Chapter Ninety-Eight: Reconstructing the Skin
The Snow Girl shook her head, this woman was like a flower in a mirror, a moon in the water, beautiful and trembling, she could never have imagined that such a beautiful woman would hide in this gloomy and terrifying place.
In particular, the river under the stone bridge is red in blood, as if the river is flowing with real blood.
"I really can't figure out why this woman would hide in this place with her child, is it to hide from the enemy?"
The vendor shook his head with a smile and asked the Great Tengu, "Chongde, can you guess a thing or two?"
The big tengu was also black-eyed, and he couldn't guess the identity of this beautiful woman at all.
The seller said, "Do you know about Huangquan Birasaka?"
Snow Girl said: "What do you not know about this, even a three-year-old child knows that there will always be a place to go after death, and this Huangquan Birasaka is the place where the soul will live forever after death." ”
She said plainly, and suddenly opened her mouth and said in horror: "Could it be ...... This stone bridge is the legendary Nai Ho Bridge, and this woman is ......."
"You guessed it, this beautiful woman is Izanami, the lord of the Yellow Springs Kingdom, and has another name in China, called Meng Po. ”
The big tengu raised his eyebrows, and the sweat in his palms couldn't help but bubble out, "He is the legendary creator god Izanami? Isn't it said that she was completely ruined and abandoned by her beloved husband to live in the Yellow Springs Country forever? Why would her husband abandon her with such a look?"
The seller giggled and pointed to himself.
"Could it be you?!, did you help her regain her appearance?" asked the Great Tengu in surprise.
"Yes, that's me. The country of Huangquan has a skin, and there are ten halls of Hades and eighteen layers of hell. Ordinary people who have experienced the tribulations of the ten Hades halls can be reincarnated for their sins in the past life, and those who are extremely vicious will be beaten to the eighteen layers of hell and punished according to the sins they committed in their lifetime. Izanami's skin comes from the eighteen layers of hell. ”
The Snow Maiden had heard of the eighteenth layer of hell, and the legendary seventeenth layer of stone grinding hell is to put people who trampled on grains, thieves, corrupt officials, and oppressed the people into the stone mill and grinded it into meat sauce.
Izanami must have peeled off the skin of these people before they were ground into meat sauce and used them for herself.
Thinking of this, the snow girl trembled all over, and she no longer dared to look at the beautiful woman.
The seller hurriedly stopped his mouth when he saw the frightened appearance of the Snow Maiden, and his hands slashed on the crystal-like pearl again, and the mussel shell returned to its original appearance.
He smiled awkwardly, "I didn't serve my mother when I was alive, so I made a deal with Izanami. In exchange for helping her regain her appearance, she welcomes her mother here on the first day of the new year. ”
The Great Tengu stepped forward to comfort the Snow Maiden, "Don't be afraid, Izanami is supposed to be a kind woman, don't you see that she is still accompanied by a child? ”
"This ......"
The seller was about to speak, but when he saw the scared appearance of the Snow Maiden, he swallowed the words in his mouth alive.
The Great Tengu walked up to him and asked, "Is there something hidden here?"
The seller leaned in the ear of the big tengu and lowered his voice very low, "This kid is not an ordinary person, he almost unified Japan by force before his death!"
"Unifying Japan by force?" Otengu thought to himself, he had lived too long, and he would not have thought of such a number one person for a while.
Suddenly, he exclaimed, "The person you are talking about is Oda Nobunaga, who was called the Sixth Heavenly Demon King?"
The Great Tengu couldn't help but raise his voice a little louder, and after hearing this, the Snow Maiden asked, "Aren't you talking about the mortal who has the same title as the Demon of the Buddha Realm, where is he?"
Women are indeed very gossipy, and sometimes they are obviously afraid to die, but when they hear what they are curious about, they don't care about it, and stretch out their ears to listen.
The seller was helpless, and he really didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
The Snow Maiden pouted, "You answer, where is he?" It is said that he burned down the old and young Shakti believers on Mount Hiei, along with the innocent people on the mountain, and at this moment I am afraid that he will enter the eighteenth layer of sword and saw hell. ”
The seller touched the crystal-like pearl again to make the shell transparent, and he gestured to the boy next to Izanami.
"Did you see the kid who put something in the pot?"
The Snow Maiden saw him at a glance and replied, "See, that child is white and pure, cute and tight." ”
"The kid you see is the sixth day demon king Oda Nobunaga, who had a bad reputation more than ten years ago, almost unified Japan, and was betrayed by his subordinate Akechi Mitsuhide at Honganji Temple and burned to death!"
Snow Girl's eyes widened and she covered her mouth, "He is the Sixth Heavenly Demon King Oda Nobunaga? He was almost fifty years old when he died, how could he still be a child......?"
According to legend, Oda Nobu had been attacking Mt. Hiei for a long time, and in his sleep he borrowed the true fire of Samadhi at the cost of never being reborn after death, and this burned Mt. Hiei to the ground. ”
He ...... What is the reason why he is like this? What is the reason why he will never be able to live beyond his life?"
"I don't know this, but you know, my merchant is like a small speck of dust in front of Izanami, and I am thankful that she allows me to see my mother every year, so how can I ask questions in front of her?"
As he spoke, the seller closed the shell and picked up the whole skin.
This skin is made of the skin of the Snow Maiden, which is smooth and flawless, white as jade, and rare in the world.
The Snow Maiden felt the breath coming from her skin, and her heart was surging and fluctuating.
The Great Tengu also noticed something unusual, and the seller put the skin into the mussel shell of his body, carrying only a pair of rough skins drenched in blood.
He said to himself that the monk in the robe had asked him for a generous gift, so why did he have an extra one?
And nine out of ten of the looks of this skin bag belong to the Snow Maiden, but the Snow Maiden is standing here in a dignified manner, not even having a small opening on her body, let alone peeling off her whole skin, what the hell is going on, the big tengu really can't figure it out.
Combined with the vicious methods of the monk wearing the Taoist robe and the compassionate temperament of the seller, I vaguely felt a little strange.
The Great Tengu asked, "Where did you come from?"
"The monk in the robe gave it. ”
"He's going to be so kind?!, tell me the truth, who is this skin?"
The seller paused, sighed and said, "Don't ask, anyway, I didn't do anything to be sorry for my friend." ”
All the expressions of the seller were seen in the eyes of the Great Tengu, and the seller was secretive, but his expression betrayed him. When he spoke, the corner of his eye glanced at the Snow Girl intentionally or unintentionally, which was a manifestation of his weak heart.
"What are you hiding from us?!" the Great Tengu was slightly agitated and almost shouted.
Ever since the illusion was lifted, the seller has been keeping it a secret from the two. The monk in the robe is scheming, graceful and powerful, although he is not a bad person, but he is not a good person. In any case, he still needs to keep an eye on him.
The seller stretched out his finger and probed on Qin Yao's vein, "The effect of the medicine is almost over, it is important to save people first, I will inform the two of you in detail after saving people here, please don't ask again." ”
"How long will it take you to treat her?"
"It's about half a month. ”
"I'm here in half a month, and I hope you can give me a perfect explanation!" As soon as he finished speaking, the big tengu pulled the snow girl and turned around and left.
Sun Sheng, Ji Shizang, Reiko Abe, and Yui have been sitting on the sea for about ten days.
During this period, Sun Sheng gave all the dried meat of the turtle demon to the shark demon, but the shark demon said that he didn't need these things anymore, and it was good to be a half-demon with a terrifying appearance.
He deceived the shark demon and got him to repay his grievances with virtue, which made Sun Sheng feel very sad.
The days at sea were very uncomfortable, and even a person with an optimistic nature like Jian Shizang couldn't help but be deflated.
The dazzling sun, the sea breeze like a knife, and the surging waves will all become indelible memories in the hearts of the four people.
Fortunately, there is a shark demon, a foot force that can not only recognize the direction but also avoid danger, otherwise the four of them would not have survived a day in this vast ocean.
Jian Shizang walked onto the wheel, stared at the sea with his eyes, and suddenly waved his backhand, throwing out a handful of kunai with a thin line, and the sea was suddenly blood-red.
It took him a lot of effort to pull a fish that was not too big or small, and Yui said disgustedly: "It's another fish, it's still such a small one, and it's not enough for so many of us to eat." ”
Jian Shizang gasped for breath, and heard Yui complain in his heart, "Sister-in-law, it's good to eat some." How can there be so many fish on the surface of the open sea for us to eat, and besides, we can't eat enough these days, even if we encounter big fish, we don't have the strength to pull them up. ”
Sun Sheng said in a hoarse voice, "Ji Shizang, say less and save your energy, give me a knife." ”
Jian Shizang threw the fish and kunai to Sun Sheng, and then lay down in the car without saying anything.
Sun Sheng skillfully cut open the belly of the fish and took out the internal organs, washed it with seawater, and used the ten-fold strength of the 'Arhat Fire Fist' to ignite the flames, and put the fish on the fist to roast.
The most tormented of the four was Sun Sheng, because the food, drink and food of the four fell on him alone.
The 'Arhat Fire Fist' is infinitely useful, and it can not help but make a fire to grill fish, and it can also refine fresh water.
Sun Sheng smeared the grease from the fish's body on his clothes, and propped them up into a small shed.
He carried many bottles and jars with him, picked out a jar at random, scooped up seawater, and boiled the water dry with the flame of the 'Arhat Fire Fist'.
In this way, all the water vapor condenses on the grease of the clothes, and when it gathers more, it is collected in another jar.
After a few rounds of repetition, there was fresh water to drink.
It's just that this method consumes a lot of internal strength, Sun Sheng is almost prostration, and coupled with the fact that he has been desperately consuming these few days of eclipses, his body has already collapsed.
He baked the fish and gave it to the people to eat, and after eating some of it himself, he fell asleep.
In his sleep, he returned to China and met the old monks in the temple who taught him 'Hua Zhi', and the old Taoist priest who taught him 'Tai Chi' in the mountains.
For some reason, the two sat together and played chess.
The old Taoist priest said: "It's your turn, why haven't you fallen yet?"
The old monk replied, "Amitabha, let me think again. ”
"People in Buddhism, don't be too murderous, you see, your sunspot is almost eating up my white son. ”
The old monk patted his smooth head and said with an embarrassed smile: "The killing and robbery in the world should start from the Buddha and fall from the Buddha, but I can't be sure how this killing and robbery will fall." You see, this part of you is in the dead world, how can I get him alive?"
Sun Sheng was suspicious, "The master's chess game is not like winning, and if he revitalizes the opponent's chess, won't he be in danger?"
The old Taoist priest smiled and said nothing, stretched out his hand and beckoned: "Sun Sheng, come and see how you can bring this white son to life." ”