Chapter 33: The Sea of Suffering
"A wandering soul who enters the Netherworld Dao must be from the mortal ......" or the king of the five halls of Hades opened his mouth, who let him and Cui Jue be the best: "Seeing that he is not guilty, let's send him to the house of great wealth and goodness to be reincarnated......" He had no right to judge, so he only made a suggestion to Cui Jue.
Cui Jue's eyes lit up: This is not a good way: "That...... Let the solution be sent to the Nai Ho Bridge?"
Although Cui Jue has no smile on his face, he has never liked anyone, but in the face of Rong Anran, who is a pink jade carving, he likes it from the bottom of his heart for the first time.
Yes--this posture is caused by fate in the sky, how many times will I see you in the world?
It's no wonder that although Rong Anran is a mortal, he is already a cultivator, and after several times of washing the scriptures, there is no such person in the mortal world.
"This can't be done!" King Yama glared at Cui Jue.
The Yin Division has its own law of the Yin Division, and it is a great sin to abandon the law of the Yin Division; Huangquan Road accepted the last tribulation of the seven emotions and six desires in the yang world, but also to plant good seeds for him in the next life; Cui Jue knew these very clearly; no wonder the king of Hades was dissatisfied.
"Okay then!" Cui Jue nodded towards the Ten Palaces Yama and said to Black and White Impermanence, "Send him to Huangquan Road." After speaking, he casually erased the one hundred and one years of life left by Rong Anran in the book of life and death.
The one who took Rong away safely was still the pair of black and white impermanence that brought him.
When entering the Yama Palace, Rong Anran walked through the main gate, and when he left the Yama Palace, black and white impermanence took him to the side door.
There is not one, but four side doors, and above the doors are written "Heaven", "Hell", "Reincarnation", and "Returning to the Sun", and the black and white impermanence takes Anran to walk safely and "reincarnation".
Reincarnation Road - Huangquan Road.
As soon as he came out of the gate of reincarnation, Rong Anran first felt a sharp pain in his skin, and he couldn't tell whether he was frozen or roasted by fire.
This is the two heavens of ice and fire.
Then, what he heard was a terrifying ghost crying wolf howl, which made him feel cold, there was no road ahead, but there were tragic and bloody scenes such as severed heads, sawing legs, and Ling Chi in his eyes, and Rong Anran was already eclipsed even if his soul was not scattered.
Immediately afterwards, a gust of wind came, and he smelled a fragrant and smelly indescribable disgusting taste, and his tongue was also flooded with a bitter, sour and spicy unbearable feeling, which made him start to vomit, until he vomited dizzily and his limbs were weak......
Mortals cultivate immortals, fate is only a part, and what is needed most is Huigen.
It's a bit abstract to say that Huigen is a bit abstract, but when it comes to understanding, it's more straightforward, and understanding is a part of Huigen.
Rong Anran has a wisdom root, and of course he has understanding.
"These are the five senses, the test of the six senses!" he immediately thought that the first thing he felt should be sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
"Quiet--Meditation!" Rong Anran, who collapsed to the ground by the toss of his five senses, immediately thought of meditation, let go, and then forget!
After a while, Rong Anran stood up with difficulty.
The black and white impermanence behind him glanced at each other in surprise: this is their greatest enjoyment.
Because the underworld does not see the light of day all day long, they are more or less perverted, which is also the reason why mortals are afraid of ghosts.
Normally, ordinary people would have to take at least three days, but I didn't expect Rong Anran to stand up in just a quarter of an hour.
At the same time, the faces of the two of them showed a fierce look of dissatisfaction, Bai Wuchang's hand holding the chain shook violently, and severe pain came from his hands, feet, and neck.
"Ahh
Fortunately, with Bai Wuchang's shake, the chains and shackles fell off at the same time.
Before Rong Anran could rejoice, there was another sharp pain in his buttocks, and Hei Wuchang kicked him away.
"Ahhh......h
"Ahh
Last time I was faint in pain, but this time I woke up in pain.
Rong Anran didn't know where he was, the black and white impermanence was gone, and he was only lying alone on the ground.
"On the ground?" Rong Anran suddenly remembered that his soul floated on the sea, without a trace of weight, and on the Netherworld, where did the current gravity come from? Could it be that this is Huangquan Road? Huangquan Road also has a gravitational pull on the soul?
Rong Anran guessed half right, this is Huangquan Road, and it's not, because there is no road here, and the wind is howling and the turbidity waves are emptying here.
Rong Anran found himself falling on a reef less than a foot long, surrounded by a black boundless sea.
"This ...... Where am I?" Looking at the vast sea, Rong Anran was really a little scared, it was a fear from the bone marrow: "Dad--" He shouted unconsciously.
When people are the most helpless and scared, what appears unconsciously is the most important person and the most loved person in life; most people think of their mother first, but Rong Anran thinks of his father.
"Dad......" trembling, Rong Anran discovered at the same time that the reef under him would move, and the reef was sinking.
"No ......" when the reef continues to sink, when the sea overflows the surface of the foot...... Then it spreads over the waist...... Rong Anran began to despair......
The mournful cry of "Daddy......" was exchanged for a dead silence, even if the turbid waves were rolling, there was no sound.
"Daddy......" When the sea water overflowed his chest, Rong Anran was truly desperate. He wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of never seeing his father again.
"Daddy--" he cried out feebly......
A silent wave rushed towards him, swept away his people, wet his hair, and into his mouth...... He finally floated completely on the sea.
"It's bitter!"
The sea was very, very bitter, bitter, sickening, bitter and tearful.
"Bitter Sea, this is Bitter Sea?" The inky sea, the dark sky, and the silent waves, the bitter water that I couldn't bear it, but I had to endure it......
"Daddy--" Rong Anran's tears fell into the sea with bitter water.
He was really not afraid of death, but he thought: if he can't go ashore, he will be soaked in the sea of misery forever, and he will not die, and he will never see his father again.
"No--" Thinking of this, Rong Anran began to struggle, knowing that everything was in vain, but he was unwilling to sit still, he swam forward with all his might......
"Go ashore?" Rong Anran swam while suddenly thinking of a sentence he read in the book, "The bitter sea is boundless, and turning back is the shore", I just saw it, and the boundless sea is all around, where did the shore come from?
The person who wrote this sentence must have never been to the sea of suffering, and must have written it in his own imagination.
Rong Anran wanted to look back, but he didn't dare to look back, he was afraid, in this endless despair, he wanted to leave himself a glimmer of hope.
The Sea of Suffering, also known as the Sea of Despair, is designed to make people despair.
"Wait!" Rong Anran suddenly stopped his hand: "I'm afraid that it's useful? Is it useful to leave that kind of hope that is absolutely impossible? No, it's useless; instead of letting yourself leave a hope that you know is impossible, it's better to let yourself despair; if you're desperate, you don't think too much about it anymore...... The most tiring thing in life is the tiredness of the heart, which I have read in my own book, rather than making the heart tired every day, it is better to despair, it is better to let go, it is better to let my heart fall into dead silence like this sea!"
"Let's turn back—no...... Let's turn back - don't ......" In the bottom of my heart, two voices sounded repeatedly.
"Why not? It's a big deal to turn around and the boundless sea, anyway, I have already observed it on the reef just now...... I didn't have much hope, I just wanted to see if the ancestors were lying to themselves. ”
Thinking of this, Rong Anran gritted his teeth......
Turning Back - Turning Back......
I didn't expect it to be so difficult to turn back, Rong Anran seemed to feel a pair of big hands, holding his head and not letting him turn back......
"Turn back!" Rong Anran ordered himself.
Now that I have decided to turn back, if I don't look back and see clearly, I will be left with a knot in my heart.
"Turn back--" Rong Anran gave himself another order......
Finally, he turned his head......
Despair again filled Rong Anran's heart: behind him, the sea is still the sea, or the boundless sea, endless......
Tears and bitterness kept falling from Rong Anran's face: "Dad--"
Now, his only hope is to survive the sea of suffering, and in his own reincarnation, he will not forget his father's voice and smile, and he hopes that what his father said to him is true: as long as the spirit is strong, he can carry the memories of this life to the next life.
However, in the sea of suffering, is there still hope for reincarnation?
"Huh?" Rong Anran, who turned around, suddenly remembered that he seemed to find that when he turned around, there was a little difference behind him, what was the difference?
In the sea of suffering, he turned around directly and faced behind him.
He found ......
There seems to be a line on the horizon where the black water and sky are connected—a looming gray coastline.
He slammed his eyes hard: Is it my delusion?
No, it's not an illusion, Rong Anran is sure.
Because, that looming coastline is clearing, it is rising, it is approaching him.
"Quick, Soon--Near--Soon......"
Rong Anran smiled, the Buddha said "the sea of suffering is boundless, turn back is the shore" is true: "Amitabha--" He couldn't help but recite a Buddha name, and instantly ......
The shore in the distance suddenly appeared not far in front of him, and his feet seemed to touch the sand of the seabed.
"Amitabha!" Unconsciously, Rong Anran recited a Buddha name again......
A black lotus rose from under his feet and lifted Rong Anran directly to the shore.
Gray sand, gray trees, and the gray road that leads nowhere.
Silence and monotony, but for Rong Anran at this moment, it is better than colorful.
"The road ahead should be Huangquan Road, right? I can enter reincarnation?"
Rong Anran glanced back at the boundless sea of bitterness, and said silently in his heart: "Farewell, bitter sea, I hope we won't meet again!"
There is no fork in the Huangquan Road, there is only one road! Rong Anran stepped on it.
When Rong Anran turned back again, he found that there was no longer a sea of bitterness behind him, but chaos, and every time he took a step forward, chaos followed further.
Yes, this is Huangquan Road, and there is no turning back from Huangquan Road!
Rong Anran didn't know how long he had been walking, and along the way, he also encountered a lot of souls, but what made him strange was that these souls were all blind, like walking corpses.
Even if you pass by him, you don't seem to see it, just move forward, forward with a blank face!
"How can this be? Didn't you erase your memory after drinking Meng Po soup?" Rong Anran didn't understand.
What Rong Anran didn't know was that the souls of all mortals, as long as they passed the judgment of the Hades Palace, would have already scared away the memories of their previous lives, and he could only be regarded as an alternative, yes, he was an alternative.
On the Huangquan Road, in addition to the souls that died in the red dust, you can also see the Yin Si soaps in twos and threes, with various appearances, different beauty and ugliness; Rong Anran once again affirmed that this is because of the different aesthetic views of various creatures.
"Is this the Nai He Bridge?" Rong Anran first heard the sound of angry waves, and then saw a bridge in front of him in the distance, and there was a team of expressionless demons and monsters guarding the bridge.
Rong Anran walked to the bridge and poked his head out curiously, wanting to see what the legendary Lechuan River looked like......
"You want to go down?" a cold voice came from behind him, and his powerful divine sense made him feel a claw towards the back of his neck.
Rong Anran hurriedly shrank his head: "No-no!"
What are you kidding, the Yellow Spring flowing in the Lechuan River is ten million times more dangerous than the water of the bitter sea!
He didn't even dare to turn his head back, he rushed directly over the middle of the bridge and rushed towards the opposite bank......
"Stop!"
Rong Anran felt that it was the hands just now that stretched out towards him again, but they were much faster than just now, and directly grabbed the back of his neck and carried him back to Meng Po in the middle of the bridge.
Obviously, just now, those hands were just scaring him, but this time they came for real.
"Don't--don't, what a lovely boy, don't scare him!"
What a kind voice.
Rong Anran, who was originally a little nervous, instantly settled down, and he raised his head......
"You...... You ......" Rong Anran didn't expect such a kind voice to come from the mouth of this goosebumpy and ghostly old woman, which made him creepy: "You...... You're Meng Po!"
"Yes, child, drink it, drink it and you can be reborn, hehe......" Meng Po Tang was laughing, but in Rong Anran's sound, it was worse than crying: "It can make you forget all your troubles, hehehehe-"
"Dad--No......" Rong Anran's hand waved hard, and directly drew the soup bowl that was about to reach his mouth out of the Nai He Bridge and flew towards the Lechuan River.
"Bold!" In mid-air, a face was projected, Rong Anran remembered, it was the face of the Wheel King: "Refuse to drink the soup of forgetting worries, destroy the pure heart bowl - go to purgatory!"
From the thunderous voice, hearing "Into Purgatory", Rong Anran's face turned white!
What kind of place is purgatory? It's a place where souls are tormented, it's a place where life is worse than death, it's a place where there is no reincarnation......
Before Rong Anran could refuse, he instantly felt that the sky was turning.
"Ahh