Qingyin said: "Then, have you waited for them?"

Xin Di shook his head silently.

"In this world, some people do not believe in the existence of the ferryman, because they are obsessed with this life and never want to go to the other side. Others believe that the ferrymen exist because they really need them. ”

"The people who need it are usually in the boundless sea of suffering, and from one end to the other, they need to be on the shore. ”

"At that time, I thought that neither the white-clothed monk nor the girl needed me anymore, they had already landed on the shore—their shore, which was the underworld. ”

That is, they died in the labyrinth. ”

That was the end of their trip. ”

So I paddled the oars and prepared to leave. ”

"At this time, on the top of the labyrinth, a person suddenly jumped down from the roof, three feet high, and he jumped down at once, stood opposite me, beckoned to me, and said that he suddenly wanted to ask me for a drink. ”

"I know him, he's the guardian of this labyrinth, Cold Knife. Since my ferry boat often ferries between the Three Realms, I have met him many times, and although he rarely speaks, he can be regarded as an acquaintance. ”

"Since he said that I should drink, I brought the boat to the shore, put away the oars, went ashore, followed him, and went to a bare earth outside the labyrinth, and sat down on the ground and drank. ”

"Leng Dao said very sorry, since this is already the edge of the underworld, and everything is not born, so there are not beautiful flowers blooming like the human world, and there is no soft grass for us to sit on. ”

"I said no, I've been to worse places than this. So Leng Dao smiled, conjured a wine jug and two wine glasses, and we sat on the ground and drank each other, cup after glass. ”

"Leng Dao usually doesn't smile and doesn't talk much, but that day it seemed to be a little abnormal, he drank a lot of wine, and then opened the conversation as if he was a different person. ”

He said that the Labyrinth of the Dead was for souls who refused to enter the cycle of reincarnation because of some kind of attachment. Those stubborn souls wander, wander, and wail between the border between the human world and the underworld all day long, and in order to prevent these souls who have returned to the earth from bringing chaos to the human world, the Labyrinth of the Dead was born. ”

"And he, who has been stationed here for thousands of years, has long been accustomed to the coldness here. His task was to whip those souls every day with a barbed whip, so that they were so frightened that they had to find a way out. Once a soul finds the exit of the labyrinth, it means that he can go to the underworld and re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. ”

"Some souls can find a way out, while others can't, so they have to endure my whipping all day long. But among all these souls, there is a soul who has found the exit, but who insists on staying in the labyrinth, preferring to bear my whipping every day, but resolutely refuses to leave. And, as he endured my whip day by day, he became stronger and stronger, and even I was about to lose control of it. ”

"I asked, what kind of undead can't even control the messenger from hell?"

Leng Dao said that that person, named Chen Hao, was a ninth-born undead, that is, the ninths all died unexpectedly, and they all died for the same woman. Such a person, after death, the undead have the greatest resentment, the deepest obsession, and the fastest to grow into an evil spirit, it has accumulated a huge evil power, gathering those wandering undead around itself, ready to defeat me at any time and occupy the entire labyrinth. ”

"Just when I was at a loss, thinking about whether to report this matter to the Emperor of the Underworld, just a few hours ago, a white-clothed monk suddenly broke in, the monk looked young, quiet and thin, he easily broke the ban at the door of the labyrinth, and stepped into the labyrinth. ”

"The labyrinth is full of stone walls, the two walls are so narrow that only one person can pass through, and the walls are crawling with monsters, like ghosts, and the wraiths who can't find a way out hide in the corners of the walls, ready to attack foreign invaders. ”

The monk walked along the stone wall, swinging various runes from time to time, repelling the monsters and spirits that attacked him, and sometimes injuring himself because he couldn't bear to kill them. He walked through the stone wall for two hours, convinced that he was not going the wrong way, but he could not find the exit, and the stone walls that he had walked on before suddenly changed and moved in direction, and the monk stopped, pondered for a moment, and finally opened his eyes, and said, 'I see! The stone wall of this labyrinth of the dead is transformed by the obsession of the resentful spirits, and how deep the obsession is, how strong the stone wall is, how undulating the heart, how much the stone wall changes, so they are firmly trapped here by their own obsession!'"

"I stood on the top of the hall, looking down on all this through the transparent roof of the hall, and I was shocked to know that this monk had seen through the biggest secret of the Labyrinth of the Dead! When he finished saying this, a huge undead suddenly appeared in front of him, with a green face and fangs, his head was almost on the top of the hall, and one palm was as big as a fan, it was the ninth undead - Chen Hao!"

"The monk looked at the huge undead and sighed, 'Amitabha! Although I can see through the secrets of the Labyrinth of the Dead, you are imprisoned by your own obsessions, and if you can't break your obsessions, you will not be able to get out and be reincarnated as a human after all. ”

"The Ninth Undead looked up and laughed and said, 'Why should I go out? Will I be reincarnated as a human again, and then die again? In my last life, I was drowned in a flood while holding a pillar, I was burned alive by fire in a closed house, I was poisoned by arsenic, and I was killed in my last life because I tripped and fell to the ground while chasing a carriage...... I have died worse than the last, now my nose is stuffed with mud and I can't breathe, my skin is scorched and festering, my stomach is corroded by poison and I can't eat, and there is a bag growing here on my forehead, do you want me to die worse than before after I am reincarnated?'"

"The monk clasped his hands together and shook his head slowly: ' The death of your life is due to your own obsession, because you are obsessed with falling in love with the same woman, but she rejected you for the ninth life, but you are still unwilling, your last life is because you made an appointment with her and she did not come, but you waited bitterly, and finally the flood came and you refused to leave, you had to hold on to the pillar and die; your last life was because you wanted to hide in the firewood room and wait for her to come so that you could see her, but the working girl locked the door of the firewood room after leaving, and you couldn't escape from the firewood room at night, so you were burned alive; your last life was because she was the emperor's favorite concubine, she was seriously ill and bedridden, and other concubines were jealous of her and sent medicine, and the medicine was put into arsenicYou, as a prince, tried to taste medicine for her, and you were poisoned to death, not to mention your previous lives, just as you chased her incense cart and did not get her to look back, and you killed yourself!'"

"The monk sighed: 'Wake up, Chen Hao! You were originally gifted and intelligent, born with seven exquisite hearts, but the Heavenly Qu Xingjun came into the world, and you should have used your full stomach for the imperial court, with great ambitions, and ruled the world and the country, but because of the infatuation of the ninth generation with a woman in the world, you were born with the suffering of not being able to ask for it, and the accumulation of this bitter life gave birth to infinite resentment, so that not only could you not return to the heavenly realm, but it was difficult for you to even be reincarnated. In your first life in the human realm, you were dug out of your delicate heart and died because of your outspoken admonition and sarcasm of Daji, so you were punished in the ninth life of the human realm, don't you wake up?'"

When the souls of the nine generations heard this, it was like an empowerment, and they suddenly recalled their ninth lives, all of them were suffering from love, and their lives were miserable, even if they did not die unexpectedly, they would die of depression. Tears welled up in his eyes, sometimes laughing, sometimes crying, like madness. When the monk saw this, he immediately put his hands together and recited the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra: 'Color is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color, color is emptiness, emptiness is color, and the same is true of thinking and acting knowledge. ......’”

"When he recited, 'Bodhisattva, according to Prajnaparamita, has no attachments, no attachments, no fears, is far from upside-down dreams, and attains nirvana. At that time, the mad spirit of the ninth world finally quieted down, his eyes were blank, and his face was a little demented, but his body was constantly changing and shrinking, and finally he turned into the image of a scholar in green clothes, it is hard to imagine that a moment ago, he was still a formidable evil spirit of the ninth world. ”

"When the monk saw that he was gradually regaining his true form, and knew that he was beginning to recover his true heart, he stepped forward with the Buddha beads in his hand, stretched out his hand, and wanted to touch his head to transform him, and he shouted: 'Chen Hao, do you know who you are?'"

Chen Hao turned his head and glanced at him: "I know, I am Wenqu ......" Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly straightened, and he looked behind the monk in a daze, and the expression on his face changed drastically. ”

The monk followed his gaze and looked back, but his heart sank!

Hearing this, Qingyin finally couldn't help but interject: "That cold knife guard, how do you know that the monk's heart is sinking?"

Xin Di said: "I asked the same question, and Leng Dao said: 'Because I saw the monk who had been as calm as water, his face suddenly changed!'"

He said that when the white-clothed monk turned around and saw the female butterfly that appeared behind him, a sad look appeared on his face, and he sighed. ”

"When Butterfly Nightmare saw Chen Hao in the maze, he was also taken aback, and blurted out: 'Chen Hao, aren't you already dead, why are you here?'"

Qingyin said strangely: "How could Butterfly Nightmare know Chen Hao?"

Before Xin Di could answer, Qingyin's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Is the butterfly nightmare the woman that Chen Hao IX has a crush on?"

Xin Di nodded slowly.

Qingyin said: "That Chen Hao originally died by hugging the pillar in order to see the butterfly nightmare, but now when he sees the butterfly again, he has been separated by yin and yang, the butterfly is living well, but he is already an undead body, he must hate her to death in his heart, right?"

Xin Di suddenly laughed: "The little girl is the little girl, and she hasn't experienced the love of this world!" Although Chen Hao died of a butterfly nightmare, he loved her for the ninth generation, which shows how much he loves her. ”

Qingyin said: "Then Chen Hao still loves the butterfly?"

Xin Di shook his head again.

Although Chen Hao loves Butterfly Nightmare, he also died because of her in the ninth generation, and he died unexpectedly, so the resentment in his heart has turned into a poisonous force, which is so huge that even a cold knife can't suppress it. ”

Qingyin held her chin in both hands and said in confusion: "Then Uncle Xin, you say, does Chen Hao love the butterfly nightmare or hate the butterfly nightmare?"

"It's love and hate!" Xin Di squinted and replied, plucked the wooden oar with both hands, and paddled through the surging water: "I have been ferrying between the Three Realms for 3,700 years, what kind of love and love, love and hatred have never been seen, like Chen Hao, who is unrequited in the ninth generation of the same woman, it can be said that it is extremely affectionate, but it is a pity that he loves the wrong person, a person like him is a person who is floating in the sea of suffering and will never reach the other side." ”

Qingyin said: "Then what happened later, when Chen Hao saw the butterfly nightmare?"