People are in reality, transcending the other side

Chapter 224 Demon (Eighth update! 6980 monthly votes added! Please vote!)

As for the other part of the truth, when Li Qi arrived at this place, he sensed a slight discord through his telepathic connection.

You must know that his current level of mental acuity far surpasses that of ordinary cultivators, especially in his ability to perceive the true nature of the divine, which is beyond the standard. But even so, in his perception, the disharmony was only vaguely present.

Therefore, Li Qi also felt a bit curious. He originally came here just to play with his friends, but unexpectedly, the coincidence made him feel something.

"Come on, let's go in and take a look."

Li Qi waved his hand, then walked to the door in a few steps. The temple gate was locked with a large iron chain, but Li Qi just pulled with both hands, and the chain broke with violent deformation of the metal.

This scene also made Sun Guang and Cheng Weiwei's eyes twitch.

High martial arts skills do indeed allow one to do whatever one wants.

Then the long-sealed door was pushed open, revealing the dilapidated state of the house. Thick dust had accumulated on the ground, and even inside the house, overgrown vegetation covered the ground. As far as the eye could see, it was a scene of devastation.

When the temple was damaged, professionals searched the area thoroughly, even examining the floor tiles and roof tiles.

Clearly, the investigators at the time also suspected that the old monk's madness was not simple. For someone at such a high level to go mad like that, even if his method was not orthodox, it was still quite exaggerated.

This led some to suspect that the old monk had acquired some kind of evil power and thus developed such thoughts.

After all, there's probably only one possibility that could drive an elderly person to break the law: longevity...

In fact, more than a hundred years ago, there were many evil arts in the world. However, the Holy King later joined forces to sweep across the world, exterminating all evil forces and destroying all evil arts.

But since evil arts were once so widely spread, they must have some real substance. The reason they are evil arts is simply because the price is enormous. Psychological distortion and drastic personality changes are relatively minor costs. The major costs are those that challenge the bottom line of humanity.

However, the temple turned out to be spotless. After all, hiding things always leaves traces. If there really was a similar technique, the old monk would definitely take it out to look at it frequently, and it would be impossible for him not to leave any traces.

Some time later, everything of value in the temple was taken away, and with the passage of time, it became what it is today.

"It is said that back then, this very hall was covered in blood. Many of the investigators who saw the scene were so horrified that they vomited. The old monk was even more perverted. When he committed suicide, he first pushed over the Buddha statue in the temple, sat cross-legged on it, and then pulled out his internal organs, as if he were offering them to himself..."

At this moment, Sun Guang muttered something to Li Qi.

Li Qi had naturally seen this claim as well, but there were no photos circulating online; they had been blocked. Of course, it would be very easy for him to check the case files from that year, but there was no need for it.

At this moment, his perception of reality was fully opened, sensing all kinds of invisible traces, and some traces unrelated to people were exhausted. Immediately, various lines reflected and outlined these traces, which kept turning over.

Li Qi "saw" that long ago, a group of blurry figures gradually emptied the place of anything of value. He also saw, even further back, many people meticulously searching for any possible treasures. Further still, he saw the dead come back to life, stepping down from the altar and piecing together the broken Buddha statue, restoring it to its rightful place...

Then I saw that the person who had walked up to the altar had lifted up the head of the person who had been decapitated from the ground, and reattached the head. The blood on the walls and the ground also flowed backwards...

This was certainly not because Li Qi had actually seen what had happened here in the past. Although his mind and spirit were now strong, making his insight into reality increasingly powerful, it was still far from enough to directly glimpse the past. In fact, this was a scenario that Li Qi had reenacted based on the information he already knew and the remaining traces of this hall, using his insight into reality to extract various pieces of information, and then mentally reconstructing and writing it down.

On the surface, the main hall is in ruins, with most of the roof tiles missing. But in Li Qi's perception, there are still too many traces of the scene from back then.

The bloodstains on the wall still remain, and in some corners, there are also subtle traces left by people who were here back then.

However, even so, his ability to profile is undoubtedly an incredibly powerful superpower.

Even when Li Qi was reenacting the scene from back then in his mind, he could see the truth and exert his power a second time, relying on his intuition to correct some details.

This kind of correction undoubtedly falls into the realm of true metaphysics, rather than being a deduction of known information. However, such a correction also consumes an enormous amount of Li Qi's mental and spiritual strength.

Li Qi felt that with this kind of exertion, he could only sustain it for another ten minutes or so before he would be completely exhausted.

"More than 20 years ago, that old monk was probably killing people while chanting sutras. What he was chanting was unknown, but he must have been briefly lucid before he died, and perhaps he even left a word here."

Li Qi suddenly spoke, and to the astonishment of the other two people present, without any visible exertion, he moved nearly two meters upwards out of thin air, and then with a grab, he actually dug a piece of wood off a beam.

Jumping two meters high is not difficult for anyone who is in the country, but to do it like Li Qi, as if he were flying, without any trace of human skill, is something that they have never seen in their circle in the real world.

When the two looked at the piece of wood in Li Qi's hand, they were shocked to find that it had dark red, twisted marks that looked like insects crawling on it.

"This is Sanskrit, and the word means 'demon'!"

Li Qi explained.

"The people who handled the case at the time did search this place thoroughly several times, but their purpose was something specific, so they overlooked this trace."

Upon hearing this, Sun Guang and Cheng Weiwei became even more puzzled. The people who handled the case had searched countless times but hadn't found this thing. You just walked in and already know this? Are you sure this isn't open?!

"Since the old monk left a message, why didn't he leave it in a conspicuous place? Why did he have to hide it?!"

Cheng Weiwei suddenly asked a question, grasping the key point in one fell swoop.

"Nature is to prevent another self from seeing and destroying it, or rather, to prevent the devil from destroying it."

At this moment, Li Qi also wore a strange expression.

Sun Guang and Cheng Weiwei only saw the character itself when they looked at it, but Li Qidong's insight was too powerful. In the absence of any interference, he actually sensed a bit of the old monk's mental state when he wrote the character.

(End of this chapter)