At that time, the Buddha couldn't bear to destroy the demon world, so he opened another place in the wilderness, called the demon world, which is also the fourth world. When the Buddha practiced passing through the snow-capped mountains, he was swallowed by a peacock, and it was also recorded in later books that "since the chaotic time, the sky is open to the son, the earth is ugly, life is in Yin, heaven and earth are intertwined, and all things are born." All things have beasts and birds. The beast is long with the unicorn, and the bird and phoenix are the long. The phoenix has to be mated again, giving birth to peacocks and Dapeng. When the peacock was born, it was the most evil, it could eat people, and it could suck people in one bite for forty-five miles. Rulai was on the top of the snowy mountain, cultivating into a golden body, and he had already been sucked down by this. If he wanted to go out of his door, he was afraid of staining his true body, so he cut his back and stepped onto the spiritual mountain. If you want to hurt his life, you should be persuaded by the Buddhas: Hurting the peacock is like hurting my mother. Therefore, he was left at the Lingshan meeting and named him the Buddha Mother Peacock King Bodhisattva. (From Journey to the West, slightly altered.) Therefore, although this peacock was named a bodhisattva, he was not taken seriously by Rulai, who knew that he was the most evil when he was born, so he went to the demon world to become the king of ten thousand demons. Later, the Emperor of Heaven gave the Buddha Mother Peacock Daming King Bodhisattva another title: "Demon Venerable Hailing." ”

Since then, no one knows his real name.

This Demon Venerable has been in charge of the Demon Realm for nearly 10,000 years, and during these years, he has had very little contact with the Heavenly Realm and the Buddha. The demon world is the most disgusting place, this Buddha mother peacock king Bodhisattva must be perfect, and has become the demon venerable. I don't know if he will cooperate with him, this disgust will do more harm than good to the three realms of heaven, man and demon, but for the demon world, it has no effect. People in the demon world are indistinguishable from each other, lack of five senses, and all of them are traitors and evildoers, this disgust in the demon world can only promote their attachment to the law, and their demonization is even heavier. However, if the disgust of this demon world is not removed first, the demon world and the human world bordering the demon world will definitely be affected by it.

Xuan Che looked at the boundary between the demon realm and the human realm that appeared in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh, just speculate here, it's better to go and find out first.

This forest of living beings was planted by the Buddha Mother Peacock Daming King Bodhisattva, that is, after the Demon Venerable Hailing ascended to the throne, because the Demon World and the Human World and the Demon World are bordered, and people or demons often strayed into the Demon World and lost their lives for no reason, which was originally an inevitable thing. More than 6,000 years ago, several demons sneaked into the demon realm and slaughtered more than 800 people in the quarry, and then the emperor was furious and reported to the heavenly court, and the heavenly realm ordered the demon to manage his territory, so the demon lord sent people to build a locust tree around the demon world that was twenty miles wide.

The reason why the locust tree is called the locust tree is because the locust tree is a ghost in the wood. It is said that there is a literati named Li Gongzuo in a certain dynasty who wrote the "Biography of Nan Ke Taishou", saying that it is the Guangling people who are Chun Yudi, drunk, and fell asleep under the locust tree in the courtyard. I had a dream, I dreamed that I went to Dahuai Anguo, and became a relative to the princess, and I was Nan Ke Taishou for 20 years, and the official did a very glorious and illustrious job. But later, because of the defeat in the battle, the princess also died, and he was sent home. Then I woke up and saw my family cleaning the courtyard, the sun had not yet set, and the flask was beside me. He looked around and found that there was an ant hole under the locust tree, and the big Huai Anguo, who was an official in his dream, turned out to be this ant hole. The southernmost branch of the locust tree is Nanke County, where he is the guard. It can be seen that the locust tree also has the ability to make people dream, because of its heavy yin qi and easy to attract evil spirits, so it is called a wood ghost by later generations. In fact, this statement is not unreasonable, in the underworld underworld, in the mansions of the ten halls of the king of Yama and the king of the earth, there are also locust trees, just because they have the ability to gather yin.

Therefore, the Demon Venerable planted this locust tree on the border, on the one hand, to prevent mortals from entering by mistake, and on the other hand, to prevent the evil qi of the demon world from being exposed, affecting the life of all things in the mortal world. Therefore, this tree was also planted very cleverly and successfully.

As soon as Xuan Che approached this locust forest, he felt that the evil aura was pressing, and this evil aura was very different from the underworld. In the underworld, the yin qi is heavy, and the yin qi itself is harmless to people, making people feel that the body is cold. And this border of human and demon is an evil aura, and there is a faint heavy aura, coupled with the shadow of this locust branch, it looks weirdly tight.

Xuan Che frowned slightly, and was about to go in, but he heard someone behind him shouting, "Young man, you can't enter there, you can't come back if you enter." "Xuan Che is always dressed in a dark black robe on weekdays, and his silver hair is just curled up casually, but at this time, when he came to the Nether, he was afraid of attracting attention, so he used illusion to turn one of his silver hair into black hair. Other than that, it does look like a man. Xuan Che turned his head and saw an old man with a bamboo basket behind him hurriedly chasing after him, so he stopped and waited for him to come.

The old man approached, took her hand, and walked out, babbling as he went, "Young man, you are really young and vigorous, how can you come to this place?" Behind this locust tree is the territory of the Demon Realm. Ordinary people go in, and there is no reason to come out alive. ”

Xuan Che looked at the wormwood and yam in his bamboo basket, and guessed in his heart that this old man was or a man in the world, but he said, "Look at me, like an ordinary person?"

The old man listened to her words, stopped, looked her up and down, and then said cautiously, "You are so handsome and so extraordinary, aren't you a noble son of any family?"

Xuan Che smiled and said, "How dare your son come here alone, I am a cultivator, I consciously cultivate a lot, and I have never been to the demon world, this time I came here to take a look." ”

The old man listened to her words, his eyes widened, and he looked at her carefully and said, "The Taoist priests I have seen with high skills are all of my age, you are so young, why do you say such big words." After a pause, he continued, "Even if your spell is successful, you still can't go to this forest of living beings." ”

Xuan Che saw that the old man was kind-hearted, and he was not angry, but only smiled and asked, "Why do you say this?" ”

Hearing her question, the old man let go of the hand that was holding her sleeve, and wiped the cloudy tears from the corners of his eyes with his hand: "I was originally a Langzhong in this nearby village, but there was a drought in the spring this year, and there was no grain harvest, and the nearby villages were starving. In late spring and early summer, another outbreak of plague caused the number of people in the village to plummet. A month ago, a Taoist priest passed by here, and when he saw that this name was boring, he asked for a rain for us. But although the drought has been alleviated, the plague ......" The old man couldn't cry when he said this, and Xuan Che only watched quietly from the sidelines, and did not say anything to consol him. The old man choked up and said, "Although the drought has been resolved, the plague has not been eliminated. Pity me for most of my life, but I can only watch my wife and daughter die of illness. Seeing that my eldest son would die soon, and I knew a little about medicine, I knew that there was a ghost needle herb in the land of extreme yin that could cure this plague, so I asked the Taoist priest to go to the forest of living beings to find it, but he ........."