Sick Beauty [Rebirth]
Chapter 77 Sin
caveat?
Ye Yunlan's footsteps froze for a moment, and her pale knuckles tightened her grip on Que Ying.
He said coldly: "...you think too much."
Shen Shu didn't ask after listening, but the corners of his lips curled up a little bit, showing a bit of slyness in his half-smile.
The singing voice from the darkness suddenly became louder.
The song is far away and ethereal, as if it came from the extremely distant old days, separated from life and death. The melody of the song is sad, but it attracts people to listen to it continuously, as if it can give people eternal peace.
A faint green flame first lit up in the darkness, and everything began to appear slowly.
What appeared in front of the two of them was a completely different world from before.
The eyes of the undead flying all over the sky flickered with green soul fire, and a road piled up with bones meandered forward from under their feet, and at the end was a huge and magnificent palace of bones.
The Hall of Bones looks very strange, full of the rough taste of the ancient times.
The big door of the hall is open on both sides, and sad and ethereal songs come from the hall.
At this moment, Ye Yunlan heard a "click".
He turned his head and saw that the "door" behind them that they walked through when they came in had been quietly closed, as if it had never existed before.
There is a wind blowing over? Bringing white confetti flying all over the sky.
The confetti drifted over their heads like a galaxy, and he saw that there were huge origami houses, paper people with hollow features, and messy paper furniture among them. , meandering to the Hall of Bones.
"Master, is this place still... an illusion?"
Shen Shu asked.
It seems that such a strange scene can only be explained by the word "illusion".
Ye Yunlan didn't answer right away.
He looked at the Hall of Bones from a distance, and vaguely glimpsed some indescribable power from there, which was somewhat similar to the power he possessed in his previous life to step into the Void Realm, but it was more vast, scattered, and floating.
He took out a pure heart talisman and crushed it, the effect brought by the talisman did not dispel the strange scene in front of him at all.
Closing his eyes, he felt that the surroundings were illusory and unreal, as if he was still in an illusion, but compared with the previous illusion, it was slightly different.
Ye Yunlan recalled his previous life. When he entered the Nether Secret Realm, his cultivation base was still low, and he had many things, so his vision ability was not enough to spy at that time, but now.But there are some vague guesses.Ye Yunlan said: "Maybe."
Shen Shu: "Maybe?"
Ye Yunlan: "The entire first layer of the Nether Secret Realm is originally composed of different illusions, big, big, and small. The phantom circles are connected with each other, and almost occupy [-]% of the entire first layer of the secret realm. What do you say It’s not surprising that this place is also a place of illusion.”
Shen Shu listened with great interest, and suddenly said: "How does Master know so much? I remember that the Nether Secret Realm has not been opened for a long time. We are still the first batch of people who entered here. It's just running around like headless chickens."
Ye Yunlan glanced at him sideways, and said coldly: "I'm not like you. As soon as I entered the secret realm, I was confused by the phantom formation, and I didn't know where I was or who I met. I knew I was a headless chicken." , but still insist on bumping non-stop.”
Shen Shu heard the words, suddenly smiled and said: "Is Master still angry just now?"
Ye Yunlan pursed her lips, ignored his question, and just changed the topic back.
"If what I said is correct, the first layer of the secret realm is made of illusions, then why did the Emperor Netherworld design it this way? If it is to prevent outsiders from intruding, the illusion array is not the best way. The Emperor Netherworld was cultivated back then If he wants to, there are more simple and effective ways to prevent outsiders from intruding into this secret place, and he doesn't need to waste his mind on setting up the illusion."
Ye Yunlan knew exactly what kind of state Taxu was.
It is only one step away from the final boundary between mortals and gods, and it already possesses incredible power. With a single thought, it can overwhelm the universe.Even if he dies, the traces left behind on his bones can still have part of the power he had during his lifetime, and cannot be cut off for thousands of years.
Shen Shu also? Without interrupting, he asked, "Why?"
Ye Yunlan was silent for a moment, and said: "Perhaps these illusions are not designed to prevent outsiders from entering, but just to guide... the conversion of dead souls."
Shen Shu's pupils were as black as ink, and he said to himself: "Death... the refuge of the soul?"
Ye Yunlan said: "The Nether Emperor was born 5000 years ago, and at that time, it was the time when the Great Tribulation occurred, the stars were chaotic, samsara collapsed, and all evils were rampant."
"That was the second great catastrophe recorded in this world. Later history books called it—ghost chaos."
Shen Shu's pitch-black eyes rolled for a while, and he said, "The disciples also understand what the master said. According to historical records, the heaven and the earth changed at that time. The sacrificial offerings caused corpses to spread across the fields, and the lives of people were devastated, while the number of ghosts increased day by day, almost overwhelming the world. In the end, it was the Emperor Youming who rebuilt the underworld, restored reincarnation, and suppressed robbery with his own body, finally ending the ghost chaos. "
He paused, and continued: "It's just that the theory of the underworld is very illusory. It is only recorded in books, but it has never appeared in the world. For 5000 years, no one has been able to really find out where the underworld is. The caves are spread all over the five continents and all over the world, and there are countless secret places left behind, but there is not a single one that can be called a hell."
At this point, a smile appeared on his lips, and he said: "Master, when you mention this, do you think that this secret place is the underworld established by the legendary Emperor Nether?"
Ye Yunlan was a little surprised at Shen Shu's understanding of these ancient things.
He frowned, his face paler under the reflection of the will-o'-the-wisp, and after a moment of silence, he said, "There are some things that have not yet reached the level of cultivation, so don't explore too much. Follow me closely."
After finishing speaking, he walked towards the Hall of Bones.
Shen Shu followed him, and stared sideways at the man's indifferent side face, always feeling that this man's thin body, which seemed to collapse in the wind, was buried with a lot of knowledge and secrets that he didn't know, which made him more and more More and more want to take this person apart and explore.
Ye Yunlan noticed that his scorching eyes had been lingering on her, and her steps became faster and faster. After a long while, she finally couldn't help turning her head and said, "What's wrong?"
Shen Shu smiled and said: "Although the master has warned you so, but the matter of the underworld, my disciples are still curious."
Ye Yunlan: "Too much curiosity is not good for your practice."
"But Master," Shen Shu still had a smile on his lips, "Even though the matter of reincarnation in the underworld has always been only in legends, mortals still sacrifice to ghosts and gods all year round, tirelessly, which shows that people are right about life and death, I was born with a sense of reverence. And disciples are curious about the underworld, just like people want to know where they were born and where they will go. Isn't it normal?"
Ye Yunlan said: "It's not necessary."
As he spoke, he seemed to realize that his tone seemed too indifferent. He pursed his lips and said again: "Everything is born in the heaven and earth and returns to the heaven and the earth, but the heaven and the earth are not benevolent, and they treat all things as dogs. The law of heaven is eternal." In normal times, people don’t need to set up another hell to regulate and judge.”
As for when it's not normal...
Ye Yunlan didn't say any more.
Holding his sword, he walked forward among the ghosts in the sky, and he was already standing in front of the palace of bones.
The ethereal singing of the dead is very close.
He stepped up the steps step by step, and walked through the big door of white bones that opened opposite, and there was a spooky darkness inside.
Stepping on the hard and smooth ground, the footsteps echoed especially? Clearly.
The gate of the white bone gate was slowly closed, and the cast iron on both sides ignited faint bloody flames one after another. In front of you was an extremely tall and spacious palace.
They are at the lowest end of the hall, the steps are winding up step by step, at the top is a huge wooden case, behind the wooden case is a black high chair, behind the high chair It is a wide wall with a spooky picture scroll painted on the wall.
Among them, there are mountains of knives and sea of fire, knives and scissors, oil pans, copper pillar steamers... countless human figures with deformed limbs wailing on the scroll, which depicts a picture of "Eighteen Hells of Suffering".
There was no one sitting on the high chair, but under the gloomy flames, Ye Yunlan felt that there seemed to be countless pairs of eyes watching him.It's just that the surrounding fire is too bright? It's dark, blurry vision is difficult? Looking for the outlines hidden in the darkness, he felt that his eyes were a little dry, and his hands were trembling and moaning faintly.
The singing of the dead who has never stopped in the ear suddenly turned into the crying of thousands of ghosts in the picture scroll, and the cruel scene of the eighteen layers of hell, the sea of knives and the sea of knives and the sea of knives and frying in oil made Ye Yunlan In a trance, I recalled the scene of the great catastrophe in the previous life, and the world like hell.
At that time, his life was about to come to an end. Even though his achievements were in vain, he was not as fearless and selfless as Emperor Youming chose to use his body to suppress calamity.
The human race called him Guisha and regarded him as unknown.
And the people and things he cares about have been away from him for a long time.
He has no ambition to save the common people.
He spent the rest of his life trying to collect that man's remnant soul, but in the end he failed and was no match for God's will?
However, even?
In the end, he still walked the same path as the Nether Emperor.
While Ye Yunlan was in a trance, Shen Shu's voice came from beside him: "Master, be careful—!"
He was hugged by a pair of strong arms, and fell to one side. At the same time, the biting cold light passed by with the sound of wind.
Ye Yunlan's pupils contracted, and he saw clearly that it was a blood-red chain that attacked them.
That piece of chain protruded from a black sleeve, and it was still bleeding down. The owner of the sleeve was tall and thin, wearing a tall hat, and had a ghostly look. I'm afraid it was the legendary "" Black impermanence" is no different.
Just looking closely, Hei Wuchang's facial features are pale and stiff, he doesn't look like a person or a ghost, his body is long and thin, but he is too thin, he is clearly a paper man.
Shen Shu protected him and rolled twice on the ground, avoiding the attack.Ye Yunlan was held in his arms, and saw countless paper copper coins falling like snowflakes from the dark dome of the main hall, falling all over her head.
Ghost shadows flitted around the body? The bloody chains in Hei Wuchang's hands stretched intertwined, like a spider web sealing them? All retreats, when the net was formed, the paper figurine stood with its head down on the left side of the black wooden case .
There is also a white shadow on the right side of the wooden case, it is Bai Wuchang with a pale face, standing there like a ghost.
And on the seat behind the wooden case, there was a hazy figure at some point.
That body is as tall as a mountain, and its appearance is indistinct. The heavy coercion exuding from the whole body is the heaviness that can only be possessed by a Void-Treading Realm master.
Good one? Vice Hades is like a pie.
Ye Yunlan's eyes were fixed on the top, and there was a name in his heart that was ready to come out.
——Youming Da? Emperor, Xie Jiuyou.
He was suspicious.
Such an imposing manner does not seem like an illusion. What is in front of him is the remnant soul left by Xie Jiuyou after the catastrophe, or...
Yama, who was sitting upright in the high hall, didn't speak, but the ghostly howls coming from the picture scroll behind him became louder and whispered in his ear with great momentum.
"Did you hear the sound?" Ye Yunlan asked Shen Shu.
From his angle, he couldn't see Shen Shu's face behind him, and he couldn't see the smile and gloomy eyes on Shen Shu's face that had disappeared.
Only Shen Shu's voice could be heard in his ears.
"Of course I can. 'They?', questioning me."
He paused and said casually.
"—They? They are asking me, have you ever indulged in killing evil, harming innocent people, have you ever forced a good man into prostitution, indulged in prostitution, have you ever been disloyal and filial, and disobeyed your elders. Master, how should I answer?"
Ye Yunlan's body was slightly stiffened by the young man's hoarse voice and the hot breath. In order to protect him, Shen Shu still held his shoulder with one hand and squeezed it tightly.
He frowned and raised his hand to remove Shen Shu's paw, saying, "You don't have to admit to something you haven't done before."
"What if I did it?" Shen Shu smiled half-smile, "Are they? Are they going to sentence me to hell forever, not to be reborn?"
It seemed that the words "not to be reincarnated" hurt Ye Yunlan's nerves, he suddenly clenched the Queying Sword, and said coldly.
"Stop talking nonsense!... If you really want to be convicted, it should be me first."
He mastered the Shura sword, walked the way of death and extinction, his hands were once stained with blood, and he killed countless evils. Even if he did good deeds and accumulated virtues later, it was not for the good deeds he did and the accumulated virtues.
If it is a crime, he should have gone to hell long ago, and he will not be reborn.
Shen Shu was stunned for a while, but then smiled slightly, "Master Qingfengmingyue, who sacrificed his life in the sea of fire to save countless people, how could the King of Hades have the heart to judge you?"
"Even if it's true that Hades has no eyes and condemns you, and this disciple owes you his life, he should go to the Netherworld with Master and be punished for Master."
He lowered his eyebrows and whispered in Ye Yunlan's ear.
"I hope Master... don't leave me alone? It will be good if I am in the mortal world."
Ye Yunlan was stunned for a moment, with an angry expression on his face.
"——Shen Shu, this is the Nether Secret Realm, isn't it a place where you can play whatever you want?"
Shen Shu said, "Since Master knows it's a joke, why should he be so concerned?"
He was obviously in a dangerous situation, but he slowly picked up the paper money stuck to Ye Yunlan's clothes, "Those ghosts are constantly chattering, it's really annoying. The apprentice just saw that the master was in a depressed mood, and wanted to joke a few words to relieve the master's worries." That's all."
Is it a joke, too? Only he knows it in his heart.
Ye Yunlan didn't know the truth of what he said, but she was really angry at Shen Shu's words "Go to the Netherworld together". He had very few concerns in this life, and Shen Shu was the only concern left in the fruit.
Want to get up and reprimand, but the dense chains occupying this space still seal them "all moving space".
Fortunately, the King of Hades on the seat seemed to be unable to look at it at last. He only heard the gavel slap.
"Do you know the crime?"
Hades' voice echoed in the palace.
Ye Yunlan didn't answer, but just observed with a restrained face, wanting to observe what the hell of Hades in front of him really is, but heard Shen Shu beside him say: "I don't know."
Ye Yunlan frowned even more, and wanted to speak carefully. After all, the Netherworld is so big? The cultivation base of the emperor had already stepped into the void, and the methods of the monks in the void state are beyond the reach of ordinary practitioners? Imagine, if you accidentally touch something— —Even if he can save Shen Shu's life, he may not be able to have much time left to find soul-attracting flowers for the other party.
"I don't know?" Yan Wang said coldly.
Shen Shu said: "I really don't know. But?, next? It is rumored that the king of Hades in the underworld has hands and eyes that are open to the sky, and can understand the events of life and judge whether the living person is responsible or not. But please enlighten me."
"Shen Shu!" Ye Yunlan couldn't help warning in a low voice, but Shen Shu held his shoulder and squeezed it gently.
The young man lowered his voice and said: "Master, don't worry, I have a sense of proportion. But? I just want to try it out? To test the authenticity of the King of Hades, so as not to be deceived by illusory illusions again. Thinking about it, the belly of the King of Hades recorded in the history books will not be deceived The disciples are offended by these many temptations."
Ye Yunlan frowned deeply.
How can he rest assured?
Since entering the Nether Secret Realm, Shen Shu has behaved more and more against him. Ye Yunlan pursed her pale thin lips, after all, considering the current situation, she didn't say any more.
Wait until he goes out... If he still has the life to go out, he must discipline Shen Shu properly.
It's so worrying!
Hades' face was shrouded in blur, and his tall, big, mountain-like body was like a black curtain covering the underworld. He looked at the two people sitting down, and said.
"Okay, then? As you wish. Come here, open the evil mirror."
On both sides of the wooden case, two impermanences made of paper figurines bowed to them.
Just listening to the chain in Hei Wuchang's hands expand and contract, Ye Yunlan heard the sound of gears rattling on the surrounding walls, and then the bluestone floor in front of them was lifted to both sides, revealing a hole, and you can see the following. The flames billowed.
A wave of heat gushed out from the hole, the heat was different from ordinary heat, it was very vicious, almost scorching to the bone.
Ye Yunlan's complexion became even paler. A mortal body could hardly withstand the fire of hell. There was already a divine fire raging in his body, and adding fuel to the fire now made it even more difficult.Even so, his expression remained motionless.
Instead, Shen Shu snorted coldly, raised his sleeves and waved, the scorching heat dissipated, and he could only swirl around the two of them, making it difficult to get close.
A huge stone mirror was connected to the seat below. The stone platform was slowly pulled up from the flames by chains, and the voice of Hades came again.
The voice was cold, majestic and merciless.
"Under the stone cave? There are [-] levels of hell. Going forward to trace the cause and effect of the evil mirror, ghosts have their own place to return to. Please."
A part of the chain of black impermanence has been unraveled, revealing a road leading to the evil mirror platform ahead.
Opening a mirror to judge crimes, does the King of Hades really regard them as ghosts?
Before Ye Yunlan could think about it carefully, he noticed that Shen Shu next to him was about to move, as if he really wanted to go to the stage of evil mirror to have a look.
Shen Shu was really eager to try.
He was very curious, whether this so-called evil mirror could really reflect the sins on his body, and he wanted to know where he would be sentenced by the king of Hades as a monster.
Perhaps it is the bottom of the eighteen layers of hell, the legendary Infernal? Hell?The smile on Shen Shu's face widened?
If this is the case, he should make a good comparison. Compared with the Demon Abyss, will the Infernal Hell be more cruel and difficult, and will there be monsters like him born in it?Or ghosts?
Monsters are crazy by nature. Although he barely has a human form, he is no exception.
Shen Shu wanted to make a noise, and couldn't wait to step forward to have a try, but was caught off guard by Ye Yunlan's hand.
That hand was slender and strong, clasping five fingers tightly with his.
Shen Shu looked down.
Ye Yunlan's side face showed a colder expression than usual in the dim light of the fire, as if ice flowers on the top of the clouds pierced his pupils, the beauty was sharper than the blade, but the opponent's palm was softer than running water, teach him I was stunned for a while.
"Don't go? Go," Ye Yunlan said, "That's not something you can handle."
This time, Ye Yunlan's words did not give Shen Shu room to change.
Then, Shen Shu saw his master standing up, his plain white sleeves drooping down, brushing his cheeks, like soft snowflakes falling on his face.
"Wait here. I will return soon as a teacher."
Say it to the other side and go to the evil mirror platform.
Shen Shu finally came back to his senses, and stood up immediately, but he heard a crisp clattering sound, and the chains on Heiwuchang's hands formed a net to block him in front of him.
"The evil mirror only takes pictures of one person at a time."
Yama said.
Shen Shu's eyes turned red for a moment.He wanted to draw his sword, but the residual light of the sword groaned softly under his exposed killing intent.
Ye Yunlan has poor eyesight but good hearing. He has stepped up the stone steps of the Niejing Terrace, but now he turned around, looked at Shen Shu, and said indifferently.
"If you follow up again, from now on, you don't need to call me Master anymore."
Shen Shu's footsteps suddenly stopped in place.
Ye Yunlan didn't look at Shen Shu's expression.In this life, no one can stop what he decided to do.
He stepped onto the stage of evil mirror.
Underneath is the sea of flames burning in hell, and flying sparks are flying in front of his eyes. Without Shen Shu's protection, the scorching pain is eroding his body.But?, still bearable.
The underworld is originally a legend.When mortals offer sacrifices to ghosts and gods, they imagine the world after death, and pass it down in writing and picture books, thus becoming a hell in people's imagination.But in fact, before Emperor Youming, there was no hell.A myth after all? Just a myth.
Later, the establishment of the underworld cannot be fully described in a few words. In the end, it is time, fate, and luck, which are dominated by the Nether Emperor.
And Nie Jingtai, as one of the three peerless magic weapons used by the Nether Emperor to suppress the underworld, has been coveted by treasure hunters of later generations.
This stone platform is neither real nor imaginary, and the huge stone mirror on it can reflect the whole person inside, reflecting all the sins of life.
Innocent ghosts can naturally stand on the stone platform safe and sound, but once they are judged guilty by Hades, the stone platform will turn reality into nothingness, and the ghosts above will fall into the sea of hell and burn away their sins before they can be reincarnated.
In Ye Yunlan's past life memory, the Nie Jingtai was not born in the Nether Secret Realm, but another earth-shattering treasure that was born in the Nether Secret Realm.
And also? Because of that treasure, he was framed, slandered and killed his fellow disciples, and he was expelled from the sect by He Lanze who abolished his meridian cultivation base.
Information related to the Underworld and the Nie Jingtai in the previous life flashed through Ye Yunlan's mind one by one, and he finally stood still on the stone platform, and his eyes turned to the stone mirror.
The smooth stone mirror clearly reflected his whole body, reflecting his cold eyebrows and eyes. He saw a few words written across the top of the stone mirror: "There are no good people in front of the evil mirror".
According to the legend, if it is a good soul, its spirituality is clear, and its own soul light is flawless and undefiled, the evil mirror will not reflect its image, and if it is an evil soul, the more vicious it will be, the more it will be reflected It is clear that the saying "there is no good man in front of the evil mirror"? This is how it came about.
It seems that I have been judged by this mirror to be a big crime? Extremely evil.
Ye Yunlan looked slightly cold.
What is good or bad?What is sin?
In the underworld, on the platform of evil mirrors, whatever is reflected is a crime.
The images in the mirror flowed quickly, reflecting the scene where he was hanging in the Law Enforcement Hall, spurned by many disciples, and then dragged down the three thousand stone steps outside the sect's gate. The scene of entering the pagoda, and the scene where he was dressed in wedding clothes, formed a blood pact with Chen Weiyuan, and was embraced by the Demon Venerable in a blink of an eye—those lights and shadows flowed before Ye Yunlan’s eyes, like a person dying. It's grotesque and absurd, counting the sins stained on him.
When he was a disciple, he had misbehavior, and being exiled from the sect was a crime.
It is a sin to rebel against one's own race when one is a human being, and to join forces with strange demons.
It is a crime to be unfaithful to your Taoist couple if you are half-hearted when you are a wife.
……
With many crimes added to his body, the stone platform under the evil mirror gradually became transparent, and he was about to be sent to the flames of hell as soon as the Gavel was struck.
And in the mirror, several bloody distorted big characters appeared - "Are you convicted?"
Ye Yunlan suddenly laughed.
Shen Shu stood behind him.I don't know whether it was intentional or not, Ye Yunlan's figure happened to cover his prying eyes of Shi Jing.
He could only listen to his master's slightly abrupt laughter, and he didn't stop for a long time in the gloomy underworld, as if he had seen the most ridiculous thing in the world.
Ye Yunlan seldom smiles, like now, this is the first time Shen Shu has seen it.
The other party chuckled like a clear spring hitting a stone, which was very pleasant, but Shen Shu could hear the anger in his heart. The residual light sword in his hand was about to be unsheathed, and he wanted to cut off the chain in front of him, as well as the other side on the stage. Damn stone mirror.
I even want to go forward and hug Ye Yunlan's thin back, so that he will stop laughing.
Only when he looked at the translucent stone platform, his reason could barely restrain his impulse.
I could only hear the voice of the King of Hades on the seat: "Trace the cause and effect on the stage of the evil mirror, and now the cause and effect have been revealed, and good and evil are separated. Are you still not convinced?"
Ye Yunlan stopped laughing, and his expression revealed the opposite of the laughter, deadly cold, and said: "If you want to commit a crime, there is no reason to worry about it."
The King of Hades said: "It is unrighteous for you to forget righteousness when you see profit and betray your fellow disciples. It is inhumane for you to collude with evil spirits and help the tyrant to abuse others. It is infidelity for you to form a Taoist partner, to enter into a blood contract, or to have sex with outsiders. In this way, those who are unkind, unrighteous and disloyal, according to the law of the underworld, should be sent to the hot hell to be punished for a hundred years. If after a hundred years, the soul is still there, they will enter the reincarnation of the animal realm."
Shen Shu's eyes flickered scarlet upon hearing this.
His mind seemed to be divided into two halves, one half was listening with great interest, and the other half was supposed to be suppressed and sleeping.But suddenly stood up and retorted angrily.
Seeing profit and forgetting righteousness, betraying fellow disciples?
His master once sacrificed his life to help his fellow disciples, even at the expense of his whole body's cultivation.And these days, he hasn't seen the other party? What treasure is tempting.
Colluding with others and helping the evildoers?
His master is clean and self-conscious, and he likes to live alone. He has never been with others. Those who are coveted by the outside world, his master will feel dirty even if he touches him.
... As for forming a contract with others or fornicating with outsiders, in order to improve the character of his master, it is even more nonsense!
What a bullshit trial, it's a bunch of nonsense!
Shen Shu fixed his eyes on Ye Yunlan, but saw Ye Yunlan was very quiet, with white clothes and black hair from the back, looking thin and almost empty.
Unkind, unrighteous and disloyal people.
Ye Yunlan thought quietly, this is really similar to the judgments made against him by the people in the previous life.
Because they are so similar, the sense of absurdity and ridicule that suddenly rose in his heart when he saw the scene on the mirror disappeared into nothingness.
His expression was indifferent, as if those accusations were just fallen leaves falling on his shoulders to him, and he didn't even bother to brush them.
——Even though the stone platform under his feet has become more and more transparent, and the hand of Hades on the high platform that is clinging to the gavel is about to take it down.
Ye Yunlan said: "It's ridiculous."
Yan Wang said: "Ridiculous?"
Ye Yunlan said: "What I see in front of my eyes and what I hear in my ears, everything is ridiculous."
"The underworld is built by people, and one of the judges is life."
"Can people's merits and demerits, sins and karma, really be judged by people themselves?"
Yan Wang said coldly: "Shouldn't it be?"
Ye Yunlan: "Right and wrong, good and evil change from time to time. There is no constant and unchanging good, and there is no constant and unchanging evil. Because the distinction between good and evil is just defined by people themselves. And people will change."
"What's more, what the human eye sees may not be real."
In the age of ghosts and chaos, the world needs to re-establish order and strict etiquette, while the underworld needs to shock people's hearts.Building a mirror of evil and judging people's good and evil is part of rebuilding order.
However, the Nether King? The evil mirror platform cultivated by stepping on the void, after all, he was unable to truly see the cause and effect and act for the heavens.
What the king of hell sees is also what the world sees, and what the underworld deters is also the hearts of the world.However, the era when it was necessary to rely on the underworld to balance order has passed.The Nether Great Emperor, who used his body to suppress robbery, will eventually turn into the dust of time.
But at this moment, facing Ye Yunlan's words, Hades did not get angry, his voice was still indifferent, as heartless and heartless as a real god.
He said: "I use my body to suppress calamity, and my spirit and soul are integrated into the underworld, so as to control hundreds of millions of ghosts and quell ghost chaos. The rules I made have withstood the test of the great catastrophe of heaven and earth, and are recognized by the way of heaven. Being in the underworld , then? You should abide by my rules, what's wrong?"
Ye Yunlan said: "So? I said it was ridiculous."
"Man eats fish, man kills. The former is innocent? The latter is extremely evil. This is the good and evil established by human beings. Your rules."
He closed his eyes.
"The heaven and the earth are not benevolent, and they treat everything as a humble dog."
Hades did not speak again.
Ye Yunlan raised his sword, pointed at the stone mirror in front of him, and said.
"Xie Jiuyou, your time has passed."
He directly called the other party by his first name, without any hint of humbleness or cowardice on his face, as if what was in front of him was not the high? , I can? Head-up people.
The piercing sword light hit the stone mirror like a rainbow.
And the gavel held in the hand of Hades did not fall after all?
The legendary stone mirror forged with the extremely hard fairy stone turned into paper scraps and scattered in this blow. At the same time, paper money and chains scattered all over the sky. , as well as the mountain-like robes shrouded by Hades.
Ye Yunlan was not surprised when she saw the Nie Jingtai that had turned into confetti and dissipated.
His conjecture was not wrong, the entire White Bone Hall was actually just a phantom reflected by the fluctuations of the departed soul of the Nether Emperor.
Black and white impermanence is false, and so is the evil mirror.
It is only because of the ability to turn emptiness into reality in the stepping emptiness realm, so? According to his previous feeling, everything around him is so seemingly real and illusory, and it is difficult to distinguish.
A faint sigh came from the heights.
"Yes. It's all over..."
That voice was no longer the deep and solemn one of Hades, but became clear and soft, like a young scholar.
Ye Yunlan raised his eyes and saw that after the heavy robes were removed, the real figure of King Hades was revealed.
The appearance of the other party is not as majestic and dignified as the world spreads, his figure is even very thin, but his appearance is just like his voice, he looks like a handsome scholar.
Its body shape is already translucent and is about to dissipate.
The faint light of the fire penetrated his cheeks. He was sitting behind the large wooden desk, and what he was holding in his hand was no longer a gavel, but a white paper crane.
"Yudie..."
Hades held the paper crane in his hand, murmured, as if in a daze.
Ye Yunlan slowly retracted the sword into its sheath, and heard hurried footsteps behind her.
Shen Shu hugged him tightly from behind.
"Master," he strained his arms, his voice sounded like he was gnashing his teeth, "do you know that you were about to fall into the sea of flames in hell just now, with no bones left—" Ye Yunlan frowned , Said: "Those are just illusions."
"Even if it's an illusion," Shen Shu said, "I won't allow you to make any mistakes—" His dark and domineering tone was somewhat familiar, and Ye Yunlan was startled, trying to break free from his embrace, but was still Hugging tightly, he reprimanded in a low voice: "Shen Shu."
Up to now, he has no time to correct the other party's delusions. He was able to successfully obtain the soul-attracting flower in the secret realm and help Shen Shu lift the restraint on his body. He has already forgotten the cause and effect of his life. As for everything after that... ...is no longer within the scope of his participation.
He raised his hand to pull Shen Shu's hands and feet wrapped around him, and after tossing for a long time, he pulled the entangled apprentice away. Shen Shu's eyes seemed to be a little red, but he ignored it, but looked up. The figure in front of the case has become more and more illusory.
Ye Yunlan walked up and saw the young scholar caressing the white paper crane in his hand, with tears on his face.
"Since I fit into the underworld, I have forgotten a lot of things." The scholar said, "Ghost chaos is a catastrophe for heaven and earth. There are too many ghosts lingering in the world. Even if the Void Stepping Realm can open up a space to accommodate them, After all, it is difficult to last long. In the end, I can only use my body to suppress and strengthen this space, and use the remaining spirit and long years to deal with it one by one. People call this space the underworld, and call me the King of Hades. Actually, I'm nothing but... just a ghost who has forgotten the people he loves and what he wants."
"In these years, the catastrophe of ghost chaos has passed, and I am about to disappear. In the underworld, there is only one last unsaved ghost left."
In the depths of the underworld, the ethereal singing of the dead is still coming.
The singing voice is soft and ethereal, but with a bit of sadness.
The scholar raised his head, held the white paper crane in his palm, and said, "You guys? Now that you have reached this point, can you help me hand this thing over to her?"
"Since you've already remembered, why don't you go see him in person?" Ye Yunlan said.
The scholar was silent for a while, and said.
"I can't save her."
Ye Yunlan looked down at Hades who was sitting on the high seat, looking at Fang's young and handsome face with tiredness and pleading, he really didn't look like Hades, but a traveler who had been wandering for a long time and didn't know how to get home.
he opened his mouth.
"can."
Seeing that he agreed, the scholar showed a little gratitude, and looked down at the thousand paper cranes in his hand again, stroking them with trembling fingertips.
In the next moment, the already transparent soul dissipated, and the surrounding dark fires also gradually extinguished. The gloomy palace hall of the underworld seemed to be covered with dust in an instant, and passed through a long, ancient time.
On the rotten wooden table, there is a white skull.
There is one more? Just put it on the skull fat
Ye Yunlan's footsteps froze for a moment, and her pale knuckles tightened her grip on Que Ying.
He said coldly: "...you think too much."
Shen Shu didn't ask after listening, but the corners of his lips curled up a little bit, showing a bit of slyness in his half-smile.
The singing voice from the darkness suddenly became louder.
The song is far away and ethereal, as if it came from the extremely distant old days, separated from life and death. The melody of the song is sad, but it attracts people to listen to it continuously, as if it can give people eternal peace.
A faint green flame first lit up in the darkness, and everything began to appear slowly.
What appeared in front of the two of them was a completely different world from before.
The eyes of the undead flying all over the sky flickered with green soul fire, and a road piled up with bones meandered forward from under their feet, and at the end was a huge and magnificent palace of bones.
The Hall of Bones looks very strange, full of the rough taste of the ancient times.
The big door of the hall is open on both sides, and sad and ethereal songs come from the hall.
At this moment, Ye Yunlan heard a "click".
He turned his head and saw that the "door" behind them that they walked through when they came in had been quietly closed, as if it had never existed before.
There is a wind blowing over? Bringing white confetti flying all over the sky.
The confetti drifted over their heads like a galaxy, and he saw that there were huge origami houses, paper people with hollow features, and messy paper furniture among them. , meandering to the Hall of Bones.
"Master, is this place still... an illusion?"
Shen Shu asked.
It seems that such a strange scene can only be explained by the word "illusion".
Ye Yunlan didn't answer right away.
He looked at the Hall of Bones from a distance, and vaguely glimpsed some indescribable power from there, which was somewhat similar to the power he possessed in his previous life to step into the Void Realm, but it was more vast, scattered, and floating.
He took out a pure heart talisman and crushed it, the effect brought by the talisman did not dispel the strange scene in front of him at all.
Closing his eyes, he felt that the surroundings were illusory and unreal, as if he was still in an illusion, but compared with the previous illusion, it was slightly different.
Ye Yunlan recalled his previous life. When he entered the Nether Secret Realm, his cultivation base was still low, and he had many things, so his vision ability was not enough to spy at that time, but now.But there are some vague guesses.Ye Yunlan said: "Maybe."
Shen Shu: "Maybe?"
Ye Yunlan: "The entire first layer of the Nether Secret Realm is originally composed of different illusions, big, big, and small. The phantom circles are connected with each other, and almost occupy [-]% of the entire first layer of the secret realm. What do you say It’s not surprising that this place is also a place of illusion.”
Shen Shu listened with great interest, and suddenly said: "How does Master know so much? I remember that the Nether Secret Realm has not been opened for a long time. We are still the first batch of people who entered here. It's just running around like headless chickens."
Ye Yunlan glanced at him sideways, and said coldly: "I'm not like you. As soon as I entered the secret realm, I was confused by the phantom formation, and I didn't know where I was or who I met. I knew I was a headless chicken." , but still insist on bumping non-stop.”
Shen Shu heard the words, suddenly smiled and said: "Is Master still angry just now?"
Ye Yunlan pursed her lips, ignored his question, and just changed the topic back.
"If what I said is correct, the first layer of the secret realm is made of illusions, then why did the Emperor Netherworld design it this way? If it is to prevent outsiders from intruding, the illusion array is not the best way. The Emperor Netherworld was cultivated back then If he wants to, there are more simple and effective ways to prevent outsiders from intruding into this secret place, and he doesn't need to waste his mind on setting up the illusion."
Ye Yunlan knew exactly what kind of state Taxu was.
It is only one step away from the final boundary between mortals and gods, and it already possesses incredible power. With a single thought, it can overwhelm the universe.Even if he dies, the traces left behind on his bones can still have part of the power he had during his lifetime, and cannot be cut off for thousands of years.
Shen Shu also? Without interrupting, he asked, "Why?"
Ye Yunlan was silent for a moment, and said: "Perhaps these illusions are not designed to prevent outsiders from entering, but just to guide... the conversion of dead souls."
Shen Shu's pupils were as black as ink, and he said to himself: "Death... the refuge of the soul?"
Ye Yunlan said: "The Nether Emperor was born 5000 years ago, and at that time, it was the time when the Great Tribulation occurred, the stars were chaotic, samsara collapsed, and all evils were rampant."
"That was the second great catastrophe recorded in this world. Later history books called it—ghost chaos."
Shen Shu's pitch-black eyes rolled for a while, and he said, "The disciples also understand what the master said. According to historical records, the heaven and the earth changed at that time. The sacrificial offerings caused corpses to spread across the fields, and the lives of people were devastated, while the number of ghosts increased day by day, almost overwhelming the world. In the end, it was the Emperor Youming who rebuilt the underworld, restored reincarnation, and suppressed robbery with his own body, finally ending the ghost chaos. "
He paused, and continued: "It's just that the theory of the underworld is very illusory. It is only recorded in books, but it has never appeared in the world. For 5000 years, no one has been able to really find out where the underworld is. The caves are spread all over the five continents and all over the world, and there are countless secret places left behind, but there is not a single one that can be called a hell."
At this point, a smile appeared on his lips, and he said: "Master, when you mention this, do you think that this secret place is the underworld established by the legendary Emperor Nether?"
Ye Yunlan was a little surprised at Shen Shu's understanding of these ancient things.
He frowned, his face paler under the reflection of the will-o'-the-wisp, and after a moment of silence, he said, "There are some things that have not yet reached the level of cultivation, so don't explore too much. Follow me closely."
After finishing speaking, he walked towards the Hall of Bones.
Shen Shu followed him, and stared sideways at the man's indifferent side face, always feeling that this man's thin body, which seemed to collapse in the wind, was buried with a lot of knowledge and secrets that he didn't know, which made him more and more More and more want to take this person apart and explore.
Ye Yunlan noticed that his scorching eyes had been lingering on her, and her steps became faster and faster. After a long while, she finally couldn't help turning her head and said, "What's wrong?"
Shen Shu smiled and said: "Although the master has warned you so, but the matter of the underworld, my disciples are still curious."
Ye Yunlan: "Too much curiosity is not good for your practice."
"But Master," Shen Shu still had a smile on his lips, "Even though the matter of reincarnation in the underworld has always been only in legends, mortals still sacrifice to ghosts and gods all year round, tirelessly, which shows that people are right about life and death, I was born with a sense of reverence. And disciples are curious about the underworld, just like people want to know where they were born and where they will go. Isn't it normal?"
Ye Yunlan said: "It's not necessary."
As he spoke, he seemed to realize that his tone seemed too indifferent. He pursed his lips and said again: "Everything is born in the heaven and earth and returns to the heaven and the earth, but the heaven and the earth are not benevolent, and they treat all things as dogs. The law of heaven is eternal." In normal times, people don’t need to set up another hell to regulate and judge.”
As for when it's not normal...
Ye Yunlan didn't say any more.
Holding his sword, he walked forward among the ghosts in the sky, and he was already standing in front of the palace of bones.
The ethereal singing of the dead is very close.
He stepped up the steps step by step, and walked through the big door of white bones that opened opposite, and there was a spooky darkness inside.
Stepping on the hard and smooth ground, the footsteps echoed especially? Clearly.
The gate of the white bone gate was slowly closed, and the cast iron on both sides ignited faint bloody flames one after another. In front of you was an extremely tall and spacious palace.
They are at the lowest end of the hall, the steps are winding up step by step, at the top is a huge wooden case, behind the wooden case is a black high chair, behind the high chair It is a wide wall with a spooky picture scroll painted on the wall.
Among them, there are mountains of knives and sea of fire, knives and scissors, oil pans, copper pillar steamers... countless human figures with deformed limbs wailing on the scroll, which depicts a picture of "Eighteen Hells of Suffering".
There was no one sitting on the high chair, but under the gloomy flames, Ye Yunlan felt that there seemed to be countless pairs of eyes watching him.It's just that the surrounding fire is too bright? It's dark, blurry vision is difficult? Looking for the outlines hidden in the darkness, he felt that his eyes were a little dry, and his hands were trembling and moaning faintly.
The singing of the dead who has never stopped in the ear suddenly turned into the crying of thousands of ghosts in the picture scroll, and the cruel scene of the eighteen layers of hell, the sea of knives and the sea of knives and the sea of knives and frying in oil made Ye Yunlan In a trance, I recalled the scene of the great catastrophe in the previous life, and the world like hell.
At that time, his life was about to come to an end. Even though his achievements were in vain, he was not as fearless and selfless as Emperor Youming chose to use his body to suppress calamity.
The human race called him Guisha and regarded him as unknown.
And the people and things he cares about have been away from him for a long time.
He has no ambition to save the common people.
He spent the rest of his life trying to collect that man's remnant soul, but in the end he failed and was no match for God's will?
However, even?
In the end, he still walked the same path as the Nether Emperor.
While Ye Yunlan was in a trance, Shen Shu's voice came from beside him: "Master, be careful—!"
He was hugged by a pair of strong arms, and fell to one side. At the same time, the biting cold light passed by with the sound of wind.
Ye Yunlan's pupils contracted, and he saw clearly that it was a blood-red chain that attacked them.
That piece of chain protruded from a black sleeve, and it was still bleeding down. The owner of the sleeve was tall and thin, wearing a tall hat, and had a ghostly look. I'm afraid it was the legendary "" Black impermanence" is no different.
Just looking closely, Hei Wuchang's facial features are pale and stiff, he doesn't look like a person or a ghost, his body is long and thin, but he is too thin, he is clearly a paper man.
Shen Shu protected him and rolled twice on the ground, avoiding the attack.Ye Yunlan was held in his arms, and saw countless paper copper coins falling like snowflakes from the dark dome of the main hall, falling all over her head.
Ghost shadows flitted around the body? The bloody chains in Hei Wuchang's hands stretched intertwined, like a spider web sealing them? All retreats, when the net was formed, the paper figurine stood with its head down on the left side of the black wooden case .
There is also a white shadow on the right side of the wooden case, it is Bai Wuchang with a pale face, standing there like a ghost.
And on the seat behind the wooden case, there was a hazy figure at some point.
That body is as tall as a mountain, and its appearance is indistinct. The heavy coercion exuding from the whole body is the heaviness that can only be possessed by a Void-Treading Realm master.
Good one? Vice Hades is like a pie.
Ye Yunlan's eyes were fixed on the top, and there was a name in his heart that was ready to come out.
——Youming Da? Emperor, Xie Jiuyou.
He was suspicious.
Such an imposing manner does not seem like an illusion. What is in front of him is the remnant soul left by Xie Jiuyou after the catastrophe, or...
Yama, who was sitting upright in the high hall, didn't speak, but the ghostly howls coming from the picture scroll behind him became louder and whispered in his ear with great momentum.
"Did you hear the sound?" Ye Yunlan asked Shen Shu.
From his angle, he couldn't see Shen Shu's face behind him, and he couldn't see the smile and gloomy eyes on Shen Shu's face that had disappeared.
Only Shen Shu's voice could be heard in his ears.
"Of course I can. 'They?', questioning me."
He paused and said casually.
"—They? They are asking me, have you ever indulged in killing evil, harming innocent people, have you ever forced a good man into prostitution, indulged in prostitution, have you ever been disloyal and filial, and disobeyed your elders. Master, how should I answer?"
Ye Yunlan's body was slightly stiffened by the young man's hoarse voice and the hot breath. In order to protect him, Shen Shu still held his shoulder with one hand and squeezed it tightly.
He frowned and raised his hand to remove Shen Shu's paw, saying, "You don't have to admit to something you haven't done before."
"What if I did it?" Shen Shu smiled half-smile, "Are they? Are they going to sentence me to hell forever, not to be reborn?"
It seemed that the words "not to be reincarnated" hurt Ye Yunlan's nerves, he suddenly clenched the Queying Sword, and said coldly.
"Stop talking nonsense!... If you really want to be convicted, it should be me first."
He mastered the Shura sword, walked the way of death and extinction, his hands were once stained with blood, and he killed countless evils. Even if he did good deeds and accumulated virtues later, it was not for the good deeds he did and the accumulated virtues.
If it is a crime, he should have gone to hell long ago, and he will not be reborn.
Shen Shu was stunned for a while, but then smiled slightly, "Master Qingfengmingyue, who sacrificed his life in the sea of fire to save countless people, how could the King of Hades have the heart to judge you?"
"Even if it's true that Hades has no eyes and condemns you, and this disciple owes you his life, he should go to the Netherworld with Master and be punished for Master."
He lowered his eyebrows and whispered in Ye Yunlan's ear.
"I hope Master... don't leave me alone? It will be good if I am in the mortal world."
Ye Yunlan was stunned for a moment, with an angry expression on his face.
"——Shen Shu, this is the Nether Secret Realm, isn't it a place where you can play whatever you want?"
Shen Shu said, "Since Master knows it's a joke, why should he be so concerned?"
He was obviously in a dangerous situation, but he slowly picked up the paper money stuck to Ye Yunlan's clothes, "Those ghosts are constantly chattering, it's really annoying. The apprentice just saw that the master was in a depressed mood, and wanted to joke a few words to relieve the master's worries." That's all."
Is it a joke, too? Only he knows it in his heart.
Ye Yunlan didn't know the truth of what he said, but she was really angry at Shen Shu's words "Go to the Netherworld together". He had very few concerns in this life, and Shen Shu was the only concern left in the fruit.
Want to get up and reprimand, but the dense chains occupying this space still seal them "all moving space".
Fortunately, the King of Hades on the seat seemed to be unable to look at it at last. He only heard the gavel slap.
"Do you know the crime?"
Hades' voice echoed in the palace.
Ye Yunlan didn't answer, but just observed with a restrained face, wanting to observe what the hell of Hades in front of him really is, but heard Shen Shu beside him say: "I don't know."
Ye Yunlan frowned even more, and wanted to speak carefully. After all, the Netherworld is so big? The cultivation base of the emperor had already stepped into the void, and the methods of the monks in the void state are beyond the reach of ordinary practitioners? Imagine, if you accidentally touch something— —Even if he can save Shen Shu's life, he may not be able to have much time left to find soul-attracting flowers for the other party.
"I don't know?" Yan Wang said coldly.
Shen Shu said: "I really don't know. But?, next? It is rumored that the king of Hades in the underworld has hands and eyes that are open to the sky, and can understand the events of life and judge whether the living person is responsible or not. But please enlighten me."
"Shen Shu!" Ye Yunlan couldn't help warning in a low voice, but Shen Shu held his shoulder and squeezed it gently.
The young man lowered his voice and said: "Master, don't worry, I have a sense of proportion. But? I just want to try it out? To test the authenticity of the King of Hades, so as not to be deceived by illusory illusions again. Thinking about it, the belly of the King of Hades recorded in the history books will not be deceived The disciples are offended by these many temptations."
Ye Yunlan frowned deeply.
How can he rest assured?
Since entering the Nether Secret Realm, Shen Shu has behaved more and more against him. Ye Yunlan pursed her pale thin lips, after all, considering the current situation, she didn't say any more.
Wait until he goes out... If he still has the life to go out, he must discipline Shen Shu properly.
It's so worrying!
Hades' face was shrouded in blur, and his tall, big, mountain-like body was like a black curtain covering the underworld. He looked at the two people sitting down, and said.
"Okay, then? As you wish. Come here, open the evil mirror."
On both sides of the wooden case, two impermanences made of paper figurines bowed to them.
Just listening to the chain in Hei Wuchang's hands expand and contract, Ye Yunlan heard the sound of gears rattling on the surrounding walls, and then the bluestone floor in front of them was lifted to both sides, revealing a hole, and you can see the following. The flames billowed.
A wave of heat gushed out from the hole, the heat was different from ordinary heat, it was very vicious, almost scorching to the bone.
Ye Yunlan's complexion became even paler. A mortal body could hardly withstand the fire of hell. There was already a divine fire raging in his body, and adding fuel to the fire now made it even more difficult.Even so, his expression remained motionless.
Instead, Shen Shu snorted coldly, raised his sleeves and waved, the scorching heat dissipated, and he could only swirl around the two of them, making it difficult to get close.
A huge stone mirror was connected to the seat below. The stone platform was slowly pulled up from the flames by chains, and the voice of Hades came again.
The voice was cold, majestic and merciless.
"Under the stone cave? There are [-] levels of hell. Going forward to trace the cause and effect of the evil mirror, ghosts have their own place to return to. Please."
A part of the chain of black impermanence has been unraveled, revealing a road leading to the evil mirror platform ahead.
Opening a mirror to judge crimes, does the King of Hades really regard them as ghosts?
Before Ye Yunlan could think about it carefully, he noticed that Shen Shu next to him was about to move, as if he really wanted to go to the stage of evil mirror to have a look.
Shen Shu was really eager to try.
He was very curious, whether this so-called evil mirror could really reflect the sins on his body, and he wanted to know where he would be sentenced by the king of Hades as a monster.
Perhaps it is the bottom of the eighteen layers of hell, the legendary Infernal? Hell?The smile on Shen Shu's face widened?
If this is the case, he should make a good comparison. Compared with the Demon Abyss, will the Infernal Hell be more cruel and difficult, and will there be monsters like him born in it?Or ghosts?
Monsters are crazy by nature. Although he barely has a human form, he is no exception.
Shen Shu wanted to make a noise, and couldn't wait to step forward to have a try, but was caught off guard by Ye Yunlan's hand.
That hand was slender and strong, clasping five fingers tightly with his.
Shen Shu looked down.
Ye Yunlan's side face showed a colder expression than usual in the dim light of the fire, as if ice flowers on the top of the clouds pierced his pupils, the beauty was sharper than the blade, but the opponent's palm was softer than running water, teach him I was stunned for a while.
"Don't go? Go," Ye Yunlan said, "That's not something you can handle."
This time, Ye Yunlan's words did not give Shen Shu room to change.
Then, Shen Shu saw his master standing up, his plain white sleeves drooping down, brushing his cheeks, like soft snowflakes falling on his face.
"Wait here. I will return soon as a teacher."
Say it to the other side and go to the evil mirror platform.
Shen Shu finally came back to his senses, and stood up immediately, but he heard a crisp clattering sound, and the chains on Heiwuchang's hands formed a net to block him in front of him.
"The evil mirror only takes pictures of one person at a time."
Yama said.
Shen Shu's eyes turned red for a moment.He wanted to draw his sword, but the residual light of the sword groaned softly under his exposed killing intent.
Ye Yunlan has poor eyesight but good hearing. He has stepped up the stone steps of the Niejing Terrace, but now he turned around, looked at Shen Shu, and said indifferently.
"If you follow up again, from now on, you don't need to call me Master anymore."
Shen Shu's footsteps suddenly stopped in place.
Ye Yunlan didn't look at Shen Shu's expression.In this life, no one can stop what he decided to do.
He stepped onto the stage of evil mirror.
Underneath is the sea of flames burning in hell, and flying sparks are flying in front of his eyes. Without Shen Shu's protection, the scorching pain is eroding his body.But?, still bearable.
The underworld is originally a legend.When mortals offer sacrifices to ghosts and gods, they imagine the world after death, and pass it down in writing and picture books, thus becoming a hell in people's imagination.But in fact, before Emperor Youming, there was no hell.A myth after all? Just a myth.
Later, the establishment of the underworld cannot be fully described in a few words. In the end, it is time, fate, and luck, which are dominated by the Nether Emperor.
And Nie Jingtai, as one of the three peerless magic weapons used by the Nether Emperor to suppress the underworld, has been coveted by treasure hunters of later generations.
This stone platform is neither real nor imaginary, and the huge stone mirror on it can reflect the whole person inside, reflecting all the sins of life.
Innocent ghosts can naturally stand on the stone platform safe and sound, but once they are judged guilty by Hades, the stone platform will turn reality into nothingness, and the ghosts above will fall into the sea of hell and burn away their sins before they can be reincarnated.
In Ye Yunlan's past life memory, the Nie Jingtai was not born in the Nether Secret Realm, but another earth-shattering treasure that was born in the Nether Secret Realm.
And also? Because of that treasure, he was framed, slandered and killed his fellow disciples, and he was expelled from the sect by He Lanze who abolished his meridian cultivation base.
Information related to the Underworld and the Nie Jingtai in the previous life flashed through Ye Yunlan's mind one by one, and he finally stood still on the stone platform, and his eyes turned to the stone mirror.
The smooth stone mirror clearly reflected his whole body, reflecting his cold eyebrows and eyes. He saw a few words written across the top of the stone mirror: "There are no good people in front of the evil mirror".
According to the legend, if it is a good soul, its spirituality is clear, and its own soul light is flawless and undefiled, the evil mirror will not reflect its image, and if it is an evil soul, the more vicious it will be, the more it will be reflected It is clear that the saying "there is no good man in front of the evil mirror"? This is how it came about.
It seems that I have been judged by this mirror to be a big crime? Extremely evil.
Ye Yunlan looked slightly cold.
What is good or bad?What is sin?
In the underworld, on the platform of evil mirrors, whatever is reflected is a crime.
The images in the mirror flowed quickly, reflecting the scene where he was hanging in the Law Enforcement Hall, spurned by many disciples, and then dragged down the three thousand stone steps outside the sect's gate. The scene of entering the pagoda, and the scene where he was dressed in wedding clothes, formed a blood pact with Chen Weiyuan, and was embraced by the Demon Venerable in a blink of an eye—those lights and shadows flowed before Ye Yunlan’s eyes, like a person dying. It's grotesque and absurd, counting the sins stained on him.
When he was a disciple, he had misbehavior, and being exiled from the sect was a crime.
It is a sin to rebel against one's own race when one is a human being, and to join forces with strange demons.
It is a crime to be unfaithful to your Taoist couple if you are half-hearted when you are a wife.
……
With many crimes added to his body, the stone platform under the evil mirror gradually became transparent, and he was about to be sent to the flames of hell as soon as the Gavel was struck.
And in the mirror, several bloody distorted big characters appeared - "Are you convicted?"
Ye Yunlan suddenly laughed.
Shen Shu stood behind him.I don't know whether it was intentional or not, Ye Yunlan's figure happened to cover his prying eyes of Shi Jing.
He could only listen to his master's slightly abrupt laughter, and he didn't stop for a long time in the gloomy underworld, as if he had seen the most ridiculous thing in the world.
Ye Yunlan seldom smiles, like now, this is the first time Shen Shu has seen it.
The other party chuckled like a clear spring hitting a stone, which was very pleasant, but Shen Shu could hear the anger in his heart. The residual light sword in his hand was about to be unsheathed, and he wanted to cut off the chain in front of him, as well as the other side on the stage. Damn stone mirror.
I even want to go forward and hug Ye Yunlan's thin back, so that he will stop laughing.
Only when he looked at the translucent stone platform, his reason could barely restrain his impulse.
I could only hear the voice of the King of Hades on the seat: "Trace the cause and effect on the stage of the evil mirror, and now the cause and effect have been revealed, and good and evil are separated. Are you still not convinced?"
Ye Yunlan stopped laughing, and his expression revealed the opposite of the laughter, deadly cold, and said: "If you want to commit a crime, there is no reason to worry about it."
The King of Hades said: "It is unrighteous for you to forget righteousness when you see profit and betray your fellow disciples. It is inhumane for you to collude with evil spirits and help the tyrant to abuse others. It is infidelity for you to form a Taoist partner, to enter into a blood contract, or to have sex with outsiders. In this way, those who are unkind, unrighteous and disloyal, according to the law of the underworld, should be sent to the hot hell to be punished for a hundred years. If after a hundred years, the soul is still there, they will enter the reincarnation of the animal realm."
Shen Shu's eyes flickered scarlet upon hearing this.
His mind seemed to be divided into two halves, one half was listening with great interest, and the other half was supposed to be suppressed and sleeping.But suddenly stood up and retorted angrily.
Seeing profit and forgetting righteousness, betraying fellow disciples?
His master once sacrificed his life to help his fellow disciples, even at the expense of his whole body's cultivation.And these days, he hasn't seen the other party? What treasure is tempting.
Colluding with others and helping the evildoers?
His master is clean and self-conscious, and he likes to live alone. He has never been with others. Those who are coveted by the outside world, his master will feel dirty even if he touches him.
... As for forming a contract with others or fornicating with outsiders, in order to improve the character of his master, it is even more nonsense!
What a bullshit trial, it's a bunch of nonsense!
Shen Shu fixed his eyes on Ye Yunlan, but saw Ye Yunlan was very quiet, with white clothes and black hair from the back, looking thin and almost empty.
Unkind, unrighteous and disloyal people.
Ye Yunlan thought quietly, this is really similar to the judgments made against him by the people in the previous life.
Because they are so similar, the sense of absurdity and ridicule that suddenly rose in his heart when he saw the scene on the mirror disappeared into nothingness.
His expression was indifferent, as if those accusations were just fallen leaves falling on his shoulders to him, and he didn't even bother to brush them.
——Even though the stone platform under his feet has become more and more transparent, and the hand of Hades on the high platform that is clinging to the gavel is about to take it down.
Ye Yunlan said: "It's ridiculous."
Yan Wang said: "Ridiculous?"
Ye Yunlan said: "What I see in front of my eyes and what I hear in my ears, everything is ridiculous."
"The underworld is built by people, and one of the judges is life."
"Can people's merits and demerits, sins and karma, really be judged by people themselves?"
Yan Wang said coldly: "Shouldn't it be?"
Ye Yunlan: "Right and wrong, good and evil change from time to time. There is no constant and unchanging good, and there is no constant and unchanging evil. Because the distinction between good and evil is just defined by people themselves. And people will change."
"What's more, what the human eye sees may not be real."
In the age of ghosts and chaos, the world needs to re-establish order and strict etiquette, while the underworld needs to shock people's hearts.Building a mirror of evil and judging people's good and evil is part of rebuilding order.
However, the Nether King? The evil mirror platform cultivated by stepping on the void, after all, he was unable to truly see the cause and effect and act for the heavens.
What the king of hell sees is also what the world sees, and what the underworld deters is also the hearts of the world.However, the era when it was necessary to rely on the underworld to balance order has passed.The Nether Great Emperor, who used his body to suppress robbery, will eventually turn into the dust of time.
But at this moment, facing Ye Yunlan's words, Hades did not get angry, his voice was still indifferent, as heartless and heartless as a real god.
He said: "I use my body to suppress calamity, and my spirit and soul are integrated into the underworld, so as to control hundreds of millions of ghosts and quell ghost chaos. The rules I made have withstood the test of the great catastrophe of heaven and earth, and are recognized by the way of heaven. Being in the underworld , then? You should abide by my rules, what's wrong?"
Ye Yunlan said: "So? I said it was ridiculous."
"Man eats fish, man kills. The former is innocent? The latter is extremely evil. This is the good and evil established by human beings. Your rules."
He closed his eyes.
"The heaven and the earth are not benevolent, and they treat everything as a humble dog."
Hades did not speak again.
Ye Yunlan raised his sword, pointed at the stone mirror in front of him, and said.
"Xie Jiuyou, your time has passed."
He directly called the other party by his first name, without any hint of humbleness or cowardice on his face, as if what was in front of him was not the high? , I can? Head-up people.
The piercing sword light hit the stone mirror like a rainbow.
And the gavel held in the hand of Hades did not fall after all?
The legendary stone mirror forged with the extremely hard fairy stone turned into paper scraps and scattered in this blow. At the same time, paper money and chains scattered all over the sky. , as well as the mountain-like robes shrouded by Hades.
Ye Yunlan was not surprised when she saw the Nie Jingtai that had turned into confetti and dissipated.
His conjecture was not wrong, the entire White Bone Hall was actually just a phantom reflected by the fluctuations of the departed soul of the Nether Emperor.
Black and white impermanence is false, and so is the evil mirror.
It is only because of the ability to turn emptiness into reality in the stepping emptiness realm, so? According to his previous feeling, everything around him is so seemingly real and illusory, and it is difficult to distinguish.
A faint sigh came from the heights.
"Yes. It's all over..."
That voice was no longer the deep and solemn one of Hades, but became clear and soft, like a young scholar.
Ye Yunlan raised his eyes and saw that after the heavy robes were removed, the real figure of King Hades was revealed.
The appearance of the other party is not as majestic and dignified as the world spreads, his figure is even very thin, but his appearance is just like his voice, he looks like a handsome scholar.
Its body shape is already translucent and is about to dissipate.
The faint light of the fire penetrated his cheeks. He was sitting behind the large wooden desk, and what he was holding in his hand was no longer a gavel, but a white paper crane.
"Yudie..."
Hades held the paper crane in his hand, murmured, as if in a daze.
Ye Yunlan slowly retracted the sword into its sheath, and heard hurried footsteps behind her.
Shen Shu hugged him tightly from behind.
"Master," he strained his arms, his voice sounded like he was gnashing his teeth, "do you know that you were about to fall into the sea of flames in hell just now, with no bones left—" Ye Yunlan frowned , Said: "Those are just illusions."
"Even if it's an illusion," Shen Shu said, "I won't allow you to make any mistakes—" His dark and domineering tone was somewhat familiar, and Ye Yunlan was startled, trying to break free from his embrace, but was still Hugging tightly, he reprimanded in a low voice: "Shen Shu."
Up to now, he has no time to correct the other party's delusions. He was able to successfully obtain the soul-attracting flower in the secret realm and help Shen Shu lift the restraint on his body. He has already forgotten the cause and effect of his life. As for everything after that... ...is no longer within the scope of his participation.
He raised his hand to pull Shen Shu's hands and feet wrapped around him, and after tossing for a long time, he pulled the entangled apprentice away. Shen Shu's eyes seemed to be a little red, but he ignored it, but looked up. The figure in front of the case has become more and more illusory.
Ye Yunlan walked up and saw the young scholar caressing the white paper crane in his hand, with tears on his face.
"Since I fit into the underworld, I have forgotten a lot of things." The scholar said, "Ghost chaos is a catastrophe for heaven and earth. There are too many ghosts lingering in the world. Even if the Void Stepping Realm can open up a space to accommodate them, After all, it is difficult to last long. In the end, I can only use my body to suppress and strengthen this space, and use the remaining spirit and long years to deal with it one by one. People call this space the underworld, and call me the King of Hades. Actually, I'm nothing but... just a ghost who has forgotten the people he loves and what he wants."
"In these years, the catastrophe of ghost chaos has passed, and I am about to disappear. In the underworld, there is only one last unsaved ghost left."
In the depths of the underworld, the ethereal singing of the dead is still coming.
The singing voice is soft and ethereal, but with a bit of sadness.
The scholar raised his head, held the white paper crane in his palm, and said, "You guys? Now that you have reached this point, can you help me hand this thing over to her?"
"Since you've already remembered, why don't you go see him in person?" Ye Yunlan said.
The scholar was silent for a while, and said.
"I can't save her."
Ye Yunlan looked down at Hades who was sitting on the high seat, looking at Fang's young and handsome face with tiredness and pleading, he really didn't look like Hades, but a traveler who had been wandering for a long time and didn't know how to get home.
he opened his mouth.
"can."
Seeing that he agreed, the scholar showed a little gratitude, and looked down at the thousand paper cranes in his hand again, stroking them with trembling fingertips.
In the next moment, the already transparent soul dissipated, and the surrounding dark fires also gradually extinguished. The gloomy palace hall of the underworld seemed to be covered with dust in an instant, and passed through a long, ancient time.
On the rotten wooden table, there is a white skull.
There is one more? Just put it on the skull fat
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