Suddenly an archway gushes out in front of me, not tall and burly, looming in the thick fog, only thin and mysterious.

Xu Ran didn't squint and slowly walked through.

The back of a strangely dressed man came into his eyes, dressed in white, thin but not weak, but with a long figure that exuded a kind of majesty and nobility.

Sadly, though, he has no hair.

"What do you see? Don't stop, keep walking. ”

Li Wuyuan's voice echoed in his head, urging constantly.

Xu Ran couldn't reply to her with brain waves, so he had to move forward without saying a word.

When he was ten steps away from the man, the other party turned around, and Xu Ran was stunned for a moment.

The eyebrows and eyes are handsome, and the appearance is upright, this person actually has a face exactly like him.

"Zishen."

The other party called softly.

Xu Ran didn't have any pictures of these two words in his memory, but he subconsciously felt familiar.

The man raised his palm to the tip of his nose, and held a string of Buddhist beads in his other bony hand.

Xu Ran was about to speak, and the monk with clear eyebrows had already turned into a puff of smoke and dispersed with the wind.

"I told you not to speak, keep walking, don't stop!"

When he heard Li Wuyuan gritting his teeth, he was probably angry, and his tone was hurried.

Xu Ran walked through the place where the monk had stayed, and the haze was still thick, weakening the lights on both sides of the strait into a trance.

There is another archway in front of it.

The white-clothed monk appeared in Xu Ran's sight again, only to see a high wall in front of him, the wall was covered with tiles, and on the tiles lay a snow-white kitten.

"Little one, come down, it's dangerous up there." Monk Dao.

The white cat was condescending, and the monk couldn't hurt himself, so he lazily barked at him twice.

The monk chuckled and said, "Okay, if you have nowhere to go, I'll give you this wall." ”

"But this wall is mine, and if you stay, it will be mine in the future."

The little white cat did not understand human speech very well, and was still curled into a ball, a fluffy lump, squinting comfortably in the breeze.

Xu Ran walked towards this picture, his expression a little blank.

He had probably guessed what these scenes were about, but although he was prepared, he still couldn't calm down the complexity and confusion when he witnessed it with his own eyes.

It is still an archway.

In the starry sky at night, the monk paced to the wall where the white cat was located, full of shallow Buddha light.

"Cat, I'm going to die in this life, I'm afraid I can only see you in the next life."

The little white cat has grown up, and the outline of its eyes has become slightly narrow, and if you look closely, you can see a tuft of crescent-like hair in the center of its forehead.

"Where are you going, monk?"

The monk replied to her: "Xitian." ”

"You want to become a Buddha? How is it possible to come back to see me? ”

The monk thought for a while, frowned, and said, "Yes." ”

"Then it won't work."

The white cat was slightly startled: "Then where are you going?" ”

Monk: "Go to the afterlife." ”

The white cat didn't reply again, but his heart was full of disdain: this idiot is really the stupidest monk in the world!

The fog entered his eyes, and Xu Ran didn't wait for Li Wuyuan to urge this time, so he hurried to the next archway.

It was still the same wall, and there was a black-robed monk walking briskly on the erected wall, as if walking on the ground.

"The cat demon sucks the moonlight, the night wandering god was ordered to arrest it, and the dungeon ghost came to inform in advance and disturb the holy monk."

The white-clothed monk was slightly stunned and said, "The moonlight belongs to the common people, how can you not use it?" ”

The swift ghost smiled: "The moonlight belongs to the common people, how can you steal it?" ”

"Then let me ask you, is there less moonlight tonight?"

The swift ghost said: "It's not less, it's the same until night." ”

Monk: "Then she just eats a few bites, neither harming the moon nor harming the common people, how can she be considered a thief?" ”

The swift ghost laughed: "To become a spirit, you need to go through cultivation and calamity, such a shortcut seems harmless, but if other goblins are allowed to follow suit, won't the world be chaotic?" It's a mistake to get something for nothing, if this little demon doesn't punish him slightly, how can he calm the demons. ”

The white-clothed monk paused and asked, "How will she be punished then?" ”

"Go to hell, skin and bones, and never be reborn."

The monk frowned: "This is called a slight punishment?" ”

The Swift Ghost laughed, "It's a beast. ”

While talking, the white cat jumped up the wall and came back from outside, throwing something in front of him by the way.

"When I passed by the back hall of your house, I found a fat mouse, oh - here you go."

The white cat said and looked at the black-robed monk: "Who is he?" ”

The monk glanced at the dead mouse, did not answer, pondered for a moment, and said to the swift ghost, "What if I protect her?" ”

The swift ghost was stunned and said, "You haven't become a Buddha yet, I'm afraid you won't be able to keep it." ”

"What if I have to protect her?"

"I'm afraid that I will be reduced from the western heavens to hell, and I will not be able to return until I have suffered the six realms of reincarnation."

The Swift Ghost said slowly.

The monk's eyebrows relaxed, and his tone was soft: "It's good to be able to come back." ”

The fog seems to be getting lighter.

Xu Ran walked on the road like a lost soul, and when he saw the next archway, his steps suddenly became a little hesitant.

At this time, Li Wuyuan's faint voice sounded in his ears, like a gentle encouragement:

"It's almost over."

Xu Ran walked under the archway.

A few bits and pieces flashed before his eyes.

The monk destroyed his future, missed the western sky, and when his life came to an end, he fell into reincarnation.

Although the underworld has words first, it will not let go of the white cat easily.

Hades ordered that the crescent moon be wiped off her forehead, made a seal, and ordered her to reincarnate until she found the reincarnation of the holy monk and awakened his memory.

Since then, the white cat has ignored ghosts, has low mana, and has wandered in the world for three hundred years.

A baby cried, and the backs of a young man and a woman appeared in front of him.

Very familiar back.

The man coaxed the baby in his arms and said to his wife, "This child seems to be quite strong, why don't you call him Xiaoran?" ”

Wife: "Don't be small, motherly and girly." ”

The man smiled and coaxed, "I said we called it that in private......"

For some reason, Xu Ran felt that his face was a little moist, and he touched it, only to realize that the wetness came from his eyes.

The fog has almost dissipated, and the road seems to be coming to an end, and there is only one last archway left in front of you.

As soon as Xu Ran stepped over, a figure passed by him and fell down fiercely from mid-air.

Li Wuyuan was ragged and covered in blood.

Xu Ran rushed up to pick her up, and the wounds on the other party's body almost burned his eyes.

"Shh......h

Li Wuyuan stretched out his index finger and gently pressed it against his lips.

"Do you know why the Ghost King wanted you to kill me with your own hands in the first place?"

"Our destinies were entangled three hundred years ago, as if a contract was made, you live and I live, you die and I die;"

"You fall into reincarnation, my task is to guide you to the way home, unless you kill me with your own hands, then our relationship will cease to exist, I die, you can never be the yin and yang envoy again, then his whimsical ideas will remove one of the biggest obstacles."

Li Wuyuan said, and a large amount of blood coughed up from his mouth.

Xu Ran only wanted to know what was going on with the injuries on her body, and he was anxiously wiping the blood for her, and suddenly remembered what she had told him - don't look back.

His heart suddenly emptied, and he tried to turn his head to look. Unexpectedly, Li Wuyuan quickly held his face and turned back.

"Don't look at ......"

But Xu Ran's eyes were born for hell, even a glimpse of the afterglow was enough to see through everything.

Countless hungry skeletons and wraiths piled up as if they formed a giant ogre, their bodies as if they had fused together, countless limbs and heads waving and roaring in the air, greedily following his steps.

At this point, they were kept out of the sixth archway.

Li Wuyuan followed him all the way, standing with his back to him, using his body as a knife, endlessly slashing those filthy evil spirits.

Li Wuyuan wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes for him, and said, "What are you crying about, you give birth to me, if you don't die, I can't die." ”

She leaned on his chest and said with a faint breath: "I didn't understand people before, I had no heart and no lungs, to be honest, you blocked the punishment for me, I didn't feel any gratitude in my heart at the time, I just felt that this monk was really stupid." ”

Xu Ran hugged her tightly and listened without saying a word.

"Later, I met you again, but you were frightened by me, and I was still thinking, if this nerd had climbed the Western Heaven Bliss before, how majestic it would be, and why did he become such a wretch now?"

She laughed at herself: "Why didn't I think about who you ended up like this for?" ”

"I know that the reason you saved me was not me, but your own gentleness. But when I met you again, I already knew about the seven emotions and six desires of people, and I often came out of selfishness and wanted to swallow your gentleness alone. ”

"Do you know what a rebellious selfish thought this is?"

Xu Ran couldn't listen to it anymore, and said bitterly: "Don't say it, I'll find someone to save you......"

"It's useless," Li Wuyuan's eyes were pure and sad, "I forcibly broke through the seal, my cultivation was exhausted, and I could no longer maintain my human form. ”

Xu Ran's voice trembled: "Lao Tzu has raised you for two lifetimes, without my permission, who the hell let you do this?" ”

Li Wuyuan smiled faintly at him: "I'm afraid that in the future, I will have to ask you." ”

The voice fell gently, and the other party's body gradually became lighter, and after the fireflies dissipated, there was only a snow-white cat left in Xu Ran's hand.

The world is silent, as if everything is over, and everything is gone.

Xu Ran didn't know how long he had been sitting on the ground, until there seemed to be a light at the end of the front before he carefully hugged the cat and got up.

"Zishen, now I still give you two paths, one is the western sky, the other is hell, what choice do you make?"

"King Jizo Bodhisattva once said, 'If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell', although I am not as good as the Bodhisattva, but I am reckless for half my life, it is more suitable for me on the earth."

Xu Ran smiled casually, but his smile was tired and pale, revealing the loneliness and vicissitudes of life and death.

The other party paused for a moment and said, "You should have become a Buddha and a bodhisattva." ”

Xu Ran said softly: "I, a person, see the mountain is a mountain, see the water is water, I can't go through Zen, I can't understand the Tao, whether it's surnamed Li or Xu, I can't let go of the dust." ”

"That's it," the other sighed lightly, "she's back to life, and if you want to wait for her to become an adult, I'm afraid it will take a thousand years." ”

Xu Ran looked at the sleeping cat in his arms and replied in a low voice, "Okay." ”

There are no long promises, only one word of certainty.

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"Jinhua people are jealous of pure white cats, and if they can squat on the tile roof at night and steal the moonlight, they will become a problem." (From Qing Nalan Xingde's "Lushui Pavilion Miscellaneous Knowledge")

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