On the side of the Santu River, on the other side of the Lethe River, there is an endless blood-red Manzhu Sawa as far as the eye can see, and there is a very abrupt bluestone road in the middle of the sea of flowers. I don't know how long this bluestone road has existed, and I don't know how many souls of the reincarnation world have passed here, the road surface has been polished smooth, if anyone splashes a basin of water here, the souls passing by may have to stumble.

This bluestone road is called Huangquan. However, all the creatures who have come to the end of Shouyuan in the Three Realms and Six Realms will have to go through the judgment of the judge Cui Yu when they come to the underworld, and they are qualified to step into the reincarnation path and devote themselves to the soul of a human being, and after passing through the reincarnation hall, they will be guided to come to this Huangquan Road.

There is no other scenery on Huangquan Road, and if you are lucky, you can see a sea of red flowers like blood when you pass this road, and if you are unlucky, you can only see a blue and yellow flower leaf.

At the other end of the sea of Manzhu Sawa flowers is a calm and waveless river, the water is blood-yellow, and there is no end in sight.

This is the Santu River, also known as the Lethe River.

There is only one canoe in the whole river, and there is a ferryman on board. The ferryman does not belong to the underworld, but a human soul who once did not want to be reincarnated because of his obsession, and this person died unwillingly with great obsession in the world, unwilling to drink Meng Po soup and reincarnate as a human again. So he took over the lull from the little ghost who was originally ferrying here, and sent the souls from Huangquan Road to Nai He Bridge day after day.

At the beginning, he wanted to see the woman he loved deeply in his previous life again, even if he said a word, he could put down the boat and go to reincarnation with peace of mind. However, he did not expect that the reason why the Santu River is also called the Lethe River is because the calm and waveless water here itself has the ability to make countless living beings and dead souls lose and forget.

This mortal soul didn't know how long he had been holding the boat here, and how many souls he had sent away to reincarnate in the human world, until one day he finally met the person he had wanted to see, but his memory had been invaded by the waters of the Lethe River for no longer and he had forgotten her.

There is no day and night here, the sky is always like the last afterglow of the sunset falling on the mountain, extremely dim, if there is anything that can bring some different colors to this dim world, except for the blood-colored manzhu sawa on the side of the road in Huangquan, there is also a white mandala on the bank of the other half of the Lethe River.

According to legend, there were originally only blood-red manzhu sawa on both sides of this Lethe River, this flower bloomed for thousands of years without leaves, leaves grew for thousands of years without flowers, flowers and leaves were born and born wrong, never seen. It is the flower of the Yellow Springs Road, and the fragrance of the flower has magical power and can evoke the memories of the deceased.

Later, after the Jizo King Bodhisattva came to the underworld, he saw that the souls of the various realms who went to the world often had a strong attachment to the world because of Manju Shahua, and even more reluctant to step on the ferry, and finally became a lonely ghost floating on the Lechuan River.

With the idea of enlightenment, the king of Jizo planted a mandala flower he had brought from Elysium on the other side of the Huangquan Road.

Manju Sawa and Mandala are both other flowers, but the white Mandala Hua is a flower related to the Buddha. The king of Jizo planted a mandala on the other side of the Lethe River, just hoping that the souls passing through the Huangquan Road would not be attached to the present and the past, but could look at the distant other side and see the white flowers that were different from the dim atmosphere of the underworld, so that they could let go of the obsession in their hearts and be reincarnated as human beings with peace of mind.

"Here...... Is it Huangquan Road?" a young woman's voice was a little dazed.

"A-Niang, what is Huangquan Road?" asked a young child's voice suspiciously.

"Mi'er, Huangquan Road is the road that guides us to Nai He Bridge, after crossing the Nai He Bridge and drinking Meng Po soup, we can forget everything in the past and be reincarnated as a human. The young woman explained.

"Why do you want to forget everything in the past? don't drink Meng Po soup, you don't want to forget Daddy!" the child's immature voice pleaded with a crying voice.

"Mi'er is good, Mi'er listens to A-Niang. Your father has come here before us not long ago, and he has already passed through the Nai He Bridge to drink Meng Po soup. If we want to go back to the world to find your father, we have to follow the same path as your father. In this way, when we get to the world, our family of three can be together again. The young woman reassured.

"Really? Then if you listen to Auntie, Auntie will obediently drink Meng Po soup, so that Auntie can always be with Daddy and Auntie. The child nodded obediently.

The woman is dressed in a linen shirt, dressed very plainly, and she doesn't look like a wealthy family before her death. Died at such a young age, with a little doll of three or four years old. Judging from the conversation between her and the child just now, the three of them went to the underworld to report one after another, and it is estimated that they have either encountered natural disasters or man-made disasters in the world.

However, it has to be said that the woman's appearance is extremely beautiful, and this simple dress cannot affect her appearance in the slightest. Thinking that she was so young and did not create any bad karma during her lifetime, she and her children did not suffer any punishment, so they were directly reincarnated as human beings again. As for her husband, not to mention whether he can see him again after reincarnation, even if he does, he will not remember it.

"Liu Lang, have you ever passed by this sea of blood-colored flowers? Do you know how much Xi'er misses you? Liu Lang, it is a pity that your child is blessed, and he can't stay with you for a long time, and even your death will be unexpected, and our son will also die with me. When Xi'er is reincarnated as a human again, Xi'er is still willing to marry you......" The woman looked at the surrounding Manzhu Sahua, and her eyes gradually diffused with a look of pain and nostalgia, and she couldn't help crying in her heart.

"Auntie, look, there is a white flower on the other side of the river, and Mi'er thinks that the white flower is better than the red flower. The child's voice brought the woman's thoughts back.

The woman looked up blankly and looked in the direction pointed by the child, and sure enough, she saw a sea of white flowers in the distance, echoing the red sea of flowers on her side. For some reason, after seeing the dazzling white, the woman's mood was inexplicably calmer, and her footsteps, which had been stagnant for a long time, stepped away again, and slowly walked towards the riverbank.

When she walked to the bank of the river, she saw a canoe parked there, and on board was a man dressed in shabby clothes, and the man was wearing a hat and hat, and his face could not be seen clearly.

"This big brother, may I ask ......?"

"Don't ask anything, come up. Before the woman could finish speaking, the ferryman on the boat interrupted her lightly.

"Oh, okay, thank you big brother for that. The woman seemed a little impatient when she saw the man, and many souls who had come here to ask the ferry had asked her the questions she wanted to ask for a long time, so the woman could only quickly bow down and thank her.

"When you get into the boat, don't look around, don't reach out and touch the water in the river. At the end of the river is the Nai Ho Bridge, and after getting on the bridge, you can take one last look back and maybe see what you want to see the most. After seeing this last look, I drank Meng Po soup and reincarnated. The man admonished, then propped up the basket and slowly crossed the river into the distance.

Because there is no day or night, and the scenery on both sides of the river has not changed at all, the woman does not know how long the small wooden boat she was riding in has been traveling.

As if a long time had passed, and as if it had only passed the time of a cup of tea, a bluestone bridge appeared at the end of the woman's sight, and as the boat approached little by little, the stone bridge gradually became larger and clearer in the woman's eyes.

"Thank you, big brother. The woman got out of the boat and owed herself to the ferryman on the shore.

The ferryman only nodded faintly but did not answer, and then he did not look back, and rowed away as the boat drifted away.

The woman took the child's hand and walked slowly onto the bluestone bridge, and when she reached the end of the stone bridge, she did not look back at the last time as the ferryman said. She obviously wanted to see her Liu Lang again and her hometown again, but for some reason, she felt that she shouldn't look back, maybe she was afraid that she would be reluctant to drink Meng Po soup when she saw her.

Just as the woman was about to walk towards the old woman in front, a vague light curtain suddenly appeared in front of her in the dim void, and there was a vague figure of a man in the light curtain, but it was too vague to see clearly, and she could only vaguely distinguish that the man was standing in a purple and gold robe.

The woman suddenly felt a little stuffy pain in her chest, she was already a dead person, how could she still have such a real pain? She had no memory of the man in the picture, but she could feel a faint sadness from the blurred figure.

"Drink it. An old voice interrupted the woman's thoughts, and the curtain of light in front of the woman's eyes disappeared at some point, replaced by a withered hand holding a bowl of soup that looked as light as water.

The woman looked at the old woman in front of her, reached out to take the bowl of soup, and drank it without hesitation.

The memory in her mind quickly dissipated, and in a few breaths, the woman no longer knew who she was or where she was. She slowly walked into the path of reincarnation, not even looking at her child again.

"Female doll, time and space are chaotic on the road to reincarnation, don't indulge in it, and join a good family as soon as possible. The old woman's voice sounded behind the woman.

The woman nodded sneeringly and walked forward step by step.

Just when the woman's figure disappeared into the path of reincarnation, the old woman who gave her Meng Po soup just now looked at the Sansheng Stone, shook her head and sighed: "Hey, it's the tenth life." I don't know what kind of karma this girl created thousands of years ago, and even the Sansheng Stone can't record her past and future lives. ”

However, under the bridge, in the Lechuan River, no one can see a figure standing here.

It was a young man, dressed in a purple-gold robe, with a tall and long figure and a handsome appearance. Something strange is that his eyes are dark purple, and his silver hair is raised without wind.

"I have been waiting in this Lethe River for a thousand years, and you are so ruthless that you don't even want to look back. The man's voice was low and distant, and there was a hint of sadness in his indifferent tone.

The man smiled bitterly, flew up from the river, and landed on the riverbank, but not a single part of his body was wet.

After thinking about it, the man raised his hand, waved his robe, and a light curtain appeared in the void, and a figure appeared in the light curtain, it was a middle-aged man with a full beard, he was the supreme ruler of this underworld, Emperor Xudu.

Emperor Xudu was stunned for a moment when he saw the man's white hair, then raised his hand and said in a deep voice: "Looking at the scene of King Shura, it must be the tenth life has passed." ”

The young man nodded and said lightly: "I met her in the tenth life just now, and she didn't look back after all. The last strand of this king's black hair also turned white when she entered the path of reincarnation. ”

"With all due respect, although you are the king of the Shura clan, you have a long life. However, this water of Lethe River has existed here since the beginning of the underworld, and it is by no means an idle thing. Now that you have been here for a thousand years for the Luohe Goddess, I'm afraid it will ......," Emperor Xudu said with some concern.

"This king understands, send this king into the path of reincarnation. The young man said calmly.

"This ...... You were originally the king of Shura, and your actions thousands of years ago had broken your fate, and now you are forcibly reincarnated, and the blessings and misfortunes are not yet known!

"No, this king just doesn't need the memories of this long life anymore. After reincarnation, what should be done is up to the mandate of heaven, and this king no longer demands it. The young man decisively refused.

Emperor Xudu sighed and made another gesture, "Since this is the case, please cherish it to King Shura." ”

After closing his words, Emperor Xudu waved his robe, and a beam of light shot into the young man's body from the light curtain, and the man's figure gradually became blurred, and finally turned into a ray of purple light, and quickly plunged into the path of reincarnation.