Chapter 43: Eighteen Hells
"Heaven and earth, listen to my orders!"
"Fall!"
The thunder pool and the sun intertwined with each other, turning into a huge sharp sword, like a sheath, straight into the crack.
"Ah!!h
It was as if ice met a red-hot soldering iron, and in a burst of clatters, a sharp wail came from the ground.
The ghost sedan chair was severely injured by this sword, and the direct resentment collapsed, and the body dissipated between heaven and earth.
On the other hand, Li Lao, in the state of the crazy and strange will of heaven and earth, did not use the power of heaven and earth to forcibly open up, except for the slight paleness of his face, he did not suffer any damage.
"Lao Li, are you okay?" Zhang Lao looked worried and asked with concern.
After Li Lao tried to calm his breathing, he replied with a smile: "It's okay, it's just a matter of forcibly controlling the thunder and fire of heaven and earth, as long as it doesn't alarm the will of the world, it's all a small problem." ”
Waiting for Li Lao to stabilize his internal breath, the group came to the huge attic.
The crowd stopped at the front of the steps and looked up, although the sun was shining at this time, the wide river was not in the slightest.
But the library itself was still hidden in the shadows, and all the light that hit it was mercilessly swallowed.
Looking down, there are eighteen bluestone steps, each of which is carved with various pictures, and it is the eighteen hells.
Zhou Li, who was standing behind the crowd, looked at the stone paintings, and the more he looked at them, the more he felt that it was not the eighteenth layer of hell described by the Blood Moon World.
This reminded him of the description of hell in a famous book in his previous life.
"Journey to the West"
The Hell of Hanging Tendons, the Hell of Darkness, the Hell of the Fire Pit.
Loneliness, troubles and troubles, all of them are thousands of karma done in life, and they are all accused of being punished after death.
The prison of drunkenness, the prison of tongue pulling, the prison of skinning.
Crying and crying, miserable and miserable, just because of disloyalty and filial piety hurt the principles of heaven, the Buddha's mouth and snake heart fell into this door.
Grinding prison, smashing prison, car crashing prison.
The skin is open and the flesh is open, and the mouth is wiped, but it is unjust to conceal oneself, and to use clever words and tricks to harm others.
Ice Hell, Shell Hell, Intestine Pumping Hell.
Unkempt, frowning, all of them are bullying and stupid, causing disasters to affect themselves.
Oil Pot Prison, Dark Prison, Knife Mountain Prison.
trembling, sad and earnest, all because of rape and bullying of the good, hiding their heads and shrinking their necks bitterly.
Blood Pool Prison, Ah Nose Prison, Weighing Pole Prison.
Peeling off skin and revealing bones, breaking arms and tendons, only for money, killing people, slaughtering animals, falling for thousands of years is difficult to explain, sinking forever and never turning over.
Zhang Lao looked at these terrifying slate paintings, his pupils dilated and his eyes were confused, and before Yao Lao and the others could react, they stepped on it directly.
Pain! Pain! Pain!
Severe pain began to spread from the soles of the feet, first the calves contracted violently, and suddenly the creeps began to cramp bizarrely.
Then the thighs, lower abdomen, ribcage, arms, and face are also followed by twitched tendons.
Cramps in the literal sense of the word.
Due to the suddenness of the incident, Zhang Lao did not have time to resist the pain, and directly fell backwards with weakness in his hands and feet.
With a wave of his right hand, a gentle gas condensed, catching Zhang Lao like an air cushion, and then he didn't care about him.
You can't live if you do your own evil, you dare to die like this if you don't know anything, even if you have an impulsive personality, you can't be blind.
Yao Lao didn't think like this, and after helping him up, he asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" I don't believe you're so impulsive. ”
Indeed, if a newbie is so reckless, it is understandable. But Zhang Lao has handled hundreds of abnormal incidents, and he should not make such a low-level mistake.
Zhang Lao came back to his senses, rubbed his calves that were still twitching, and said with palpitations:
"I don't know very well, just now I looked at those slate paintings and suddenly felt a little in a trance, and when I came back to my senses again, it was already what it is now."
Looking at Zhang Lao's miserable appearance, many people in the crowd retreated, but they were a little embarrassed to speak because they were not hurt because of their face.
"Hanging tendon prison, he did a lot of evil in life, and he cramped after death."
After finding that Yao Lao didn't plan to continue to step forward, he had a kind of intention to set up camp and fight him to the death, Zhou Li said with some reluctance.
"Who?"
Yao Lao was discussing with the others whether to continue to stumble on the eighteen steps or choose to enter in other ways when a voice sounded from behind him.
He was startled when he heard this, and then looked at the crowd behind him.
I saw Zhou Li leaning forward slowly, came to the stone painting, and spoke again: "Hanging Hell, one of the eighteen hells, the eighteen steps here should correspond to the eighteen hells." ”
As he spoke, he took out a small mirror wrapped in blood-colored vines from his body and threw it into the sunlight. The light, blessed by the mirror ghost, was not swallowed up by the attic.
The bright light is refracted along the mirror, and when the angle is slightly adjusted, the stone paintings on the steps are clearly visible.
A black-haired demon in hell hangs upside down in the void with an iron hook through the soles of his feet, weeping and wailing bitterly.
The ground was blazing with fire for no apparent reason, the earth was cracked and magma was spewing out, and the smoke was filled with ...... tyranny, despair, and pain.
Two green-skinned imps stood by and executed, one of them holding a steel fork to cut through the demon's skin and pick out its fascia. After the other took the long tendons, he kept pulling them out with both hands, and put them in his mouth and chewed them constantly.
Looking at this delicate picture, Zhang Lao recalled the pain of peeling and cramping just now, and his calf began to ache faintly again.
He looked at Zhou Li and asked, "Boy Zhou, how do you know, the eighteenth layer of hell in folklore doesn't seem to have a hanging tendon prison?" None of the other steps are right. ”
Zhou Li opened his eyes wide, and said with an innocent face: "I also saw it in ancient books, and what is written on it is quite interesting."
"What about ancient books?"
"It's long gone." Zhou Li said confidently: "The things I picked up from the thrift stall, after reading it, I felt that it took up space, so I threw it in the trash." Old books are not expensive, three for ten yuan. ”
"Forehead ......"
Everyone couldn't help but feel a little speechless, this kind of nonsense is okay to deceive fledgling children, everyone is an adult, who will believe it?
However, seeing that Zhou Li didn't want to say it explicitly, it was not good to continue to ask, and after a moment of silence, Yao Lao asked: "The first painting is the Hanging Prison Prison, do you still have an impression of the other paintings?" ”
Zhou Li nodded and replied: "According to the records of ancient books, the eighteen hells are: Hanging Prison Prison, Secluded Prison, Fire Pit Prison, Xudu Prison, Tongue Pulling Prison, and Skinning Prison. Grinding Prison, Pounding Prison, Car Crash Prison, Ice Prison, Shelling Prison, Intestine Pumping Prison, Oil Pot Prison, Dark Prison, Knife Mountain Prison, Blood Pool Prison, Ah Nose Prison, Weighing Pole Prison. ”
After hearing this, Yao Lao nodded slightly, looked at the steps and thought silently: "That should have been just a warning just now, Elder Zhang didn't have anything unusual except for a few flesh wounds. ”
"But just the entry level can make the best in the Gongcao realm have no power to fight back. Even if you want to win Zhang Lao, it will take a lot of effort. ”
"Maybe there is really a way to break through to the realm of the Great Emperor of Xudu outside of the will of heaven and earth monitoring."
Then he looked at Zhang Lao without hesitation.
Zhang Lao saw Yao Lao looking at his side, looking left and right, and thought that he had made a new discovery. As a result, when he saw Mrs. Li Laoyun and them, he suddenly walked quickly to the side.
After a while, Yao Lao's voice slowly sounded like a demon: "Zhang boy, you are trying, here you have rough skin and thick meat." ”
Eighteen steps ahead.
Zhang Lao stood there and swallowed his saliva, scolding Li Lao angrily in his heart that they were not friends enough, and they would break off their friendship when they went out!
"Old Zhangtou, this time I took two steps directly and stepped on the prison." Li Lao led everyone to shout not far away.
Zhang Lao pursed his lips, and the phantom of the hungry ghost appeared and gradually solidified, draped over him like armor. The armor continued to emit tiny black smoke in all directions, which was used to ward off foreign attacks.
Step out.
When his foot was placed on the Prison of Silence, he froze, and after a moment he fell straight back again.
After the soles of his feet left the steps this time, Zhang Lao did not wake up at the first time, and still maintained the posture just now, lying stiffly on the ground.
Yao Lao didn't panic much, only to see him take out a dark yellow parchment booklet from his pocket and keep flipping through it, as if looking for a solution.
Finally, he shook his head helplessly, closed the booklet, and waved his right hand behind him.
Suddenly.
Zhou Li found that there was an obscure fluctuation blowing by, and the team members around him fell into a coma, but he was still sitting upright, as conspicuous as Erha in the wolf pack.
Yao Lao suddenly appeared next to a nurse sister dressed in white, she was about thirty years old, and her figure was very graceful.
I saw the nurse's sister smiling, putting a charm on every unconscious person, shaking the corpse bell, and leading them out of this dangerous place.
"That's my daughter, if you can catch it, I don't mind, old man." Yao Lao said with a smile.
As he spoke, he took out the ancient parchment book he had just flipped through and threw it directly to Zhou Li, with an old-fashioned and serious look, as if what he said just now was not what he said.
Holding the ancient book, Zhou Li looked at Yao Lao's indifferent behavior, and even had a feeling that it was a fake.
Without responding to what he had just said, he carefully flipped through the ancient books, although there were many cavities that had been eaten by insects, but it did not affect his reading comprehension.
After reading it, most of the doubts in Zhou Li's previous heart were puzzled, and they found the answers.
For example: Why is the realm span in the team so large, and is it not afraid that the juniors will be wiped out?
Among them, the strongest is Yao Lao: Yin Cao Wang Realm. followed by Li Lao, Zhang Lao, Yun Lao, Qi Lao, Lin Lao, and Ghost Lao: Gong Cao Jing.
The rest are a group of day and night tours, such a big realm gap, since Yao Lao chose to bring it in, he must have something to rely on.
According to ancient texts:
This is the place where the leaders of the Yin and Yang family of Great Qin ascended, the place where classics such as Gongfa Taoist scriptures and travel biographies were collected, and it was also a place where the Yin and Yang families unified and cultivated new people.
The main thing is that there is no danger except for some anti-thieves and the like!
There is no danger?
Zhou Li only figured out at this moment that in addition to finding a way to fight the mad will of the world, the Night Patrol Division also planned to use this to cultivate new people.
After all.
If the methods of the older generation fail, there must be a successor who can take over the banner, pass the torch from generation to generation, and there will be no despair if there is hope!
"He has a good eye, and he can see at a glance that I have the potential to be a savior." Zhou Li combined the known information, and instantly understood in his heart that Yao Lao regarded himself as his successor.
It's not that Zhou Li is arrogant, if you say who is most likely to solve the crisis in the Blood Moon World, who else is it?
Kraft once said, "Only by breaking the rules can you break the rules." ”