Chapter 34: The Depth of Sin
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There was nothing around, and a swift and biting wind swept through everything in the heavens and the earth, and then, leaving only the bare ground.
The ground beneath your feet has a heavy, dark color, and walking on it soon makes you feel tired, and even give birth to the idea of letting go of everything and throwing it away.
This is Huangquan Road.
A faint lamp tore through the dim boundary gate, the light of the lamp and candle was also cold, like phosphorus fire on white bones, the originally dead and silent space suddenly sounded a terrible wail, countless wind ghosts cried and roared towards the firelight, but they were a foot away, looking at the ghosts and gods under the light in fear, and once again set off a terrifying howl, soaring, crowded.
"These are all ghosts who have escaped from the underworld and tried in vain to rush across the Yellow Springs Road to return to the underworld, or people who, like you, are ready to enter the underworld from the underworld, only to be lost here, becoming lonely and helpless spirits. They had nothing to eat, no place to sleep, and every day they had to be blown apart by the winding wind between the two worlds, and when they came together again, they became chaotic and lost their memories. So you'd better not leave the range of the lights, or you'll become like them. ”
Bai Wuchang Cen Qing had been looking left and right, so he slowed down, held the guiding light higher so that he could see more clearly, and carefully introduced it on the side.
"I thought you would be hostile to me. ”
Cen Qing turned his face and smiled, and said to Bai Wuchang.
"I have been in the underworld for a thousand years, and if you can live for a thousand years, you will find hostility to be a very boring feeling. Bai Wuchang glanced carefully at Cen Qing's face, as if he wanted to keep this look in mind, "It's just a business matter, and it was originally our duty to let you come to the underworld to confront you." ”
"But Xiao Hei seems to be different from you, don't look at his cold appearance, his feelings are much richer than yours. Cen Qing took a look at the black impermanence and continued to smile.
Hearing the title of "Little Black", Hei Wuchang snorted coldly and turned his face away.
"Brother Hei is different from me, he was loyal and brave before his death, and he was hot-blooded, and this jealous and hateful character will not change even if he is a ghost. Bai Wuchang also laughed, but he stretched out his long tongue, his face was sad, and his nondescript smile looked even more terrifying.
"Oh, it turns out that ghosts and gods are also served by human spirits, and I thought you were born gods. ”
"I heard you say that you are going to rip off a large piece of meat in the underworld, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to do so. It is not a secret thing for human souls to serve as ghosts and gods, and it is okay to tell you at this moment, I just hope that you will not make a big announcement in the world. Bai Wuchang said, "Seeing that you have Taoist supernatural powers, you should have heard of ghosts asking for incense, and the gods gathered to recite this sentence." ”
Cen Qing nodded, indeed, on the first day he met Li Zangfeng, the other party had said this.
Therefore, ghosts and gods all originate from human desires. ”
Bai Wuchang's statement was so amazing that Cen Qing was stunned and stopped. And Bai Wuchang also stopped there, holding the lamp in one hand, quietly waiting for Cen Qing to digest this sentence.
"Wish?"
Bai Wuchang smiled again, and looked at Cen Qing meaningfully: "Faith, there is." If you don't believe, you don't. ”
"I don't believe it. Cen Qing raised his head and stared at Bai Wuchangdao.
"There are billions of beings in the world, and you are just one of them. Bai Wuchang saw Cen Qing's sudden expression before continuing, "The faith in the world is the food of ghosts and gods, and we exist because of the world. ”
"Your words like this are likely to break the foundation of the underworld. Cen Qing reminded.
"Unless you can change the faith of the whole world. Hei Impermanence sneered from the side, "However, you are also a demon, and your existence will only make the world more trusting and dependent on ghosts and gods." ”
Cen Qing smiled and didn't refute the black impermanence, because he knew that in the history of his previous life, there was a group of people who had changed the beliefs of 50,000 people.
Walking forward, the darkness became thicker and thicker, as if a layer of gray mist was covered between the heavens and the earth, even Cen Qing's eyes that had been refined by the aura could only see more than a dozen feet away.
The sound of waves crashing on the shore was heard.
A long river that could not be seen on the other side flowed over, and then rushed to the unreachable distance, the long bridge was lying on the waves, and the end was filled with dense fog, like a thin silk thread.
Lethe River, Nai He Bridge.
"It's a long way off. Cen Qing looked at the bridge, but did not see the legendary Meng Po, perhaps she was at the other bridge of another bridge, holding a bowl of mystical soup with all five flavors, so that the dead ghost forgot the past life.
He has not forgotten that everything in his previous life is vivid, as if it were yesterday.
If you walk across that bridge and face Meng Po's soup, will he drink it or not?
Shaking his head and shaking off the boring thoughts in his mind, Cen Qing strode onto the Nai He Bridge. The bridge was only three feet wide and narrow, and because it was hard to find the end, it looked extremely narrow and steep. Three feet under his feet is the turbulent Nai He bridge water, countless corpses and bones at the bottom of the water, countless ghosts howling miserably in the river, and the sound is so terrible that it pierces the eardrums.
Cen Qing gradually frowned.
"Are these sinful people?"
He asked Bai Impermanence.
"The law of the earth, yes. Bai Wuchang nodded and lowered the light a bit, "There are many more ahead, if you don't want to continue looking, we can use spells to hurry." ”
"No, I can walk over there. Cen Qing narrowed his eyes and hid the fluctuations in his heart.
It's been an incredibly difficult road.
A thousand, or ten thousand, Cen Qing couldn't remember how many unjust souls he saw, he never imagined that there were so many living beings along the way to the underworld who could not be redeemed, could not see the light of day, and did not even have a chance to be reincarnated.
"What kind of sin prevents them from being reborn?"
When he walked across the Nai He Bridge, Cen Qing couldn't help but ask.
"Even the deepest sins you can think of in the world can be reborn in the human world as long as you have suffered the punishment of eighteen layers of hell in the underworld. Bai Wuchang's voice became a little peculiar, but his expression was still solemn, "The only unforgivable sin in Heaven and Earth is unfaith!"
Without faith, the foundations of heaven and earth will be severed, so such souls will never be forgiven, and they will never be allowed to return to the earth.
In addition to this, he had one more sentence that he did not say: almost all the souls of the Piercing Realm were almost unbelievers.
"Lao Bai, you are a little too cautious, is it really the nature of a literati, even if you are a ghost, you are still so true?"
Cen Qing raised his head, facing the face of Hei Wuchang that suddenly became hideous, and smiled very calmly: "Did I say that I must return to the world?"
"Let's go, continue to lead the way. He instructed the two impermanences, "The next stop should be the city of the dead." ”