Chapter 993 Seventh Hell and Sixth Layer Tower
"What!"
There were still many barren graves in front of the Bone Tower. Under the moonlight, piles of white bones were squirming. When I got closer, I saw lambs among the graves, gnawing on a few weeds that occasionally grew out of the mounds.
A shepherd was sitting far away on the threshold of the Bone Tower, smoking a cigarette.
In the dark night, Mars shines brightly and dimly.
The sheepherder watched them coming, stood up from a distance, leaned on his whip and asked, "Excuse me, have you seen my lost sheep?"
The frightened people stopped vigilantly. The four-eyed Taoist tremblingly picked up the glasses that had lost one leg, put them on the bridge of their noses, squinted at the shepherd for a while, and then said slowly:
"Is this fellow out here herding sheep so late at night?"
The sheepherder replied sadly: "I will sleep in this tower. I have lost my sheep and can't sleep!"
He put his hands in his sleeves and arched his head towards the bone tower behind him, standing crookedly.
The second master, a ginseng picker, was folding his white deerskin jacket a few times and putting it back into the package. You could see that there was also a pair of copper boxes in the package. They were as long as forearms and as thick as a fist. They were placed in the package by the precious ones.
innermost.
A big sheep seemed to smell something and walked towards the second master. It kept turning its lips and stretched its head into the package.
The second master pushed the goat's head away hard. The goat's rectangular pupils were paired with lips that were constantly flipping and showing big teeth, making it look like a smile but not a smile.
At this time, the second master noticed that the goat was extremely thin, and the ribs on its sides could be seen, but its belly was huge. Under the moonlight, the white strips looked like a naked corpse.
The four-eyed Taoist priest stared at the sheep herder for a long time before slowly speaking: "What does your lost sheep look like?"
The sheepherder sighed: "It's a sheep! Half of my flock almost ran away with me. It took me a long time to find it. I stared at its sheep code and it was circling around the bone tower! That sheep was special.
Big, bigger than other lambs! But thin...oh! Its head is pointed, like it's wearing a hat!"
Taoist Priest Siyan broke into a cold sweat after hearing this!
But the sheepherder greeted warmly: "Do you want to enter the tower? I will make way for you."
As he spoke, he waved his whip and drove the sheep to both sides.
The Bone Pagoda appeared in front of them. It was not very tall, with six floors, only about three feet high. The first floor was dedicated to the White Bone Bodhisattva they wanted to worship.
Under the moonlight, the Bodhisattva's whole body is as white as the best Dehua white porcelain.
The statue of Mo is about half a man tall, dressed in white, holding a fixed seal in his right hand, and a white lotus in his left hand. It is the white-clothed Guanyin statue among the thirty-three statues of Guanyin. However, the Taoist with four eyes looks wrong, and there is a subtle sense of disharmony.
, he hesitated for a long time outside the door.
But the second master, who was used to being a visitor, entered the temple as soon as he saw it, worshiped the gods when he saw them, and did not dare to think carefully.
He twisted some soil and piled it in front of Guanyin in white. He took out three incense sticks and lit them before inserting them into the pile.
At this time, Taoist Four Eyes suddenly realized why there was a subtle incongruity...
incense burner!
The place in front of the statue was empty and clean, not to mention the incense burner, not even the ashes.
Before he could stop drinking in time, the shepherd behind him laughed: "What are you offering to the empress? The empress doesn't eat incense!"
He was holding a half-sized lamb.
The little woolly hair was soft, lying in his arms obediently.
The shepherd's steps were extremely large, and he entered the Bone Tower in two steps. He placed the lamb in front of Guanyin in white, turned to the second master and smiled, revealing a pair of jagged yellow teeth, and then took it out of his arms.
A dagger was used to cut open the belly of the lamb.
"The Bodhisattva wants to eat what is offered!"
Not a drop of blood came out. The lamb was like a ripped leather bag, with bones as white as jade ripped out.
Soon a small, half-broken skeleton was taken out by the shepherds and enshrined in front of Guanyin in white.
But it is the skeleton of a four or five-year-old child.
The moonlight shines on the white bones, as if a layer of frost has condensed on them.
That layer of frost melted silently in front of the white-clothed statue!
The glimmering light filled the first floor of the statue. At this moment, the porcelain-like glaze became colder and colder, more like jade.
At this time, everyone could clearly see that the Guanyin in white was made of white porcelain.
It was clearly made of bones!
This is a white-bone empress...
The four-eyed Taoist took out the bronze mirror and shined the moonlight into the Bone Tower.
The clear brilliance of the reflected moonlight climbed up from behind the White Bone Lady all the way up the tower. The gray and gloomy White Bone Tower in the night reflected a pale yellowish white like ivory.
Countless skulls formed the ceiling above their heads, large and small limb bones were arranged into walls, curved ribs were pieced together to form brackets, and spines became beams!
The entire six-story pagoda is pieced together into an indescribable statue of a god.
It seems like lowered eyes, like compassion, like cold death!
The pupils in the four-eyed Taoist's eyes split again, and the four black eyes filled the White Bone Tower from four directions, taking in the statue of the White Bone Empress into their eyes, and then spliced ​​them into a three-dimensional whole.
Compared with ordinary people's eyes, it is more three-dimensional, more thorough and vivid, and every detail appears in the eyes of the Taoist with four eyes.
Snap!
The glasses fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
The white sheep got into the Bone Tower one by one. They took off their sheepskins, revealing their white and clean bones, and got into the Bone Tower one after another.
Taoist Siyan suddenly felt his eyes itching. He did not dare to scratch them with his hands, but the corners of his eyes twitched slightly. As the itching gradually penetrated into his bone marrow, his whole face twitched.
In the package behind the second master, two lambs suddenly broke free from the copper box and fell down.
Crawling towards the Bone Lady...
Seeing those two weird lambs, whose legs were not bent backwards like those of lambs, but bent forward like humans, staggering towards the Bone Lady like babies, Er Ye's face turned pale.
He turned to look at Daoist Siyan, but was horrified to see that Siyan's face was completely black and looked like death, and the corners of his eyes were twitching, making his eyeballs twitch.
Along with the soft object falling to the ground, there was a faint sound.
One of Four-Eyed Taoist's eyeballs fell out of its socket and fell to the ground...
A kind of deathly coldness instantly enveloped everyone. Lao Qi watched helplessly as his breath turned into white air and turned into frost when it fell. At this moment, the Bone Tower seemed to be colder than the old forest outside the pass for nine consecutive winters.
Visible white frost covered their faces.
The second master tried his best to lift his finger, and the skin and flesh fell off instantly, and the white bone stubble pierced the flesh and exposed it.
He stared at his clean finger bones, and there was no response from the 'immortal family' he called countless times.
A little white-haired mouse with a red tail in the second master's arms quickly jumped out and fled behind him, but a figure wearing white clothes and a high hat suddenly appeared in front of the door of the Bone Tower.
One black and one white suddenly fell from a high place, and then a long, soft red strip fell to the ground. The white-haired mouse was carefully rolled up and swallowed into the mouth.
Mo was about half as tall as the Bone Tower, thin and tall. One black and one white Impermanent Ghost stood in front of the door of the Bone Tower, his face covered by the eaves of the door.
At this time, Bai Wuchang, who rolled up the white-haired mouse with his tongue hanging on the ground, bent down and looked at the diners outside the customs who were already frightened out of their wits.
The seducer in white with a smile on his face and a tall hat that read "Get rich at first sight" suddenly opened his mouth again. The white-haired mouse in his mouth had disappeared, but he spat out a jade pendant with a red string.
The sad-looking seducer in black next to him raised his mourning stick, and two green-faced imps jumped out from the side with black and white chess flags.
Without bending his legs, Black and White Wuchang walked slowly around the Bone Tower.
There were four more Yasha ghosts carrying waist drums and beating the drums with red hammers. Behind them, a real musical instrument troupe ran out like a mourner, and the hungry ghosts with blue faces played the instruments feebly, followed by goodwill, five blessings,
Wukui, all kinds of big ghosts emerged from the white mist in the distance. They were either shaking their heads and dancing, or driving away the little ghosts who were playing and beating in a decent manner.
The little ghosts were even more lively. Some put up long poles and climbed around on them, some sprayed out green will-o'-the-wisps, and some jumped around and made faces.
The pupil of Four-Eyed Taoist's only remaining eye was already stuck to the corner of his eye.
Seeing this scene, his stiff neck made the sound of solid ice colliding, and he turned his head bit by bit with difficulty.
The impermanence of black and white has come full circle.
Bai Wuchang's tongue stretched out long, and he rolled out a scroll of Baijuan from the second master's arms. White frost also covered his tongue, but he still rolled the scroll to the door of the Bone Tower.
The second master watched helplessly, not daring to move, until he accidentally saw the tongue.
"Paper?"
His eyes were already smiling, and he also saw what was exposed under the black and white impermanent robe - stilts!
The four-eyed Taoist turned and walked toward the door. The second master's eyes were wide open and he didn't know why he could move, but what he saw in the corner of his eye made him even more horrified.
Lao Qi couldn't move at all. He felt someone walking past him. When he looked up, he saw a Taoist with four eyes, his face was black and his pupils were white.
He was slightly startled and looked forward, only to see that not far ahead, the body of the Four-Eyed Taoist was still there. There was no white air in his mouth and nose, and he was no longer breathing.
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The four-eyed Taoist quietly came to the door of the Bone Tower, but did not go out. Instead, he sighed: "Once you enter this place, there will be no door to life!"
"But I still have the desire to survive, so I am trapped in the puzzle... You all reminded me that the White Bone Empress is not visible to the outside world! The only way to meet her is called death!"
"Taoist cultivators inevitably have aspirations for immortality. This is why the Earth Immortal has been wandering outside the tower."
The four-eyed Taoist priest sighed quietly.
"The six-layered bone tower is hell!"
"This is not the first floor of the Bone Tower, but a hell of ice. The so-called being alone and without relatives is as cold as ice. The dead who have no relatives and no reason to be alone and frozen are like falling into an ice hell, cold to the bone and unable to escape!"
Taoist priest Four Eyes spread out his right hand: "Everyone, you can return the paper to me!"
Black and White Wuchang looked at each other, respectfully presented the Bai Juan scroll.
Taoist priest Four Eyes tightened his robe tightly, picked up a wooden stick, and slowly walked past the crowd, past his own body, and came to the statue of the Bone Lady. He picked up the stick and saw two lambs kneeling on the ground next to him.
The sheepskin on his body flew away.
A pair of pink and jade-carved boys and girls, wearing festive red robes, squatted there, their eyes rolling.
The boy suddenly cried out, his childish voice carrying an inhuman weirdness.
In his open mouth, under the teeth as big as grains of rice, a thick 'tree root' retracted into his throat. The pigtails on his head trembled, and the red fruits gathered in a ball, falling from the pigtails.
Then, ginseng tentacles emerged from the boy's seven orifices, and then he slipped into the ground and disappeared in an instant.
The girl on the side also slowly raised her feet to run, but the Taoist priest with four eyes grabbed her red rope with his left hand like lightning.
"Get him!"
Taoist priest Four Eyes gave a sharp shout.
The faint voice echoed in the empty Bone Tower, coming and going.
The group of people dressed as ghosts at the door dispersed in a hurry, chasing the figure that flashed past the grave...
Hundreds of ghosts were wandering around like headless flies, but the boy was escaping randomly in the field, popping his head out of a grave from time to time. The costumes of the ghosts running around were all messed up, and the makeup was also ruined.
He yelled and screamed, but there was still a "ghost" appearance.
But Taoist Priest Four Eyes stood under the eaves of the Bone Tower, looking coldly and coldly, like a ghost.
Bai Wuchang took off his 'tongue', clasped his fists at Taoist Priest Siyan and said, "Bi Guhui, I'm here to help you as promised!"
"Taoist Priest, our bones-covering party took out everything from the City God Ghost Guild, and we only made it to the first level of hell!"
"That's why I have no choice but to come to seek help from the Taoist Master!"
"The Lady of White Bones is so compassionate that she takes the body of the White Bone Tower to contain the evil ghosts. But the evil ghosts are not allowed to live in the world, so the seven-story White Bone Tower where the ghosts are located becomes the seven levels of hell. Every April, the Four City Gods and Ghosts gather to hide their bones.
He can pretend to be a hundred ghosts and lead a group of ghosts to salvation."
"Over time, the ghosts who do not want to die are trapped in the seven hells. If you want to meet the White Bone Empress, you have to break through the seven hells in order and release the ghosts, so that the empress can be welcomed to the world!"
"Caobang and Qingpixing wanted to invite the Queen to come down to earth, so they told us that they invited a Taoist master to break the prison for the ghosts and save all living beings."
"I thought he was another 'master' who was seeking fame and reputation, but I didn't expect to see a true immortal this time!"
The Four-Eyed Taoist sighed slightly and suddenly looked back. The Bone Tower behind him was gloomy and cold. Even though he was the manifested Yin God, he could not help but endure the biting cold that stung his soul.
"That's all! After decades of practicing Taoism, if I don't go to hell, who will?"
"Then the shepherds are also your people?"
The four-eyed Taoist turned around and asked.
'Bai Wuchang' was slightly startled: "What kind of sheepherder?"
At this time, a whip fell from the second floor of the Bone Tower, and lightly hit the grave not far away. The grass immediately pressed down, and several ginseng fruits gathered into clusters swayed in the grass. Hei Wuchang flew down from the stilts.
, grabbed the boy's braid and lifted him out of the soil.
"Got him!"
The group of ghosts nearby were beating gongs and drums. Hei Wuchang grabbed the boy and dragged him to the door of the Bone Tower. The Taoist priest with four eyes standing under the eaves of the door stretched out his hand.
He held the boy in one hand and the girl in the other. Without thinking about the mysterious sheepherder, he came to the statue of the Bone Lady.
As the two little ghosts knelt down and kowtowed three times, they saw that in the white lotus held by the White Bone Lady in her right hand, the frost seemed to be thawing and melting, and a drop of dew condensed and swayed on the white lotus.
The dewdrops dripped, and the blood-red ginseng tentacles drilled out of the seven orifices of the two little ghosts squirmed and shrank back.
The two boys, who quickly returned to their pink and jade-like appearance, turned around.
They obediently lay on the ground, turned around and kowtowed to Taoist Siyan, and their figures slowly dispersed.
Two ginseng sticks as thick as ears and arms, entangled together, appeared in place...
At this time, all the members realized that the icy cold air around them had dissipated.
The entire Bone Tower returned to normal.
But next to the Bone Lady, the skin bags of the lambs that were driven by the shepherds were suddenly swollen as if they were inflated, and dozens of lambs were bleating and running towards the door.
The running lambs, carrying milk and fat, ran into the mass grave outside the Bone Tower, shuttled among the graves, and soon disappeared.
Only at this moment did the heater blow from outside the door.
"Let's go!"
The four-eyed Taoist priest walked past his body, looked at the ladder going upstairs and seemed to be talking to himself: "It is obviously a six-story tower, why is it called seven levels of hell?"
Everyone in the group glanced at each other, and could only tighten their packages, and carefully walked around the body of the Taoist priest whose flesh was melting away and falling off, and walked upstairs.
Only two thick ginseng pieces intertwined with each other were left, which were enshrined in front of the statue of the White Bone Goddess.
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Wu Ponu walked out of the city gate step by step and stared at the surging waves in front of him. A huge whirlpool swallowed half of the river and was still expanding, sucking everything on the river into the mouth of the Sancha River.
Dark clouds covered the moonlight. As he took one step at a time, the world suddenly became vast, and the whirlpool in front of him spread infinitely.
Chapter completed!