An Infinite Journey From the Sea of ​​Stones

"A long, long time ago, there was a compassionate enlightened being named Sakyamuni. He was once the prince of a small country. Of course, after experiencing various things, he became Sakyamuni.

"One day, when Dan Sakyamuni was walking among the mountains and forests, he met an eagle hunting a dove. The dove said to the eagle, "Let me go!"If you miss me, you still have the next one, but my life is only this one. "

But the eagle said: "I don't know what you said, but I'm starving now. I can't live without eating you. It's not easy for everyone in this world."

The merciful Sakyamuni put the hunted dove into his arms, while the angry eagle questioned Sakyamuni

'Sakyamuni, you are so merciful, you saved the life of this pigeon, but you want to watch me starve to death? '

Sakyamuni put his hands together and said, "I don't want you to hurt this innocent pigeon, and I don't want you to starve to death in vain. There is a saying that if I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell will go to hell."

So Sakyamuni took out a balance, put pigeons on one side, and put the meat cut from himself on the other.But the pigeon looks small, but no matter how much meat the World-Honored One cuts, it seems that it can't support its weight.

When the World Honored One cut off the last piece of flesh, the balance was finally leveled.The situation of the world changed color, and the real Buddha was born. "

Yunjuan finished telling the story gently, while Shenye listened to the story patiently.

Even though he had heard it many times, Yunjuan had told this story many times.

There are always countless different explanations for a story, just like the story Yunjuan told.Some people saw the compassion of Sakyamuni, some saw the wisdom of Sakyamuni, and some saw the choice of Sakyamuni.

Among the two choices before him, Sakyamuni chose the third way of sacrificing himself.He couldn't just sit back and watch the dove being preyed on, nor could he watch the eagle starve to death, so he chose to cut off his own flesh to feed the eagle.

In a sense, this is a kind of evasion of making problems, and in a sense, this is a choice that opens up a third way. This is undoubtedly a kind of compassion and an escape.

But for Shen, what he saw from this story was what Yunjuan looked like.

These three years came from the moment he set foot on the land of his birth, just like the Sakyamuni in the story.

Faced with a dilemma, between the invading Noxians and the rebellious Ionians, he didn't help either side, often choosing a third path.

He does not take any sides, nor does he make any choices. He will help the revenge-hungry Ionians and give them special power, and he will also rescue the seriously injured Noxians and let them return to their hometown.

He has always done this, and he helped almost regardless of the cost when choosing the third path.

Just like the vastaya fox in his arms, a vastaya fox who awakened the instinct to devour spirits, Yunjuan defeated this soul-eating fox at that time, and then kept her by his side all the time, using Her thoughts feed her.

The result is that three years ago, even among the many heroes in Ionia, the strength has been weakened to less than one-tenth of what it used to be.

Even, he might soon become a mortal, even a short-lived mortal.

Compassionate... as he was once praised by Karma the Apocalypse, he really is like a saint who sacrifices himself to help others.

but......

Shen's eyes are always able to see through the inner surface, just like what he is looking at now is Yunjuan's other eye.

"Do you want to be this Sakyamuni too?"

For Shen, the first thing he saw was not Shakya's mercy, but Shakya's evasion—he cut off his own flesh to feed the eagle once, but what about the next time?The Enlightened One has become the World Honored One because of his dedication, but the eagle is still an eagle, and the rabbit is still a rabbit.

His choice was just to escape reality once, but it still couldn't solve the matter itself.

As a maintainer of balance, Shen would never agree with such a person.

"I don't have the ability or qualifications to become a Buddha." Yun Juan put down the little fox in his arms, and said gently

"I am not the Enlightenment of Destiny. Sakyamuni did not become Buddha because of sacrifice, but because he was Sakyamuni to become Buddha."

"...Your right eye, which you have been reluctant to show, hides the soul and secrets of your other half."

The Eye of Twilight was silent for a moment, then said softly

"I won't ask you to take off the cloth covering your eyes without politeness, but I must remind you that balance is the root of everything. If you continue like this, your balance will be completely broken."

There was exhortation in his words, but also a touch of warning.

Yunjuan lowered his eyes and smiled lightly.

"Of course I know......"

Yunjuan lifted the cloth covering his right eye indifferently, revealing the pupils underneath, and Shen also immediately grasped the spirit sword behind him!

The eyes exposed from under the cloth are completely opposite to his other eye!

If the words of Ksitigarbha represent compassion and peace, then what this eye possesses is indifference to everything and resolute indifference!

The most important thing is that the terrifying demonic energy - similar to Yazakana, but far more terrifying than those little devils, it is the terrifying resentment condensed by countless numbers!

"Why do you think I hid in the soil of the first birth? Because... I don't know how to solve this problem on me."

Yunjuan once again covered his eyes, caressed the grass in front of him, as if he had taken their life away, erasing the life of these grasses.

At the same time when he almost became the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the last world, Yunjuan inevitably merged into the powerful and weird part he created!

At the last moment, it was the weird 'Qi' in his dantian that helped him to wake up for a moment, and finally escaped from that world!

And after that, the qi in his dantian disappeared, but it was not consumed, but combined with something, and finally made his right eye.

Eyes that are the exact opposite of the Ksitigarbha's eyes.

When he observes everything with this eye, everything will appear different in front of him - just like the Ksitigarbha's eye allows him to see the essence of all things clearly, bringing the spirit, soul, and life together. The part of the body can be seen clearly, this eye allows him to further see the 'vein' on these things

Just like the ability of the second lady of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, Yunjuan can see the deeper essence of things through this eye, and he can manipulate the 'vein', whether it is destruction, extraction, or stitching.

If it's just that, that's all. If the Ksitigarbha King's eye makes Yunjuan see through the essential indifference and compassion, and endows him with the power to give life to all things, then the things seen by this eye will make him To speculate on things with the deepest malice and give him the power to take all things away...

That was not simply wanting to destroy the other party, but when looking at things with this eye, his thinking would involuntarily lead to the possibility of a plan.

A possibility to plan how to create greater changes and destruction, and more thoroughly smash things in front of you!

If we say that under the eyes of the Ksitigarbha King, he is a compassionate person who is close to a sage of Buddhism, then he who looks at everything with this "Eye of Mobo Xun" will immediately twist into a kind full of other things. Kind of 'enterprise' people.

This kind of professionalism is not directed towards pure destruction, but to dig out Yunjuan's deeper desires - but Yunjuan himself doesn't know what kind of self he is like that.

But there is no doubt that without rational support and restraint of sensibility, the results, whether good or bad, will definitely be biased towards one extreme!

He kept drawing his mind energy, weakening his abilities to the greatest extent, and trying to contain the huge problem caused by this eye as much as possible.

He only sees everything with the eyes of Ksitigarbha, because he doesn't use another eye to see other things, maybe he is instinctively rejecting the vision of what it would be like to dig out his true self.

"Ms. Karma saw my problem, and she gave me this eye scarf blessed by the eminent monk of Suji Temple with the power of the dragon, and let me seal another self."

Yunjuan caressed the sleeping little fox and said softly

"Don't worry, Master Shen, I will leave this land before everything is irretrievable. I know you want to balance my existence, but your ideas cannot help me. Facing the root of my existence may only lead me to Another way..."

Shen was silent for a moment, he released his hands from his spirit sword, folded his palms together and bowed slightly to Yun Juan.

"You're a respectable man, but I'd be happy to be your intermediary if necessary."

Maybe he was wrong, the Eye of Twilight can't see through a person's heart.

"Really? That would be a great honor."

Yunjuan said with a smile, he watched the host of the balance escape into the invisible spirit world and leave here, and the moment Shen left, the little fox under him opened his eyes

"Are you lying to him?" The little fox said, but the voice was a clear and charming female voice

"No, of course I didn't, Ari." Yunjuan lowered his eyes, looked at the demon fox and smiled.

"I will be a compassionate Lord of the Clouds every moment I am in Ionia."

Ari's body shivered slightly, she lowered her head obediently, and snuggled up to Yunjuan's side, not daring to look at that spring-like smile

Many people thought that she was influenced by Yunjuan and was willing to be the eagle that pecked at the flesh and blood of this holy man, but only Ari knew.

This man once stepped into Wangyou Garden and faced the old grandmother Igilya who was called the secret eater and her state.

But when he opened his right eye, what projected from it was not purely terrifying evil, nor was it suffocating darkness.

But the path reflected in that man's eyes was deeper than any horror brought by any disaster.

Even Wangyou Garden did not dare to eat his memory. Before Igilya withered and hibernated along with the garden, her only evaluation of this man was——

"He will be a saint who is admired by all people, and he will definitely be a sinner who is reviled by all people."

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ps: I wrote LOL!Don't worry, I will write about the Battle of the Two Cities, but it will be a little later-after all, the situation of the two cities is too small, so I will write about other plots first.

3. Dirty Down Town Deeds

Fulgan's Bar, built near the glass corridor, is a seemingly unremarkable part of the entire downtown.

This bar is like most places in this city. Under the light of mottled colors, it is shrouded in the almost eternal pale green tone of Zauna. The old buildings with some geometric aesthetics are of course the most beautiful. The important thing is that the people who come in and out of it will always be rogues equipped with alchemy strengthening devices.

All in all, this bar, like the rest of downtown, has a decadent aesthetic mixed with steampunk.

"Even at the highest point, I still can't see the sun."

On the top floor of Forgan Bar, a beautiful woman with blond hair and red eyes stood here looking at the whole city, said lightly

"But maybe I should feel lucky, after all, the sun is what I hate the most."

"Only a rat living in the sewer would desire darkness, Elena, you can stay here if you like darkness, but what we want is the power to live dignifiedly in the sun!"

The person who spoke was a strong woman with dark skin, who was equipped with a lot of alchemy strengthening devices, and looked menacing.

"I'm talking to your new boss, Sevica. If you interrupt again, I'll eat the parts of your body that haven't been covered by alchemy equipment bit by bit."

Elena showed a charming smile at this woman, and even stuck out her tongue and licked her lips quite seductively, but this suggestive action caused the face of this fierce looking woman to change slightly, almost immediately posing In a fighting stance!

"Don't threaten my subordinates, Elena."

A man with a rather thin face and figure beside him said, his face was cloudy, and only the right half was intact, the left half of his face seemed stiff and full of scars, and the sclera of the left eye was even worse. It was completely pitch black, and the eyeballs exuded an abnormal orange-red light.

"You don't want infighting before our common ideals are fulfilled."

"Yes, common ideals!" Elena looked at this man with a mocking smile

"Silk, it was the ideal of you and Van der. A small person like me can only be regarded as your follower. That day, you probably don't know where I fell, and where the flow of my life flowed out. the most blood?"

"You are too humble. The fighting abilities of your 'Flesh and Blood Secret Cult' members are not weaker than those of me who have been injected with glimmer of light." Silko said lightly.

"You are an indispensable help in the plan to counterattack the Shangcheng people."

"But you may not like our eating habits too much." Elena opened her hands and said with a meaningless smile

"Although we are basically not picky about eating, but if we can, of course we would like to get more flesh and blood... the kind of the same kind."

Silko's face sank like water. The crazy woman in front of her rose only in the last two years, Elena, the leader of the "Flesh and Blood Esoteric Cult" that gradually spread in the lower city.

The one who had followed him and Vander to war with the Picheng, and had vanished that night along with a large number of their followers.

No one knew what she had been through, only that she was different when she came back.

No, it should be said that she is not even human anymore.

Elena, the lord of the Flesh and Esoteric Cult, is an extremely terrifying, out-and-out 'monster'!

She was so abnormal that even Silko's mad scientist friend Singed would be stunned.

Just like the name of the flesh and blood sect she founded, Elena's mutation is reflected in her abnormal body, and besides this abnormal body, she can also create the same kind as her by separating her own flesh and blood.

If she lets go of the infection, she will soon be able to pull up a powerful army that belongs to her!

Those flesh-and-blood fanatics with mutated bodies, Shirko has seen, even a flesh-and-blood fanatic who has just completed transformation can rival his warriors who have shimmered and wore turbo alchemy pots!

Not to mention, these flesh and blood fanatics can also improve their strength through the literal fusion of flesh and blood.

Or to put it more bluntly, these monsters transformed from humans can become stronger by eating humans...

For them, cannibalism is not necessary to survive but merely a way to become stronger.In fact, they can gain strength by devouring other creatures, but for them, the human body is the most efficient.

After all, flesh and blood are just flesh and blood, and there is no qualitative difference between animals and humans.

However, their leader Elena strictly forbids her flesh and blood fanatics to actively hunt and kill humans—at least, she does not allow these guys to eat living people.

And this seems to have something to do with their beliefs. From top to bottom, from the top to bottom of the Flesh Esoteric Cult, from the leader Elena to the newly joined Flesh Crazy believers, they will not hesitate to worship their 'gods'

It is a pagan belief that is different from the belief of Zaun's traditional but fading "Lady of the Wind". As the name suggests, they worship a being called endless flesh and blood...

Silko couldn't figure out the core teachings. He only knew that those who joined the Flesh Esoteric Cult, no matter what kind of people they were before, would definitely become irreparable fanatics in the future!

Such an organization composed of a group of monsters would scare even Silko from the bottom of his heart.

But, while terrifying, they're not without weaknesses.

Including Elena, all members of the Flesh and Blood Secret Cult have a deep dislike for the sun.

Not to UV rays, but to the real sun.Any sun that rises during the day will make them feel disgusted and avoided instinctively. For Silko, this is also a major basis for his willingness to cooperate with them.

A dark place like Zaun is the most suitable soil for these monsters to exist, and when they take down the leather city, these monsters who hate sunlight will not set foot in the upper city.