۩ Volume 1 "The Return"۩ Chapter 13 A Day Trip to the Capital
Before leaving, Mrs. Yue prepared some food and two pots of wine for the two of them, and put them in a package for the road to satisfy their hunger, and instructed Yue to be bold for a long time, such as not to fight with others, and not to want to take sheep or something when you see good things.
He was dizzy and hummed and agreed, until she finished speaking, and quickly fled from the house with a smile, and disappeared like a weasel with his tail between his tails.
Seeing the two of them go away, Mrs. Yue sighed helplessly, silently prayed in her heart for a safe journey, shook her head, turned around and entered the courtyard and closed the door.
"This woman, it's okay, it's just a nagging that really kills people!" Turning around the corner of the street, Yue boldly wiped the cold sweat on his head.
"It's extreme, it's extreme!" Xiao Youran also agreed.
"Haha, fortunately, I have escaped...... That one came out, now what do you want to do, take you to play for my brother!" Yue boldly straightened his waist and raised his eyebrows and smiled.
"Well, I want to see what kind of process people have from death to the underworld to reincarnation, how about using this as a route?" Xiao Youran thought about it and looked at him and said.
"Ah, what's so nice about this route, I don't know how many times I've been on an errand every day, I took a leave of absence to accompany you today, why don't you go elsewhere to play?"
"It's better if you're familiar with it, I'm just a little curious, there's Brother Lao Yue!" Xiao leisurely shook his head and still insisted on the original intention, Yue was bold and helpless, and he could only be secretly depressed.
When the two of them were stopped by the guards and questioned when they left the gate of the city, Yue boldly took out the token given by Zhong Kui and passed the test with a smile on the grounds of going out on business.
When he left the city, there was no restriction of the forbidden air formation, and Yue boldly launched his cultivation to set up a yin wind wrapped in a smile and flew all the way leisurely, and after a short time, he came to the first scenic spot of the trip, and fell down.
The sky is blue and bright, and there is a wide and flat road under your feet, lined with bright red flowers from the other side, like a red carpet spread on the side of the road.
The flower belt is followed by a forest sea formed by pines and cypresses, which stretches as far as the eye can see, extending to the horizon. Behind him is a translucent enchantment like water ripples, and you can vaguely see the scenery of green mountains and green waters on the opposite side, and the majestic outline of the capital city can be seen at the end of the road ahead.
From time to time, the ghosts of the shadowy or lone souls descended on the road through the barrier, and the fluctuations they provoked when they crossed the barrier were like ripples from the rain drops on the surface of the lake, making the already hazy scenery on the opposite side look even more dreamlike.
The manifestations of those deceased souls are different, some are constantly wailing and beating their chests, some are weeping bitterly, as if they are pleading with the yin, some are flattering, as if they are talking to the yin, some are silent and go straight in a daze, and some are confused and wandering around.
"Huh? Where is this, why are those people all looking terrified? How beautiful are the flowers and grass here, what is there to be afraid of? And what is the situation of those people who are wandering around, isn't the capital city there, why do they seem to be lost?"
"This is Huangquan Road, they see a different scene than you, do you want to try it?" Yue boldly drooped his shoulders and said listlessly.
"Yes, yes, yes, there is such a thing, let me see!" smiled leisurely and looked eager to try, nodding his head like a chicken pecking rice.
"Then you take a few steps forward, and you're guaranteed to be surprised. Yue boldly waved his hand boredly.
Xiao walked forward leisurely, and before he could take five steps, he felt as if he had escaped the scope of some kind of spell, as if he had come out of an invisible blister, and his vision suddenly changed.
The forest sea flower belt and so on are all gone, the sky is cloudy and the light is extremely dim, the ground under the feet has become rugged, there is no ground and no soil and sand and gravel can be seen, just like stepping on a piece of chaos, walking up and down, potholes, deep and shallow feet, people have a feeling that they may fall into the abyss at any time.
In fact, this road can no longer be called a road, because it is surrounded by gray mist, and it is impossible to see the edge or distinguish the direction, and even the barrier behind it has turned into a dark vortex, like a demon's mouth.
Xiao Youran tried to take a few steps forward, and found that not only was it difficult to walk, but also the wind around him was howling like a ghost crying wolf.
"This Huangquan Road is too terrifying! was it like that?" After experiencing it for a while, Xiao Youran hurriedly beckoned Yue Bold to come to his side, and cast a spell to restore the initial scene.
"Well, it's boring to say it, you want to come. Yue boldly spread his hands.
"Do you want to experience it...... All the illusions you've produced with this spell?" asked the smile leisurely.
"It's not an illusion, I heard others say that it seems to be integrated into another spatial level or something, but I don't know exactly what it is. Yue boldly shook his head and said.
"Huh, what is that Yin cha doing, how did you kick back the ghost who just came in?" Xiao Youran pointed to a Yin cha standing on the edge of the barrier and counting something.
"That's someone in the yang world who cast a spell to buy the soul of the dead soul to buy a life and rob the soul, he just took the money and released the person. Yue Daring didn't even look at it, and he didn't look surprised.
"Can you still buy longevity? Tsk, the underworld is really good at doing business! But no, if you can buy longevity, how can anyone die?" smiled and pouted violently.
"There are also conditions for buying longevity, and not everyone can buy it. The deceased must be unfinished and unfinished, and can only be done before he finishes the Huangquan Road. Yue boldly explained.
"Why can you buy it on Huangquan Road, but not sell it in the city?" said with a smile.
Because this Huangquan Road does not belong to the underworld, but a special independent space that exists at the beginning of heaven and earth, which is equivalent to a passage connecting the two worlds of yin and yang. Therefore, the law of the earth boundary cannot intervene here, so it gives those who buy longevity an opportunity to take advantage of it. ”
It was not Yue Daring who answered him, but a rapidly moving figure in the distance in front of him.
Xiao Youran listened to this voice a little familiar, and Yue Daring listened to it even more legs and pale. I saw that the figure was still like a small black dot at first, and after a few breaths, he had already come to the two of them and stood in front of them, dressed in a purple official uniform, looking as he wanted, it was the judge Cui Jue.
"I've seen Master Cui in my humble position!" Yue boldly bowed and saluted uneasily, and when he saw that Cui Jue just glanced at him and stopped paying attention to him, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Aren't you going to visit the capital of Xudu, why did you come here?" Cui Jue asked leisurely with a smile.
"It's just that you're on a tour, why are you here again?" asked Xiao leisurely.
"Hmph~!It's not that Zhong Barbarian didn't listen to the persuasion and got into trouble, and the old man had to rush over to wipe his ass!" Cui Jue snorted and said.
"Oh, it turns out that the adults are passing by, hehe. Thank you for the solution, then you won't delay the adult's trip, please!"
"Well, I remember to go to the Fifth Hall on time two days later to hear the trial. Cui Jue nodded, and his figure flashed and disappeared into the enchantment.
"It's good that I'm just passing by, I'm scared to death! It's not good to stay here for a long time, let's go quickly." Yue Daring let out a sigh of relief, patted his chest and said.
"Okay, let's go to the next place, but since we're here, you can't go back empty-handed, wait for me for a while. ”
Xiao Youran saw his performance, and knew that he was afraid that Cui Jue would investigate the theft of wine, but didn't Zhong Kui already take the blame for him, didn't he tell him? But what does this matter have to do with him, he didn't say anything, he just responded and walked away to the roadside.
"Could it be that you are also good at this tune, brother, but here is nothing but a ghost, what do you want to do?" When Yue Daring heard this, he didn't go back empty-handed, and suddenly came to his senses, leaned over and squeezed his eyes, and asked quietly.
"By the way, do you think I'm like you? I'm going to pick flowers!" said with a smile.
"Ah~?!Picking flowers??! but this broad daylight ......" Yue Daring was taken aback when he heard this, and couldn't help but shout. But halfway through the words, he was shocked that the matter was silent, and quickly covered his mouth.
"I really don't know what you're thinking in your head!" Xiao Youran didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, walked to the flowers, squatted down and looked at them, and selected a few flowers from the other side that were in good condition, picked them and put them in his arms.
"Uh...... It's really 'picking flowers'!" Yue was stunned, it turned out that this flower was not the other flower, thinking about his reaction just now, he couldn't help but blush.
"What do you think?" smiled and got up and gave him another look.
"That...... These flowers are everywhere in the underworld, what is there to pick?" Yue was extremely embarrassed and hurriedly changed the topic.
"Do you like it?" asked Xiaoyou, rolling her eyelids.
"This ...... Let's go, let's go!" Yue was speechless, so he had to set up the yin wind and fly forward along Huangquan Road, and the two of them came to the second scenic spot after touching less than a cup of tea.
This is a square-shaped high platform, with three big red characters of "Wangxiang Tower" written on it, exuding bursts of ghostly light. There are no traces of piling up on this platform, and it looks like it is integrated with the ground, like a mountain peak rising from the ground. The souls of the dead who had been escorted here by Yin Cha lined up neatly under the stage and took turns to take turns on the stage, while those who had taken the stage came down from the other side and continued to follow Yin Cha.
Xiao Youran wanted to take a look on the stage, and was about to line up but was pulled directly to the stage by Yue Daring. I don't know what he said to the yin cha at the front, the man nodded his head hurriedly to give up his position, Yue boldly patted the man's shoulder with satisfaction, and bowed his chin to the high platform, signaling to smile leisurely.
Climbing the high platform and looking into the distance, the outline of the capital city is even more majestic, but except for standing on a high point, it seems to be no different from what you see on the ground. Xiao Youran was wondering which township this Wangxiang platform was looking at, when he suddenly heard Yue boldly calling below to ask him to look back, and then he realized that he had seen the wrong direction.
As soon as he turned around, the scene in front of him began to change in an instant, bursting like foam and then recondensing. In the field of vision, it was a place like a fairyland, but there were no imaginary fairy mountain pavilions, yao grass and flowers, and some were just devastated and ruins.
It seems that there has been an unusually tragic battle here, the mountains have collapsed, the lakes and seas have capsized, the earth has cracked, the ravines have been crisscrossed, and huge and profound slashing marks can be seen everywhere.
Clusters of strange black flames burned on the ground, and the vegetation had long since died or turned to ashes, and there was no living creature in sight and no life in sight. Beneath the ruins of a palace-like building, you can clearly see all kinds of broken magic weapons scattered inside, with dried blood stains and fragments of armor and clothing scattered all over it.
The entire battlefield was lifeless as far as the eye could see, except for a huge circular pit in the center, where a rich purple-gold light flickered and flickered as if it were beating. Xiao Youran tried to focus his gaze on the light cluster, and found that he saw another space directly through the light cluster.
As the vision shuttled, the surrounding scene was blurry and difficult to discern, and only a huge golden lotus flower could be seen floating on a clear water, and on the stamen of the flower lay a tall and burly man wearing purple gold battle armor. His whole body was shrouded in a faint golden curtain, and he couldn't see his appearance clearly, only vaguely that he seemed to be sleeping with his eyes closed.
If he is asleep, but he cannot see the breathing between his chest and abdomen, he is as motionless as a corpse. It was strange that his complexion was ruddy, his exposed skin was bloody, and his limbs were not stiff.
Who is this man? Is it my corpse? But this figure is not right, at least it is a head taller than me, and it can put me in the middle of it, and it is clear that it is not the right number. Doesn't it mean that this lookout can see Yangshi's house, relatives and friends, and his own corpse and grave? But what kind of mess is what kind of mess is seen here......
When he was laughing leisurely and inexplicably, the man lying down suddenly opened his eyes, which were two pitch-black hollows, with no eyeballs at all, only strange black flames jumping in them. I only heard him shout "Jun Tianzi, take your life!" and then jumped up suddenly, pinched his hands on the neck of Xiao Youran, and the black fire in his eyes erupted wildly, as if he wanted to burn everything into nothingness.
Xiao Youran only felt that his throat was clamped by an iron hoop, he couldn't breathe and screamed, his chest was suffocated as if he was about to burst, and his hands were scratching at the side of his neck but he couldn't touch anything. But the strange thing is that there is no feeling of panic and despair at all, only painful remorse and endless melancholy. The body was whirling as if it was being pulled by an invisible whirlpool, and finally he lost consciousness in front of him.
The above are just subjective things that happened with a smile, but what Yue Daring who was standing in the audience saw was that after he looked back on the stage, his eyes stood straight, and after a while, he began to dance with his hands, and then pinched his neck with both hands, pinched his eyes outward, and stretched his tongue out, and finally his eyes rolled and he fell directly from the stage.
Frightened, Yue Daring hurriedly flew to catch him, and found that the person had passed out, so he walked to a place where there was no one around, put him on the ground, helped him to lean on his arms with his upper body, and pinched and slapped his face in an attempt to wake him up.
But after fiddling with it for a long time, it didn't have any effect, but he saw an extremely faint purple-gold rune flickering in the center of his eyebrows, and he stretched out his finger and touched it lightly in curiosity. It didn't matter if it was a touch, the rune suddenly became brighter, and under the bloom of light, a huge anti-shock force hit Yue Daring's chest like a heavy hammer, causing him to spurt out a mouthful of blood and pass out.
A shadow that was difficult to detect without looking closely moved strangely against the ground, and the black-robed girl reappeared as she wriggled and changed.
Looking at the unconscious two people stacked on the ground, the girl took out the black leaves again and began to report, but this time she didn't summon a portrait projection, but just said to the leaves: "The seal was triggered in Wangxiangtai and he was unconscious, and the Yin contact seal that accompanied him was also shocked and unconscious, do you want to send them back?"
"Now that it's close, let's take it directly to the Ecstasy Pavilion. A lazy and majestic woman's voice came from among the leaves.
"Yes, master!" the black-robed girl replied respectfully, then put away the leaves, urging the shadows to envelop the two people on the ground, and the shadows wriggled and changed again, and the figures of the three disappeared in place at the same time.