The Novelty of Queuing

Li Qi's mission in coming to the outer realms this time is to win over the worlds surrounding Heart Mansion and get them to contribute to the fight against Human Path. Moreover, thanks to the Method Formula given to him by Shen Yijun, he can also try to communicate with 'Great Fire'. If he can gain even a slight bias from the Star Official, it will have a crucial impact on the battle.

However, Human Path will certainly do the same thing.

Human Path and the Star Official have a good relationship. Although they are at odds with the Ziwei Heavenly Court, this does not prevent the Star Official from often helping Human Path.

Moreover, there was once a human emperor who also served as Star Official. Although the details of this affair are unknown, there is definitely something fishy going on, so we must be wary of it.

The fact that the Human Emperor could also serve as Star Official is something Li Qi wouldn't believe if it weren't for the internal records of Wushen Mountain.

However, let's talk about it later. Since we're already here, let's go to this world first, find the leader of the Lingchou Realm, explain our situation, and then gradually expand from the Lingchou Realm as the center.

With that thought in mind, Li Qi headed towards the World Barrier and started queuing.

There was a real queue. There were countless merchant ships here, all transporting the robes produced in this world. So, if you wanted to get in, you had to queue up and have your qualifications checked one by one.

There are many teams ahead, mainly divided into three groups: convoys and individual teams.

There are two convoys, which are large ships and Law Treasure artifacts, divided into commercial and civilian convoys. The commercial convoys are generally World-Class Giant Ship, located on another channel tens of millions of miles away.

The civilian-use ones are all small flying boats, lined up thousands of miles away. From here, you can see all sorts of bizarre and Divergent Method floating there, waiting to enter the world.

Then there's the human team, which is the Li Qi is here with.

There were many, many people, probably tens of thousands, queuing up. Some were with their families, while others, like Li Qi, were alone, floating in the void. The tens of thousands of people were divided into two or three hundred queues in front, with many local cultivators from the Lingchou Realm verifying their identity information.

It's quite professional.

This was Li Qi's first time visiting such a "civilized" world outside the realm. Before, he had only been to uncivilized worlds where he had never stepped out of his own world, so he still found it somewhat novel.

There were people lined up in front and behind, but the one in front couldn't be considered human. It was said to be a humanoid creature, but it looked like a cucumber, with green skin that had no elasticity. Li Qi didn't know what kind of species it was; he had never seen it before.

However, the creature behind him is a normal humanoid, somewhat resembling a mermaid, but instead of a fish tail, it has normal legs. However, you can still see the characteristics of an aquatic creature, such as the webbed fingers and the gills behind the ears.

So, is the cheekbone useful in the air? Well, it's just like Li Qi's nose. Although it does exist, it's actually useless in the void.

For spiritual practitioners, these organs are more of a symbol of their inner world than something they actually need to use.

Moreover, they speak in a refined and Yayan, which shows the cultural influence the world has on them.

In fact, Li Qi could tell that these races spoke their own languages to their relatives, but used the universal standard Yayan to other races.

After all, the influence of the world is here, and speaking the same language makes it easier to communicate.

The outer void has no medium in the usual sense, so sound cannot travel normally. Therefore, people communicate through a special kind of gas. As long as sound can travel, that's fine. Because of this, sound can travel quite far. If you are willing to collect this gas, you can even hear sounds from tens of miles away.

Li Qi listened to these people talking with curiosity, wanting to learn some knowledge and customs from outside the region that he didn't understand.

However, after listening to them, it seemed that they were mostly talking about business.

They talked about which world group has good specialties, which place has recently seen price increases, which place has recently experienced incidents, and which place has developed new technologies and products.

However, Li Qi was also in this business and had his own chamber of commerce. He listened to some news with great interest and nodded slightly, but he could clearly hear the flaws in other news, which sounded obviously fabricated.

Truth and falsehood are intertwined, and all sorts of rumors circulate. When the distance expands to the concept of light-years, it becomes virtually impossible to judge what is true and what is false.

As he listened, the aquatic person behind him suddenly spoke to Li Qi, saying, "Brother, why are you just listening without saying anything? Which world are you from? You look very orthodox."

How orthodox! This standard of judgment is actually based on the 'world'.

Many humanoid races, or even those that are not so humanoid, generally regard the creatures closest to the heavens as the so-called 'orthodox'.

Of course, they also have their own sense of belonging, but... after all, the world is indeed too unattainable for them. Apart from those worlds of the third rank or even higher, they basically still recognize this difference.

However, this "orthodox" way of speaking isn't really that serious; it doesn't really distinguish between superior and inferior terms, and is roughly similar to an adjective like "stylish."

You look so stylish, and your clothes are so fashionable. You don't look like a local; you look more like someone from a superior country Other Shore the ocean, or a beacon of the universe. Naturally, you look more upscale.

In reality, what's high-class isn't you as a person, but your clothing and appearance, the collective advantage brought by skin color and race, which is essentially a kind of colonized mentality.

However, there's nothing that can be done; the gap is indeed too large, and it's a gap in all aspects, not just in productivity, but also in terms of spiritual civilization and technological development.

"Oh, I come from the heavens." Li Qi cupped his hands, not intending to lie, and honestly admitted it.

This is Li Qi's character. Back in Baiyue, he didn't even change his name when he was wanted by the government. Now that he's in no danger in foreign lands, he naturally won't hide anything.

After he said that, everyone around him fell silent for a moment.

"Wow, really?" another voice asked, breaking the silence.

"Why tell such a lie? I am indeed from the world, but I am no big shot, just an unknown nobody. Don't worry about me." Li Qi waved his hand.

However, these people's reactions were not the fear, panic, or restraint that Li Qi had anticipated.

In fact, they surrounded them instantly!

"Wow, buddy, are you interested in taking a look at this?"

"Look at mine, look at mine!"

In an instant, they displayed many items in front of Li Qi, vying to offer their prices.

And the price is surprisingly cheap.

It's like taking your banknotes to Southeast Asia to buy things.

It seems that for these people, the people of the world are not something to be feared, but rather... easy targets?

Anyway, Li Qi felt like they were treating him like a sucker.

And... he felt that it seemed... indeed... worth buying.

Wow, these things are so cheap! Compared to prices all over the world, many of these items are ridiculously cheap. Li Qi could see that although the overall strength of these items wasn't high, they all had their own unique ingenuity.

For example, the aquatic race that recently presented a set of illusion orbs. Of course, Upper Heaven the Mirage Pearl of the world, but the price was ridiculously low. Most importantly, the method by which these orbs created illusions was very novel.

The world uses "qi" to create illusions. For example, the illusion of the Mirage Pearl is formed from the mirage qi, and the illusion of the Demon Prince is manifested by his demonic qi affecting the senses.

The principle behind this set of illusion orbs is completely different. It uses a special technique to create rabbits by tying knotted cloth and horses by tying knotted grass. They have no physical form, yet they arise from causes and conditions, like stars and lamps, all metaphors for impermanence. Therefore, the body is like an illusion.

In layman's terms, this is a set of illusions that achieve their effect by deceiving the 'principles of the Dao'. Through a method that Li Qi doesn't quite understand, the world itself is deceived, thus creating a corresponding 'reality'. However, this deception is not stable and will shatter at the slightest touch. But before it is touched, it is real and almost indistinguishable!

Of course, this method won't work in the world. The laws of the world are so solid and rigorous that it's almost impossible to deceive them.

But it works really well outside of those regions.

Completely different ecosystems and environments have created different Technique Method, many of which are quite creative. In addition to this set of orbs that deceive the world, there are also martial arts-like creatures that can refine Qi bead by eating, and pets made of exquisite pure mechanical structures.

Truly, the moment Li Qi saw it, he felt his manly heart was touched.

Wow, that's cool! It's a fully automated machine with no electronic technology, no Technique Method, and no soul sealed inside. It relies entirely on ingenious mechanical parts—gears, knobs, threads, and a small, semi-permanent power core—to achieve functions like following, flying, and recording.

So... Li Qi, this sucker, ended up paying up in the end.

Actually, it's quite cheap, isn't it? Much cheaper than Zaitianxia.

It seems that these people all think that everyone in the world is foolish and rich. But isn't it nice to spend a little money to buy some happiness?

Li Qi acquired a bunch of useless little toys. These people seemed to know that their weapons of war and magical Law Treasure would not attract Li Qi at all, so most of what they brought out were toys, all of which were quite ingenious.

It's clear that these people have some tricks up their sleeves when dealing with people from all over the world.

However, Li Qi noticed that these toys seemed to be luxury items to them, and were actually quite expensive, but they seemed cheap to him.

Similar to... a piece of jade from Southeast Asia, around two thousand yuan.

For Li Qi, two thousand yuan was nothing; he just wanted to have some fun.

But for them, it might be a year's income.

The world's diversity is revealed in these places.

While admiring the many ingenious ideas, Li Qi took out his money and the line moved forward smoothly. Before long, he was at the front of the line and arrived at the checkpoint.

The flow of people was divided into hundreds of checkpoints, and he saw the same inspection equipment as East Isle here.

"The Dao Rule Reader, um... the Spiritual Dao?" Li Qi asked the inspector with some surprise.

"Huh? From the sky?" The inspector looked up, also taken aback.

However, what truly surprised the inspectors was that Li Qi also scanned him in the same way.

"Fellow traveler?" The inspector looked surprised and pleased.

Li Qi understood what was going on with the other person's expression.

Pure spiritual practitioners rarely appear in the outside world. They have almost no need for things like 'cultivating the mind' or 'training,' and consider it a waste of time.

True spiritual practitioners can even achieve complete ignorance of the outside world while simultaneously mastering all its rules.

This is related to their philosophy. In their view, frantically learning and understanding the outside world is just a waste of time, something fools have no choice but to do.

So-called experience is essentially nothing more than observing and recording various phenomena that have occurred, then putting these phenomena together to deduce the deeper principles that may exist within them. With many such examples, one makes it seem as if their own Dao Lineage are very profound.

But all of this is just superficial.

But the spiritual path, without leaving home, only requires one to use one's wisdom to deduce a set of a priori rules. Then all the movements and changes of all things can be deduced through these a priori rules. This is the true 'Dao', and this is the Higher Vehicle Dao Lineage.

Shaman and Reason Way explain all things by citing ten thousand examples, using these examples to prove the Tao. But spiritual principles explain all things with just a piece of paper on which a set of a priori rules are written. With this piece of paper, one can deduce all things in the world.

They like to deduce a set of 'a priori rules' in their minds. These rules are objective, universal, and applicable everywhere. They are the true 'Tao', not empirical rules summarized by other clumsy methods.

In their eyes, a priori rules and empirical rules are simply smart and stupid methods.

Therefore, spiritual practitioners rarely enjoy traveling outside. Even if they must travel outside, it is mostly to verify whether the a priori rules they have come up with conform to the existence of the objective world.

But there are always exceptions. The spiritual path is also divided into two factions. Some spiritual practitioners are perhaps a bit slow. They just can't figure out these rules no matter what they do, so they can only come to the outside world and use clumsy methods.

Others are intelligent enough to acknowledge the existence of a set of a priori rules, but these rules cannot be derived from mere thought; rather, they must be applied in conjunction with practice. These individuals are the rare spiritual practitioners who walk the path of cultivation in the outside world.

The spiritual paths that appear in the outside world are all of this kind, and can all be called 'fellow paths', which is why the inspector was so happy.

Although we don't know how he ended up in this world, he must be very happy to have met a fellow traveler.

Unfortunately, I am not a practitioner of spiritual cultivation.

But luckily, he's from all over the world, so communication should be easier and there's no need to waste time explaining the symbols.

So Li Qi said, "Brother, you've made a mistake. I'm not from the Spirit Path. By the way, please inform the Realm Lord that an envoy from Wushen Mountain has come to visit."

As he spoke, he took out the talisman.