Chapter 132 Xiawei Temple must protect these fragile little creatures...
As more people settled around the grottoes, the number of young children naturally increased as well.
The sculptures on the grotto had been mostly looted by the previous bandits, but the headless stone ghost remained, and the rehmannia flowers continued to bloom in season, constantly attracting children to pick them.
In times of chaos, people suffer even more, and the sweetness of a "honey pot" is a rare delicacy that young children long for.
The headless stone spirit took pity on these emaciated children and specially used its spiritual power to make the rehmannia flowers on the stone wall bloom more densely, and even advance and prolong the flowering period of the rehmannia flowers, so that as many children as possible could enjoy these few drops of nectar.
The scene in this dreamlike moment is almost late summer or early autumn. The flowering period of Rehmannia glutinosa is from April to September every year, with May and June being the peak blooming season. Logically speaking, it should have withered long ago.
However, thanks to the gift of the headless stone ghost, these pink and white flowers bloomed until this time of year. Several emaciated children ran all over the cave, found the Rehmannia glutinosa flowers, and couldn't wait to pick them and stuff them into their mouths.
The change began at the foot of the grotto.
A group of Japanese pirates, dressed in neat brown-yellow uniforms, carrying guns and weapons, and sporting square mustaches, stormed into the civilian settlement like a plague.
Overjoyed to find so many people in such a remote place, they immediately scattered and began searching the village for anything of value.
But what good things could a settlement made up entirely of refugees have? They couldn't even get enough to eat.
Soon, the Japanese pirates realized there was nothing to gain from the situation, and they became furious. They picked up their weapons and seized the surrounding civilians, venting their anger on them.
Throughout all those previous episodes, the headless stone golem maintained a calm and composed mindset, remaining unperturbed even when it suffered repeated damage and destruction.
However, when the first Japanese pirate's long sword pierced the chest of an innocent civilian, the entire tone of the special memory illusion suddenly changed.
The scene within Yu Naixin's field of vision was as if shrouded in a blood-red mist, and the color tone suddenly darkened, like a close-up of a horror movie.
In fact, what is unfolding in this scene is a nightmarish horror movie.
The Japanese pirates clearly found it extremely interesting to massacre these civilians in various ways.
They developed all sorts of different ways to "play".
For example, they would rip open the stomachs of ordinary people, forcing the victims to watch their intestines being ripped out bit by bit by the tip of a gun.
For example, several people could compete to see who could behead the most civilians within the same amount of time.
For example, forcibly aborting the fetus in a pregnant woman's womb.
For example, they would rape a woman to death and then rip out her heart while it was still hot to feed to dogs.
For example, they would force several civilians to fight each other, telling them that only one person could survive. After watching and enjoying the beast-like life-or-death duel, they would then dismember the last survivor into several pieces.
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These are things that even the most cruel beasts wouldn't do, yet the Japanese pirates carried them out one by one.
Driven by a distorted sense of humanity, these creatures, cloaked in human skin and stained with blood and sin, laugh and revel in unbridled abandon.
The blood mist in front of Yu Naixin's eyes grew thicker and thicker.
There was no need for Yu Naixin to consciously perceive it; she knew exactly how intense the anger was in the heart of the headless stone ghost who had witnessed all of this.
Similar situations occurred in the special memory illusion of the Butter Flower Monk. It happened occasionally when the Butter Flower Monk was massacring the sect leaders on the plateau. It was not as continuous or prolonged as the situation with the Headless Stone Ghost, nor as intense. There were only abnormal blood vessels wandering at the edge of Yu Naixin's vision.
The headless stone demon's special memory illusion has undergone such a significant change because its master was furious with these Japanese pirates when creating the environment.
These Japanese pirates didn't even spare young children.
A child who wanted to pick wild ginseng flowers in the grotto was captured by a Japanese pirate, and his small body was impaled on a sharp long knife.
The head didn't touch the ground, the feet didn't touch the tail, and the child wasn't even as tall as the knife.
His eyes widened as he was lifted up by the Japanese pirates with a sinister grin, staring blankly at the sky.
The child, who had been holding a wild crocus flower in his hand, now dropped it to the ground.
Warm blood splattered onto the stone lotus pedestal beneath the headless stone demon.
At this moment, the compassion and peace that the headless stone ghost had maintained for thousands of years could no longer be maintained.
Overwhelmed by intense resentment, the headless stone demon felt for the first time the urge to rise from the stone wall and do something to humans.
What was happening before their eyes was beyond the headless stone demon's ability to bear.
He had never seen hell before, not even a thousand years ago, and now it was right under his nose!
The lives that die before your eyes are a powerful catalyst for the growth of spiritual power. This applies to both the butter flower monk and the headless stone ghost.
Having witnessed too many tragic and unjust deaths, the spiritual power coefficient within the headless stone demon rose to 60, which was even higher than its peak power, in a short period of time.
He was finally able to stand up from the lotus throne.
The lotus seat was also part of the headless stone demon's body. Without any hesitation, he clumsily but firmly used the stone from the lotus seat to make a greatsword that fit his hand.
The headless stone demon had no talent or experience in shaping objects; he could only roughly forge a weapon based on the swords of the pilgrims he had seen in his memory.
[...I didn't dare click into this live stream for a long time. Now the headless stone golem has successfully transformed and can move freely?]
This sword is the one the headless stone demon wielded in "Xiawei Temple"!
[I was wondering why that sword was so crude and simple; it turns out it was made when the stone Buddha wasn't yet very skilled at moving his body...]
Holding this sword, the headless stone demon rushed down the cave, clumsily yet resolutely attacking the Japanese pirates.
Until this point, the headless stone demon's actions were all aimed at driving these Japanese pirates away so that they would never come back.
He still couldn't bring himself to kill someone.
However, upon seeing the stone Buddha that seemed to run with a sword in hand, these Japanese pirates felt no fear whatsoever; instead, their eyes lit up.
Having lost all humanity, they no longer cared about divine retribution; they only felt that the Buddha statue was a precious treasure and they were determined to possess it.
They spared no expense, using guns, long knives, and explosives to attack the headless stone golem.
Forced into a corner, the headless stone demon returned to the cave and crafted a simple suit of armor for himself.
However, its effect was merely a drop in the ocean.
To make matters worse, the Japanese pirates discovered the headless stone demon's soft heart, especially towards the people living around the grotto.
Overjoyed, they used these people as bait to capture the headless stone ghost even more frantically.
An infant, still in swaddling clothes, was mistakenly killed by a headless stone demon under such circumstances.
In that instant, Yu Naixin saw the entire scene so intensely red it was almost dripping with blood.
The headless stone ghost has gone mad.
"Kill..." The stone sculpture, which never spoke, let out a muffled, hoarse cry from its broken neck, "Kill!!!"
[Help...I really can't bear to watch this...]
For over a thousand years, the first word he, a stone Buddha, uttered was "kill"...
He was originally a stone statue built by the people, and it was only through the worship and offerings of countless people over a thousand years that he became known as the "Buddha".
Now, this group of Japanese pirates, whose crimes are beyond description, have brutally slaughtered all the people who once worshipped him, and his head has long been cut off by the bandits as a valuable work of art and a trophy of war.
Countless tears of blood and hatred poured forth, and the headless stone ghost finally transformed from a "stone Buddha" into a "stone demon." He donned armor, gripped his sword tightly, and had only one purpose—
Kill all these beasts!!!
Yu Naixin finally understood what the word "strange" meant, the only word the headless stone demon uttered to her besides "kill" during their first simulation of "Xiawei Temple".
He was referring to "foreign races".
The headless stone demon could tell that these Japanese pirates were not the people he knew.
His thoughts and mind were originally pure and simple; once he became possessed by a demon, the ideas that emerged from this transformation were equally direct.
All foreign races must be exterminated.
To this end, they are willing to burn all their life and spiritual power to maintain the highest output until they perish.
Just like the headless stone ghost that Yu Naixin saw during her first simulation, seemingly a perpetual motion machine that never tires.
Later, Yu Naixin shattered his armor, using both firearms and exposing the headless stone ghost's true form. This effectively hit the headless stone ghost's double nerve, causing him to mistake Yu Naixin for one of the beasts who had previously tried to harm him.
That's why the headless stone ghost was so enraged at the time, and didn't hesitate to fall into Yu Naixin's trap and be shattered to pieces.
In the following illusionary segments, both the visuals and the scenes became increasingly distorted.
The headless stone demon tried his best to kill the Japanese pirates, and these killings made the resentment surrounding him even stronger, which further affected his mind and made him even more insane.
In the end, the headless stone demon could no longer distinguish between the Japanese pirates and other people. In his increasingly rigid and inflexible mind, he felt that anyone he had never seen before should be killed.
When Yu Naixin's vision was completely covered by blood mist, and she could no longer see any scene, this special memory illusion belonging to the headless stone ghost's past finally came to an end.
Yu Naixin stood once again in front of the cave entrance in the snow-capped mountain outside Xiawei Temple, but the dark substance was no longer there; it had become a very ordinary little cave.
Yu Naixin shifted her gaze to the side of the cave and saw two blooming Rehmannia glutinosa flowers.
Even in its headless state, the stone ghost still remembers that those who have taken these "honey pots" must not be harmed.
In the concept of the headless stone golem, the "honey pot" is for children to pick, to protect these fragile little creatures.
But those Japanese pirates wouldn't let anything go.
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