People are in reality, transcending the other side

Chapter 1092 Going Against the Heavens
The energy of heaven and earth surged wildly, and Li Qi, who was originally standing, was suddenly upside down by an invisible force, his hands supporting him on the ground and his feet touching the sky, a complete reversal of heaven and earth.

In this world, the more unusual a martial art is, the more unique it is. There are only two kinds of martial arts that need to be practiced in reverse: either they are so mediocre that there is little difference no matter how you practice them, or they are extremely powerful.

But how could the word "reverse" be simple?!

Even the oldest Taoist scriptures explain the principle that following the natural order leads to becoming a human, while going against it leads to becoming an immortal.

Li Qi is currently cultivating demonic arts, starting from the opposite direction, which means he will either achieve great success or great failure. He will either seize the creation of heaven and earth and achieve divine skill, or he will suffer a qi deviation. At worst, he will be crazy for the rest of his life, and it is quite normal for his body to explode and turn into a cloud of blood mist.

Demonic arts are inherently dangerous. The more powerful a demonic art is, the more dangerous it is. If it is not dangerous, does not take shortcuts or unorthodox methods, then it is a righteous path.

If you're afraid of death, don't cultivate demonic arts.

However, Li Qi did not feel any danger at this moment, but only a smooth feeling. Unlike the obscureness he had encountered when studying the basic breathing techniques of the Daoist sect, he was now comprehending the incomplete chapters of the supreme demonic art. His mind was suddenly opened up, and the originally obscure demonic art texts were as simple as doing arithmetic operations.

Even using this term to describe the difficulty here is a bit too high; it's a hundred times higher.

This ease even gave Li Qi a strange feeling at this moment. If it's so simple, why is it that in the background information of the game world, throughout history, very few demonic masters have mastered this divine skill, and many famous demonic experts have died from qi deviation while practicing this divine skill?

Surely those powerful figures in the demonic path don't all have the intelligence of paramecia!

Undoubtedly, this is a cognitive bias, much like a peerless scientist wondering why someone would not understand such simple advanced algebra, something that should be easy to grasp after just one reading!

At this moment, Li Qi had this feeling, but his reason told him that the problem was with him. The difficulty he had encountered in comprehending Taoist martial arts was still vivid in his mind.

It's not that those powerful figures in the demonic path have a problem, but rather that his talent is flawed, and he himself has a major problem.

"It's because the Sanyang Health Cultivation Posture in the real world is too orthodox. If I had a demonic skill, I would have taken off long ago."

"Indeed, everyone has their own strengths, but very few people are able to find what they are good at."

"It's just that this Demon Seed is too incomplete. The entire divine skill consists of thirteen chapters, one general outline, and twelve specific methods. Among them, only half of the general outline remains. The first chapter, 'Entering the Dao, Part One,' is more complete, with only seventy percent remaining. The second chapter, 'Demon Seed,' is the most complete, with a full ninety percent. The remaining eleven chapters, even the most complete ones, are less than forty percent."

"That's true. There's a limit to fortuitous encounters. If I were given a complete Heavenly Dao-level divine skill right at the start, I wouldn't be so ordinary in the real world. I'd at least have a starting point as an eight-year-old direct disciple of a major sect..."

“Start by laying the foundation from childhood, and when you reach adulthood, you will start with the Twenty-Five Righteous Laws, and you will be taught by a teacher.”

Under the influence of his mind-blowing and astonishing wisdom, Li Qi was naturally comprehending the various aspects of the Dao Embryo Demon Seed. The mysteries of the demonic path, the bizarre, the mad, and the evil flowing through his heart, and the various extreme emotions were as obedient as a mouse being suppressed by a cat, and had no effect on him at all.

Clearly, his demonic talent is still steadily developing. Although the demonic path emphasizes doing whatever one pleases and does not suppress the various emotions and desires in one's heart, but rather amplifies them infinitely and draws power from them, indulgence does not mean loss of control. The highest level of the demonic path is also to control everything with the mind.

The Demon Ancestor is also the Buddha Ancestor and the Taoist Ancestor; in the end, their paths converge.

At this moment, Li Qi's very beginning already showed some of this kind of aura.

As emotions flowed and the cultivation techniques were comprehended, the thoughts in Li Qi's mind became as clear and pure as pearls and jade. Each thought was crystal clear, and he could be said to have directly developed his wisdom. In an instant, he had a hundred thoughts, pondering all sorts of things.

If Li Qi were to describe this feeling, it would be something like this: whether it was the more than twenty years of his previous life or the sixteen years of this life, he had never truly woken up until this moment.

Instant enlightenment, sudden awakening!
This feeling itself is something that no amount of wealth, power, or status, or any external possessions can compare to or replace.

"This martial art requires first cultivating pure Taoist true qi to nurture one's Taoist nature and thus form a Taoist embryo. The so-called Taoist embryo is not actually that mysterious. Everyone has a Taoist embryo, but it has not been awakened. This thing is formless and without appearance. When nurtured with Taoist nature, it becomes a Taoist embryo; when nourished with demonic nature, it becomes a demonic embryo; when cleansed with Buddhist nature, it becomes a Buddhist root. However, even so, to awaken the Taoist embryo, one must have great wisdom. Therefore, this martial art cannot be entered without an unparalleled genius. Even if one has the entire manual, the first step in entering the Tao is not enough to master it."

"If the Dao embryo is not formed, how can a demon be planted?!"

"Furthermore, this martial art is very similar to the Dao Heart Demon Seed Technique in my previous life's martial arts novels. Not only is the name similar, but the content is also similar. Even some of the Twenty-Five Righteous Laws are similar to things in my previous life's martial arts novels. I don't know if this is just a simple coincidence or the interference of parallel universe information in pseudoscience."

"There's good news: I've read the Dao Heart Demon Seed Technique. Now that I've developed my wisdom, I've remembered everything I read. The bad news is that what I saw was made up and is useless. However, there's also good news: the underlying logic is actually correct and coincides with the Dao Embryo Demon Seed."

"For a martial art, the idea is the direction and framework, which is also the most important thing. As long as the idea is right, the details can be filled in with other things. Otherwise, there would be no way that the same martial art could be practiced in many versions."

At this moment, Li Qi suddenly felt a surge of wisdom. A large amount of information naturally flowed into his mind, including the fragments of the demonic technique, thanks to his imaginative thinking and extraordinary wisdom.

In fact, at this time, he had not even started cultivating the Dao Embryo Demon Seed. With it so incomplete, it would be a miracle if he could cultivate it directly.

The circulation of his true energy was entirely due to the change in his mental cultivation method. The many mysteries of the demonic path naturally transformed into the demonic mental cultivation method, which in turn caused the true energy in his body to circulate naturally.

This mental cultivation method is indeed wondrous, but it is by no means a Dao embryo or a demonic seed.

The Dao embryo and the demon seed are the Dharma, while the mental Dharma is the Dao!

Of course, even if one possesses the Way, one still needs the Dharma to protect the Way before reaching a certain threshold, just like a wise scholar or sage. Their principles are their mental methods, but they themselves have little power.

(End of this chapter)