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Ranked in the immortal class? !

Zong Jiu narrowed his eyes and continued to ask.

Gui Cha pondered for a moment, but he knew everything and told Zong Jiu clearly about the sequence of events.

Some things are so confusing to ordinary people that no clue can be found.

But for ghosts in the underworld, there are few things in the world that even they don't know. After all, people can lie, but dead people can't. If you take a look in the mirror in front of the Hall of the King of Hell, you will not be able to hide any secrets.

What's more, this matter also caused widespread discussion in the underworld, and it was also a major event that was talked about by all the ghosts three years ago.

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The old woman's surname was Wang. She had been childless for many years. Her husband died early, and she lived alone in a mud house behind an old locust tree in Tongbai Village.

At that time, few people in Tongbai Village believed in Buddhism. There was only a dilapidated temple at the back of the village, which was dilapidated and leaky.

However, the story that a Bodhisattva once attained Buddhahood here has been passed down orally from generation to generation in the village.

After the Bodhisattva ascended, he enlightened a piece of land in the village. The color of this land was incompatible with other loess, and it was dark red. No matter what plant is transplanted on it, it will not survive. Legend has it that if a plant grows on this land one day, it must be an immortal grass that can make you immortal and ascend to the sky after you eat it.

But in the end, everyone only regards it as a story after dinner. If you want to believe it, absolutely no one will believe it. After all, the whole village has been guarding that piece of Bodhisattva soil for hundreds of years, but no green color has appeared on it.

Farmers already face the loess and turn their backs to the sky. If they have the ability to believe in Buddhism and chant sutras, they might as well plow two more fields.

The old woman is the only Buddhist in Tongbai Village.

No one in the village wanted to take care of the Bodhisattva soil that did not lay eggs, so my mother-in-law took care of it silently. Every day when the sun rises and the sun sets, the ruined temple is swept clean and the Bodhisattva soil is taken care of neatly.

Everyone else was laughing at my mother-in-law behind her back, but she didn't care. She just smiled and said that she believed in Buddhism, so she didn't feel tired.

In this way, ten years passed like one day.

Strange to say. It is indeed difficult for the elderly in the village to live to sixty. However, the old woman, who is in her sixties, is still in good spirits and does not look old. She can even walk around with a hoe by herself, which is amazing.

It also happened to be that year that famine broke out.

First, the weather was not kind and there was a severe drought all year long. Another plague of locusts has occurred, with no crops harvested and the people struggling to survive.

Since they had no food to eat, they killed the pigs that the family had prepared for the New Year. When the pigs finished eating, they ate the chaff. The chaff is gone, so we can only dig some wild vegetables. In the end, the people in the village were so hungry that they peeled off the bark of the trees and ate them, and large parts of the trees in the forest died.

When they were very hungry at night, everyone would put strips of cloth on their stomachs to make their hungry stomachs tighten even more.

One night, the Bodhisattva in heaven gave the old woman a dream.

The Bodhisattva has his feet on the auspicious clouds, his body is covered with colorful rays of light, and he comes accompanied by the fairy boy. His dreams are full of vastness and fairy music.

"You are destined to be with me. I see all your achievements over the years. Just go to that field."

"Remember, the destined object is extremely yang in nature and cannot be directly endured by the human body. After taking it, you need to eat a certain amount of yin Bodhisattva soil every day, not too much, just a pinch is enough. Wait for one year , if your merits are complete, you can be directly ranked in the Immortal Class."

After saying this, the Bodhisattva left gracefully.

The day after tomorrow is still dark when I wake up from the dream. The old woman put on some clothes and went out with a lamp.

Sure enough, in the barren Bodhisattva soil, a fairy grass was standing quietly, its whole body shrouded in a faint brilliance, even more so than the cold moonlight.

The old woman knew that she had met a true god, so she kowtowed to the ground with gratitude, saying thank you to the Bodhisattva for blessing her.

The mother-in-law took the fairy grass and found that her ears and eyes suddenly became clear and her body became as light as a swallow. In the past, I felt tired when carrying water, but now I can walk quickly while carrying a bucket in one hand. Even the wrinkles on my face have smoothed out a lot, and I have a completely new look.

The most important thing is that after eating the jelly grass, the old woman found that she only needed to take a small amount of Bodhisattva soil every day according to what the Bodhisattva said, and she could stay full for the whole day without eating anything else.

For people living in an era of famine, this was a great surprise.

Speaking of this, Guizha couldn't help but sigh, "This mother-in-law is also a person of great fortune. You know, since Liu Bowen cut off the dragon vein in the Ming Dynasty, the immortal world has almost lost contact with the human world. It is very difficult to become an immortal in the mortal world. Even if it is difficult, no one would dare to think about it unless he has great fate and great merit."

Returning to the story, he went on to say that his mother-in-law was originally a kind-hearted person, but now that she had received the favor of the Bodhisattva, not only did she not show off her power with pride, but she became more low-key and down-to-earth in doing good deeds.

Since she only had to eat Bodhisattva soil every day, the old woman gave all her food and a small amount of harvest to the villagers.

For example, there are children in the village who do not have enough to eat and are malnourished, or the village chief's daughter-in-law, who has just been married and is pregnant, is suffering from nutritional deficiencies.

Unexpectedly, over time, this incident attracted the attention of other people in the village.

Each person and household can only harvest so much food every month, and even one person cannot have enough to eat. How can a mere old woman give out so much food to others?

So the villagers followed the old woman secretly and found that she ate a handful of Bodhisattva soil every day. As long as you eat that Bodhisattva soil, you won't need to eat again for a whole day.

‘Eat that soil and you will be full. ’

The news swept the entire village instantly, and villagers rushed to eat the Bodhisattva soil.

Almost nothing was left of the originally thick piece of land.

But Bodhisattva soil is a very yin substance. As soon as the human body eats it, vomiting and diarrhea are mild. There are not a few people who have souls leaving their bodies at night after eating it.

After eating for a few days, the villagers found that the Bodhisattva soil did not have the effect of filling their stomachs as they imagined. On the contrary, it even made them dying and became furious.

In their eyes, the old woman is a sinner who hides her secrets. They don't want to tell her about such good things, so they want to question her.

The old woman was even more miserable than she could express. There was only one fairy grass, and the Bodhisattva told her not to reveal the secret of heaven, and she didn't know where to start.

The hungry villagers refused to listen to the explanation and locked the old woman in the house when they saw her stubborn resistance.

They boarded up the old mud house, leaving only a little gap.

After doing all this, the villagers said viciously: 'Since you don't want to say anything, let us see if you are alive in seven days! ’

Gui Cha let out a long sigh, "This is really hard on the old woman."

"The Bodhisattva said at the beginning that although there is no need to eat extra food every day, the Bodhisattva soil still has to be eaten, otherwise the yang of the fairy grass cannot be suppressed. What's more, even if you take the fairy grass, you are still a mortal in nature. How can any mortal be able to do this within seven days? Not even a drop of water?"

So seven days later, the villagers took apart the wooden boards to take a look.

Half of the wall was covered with scratches made by the old woman who was very hungry, and the room was in a mess. A man was lying in the middle, looking in pain, and had fallen into a coma.

The villagers went up to investigate and found that the old woman had just fainted and felt hot all over, but she was really not dead.

Already at this time, word had spread about the Bodhisattva's apparition in Tongbaicun Village. People knew about it, and many of them came here to see what happened.

Among them, there is a wandering woman with a treacherous mind.

This evil-traveling woman was very vicious. When she saw that she couldn't catch the fairy grass, she came up with a vicious plan.

She instigated the people in the village, telling them that eating the fairy grass would fill their stomachs and make them immortal; at the same time, she told them that it was a pity that there was only one grass of the fairy grass, and it was hidden and eaten by the old woman.

At that time, the villagers in Tongbai Village saw that the old woman had not eaten a grain of rice for seven days and she was still alive, so they naturally believed in the words of the old woman.

In addition, they ate Bodhisattva soil for more than half a month, and the yin energy accumulated in their bodies, which inadvertently amplified the evil thoughts in people's hearts.

Yin Po took the opportunity to fan the flames. In Journey to the West, eating Tang Monk's meat can lead to immortality. So we might as well follow suit. In the future, we will not only have enough to eat, but also live as long as heaven. Wouldn't it be wonderful?

This inhumane suggestion was unanimously applauded by the villagers.

They chose a dark and windy day, set up a large pot in the open air in the center of the village, lit a fire underneath, put the old woman into the boiling water, added oil, salt, soy and vinegar, mixed with wild vegetables, and stewed it into a delicious pot. of broth.

Strange to say, even though he is an old man over fifty years old, the meat is extremely delicious and tender, like the most delicious delicacies in the world. It makes people addicted after one bite. From then on, they miss the taste of human flesh day and night.

Gui Cha said, "Yin Po originally agreed with the villagers to exchange her soul for her. But no one expected that just after the pot of broth was shared, the entire Tongbai Village seemed to be covered with a layer of black paint. In the shadow of the paint, the old woman’s soul also disappeared.”

Others don't know, but the ghost guards know it very well.

If an ordinary person encounters something like this, he might harbor resentment and turn into a ghost, threatening the entire village.

But the old woman's soul just recited a few lines of Amitabha on the spot, shook her head, and ascended directly to the immortal class.

Originally, this scene of ascending from the same place should be a strange phenomenon of heaven and earth. But the murder of the old woman by the villagers was so unforgivable that even God couldn't bear to see it and withheld the rain from heaven.

The villagers were frightened when they saw a sinister wind blowing from the place. Under the guidance of the Yin Po, they hurriedly set up a spiritual place for the old woman under the Clay Bodhisattva. Otherwise, the old woman would turn into a ghost and come back to claim her life.

"How foolish those mortals are."

The ghost sneered and said, "It is said that after they ate the old woman's flesh, they not only failed to feel full once and for all, but also contracted the bad habit of eating human flesh. Not only that, they even continued to eat Bodhisattva soil."

"After committing such evil deeds and accumulating too much yin energy in the body, all the people in the village turned into evil ghosts wearing human skin. If they die in the future, they will have to go to the 18th level of hell to atone for their sins. ”

Hear the words. Zong Jiu let out a long breath.

No wonder.

No wonder Zong Jiu drew a reversed Death card from Lao Tsuchiya.

It turned out that the old woman was really dead when she died, but she miraculously came back to life and ascended from the same place.

The moon card that Zongjiu drew at the fork in the road that day turned out to refer to deception, not the deception of the old village chief, but also the lies of the Yin Po. That conversation was clearly an elaborate hoax.

No matter it is the old village chief, Yin Po, woman or Wang Shou.

Since they entered the dungeon, not a single living person they met told the truth.

From the beginning, the clues provided by Yin Po misled them.

On many occasions, the trainees were able to find clues of contradictions in the villagers' sentences.

But they were preconceived and placed Yin Po, the person who proactively informed the clues, in the position of a helpful NPC. They never thought that she was the culprit that caused all this.

No wonder the difficulty of this dungeon is so high. No wonder the group will be destroyed on the third day even though there are only seven days.

They have wrong evidence, and no matter how hard they go, they will never be able to turn to the right path.

...This person uses words without leaving any trace to seduce and confuse people's hearts. He is keen to stir up trouble and make trouble, but he also separates himself from the other side to watch the fire, admiring the pain and ugliness of human beings in desperate situations——

Zong Jiu was now 100% sure who was playing the role of Yin Po, smiling kindly.

After thinking about it, he hurriedly nodded to the ghost and was about to go back to find someone to settle the score, but he didn't want to be stopped.

Gui Cha said, "Wait a minute, you are now a person who has been sold to the underworld. Where else do you want to go?"

Zongjiu: "...?"

Seeing his blank look without knowing anything, the pity in Guizha's eyes was even greater.

Perhaps with the idea of ​​making him understand, Gui Cha patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are stupid. Didn't I just tell you that the culprit is Yin Po. Well, it's the one outside."

"She is much smarter than the short-sighted villagers. She knows that eating human flesh will increase sins, and eating Yin soil will corrode the mind and turn her into a ghost. So from the beginning, Yin Po has never walked through these two paths."

Zong Jiu had a flash of inspiration.

A perfect corpse, by the way, a perfect corpse definitely refers to a person who has never eaten human flesh or yin earth.

"The Yin Woman often brings people down. Now the underworld is short of manpower, and crossing the Yin and Yang realms will damage the spirit bodies of ordinary ghosts. She usually brings souls down to buy herself more Yang life. Now in this special period, The Lord of Hell also turned a blind eye."

Seeing that he was speechless, Gui Cha comforted him, "Don't worry, those villagers have turned into ghosts, and they will naturally set their sights on Yin Po, who also worships Buddha. We in the underworld also treat you well. As long as you work hard, you may be able to succeed in the future." Promotion and title.”

Yes, that's why the mission failed on the third day. It turned out that the villagers rushed to the temple and stewed the Yin Po.

After the stew, it was natural to share the meal. No wonder the two main tasks failed at the same time. It turned out to be this reason.

Zongjiu's body is still in the human world. As we all know, if the soul leaves for too long, the body will become a real corpse.

When the copy time is over, the main system will definitely directly determine his death instead of being eliminated due to mission failure. In this case, he will be directly wiped out.

He was really tricked by the devil now.

It was also a gift that the other party gave him in return after he broke the strings of the devil's puppet and caused all sorts of mischief in the devil's show.

Zongjiu sneered.

He took out the soul-catching bell with his backhand and said with a sincere expression, "Sir, you see I'm keeping this as collateral. You have a lot of it, how about you give me a back door?"

Guizha looked a little hesitant, "Your soul-catching bell is good, but its grade is a little low. I can't explain it to the Lord of Hell..."

His words stopped in mid-air.

Because the white-haired young man opposite took out a large handful of Ming coins out of thin air and asked him lightly if they had enough.