On the first day of the sixth month, it was the first day of the month.

The whole CD City was in a state of darkness, and even the inns and liquor stores that had been running all night closed early tonight and no longer accepted any customers. Even in the middle of the night, there should have been a lot of movement in a large city of Xishu, as if it had lost all its vitality at this moment, and the silence was terrifying.

However, no sound does not mean that there is no one, and on both sides of the urban avenue leading from the north of the city to the east of the city, there are two rows of people standing densely packed, these people are dressed in different clothes, there are vendors, there are pawns, there are rich farmers and farmers, and there are also scholars and beautiful girls. The only thing that is the same is that all the men, women and children standing on the side of the street are dressed in linen and filial piety, silent, looking nervously in the same direction.

It was the direction of the Yin Division in the north of the city, but the big yamen, which had always been gloomy, did not move at all at the moment, and on the other side, outside the east gate of the city, Wang Shen and the others of the Spring and Autumn Mansion were waiting in full gear.

No one spoke, and even the insects and birds shrunk in the alleys of the city seemed to feel the particularly oppressive atmosphere of tonight without saying a word.

Finally, under everyone's anticipation, the heavy door of the Zhiyin Division slowly opened, and at this moment, even the creaking sound of the door shaft turning was extremely clear.

The first to come out was the old Taoist priest Zhang Zhichu sent by the Heavenly Master Mansion of Longhu Mountain, this old Taoist priest strode out, wearing a luxurious Taoist robe with yellow and purple looking particularly majestic.

And behind him, there were actually two flame dragons following him from the gate of the Yin Division, the old Taoist priest walked very fast, and the two long dragons behind him, one left and one right, also followed very closely, the strange blue flame illuminated the thick door of the Yin Division, which looked like the entrance of the Hades Palace, which made people feel eerie.

When this long dragon came out of the gate of the Yin Division, everyone could see clearly, where was this flame dragon, but a huge lantern hanging in the air.

The lanterns were divided into two rows, one following the other from the gate of the Shoji Priest, each of which shone with clusters of bright dark blue flames that danced in the lanterns like elves, flickering in a rhythm that seemed to have a specific rhythm of breathing.

If you look closely, there is a slight difference between the hanging lanterns in this row, and there are twenty huge golden lanterns behind the old Taoist priest Zhang Zhichu, ten on the left and right, each lantern is about one person high, and there are countless blue flames flickering in the middle. These twenty golden lanterns are gorgeous, there are twelve doors and twelve corners on them, not only the golden light is overflowing, the surface is engraved with a series of neat Taoist talismans, these talismans do not know what to smear, one stroke is bright red as blood, especially in the dark blue flame in the background of the inside it looks particularly evil, these two rows of golden lanterns are like two prostrate huge dragon heads on the left and right, which makes people a little dizzy.

The golden lamp is followed by the silver lamp, the silver lamp has eight doors and eight corners, and the size is only half the size of the golden lamp, and the blue soul fire that can be accommodated in it is much less than the golden lamp, the only similarity is that the surface of the silver lamp is also engraved with a similar bright red talisman, but this talisman is not as complicated as the one on the golden lamp. Therefore, the number of silver lamps is much more than that of gold lamps, and there are about 100 silver lamps on the left and right.

As Zhang Zhichu walked out quickly, all the gold and silver lamps went out, and behind the silver lamp, there was a long string of quaint copper lamps that were more than a foot high, and there were also talismans on each copper lamp, but there were only a hundred soul fires inside. Although these bronze lamps seem to be old, they are extremely numerous, densely floating out of the gate of the Yin Division and there is no end, like the body of a dragon out of the cave, I don't know how long it is.

It wasn't until the old Taoist priest Zhang Zhichu walked out of the gate of the Zhiyin Division that the copper lamp in the door was completely exhausted, and the two sides of the copper lamp like a long dragon added up to more than a thousand. And after the last bronze lamps in the two rows went out separately, the other two young Taoist priests of the Heavenly Master's Mansion also strode out of the door, one left and one right guarding the last of the lantern dragon.

So, Zhang Zhi took the lead, and the two young Taoist priests took the lead, escorting the two blue flame lamp dragons that were more than 100 zhang long, out of the north of the city, all the way to the open east gate of the city.

Along the way, waiting for the people on both sides to wear linen and filial piety to see off their ancestors to see off their ancestors, they saw the soul lamp dragon coming from afar, and knelt down to see them off, this time the souls who were sent to Maoshan were all people who had just passed away this year, and the people on the road looked at the mighty soul lamp dragon in front of them and did not know which lamp their ancestors were in, thinking that a good person had become a faint soul fire that could be blown out by the night wind at any time was even more sad, and they covered their mouths and sobbed in private.

The soul lamp is like a dragon, through the streets and aisles, in the CD city, thousands of people cry in the alley, after the two silent blue dragons, countless paper money is sprinkled and floated all over half of the CD city.

Wang Shen, who had been waiting outside the East Gate for a long time, looked at the two soul lamp dragons in the distance that were getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but gasp, and said in surprise: "So many people die in a year?"

Dong Sanpo on the side said with a wry smile: "There are more than 100 counties in five states on the Xishu Road, a total of five or six million people, and there are hundreds of thousands of souls sent to Maoshan every year. ”

Wang Shen was silent, watching this dense hundreds of thousands of souls come out of the east gate and come to him under the guidance of Zhang Zhichu, Rao is perennial go to the countryside to collect souls and see life and death parting, and he can also see a little sadness in his heart.

With the soul lamp dragon out of the east gate, the dense group of Xishu people who followed behind also flocked to the city gate, but there were already night guards at the east gate, and in order to maintain law and order, the soldiers and horses sent a hundred elite guards outside the east gate, and when the soul lamp dragon came out of the east gate, the heavy city gate was slowly closed, and the people in the city only had time to look through the crack in the door to take a last look and be blocked by the city gate, as if yin and yang were broken, and heaven and earth were divided.

When the city gate was completely closed, Zhang Zhichu nodded to Dong Sanpo, Dong Sanpo waved his hand and said, "The time has come, send the soul on the road!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhang Zhichu stretch out his hand and point, and several yellow talismans flew out from his cuffs and shot at everyone present.

"This is my dragon and tiger mountain magic talisman, sticking to the feet can gather mountains and rivers to help walk. ”

Zhang Zhichu's words made Wang Shen slightly startled, he looked at the two yellow paper talismans painted with peculiar red symbols in his hand and looked at them curiously, but he saw that everyone had already pasted the talisman on the soles of his feet according to Zhang Zhi's instructions, and he didn't dare to rub it anymore, so he hurriedly pasted the talisman under his feet.

As soon as these two talismans were attached to his feet, they were absorbed by a strange force and would not fall, and as the vitality in Wang Shen's body moved, he really found that there were subtle underground spiritual qi gathered from nearby and condensed under his feet, which made Wang Shen feel surprised and inexplicable.

"Let's go!"

Dong Sanpo saw that everyone had pasted the magic talisman and issued an order, as soon as the words fell, Zhang Zhichu bore the brunt of the fire and floated out more than ten zhang away, and then the Dao trick in his hand was introduced, and the two soul lamp dragons suspended in the air behind him also suddenly accelerated and chased after him.

As for the people of the Spring and Autumn Mansion, they were distributed on both sides of the long dragon under Dong Sanpo's arrangement, and with the help of this strange divine talisman, everyone's speed has accelerated a lot, and the worst cultivation of the dozen or so people present is the realm of Xiao Zhoutian with eight veins, and it doesn't take a moment to protect these two blue soul lamp dragons and disappear into the vast night.