Volume 9: Star Cave Chapter 86 Dongshan Stone
At this moment in the battle, it is completely impossible to distinguish between you and me.
The Abyss is so chaotic that when a fight breaks out, sometimes people will go up and beat up their own shadow when they see it.
It doesn’t matter who the enemy is; what matters is that there is an enemy.
In particular, this "human world" is essentially an abyss, which resulted in those stone men inexplicably bringing out the sanctuary first.
Then when Linji saw that the Sanctuary and the Abyss were there, he also came to this dimension. For some reason, the beast herd also inexplicably came to interfere.
Things just got confusing along the way.
At this time, in a place in the human world that was temporarily converted into a sacrificial site, Dongshan Shi, who founded the Stone Heart Church, was extremely confused.
He is called the Holy Spirit who was born.
When he was young, he discovered a demon lurking in the human world and contacted the Stone Man Guard to expel it.
It was only natural for him to join the guard team to drive out demons and protect peace on earth.
But he soon discovered a problem. It was not that demons were lurking in the human world, but that the human world had already become an abyss.
Everything is just the abyss's way of showing the indulgence of desire and for the sake of contrast, which allows this opposing level to exist.
This truth almost made Dongshanshi collapse, and then he became a bastard who wantonly unleashed his own desires.
It's not like no one had noticed this in the past, but those people didn't dare to pass on this information because it would only puncture the false order before them.
As a result, the discoverer will either go crazy and degenerate into a villain, or paralyze himself and become a muddle-headed waste.
Only Dongshan Shi found a way out with the breath in his heart.
That is the power of the mind, using the restraint of the mind to control desires.
And in this practice, he gradually gained a new perspective , which is the perspective of observing the holy land.
He believed that the Sanctuary was the salvation of the world, so he spread the Stone Heart Church he founded on a large scale.
Then he revealed the truth of the world, wanting everyone to practice, and then separate the human world from the abyss, so as to go to the holy land and break free from the beast-like desire.
Dongshan Shi did it, at least in the early days, he thought he did it.
With the introduction of the power of the sanctuary, people finally had the power to resist the abyss and were able to truly kill the devil.
Under the constraints of the church's oath, people's inner desires were restrained and the devil's rampage gradually eased.
Everything is changing for the better.
Even the support they received from the Sanctuary was growing stronger.
Until the emergence of Criticality, that monster that distorts people's minds is as dirty as the abyss.
But it was precisely because of the emergence of Critical Point that Dongshan Shi gradually woke up from the opposition between the Holy Land and the Abyss.
He used to stubbornly believe that the sanctuary is hope, the sanctuary is salvation, and the sanctuary is the future.
But this perception was quickly shattered.
The sanctuary is not such a perfect place.
It emphasizes the eternity of the soul. To achieve eternity, one needs to have something to hold on to.
Through practicing various precepts, one can discover the strength of one's inner self through the precepts, realize that everything outside is external and that everything in the outside world is a false bubble, and then sublimate one's own mind and transform oneself into a holy spirit.
In this way, you can enjoy the eternity of the mind, obtain absolute silence, and interfere with everything in the outside world with the power of the mind.
But most people simply don't have that ability.
They can only adhere to the oaths and commandments tightly, and because they are wholeheartedly devoted to the Holy Land, they can be absorbed by the Holy Land and become spiritual bodies.
They would only become food for the Sanctuary, even for him.
In other words, a mind that is not pure enough is just a false thing and can be discarded at any time.
Dongshanshi fell into this confusion.
He established the Stone Heart Church and chose to contact the Holy Land with only one purpose, which was to find a chance for the general public to survive.
However, now, the opportunity he was looking for was just to push most people from one fire pit into another.
He had asked the holy spirits who came to help him about this question, and then the holy spirits easily summoned those spirits and absorbed them into their bodies.
"The heart is one, so where does the you and I come from?"
A very philosophical statement.
"The false self is all false, the true self is good. Their own minds cannot see through the falsehood. After the false self is wiped out, they can merge into our true self, which is also a good thing!"
The Holy Spirit also teaches this.
Dongshan Shi only felt a chill in his heart at that time.
He did this to save it all, but now you tell me that everything I wanted to save was just a lie.
The aunt next door was fake, her act of helping herself was fake, the food she gave herself was fake, her husband who died fighting the devil was fake, her son who had been her playmate since childhood was fake, and the people who trusted and cared for her along the way were fake? ! !
If Dongshan Shi had not undergone spiritual practice at that time, he would probably have collapsed again.
But that feeling of confusion has since been integrated into his body.
In the process, he also discovered that he, who was so-called "trapped in the miasma of the heart", gradually became a decoration, and the Stone Heart Church, the church he founded, gradually turned into the appearance of the Holy Spirit.
For the command of the Holy Spirit, countless people gave their lives, and in the end even their souls became the cornerstone of the Holy Spirit's body.
The person who originally at least looked normal has turned into a ghost.
And all of this was brought about by him.
Dongshanshi became more and more confused.
"I just want to survive, and I just want to take everyone with me to survive. Is that wrong?"
It was at this time that Dongshan Shi suddenly heard a beast roar coming from afar.
It was exactly the same as the roar of a wild beast when fighting with hostile creatures for food.
"A herd of beasts..." A feeling surged into Dongshanshi's heart.
He is indeed a natural holy spirit, born with a strong mind, and can often see the inner truth of a thing through external appearances.
But now, he has seen the truth behind the arrival of the beasts.
"So, giving up thoughts and just living is the only way for us to survive?"
At this moment, Dongshanshi felt as if his whole body was torn apart.
On one hand, he is a holy spirit capable of spiritual eternity, on the other hand, he is an ordinary stone man struggling to survive with all kinds of desires, and on the other hand, he is a wild beast.
In order to survive for himself and his tribe, he chose the power from his heart, but found that his heart had abandoned all his past and made him let go of everything of his tribe.
At this moment, Linji's mind-distorting power took advantage of the situation and tried to twist him into a demon.
But then, Dongshan Shi's spiritual power shook, and his past desires, the instinct for survival, and even his critically distorted mind were all cleared at this moment.
At this time, many holy spirits had already arrived. They looked at Dong Shanshi, and then after seeing Dong Shanshi's still pure heart, they congratulated him.
"Today my mind is as solid as a rock. He Er will break the miasma of my heart!"
For a moment, everything around seemed so sacred and noble, as if gods and Buddhas were above the mortal world. Apart from them, everything else became so illusory and insignificant.
Dongshan Shi became the Pope of the Shixin Church again and once again held real power.
In fact, those holy spirits do not care about the power of some sects. After all, they are all vain and will eventually vanish into thin air. At most, they will create a few ripples in the lake and then turn into some water to make up for the consumption of the lake water.
The reason why the Holy Spirit Church sent so many Holy Spirits to support the Stone Heart Church was only because of two reasons.
First, this is the opposite layer of the abyss, an area completely shrouded by the disgusting desires of the abyss. If it can be purified and redeemed, then it will be a merit.
Second, Dongshan Shi, it must be said that he, who was born as a holy spirit, does have a strong spiritual power. Even if he is in the opposite layer of the abyss, he can break free from the control of the abyss with his own mind and then observe the existence of the holy land.
With this kind of qualifications, Dongshan Shi has the potential to become a high-level combat force in the Holy Land.
Today, Dongshan Shi has seen the truth from the illusion and overcome the poison of his heart. Now he only needs the last step to complete his merit.
Dongshanshi walked on the only remaining land of stone men. With his current mental strength, he could easily cover this land.
Countless people came and went, and after seeing him, they all had an enthusiastic look on their faces, wanting to join him.
All the believers still respect him, or rather, respect the holy land he represents.
In the distance, someone was making a vow.
It is already too late. In order to fight against the abyss, he called on everyone to take an oath in order to get rid of the influence of the abyss on people.
After that, the few individuals who resisted the oath and resisted joining the Stoneheart Church were considered to be running dogs of the Abyss.
If it weren't for various reasons that detected that they were not contaminated by the abyss, they would probably have been dragged out and burned to death long ago.
Of course, there were more people who were burned to death in this way, but not in front of Dongshan Stone.
The man who took the oath had a painful look on his face. He was dragged and had one of his sensory whiskers chopped off, and then his eyes were poked out.
He wailed in pain and wanted to curse something, but his mouth was blocked.
As he sobbed, he gradually became silent, allowing the followers of the Stone Heart Church to carve various vows on his body.
Dongshan Shi knew why, and the people around him who dragged him to take the oath also knew that the stone man's eyes were connected to the brain, and there was a very important area behind the eyeballs. Once injured, it could lead to death.
That person is dead.
But they still carved a pledge on his body, then looked at the corpse with piety, wishing him a speedy arrival in the holy land.
No one cared that it was a murder because everyone was the murderer, including Dong Shanshi.
