200: Hyakki Night Walk
Nan Zhao's tears ran down the corners Chinese of his eyes, but his voice did not change, and he nodded in reply
"Qingzhou is our home, of course we will go back." The footsteps were advancing, and the shadows of the trees she had left behind were all blurred, and she could barely see the road ahead.
She only felt that Shen Rugu on her back was getting heavier and heavier, and the process of her body going from soft to stiff was what she knew best about the passage of life.
After listening to those words, Shen Rugu's short life kept flashing in her mind, and the pungent smell of medicine permeated the surroundings, as if she had personally experienced the pain of being riddled with illness.
For a long time after that, she didn't hear a word from the person on her back, she didn't stop moving, she walked out of the miasma-covered dense forest, and walked towards the gate of life and death.
A hundred flower trees suddenly appeared in front of them, Nan Zhao had seen this kind of white-flowered tree in the underworld, it had bloomed on the bank of the Lechuan River, there were no four seasons in the underworld, the white-flowered tree seemed to never wither, the petals floated on the surface of the river, and flowed along the river to the unknown yin.
At this moment, there is a person standing under the white flower tree in the distance, he is wearing a square-topped hard-shell hat, a dark red official robe on the ground, and a vicious ghost-faced thing is engraved on it, Nan Zhao recognizes him, in broad daylight, the city god of Taizhou actually appeared here, so what happened, she basically knows.
Nan Zhao stopped under the white flower tree, didn't say anything, and gently laid Shen Rugu's body flat on the ground.
Soon, she saw a soul break away from that body, sat on the ground, looked left and right, and finally looked on Nan Zhao's face, and said with a warm smile at her
"Xiao Zhao, I think my illness is cured!" As he spoke, he stood up and spun in a circle, like a butterfly waiting to fly at any moment.
Nan Zhao squatted next to his body and looked at him sadly, the tears in the corners of his eyes had not dried, but new tears had fallen.
"Xiao Zhao, why are you still crying? Look at me, I don't feel any pain at all! "He used to suffer from his flesh, but now that his flesh can no longer interfere with him, he will not feel pain!
Just as he was happy to heal, he suddenly found that the person lying on the ground was a little familiar, and his face was stunned.
"It's ...... Who is it? Through his gaze, Nan Zhao also took a deep look at the corpse on the ground that was gradually getting cold.
Most of the newly dead souls, unaware that they were dead, opened her mouth to tell him the answer, but her voice choked up.
"Shen Ru, your longevity is over, this city god is ordered, and I am here to guide you-" Fan Chong's voice came, not as cold and majestic as in the City God Temple before, but mixed with insight into yin and yang as a matter of course.
After hearing this, Shen Rugu turned around in a panic, looked at Fan Chong, and saw his grimace fierce, so frightened that he hurriedly hid behind Nan Zhao to hide.
"Xiao Zhao! There are ghosts! Nan Zhao wiped his tears with his sleeve and whispered to him
"As it is...... Don't be afraid, he's here to pick you up! "It's also embarrassing for this city god master, who was originally a city god in Taizhou, but he had to go to Yunzhou in person to pick up Shen Ru's soul.
It should be that the ghost below knows how deep her obsession with this soul is, and she is afraid that she will send other yin cha to lock the soul and be beaten back by her, so she let Fan Chong come.
But she doesn't know something, when she went through the three levels to help Shen Rugu return his soul, Fan Chong said that the karma is clear, and they no longer care about Shen Rugu's soul, even if he is dead now, the underworld will no longer send Yin messengers to lock the soul, if she doesn't place his soul in a treasure place, he will become a lonely soul in this world, very pitiful.
Shen Rugu asked her fearfully
"Xiao Zhao, where is he going to pick me up?"
"Hades."
"...... of the underworld" Shen Rugu was not very clear, the old man of the city god came over and patted his forehead with his hand, he immediately remembered that he had died once, the underworld, he had already been there!
"Nope! I don't want to go! Shen Rugu held Nan Zhao's hand and kept saying to her. Because Nan Zhao is different from others, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to touch her at all.
He cried
"Xiao Zhao, it's so cold, it's so dark, there's no work to do, I don't want to go there, don't let him take me away, okay?" In fact, as long as Nan Zhao said a word, she could leave Shen Ru's soul, but after she experienced the three levels, she also knew very well that even if she went against yin and yang, she still didn't change the ending.
She also wanted Shen Ru to continue to live, but he had no heart anymore, and if he stayed, he was just a lonely ghost, she knew that the lonely soul would end up in ashes, how could he harm him because of his momentary request?
"As it is, I'm sorry, I can't promise you!" Shen Rusu, like every new soul who can't accept his death, cried unwillingly, he said
"But you said that you won't let the evil ghosts come to catch me again, Xiao Zhao, have you forgotten?" Nan Zhao buried his head deeply, not knowing how to answer her.
The afternoon sun was very strong, but it could not be seen under the white-flowered tree. The old man said
"The dead Shen Ruguo, do you have anything to say, take this opportunity to say it, from now on, everything in this world has nothing to do with you!" Shen Rugu cried for a while, and knew that he was going to leave eventually, so he reluctantly looked at Nan Zhao, calling her name sadly
"Xiao Zhao ......" Every deceased person has his own obsessions, and he naturally has them, when he knows that he is dead, all his obsessions come from the stories that appear in his dreams night after the resurrection.
Because those dreams were so realistic, he had already regarded everything that happened in the dreams as his, and he couldn't distinguish reality.
And at this moment, his obsession was reluctance to Nan Zhao, and he asked her
"Xiao Zhao, will you go with me?" Not wanting to lie to him, she shook her head. Shen Ru hugged her,
"I said, I don't want to lose you anymore Xiao Zhao-" Nan Zhao still remembered, but it wasn't Shen Ru who said it, so when she heard this, she felt even more sad for Shen Ru .
He will never know that he is just a doppelganger of that person, his life and death, even the obsessions he has, are all owned by that person...... He never lived for himself.
"Shen Ruguo, life and death have fate, your fate in this life is over, let go of your obsession and accept your own fate!" Fan Chong said later.
Only then did he reluctantly let go of Nan Zhao and walked to the side of Lord Chenghuang. Fan Chong said
"At this moment, the sun is fragile and the spirit body is damaged, and this city god will put you in the soul bag!" After speaking, he took out a cloth bag from his sleeve, the same as the one he gave to Nan Zhao at the beginning, as soon as the soul bag was opened, Shen Ruso was put in.
"Alright, the hour has come, it's time to hit the road!"
"Master Chenghuang!" Nan Zhao asked
"Shen Ru's life and death book in the underworld has long been invalidated, who are you guided by this time?" She has already understood how strict the rules and regulations of the underworld are, and she can let the old man come up in person, but she is afraid that the other party will come up a lot.
Lord Chenghuang smiled slightly and replied
"As for who he is, don't you already have an answer in your heart?" Nan Zhao's expression changed, knowing that the city god had his own rules and would not talk much about mundane things in the world, so he asked about another thing.
"Master Chenghuang, the last time I broke through the three levels in the underworld, the ghost fairy Zhong Shuixin you said, has you ever crossed the catastrophe and ascended?" The old man of the city god was not very surprised when he heard her ask about Zhong Shuixin, he walked forward and said slowly
"There have been no ghost immortals flying in the underworld for hundreds of years, and Zhong Wuxin has never left the ghost fairy mountain-" She immediately chased after her, blocking the way of the city god master.
"Nan Zhao has another important matter, he needs the help of Master Chenghuang!" The other party has an inch long eyebrows and a mustache,
"What's the hurry?" With his experience as a city god for hundreds of years, he told her that it was never a good thing! Nan Zhao couldn't tell him about it, so he walked over and whispered in Chenghuang's ear, and after Chenghuang heard it, his face changed greatly.
"Nan Zhao, we do have some connections in our previous life, but the public is public and private, and this matter cannot be done-" She refused to give up, and said righteously
"Lord Chenghuang once said to me in the underworld, hoping that I will make good use of the power of my palms to take the common people in the world as the greatest, and now I ask you for this matter, which is to fulfill your original wish, why at this time, the lord has changed? Could it be that you can't really listen to nonsense? Fan Chong was reddened by her words, a little angry, but finally compromised
"You wait for this city god to go down and take care of it, outside Yunzhou City!" Standing in place and watching the other party go away, because the sun will eventually harm the dead, so the city god is moving, and the white flower tree above his head is also moving with his footsteps, and soon, it will disappear completely!
Zhong Wuxin has never left the Ghost Immortal Mountain, so it was not Zhong Wuxin who helped her survive the catastrophe in the Demon Refining Mountain that time!
I wanted to leave a whole corpse for Shen Rugu, and he sent him to Qingzhou's hometown one day, but he died in the hands of Wen Ye, and he was afraid that the corpse would not be peaceful after death, so he piled up a firewood pile on the spot and lit a fire.
Watching the once familiar body slowly consumed by the flames, Nan Zhao stood beside him, his face red from the flames.
"I hope you have an afterlife, you don't have to live for anyone, let alone die for anyone, and you will be healthy and happy all your life......"
"Goodbye, Shen Ruguo!" Yunzhou, Guogong Mansion. At sunset, Nanzhao went back with the porcelain altar containing Shen Ru's ashes, and the outside of the mansion was still surrounded by the Imperial Forest Army, but no one dared to interrogate her, let alone stop her.
Stepping into the room where they used to live, she frowned slightly, paused, and looked under the table, where there was a faint aura, although she didn't see who it was, but she already felt it!
"Fat ginseng, what's wrong with you?" After her questioning, a half-round head was revealed under the tablecloth, and there was no doubt that it was fat ginseng, but she seemed to have a good damage to her spirit, and after just one glance at her, she immediately changed back to her original form.
Nan Zhao hurriedly put the porcelain altar in his hand on the table and picked up the fat ginseng. Fat ginseng told her
"After the disappearance, the Guogong Mansion was surrounded by water, the grandfather of the country and the prince were missing, in order to hear the news, I flew out, but I met the Jiuwu Lao'er plot, he seriously injured me, and wanted to disperse my demon spirit, I fled all the way, hid outside for a few days, and flew back today with the last spiritual power......" Hearing that the fat ginseng was the original form that was beaten back by Jiuwu, Nan Zhao was already sad because of Shen Ru's death, and his eyes were even more angry at this moment.
Once on Qingyun Mountain, the Taoist priests who wanted to put her to death made her understand that only when she was stronger could she not let others decide life and death.
On Bodhi, those stinky Taoist priests are worthless in front of her, she thinks she is strong enough to despise these people who want to harm her, in fact, she is wrong!
Her enemies have never diminished because she's strong, they've just changed to a different person!
"Woo woo-" Fat Ginseng cried sadly in her hand and begged
"Little Spirit Girl, you must avenge me!" Her eyes lit up, as if she had made some kind of determination in her heart, and her right hand gently stroked the fat ginseng and said
"Put it down! Evildoers will be judged by Him! After saying that, she put the fat man's participation in the Bodhi Relic in the same box, believing that with the help of the Bodhi Relic, this little goblin will soon be able to recover as before.
After doing this, she also made a place for Shen Rugu's ashes altar somewhere in the room and placed it properly.
After that, she asked the maidservant to prepare a bucket of hot water for her. After running around for so long, she has to wash away the filth on her body and start again, this time, she will never let the people she cares about be hurt again!
She changed into a red dress, and even in the dark night, it could not hide her brilliant color. In the past, she didn't like this color, she always felt that it was charming and bright, and when others saw it, they knew that it was not a good type.
She was very afraid of being talked about since she was a child, she wanted to hide her strange place and hide in the corner, so she thought that as long as she wore plain clothes, she would be harmless to people and animals!
But now she doesn't think like this, anyway, no matter what she does, there will always be people who scold her for being a demon girl, so today, she will be a real demon girl!
Lu Donglai hurried back from outside, and when he saw that she was red and the aura on her body was floating around her, he knew that Shen Ru was dead!
"The cracks in the prison monument are getting bigger and bigger, and the extra sarcophagi in the fairy forest have not been opened, but I am afraid that they will be opened soon!" Nan Zhao was not surprised, she looked at the round and a half moon hanging in the sky and replied
"She's back!" The little Taoist priest didn't know what she met when she ran into the depths of the fairy forest alone, but she must have seen someone, so as soon as she heard this, she immediately knew who she was referring to!
"After Wen Ye was killed by you three hundred years ago, her soul was sealed in Dock City, and she needs her Black Flame Staff to resurrect her!" Nan Zhao didn't see the Black Flame Staff, but after thinking about it, Wen Ye did get the Black Flame.
It's just that the last time she saw Black Flame, that person was still by her side as Shen Ru. Later, the black flame disappeared with him like a fascination!
"That man...... Also in Yunzhou! ”
"How do you know?" Lu Donglai is also very concerned about this.
"Do you remember that when I was spending three levels in the underworld, I met a ghost and immortal who also crossed the tribulation and helped me pass the three levels?" Naturally, he remembered.
"The old man of the city god who helped him resurrect his soul told me that there have been no ghosts and immortals in the underworld for hundreds of years, and if he didn't lie to me, then the ghosts and immortals I met would not have gone to the tribulation!" The three passes of the underworld will be wiped out if they are careless, even the immortals with advanced Taoism do not dare to go easily, so if the ghosts and immortals do not go to the catastrophe, is it difficult to go to the mountains and rivers?
Lu Donglai said with certainty
"He's actually made a special trip to help you through the catastrophe!" In this way, if you can survive three levels in the underworld, you don't have to be a ghost!
Nan Zhao kept looking at the night sky, as if a certain star above it was the answer she was asking for, and whispered
"A doppelganger who can prepare a form for his own birth, is it a human or a ghost?"
"People! And it's not just people! If you want to form a part, the form doppelganger is the existence where he hides his own deity, not only in the yang world, but also in the underworld, his doppelganger suffers reincarnation for him, and dissipates karma for the karma he does in the yang world...... "Speaking of this, the little Taoist priest has basically reacted to who she is talking about!
"Shen Rugu is the doppelganger of that person?" She nodded,
"Yes, as you said, Shen Ru eliminated karma for him in the underworld and suffered from reincarnation, while his deity is still in the yang world, and it is difficult to find a trace!" Lu Donglai hurriedly asked
"Who have you met?" Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to conclude that that person was in Yunzhou!
"There is such a person, every time he appears at a critical moment, and today he also appeared in the fairy forest, preventing me from handing over the Bodhi relics to Wen Ye! His name is Gongzi Mei—" She told him in detail what had happened on several occasions, in order to get a positive answer from this clever little Taoist priest.
Lu Donglai has also heard the name of this prince many times, and he has long wanted to meet the master, but when he heard it at this moment, he was even more impatient.
"If it's really him, he should look exactly like Shen Ru, take off the mask and see the face behind you, don't you know!" Nan Zhao took a deep breath and put it down for the time being, she still had important things to do.
"There isn't much left in the one-day period, the emperor, are you ready?" She nodded in reply
"I have a way, but I'm not sure if I can do it!"
"Now that you have a way, whether it can work or not, how do you know if you don't do it?" Although the little Taoist priest's words were free and easy, they gave her a lot of encouragement and decided to give it a try!
The lanterns of Longxi Mansion were hung high, Nan Zhao appeared in Zhanyue Pavilion in red, and the prince also heard the news and rushed over, because this time, it was the last chance for the King of Tai'an to plot a rebellion, if she could no longer prove the innocence of the King of Tai'an, Zhou Yang would be given death the next day, and the prince had begun to think about how to give Zhou Yang to death, so that it would not be necessary to destroy it!
Liji, who didn't appear the day before, also came tonight, dressed in an orange dress, standing in front of the prince in a dignified manner, and when she saw Nan Zhao coming in, she walked over and stopped in front of her, with a smile on her face, and said in her ear
"Are you red to celebrate the death of your ninth brother? It's chic—" Nan Zhao coldly swept her delicate face, his eyes fell on the lily who followed beside him, ignored it, and walked to the front of him.
At this time, Emperor Yan and the crown prince stood on it, and there were not only the solemn Yu Linwei on the left and right, but also officials such as Yunzhou Thorn Shi.
"Nanzhao, the one-day deadline has arrived, have you ever found evidence to prove the innocence of King Tai'an?" Emperor Yan asked sternly.
Nan Zhao knelt upright in front of the stairs,
"The little girl has found the evidence!"
"Oh?" Emperor Yan's eyes showed expectation, and he stepped forward and asked
"Where's the evidence? Present it to me and see it! The prince looked down at her suspiciously, and sneered in his mouth
"It's just a mouthful! Nanzhao, do you know that if the evidence you present today is not enough to prove the innocence of King Tai'an, you will also die with him tomorrow? "I don't know when I die, is it possible to put on a red robe and turn the world upside down?
"If Nan Zhao dares to make a promise, he will never break it!"
"And what evidence did you find? Take it out and don't waste time! "The prince can't wait to see what the hell she's going to do!
Nan Zhao didn't get up, she said to the emperor with her hands in front of her
"Your Majesty, the evidence that the little girl is looking for is different from ordinary evidence, it is not anything, it can be presented for a look!" These words were really incomprehensible to the people present, and Yunzhou Thorn Shi whispered on the side
"Isn't this a joke, saying that you want to present evidence, and now you say that you can't present ......," Liggie said with added vinegar
"I said earlier that this demon girl is just to confuse the public!" The crown prince did not miss the opportunity and asked Emperor Yan for advice
"Father, this woman has repeatedly made nonsense in front of you, treating the king's law as nothing, and she should be given death immediately!" Emperor Yan also heard these whispers, and his face was naturally displeased, and he asked Nan Zhao eagerly
"You say this evidence is something, but what is it? Nanzhao? ”
"If the emperor wants to see this, he needs to move elsewhere with Nanzhao before he can ......"
"Ridiculous!" The prince interrupted her
"Father, this daughter must have colluded with the missing Sima Feng to lead you out of the heavily guarded Longxi Mansion, and then it will be unfavorable to you!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, don't listen to this woman's words, she has bad intentions!" Emperor Yan was very embarrassed, on the one hand, he desperately hoped to find evidence that could prove Zhou Yang's innocence, but on the other hand, he had to take into account his own face as a ninety-five honor, if he let others fall behind and listen to Nan Zhao's words, but the result was not as he wanted, he would undoubtedly become the laughing stock of the world.
Nan Zhao also knew why the emperor was hesitating, and she swore loudly despite the criticism of the left and right
"The little girl's heart is better than the sun and the moon, if there is any plot that is unfavorable to the emperor or the Yan country, the sky will thunder!" It sounded like a no-brainer, but to her, thunder and thunder were nothing!
Seeing her boldness, the officials did not dare to speak, as if they were really afraid that the thunder would strike down and the first one would chop him up.
What else did the prince want to say, but the emperor took the lead and ordered
"Gui'an, prepare the carriage and horses!"
"Yes!"
"Father-" The emperor did not change his mind, and soon, several carriages and horses came out of the Longxi Mansion, carrying the emperor, the prince, Liji and others, respectively, in the direction of Yunzhou City.
Before the hour came, the carriage and horses came to a halt on an open flat ground outside the city. As soon as the emperor got out of the carriage, he heard Cao Gui'an talking beside him
"Your Majesty, the place where the national teacher was attacked that night is ahead!" As soon as he talked about the national teacher, the emperor's face showed a look of regret.
Soon, everyone has come down, and the autumn wind in Yunzhou is actually carrying the chill of winter! The prince, wearing a black cloak, was the first to ask
"Nan Zhao, you asked the emperor to move here to present your evidence, at this time, where is your evidence?" Nan Zhao ignored him, she stood alone in front of others, looking at the dark night ahead.
When the emperor arrived at night, her eyesight was not good, but she could clearly see the red dress on her body swaying in the night wind, like a blood-stained flower...... He asked aloud
"Spirit Girl Nanzhao, where is the evidence you said?" Nan Zhao stood motionless and said softly
"Listen to the wind for a long night, things are as difficult as ever, the clouds pass from time to time, and a hundred ghosts walk at night——" Cat pounces in Chinese