Volume 2 Plane Battle, Chapter 162: The Seven Levels of the Netherworld
The one of the four ghosts continued: "This is what we have seen and heard on the Universal Earth, but since then, almost all those who have the ability to come to the "Great Plane of Space" have migrated over! At this point, there are very few basic cultivators on the Cosmos Earth.....
Yang Zhuochao said: No wonder since the pre-Qin period, there are very few myths and legends that have been circulated among the people like in ancient times! It turns out that all of them have gathered on this "great plane of space".
Ge Lao said: Young master, in fact, this is relatively normal! The ancients still knew that "good birds choose trees to perch on", and besides, the universe earth is not big in the first place, and a random small piece of land here is countless times the size of the earth! In addition, there is plenty of aura here, and the birds are singing and fragrant. There's no modern industrial pollution either! Anyone knows what's going on.....
What's more, without the so-called "modern industrial civilization," the "immortal cultivation civilization" on this "great plane of space" is not weaker than that of the universe and the earth! and even many things are countless times stronger. If you let the young master choose for yourself, I think you will choose here without hesitation!
In order to find Yang Zhuochao, Ge Lao and Cai Ling also experienced the rise and fall of countless dynasties and history on the earth of the universe! It was not until modern times that they were fortunate enough to find him, but what they saw and the problems they found could not be understood by countless people!
Yang Zhuochao nodded heavily and said: "This is indeed the case, if I really had to choose, I would still choose to stay here..... Cosmos Earth has been ruined beyond recognition by human beings themselves, and one day they will give up and leave their former homes like me."
Let's hope that day isn't the end of the world! After all, that place once gave everyone shelter and raised generations of "children" like a mother!
The water ghost kappa said: There are all kinds of life on this "large plane of space", and the forms are also different. So this "nether" is the same, although this kind of "water spirit" is rare, it can still be encountered occasionally.
While everyone was chatting and walking, nothing special happened. By the evening of the third day, according to the water ghost kappa, they had officially set foot in the sphere of influence of the "Eternal Night Underworld". Although I haven't reached the main road near the "Nai He Bridge", it's not too far away!
The water ghost kappa said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have entered the "underworld" in the "underworld" from the "netherworld" in the "netherworld"! In the next step, there may be a few hours, and we only need to reach the "Nai He Bridge" and go ashore, which can be regarded as officially stepping into the "underworld".
There is still plenty of time, and here I will give you a brief description of what kind of process people will go through when they go to the "room" after death. It's good to have a comprehensive understanding of the next journey!
After a pause, the water ghost kappa continued: The space where mortals live is called the yang world, and the space where the soul of a human is located after death is called the world. Hell means that only those who have committed serious sins will be sentenced to hell! So the "dark hell" is a place for the undead and the guilty.
And the "Eternal Night Underworld" is for people who are reincarnated normally! The world, also known as the division, the house, or also known as the hidden capital, the underworld, etc., is said to be the place where people go after death! It also refers to the world where people live after death.
After the death of an ordinary person, it is generally necessary to pass through seven passes to reach the room. The first level: the ghost gate. According to legend, after the death of the person, the three souls and six spirits were first taken away by the quick capture of black and white impermanence, and handed over to the bull head and horse noodles to be taken to the ghost gate. That is, the necessary level to lead to the ghost country and become a "ghost clan"!
There are sixteen big ghosts in front of the ghost gate, and legend has it that the king of Yama specially selected a group of evil ghosts to come to this town and mountain to check the gates, and they are extremely harsh and strict in investigating the undead ghosts and wild ghosts that are full of bad deeds and evil, so as not to make one fool and pass the test.
Before his death, whether it was a dignitary or an ordinary person, whoever came here must be inspected to see if he has a ghost country pass "road guide", which is the basis for reporting to the ghost country after death.
The guide was three feet long and two feet wide, and was printed on yellow soft paper. At the same time, the Lu Yin was stamped with three seals: "Si Chenghuang and Fengdu County Government" are stamped on it. Whoever burns it when he is buried or cremated after death will come to the underworld with his soul.
Level 2: Huangquan Road. After passing the Ghost Gate, the next step is a long Huangquan Road. The soul of a person has to walk a long way and pass many passes to report to the room, so Huangquan Road can be a general term for these passes and distances, or it can refer to this road called Huangquan Road.
There are fiery red flowers on the Huangquan Road, which looks like a carpet paved with blood from a distance, and is also known as the "Fire Road" because of its red fire, which is also the only scenery and color on this long Huangquan Road!
And man walked on the guidance of this flower to the hell of the underworld. It is also a watershed moment when the guilty go to hell to be judged and condemned, or to live in a "dark hell" as a band of the undead. And the innocent go to the underworld to either be reincarnated, or live in the "eternal night underworld" as a ghost.
In the laws formulated by the heavens in the Three Realms, a person's yang life will die when he reaches the end of his life, which is a normal death! A person who dies normally must first pass through the ghost gate, and after passing this pass, the soul of a person becomes a ghost.
In addition, there are many lonely souls and wild ghosts on the Huangquan Road, they are those who have not completed their longevity and not died normally, they can neither go to heaven, nor can they be reincarnated, let alone go to the room, they can only go to the upper reaches of the Huangquan Road, and wait for the arrival of Yangshou before they can report to the room and listen to the fate of the king of Yama.
Level 3: Sansheng Stone. However, there is a piece of bluestone on the side of the bridge called Sansheng Stone, the words on the stone are bright red like blood, and there are four big characters engraved on the top of the bridge "early landing on the other side"!
Legend has it that it records each person's past life, present life and future life, the cause of the previous life, the fruit of this life, the reincarnation of fate, the origin and the extinction, all of which are heavily engraved on the three-life stone. For thousands of years, it has witnessed the suffering and happiness, sorrow and joy, laughter and tears of all living beings.
The fourth level: Wangxiang Terrace. The Wangxiang Terrace, which is the earth platform where Meng Po and the stone are located, is in front of the bridge, not behind it. Wangxiangtai is also known as "Homesick Ridge", here, you can take the stage to look at the situation of the Yang family, so it has become a window for ghosts to look at the sun and a sacred place for the living and the dead to connect.
Legend has it that after a person dies, "one day without eating the world's food, two days to cross the yang realm, three days to reach Wangxiangtai, see relatives crying and mourning." "Before the ghost went to report to the underworld, he was very concerned about his relatives in Yangshi, and despite the severe urging and angry reprimand of the ghost guard, he still forcibly climbed the Wangxiang platform!
Finally, I looked at my hometown from afar, cried loudly, and then went to "Cao Difu" with all my heart. It is "the ghost on the Wangxiang platform is in a hurry, looking at the eyes and tears." Wives and children sit on the side of the coffin, and relatives and friends gather in the mourning hall. ”
Wangxiangtai is said to be the place where the deceased soul said goodbye to his relatives for the last time. Legend also says that the Wangxiang platform is built very strangely, the top is wide and the bottom is narrow, the face is like the back of the bow, the back is like the bowstring is flat, except for a stone level path, the rest is all the sword mountain and sword tree, it is very precipitous.
Standing on it, you can see the five continents and four oceans. Originally, Wangxiangtai was set up in the first, because Bao Lao Yan Luo was in charge of the first, because he was too merciful, mercy to death, repeatedly released the sun and the snow, was demoted to the fifth, the head of the call for the big hell and the sixteen heart of the small hell.
There is a kind of medicine in the world called "dragon grass grass", which can make the dying person immortal, but cannot live people! There is a kind of soup in the world called "Meng Po soup", which can make people return to yang, but it can make people forget the past! There is also a kind of grass in the world called "broken intestine grass", which will make people recover their memory, but it can also be fatal, and once a person takes it, he will die violently within three days!
Level 5: Lethe River. Also known as "Santu River", between Huangquan Road and Hades, the river water is blood-yellow, it is full of lonely souls and wild ghosts that cannot be reincarnated, insects and snakes are everywhere, and the fishy wind blows on the face.
Of course, in order to see this life again, you can skip Meng Po soup, then you have to jump into the Lechuan River and wait for thousands of years before you can be reincarnated. In the millennium, you may see the most people in this life walking on the bridge, but words can't be communicated, you can see him, he can't see you!
In the millennium, you can see him walk across the Nai He Bridge over and over again, and drink bowls and bowls of Meng Po soup, although I hope that he will not drink Meng Po soup, but I am afraid that he will not be able to forget the suffering of thousands of years in the river; After a thousand years, if your mind is still undiminished and you can still remember the events of your previous life, you can re-enter the world and find the best person in your previous life.
Level 6: Meng Po Soup. Meng Po soup is also known as forgetting water or forgetting sorrows, and once you drink it, you will forget the past and present lives. Meng Po generally distributes Meng Po soup at the head of the bridge, rather than giving soup to people on the bridge. Everyone has to walk across the Nai Ho Bridge, Meng Po has to ask if they want to drink a bowl of Meng Po soup, if they want to cross the Nai He Bridge, they have to drink Meng Po soup, if they don't drink Meng Po soup, they will cross the Nai He Bridge, and if they cross the Nai He Bridge, they will not be reincarnated.
A lifetime of hatred, ups and downs, gains and losses, all forgotten with this bowl of Meng Po soup. The people who are concerned in this life and those who hate will be like strangers in the next life, and they will not know each other. Everyone in the yang world has their own bowl here, and the Meng Po soup in the bowl is actually the tears shed by the living people in their lives!
For every human being weeps when he lives: joy, sorrow, pain, hatred, sorrow, and ...... Meng Po collected their tears drop by drop, boiled them into soup, and when they left the world and walked on the bridge, let them drink it, forget the hatred and sorrow when they were alive, clean up, and re-enter the six realms, either as immortals, or as people, or as animals.
Not everyone will drink Meng Po soup willingly. Because in this life, there will always be people who don't want to forget. Meng Po will tell him: The tears you shed for her life have been boiled into this bowl of soup, and to drink it is to drink what you have done to her. The last memory in the eyes of the person who came was the person he loved in this life, drinking the soup, the figure in his eyes slowly faded, and his eyes were as clear as a newborn baby.
After drinking Meng Po soup, you can forget the pain and sorrow, sorrow and happiness in the world, as long as you drink her decoction, the old grudges in the past life and this life will be forgotten cleanly, and the next life will be a new person, the person who cares, the person who hates, the next life will be like a stranger, this kind of soup that people don't know is called Meng Po soup.
Level 7: Nai He Bridge. There are two popular theories about this bridge, one is called Nai River Bridge and the other is called Nai He Bridge. "Cross the bridgehead of the Nai River and never look back". The bridge is divided into three layers, the upper layer is red, the middle layer is yellow, the lowest layer is black, the lower the narrower and more dangerous, the one who does good deeds in life walks up to the upper level, the one who does good and evil goes to the middle layer, and the one who does evil walks down the lower level.
The river is full of lonely ghosts who cannot be reincarnated, and those ghosts who have drowned are always looking for replacements for themselves up and down the bridge or left and right on the bridge, so that they can be reborn. Those who go down the lower floors will be stopped by ghosts, dragged into the filthy waves, bitten by copper snakes and iron dogs, and tortured without relief.
After crossing the Naihe Bridge, you can lead to six places, that is, enter the six realms of reincarnation: the path of heaven and humanity, the path of asura, the path of humanity, the path of beasts, the path of evil ghosts, and the path of hell. Among them, celestial beings, asuras, and humanity belong to the upper three realms, while beasts, evil ghosts, and hells belong to the lower three realms. As for which way to go, it is classified according to the good and evil deeds of the deceased during their lifetime. Those who have a lot of good karma are often assigned to the upper three realms, and those who have a lot of bad karma are often assigned to the lower three realms.
It should be noted here that the process of going to the world after death is not universal to everyone, because in Western Buddhism, if a practitioner has achieved complete merits, he will skip this process after his death and be directly led to the Western Paradise by the Buddha!