[In the middle of the sea, there is a mountain of Dushuo, and there is a large peach tree.] It is three thousand miles long, and the northeast between its branches is called the ghost gate, and ten thousand ghosts enter and exit. - "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"]

Yuan Xi knew about the theft of the side hall on the night of the night banquet, and the demon clan guards deliberately caused trouble, so he probably connected the cause and effect.

remembered what Chaosheng said at that time, "Tune the tiger away from the mountain", it turned out that she knew it at that time.

The stolen was the Dinghai Canglan Bead sent by Chu Mad who was far away in the Dragon Silk Palace in the South China Sea. The effect of this bead is nothing more than the freedom of movement in the sea. Among the Six Realms, the immortals and demons who have cultivated to the highest level naturally do not need to rely on this thing to enter the sea. Half of the underworld is on the mountains in the middle of the sea, and half is in the sea, so the ghosts have always known water, and they don't need it.

Come to think of it, aside from those monster elves with low cultivation, the only ones who need this thing to enter the sea at the moment are the human race and the demon race.

Of course, mortals have the motive to ask for the Dinghai Canglan Pearl, but they can't move freely in Tianyu Mountain, so the only possibility is the demon clan.

That's right, all the demon clans on land, unless they have excellent cultivation, like some kind of demon emperor and demon emperor, it is difficult to enter the water. Forehead...... Unless he's inherently aquatic, the Kraken is a different story. But most of the demon clans have difficulty entering the sea.

No wonder those demon guards in front of the Wuxiang Palace went and returned, and then provoked so many people to watch, wanting to make a big deal, it turned out to be really a plan to divert everyone's attention, and then create an opportunity for the same clan to steal the Dinghai Canglan Pearl.

He went to interrogate the demon guards who were controlled by Chaosheng and made trouble in front of the Wuxiang Palace, but they refused to reveal half a word, and finally committed suicide by destroying the demon pill.

The situation has developed to such an extent that he has no choice but to report the situation to the relics hall and the court.

As soon as Yuan Xi entered the relics hall, he found Zhaoyun and Qi Mo both kneeling on the ground.

"Your Majesty, I can find a reason to convince you, you really don't blame us?"

"Well, it depends on the mood. "Chaosheng is bored.

“......”

Gao Leng is fake, and the scoundrel is real.

Zhaoyun looked loveless, and sighed, "Your Majesty, I'll ...... it."

"You're not going to tell me a story again, are you?" Asahi looked at him with a faint expression.

“......”

Sure enough, Zhaoyun, like the old man Fusang, has a special obsession with storytelling.

Yes, that's right. In fact, Zhaoyun just wanted to say: Your Majesty, let me tell you a story......

Chao Sheng leaned on his seat, closed his eyes and said, "Let's talk." ”

"Your Excellency should know that it was the people of the demon clan who stole the Dinghai Canglan Pearl. ”

"Hmm. "Chaosheng should answer him. She noticed Yuan Xi coming over and said to him, "Sit down and listen." ”

Yuan Xi sat on one side and listened.

"Actually, most of the demon clans don't enter the sea. One is because most demons are born with no access to water, and the other is because they are useless when they enter the sea, and they usually settle down on land. But there is a place that is in the middle of the sea, and for the demon who stole the blue pearl of Dinghai, that place has to go again. ”

Come to think of it, this place is only Hades.

"So they stole the Dinghai Canglan Pearl to go to the underworld?" asked Yuan Yu.

Zhaoyun nodded, "To be exact, to go to hell." ”

Above the sea, there is a Dushuo Mountain, there is a huge peach tree on the mountain, the branches and leaves of the tree can cover a radius of 3,000 miles, under the east of this tree, there is a place called the ghost gate, which is the place where the ghosts of the world enter and exit. This is the underworld.

There is a bottomless pit in the sea of the underworld, called Guiru, where all the water in the world will be gathered, but the water here will not increase or decrease in the slightest. And the bottom of the sea is the so-called hell.

The mountain is the place where the legendary underworld is located, and after death, you have to enter the ghost gate and then count the blessings and misfortunes of your life, good and evil, and reincarnate. But under the mountains is the place of hell. Whoever commits evil before his life will be punished in hell.

"Go on. "Asahi said.

"The one who stole the Dinghai Canglan Pearl originally wanted to go to hell to see someone. He wanted to see my sister Danruo. ”

Speaking of which, Chaosheng already knows.

But as soon as these words came out, there was a difference between Qi Mo - he had never heard Zhaoyun mention that he also had a sister.

"Is it the former flower god Danruo?" he asked Zhaoyun.

Zhaoyun nodded.

Seeing Qi Mo's shock, Zhaoyun explained: "My sister Danruo and I were originally twin flowers born from the same root on an immortal mountain. Good and evil twins, she is good, I am evil. As long as the twin flowers coexist for one day, the evil side will continue to hurt the good side, and draw endless spiritual power from the other party. But if one side dies, the other cannot live alone. Nine hundred years ago, the god of flowers passed through the fairy mountain, separated the two of us, and got rid of the fate of twin life and death. In the end, she brought her sister, who possessed absolute goodness, back to the heavenly realm and cultivated her into a flower god. Send me, who has absolute evil, to the underworld, and plant it on the underworld by the Lethe River, and let me fend for myself.

"After more than a hundred years like this, I absorbed my resentment in the underworld and allowed my evil thoughts to grow, but the god of flowers set a ban on me at that time, so even if I cultivated into a human form, I couldn't leave Lethe for half a step. Later, when you went to the underworld, you found me, so he took me back to the Changming Palace, and the pure water of the Heavenly Pool washed away my evil thoughts, and gave me a name. I have been staying in the Changming Hall to do things.

"And my sister was taken away by the god of flowers and worshipped her as a teacher, and after a few hundred years, she inherited the position of the god of flowers and took charge of the flowers and trees of the six realms. Later, she was demoted to a demon for violating the rules of heaven, and finally was sent to hell for unrepentant and was not allowed to be reborn.

"The one who stole the Dinghai Canglan Pearl is called Zijin, he is in a high position in the demon clan, and he can be regarded as a confidant of the demon king. He stole the beads so that he could see my sister in the Infernal Hell. ”

Zhaoyun said, with a look of pity and pity on his face.

Yuan Xi couldn't have imagined that this jealous and hateful, right-wrong, and compassionate immortal Zhaoyun in front of him was the embodiment of evil nine hundred years ago. But looking at his current appearance, he is clearly a bodhisattva's heart, except that he doesn't look very smart, he is completely the embodiment of goodness.

Chaosheng knew everything, so he was naturally unmoved: "You said that if the Flower God Pill was demoted to a demon for violating the rules of heaven, and finally was sent to hell because he did not regret it, he would not be able to be reborn." Do you think this will convince this seat? ”

Zhaoyun sighed lightly, lowered his eyes and said:

"That's another story. ”

Three hundred years ago, if the flower god Dan descended to earth during the Hundred Flowers Festival, it coincided with a flood on that day, almost destroying all the living beings on one side. If Dan knows that this is a catastrophe from heaven, he must not disobey it. But when she watched those innocent mortals lose their lives in the flood, she still couldn't bear it, and finally confronted the water god and saved a bunch of mortal people.

The god of flowers also violated the mandate of heaven and violated the rules of heaven. In a fit of rage, the Emperor of Heaven stripped her of her position as the god of flowers, reduced her to a demon, and was never allowed to return to the heavenly realm.

Although Danruo has become a demon, he still has good thoughts in his heart and has never done anything that hurts heaven and reason. During this time, she met Zijin, who was also a demon in the mortal world.

Zijin has lived in the demon clan since he was a child, but the demon clan is a world where the weak are the strong and the weak are bullied. At that time, Zijin was just a little demon, and his cultivation was low and timid, so he was bullied. He couldn't stand the kind of days when he was bullied, so he came to the mortal world.

Dan Ruo was his only friend, so he stayed with her. The two have been staying in the mortal world, and they are also comfortable in the mountains and rivers, eating, drinking and having fun.

But it's far from that simple. If Dan is the embodiment of goodness, it represents absolute goodness. So when she sees the suffering of the people, she will never ignore it.

One day, Zijin said to Danruo: "Danruo, everyone says that those who eat grass are animals, why do they want to eat grass themselves? Hahaha, isn't this a slap in the face? It's so funny." ”

Dan Ruo looked dazed: "Eating grass?"

"Yes, I saw two mortals crouching in the corner eating weeds today. I also gobbled it up, and the food tasted good. Zijin said.

"Are they still disgraced and ragged?" asked Danruo.

"yes, how do you know?"

Danruo felt a little bitter in her heart when she heard this, and her heart seemed to be being dragged by her hand all the time, and she felt pain for a while. Although Zijin has always lived in the demon world and does not know anything about the world, she understands it. All beings are suffering, she has always known. She also knows that the heart-wrenching emotion is called pity.

"Zijin, they are very pitiful. They don't have enough to eat, so they can only eat weeds to satisfy their hunger. ”

"Poor?

Danruo shook his head helplessly, revealing a look of compassion: "Zijin, have you ever seen the people starving, poor, and poor, and poorly clothed, and have you ever seen them unable to make a living and have to sell their sons and daughters to endure the pain of separation of flesh and blood in exchange for a little rations? Have you ever seen the collusion between officials and businessmen, justice being trampled on in the end, and the despair of having nowhere to redress their grievances, and have you ever seen the ugliness of plundering and exploiting the powerful and the powerful without a bottom line?"

“...... I...... Seems understandable. ”

Although Zijin doesn't know about the things in the mortal world, this is probably the same as the demon world.

"Zijin, I can't see that the young have nothing to support, the old have nothing to rely on, I can't see that I don't have enough food and no clothes, I can't see evil oppressing good, light covering darkness, I can't see all injustice, I can't see all evil. I'm going to help them, I'm going to change that. Even if you go against the way of heaven and suffer karmic retribution, you will not hesitate!"

Zijin still remembers the resolute and resolute look on the face of the girl with a bright face hundreds of years ago, the sonorous words, and the iron bones. The seemingly petite and weak girl has the ambition of purifying all living beings in her heart, which makes him ashamed of himself.

He said, "Whatever you want to do, I'll be with you." You are not afraid of karma, so what am I afraid of!"

As a result, Danruo stayed in the mortal world. She opened a hospital to treat the poor free of charge, she built houses for the homeless, she opened a school to take in the children of poor families for free, and she also tried to punish bullies and change the peace...... She accumulates virtue and accumulates virtue, and the day is from a hundred goodness. She and Zijin have traveled to many places and helped many people. I don't know how many years have passed.

However, the saying "all living beings suffer" is also true. No matter what she does, no matter how much she does, there will always be places she can't see, and there are people who are suffering. There are always people she can't take care of, and they are still hiding in the corner and suffering in the world. She finally realized what it means to be powerless. Everyone called her a female bodhisattva and a great benevolent person, and only she knew how small her power was. After all, she can't reach out to all beings.

But all this is not the culprit that dragged her into the abyss. What really pushed her into the Infernal Hell was the real evil, the human heart.