Chapter 645: The River of the Underworld
Nuwa and Fuxi left the cave when Medusa was practicing, and the two walked on the path of the valley where they had just died, and Nuwa was in a very bad mood and looked a little lost.
Although Fu Xi understood the reason why Nuwa was in a bad mood, he was also very sympathetic to Medusa's experience, "Why don't you wait a little longer? Why are you in such a hurry? Don't you look at the results of Medusa's cultivation?"
Nuwa shook her head and said, "In this kind of gloomy place, it will be more uncomfortable to stay for a while, Medusa should have a beautiful family, be favored by thousands of people, and enjoy life as an ordinary human race." But because of the battle between Athena and Poseidon, my life's happiness was ruined, and I felt uncomfortable looking at him and her. β
Fu Xi looked at Nuwa, his face was full of gratifying expressions, such a Nuwa was exactly what he wanted to see, not a high-minded, ruthless and unrighteous sage Nuwa, but a Nuwa with feelings, flesh and blood, more like an ordinary person.
Fu Xi suddenly stretched out his hand and hugged Nuwa in his arms and said: "Don't be sad, there is yin and yang, it is these tragedies in this world that will bring out the beautiful joy, even if we are a great saint, everything can not go well, what we have to do is to make more beautiful things in this world, and let more living beings live happily within our ability." β
Nuwa shrunk in Fu Xi's arms, not moving, enjoying the warmth of this moment, and at the same time muttered, "It feels good to have you by your side!"
After a while, Nuwa broke free from Fu Xi's arms and adjusted her mind, the previous loss had disappeared, "Medusa we have already met, and we can help those who can, the rest depends on her own efforts, let's go to the underworld to find Pandora and see what kind of surprise this Pandora can give us." β
Fuxi, in order to hide her movements, Nuwa performed the technique of space shuttle several times in a row, and then came to a big black river. This is a unique space, the girl pointed to the flowing black river and said: "This is one of the four rivers of Styx, the only way to enter the underworld, the four rivers of Styx are the River of Anger and Oath, the River of Grievance and Distress, the River of Sorrow and the River of Fire that divides the various parts of the territory, this is the first River of Grievance and Distress, also known as the Akeron River." β
Fu Xi opened his eyes to take a closer look, there were countless strange little ones on the river that kept carrying souls across the river, and those small boats had a strange power, constantly sucking away the wisps of gray gas on the souls, and those souls became more and more transparent, and even some weaker souls finally dissipated completely.
Fu Xi drove these are soul ferrymen, remembering the Greek mythology of later generations, legend has it that these soul ferrymen will collect money when they lead the soul across the river, or jewelry or gold, at that time Fu Xi was still a little strange, is it in this underworld, only the dead also need to use gold jewelry?
"Sister, I heard that these soul ferrymen will extradite souls across the river only after collecting the fare, but why haven't I seen them collect money? β
Nuwa sneered, "It is true that they will collect the ship's fare, but what they collect is not gold and silver finance, but soul power, you should have discovered that when those souls are on the ship, there will be gray mist on their bodies that will be sucked away by the ship, and some souls will be directly dissipated because they are sucked dry, and those that are absorbed are soul power." According to what I saw from Apollo's memories, these soul powers could be extracted from the ship, and in the end, they were absorbed like food by some powerful souls to enhance their own strength, and these souls finally condensed into entities and became powerful warriors. It's Hades' thugs. As the king of Hades, the soul power absorbed by Hades is the purest soul power formed after countless refining. β
"I see, this is like refining Gu, after many tests, choose the strongest of them, step on the corpse of the same kind to the peak, and find that the most pitiful guy has lost the power of the soul, and finally the soul is scattered, and there is no chance to even reincarnate, the ferryman extradites the soul across the river is actually the first test of the soul, in their eyes, the soul power is sucked dry, and finally the soul is scattered, they can only blame them for not having enough strength, they deserve it. β
Nuwa nodded, "Yes, in the eyes of the gods, the strength is too weak, it's just a waste of resources, it's better to die directly and use their soul power to cultivate more powerful subordinates, I really hope to let them also taste the feeling of being decided by others at will, and let them also taste the pain that your souls experience." β
Fu Xi understood Nuwa's dislike for the gods, and changed the subject: "I feel the power of death from these rivers, and this feeling is very much like the drowning of our world, the aggregate of the supreme yin energy, it seems that the place where death gathers is indeed the most prone to this kind of thing, by the way, there seem to be four Styx, you tell me about these four Styx." β
"What we are seeing now is the first of the four great rivers of Styx, called the River of Archron, the River of Distress, those who want to enter the underworld must first pass through this river, and the dead who want to cross the river must pay the ferry fee, that is to say, make an agreement with the river Styx ferryman to pay for the power of the soul, of course, Hades does not want people to know his calculations, and change the story to the mortal world, so that everyone thinks that the ship fare is gold jewelry or something. Nuwa sighed, feeling pity for those who had been fooled, but she couldn't change anything about it now.
"The extradition of these ships is actually the division of the soul of a god named Caron under Hades, and it can be said that Hades is the most loyal lackey, and it is said that the water quality of this Styx Akeron is much lighter than the water in the Yang world, and there is a "Feather Sinking River" The title of this ship of the underworld is also made by Hadis, which incorporates his understanding of the law of death, and the soul can only have these boats to extradite if he wants to cross the river, otherwise it is almost impossible to cross, and the undead will soon be eroded and melted in the water of the Styx, becoming a pure energy to replenish the aura of the underworld.
When Fu Xi heard this, he secretly scolded Hades in his heart for being insidious enough, he really squeezed the value of his soul to the limit, even if it was the last trace of value, he didn't let it go, but over the years he has made countless souls scattered, and on the surface, it seems that he has created countless powerful subordinates, but at the same time, he has accumulated countless karma, although it seems nothing on the surface, but his luck will be weakened to the limit, and once it breaks out in the future, he will inevitably be robbed and killed, so Hades's practice of squeezing the soul is actually picking up the sesame seeds and dropping the watermelon, and there will always be a day when he will regret itγ
At this time, Nuwa continued: "The second is the River of Sorrow of Xsetus, the River of Lamentation, a tributary of the Achillon River, which is formed by the tears of criminals who served hard labor in hell, so there are often terrible wails on the surface of the water, hence the name, it can absorb the negative emotions of the undead before their death, Hades seems to be able to use it to cast some kind of vicious curse, even Zeus is very jealous of it, and he has not dared to persecute Hades too much because of this. β
"Churi Pleagton, the river of fire, the hellfire burning on the river, so powerful that even the gods could not compete with it, Hades used to isolate the parts of the underworld. β
"The last one is the river of hatred, also known as the river of wrath, the river of oaths, exuding a unique force field, repelling all power, and divine power cannot be used here, so mortal legends say that if the god crosses that river, he will lose his divinity, and is often used by the god as an oath, and everything promised in her name cannot be canceled, Styx originates from the Okaianos that flows through the ground, and splashes to the surface, so it is an intermediary connecting the mortal world and the underworld, of course, in fact, the so-called connection is a kind of spatial distortion, occasionally there are souls through this to enter the yang world, and there are also cases where living people enter the underworld, so they subjectively think that the underworld is undergroundγ β
"In addition to these four main trunk Styx, there is also a small tributary river, the Lert Forgotten River, in fact, I think this river is the most important, also known as the Lethe River, drinking this river water can forget the past in the world, this is the Meng Po soup of Noah's universe. β
When Fu Xi heard this, he couldn't help but imagine a whole river of Meng Po soup in his mind, and he didn't know what kind of expression he would have when he saw the Lechuan River.
"The River Styx connects to the entrance to the underworld, and is guarded by Hades' pet three-headed hellhound, but something strange is that the three-headed hellhound can also cast the hellfire supernatural power, this is not the kind of hellfire that has been weakened, but the real hellfire that is exactly the same as Hades, I suspect that the three-headed hellhound is not Hades's pet. β