The underworld is in the underworld, and the underworld, also known as the underworld, the underworld, or the hidden capital, the underworld, etc., is a concept in mythology and religion, referring to the world that people live in after death.

At least before the Yellow Emperor, people believed that people divided their souls, as the soul of yang and the soul of yin were combined to form people, after death, the spirit of the spirit returned to the sky, and the spirit of the spirit returned to the earth, and the spirit of the spirit was used to explain the evolution of the previous life, the present life and the next life, and divided the elf world into three worlds: the earth on earth, the heaven of the gods in the sky, and the underworld of the spirit. Huangquan may be the earliest concept of the underworld in Chinese religious beliefs.

The concept of hell is greater than hell, and the concept of hell is greater than that of hell. The underworld generally refers to the space where the souls of the dead are located, which is equal to the human world, so it is not limited to the underworld, or may even overlap with the earthly world in space and cannot be perceived by humans.

It is said that Zhang Xuanchu is walking on the road, entering the underworld from the entrance, here should be called the ghost gate, after this pass this place is the real Huangquan Road, there is no ghost soldier to guard when he arrives at the Huangquan Prefecture, there are many lonely souls and wild ghosts on the Huangquan Road, they are those people and animals who have not completed their yang life and die normally, they can not go to heaven, nor can they be reincarnated, let alone to the secluded world, they can only wander on the Huangquan Road, and wait for the arrival of Yangshou to report to the Nine Shadows, and listen to the fate of the king of Yama.

Walking on the Huangquan Road, there are fiery red flowers on the other side, flowers that are blooming on the road, and there are no leaves in sight, so stop the flowers on the other side. The other side flower is a flower that grows by the river. Here a large number of flowers bloom, from a distance it looks like a carpet paved with blood, and because of its orange fire-like fire, it is also known as the "road of fire" is also the only scenery and color on this long yellow spring road. And man walked on the guidance of this flower to the hell of the underworld. Floral legends have magical powers that evoke memories of the deceased.

After walking through the Huangquan Road, there is a river called the Lechuan River, the water of the Lechuan River is blood-yellow, it is full of lonely souls and wild ghosts that cannot be reincarnated, insects and snakes are everywhere, and the fishy wind blows in the face. The ghost of the wicked falls into the river, just like "the copper snake and the iron dog are allowed to fight for food, and there is no way out of the river forever". It reminds people of the horror of the Nai River in the underworld.

There is a bridge called Nai He Bridge on the Lechuan River, the bridge is divided into three layers or three bridges and three body bridges, etc., the ghosts of the good people can safely pass through the upper bridge, the good and evil cross the middle bridge, and the ghosts of the wicked cross the lower bridge, and are mostly stopped by ghosts and fall into the dirty waves under the bridge, and are bitten by copper snakes and iron dogs.

The bluestone bridge deck on the bridge, five steps, the west of the bridge is female, the east of the bridge is male, the left yin and the right yang. "If anyone dies at the age of ninety-seven, he should wait three years on the bridge" for this. A thousand years of retrospective, a hundred years of promise. Maybe the relationship between husband and wife in this life began and ended here.

However, under the bridge for thousands of feet, the clouds and mist are entangled, and no one knows what kind of road awaits the next life. The promise of the next life is just a follow-up to this life, after drinking Meng Po soup, everything has been forgotten, and the meeting in the next life is just a new beginning. What a bridge, what a parting in the past life, how to meet in this life, but how to reunite in the next life.

Walking to the bridge, there is a big stone tablet on the side, and two lines of poetry on it: "The flowers and leaves are not seen, and they will never lose each other." "There are two ghost guards on this bridge, one is a cow ghost, the body of a cow's head. One is the snake god, the head of the snake, the body of the man, who is also wearing a ghost armor and holding a long fork in his hand. Seeing Zhang Xuanchu here, the two ghosts were very strange, because they saw a faint colored light on this person's head, which illuminated all the lonely souls and wild ghosts who did not dare to approach him, so they blocked the way and asked, "Who is coming, and why did you enter the underworld?"

Zhang Xuanchu said: "Under the surname Zhang, the name Xuanchu, the number Zixu, I have something to enter the underworld to investigate the matter, and I also ask the two guards to pass it, this is a common document." After finishing speaking, he took out the paperwork from his pocket and handed it to the second guardian ghost.

After the second ghost looked at it, he handed the document back and said, "Since there is a common document, you can go in." After finishing speaking, he got out of the way, and Zhang Xuanchu stepped onto the Nai He Bridge.

There is an earthen platform called Wangxiangtai after walking through the Nai He Bridge, the construction structure of Wangxiangtai is quite strange and different, the upper width is narrow and the lower is narrow, the face is like the back of the bow, the back is like the bowstring and the horizontal column, except for a stone path to go up, the rest is all the sword mountain and sword tree, it is very precipitous. The ghosts who entered Hell could look out at the situation in the Yang family, and they could see everything that Yang Shi himself saw.

There is a village on the side called Meng Po Village, and from time to time there is an old woman standing there at the door to greet all kinds of ghosts, she is Meng Po. On the side there is a stone inscription with two poems:

After traveling all over the Yin Division, the prison prisoners' unjust debts are gone. Meng Poting broke up with each other, and the sassy fairy wind drum was too harmonious.

There is a Meng Po Village in Yin Si, and the stunning woman sells tea soup. The people who came to eat soup and water were not refreshing for thirty-five days.

At the beginning of Hongmeng, the world was divided into three worlds: heaven, earth and man, and the heavenly world was the largest in charge of everything. The Three Realms are demarcated, whether in the heavens or on the earth, the gods and goddesses and yin officials all perform their duties. Meng Po was already in the world when she was separated from the Three Realms, and she was a rejuvenating grass at that time, and after thousands of years of cultivation, she became a loose official in the fairy world.

Later, because he saw that the world had countless grievances and hatreds, and he refused to let go even if he died, he came to the Lethe River in the Netherworld, set up a cauldron at the bridgehead of the Nai He Bridge, and refined the thoughts that the world couldn't let go of into Meng Po soup for the Yin Soul to drink, so he forgot the love and hatred in life, unloaded the burden of life, and walked into the next reincarnation.

There are many stories recorded on the wall, all of which are in order to see the favorite of this life again in the next life, you can not drink Meng Po soup, then you must jump into the Lechuan River and wait for thousands of years to be reincarnated. In a thousand years, you may see the person you love most in this life walking on the bridge, but words can't speak, you can see him, he can't see you. In the past thousand years, you have seen him walk across the Nai Ho Bridge over and over again, drink bowls and bowls of Meng Po soup, and hope that he will not drink it, and you are afraid that he will not be able to forget the pain of thousands of years of suffering in the river and the loneliness of waiting.

Drinking Meng Po soup is the old dream of the past, and the cause and effect are broken. Forget the ups and downs of a lifetime, love and hate all your life, and never know strangers in the next life; After a thousand years, if the mind is not extinguished and can still remember the events of the previous life, you can re-enter the world and find the person you loved most in the previous life.

Step up the stairs and go inside. The inside of the village is full of carved beams and painted buildings, and the stone building of the Zhulan is built; in the house, all the eye-catching are exquisite and gorgeous oil paintings, there are countless good and evil ghosts, there are curtains made of pearls and jade, and there is also a large table carved by jade in the hall.

After Zhang Xuanchu entered the house, he saw a middle-aged woman coming out of the house, and there were many ghost guards following her, who were the people he had seen at the door before, and then came out of the back room to run errands. When he saw Zhang Xuanchu, he stepped forward and asked, "May I ask the Immortal Chief, why did you come here?" Zhang Xuanchu looked at her appearance, wearing a gray and white linen robe, her figure was slightly handsome and steady, calm, as if she could see through everything in the world. Knowing that this person was Meng Po, he bowed his hand and said: "Under Zhang Xuanchu, called Zixu, I specially came to the underworld to inquire about one thing, and I don't know how to go to the underworld when I come here, are you Meng Po?"

Meng Po dispersed all the ghosts and went to work, turned back to Zhang Xuanchu and said: "Auntie is Meng Po, since you are going to the underworld, can you have customs clearance espionage? Those ghosts all went to the first temple, and the king of Yama went through all the inquiries about the coming and going of good and evil, whether in heaven or in the sun or hell, and then came to my apse and drank the divine soup. I don't know what you're looking up to see if the old body can help you. ”

Zhang Xuanchu said: "A friend of mine was opened by the Demon King in the dark space and teleported to another dimension, I want to borrow the reincarnation disk of the earth to see if I can see which space she goes to." And this is my customs clearance paperwork, Qing Meng Po checked. Meng Po took the paperwork, saw Huang Shenyin and the text, handed it back, and then said: "You are introduced by Huang Po, I know that she is a person, and she rarely helps others, but anyone who finds her will do her best to help." And if you want to borrow the reincarnation disk, you have to go to King Qin Guang's side, although he agrees. ”

Zhang Xuanchu said: "I haven't been to this place, I don't know how to go, and I asked Meng Po to point out the boy." Meng Po said happily: "Hehe, you didn't come here, I'll explain to you the underworld." The so-called underworld is as big as the human world, and there are five ghost emperors in the underworld. Cai Yusang is the ghost emperor of the East, in the ghost capital of Taoqiu Mountain, he leads all the ghosts in the East, and there are countless ghosts and immortals under him to manage the East.

Zhang Heng and Yang Yun are the Northern Ghost Emperor and Deputy Ghost Emperor, and in the Ghost Capital Palace, Luofeng Mountain, countless ghosts and immortals manage the Northern Ghost Realm.

Du Ziren was the ghost emperor of the south in the ghost capital palace of Luofu Mountain, leading the Qiangdi barbarian gods and ghosts to manage the southern ghost world.

Zhou Qi and Ji Kang are the central ghost emperors, and there are countless ghosts and immortals who manage the central government in the ghost capital palace of Baoqian Mountain.

Zhao Wenhe and Wang Zhenren are the ghost emperors of the West, and many ghosts and immortals manage the West in the ghost capital of Lingzuka Mountain. And in each place of the ghost emperor, there are ten halls of Yama kings, hell and hell, etc., and there is a unified distribution of hell to suppress large ghosts. ”

Zhang Xuanchu was extremely shocked when he heard this, so he asked: "Since there are so many Hades, are they all busy? Meng Po said: "The so-called Huangquan Road and Lichuan River are all unified and connected, in this world, there are countless and countless of these places, and I am the only one in Meng Pozhuang, all places are my body, and I am the one who sees them." ”

Zhang Xuanchu said: "Could it be that this is the doppelganger, and the same is true for the Ten Halls of Yama?" Meng Po said: "No, the Ten Halls of Hells are changing at any time, and anyone who has great goodness and does not have the blessing of an immortal official in the sky can be qualified as an immortal official of the underworld." Zhang Xuanchu said: "With so many underworld officials, are there only ghosts who manage so many of them?"