By the light, it could be seen that there was a long piece of oilcloth covering the high wall, and when Master Bumo gently removed the oilcloth, the paintings on the wall were revealed little by little.

The first painting is of Amitabha Buddha and the saints leading to the Elysium of Rebirth, and the Buddha statues and figures in the painting are vivid, looking peaceful and peaceful. Those people have remained unchanged throughout their lives, with full faith, wishes, and actions, and at the end of their lives, they will be guided by the Buddhas, and their achievements will be complete.

In the future, some people who diligently cultivate the ten virtues will also be able to pass away in the Heavenly Dao. There are also people who uphold the five precepts and die humanely. After that, it is to create ten evils, and the soul returns to the underworld. At this time, the Yaksha ghost king was inspired by karma and swaggered to come, and even if he woke up from a big dream, he would regret it too late, and all kinds of karma before his death would be liquidated one by one after death.

As the tarpaulin was removed little by little, the trial of the King of Yama in the Qin Guangdian began to appear, the evil mirror platform was accompanied by the criminal karma, the living hell of the king of Chujiang, the black rope hell of the Song Emperor, the great hell of the five senses and the king, etc., a total of eight hells, one by one in front of everyone. There are all kinds of tongue-pulling prisons, hungry ghost prisons, pus and blood prisons.

In the painting, the people who go to hell suffer the pain of having their tongues pulled out and cooked, or suffering from the addition of whips and canes, or the pain of cutting off their waists and skinning.

Each of the tortured spirits had a number of yaksha or evil spirits beside them holding sharp weapons, with hideous expressions and angry eyes. The faces of those spirits were distorted, terrified, and tormented. If you commit all kinds of crimes in your life and go to hell, you will be punished by torture.

The screams and howls that Wu Shijiu and the fat master heard before came from these paintings, the howls were distant and empty, and they seemed to be right in front of them, and the two of them only saw cold sweat trickling down, but they felt that the characters in the paintings were too realistic, and they had been staring at a painting for a long time, as if the spirit in the painting was reaching out for help from them, or the evil ghost was about to get out of the mural and pounce on him.

When he walked to the mural of Pus and Blood Hell, Master Bumo said: "Legend has it that several butchers in Chang'an City came to see this painting together, and at the beginning they were loud and playful, but they didn't think so. When he saw this pus and blood hell, he was speechless for a long time, and after he went back, he changed his profession and stopped doing it in the slaughterhouse. ”

Wu Shijiu and the fat man got closer to look at the mural of the pus and blood hell, and saw six or seven yaksha and evil ghosts spewing fire from their mouths, holding steel forks, picking up one soul after another and throwing them into the pool of pus and blood. Countless souls were soaked in pus and blood and struggled and wailed, and a line of small words was written next to it: Killing living beings is angry with gods and ghosts, and pus and blood cannot be dissolved.

Wu Shijiu remembered what Master Zhen said: "Anyone who has seen this painting has begun to reflect on the sins they have done, and even the butchers in the market are reluctant to kill again." I thought that Wu Daozi's painting had a great influence at that time, which can be seen.

Master Bumo continued: "Mr. Wu killed others by mistake in his later years, and he regretted it in his heart, so he painted this masterpiece overnight. He is well versed in the cycle of cause and effect in Buddhism, and he has the understanding of his heart, which is why he paints all kinds of sins and punishments in this world so vividly. In this way, it is a warning to future generations to accumulate more good results and not to accumulate evil causes. ”

While explaining the meaning of each painting, the three of them walked up to the penultimate mural. Master Bumo said: "It's just that the poor monk has something unclear, this is the ghost king waving his hand to summon all the souls into the gate of reincarnation, presumably the oval arch behind him, but why is there a keyhole on this door?"

Wu Shijiu and the fat man listened to his introduction, and while looking closer, they saw that there was a keyhole in the middle of the door of reincarnation. At this moment, the wooden box in Wu Shijiu's arms vibrated again and again, almost coming out of his hand. He hurriedly broke the lock and opened the wooden box, and suddenly with a "whoosh", a thick copper key flew out and happened to be inserted into the keyhole.

"Amitabha, the poor monk has finally waited for this day. ”

Master Bumo put down the lantern, folded his hands and bowed deeply to the mural, stepped forward, gently turned the bronze key, only to hear the rustling sound, and the walls of the last two paintings suddenly sank in, and slowly moved to the left and right, and a hidden wall slowly appeared.

"Donor, it turns out that you are the psychic messenger, our temple has been waiting for you for more than 300 years, generation after generation of abbots to this day, the sky is pitiful, and finally let the poor monks wait. Master Bumo said and pointed to the wooden box in Wu Shijiu's arms and said, "If I guess correctly, there is still a hand-painted book in here?"

With the help of the light, Wu Shijiu looked at the wooden box and found that there was a parchment scroll inside, and when he took it out and unfolded it, it was another painting, and the painting style was exactly the same as "Hell in Disguise", thinking it was written by the same person. However, the contents of the painting seem to be only part of the complete painting, and when the three of them look at the wall that has just appeared, they find that the mural on it is missing a piece.

Wu Shijiu put the hand-painted book on the missing part of the mural, and it was strange to say that the picture book seemed to have life, glued to the wall by itself, and merged with the whole mural. Immediately afterwards, the mural moved and began to change its contents.

First, on the top of a snow-capped mountain, a gate of reincarnation opened, and tens of thousands of strange beasts rushed out and rushed towards a city. Then there is a general who directs the soldiers to kill the beast in various ways. At the same time, a man fell out of the door, naked, tall, thin, with short hair and a blank expression.

Master Bumo looked at Wu Shijiu: "Amitabha, presumably this person is Master Wu Shi. ”

Wu Shijiu was also dumbfounded by the appearance of himself in the mural, and the scenery and characters in the painting jumped as if they were alive.

The second time it was opened, it was in the middle of the city, two evil beasts rushed out, surrounded by a large number of soldiers, and after a while, the two evil beasts disappeared, and there seemed to be a person rushing into the door.

Then the style of painting changed, and the door began to open everywhere, sometimes in the barren mountains and mountains, sometimes in the lakeside canyons, and every time it was opened, fierce monsters appeared, and the people fled in all directions. Some monsters spewed flames, and everywhere they went, there was a sea of fire, and all the jungles and houses were burned; some monsters ate people, sneaked into homes in the middle of the night, and ate living people; some sprayed venom, polluting the water source, and when someone went to drink water, they were poisoned and died, and the evil beast swallowed the poisoned person into their stomachs. Among them, Bi Fang, Xiangliu and other evil beasts appeared in turn. The three of them were terrified to see, and before they knew it, their back clothes were soaked with sweat.

After looking at it for a while, the three of them found that the gate seemed to be drawing a route map, and everywhere they went was not only the territory of Western Xia and Tibet, but also the territory of the Song Dynasty, and even Dali and other places, and every time they opened, they all remarked a person's name. It was opened seven more times, and in addition to the first and second opening of the spiritual gate, seven people were clearly marked with their names.

"Ah, I understand!" Wu Shijiu suddenly realized: "This is the Spirit Gate, I am the first person to come here through the Spirit Gate......

As soon as the words fell, the spiritual gate suddenly returned to the place where it was opened for the first time, and a bright moon in the western frontier hung high in the sky, and nine people appeared in the picture one after another, surrounding the spiritual gate. Each of these nine people used all their strength, only to see the nine spiritual techniques of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, cloud, thunder, and lightning all cast together, and went straight to the spiritual gate, which became smaller and narrower, and was about to be closed.

Suddenly, one of the nine people retreated, and the style of painting changed again, and the figure of that person skyrocketed, becoming exactly the same as the ghost king in "Hell in Disguise". The other eight fell to the ground one after another, taking advantage of this opportunity, the spiritual gate suddenly expanded, like a black hole that devoured everything, sucking all the creatures in front of them into it.

At this time, three words appeared in the mural: "Ninth Spirit." ”

The three of them looked at each other, it turned out that the key person who closed the spiritual gate was not Wu Shijiu, who was the first to cross over, but one of the psychic messengers, who was this person? Why did he become like a ghost king, there is no answer in the mural.

There was a click, the sheepskin rolled to the ground, and the mural on the wall gradually faded. After a while, the murals on all the walls began to fade, eventually turning into one white wall after another, and the entire "Hell in Disguise" disappeared.

Wu Shijiu picked up the parchment scroll and unfolded it, the hand-drawn book became a map, marking the location of each spiritual door opening, and the names of the seven psychic messengers, thinking that this was the clue map to find the remaining seven.

"The task of Amitabha, Lord Wu Shi, and the poor monk has finally been completed. The task of finding the other psychic messengers in the painting is up to you. However, the warning in the painting should be kept in mind. ”

Wu Shijiu suddenly remembered that before he fell into the spiritual gate and enjoyed the feather qia full of souls, he had specially told him to be careful of the ninth psychic messenger, and until today, he didn't know the deep meaning.

But who was this man, and why did he betray at a critical moment?

Master Bumo said: "The two donors, the poor monk still has something to ask for, I wonder if the two can agree?"

"Master, please speak, as long as I can, I will definitely help. ”

"The donor takes Shi Sheng away, this thing must also be a spirit animal, but it has a gentle temperament, and it protects the lord, and the poor monk will not keep it anymore in his twilight years. ”

However, with it by his side, the master will not feel lonely. ”

Wu Shijiu still wanted to excuse himself, but he saw that Master Bumo stood still under the light, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he was fixed. Wu Shijiu called a few times in a row, but Master Bumo no longer answered. A gust of wind blew, and his whole body gradually turned into a cloud of smoke and dust, which dissipated with the wind, and the lantern fell to the ground, and the flames still danced incessantly.

The fat man sighed: "Master Bumo has passed away." ”

In the dark, the two of them stood quietly for a long time, and their hearts were gloomy. Shi Sheng saw that his master suddenly disappeared, and searched everywhere in the courtyard for a while, seeing that there was no hope, he looked at Wu Shijiu and the fat man, and made a slight "sonorous" sound.

At this time, a crescent moon has risen to the middle of the sky, the moon shadow is mottled on the wall, and the temple is silent. The husband who passed by beat the gong, one long and four short: "Du------ bang, bang, bang, bang...... The cold wave is coming, be careful of the doors and windows......" The sound faded away, and there was no sound after that.

Wu Shijiu, are you ready to go to thousands of rivers and mountains?