Chapter 40: The netherworld
I look, damn scared me, and behind the Han Dao is directly called out: "ghost ah".
Shouted out after she perhaps this just remembered that we this itself in the netherworld, in front of us in addition to ghosts can also have what, and then hastily sent a smile to the old man, expressed indebtedness.
The old man frowned at me and scolded, "You're still a yin and yang gentleman, how can you still be afraid of ghosts? How ridiculous!"
Hearing this I was really ashamed of myself and hurriedly said, "Mr. Lao scolded me, it's my first time to go to the netherworld, that's why I'm so frightened, please forgive me if I've offended you!"
The old man glanced at me and then turned his gaze to it, saying, "Seeing as we are all in the same path I'll let this matter go, if you have anything to do just ask quickly!"
When I heard this, I dare say that this old man in front of me is still a member of the Taoist sect. So once again, he made a detention and said, "So it's a senior in the Dao, the kid is justified. I want to ask, how can I get to Fengdu City?"
The old man nodded his head, then pointed to the end of the street and said, "You go straight ahead, cross the bridge and you'll be in Fengdu City."
"Bridge? Could it be the Bridge of Naihe?" I asked after him.
The old man shook his head and said, "The Naihe Bridge is something you have to cross only when traveling to reincarnation, you are going to Fengdu City, so naturally you don't have to cross the Naihe Bridge."
"It's not the Naihe Bridge, what other bridges are there in the netherworld, why haven't I heard of them before?"
I looked at the end of the street and wondered.
The old man skimmed his mouth and said, "Seeing your moral skill, it's normal that you don't know."
Hearing this, I sweated once again. Just when I wanted to ask about the Ghost Shadow Bridge again, the old man struck his hand and said, "No more, I have to go have something important to do!" After saying that, he turned around and left ......
Think about it, Naiho Bridge is the reincarnation of the bridge, people die after the Yellow Springs Road, after death, if you wait until the reincarnation of the bridge will have to go through the Naiho Bridge, but can not be safe across the bridge, it depends on your blessings.
As the saying goes, "the bridge over the five, good and evil to the end of the road is different", it is said that the bridge is divided into three layers, the good people from the upper layer through, which for the evil people from the bottom layer through, good and evil half of the people from the middle of the two layers through. The top layer of the gold, silver bridge, both flat and wide, and there is a Yin Difficulty welcome, the soul can pass through safely; the bottom layer of the wooden bridge is close to the surface of the River of Forgetfulness, huge waves beat, fierce ghosts to stop pulling, bugs and snakes biting, can not stand up to bugs and snakes hissing and biting of the pain, or can not tolerate the fright of the waves, is absolutely not over the small wooden bridge. And the middle two layers of the bridge is good and evil half of the people walking, although the middle two layers will not have any danger, but the ghosts from the two layers of the bridge through, the shock will still be a little bit. Therefore, life in the world or more good deeds, so as not to end up falling into the river was bitten by insects and snakes, all will be too late!
According to legend, there is an old woman named "Meng" at the head of the Naihe Bridge, constantly cooking a pot of soup seasoned with "forgetfulness". Anyone who wants to be reincarnated must drink the soup cooked by Meng, and after drinking this bowl of Meng's soup, they will forget everything about their previous life! So, people always don't remember their past lives. There is also a legend that the soup of the bowl of Meng Po soup for the reincarnation of the person who shed the tears of this life, the drink will be tasted one by one the past life, and then they will forget.
Naihe Bridge, Naihe the parting of the past life, Naihe the meeting of this life, helpless reunion in the next life.
Words return to the right turn, see his wind and fire to go very quickly, think he really have urgent business to do, but to Fengdu City route is finally asked out, so I will ride on a white horse, the reins thrown to the end of the street to rush.
After riding the white horse for about ten minutes, I finally got out of the end of the street. Here the ghosts are also much less, the town's housing construction also stopped here, because in front of me appeared a river, it is this river blocked the expansion of the town.
This river does not seem to be very big, only about twenty meters wide, but the water in the river is as black as ink. Both sides of the river are hung with red lanterns, red lanterns every three feet distance will be hung with a, point flash red lanterns reflected in the ink-like water reflecting a slightly swaying lights.
There is a stone bridge over the river, the bridge is arch-shaped, both sides of the bridge are also hung with red lanterns. Everywhere else is dark, but only here is brightly lit, this feeling makes me feel very strange.
I saw the bridge was full of ghosts, they all stepped in the bridge or the bridge head to look at the river under the bridge, and then either screaming in fear, or crying tears of sadness, completely different from the ghosts elsewhere.
Hando asked me what's wrong, is there more than ghosts in the river is even more horrible things?
I don't quite understand, so I tried to walk to the bridge to look into the river, and then realized that the river is like a huge mirror, the whole of me in the mirror. However, I was fine, looked no different from before life, and then look around those ghosts, only to see the appearance of the river is completely different, only to see the reflection of the river in the shadow of the image they are completely out of human form, covered with blood and flesh, and head on the hands of the body of the meat is also a piece of the river fall.
Yes, the reflection on the river is definitely the scene of rotting corpses. At that moment, Han Duo screamed out in fear, but at this time, the ghosts on the bridge are all heartbroken, so Han Duo's scream was not too sudden.
Seeing the scene in front of me, I suddenly remembered a description of the netherworld in the Maoshan mystic arts, called the Ghost Shadow Bridge. According to legend, after a ghost has passed through the Ghost Gate, traveled the Yellow Springs Road, and drank the Spirit Soup from the Spirit Temple, it will come to this Ghost Shadow Bridge. Until then, the ghosts will not know that they are dead, they are in a dream world. Until they come to the Ghost Shadow Bridge, the ghosts will be able to see themselves clearly from the reflection of the water under the bridge, and then they will realize that they are already dead, and even their own bodies have already decayed, with pieces of rotten flesh falling into the river. They were afraid and kept rubbing their hands and bodies, but the more they rubbed, the faster the flesh fell off, until they saw their own white bones.
They would be afraid, they would panic, or they would regret, or they would not be happy. Yes, when they know they are dead, who can let go of everything in the world? Those family members, friends, or money and material things.
But at this time they have been unable to return to the Yang, because at this time in the Yang world, their bodies have been dead for seven days, any it is the great immortals, but also can not save him to return to the Yang. Because at this time, they stayed in the Yang world's physical body has begun to rot.
I will I know everything told to han duo, the strange thing is that at this time she not only did not have the slightest fear, but not fall tears.
Perhaps looking at this scene in front of you, and then think of yourself, who does not know when they will suddenly come to this place, at that time, perhaps they will also be so, will also be unwilling, will also not be able to let go, because the Yang Shi has too many of their own things have not yet had the time to do, because there are too many hang-ups in the Yang Shi ......
Lift your eyes and look at those ghosts on the bridge, or sadness, or despair, or helplessness, obviously they are thinking of their hometown in the Yang Shi, loved ones, but also thought of their own in the Yang Shi is about to rot in the flesh, now they have to accept the reality of their own has died.
Those who came down from the bridge were either remorseful or sighed with regret. Yes, those who have not experienced the separation of life and death will not understand the pain of this tearing of the heart and lungs. So for people in the world, advise you to be more tolerant heart treat your family and friends well, do not wait until the day of regret, everything will be too late.
In this ghost impact on the bridge I do not know how much sadness, tears of remorse. This is really the death of the netherworld is still retaining the family, Yin and Yang are separated from the pain of breaking the intestines!
Seeing this scene of sadness in front of me, my eyes can not help but wet up, in order not to let Han Duo touch the scene of sadness, so I urged her to cross the bridge as soon as possible, so as not to miss the hour.
Walked about half an hour, in front of me finally appeared an ancient city. Looking around the whole city exudes a kind of ancient atmosphere, that kind of big city only has the lofty momentum but reveals undoubtedly.
There were three big black characters on the earth-colored city gate - "Fengdu City". The walls of the city have become scarred because of the old age, and the whole city is so high and lofty when you stand underneath it, which makes people solemn and respectful. You can't see the stars, the sun and the moon upwards, and you can't see the dust of the land downwards.
Fengdu City, also known as Ghost City, is the largest city in the nether world, this is the power center of the nether world, with major government offices, so this is also known as the hell. Inside Fengdu City, there are ten major halls, also known as the ten kings of hell, they each have their own duties, so that the order of hell is normal, but also make people good and evil.
The person I am looking for is in Fengdu City, Judge Cui, who is in charge of the Book of Life and Death. In fact, Judge Cui is not the King of Hell, in the folk people often think that the person in charge of life and death is the King of Hell, in fact, there are ten halls in the hell, each hall has a King of Hell, they are in charge of good and evil rewards and punishments. And Cui magistrate, in charge of the book of life and death, regardless of whether you are good or evil, where the end of life, Cui magistrate will be in the book of life and death with red sand pen in your name on a stroke, there will be black and white or ghosts to go to the detention of your soul.
Of course, in his place, although life and death are not divided into good and evil, the end of life must be claimed back, but if it is a good person, he will send the White Impermanence to go to the detention of the soul, and if it is an evil person, he will send the Black Impermanence to go to the detention of the soul, the direct iron foot chains shackles the body, walking in the Yellow Springs Road, that is since the pain is unbearable.
Return to the right turn, Fengdu City, Fengdu City gate, a dim black lantern under the standing four guards Yin soldiers, holding a five-foot-long ghost whip. The entrance of the city was very cold and clear, I guess it was because there were generally not many ghosts walking around here.
"Road Guide!"
Just as we were beating our horses and preparing to enter the city, suddenly the ghost-beating whip in the hands of the Yin soldier guarding the gate was blocked in front of me, and he shouted sternly.
