Wandao long distance

Chapter 449 Behind the Hierarchy
Grading is a very mysterious thing. The great man who first invented the nine-grade grading method read all the heavens and myriad ways, and I don’t know how many kinds of practice methods he collected, and finally designed a set that can perfectly fit almost all practitioners. ' classification method.

That's right, almost 'all' practitioners.

No matter which small world you belong to, the rough Taoism in the backcountry, or the top inheritance from the world, you can be easily included by the nine-level classification.

The difference in grade is essential, and it can even be said to be a jump in the level of life, just like multi-cellular organisms are to single-celled organisms.

In the early days of their birth, multicellular organisms may not be as strong as other single-celled organisms, but they have unparalleled advantages in terms of complexity, functionality, and future development. They only need a little development to explode all single-celled organisms. cellular organisms.

The idea of ​​forcibly raising the grade of creatures and then using the reproductive ability of life to mass-produce raw materials of the corresponding grade is indeed very creative.

Although for Li Qi, this is harmful to the harmony of nature, and he is unlikely to use this method to deal with real life like pearl oysters, but it is just right to use it on witchcraft silkworms.

It's just... Li Qi couldn't help but fell into thinking again.

He can understand the difference in grade.

But where does this difference come from?There seems to be a more essential change brought about by the improvement of cultivation. This is not just the appearance of a certain characteristic, but it shows that within the grade, there is a ladder standard that applies everywhere.

It is this standard that gave birth to the Nine-Rank Grading Method. If we can think and study in this direction, can we find the commonality of each path?
After all, if everyone can apply a set of grade improvement plan, it means that there must be something in common and they can be accommodated together.

As far as Li Qi is concerned, so many orthodoxy in his body are separated from each other and incompatible with each other, so he can only rely on an 'imagined' ultimate avenue to forcibly balance.

But if we think about it from this direction, is the Nine-Rank Grading Method one of the evidences for the existence of the 'Ultimate Dao'?

Since all paths apply the same grading method, it means that they have a certain degree of commonality at a deeper level. If this commonality can be found, will it have a positive impact on the compatibility of the paths?
There must be, this is a way of thinking.

Just getting this method to improve the level of dragon energy gave Li Qi a lot of new ideas, maybe it is really useful, Li Qi secretly wrote it down in his heart, and prepared to find an opportunity to investigate the meaning behind the nine-level grading method s things.

Sure enough, none of the things that can be promoted to the whole world are simple.

All common standards in many orthodoxy in the world, there must be a real mystery behind it, if you can understand it, it will definitely be of great benefit to the way!
However, there is one more problem.

So far, the Nine-Rank Grading Method can cover almost 'all' practitioners very well.

Yes, almost.

Because martial arts is an exception.

In martial arts, after condensing the spirit of martial arts and reaching the eighth rank, his rank will fall into a state of fuzziness and chaos. It is difficult for you to judge the rank of a warrior through a distinctive 'characteristic'.

For example, Wu Ji, after reaching the seventh rank, the small world of the human body can 'create something out of nothing', which is a very obvious sign. Seeing this sign means that Wu Ji has reached at least the seventh rank.

But martial art is different. Martial art has extremely vague and chaotic standards. Ninth rank can bring the body to the best condition, and eighth rank can condense the spirit of martial arts. After that, martial art has no other characteristics.

Martial Dao inner qi itself has no order at all, so much so that it can swallow other qi and put them together into the inner qi.

Just as I said before, other Taoism techniques are like precision machines.

The inner energy of martial arts is like a machine directly melting into magma, no longer precise and orderly, but in exchange for pure destructive power.

What characteristics can a chaotic pile of magma have?Of course, there is nothing. You can only see that there are more and more magma, and the temperature is getting higher and higher, which can destroy more and more machines, but you will not see any essential improvement.

So, only 'strong' is left.

How can a fifth-rank martial artist prove that he is a fifth-rank?

It's very simple, if you kill or disable other fifth ranks, it means that you have reached fifth ranks, and you are strong enough to be called fifth ranks.

A high-grade martial artist known as the God of War once said such words.

At that time, he pointed to the sky, laughed loudly, and then said loudly: "What is a Martial God? It is not such a boring thing as "proving the position of a god". There is only one reason why it is called a Martial God, and that is—— I am so strong that even a goddamn god can be knocked down!"

There is nothing that can't be killed, even if you really encounter something that can't be killed, it's just that the relationship is not strong enough now!

The purest violence, the simplest classification, but also the most ambiguous.

In addition to this weird path, for other orthodoxy, the nine-level grading method can handle the differences between different levels very well.

"Martial arts... the essence has been improved, so what's left is only quantitative improvement?" Li Qi guessed in his heart while walking on the way to Dongyu sea.

Martial Dao internal qi has the characteristic of devouring all qi and assimilating it with oneself. The "eating" of warriors is based on this characteristic.

Li Qi likes to compare this difference with machines and magma.

So, does it mean that the inner qi of martial arts has directly reached the most noble essence after condensing the divine will of martial arts?That is... the end of everything?

According to Li Qi's theory of entropy increase, everything will eventually become chaotic and lose order, so is the inner energy of martial arts a manifestation of this chaos and disorder?And this kind of chaos and disorder, its essence is quite noble, representing a very high grade.

According to this understanding, then it is not that there are no grades in martial arts, but that after the eighth rank, one directly reaches a very high rank, such as the third rank?It might even be second grade! ?

As for Yipin, Li Qi didn't even dare to think about it, and subconsciously eliminated this answer in his mind.

However, just like the clam mother who was forcibly promoted to the eighth rank, she has not yet reached the strength and understanding of Tao that this rank should have, and needs to make up for it through practice and exercise?
That's why warriors need something like the "heart of warriors" so much, because they need to be extremely firm, unimaginable in other paths, in order to master this noble essence at the eighth stage?
If there is no such firm Dao heart, without the kind of "my fist is higher than God's will", then it is impossible for a warrior to master this essence!
This conjecture lifted Li Qi's spirits!
It is indeed possible!
The conjecture has already been made, and the next step is to find evidence to prove the conjecture.

If evidence can be found to solve the classification problem of martial arts in the Ninth-Rank Grading Method, the Ninth-Rank Grading Method itself can become one of the evidences of the ultimate Dao, and then stabilize Li Qi's Dao Heart.

If you conduct in-depth research on the Nine-Rank Grading Method, you will definitely be able to find something useful.

It's just...these are all conjectures.

The evidence has not yet been obtained, which is temporarily beyond Li Qi's ability. With his current cultivation base, he does not have the ability to collect evidence about this matter.

However, keep it in mind for the time being, and verify it when you have the opportunity in the future.

Thinking of these, Li Qi only felt that it was really worthwhile to come to Donghai.

Although he broke through to the seventh rank in Chang'an, in the next one or two years, he just kept doing some accumulative work, slowly accumulating foundation.

But when I came to the East China Sea, I saw all kinds of things that I couldn't see in Chang'an, which immediately brought a huge amount of inspiration, which in turn gave more impetus to my cultivation and path.

Li Qi's mood became better and better until he surfaced.

Well, the next step is to find a reasonable person.

Several days have passed, Wang Dun should have made preparations, right?

When I came here by myself, the first bait I received was Lidao.

This is also the reason why Li Qi was sure that someone was fishing for him. It was almost impossible for Li Qi to refuse the knowledge of the way of reason and the way of spirit. If they appeared at the same time, he would not believe it if no one arranged it.

It's just that the opponent's technique was a bit clumsy, and at the same time mixed with the confusion of the mermaid, it was self-defeating, but I discovered the clue.

This also allows him to continue to track down.

Thinking of this, Li Qi weighed the dragon scale in his hand.

This thing, and the dragon's blood on it, are Li Qi's biggest clues.

While wandering about these things in his mind, riding on the old horse, Li Qi finally boarded the upper level of Dongyu.

It is very convenient to have an old horse, so that Li Qi doesn't have to figure out the way by himself, he can completely meditate while thinking on the horse's back, and just leave it to the old horse to figure out the way.

If the lower level of Dongyu is the place where these marine aborigines are responsible for maintaining the operation of Dongyu, then the upper level of Dongyu, the five big plates, is only for tourists.

Riding an old horse and walking on the street, although [-]% of his mind was focused on thinking, Li Qi still devoted half of his attention to the surrounding environment.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the feasting and feasting are green.

Li Qi didn't know whether it was the disc that he came here, or all the discs were like this, but the decoration and architecture here are quite luxurious, I don't know how many times better than the lower floor.

The merman and snails in the lower level still live in the reef, planting pearls every day, but the high-rise buildings here have already started to use large-scale formations.

Although the floor tiles are not as magic as Human Dao, at least they can maintain a certain degree of automation with formations.

A large number of pearls have become the energy source here. You can also see many sea people engaged in the service industry. Occasionally, you can also see divers and many beauties transformed from fish demons to receive guests here.

It seems that... the entire lower level of Dongyu is serving the cities on these five discs, and everything built below is not enjoyed by him, but is all sent to the upper level.

The pearls planted by the sharks, the utensils made by the snails, the fish raised by the sea people, and even themselves are all here to serve tourists.

"My lord, do you need to rest your horse? Professional stables, guarded by ninth-grade spirit beast trainers, and free peach pills!"

"The new clam girl is like an oyster, so fat, tender and creamy!"

"The fleet going to Baiyun Coral Reef has a fair income distribution. As long as it is above the eighth rank, there is an urgent need for monks who are good at repairing ships. Get ready and go!"

"Ocean-ocean deep-sea tour fleet, with seventh-rank masters in command, absolutely safe! Seven-rank treasure ship, never sink! There are still 460 tickets left, if you need to enter the deep sea, hurry up, it is expected to set off in four days!"

There are also people shouting: "Ingredients! Fresh seafood, fished from the deep ocean four days ago, there are fish balls and turtle tails, there are thirty scorpions of sea shrimp seeds, each stile is one foot long, and the width and thickness are about One inch! Absolutely the best!"

He even knows what those seafood are, such as the tail, the fish is like an owl, and the waves make it rain, so he put the image on the ridge of the roof.

Yufu, also known as 瀱, is neither a fish nor a dragon, as big as a boat, two or three feet long, like a catfish, with two breasts under the abdomen, male and female, yin and yang, humanoid.Take his son and land on the shore, his voice is like a baby crying.There is a hole in the neck, through the head, and there is a chirping sound when the air comes out.

Li Qi's ears kept hearing shouts like this, and besides that, he could really feel that he was in a 'port city'.

The fishy smell, which can also be called umami, is constantly floating in front of the nose.

The waves, the calls of seabirds, and the slight sound of mechanical transmission... This is the sound of Dongyu running under the feet.

Ok……

It seems that those people who don't need to be so anxious to find Lidao, they should come to find themselves.

On the contrary, when I first arrived in Dongyu, it was time for me to rest for a while. I spent the past few days collecting information and investigating the affairs of Lord Tianhong. Difficult.

Rest for a few hours, and then...wait for someone to find me.

Thinking of this, Li Qi threw those things out of his mind.

In fact, there are so many reasons, just because...he was hungry.

Dried seafood.

Serious seafood from the East China Sea.

It's hard to come to the East China Sea, of course, to eat local specialties.

I'm sorry to say it, but Li Qi has always been curious about the specialties of various places. He also went shopping and eating in Qingwu City. The first thing he did when he went to the Tang Dynasty was to go to the market to see all kinds of food. He even wanted to try Liu Junyi's craftsmanship. Taste, when you go to Shangyuan to do business for Lingxiao flower gods, you should also taste the wine and food of Shangyuan flower gods. (see local cuisine)
Now that you come to the East China Sea, how can you not give it a try?
Regarding this hobby, Li Qi has never said anything about it to the outside world. Only he knows about it, and he never even revealed it to the outside world, because he feels... a bit shameful.

Thinking of this, Li Qi felt that he could rest for a few hours. Since there were still some seafood just now, he might as well buy some fresh deep-sea food and cook them in a local restaurant.

Thinking of this, Li Qi walked to the place where your boat was shouting just now.

"Hey, guest officer! What do you want to buy this time? Fresh sea shrimp roe, let me hang it up?" The crew member who sold the goods saw Li Qi, and immediately shouted enthusiastically.

(End of this chapter)