The dense dark clouds and the gray sky gradually turned into a haze and shrouded the overhead, and the original emptiness was restored before the ghost gate was closed, Zhong Dong and the two ghosts nodded with satisfaction, and arched their hands at the tired ghost pawns around them and said: "A certain family is here, thank you brothers, we know the hard work of everyone, it is better to wait for Bai Ze and Lord Wu Qi to come over to take over the errand, and everyone will go to the wine shop to drink a few glasses together, how about the reward?" ”

"Thank you, thank you!" The ghost pawns immediately smiled happily, they knew that the two leaders had always been generous, and they understood

It's a good meal again, and my heart has already bloomed.

Suddenly, the bells and drums on the city tower rang in unison, and everyone couldn't help but be stunned, this is a signal that the enemy is coming......

Could it be that the damned demons are out again?

On the Nai River beach dozens of miles away from the ghost gate, densely covered with white bones of Bai Sensen, the flowers on the other side were trampled to pieces, the phosphorus fire green light was shining, and the round heads were still emerging in the black river water, slowly revealing the mouth and nose of the black hole, and then raised the dry arms and rugged bodies one by one to the shore, silently joined the dense array, and easily pulled out a rib from the chest and abdomen as a weapon, He staggered towards the tall knight on the skeletal horse in front of him.

Unlike the sleek soldiers, the skeletal general at the head was tall, with faint blue-black bones, a pair of eyes with faint green fire burning in them, and a rusty spear in his hand. The blood-red cloak draped on his back was raised in the wind, and with a wave of his claws, he immediately erected a huge bone banner made of white bone splicing and binding in the group of skeletons, and slowly approached the direction of the Ghost Gate with a mighty army of skeletons.

The bridge head of the Nai River was empty, only an old woman kept stirring a pot of white soup, and she didn't keep looking up in her hands, and her shriveled and toothless mouth muttered: "Alas! How are there fewer and fewer people coming these days......"

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The Nai River is also known as the Santu River, also known as the "Santu River". Legendary. The "Three Ways River" is the dividing line between the realm of life and the realm of death. Because the flow of water is divided into three types: slow, normal, and rapid according to the behavior of the deceased during his lifetime, it is called the "three paths".

Just as life and death can only be crossed by reincarnation, there is only one way to cross the "Santu River" without taking the Nai Ho Bridge, and that is the ferry boat on the "Santu River", and there is no other way.

However, there is a fare for the ferry. Souls who do not have the money will not be able to board the ferry, and even if they do, they will be thrown into the "Santu River" by the boatmen. Those souls who are unable to cross the river are driven by the desire for reincarnation and wade across the river, but the water of the "Three Ways River" is not only not buoyant, but also has a poison that can corrode the soul. Those souls who go into the water will never have a chance to go ashore, and can only become water ghosts in the "Three Ways River". The pain of never being able to be reborn and the bone-chilling waters of the river make those water spirits jealous of other souls who still have the hope of reincarnation. As long as a soul falls into the water, they will rush to it, pull it to the bottom of the river, and become water ghosts like them.

The only bridge over the river is called Nai Ho Bridge. The bridge is divided into three levels. When reincarnation crosses, the ghosts of the good can safely cross the upper bridge, the good and the evil cross the middle bridge, and the ghosts of the wicked cross the lower bridge, and are mostly stopped by the ghosts into the dirty waves under the bridge, and are bitten by copper snakes and iron dogs. The width of the bridge is only about four feet, and there is a "blood river pool" built under the bridge. "Nai River" travels more than ten miles to a water. It is not a few feet wide, and the flow is southwest. Its water is blood. And the filth is not approachable.

There is a Meng Po next to the Nai He Bridge, carrying a bucket of Meng Po soup in her hand, everyone has to walk on the Nai He Bridge, and Meng Po has to ask you if you drink a bowl of Meng Po soup. Meng Po soup is made of Lethe water, also called forgetful water, and if you drink it, you will forget this life and this life. A lifetime of love and hatred. The ups and downs of a lifetime will be forgotten with this bowl of Meng Po soup. The people who are concerned in this life, and the people who are hated in this life, are like strangers in the next life, and they don't know each other

Not everyone will drink Meng Po soup willingly. Because in this life, there will always be people who have loved and don't want to forget. For the next life to see the favorite of this life. If you don't drink Meng Po soup, you will have to jump into the Lechuan River, be tortured, and wait for thousands of years before you can be reincarnated. However, after a thousand years of suffering in the river, you can only watch your lover cross the bridge again and again but cannot see each other, after a thousand years, he (she) no longer remembers you, and you may no longer be his (her) favorite

After drinking Meng Po soup, he entered reincarnation with all his heart and was reincarnated as a new person.

On the other side, the flowers paved the fire on the road, and the Sichuan River has seen the bridge. On the stone tablet engraved by Sansheng, who does not sigh for loneliness! Mixed feelings about yesterday's events, into ashes and tears. The wind and clouds are purple and the dust is gone, and then go to the countryside to look far away. How can the reincarnation eventually pass, a bowl of tea soup has a front edge. The souls are haunted by dreams, and the love and hatred are scattered. Since then, there is no pain in my heart, and the past is like a dream. If the next life is not as good as this life, who will sleep with the return? I am full of love in my dreams, and I am in the blue sky in the cold moon and wind. Looking back, I don't regret it, this life is just a bridge!

It is said that Meng Po was born in the Western Han Dynasty, studied Confucian books since she was a child, and when she grew up, she began to recite Buddhist scriptures. When she was still alive, she never recalled the past, and never thought about the future, but only wholeheartedly persuaded people not to kill and to be vegetarian. Until she was eighty-one years old, she was still a virgin. She only knew that her surname was Meng, so people called her "Grandma Meng". Later, Mrs. Meng Po went into the mountains to practice until the Later Han Dynasty. Because at that time, people in the world knew the cause of their past lives, and they often leaked the secrets of heaven, so God specially appointed Meng Po's grandmother as the god of the underworld and built a platform for her.

After the ghosts have been punished in each hall, they are sent to the next hall in order, and finally transferred to the tenth hall and delivered to the wheel king. The tenth hall is in charge of ghost reincarnation, and all ghosts who are sent here to prepare for reincarnation will first be escorted to the stage under the mourning hall controlled by the god Meng Po to drink the soup, so that the ghosts can forget their previous lives.

Legend has it that the practice of Meng Po soup is first taken from the fire of the netherworld, and then added with medicinal herbs from the world and water from the Nai River to make a wine-like soup, which is divided into five flavors: sweet, bitter, pungent, sour and salty. All ghosts that are ready to be reincarnated have to drink Meng Po's ecstasy soup, and if there is a cunning ghost who refuses to drink, a hook knife will immediately appear under its feet to stumble its feet, and a sharp copper pipe will pierce its throat, forcing it down, and no ghost will be spared.

So. When you walk on the Nai Ho Bridge, it is the time when a person finally has the memories of this life. At this moment, many people are still clinging to the unfulfilled wishes of their previous lives, but they deeply understand that these wishes will not be realized in the end, so they will let out a long sigh. This is also the reason why this bridge connecting the reincarnations of various generations is named Nai He Bridge.

There is also a three-life stone next to the river, and the words on the stone are bright red like blood. It is engraved with four words: "Ascend to the other side early".

You can carve the name of the person you love most in this life and the person you want to wait for in the next life. After crossing the river, Meng Po Tang makes you forget everything, and if you cross the bridge again in the next life, you can find your past, present and future lives, as well as the name of the person you love the most, on the Sansheng Stone.

Looking at the three lives on the three-life stone, the fate of the three lives is eternal. Who did you have a relationship with in your previous life? Will we meet again in the next life? In this life, the dream of Huangquan Road is broken, and there are tears in front of the flowers on the other side. Who is engraved in front of the blood-colored stone? How many layers of tears are there in the township? I love this life in my dreams, and I don't envy the gods or monks. However, don't go far on the bridge, and meet to be reincarnated with the next life. The past passes with the wind, and the veins are tender around the ancient vines. Soulful stone-casting. The sea swears to accompany the mountain alliance.

The flowers on the other side of the river also bloom on both sides of Huangquan Road. Because the flowers and leaves bloom in two different seasons, the leaves cannot be seen when the flowers bloom, and the flowers cannot be seen when there are leaves. It is also the only scenery and color on this long Huangquan Road. And man walked on the guidance of this flower to the hell of the underworld.

Flowers on the other side, flowers on the other side bloom on the other side, crying alone and the underworld. The glamorous people don't return it. Who will read it again? Huang Quan teared tears all the way. The leaves fall and the flowers bloom alone, and the world is reincarnated. Flowers and leaves are empty and sad. Don't sigh that the soul of the world is bleak, how do you know that life and death are far away! The peanuts on the other side of the seven peerless sides do not see each other, and the world is reincarnated in blood. It is difficult to see the leaves when the flowers bloom. Huangquan is holding each other all the way.

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The dry horse's back and pelvis rubbed against each other and made a rattling sound, and the skeleton king Zhao Kuo twisted the spine of the lumbar vertebrae a little uncomfortably, and let his body go over the raised edges and corners of the horse's back, he actually didn't like to sit on the horse. But in order to distinguish himself from his subordinates, he still reluctantly endured this kind of unpleasant treatment.

This mission was assigned by Grandma Rong, and Grandma Rong was his benefactor, and he could not disobey the will of his benefactor, and only this thought lingered in his empty head.

Ever since he was imprisoned in the Nine Shadows by that guy from Montenegro. He almost gave up the will to resist, and his army of 300,000 skeletons was gradually reduced with the battle, leaving only less than 100,000 people at present......

The former high-ranking enemy was beaten into the Nine Shadows and became a prisoner, and his small role once again served as a general, speaking of which all this is the grace of grandma.

When Grandma Rong canonized Zhao Kuo as the skeleton king and commanded an army of 100,000 skeletons, her subordinates also objected, for a very simple reason - the allusions on paper have become a joke through the ages, and this gentleman who can only speak empty words is not a popular figure even among the demons.

For a long time, he watched the so-called elites who had no one in his eyes suffer repeated defeats, and he didn't express any attitude, just stared at them so coldly......

The emperor lived up to his wishes, and Grandma Rong finally made up her mind to send him out, teleporting from the source of the Nai River in the Nine Secluded Land to the vicinity of the Ghost Gate Pass, and they appeared on the battlefield again, and the skeleton army would be overwhelming all the way...... Straight to the capital!

Zhao Kuo couldn't help but wave his hand behind him again, signaling the army behind him to speed up and keep up, he was a cut above others, and at this time he could already see the mountains on both sides of the Ghost Gate Pass.

"Beat the drums!"

Zhao Kuo directly transmitted his will to the team, and a thick man appeared in each of the hundred skeletons in the huge phalanx, and they immediately knocked their two arms against each other, making a knocking sound, although the movement was not very big, but thousands of people emitted the same frequency in unison, and it was actually transmitted far away, with the sound of the tumbling bones, for a while, there was a strange solemn aura......

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Dong Nanxi was alarmed by the rapid sound of drums. He scrambled up from the ground and strode towards the battlement, the ghost pawns next to him all looking ahead with nervous eyes. In order to see the enemy approaching the pass at the first time, Dong Nanxi specially stationed himself on the gatehouse. Dong Nanxi saw the army of skeletons coming from afar—from the darkness in the distance, slowly approaching the huge phalanx composed of a group of Bai Sensen's bones.

The ghost guards at the pass almost heard the sound of the alarm drum, and flocked to the tower. Zhong Fabai also squeezed to the edge of the battlements of the city wall and looked over the dark road.

The entire army of those skeletons arranged three large phalanxes in a zigzag shape, and walked towards the Ghost Gate in a neat and orderly manner. The strange white bone flags were erected high, and the dense rib scimitars were also shrouded in a layer of faint phosphorus fire, and the figures illuminated by the fire swayed forward, but the feet followed the drum beat with neat steps, and slowly trampled the flowers on both sides of Huangquan Road in rows and rows!

On the city wall, the ghost pawns silently lined up in a scattered formation, motionless watching the enemy gradually approaching here, everyone's expressions gradually became nervous, and with the pace of the enemy's advance, the corners of the mouths of many ghost pawns began to twitch and beat. Zhong Fabai slowly saw the enemy's banner clearly, and he suddenly found that Zhao Kuo's horse head was facing his direction, and he couldn't help but grab the handle of the knife in his hand.

"Bastard devil cub, grandpa is idle and bored, you guys are here, I really understand your second master's mind!"

He stood on the city wall and muttered quietly, although the voice was not loud, but the heroic spirit in his words suddenly infected the surrounding ghost soldiers. They gradually recovered from the tense and oppressive atmosphere, and immediately began to talk and talk, and then soon they began to talk and laugh one by one. This relaxed atmosphere immediately spread like the wind, spreading throughout the city wall, blowing to every corner where the ghost gate was closed.

Dong Nanxi saw that the soldiers quickly woke up from the shock, and nodded with great satisfaction. He turned back to his assistant standing behind him and said, "Tell the drummer to beat the drums!" The ghost pawn immediately withdrew from the crowd and said to the commanding soldier standing on the outermost periphery: "The captain has an order, beat the drums and make the whole team." ”

The standard-bearer immediately jumped to the battlements of the city wall and stood, waving the flag at the drum stand of the tower. The fierce drums sounded like thunder from the sky, blasting in the ears of every ghost. The ghost soldiers immediately ran in all directions as if they had blown up a pot, looking for their position, and picked up their swords and guns as fast as they could, and the huge bonfires above the city walls were lit one after another, and the green smoke curled up, and the firelight reflected the castle tower up and down red. Dong Nanxi and Zhong Fabai glanced at each other and nodded, they knew that the big war was imminent, and it was about to break out...... (To be continued.) )