ephemera

Yaoyan and I hurriedly bid farewell in front of the Palace of the King of Hell, thinking about Xiyan who was "scared to death". That was the last time Yaoyan and I met. After that, he will enter the six realms of reincarnation. I don't know where he will be in the next life .

The ghost I met at this time was quite gentle and polite. I originally planned to take Xiyan directly to Baigui Beach, but seeing that his condition was not good, I had to take him to a deeper hell.

In the descending ghost path, Xiyan asked me, "Where are we going?"

The sweat on his forehead slipped from the corner of his eyes, I reached out and wiped it off for him, and said, "Go to hell."

Xiyan didn't answer, so I quickly comforted him and said, "Don't be afraid, with me around, those ghosts can't hurt you."

He nodded, not daring to look around with fearful eyes.

Hells are divided into Eight Cold Hells, Eight Hot Hells, Nearby Hell and Solitary Hell. The first three have fixed places, but the last Solitary Hell exists everywhere in the universe because of the karma created by individuals.

The ghost path is dark and dark, Xiyan probably doesn't know how long we have descended, and was just about to ask me, but there is light coming through from ahead.

"That is?"

"My lonely hell."

In a blink of an eye, we left the ghost road, but were suspended on a boundless grassland. The breeze blew through the broad knee-deep grass, rolling towards the sky like blue waves.

I felt Xiyan's body slowly relax, and I said: "I brought Huaji and Fengji here before, they called this place Taoyuan Township, didn't your Brother Huaji bring shredded tobacco back last time? Picked here."

I slowly lowered to the ground with Xiyan, he took a sharp breath, then quickly adjusted his breath, and soon calmed down.

I said, "It's the same hell, you're not so afraid here."

Xiyan didn't answer, looked around, and asked, "Doesn't the hell of loneliness appear after the death of living beings?"

I smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, I was also curious before, but later I found out that it was because I inherited the sins for someone else."

Xiyan glanced at me and asked, "Is it the red dragon that is returning home to raise you?"

I was a little surprised, and said, "Does the fragment of Langhuanfu Palace also record this?"

Xi Yan nodded, and said, "But the red dragon only appeared in Gui Xi, and it wasn't mentioned in the ancient scrolls afterwards."

I breathed a sigh of relief, but when I thought about it carefully, there were too many things recorded in that ancient scroll. Besides, the Emperor of Heaven clearly knew that the records in the ancient scroll were all taboos, so why did he throw Xiyan into Langhuanfu Palace? , it's all a little too deliberate.

Xi Yan said: "Aren't we going to pinch the soul for the Demon King?"

I said, "Yes, we are here to find someone who can pinch our souls."

Xi Yan looked around, and all he saw was the empty grassland, no one else was there, and above our heads was the blue sky, with clouds drifting past without leaving any traces.

I explained, "Come with me, and I'll take you to him."

We kept heading east, and there were only the two of us on the grassland of Nuoda. The traces after stepping on the green grass were immediately covered by the breeze, and it seemed that nothing could stay here for a long time.

The first time I brought Hua Ji and Feng Ji here, the normally cheerful Feng Ji stayed here for less than an hour, then lay down on the grassland and cried loudly, Hua Ji didn't say a word, as if he could understand.Only I, who was not yet sensible, watched one of them weeping and the other silent, and thought to myself that these two were really two strange people. This place is so peaceful, why did they cry, why did they not want to say a word.

Compared with Hua Ji, who uses deep love, Feng Ji uses love to the point of infatuation. He sacrificed everything for Ms. Song who met once. After they met me, they also spent almost endless running and fighting , There is no chance to breathe at all.When they came here, we hadn't met Guanmiao yet, and the battles were victorious one after another. I originally planned to take them to have a rest, who would have expected that they would not understand my "hard work".

Later, I never brought them here again, more precisely, I dared not bring them here, because I realized that there was something missing in my heart, and that thing frightened and puzzled me, but every time the ominous Knowing what it is, Huaji also understands.

Now that my eyes are full of emptiness, I feel a sudden pain in my heart. I suddenly understand why this lonely hell makes the evil spirits cry and silence so easily. Meeting evil is like a child returning to his childhood, feeling the long-lost freedom again.

All creatures are like this, only when they are incomplete, do they know what completeness is.But incompleteness is rejected by living beings, because it will make people weak and small, so they look forward to completeness, and in order to understand what completeness is, all living beings have to suffer a catastrophe.

"What are you thinking?" Xi Yan asked next to me.

I was just a little bit emotional and said: "The shadow of the past is not your weakness, but it shows that you still have room to become stronger."

Xiyan said, "I know."

I smiled and asked, "Now that you know, why are you still afraid?"

"I almost died at Baiguitan, I was really scared," he said.

I said, "The last time I fought with Yaoyan, I didn't see you cherish life so much."

He looked at me steadily and said, "I'm afraid I haven't found you before I die."

"..."

It didn't occur to me that he was terrified of this.

Seeing that I was silent, he turned his face away from looking at me, and said to himself: "Let's go find the person who squeezed the soul."

When he found Yu Lei, he was still chained and standing under the huge peach tree. Compared with the invincible Lord Hades 600 years ago, Yu Lei at this time was obviously much calmer. The color of his red eyes turned out to be It is much darker, and it seems that I have given up the previous desires and injustices.

He may be the most changed person in the past 600 years.

Xiyan was a little surprised when he saw Yu Lei, and asked, "This is?"

"That's right, the previous King of Hades, Yu Lei."

Yu Lei looked at us with his eyes. Before I could speak, he sneered at me first: "You are still alive?"

I smiled and said, "Each to each other."

He snorted coldly and said, "You've only been here once in 600 years, why? You're so unafraid that Heaven will find you and smash you to pieces."

While talking, he saw Xiyan behind me again, and he continued: "Have you found a new follower? You have too many sins, and you always make people work for you."

"I do it voluntarily." Xiyan said briefly, even though she was afraid to express her heart.

I said: "If I die, no one will help you untie the barrier."

Yu Lei didn't speak, seeing that I didn't seem to be joking, he suddenly asked excitedly: "Are you here to let me out?"

"Yes, Master Yu Lei."

He calmed down again and said, "You can't be so kind, what conspiracy do you have?"

I sighed and said: "Master Yu Lei really knows me very well, I am here this time to make a deal."

Yu Lei said coldly: "What deal?"

"I want to trouble Master Yu Lei to pinch my soul for me."

"You are dreaming!"

I said, "It seems that there is no way to discuss it?"

He looked at me for three seconds before saying, "It's a big taboo to pinch the soul, to be punished by the Heavenly Court..."

He was stunned for a moment, then laughed at himself again, and said, "Forget it, what heaven, I am no longer the king of Hades, and everyone has long forgotten me."

I said, "Master Yu Lei agrees?"

"Yes, Juyue, I agreed, but I also want to ask you one thing." He stared at me and said, his eyes were red again.

"What's the matter?"

"kill me."

I didn't speak, but he smiled and said, "Why? A hundred years ago, you wanted to kill me, why are you hesitating now?"

I said, "We've known each other for so long, at least we still have some affection."

"Bah." He spurned me.

Seeing that he had made up his mind to go, I nodded and said, "I promise you."

Squeezing the soul is very difficult. I took out the jade hairpin that Yinhe gave me before leaving, and showed Yu Lei the birthday horoscope of the saint of the Bobcat tribe, and he said, "Are we going to start the formation here?"

I nodded, and he said: "But there are no ghosts here. Although I am an evil ghost, I am a fairy official belonging to the heaven. I can't provide you with resentment. Otherwise, the resentment will change and be felt by other ghost officials. There is no way to end it." .”

I said, "Don't worry."

Afterwards, I opened up my spiritual consciousness and found the Talking Ghost in the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness. When he saw me, he hid away and said, "What are you doing?"

I said, "Don't be afraid, I just want to lend you some resentment."

He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I thought you came to the underworld to imprison me in the eight cold hells."

He is the ghost that escaped after I broke into the underworld. Hua Ji encountered this ghost who should have entered the six reincarnations when he was traveling in the human world after experiencing the punishment of heaven. Out of professional ethics, Hua Ji immediately captured him.Later, Huaji discovered the gate of return by accident, but he still didn't let the chattering ghost go away, but let the chattering ghost move my not fully awakened consciousness to act.

I said, "You help me one last time, and I will set you free."

He happily came out of my consciousness, startled Xiyan, talkative ghosts like Xiyan very much, seeing his nervous expression, immediately said: "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt anyone."

Yu Lei said with disgust: "You can figure it out, if he invades your consciousness, you will be hopeless."

I looked at the Talking Ghost and replied, "He's not that strong."

Yu Lei drew up the formation, put the jade hairpin in the formation, and then drew the resentment from the chattering ghost to activate the formation.The jade hairpin has been kept in the Valkyrie Temple for hundreds of years, and has long been psychic. We are all surprised that Yu Lei has pinched the soul so quickly.

When the figure of Luhua appeared, I immediately thought of the stories Yinhe told me. The saint of the Bobcat tribe returned to the world, but she had a reluctant smile on her face. I wonder if she really wants to come back.

"My younger brother has made trouble for the young master." The saint said in the formation.

I smiled and said, "His Royal Highness the Demon King is wise in his decision. Without His Highness's help, the returning soul formation will not be closed."

The saint looked at Xiyan again and said, "Thank you for finding the hairpin."

Xi Yan shook his head slightly, not looking very scared.

Then Luhua returned to the hairpin, and the formation disappeared. I took back the hairpin, handed it to the talking ghost, and said, "This is Dushuoyuan, the exit of the underworld. It's not far from the demon world. Do you know it?" Lu, help me deliver this item to His Royal Highness the Demon King."

The chatterling ghost didn't answer for a long time, he said: "People in the demon world don't know me...in case my soul and body are destroyed..."

I took out a jade bead and gave it to him, opened the barrier of the jade bead, and said: "This thing is close to me, and you will be safe."

Then the chattering ghost happily took over the jade hairpin and jade beads, and left Dushuoyuan.

Yu Lei said quietly to me: "It's time for you to fulfill your promise."

I took out a Shura knife and said to Xiyan, "Xiyan, turn around."

Xi Yan hesitated for a moment, then turned around.

Yu Lei looked at me, and finally asked: "You have never liked this place very much, why do you come here again and again?"

Holding the Asura Saber, I thought for a while but couldn't come up with a good answer, so I pretended to be profound: "If I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell."

Yu Lei opened his arms, I closed my eyes, and drove the Shura knife away.

When his body disappeared, I walked slowly to Xiyan, and he asked, "Is it over?"

"Ah."

"Why did Yu Lei seek death?"

I said: "For Shentu. They were also black and white. On the way to capture evil spirits, Shentu was injured by evil spirits. After that, his spirit body was damaged and he died soon. The evil spirit came to promote his official position, and after he became the King of Hades, he built the Hundred Ghost Beach where the evil spirits were imprisoned, and built a refining enchantment, in an attempt to repair Shen Tu's spirit body with the refined resentment."

Xi Yan asked: "It's a big taboo to refine evil spirits privately. Doesn't Heaven know?"

I said, "Turn bad luck into good luck and smash the truth, but the heavens were in chaos at that time. After they met me, I went to the underworld. I don't think the heavens know about it until now."

Xi Yan said: "No wonder I have never heard of Yu Lei's whereabouts. You put the boulder in Baigui Beach?"

I said, "Yes, at that time it was to go to the center of the formation to break the chains and break the ban."

I took another look at Xiyan and said, "I didn't expect it to be your nightmare."

Xi Yan shook his head and said, "This matter has nothing to do with you."

I was a little curious: "Then why were you locked up there?"

Xiyan froze, as if recalling some nightmare, and said, "Help Fairy Chang'e leave the Moon Palace."

"You are very courageous." I picked up the pipe and hit him on the head.

Xiyan asked, "Where are we going now?"

I smoked the last bit of tobacco and said, "Xiyan, now you can leave Dushuoyuan and not be tortured by memories, or you can continue to follow me and go to Baiguitan again."

Xi Yan pursed his lips, turned his head and looked at the misty sea behind the peach tree, the sea connected to the human world in the distance, passing through this sea, one can leave the underworld.

"Huh? How do you choose?"

He suddenly grabbed my hand and said, "Come with you."

I smiled and said, "Okay."

"You seem to know that I will choose this?"

"Well, you trust me after all."

Baiguitan is in Abi Hell. In order to completely refine the grievances of the ghosts, Yu Lei needs them to endure countless trials and hardships before finally surrendering their grievances and returning to nothingness.

Xiyan’s condition was not much better than when he came here. The miserable cries of evil spirits filled our ears. When we approached Abi Hell, lava flowed on the ground, and the limbs of evil spirits melted inside. We had to fly with restraint.

Xiyan couldn't hold on gradually, and I could clearly feel the two forces in his body retracting towards the inside of his body, and they couldn't even support him moving forward, so I had no choice but to hug him and choose a cleaner place to stop.

I gently called his name: "Xiyan."

He shook his head to try to wake himself up, but he couldn't do it. He kept burrowing into my arms. I patted his back and said, "Do you know? The Avichi Hell you see in your eyes is not the same as the Avii Hell I see. same."

He trembled slightly, but didn't hear what I was saying, so I continued: "What you are afraid of is just your fantasy, you know?"

I gently pulled him away, let him look at me, and asked, "Do you remember what happened to us before?"

This sentence seemed to stimulate him, his eyes froze, and he nodded.

"What was I like before? What am I like now? Can you tell the difference?"

He struggled to make a sound in extreme fear: "Yeah."

"Then, is there a clear distinction between the former Hundred Ghost Beach and the current Hundred Ghost Beach?"

"Ah."

"The old me can't come back, but the present me is always by your side."

When he heard this sentence, he immediately shed tears. He really cried a lot for me along the way.

"The former Baigui Beach is gone, but now I'm always by your side."

He blinked his eyes slowly, then slowly looked away and looked around, I was not sure if he had recovered.

But the next second, he suddenly pulled my hand away and hugged me fiercely. I was a little puzzled why he said this to me.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry," he said.

"What did you see?"

"Just the remains of bones."

The "Diamond Sutra" says: There is no hindrance, no terror, far away from reversing dreams, and finally Nirvana.