Kikai

On the bank of Wangchuan River, on the bridge of Naihe.

Following the ghost who claimed to be the emissary of King Yama's right ghost through the sea of ​​flowers on the other side, Yu Qi still deeply remembered what Hei Wuchang said to her when she first came, and she lowered her head and dared not look at the fiery red flowers.

"Master Meng is waiting for you." The right ghost messenger stopped and took a step to the side.

Only then did Yu Qi raise his head, and in front of him was the Naihe Bridge glowing with a faint white light. The bridge was twisted and spread upwards, and the edge could not be seen at a glance, giving people a faint illusion that it seemed to be connected to the endless darkness in the sky.

Stepping on the Naihe Bridge, Yu Qi was slightly surprised. Standing on the Naihe Bridge made her feel the feeling of stepping on a ghost plate for the first time. The light ghost body seemed to become a physical body again.

"Son, come here, the old lady is getting old, and her eyes are not very good."

An old voice called Yuqi's attention back. There was a large white stone on the bridge, which seemed to be of the same material as the Naihe Bridge, and there was an old woman standing in front of the stone, and she was waving at Yuqi.

This should be the legendary Po Meng, right? Yu Qi stepped forward quickly, and bowed to Po Meng restrainedly: "Hello, Mrs. Meng."

"Yu Qi, right?" Granny Meng looked her up and down with a smile, "It's very pretty."

"I don't know what Mrs. Meng wants to do with me?"

"Why are you in such a hurry, young people have to be more patient." Granny Meng waved her hand, then turned around and waved to the open space behind her, and a stall appeared out of thin air on the Naihe Bridge.

In the stall, a big pot was still steaming, and Granny Meng approached and made a bowl of soup, put it on the table, and said to Yuqi, "Come and taste it."

"..." This is Meng Po, so the pot should be the legendary Meng Po soup, right?Can you taste this stuff casually? !

Granny Meng seemed to see through her thoughts: "It's okay, this thing needs to cooperate with the special aura in the Tao of reincarnation to forget this life. It's okay to drink a few more bowls when it's okay, my little Shuanglang grew up drinking this thing .”

In fact, Shuanglang's poor memory might not be due to the demigod soul and ghost body...

But when it came to this point, Yu Qi couldn't shirk anymore, sat down and took a sip of Meng Po soup, and when the soup entered her throat, her eyes lit up instantly: "It's so fresh."

"The old lady's craftsmanship is not bad." Granny Meng also filled a bowl for herself, sat down opposite Yu Qi, and slowly drank it.

"I heard that the ingredients of Mengpo soup are the seven hardships of life, but I didn't expect it to be so delicious."

Meng Po was amused when she heard the words: "Do you all say that in the human world? The seven hardships of life... Hahahaha, even the Buddhas in the Western Paradise may not be able to understand the seven hardships of life. How can the old woman use them like this?"

Yu Qi's face blushed slightly. The legends really cannot be believed. He picked up the Mengpo soup and planned to take another sip, but when he lowered his head, he found a fiery red flower petal floating into the bowl.

"Recently, the flowers on the other side have withered a lot, and the petals are flying around all day long. Come, let me make you a new bowl." Po Meng stood up and took Yuqi's bowl.

Yu Qi didn't care: "It's okay, just take out the petals."

Granny Meng took a deep look at her, but still took her bowl and turned to make soup again: "Girl, do you know what the other shore flower is?"

"I heard that it was the soul of an idiot who couldn't pass the love test." Yu Qi remembered very clearly what he said to her at that time.

"That's right." Granny Meng put the soup in front of Yuqi and sat down again, "It's true that a foolish man complains about a woman, but if a ghost eats them by mistake or picks them off, then the ghosts on these flowers on the other side can be killed." Reincarnated, but the ghosts who have become attached to them will bear the indelible grievances and resentments of this life for them in the next life."

Yu Qi's hand holding the bowl shook slightly, and put down the bowl with lingering fear, she didn't want to get involved in any kind of grievance.

Meng Po smiled slightly: "Girl, is there anything you can't let go of?"

After asking this question, Yu Qi really thought about it seriously: "Well, I had a good life before I was alive, so there is nothing I can't let go of. Although my parents died early, my sister treated me very well and took care of me in every way, and my friends also took care of me. Very good, although it will be a little sad not to see them in the future, but knowing that they are all living happily, I have nothing to worry about."

Po Meng nodded secretly in her heart, and then cut to the point: "Actually, it's no big deal to ask you here, you know my little Shuanglang, right?"

When the right ghost envoy said that Granny Meng was going to see her, Yu Qi had already guessed about half of it, and sure enough, Po Meng was the mother-in-law Shuanglang always mentioned.

"The people in Shuanglang are very nice and have helped me several times." Yu Qi said sincerely.

"Hehe, that kid doesn't have any bad intentions now, but it will be hard to say in the future."

Yu Qi frowned slightly. Which parent would say this to his child: "Master Meng, what do you mean by this?"

"Shuanglang is a demigod, do you know what a so-called demigod is?"

"Is it a hybrid? It's the offspring of... gods and... other creatures." This is Yu Qi's guess, and she has never asked Shuang Lang, and Liu Dajiao's book is just a simple sentence: Devil May Cry Rakshasa Bone Whip Shuanglang is a semi-divine soul, very powerful.

Po Meng shook her head: "Gods and other creatures will not have offspring. The souls are too powerful to conceive without twin gods."

"What is that demigod?"

"That's a long story. The God Realm is divided into the Upper God Realm, the Middle Heaven Court and the Lower God Realm. The Upper God Realm only stores the god bodies of the three ancestors and the chaotic gods, while the Middle Heaven Court is inhabited by the innate gods, and the lower God Realm. The God Realm is home to other creatures that you call human beings who have ascended to immortality."

Yu Qi patiently listened to Granny Meng's narration, learning about another bizarre world.

"The gods of chaos are the chaotic creatures that existed when the world first opened, while the congenital gods are the gods that are slowly conceived after the world has stabilized. They may be humans or demons when they are born, but they will all become gods in the end, and they don't need to practice. , as long as it exists between heaven and earth, it will eventually become a god."

This is the so-called darling of heaven, who is born with a bright future without any effort.

"And Shuanglang was born only once in ten thousand years. Unfortunately, he died at the age of two. In fact, this kind of situation usually does not happen, but who knows, she just happened to meet him. Po Meng sighed and shook her head.

Yu Qi also had some regrets: "So she is a demigod because she died before becoming a god?"

Meng Po nodded: "Yes, there is no soul but she can never ascend to the God Realm, and she is a soul, so she can't be reincarnated. The way of reincarnation is very against the soul."

"Then she can only be a ghost forever?" I heard that gods will never die, so does it mean that after thousands of years, all the friends around me will be reincarnated, and Shuanglang will stay alone in the underworld?

"How can it be? She can't even be a ghost." Po Meng couldn't help feeling sad.

"Have you ever seen her semi-divine soul? In fact, that is her soul. Usually this cute little doll is just an empty shell made by the old lady."

Yu Qi was very surprised: "What do you mean?"

"The demigod soul loses the restraint of the physical body and will tirelessly absorb the aura around it. In the underworld, it means absorbing ghost energy to make it a god as soon as possible, but it does not realize that it will never be able to cross the line of life and death. Too much ghost qi is useless, and the ghost qi produced by Huangquan every day is fixed, if demigods are allowed to suck it, then Huangquan will not be able to maintain the existence of other ghosts in the underworld."

"So you just made an empty shell and locked her up?" Yu Qi didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

Granny Meng glanced at her and did not deny it: "This is for the sake of the underworld and for her own good."

"Then have you asked Shuang Lang if she is willing?"

"Thousands of years ago, she was just a two-year-old doll. She can have whatever she wants." Po Meng said very lightly.

Yu Qi felt angry for no reason: "It's a doll, you locked her up for thousands of years? I don't know how the ghost calculates its volume, but I have seen her soul with my own eyes, and it is clearly an adult. After staying in such a small child's body for a thousand years, she..."

"What happened to the millennium? Her half-spirit is now merging with the ghost body, and they will be inseparable soon. The half-soul will stay in the ghost body in the future, not only for the previous 1000 years, but also for the next thousand years. Will come out again."

Yu Qi lost control for a while, and stood up angrily: "You said before that she is still a two-year-old child and has no wishes, but now? She can think independently, can't you ask her wishes?"

Granny Meng slammed the bowl in her hand on the table: "It's a good thing for her to stay in the ghost body, at least it won't disturb the balance of the ghost world, and she may not be unwilling, so what does this have to do with you? Why are you angry?"

"You are right, she may not be unwilling, but since she calls me sister, then I will treat her as my sister to protect her. I have something to do with her being unfairly imprisoned. I think you should at least ask Ask her? Thankfully she always mentions you respectfully, I didn’t expect you to treat her like this!” Yu Qi’s eyes turned red with anger, she couldn’t imagine an adult staying in a small space with his hands tied How uncomfortable it will be, let alone where you will stay forever in the future.

Meng Po suddenly calmed down, raised her hand and waved her sleeves, and Yu Qi's angry mood also calmed down.

"I... just now..." Yu Qi returned to his senses, and Yu Qi couldn't believe it. What did he say just now? !

"Girl, you haven't known Xiao Shuanglang for long, have you? I didn't expect you to really protect her." Meng Po said with a smile.

What does it mean?Yu Qi, who had calmed down, of course couldn't yell at Po Meng again, and said hesitantly, "What do you mean?"

"What I said just now was to provoke you on purpose. I brought up Xiao Shuanglang with my own hands. No one will love her more than me." After she finished speaking, she glanced at the soup bowl that had bottomed out. Suo pointed out, "Mengpo soup can't be drunk indiscriminately."

Yu Qi patted her stomach reflexively. She had indeed drank a lot of Mengpo soup just now. Could it be that she felt that her inability to control her emotions was the reason for Mengpo soup: "Then what you just said..."

"Girl, I want to ask you something."