Prequel: The Secret of Clear Water City Introduction: A dream for thousands of years, the past is all smoke
Seven days is nothing more than an innocuous time for this Clear Water City.
On this day, Beiyu is separated from the extreme southern border of the Jin Kingdom.
The sky was as dark as ink and brush, the sea breeze was slightly dry, and the calm sea below was free of wind and waves.
Even the sky reflected in the sparkling waves, except for a few small floating fish, even the several fish that were originally bulky on the bottom of the sea disappeared at some point.
In the evening, as the night approaches. The dark clouds over the island, constantly swirling, had become so large that it covered the entire island, and the island was completely in a dark and lightless environment.
But at this moment, the scarlet and abnormal sky suddenly turned upside down, and with a loud rumbling sound, a door-like dark cloud with an abnormal surface was mottled and plunged into the cloud.
Suddenly, the originally tumbling and angry sky suddenly calmed down, and all the clouds began to sink gradually, slowly pressing downward, and finally stopped at a height of more than 100 zhang.
Outside the Sansheng Stone
In his previous life, because his father died in turmoil, he realized the impermanence of life, and vowed not to be an official, not to marry a wife, not to eat meat, and to donate his family to rebuild the temple and live in the temple to practice.
This life
A bridgehead, hiding half of the world's scenery.
The ground was dark and damp, and mossy was everywhere. The dead wood that has fallen down is slanted and rotten. Babbling streams, criss-crossed, converging and agitating
The boy walked on a bridge by the river, and the cow ghost and snake god followed him until the sky there, and the sun set one night.
Even in this reincarnation, there is no sunset.
The young man's dark eyes looked at the distant sky for a long time. The distant and solemn gaze seems to pass through the four seasons, and take in all the wind and sand and glitz of the passing years.
"Legend has it that the deceased will walk across Huangquan Road, and when they reach the Nai He Bridge, they will see the Sansheng Stone. ”
But there was silence and darkness, and there was a glowing stone somewhere.
The young man has been standing by the Nai He Bridge, looking at the people in the red dust who are ready to drink Meng Po soup and be reincarnated.
The cow ghost and snake god looked at him with strange eyes, but he was just a dead thing after all, although the hideous cow face was terrifying, Zhou Yusheng somehow became more and more cute the more he looked at it.
It looked at the river towards Zhou Yusheng's gaze, and was startled when it saw itself reflected in the water.
Only then did the young man see that there were countless corpses under the deserted bridge, and he could no longer find his husband's bones.
A thin woman stood there alone, wandering the ancient road, but her gaze did not know where to look.
Only the tears flickering in his eyes, looking into the distance with sadness.
The water ghosts who emerged from the Lethe River knew that this beautiful woman was waiting for her husband to return home, and every time they came out of the broken door, they would emerge and look at her curiously.
"When the path of reincarnation opens, it is necessary to follow the three and five laws of the law of reincarnation, and those who are reincarnated must not bring memories of their past lives, and they must not anger the criminal law of the underworld...... Violators"
In the mid-air of this reincarnation, black and white impermanence stood, a pair of tightly closed eyes seemed to listen to the place outside the reincarnation, and then the eyes opened, looking at the reincarnation path, full of murderous intent.
"Be punished. ”
I saw that in the place where the reincarnation road was close at hand, a weeping old woman in silver dress and hair, drooping down her shoulders and dragging the silver bowl in her hand, staring at the silver soup rippling in the basin with a pair of muddy and empty eyes, and making a vague hoarse voice, although the voice was sharp and weird, but it seemed to be human language.
The quiet people in front of the reincarnation road, with this sound, suddenly a commotion, as if receiving a stimulus, after a while, all eyes became violent, bursts of sharp whistling one after another, looking at the reincarnation of the road, suddenly full of fiery meaning.
And the river under the reincarnation bridge suddenly shook, and the extremely regular slapping waves came from the source of the river that converged on the river surface.
The red river water is constantly replaced by new river water, gradually revealing his original crystal clear water surface, there is no wisp of wind on the lake, the lake is as clean as an unpolished jade plate, there is one in the sky
The strange mountain rocks that were as black as ink emitted a scorching black gas, and everything around them was quiet.
His expression was serious, seeing that there was no strong aura of grievances on the surface of the river, his white and translucent face, and his slender eyes showed a trace of solemnity, but he made his mouth speak silently, and the waves behind him fluctuated together, and in the void, there was a yin sound of "woo" immediately, and the black light fell into the river surface in an instant, disappearing.
The white-robed soul at the highest place of the mountain rock, with a weak breath, and his face was pale but not much different from before, it was the white impermanence that had always been mysterious in the black and white impermanence.
"Aunt Meng, let's get started!"
Where the poignant sound came out, there was suddenly an extra white in Hei Wuchang's hand, only the hair cone in front of the pen was transparent with a black and shiny thick ink, and when he lifted the pen, he indifferently spit out a series of obscure and mysterious spells in his mouth, and the thick black gas was flourishing, and he saw that in the originally thick black silk, a yellowed paper was clearly exposed.
It was a wordless scroll, on plain paper, with a pen and ink.
I saw the old woman named Meng Po, after answering softly, she walked slowly towards the Nai He Bridge, two thin hands gently holding the skirt edge on both sides of the skirt, and her mouth didn't know what to say to herself.
"In this case, now the dead soul has swam through the underworld, but the twenty-four pairs of collisions will send you across the Nai He Bridge, leading to the reincarnation road, and returning the soul to the upper realm. ”
After speaking. Meng Po handed over the decoction in her hand.
His body just trembled, and his face, which had never had any expression, began to distort slightly.
The thoughts that I couldn't let go of in my previous life, when Meng Po soup dissipated in my throat, disappeared like a cloud of smoke in the past.
On the black stone, Bai Wuchang slowly ticked off the name on the book of life and death, and the next voice sounded, but he snorted abnormally softly.
"Zhou Yusheng?"
A crisp sound of falling water came from the river, and I saw the figure who was still standing there, his body shook, and he still jumped into the river without hesitation, but he did not cause a ripple.
This long night in the underworld, at this time, the sky has just had the precursor of abnormal changes.
Over the island
Spanning the sky above the two seas, there is also a sense of gloom when viewed closely, and the clouds in the sky seem to be dyed with a faint ink color, like lead clouds before rain.
A stone gate as black as ink slowly revealed its mottled ancient walls from the clouds. In this dark cloud-overheaded sky, a gap can be opened.
In the distance, on an island that spans tens of thousands of miles, abnormal movements are still happening.
The gap in the door that was quietly exposed, just through the distance of a line, there was an increasingly violent soul qi, which began to radiate towards two places at an alarming speed.
The mottled stone door in the distant sky seemed to wake up, and the dark clouds that blocked the door closed and began to open slowly at a slow pace.
However, just a breath later, after a blinding light, a huge stone gate was intact. Suddenly appeared in mid-air, covering the two mysterious sea areas and the entire void within a radius of a few miles, and there was a touch of flying white on the door, majestic and magnificent!
Above the stone gate, the mottled strange runes are like a lifelike painting, reverberating and reverberating, and you can even see the lush pines and cypresses on the stone gate and the flying cranes dancing around it
Tens of thousands of miles in the sky, the stone gate kept making a low sound. But the surrounding area was calm and windless, except for the pitch black sky.
"The past life is over, and the good and evil in this life are only thought of in the heart. ”
The young man looked down into the distance from the bridge, and he was tired of it, staring with relish at the river, the souls of those who had lost their figures.
"They look happy. ”
He muttered.
It was much better to have some envy than if he could only watch them from the bridge and do nothing.
"You can go too. ”
The bull ghost and snake god who responded to the young man after a long time, looking at the young man's thoughts in his dull eyes, there was a little more complicated.
"I'll forget it, since I didn't fall here, it means that I don't have this fate. The boy chuckled disapprovingly.
The gaze that hid behind the high wall gradually relieved.
"We're going to join in the fun, too. He walked down alone, but a middle-aged man in a hurry blocked his way.
He took out something from his sleeve with a panicked expression, glanced at the young man, and also glanced at the cow ghost snake god behind the young man, when he noticed the cow ghost snake god, the young man obviously felt the fear of it under his body.
"This is the Third Order. If you need help from the Third Inn in the future, take this token and go to them. ”
After the storm, the hurried man only left such an insignificant word, staggered around, and escaped into the darkness.
With the ghostly light, the boy saw the thing clearly, in front of the exquisitely crafted token, there seemed to be some secret wrapped in the black light on the token.
He put away the token and glanced confusedly at where the man had gone.