Chapter 2 Sansheng Stone on the bank of the Lethe River
After saying that, he ignored me, hurriedly ran back to the temple, and closed the door with a bang. I shouted, you've got to show me the way.
"Go all the way and turn left when you encounter a fork." When the voice of the land lord came out, I realized that it was as simple as that.
In reality, there are two paths forward, and without him to show the way, it will all depend on luck. Turn left and go straight to the Nai He Bridge, where the Ten Halls of Yama are located, and turn right, the eighteen layers of hell are endless, it is definitely a situation where you can't die anymore,
After this level, I was relieved, but I was also a little worried. If this old man finds out the truth, won't he offend him, and look at him as unreasonable, I am afraid that there will be no good fruit to eat when he comes back in the future.
Anyway, this time it's over first, and I'll talk about it next time, and there's a saying that isn't calling soldiers to cover up the water.
After the land temple, it officially set foot on the Huangquan Road, as the saying goes, there are no young and old on the Huangquan Road, but the flesh and blood on the bridge. It means that on the Huangquan Road, no matter the old and the young, they are all ghosts after death.
This is a question worth pondering, why some people die of old age and death, while others die halfway. It's like a student taught by the same teacher, some with good grades and some with poor grades.
Who will write the very different destinies?
I can't answer this question, and I haven't studied it deeply, until future generations will be able to solve this mystery one day.
There is no sun, moon and stars on the Huangquan Road, no land dust below, a gray mist, from time to time there will be a few screams, screams into my ears, the words in my hand are glowing, ready to repel all the enemies who come to attack.
I don't know how long I have been walking, there is no concept of time here, as if the road ahead is endless, and I am walking towards eternity. During this time, I also followed a lot of ghosts, Huangquan Road is a three-way area, where ghosts are often poisoned, robbed, and abused! But all the sins imaginable in the world will exist.
What is it that was robbed? Nature is something that people are buried after death, and these things are bad luck for mortals, but they are necessities in the underworld. If not, it will become a destitute ghost.
Originally, there were evil spirits who attacked me, but after I slapped them flat, the other evil spirits did not dare to move, and they kept hovering around me.
After a while, these terrible ghosts seemed to be unable to bear it anymore and joined hands to attack me. I stood still, stretched out my left hand, and with a flash of words, the ghosts that came to me screamed in fright, and fled without my reprimand.
It's good to have a ghost identity.
It seems that after walking for a day and a night, I finally walked through Huangquan Road, in fact, the real time is not so long, maybe just an hour, maybe half an hour, just the depression on the road, everything is the same, there is no reference to compare, giving people a kind of mental torture.
The third level, the Hall of Ecstasy, has been trapped by countless ghosts and is the largest labyrinth in the world, but the so-called labyrinth is nothing more than a drop in the bucket compared to it.
The most important thing in the Temple of Ecstasy is not the mystery, but the fact that there are all kinds of strange things happening in the hall, such as your family will suddenly appear and lead you down a path of no return. Another example is that when you are in a quagmire, if someone calls you behind your back, you must not turn back, otherwise you will turn into a mud man, and it will be lifted after a certain time limit.
This time limit can be years or decades, during which the ghost has thoughts, but cannot move a minute, which is also considered an alternative punishment.
Of course, not every ghost has to go to the Hall of Ecstasy, only those who have evil deeds will be assigned here. I came alone without the ghost of the underworld to lead the way, so I had to go.
The moment I stepped into the Hall of Ecstasy, the foggy scene in front of me disappeared, and there was a desolate place in front of me, with dead trees and vines, jackdaws and crows, rats and insects everywhere, and the environment was extremely harsh.
I went all the way, and no matter what I encountered, it couldn't stop me. It wasn't until I saw the image of my family that I paused, and then I resolutely left, they called my name sadly behind my back, I gritted my teeth and tried to turn back several times, but I held back, and experienced unspeakable torment along the way, and only disappeared when I was numb.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I got out of the Lost Soul Palace, the underworld is really not a place for people to stay, and it is definitely a big joke to talk about humanity in this place.
Next, I crossed the Vicious Dog Mountain, Jinji Ridge, and with the words of the officials, I was not hurt in the slightest, but in the face of the vicious dogs with red eyes all over the mountains, and the vultures and eagles that were extremely fierce in the sky attacking you, also made my back chill and tremble.
Then pass the Wangxiang Terrace, a simple and unpretentious stone platform, but with a strange magic. There I saw my hometown, I saw my busy parents, I saw a familiar scene, tears slipped silently, this may be a part that every ghost has to experience, yin and yang are separated, and what is left on the Wangxiang platform is endless unwillingness and sadness.
Continue to walk forward, you will arrive at the Nai He Bridge, under the Nai He Bridge Lechuan River, the water in the river is called Huangquan. The world calls it water, but it is not water that flows in it, but a soul, and when a ghost falls into it, it will dissolve and become one with it.
However, next to the bridge, on the bank of the Lechuan River, there is a strange-looking stone with two veins on it, dividing the stone into three sections.
Legend has it that the Sansheng Stone was created by Nuwa, which originally stood on the bank of the West Tianling River, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, becoming more and more psychic, giving birth to two divine patterns, and dividing the stone into three sections. The great god Nuwa gave the name Sansheng Stone, which is divided into the previous life, this life, and the next life, and teaches the recipe of the three lives, and places it in the underworld to control the reincarnation of the three worlds.
It is also said that it was in charge of the marriage of the world before the appearance of the old moon, so this stone was also called the marriage stone in ancient times.
Driven by curiosity, I did not immediately go to fetch the yellow spring water, but came to the Sansheng Stone. Next to the Sansheng Stone, there are several ghosts here, they stand in front of the Sansheng Stone and wait quietly, one of them stands face to face with the Sansheng Stone, his expression is constantly changing, thinking that he is watching his Sansheng.
I lined up next to each other, waited for the boss for a while, and then waited for me, standing next to the Sansheng Stone excitedly, my heart was excited, needless to say what the previous life was, at least I had to look at this life and the next life.
I stared at the Sansheng Stone, ready to wait for it to work and look at the Sansheng, but who knew that I had occupied the Sansheng Stone for a long time and didn't move, just like a dead thing. I muttered to myself, what is this situation, how did I break it?
A male ghost next to me urged me to hurry up, don't stand in the pit and don't, I told him don't worry, you describe it like this, but it's disrespectful to Sanshengshi.
After waiting for a while and still no response, the ghost threatened me, if you don't come down, you will report me, I raised my hand to show him, I am a ghost, let you wait, you wait.
The ghost immediately fell silent, and stood by and looked at me strangely. In the end, Sanshengshi didn't react at all, I gave up, and left with a smile.
This is clearly not giving me face, and sooner or later I will smash your broken stone.
Nothing else, I prepared to go down to the river to get some yellow spring water, and then hurried away. However, the banks of this Lechuan River are neatly organized, and there is not a single notch, and it is difficult for me to go down to fetch water, no matter how great I have.
Unless you jump.
I walked around for a while, but I didn't find anything opportunistic, which made me worry for a while, why didn't this Yunshan tell me how to get water.
But looking back, if he just turned into a mystery, how could he know this.
Just when I was worried, I suddenly felt a cold gaze staring at me, as a soul body, my sense is powerful, and I looked around only to find that the gaze came from the bridge.
On closer inspection, there was an old woman in a coarse linen dress standing on the bridge, staring straight at me.
Meng Po, a legendary character with great colors in the underworld, her Meng Bo soup is known to all ignorant children. The water used to make Meng Po soup is taken from the Lechuan River, that is, the Yellow Spring, and the Meng Po soup that is made is also called the water of forgetfulness, and after drinking, you forget this life, and it is blank.
There are so many ghosts around here, why is she staring at me, did she find out that I came to steal the Yellow Spring water? Maybe it's because of the thief's weak heart, I couldn't help but think there, turned my head to avoid her gaze, and pretended to be nothing.