Chapter Seventy-Six: The Boat Hit the Rocks
"Charon..."
After reciting it silently a few times, he felt that the name was very familiar, but Mi Ke couldn't remember it, but Kuyou was not, he said that if he came, he would be safe, and after saluting with his fists, he stepped straight into the cabin.
Mi didn't pay much attention to it, and followed the drive of his heart...
When the two of them were seated, accompanied by a melodious and undulating woodcutter's horn, Charon erected the bamboo pole diagonally to the bottom of the river, the water rippled, and the soul boat slowly sailed away from the shore.
The Huangquan River is quite wide, the water flow is not urgent, and the wind and waves are calm.
Halfway through the boat, Michael asked, "Senior Charon, how long have you been in this soul abyss?"
"I've been here all my life!" he replied as he held the raft, but didn't look back.
"Have you ever seen any alien creatures here? such as the Evil Spirit Clan!"
"I've never seen it before!"
Mi Ke frowned as soon as he heard this, according to the legend of the soul world, this place should be a place where evil qi is overflowing, and he clearly heard the sound of ghosts before.
But now that I am in it, not only have I not felt the existence of evil qi so far, but I have not even seen the shadow of an evil spirit, could it be that there is someone else who makes that ghost scream?
Or... Is Charon lying?
Mi Ke looked at the peaceful scene around him, but began to get nervous!
It wasn't long before the bottom of the boat thumped, as if it had been hit by something, and then it never moved again!
At this time, Kuyou shouted: "Oops, the boat is leaking!"
Mi Ke was startled, heard the sound and looked for it, and when he looked at it, his face changed suddenly, and he saw that a small hole had indeed been cracked under the tail of the wooden boat, and the water of the Yellow Spring River had penetrated like a shallow stream.
"Don't touch it!"
The two of them immediately sat opposite each other on both sides of the boat, and raised their feet high, to say that this Huangquan River has been transformed by countless unjust souls since the birth of the soul realm, and it is something that can never be touched.
Even if the ninth-level soul power still can't resist for a moment, this is the holy river in the hearts of the soul clan's creatures, and it is also the river of death!
The situation was urgent, and the river was already soaking the bilge, and Miko shouted to the bow of the boat, "Senior Charon, what should we do?"
"It's a rock, it's going to be difficult," an unhurried voice replied in the background.
"Hit the reef? Can there be a reef in this Huangquan River?"
Mike asked rhetorically, and at the same time became more and more suspicious of Charon's true identity, if you want to say that you have been ferrying all your life, don't you know where you can go and where you can't?
Besides, why don't you usually hit the reef, but you hit the reef this time, will it be too much of a coincidence?
"Yellow Springs was originally transformed by unjust souls, so reefs are everywhere!" Charon didn't mean to find a way to remedy it, but chatted with each other.
He continued: "A soul is a reef, and we are not paddling, but crossing!"
"Doom?" Mike and Kuyou asked, with wide eyes at the same time, "What is Doom?"
"Do you remember what I said to you before, the old man is the messenger of the Yellow Spring River, the misfortune is suffering, the misfortune is also the sin, and the misfortune is the soul in the Yellow Spring, if you want to pass, you have to get their consent before you can cross it. ”
Mi Ke and Ku You's faces gradually became a lot more ugly, this Charon is clearly cheating himself, why didn't he say these words earlier, if he knew that it was so weird, who would dare to sit on your broken boat?
Burning paper money or setting up incense tables, even if this is the case, but I won't, that's the specialty of monks and Taoist priests, not to mention that I didn't bring these materials.
Seeing that the cabin was more than half flooded, they had no mind to think about it, and they couldn't help it when they got on the thief ship, so they reluctantly asked: "Tell me, what can we do to get the wronged soul to agree?"
"All sentient beings have suffering, and their souls are guilty, and if you want to dissolve the suffering in your heart, you have to let go of your attachments. ”
Charon was unhurried, standing alone on the bow of the ship, and he didn't care about right or wrong, didn't he care that his ship would sink?
At this moment, the hull of the ship let out a violent jolt, and I saw that countless unjust spirits suddenly emerged from the yellow spring, they let out a complaining wail, and stretched out their arms to cling to the edge and shook desperately.
For a while, the wind was blowing, and even the calm river suddenly became turbulent.
Countless whirlpools rolled up at the bottom of the water, and the wooden boat like a remnant leaf was overwhelmed in such an environment.
"It's over, the ship is sinking!"
He was unwilling, and finally came out to be free for a few days, but he didn't expect to be blackmailed on a thief ship, he still had to learn the Fa and practice, and he wanted to go to the earth to take a look, how could he die here!
"Tell us, what to do?"
He asked fiercely, and his rough nature was exposed.
"I just said, just let go of your obsession, as long as one of you two throws himself into the river to commit suicide, cross the misfortune with his body, and redress his grievances with his life, he can resolve this catastrophe!"
"What are you talking about, you want one of us to kill ourselves?"
Mi Ke originally thought that people had to bow their heads under the eaves, if the other party wanted any treasure or made any request, he and Kuyou could find some way to meet it, after all, they still had to rely on other people's boats to cross the river, but they didn't think that the final result would be to kill one of them?
Is this atonement, is it suffering?
He and Kuyou are also friends in distress, it is impossible for anyone to discuss choosing one to die, if Kuyou wants to die, if he really dies, it is nothing more than one more unjust soul, Kuyou chooses to die by himself, the same is true, this is not a way!
Mi Ke and Kuyou both have this idea, they would rather die standing than live on their knees, and sacrifice the lives of their companions to fulfill themselves, that is, they have touched the scales in their hearts.
The two looked at each other and stimulated their breath to the extreme: "Shike can not be killed, you guy obviously deliberately set a trap to lure us on the boat, since you are unwilling to find a way, then let us row this broken ship for you!"
Anyway, they all do what they are good at, and they all shoot together!
......
On the side of the Huangquan River, the three of them walked for about half an hour, and finally saw a wooden boat on the shore.
They were greeted by a kind-faced old man at the bow of the boat, who called himself the messenger of Doom, whose name was Charon, and who was willing to take the three of them across the river!
Charon's smiling appearance made people not have the slightest thought of refusing, so the three of them thanked each other and happily stepped into the cabin, and they couldn't help but feel that the old man on the other side was a living Lei Feng in the snow!
However, soon after the boat was in the river, they touched the wood, and saw the water of the Huangquan River flowing in through the hole in the hull, and the three of them were anxious and afraid.
Just after the other party was in trouble and asked for help, Charon's eyes flashed with blue light, and he said exactly the same thing as Mi Ke and them, and demanded that one of the three must commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, so that this grievance can be resolved!
Realm Cultivators!!
Fourteen of them made a difficulty, and the three brothers finally reunited in the soul world, and now they were made such a request, and their hearts were like a knife.
Resisting or not resisting is a dead end.
What to do?
Whoever goes to commit suicide and the other two will not agree, because if they die in the soul realm, they really can't be found again, and they will disappear from the world, and there will be no such person!
Then no one throws themselves into the river, and waits for the wooden boat to sink, and the good brothers are together in this life and this life, not seeking to be born in the same year, the same month, and the same day, but to die in the same year, the same month, and the same day.
The three of them made up their minds and nodded together as they looked at each other, but just as Fourteen turned to tell Charon their decision, Sixteen rolled over and threw himself into the river.
"No, sixteen !!"
The surface of the river is agitated, the aftermath ripples, the person who jumped down is no longer traced, the soul is scattered, and the road of life and death disappears...
Fifteen hugged the fourteenth who was about to jump ship, and cried loudly: "Don't do stupid things, he did this so that we can live, if you want to commit suicide, then isn't it in vain to be a brother?"
With the sixteenth throwing into the river, the unjust souls of the boat's teeth and claws quickly sank to the bottom of the river, the turbulent water gradually calmed down, the whirlpool disappeared, and everything returned to the past!
With one less person, the draft of the hull was reduced a lot, and the cracked hole no longer flowed backwards, and Charon inadvertently smiled silently as he turned his back to the two.
The soul boat set sail again, and the woodcutter's horn drifted away with the gloomy splash, leaving only the two sad souls in the cabin who hugged their heads and cried, and blood and tears were like rain.
The wooden boat stepped on the waves, and when it was halfway through, the soul boat hit the reef again, and this time, it directly chiseled through the bottom of the boat.
The herb garden on the opposite bank was close in front of him, and in a dim way, he seemed to see Mike and Kuyou waving in this direction, and the flooding of the Yellow Spring River directly filled the boathouse, and at this time, Charon said the same thing again.
"Hardships, unjust souls, deep sins, and thousands of sufferings, you can discuss and make a choice!"
Fourteen red eyes, he had already seen through everything: "You call yourself a messenger, how can you survive the misfortune, now our two brothers are not greedy for life, if you want to kill or chop, listen to the respect." ”
He turned around and took Fifteen's hand, ready to make a final resistance, when suddenly, his palm fell into the air, only to see an iron net overhead, and he had nowhere to dodge, and was tightly bound by it!
Fourteen suddenly felt weak and instantly paralyzed.
His breath was shocking, and he wanted to grit his teeth and struggle with his sixth-level soul power, but he found that Fifteen had already stood at the stern of the boat and said, "If you move again, I will jump down immediately!"
The words landed, but Fourteen, who was about to get up, immediately stopped, he was scared, and tensed his body back: "Don't... Fifteen... Please... Don't jump... We can get through... There must be a way... Don't die... If you leave me... So what's the point of my life... Fifteen... Obedient... Come back..."
He cried and begged, whipping himself hard, hoping that this nightmare would wake up soon.
"Fourteen, listen to me, Sixteen and I are already people who have died once, I have no regrets to be able to reunite with you in this soul world, I am very happy to be able to make a brother as worthy of trust as you in this life, what is there to fear if you die?"
"You are still alive, the road in the world is still very long, the other side is close at hand, you have to go down bravely..."
"Do you remember the Valley of No Return, I said that as long as you are here, we will be there, and this time is the same, the continuation of your life is the rest of our lives..."
"Fourteen, my good brother, although it is a little sudden and sad to say goodbye to you again, remember that your future will always be with us..."
"Fourteen, don't cry, don't be sad, please say goodbye with a smile for this brotherhood..."
"Live well, for us, and for yourself!"
Hot tears blurred the vision, and the arrogant figure on the stern threw itself into the yellow spring with one last smile...
The hull of the boat floated straight up, and once again caught the wind and waves.
Soon, the fragrance of herbs by the river came to my nose.
Charon, who had been turning his back, turned his head, the blue light in his eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "On the other side of the world, the bitterness is sweet, and the end... It's here..."