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"It's started, it's started."

"It's finally started, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time!"

"I really want to see what my previous life was..."

"Maybe it's a human being."

"Bah! Who are you scolding!"

Amidst the turmoil of all the monsters, the gate that seemed to be burning with blue flames slowly descended from the sky, and then something even more strange happened—a place not far from the bonfire, which was originally an open space, suddenly appeared at this moment. A palace, at first it seemed to be hidden behind the flames, distorted like a mirage, and with the last bell of Zishi, that gorgeous palace was clearly located in front of everyone.

The original blue flame gate was its gate, but the moment the gate appeared in the palace, it turned into an ordinary bronze color.There are rings bitten by two lions on the gate as doorknobs. Among the two lions, the one on the right is dozing off with its ears drooping, while the one on the left is staring at the eager monster standing outside the door. they——

The lion on the left said: "Hey, don't sleep, people are coming."

The lion on the right made a purring sound from its nose. It shook its ears and raised its head in a daze: "Ah, don't sleep anymore, everyone is here."

The lion on the left said: "I know how to sleep all day long!"

The lion on the right said: "I don't know how to sleep without a whole day!"

The two doorknobs started arguing with each other as if no one was around, and hundreds of monsters below looked at each other eagerly, and no one dared to stop them until they stopped by themselves. The lion on the left Then he said with a serious face: "Then, let's start."

The one on the right smiled and said: "It's not that monsters are not allowed to enter; those who have not participated in Hundred Stories are not allowed to enter; those who have no invitations are not allowed to enter; those who are not interested in their own past lives are not allowed to enter; those who have offended Yuzao's ex-mother are not allowed to enter; those who have plotted against others are not allowed to enter... ..."

The monsters lined up in the order in which they were told in the Hundred Stories just now. Zhang Ziyao, Zhu Jiuyin, and Su Lian were the last three to tell the story, so they lined up at the back of the line——Zhang Ziyao leaned back, and the candle Jiuyin bent down slightly knowingly, and then heard the young man ask mysteriously: "Have you offended Yuzao's former empress before?"

"How is it an offense?"

"You and Chang'e; you and the seven fairies; you and Hou Dizhi; you and the sister fairy under any peach tree in the Pantao Garden..."

"What it is?"

"Generally refers to all other fairies."

"No, no, nothing!" Zhu Jiuyin said unhappily, "I have always kept myself clean——"

"Run after teasing," Zhang Ziyao added.

Su Lian turned her head and glanced at Zhu Jiuyin: "It's even cheaper."

Zhu Jiuyin picked up his sleeves, and Zhang Ziyao pushed him to separate him from Su Lian. Zhu Jiuyin glanced at the hand that was pressing on her, rolled his eyes around in his sockets, and suddenly asked, "What are you doing?" What is this asking for?"

"I just want to know that the lion on the right said 'not a monster, did not participate in Hundred Monogatari, did not have an invitation card, was not interested in my previous life, offended the ex-mother Yuzao, and those who conspired are not allowed to enter' such a long list. Are we perfect? Take your seat," Zhang Ziyao said, "the only thing that would offend Yuzao's former empress is one thing, so ask the person who is most likely to achieve this one."

"No, no, nothing." Zhu Jiuyin repeated with a gloomy face, "I don't like vixen, I have a vixen smell on my body, and it chokes my nose."

"I don't like cold ones, I don't like too fierce ones, and I don't like foxy ones, Longyang, you're not good," Zhang Ziyao said with a blank face, "What do you really like?"

Zhu Jiuyin raised her eyelids and glanced at Zhang Ziyao: "The flood of love is hard to deal with, the Madonna's disease breaks out from time to time, and she likes to cause trouble for herself, and if she doesn't use her brain, she will be deceived if she just coaxes her, what else is there... oh By the way, I love to cause trouble, and then wait for me to wipe my ass with an innocent face."

At this time, Bai Xueji was sitting on the top of the obscuring chariot, and the wheels rolled slowly into the front hall of Yuzao... The team moved forward slowly.

Zhang Ziyao retracted his stretched neck, and looked back at Zhu Jiuyin: "Do you like me?"

Zhu Jiuyin said expressionlessly: "I like it so much, where can I find someone as cute as you—"

"I don't like you," Zhang Ziyao said with an expressionless face, "After tonight we will get that basin, and we will return to each other..."

"Farewell," Zhu Jiuyin and Yin Yang said with a strange smile, "People say that a one-night couple has a hundred days of kindness, but this hasn't reached the hundred days yet, and you don't admit it after only twenty days?"

Zhang Ziyao immediately covered Su Lian's ears with his sleeves, then raised his head and stared at Zhu Jiuyin: "Didn't we agree not to mention it?"

"No one 'agreed' with you, you just yelled not to let me mention it." Zhu Jiuyin said lazily, "I still remember that night you leaned in my arms, like a difficult young master , sometimes it’s fast and sometimes it’s slow, it doesn’t matter if it’s light or it’s heavy, if you make a mistake, you’ll bite…”

"To shut up!"

"No."

"The next morning you didn't even dare to look me in the eye, what are you talking about!"

"Why didn't I dare to read it? You thought everyone was as innocent as you, and they were irresponsible if they talked with each other. Where's the evidence?"

Zhang Ziyao let go of Su Lian, stood on tiptoe, hooked Zhu Jiuyin's neck and pulled him down—the man bent down unexpectedly, his tall nose was about to touch Zhang Ziyao's mask. The room was full of the boy's breath, he stopped the car abruptly and pulled off the two hands on his neck: "Why are you?"

Zhang Ziyao let go of him and laughed, "Find a mirror to look at your current face, this is the evidence you want."

After saying that, ignore Zhu Jiuyin and turn around—at this time the team moved forward for a short distance, Zhang Ziyao pulled Su Lian forward, leaving Zhu Jiuyin standing alone for a while After a long time, the man who realized that he had been tricked followed the team with a swearing face...

"Next time, I will really kiss you like this."

"Oh."

"What's your tone?"

"A mocking tone."

"Troublemaker! Presumptuous! Don't think that I don't—"

Before Zhu Jiuyin finished speaking, there was an uproar from the front line, his voice stopped abruptly, and he involuntarily looked in the direction the crowd was looking at, only to realize that he was the first to enter the front hall of Yuzao The two of them have come out——

At this time, there is a doll dressed as a coachman in front of the car, which is usually reserved for the driver. Although the doll looks alive, it has no life.Oboroche's long nose drooped down, his big mouth parted and he muttered "Hurry up, hurry up" while sighing "Aiai"; Snow Maiden held two dolls in her hands, one of which was white and fat. A fat woman dressed in white clothes, and the man holding hands with it is sometimes dressed as a hunter. The hands held by the two are bound together by ice. Under the moonlight, the ice surface is crystal clear...

"What's that?" Zhang Ziyao asked.

"Souvenirs fished out of the water basin," Zhu Jiuyin replied, "After looking at the water basin, reach in and fish for it, and you can fish out the person who looked like the previous life... I also heard other monsters talk about it on the way here. "

Zhang Ziyao nodded half-understood. At the same time, the monsters in front of the team watched Yuki and Yuki leaving enviously. Afterwards, the discussion about the past and present became more intense... After a while, Yuki and Yuki Then he came to the end of the line and stood in front of Zhang Ziyao——

Xue Nu: "It's just a bronze basin, placed in the center of the main hall, and Yuzaoqian Empress is guarding behind the curtain behind the basin."

Obscure car: "One person. One person."

Snow Girl: "Only her."

Obscure car: "Looks fierce, looks fierce."

Xue Nu frowned slightly, raised her head and glanced at the car: "What I saw was a handsome hunter... very similar to the doll in my hand."

Obscure car: "It's wrong, it's wrong. It's a samurai with a long sword in his hand, arrogantly calling the coachman, don't act rashly, or you will be killed - scare the car to death, scare the car to death.

Zhu Jiuyin: "It seems that different people see Yu Zaoqian differently."

The door of the hazy car slammed: "It is the person who sees the most fearful person."

Xuenv flicked her hair, adjusted the hood that covered half of her face and retorted indifferently: "It's the person I hate the most."

Zhu Jiuyin snorted: "It's also possible that she saw the person she cared about the most—the usual trick of the vixen. It's nothing to worry about, but it's just for self-protection. As long as you see her true face, it's not difficult to destroy her... "

Zhang Ziyao kindly reminded: "We are just going to ask for pots, and there is no need to kill people to get more goods."

Zhu Jiuyin glanced at him, kicked away the stone under his feet and asked again: "Is the past and present life I saw true?"

Hazy car: "It's true, it's true."

Xue Nu fell silent, and said after a long time——

"It's the past that I don't want to recall."

She floated up into the air, and sat on the roof of the car with the snow-covered snow in her hands. She lowered her head to look at Zhang Ziyao and said, "Human beings are the most sentimental, if you don't have to go tonight, I want to persuade you, why don't you?" look."

After saying that, she patted the roof of the car, and the car made a suspicious sound of "Hey", but did not refute. After saying goodbye to Zhang Ziyao and the others, she obediently turned in the same direction and left on the same road... Zhang Ziyao stared at their backs for a moment, then suddenly thought: "No, if there is really a pot in the world where you can see the past life, then what's the point of having Meng Po soup? Isn't this thing—"

"I heard that it used to be the pot used to make Meng Po soup," Zhu Jiuyin said lazily, "just like the Yin-Yang Nirvana state, the mirror was made by smashing the steps on the path of reincarnation alive, so it can be made The dead follow the mirror back to the mortal world... This pot probably has a similar principle. Only Mengpo soup can connect the past and present. The soup container has been used for a long time, and strange things happen over time. ability--"

"Is that so?"

"That's what I guessed."

"Can Granny Meng's basin be exchanged?"

"It's not 'it can be changed' but it's simply 'changed'. The old woman likes the new and dislikes the old very much. It's not easy to change the basin after a hundred years. The last time I went to the underworld, what I saw was different from this time," Zhu Jiuyin After a pause, "But whether it is true or not, you have to see it to know. If it is true, then there is no need to rob it. The smuggled things in the underworld, I can take it away with confidence, saying that it is returned to the original owner." .”

"Return to the original owner?"

"Who dares to ask me where the pot went after it was taken away—"

"...You're still robbing."

Zhu Jiuyin sneered and stopped talking, but his appearance was quite righteous.

Zhang Ziyao stood on tiptoe and looked ahead. The team has decreased by about one-fifth. Every time a few people enter the front hall of Yuzao, the team will move forward slowly... The monsters seem to be looking forward to their past and present lives for a long time. Everyone They all stretched their necks and counted how many more it was their turn...

Some of the people who came out with dolls were happy, some were sad, some were laughing, some were crying, and most of them were silent like Snow Girl——

What was my previous life?

Zhang Ziyao couldn't help thinking about it, but for a while, he still felt that he didn't want to know at all.

……

The whole ceremony must end before the end of the child time and the arrival of the ugly time.

Standing at the end of the line, Zhang Ziyao could only watch patiently as the number of people in front of him gradually decreased. When he finally approached the huge palace, he was so close that he could almost see the nostrils of two lions on the door. Just started to get nervous...

Not far in front of him was the cat who had troubled him before. Zhang Ziyao noticed that this monster had been lying on the ears of the two lion doorknobs and whispering something before entering the door. At first Zhang Ziyao didn't pay attention to it at all until The team finally reached him, and when he tried to check the invitations and cross the threshold like the monsters in front, he was stopped——

"Slow down, slow down." The lion on the left said seriously.

"Don't go, don't go." The lion on the right joked.

Zhang Ziyao's heart tightened, and he paused. Fortunately, at this time, he was wearing a mask so that people could not see the unnaturalness on his face. He just raised his head and looked at the two lions in silence. At this time, the serious one on the left The lion said: "Take off your mask and let me see your eyes—a cat reported to me just now, saying that you should pay attention to the monsters of Inugami's family tonight. Day accidentally lost an Inugami, so he found a human to replace him, and he wanted the past and present basin of Yuzao's former empress."

Oboroshin said that after deliberately removing the human breath from his body and drinking the spelled wine, the only way to tell that he is human is to let him take off his mask.Then meet his eyes.

Zhang Ziyao thumped in his heart, secretly thinking that it was not good, and was stared at by those two doorknobs.As if his stomach was about to fall to the ground, he felt uneasy, but kept his head down, and said simply and concisely: "I'm not a human being, so I don't take off my mask."

"Then don't go in." The lion on the left insisted.

Zhang Ziyao: "..."

"——What? You little door god, why do you let my pet take off its mask for you to peek at?"

At this moment, footsteps sounded behind Zhang Ziyao, and Zhu Jiuyin walked up the steps with his sleeves rolled up. His handsome face was filled with arrogance that cannot be underestimated. He lowered his eyes and glanced at the door god, and said with a lazy smile, "Aren't you You know, I am very possessive, why do pets wear masks? It is only because of the face under the mask that only I can see."

The lion on the right said in surprise: "Lord Zhuyin."

"I think there is a special atmosphere in the air tonight, which seems to be different from usual. It turns out that Master Zhuyin has come." The lion on the left calmly said, "You say you are possessive, and that doesn't make any sense—all of the Inugami family You came here with an invitation card from Oborozuki, if it is true that the Inugami in front of you is raised by your family as you said, how could you agree to make a contract with Oboruma?"

Zhu Jiuyin: "..."

Zhang Ziyao: "..."

It's over.

Met someone with a brain.

Zhang Ziyao cursed that hateful cat another 1000 million times in his heart.I hope that it will simply fall into the basin of past and present lives and drown myself. At the same time, I turned my head and looked at Zhu Jiuyin at a loss, thinking that he finally had no other way, but at this moment, Zhu Jiuyin glanced at the door faintly. Shendao: "Presumptuous. What does this gentleman do and think, and I have to explain it to you one by one?"

The lion on the left is silent.

Zhang Ziyao: "..."

Almost forgot to face all the routines, Zhu Jiuyin's only anti-routine is that there are no routines - when you come up, you will pretend to be forceful first, and if you can't pretend to be forceful, you will simply act aggressively.

Today, however, this lion is like a hard bone, after a moment of silence.It just became more serious: "The little god doesn't dare, but the rules are the rules, even Lord Zhu Jiuyin can't surpass it. Today, the dog god must take off this mask, otherwise——"

Zhu Jiuyin: "Are you threatening me?"

The lion on the left seemed to move uncomfortably, and after a moment it said shockingly——

"If Master Zhuyin thinks so, then let's just say..."

This seemingly innocuous sentence became the last words of the door god.

Because as soon as it finished speaking, Zhu Jiuyin slapped the gate with a gloomy face—for a moment, even Zhang Ziyao, who was standing by the gate, seemed to feel some power directly penetrating from his body. The ground shook, and the wind blew up. In the wind, there seemed to be the screams of ghosts mixed with the painful wailing of wild animals!

All the monsters who had gone away or hadn’t left seemed to be under a spell for a moment. They stopped what they were doing, looked up in the direction of the front hall of Yuzao with dazed and panicked faces—they were running away. The kappa with candied haws pinched the eyeballs in his hand, and the cream splashed on his face; the catfish selling the underpants dropped the treasure chest on the ground, and the treasures were scattered all over the place; the two frog monsters squatting by the pond thumped He fainted from fright and fell back into the pond...

The wrath of the wind.

Howling wind!

Wei Wei stood under the steps of Yuzao's front hall, and the one-eyed, golden-eyed boy folded his sleeves and looked at the sky, which was changing in an instant, and said calmly, "I killed the god."

He withdrew his gaze, looked at the two people standing in front of the door not far away, thought for a while, his face didn't show much emotion, he just rolled up his sleeves and walked up the steps, pulling the boy with the red Inugami mask to his side, Then he turned his head and said indifferently to the man, "Why did you make such a big noise, you scared him."

At this time, Zhu Jiuyin was the only calm person present.

He withdrew his hand, ignored Su Lian's accusation, and only glanced at the door lock that had been smashed by him and was no longer the same—the door handle that was originally held by the lion fell to the ground with a "bang", Zhu Jiu Yin withdrew her sleeves for a long time, and said calmly: "No one dares to talk to me like that."

The little god who should have heard these words has already lost his hearing.

Zhang Ziyao: "..."

Zhang Ziyao looked at Zhu Jiuyin's hand and then raised his hand to touch the back of his head. He felt lingering fear. Thinking of the scene where he just opened his mouth with Zhu Jiuyin and confessed that he was mocking him, for some reason, there was always a feeling The feeling of narrow escape.

Although at this moment the back of his head is inexplicably hurting.

At this time, Zhu Jiuyin turned her head to look at the lion on the right who had been making jokes from beginning to end—at this moment, the latter was grinning blankly at the "relic" dropped by his companion on the floor, and seemed to have no reaction The old friends who have been here for hundreds of years just say that if they are gone, they will be gone...

"What about you?"

The man's low voice sounded.

The bronze lion on the right trembled, raised its eyes——

I saw the man with gold-painted black sleeves waving in front of his eyes. The man standing behind the boy wearing the red Inugami mask had an indifferent face. With one hand, he slightly lifted the boy's chin in front of him, and twisted his face back to face the door god on the right. Calmly repeated: "What about you?"

"..."

"Do you insist on seeing the face under the mask?"

"..."

After a long silence, the bronze lion who was looking at the pair of red pupils finally lowered its ears, looked away, and the doorknob in its mouth shook slightly, and the right side of the bronze door slowly opened inward. ——

Zhu Jiuyin let go of the chin of the young man in front of him, turned him around, bent down to help him adjust the somewhat crooked mask on his face.

Then he pushed him, and said in a calm tone as if nothing had happened: "Go in."

The latter staggered, glanced at the silent door god with lingering fear, showing a hesitant expression, until the person behind him indifferently reminded him to "shut up", he seemed to be startled suddenly, hurriedly Hastily stepped over the threshold and jumped into the hall...

Behind him, the man lazily followed, and when he passed the threshold, he stepped on the threshold as if on purpose——

... It is said that the threshold is the shoulders of the Buddha, and ordinary people must be in awe.Not to be trampled on.

what.

However, this grown-up...

Exactly the same as in the legend, all the gods and demons of the three realms gave way to him when they saw him, not because they respected him, but because——

Be afraid.

The bronze lion shivered, trembling slightly, lowered its eyes and dared not look again... A gust of cold wind blew by, and the doorknob knocked lightly on the bronze door, making a "knocking" sound, while the one on the left The door stood there motionless, too quiet to make a sound.