Wandao long distance

Chapter 369 Dilemma
Phantom vision and phantom limbs are hard to describe Li Qi's feelings at this moment.

Similar to... another strange disease he had heard about, "Anton's Blindness" he had heard about in another world.

People with this disease generally have completely destroyed the visual field in their brains, basically lose all vision, and become completely blind.

However, another area of ​​their brain that processes visual information is not damaged, and everything still feels normal here, and then they process visual information as usual.

He obviously can't see anymore, but his brain doesn't realize it, he still thinks he can see, and, in fact, he 'really' can see, it's just that what they see doesn't match reality.

This kind of patient is de facto blind, but feels that he is capable and can see.

Li Qi really did see things, because what people usually see is the scene processed by the brain, not the real scene.

The brain helps people to shield and correct the blind spots, the inversion of the retina, and many things that cannot be seen clearly, or blurred areas outside the focus, etc., so that the "normal vision" that people see, or called, corrected vision.

People originally see the 'corrected vision'.

The difference is that in the previous corrected field of view, the eyes collect the external situation, then transmit it to the correction area, then perform correction, and finally pass it to the vision area to obtain what people see.

For patients with Anton's blindness, the eyes can no longer collect the external situation, but the corrective areas of the brain are still working, and they will work without any external information input, producing a bunch of visions that have some and none. Maintain the illusion of 'still visible'.

But for the brain, there is no difference. The brain is only processing the information from the correction area from the beginning to the end. The brain cannot realize whether the information is real external information or a bunch of miscellaneous.

This is where Anton's blindness comes from.

Li Qi feels that his current situation is a bit like this, although he can survive without a brain now.

However, what he suffered from was not Anton's blindness, but Anton's all sensory disorders.

Just after his own five aggregates were broken by those demon blood——

He lost all perception of the outside world.

It turns out that his senses can only absorb information from the five aggregates from beginning to end, just like the mortal brain can only read information from the correction area to form vision.

His sense organs cannot skip the five aggregates to perceive the outside world at all. They were not for this purpose from the beginning of their birth. They are only responsible for reading the five aggregates.

After the five aggregates' blood pressure suppressed the five aggregates, Li Qi completely lost all perception, and sank into a series of hallucinations that were not hallucinations.

What is an illusion that is not an illusion?
It's like Anton's blindness.

He can't see. When he thinks he can see, the messy information from the outside world forms everything he sees, but none of this information matches the real world.

He couldn't hear either, but he thought he could hear, and there was a sound coming from his ears.

Even the sense of touch, taste, and all his senses have all failed, and they are still functioning randomly.

It is very difficult for Li Qiguang to stand up, because people need the sense of touch on the soles of the feet to maintain balance, and the cochlea in the sense of hearing to perceive the level of gravity, so that they can stand up and walk.

But now, his cochlea fails, and he feels his whole body is spinning, as if he is in a drum washing machine that operates randomly, and he can't rest for a moment.

There are reincarnation-like hallucinations constantly appearing in front of him, which makes him unclear, and he can't even close his eyes, because he is already blind.

Countless voices rushed towards him, and he couldn't tell which sentence was his real hearing, and which sentence was made up by his brain.

The skin all over the body is being touched, caressed, or torn or bitten almost all the time, these are the illusions brought about by messy information.

The sense of touch was completely lost, which caused not only the outer skin chaos, but also his stomach and intestines as well.

How does the stomach work?First of all, the skin in the intestines and stomach also has a sensitive sense of touch. After sensing the arrival of food, these intestines and stomachs will start to function, but now, all the skin and all epithelial tissues are disordered, which has caused Li Qi's whole body to feel strange. His stomach was alternately full, sometimes hungry, and sometimes nauseated.

His sense of smell feels different smells every moment, stench, fragrance, strange smell that I don't know how to describe, it changes every minute and every second.

Including the entire five senses, none of these sensations were hallucinations, but they caused Li Qi to fall into a disorder that was more terrifying than any hallucinations.

He couldn't control himself, he didn't know where he was, whether he was standing or lying down, whether he saw light or darkness, and he didn't even know where his hands were placed.

Under normal circumstances, people have to use touch and vision to judge where their hands are, but now Li Qi doesn't know what kind of posture he is in. He can't control his muscles anymore, because all actions that try to control muscles will bring I don't know what kind of feedback it is.

He wanted to raise his hand, and then there was a feeling of being blocked in his arm, but the feeling of blocking disappeared in the next second.

How can a person judge whether he has touched something or not?Is the sudden burning sensation coming from the hand touching the fire, or is it a hallucination?Are you lying in bed or floating in the air?

Not clear, everything is not clear.

The whole world has become unreal.

Li Qi was deeply trapped in this quagmire of illusory, struggling in severe pain.

Of course, such a struggle actually requires a great deal of calm.

The writhing of the maggot before death was also a struggle, but that was of no avail. What Li Qi did was a struggle to survive, for which he had to be calm.

First, he decisively cut off his control over his body, lest all hallucinations make him act strangely.

After cutting off the body control, he completely relied on muscle memory, and without relying on any senses, he straightened his muscles and maintained a straight posture, so that at least he would not appear in a too dangerous posture.

But even so, Li Qi didn't know what was going on with him now.

His 'heart', or in other words, the center of all his thinking and activities, whether it is called the soul or the true spirit, in short, his spiritual entity has completely lost the perception of the outside world.

His spiritual entity is completely out of touch with his physical entity.

Originally, it is the five aggregates that connect the two, and the five aggregates are the connection point between the mind and the physical body. The mind understands the physical body through the five aggregates, and the physical body receives adjustments through the five aggregates. In this way, a person is formed.

Of course, only Buddhism thinks so. Other paths do not recognize the five aggregates. Although they also recognize a certain connection, they all have their own opinions.

Different interpretations of phenomena, using one's own theories to explain the world, are also a feature of different paths.

No one is right or wrong, everything is unknown until the ultimate avenue is revealed, and each avenue just covers this world in its own way.

But no matter what, the current Li Qi was indeed suppressed by the five aggregates' demonic blood, which proved that the theory of the five aggregates was not empty talk, but had a solid foundation.

However, although this made Li Qi extremely painful, and even suffered endless torture, he has not yet failed.

Yes, he didn't give up.

In the endless hallucinations, he completely lost the sense of time, and the lack of time cognition made him completely confused about everything.

Under such torture and desperation, Li Qi sighed.

To be honest, he didn't know whether his body sighed or not, but his mind really sighed.

He struggled for a long time, and in this desperate situation, he thought of many ways to find a way out for himself.

At first, he tried to use his own heartbeat or pulse to keep time, and maintain a basic sense of time. The sense of time is the rule for people to do things. It is the sense of time that enables the perception of speed, and then extends other criteria for judging sports.

Losing the sense of time, the person further loses the ability to exercise.

But Li Qi failed, needless to say the pulse, his sense of touch was completely disordered, and Li Qi also found that the heartbeat he felt was completely chaotic.

With the five aggregates closed, he couldn't even sense his own heartbeat.

His heart was like a king imprisoned on the throne. The king desperately wrote documents and issued orders, and sent these orders to every place in the kingdom.

But no place will give a reply, there will be no response, the king doesn't even know if the order is in effect, he doesn't know what happened in those places, do those kingdoms really belong to him?
In fact, of course it belonged. From Li Qi's body twitching from time to time, it could be seen that the order was taking effect, but the reply letter from the body to the mind was gone, and the two sides were split apart, which caused Li Qi to suffer this kind of torture.

Li Qi had to use the most clumsy method to keep time, that is to divide his attention and start counting.

But this is almost useless. It can only be said that it is better than nothing, because he soon discovered that his counting behavior also has to be based on the sense of time. timing this goal.

But he is still counting, even if it is useless, at least it can help him keep his heart clear.

This kind of behavior is still useful, but Li Qi doesn't know it.

It was his act of trying to stay awake that kept his physical body instinctive.

This kind of instinct and muscle memory allow Li Qi's physical body to respond to external stimuli. Although he looks like a fool, at least he will move when being helped to walk, and when he is placed on a chair, The physical body will sit down by itself.

When being questioned, although I can't say anything logical, I can always pop out a few words, although they are random and difficult to understand.

Again, like a fool.

After failing to gain a sense of time, Li Qi was forced to endure another torture.

He didn't know how long he was in a daze.

It is very likely that he was just in a daze, but it has passed for a long time, and it is also possible that he thought it was a long time, but in fact it was only a moment.

This is a deeper level of torture for the mind, and even if he wants to do something, he will be greatly disturbed.

If it was an ordinary person, he should be dead by now.

Fortunately, Li Qi has reached the seventh rank, his body is not so fragile, even if he does not eat, drink or sleep, he can still be alive and kicking for at least 100 years.

This led him to a second course of action.

He tries to reconfigure his senses in ways other than the five aggregates.

No kidding, it's very, very difficult.

Li Qi didn't understand anything other than the five aggregates at all, and he realized this only after trying to do it.

It turns out that the whole world is projected onto the five aggregates, and his mind knows nothing except the five aggregates.

Just like the king mentioned before, this king never went to the land he ruled. He just read reports and issued orders.

The king has never left the throne, and Wu Yun, a loyal minister, will send the king a steady stream of reliable reports, so that the king can know the situation of the whole kingdom without leaving the throne.

From the beginning to the end, his mind has only been in contact with the five aggregates. Now that he has separated from the five aggregates, it is too difficult for him to rebuild his senses.

But Li Qi still found a breakthrough.

The king, in addition to the five aggregates, the court minister, also had another spy to find out the outside world for him.

That is really knowing the rhyme.

Zhenzhiyun is Li Qi's sixth sense. This has been said many times before. Every time he uses Zhenzhiyun, he feels like a blind person suddenly grows eyes, and a deaf person suddenly grows ears. A brand-new, weird, and indescribable perspective to examine the world, from which one can obtain extraordinary powers of observation, and the things observed through this organ will be firmly imprinted in the mind, which is hard to forget.

This is an advantage, it can make Li Qi remember many things.

It is also a disadvantage, this level of information flow shocks almost killed Li Qi several times, but fortunately, he has a good brain and held on, and he is used to this kind of shock by now.

In other words, Li Qi wanted to know, did he really know whether the rhyme had passed through the five aggregates?

After trying for an unknown amount of time, he found to his dismay that the information collected by Zhenzhi Yun had to be analyzed and dismantled through the five aggregates before it could be perceived by the mind.

It's not all bad news, though.

There is a piece of good news, that is, Zhenzhi Yun is not his senses, Zhenzhi Yun is still in effect, and those massive information streams are still pouring into his head, but without the analysis of the five aggregates, he can't understand it.

This represents one thing.

Unlike the other five senses that have been fixed on the five aggregates, Zhenzhiyun can be manipulated, he can manipulate Zhenzhiyun, and then directly connect Zhenzhiyun to his heart.

Feel the world directly through the rhyme of true knowing without going through the five aggregates.

Li Qi didn't know what the consequences would be, and he didn't know whether his heart could bear it.

But this may be the only way for him to get out of trouble, after all, he can't suppress the five aggregates of devil blood.

Failing that, he tries another plan.

Pull out your own mind—completely, abandon this body, and activate the magic avatar to carry the mind.

(End of this chapter)