Journey to the West: Stone Heart and Stone Edge

"Master, you asked me...to purify that flood dragon?"

Ruyi raised her head slightly, looking at the Patriarch who was sitting quietly on the futon, her eyes were puzzled.

Isn't this kind of thing what the ancestors are doing?

"Ruyi, you have followed me for many years, go try it." As if seeing her question, the patriarch said so.

Today's patriarch seems to be a little different from the past.

Still smiling, looking at him softly, but the inexplicable expression in the eyes of the patriarch seemed to be a little bit thicker.

Ruyi looked carefully for a long time, but couldn't decipher what it meant.

Anyway, it must not be because that Jiaolong could see her.

In these years, the ones that Ruyi subdued in the world are all little demons, who can harm a few families at most, and can't handle big waves.

Although that Jiaolong is not Ruyi's opponent, he is still a monster with some cultivation. It is not surprising that Ruyi can see her.

Common affairs in the world are cumbersome, and not all monsters should be exterminated, and this is not the first time she has encountered such a monster who seems to have an inside story.

But... to purify him, Ruyi would rather accept him.

Inhale the evolutionary element, and after 33 breaths, it will be wiped out, so much trouble.Originally... this Jiaolong also made a karmic obstacle, so it should have this karmic result, right?

If she had known this earlier, she shouldn't have spared Jiaolong's life and brought it back to the mountain gate, saving herself trouble.

Ruyi was thinking maliciously, completely unaware of the inexplicable resistance in her heart at this moment, who should obey her master.

It's just that this feeling passed by in a flash, and it almost didn't stay in her mind, and Ruyi didn't realize that this thought shouldn't come from her temperament at all.

Seeing Ruyi's eyes wandering, Patriarch Bodhi knew that she was unwilling.After being silent for a while, Patriarch Bodhi still said, "Go."

Master has made up his mind, Ruyi has no choice but to push aside even if she has some unclear feelings.

But, how to purify this flood dragon?

When the three cinnabar red characters "Liu Yao Cave" on the stone wall came into Ruyi's eyes, she couldn't help sighing again, and walked in slowly.

A black demon-binding rope coiled around the stone pillar like a snake. The bound man was naked and barefoot, with long black hair hanging down in front of his face in a mess.

He was lowering his head, but when he heard Ruyi's footsteps, he looked sideways, "What are you doing here?"

Ruyi was looking at him intently, but when he asked him, she turned her gaze away and said, "So, you can already transform into form."

"Hahahaha," Jiaolong seemed to have heard something ridiculous, lowered his head and let out a dull laugh, his whole body trembling, "Transformation, why should I transform, what's so good about being human!"

His hair scattered in front of his face covered his expression, only his voice was full of resentment and desolation.

What's so good about people!

A pair of aggrieved and angry eyes flashed unexpectedly before Ruyi's eyes.

Turning around, finding a suitable stone to sit down, Ruyi tidied up her skirt in a slow manner.

She has no obligation to comfort him, so please laugh slowly.

Jiaolong laughed to himself for a while, and then slowly fell silent.He held his breath in his heart, but Ruyi ignored him, and he couldn't let it out.

On the contrary, he was even more aggrieved.

"Are you willing to repent sincerely and stop doing evil again?" Ruyi asked abruptly after hearing his laughter no longer.

"What did I do wrong! Why do I have to repent!" Jiaolong roared excitedly after being overwhelmed by Ruyi's calm questioning.

"Oh." Ruyi replied, and continued to meditate calmly.

After refining the fox demon last time, she still confiscated the aura in Hua Yuanzhi for her own use.

Jiaolong's chest heaved violently, staring at Ruyi.

It sucks to hold your breath in your chest all the time, and it hurts him more than the resentment in his heart.

I don't know how long it took until Ruyi finished absorbing the refined spiritual energy, and Ruyi opened her eyes again, "What about now?"

ah?Jiaolong, who had completely calmed down, was taken aback, "What now?"

"Can you sincerely repent and stop doing evil?"

“………………Delusion!”

"Oh." Ruyi continued to meditate, refining and purifying the true energy in her body.

Apart from collecting demons, Ruyi spends most of her time practicing, and she doesn't care at all where she practices.Instead of persuading this dragon with earnest words, wouldn't it be better to spend some time practicing more.

Ruyi these years, except for the patriarch, is equivalent to spending more than four hundred years alone on the mountain.Ruyi doesn't care about the emotions of others.

By the way, there is a difference now, but it has nothing to do with the matter at hand.

Jiaolong clenched his fists tightly, "Are you going to play me like this!"

Ruyi's true essence has just been running halfway, if it is interrupted, it will be useless for a week, so it turns a deaf ear to Jiaolong's words.

"say something!"

After concentrating on turning her true energy for a week, Ruyi raised her eyes again, "Why am I playing tricks on you?"

"Is this the attitude of teaching people to repent?"

This is really good for the exam, "Then what should my attitude be?"

Jiaolong was at a loss for words, why did he ask him, wasn't he the one to be purified.

Suddenly realizing this, Jiaolong turned his head away and ignored Ruyi.

Ruyi looked at him silently for a while, realized that he didn't answer her intentions, so she gathered her energy and prepared to continue practicing.

"Hey!"

Jiaolong could see that as long as Ruyi settled down, he would not pay attention to him until the end of the week.

But his question was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't spit it out quickly.

"Since you don't want to purify me, why did you come?"

"I do find it troublesome," Ruyi answered him honestly, "But it's the teacher's order, and I sincerely hope that you will be kind."

That way she's done her job.

"Master's order, can't you violate it?" Jiaolong sneered, "Even if you don't want to, you have to do it."

"It's not reluctance, it's respect," Ruyi corrected, "Master treats me with great kindness, and it's my duty to help the old man share these trivial matters."

If she had resolutely refused before, I believe Master would not make things difficult for her, but in that case, Ruyi was afraid of hurting Master's heart.

"The kindness is as heavy as a mountain," Jiaolong repeated these words almost gnashing his teeth, wishing he could chew them in his mouth, "Why?"

Ruyi tilted her head, not understanding what Jiaolong said at all.

"Is it because I gave birth to you?"

……………… Master did not give birth to her, but after being mentioned by Jiaolong, Ruyi had some doubts. Before meeting Master, what was she?

"I'm not reconciled, why..."

Ruyi had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.

"why…"

Jiaolong's body was trembling slightly, as if he was caught in some kind of memory, even his voice had a hint of crying.

"Even if it looks like this, you gave birth to me..."

Jiaolong's body trembled more violently, he lowered his head, his tears fell on the ground drop by drop.

"It's not my fault at all..."

Ruyi had to keep silent.

But he was leaning against the stone pillar so softly, a section of calf was exposed under the red shirt, Ruyi blinked, it was covered with red scales.

Incomplete changeling?

Jiaolong raised his head suddenly, and the hair in front of his face was thrown to the sides, "Tell me, is it my fault that I got this look?"

Only then did Ruyi realize that his face was also covered with fine scales.

Not to mention mortals, for the Yaozu, it's not ugly for him to be like this.

"So this is your true self." Thinking of what he said just now, Ruyi suddenly realized, "Do you feel resentful because you were rejected by your parents because you were born like this?"

"It's more than disgust..." Jiaolong lowered his voice and smiled miserably.

"It's simply disgusting, isn't it?" The appearance of a monster with scales, horns on its forehead, and trailing vertebrae, even parents are ashamed to take a second look. , still alive."

There was a strange expression of crying and laughing on his face, "Should I thank them?"

Ruyi didn't know how to answer, so she ignored his question, "What do you mean when you say you are not your own?"

"Do you know why I became like this, because my mother hooked up with people outside," he still called his mother, but he said such a shameful thing, but with a schadenfreude sneer, "she is a mortal, how do you know Those who celebrate the Spring Festival with me are not human at all, hehe, they really deserve it."

"It turns out that your father is a dragon, but your mother is a mortal. A dragon is not a dragon, and your essence is impure, which made you like this." Ruyi realizes that it is really difficult for mortals to accept, "but , as far as your biological father is concerned, he probably won't mind."

"He, hmph, has never seen it before. What a dragon, it's just a reptile hiding its head and showing its tail."

Although Ruyi has not read all kinds of situations in the world, but she also understands that she is not a human being, and her father is not around, and she is rejected by her mother. How can she live a good life in a mortal mansion.

"Then how did you transform into a dragon?" In the mortal world, no one taught him this.

Jiaolong was stunned for a moment, then his eyes burst into a fierce light, and his nails were deeply embedded in his palm.

Stared at by his gaze, although he gritted his teeth and said nothing, the resentment that seemed substantial touched Ruyi.

Ruyi's eyes flashed, and pictures flashed in her mind like transparent glass shards.

The two children have almost the same appearance. Although their faces are covered with scales, their heads have horns, and there is a small tail behind them, they look extremely cute.They were dirty, and the scales of their tails were peeled off a lot.

A white-bearded elder wearing Taoist robes and holding floating dust stopped them. I don't know what he said, and the two children followed him away.

The two children, holding a file bigger than their palms, were tearful, but they still shattered the scales on their bodies piece by piece, and each time a piece was shattered, their small bodies trembled. The file was already stained with blood. .Then, saw off the top corners of the head.

This picture flashed over and over many times, and the two children gradually grew into teenagers.

The scales and horns will grow back over time.

In the last scene, one of the teenagers turned into a flood dragon in front of the white-bearded elder, with dark blue scales and a charming luster.

Even without any sound, you can feel his pure joy.Ruyi watched them go through all these pains before transforming into dragons, and she couldn't help feeling a sense of relief in her heart.

Then, right in front of Ruyi's eyes, the elegant and beautiful dragon was beaten down by the white-bearded elder, whose scales and horns were peeled off, and its skin cramped.

Ruyi's eyes widened in shock, and she watched without moving. The flood dragon that was still alive a few breaths ago turned into a pile of materials waiting to be refined.

why? !

The picture suddenly shattered, and Ruyi took a few steps back, panting like a drowning person.

She became obsessed, and the resentment invaded her spiritual consciousness, which could be easily expelled, but there was a spring in her spiritual consciousness, as if attracted by that resentment, Ruyi was attracted by this breath in her spiritual consciousness hurt.

Ruyi covered her forehead, the vibration of her spiritual consciousness made her head ache.Although that aura was suppressed by something, but because of this resentment, there seemed to be some signs of imminent movement.

"You've seen it all, right." Thinking that Ruyi was like this because of those tragic memories, Jiaolong looked at her, "This is the so-called cultivator."

...You and I are both cultivators...

In the spiritual consciousness, wisps of breath leaked out from under the vibrating seal, as if someone's voice was ringing in my ears, not familiar, but still unfamiliar.

"Just because we are demons, should we die?"

...What is fate like this...

"You, don't talk about it." In her spiritual consciousness, the uneasy feeling was getting stronger and stronger, and her soul trembled, and her headache was about to split.

"You often say that the cycle of karma and retribution is not good."

...The strong words are unreasonable, I don't believe in this cause and effect...

"Stop talking." The voice in her head was like a sharp blade, almost causing her soul to ache. Ruyi tried to block his mouth with a spell, but the majestic true essence in her spiritual consciousness seemed to be dead. Not listening.

"Tell me, where is the retribution! Where is the way of heaven!!"

... Where is the way of heaven! ! ...

ah--!Yuanshen seemed to be in a cage of burning fire for an instant, almost suffocating in pain, Ruyi screamed suddenly, covered her head and knelt down.