Wan Kong is still as handsome as when Wen Ran first saw him, with a hint of Buddha nature in his body. He is wearing light-colored monk robes.
He stands in the backyard and looks at the lawn that has been transformed into a vegetable garden. His back seems to blend into nature. When he looked back, he smiled slightly, his eyes full of compassion.
Looking at Wan Kong, Wen Ran suddenly remembered that when he was very young, he had seen a child. In the eyes of his parents, the child seemed a little abnormal, so he was brought to the Taoist temple to get help. They thought that the child had lost his soul or had seen something dirty.
When Wen Ran saw the child for the first time, he felt that there was no one more suitable to be a monk than him. His appearance, temperament, and even the ethereal eyes when he looked at world were too monk-like. He seems like that kind of people who are destined to engage in this career.
Later, he heard that when the child became an adult, even under the threat of being disowned, he still became a monk without hesitation.
Seeing Wan Kong, Wen Ran remembered that child who was destined to be a monk even if he turned against his family. They all had the face of a monk.
Wan Kong said a Buddhist salute to Wen Ran, and Wen Ran said hello with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you, Master?"
Wan Kong smiled again: "Everything is fine."
Wen Ran, seeing that Wan Kong seemed to prefer staying outside, directly invited him to sit in the small garden, and then said straight to the point: "I wonder why Master Wan Kong came to see me?"
Wan Kong stared at Wen Ran for a moment and said: "I just want to come and see if there was any change in Benefactor Wen after the Bo Mountain incident."
Wen Ran raised his eyebrows slightly: "Did Master Wan Kong see anything?"
Wan Kong shook his head: "It's just like when we first met. What can be seen on the Benefactor Wen was only..." Wan Kong looked at Wen Ran's wrist: "There is only one side. The black vortex at the end cannot be seen through."
What Wan Kong looked at was Wen Ran's wrist. However, the hand that was wrapped with the soul-locking chain was only seen by a few Celestial Masters who entered the space together.
Although the soul-locking chain was later registered in the Guild, it was considered a high-level secret, so it was naturally impossible to publicize it widely. Which means that this Master with Buddha's eyes may have seen the difference in him when they first met.
Wen Ran said: "Master want to figure it out this black vortex?"
Wan Kong said: "Everyone has secrets. If you seek truth in everything, your heart will never be filled. A heart that can never be satisfied, how terrible it is."
Wen Ran supported his chin with one hand and smiled: "If that's the case, then why does the Master come today?"
Wan Kong was startled for a moment, then he smiled freely: "You don't have to seek the truth in everything, but you don't have to hide your curiosity. Benefactor Wen, don't you want to know another possibility of what happened in Bo Mountain?"
Wen Ran shook his head directly: "No, why bother knowing about something that didn't happen and will never happen."
Wan Kong smiled and after a while, he said: "That is true."
Wen Ran said: "Since Master is here today, how about you also help solve a puzzle for me?"
Wan Kong: "Benefactor Wen, please tell me."
Wen Ran: "Master, since you saw it early, why didn't you stop it?"
Although the natural Buddha eyes are not as magical as the legendary ability to see 500 years up and down, they can indeed see more than his eyes that can see aura.
That is to say, this Wan Kong may have known what would happen later, and even saw the devastation of life early. He may also have seen the world that would later be changed by the Ghost King at that time.
But he did nothing.
Even when Bo Mountain was in trouble, he still sat in the Buddhist hall chanting sutras and worshiping Buddha. Just like the child he had seen, he remained unmoved no matter how hard his parents begged him. Determined to follow the path he want to take.
Wan Kong smiled again when he heard this: "How do you know, Benefactor Wen, that what I see is not what I see now?"
Wen Ran picked up the tea cup and said, "If it were, the Master would not come today."
Wan Kong suppressed his smile slightly, "Benefactor Wen is indeed smart."
Wen Ran took a sip of hot tea: "Master, do you prefer the world you saw before?"
Wan Kong did not deny it: "Decline and bloom can happen in the blink of an eye. It is not bad now, but it may not in the future. This one is the century of peace, and the other is a new era of prosperity."
Wen Ran: "The change of any era is a battle with countless casualties."
Wan Kong saluted the Buddha's name again, but there was no affirmation or refutation of this statement.
The purpose of coming has been achieved. Wan Kong stood up to say goodbye. Wen Ran did not stand up to see him off. He just said lightly: "I thought all Buddhas are compassionate."
Wan Kong bent down to salute and responded with a smile: "Buddha is naturally compassionate."
Qi Yunjing came out after Wan Kong left and looked at Wen Ran in confusion: "Are you talking about Buddha?" He himself was intelligent and even though he have no interest in Buddhism and don't know much about Buddhism, he only able to understand half of the conversation.
Wen Ran said: "There is a kind of person who is born to be a monk."
Qi Yunjing: "That Master Wan Kong who just left?"
Wen Ran snorted: "He cultivates the Wuqing Dao, probably."
Qi Yunjing sat next to Wen Ran, "The Path of Ruthlessness? Aren't Buddhas are all compassionate, but there is also the Path of Ruthlessness? And Why does he come to you?"
Wen Ran smiled and said: "Come and see me. Come and see the sacrifice to the heaven and the person who changed the original fate of this world. Whether I have integrated into this world this time.
"After all, this person's Buddha eyes can see through everything at a glance. It is not easy to meet someone who he can't seen clearly, so I was remembered."
Qi Yunjing: "Then have you integrated now?"
Wen Ran sighed: "How can you stay if I don't integrate?"
Qi Yunjing squeezed into Wen Ran's chair and sat down: "Do we need to have an honest conversation? It doesn't matter if you don't want to, anyway, it's enough for me to know that it's you."
Wen Ran suddenly asked an unrelated question: "How old can a man get married according to the law in our country?"
Qi Yunjing: "Twenty, what's wrong?"
Wen Ran said: "Then you have to wait for another half a year before it is legal."
After Qi Yunjing was slightly startled, he couldn't help but laugh.
He had already noticed some things. At first when the investigation he received was inconsistent with what he saw, he became suspicious, but at that time he was still a scientific person, so he just assumed that there was some unknown inside story.
Later, as his life became more and more unscientific, it was inevitable that his doubts would move closer to metaphysics. But what Qi Yunjing thinks most about is reviving corpse. As for crossing barriers and crossing parallel lines, no matter how big his imagination is, he never thought it happen in real life.
So although the words were not fully explained, Qi Yunjing thought that Wen Ran had given him the answer, so he said: "So at the beginning, in your eyes, am I an old cow eating young grass?"
Wen Ran glanced at him : "It's not like an old cow, but there is still a bit of a generation gap."
Qi Yunjing smiled: "I'm a little curious about your previous life."
Wen Ran looked at him: "My previous life was just eating, sleeping, going to school, occasionally drawing talismans and catching ghosts. There is no different."
Qi Yunjing: "What about your name? Your family? Have you...gone back?"
Hearing Qi Yunjing's question, Wen Ran instantly understood the direction of Qi Yunjing's thought but didn't expose it, "The name is still the same, the family is gone, and the timeline is wrong, so I can't go back."
Qi Yunjing put Wen Ran's hand in his palm and gently stroked the place where the soul-locking chain was wrapped: "We will be fine in the future, right?"
Wen Ran also looked down at his wrist. Even though he couldn't see it now, this is the chain that his biological father put on him. He spent all his energy in sending him here, hoping that he will be fine in the future, so Wen Ran hummed softly: "We will be fine."
After that, Qi Yunjing went to hug him a little tighter. The two of them just leaned on the chair and looked at the small garden. Neither of them saying anything.
Wen Ran listened to Qi Yunjing's heartbeat and felt the warmth he was relying on, and suddenly felt that it was not so difficult to accept having one more person beside him. At this moment, he understood why his father was working so hard.
If he was still in the original world, he might have locked himself in a shell forever and never open again. After being closed for a long time, if one day the seal on his body was gone and he remembered everything that had happened in the past, but there is no one who can restrain him, then he might as well destroy himself.
Only by completely changing into a new and unfamiliar world, it may become a new beginning for him. He just doesn't know how his father turned this world into a novel and poured it into his mind, and even weaved such a plot.
His father is really a mysterious man.
The reason why his mother was tied to the altar in such a tragic way, and her blood was drained to death, was because his father, the most powerful Celestial Master among the younger generation, led his people to destroy a huge Tian family force.
He originally thought that things would be fine after many years, but he didn't expect that the remnants of the family would capture the mother and son when he was 3 years old, kill his mother in front of him, and use his soul to make a puppet ghost boy.
It's a pity that he inherited his father's powerful talent. The moment he became a ghost boy, he was no longer controllable by the remnants of the Tian family. The stimulation from his biological mother's tragic death made the 3-year-old only think about killing.
When his father finally arrived, what he saw was corpses everywhere. Those who died were the remnants of the Tian family. But he was only 3 years old at the time, and his nature had been distorted by the killing and bloodshed. If he allowed it to develop, he would only become a terrible devil boy.
His father couldn't bear to kill him, so he had no choice but to seal these memories and use the soul-locking chain to restrain the ghost boy's evil nature. Then creating a false memory for him, in which his parents died unexpectedly and he was adopted.
His father also did not blindly guide him to do good, but taught him how to distinguish right from wrong. There was no strong requirement for him to be kind, but also taught him to restrain the extreme view in his heart.
His father had spent his whole life paving the smoothest road for him.