"My eldest brother has been to Rakshasa City? How did he get in? I was surprised.

Sister Yu glanced at me and said, "Walk in." ”

I was shocked when I heard this, at that time, the eighth master once told me that there are no more than five people who can walk a hundred meters in front of Rakshasa City with their own perseverance, so is there my eldest brother among them?

As if she had insight into my thoughts, Sister Yu said lightly: "Your eldest brother was able to enter the city with the help of a treasure at that time, but after staying in it for less than two breaths, he broke his arm and retreated, and if it weren't for the help of the eighth master, I'm afraid it would be unknown whether he would even be able to leave the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs alive." ”

I gasped and was shocked, "What's in there, and why did my eldest brother cut off his own arm?" ”

Sister Yu shook her head and said, "I don't know, I only know that in order for your eldest brother to go in and take a look, the eighth master has basically spent nearly half of his savings over the years, as for what he saw, and why he cut off his arm, it is really difficult for outsiders to know." ”

I frowned suspiciously, and muttered, "It shouldn't be, with the eighth master's ability, I can go in by myself, so why bother so much to let my eldest brother go." ”

"There are laws in the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, it restricts who should do what and who should not do anything, people like the Eighth Master, there are people watching every move, if some balance is broken for no reason, someone will stop it." Sister Yu said lightly.

"Who is so powerful that even the eighth master dares to stop it?" I was amazed.

Sister Yu sneered and said: "There are always some people who are idle and have nothing to do, they like to meddle in other people's affairs everywhere, and they are called checks and balances, if it weren't for the fact that the eighth master's injuries in the Yellow River had not healed, how could they be afraid of him?" ”

Sister Yu's words made me think of the person that the eighth master was waiting for in the tea shop in front of Rakshasa City, with his strength, even if there were 100,000 Yin soldiers, he couldn't stop him from stepping into the city, but he stayed in the tea shop for so long and refused to take a step forward, could it be that he was afraid of the person in Sister Yu's mouth, and the old account he asked for, would it have something to do with that person.

"Will the eighth master be in danger?" I woke up suddenly.

Sister Yu glanced at me and said, "Put your heart in your stomach and think about the current thing first." ”

What's going on at the moment?

I smiled wryly and said, "I don't have a clue right now, a lot of things are mixed up, and I can't do anything at all." ”

Sister Yu got up and brought the boiling teapot, and said lightly: "You might as well think about it, is there anything that can connect these things in everything, or if there is anything in common between them, as long as you grasp this line, then all the problems can be solved." ”

Looking at the slices of green tea tumbling in the teacup, I couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and only after half a sound did I slowly raise my head and look at Sister Yu and say, "Nine Prisons and Nine Springs? ”

Sister Yu nodded and said: "Whether it is the person who laid the well set for you in the eighteen miles, or the eighth master, including your father and your grandfather, or even the red carp and Princess Wushan, these people are all making a fuss around the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs, and it is obvious that in the eyes of some people, you have become a very critical link, and you are trying to involve you in every possible way, although I don't know their purpose yet, but I have a hunch that it won't be long before news comes from there, a big news that will involve everyone and can't get out." ”

I looked at Sister Yu's solemn expression, opened my mouth wide in shock and didn't know what to say, and finally swallowed my saliva and said: "Then you can always tell me what is going on in the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs now, we can't even know where the enemy's position is, just take the pots and pans and rush blindly." ”

Sister Yu sneered and said, "You brought pots and pans to the war?" ”

I scratched my head and said, "I'm just making an analogy, and I always feel that these Nine Prisons and Nine Springs should not just refer to one place, just like the master said, even Rakshasa City is only a small part of it. ”

Sister Yu picked up the teacup and blew lightly on it, nodded and said, "What the eighth master said is right, these nine prisons and nine springs actually refer to the nine rivers of Styx hidden in this world, as well as the nine dungeons built on the River Styx. ”

I was a little stunned, although it was not much different from my previous guess, but I was still a little surprised and said, "Isn't this equivalent to the Netherworld." ”

Sister Yu shook her head lightly and said: "I forgot which book I have ever read, since the beginning of the formation of human beings, life is wrapped in water, all living things have a natural dependence on water, many religions and myths, water has been given the meaning of the source of life, and it has been said that water is not only the origin of human beings, but also the focus of life, the existence of Jiuquan does not know how many years have passed, as early as the pre-Qin period in the "Liezi Emperor" there is the first definition of Jiuquan, called this place Jiuyuan, there are nine springs under it, Nine different springs flowed out to give birth to the ancient nine clans, and the marriage between the nine clans gave birth to more and more surnames and races. ”

"It wasn't until later that the Nine Springs appeared in more book allusions, and gradually evolved into nine rivers closely related to death, and after death, people would be extradited to different rivers by the ferrymen according to the sins they committed in life, and before crossing the river, there was a ferryman who set up a boat to float on the river, and you had to pay him to let you cross the river, otherwise he would be pushed into the water and melted by the river until it was wiped out."

After listening to this, I couldn't help but think of the old man who was ferrying the boat, and some muttered: "But what is it that does not mention the Nine Prisons, after the soul is extradited to the Nine Springs, where will it go next?" ”

Sister Yu took a sip of tea and said: "The appearance of the Nine Prisons was only recorded after the Han Dynasty, and before that, it was rumored that the end point of the Nine Springs was the Nine Layers of Hell, let's call it the Eighteen Layers of Hell, after all, in that era, nine was the number of poles, and there was no greater number than it." ”

I nodded and said, "I know this, it seems that in the Shang and Zhou periods, the largest number was seven, so could it be the so-called Nine Springs and Nine Prisons, they were just the general names of people at that time for this place, after all, if you really want to say that there are ten or eleven, they can't describe it." ”

Sister Yu glanced at me differently and said: "The words are not rough, the real Nine Prisons and Nine Springs have never been able to touch the edge, no one knows how big it is, and how many unknown secrets are hidden in it, but as far as the current situation is known, the nine Styx and the nine cities have an orderly division of labor, each with its own responsibility, and there are countless dead souls and evil ghosts, mountain mandrill spirits, maybe in the concept of the ancients, people come from the water, and finally return to the water, which is the real cycle of life and death." ”

However, I don't think it's that simple, based on what I have seen and heard in the Nine Prisons and Nine Springs, the Yin soldiers patrolling the river, the Rakshasa city lord, the Huangquan ferry, the shipwreck at the bottom of the river and the corpses of water monsters, and even the tea shop on the side of the road all show that it is not only a place for the cycle of life and death, but also another world where people live after death.

But what kind of existence is the Jiuquan River Patrolman, why the old man said that our Bai family will report to Jiuquan in Jiuquan after his death, which is difficult for me to understand.

I told Sister Yu the doubts in my heart, and Sister Yu frowned and said: "I don't know much about there, but the name of Jiuquan River Patrol is literally speaking, it may be the controller of a certain order, and it may not be that your Bai family has always controlled the order of the Jiuquan River." ”

I shook my head and said that I couldn't accept it, because if this was the case, then I hadn't grown up in lies since I was born to now, my father, my mother and my grandfather have all been deliberately lying to me, and I prefer to believe that it was some force majeure factor that suddenly happened in the middle that led to today's situation.

Sister Yu also comforted me and said: "At this stage, everything is just speculation, no one knows what the truth is, and as the old ghost said, when you are strong enough to participate in it, instead of being an inactive bystander, maybe many things that you can't see through now will fade away and the fog will be revealed." ”()

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