hell in disguise

The closer you get to the Buddhist temples that are open to the outside world, the more lay pilgrims and believers will be, and the scene before Tan Yangzi's eyes will become more bizarre.A group of melted flesh squirmed past him, all the limbs and five sense organs were in the wrong positions, but the voices were those of a few aristocratic family members talking and laughing loudly.In the distance, there are quite a few frog-like human figures wriggling on the futons. Every time they kowtow, a new sore pops up on the back of the head, which shows that they are praying for the evil of causing others to suffer losses in order to satisfy their own greed. willing.The tongues of the "Taoist priests" sitting by the fortune-telling booths not far away dragged all the way to the ground, covered with maggots; there was also the lady surrounded by maidservants, but the soul of fate was a rotting body with only one head. A skull with long black hair.

However, under the four huge statues of gods in the Tianwang Temple, there is a young man standing alone among the demons and monsters.He looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a red dress, holding a long plain oiled paper umbrella with three copper bells tied to the handle.He is tall and straight, with black hair that reaches to his waist and hips, and is only loosely pulled up from his temples, taking advantage of his skin to become as cold and white as snow jade.

Yan Fei, a homeless boy taken in by Tan Yangzi ten years ago.So far, he is the only human being who can't see the real body of the soul.

Seeing him, Yan Fei grinned, revealing a sharp canine tooth at the corner of his mouth.It added a bit of innocence to his flamboyant temperament that had already begun to take shape.

"Master!"

Tan Yangzi took a step forward and dragged Yan Fei to a place where there was no one else. His always calm and calm face suddenly became vivid, his brows stood upright, and he muttered, "What are you doing here? Have you brought them all?!"

"Let me help you!" Yan Fei's smile was brilliant and beautiful, and the ladies who passed by couldn't help but glance a few more times, secretly imagining how great it would be if this smile was for him.

But Tan Yangzi, who accepted the smile, only felt a headache, and scolded in a low voice, "How many times have I said, I don't need help!"

"There has always been a Red Wuchang by Qing Wuchang's side, right?" Yan Fei persisted in distinguishing, "Just like black and white Wuchang always act together, have you ever seen a black Wuchang who seduces the soul all day long? I recently learned Come quickly, and I can help you if you are in danger."

Tan Yangzi let out a long breath, as if he was suppressing the irritability in his heart, and said word by word, "First of all, I haven't needed Hongwuchang in the past 300 years, and I won't need it in the future. Secondly, even if I want to find Hongwuchang , it can’t be a human being, let alone you brat! Hurry up and go home!” His voice was deep and depressing, impersonal, and the more he got to the back, the more severe he was.If ordinary people heard it, they would have been afraid and obedient.

But after all, Yan Fei had grown up with him for ten years, so he was used to it.Not only was he not afraid, but he deliberately frowned and looked at Tan Yangzi from bottom to top from the corners of his eyes.His eyeballs were originally big and black, but after doing this, it became more and more like a dog's expression when watching its master eat delicious food but not giving it to him.

The corner of Tan Yangzi's mouth twitched indistinctly, and said coldly, "Don't pretend to be pitiful."

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"You go home first, and I will go back tomorrow."

"..."

Tan Yangzi sighed, softened his expression a little, lowered his voice and softened his tone, "I'll bring you back Cheese Zhang's crispy cheese."

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Even Suche can't buy him off, this little bastard is becoming more and more difficult to coax...Tan Yangzi can't help but miss the nine-year-old little porcelain doll ten years ago, who laughed so hard when given a piece of candy, and was so obedient ……well……

"There is no place for you to live here. Come back at midnight and wait for me at the east wall." Tan Yangzi finally said in an almost self-defeating tone, "Don't make an example."

Yan Fei immediately beamed with joy, his eyes sparkled, "Then I'll come tonight!"

Tan Yangzi waved his hand and said like a sheep, "Go."

Yan Fei turned around and took two steps outside, then turned around and asked worriedly, "Master, you won't lie to me and let me wait there, will you?"

A blush of embarrassment that had been seen through Tan Yangzi's ears flashed slightly, but he quickly said angrily, "Am I that kind of person?!"

Yan Fei then smiled brightly again, and his smile became more and more charming like a poppy, but as a man, there were signs of disaster, and he didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune.

Watching Yan Fei walk away, Tan Yangzi let out a sigh of relief, turned around and looked at the little monk who was waiting for him in the distance, only to find that the little monk who was in an undecided mood was still staring at Yan Fei's back in a daze, presumably it was a sign .Now the corpse candle formation has gradually failed, half of the little monk's face has changed back to a human appearance, and the other half of his face is still a pig's appearance, that stupid appearance looks a little funny.

Tan Yangzi walked up to him and coughed heavily, and then pulled back the little monk's Piaoyuan mind.He hurriedly asked, "Will the other high-ranking disciples wait?"

"I asked him to go to his house. He is not a monk, so it is not good to live here. And I have already disturbed him." Tan Yangzi said lightly, "Thank you master for leading the way, the bad guy is ignorant, please forgive me if there is any offense."

"It's easy to say, Gaotu is really a talent!"

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Tan Yangzi went back to the room, closed his eyes and meditated for a while, and waited until it was almost time for the evening class, then picked up a black candle and lit it again.This candle is different from ordinary candles. It is made of human corpses that have rotted for several months in a damp and stuffy place. The wax on the surface is scraped as raw material, and then mixed with the meat of industrial insects and ordinary wax oil. It is called corpse candle. .The production steps are cumbersome. Although they are distributed uniformly, they should not be too wasteful to use.

It was already sunset, but the rain had already stopped.The setting sun showed half of its face from behind the clouds, and the red light penetrated through the paper window, casting a long shadow of the pane on the ground.

The black candle was burning, and the dark fragrance with a fishy smell diffused faintly, gradually filling the room.With that fragrance, the originally warm slanting light condensed a little bit, turning into a gloomy and pale light.The fog gradually thickened, blurring the scenery ten steps away, and the Chinese toon tree in front of the door condensed into a flamboyant and weird silhouette.There are more industrial insects than before, and there is almost no place to set foot.Accidentally stepping on one or two bodies, it feels like stepping on a puddle of fat scraped from a dead pig, and the touch feels extremely disgusting and sticky.

Tan Yangzi took the bronze sword and went straight to the outside of the Daxiong Palace.Across a courtyard far away, the sight in front of me was astonishing.As far as the eye can see, there are karmic insects everywhere, of different lengths, shorts and thicknesses, tangled into clumps, hanging on the eaves of the original majestic Daxiong Hall, and coiled between several vermilion lacquer pillars.The ground was completely invisible, leaving only a dense mass of flesh-colored worms wriggling, like tapeworms magnified several times, entangled and devoured each other.The air was filled with a stench that made people want to vomit, and it was several times stronger than before.The trees had already started to wither, and the vermilion lacquer on the doors and windows of the Buddha Hall was also peeling off in large pieces. It was not the resplendent appearance in the eyes of the world at all, but a dilapidated and decayed appearance that was about to collapse at any time.

Even Tan Yangzi, who was used to seeing such things as karmic insects, couldn't help feeling his scalp tingle after seeing so many of them at one time. He hesitated for a moment, then jumped up and floated up to the front of the hall like a blue floating feather. The ancient locust tree with slightly less insects.Pausing for a while, listening to the loud and distant sound of monks chanting scriptures from the hall, it is as solemn as ever, and it is very strange to match the decayed and collapsed scene in Tan Yangzi's eyes.In just one month, the holy spirit in the Buddhist temple and treasure temple can be destroyed to such an extent that the ghost this time is probably stronger than he imagined.

He stepped on a thick long branch, and as the branch whirled, he landed on the roof of the Daxiong Palace that was densely covered with karmic insects.The original glazed tiles had been corroded by the mucus secreted from the body of the karma, and became extremely fragile. He creaked when he took a step, and seemed to be broken at any time.Tan Yangzi kicked a few karmic insects away with his feet, groped around on the eaves tiles, found a few broken and loose tiles after a few tries, carefully uncovered them one by one, and looked into the hall.

The main hall is brightly lit and surrounded by fragrant clouds.All the monks lined up on both sides, bowed down to the gold-painted Sakyamuni Buddha statue directly in front of them.The abbot, Guanyun, stood at the front, and Guanyi, who was a wiener, was knocking on copper at the low table on the side of the incense table.It was supposed to be a solemn and sacred scene, but because what Tan Yangzi saw in his eyes was the appearance of the eighth consciousness after the human form was stripped off, those monks were less deformed than ordinary people outside the temple, but they looked very human and not human. Weird, so not so much sacred as a little scary.

The original guess in Tan Yangzi's mind was that the ghost was on Guanyun.I went to the Sengliao to watch before, and found that the closer to the elders and monks, the denser the karmic insects in the Sengliao.And that Guanyun seems to have a lot of anger habits, and the people in the temple seem to like Master Guanyi more, but they dare not speak out against him, which may make him even more aggrieved.If the hatred in the heart is suppressed much, it is easy to attract the ghosts with common characteristics.

But to his surprise, Guan Yun's appearance was unexpectedly close to his original human appearance, but because of the habit of anger, two long fangs grew out of his mouth.Looking around, he was actually the person with the lightest evil karma in the whole temple, and there was even a faint layer of milky white streamer around his body, which was the light that only a person with advanced cultivation base would have.

What surprised Tan Yangzi even more was Master Guanyi.

The eminent monk Guanyi, who was said by the monks to be kind and kind, was more suitable to be an abbot than Guanyun. At this moment, he solidified into a dark, thin and crooked shadow.Numerous slender arms grew densely from top to bottom of his body, like dead branches of trees, dancing with teeth and claws above the entire hall.At the end of those arms grew a small hand with nine dry fingers that opened and closed in the air as if grabbing something.If you look closely, you will find that even his face has grown arms, and his facial features are squeezed and distorted.Those arms dangled on the heads of certain monks who were more severely deformed, and slender, siphon-like fingers were inserted into the heads of those monks from their ears, noses, and even eye sockets.

Seen from a distance, Master Guanyi was no longer a human being, but a huge caterpillar with dense black thorns all over his body.Just looking at it, I already feel itchy all over my body and my scalp is numb.

It turned out that the ghost was actually on Master Guanyi...

This ghost is a thorny ghost who escaped from Avici Hell. It was reincarnated in hell because of jealousy, hatred, and even karmic attraction that harmed people.

The hell and the human world are almost completely overlapped, but because of the limitations of the physical abilities of the living beings in it, they can only see and live in their own worlds.The environment in the hell realm is harsh and miserable, but all the ghosts have a long lifespan. Occasionally, some who have attained the Tao will always find a way to escape hell from places with weaker barriers between the two realms, and infiltrate into the human world.This is the case with the Thorny Heart Ghost.They will choose some people with similar karma to attach to them, in an attempt to use their human breath to avoid the pursuit of ghosts from hell.

And it is Qinghong Erwuchang who is responsible for hunting down these evil spirits who escaped from hell.Speaking of Master Impermanence, the seducer of souls, everyone knows that black and white are impermanent.When a person's life comes to an end, they will appear, lead the soul to the underworld, drink Mengpo soup, cross the bridge of Naihe, and reincarnate into the six realms.Attracted by the karma of the eighth consciousness, one becomes an adult, an animal, or a demon of hell.

But few people in the world know that impermanence is not only black and white, there is also a kind of impermanence who wears green clothes, and a kind of people who wear red clothes. They can go back and forth between hell and the world without taking the road of hell.Like black and white impermanence, blue and red impermanence usually appear together. Green impermanence has a sword for collecting karma, and red impermanence holds an umbrella for crossing evil. Before arriving, you can hear the soul-crossing bell on the handle of red impermanence, and the demons will be frightened when they hear it.

Tanyangzi, whose name in hell is Kannamara, is a lonely Qingwuchang.His partner Hong Wuchang died when he was capturing a Raksha ghost 300 years ago.Ghost messengers don't have the eighth consciousness that can be reincarnated. This death is the end of the lamp, and there is nowhere to look for it in the sky and the earth.The higher-ups also wanted to assign him a new Hong Wuchang, but he refused.Fortunately, his skills are very good, and he hasn't had any troubles in the past 300 years, so the above-mentioned matter will no longer be mentioned.

Tan Yangzi snorted softly. Although the Spiny Heart Ghost didn't kill any people this time, he was too greedy to plant his karmic roots in this blessed land, so that this world and the world could be reconciled. The openings of hell were torn wider.Presumably those branches-like withered hands were probing around at night, which affected many monks whose concentration was not strong enough and who still had suppressed evil thoughts in their hearts.This is why there have been many tensions and disputes among monks this month.

It's just that for some reason, it turned out to be attached to Master Guanyi.

At this time, there are too many people in the hall, it is difficult to start.Tan Yangzi quietly put the tiles back, and the next moment the person was gone.

He stepped down with the wind, and his whole body blurred into a blue shadow, crossing the roofs of the palaces, and the sleeves of his robe spread behind him like wings.He came all the way to the monk's dormitory, pasted a yellow paper amulet on the roof of each house at a very fast speed, and finally came to the door of Master Guanyun's room.At this time, the efficacy of the corpse candle faded again, and the usual appearance of the monk's room appeared, with blue tiles and white walls. The walls seemed to have been painted not long ago, clean and orderly.

Tan Yangzi thought for a while, and hid two charms under the broken stone steps in front of Guanyun's room.Then he walked to the door of Guanyi's room and took a closer look.The blue tiles and white walls, the paper pasting the windows are all torn, the door and the door frame seem to be a bit out of alignment, so that the door can't be closed tightly, it looks more dilapidated than Master Guanyun's hut, but it is well maintained tidy.There is not even a fallen leaf on the steps, and there is no dust on the window frame.

This simple and shabby monk's dormitory gives people a sense of deliberation.Because window paper is not a rare item, in a big temple like Xiangguo Temple, apart from the incense of pilgrims, even the imperial court will allocate funds for repairs every year. Save such a little money that is not even a fraction.If it is said that he doesn't care about the place he lives in, so he allows it to be destroyed, but he chooses to clean it up so that it is spotless, and there are no weeds on the roof.

He thought of Yuan Heng's words to describe Guanyi, benevolent, forbearing, thrifty and simple, so perfect that it seemed to fill in all the lacking things of the abbot.Even the monk's dormitory in front of him seems to be a different kind of comparison.

Tan Yangzi suddenly understood why the thorny heart ghost was attached to Guan Yi.Because deep down in Guanyi's heart, he has always been strongly jealous and hated Guanyun.

Maybe it's because I have been working so hard, and as the first disciple, the master's mantle should be passed on to him, but for such an unexpected and ridiculous reason, I lost to my junior.Perhaps it was because he thought he was better than his junior brother, but he just wanted to nod and bow to his junior brother who was inferior to him in everything.Maybe it's because he obviously hates his junior so much, yet he still wants to give up everything for the sake of his kind and uncontested image.This resentment has been piling up little by little over the years, and finally attracted the Thorny Ghost.

Tan Yangzi remembered that he also caught another Thorny Heart Ghost 15 years ago.This kind of ghost feeds on jealousy and hatred, so it will always choose those people who suppress dark jealousy in their hearts to possess.The longer the time, the stronger its influence, not only the possessed person, but also the suppressed malice in the hearts of the people around him will gradually permeate.That time they found out too late, the scholars in the whole academy suddenly started to kill each other, when he arrived, the ground was covered with stumps and blood, internal organs overflowed from the abdominal cavity, and the eyes of distorted faces were like fish Prominent, the situation is tragic.

At present, the Thorny Heart Ghost has only been possessed for a month, if it takes longer, I'm afraid there will be a tragedy of monks and monks killing each other sooner or later.