Chapter 35: The Oath of Hades
Tang Hua came to the Hades King's table with a few volumes of official documents in her arms, gently put the official documents in the stack of official documents that had not yet been approved, and walked to the other end of the table to sort out the official documents that had been approved, she habitually walked to the Hades King who was sitting and approved the official documents, and concentrated on grinding the ink.
Time passed silently, little by little.
The Hades King finished approving one volume, picked up another volume and was about to review it, when he suddenly thought of Tang Hua, who had been standing on the side and grinding ink for a long time. He tilted his gaze slightly, and looked at Tang Hua's side face that was seriously looking at the ink plate, and the familiar fragrance of her body was between her noses.
This kind of scene has lasted for hundreds of years, and I can't remember exactly when it began, but sometimes when he was reading official documents alone, he would unconsciously look to the side slightly, thinking that he would see the girl who was concentrating on grinding ink, and when he saw that the place next to him was empty, he suddenly remembered that the girl had been punished elsewhere by himself. Whenever this happens, Shen Tu will hold a brush and smile wryly at the empty space. Especially in the past 20 years, such a scenario has happened countless times. Come to think of it, he hasn't seen Tang Hua for more than 20 years.
Twenty years is a long time!, Shen Tu sighed.
The place hurt again, and Shen Di's hand holding the pen began to tremble violently, but he still forcibly suppressed it, for fear that the people around him would look at it strangely. After calming down a little, Shen Tu put down the pen, wiped the cold sweat off his face with a handkerchief on the side, and everything returned to normal, before he picked up the pen again and began to approve the official documents.
"You are now a disciple of Qing Yao Cultivation, and this time you have only come back for a month, so you don't have to wait in front of this king. Hades said as he wrote, his voice calm, not a trace of abnormality, nor a trace of emotion.
When Tang Hua heard this, he immediately put down the inkstone in his hand and replied in a low voice: "The slave just wants to stay by the side of Lord Hades and serve, and the rest doesn't want to do anything." ”
"Hmm...... It's just a month, and you're going back, so be it. "It's just a month, nothing will be a problem. Shen Di's gaze returned to the official document, paused for a moment, and finally put down the pen.
After a few days, Tang Hua recalled that before going to Qingyao Mountain to practice, he had come to the Lechuan River with Lord Hades to sow the seeds of the flowers on the other side, thinking that after more than twenty years, the flowers on the other side should be full of the banks of the Lethe River, so he wanted to go with the Hades King to watch it.
On that day, Tang Hua came to the bank of the Lechuan River early, and saw the red flowers on the other side of the sky blooming brightly, and immediately ran forward and jumped among the flowers to smell the flowers.
Gently picking up a delicate flower, Tang Hua pinched the flower and danced gradually.
The fingers change, the waist is thin and soft, the face is beautiful, and the flowers are more colorful.
Shen Tu walked slowly. He had never seen Tang Hua like this.
Among the red flowers all over the sky, she danced gracefully in light blue clothes, with affectionate eyebrows and a smile on the corner of her mouth, and suddenly walked into his eyes and his heart.
Tang Hua, who was dancing unemotionally, inadvertently saw the Hades who were standing silently on the side, immediately stopped, happily ran to the Hades King, and said happily while saluting: "Lord Hades, are you here?"
"Hmm. Shen replied with a blank face. Glancing at the light blue clothes on Tang Hua's body, he asked again: "People in the ghost world generally wear black, this king remembers that you have always worn Xuan clothes, why did you wear such light-colored clothes today?"
"Ah, this dress was given to me by Zhige after Shangqing Yaoshan practice, saying that girls should dress better, and they can't only wear black all day long, like a funeral ......" Tang Hua looked at the clothes on his body tangledly, and asked the Hades King weakly: "Isn't it good-looking?"
"It's okay. Shen Tu didn't want to look at her beautiful appearance in light blue clothes anymore, so he deliberately diverted the topic and asked, "You came to see the flowers on the other side of the river today, right? ”
Every time the Yin Si envoy wants to lead the Yin Soul to cross the Lethe River, there will be Yin Soul who is afraid of the hell of the underworld and can't think of jumping into the Lethe River for a while, and as soon as he enters the Lethe River, his soul will be scattered, so there are many fewer Yin Spirits in the underworld. Tang Hua still came up with an idea: to plant flowers on the other side of the Lechuan River. The flowers on the other side are strange flowers in the world, and with the beauty of the flowers on the other side, those yin spirits will also feel that the hell of the underworld is not so terrible, and naturally they will not commit suicide by throwing themselves into the river again.
"Thank you, Lord Hades, for your praise!" finally got the praise of the Hades King, Tang Hua replied happily. He began to chirp again to introduce the boundless flowers to the Immortal King.
Shen Tu stopped and walked with Tang Hua's introduction, but she could always see her happy and bright smile. His chest was aching again, but Shen Di felt that even if he died, it was worth it.
Thinking that he had such an idea, Shen Di's expression gradually became solemn.
At the end of the Yellow Spring in the Underworld, the old judge took his granddaughter's arm and dragged him to the Yellow Spring.
"Grandpa, grandpa, let go of me, where are you going to take me?" Tang Hua was pulled by the judge, staggering to walk, she asked her grandfather to stop as she walked, who knew that the old judge not only didn't stop, but also walked faster and faster.
Finally, the judge pulled Tang Hua to a stop at a gate at the end of the Yellow Spring. Tang Hua looked at the one in front of him who said it was a door, but he didn't even have a real door, just standing there squarely, and there were two mighty and serious rakshasas wearing armor and holding guns next to the door.
It's really strange, she was born and raised in the underworld, but she has never heard of such a place at the end of the Yellow Spring.
"Grandpa, what is this?" Tang Hua asked strangely.
"Just go in and find out. The old judge's voice rang out. He conjured a black token from his hand, greeted the Rakshasa guards standing on both sides, and led Tang Hua into the void door.
Stepping into the door, a wide altar was displayed in front of Tang Hua's eyes, Tang Hua looked at it, but only saw an ancient, thick book quietly placed on the table, as if it had experienced a long time.
Tang Hua didn't understand what Grandpa meant, so he asked curiously, "Grandpa, what kind of place is this?
The judge looked at his only granddaughter now, and his eyes were a little distressed and unbearable, but he still opened his mouth and said: "This is the forbidden place of the underworld, and only the previous Hades kings and judges can enter and exit. Silly boy, grandpa doesn't want to do this, but if things continue like this, the more damage you and Hades will suffer in the end, and when it falls, it will be you who suffers!"
Tang Hua looked at the judge in confusion and asked strangely, "Grandpa, what are you talking about?"
The chief judge sighed and said, "Go up and open the book, it is the oath made by the successive kings of Hades." After reading it, you will understand why Grandpa did this!"
Tang Hua looked at his grandfather suspiciously, and when he saw his solemn expression, he felt a little uneasy at the moment. She walked up to the altar with some heavy steps, and standing on the altar, she looked at the judge under the stage with some panic, and the judge looked at Tang Hua seriously. Tang Hua had no choice but to turn around and slowly open the ancient book.
"The great god of Pangu is above, I, return to the nightmare, inherit the order of heaven and earth, and serve as the first generation of the Hades King of the ghost world, so that the ghost world will not participate in the disputes of the five realms, and will be in charge of the life and death of humans, demons, and immortals, so as to keep the order of heaven and earth unchanged. Life and death in the world are orderly, love and hatred are all vain, and those who are the king of Hades will have a clear distinction between public and private, and there will be no miscellaneous things to disturb their hearts. Since then, the successive kings of Hades will be ruthless and ruthless, and they must not be disobeyed, otherwise the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, and the form and spirit will be destroyed!"
The blood-red font was bright and hideous, and Tang Hua felt that his eyes were suddenly dark. The last sentence exploded in her ears like a thunderbolt, making her mind a little foggy for a moment.
"Impossible, impossible!"
Tang Hua shouted and flipped back.
"The great god of Pangu is above, I, Guanyu, inherit the order of heaven and earth, and serve as the second generation of the ghost world, so that the ghost world will not participate in the disputes of the five worlds, and will be in charge of the life and death of humans, demons, and immortals, so as to keep the order of heaven and earth unchanged. From then on, there was no mercy and no sex. If there is a disobedience, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, and the form and spirit will be destroyed!"
"The great god of Pangu is above, I, Lingjing, inherit the order of heaven and earth, and serve as the third generation of the ghost world, so that the ghost world will not participate in the disputes of the five worlds, and will be in charge of the life and death of the three worlds of people, demons, and immortals, so as to keep the order of heaven and earth unchanged. From then on, there was no mercy and no sex. If there is a disobedience, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, and the form and spirit will be destroyed!"
"The great god of Pangu is on ......"
Turning to the end, Tang Hua finally saw the name of the current Hades King on the last page of the written paper.
"The great god of Pangu is above, I, the gods, inherit the order of heaven and earth, and serve as the eighth generation of the ghost world, so that the ghost world will not participate in the disputes of the five worlds, and will be in charge of the life and death of the three worlds of people, demons, and immortals, so as to keep the order of heaven and earth unchanged. From then on, there was no mercy and no sex. If there is a disobedience, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, and the form and spirit will be destroyed!"
Tears dripped down the page on which the oath of God was written, but they quickly evaporated and dissipated. The oath was spelled to keep it from being damaged.
Tang Hua turned around and hurriedly ran to the bottom of the hall. She nervously tugged at the sleeve of the judge's coat, desperately suppressed her tears, and asked in a choked voice, "Grandpa, how can this be? It's not true, is it?"
The judge stared at his granddaughter in front of him and shook his head helplessly at her.
Despair gradually appeared in Tang Hua's eyes, but she was unwilling to give up, so she still grabbed the judge's sleeve and stammered, "Then there will be a solution, right?" Grandpa, you must have a solution, right?"
The judge looked at Tang Hua, who was crying and begging him, his face showed a trace of unbearability, he raised his hand and kindly stroked away the tears on his granddaughter's face, and his tone was full of unbearability: "Silly boy, this book is 'Ghost Life'! How can the oath written on it be changed? Ruthlessness and extinction are the rules set by the first Hades King, and for thousands of years, successive Hades kings have to use their own blood to write their oaths on that book when they succeed to the throne, and if they are violated, they will be destroyed by heaven and earth, and all forms and gods will be destroyed!"
"But, Lord Hades, I'm ......."
"Alas, it's because grandpa knows that you have always liked Hades, so he brought you here to recognize the reality, if you continue like this, it is you and Hades who suffer! Hades has been avoiding you, and it is also because of this ghost oath that you have been with him for so long, he is afraid that you will pay wrongly. The judge shook his head again and sighed deeply, this love word is bitter!
"No, I don't believe it, there must be a way!"
"Tang Hua, there is only one Hades King in the ghost world, and he can't leave office unless he dies, and now the Hades King has not yet designated the next Hades king, if you do anything wrong and hurt the Hades, not only the ghost world, but also the demons, people, and immortals will also be in chaos. Seeing that Tang Hua's behavior was a little crazy, the judge brushed off Tang Hua's hand that was pulling his sleeve and continued: "The Hades King has worked hard for nearly 10,000 years, just for the stability of the order of the Four Realms, Tang Hua, although you are my granddaughter, you must remember that the Hades King is ruthless for the sake of the Four Realms and the order of heaven and earth!"
Tang Hua cried loudly, but suddenly remembered what Zhi Ge had said to her before: The Hades King of the past and present has never married his own son.
Although she kept telling herself that she only needed to wait by the side of Lord Hades, in fact, deep down she still hoped that Hades would marry her and stay with her for the rest of her life.
Can't it really?
Thinking of all the things in the past few hundred years, Tang Hua's heart seemed to be being cut by a sharp blade. The judge looked at Tang Hua, who was crying heartbreakingly on the ground, and could only sigh with his sleeves hanging on the side.
The "Ghost Fate" on the altar lies quietly, it has gone through 100,000 years, witnessed too many such lovers parting, and it will continue to lie there, thousands of years, with the blood of the future Hades King to write the same righteous and ruthless vows again.
By the Lechuan River, the old judge said to the back in front of him: "Qi Qi Hades King, according to your will, the old minister has let Tang Hua see the oath of "Ghost Destiny", and the granddaughter of the old minister will never come to pester the Hades King in the future." ”
Shen Di stood there quietly, staring at the flowers on the other side in front of him for a long time, and finally slowly closed his eyes.
Just when the judge thought that the person in front of him had forgotten to speak and wanted to give a reminder, a short sentence floated over.
"Judge, let Tang Hua return to Qingyao Mountain tomorrow. ”
"Yes. The judge replied respectfully, only to find that the Immortal was gone.
Looking at the endless Lechuan River and the flowers on the other side, the old judge let out a long sigh.