Sitting closer, I noticed that the plum tree above my head was fake, and the plum blossoms on the branches were all paper flowers.

"Sister Wang, you have lived here for five years, it should be inconvenient for you to live in normal times, right?" I remembered Lao Jia's description of her and asked curiously.

Wang Yan shook her head and said: "We are cultivators, we have very little need for food, and there is more than one exit on the ninth floor, if you need anything, I will go downstairs to buy it, and there is nothing inconvenient." ”

Pointing to the door, she said: "On the way you came just now, you must have encountered a lot of ghosts, these wild ghosts who died horizontally, made the yin qi on the ninth floor particularly violent, and our husband and wife took a fancy to the yin qi here, so they chose to live here." ”

I remembered the terrifying experience on the road, and couldn't help but ask, "The most powerful ghost here should be the woman in white, right?" ”

Wang Yan snorted: "She is nothing, there are more terrible things than her on the ninth floor, the environment of this place is complicated, the corridor is like a labyrinth, and I have never been to some places." ”

"Our husband and wife are sitting in the temple, and they don't dare to come in."

The small talk was almost, it was time to get down to business, I gently stabbed Su Yao, and after she understood, she said: "Sister Wang, I have been under the snake spell in my body, and I won't live long, I heard Uncle Mei say that I have to go to the nether world to break the curse, is that so?" ”

I also begged her: "Sister Wang, please think of something to save Su Yao." ”

Wang Yan's feminine eyes glanced at the two of us, and she sighed: "The two children are quite compatible." ”

Su Yao's face turned red, and she saw Wang Yan stand up and walk to the inner room: "Follow me." ”

We followed, this temple was full of age, the air was full of dust, there were several small rooms behind the main house, and when we pushed open the door of one of the rooms, Wang Yan walked in.

The room was not large, there was only one bed in it, and on it sat a middle-aged man with his eyes closed and motionless like a sculpture.

The man hadn't cut his hair for a long time, his long hair was hanging down to his shoulders, his face was as white as paper, his face looked very gloomy, and a long scar was drawn from his left eyebrow to his right chin.

"This is my husband, Gu Qianchou, who is in retreat." Wang Yan pointed to the man and introduced, and then led us to the next room.

There are square tables and chairs in this room, which should be a place to eat, and after beckoning us to sit down, Wang Yan grabbed Su Yao's little hand, touched it, and her face darkened: "There are two smells on the little girl's body, one is snake, one is fox, the little fox's neck is entangled by a snake, and she is about to be strangled!" ”

Su Yaomei stared at her in horror.

After touching it again, Wang Yan let go of her hand and said coldly: "Your family enshrines Fox Daxian, right?" ”

Su Yao snorted, and Wang Yan pointed at her and said, "Your old immortal, have you offended something powerful?" You must have been bitten by a snake as a child. ”

She smiled sadly: "It's the first time I've seen such a domineering snake spell!" The other party's Taoism is much higher than your old immortal, relying on the jade card press, you have only lived to the present, otherwise it will be gone, if you die, your soul will be taken away by the other party, eternal life, and be the yin slave of the snake fairy! That's the scariest part of the snake spell! ”

Su Yao's frightened face turned pale: "Sister Wang, then I ...... now"

"Go to the netherworld, only in this way can you completely get rid of the snake curse."

Scooping a scoop of water from the water tank, Wang Yan took a few sips and said, "Do you know what the nether realm is?" ”

Me: "I probably know, I've heard Master Mei talk about it before." ”

Wang Yan held her chin and lips and said: "Most people think that death means the end, in the world, they compete with each other for interests, and they do not give an inch in front of some trivial things, but in fact, they don't know that death is just the beginning." Between life and death, there is a transitional space, which Catholicism calls purgatory, and Buddhism calls it the bardo. ”

"No one knows how big the nether is, there are unique rules, after death, the soul first enters the netherworld, according to the karmic retribution before death, what awaits everyone is a series of unknown and dangerous levels, if you can successfully pass all the way, for mortals, it is a great blessing, the soul is either reincarnated or go to the Elysium to enjoy happiness, the worst ending is also in the underworld."

"About these blessings, it's just my own guess, after all, people who succeed in breaking through will never come back, the so-called underworld is just folklore, whether it exists or not, it's a question mark."

In the gloomy room, with a candle on the table, we listened intently to Wang Yan's narration: "In short, it is definitely good to succeed in breaking through the level, if you fail a certain level, the soul will either be trapped in the middle nether forever, or you will be taken to hell to suffer, and you will never be able to get out again." ”

Speaking of this, her face became sad: "My husband and I have spent our whole lives studying the secrets of the netherworld, we are cultivators, and we have some Taoism, but this is far from enough, everything in the world can no longer arouse our interest, you say that in this life, in just one hundred years, I have been thinking, what is the purpose of life?" ”

"What do you say, 'What do you live for?'

This question is too profound, Zhu Feiyue and Su Yao can't answer it, I secretly think, I, Li Zhiwen, live just for my sister, if my sister is gone one day, then what am I going to do if I live?

Seeing that we were not angry, Wang Yan sighed: "God has a problem, in my opinion, God has given us a hundred years, is to let us think, reveal the meaning of life, I have heard someone say, there is a very terrible secret hidden in the netherworld, once the secret is revealed, the soul can obtain eternal life." ”

Eternal life?

We looked at her in amazement, Wang Yan sighed and said: "Five years ago, after we came here, my husband's soul left his body and entered the nether realm to break through, five years, he only came back once, I am alone in the past five years, and I am accompanied by the yin soul every day, that kind of loneliness, who can imagine...... Look at me, what are you talking to you kids? ”

With a slight blush, Wang Yan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

It was a matter of Su Yao's life and death, and I was eager to know the information of the netherworld, so I asked her, "Did your husband succeed?" ”

Wang Yan nodded: "He has passed a total of seven levels, and after the last level has passed, a door appeared in front of him, this door may be the one that leads to the other side and is reincarnated, but my husband did not go in, and he still chose to stay in the nether realm and explore the secrets in it." ”

"Once, he woke up and told me about the situation over there, and said that in a few days at most, he would be able to understand the secret, and I waited for five years."

During Gu Qianchou's time in the Netherworld, Wang Yan was responsible for taking care of his physical body, it stands to reason that living people don't eat or drink, let alone five years, not for five days, but their husband and wife will use a secret method that can make the physical body run slowly with extremely low consumption, while remaining incorruptible.

"It's also possible that my husband encountered an unknown danger there and never came back." Speaking of this, Wang Yan's mood became low again.

Su Yao blinked her beautiful eyes: "Sister Wang, what is the level that your husband encountered in the Netherworld?" ”

Wang Yan shook her head: "I didn't ask, in fact, it's useless to ask, everyone's experience in life is different, karmic retribution is different, and the tests encountered in the Nether Realm are also different." ”

"Little girl, have you thought about it? Once you get in, whether you can get out or not depends on your creation. One thought of heaven, one thought of hell. ”

Su Yao looked at me and replied calmly: "In my case, if I don't go, I'll die, so it's better to fight." ”

Wang Yan stretched out her hand: "Give me your jade plate." ”

Su Yao and I handed over their respective jade plates, and Wang Yan put it together into a complete Pisces jade pendant: "The nether realm is the destination of the dead, it stands to reason that the soul of the living cannot go there, our husband and wife have the way, naturally we can ignore the rules, you can't, fortunately, with this jade plate, it is equivalent to the key to enter the netherworld, but the key is not enough." ”

"What more?" Su Yao asked.

Taking out a long embroidery needle from the drawer, Wang Yan said with a gloomy expression: "Our husband and wife are from tattoo masters, tattoos are this thing, and if you play deeply, you can not only change your life, but also kill people." And before entering the Netherworld, I must stab a Yin text on your back. ”

Zhu Feiyue was puzzled: "What is Yin Wen?" ”

Wang Yanyin said with a smile: "People and ghosts have different paths, in the underworld, a unique script is used, that is, Yin script, and I only know a little about this." ”

"I stabbed Yin Wen on you, the purpose is to leave a way back for you, after you enter, if you can pass the first level, before entering the second level, you can leave safely. If there is no Yin Wen, you can only pass one level, and there is no turning back. ”

We suddenly realized that Su Yao in the Nether Realm had to go, and there was no other way at the moment, so we could only choose to believe Wang Yan.

Wang Yan wanted to strip Su Yao and tattoo her, and Zhu Feiyue and I were inconvenient to be there, so we had to go out to avoid it.

Walking around the gloomy lobby, I glanced at the compressed biscuit jars stacked in the corner and asked Zhu Feiyue, "Brother Zhu, what do you think?" ”

Zhu Feiyue wiped the cold sweat on his face: "My daughter-in-law said that the woman surnamed Wang is very powerful, my daughter-in-law is not her opponent at all, and her husband should be even more terrifying." ”

"How about comparing it to Mei Lianzhou?"

"Much more powerful than Mei Lianzhou."