Then I looked at Xue Fang's corpse for a while, and finally I buried the soil again, and went to the side hall of the Ghost King Temple, I went straight to the well, the rope tied to the well was still there, I followed the rope back down to the well, I went back to the bottom of the well, only to see that the door was still closed, I had already taken the obsidian bead from Xue Fang's hand, so I still went to the north direction, put the obsidian bead into the eye on the ghost face, and then opened it. I kept going down the steps to the bottom, I didn't come down to go back to the ancestral hall, but to go to the statue of the four-sided ghost king, and take down the ghost mark in his hand, Xue Fang said that I can use anyone's ghost mark, so no matter who this ghost mark is, I should be able to use it, unless it's a fake one.

I came to the statue of the ghost king on all sides. Without hesitation, I reached out to take the ghost mark it was holding in both hands, and when I touched the ghost mark, a voice from behind suddenly reminded me: "You have to think twice before you take it." ”

My hand had already touched the ghost mark, but when I heard this, I immediately looked back at the person behind me. When I looked back, I saw an old man who didn't know when he appeared here, although he looked old, but he was in good spirits, probably in his seventies. The people who could be here weren't ordinary people, so I asked him, "Are you?" ”

He said, "I've been staying here, my name is Bi." ”

It was a single word, both a name and a surname, so I asked him, "Is this your ghost print?" ”

He shook his head, and I asked, "Whose is that?" ”

He said: "It doesn't matter who it is, the important thing is that every ghost mark has one thing in it, you should know." ”

When I heard him say this, I remembered the time when I released Hanaxiu from the skin of the Oni Bodhisattva, and I still remember it vividly, but I had to get the Oni Seal, so I said, "But I have to take it." ”

After I finished speaking, I suddenly looked at him and asked him, "Why are you not blocked?" ”

I looked at him and became vigilant, but he still looked at me with a smile and said, "Not everyone ends the same. Like me, I'm probably the only one who hasn't been banned. ”

I asked, "Why?" ”

"Because I'm the only one who hasn't been involved in this fight," Bi said. ”

I looked at him, but I couldn't believe his words, and I asked him, "Then why are you here?" You just said that you have been staying here, what are you guarding? ”

Bi said: "An agreement." ”

I asked, "What agreement?" ”

Bi said: "Let's talk about Xue, you are so excited, you should have discovered the truth about him." ”

But I looked at Bi and asked, "You already knew." You already knew that his body was buried under the dead tree, and you didn't show up just now because you knew that it was only his dead soul who came in with me. ”

Bi said: "That's not his dead soul, his dead soul is no longer here, what just came in with you was the last breath of soul qi he left on you, in fact, you already knew his death in the depths of your consciousness, so his soul qi condensed into his dead soul appearance to guide you to find his corpse." At the end of the day, it's you who leads yourself to the truth. ”

I said, "The soul he left on me?" ”

Bi said, "You have forgotten that you and he shared the same soul, and your destiny is the same. ”

I knew about him using my soul, but I didn't expect it to turn out to be like this, so I asked, "Then how did he die, and when did he die?" ”

Bi said, "What is death, it may not be death for him, because death I know is not the same as what you know." ”

I asked him, "What do you mean?" ”

He said: "For us, the soul body is who we are, and your so-called human body is just a host that we must rely on to walk in the yang land, in the end. It's just a skin, not the real us, after all, even the me you see now. It's not really me, because my soul body is just a projection of the complete me here, and this is what you usually call the three souls, which are actually just three shadows of the body, and in fact, there are five shadows, but they have become the soul you call 'man'. ”

This isn't the first time I've heard this say. So after hearing the same words again, I said, "Are you saying that we living people are only hosts, even the dead souls are only projections, and the real ourselves are in the land of twilight, which will never reach the end." ”

Bi said: "Since it is the end, then you can reach it." ”

I looked at Bi and suddenly asked him, "Where have you been?" ”

Bi shook his head and said, "No." ”

I asked him, "So how do you know it's reachable?" ”

Bi said: "Because I know Xiao Mu, that is, why did you destroy the Eighteen Tombs Tower, because the biggest secret hidden in the Eighteen Tombs Tower is that there is a path to the land of dusk. ”

I finally figured out why Xiao Mu wanted to destroy the Eighteen Tombs Tower, it turned out to be because of this. I asked, "Why did Xiao Mu have to destroy the passage to the Land of Dusk?" ”

Bi said: "The answer to this question is not something I can give you, because no one knows the inside story of this matter better than yourself. So what you need to think about is, why did you forget? ”

I said, "Because Xiao Mu's soul is not in my body. ”

Bi said: "Forgetting is forgetting, memory is dominated by the soul of life, all memories are controlled by the soul of life, since your soul has never left the body, then why is there no memory of these things?" ”

I looked at Bi and didn't know what to say for a while, and I said, "I never knew that." ”

He said: "I don't know, or I can't know, no one around you has ever mentioned this stubble to you." So have you ever wondered why? ”

I looked at Bi and already knew what he wanted to say, so I followed his train of thought and said, "It's Xiao Mu himself who wants to forget this." ”

Bi looked at me without speaking, as if I had already given the answer, but I was still puzzled and asked, "Why?" ”

Bi said, "Do you know why all nine of them were banned except for me? ”

I never figured this out, so I asked, "Why?" ”

Bi said, "Because death is like when you were in the yang world. Do you have the fear of death in your heart, do you think about why people die, and what will become of them after death? ”

I said, "Yes, the fear of death is like instinct, it seems to be born with it." ”

Bi said: "Since people have such instincts, then the dead soul also has it, because the dead soul also dies, then the dead soul is another form of man." They also think about what they will become when they die, or where they will go, or even why they will die. ”

I said, "As far as I know, the soul of the dead turns into yellow spring water when it dies. ”

Bi looked at me and said, "Do you remember what I told you?" The soul of the dead is just a projection, just as a person who dies out of his skin and becomes a dead soul, and then becomes another form, so why not after the death of the dead soul. It is precisely because of this that the biggest turmoil in the underworld was triggered, which was the rebellion of the Three Temples. ”

I asked, "The rebellion of the Three Temples?" ”

Bi said: "You may not know that the ten of us belong to the upper three halls, the middle three halls and the lower three halls, except for Xue. The Ghost King Temple you see is the middle three halls, I am one of the middle three halls, in addition to me, there are two you haven't seen yet, like Jiang Heli you have seen is the upper three halls. ”

I said, "You're saying there's a conflict between you?" Why? ”

Bi said: "Because of the discussion of death, in the eyes of your people, we are called the ghost king, just because each of us has a ghost seal in our hands that can exorcise ghosts and spirits, but even we who have the most contact with secrets are more likely to be confused, want to know more about our origins, and even want to know where we will go after death more than ordinary dead souls." ”

I frowned when I heard Bi say this, it seemed like a cycle, so I asked him, "Then why does this kind of inquiry cause a dispute between you?" ”