An Infinite Journey From the Sea of ​​Stones

Yun Juan clasped his hands together, his left face was compassionate and helpless, while his right face was full of malice and playfulness, the pirate's body couldn't move, and the next moment——

He screamed, and his soul was pulled out of his body as if being pulled by an invisible big hand. Under the horrified eyes of the pirates and sailors, the pulled soul instantly shattered in the void, turning into Ignored starlight poured into Yunjuan's body.

The same is true of his body, Yunjuan gently stretched out his fingers, and the pirate's body full of vitality was instantly emptied like a popsicle that had been sucked dry, just like the horror in Junji Ito's comics!

On the contrary, Yunjuan's pale face instantly became rosy and strong, and his originally lacking body and energy instantly filled up a part!He smiled, the compassion on the left half of his face became thinner, while the banter on the right half of his face became clearer.

"Everyone, I gave you a chance!"

He spread his hands, and eight extremely sharp ace flying knives appeared in his hands. He smiled at the pirates and said softly

"As a thank you for letting me clean up some of the impurities, yes, I'll let you die... very painful."

Immediately afterwards, the massacre began.

The eight sharp ace flying knives instantly flew out to harvest life, and when these pirates howled and pounced on them, they were often 'separated' before they got close.

Yunjuan just glanced at them lightly, and their souls were ripped out of their bodies with howls, and then ground into basic spiritual matter in the void, which was absorbed by Yunjuan.

And their bodies were pulled away and poured into Yunjuan's extremely weak body. He was very patient, extracting them one by one, making these pirates groan in endless pain one by one. off.

This battle cannot be called a battle at all, it is completely a one-sided massacre.

It wasn't bloody, but it was far more cruel than any fighting in the arena.Because it's not a kill at all, it's a 'eating'.

When the pirate ship controlled by the Baru snake caller realized that something was wrong here, he immediately turned around and left, but Yunjuan just looked at them with a smile, and raised his open right hand in plea to the leader Baru, Then—

Hold tight!

The bodies of all the people on that ship were instantly disintegrated into countless uneven pieces of meat and small pieces, and their souls were dissociated into basic spiritual matter. They were like a huge invisible giant in the air. The hydraulic press instantly collapsed!

The sea monster that surrounded the ship seemed to have sensed something, and was so frightened that it wanted to let go of its claws and escape.And Yunjuan sighed softly and stretched out his left hand to the huge tentacles.

"Ah, what a poor creature, controlled by people, to come and hunt us."

He squeezed his palm lightly, and a white light fell on it.In an instant, all the scars on the sea monster healed in an instant!It let go of the boat, as if it felt boundless mercy and peace under this holy light!

Then......

The next moment, its sucker and the flexible tentacles suddenly started to twitch crazily. In an instant, countless small and terrifying sarcoma grew on its body surface, and then broke open, convulsing and dying under the foul-smelling pus and blood!

The whole body tissue of this sea monster is running wildly, countless structures that should not belong to this body grow out, and are judged as harmful by the immune system in an instant and eliminated!

Under the radiance of the benevolent holy light, the ferocious and terrifying sea monster fell into the sea with a final scream. The black pus and blood dyed the sea black.

"What a waste."

Yunjuan sighed, looked at the crew members on the deck full of shriveled corpses and expressions of endless horror, smiled and spread his hands

"Sorry, the flight may have to be changed this time."

"Why don't we change the destination to Bilgewater."

......

Life at sea is often prey to the weak, and it is customary for the weak to obey the orders of the strong, not only for pirates and sailors, but also for fearsome passengers and sailors.

Although Bilgewater was very scary, at the request of this pirate monster who had just eaten up two ships like an ogre, the captain did not hesitate to change course in the direction of Bilgewater.

Sure enough, the Ionians were not easy to mess with.

Obviously, he was such a compassionate young monk when he communicated with him before, who knew that he would be so cruel when he made a move...

As usual, Yunjuan sat cross-legged on the bow of the boat and looked at the coast, but Ari who was following him, his expression was no longer so casual.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally mustered up the courage to step forward and ask in awe.

"You...what the hell is going on?"

"What's the matter?"

Yun Juan tilted his head with a smile, and at this time the cloth covering his right eye had been completely moved to the top of his head, covering the blood-red strange lines on his head.

"If you mean my attitude, I don't think I've changed much?"

"No, you have changed a lot." Ari complained

"You in Ionia might have stopped the pirates, or thrown them overboard and scuttled their ships, but certainly not so... brutal!"

To be honest, when Yunjuan was 'eating' just now, apart from feeling a little bit greedy, Ari was more surprised by Yunjuan's unseemly eating.

He has become nothing like him.

Yunjuan's appearance in Ionia can't win him the title of a saint, and even if he is not killed as a demon, it would be good, even though Ionia is not so repulsive to tit for tat now, But Yunjuan's behavior was no different from that of a demon.

"Is this... just a dynamic balance."

Yunjuan looked at his hands and said lightly

"For some reason... my personal soul has been affected and aggregated. They made me undergo an unimaginable transformation to obtain extremely powerful power, and at the same time let me... It's not like me."

On that day, after creating the weirdness of 'hell' with his own hands, Yunjuan received another kind of emotional injection from people from all over the world who witnessed this terrifying vision.

Because I have witnessed hell, because I have recognized the repayment of sin in time, because I have known the future that is doomed by this horror.

Knowing these horrific punishments for evil, naturally, one will desire and worship the power that can be freed from all these things.

Longing for atonement, longing for repayment, longing for mercy, with the purgatory of punishment, naturally also longing for the power to reduce crimes.

Therefore, the cloud roll has become the direction that this wave of thought leads.

Yunjuan used a huge deception and the special environment of the previous world to make people all over the world recognize and believe in the existence of hell after death. The huge vision and cause and effect turned into a real purgatory, and he also inevitably Be part of hell.

It's just that he failed to bear the identity of 'Lord of Hell'. Instead, he was introduced to desire another image and existence by those who yearn for liberation and compassion.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, or to be precise, is the desire for salvation of human beings who recognize the existence of hell.

People long for the existence of a person who bears their own sins and makes atonement. In the purgatory of Buddhism, it is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and in Christian stories, it is their holy son Jesus.

What kind of image it is is actually not important, what matters is the infusion of this concept and trend of thought.

Remember what Yunjuan said?The strange composition lies in the curse produced by the large-scale collective unconsciousness, combined with the special product finally born of the soul itself.

These 'curses', the special powers born from the spirits of all things are gathered together to form a regular incarnation with a dominant entity, and Yun Juan was kidnapped and kidnapped by this collective unconsciousness, so that he almost died became a weird one.

A Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, a strange person who can redeem souls in hell.

That huge curse is so terrifying, just like the emotions generated by the billions of people who created hell under the dissemination of information, among them, there are probably equal or even more emotions that make up the curse and aggregated on Yunjuan.

It can be said that he shot himself in the foot.

When he saw that he was going to become an extremely terrifying and extremely weird, the strange energy in his dantian made him temporarily sober in this state of thinking binding.

Then, he broke free from the shackles and forcibly escaped from that world with the help of space.

The process of becoming Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was interrupted. Although he lost the huge power blessing bound by billions of curses, the strange transformation still made his existence itself fundamentally changed.

His soul is divided into two parts - the eye of Ksitigarbha and the eye of Mobo Xun.

But this statement is just a shorthand. In fact, his strangeness turned his soul into two opposite but unified extremes. One is extreme compassion and forgiveness, and the other is absolute cruelty. punishment.

His own human nature still exists, just wandering between the two and being forced to exist on the weak 'demonic' side.So, he chose to go to Ionia before his self-consciousness would be bound by this power.

Here, he began to work on the strangeness of himself. The extreme characteristics of the duality of gods and demons made him dare not easily fall to any side.

Compared with the cruel and punishing Mobo Xun's Eye, the biggest part of the curse lingering on him is undoubtedly the part that fell to the Ksitigarbha's Eye.

Therefore, he became a 'saint' in Ionia, because at that time he was almost the embodiment of mercy, and his humanity could only come out to interfere when necessary.

At that time, he was more 'divine' than 'human'

And everything I experienced in Ionia, after a long battle to stand upright, every "mercy" and witnessing every "suffering" is to reduce his "divinity" while growing the other side 'magic'

At the same time, this way of acting is also allowing him to gradually erode the gift bestowed by the status of Ksitigarbha King.The excessively mutated Soul Devouring Throat is devouring these special parts stuffed into Yunjuan's soul, in order to wear it down and master it.

He had to separate all the excess power in his body, because only the weaker he was, the more the suffering he witnessed would complete the burden of balance.And a lot of power and soul are not suitable for the completion of the acting method.

This is also the reason for choosing Ionia, because only here is the most suitable place for the entire Runeterra to live in at that time.

And until now, divinity and demonity have achieved a relative balance, and his humanity has finally gained absolute dominance!

But he can still direct his soul to the other side at any time, but he won't do it, at least he won't do it until he fully grasps this strange ability in his hands!

"I have suffered for three years, but I have not gained anything at all..." Yunjuan said softly

In the balance of three years of silence, he has turned this curse into his own power.Although he doesn't have the god-like mighty power when he is filled with the thoughts of billions of people, but this strangeness has brought him not only the improvement of the essence of life, but also two kinds of abilities that are almost rule-like.

The ability of the left eye is called 'Endless Life'. As the name suggests, it represents the power of compassion and divinity, which can control the growth and recovery of life, and comfort the spirit and soul.This ability came from the desire of countless people for the compassion of Ksitigarbha King.

The ability of the right eye is 'destroy all life', which means that the power of destructive magic can disassemble the components of life, grind them up and swallow them.It comes from the fear and resentment of countless people towards him, combined with the ability created by his mind ability.

The more one leans to one side, the more powerful one's ability will be, without any so-called "loss" at all, because this is close to authority itself.It's just that the more you use one side, the easier it is to fall to the other side in this balance.

But for Yun Juan, his biggest gain in the past three years is not the essential leap of life, but——

"I'm actually not someone who yearns for justice." Yunjuan smiled calmly and easily

"I've done so much not because I wanted justice to be done, but simply because I didn't like what I didn't like."

In his heart, Yun Juan was not a partner of justice at all.He did so much in the last world, the seemingly 'sacrifices' and the effort to imagine for a better world are at the root of it—he just wants to see whether such a world is good or bad.

Now that I think about it, the reason why many actions in the mid-term have become more conservative rather than radical and direct is probably because he was already entangled in these curses that led him to be merciful on the way to create the "Hell Communication".

Now that these curses have been washed away, Yunjuan has a clearer understanding of his own essence——

If killing someone who made him sick would destroy the world, he would probably beat him until he could vent his anger.He doesn't really care if the world is destroyed or not.

He's not a partner of good, but he's certainly an enemy of evil.

Well, he thought evil.

"That's why, Ah Li, if you kill and kill in front of me, there is a high probability that I have already swallowed you as a food reserve."

Yunjuan looked at Ari with a smile, and the tip of the fox's tail was trembling when he looked at it with this smile!

but......

"I quite like the way you don't pretend." Ari sat directly beside Yunjuan, slightly twirling the hair around her ears, and smiled

"There is nothing wrong with continuing to take risks with you...but I think you should give me some unnecessary spirits?"

"Is the loss of feeding pets? Acceptable."

Yunjuan nodded lightly, turned his fingers slightly, took out a pair of glasses from nowhere and put them on for himself

"However, a disguise is still necessary."

Seeing the sudden change in temperament in front of him, and the gentle and kind Yunjuan again, Ari wagged his tail and turned his head away arrogantly

"Hmph, men who like deceiving people."

13. Evolution Day

There is no such thing as a National Day in Piltover.

As a city-state established by gathering a large number of refugees from the Rune Wars like Demacia, in fact, this land already had an owner before that.

Piltover, or Zaun, is a name that dates back to the time of the Shurima Empire.At that time, Zaun was the transfer station of the empire in Valoran, and it was also the golden seaway for the empire to reach various regions of Runeterra. At that time, Piltover was the jewel of the empire and the most important commercial city in Shurima.

Of course, the past is too long to be verified. After all, there are not many aborigines in this city-state who still retain the appearance of Shurima among the refugees.Just because it's immigrants, Piltover doesn't hold any kind of National Day.

Well, these guys would be fine without having a Thanksgiving.

However, although there is no National Day, Piltover still has an annual festival that the entire city-state will participate in - Evolution Day.

This is a day of rejoicing throughout the city. It was originally to celebrate the birth of the Sun Gate, and later it became a celebration of Piltover's great scientific pursuit. An event where scientists demonstrate their inventions.

Of course, there is also an Evolution Day festival in Zaan, but it is completely opposite to the Picheng Guys. The Evolution Day of the Zaan people is not to celebrate anything, but to commemorate something.

The day the Sungate was born marked the opening of a fast trade route between east and west Valoran, and it also marked the transition from a trickle of trade taxation to a tidal wave, pouring into the coffers of the city-state of Piltover.For the people of Zaun, it is a day to remember those who perished due to the great changes in the landscape.

The canal opened up the ocean on the east and west sides, and at the same time completely submerged a city in Zaun, causing the lower city to completely sink.That day was the day when the dreams of inventors and capitalists shined bright, and the day when Zaunites died in the endless depths.

On Evolution Day, the brightest inventor will announce his new invention to the whole of Piltover.In the past, Professor Heimerdinger would play the leading role, but this year must be very different.

Elena got up very early today, or she didn't fall asleep at all.

The curtains were opened wide, and the warm sunlight poured down on the floor of the third-floor bedroom.Elena narrowed her eyes, until now she was very uncomfortable with the warm sunshine in the upper city.

Maybe Zaun is the one for her, though it smells, well... a bit stinky.

She looked down, and there were already many vendors on the gravel road.They all hope to seize the business opportunity in the early morning of Evolution Day.Bright colored flags are hung between the buildings, and the narrow streets are full of festivals and auspiciousness. Gold and red flags embroidered with gears and keys are flying in the distance.

The top of the tower at , the family quarter on the upper slopes, is the source of the wealth that flows through the streets of Piltover.