"Let's go, there's nothing more to say."
"Ms. Erda——"
As soon as Erda's expulsion order was issued, Soshiyang felt the pull of a force, and then everything in front of him passed by like light at an extremely fast speed. When he regained consciousness, he found himself standing at the door of Lei Shi's tea room. Before, the surrounding corridors had been restored to their original appearance.
After a moment of silence, he raised his head, and just as he was about to knock on the door, the indifferent voice of the Bewitcher came from inside.
"come in."
Soshyan opened the door and walked in. The confused man was still sitting on the sofa, and the cup of tea belonging to Soshyan on the coffee table was still steaming.
He did not return to his seat, but just stood in front of the door, looked at the bewitcher, and said slowly:
"Perplexer. This is also your plan, right? You know what the crazy Erda will say to me. You must have the ability to shut her out, but you chose to let her say those things to me. I’m getting more and more unpredictable about your thoughts.”
The confused man turned the tea cup in his hand and said warmly:
"I said, everything depends on your own decision."
Soshyan lowered his head and smiled bitterly, slowly walked to the sofa on the other side and sat down.
"Do existences like you all like to play tricks on mortals?"
"I'm way past my time for this game."
"Confused, you have known what Li did for a long time, right? But you never reminded me of this person before I met him."
"But before you met him, his stories were just stories to you. And I didn't fully understand what he did until you told me. As I said, I am not omniscient and omnipotent."
Soshyan picked up the teacup and took a sip.
"Confused, I want to hear the story of this church and the story of Thunder Stone. Since it appears here, it means that it must have extraordinary significance to you."
The confused man raised his head and looked at the ceiling,
"This is Terra, or the last church on Earth."
Soshyan laughed dryly upon hearing this.
"The last church? Terra is already full of churches."
"Ever. Rarely."
“So what happened to this last church on earth?”
"The Emperor in your mouth unified the cradle of mankind. He is determined to launch an expedition to conquer the galaxy. Not only to conquer the galaxy, but also to conquer the hearts and beliefs. He wants to eliminate all beliefs about the old gods and put an end to human worship and destruction. He first started from Terra and banned all religious beliefs. Before he was about to start his expedition, he heard that there was the last church and the last priest in a remote mountain. On a stormy night , he put on simple clothes and visited this church called Thunder Stone alone. He wanted to prove that he could defeat the fragile so-called faith without force. He wanted the last priest to voluntarily give up the outdated creed and instead embrace him. This is the first battle of the expedition in the new world that is about to be created. The weapons are not swords and bullets, but reason and science. This is a battle that he firmly believes he will win."
Soshyan suddenly laughed, laughing so loudly that he almost burst into laughter.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that he stopped laughing, shook his head, and stumbled out a sentence.
". All delusional karma is nothing but due to attachment. Because of attachment, it can cause obstacles. Therefore, the attachment is because of existence. The reason why it is caused is because of ignorance. There is no other cause other than ignorance. Therefore, all delusion karma, Everything can be summed up in ignorance. This is what Master Ananda once said to me. I am not very knowledgeable and did not understand it. Confused, do you understand it?"
The confused man did not answer Soshyan, but continued his plain narrative.
"He came to the church, met the pastor who had opposed him, tasted the wine he brewed, and listened to his story and his beliefs. Then he easily refuted the pastor's beliefs with his own arguments and words. , he won, he won very freely, and his great conquest had a good start. However, when he was about to burn down the last church, the pastor rejected him, and the pastor threw away the clothes he wore. He walked into the sea of fire calmly. He had already calculated everything and was confident that nothing would change. But at that moment, he was at a loss for the first time. He didn't know why. He didn't know. What went wrong? Why did the person he conquered suddenly change? It was obvious that he was just an ordinary person who blindly followed, and it was obvious that the other person didn't understand anything."
"...Although he had thousands of thoughts in his heart at that time, he couldn't show it because his soldiers were looking at him. He could only watch his 'results' burned up in a sea of fire. He had indeed destroyed the earth. The last church, but he failed to conquer the last priest on earth, a man he considered the most ignorant and blind. Although he never admitted it, this was the first failure of the Great Crusade, even if he conquered it in the future In one galaxy after another, and even in most of the galaxy, he always remembered that in that windy and rainy little church, he failed to conquer a single frustrated priest. Many people rejected him, but no one could compare with this one. The priest left the deepest impression on him, and for the first time he felt confused, and for the first time he doubted whether he was true or wrong."
After listening, Suoshiyang was silent for a long time, and finally took a look at the small amount of tea in the cup in his hand and put it into his throat.
"So, that's when you appeared, Confused, right? I suddenly understand your state a little bit."
Then he sighed.
"Thunder Stone, Thunder Stone. At that time, the emperor conquered the galaxy and his opponents, but he never really conquered the hearts of the people. Instead, thousands of years later, the state religion conquered the hearts of the people in his name. How ironic. It’s something.”
The confused person still didn't express anything about this, as if it had nothing to do with him.
"Perplexer, I heard Erda say that the Emperor once used the Holy Grail of the Phoenix for divination?"
"Well, that's the case."
"Did he not have any doubts at that time? After all, this is a sacred object left to Ada by the Lord Ada. What if the prophecy that appeared in it was guiding?"
"Thought about it, but he believed that he would not be deceived by false prophecies. He used his own method to confirm the possibility of those prophecies. In addition, he also found a volume of secret records written by Asuryan, which recorded There is a lot of useful information, as well as a set of prophecy deduction techniques used in conjunction with the Phoenix Holy Grail, which can deduce a truly infinite future... He has repeatedly verified and confirmed the correctness of these information and methods, but even so, what he has revealed about the Phoenix Holy Grail The prophecy was still dubious, otherwise there would not have been such a serious series of rebellions. After discussing with his most trusted friends and advisers, he decided to take some preventive measures for the future of the Primarchs in order to change the deduction. prophecy, but it is a pity that it failed to come true in the end.”
"A volume of secret records?"
"It can be said to be the most informative book in the galaxy that I know of at present. Its comprehensiveness is amazing. It even contains many secrets about the war between the Old Ones and Heaven, as well as the core technology of the Webway and a huge amount of information. Extraordinary knowledge, such as some key means of creating the original body... It was precisely because of it that that man was able to start his Great Expedition Plan and Webway Plan. As a result, he also let down his guard against Huang Ji Jingshi and concentrated on research. The plan recorded in it can free the race from the interference of the Lord of Destruction, but now that I think about it, the sweetest gift is the most vicious trap. Unfortunately, he was too confident at the time. He thought that a fallen god could not do anything more. He could only Consider the Lord of Destruction as your real opponent, and if you completely follow Huang Ji’s deduction and plan, perhaps the result will be different.”
"What's the name of that secret volume? Does it still exist?"
"Translated in human language, its name should be Huang Ji Jingshi. At the final moment of the great rebellion, he felt that leaving this thing behind would cause endless troubles, so he destroyed this masterpiece before heading to the Vengeful Spirit. .”
(End of chapter)
