Within the high wall, the moon is as red as blood.

A hunchbacked old woman was holding a medicine pestle and tapping the herbs in the medicine jar, making crisp sounds from time to time.

The collision between the plaster medicine bowl and the iron stone pestle brought ruthless echoes. The house that was about to be empty seemed to be filled with human bodies for a moment, and then disappeared in an instant.

The old woman was like a snail crawling on the ground. The height difference between her towering back and her lowered face was so great that she didn't look like a snail, but like a deformed stone.

The body was looming, and there were also sounds of vague and non-existent shouts.

There was also the owner of a pair of white calves, with bare feet and shackles, huddled in the corner, watching in horror as the deformed stone moved towards her.

"No...don't come over!"

"Help...help..."

Continuous shouts came out of her mouth, but no one could hear them. Those seemingly non-existent bodies began to overlap each other loomingly.

Like a lonely ghost, she saw a scene that frightened her. Broken arms and limbs filled the empty room, and the screams of countless girls also irritated her eardrums.

She will also become a part of this place!

"Don't be afraid..." The old woman's face seemed to be inlaid on a solid stone, blending into her earthy gray clothes.

The old woman's eyebrows were particularly ferocious under the red moon, and her weird smile made the corners of her mouth tear open, revealing the canines of a steel ruler.

"Soon~ soon~ you won't be in pain anymore~"

The girl panicked and tightened the shackles on her feet. She quickly retreated back, but she could only hit the wall. She stumbled forward and leaned her head against the high wall. She was extremely frightened and showed her last expression before her death.

posture.

Her back is straight, her left hand is turned outward and twisted, her right hand is turned inward and folded, her head is tilted to the right, but her face is raised upward, one of her legs is inward and the other is outward, as if she is possessed.

The monster wants to burst out of this humble body that was frightened in life, and is in agony.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

"Ahhhhhhhhhh-"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh-"

[Whoever it is...please come...save me...]

"Theoretically, a single Huang Yi Magic Stone can fulfill any wish of a person, but it requires paying some price. I know these settings are a bit cliché, but the price of Huang Yi Magic Stone does not require any personal sacrifice."

Chun rubbed her nose.

"For example, if a person wants to make a wish through a small piece of waste magic stone and obtain inexhaustible wealth, but the price is a shortened life span, originally any wish treasure has the restriction of [equivalent exchange],

This principle of equivalent exchange will also offset the cost by the user, and the gain of wealth will reduce the life span."

She looked at Chang Yufeng's calm face and felt much more serious.

"However, Xunhuangying himself does not like this mechanism of equivalent exchange, which makes the [owner]'s equivalent exchange become an arbitrary equivalent exchange. In other words, I gain wealth, and you lose your lifespan."

"In this way, things will become much more interesting... and more in line with... the requirements of evil people who use magic stones to make wishes. Kinder people still instinctively worry about the price they have to pay for making a wish.

People who are more evil can grant their wishes at the expense of others, which is more in line with human logic."

Chun naturally sneered at the waste magic stone.

"To realize one's own wish at the expense of others... It's really a shame that Xun Huangying can think of it."

Chang Yufeng looked at Chun seriously, and Chun shrugged indifferently.

"If I can... there is nothing I can't think of. Xunhuang Ying used to be the king in charge of the law. I haven't seen any laws about stealing, men stealing from women, prostitution, murder and arson. You can realize your wishes at the expense of others.

This kind of thing... He has seen it a lot... Only people who are inexperienced in the world, or people like you who have lived for so long and still haven't understood it, would find it unreasonable."

Chun also mocked Chang Yufeng for being too positive.

"It's actually quite reasonable, but it's just unfair."

"It's reasonable for him, but unfair for you."

Chun touched another unopened white flower, and the white flower bloomed lazily, and everything was explained clearly.

"The Abandoned Magic Stone has powerful power and has no side effects. I'm afraid it will be very difficult to find it."

Chang Yufeng stood up and sighed.

He now knows the efficacy of the Huang Yi Demon Stone, but he has lost the jade pendant to search for the Huang Yi Demon Stone. Thinking that it is still far away, he actually feels a little tired.

It may be that he does have some loneliness symptoms and cannot muster the courage to face reality again.

"I am most afraid that something like this will happen to me. I want to look for something, but in the end, I have nothing. Isn't this terrible? What I have to face in the end is so daunting to me."

Detached, but not completely detached.

This is the most painful thing...

It's like being stuck on the ground somewhere, unable to go up or down...

"You are the only Nagaha Kaede who has the memory of a god."

Chun spoke eloquently, as if telling an ancient saying, there was a possibility that they were old acquaintances.

"You are also the only one who thinks like this. Chang Yufeng exists around you in every time, space and star line. Some are furious, some are silent, some are alone, some are graceful, some are helpless...but in the end

It's not as transparent as yours. Or maybe it's just because you know the history that you can stand out from all the long-feathered maples and gain the trust of Xunhuangying. It's also because of this that you are so entangled in how to do it.

Being able to be yourself.”

Chang Yufeng listened on the side, his head moving slightly, and for a moment, he felt that Chun had indeed hit the mark and touched his heart.

"I have never seen such a situation. They have done so much for me, but now I am a little bit withdrawn. It is indeed like this... I don't know, how should I... be myself. I am not like other people at all.

Like people, life passes by in a flash."

My life is spent minute by minute...

My life is suffering minute by minute...

A lonely life minute by second...

How to spend it...

Life is meaningless...don't you feel it?

The meaninglessness of life.

"As long as there is time, space and star lines, as long as there is a reciprocating life, as long as it is independent of all lives... I can't find the meaning of my life... Looking for the Huang Yi magic stone..."

He suddenly... felt...

After everything I've been through...

Looking for the shadow of the wilderness, Chang Yinglan, and the dragon——

The ending of "The Record of the Spirit World"——

Just give an explanation to Chang Yufeng.

That is!

Life!

There is no turning back, you have everything from start to finish, you have the past, you have the future! You have pain and joy!

That's life...

A! A meaningful life!

It is not a transparent life with any Zen meaning...

But...

A meaningful life...
Chapter completed!