Chapter 16: The Ghost Gate

Stimulated by the cold earthly yin qi, Ding Jiu's skin had countless small bumps, and even Ding Jiu felt that his own five senses had become a little dull.

Ding Jiu opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly his pupils dilated, his eyes became blurry, and the neck down seemed to be sunk in water, and his lungs could not expand under the pressure, and he could not breathe in air.

This mist is poisonous?

This thought just appeared in Ding Jiu's mind, and his lower abdomen suddenly became hot.

It was like a small warm snake swimming in its body, first its torso and then its limbs, and its whole body gradually warmed up.

A faint voice from a distance slowly grew closer and clearer:

"Big ...... Person? …… My lord? ”

Ding Jiu took a long breath and eased up.

Chen San, who was walking in front, wondered:

"My lord, you shouldn't be yin qi invading your body, right?"

Then he shook his head and said to himself: "No, the Soul Hook Rope is a thing that specializes in Yin things, and the Yin Qi of the Earth Yin with the Soul Hook Rope on his body shouldn't be close to him." ”

Before he finished speaking, the surrounding gray mist suddenly rolled back and formed a huge hole with a diameter of three zhang around Ding Jiu's body.

The gray mist outside the cavern seemed to encounter an invisible barrier whenever it approached, escaping along an invisible spherical trajectory.

In the hollow, there was only dark gray flat ground, Chen San, Ding Jiu, and Yao Peiwen, who was chained, and the rest was empty.

Chen San was dumbfounded, Ding Jiu touched his nose, let go of Chen San's chains, stood side by side with Chen San in a few steps, and said:

"How far is it?"

Chen San closed his mouth and said respectfully:

"My lord, it's a quarter of an hour ahead."

Ding Jiu nodded, and Chen San hurriedly took a few steps to lead the way.

Ding Jiu touched his fiery lower abdomen, he seemed to be able to feel the trend of this ghost path at this moment, the earth yin qi behind him was getting weaker and weaker, and the earth yin qi in front of him was getting stronger and stronger.

The change in the strength and weakness of the earth's yin qi is the key to the trend of the ghost path, and discovering this is the reason why he dares to let go of Chen San's chains, and it is also the reason why he decides to go on.

……

A quarter of an hour's journey was not a long time, but the drastic changes in the surrounding earthly yin qi were beyond Ding Jiu's expectations.

The original three-zhang diameter cavity has been reduced to more than two zhang, and it is still pressing inward, the gray mist is not as churning as it was not long ago, and the viscous fog is squeezed away by the hollow and can no longer turn over much fog wave.

Chen San continued to walk forward, Ding Jiu followed, and after dozens of meters, the two of them were empty.

Ding Jiu felt the bright light in front of him, and walked out of the fog in a few steps, but before he could stop, he was shocked by the scenery in front of him and opened his mouth wide, and he didn't react for a long time.

At this moment, there were stars in the sky above his head, and the stars on the pitch-black canopy were clearly visible, like a star cluster bursting all over the sky.

Under the starlight, in front of him was a large sea of flowers that shimmered with white fluorescence, endless, and there was no end in sight.

As soon as you breathe in, the fluorescence in the sea of white flowers flickers and darkens, as if echoing the stars in the night sky.

Ding Jiu's gaze moved forward, and he was caught in another place, and his face was full of shock.

In the sea of flowers, there is a double door hundreds of zhang high, and the pestle touches the ground like a mountain.

Around the door, there are sixteen statues more than ten zhang high, naked, wrapped in chains, and vicious, lifelike, staring viciously at everyone who enters the sea of flowers.

Ding Jiu, who was nearly a kilometer away from the door, struggled to raise his head to see the three big characters engraved on the top

- Ghost Gate!

The ghost gate is not gold or iron, like jade and stone, and wisps of black mist overflow from the crack in the door to surround it, giving birth to a sense of mystery.

There seemed to be a lot of reliefs carved on the door, and Ding Jiu's eyes widened to distinguish them carefully.

At the top is a man wearing a crown and a python dragon robe sitting on a four-clawed golden dragon chair, the face under the beads is not clear, but through the bead curtain, a pair of eyes are as bright as a dragon and tiger, which actually makes Ding Jiu's knees weak, and there is an urge to bow down in his heart.

Ding Jiu secretly said in his heart, presumably this is the Son of Yama, but he didn't expect that just a relief on the door would have such great power.

Ding Jiu didn't dare to continue to look directly, and looked straight down, there should be the Ten Halls Yama below.

These ten seemed to be wearing hats and big hats, and their faces were also blurred and invisible because of the black fog, but they exuded incomparable majesty when they raised their hands and feet.

Under the ten halls of Yama, there is a large relief, among which there are men and women, with different faces and postures, and there is a black fog covering them too far away, and Ding Jiu can no longer distinguish them.

Looking down carefully, the reliefs at the bottom of the door gave a chill to Ding Jiu's back, and these reliefs were full of stumps and broken arms, wailing ghosts.

The ghosts screamed in the sea of fire, and the body was roasted with human oil, and the head and feet were glued together; A huge millstone turned, and countless ghosts were ground into a pulp, falling to the ground and unable to distinguish each other; On the torture rack, a huge hacksaw cut through the crotch to the head, and the body was closed in two, and the hacksaw cut again......

Scenes like these purgatory are all over the bottom of the Ghost Gate, causing fear to spread in the hearts of the viewers, as if they are empathetic, making people almost scream.

Ding Jiu took a deep breath and struggled to stabilize his mind.

Chen San waited for Ding Jiu to come back to his senses, but he didn't urge, his performance when he first came to the Ghost Gate Pass was far inferior to Ding Jiu.

Seeing that Ding Jiu seemed to react, Chen San said:

"My lord, you must have seen it, this is the Ghost Gate, the junction of the netherworld and the yang.

There are thousands of ghosts in the yang world, but the final gathering place is here, and this is also the place where you can see the most soul-hooking yin differences. ”

Ding Jiu looked around when he heard this, and the viscous gray mist behind him covered the sky and the sun, extending left and right, and he couldn't see the edge at a glance, like a giant beast crawling on the ground, but it couldn't take a step in the sea of flowers.

Looking left and right, countless black-robed people were in and out between the gray mist and the sea of flowers, and each black-robed person was holding a chain in his hand, and a life soul was locked in the chain.

Ding Jiu, Chen San and the locked soul Yao Peiwen, this combination can't attract the slightest attention among the people.

The shadows came out of different places in the gray mist, but the destination was only one ghost gate in the sea of flowers.

The ghost gate was not opened, but a "small" door of several zhang in size was opened at the bottom, and the black fog in the door was churning, and the yin chasers were standing in line in front of the door with their souls locked.

From a distance, Ding Jiu could only see a large table in front of the door, and there seemed to be a black-robed man with gray hair sitting behind the table, which Ding Jiu could only see so far under the effect of the spike chain in his lower abdomen on his body.

Chen Sandao: "My lord, do you have a token?" ”

Ding Jiu hesitated for a while when he heard this, whether to say yes or no.

He shook his head, but still said truthfully, "No." ”

Chen San pondered for a while and said:

"Souls need a path to the underworld, and those like us who need to go in and out of the underworld often need tokens as credentials.

If you don't have a token......

Your Excellency, the location, and method of issuing tokens should be different from mine, so it may be that they have not yet been delivered to you.

The tokens of the underworld are issued by the Gong Cao in the palace, one person and one card, and the token of Lord Ding Quan cannot be left to you to use, so you can only wait for your token to be issued to you. ”

Chen San continued: "However, if you don't have a token, you can't pass the ghost gate, this is also the rule." ”

Ding Jiu looked at the tall ghost gate in the distance when he heard this, and felt a little regretful.

He actually wanted to see what the underworld was like, but he couldn't break into it without an identity token.

"My lord, according to the rules, you can't stay here for too long, ...... now" Chen San said halfway through his words, and looked at Ding Jiu inquiringly.

Ding Jiu also understood, and looked at the beautiful stars, the sea of flowers, and the ghostly ghost gate for a while, and said:

"I'll come here, you take Yao Peiwen into the ghost gate."

Then, Ding Jiu turned his head to Chen San and said in a deep voice:

"But I need her to cross the Lethe River without accident."

Chen San smiled bitterly: "The villain understands, you ...... It's too kind-hearted, and it's just a bad daily job. ”

Ding Jiu couldn't deny it.

Waving his hand, Ding Jiu said: "I remember the way I came, I don't need you to take it with me." ”

Chen San bowed and said yes, and when he looked up again, Ding Jiu had already stepped into the gray mist.

Chen San shook his head, turned around and walked into the sea of flowers, and did not put Yao Peiwen down.

Many of the yin cha who went to the Ghost Gate Pass together in the sea of flowers looked at Chen San in surprise, it was the first time they had seen such a hooked soul and float over with a life soul.

Chen San was speechless, hurriedly quickened his pace, and ran towards the ghost gate regardless of the eyes around him.

After queuing for a long time at the Ghost Gate, it was Chen San's turn, and at this moment, in front of him was the one-foot-long black wooden table that Ding Jiu had seen from afar.

Chen San untied the token from his waist, and took out a piece of yellow soft paper three feet long and two feet wide, with three seals on it: Yin Si, Chenghuang, and Xudu.

Presenting the two objects to the gray-haired black-robed man behind the table, Chen San said:

"Qin Guangdian, the soul envoy, the second-class Yin Chen San, and the soul Yao Peiwen Lu Yin, please take a look at Shangguan."

The black-robed man leaned back in his chair, kept his eyes closed, and didn't look at it.

Chen San didn't seem to be surprised, and after waiting for half a minute, he was about to put away the token and pass through the ghost gate with his life.

The white-haired and black-robed old man said quietly:

"Bringing the people of the yang world to the Ghost Gate, do you know what the crime is?"

Although the black-robed old man didn't move, Chen San sweated like rain all of a sudden, knelt down with a plop, and kowtowed again and again:

"Lord Shangguan is aware of how the villain dares to violate the rules of the underworld in front of Lord Shangguan, and the villain brought that person to the Ghost Gate because he also has the identity of the underworld."

The old man in the black robe was still the old god, his eyes closed, and he didn't speak.

Chen Santou pestle on the ground and said in a muffled voice: "Lord Shangguan, that person is the heir of Lord Si Dingquan, the ghost envoy of the Yang World. ”

When the black-robed old man heard the word "Ding Quan", he suddenly opened his eyes slightly and said:

"The Ghost of the Yang Realm Envoy Si Ding Quan?"

Chen San kowtowed and said yes.

The black-robed old man closed his eyes again, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long time, the black-robed old man spit out the word "pass" in his mouth.

Chen Sanru was pardoned, and quickly got up and entered the ghost gate with Yao Peiwen's soul, not daring to stay for a moment.

The black-robed man opened his eyes again and glanced at the soul floating behind Chen San, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, closed his eyes and said to himself:

"The descendants of Ding Quan's boy...... Heh, as interesting as he is......"

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In the hospital, the door of the ward where Yao Peiwen died had been opened, and a doctor in a white coat and several relatives of the man were persuading the man.

The man watched as Yao Peiwen's body was pulled away, and the forty-year-old man cried like a child.

The white-coat doctor patted him on the shoulder as a sign of comfort, gave him a few words and left, and the relatives sighed and left the room, leaving the man alone in the ward.

The man's crying lasted for more than half an hour, and finally stopped, and he packed up all the relics about Yao Peiwen in the house, along with the bouquet of roses.

The man held the relics and roses and did not let go, and left the ward in despair, followed by several relatives.

Ding Jiu got up from the chair in front of the ward door and left the hospital.