The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 356 Santu River
The Santu River is not wide, only about ten meters, which is nothing compared to the real big rivers and lakes.

But the river is fierce and urgent, showing a dark black that people don't want to get close to, and it is very strange that there is no sound of flow.

At first, Lin Tianci thought it was because the surrounding environment was too dark, and the silt at the bottom of the river made the river look black. When he got closer, he realized that the so-called flowing river water was actually a kind of black sticky substance similar to jelly. If you look closely, you can also find that there are countless human faces with silent roars floating up and down in it.

This is obsession, and it is a big obsession.

There are classics and books in the four categories of monks that persuade people to let go, but how many people can really let go of their obsessions?
The water of the Santu River is formed by mortal obsession, which is countless times stronger than pure resentment.

Strong beliefs will generate powerful power, and obsession is the strongest belief that is most likely to arise in the hearts of ordinary people. The Santu River formed by obsession will flow here forever, and there will never be a clear day.

Those faces screaming in the river are actually the souls of people who have been sentenced not to be reincarnated.

Only when the obsession is eliminated, the soul can walk the Huangquan Road and the Naihe Bridge again, and after being verified by Yama of the Ten Temples, it is allowed to reincarnate.

At the same time, the water of the Santu River is also highly poisonous in the world, and the toxicity is so violent that it has surpassed the concept of poison.If it touches it, the three souls and seven souls will definitely dissolve and explode. If it accidentally falls into the river, even if it is an extraordinary robbery, it can only look at the river and sigh.

Of course, Lin Tianci didn't dare to get close to such an awesome thing. He was standing on the river bank seven or eight meters away, with Bana flowers in full bloom under his feet.

The other shore flower in the underworld has no stems and no leaves. There is only one blooming flower floating on the ground. No matter whether it is stepped on or touched, it cannot touch any entity. It is like an illusion created by magic. The orange light particles escaped, slowly floated into the sky, and finally turned into Kongming lanterns floating in the sky of the underworld.

Neither Lin Tianci nor Linglong knew how to make the other shore flowers bloom, and besides, there was no withered flower field nearby, so Brother Lin and Linglong continued walking along the river bank.

Follow the flow of the Santu River until you see a Y-shaped fork in the Santu River.

Standing on the fork in the road, you can see the majestic and majestic ghost gate on the left. Countless ghosts with blurred faces and figures are slowly floating in, and both sides are covered with ghost soldiers with swords and shields.

A tributary of the Santu River passes through the ghost gate and extends to a place beyond sight.

After entering the ghost gate, there is a Naihe Bridge on the tributary of the Santu River, where Po Meng gave soup to reincarnated people, so the Santu River after the ghost gate is also called Wangchuan River.

The ghost gate is the real underworld. It is strictly forbidden for living people to enter without permission. It is fine for Linglong to run there, but with Brother Lin's cultivation, if she enters, she will be corroded by ghost energy in just a few moments. If he dies, not even Zhongzheng's peace talisman can save him.

Looking from a distance from here, you can see a corner of the palace, which is where the Ten Halls of Yama are located.

They only judge the merits and demerits of mortals. Lies are powerless in front of them. No matter how hard they try to hide, they will eventually be found out.

Those who commit the most heinous crimes will be thrown into the Santu River and will not be reborn.

The reincarnated person goes through the palace, goes to Naihe bridge to drink Mengpo soup, forgets all the things in life, and then goes to the afterlife spring, jumps into the spring water to reincarnate in the yang world.

This process is also applicable to monks, but some big factions, such as the top ten, have the ability to find important people in the underworld, and it may be more troublesome to revive mortals.

The ten schools of ghost cultivators in Ghost City are nominally headed by Yan Luo of the Ten Temples (although they have never been in charge of anything). If ordinary monks want to revive their souls, they must find important people from the Ten Temples of Yama through the ghost cultivating sects. It was because of this Dakong faction that he was selected as one of the top ten. After all, no one can guarantee that one day he will go to hell if he closes his eyes and opens his eyes.

However, there are three conditions that are necessary for resurrection.

The first is that the body must be intact. Missing arms and legs are fine, but if the body is disemboweled and there is no water left, then it will not work.

The second is that you can't drink Mengpo soup. Even if you drink Mengpo soup, even if you are rescued, you will be an idiot who has forgotten everything.

Third, the cultivator must have died accidentally, not at the end of his life.

The third point is particularly important. If a monk has reached the end of his lifespan, no matter who intercedes, Yama of the Ten Temples will never let go.

It is also because after the gate of hell is the real underworld. Although the other shore flowers are blooming on both sides of the same river bank, the withered flower field in the target will never be there. , just follow the other stream of the Santu River.

The Santu River runs around the Ghost City, and now Brother Lin has the Santu River on his left, and the city wall of the Ghost City on his right, stepping on the fiery red Bana flowers, and facing the endless darkness in front of him.

It is said that the underworld is really not suitable for living people, the light is so dim that even monks can't see far.

After this walk, he walked for about half an hour, more specifically how long Lin Tianci's time perception was really vague, and he couldn't tell clearly, and he didn't even know how far he had walked.

The reason is the same as on Huangquan Road. You thought you walked 100 meters, but in fact, you teleported a long distance after taking two steps. This characteristic also caused some souls to lose their way on Huangquan Road and become lonely ghosts. , until he finds his true way.

There are restrictions in the ghost city to temporarily disable this feature. If you want to move quickly, you need to rely on a western-style magic circle, otherwise the huge ghost city will become a reserve camp for lonely ghosts...

When he reached the end of the Santu River, or at a place where he could no longer move along the river bank, Lin Tianci found the withered field of flowers on the other side. The square area of ​​ten square meters was clearly blooming on both sides of the other side. , but there is nothing here, exposing the black soil like fine sand below.

However, compared to studying how to make the flowers on the other side bloom here, the scene in front of him attracted Lin Tianci's attention more.

A big river rolls in from the left and right sides, and merges into a huge….should it be a lake?
Brother Lin is not sure, it is really too big, it is connected from one end of the field of vision to the other end, and the opposite bank cannot be seen.

I wonder if it is a lake, because there is an equally huge whirlpool in the center of the lake, and the river flows down along the whirlpool, which looks a bit like a terraced field structure from a distance.

The river spiraled down until it flowed into the bottomless abyss below.

But the strange thing is that the more the river goes down the river, the clearer the water becomes. It no longer looks like black clay before, and finally turns into clear river water shining with golden highlights and flows into the abyss.

Lin Tianci looked into the distance, and Linglong explained like a tour guide:

"The big river on the left and right is the Styx River, and its function seems to be similar to our Santu River. Those in the west who are not allowed to reincarnate will be thrown into the Styx River to suffer."

Not just the West, but the final destination of all life in the entire multiverse world is here.

The underworld is equivalent to an autonomous region that only serves Eastern China, while the underworld is in charge of the dead in the entire world.

If Lin Tianci continued to walk along the river, he could still see the ferrymen on the Styx, the kind who picked up Fusendel.

The dead in the west will reach the side of the Styx River and be led across the river by a ferryman. If the person is not allowed to be reincarnated, he will fall from the boat and fall into the water of the Styx River.

Occasionally, the ferryman would use a sickle to pull the soul out of the Styx River, which means that the soul will be released after serving the sentence, sent to the soul washing pool, and reincarnated again after washing away the memories of life.

"What's down there?"

Compared with the reincarnation process in the West, Lin Tianci is more concerned about the maelstrom where the Styx River and the Santu River flow into.

"I heard from the master that there is a place called the Sanctuary of the Sky connected to it below, and there are birdmen with wings on their backs everywhere."

wait!Isn't that an angel?

After all, I have seen demons from the endless abyss, so it is not surprising that there are angels in this world.But why is Mao's underworld connected to the angel's sky sanctuary?And actually under the underworld?
In fact, it is not that the sky sanctuary is below the underworld. The position between the planes is not as simple as up, down, left, and right in physics, but it is true that the two sides are connected.

"The river flowing into the sky sanctuary has the effect of living dead human flesh and bones, but it can also cause complete amnesia. The river flows down the sky sanctuary to form a stunning scenery called the Holy Light Waterfall, and then flows into Tiantang Mountain. Then I don't know about it in the future, but I heard from the master that the river will eventually go around in a big circle and return to the underworld."

This is a cycle, a cycle of life and death.

The ancient elves regarded the multiverse as the World Tree, and the River Styx was the endless vein in the World Tree.

Linglong pointed to the gradually clear river below and said:

"The obsession of the dead instinctively refuses to leave the underworld, because if you leave the underworld, you will lose the chance of reincarnation forever, so the river water becomes clearer as it goes down."

I always feel that whether it's the underworld or the underworld, it's a bit like a large sewage treatment plant...

Although this rant is a bit disrespectful, functionally speaking, it is true.

All the evil, all the good, all life and everything, will come to an end in the underworld, become flowers of the other shore, and finally disappear in smoke.

Brother Lin felt as if he had realized something, but it was vague and unreal.

It's not just Lin Tianci who feels this way, any monk who comes to the underworld will feel it, but there are very few people who can really comprehend it, because life and death are the way, which is much higher than the way of the five elements. It is also difficult for a fairy to comprehend the slightest bit of it.

Lin Tianci's biggest advantage is that he doesn't go into the corner. After thinking about it for a while, if he can't figure it out, he simply doesn't think about it. He turned his head and asked the huge mountain that appeared in the field of vision on the right:
"What kind of mountain is that?"

The mountain is not wide, but it is very high, so high that even the Kongming lanterns flying in the sky can't see where its peak is.

Linglong rolled her eyes and said:

"That's not a mountain, it's the Sansheng Stone."

(End of this chapter)