۩ Volume 1 "The Return"۩ Chapter 16 Nai He Bridge
Looking at Yue boldly staring at his eyes full of sincerity, feeling the hands he held his own trembling slightly, he couldn't help but feel his blood surging when he smiled, and he opened his mouth to say that he recognized this big brother.
But before the words could be spoken, he suddenly felt a heart-wrenching pain, and an inexplicable feeling of horror arose, as if doing so would definitely hurt him, and he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, but only cavinated there a few times.
"If you don't dislike it, how about calling me big brother in the future?" But Yue Daring didn't notice his strange appearance, looked into his eyes, and asked sincerely.
"This ...... Thank you Brother Yue for your kindness, but now the palace trial has not passed, and I don't know where to go in the future, I have lost my memory and have no cultivation, so I can only add a burden to Brother Yue......"
I was really afraid of anything, Xiao Youran wanted to excuse himself, but Yue Dadao didn't let him finish.
"Brother, you are too much to say this! A gentleman has a good relationship with him, and he is sincere, so why should he care about what he has or does not have? Who can say for sure what will happen in the future, maybe he brother will be prosperous one day, and my brother will still rely on your snort! As the saying goes, there is wine today and drunk tomorrow, so I think it is decided!"
Yue boldly slapped him on the shoulder and said loudly.
"But ......"
Xiao Youran couldn't forget the feeling just now, and he still hesitated.
"But what? Could it be that you look down on me? Do you think that I am lowly in office, powerless, and poor, and unworthy of being your big brother?"
Yue Daring's eyes widened, and his eyebrows were upside down, and he said in displeasure.
"No, no, no, how could I have said this, in the next revenant soul has no strengths, and being able to fellowship with Brother Yue is already high, how can I ......?"
Xiao Youran knew that he was talking aggressively, but he still waved his hand in fear and explained.
"Hahaha...... Isn't it okay, there is no need to say anything else, don't you call it big brother?" Yue boldly laughed and hammered his shoulder blade.
"The eldest brother is on top, and the younger brother is polite!"
Xiao Youran really couldn't resist such a strong sense of truth, and finally got rid of his inner struggle, smiled and slammed to the ground, and secretly swore in his heart that he would never let his eldest brother suffer any harm because of himself.
"Haha, okay, brother, don't be polite, let's make this gentleman's covenant for the time being, and then we will officially perform the bowing ceremony on an auspicious day of the zodiac after we go back. ”
Yue Daring smiled very happily, as if he had found his long-lost brother, his eyes were slightly red, and the corners of his eyes were a little moist.
Perhaps because he has been living in the shadow of mediocrity for so many years, there is no close friend who can drink and talk happily and talk to each other, and there is no confidant who can share weal and woe, life and death, Yue Daring has long been eager for brotherhood.
Now that his wish is satisfied, the artistic conception of being able to have one person like this and no regrets in his life stirs the blood in his body, and the feeling of sudden enlightenment makes his heart surge.
"Big brother, according to the itinerary we set before, how many places have we not been to?" Xiao leisurely pondered for a moment and suddenly asked.
"Hmm, I think about it, there should be a few places like Wild Ghost Village, Yama Palace, Eighteen Layers of Hell, Yin Soul Castle, Nai He Bridge, and Soul Restoration Cliff, what's wrong?" Yue Dadao said.
"It's nothing, I don't think it's early today, let's hurry up and go directly to the Nai He Bridge to have a look, and how about the rest tomorrow?" Xiao leisurely proposed.
"It's dark, you can see the sky even day and night, besides, why are you in a hurry to go to Nanai He Bridge, what's there to see there?" Yue boldly looked up at the gray sky and wondered.
"Hehe, of course there are good-looking, not only good-looking, but also good things waiting for us, let's go!" Xiao Youran said with a sly smile on the corner of his mouth, making a gesture to touch things.
"Oh, what's good, why don't I know, then I'm going to see it, hehe!" Yue boldly heard the sound of the piano and knew the elegance, smiled strangely and set up the yin wind and laughed leisurely and went straight to the Nai He Bridge.
On the way back, before entering the city, Xiao leisurely found that the ghost gate pass he had seen before seemed to have changed, and the plaque that originally said "ghost gate pass" became the three words "Xudu City", and there was also a couplet on the pillars on both sides of the city gate, and the upper link was "people and ghosts, ghosts and people, people and ghosts have different paths." The "lower link" is "Yin and Yang, Yang and Yin, Yin and Yang are forever separated." ”
The guards standing guard are different from the previous ones regardless of the standard of clothing and the size of the team standing guard and patrolling. After inquiring about Yue Daring, he learned that the ghost soul would only see the ghost gate when he first went to the underworld, and when he entered the capital and came out again, he could only see the gate of the city.
In other words, the passage of the Ghost Gate Pass is also a special spatial level, or a natural formation that exists primordially in the realm. Its function can be imagined as labeling the dead soul as an underworld, and from then on it will leave the yang world and return to the underworld, and there is no possibility of returning to the yang, which is also in line with the meaning of the two couplets.
After entering the city gate, they could no longer fly, and the two of them held the token and tossed around several teleportation arrays, and it took more than an hour to arrive at the Nai He Bridge, which was located in the southernmost part of the inner city of Xudu.
Standing in the distance and looking at it, a north-south direction, although not wide, but the long river that bends and stretches endlessly, crosses the front, and the faint gray mist shrouds the river surface, making the river water unable to see the color and only feels slightly turbid, this river is called Lethe.
On both sides of the river, there are lush flowers growing on the other side, but the color is different, the west bank is full of blood red, and the east bank is white. There is a stone arch bridge across the river to connect the east and west banks, which is the legendary and famous Nai He Bridge.
There are five steps for the white jade railing, bluestone bridge deck, obsidian piers, and the end of the bridge. If you look directly from the bridge, this bridge is not so much a bridge, but two parallel bridges, because there are two passages on the bridge, hollowed out in the middle, there will be stone girder bridge bones connecting the bridge deck at a short distance from each other, although there is no hollow here, but there are still bridge railings between the two passages that cannot be passed.
After passing through this bridge to go to the soul of the soul cliff, the man walks through the south passage, and the woman walks through the north passage, which means that the male yang and the female yin. The railings on the side of the bridge are densely written with all kinds of words, as well as the red cloth strips and concentric locks that are tied, etc., every word is a deep longing and attachment, and every bit is a strong affection and bond.
For countless years, how many strict fathers and mothers have choked on this bridge, how many filial sons and daughters have mourned and collapsed on this bridge, and how many crazy men and women have cried on this bridge, who will know.
And the remnants left behind after they are gone will turn into a wisp of mist floating on the Lechuan River, whether it is a farewell woman throwing a chick, or a shrike Feiyan, or a rain and hatred of clouds, it will eventually converge with the fog on the river, and the fog that will never dissipate is called life and death.
Standing at the head of the bridge on the west bank, Xiao leisurely stared at the faint mist, he felt that there was uncommon hatred, unforgettable love, and family affection that blood was thicker than water, etc., and countless emotions were intertwined to form a kind of resentment, that is, the lingering and sympathetic hatred.
As if affected by resentment, Xiao Youran suddenly felt upset, dizzy, and his chest was so stuffy that it seemed to burst, so he quickly retracted his gaze and pounded his chest. But he didn't want the inner mansion to churn violently under external force, and a mouthful of reverse blood surged up to his throat, and he couldn't help but squirt out with a "poof", which startled Yue Daring on the side.
"What's wrong with you, brother, why did you suddenly vomit blood?"
Yue Daring hurriedly patted him lightly on the back, his eyes full of anxiety.
"Ahem, it's okay, the air in the underworld is too dry and a little hot, big brother don't worry. ”
smiled leisurely, coughed lightly, wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, and smiled.
"Really, it's fake, you'll get nosebleeds at most, but haven't you heard of anyone vomiting blood?" Yue boldly glared at him suspiciously.
"Alas, I really didn't lie to you, I'm just more angry, let's go. Xiao leisurely comforted him, and walked along the south side to the Nai He Bridge.
"The air is hot, the air is ...... Wait, how do you know if the air is dry, can you breathe?"
Yue Daring followed him and chattered as he walked, screaming in surprise as if he had suddenly thought of something terrible.
"My brother, can you not be startled, this scares me, can't I breathe normally, I have a yin body, don't you know?"
Xiao Youran was so frightened by him that he almost broke off the bridge.
"No, no, it's not normal, I know you have a yin body, but the yin body can't breathe!"
Yue boldly stared at his chest and abdomen in amazement, and found that it was really a slight rise and fall due to the exhalation, and he couldn't help but open his mouth wide and couldn't close it.
"Huh, why can't the yin body breathe?"
Xiao Youran was reminded by his words, and suddenly remembered that when Niu Tou introduced the Yin Body before, he seemed to have said that the Yin Body has no breathing, heartbeat and body temperature, but these are all the same in his body.
"The yin body is just the shell of the soul body formed by condensing and compressing the soul qi to the extreme, although there are many meridians of flesh and bones, but there is no vitality at all, it looks like a physical body and is not a physical body, maybe it is more appropriate to say that it is like a corpse.
Soul Qi is also called Yin Yuan or Yin Qi, although it is also a kind of cultivation resource, but it is only suitable for the use of the soul body or Yin body, for the Yang body, this soul energy is a fatal death qi, and the vitality of the physical body is eroded by contact, and it can be a serious illness at least, and it will be a death cry at worst.
The reason why the physical body is also called the yang body is because it can absorb and breathe out the vitality, and the vitality is also called yang yuan or yang energy. By 'inhaling' the vitality into the body, the blockade of the soul body by the body is stabilized through the meridian circulation, so that the soul body cannot be separated from the body, and the body will not be eroded due to the leakage of soul energy.
Then, through the 'exhalation', the harmful turbidity produced by the mutual dissolution of the soul qi that is bred with the soul body during the blockade of the vitality is discharged from the body, which is the origin of why the living person breathes.
The yin body is like armor outside the soul body, as long as there is enough soul energy to protect and nourish the soul body, there is no need to rely on the circulation of vitality to imprison the soul body, if the vitality is introduced into the body, it will be ablated and weakened, and even directly cause damage to the soul body, so the yin body cannot breathe. ”
Yue boldly thought about it, and tapped his forehead with his finger as if he were reciting it.
"Oh, the yin body doesn't have a heartbeat because it doesn't need blood circulation to stay alive, and it also doesn't have a body temperature because of that, right?"
"Well, that's it. Yue boldly nodded.
"The eldest brother knows really much, and the younger brother admires it!, but since there is no need for blood circulation, why is there still blood in the yin body?" Xiao leisurely praised him and then asked.
"Uh...... I don't know this, what I'm talking about is just what I saw from the Yin Cha compulsory classics, where is there any profound knowledge. Yue Daring was stunned by his question.
"Then why doesn't there be a shadow in the yin body?" Xiao leisurely thought about it and continued to ask.
"I don't know. Yue Daring was a little embarrassed.
"Okay, big brother, can you see if there is a shadow behind me?" smiled leisurely and pointed to the ground behind him.
"Huh, there's a shadow, how is that possible?"
Yue boldly followed his hand and looked at the ground, although the sky was gray and only faint under the faint light, but the fog above the bridge cut off some of the light, but a relatively clear figure could still be seen.
"Then you can touch here and take a look. ”
Xiao leisurely stretched his neck and pulled open the neckline to signal him to touch the back of his neck.
"Warm, you have a body temperature!"
Yue boldly stretched out his hand and exclaimed after touching it.
"Let's take a look. ”
Xiao leisurely stretched out a hand and flipped it over, handing it to him with his inner wrist facing up.
"This ...... There is a pulse, which means that you have a heartbeat, oh my God, you, you have a physical body? How is this possible?" Yue Daring was already stupid, this was too incredible.
"No, it's not physical. Xiao leisurely shook his head.
"Then what is this?Yin body?Impossible?" Yue Daring was already stunned.
"I don't know, I don't know anything about the Yin Body, maybe it's a mutated Yin Body, right?" said with a smile that spread his hands noncommittally.
"I see that you seemed to understand very well when you helped Neiko check the soul body yesterday, why don't you understand it again?" Yue Daring was also a little speechless.
"Big brother, you also know that I have a problem here, and I can't remember anything, but there are many things that seem to exist here, anyway, I can't tell why, alas......" smiled leisurely patted his head and sighed.
"Forget it, brother, why bother about that, as long as you're okay with your body, big brother is just worried about you. ”
Yue boldly stretched out his ape arm and grabbed his shoulder and comforted.
"Big brother, don't worry, although this body is a little strange, but I haven't found any problems yet, I will ask that Lord Bao for advice when the palace trial is held the day after tomorrow." ”
Xiao Youran was very moved, and gently squeezed his broad palm.
"Well, that's fine, but if you feel uncomfortable, tell me quickly, don't hide it from my brother. Yue boldly nodded.
"Okay, okay, it's really okay, how dare the little brother deceive the eldest brother, let's go quickly. Xiao smiled leisurely and shook off Yue Daying's arms and accelerated forward, looking at the few blood marks splashed on the placket of this newly recognized brother, he could only shake his head helplessly and quickly followed.
After crossing the Nai He Bridge, I just stepped on the east bank, and not far away, I saw a huge strange stone that seemed to be round but not round, and seemed to be square and not square. This stone is thick and thin, the head is big and the feet are light, two gray and black cracks divide it into three sections, each section is different in color, as smooth as a mirror, but there is no reflection of any scenery on it.
A stone tablet was erected next to the strange stone, and there were three big characters of "Sansheng Stone" in the book, and there were four small characters of "Fate and Sansheng" in the lower right corner. The stele and the boulder are all naturally connected to the ground, and are obviously not artificially carved.
When a man or woman going to the Soul Restoration Cliff presses their hands on the Sansheng Stone, two names will appear on the three stone faces.
If there is a red thread that connects the two names in three paragraphs, the stone press will often show a smile full of affection, and some people will even cry with joy, and if the red line is never broken, the stone press will be sad and inexplicable, and the wailing and crying will abound.
Xiao Youran saw those names suddenly had an idea, and followed the example of others and pressed his hand on the Sansheng Stone, feeling a little nervous but more expectant, wanting to see if his name would appear.
But after waiting for a long time, I didn't see any reaction to the stone, and there was not even a single stroke on it, let alone the full name.
"Isn't the posture right?"
Xiao leisurely and wondered and put on a posture of a vicious tiger digging out his heart, but the stone still did not react.
"Do you have to use your feet?"
Laughing leisurely and depressed, he lifted his feet and pedaled on the stone.
"Get out of here!"
A strange voice suddenly came from the stone.