Part III

The golden cicada sent me to the three-star cave as promised.

However, the stone door of Sanxingdong was closed, and no one responded for a long time.

Jin Chanzi said that he could only help me get here.

Before leaving, he pointed to a stone tablet erected on the side of the stone door and told me that the stone door would not open until he understood the stone tablet.

The stele reads "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, Leaning Moon Three Star Cave".

I have been in the world for ten years, and I know the words and the meaning of them.

Lingtai and square inch both refer to the soul.

The three stars of the oblique moon also have a "heart" word.

This is the origin of the name of Sanxingdong.

The golden cicada asked me to understand this stone tablet, most likely to ask me to unravel the mystery of the word "heart".

But.

I'm a stone monkey.

Stone monkeys do not have a "heart".

When I was in Huaguo Mountain, some people said that I was "stone-hearted", iron-hearted.

I am accustomed to seeing life and death, and I have witnessed the ups and downs of glory.

I'm a bystander, and I can't feel the fear and grief like they do.

They accused me of indifference.

Only Xiaocao told me that I was a spirit in the stone, and I had no "heart".

I stared at the stele.

A heartless person, a place to "cultivate the mind".

Our encounter.

Or, it's a great irony.

Or, this is a predestined one in the dark.

It was as if I had turned back into a stone in Huaguo Mountain, face to face with the stele. I looked at it, and it was like it had a pair of eyes, looking at me.

We didn't move.

Time passes by us.

Morning sun, twilight, stars and moon, spring rain, summer thunder, autumn frost, winter snow......

I don't know if I'm awake or confused, or if I'm caught somewhere between lucid and confused.

The stele suddenly cracked, and an incandescent and intense light burst out from the crack, and I subconsciously stretched out my hand to cover it. But the light came like water, surging and everywhere, enveloping me.

A hole suddenly opened in my chest.

The watery light scrambled into the black hole in his chest.

Like ten thousand arrows piercing the heart.

I was dying in pain, rolling on the ground, and the light was still rushing into my body.

When I was exhausted and dying, the light receded, and I appeared in a misty forest.

A bright little girl came from the forest with a medicine basket and a thin hunchbacked old man.

The little girl cried out, Master, look, there is a person.

Lao Langzhong corrected, Ah Zi, he is a monkey.

The little girl shouted again, Master, his heart is gone.

I fainted.

When I wake up.

I was lying on a rudimentary wooden bed, the bedding and sheets washed white.

Ah Zi has a pair of purple eyes, and there are smoke waves in his eyes.

When she saw me wake up, she excitedly called out to Lao Langzhong.

She asked Lao Langzhong, Master, is he still saved?

Lao Langzhong said that no matter whether we are saved or not, we cannot see death without help.

She asked again, but he didn't have a "heart."

Lao Langzhong said, but we have the "heart" of the doctor's parents.

Lao Langzhong broke Ah Zi apart.

He found another dagger and stood in front of the bed.

I felt a chill and glared at him fiercely.

He smiled.

He said I didn't deserve to die here.

Then, he raised his dagger and stabbed it at ...... His own heart.

He shoved his heart into my hollow chest.

I lived.

He's dead.

Ah Zi saw the dagger, and then saw the old man lying in a pool of blood, and she lost control.

She picked up the dagger and slashed at me with her feeble strength.

One, two, three...... As long as I don't stop it, she won't stop.

The dagger fell on my body without a trace.

I'm a stone monkey.

The body is harder than a dagger.

I didn't fight back.

Habitually as a bystander.

But just watching her cry and watch her desperately hurt, there is a kind of pain that is very human.

For the first time, my heart felt "pain".

Six-year-old Ah Zi became an orphan.

The villagers under the mountain helped her deal with Lao Langzhong's funeral, but no one mentioned adopting Ah Zi.

Ah Zi began to dig wild vegetables in the mountains and catch fish in the stream, and she stayed in the thatched hut in the mountains and survived strongly.

I'm still watching from afar.

Occasionally take action to drive away some poisonous insects and beasts that have bad intentions towards her and can't deal with them with her age.

I felt like I was out of time.

Ten years have passed, and Ah Zi has grown into a big girl.

My appearance is still the same, the difference is that I have become the king of this mountain, and all the big insects and beasts have been cleaned up and obeyed by me.

Ah Zi inherited the mantle of Lao Langzhong, and often went down the mountain to practice medicine in exchange for some living needs.

Her life has been worry-free.

It's time for me to leave.

But I didn't know where to go.

In the past ten years, I have probably figured out that this is not my original era.

This is about a thousand years ago.

This is the past.

My eyes darkened.

In a place I didn't know, there was a monk named Jin Chanzi who was sentenced to five hundred years of confinement for questioning his master.

There was also a young monk named Zhu Gangguan who left the division and joined the army alone.

A water demon in Daze practiced diligently for three thousand years, and finally made a complete merit, soared to an immortal, and became a little immortal who served tea and water with the Jade Emperor.

When the dragon clan was declining, the Dragon King of the West Sea added a son and named him Ao Lie.

I decided, I'm going to have to go to the Samsung Cave.

Time has changed, but places have not.

Only by finding the three-star cave can we solve the dilemma in front of us.

On the day I was ready to leave, I was going to take one last look at Ah Zi. Ah Zi, who can go down the mountain to practice medicine, has not returned until the sun sets.

I went down the mountain restlessly and searched around several villages below.

I pushed aside a group of villagers who were talking about onlookers and found Ah Zi.

However, her face was covered in blood.

Her eyes were gouged out, leaving two fleshy holes.

At that moment, it was as if a lightning bolt struck me.

My "heart" hurt so much that I almost lost my breath.

I picked her up and went back to the thatched hut on the hill.

She lay quietly on my back.

My back was wet.

I don't know if it's Ah Zi's tears or blood.

Lying on the bed, she asked me:

Is that you?

I spoke to her for the first time and said:

It's me.

She laughed and quickly fell asleep again.

In the dark.

A monkey identical to me appeared in front of me, except that he was chained one by one.

He said his name was "Six Ears" and that it was my "heart."

He asked me if I wanted revenge.

I said, yes.

He said, "If I help him untie his chains, he will help me to avenge me."

I asked him how to solve it.

He said, "If I want to, the chains will be untied."

I returned to the village at night.

There is a family in the village named Hao Ren, who is a good man and a filial son in the neighboring townships. His mother had a cold, so he hired a doctor, thinking that he would be fine with the side medicine. Who knew that the illness was not cured, but he was blinded by his mother's eyes. Hao Dashan was angry, and he wanted to fight his eyes to his eyes, ordered someone to gouge out the doctor's eyes, and put down the cruel words, no one was allowed to help the doctor, otherwise he would not be able to get along with him Hao Ren.

That unlucky doctor is called Ah Zi.

I kicked the door of Hao Ren's house and killed anyone I saw.

Untying the chains on Liu'er's body, my body was filled with infinite power at once, and the mortals in front of me were like papier-mâché, and I easily tore them apart.

Hao Ren was so frightened that he flew with feces and urine, saying that he was a good person, and begged me to let him go.

I kicked his head to pieces.

I found his blind old lady again, and a bench smashed her brain.

That night, I killed someone for the first time.

Killed fourteen people in a row.