Chapter 140: The Gao Clan
Great Wei Dynasty, Shentianfu.
The land of the 800-mile plain is full of fertile fertile fields, and there are boundary rivers flowing through the middle river, and country houses are next to each other.
It has the largest and most dense population in the entire Great Wei, the richest land, and most of the wealthy families, gathering the most elite part of the Great Wei.
But a magnificent mountain was erected in the center.
It is obviously not the highest mountain in the Great Wei, so it is particularly prominent and tall, so sacred.
Like the emperor who only respects the universe, everyone says that there is dragon energy here.
Therefore, the capital of the Great Wei Dynasty was built under this mountain and was called Gaojing.
There is an altar built on the mountain, and before the emperors of the Great Wei Dynasty ascended the throne, they had to go up the mountain to worship the gods at the altar.
In this way, it can be regarded as being recognized by the heavens and the gods and succeeding to the throne.
In the early morning, a thick fog spreads from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and the whole of Takakyo is in vast.
As soon as the wind blew, the dense fog of the early morning dissipated, and the scene above the emperor mountain was faintly revealed.
I saw that on the mountain cliff facing the capital, there was a huge statue of a god that spread from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain.
The stone statue of the god sits cross-legged on the ground, with the sky and the sea of clouds above his head, overlooking everything in Gaojing.
And the appearance.
It looks very similar to Gao Xian, but he is a little older.
"Chirp!"
At this moment, a golden divine bird crossed the sky, its wings flowing in the sunlight, and it flew straight to the sacred mountain under the sky.
The mythical bird hovered under the idol.
In the vast fog, he fell towards Gaojing.
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The city of Gaojing extends in all directions, and the street is dozens of meters wide, just like a square.
Because it is too wide, people do not just walk back and forth, but cross and cross left and right.
The mansions and various buildings in the city are also completely different from those of the Great Zhou, full of the style of the ancient dynasty and very religious.
Statues of various gods and ghosts stand in front of and behind the door, with exaggerated and hideous faces.
At the corner of the eaves street, there is also a statue of a small ghost beast.
Lanterns hang in front of every house, and the same is true on the streets.
Early in the morning, before dawn, a funeral procession went down the street.
It's called a funeral, but it's extremely weird.
Because there was no coffin, everyone just carried a white sedan chair, and everyone wore the mask of a demon, which looked terrifying.
The old man in the sedan chair did not die either.
Instead, he tried his best to support it, as if waiting for a certain moment, until then, he could die in peace.
Rushing in front of the white palanquin, a man with a ghost mask held a lantern and shouted in a strange tone.
"Yin people on the road! Yang people avoid!"
"The soul returns to the netherworld and enjoys eternal bliss. ”
“......”
"Yin people on the road! Yang people avoid!"
"The soul returns to the netherworld and enjoys eternal bliss. ”
The people who got up early on the street saw this scene and gave way one after another, not daring to stop it.
This is the custom of the Great Wei God Tianfu land, and the old people who are about to die will be sent underground.
Legend has it that death is just the beginning.
There is also the netherworld under the earth, and people can enter the netherworld after death and enjoy the yin life.
There is a blessed land of yin houses, no disease and no disaster.
There are also gods to protect them.
However, in order to enter the netherworld, they must be sent into it before they die.
In this way, their souls will go straight to the netherworld.
Otherwise, you can only become a lonely ghost, and suffer in the painful world until your soul is gone.
The funeral procession made a beeline for a temple in the city.
But it says - Jieya.
"Life and death!"
"Reincarnation!"
"Open!"
A mage dressed in white waited early, shouting slogans.
Ordered someone to open the temple door to welcome the funeral procession and the white palanquin inside.
Under the pillars of the corridor in the temple, men and women in white clothes knelt on the ground on both sides, forming a passage to send the yin people on the road.
The mourners did not dare to stop for a single step, and went straight to a large hall.
There were no gods in the temple, only a huge deep well that exuded an eerie cold aura.
In the legend of the Great Wei here, people are sent to the entrance of the netherworld.
There are still characters written on the left and right sides of the main hall, which are said to be in Yin script.
On the left is: "The Well of the Netherworld." ”
On the right is the "Nether Gate." ”
The people carried the palanquin to the top of the yin well, and put it down with eternal chains.
"Whoa!"
"Whoa!"
With the sound of chains.
The sedan chair sank all the way down, and the bottom was not visible to the naked eye, and no one dared to see it.
There are such realms everywhere in Great Wei, the yamen of the netherworld.
There is a yin well in every realm, but the Shentianfu and the capital are the most special.
The yin wells here seem to really lead to the netherworld, and there is no bottom.
Everyone knelt on the ground to send the Yin Man on the road, but they didn't expect that there was movement in the sky at this moment.
The cold morning was cloudy and foggy, and there was a golden glow in the sky.
It was the golden divine bird that grazed from the sky, and everyone knelt directly on the ground.
Don't dare to look up.
It wasn't until the shadow disappeared that he dared to get up.
The golden divine bird landed directly on the edge of the palace, on top of the largest realm.
Folded wings and fell.
In the midst of the kneeling of many mages and disciples, the head of the divine bird struggled violently, and then turned into the head of a man.
The wings of the whole body continue to converge and rise, turning into skin.
The size is also gradually shrinking.
Hands and feet poking out.
In the end, he turned into a tall and mighty young man.
This completely broke the previous Taoist people's statement that people turned into demons, but the spirits became people.
This is an independent race that has nothing to do with human beings at all.
And it seems that it should have appeared not long ago, and it only appeared in Great Wei in the past hundred years, and even Si Tianjian has never seen and known about it.
A white-robed mage waved his hand.
The two women came up and dressed the demon in a dark robe, with golden lines on it, as well as a talisman ornament that represented the gods in Dawei.
The loose robe could not hide the demon's sturdy body, and his thick black hair spread out and draped over his shoulders.
Several mages bowed.
"See Huzhou Day Wandering God. ”
There is no shame in the man, and he allows people to look at his body and dress himself.
Or rather, he didn't put these people in front of him.
Adulthood.
He opened his voice in a rough voice: "This god wants to see the realm lord." ”
Several mages bowed their waists and stepped aside, and walked softly and quickly into the deepest and most luxurious hall with the Huzhou Riyou God.
The inside is resplendent with inscriptions engraved everywhere.
The floor was covered with gold plates, and the boards were covered with charms.
The center is also a yin well.
It's just a dozen times bigger, and it looks like an abyssal hole leading to the ground.
Hanging on it is a splendid wooden house like a small building, with red lacquered square windows, which is extremely exquisite.
Layers of chains are entwined.
Two wooden doors opened automatically, and the demon stepped directly into them.
The red embroidery building sank all the way down the yin well towards the earth, and the iron lock sounded loudly.
It was pitch black and silent.
There was only the sound of chains.
After a long time, the hollowed-out gate suddenly lit up.
In the darkness, lanterns floated in the air, and the strange cyan fire flickered among them.
Dense.
What's even more terrifying is that the lantern turned to the other side, and there was a human face on it that was constantly changing, observing the surroundings.
As the red embroidery floor sank, it kept passing by.
Each lantern has a word on it.
"Yin and Yang Realm City!"
"Don't enter the living!"
It turns out that Gaojing is the city of the Yin and Yang Realm.
The upper is yang.
The bottom is yin.
The two worlds of yin and yang are clearly divided like light and darkness.
It is for, the city of the yin and yang world.
"Boom!"
The chains tightened and came to an abrupt halt.
A huge hole appeared outside, and a little further in the hole was a wide and towering bronze door.
The stone tablet standing outside the bronze gate reads:
"First floor!"
On the stele, the lines flashed red, and a gap appeared in the middle.
The crack cracked, and suddenly a terrifying demon eye opened from above, looking inside.
The demon's body tightened, and he didn't dare to resist at all, but his back was cold, and he shivered, as if he was extremely afraid of this magic eye and knew the horror behind it.
After the MONOCULUS glanced at him, the bronze door slowly opened.
The world inside is revealed.
It was a huge city.
Countless human-faced lanterns float high above, illuminating the dark world.
There is also a stretch of housing pavilion buildings, and in the streets inside, you can see a corpse that has obviously died still retaining consciousness, walking on the street, full of people, and lively.
There are all kinds of large and small demons living in it, there are horse demons with horse hooves that are three meters tall, only a demon with a head flying in the sky, and a terrifying existence with several heads and arms like a hill.
One by one, they swaggered through the city, and this is not the world of people, but the world of demons and the dead.
But Huzhou Riyoushen did not enter, but waited for the door to slowly close.
Go down again.
layer 1.
Another layer.
All the way down, as if to the end of the earth, the bottom of death.
It stopped nine times in a row, as if it had just reached its limit.
The last giant bronze door opened, and this time the city inside was much smaller.
And in this city on the ninth layer of the Netherworld, there are rivers everywhere, extending in all directions, and there are lotus lanterns floating on the river.
If you look closely, you can see that under these lotus lanterns, the white roots are wriggling, entwining and wrapping corpses.
Ships sail on the water, and there are all kinds of "people" on board, going everywhere.
They are all like Huzhou Riyoushen, wearing divine robes, indicating their identity.
There are no dead people in sight here, and it is already a city full of demons.
Or rather, it is the city of the gods of the Yin and Yang Realm.
Huzhou Riyoushen walked to the door, and from the city gate, a figure wearing a golden robe slowly hung down.
First the feet, then the lower body, and finally the upper body.
It was motionless, as if a corpse was hanging in the air, but the body kept falling with fire, like burning firewood bursting with sparks.
The voice came out.
"Huzhou is a day wandering god. ”
"Why did you enter the Nine-Layer City of the Netherworld?"
"By the orders of the Realm Lord. Huzhou Riyou God said respectfully.
After entering the city, there are dragon boats coming along the river.
Huzhou Riyou God honestly presented a round hole coin full of strange patterns to the old man who was holding the boat, and only then did he dare to board the ship.
After getting on the boat, I didn't dare to sit down, just stood.
The incomparably noble Huzhou Day Wandering God outside is extremely humble here.
Stepping into this netherworld city, you can feel that there is a strong smell of burning incense everywhere, and the entire netherworld city is everywhere, as if this is not a city, but a temple.
The dragon boat traveled farther and farther, passing through the buildings on both sides of the river full of religious flavors, and under the water were lotus lanterns wrapped around the corpses, and finally arrived in front of the central hall of the realm lord.
The ground is a huge five-element gossip.
Overhead, countless lanterns were squeezed together, as if countless human heads were wriggling.
The stairs went all the way up, and the Realm Lord Hall overlooked everything from above.
Huzhou Riyoushen went ashore, passed through the five elements of gossip, and climbed the steps.
In the end, he didn't dare to enter the hall, knelt directly on the ground, and shouted loudly.
"Huzhou Riyou God worships the realm lord. ”
"Han Shiguan killed a night wandering god, and the realm lord ordered me to arrange it half a year ago. ”
It is talking about the so-called black-winged demon bird, that is, the night wandering god.
At this time, the light in the main hall flickered, and layers of golden light spread out, illuminating the darkness.
A deity sat in the hall of the Realm Lord, and as soon as he appeared, golden light cast out, illuminating the inside and outside.
When he opened his eyes, he pinched his fingers.
It's as if you're calculating a celestial machine.
Then he nodded and smiled.
"It's already at the door!"
"Is this coming for me?"
"Do you want to go back to the top of Kunlun again?"
The deity lifted his head, revealing his face.
That face looks very similar to Gao Xian, and it looks exactly what Gao Xian looks like after he gets old.
It is exactly the same as the statue of the god on the mountain on the ground.