Holy Bone

Chapter 128 The water here is even colder! (4k, please subscribe and ask for a monthly pass)
Boom!
People boarded the boat, and the boat seemed to be a little overwhelmed and shook.

Fortunately, he straightened himself up quickly, shocking Jin An into a cold sweat.

At the last moment he managed to board the ship.

Jin An looked back at the child's footprints behind him. The child's wet footprints were still standing at the end of the trestle, motionless.

It was as if there was a child who fell into the water and drowned, and the invisible child kept dripping water, lingering around and staring at Jin An, refusing to leave so easily.

Even though he had already boarded the ship, Jin An still felt a chilling feeling in his heart, which was a premonition of danger looming over his back.

Although no one can see it in the end.

Only the wet footprints of a pair of children were seen in place.

But instead of being calm, the atmosphere became even more treacherous.

Jin An felt that if he hadn't been clever and ran fast this time, he might really be entangled by that evil spirit child who had been invisible all along. If he didn't use the Five Thunder Slaying Evil Talisman, it's hard to say whether he could escape.

As for the Five Lightning Slashing Evil Talisman, now there are only two Thunder Maps left, and once you use it, you will lose one time. It is a life-saving trick sealed by the Five Thousand Yin Virtue Edict, and it cannot be wasted easily.

At this moment, the trestle bridge, which was already more and more dilapidated, finally overwhelmed and overwhelmed, even the wet footprints of the children disappeared, and the feeling of being stared at by dangerous eyes disappeared.

Only now did Jin An have time to look at Ye Xiaozhou in front of him.

Just now he was in a hurry to escape, so he didn't look at it too closely, but now he looked at the boat in front of him again.

Jin An was surprised to find that the flames of the lanterns at the bow were actually dark green, which seemed a bit strange and magical in this black and white world.

Is this the soul-inducing lamp that the old Taoist told me about?Jin An thought to himself.

The soul-inducing lamp was transformed by the obsession of Taoist Wu Zang before his life, so the small boat under his feet should be a soul-inducing boat.

Taoists with five internal organs were killed by clay statues in coffin temples.

So find the five internal organs Taoist.

It is tantamount to finding the coffin temple.

"Senior, are you that Mr. Yin-Yang in the black coffin?" Jin An asked while holding the side of the boat, and he sat down firmly.

At this time, the small boat slowly advanced on the water surface with the pole, and the bottom of the boat gently swayed and opened circles of ripples.

The surrounding area is still surrounded by dense fog, making it difficult to see the surrounding environment clearly. The whispering voices of countless people are still invading Jin An's brain and nerves all the time, as if hidden in the dense fog. Invisible terror crisis, thousands of invisible white ghosts are hovering in the sky, full of gloom.

The atmosphere in this underworld is too weird.

It is very different from the underworld in Jin An's mythology.

Facing Jin An's questioning, the thin but not stooped back of the boat's bow was always silent.

"Senior, I don't know what to call you?"

Jin An called out again.

But the other party was still concentrating on the pole, without any response.

Jin An's eyes showed doubts and incomprehension, could it be that he got on the wrong boat?
After being calm for a while, just when Jin'an couldn't hold back in this oppressive calm, in this monotonous black and white world, a group of huge buildings appeared in the thick fog and water in front of him.

The thick fog next door could only make out the outline, but Jin An always felt that no matter how he looked at it, it was so familiar.

After getting close, Jin An suddenly stood up and looked carefully, with a look of astonishment on his face, isn't this the leader of the already destroyed Qingshui Gang?
That is impressively the Qingshui gang's main rudder composed of seven or eight big boats, connected into a strong fortress on the water.

"The leader of the Qingshui Gang?"

"Has this passed through Xiba Village and is near Chang County?"

"Doesn't that mean that I'm going upstream on the Yinyi River now?"

The main rudder of the Qingshui Gang has been turned into ruins at this time. In the mist on the river, the huge hulls are like broken halberds sinking into the sand, standing desolately in the shallows of the river as if they were shouting silently.

Dead silence.

Silence.

calm.

And behind the main rudder of the Qingshui Gang, it was the county seat of Chang County, but because of the thick fog around it, it was only possible to vaguely see a huge black shadow standing in the thick fog.

The huge black shadow was like a cover, hazy and fuzzy, like a terrifying specter distorted in the thick fog, Jin An couldn't be sure for a while whether it was the Chang County he was familiar with?

Or, is it something else that is more strange and evil...

Chang County has been reduced to a dead city. The black shadows in the dense fog are exceptionally calm and quiet, without a single sound coming out. It is as lifeless as an old pool in a deep mountain that has not been broken for a hundred years. It is dark, cold, and bottomless.

Jin An has always been trying to see the huge and strange black shadow behind the thick fog. Is it the Chang County he is familiar with? After he escaped from Chang County, what did Chang County look like in the end... But the boat under his feet did not stop Meaning, continue to ripple and open circles of ripples, and slowly move forward.

Jin An silently watched the Qingshui Gang's chief rudder and Chang County behind him, gradually dimmed, blurred, and disappeared into the thick mist until he was completely invisible, then he turned around silently.

"Have you ever learned about walking in the shadows and the underworld?"

The man who had been punting on the bow of the boat finally took the initiative to say the first sentence, his voice was a bit dull, and Jin An noticed that the other party was wearing a bronze mask on his face, and he didn't want Jin An to see his facial features.

Strange to say.

The voice of this Mr. Yin Yang is not as old as Jin An imagined.

Facing the other party's sudden question, although Jin An felt a little surprised, after organizing his words, he replied: "People often say that death is like a lamp going out."

"But it didn't disappear immediately after the lights were turned off. There was still a wisp of green smoke remaining, which took a long time to dissipate."

"This world is like a sea of ​​bitterness, and human life is like a straw with a shallow foundation. People die every day, some die, some die from illness, some become ill due to longing, some die unjustly, and some die in vain... "

"When people die, the lights go out, and those dead people are scattered all over the world, and in the end, we walk under our feet every day. The ubiquitous rivers, lakes, seas, rivers and streams connect their souls, obsessions, and resentments together to form a A complete and huge world of spiritual will, these spiritual wills have good thoughts, joy, anger, sadness, evil, weirdness, darkness, curse, pollution, mystery, terror, heresy, and later generations collectively call it "underworld" .”

"And those rivers, lakes, seas, rivers and streams that connect all the souls of the dead together, after they arrived in the underworld, they were also given another reverent name by later generations, called 'Jiuqu Huangquan Road'. Life is impermanent, and the Huangquan Road is full of dead people. Come here."

These are all the details of the underworld that Jin An learned from the old Taoist priest before he left the underworld.

And these underworld details, the old Taoist also heard from his friend who walked in the underworld.

The underworld here is different from the underworld that Jin An is familiar with, the underworld with the bull's head and horse face, and the black and white impermanence of Yama.

If he hadn't learned these details from the old Taoist in advance, Jin An might not be able to calm down so quickly when he saw the scene in front of him that was different from what he had imagined.

Jin An continued to speak while pondering.

"Usually, this kind of remnant of the soul of the deceased will not linger for too long. It will disappear as the human body decays to a high degree or after the first seven days."

"But the stronger the obsession after death, for example, there is an unfulfilled wish in the world, or the resentment of a person who died in vain is too strong. These kinds of situations will make people's remnants last longer after death."

"It is also because good thoughts dissipate quickly, and evil thoughts accumulate for thousands of years, so this underworld has gradually become a strange and cursed spiritual world, which can pollute the souls of living people."

"And that's the main reason we go to hell."

"The man-eating clay statue in the trumpet urn coffin temple has been integrated with the place where the Yin gathers, so it can't be killed from the outside world. We can only go to the underworld and go to the underworld to find the cannibal statue hidden in the underworld. , Kill it. Because as long as it is a dead person, whether it is a corpse or an evil spirit, after death, he will go to the underworld, and after death, he will go to the Nine-Twisting Huangquan Road."

Of course, all of the above was naturally said by the old Taoist friend who was walking in the shadows. Jin An relied on his own understanding to reorganize the wording before saying it.

"So, the underworld we are entering now is not a world of remnants belonging to the five viscera Taoist alone, but a complete and huge world composed of thousands of dead souls and remnants, covering the entire Kangding country, and even including the outside of Kangding country. The southern barbarians, the northern deserts, the grasslands...the underworld is vast and endless, and it is even more vast than the world of the sun."

After listening to Jin An's self-view, Mr. Yin Yang nodded.

"Then, have you learned about the taboos of illicit sex?"

After Jin An recited the three taboos of Yin and Yang, Mr. Yin Yang suddenly fell silent.

"What's the matter, sir?"

"But what did I say wrong?"

"If you make a mistake, please enlighten me, sir."

Seeing that the other party suddenly became silent, Jin An thought that he had made a mistake in his memory, so he hurriedly asked for advice humbly.

Facing Jin An's humbly asking for advice, Mr. Yin Yang wearing a bronze mask: "..."

"Your answer is already very good, I have nothing more to teach you."

Mr. Yin Yang said a little after being silent.

"Sir, can a Yin-walker really go around all the borders of Kangding Kingdom in one night?"

"can."

As soon as Mr. Yin Yang finished speaking, he seemed to have guessed Jin An's thoughts: "But there must be a soul lamp as a guide."

"The world of the underworld is not as peaceful as it looks in the lake mirror. There are yellow wind disasters on the Jiuqu Huangquan Road, there is a mist that hides unknown mysteries, there are black wind disasters on the land, there are magic lands, forbidden lands, mass graves, and Human Head Mountain. , there are ancient battlefields with broken limbs and broken arms, and there are dynasties changing. Throughout the thousands of years of history, which mountains, rivers and lands have not died...Let’s not talk about land, just point to waterways. If there is no soul lamp to guide the direction, no one will die. Take a few breaths and you'll get lost in these mists on the river."

"Let's go back to the dry road. It's like the ruins of Changxian County we passed just now. The people in the city died, and the wailing, pain, and resentment of tens of thousands of dead souls have long been turned into purgatory on earth. In the underworld, food like this There are as many dens of humans and demons as there are stars in the sky, and Chang County is just a corner of the ocean, there are forbidden places for living people in Yangjian, and there are also forbidden places for living people in Yangjian, and there are even more forbidden places in the underworld."

"It is difficult to walk on water, but it is a hundred times, a thousand times more difficult to walk on dry roads."

"So, if you want to travel around Kangding in the underworld, it can be achieved on paper, but the real situation is not realistic. Without the soul lamp, you can't even go out of the boundary of Chang County, and you have already been polluted by all kinds of dark and evil qi in the underworld. I lost your soul, and finally fell to a dead end."

Ok.

After listening to Mr. Yin Yang's words, Jin An once again had a clear sense of the horror of the underworld.

To put it simply, this is a place where you can eat your soul, and the water here is even colder!
The soul-inducing ship is still moving forward.

All the way upstream.

During this period, Jin An also tried to insinuate Mr. Yin Yang's identity, origin, and ability many times, but the former was like the bronze mask on his face, without any result.

The boat traveled another distance in the Yinyi River, and finally, boom, the bow of the boat bumped lightly, and the boat stopped moving.

Already landed.

"arrive."

"This is the closest landing point to the coffin temple in the Land of Gathering Yin. The rest of the journey is in the deep mountains. There is no waterway to enter, so we can only enter through the dry road."

heard.

Jin An looked at Mr. Yin Yang.

Mr. Yin Yang looked at Jin An.

The two stared at each other, you look at me, I look at you.

In the end, it was Jin An who spoke first: "Sir, will you go ashore with me?"

Mr. Yin Yang's voice under the bronze mask was slightly dull: "Your way is ahead."

Jin An: "?"

No, sir, are you playing charades with me?

"I'm already a dead person. I can only ferry others ashore, but I can't ferry myself ashore." Mr. Yinyang turned around and picked up the soul-inducing lantern on the bow, and handed it to Jin'an.

……

The river bank was muddy and wet, and the road was not easy to walk. Jin An walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Walking in the thick fog always reminds Jin An of the cemetery in the early morning. The night fog is shrouded, dead silent, and the air is damp and gloomy. When people walk in these dense fogs, there is a kind of skin that has been peeled off layer by layer. Feeling, lifeless, without the slightest vitality.

Until the surrounding fog became thinner and thinner, and when the field of vision suddenly became empty, people finally walked out of the river bank area, and they were already some distance away from the waterway.

Jin An turned his head thoughtfully and looked behind him at the thick fog covering the Yinyi River.

It seems that the thick fog should be water mist or something else, it only covers places with waterways, and cannot leave the waterways...

For the next journey, Jin An began to follow the guidance of the soul-guiding lamp, looking for the Horn Urn Coffin Temple.

This soul-inducing lamp is guided by the obsession of the Taoist with the five internal organs. As long as the corpse of the Taoist with the five internal organs is found, the coffin temple must be near the corpse.

The environment in the mountains is rugged and complicated, and there are tall shrubs and thorns covering the sky everywhere. Jin'an has long forgotten the exact location of the trumpet urn.And after listening to Mr. Yin Yang's introduction to the many unknown horrors of the underworld, he didn't dare to run around, and followed the guidance of the soul-guiding lamp honestly, moving forward cautiously.

(End of this chapter)