When you wake up, all the apprentices are betrayed and leave the teacher's door

It is said that the sea of ​​bitterness is boundless, and this adjective is not an exaggeration at all. You must know that this sea area is [-] miles long, wide enough to accommodate the sky.At the end of the sea of ​​bitterness is the boundary of the world. If you fall down the flowing water, you will only fall into a vast black hole of nothingness.

But no one thought that the end of the sea of ​​suffering would be connected to the River of Forgetfulness.

Huge sea water fell from the high altitude of the edge and hit the vast and boundless lake in the distance. The turbid water flowed slowly along the terrain, filling the entire riverbed of Fengdu from top to bottom. When Xian Yu and Gu Rongjing woke up, it happened to be Lying at the fork of the river, if you accidentally fork, you may be injected into the magma and ice pools of the four hells with the current.

Yes, the water of the sea of ​​bitterness falls from the black hole, circulates in Fengdu, and is pumped up through the gap between the endless hell and the sea of ​​bitterness, and the cycle goes on and on.It's no wonder that even in the body of a god and Buddha in the afterlife, it is difficult to wash away the sea of ​​suffering——

It turned out that this sea of ​​suffering was already in hell.

The two looked at each other, speechless for a while.After a long time, Xian Yu took his palm.

"Let's go."

They have more important things to do.

The scale of Fengdu is far wider than the world imagined, otherwise how can it accommodate the souls of the dead in the world?Although it is called "Hell", Fengdu is not under the human world, but an independent and undisturbed space, and even part of it overlaps with the human world, but the two sides generally do not disturb each other.

It's just that sometimes the yin energy is too heavy, and these overlapping places with the human world will be accidentally exposed. It is because of this that the yin soldiers are often said to borrow the way. Borrow Yin soldiers.

But these are still a minority.

Xian Yu and Gu Rongjing walked along the river bank to Naihe Bridge, and saw more and more Bianhua flowers along the bank.The name of this Huafan is Manzhushahua, which means the flower of the sky.According to legend, this flower can awaken the memory of the soul. It only grows along the banks of the Wangchuan River and the Naihe Bridge. It can extradite the dead. It is also the only bloody flower that blooms in the underworld.

Although Xian Yu has never seen it with her own eyes, she has heard it said in Buddhist scriptures, "The flowers on the other side bloom for 1000 years and fall for 1000 years. The flowers and leaves will never meet."Love is not causal, edge destined to death. 'From the imperial family to the beggars in common clothes, a bowl of Mengpo soup will end this life, and only then can we be human again in the next life.

This other shore flower is also the last ray of comfort for passers-by in Huangquan.

Xian Yu picked up two tattered clothes from the side of the road and put them on her body, using the strong ghostly aura to cover up the smell of strangers.When I approached, I found a few wandering souls standing in front of the bridge. They stayed in the underworld for a while, and now their minds are fully awake, but there are always many reasons why they dare not give up this life.

Granny Meng was leaning on a crutch made of twigs, and the hand holding the crutch was so dry that only a bone remained.She was sitting at the end of the bridge, with a wine jar and a plain bowl in front of her. If someone wanted to cross the bridge, she would pour a bowl from the jar and pass it to him. After drinking, she could cross the bridge.At this time, there were few people, and with the help of the dots of will-o'-the-wisp light beside the Naihe Bridge, her pale and thin face under the black robe was illuminated.

Xian Yu does not intend to forget this mundane world, but he is going to the Yellow Spring Black Road in Zhengxi—there is the Hall of Ghost Judgment, where King Qin Guang who is in charge of the book of life and death and the punishment of the underworld lives, so he has to Bypass this bridge of Naihe.

Ghostly shadows flickered around, Xian Yu deliberately walked around behind these dead souls, most of the ghosts were immersed in sadness and hesitation, and didn't notice him at all.But when she was about to leave, Granny Meng suddenly raised her head and looked at the two living people with precision from her soul.

"Would you like a bowl of soup?"

She raised her skinny hand, her voice was hoarse and low, but the hand holding the soup bowl remained motionless, not trembling at all.

Xian Yu stopped in her tracks.

Gu Rongjing lowered his head, his facial features were hidden in the tattered clothes full of ghosts and it was difficult to distinguish them. He looked at the master, and Xian Yu shook his head at him.

Although Meng Po is an old woman, she is also the underworld. She has worked in Fengdu for so many years without making any mistakes. Now that Meng Po has discovered them, it is useless to try to escape.

Xian Yu turned around, revealing only a pair of indifferent and beautiful phoenix eyes under the dim light, "I can't remember my past life, so I dare not drink soup."

The voice of a soul is different from that of a stranger, because it lacks a physical body, the voice will be weak and weak, and there will be no energy.Xian Yu lowered her voice slightly, and it sounded like an ordinary soul.

Po Meng seemed to have no intention of getting entangled with them, so she nodded, and those black dull pupils focused on him again, "Would you like a bowl of soup?"

she asked repeatedly.

Just as Gu Rongjing was about to answer, Xian Yu had already squeezed his hand tightly, and said in a low voice: "He and I have an unresolved relationship, so he can't drink."

Love, not dust.

Gu Rongjing was startled, without saying a word, and gently held Xian Yu's palm back.

Fengdu has existed for tens of thousands of years, and Po Meng has also coexisted with him for thousands of years. Seeing such a scene, she didn't react at all, she just stared at them intently. After a long time, she suddenly stretched out two index fingers and compared them. The hoarse broken voice said: "It's really... made in heaven... designed by the earth."

At the end, he sighed again: "It's a pity..."

When Xian Yu heard the first half of the sentence, she was still a little happy, but who would have expected that the second sentence of "it's a pity" would go straight down.He couldn't help but ask, "What's the pity?"

As if she couldn't hear what he was saying, Po Meng repeated in a daze, "Made in heaven, designed in the earth..."

Repeated two or three times, just like a foolish crazy woman.Gu Rongjing frowned slightly, and pulled Xian Yu, "Ignore him, let's go."

Seeing that Po Meng didn't mean to stop them.

He said so, and Xian Yu no longer entangled with Po Meng.There is no sun in the underworld, and it is difficult to tell the direction. They can only use Naihe Bridge and Huangquan Road as the positioning points. Xian Yu recalls the location of the underworld palace mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures, and then Gu Rongjing uses his sense of direction to lead the way.

Walking back and forth like this actually made them walk out of a path.

The only strange thing is that I have also been checked by ghost agents on the way. The population of the underworld is mixed. Although different types of ghosts are divided into different areas, some of them will escape the prison knowingly. On patrol, they will search for their names, causes of death, and nameplates hanging on their waists.

After each ghost died, it was brought into hell by a ghost. After checking the information, it will receive a nameplate. This nameplate is unique and must be carried with it at all times. It is a suspected "lonely ghost" that has not been registered. It can be served with a mace, or it can be wiped out.

When Xian Yu and Gu Rongjing first entered the underworld, they didn't know about this at first, and they mingled with a bunch of ghosts, trying to cover their eyes and ears, but they didn't expect to attract two ghosts on the way, and they started to interrogate them instead.

It was only after checking that the group came out from the Hungry Ghost Road.

Xian Yu: "..."

He couldn't escape even if he ran, and hitting might cause more noise, so Xian Yu finally waited in fear until Yin Cha came up to him, and asked his name expressionlessly.

Before he could answer, Gu Rongjing suddenly said: "Xian Yu, Taoist Lord Yuqing, and his disciple, Gu Rongjing."

"?!"

Xian Yu was frightened into a cold sweat and subconsciously covered his mouth, but unfortunately Gu Rongjing had already finished speaking quickly.However, to his surprise, the Yin servant didn't respond. The pale face stared at the book in his hand for a long time, then raised it coldly, and warned them: "In the underworld, it is forbidden to hang out with ghosts and make loud noises."

Then he escorted the fugitives away expressionlessly.

Xian Yu's heart had just risen to her throat, before it fell back into her stomach with a plop: "...?"

what's the problem?

Po Meng can still explain that she has nothing to do with the world, but is this a sin?

Dereliction of duty, can't you? ?

Gu Rongjing opened his lips slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he stopped suddenly when he spoke just now. He shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's go."

Afterwards, all the way was unimpeded.

There were also spirit guides and ghost messengers in the middle, but just like the previous two times, at most they were asked their names, and then they were let go. He couldn't believe it went so smoothly.

King Guang of Qin is the head of the ten halls of Hades, in charge of the first hall of Ghost Judgment.And his duties are also linked to the name of the temple, in charge of the punishment of ghosts in hell, and in charge of the length of life in the world. [1]

Looking from a distance, the ten Hades Halls tower into the clouds and stand against the mountain, with black air covering the sky, and ghost fire lanterns hanging under the sharp corner eaves. There are seven gates in the Ghost Judgment Hall. As strong as a black bear, with a bull's head and a horse's face, the guards are guarded. The highest point is the center of the palace where King Qin Guang is.

The ghost guard in charge here is different from the ones seen on the usual road. Although the ghost guard he saw before was tall, his face was pale and his cheeks were flushed. Although he ate a lot of offerings, he could still see his appearance before birth.In front of King Yama's palace are all beast-headed human beings, strong and strong like tigers. They belong to their respective King Yama's sect, and they are the bravest elite soldiers in their hands.

Even, under special circumstances, they can even eat bad food.

Rao is Xian Yu in the Mahayana period, so there is no guarantee that they can be dealt with.

But Gu Rongjing was very calm. When he walked to the front of the hall and was stopped by a bull's head and a horse with a horizontal knife in his face, he had no fear on his face, and he reported himself behind his house as he did several times before. look.

After a while, the horse-faced orc took a jade tablet from his waist. His hands were covered with thick hair and his nails were as sharp as a beast.He held the jade tablet and waved it in front of Xian Yu, suddenly a burst of spiritual energy gushed out from the jade tablet, followed by a beautiful golden light.

Seeing this golden light, the two orcs calmed down a bit, and put their weapons behind their waists to make way for them.

"His Royal Highness is waiting at the top of the mountain."

Even pointed the way for them.

When they climbed the steps up the mountain and saw the main gates of the ghost world opened for them, Xian Yu felt numb and confused.

What the hell is going on here?

"Isn't Master very strange, why didn't you stop these errands?"

Xian Yu: "...Yes."

It's not so much that he wonders about the wrong question, but rather he wonders why Gu Rongjing is so sure, as if he knows something.

"Actually, from the beginning, I was thinking about a question."

"what?"

"The end of the bitter sea is connected to the river of the underworld. None of us knew it beforehand, so we jumped into the vortex from which Jade Blood Knife and I escaped, and wanted to repeat it again. But why did we forget when we woke up? By the river? The sea of ​​bitterness is four million and forty-eight thousand miles away, how could it be such a coincidence that we were washed from the edge of one place to the edge of another?"

This is really strange.

In fact, Xian Yu was also confused, but Gu Rongjing didn't say anything after he finished speaking. He raised his hand and pointed in front of his eyes, "Master, look."

Xian Yu looked up and saw a golden ear protruding from the right corner of the mountainside.Look at the corresponding left end, which is also a golden ear.If you turn to the ghost sentence hall and look at the whole mountain, you will see a sitting mountain statue wearing a tall hat and holding a jade butterfly.

It turns out that the ghost sentence hall has the palace of King Qin Guang on the front, and the statue of King Qin Guang carved from a huge mountain on the back.Ten Hades Halls and ten Hades statues are behind them, silently guarding this vast Fengdu.

When the last door was pushed open, King Qin Guang, who was wearing a red and blue Taoist uniform, was sitting on the chair of the Eight Immortals. His earlobes were slightly long, and his beard was like a halberd, hanging down to his neck. There was also a wide black belt around his waist. .His eyes were closed tightly, his eyebrows were thick and black, and when he was not speaking, he naturally revealed a solemn and dignified majesty.

But what was even more surprising was that King Qin Guang was more than ten feet tall and more than three times the size of an ordinary person. When he sat in the middle of the hall, he remained motionless like a carved statue of a god.

With a creak, the two heavy doors were completely pushed open by the bull's head and horse face, and the ghost fire in the hall surged up, illuminating the whole hall, and King Qin Guang's Taoist uniform was also radiantly illuminated by the blue fire, a white face Like ceramic glaze.

Xian Yu and Gu Rongjing were tall and slender among mortals, but in front of King Qin Guang, they were not as high as his knees. When their golden eyes opened suddenly, they seemed to be staring at two ghosts as big as will-o'-the-wisps.

Watching this scene, the living could not stop being terrified.

However, those eyes scanned for a moment, and the golden pupils slowly returned to their normal appearance.

It was as if he was simply looking around.

A strange emotion surged in Xian Yu's heart. Ever since he woke up by the Wangchuan River, this scene did not match his imagination at all.Everywhere is full of absurdity and weirdness. If Rong Jing was not by his side, he would really think that he had entered the illusion again...

At this time, King Qin Guang opened his two thick lips, and his voice was as loud as thunder, "This place is not an illusion."

Xian Yu's heart skipped a beat, she couldn't help being startled.

Unexpectedly, King Qin Guang would have insight into people's hearts.

Gu Rongjing asked: "Shen Zun knew we would visit?"

When Xian Yu heard this, she quickly realized——

Although the little ghosts and big ghosts on the way were not respectful to them, they treated them politely and did not stop them, and they let them go as soon as they heard their names. It would be difficult to say that it was not arranged by King Qin Guang .In addition, the Sea of ​​​​Bitterness was originally connected to Fengdu, and it is also possible that the top ten Yama kings are familiar with everything in the underworld and noticed this movement....

King Qin Guang burst out laughing when he heard the words.

His laughter is majestic like a thundercloud shaking, and it has the effect of exorcising evil spirits and calming evil spirits. Ordinary people can't help being shaken when they hear it, let alone evil spirits?The laughter spread outside the hall, and the servants fell to their knees on the ground, whining in fear.Xian Yu and Gu Rongjing also had to cover their ears, and when his laughter stopped, their palms felt faintly numb.

"The sky and the earth are vast, and the six worlds live in it." King Qin Guang shouted, "Up to the sky, down to the mountains and rivers, who dares to stop the gods?"

God?

The two looked at each other, Gu Rongjing's throat tightened slightly, but Xian Yu still looked puzzled, and said cautiously: "The god may have misunderstood, although I call myself Taoist, but it is only half-hearted, and I dare not blaspheme the name of the god. "

King Qin Guang shook his head slowly, and when the huge statue-like head turned, it made a lot of noise.

"How can I bear your godly respect?"

This made it even more confusing.

For a moment, Xian Yu didn't know whether he was joking or ridiculing.But it is rumored that King Qin Guang is benevolent, filial and generous, so it should be more than that...

Gu Rongjing spoke suddenly, interrupting his thoughts.

"I came here this time to ask the gods to take a look at the book of life and death."

King Qin Guang pondered and said: "The life and death of heaven and earth are all under my jurisdiction. Whose life and death do you want to watch?"

Xian Yu suddenly had a premonition that something big was about to happen, and only heard Gu Rongjing's next sentence: "Watch my master, Daoist Yuqing, Xian Yu's life and death."

The voice fell, and there was silence in the hall.

Xian Yu's throat started to dry out.

After a long time, Gu Rongjing nodded, looked at him without surprise, and said calmly: "Sure enough, Master is exactly the same as I guessed."

Xian Yu is not a mortal person.

He was born with an ominous birth, and when he was still a baby, he was thrown away in a wooden basin with the water. Fortunately, his master picked him up, and his senior brothers took care of him, and he grew up smoothly.Although I have been in danger several times, I can always turn danger into good fortune. The human-devil war fell into the bitter sea, and the body was not damaged. After sleeping in the sand for many years, I finally saw the sun again; help.

Even broken meridians can be repaired.

Is this called luck?

It's lucky, but it's too lucky.

As he himself said, he was a favorite all his life.

Zhishun is the heart of a Buddha, and he goes to the human world to cross the kalpa in order to complete his merits and virtues so as to return to the Buddha's position.The Buddha's son turned his body into a relic to cross the boundless sea of ​​suffering.Then, in the mouth of the Buddha, what kind of role is Xian Yu, who is compared with the great wish of Ksitigarbha King?

He dared not think.

At this time, Ksitigarbha let out a long sigh.

"Shenjun is out of the five elements, and he is indeed not a person of this world."

Xian Yu took a deep breath. In fact, he had doubts about his identity, "Then, am I the reincarnation of an immortal?"

Although it is said that there is no such case among the immortals, but the Tathagata turned into a Buddha child on that day, Zhishun was born with a Buddha statue, and he only needs to cultivate in the mortal world for this kalpa, so maybe there will be such a chance to ascend to the fairy queen?

The creaking sound spread throughout the hall again, Ksitigarbha slowly shook his head, "Immortals are nothing but dust from the six realms."

"Among the four seas and eight wildernesses, there is one person who cultivates all things, without beginning and end, and grows with the sky and the earth."

When the two lips were lifted and closed, it was like a door was closed and opened, but the words that could be spit out were enough to shake the Six Realms.

"You are not gods, Buddhas, immortals and demons, but born of heaven and earth, so you are the way of heaven."

You are heaven.

What's the joke?

Xian Yu stood where she was, her feet were numb and stinging, half of her face was stiff, and she could hardly speak.After a long time, he showed an inconceivable and absurd smile, "I... am the way of heaven?"

He sneered, and his words were full of sarcasm, "If I am the way of heaven, waving my hand is enough to shatter the demons in the world, revive the mountains and rivers, and make the sun and the moon shine in spring and summer. How could I be crushed hundreds of years ago and cultivated hundreds of years ago?" Year??"

"If I am the way of heaven..."

"Then there shouldn't be injustice in this world!!"

In the empty hall, he spoke every word with a loud voice.

His youngest disciple, Fang Jingcheng, was loyal and kind, but died of poverty and depression; his kind and compassionate brother, was deceived and led astray, and became a puppet who harmed others and himself; To be used to death, not to mention the thousands of monks who died in the battle between humans and demons, and the innocent people in Xuanwu City who were besieged by miasma! !

How much injustice is there in this world?

Heaven is heaven, is there really a so-called reason? ?

This sentence is asking the way of heaven, but also asking himself.Xian Yu suddenly seemed to have received a blow, and suddenly froze.

He has never been a person who gets angry easily, or feels unwilling or merciful for the life and death of others.

At the very beginning, apart from inheriting the will of his master, he had no ambitions, no ambitions for mountains and rivers, and he didn't even care about ascension.Mayfly dreams of life and death, as long as this life is over, there is no regret.

Even when the master was dying, he knelt on the blue tiles and heard his senior brother weeping, but he couldn't shed a single tear.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature.

He is not a person who will abuse mercy, even the master is like this.

But later, he met Zhao Sheng, who was as honest and kind as his ancestors; he also met Gu Rongjing, a little idiot who was crazy about martial arts, who followed him every day and called him master; and later, he met Wang Yun and Zheng Shengling , Jiang Wenyun, more, more, people who can't even remember their names.

Since when did he stop being a part of it?

King Qin Guang's gaze was merciless, and when he looked at him, his huge eyes were calm and unwavering, "The way of heaven is permanent. If you don't live for Yao, you won't die for Jie. It hasn't changed, but you have changed."

"Do you know why there are so many injustices?"

Before he could finish his sentence, his two pairs of eyes fixed on him closely.

"This 99th heaven is the territory of the immortal world. Since mortals realized the method of cultivation thousands of years ago, people have flocked to it for so many years, just to become immortals. But no one has thought about what will happen after becoming immortals." .It is said that immortals are immortal, so why would the God Realm be subverted?"

King Qin Guang's rhetorical question suddenly overwhelmed Xian Yu and the others.

Indeed, everyone said that it is good to become a fairy. After becoming a fairy, you will have supreme magic power and live the same life as the sky, but no one has ever understood how to live after becoming a fairy.There is a natural barrier between the fairy world and the human world, and the two worlds are not connected to each other, and people have no way of knowing how the fairy lives.

King Qin Guang smiled slightly, and slowly raised his palm, which turned into a fruit tree, and said: "If this tree wants to bear bigger and sweeter fruits, it needs to cut off unnecessary branches. The world is small and small. , there are only so many nutrients, how to supply the small fruits that are full of branches?"

After all, the six realms are also in the same heaven and earth, and the spiritual energy in this heaven and earth, which naturally grows in total, has to supply thousands of monks.Among them, the one with the largest head and the thickest branches and leaves will naturally have to do its best to absorb enough nutrients to bear the desired fruit.

King Qin Guang used the tree as an example, and he said it quite straightforwardly. Xian Yu and Gu Rongjing never thought that the person behind this scene was actually from 99 heavens...

All of a sudden his face changed.

"People's hearts are unpredictable, and desires are hard to fill."

King Qin Guang put away the illusion, pinched the formula with his left hand, and sighed softly, "Yuqing, do you know that these two characters are taken from Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun? You took these two characters to remind yourself at all times that this is the beginning of heaven and earth, the beginning of the universe. The ancestor. You were conceived by the Dao of Heaven, his incarnation, the executor of punishment in the world, and you were involved in this catastrophe this time only to set things right."

But no one expected that he began to be nostalgic for this world.