Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 12
Finally heaving a sigh of relief, I sat limply on the ground, while Zhang Feng quickly stepped forward to thank me.

"Thank you so much for what happened just now, I don't even know what to say, if it wasn't for you."

"Stinky Thirteen! Why did you come here! See if I don't strangle you!" Before Zhang Feng could finish speaking, this woman rushed over to me, beating and strangling me repeatedly.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, I don't know why I got down, and I can't blame me! Eh? You are Sun Jing!" She slowly took off the mask, and it was indeed Sun Jing.

I haven't seen each other for more than a month, and she seems to have lost a lot of weight, but she is still so beautiful. There are teardrops in her eyes with a complaining face, which makes people feel affectionate.

I held her in my arms and prepared a lot of words, but now I can't say a word.After many days, I didn't expect to meet in the underworld.

"What's wrong with you? Why did you appear here? Are you dead?" She said something first, and the already awkward atmosphere became even more awkward.

"I don't know, but I hope I'm not dead!" I said.

Zhang Feng explained everything in detail, and Sun Jing also understood a general outline.

She wiped her tears and said to me: "Well, it's not difficult to go back, but I'm afraid it's not easy to find that monster. There's something going on here now, so I can't tell you the details, but I can help you. "

Although Sun Jing called me and told me to break up, I knew there must be some reason, so I wanted to ask.

"Shh, don't ask. The matter is very complicated and I can't tell you. Just trust me." After that, he kissed me on the face. "Promise me, forget me, we can't be together." Sun Jing shed tears as she said it.

Zhang Feng said at this time: "We have to speed up, I roughly estimated that the time we have been down is not short, if we still can't find the monster, we want to go back without turning into a vegetable. Quite low!" Zhang Feng's words woke me up from my contemplation.

"Yes, Sun Jing, let's put the two of us aside first, and think about how you can catch that monster first?" I sniffed and said pretending to be strong.

"Well, if you say it's hard to find, it's actually easy to find. Do you still remember the time when you rescued your aunt by taking a piss?"

"How do you know this? I've never told anyone about this, especially girls?" I looked at Sun Jing doubtfully, "I know a lot of things. Let's go ahead first. The closer you are to hell, the easier it is to find what you're looking for."

The three nodded, got up and continued on their way.

I don't know much about hell, and Sun Jing explained everything around here to me while walking.

Hell is not a belief concept unique to a certain religion, it is a common phenomenon shared by world religions.The environment that Sun Jing said we are in now is an area before entering hell. In layman's terms, it is a stage between yin and yang, which is called the gray area or the land of chaos.People are not really dead here, and there is still a chance of resurrection.It is a place where what we know as "vegetative" souls exist.

Today, with the development of modern science and technology, many people may regard this as the imagination of the ancients. In fact, considering my current state, I feel that everything is not empty talk, which is beyond my cognition.Like I was born in this era, if I explain this to others, I can only say that I have come to a parallel world.

"The Eighteen Mud Plow Sutra contains a detailed description of the eighteen levels of hell. There are eight colds, eight heats, and sixteen hells, plus Youzeng Hell and Loneliness Hell, for a total of eighteen hells." Sun Jing said.

Zhang Feng added fuel to the side and said: "That's right, and this hell is not the underworld, it's more like an execution ground, and the scope of the underworld is larger. For example, if we reach a crossroad now, we will have different directions. The direction you arrive at is different." Hearing what he said, I kept shivering.

"Don't be afraid, the two of you are not yet exhausted, so there will be a crossroads. And for those who are really dead, they can't choose where to go, they can only walk on their own way. In this space, you will find The ghost passing by you disappeared as he walked, in fact, he just walked into his own space. Didn’t someone say that some people died, but he was actually still alive.” When Sun Jing spoke, I It was as if she really saw a white shadow passing by her and then disappearing again.

"I think we should talk about something else, I'm a bit cold now." I said.

Sun Jing glanced at me, ignored me, and continued:
"In the "Shan Hai Jing" there is a record of the kingdom of ghosts. It is said that there is a big peach tree on Dushuo Mountain, with three thousand miles of banners. The east gate of its branches is called the gate of ghosts. One is called Shen Tu, the other is called Yu Lei, and they lead all ghosts. These two ghost emperors guard the gate of ghosts. Therefore, this thing is different from person to person. Believe it or not, it is there. It’s just that you haven’t seen it. .”

"Grandma, you tortured me all the time up there, and now you're not letting me go!" Although I knew that Sun Jing wasn't smart enough, it still felt awkward to say such godly and ghostly things out of her mouth.I grabbed her hand and shook it desperately.

"What I'm saying is the truth! Also, whenever you can be serious, you are always talkative." Sun Jing gave me a blank look, and withdrew her hand.

Yes, when will I be more mature, maybe I haven't realized what responsibilities I have on my shoulders.In other words, people should have some responsibility.

However, since Sun Jing broke up with me, I have been confused every day.Fortunately, I got involved in the Zhang family's mess, and it was as if I had grasped a little hope in my confusion.I thought to myself, if I go back, I must become a disciple of Zhang Muzhen. This is my responsibility.

As we talked, we came to the crossroads.It's not much different from the road above, but the style of the painting has a more gloomy feel.

"This is the crossroads. Going forward is hell, and the boss lives in it." Sun Jing spoke, showing a trace of unnoticed disappointment on her face.

I pointed to the road on the left and asked, "How about going this way?"

"Over there is the place of reincarnation. Don't ask me. Time is running out and I will explain it to you when I have time." Zhang Feng stopped me and urged us to move forward quickly.

Sun Jing may also feel that it was a bit embarrassing to be too quiet, so she continued: "What I just talked about is the hell described by Buddhism. The hell we are in is more like a collection of multiple hell worlds entangled with each other. What is this thing? , it may also be affected by the influence of the yang world. Now it is in chaos. In short, trust me and don’t live in the yin world. I have a feeling that something big is going to happen here."

I didn't listen carefully to her talk about ghosts and gods, but I could feel that she still liked me. Since she refused to tell me, I didn't ask. When the time was right, she would naturally tell me.

Although everyone is still discussing all these worlds that I am not familiar with, they still dare not slow down.Soon I came to the "Blood Field", which I named myself.Because it is so suitable, 400 meters in front of the gate of hell is the most terrifying place, full of ashes and rotting corpses.Birds like crows were still standing on the broken branches of the withered grass, watching us three uninvited guests.

"The beast should be nearby, everyone be careful." Sun Jing signaled Zhang Feng to take out the compass.

"Brother Feng, are the things from this world still useful here?"

"As you said, this is just a parallel world, and all things appear for a reason. This compass, an old object that has been passed down for thousands of years, has never seen such a big storm? You just need to cover me with a copper coin sword. Eh? You took it backwards!" Zhang Feng said.

"This sword is still divided anyway? Isn't it double-edged?"

"It's not holding it backwards. Why are you left-handed? No wonder you feel awkward when you tie the paper. If you hold it with your right hand, you won't be able to exert its power." He snatched the sword and forced it into my right hand. Jing looked at me with a helpless smile, the smile was still so cute and moving.

"I, I don't use my right hand very often, alas." I was still mumbling, Zhang Feng told me to be quiet, turned around and continued tinkering with the compass in his hand.

The principle of the compass is actually to use the above magnetic needle to find the time and direction that is most suitable for a specific person or a specific event. Props that often appear in movies, but whether they will be used is the real problem.

After a while, the position of the magnetic needle suddenly moved to the left and forward. The three of us looked at each other and walked forward.He was running east and west following the direction of the compass needle, but suddenly the compass needle stopped moving.

"What's going on?" Sun Jing and I walked forward, but the position of the magnetic needle did not move, could it be nearby.We were still pondering whether this thing was broken or it was already in place, when the magnetic needle suddenly turned behind me while we slipped away.

I was scolding in my heart, but I didn't dare to be careless. I was forced to fight against the demon before I became a teacher. It was really embarrassing for me.Thinking in his mind, he didn't stop moving. He took a long step back with his left foot as a support point, and quickly turned around with the sword in his right hand to strike behind him.

A bloody light appeared in the air, and a red shadow appeared out of thin air behind the originally empty body, and took a solid blow from me.I'm so happy, but I'm still a little disappointed that I didn't cut it to the end.

The lighted copper coin sword is still stained with human blood, but its power is different.It just stared at me in a daze, its teeth still gritted.

This place is different from what you saw in the Yangjian. The dirty things you saw above were all blurry black shadows. What you see here are solid, which is more convenient for fighting.It was a fiery red color with two big tails dangling behind it. I once thought that the tails were growing separately. It was so uncoordinated.

"This is a fox demon, but it's a bit strange. Why, how can it transform into a human form? It only has two tails!" Zhang Feng was a little puzzled, but he didn't have to worry too much. He immediately took out a charm and greeted it.

But the talisman flew halfway through the air and landed on the ground. Zhang Feng opened his mouth wide and couldn't believe it.

"I really convinced you two and me. This is already the realm of hell. Except for this sword, the yellow paper charms are useless. I really don't know how your master taught you. Forget it, ten Three, you come to cover me." Before I could react, Sun Jing had already charged up.Yaohu didn't seem to expect how this fragile-looking girl could have such explosive power, so she dodged and dodged.

Sun Jing, Zhang Feng and I, the three of us now form a triangle, trapping the demon fox in the middle.Sun Jing had an extra dagger in her hand at some point, it should be called a short knife more suitable.But no matter how you look at it, it looks a bit like the hunting knife of my grandfather that my grandfather showed me before.There are some strange words engraved on the knife surface, I thought for a while, it should be similar to the words engraved on the road stone.

"Be careful!" Seeing the fox demon rushing towards Zhang Feng, he couldn't help shouting.

Hmph, I guessed it right, I was holding a copper coin sword, Sun Jing was holding a dagger, only Zhang Feng had nothing, these beasts must want to defeat them one by one.

I didn't dare to slack off, and stabbed at the demon fox step by step, but I never expected that this little thing was so flexible, it swept its big tail to the ground, turned its head and bit my leg.

It's not a good feeling to take a bite of this big fang.I had no choice but to curl my legs up and put an incredible pose in the air, trying to avoid it, even though it was extremely obscene.

The demon fox was a little annoyed when he saw that I had shrunk my legs and missed my bite. It grabbed my ankle with its big claws, turned around and flung me, and I flew out.The moment I went out, I saw a big cut in my ankle by sharp claws.

After I landed, my whole body was about to fall apart. Fortunately, there was a lump of rotten flesh padding the place where I landed. Otherwise, I reckoned that I would be out of my wits.The moment I landed, Sun Jing took advantage of the fox's attention on me, threw the short knife in her hand at the fox, and stuck it directly in the head. After the fox fell to the ground, it died after a few struggles.

"Are you okay, let me see!" Both Sun Jing and Zhang Feng rushed over, Sun Jing took off my shoes and looked at the wound on it, tears streaming down my face.

"It's a good thing you didn't hurt your muscles or bones, or you would be disabled when you went up." Wiping her tears, she took out a handkerchief from her bosom and prepared to bandage it for me.

"No, if you pack it like this, there will still be some problems for him to go up." Zhang Feng said.

"What should I do?"

Zhang Feng quickly ran to Yaohu's position, pulled out the dagger vigorously, and suddenly white figures flew out of the wound on Yaohu's head.It must be those souls that were swallowed by it, haven't they digested it after so long?

I told Sun Jing my question, and she laughed, the creatures that devour souls will only gain more powerful mana, once the creatures die, they will also atone for their sins and go to reincarnation.

I nodded, and Zhang Feng came trotting all the way, holding a sparkling bead in his hand.Looking at this distance, I think it's lucky that I didn't fall directly to my death just now.

"Swallow it quickly!" Zhang Feng was about to open my mouth as he said, intending to stuff that big bead into my mouth.

"What is this? Just put it in my mouth!" I asked while struggling.

"Don't talk nonsense, it's the inner alchemy cultivated by the fox demon. You can only recover your vitality after eating it, or you will die here. Look at your hands!" I looked down, half of my fingers had disappeared up.

Could it be that the fall just now really killed me!I quickly opened my mouth, and Zhang Feng immediately stuffed the fox Neidan into my mouth, but it had no taste, so I swallowed it whole without chewing.Seeing that the hand is slowly recovering, the wound on the foot has disappeared.

"My God, it's amazing!" Sun Jing helped me up, and I felt as light as a swallow, as if I was a different person.

"It seems that this evildoer is going to become a big deal in the near future, and the pill is already so big. Come on, you have absorbed all the essence of his life!" Zhang Feng looked a little envious, and I gave him a proud look.Turning to look at Sun Jing, I found that she was very quiet, she didn't say a word, she just shed tears silently.

"Okay, Old Man Liu should be fine now. Don't be stunned and find a way to go back." Zhang Feng was a little anxious, fearing that he would really become a vegetative state.

"Be good when you go back, and find a girlfriend to take care of you."

"Aren't you going back?" I asked Sun Jing anxiously.

"I still have some things to finish, you two go first, we should meet again, don't miss me. Go to the crossroads, I will send you away with the yin and yang order. By the way, you take this." Said After finishing, he took out a pair of jade pendants from his arms and handed them to me.

"How is it a couple?"

"The blue one is yours, and the red one is mine. Anyway, it's useless for me to keep it with me. You'll need it later."

I wanted to continue asking, but Sun Jing turned around and dragged us to the intersection.

(End of this chapter)