I looked up and saw a huge plaque on the south side of the gloomy palace, which was written in white on a black background, with six big characters on it: "King of Yama in the Fifth Palace". Under the plaque, there is a pair of couplets hanging on the left and right: right and wrong, clear daytime!

Under the plaque, on the side of a large desk, with a bull's head and horse face on both sides, a judge in a red robe and a white face and a long beard was sorting out the papers at the desk.

In the middle of the desk, there was a tall man with a powerful face and a crown on his head, and I saw him dressed in a black robe, black face and black beard, and his eyes flashed with essence, not angry and arrogant.

I immediately understood in my heart that this was the King of Yama in the Five Palaces, and what surprised me even more was that there was a crescent-shaped flesh mole on King Yama's dark face and forehead in the middle.

"No wonder black and white impermanence says that the surname of the king of the five palaces is Bao!" , I thought to myself: "Sure enough, Bao Zheng, the famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, is the king in the underworld, and even the unique mark on his forehead is exactly the same as in the legend of the opera." ”

I have discussed the teachings of Buddhism with Zen Master Zhikong of Pudu Zen Temple, and I understand in my heart why black and white impermanence tells him that Yin Si Yama is originally the embodiment of the oath made by King Bisha before his death, but the Yama King in front of him is the reason for Bao Zheng.

Because the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have countless incarnations, just as the Daoji monk of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou is the reincarnation of the Venerable Dragon in the mortal world, and the disciple of the Buddha, Elder Jin Chan, was demoted to the lower realm and entrusted to Xuanzang to become Xuanzang, and finally learned the scriptures and re-corrected the results to become the Buddha of Zhantan Merit, Bao Zheng is also the incarnation of King Yama King Bisha in the mortal world.

In the shouting and reprimanding of the bulls and horses on both sides, the ghost criminals who were escorted by the ghost guards and were shouting and wailing miserably saw the king of Yama, who was not angry and arrogant, and immediately fell silent, kneeling under the case and waiting for the judgment of the king of Yama.

The king of Yama sentenced them one by one, and the ghosts and criminals no longer dared to cry out. Because the king of Yama is the one who judges the case like a god and has no difference.

Legend has it that when King Yama incarnated as Bao Zheng in the Yang world, he had a yin and yang pillow to cut off the human case during the day, and fell asleep with the yin and yang pillow at night, interrupting the affairs of the yin and yang in his dreams.

The crescent mole on Bao Zheng's forehead, which seems to be only a birthmark, is actually a yin and yang eye, and everything in the mortal world, under his yin and yang eyes, he is loyal and treacherous, and there is nothing to hide.

The ghosts of the Yin Division all thought that Bao Zheng was a great compassion, and often sent the soul of the unjust death to return to the yang, so he was demoted to the fifth hall by the Netherworld Sect Master Jizo King Bodhisattva. In this case, even if the king of Yama was merciful and wanted to return the soul of the unjust death, because of the passage of time, a few days after the mortal died, his body was rotten and he could not return to the yang.

King Yama was in charge of the fifth hall, but in fact it was not downgraded, but the king of Yama himself petitioned the Jizo Bodhisattva. After the layers of trials in the first four halls of the Yin Division, and then to the back of the fifth hall, it was strictly controlled by the king of Yama, if there was really a soul of unjust death, the king of Yama would send the ghost prisoner to the tenth hall to reincarnate and reincarnate, and give birth to a rich and noble family to make up for the wrongful death.

If there is a ghost who is as treacherous as he was in life, and when he arrives in the Yin Division, he still quibbles that he is wronged, then he can't escape the yin and yang eyes of the king of Yama. Therefore, there is a folk saying that 'there are no unjust ghosts in the Yama Palace'.

The ghosts who were convicted by the king of Yama had one last chance to see their families before entering the small hell of the sixteen hearts, which was the result of the great compassion of the king of Yama.

The ghost criminals who were convicted by the king of Yama were escorted to a high platform by the ghost guards. The high platform, called 'Wangxiang Terrace', the table top is like a bow back, facing the southeast and west three directions, the bow back of the table, 81 miles long. The back of the Wangxiang Terrace is like a straight bowstring, and behind it is a sword tree.

The reason why Wangxiangtai was built like this is because the hell is in the north of the extreme cold and extreme yin, and no one can survive in the north, and the people of the mortal world live in the three directions of the southeast, west, and west of the yin.

Wangxiang platform is forty-nine zhang high, with the knife mountain as the slope, there are sixty-three levels in total, every step up, both feet are stepping on the blade, blood flows.

If the ghost offender is a good person on the day of his death, he will not go to the Wangxiang platform, and when he passes through the fifth hall, he will be sent directly to the tenth hall by the judgment of the king of Yama, and he will be reincarnated.

Only the evil spirits who were convicted by the king of Yama were sent to the lookout platform, so that they could see their homes and hear what their acquaintances said and did.

After the death of the wicked person, when he sees his relatives in the Yang world, the will is not obeyed, and the fatwa cannot be followed; Everything is changed, one by one; Fighting for property, carrying nothing; Men want to remarry, and women want to bigamy.

The field is hidden, and the distribution is difficult to be even; The accounts have always been cleared and turbid; It is difficult to pay a penny to those who owe life to live, and those who owe death have no evidence, and they are nonsense with each other, prevaricating, all wrong, and pushing the dead.

Relatives of the three parties, complaining comments; Children are selfish, friends are untrustworthy; A few of them, missing the previous relationship, stroking the coffin and crying, sneering twice;

There are even more evil retributions, men are punished by the palace, and women are sick with strange diseases; The son is taken by a woman, and the woman is adulterated; All the business is dissipated, and the houses are burned; Big and small family affairs, all the time; Retribution for evil is not a ghost.

The evil ghosts who walked through the knife mountain and stepped on the Wangxiang Terrace, seeing that after their death, the family was discordant, the family business was ruined, and the relatives turned against each other for the sake of rights and interests, and the evil disasters they had done and their descendants, they couldn't help but feel sad and regret the evil they had done in the yang world.

After the evil spirit was escorted down to the lookout platform, he was tortured in front of the public court. First, press the demon into the iron table, and chop the demon into pieces of meat sauce with a knife.

After the evil ghost has regained its original form, it pulls it in front of the sharp iron spikes that stand upright on the ground, lifts the evil spirit, and lets the iron thorns penetrate through the anus, penetrate its body, and finally penetrate its throat and neck, and hang it on the iron thorns to let the yin wind blow and the skin and flesh are gone.

The ghost offender who has been tortured in this way is then escorted to a huge millstone. The ghost pawn stuffed the demon through the mouth of the grinding plate, and the two ghost pawns pushed the stone mill, and after a while, a puddle of pus and blood flowed from the bottom of the stone mill.

Then there was another ghost, and the demon who had just recovered from pus and blood stabbed the prototype into the belly with an iron fork, and then threw it into the sword tree from the air. The sword tree, although the appearance is the same as the tree, is the iron thorns that are facing the sky upwards as branches, and when the ghost criminals fall from the sky, they are immediately pierced by the iron branches, and they hang on the sword tree and cannot move, and their voices are wailing.

After a few punishments, the ghost soldiers were ordered by the king of Yama to send the ghost criminals to serve their sentences in the sixteen small hells.

The sixteen small hells are different from the sixteen small hells in the previous halls, they are no longer divided into categories, but each hell is the same, and many evil ghosts are imprisoned.

There are wooden stakes buried in the small hell of the heart, with copper snakes as chains, iron dogs as piers, and the hands and feet of evil spirits are bound.

The ghost pawn used a small knife again, destroying it to the extreme, and slowly cut the evil ghost open with a knife. Then hook out the heart and cut it finely.

The ghost pawn fed the severed heart to the poisonous snake that entangled the ghost criminal's body to devour, and threw the ghost criminal's intestines to the dog to devour.

Wait for the ghost criminal to grow a complete body again, and then continue to peel the skin and cut out the heart, and repeat. It was not until the day of suffering that the demon offender stopped the pain and regained his skin, and then according to the judgment of the king of Yama, another hall was sent to another hall.

Seeing that the ghost criminals over there had been sentenced one by one by the king of Yama, and after being sentenced, they were thrown into sixteen small hells of punishment, I hurriedly knelt down for the king of Yama.

In addition to the awe of ghosts and gods, I really admire Bao Zheng, the king of Yama, in my heart.

When King Yama saw me kneeling, he smiled and said, "King Ming, get up." You're not a ghost, you're a guest invited by Jizo Bodhisattva, so why kneel? ”

Although the voice of the king of Yama was majestic, it was full of kindness. I replied respectfully: "Lord Bao Qingtian, all people in the world worship, but I didn't expect that Lord Bao has now become the son of Yama in Yinsi. ”

I bowed my head again before I stood up.

King Yama said, "King Ming, you just saw the evil ghosts being punished, but you don't know what kind of punishment those evil spirits in the Sixteen Heart Little Hell will receive. Judge, use the mirror of yin and yang to show King Ming. ”

The ghost judge, hurriedly stretched out his hands, shouted, and an antique bronze mirror had appeared in his hand.

I saw that in the yin-yang mirror, there were gloomy clouds and miserable fog. The ghost judge said loudly: "If a mortal person is in the world for the sake of fame and fortune, deceives by unscrupulous means, tempts the public, is ungrateful, will take revenge, and is a well-dressed adulterer, he will go to the little hell of punishment, and he will cut off his heart. ”

The yin-yang mirror suddenly became clear, and countless ghost criminals in the little hell were screaming and screaming.

Some were cut open by the ghosts, and the hearts of the ghosts were directly grabbed by their hands, and then cut with a chainsaw; Others were cut open by a sharp knife, and the intestines were pulled out of it, and then chopped up by the knife in sections.

In the small hell of punishing the heart, there is also a knife mountain, the mountain is full of blades, the ghost criminals are thrown down by the ghost pawns from the air, and fall on the knife mountain, all of them pierce the intestines and break the stomach, and the blood flows like an infusion.

From time to time, there are flying knives and flints, only to see that in the clouds, flying knives and flints are flying, falling from the sky, like rain, ghosts and criminals are difficult to fly, and they are all crushed.

I couldn't stop sighing for the ghosts who had made mistakes in the yang world, and he finally understood the real purpose of Jizo Bodhisattva to let him visit hell: to tell the world about the hell, so that the world could accumulate more yin virtues and avoid the suffering of hell after death.

I asked the ghost judge, "Brother Ghost Judge, may I ask who are the people in the world, what kind of mistakes have they committed, and after death, the ghosts will be tortured in this fifth temple in such a way?" ”

The ghost judge stretched out his left hand, took out an extra book out of thin air, and handed it to me: "King Ming, on the orders of the Son of Yama, I will let you read the book of the laws of the five palaces of Yin Si. ”

I bowed to the ghost judge, took the law book of the five halls of the Yin Division, and carefully read it several times from beginning to end, only to see that it was recorded: Mortals in the world, those who violate the following laws, enter the five halls and be punished by a small hell in their hearts.

1. Those who do not respect ghosts and gods and wonder if there is karma; 2. Those who kill life; Before the three good wishes are finished, go first to the sinful and evildoer; Fourth, those who are close to evil, behave wrongly, violate righteousness, learn magic for selfish and self-interest, and delusionally want to live forever;

5. Bullying the good and fearing the evil, and resenting others for their wickedness, why don't they die early; 6. Those who care about fame and fortune, right and wrong, and blame others; Seven rapes - ** women, those who design to make women lose their virginity, induce women to submit to their lustful intentions aggrievedly, or deny whether they have the intention of harm, and covet lustful pleasures with women; 8. Those who harm others and benefit themselves;