hell in disguise

Yan Fei had a dream again. In the dream, he was still walking on the mirror of the earth that was empty and clean as if it did not belong to any corner of the universe. The sky and the ground were indistinguishable from each other.Not far away, the huge black stone was still standing quietly, restrained by countless formations, as if waiting for something.

Yan Fei realized that he was dreaming, but an inexplicable laziness made him unwilling to wake up.With his bare feet stepping on the cool water, the whole world was so quiet, as if he was the only one there.

He walked slowly towards the stone.The stone was waiting for him, calling to him.This time was different from the last time, a stronger attraction was pulling him towards the boulder.He vaguely heard someone whispering in his ear, but he wasn't sure if it was his imagination.An inexplicable and incomparably vast emotion floated in his consciousness, and the concept of self seemed to be slowly dissolving for a moment, gradually merging with the boundless universe.It's just that there is a distinct sense of lack in this wonderful feeling. He feels that he is not complete, that the world is not complete, that he is just a collection of incomplete fragments, and that he lacks something crucial that can make him feel better. There really is something.

And the thing, it seemed, was in the stone, waiting for him to get it back.

Yan Fei stood in front of those complex magic circles that kept flickering on and off, looking at the stone from a distance, and a sense of anxiety gradually filled his heart.He needs to get close, he needs to touch that rock... But these magic circles prevent him from getting close.Accompanied by more and more frustration and resentment, the beautiful blue sky with countless clouds and mountains floating there gradually changed its appearance. The clouds gathered more and more, and the color became darker and darker. Finally, it seemed as if it would be overwhelmed at any time. The dark clouds above cover all the blue.An increasingly violent wind blew through the dark and turbulent clouds, and Yan Fei's long hair and red clothes fluttered around.

The blood-like scarlet pervades the horizon, and the imminent imminent movement floats and sinks with the strong wind.Suddenly, some sporadic fragments of memory that did not belong to him appeared in his mind.It was an incomparably beautiful place. In the blue sky, huge planets shone with faint white light, floating far and near.Countless fairy islands are attached between the clouds, and the rainbow spreads layer by layer over the colorful forest.

A pure white palace is located in the middle of the beautiful lake that seems to have been infected by purple clouds. The veil like clouds and smoke blows over the water, like a holy and vague song.Many gorgeous treasure boats are floating on the surrounding lakes, on which sit beautiful and graceful celestial maidens, carelessly fiddled with the harp in their arms, playing the wonderful heavenly music that will take people's minds away after listening to it.

The beautiful scenery is so familiar yet so strange, like a hometown reunited after a long absence, Yan Fei couldn't help but shed tears.

He also saw a blurry image of golden light, that image was so huge that he was like an ant in front of him.He sat on a huge lotus flower, wearing layers of golden cassocks as thin as cicada's wings, and the most holy light that could illuminate the three thousand worlds of the void came from all over his body.And I crawled at his feet, surrendering and respecting from body to heart.

"All sentient beings, whether born from eggs, born from wombs, born from dampness, born by transformation, with form or without form, with thoughts or without thoughts, without thoughts or without thoughts, I will make them all enter nirvana without residue. And destroy it."

A sense of enlightenment and joy of relief filled his heart.The ultimate bliss he once coveted from the enjoyment of beings in the six realms is nothing compared to it.

"May I go through the next kalpa, so that there will be sinful and suffering sentient beings, and I will set up expedients to liberate them. If the hell is not empty, I swear that I will not become a Buddha." Another radiant figure also sighed at the same time.Although these words were not spoken by himself, they happened to hit a certain place in his heart.In an instant, through the endless void, his eyes saw those infant ghosts writhing and struggling in the sea of ​​blood in hell, those flame-mouth ghosts whose bodies were scorched black in the scorching hell, and could only spit out flames when they opened their mouths, and those who were In the Qinglian Hell, the Qinglin ghost whose skin was torn apart and blood formed into a lotus flower.Endless sorrow hit his heart. He has been feeding on the happiness of beings in the six realms, but he has never tasted the taste of misery.

In such a comparison, the incomparably vast fulfillment and happiness that blurred the self that I experienced just now become so ironic.

Those sentient beings, those hell beings who have been suffering from birth without a moment's rest and respite, are the ones who most need to be redeemed.He used to dismiss this kind of thinking, thinking that it was just the artificial complaints of those gods and Buddhas who live comfortably when they are bored, but when he really saw it, he realized that this kind of emotion is not just an affectation. , but the compassion that can truly come from the heart.

This is the most primitive ability of empathy that every living being has.It's just that most of the time, there are always layers and layers of things covering this ability.

Yan Fei shivered suddenly, his consciousness was withdrawn from those short but strange memories that aroused strong emotions.Severe pain exploded in his mind, as if some bugs were eating away at his brain.He let out a roar, and the day became darker and darker, and even the originally calm water surface was rolled up with monstrous waves, which spread out in all directions with him as the center.Those waves kept colliding with the magic circle, and those celestial language spells also seemed to be crumbling, trembling and flickering constantly.

But at this moment, a strong force caught him.He was pulled violently into the abyss.He screamed and flung his eyes open, only to find that he had just opened his mouth, but made no sound.

Liu Yusheng was pressing his shoulders with both hands, as if trying to wake him up.Seeing that he opened his eyes, he breathed a sigh of relief, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

Yan Fei sat up straight suddenly, grabbed Liu Yusheng by the collar, and said viciously, "What do you mean! Why did you stun me!!! If something happens to my master, I will never end with you!!!" After speaking, he jumped up from the bed and rushed out of the room as soon as he pushed Liu Yusheng away. There were other people in the room wearing uniform plain clothes, but he turned a blind eye to them.But as soon as he opened the door, he was dumbfounded. A huge crocodile-like head completely blocked the door. There were cross-shaped pupils in golden-yellow eyes with a hint of green, which looked very strange. evil.

Liu Yusheng said behind him, "Yan Fei, calm down."

Yan Fei turned his head and looked at him coldly, and poked the eyelids of the huge eyes with his hand, causing the latter to grunt in dissatisfaction, "Get out of the way."

Liu Yusheng's clean and elegant face showed a little helplessness, "If you go out now, where can you go?"

"I'm going back to hell!"

"If you go back now, not only will you not be able to save your master, but you will also involve yourself in it. If you really want to save him, calm down and listen to me!"

Yan Fei confronted him for a while, and asked after a while, "Where is my master's human body?"

"In a very safe place."

Yan Fei took a deep breath, strode over to a round table and sat down, took the jade cicada out of his sleeve pocket and patted it on the table, staring at Liu Yusheng and said, "Who are you?"

Liu Yusheng glanced at the people on both sides who stood quietly as if they didn't exist, and said, "Go down first."

Those people immediately filed out without a sound, and the monster blocking the door, whether it was a giant crocodile or a lizard, also stepped back a few steps, allowing those people to turn away from its head.

Liu Yusheng walked up to him slowly and sat down, picked up the jade cicada, and held it in his palm, "To be honest, I am indeed not an ordinary disciple of the Immortal Medicine Sect."

Yan Fei stared at him, and suddenly asked, "Could you be the master?"

Liu Yusheng glanced at him and said, "All the doctors gathered in the Immortal Medicine School are genius doctors who want to understand the mysteries of life and death, regardless of their superiority or inferiority. But after all, there are differences in medical skills. Every five years there will be a competition in medical skills. And the doctor with the best medical skills can be in charge of the jade cicada order and order all the doctors." He said, shaking the jade cicada in his hand, "it is said that the founder of the medical fairy school was a man who was deposed by the heaven 300 years ago. Yaoxian, this jade cicada has been passed down from generation to generation from him."

Yan Fei didn't show any surprise, "So you are the head."

"...It can also be understood in this way."

"And you said that the Yaoxian who founded the Medical Immortal School was demoted 300 years ago. Could it be that he was demoted because of his participation in the Bo Xun war?" Yan Fei thought about it, and suddenly put a lot of things in the wrong place. Connected in series, "You are all followers of Bo Xun."

Liu Yusheng didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.

"But...why did you have to ask me to find that scripture? Why didn't you let me go back? They said I don't have a life soul...Is this the reason?" Yan Fei became more and more frightened as he thought about it, "I heard that Bo Xun's life The soul is sealed in some kind of stone, are you imagining Hong Wuchang before offering sacrifices to Master, and sacrificed me to resurrect Bo Xun?!"

Liu Yusheng was dumbfounded, he didn't expect Yan Fei's associative ability and imagination to be so strong.He was about to speak, but was snapped back by Yan Fei, "It all makes sense! Does it mean that once I read that scripture, I will gradually lose myself? So you have been helping me and finding someone to watch Me! That's why you're afraid that I'll be taken away by the heavenly soldiers, so you won't have a container for Bo Xun's soul!"

"Eh...you think too much...do you think the soul of life is water? Where do you want to put it..." Liu Yusheng said helplessly, "even if it is a ghost, it is very difficult to find a suitable person to possess. It depends on luck. And the soul of a god like Bo Xun, no mortal body can bear it."

"Then why do you want to stop me? Do you know that Fengdu will find an excuse to say that I have betrayed! Then I can no longer be Master's Hongwuchang! Maybe they will make things difficult for Master!" Yan Fei became more and more angry as he spoke. , slapped the table and stood up, "Listen well, I don't care what you have against Heaven. I'm not interested in joining you! I just want to catch ghosts with my master and live a normal life. Go find someone else !"

Liu Yusheng knew that it was difficult for Yan Fei to calm down now, and his mind was full of imagining how Master was being bullied again.He rubbed his temples with his hands as if he had a headache, stood up and suddenly took Yan Fei's hand.Yan Fei immediately wanted to pull his hand back, but Liu Yusheng's finger pressed on a strange point, and a tingling rush rushed to his forehead, and the burning-like irritability faded a lot in an instant.

"Take a deep breath, like me." Liu Yusheng's voice was as calm as water, and his dark eyes were filled with similar tenderness and affection.Yan Fei frowned, "You don't know our Hongwuchang charm, do you? Are you trying to influence me?"

"It's not a charm, it's just a way to relax your nerves." Liu Yusheng looked at him sadly, "I know you don't believe me anymore. But I still need you to listen to me. Listen After that, how about I help you go back to hell and save your master?"

Yan Fei withdrew his hand abruptly, and said angrily, "Then tell me!"

Liu Yusheng put the Sutra of the True Aspects of the Six Desires on the table, and said eloquently, "We, the School of Immortal Medicine, really believe in Bo Xun. For 300 years, we have been inheriting the legacy of the medicine fairy Asuyun, which is also the legacy of Bo Xun. That is to relieve all suffering in the world. And the place with the most suffering in the world is hell.

We have tried many methods, including cultivating some vegetation and rice that may be suitable for growing in hell, but there is too little earth atmosphere in hell, and it is getting less and less, no vegetation can survive.However, some pills refined to try to change the physique of hell beings, so that they don't suffer so much, have stronger skin or no longer feel pain, only a small part of it works, and because of refining a The elixir takes too long and too few resources, and it also caused some killings and conquests among ghost kings, which went against our original wishes.In the end, we found that there is only one way to completely change the tragic situation in hell—"

"Six paths return to one method?" Yan Fei continued.

Liu Yusheng nodded and said, "That's right. Although Bo Xun failed, this method is feasible. Didn't the ghosts at that time no longer fear heaven and humans? And some records we found, including the records on Fudeng Ji It is mentioned that for the first time in countless eons in hell at that time, stretches of grass and even forests with green leaves appeared, and the rivers were no longer filled with rancid water, but similar to the mortal world, there appeared Water to drink. Many of the ghosts who were too weak to move and died and gradually turned into rocks gradually regained their vitality and crawled out of the ground.

So we decided to find a way to complete the method of returning the six paths to one.It's just that the mystery of this method is hidden in this scripture, but so many people have read it over the years, but no one can fully understand it.At best, you can only peek at the fur.And those who can snoop more are usually some "destined people" with extraordinary talents. "

Yan Fei frowned, "You don't mean to say that I'm destined?"

Liu Yusheng nodded and said, "Before you, the Immortal Medicine Sect has already found five predestined people, and they can all see a corner of the Six Paths Returning to One Technique. We believe that as long as we find the last one, we can piece together the Six Paths Returning to One Technique." The whole picture. Do you still remember the painting saint Wu Daozi recorded in the story of Fu Deng? He is one of the predestined people, so he can enter hell as a living person and present the scene of hell."

Yan Fei sneered, "Then how do you know that I am?"

"Didn't you say you were dreaming?" Liu Yusheng looked at him eagerly, "You said you dreamed of a stone bound by a magic circle. That is the miracle and omen that Bo Xun gave you. Only A sign that a predestined person can see."

Yan Fei thought of the dream just now again, and a chill ran through his limbs for some reason.

"No... You clearly confirmed that I am before I saw the Sutra of the Six Desires! How did you determine it?"

Liu Yusheng raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "You forgot, I said that my sense of smell is more sensitive than normal humans, and I can smell many things that even ghosts can't smell. Those who are predestined, they have left One keepsake is in the Immortal Medicine School, and there is a common aura left on those things. And when I met you for the first time, I smelled it on you."

Yan Fei muttered in a low voice, "Are you a dog... such a good nose..."

Liu Yusheng wasn't angry, "If it wasn't for this nose, I wouldn't have been in charge of Yuchan for so many years at such a young age."

"Okay, even so, why don't you just give me the scriptures, why do you want to abolish such a big Zhou Zhang?"

"Because if I deliberately give the book to you, you will be wary, and the contents of the book will not be able to truly enter the depths of your mind, and will not be able to trigger the 'miracle'." Liu Yusheng apologized, "Some things are more difficult. Unintentionally, the easier it is to succeed.”

Yan Fei was still dubious.How could it be such a coincidence that he was the last one who was destined?

This Liu Yusheng, although he looked handsome, elegant and sincere, actually couldn't even tell that he was lying, which showed his deep scheming.He can only listen to three points.

"So, you want to say that if I help you, you will help me save Master?"

"Heavenly Court has probably sensed our intentions. If they tell you to go back, they will definitely not keep you. If you rush back to hell now, you will die. That's why I didn't let you go back before."

"what about now?"

"Now, of course... go back secretly and rescue him." Liu Yusheng said, clapping his hands.The door opened, and a familiar person walked in.

Dasamore? !