortals will make amends afterward, otherwise they will incur a huge karmic debt.

Therefore, what Niu Huang said about the imperial decree being like a second birth, and the person in question being like a father, is actually quite reasonable.

"Never mind, let's rest for a bit." Li Qi shook his head, returned to the empty cave abode, and closed his eyes.

He wasn't practicing any spiritual disciplines; he was just sleeping.

I haven't slept for a long time, and the microcosm of my body is tilted towards Yang Energy. Sleeping helps to regulate yin and yang.

I fell asleep immediately.

Time passed slowly, and Li Qi's fatigue gradually faded away during his sleep.

But as I was sleeping, I suddenly felt a warmth.

Li Qi didn't open his eyes, True Knowledge Dao Charm instantly swept around, gathering all the information in the vicinity before his eyes!

This is very convenient, just like the legendary divine thought.

Normally, divine thoughts do not exist.

After all, senses are just senses. Even practitioners need to rely on different senses to perceive the outside world.

The eyes are the organs that sense light, the ears are the organs that sense mechanical waves, and the nose is the organ that senses odor molecules; these senses are fixed.

Different senses bring different feelings, which recently converge in the five aggregates and are analyzed by your thinking organs, thus obtaining information about the surrounding world.

Even for high-level cultivators who can directly see things at the molecular level, their eyes still receive light and see things through light.

What exactly is divine thought? What kind of sense is it? How does it acquire information from its surroundings? Light? Mechanical waves? Diffused molecules?

After all, information transmission always requires a medium; it's impossible for information to be transmitted directly without any medium. And obtaining information from a medium is the essence of 'sensory perception'.

Without the corresponding sense, you simply cannot perceive it. There is almost no such thing as an omnipotent, absolute sense that can perceive everything.

Yes, almost, non-existent.

Because, True Knowledge Dao Charm is such an all-powerful sense.

Now, the enhanced True Knowledge Dao Charm can perceive all media, whether it be smell, light, mechanical waves, or anything else, and can even directly read deeper information. It can also be directly seen and analyzed by Li Qi's information flow vision, without having to go through the Five Aggregates, thus eliminating the possibility of illusion.

This could be considered Li Qi's Trump Card.

With that sweep, Li Qi immediately noticed the things around him.

That warm feeling was because Shen Shuibi was sleeping next to him.

The furniture around the room was all arranged.

Curtains and canopies, screens and partitions, dusters and scepters, incense burners and baskets, beds, pillows and quilts, mats and blankets, tables and chests, bath basins and combs, hairpins and towels, hairpins and earrings, round mirrors and powder utensils—everything was there.

Li Qi had simply found a random place to sleep, so he wasn't on a bed. The warmth he felt came from Shen Shuibi's body temperature, and the two were now leaning against each other.

The rabbit was indeed asleep, curled up in a ball, with even its ears showing.

Black.

This is quite amazing. The color of a rabbit's fur can actually change, and the change follows the pattern of the moon's phases, with its waxing and waning. This is one of the characteristics of the rabbit as the essence of the moon.

However, she doesn't show her true form when she's not in a hurry, so she rarely does.

Perhaps he was really asleep today, because his ears were showing.

Li Qi stood up and pinched his perked-up ears.

The rabbit's ears nimbly darted away, and then it opened its eyes.

Both of them have very keen senses. Although the rabbit doesn't have omnipotent senses, her senses are actually extremely sharp.

Keen and excellent senses, coupled with sufficient information processing capabilities, are necessary to support the combat and daily life of high-level cultivators.

After all, in battles that take place in extraterrestrial realms and are measured in light-years, although they do not possess an all-powerful sense that can perceive everything, their existing sensory abilities are actually far beyond those of ordinary people and are extremely precise.

Shen Shuibi may now be able to see molecular structures with the naked eye.

Li Qi had experienced this before; the mind-reading ability of a third-rank cultivator wasn't actually about reading minds, but rather about simply seeing your thought process.

Because human thought must have a carrier: brainwaves, nerve synapses, fluctuations of the soul, or even the workings of the universe in Shaman, or the exchange of physical matter in martial arts. These are the carriers that constitute thought.

The third-grade can see the smallest details with the naked eye, even the quantum realm smaller than a photon, and directly see all your thought processes, so it is clear what you are thinking.

Although Li Qi didn't know if the quantum realm existed in this world, the various forms of 'qi' that form the basis of all things seemed to be infinitely divisible.

A wisp of air can be broken down into countless strands, and a single strand of air can be broken down into countless smaller strands. In any case, Li Qi has not yet broken down to the most basic part of air, so the great shamans should be able to 'see' it directly.

After all, eyes are for seeing. Even if they don't have an all-powerful sense like the True Knowledge Dao Charm, they have their own methods, which may be even more amazing than an all-powerful sense.

In the past, the rabbit was always a little reserved when her fur or ears were stroked. However, now she seemed to have gotten used to it. After being woken up by Li Qi pinching her ears, she casually put her ears back and returned to human form, saying, "You're awake? I've almost finished furnishing the place and arranged everything. From now on, we can live and cultivate here without any problems, even for thousands of years."

"That's good, but I probably won't be able to stay for several thousand years. By the way, I'll ask the local mountain god to host a feast for the local spirits as a way of celebrating my move."

"I've already made preparations for all of this. The ingredients and drinks are all ready. Celebrating is the proper thing to do. By the way, the people from Mount Luofu will also be coming. I've already informed them." Shen Shuibi nodded.

As it should be, establishing a government is a major event, and after this, Shen Shuibi will not easily return to Mount Luofu again.

From now on, she and Li Qi will settle here.

Although neither of them showed much emotion, they were both secretly pleased.

Very nice.

Li Qi got up and stretched. "Then get up and prepare the banquet. After the banquet, it will be a new day."

"Yes, it would be natural to have another child then. After all, just setting up the battlefield in advance would take the great shamans hundreds of years. We'll be living here for the next few hundred years." Shen Shuibi nodded and said in a calm tone, simply stating the facts.

However, though the speaker meant no harm, the listener felt a headache coming on. Li Qi felt as if his words were a mountain pressing down on him, making his shoulders feel heavy. He coughed twice and changed the subject. "Ahem, let's talk about that later. Let's invite our relatives and friends and tell them first."

Shen Shuibi had no suspicions, and the two immediately went their separate ways to handle their own affairs and notify their respective relatives and friends.

Li Qi first wrote to Chang'an to inform Bo Yue and the others. After much hesitation, he also informed Liu Shenzhi and the others. As for whether or not to come...

Let them decide for themselves. After all, going deep into the heart of Wushen Mountain is quite exciting for Human Path, isn't it?

Besides, what's the point of coming? It's just... a final farewell, isn't it?

From then on, their paths diverged, and they went their separate ways.

Li Qi and Shen Shuibi each made their own preparations.

The banquet dishes, celebrations, and etiquette were all entrusted to Li Qi.

The venue setup, invitations, and drinks were handled by Shen Shuibi, who was more skilled in these areas.

After all, they are cultivators, so even without help from others, they can work very quickly.

Li Qi also had a lot of experience with banquets, and the business of Huanjing tableware that he had built up in Shangyuan made him very good at these things.

Before long, the banquet was set up.

The illusion unfolds, as if in a dream.

The lanterns shone brightly, auspicious five-colored clouds surrounded the area, the air was filled with the fragrance of incense, and there was a scene of celestial music.

There are two floating rivers around it, the water flowing in the air, forming a cycle, and emitting a fragrant aroma.

Upon closer inspection, one of the two floating rivers was formed by Spirit Spring, while the other was entirely composed of fine wine.

Two small rivers floated in mid-air, flowing through the cave abode, with small boats on them.

The small boat was exquisite and beautiful, but upon closer inspection, one would find that it was laden with stacks of dishes: dried bean curd, raw melon seeds, small fruit dishes, crispy sesame cakes, spring rolls, crystal cakes, pork dumplings, and sugar-coated steamed buns, all floating gently on the floating river.

In addition, there are prayer wheels, talisman bags, spirit talismans, and scrolls hanging in the cave abode, with red gauze and gold, and calamus Steamed Bone Powder hanging on the door. Five-colored calamus is hung around the left and right sides.

The carvings depict hundreds of insects, which are then surrounded by sunflowers, pomegranates, Mugwort Leaf, and flowers. Inside, colorful threads, delicate gold-carved flowers, silver drums, candied fruits, cleverly crafted rice dumplings, and five-colored beads are tied into a lucky bag. The imperial calligraphy of sunflowers and pomegranates, mugwort tigers, and pieces of gauze are piled up to form a small array to ward off plague.

Sunflowers and pomegranates vie for beauty, gardenias and mugwort compete for fragrance, zongzi wrapped in gold, calamus sliced like jade, tortoise shells laid out, zithers and lutes clanging melodiously. As for the other decorations, they are even more extravagant, with illusionary scenes presented. The details of the scenery depend on one's imagination. One can see lanterns hanging in front and behind, all inlaid with white glass and covered with pearl netting. Wine flasks and tea kettles are arranged on the left and right.

The sky is filled with stars, a gentle breeze blows, dewdrops are refreshing, osmanthus blossoms are fragrant, Silver Toad shines brightly – this is what Shen Shuibi desires.

After confirming that everything was in order, Li Qi sent out the invitations.

The God of Niu Huang Mountain also received a share.