Bone

The gloomy air swayed over the body like wet and salty sea water. In the eyes, there were boundless red flowers with thin stems, like a sea of ​​red.

——It is indeed the scene of the underworld that he once got a glimpse of in the borderland.

After confirming again and again that this place is indeed the Yin Division, Qin Nianjiu seemed to be a little unbelievable, "I thought that Gong Buwang was a half-baked kung fu...it really did it?!"

Tan Fengyue obviously had an unexpected expression, but soon returned to normal, "Since we're here, it's important to get down to business first."

He looked left and right, only saw a sea of ​​flowers, but no way, so he turned his head and asked Qin Nianjiu, "How do I go to the Temple of Yama?"

"..." Qin Nianjiu was slightly taken aback by his question, his voice stuck in his throat, "...uh."

Did he never explain to the ancestor...he never took half a step out of the boundary, and he didn't know how to walk the path of the underworld...?

When Tan Fengyue saw him embarrassed and embarrassed, she was still a little confused at first, and then she suddenly understood, "You...the so-called 67 years, did you just stay in the border area and didn't take half a step?"

Thinking that this old ancestor was kind enough to accompany him and entered the underworld with him, but he was unfavorable because he was completely unfamiliar with the way... Hearing his deep voice, Qin Nianjiu thought he was annoyed, and couldn't help feeling even more embarrassed, and gently "hmm" A sound of affirmation, and at the same time cautiously leaned closer to him, "Old Ancestor, please calm down... At least you can just find an errand to ask for directions... How about you rest here and I will find it myself?"

Tan Fengyue was indeed a little annoyed, but it wasn't annoyed at all.He looked at the ghost in front of him who had lowered his posture towards him, and seemed to be tightly grasped at the soft spot of his heart—the borderland, just from his description, he knew it was an extremely lonely place, and he was so full of it in it. Stayed for 67 years? !

His chest was swollen, he opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, he just pulled Qin Nianjiu closer to him, "Let's go find it together."

"……oh oh."

Let's go together, why do you hold on to yourself so much?Qin Nianjiu looked puzzled at Tan Fengyue holding his hand... Forget it, he didn't resist anyway, so let the old man hold his hand.

Looking along the sea of ​​flowers, I can vaguely see a few towering building shadows - the two walked towards the building shadows, stepped on the flowers, and dragged the ground to shatter red.

Going straight all the way, I didn't see Bajiao Pavilion, Liujiaozhuang, Fude Temple, Liqiling, Luoyanggang, Naihe Bridge, let alone the real ghost town Fengdu.

I don't know how long I've been walking—maybe it's Yin Qi disturbing people's minds, maybe it's the touch of the hands that are too warm, making Qin Nianjiu feel a little dazed: in dreams, in nightmares...how come he and this ancestor are always like this, as if Walking like an endless road?

Afraid that if he thought about it further, he would recall the scene in the nightmare, he shook his head to shake off the daze in his mind, and worried that after walking for too long, he would lose patience in talking about Fengyue, he moved his eyes to the approaching scene in front of him Lou Ying shook the hand held by the ancestor, "It should be almost here."

Being able to walk with him like this, how could Tan Fengyue be impatient, she nodded nonchalantly, "Yes."

The two of them borrowed the law to enter the underworld with mortal bodies, and they knew they couldn't stay for long, but they still spent a lot of time looking for the way... Thinking of this, Qin Nianjiu apologized a little, "cough... I went there, but I didn’t get to see any scenery—”

It was really hard work for him to accompany him all the time.

I just made a nonsense casually, but this ghost actually took it seriously... Tan Fengyue glanced at him with a smile, and then looked away, "Don't worry, there are many opportunities to reward after death."

"Hey," Qin Nianjiu pointed his eyes at him full of disapproval, "What are you talking about, hurry up and pee!"

"Didn't you say it's good to be a companion on the way to Huangquan, now you know what to say is unlucky?" Tan Fengyue sneered at him.

"..." After being educated, Qin Nianjiu was speechless for a while, and then heard the old ancestor chuckle, "It's a good company on the road to Huangquan... It's thanks to you that you can say it..."

After laughing, Tan Fengyue turned her eyes back to him, and said casually: "Why, Tianzun still wants to die with me?"

I found that this ancestor is really getting more and more frivolous... Isn't it just deliberately saying some nasty words, as if someone doesn't know it.Qin Nianjiu rolled his eyes at him, and turned back without hesitation, "To die together is better than to live forever, forever inseparable—"

Doesn't this speak right to the heart?Tan Fengyue raised her eyebrows, thinking that everything was fine, but on the face she coughed softly, pointing to the building that was close in front of her eyes, "Go and see if there is something wrong there."

They came from the sea of ​​flowers, this place seems to be quite remote, there are only a few buildings, but most of the decorations are domineering and towering.

...Let's not talk about ghosts and ghosts, these halls are empty inside and outside, not even a ghost.

Seeing this, Qin Nianjiu couldn't help but feel a little dejected, "I heard from my ghost officer earlier that most of the underworld servants work in the tenth hall, so why don't you think that there is not even a guard here..."

That's right, after all, this is the Yin Division, governed by the law of God's will, it is difficult for anyone to break in and cause trouble, so naturally there is no "guard" at all...

Tan Fengyue was not in a hurry at all, looking around in a blink of an eye, he saw the plaques of "Fate Recording" and "Recording Luck" hanging on the eaves of the two main halls nearby, so he simply dragged the ghost into the "Fate Recording" room One room, "It's rare to come here, go in and have a look."

This "fate-recording" hall looks like a palace on the outside, but inside it looks like a bookstore. The books and books are piled up on the wall.

As soon as he stepped into the hall, Qin Nianjiu's attention was completely attracted by the bookend, and before Tan Fengyue let go, he broke away from him, and took out a book and started to read it.

The palm suddenly fell, Tan Fengyue pursed her lips slightly, leaning on the side with folded arms to look at him.

Sure enough, it is the hall of "Recording Fate". This book records the life of each person in detail, in black and white, and the whole life of a person is written in a thin volume.

After randomly flipping through a book, Qin Nianjiu closed it and put it back to its original position, stroked the numbers marked on the spine of the book, and then he had a solid idea, "Is it arranged according to the strokes of the names..."

Wouldn't it be possible to find out the life of this ancestor? !

When he became interested, he put the business behind him for the time being. He walked along the wall step by step and looked at the past, and said in his mouth as if reminding himself: "28 strokes, 28 strokes, 28 strokes..."

It’s just that the arrangement of the bookshelves in this hall is strange, as if they are far away and endless, how can it be so easy to find, just walked past twelve rows, and then there are thirty-five rows, and a few steps forward, there are twenty rows again...

Tan Fengyue was behind him, and finally understood what he was muttering, and stopped him with a sense of humor, "Could it be that Tianzun has forgotten, I don't remember my past, and I don't know my name—"

Qin Nianjiu paused.After getting along for so long, he really forgot about it, and only regarded him as "talking about romance"!

Then I heard the old ancestor chuckle and say: "Tianzun really remembers me all the time, um, it's very comforting to talk about."

"...Who cares about you?" Qin Nianjiu couldn't compare to this ancestor's shamelessness, Qin Nianjiu's ears were reddish, and forced himself to excuse himself, "I want to find Gong Buwang's life book, and find out the cause of her death when she died. I just accidentally miscalculated the strokes."

"Oh?" Tan Fengyue caught a glimpse of the redness on his ears, and the corners of her mouth became more raised, "28 to twenty, can this be wrong?"

Qin Nianjiu said that he was no good, glared at him angrily, turned around angrily, and looked at the bookend marked "Twenty", and changed his mouth to read a sentence, "Gongbuwang, Gongbuwang, Gongbuwang... ..."

The underworld is not an extraordinary world, and this book of life is also an extraordinary thing. As if he heard his call, a book placed on a high place floated out by itself, and slowly landed in front of him.

Seeing the three strong and powerful characters "Gongbuwang" on the cover of the book, Qin Nianjiu was overjoyed, and was about to open it to read it, but the booklet suddenly closed with a "snap", and it flew behind him like an arrow.

Qin Nianjiu blurted out "Ai ai", turned his head together with Tan Fengyue, only to see a man dressed as an errand appeared behind them at some point, and firmly caught the flying book.

The suddenly appeared shriveled Yincha, with an ordinary appearance, pale and bloodless face, his tone was flat but gentle and polite, "Didn't your lord go back to your bones, why are you here?"

Qin Nianjiu is really just a resentful spirit living in the borderlands distributing sacrifices, he felt ashamed when he heard these ghostly emissaries call him a lord, he waved his hands quickly, but Tan Fengyue was slightly startled.

The errand finished asking, as if he didn't want to hear the answer, he glanced at the book in his hand with some embarrassment, and continued: "Unless Lord Yama has ordered, others are not allowed to read the order file, I hope the two adults will understand."

Seeing that the clues in his hands were flying like this, Qin Nianjiu was unhappy in every possible way, but he still had something to ask Lord Yan Luo. Naturally, he couldn't get into trouble with Yin Si at this juncture, so he nodded embarrassingly, "We offended."

He asked again: "Uh, this...brother ghost, can you show us the way to Yanjun Palace?"

Yin Cha nodded slightly, explained to them the location of Yan Luodian in detail, and asked him again, "My lord is not going well, so you want to go back to find Lord Yan Luo?"

Also before Qin Nianjiu could answer, he seemed a little embarrassed and said: "But Master Yan Luo went to the eight hot hells for a routine inspection, and he hasn't returned yet..."

What? !Qin Nianjiu heaved a sigh of relief when he heard it, and he didn't know what to do, but he heard the bad guy change the subject, "However, I heard from my colleagues that Lord Yan Luo seemed to have foreseen that the lord's bones were not going well before he left, so he confessed something. Tell that to the ghost messenger in the junction... why don't you go and ask him?"

This is a turning point, and he can see his old friend again, Qin Nianjiu nodded quickly, "Then—"

As if he had already guessed what he was going to ask, the ghost officer said in a calm and unhurried manner: "After the lord leaves, the lord ghost officer will be transferred to Wangxiang Terrace, and the lord can go directly to find him."

After that, he described in detail how to get to Wangxiangtai from here.

Qin Nianjiu listened intently, memorizing while listening, while Tan Fengyue never recovered from the daze—for some reason, he always felt that the errand gave him a somewhat familiar feeling, but he couldn’t put it into words—— By the way, he learned in the nightmare that he had entered the underworld in the past, maybe he had seen it at that time?

Yin Cha didn't look at him all the time, and bowed his head to Qin Nianjiu after finishing speaking, "My lord is really a ghost inside, it may not be a big problem to bathe in Yin Qi, but the other lord entered the underworld with a mortal body, I'm afraid It’s not easy to stay for long—you two should not delay here, go as soon as possible.”

Hearing this, Qin Nianjiu even forgot to return the ceremony, hurriedly said goodbye to the errand, and dragged Tan Fengyue straight to Wangxiang Terrace.

When they came, the place was relatively remote and the terrain was flat, but Wangxiang Terrace was in another direction of Yinsi. Several scenes of the world.

Fearing that the delay would damage Tan Fengyue's physical body, Qin Nianjiu hurried all the way anxiously, and only stopped suddenly when he saw the familiar figure among the ghostly shadows in the distance.

Not in a hurry to go forward, he looked around first, found a place where the yin energy was relatively thin, and brought Tan Fengyue there, "The ghosts on the Wangxiang Terrace are full of yin energy...you stay here good."

Tan Fengyue was still distracted thinking about the errand just now, she didn't have time to hold him back, and seeing him running over like flying, she raised her hand to catch nothing.Although he knew that he was so anxious, it was all because he was thinking of him... He followed the ghost from afar, watched him jump on the ghost messenger, and unconsciously twitched the corners of his mouth, "... Really."

In the distance, the ghost messenger seemed to turn his head to look over, and quickly moved his eyes away.

When the old friend reunited, Qin Nianjiu smiled openly, but the ghost guard showed the same expressionless expression as usual, he just looked coldly at the old man who had changed his appearance, "Why are you back?"

I have long been accustomed to his cold appearance, Qin Nianjiu smiled to himself, "Isn't it, I have encountered difficulties--hey, if it wasn't for the time constraints, I have a lot of interesting things I want to tell you! Have you received all the letters you wrote? Have you read them? Is it very interesting? I was worried that without me in the borderland, you would be alone. I don’t want you to be transferred to this lively place!..."

"..." The ghost messenger silently listened to him sputtering a long list, and only answered him with a few words, "I received it. I read it. It's normal. I won't..."

After talking a few words like this, Qin Nianjiu still couldn't hide his joy, and he hugged him hard again, before he remembered to ask a serious question, "By the way, what did Old Yan Luo tell you? Also, I What about the devilish energy on your body—”

Hearing this, the ghost messenger lowered his eyes slightly and interrupted him, "It's all about the demonic energy."

There was no need for Qin Nianjiu to ask, he said in a flat tone: "Lord Yan Luo said, it's only because you haven't regained your bones for a long time, and the resentment in your body has alienated, which is gradually approaching the devil."

To put it this way, if he has been unable to recover his bones, wouldn't he be possessed by a demon one day? !The smile on Qin Nianjiu's face froze immediately, "...Then what should we do?"

Thinking that he asked too much, Guicha gave him a blank look, and replied, "Liangu."

... What the hell is hitting the wall?Qin Nianjiu couldn't help being speechless, "...No, you don't know, when I died—" Thinking of the tragic scene of being besieged and killed by thousands of people, he felt sad, and thought that those sect people might want to crush him. Then quickly, it would be a ghost to leave him with a whole corpse!

But the ghost messenger interrupted him again, "Lord Yama also confessed that he just went to the place where you died to find it."

……Why?this……

Qin Nianjiu was slightly taken aback.Why had he never thought of going to the place where he died to look for it!Perhaps those sect members hated him to the bone, and it is not impossible to expose his corpse to the original place, but...

Seeing his hesitation, the ghost messenger lowered his eyes again, and repeated the words Lord Yan Luo told him, "You are a body of resentment, if your bones are nowhere to be found, the return of Yang will definitely make you fall into a demon and die." Lord Yan Luo will definitely not do anything to cause disaster to the world, so he should be able to find it."

That's true... Qin Nianjiu calmed down a bit, and smiled at the ghost, "Then I'll try again."

After returning to the human world, first take a divination, calculate the place of death, and then go there to search for it...

When you have a plan in your mind, you feel at ease.This trip was not in vain.The big stone in his heart fell to the ground, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and was about to have a few more jokes with the ghost, but the ghost said: "Okay. You are just a mortal body now, it is best not to stay in the underworld for a long time. You have already got it." Answer, let’s go back sooner.”

I have been reminded by the errand first, Qin Nianjiu knew this, but he took the time to put on a crying face, so he made a mess of the errand, saying "you drive me away", "thin love" ignorance" kind of nonsense.

The ghost guard looked at him unmoved, repeated the words of driving people away, and pointed him to the location of the ghost gate, saying: "When you get to the ghost gate, just ring the bell. Let's go."

"Okay, okay—then I'm leaving!"

He can rely on it, but the ancestor who is waiting in the distance cannot rely on it.Qin Nianjiu withdrew his weeping face as if changing his face, then suddenly remembered something, glanced at the old ancestor, and saw that he was not looking this way, he turned his hand over "Sleeve Cosmos", and conjured a plump When the pear came, it was stuffed into the hands of the ghost messenger.

The pear was preserved very well by the spell, as if it had just been plucked from the branch, it was the one that Tan Fengyue gave him earlier.

He was full of reluctance, and he didn't dare to look at the pear, so he hurriedly said to the ghost messenger: "I came in a hurry, and I couldn't bring you anything... This is my friend—the one mentioned in the letter— - He gave it to me, I have never been willing to eat it, I borrowed flowers and offered it to you, I must try it! It’s so sweet! I’ll give you some other food when I go back..."

The voice faded away.

Seeing Qin Nianjiu jumping to his friend's side, chatting with his friend for a few words, then turning around and waving at himself, Guichai nodded slightly in response.He kept watching the figures of the two people go out of sight, and then he barely looked away.

After standing there for a long while, he looked down at the pear in his hand, stood there for another long while, then put away the pear, turned and left Wangxiang Terrace.

……

All the way through the pavilions, step by step through the corridors, until they reached a remote garden, the ghosts just stopped.

There are stone tables and stone benches in the garden, and two people sit facing each other. The tea is fragrant on the table, and black and white are intertwined on the chessboard.

One of the two is dressed in black, with a ghostly look on his body, the other is dressed like a ghost, with an ethereal fairy look on his body, the two have diametrically opposite demeanors, but they have the same appearance, they are extremely handsome, and they are vying for each other. Zhuo Luozi, "It's my turn, it's my turn."

"Get off."

"I've made five in a row, heh, you lost."

"Look clearly, the black one belongs to me, and you are the white one."

……

What was played was backgammon.

The ghost messenger didn't look at the chess or the people, just lowered his head, bowed and saluted, "Emperor Tianjun, Lord Yan Luo."

Seeing him coming, the one dressed as an errand turned his head and asked gently, "Did you explain everything to him?"

The ghost messenger lowered his eyes expressionlessly, "Yes."