Chapter 7: Yellow Springs

Yellow springs, gray sand covered the sky, gray shadows let out a terrible wail.

Ghosts everywhere, ghosts everywhere.

As far as the eye can see, a gray, gray sky, gray yellow sand, gray ghosts, the whole world is gray except gray.

There is only the sound of the wind here, only the sound of ghosts crying, and every corner is filled with death, which makes people's hearts desperate and sad.

Xia Xia and Su Xinxuan stood on the edge of a stone tablet half-buried in gray sand, the yin wind rolled up the wild sand, and the stone tablet revealed speckled handwriting: Huangquan.

Throughout the ages, let you be a genius, let you be peerless, the final destination is here, the deceased walked through the Yellow Spring, everything was thrown away before his death, everything started again, and since then the wandering soul has turned into a ghost and become another new life.

"Let's go. Xia Xia said softly.

Su Xinxuan followed Xia Xia closely, vigilantly staring at the wandering spirits around him: "I often hear people say, Ghost Gate, Huangquan Road, Nai He Bridge, where are we now, and where are we going?"

Xia Xia's gray figure seemed to be integrated with the surrounding environment: "It's the first time I've come, maybe because we were sent by the Underworld through the Gate of Life and Death, so we didn't pass through the Ghost Gate, and now we can only take one step at a time, don't be afraid, we are also ghosts now, and we won't conflict with them." ”

Su Xinxuan sneered: "Although I also know, I am always a little scared in my heart, but I am not as bold as my sister, I am really ashamed." ”

Xia Xia Yanran smiled: "I won't tell you, I'm also afraid in my heart, when I first came to Beibei, you definitely couldn't imagine how scared I was, I admire you, I'm also a cultivator, and I can't face ghosts calmly, you are just a mortal, but you dare to come to Beibei alone, and the first time I saw you, it gave me a lot of shock." ”

Su Xinxuan's handsome face flushed: "At that time, I was also ruined, but I just risked my death with that eight-treasure evil lamp." ”

Xia Xia's pretty face showed two shallow pear vortices, and she smiled clearly.

A worn-out black flag fluttered in the wind, like a thick ink on gray paper.

Huangquanzhuang.

"Huangquan Village?" Su Xinxuan looked at an old inn from a distance in the gray desert, and a strange expression appeared on his face: "Didn't you say that there was nothing on Huangquan Road?"

"Just take a look and you'll know, this may not be the Yellow Spring as we know it. “

The Huangquan Road, which originally led the souls of the dead to the underworld, became a desert, and Xia Xia didn't know how to explain it for a while.

Are there two yellow springs in the underworld?

The ghost shadow in front of the old inn is sufficient, the inn is not big, it is an ancient four-storey earth building, the wall is the same as the desert is gray, it makes people feel ancient and far away, the outside is surrounded by the same gray stone and soil to enclose a courtyard, erect a striking black flag, and the three big characters of Huangquanzhuang are written on it.

The two went in side by side, and a round shadow immediately appeared in the counter, looking about forty years old, with a fat head and big ears, wrapped in an ill-fitting black cardigan with a swastika pattern, and when they saw a guest come in, they smiled on their faces: "Two dusty servants, you know at a glance that you have traveled a long distance, the small shop has good wine and food, first-class rooms, do the two guests want to play the tip or stay in the hotel?"

"Shopkeeper, you're too shabby here. "Su Xinxuan was born in a family of princes in the world, he is extremely rich and noble, he lives in a water pavilion, carved beams and painted columns, wears silk and satin, and eats delicacies from the mountains and seas.

Although the tools in the shop were wiped very cleanly, most of them were damaged, and several pillars were rotted to varying degrees.

The shopkeeper smiled, patted his chest and said: "Little brother's words are wrong, you must have seen it along the way, here is a hundred thousand miles of yellow springs, only I have a place to stay, you are afraid that you have just come, you don't know these things, only by drinking my wine here, the new souls can have enough energy to sustain them through these hundred thousand miles of yellow springs, otherwise ......"

Su Xinxuan was interested: "Otherwise, what would happen?"

The shopkeeper touched the goatee on his chin, glanced at Su Xinxuan with small eyes, and then at Xia Xia, and was sure that the two people in front of him were indeed newly deceased, and they didn't know anything about the underworld, so he said slowly: "People die with the first seven, and after the first seven, they pass through the Yellow Spring, and everything starts again, this is the beginning of the life of the ghost clan, we call it eight nights." At this time, the ghost clan had just turned from a ghost to a ghost, just like the newly born Wan clan, a person who had just embarked on the path of cultivation, at this time they were too fragile to resist the great storm of Huangquan at all. ”

"What does this have to do with your wine?"

"My wine can give the newly dead ghosts power, and although the effect is small, it is enough to reach the realm of soul gathering. The shopkeeper's tone was full of pride.

Su Xinxuan didn't understand.

Xia Xia explained to him: "The soul gathering of the ghost clan should be similar to the refining body of the ten thousand races, and it is the first step in the cultivation of their respective systems. ”

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "The girl is an understanding, I don't know which holy place the girl studied in during her lifetime, why didn't she pass the ghost gate and take Huangquan Road, could it be that Yang Shou died innocently, so she can only wander Huangquan?"

The avenue is ruthless, and there are not a few monks who die unexpectedly every year.

Xia Xia's eyes sharpened: "Don't ask more questions if you shouldn't ask." ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "After death, everything is empty, it's me who is in the picture, what do you two want to see?"

Xia Xia said lightly: "One room." ”

"Do you want food and drink?"

Xia Xia nodded: "Send me to the house." ”

After the shopkeeper left, Xia Xia locked the door, and Su Xinxuan sniffed the rich aroma of wine in the air with an intoxicated face: "This wine is so fragrant." ”

Xia Xia hurriedly covered his nose and said hurriedly: "Who let you smell it, you forgot all the words of the underworld?"

Su Xinxuan was agitated and covered his mouth and nose: "I didn't drink it!"

Xia Xiaxiu frowned: "Ghosts don't eat with their mouths, don't smell the food here next time, ghosts eat with smell." ”

"Then sister, are you still there?"

"You're confused, wouldn't we let him see something if we didn't use it?" Xia Xia said something in his mouth, a black fox appeared in the room out of thin air, Xia Xia picked up the wine and food and put it in front of the black fox, and when the black fox ate well, Xia Xia waved his sleeves and sent the black fox away before saying: "You must be careful in everything here, and you must pay more attention to everything, especially when sleeping, remember not to sleep too hard." ”

Su Xinxuan nodded and wrote it down.

"You have to be careful this time, there is a female doll in it, there seems to be some doorway before death, although everything is empty when you die, but it is always right to be careful. The shopkeeper muttered to a dark figure in the corner, wrapped in his shroud, "Just in case, I deliberately put something in their wine and food, and when the time is up, you can act." ”