Big dreamer

The next day.

In the entire city of Chang'an, from the imperial palace to the government offices, from the residences of high-ranking officials to the houses of ordinary people, all the streets and alleys were hung with white lanterns, and the whole city was austere.

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During the whole day, fireworks were banned for one day, and the whole city was not allowed to light fires to make food, and to offer cold food to each other.

At midnight, evening bells rang in the city, and all the cities and towns were closed early and a curfew was entered. People could only move around in the streets and were not allowed to set foot on the main roads in the city.

In the square in front of the Imperial City, hundreds of monks from the Xiangguo Temple were sitting cross-legged on the ground. A lotus-shaped oil lamp was lit in front of each of them, holding a wooden fish in their hands, while they were tapping and reciting the mantra of rebirth.

On the altar in the center of the square, there is a wooden altar, which is three feet high. Six eminent monks from Baoxiang Temple, Huasheng Temple and Jinshan Temple stand on it. They are also twisting Buddha beads and chanting scriptures.

Among them, the childish-looking Chan'er also put on a brocade cassock. Because he was still young, he stood out among the others. .

This chanting continued for a full hour.

It was not until Haishi that the rituals here ended, and the monks began to hold lotus lanterns and parade along every main road in the city, summoning the souls of the people who died tragically in various parts of the city along the way.

As the lights lit up everywhere in the city, a series of terrifying ghost figures began to emerge. Some had lost consciousness and were floating behind the monks in a daze, while others were still wailing and crying, with voices like human whispers. , densely packed.

In addition, there were some resentful spirits that had turned into wandering evil spirits and wanted to attack the monks, but were repelled by the light emanating from the lotus lanterns.

These lotus lanterns are all ever-lasting lamps invited from Baoxiang Temple. The lamps burned inside are the lamp oil added by thousands of believers. The evil spirits attacked several times, but instead of hurting the monks, they purified the light of the lamps and surrounded them. The black evil spirit on his body gradually peeled off, slowly revealing his true colors.

However, in some places where the evil spirit was already strong, such as near wells and ice cellars, some evil spirits that could not be purified even with a bright lamp still appeared. In the end, they were killed by monks arranged by the government.

Near midnight, Shen Luo, Bai Xiaotian and some court officials stood on the top of the north city gate, overlooking the city.

Although people were not allowed to leave their workshops in the city, some lights could still be seen inside the workshops, as the people spontaneously paid homage to their relatives and neighbors who died in the disaster.

I don't know which square, first a paper-made Kongming lantern slowly rose into the sky, followed closely by one after another, Kongming lanterns that expressed the sorrow of the living flew up from each square and city.

White lights jumped into the sky, scattered at different heights, echoing the stars in the sky, as if they were connected to each other by a bridge of communication between heaven and man, and slowly drifting towards the north of the city.

Shen Luo's eyes slowly fell, and he saw near the city gate. Parading monks holding lotus lanterns were lined up on both sides of the road. On the main road in the middle, only a small lone figure was left, wearing cassocks and holding hands. Buddha beads, bow your head and chant sutras.

Behind him, there were hundreds of thousands of ghosts floating densely, following his footsteps towards the outside of the city.

When tens of thousands of ghosts gather in one place, even if they are just ordinary ghosts with no evil intentions, the accumulated evil energy has reached an appalling level, which ordinary people cannot withstand.

However, at this moment, Chan'er was exuding a hazy white light, as soft as moonlight, but with a hint of warmth, like a candle in a cold night, illuminating the way forward for these Yin spirits. road.

Chan'er slowly walked through the Chang'an city gate. The moment he stepped out of the doorway, light suddenly gathered under his feet, and a golden lotus appeared. After that, with every step he took, golden lotuses appeared on the ground.

At this moment, he is really like the reincarnation of Jin Chan, a disciple of the Buddha, possessing the light of Buddha and saving all sentient beings.

Seeing this, everyone in the city thought it was an immortal Buddha appearing, and they all paid homage to him.

I saw Chan'er leading all the ghosts out of the city gate. A hundred feet away from the city, layers of night fog suddenly rose on both sides of the road. In the fog, there were vaguely leafless flowers blooming and swaying abnormally.

Shen Luo recognized at a glance that those flowers were the flowers of the other side that were only found in the underworld.

Chan'er walked to the place where the mist met a hundred feet away, stopped, and stopped moving. He just clasped his hands together, and the light on his body became brighter and brighter.

The ghosts who followed him all the way floated forward one after another, bypassing his body like a river diverting water, walking into the mist, and disappeared one by one.

However, at this moment, a strange light suddenly flashed on the Buddhist beads worn on Chan'er's chest, and a bloody mist surged out, spreading in all directions, submerging Chan'er and hundreds of ghosts.

"No, something happened." Upon seeing this, Shen Luo's expression suddenly changed and he jumped out of the city.

His footsteps rushed down along the city wall, stepped heavily on the city wall, and leaped into the sky. He rushed straight into the ghost like an eagle and flew towards Chan'er's direction.

The surrounding ghosts were affected by the blood mist, and the originally orderly situation was instantly reversed. The originally green pupils of a large number of ghosts suddenly turned blood red, and they turned directly from ghosts into evil ghosts.

Sensing the majestic aura of living souls in the city, these undead souls transformed into evil spirits immediately rushed back toward the city gate like hungry beasts.

Wherever it passed, it was like a plague spreading, and a large number of ghosts turned into evil spirits in an instant. For a time, the entire city gate fell into a situation out of control.

The monks of Baoxiang Temple inside the city gate immediately rushed out of the door with their magic weapons in hand. Elder Zhe Shi and others also flew to the front, chanting the Rebirth Mantra and the Calming Mantra in an attempt to appease these ghosts.

However, the ghosts infected by the blood mist seemed to be unable to hear these Buddhist chants and still rushed back, turning more and more ghosts into evil spirits.

"Disciples of Baoxiang Temple, set up the formation." Seeing this, Zen Master Lude shouted loudly.

All the monks of Baoxiang Temple jumped out, lined up in a row, and built a human wall, cutting off the entire army of ghosts, preventing subsequent ghosts from leaving the city, and preventing the evil ghosts in front from counterattacking.

I saw these monks tapping the wooden fish and other magical instruments in their hands, and the incantations they chanted changed from the rebirth incantation to the magic subduing incantation. All the sounds were mixed together and turned into bursts of solemn Sanskrit sounds.

The sound waves of the Sanskrit sound grew from weak to strong, one sound louder than the other, and gradually became like a tsunami, turning into bursts of translucent sound waves, rushing towards the oncoming evil spirits.

The moment those evil ghosts rushed into the sound wave range, each of them seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall of air, and their forward momentum suddenly stopped.

However, the evil spirits were fierce, and when their forward momentum was blocked, they became even more ferocious. They continued to charge without fear of death, and the combined force became stronger each time.

Every time they collide, the invisible air wall will vibrate violently, and the monks who activate the sound barrier array will be impacted. After a few times, some of the weak ones will groan incessantly, with blood oozing from the corners of their mouths.