Chapter 643: Interesting Facts about the Underworld
Everyone returned to the collapsed mountain temple, where Baihua was already waiting. Everyone tacitly did not mention this time, and Baihua did not ask. With the help of everyone, Bai Wudie found the entrance to the Nine Caves, said goodbye to everyone, and disappeared into the cave. The journey of the 100,000 Great Mountains has come to an end for the time being, and everyone is about to go to the underworld to destroy the reincarnation platform.
The normal way to enter the underworld is to pass through the ghost gate under the leadership of the ghost, and the immortals are to inform the officials of the underworld from places such as Xudu to enter, in addition, there are some demons who can directly enter the underworld through some loopholes. Of course, Luo Han's party has only one last way. However, Luo Han and a few people have been to the underworld, and the door is clear, as long as they go to Fengming City in the extreme north, let Wuji release the blue-skirted demon queen, and the underworld can wear it casually.
Huayu took Luo Ying with her when she left, and left her there when she passed through a city in the Tang Dynasty, and gave her a sum of money, so it was not a problem to settle down. When Huayu comes back, he will take her into Baihua's sphere of influence.
Along the way, Hua Yu didn't take the initiative to say anything to Luo Han, everyone knew that something must have happened between Baihua and Storm, otherwise Luo Han would not have been able to exclude Baihua in any way, and now it was such a situation. At this time, the difference in appeal was shown, and the other four teams began to alienate Baihua intentionally or unintentionally, reducing contact with Baihua. It's not that it's a storm, it's just that everyone is more willing to trust Luo Han, thinking that it must be Baihua who has done something bad to be left by Luo Han.
A few days later, outside Fengming City, everyone stopped outside the towering city wall. Luo Han's last impression of this place was that the city lord of Fengming had fallen, and the wife of the city lord did not publicize it, and gave orders on behalf of the city lord of Fengming, and everything was as before.
"A few of us must be on the blacklist of the city lord's wife, but the city lord's wife does not have enough strength to suppress Fengming City, and she must not dare to let us spread the news that the city lord of Fengming has fallen. So, I just need to send someone in and bring a message to the lord's wife. Luo Han patted Qi Tao on the shoulder: "I'll leave it to you." ”
Qi Tao nodded: "Don't worry, I will attract the attention of the city lord's wife as soon as possible." ”
Qi Tao spent gold to enter Fengming City. After an hour of waiting, a whirlpool appeared on the tightly knit gate of Fengming City. Wuji was the first to enter the whirlpool, and after waiting for a while, he came out of it again, and nodded: "It does lead to Fengming City." ”
That's when everyone rushed in.
After passing through the whirlpool, everyone appeared near the city gate as usual, and Qi Tao and a white-robed masked man stood on the side of the street waiting.
Luo Han motioned for the others to wait and walked over alone. The white-robed masked man waved his hand casually, and laid a soundproof barrier, and then said: "In Fengming City, you can walk at will, but don't violate the ban, otherwise I won't be able to deal with trouble." It really made the old lady anxious, and it was a big deal that the fish died and the net was broken. ”
Luo Han smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, don't worry, we are just borrowing, and we don't plan to stay here for a long time." By the way, I'm going to trouble you to let you go when I come back......"
The white-robed masked man, who is also the city lord's wife, took out a token from his bosom and threw it to Luo Han: "This is a special pass issued by me in the name of the city lord, and you can freely enter and exit Fengming City within a month." ”
Luo Han put away the pass order and arched his hand: "Thank you." ”
"No, I don't have to. Hmph~" The city lord's wife turned her head and left, looking very unwelcome to see Luo Han.
Luo Han shrugged his shoulders and said to Qi Tao, "I bet she wasn't angry because we killed her husband, but because we used this to blackmail her." ”
Qi Tao said: "What does it matter? Anyway, we achieved our goal. ”
"Let's go, Wuji, call your wife out." Luo Han shouted at Wuji, and Wuji directly gave him a middle finger in response, but he still honestly summoned the blue-skirted demon Ji Qinghe from his body.
The blue-skirted demon queen has lived in Wuji's body for a long time, and she is clear about what is happening in the outside world, and she doesn't talk nonsense when she appears, she sets off directly, and says, "Follow me." ”
Everyone followed the blue skirt demon queen to a small alley with no people, and the blue skirt demon queen said: "There is a passage to the ghost world in the courtyard next to it, I will explore the road first, you wait for me here." ”
The blue-skirted enchantress flew into the courtyard, came back after ten minutes, and nodded, "Follow me." ”
When everyone entered the courtyard, they found two dogs lying on the ground, unknown whether they were alive or dead.
The blue skirt demon queen explained: "A dog demon couple should be the owners of this courtyard. I stunned them, I didn't kill them. ”
There was also a black whirlpool in mid-air, and the blue-skirted demon queen was the first to enter, and everyone followed up, and they arrived at the ghost world.
Luo Han blinked: "This place is a little familiar." ”
In front of him was a dilapidated ruin, full of ruins and broken rubble, Luo Han had never seen this ruin, but he always felt that he had been here.
The blue skirt demon said quietly: "This is Biyou City. Be careful, don't enter the city, there are still the remnants of the Soul Exterminating Sword buried in the ruins, and you may be attacked if you break in indiscriminately. ”
Luo Han suddenly, no wonder he felt familiar, no wonder, Fengming City is so big, the corresponding ghost world is Luo Yu Mountain, even if there is a deviation in the space channel, it will not be too big, and Bi Yu City is near Luo Yu Mountain, and the probability of arriving here is quite large.
The blue skirt demon queen said: "This is the ghost world, but the underworld is not here, if you want to go to the underworld, you need to go all the way to the south, to the capital city, a journey of thousands of miles." So there are some things you need to know about the ghost world. ”
"The forces in the ghost world are intricate, and the ghost emperors of the five directions are each in a line, in addition to the Bodhisattva of the Buddha family. They all have their own underworld, but the popular underworld generally refers to the Xudu Difu under the jurisdiction of the Emperor Xudu, and only the Xudu Difu has the ability to reincarnate ghosts. Because of this, the souls of the dead are all in the capital of the city. Among them, the underground government of the king of Jizo Bodhisattva specially accepts Buddhists, and after degree, they are sent to the Xudu Prefecture for reincarnation. Second, the other ghost emperors of the four directions are more like princes, who do not directly participate in the reincarnation of ghosts, but more to maintain the stability of the ghost world. ”
"In addition to the ghosts of normal reincarnation in the ghost world, there are also a large number of lonely souls and wild ghosts, who have not been reincarnated for various reasons and are stranded in the ghost world. They have three ways out: one is to join the ghost emperor of the five directions or become a ghost pawn under the command of the king of the earth and the bodhisattva; the second is to find a way to win the opportunity to be reincarnated; The third is to join the folk forces in the ghost world and have been ghosts. I won't talk about one or two, the third point is that I am like this, what I do well is to become a ghost king, and to do the ultimate is to rule a ghost domain and fight against the ghost emperors of the five directions, but no ghost has ever done it to this extent. ”
"Because there are too many lonely ghosts and wild ghosts in the ghost world, the ghost emperor of the five directions and the underworld can't manage it, so he has always allowed the existence of the ghost king, as long as he nominally accepts the rule of the ghost emperor of the five directions and doesn't do anything too out of the ordinary, he will not be liquidated. Therefore, along the way, we will pass through many ghost kings' territories, some of which even I dare not say will win, and there are even a very small number of them who are stronger than me. After all, this is the ghost world, their home turf, so you'd better not offend them if you don't have to. ”
Luo Han touched his chin and said, "To put it simply, the ghost world is like a city-state society, and a ghost city is a city-state. And the Five Ghost Emperors are overlord-level existences, and the ghost kings all submit to the Ghost Emperor, but in fact, the power is in their own hands. ”
The blue skirt enchantress nodded: "According to my understanding of Western history as the Infinite Great, that's it." ”
Huoyun interjected: "I have a question, theoretically, shouldn't people be detained by the ghosts of the underworld after they die?" How can there be so many lonely ghosts? ”
The blue skirt demon said: "The ghost cha is based on the life and death book of Yangshou to detain the soul, for the accidental death, the ghost cha can not be predicted in advance, go to arrest." The souls of these people who have died will remain in the yang world, and if they have great grievances, they will become powerful ghosts and cause trouble to the world. If the resentment is insufficient, it will become a lonely ghost wandering, unless you are lucky enough to meet a ghost who comes out to perform a mission, otherwise you will keep drifting, and finally enter the ghost world through the entrances of various places. But because these lonely ghosts are not in the book of life and death, they have no identity, so they have no way to be convicted and reincarnated through the formal process, so they have to flow into the nearby ghost town to live in the ghost world. If the lonely ghost wants to be reincarnated, he or she can either complete the occasional bounty issued by the underworld to get a chance to be reincarnated, or accumulate a huge amount of wealth and donate it to the underworld in exchange for a chance to be reincarnated. The latter is almost impossible to do, and the former is often lucky, but compared to the huge ghost base in the ghost world, it is really not worth mentioning. ”
Huoyun asked again: "There are so many people who die in various accidents every day, doesn't it mean that the ghosts in the ghost world have been skyrocketing?" Isn't the ghost world full of ghosts? ”
"How is that possible? You can visit a few more ghost towns to know, new ghosts come more and die more, most of the new ghosts will die within a year, and only a small number of new ghosts can become old ghosts, but you have to be careful all the time. The most direct way to improve the strength of the ghost world is to kill other ghosts and devour the remaining energy, it can be said that every ghost king is eaten by eating ghosts. ”
Huoyun was surprised: "No, I remember that it is illegal to kill ghosts in Biyou City." ”
"Yes, this is the principled rule set by the Emperor Xudu, and the ghost king who does not implement this rule is regarded as a chaotic party, and the ghost emperor of the five parties will send generals to destroy it. But that's the case in a ghost town, and there are no rules outside a ghost town. Most of the new ghosts are killed outside the city, and even if they enter the city, they are not at ease, and most ghost towns have another rule - non-residents of the city are not allowed to stay in the city for more than twelve hours, and they are forced to be evicted after that time. There are only two exceptions, one is to stay in a regular inn, and the other is to find a regular job. ”
"Then how do you become a ghost town resident?"
"It's simple, buy a house. However, the price of ghost towns is expensive, because they can save their lives, and they are often even priceless, and it is basically impossible to get a house just by relying on the little money burned by the family. In this case, killing other ghosts is the only way. If you're lucky, kill an old ghost with a house, and you'll have a chance to buy a house from the Ghost King's Mansion at the normal price. ”
"What about you ghost kings? What are the benefits? ”
"The benefits? Of course, it's money. In addition to collecting taxes, selling unowned homes is also a huge profit. In addition, the ghost king can also clear the nearby lonely ghosts and wild ghosts in the name of stabilizing the surrounding security and increase his strength. Of course, some old ghost kings have long looked down on the strength of those new ghosts. Most of them have also accumulated enough wealth to be reincarnated, and what they care about most is their high status. ”
Huoyun was like a curious baby, and asked again: "In addition to buying a house, do the residents of the ghost town have any other expenses?" ”
"Of course, otherwise how can the ghost king collect taxes? In fact, there is not much difference between the ghost world and the human world, ghosts also need food, clothing, shelter, transportation, communication, and entertainment. Don't look at the ghosts in the ghost world with the eyes of the evil ghosts in the world, in the human world, because the evil ghosts are scarce and the resources are relatively abundant, you don't need to take the initiative to eat to supplement your daily needs, but in the ghost world, only the things in those foods can replenish the energy needed for the ghosts to survive. In the ghost world, if a ghost does not eat for a long time, its strength will quickly weaken, and it may eventually disperse as soon as the yin wind blows. In addition, everyone is a ghost, and just relying on the illusion of clothes is the same as not wearing them at all, and it is illegal to run naked in most ghost towns. Going out by walking, one is slow, and the other is unsafe. These are the basic needs, and if you have money to spare, you can also enjoy some entertainment. Although ordinary ghosts have no physical body, and their senses are not as rich as those of living people, they also have joy, anger and various emotions, and it is not bad to watch dramas and listen to music. If you are richer, you can have a more luxurious life. ”