Chapter Seventy-Four: The Poor and the Mud Plough Tower
The hill was not high, it should even be called a small hill, and it didn't take much time for the two of them to run to the top of the mountain, and they didn't even breathe when they stood on the top of the mountain, but they still stopped, not because they needed to rest, but because they were shocked.
At the foot of the mountain in front of them was a small basin, and in the moonlight, the basin was covered with mist, and only a few very tall trees showed a little canopy, which showed the depth of the mist. In the middle of this basin, there is a tall tower, due to the obscuration of clouds and mist, only the exposed part of the tower can be discerned about thirteen floors, each layer is about three meters high. There is a tower on it, which is about nine meters high.
Generally speaking, the tower brake is composed of the brake seat, the brake body, the brake top and the brake lever, from the structural point of view, the tower brake itself is equivalent to a complete tower. However, the tower of this tower is not so complete, but only a slender conical structure, like a sword straight into the sky.
Brass bells hung from the corners of the tower, waving gently in the evening breeze, but they did not hear a single sound. There are small stone statues on the slope ridges of each layer of this tower, not the common lions, dragons, horses and other kinds of beasts, but a kind of tiger-like animals, but they have a pair of wings on their bodies, in the dark, those stone statues look extremely terrifying, as if revealing an evil spirit, as if they are alive. Because they were too far away, although Luo Yu's eyesight was far beyond ordinary people, he couldn't recognize what those stone statues were.
"That's Qiqi."
Yin Feng looked at the tall tower in the distance with a solemn expression, in order to be able to see farther and more clearly, the bangs on his forehead had been lifted by him, and there seemed to be flames beating in his blood-red eyes.
"One of the Four Evils of Antiquity?" Luo Yu frowned, when he first saw those stone statues, although he couldn't really see them, what he thought of in his heart was indeed Qiqi, but what kind of tower would use Qiqi as a beast statue on the slope ridge?
Yin Feng nodded and affirmed his judgment: "There is a saying in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas, North Classic" that says, 'It is like a tiger and has wings', which is the shape of the stone statue on the ridge of the tower, which is one of the images of Qiqi. According to the "Divine Mystery Sutra: Northwest Wilderness Sutra", Qi Qi 'knows the language of people, meets the faithful, eats them, and cannibalism begins with surrender; When there is a traitor, the beast is captured and served. Combining the trinity of gods, monsters, and wicked people, Qiqi is a strange creature whose true face cannot be decoded, a symbol of evil, and a representative of the most evil things. ”
"On this tower, Qi Qi is actually used as the beast statue on the ridge of the tower, so it can be seen that this tower is not a good place." Luo Yu's brows furrowed deeper, the fierce beast is not like the divine beast, the divine beast can be carved and placed at will, which can bring auspiciousness, but the fierce beast cannot, especially the four fierce levels like Qiqi, if you want to use it as a beast statue of the building, you must first see if this building can suppress it, if you can't suppress it, there is only one way to collapse, this tower has carved so many Qiqi can still stand here intact, so how evil does it have to be?
Yin Feng turned his head to look at Luo Yu: "But they are all in this tower, especially your sister, even if it is the sword mountain and the sea of fire, you have to go down." ”
Luo Yu turned his head and looked at him seriously, although he couldn't see Yin Feng's eyes, he could feel his gaze: "Thank you." ”
This thank you was naturally not because Xie Yinfeng told him the news of his sister's accident, nor because Yin Feng told him these things, but because he knew from Yin Feng's tone that he was definitely going to go with him. Luo Yu also knew that his current strength was simply vulnerable, the situation in this evil tower was still unknown, it would be difficult for him to retreat if he went alone, let alone save people, it would be different with Yin Feng here, so he wanted to say thank you, thank you Yin Feng for accompanying him to the dangerous place.
Yin Feng looked at him and snorted lightly, but didn't say anything like "you're welcome", but took the lead in rushing out towards the foot of the mountain, a nether fire erupted from his eyes, and the nether fire floated more than a meter in front of him under his control, moving forward at the same speed as him, dispelling the dense fog in front of him, so that Luo Yu, who was following him, could see the road ahead.
It is said that it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, because it takes a lot of energy to maintain balance when going down the mountain to avoid accidents. But it was much easier for the two of them to descend the mountain, and by the force of gravity they went down even faster, and it was not long before they were standing in front of the gate of the tower.
Looking up, this tower has a total of eighteen floors, each floor is nine feet nine, that is, three meters three, the tower body is dark red, the tower ridge and the eaves of the tower are black, and the poor stone statues on the tower ridge are also dark red, and their eyes seem to shine with a faint blue light.
On the body of the tower, the walls of each floor are carved with reliefs, not Buddha statues, historical celebrities, nor wild beasts, but hell pictures, carved with pictures of evil spirits being tortured.
This tower gate faces north, is the direction of extreme yin, hangs a plaque above the tower gate, the plaque is a black background, on the dragon flying phoenix dance on the book two blood-red characters - "mud plow", originally very chic and elegant two words, unfortunately, it seems that this word is full of ink directly written on the plaque, when the ink is not dry, it is hung here, resulting in the ink on the stroke flowing down, like the ink of blood makes these two words look very strange and terrifying.
"Is this tower called a mud plow...... Luo Yu muttered to himself as he looked at this evil tower, and an inexplicable sense of familiarity swelled in his heart, but he had definitely never seen this tower, which made him very uneasy.
Yin Feng on the side glanced at Luo Yu, noticed his incomprehension and uneasiness, and was afraid that he would be too emotionally trapped at this critical moment, so he took the initiative to talk: "What is a mud plow?"
"The mud plough is a Sanskrit word that means hell!" Luo Yu came back to his senses, his face was serious, the tower in the name of hell must be full of crises inside, but he had no choice, he had to go in, Luo Yu took a deep breath and continued to explain: "The "Eighteen Mud Plough Sutra" says: 'The Buddha said: 'Life sees less days, and does not see more days. The change of good and evil is not similar, insulting parents, committing crimes against the Son of Heaven, and dying into the mud plow. There are depths and shallows, eight for fire clay ploughs, and ten for cold mud ploughs. The fire clay plough is less than half into the ground, and the cold mud plough of the heaven and earth. The eighteen mud ploughs in the scriptures are: Guang Zhiju, Juxu Liu, Sangjudu, Lou, Fangshu, Caowupuci, Dulu Nandan, Bulu Banhu, Wujingdu, Niludu, Wuluo, Wuman, Wuyi, Wuhu, Xu Jianju, Modu Ganzhihu, Outongtu, and Chen Mo. ”
Yin Feng looked at the dark red gate of the mud plough tower in front of him, and his tone didn't seem to care: "Hell? No wonder my Nether Fire has been restless, and there should be its same origin in the tower. You're talking about this is a transliteration of Sanskrit, right? Do these correspond to the eighteen layers of hell in China? ”
Luo Yu said that before, he felt that he had calmed down a lot, and the uneasiness in his heart seemed to be less serious, suppressing the increasingly strong sense of familiarity in his heart, Luo Yu continued to explain to Yin Feng, or let his attention be diverted: "There are many kinds of sayings about hell in Buddhist scriptures, just like Master Yinshun divides hell into four categories in "The Way to Buddhahood", namely: Eight Hot Hell, Eight Cold Hell, Youzeng Hell, and Lonely Hell. There are several sayings about hell in ancient China, and the most recognized saying is that the eighteen layers of hell are: tongue pulling, scissors, iron tree, evil mirror, steamer, copper pillar, knife mountain, iceberg, oil pot, cow pit, stone press, mortar, blood pool, vain death, punishment, volcano, stone grinding, knife saw. Although the term hell was formed after Buddhism was introduced to China, it added many elements of sinicization, which is still different from the mud plough in Buddhist scriptures. Hell is a real existence in the underworld, but until now, no one has come back from hell and remembered the situation, so its true face is known only to the soul of the underworld. ”
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