Chapter 11: Into the Underworld at Night
Xuan Che had been sleeping in this lotus flower for more than ten days, she speculated that the Nine Palace Bagua Array in her body should be about to break, although she couldn't see things, she could still feel the changes in the atmosphere around her, the Bodhi Seal seemed to be urged, and there was a warm but occasional pressure around her. And the water of this lotus pond seems to be getting warmer day by day. This is not a good thing, the water of the lotus pond has warmed, which proves that this anacity has gradually worn out the cold and spiritual power of the pond water, if the water temperature of this pool water is no different from ordinary sea water one day, it will not be able to suppress the anatomy. This is really an extremely risky method, and I don't know how the Buddha came up with it.
The Buddha naturally also felt the change in the water of this pool, and he has been chanting the sutras more diligently in the past few days, so that he has to reach the state of sleeplessness. Xuan Che didn't know what the use of this chanting was, maybe it could be used to calm the mind. Anyway, I don't have anything to do with myself, I've been depressed for so many years, and I've been completely relaxed these days.
Xuan Che thought like this, and felt a wave of sleepiness coming, the backlash of this method of cutting off time was so powerful that it could make her sleep for half of the day, but since this annoyance was watched by the Buddha, she naturally didn't have to worry too much, and she was sleepy. When you are sleepy, you go straight to sleep.
Xuan Che fell asleep again in a daze, but this time, he didn't sleep very peacefully, he always felt that he slept very shallowly, as if there was something urgent in his dream, and he was going to wake up in a moment. She originally thought it was disgust, but then she denied it, if disgust invaded her consciousness, she would definitely fall into a nightmare and would not wake up even if she wanted to, not so many dreams as she does now. It's just that with her cultivation and concentration, it seems that no one can interfere with her divine consciousness anymore, and the Buddha may be able to, but he has been chanting sutras from the sidelines, and he doesn't look like a person who does this kind of thing.
Suddenly, Xuan Che's brain was excited, yes, she forgot that she was missing a wisp of life soul, maybe it was her life soul that was luring her. And the life soul has been in Xiuyuan's body, so something happened to him, so the life soul came to inform her on its own. She is now incarnated as a lotus flower, and she can't see the outside scene, but she knows that her ** is within three feet of the neighborhood, and her ** and her soul can't be too far away, otherwise it will be difficult for the soul to return to its place and damage her own cultivation after too long. The moon soul she carried with her was still hanging on her wrist, presumably through the guΓ² moon soul could know the situation of Xiuyuan.
Although she turned into a lotus flower and couldn't move, she could still use her divine sense to urge the moon soul, but she urged it again and again, but there was no response from the moon spirit, she knew that her guess was not far from ten, and Xiuyuan was most likely in trouble, and this trouble was not small. Xiuyuan's cultivation is not weak, he has already attained the Tao in nine days and a half months, and he must not be an idle person who can help them, Xuan Che felt a trace of anxiety in her heart, she was afraid that the apprentice she brought up by herself would be gone, and her hard work would be in vain.
She decided to take a trip to the underworld herself. She has a whip in her hand, and she has the blood of heaven, even if she doesn't have a spirit body, she can't help ordinary demons and monsters. It's just that now is the time to suppress the annoyance, how to think that the Buddha opened this mouth, but it made her difficult.
After hesitating for a moment, I still felt that it was better to say it directly, otherwise there would be no other way. She pulled her soul out of the lotus, as soon as the soul came out, she immediately saw the surrounding scenery clearly, and couldn't help but be taken aback, the lotus pond shrouded in the faint golden light of the Bodhi seal has been gray, and the lotus flowers in the pond have all died, only the lotus plant that she is parasitic on is still alive as before, and her own soul is out of the body, and the only lotus flower is also decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye. Now she didn't even have a place to stay.
The Buddha, on the other hand, sits on the lotus flower of Guanyin and floats on the lotus pond and meditates quietly. Xuan Che was about to speak, but the Buddha had faintly acquiesced, "Since you have cut off your own way back, it is useless for me to stay, but you must remember that you must come back within seven days, otherwise it will be difficult for the soul to return to its place, and it will be a big matter for the body to be occupied." After speaking, he opened his phoenix eyes, and he had a majestic appearance.
Xuan Che naturally knew that this matter was not a joke, so he hurriedly and solemnly agreed, "I still have a clear distinction between the more important and which is more important, and after seven days, I will come back no matter what." β
The Buddha nodded slightly and acquiesced, "Go, there is a gap in the southeast corner of this Bodhi seal, where can you go out." Xuan Che bowed to the Buddha with his palms in the form of a soul, and then squeezed out of the gap in the Bodhi seal and disappeared into the South China Sea.
Xuan Che floated above the clouds, thinking about how to enter the underworld. She wanted to go in like this, it seemed easier to act in the underworld in a spirit way. Then I thought that my soul was separated from my body, and her mana was greatly reduced, and if I met a powerful character who took her soul away, it would be worth the loss. You can't just attach to the bodies of other immortals, and the mortal bodies can't enter the underworld. That's right, mortals. Although mortals cannot enter the underworld, there are people in the mortal world who can communicate yin and yang for two sessions, and go back and forth between the human world and the underworld.
Thinking of this, Xuan Che hurriedly ran to the lower realm. The people who go to the yin are naturally the ghost towns in the mortal world - Fengdu has the most. In fact, Fengdu is not a haunted place, but it is located at the junction of the mortal underworld, and there are often underworld ghosts who go to work, or there are missed ghosts who are free here, so there are a lot of weird things. This Fengdu is a ghost town, and there are naturally many people who earn money from ghosts and gods, but this errand is not so easy to do, long-term travel to and from the underworld, will damage their own yang energy, and their yin energy will be vigorous, thereby shortening their lifespan, so this yin person is either short-lived, or some Taoist priests who know some Qi ecliptic techniques, and use some Taoist techniques to maintain their yang energy.
In the blink of an eye, I have come to the mortal Fengdu City, which is worthy of being a ghost town, and it is miserable and lifeless in the daytime. Xuan Che descended from the clouds and wandered around the city looking for the right person. At one time, I saw two or three, but all of them were gray-haired old men. It's not that she dislikes it, it's just that most of these yin people are short-lived, these old men are nearly half a hundred years old, and time is running out, I'm afraid they can't afford to toss. If you die halfway, you have to find a replacement again, which is extremely troublesome. So it's better to find one in one step. She had only been looking for a few hours in this city, and she had not seen a young walker, which really distressed her.
Seeing that the sky was getting darker and the twilight was four, the yin qi in the city gradually increased. Some of the previously invisible wandering ghosts have also emerged from some horns. But she doesn't have to worry, with her cultivation, it will only be a matter of minutes to destroy these little ghosts. It's just that she has been looking in this city for a long time and has not found a suitable one, and she is a little anxious.
I'm wandering, and I feel like there's one more person next to me, no, it's a ghost. It's still a male ghost. She turned her head and saw that it was a young man in his twenties, who was a woodcutter before his death, because he went to collect firewood in the rain, slipped down the mountain and fell to his death. However, judging from the luster of his soul, he may not have been a good person in his lifetime, but he was by no means a wicked person. The ghost cautiously approached her, "Brother, look at your face, new here." "A ghost with a low cultivation level can't see anything else from the soul form, so he regards Xuan Che as a 'brother'.
Xuan Che also had no intention of taking care of him, and planned to leave to continue looking for the Yin Walker. But the demon floated in front of her and stopped her way. "Brother, don't run blindly at night, that Taoist priest in the city is going crazy again, beware of being bumped into by him, you will be scattered. β
Xuan Che heard the strangeness in his words, Taoist priests mainly hunt demons and exorcise ghosts by the way. It's just to exorcise ghosts, not to kill ghosts, and after the Taoist priest catches the ghosts, he will find a suitable time to hand over the ghosts to Yin Si to help them reincarnate, which is also considered a merit. I've never heard of a Taoist priest specializing in killing ghosts. Xuan Che asked lightly, "Why?"
As soon as the ghost heard Xuan Che's voice, he took a step closer, "It turns out that it's not a man, it's a woman, so don't go around." I don't know when a Taoist priest came to this city, and he had to go into the underworld to find someone, but the king of Hades was willing to let him go, so he blasted him out. He still refused to leave, and tried to break in again, and then the king of Hades was not happy, and sent a bull head and a horse to clean him up. It's just that I didn't expect this Taoist priest to have a bit of Taoism, but he beat the fart of Yin Si and urinated. The king of Hades was furious, and there was nothing he could do about him, so he closed the door of the underworld, and specially authorized a few people to enter every day, and others were not allowed to enter. This Taoist priest was annoyed and angry, but there was no way, he couldn't fight the Lord of Yama, so he took out his anger at us little ghosts........."
Hyun Che interrupted his chatter and asked, "You mean, you can't get into the underworld now?"
The man was stunned, "yes, that seems to mean it." β
Xuan Che saw that he was dumbfounded, and then asked, "There is no yin in this city to enter?"
The man shook his head, "No, now only allowed to go out and not enter the underworld, and the old man Li who has passed the yin in the city is about to lose his job......"
Xuan Che interrupted him again: "The yin in the underworld can always enter, right?"
"That's right, the yin ox head and horse face in this underworld are still my acquaintances, I asked them to let me go to the mortal world to wander, but I didn't expect to meet this kind of evil Taoist, so I couldn't hide, and now I won't be able to go back for a while............"
Before he finished speaking, Xuan Che felt the sound of clothes flying in his ears. She had already found out that there was someone behind her, and it was still a living person, but it was really strange for a big living person to listen to two ghosts talking in the middle of the night, so she also kept an eye on it. In fact, she found out as soon as that person had already left, but listening to his footsteps, it seemed that they were not coming towards her, but towards the brother in front of her, so she didn't act rashly.
Immediately, an exclamation pierced the night sky, "It's you, the stinky Taoist priest........." Before the words were finished, he consciously lost his words, and hurriedly changed his words, "Daoye, Daoye, it's the villain Li Erniu who has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, the villain originally didn't mean to offend, but he knew that the Taoist was in a bad mood in recent days, so he asked this new girl to pay more attention and don't offend you............
It turned out that the person listening to the corner behind him was the crazy Taoist priest. Xuan Che looked at him from behind, the heavenly court was full, the earth was round, his facial features were handsome, and he was a little chic in a black robe. It's just that compared to her apprentices, it is 108,000 miles behind. At this time, the Taoist priest was holding a Xuanyuan sword in his hand and pointed directly at the little brother. This Xuanyuan sword is also a bit of a beginning, and it was also cast by Taishang Laojun himself, and then it was inadvertently lost, and he didn't bother to find it.
The tip of the Xuanyuan sword kept changing, and the soul that scared the little brother was almost scattered.
"You said you knew that Yin Poor?" The Taoist priest said something like this. Hyun Che smiled secretly in his heart, he found a companion.
Sure enough, the Taoist priest didn't wait for him to answer, so he hurriedly asked, "Then do you have a way to see them?"
"How can the villain have a way, since you beat them up last time, now they are extremely cautious when they come out, and they will go back after finishing their work, without much delay. Li Erniu replied. The Taoist priest waved his hand, and the sword qi in his hand was a little more vigorous, "You just said that they let you out privately, if you can't find them, won't you be able to return to the underworld for the rest of your life to be reincarnated?"
Seeing that he spoke so strongly, Xuan Che would definitely not be able to ask. Then he said lightly, "You know what you said, this Taoist master won't do anything to them, they are just errands under the king of Hades, how can they embarrass them." β
The Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, looked back at Xuan Che, and continued, "I will never beat them again this time, I will speak my word." β
"Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it if you kill me, although I, Li Erniu, am a ghost, I can't betray my friends. Li Erniu's attitude is also tough.
The little Taoist Qing Ming was also angry, and just about to use force, Xuan Che said in the back, "Li Erniu, this Taoist master is going to apologize to your friend, where will you find trouble again." He can't enter the underworld now, and he still wants to beg your two friends, I'm afraid you misunderstood what he meant. β
The Taoist priest's brain was also very flexible, and he suddenly put away his sword and said politely, "I've been in a hurry these days, so I offended Brother Erniu just now.
I really don't mean anything else, I just want to meet these two bad men, apologize, and ask casually if I can help me figure out a way. β
"What can they do, they can't even get me in now." Li Erniu's tone softened significantly.
Qing Ming continued: "There is no way, I naturally don't dare to force it, but I was offended a few days ago, and I wanted to apologize to the two masters." "I see that he has also figured out the method.
Li Erniu was embarrassed and said, "It's really good to apologize, but they may not be willing to accept it, the two of them have been on an errand for hundreds of years, and even Lord Yama has never tortured them, and ......" He paused, and then said, "Now that the underground government is strictly investigated, even I may not be able to see them." β
Qing Ming was silent, and looked back at Xuan Che again. Xuan Che understood, and then said, "This master just wants to accompany a few poor masters, and whether he accepts it or not is just a sentence time, and he will leave after speaking, and he will not cause trouble to the two poor masters." β
Qing Ming hurriedly said, "Yes, accompany me and apologize, that is, a sentence of time, it will not be delayed for too long." β
Li Erniu was a little embarrassed: "What if they are unhappy to see you?"
Qing Ming said, "If I'm not happy, I'll leave immediately, and I won't hinder the eyes of the two bad masters." β
Li Erniu hesitated for a moment, and finally hesitated, "If this is the case, you can indeed see it." β
Qing Ming was overjoyed and made a gesture to Li Erniu, "Then please ask Brother Erniu to lead the way." β
Li Erniu looked at Xuan Che behind Qing Ming and asked, "Are you going too?"
Xuan Che replied lightly, "I have admired the names of the two poor masters for a long time, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to see them." β
When Li Erniu heard her say this, he said while drifting away like Nan, "That's it, bring one with you, bring two with you, you go with me." Xuan Che and Qing Ming hurriedly followed.
After walking for a short time, I saw a black building in front of me, and when I got closer, it turned out to be an abandoned temple. They were afraid of bumping into Qing Ming, so they chose the entrance and exit in the temple, measuring him as a Taoist priest, and they would not go to the temple, and the Tao was also painstaking. Li Erniu had already entered the temple first, Xuan Che followed closely behind Qing Ming, and when he entered the gate, Qing Ming slowed down his pace and whispered to Xuan Che, "I don't care what the hell you are, if you dare to harm me, I will let your soul fly away." After speaking, he jumped lightly and followed Li Erniu into the courtyard from the corner. Xuan Che laughed lightly and followed in.
This temple is no different from an ordinary temple, dedicated to the Buddha and the Four Heavenly Kings, Li Erniu floated lightly to the back of the statue of the Buddha, and stopped at an incense burner on the ground. This incense burner resembles the Boshan furnace, but the shape is more clumsy, the body of this furnace is the bean shape in the bronze, there is a cover, the cover is high and pointed, the hollow is mountain-shaped, the mountain shape overlaps, there are birds and beasts carved in it, but it is also very exquisite, there is a faint green smoke in the furnace hole, the green smoke is straight line, it is very strange. Li Erniu looked at the green smoke for a moment, and said to them, "This green smoke has become a line, and when the green smoke is about to disappear, they will come back." "I think this green smoke is a tool for keeping time.
Xuan Che looked at the incense burner carefully, and always felt a little strange. She always felt that there seemed to be an inexplicable enchantment around this incense burner, but the soul was out of her body and her mana was weakened, and she could only see it faintly. She looked at Qing Ming, who was slightly anxious beside her, and whispered, "You go and see if there is a gossip map under the incense burner, just look, don't make a mess." β
Qing Ming looked at Xuan Che, then at Li Erniu, pretending to be casual, walked to the incense burner, and looked at it with interest. Xuan Che also floated to Li Erniu's side at this time, and asked with concern, "Brother Erniu is wandering in this mortal world, when will he return to the underworld?" β
When Li Erniu heard this, he looked at Qing Ming, and then floated to Xuan Che's side and whispered, "I'll go back when he leaves, and in a few days I'll be reincarnated as a human here, so it's better to take a good walk around the world before I drink Meng Po soup." Xuan Che was squinting at the situation on Qing Ming's side, Li Erniu drifted closer and asked quietly, "I would like to ask you, how did you die?" β
Xuan Che intended to tease him, so he replied, "My family is poor, there is only one old mother in the family, and I rely on myself to earn my own food. One day, when I went up the mountain to collect firewood, I happened to encounter heavy rain, and I lost my footing for a while, slipped off the mountain, and fell to my death. β
After finishing speaking, she obviously saw Li Erniu's soul flickering, and then said loudly, "It's strange, why is the cause of your death the same as mine." β
Xuan Che saw that Qing Ming had finished checking, so he deliberately said loudly, "It turns out that Brother Erniu also died like this." β
Li Erniu didn't answer her words, only floating around the room, and seemed to be a little anxious. Seeing this, Qing Ming quietly walked up to her and said, "There is a gossip pattern under this incense burner, and the center of this incense burner is placed on top of the yin fish of the gossip yin and yang fish. Xuan Che listened to his description, and he already had a bottom in his heart. Thinking that it was the yin in the underworld who was afraid that he would find trouble again, he moved the gate to the underworld in the form of mustard seeds to the incense burner, which is the so-called mustard seed Na Sumeru, and this incense burner is mustard seed. It's just that I don't know who gets along like this. It is also very strange that the dignified underworld Yin Si has mixed into this realm.
Qing Ming saw that Xuan Che didn't mean to explain to him, and just as he was about to ask, he heard Li Erniu cry, "My mother, who will take care of you when I die, I, an unfilial son, left my mother to be reincarnated so early." Then I heard him crying. Xuan Che's heart moved, knowing that it was his words that touched him, and he suddenly felt a little annoyed in his heart, he only thought of teasing him, but he forgot about his own mother, it was really negligent.
Xuan Che thought that he had caused this trouble, and was about to speak out to persuade him, but he heard two voices outside the door, one big and one small, "Who dares to make a loud noise here." At the same time, Xuan Che and Qing Ming retreated and hid next to the Buddha statue almost at the same time. Xuan Che used the sound transmission technique to say to Qing Ming, "You go and take them down, and I'll close the door." At the same time, Qing Ming nodded silently. Although it was only a glimpse, the two of them had seen it just now, and the two people who spoke were the yin they were waiting for.
The two yin men entered the door one after the other, each dragging two iron chains in their hands, and behind the chains were four ghosts with a lot of grievances, and the ghosts of the new dead were always very resentful. As soon as Li Erniu saw them, he pounced, "Two brothers, you say, I died so early, what should my old mother do, pity me for having no ability, I didn't leave him a man and a woman, and I will serve him in the future, you said that my old mother is really hard." "Xuan Che and Qing Ming had quietly walked behind the two of them when Li Erniu was chattering. This bull head and horse face, the cow head is in front, and the horse face is behind. The horse in the back first sensed that something was wrong, and turned around busily, but unfortunately, it was too late. Qing Ming's Xuanyuan Sword had already been unsheathed, approaching his face. Xuan Che also saw this gap, and hurriedly stepped forward to close the door, and now, he was just waiting for the turtle to be caught in the urn. Qing Ming obviously couldn't deal with two people by just waiting for him, so he quickly pulled the horse aside and put a knife on his neck.
The bull head wanted to step forward to snatch back the horse's face, but when he saw the form in front of him, he obediently stood aside. Li Erniu was originally crying, but when he saw this sudden change in form, he was also stunned, and asked blankly, "What's going on?"
The horse in Qing Ming's hand scolded angrily: "It must be you, a guy who has not done enough to do things, who has more than enough failures, who attracted this evil Taoist priest." β
Li Erniu was stunned for a moment, and then explained, "You misunderstood the good people, this Dao chief is here to apologize to you." β
The bull head next to him couldn't help it, and scolded, "Li Erniu, you fool, you have deceived others again, the knife is on your neck, and you are still dreaming here." β
Li Erniu was also anxious, and said to Qing Ming, "Dao Chief, let him go quickly, don't you want to apologize." β
Qing Ming was very honest, looked at Li Erniu, and said with some apologies, "Brother Erniu, I'm sorry, I don't have much time, so I can only make this decision." β
Li Erniu was stunned, and finally knew that the person in front of him was lying to him, and couldn't help but scold, "In vain, I believe in you so much, you are ......"
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xuan Che, "Brother Erniu, stop your anger, listen to me." Then he glanced at the two Yin Cha and Li Erniu, and then continued, "I and this Taoist master both want to enter the underworld, so I have no choice but to deceive Brother Erniu today." As long as the two Yin Cha are willing to take us in, it will naturally be easy to discuss, if not..."Xuan Che paused, and Qing Ming also raised the sword in his hand a few points in a timely manner. "You have also seen that this Dao Master is also very anxious, if you refuse, I am afraid that today you will become the soul of this Dao Chief. β
Ma Mian was the first to be anxious, and shouted to the bull head, "Help me, or let him in." β
The bull head was also anxious, "You fart, if we put him in, it will be a dead end, what's the difference." β
Xuan Che continued, "You two don't understand, if you let me in, you won't be able to die for the time being, since you can't die, everything will be discussed in the future, maybe you can be convicted of the Hades side, but, if you don't let us inβ" Speaking of this, Xuan Che deliberately stopped, and Qing Ming continued, "If you don't let us in, I will let you become ghosts immediately, no, you will be scattered immediately." After saying that, he tightened the knife edge to the neck of the horse. The horse screamed in shock, and the bull head was also panicked, a little surprised.
Xuan Che smiled and said, "The incense is almost burned out, the two of you have to think about it, after this village, there will be no more this shop." Ma Mian was so frightened that he was about to pee his pants, and Niu Tou was also afraid, he knew that he would never be able to escape the sword of this Taoist priest. The horse trembled and said to Niu Tou, "Brother Niu Tou, I usually treat you well, so you can agree." The green mountains are here, and I am not afraid that there will be no firewood. β
The bull head hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said, "If you don't let it go, you will die, and if you let it go, you will have a little way to live." Then he looked at Qing Ming and Xuan Che and said, "You guys pretend to be like you, don't let the gatekeeper see the clues." I'll open the door. Then he turned to the Boshan furnace, turned left three times on the lid, turned three more times, and recited a mantra. After reading it, the blue light was flourishing, and a heavy dark iron door immediately appeared in front of him. The door didn't open, and the ghost waiter's cry came from inside the door
The bull head took a step closer to the door and said softly, "Buddha enters the city." The ghost attendant seemed to be discerning, and after a moment the door opened. Xuan Che seized this gap, made a stealth trick, and suddenly entered. Qing Ming was stunned, and in order to react, a large number of ghost servants were killed in the door.
Xuan Che listened to the chaotic sound behind him and walked away without looking back. A secret word that Fang Niutou said was to remind the ghost attendant inside the door to be careful. Buddha means bandit. Xuan Che naturally understood, but she didn't want to remind Qing Ming, she had wasted too much time.