The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 351 Huangquan Road

It is generally not troublesome to go to a monk sect that has participated in a traveling event, mainly because the monks don't mind the monks finding themselves, and the big formations outside the sect are also set up to target mortals, so as to prevent them from intruding.There are also quite a few small households who can't afford a large formation, so they can only live in seclusion in the city and mix with ordinary people. For example, most of the small households in Yanzhou have this kind of virtue.

But Dakongpai is definitely an exception.

There are ten sects of ghost cultivators, and all ghost cultivators come from the school. There are no ghost cultivators who practice casually, and they are all in the ghost capital.

Among them, only the Dakong Sect participated in the traveling event, and the other nine sects maintained a close relationship with mortals and even monks.

But no matter which faction, if you want to go, you must first go to the ghost capital.

Ghosts are all in the gap between the yang world and the underworld. If there is no specific method, even a monk will have a way to go to heaven, but there is no way to go to earth.

When Lin Tianci came to the gazebo, the sun had completely set and the crescent moon climbed up the branches.

A plaque is hung on the pavilion, and the word "Qingsheng Pavilion" is written on it.

There is a pair of couplets pasted on both sides of the pavilion, which reads "human and ghost, ghost and human, human and ghost in different ways". The second couplet says "yin and yang, yang and yin, yin and yang are separated".

When Lin Tianci stood still in front of the pavilion, he suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings, and then saw a night owl spread its black wings and landed in front of the pavilion. An oil lamp with a normal bright flame.

Seeing this, Lin Tianci clasped his fists in salute and said:
"In Xialin Tianci, pay homage to the land here."

This night owl is the land god who guards the entrance of Ghost City. Unlike ordinary land, in addition to having heavier responsibilities, his combat power is also extraordinary.

Ye Xiao put the oil lamp on the ground and spit out words like an old woman:

"Shangxian's words are serious. The little god is just a guide. If Shangxian wants to go to the ghost capital, please wait for a while."

"Working land."

In other people's territory, you have to follow their rules, and even if you wait, you won't be able to wait for long.

In less than a cup of tea, Ye Xiao looked at the height of the moon, picked up the oil lamp and hung it on the lamp stand in front of the gazebo.

Lin Tianci turned his head and looked in the direction of Peach Blossom Pond, countless blurred figures were swaying, and they were slowly drifting towards the Pavilion of Rebirth.

At the same time, the center of the pavilion collapsed, revealing a dark hole, and the row of turquoise lanterns also appeared inside, and spread to the place where the head could not be seen.

"Maybe the little god is talking too much, Shangxian must remember not to turn back."

"I understand, thank you Land for your concern."

After replying, Lin Tianci raised his feet and walked towards the entrance of the pavilion. At this moment, Ye Xiao sang:

"Don't look back, the mother weeps and the child sheds thousands of tears, don't look back, forget the eternal worries of the past life, don't look back, this life is gone with the waves, don't look back, in the next life, you will ask people's sorrows, don't look back..."

The singing of the minor tune disappeared temporarily, because Lin Tianci had already entered the tunnel.

As soon as you step into it, you can clearly feel the difference from the outside. It seems to be able to completely isolate everything outside. Even if it is close at hand, the voice of the night owl cannot come in.

The moment you walk on this road, it means you have left the Yang world, and this road is the famous Huangquan Road.

As for the name Huangquan Road, in fact, it comes more from a metaphor.

The ancients believed that people go to the underworld after death, and the underworld is extremely deep underground. Huangquan refers to the yellow spring water dug when digging a well, which is used as a metaphor for extreme depth.

For another example, in the word "Under the Nine Springs", nine is an imaginary number, which means very many, and the spring is naturally the depth when the spring water is dug, which also means very deep.

But in the world of Xianxia, ​​the underworld is not just deep. Even if you dig to the center of the earth, you can't see the underworld.

To be more precise, the underworld is already another plane.

The ditty that Ye Xiao sang is also very particular. Don't look back on the way to Huangquan, not only for ghosts, but also for monks who are going to the ghost capital.

If the ghost turns back, it will be trapped by the obsession that cannot be let go, unable to go to the underworld to reincarnate smoothly, and will be punished and beaten by the Yin soldiers hidden on both sides of Huangquan Road. Become a fool.

If a monk turns his head back, he will be thrown out directly by Huangquan Road. Unless the monk dies and returns as a soul, he will not be allowed to enter the underworld, which is equivalent to being on the blacklist.

That's why Ye Xiao specially warned Lin Tianci not to turn back on the road to Huangquan.

These are also written in the tour guidebook. Of course, Lin Tianci would not commit such a death. This is also the reason why many monks are reluctant to come to the ghost capital. It is too troublesome.

After entering the cave, there are long stairs going down, illuminated by green ghost fire lanterns on both sides, so you can see the road clearly in front of you.

Going down the stairs all the way, walking on Huangquan Road, will make the monk's concept of time very strange.

Lin Tianci felt that he had only traveled less than a stick of incense, but he felt tired, as if he had already crossed a very long distance in that little time.

In the end, Lin Tianci himself didn't know how long and how far he had walked.

Just as ghosts are not tolerated in the mortal world, of course the underworld does not welcome living people, even monks.

The magic talisman in his body accelerated by itself, and after a little bit of sanity, Lin Tianci realized that he had walked out of the cave, and was walking on an extremely wide road unknowingly.

The road is a dirt road, and there are still ghost fire lanterns on both sides. The dim fire light can't go too far, but you can also see countless white Kongming lanterns floating in the sky, and you can only see a boundless darkness above.

Of course, Lin Tianci was not the only one walking on this road, and he could see many phantoms with blurred faces that barely resembled human figures.

These phantoms are not ghosts for the time being, they don't have any consciousness now, they are just souls after leaving the body, and the natural form can't see the original appearance.

Both sides of the road are full of soul-calling banners. Like lanterns, they are all things that guide the souls and prevent them from getting lost. If they lose their way on Huangquan Road, the souls will not be reborn and can only wander around aimlessly. , until the correct path is found again.

At this moment, Lin Tianci heard someone calling him from behind, and the voices sounded a bit like Leticia and Alma, but soon there were more and more voices, including the voices of his parents and even familiar people.

This is a call from the mortal world, because Lin Tian bestows yangshou, but wants to go to the underworld, so such hallucinations will naturally appear.

Remember not to look back on the road to Huangquan.

Lin Tianci kept his heart, when the yelling did not exist, he continued to move forward step by step along the road.

The farther forward, the faster the speed of the God Talisman's operation, because the surrounding ghost energy is 100% able to affect the monks.

This situation did not change until he approached a bridge.

The bridge is made of white marble, with pictures and texts of gods and animals on it, and a monument is erected in front of the bridge, with the inscription "Jieyinqiao".

The black water under the bridge is called Santu River. The other side of the river is full of bright red flowers. From a distance, it looks like a bloody carpet, like orange and red, like flying sparks, magnificent and weird.

This is the flower of the other shore, and the place where the flowers bloom is no longer Huangquan Road.

Looking into the distance along the river bank, you can see that the Santu River forks into two at the far end. One of them is called Wangchuan River. .

Lin Tianci just went to the ghost capital, not to reincarnate, so naturally he didn't have to go to Naihe Bridge.

After crossing the connecting bridge, the main road also split into two, Soul Soul went left, where stood a huge city gate with a height of three hundred feet, and Lin Tianci could see the plaque on the gate saying 'Ghost Gate' from a long distance away.

You can't walk around the ghost gate, even monks, because after the ghost gate is the real underworld.

The souls who have passed the gate of ghosts first go to Wangxiang Terrace, where they meet their relatives and friends in the yang world for the last time. Because the souls go to the underworld for exactly seven days, the saying that the first seven return to the hometown comes from this.

Then the soul will slowly wait outside the ten halls, until King Yama knocks down the gavel and awakens the soul's sanity, at this time the soul is called a ghost.

This is why it is often said that you will go to the underworld when you close your eyes, because subjectively speaking, you have no impression of the process of the soul going to the underworld. The first thing to hear is the gavel.

There, the ghost will accept the sentence, and all the merits and demerits of the previous life will be settled together at this time.As for when to reincarnate, and what punishments and rewards will be given for faults or merits, all are determined by Yama of the Ten Temples.

However, Yama of the Ten Temples seems to be not very efficient in handling affairs. In addition, there are too many ghosts. In many cases, ghosts who have been sentenced and continue to be human in the next life can only temporarily wait for the opportunity to reincarnate, and they will temporarily live in the ghost capital. It is also where Lin Tianci is going.

All the souls wanted to go to the ghost gate and turn left, so Lin Tianci turned right on the fork in the road. Not long after, a huge city gate comparable to ghost gate suddenly appeared in front of him.

There is only one road in front of the city gate, and the two sides of the road are full of large and small gravel, which seems to be disorderly, but in fact it is a large formation.

It doesn't matter if you go in, you can come and go, just walk along the road, but it's not that simple to come out.

Because ghosts are full of sane ghosts, if no precautions are taken, it is difficult to guarantee that these ghosts waiting to be reincarnated will sneak out because of longing for the yang world. At that time, they will be roasted by the blazing sun in the yang world, and then inhale ghost energy to grow stronger, and they may eventually die. Will become an evil ghost that the six relatives do not recognize.

This large formation outside the ghost capital is to prevent the residents of the ghost capital from running out. Since it was set up, nothing has gone wrong, until the ghost with a different style of painting, which came from the west, slapped the face. That's right. (See Chapter 193~216 for details)
As the saying goes, Wangshan runs dead horses, and the huge city gate seems to be far away, but Lin Tianci just walked forward at a walking speed, and stood in the opening under the city gate within a few breaths.

At this time, you can see rows of yin soldiers holding weapons and patrolling nearby. It is estimated that the ghost from the west severely frustrated the self-confidence of the ghost city. Surrounded by alert.

These ghost soldiers are here to do this.

(End of this chapter)