hell in disguise

The cemetery of Kuipu was filled with dense fog, and the forest composed of bones and Baichi flowers was stacked and chaotic like a maze, and it was not so easy to get out.Yan Fei and Dan Zhu almost lost their way, but fortunately, Dan Zhu has a certain wayfinding ability, and finally got out of the predicament.Along the way, I saw many unlucky ghosts who were entangled into a cocoon by the vines because they accidentally injured Bai Chihua.Yan Fei rescued a few ghosts smoothly, but it also delayed the time. The breath here was stagnant, and the stench from Bai Chihua became more and more unbearable.Especially for Yan Fei.

Yan Fei gradually felt difficulty in breathing, and his head began to feel dizzy.He staggered under his feet, tripped over a flower vine, and fell to the ground in embarrassment.Dan Zhu felt that his breath was not quite right from just now, but seeing that he didn't say anything, he didn't ask any more questions.Seeing him fall suddenly, he hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and asked, "What's going on?"

Yan Fei looked around and saw that there were no other candidates or Earth Immortals present, so he whispered, "It's okay... Help me to stay under the tree over there."

Dan Zhu didn't know why, but he did as he said and helped him to sit under a strange tree with long branches hanging down.Those thick dark green branches wrapped around them, hiding them, even if someone passed by outside at this moment, they probably wouldn't find them.

Probably because of inhaling too much foul smell, even the effectiveness of Transforming Pills began to disappear.Yan Fei's skin became much paler, and his bright yellow eyes also darkened.The cyan lines on his body faded a lot, but on the contrary, there were many coiled and curled red patterns on his forehead.With shaking hands, Yan Fei hurriedly took out a kit from his bosom, opened it, put it between his nose and took a deep breath, closed his eyes slightly, revealing the kind of person who suddenly drank nectar after being hungry and thirsty for more than a month. enjoyment expression.

Dan Zhu looked at the changes in him in surprise, and was speechless for a moment.Seeing that his expression gradually softened, he asked in a low voice, "Have you taken the Transformation Pill?"

Yan Fei glanced at him and nodded, "Will you tell others?"

"...This is your business, why should I tell others." Dan Zhu frowned, "But it's not good to eat too much Transformation Pill, why did you pretend to be a green scale ghost?"

"...It's a long story. I don't think I can pretend for a long time..." Yan Fei lowered his eyes, stuffed the kit back into his arms, took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve pocket, and took out a The Transformation Pill was in his mouth.The characteristics of the fragrance-seeking ghost on him disappeared immediately, and he returned to the appearance of the green-scaled ghost before.

He knew that he had been delayed for a long time, and he was in a hurry for the next section of the road.There were a few times when ghosts tried to snatch the tokens from them, but Dan Zhu easily defeated them.It seems that even among the ghosts who are good at martial arts, Dan Zhu's skill is one of the best.

Near the edge of the Kui Shen cemetery, there is a huge Kui Shen skull, which has been well preserved after thousands of years. It is covered with thick layers of plants, and there are many insects of different shapes flying from time to time. smaller animals.Yan Fei noticed that the skull was full of brightly colored flowers, not Baichi flowers, but many kinds of gorgeous flowers that he had never seen in hell. They were blooming in dazzling colors, as if they were burning life to show off their beauty. .

Can such beautiful flowers grow in hell?

Moreover, in the eye socket of that Kuibi, sat a woman wearing a purple skirt embroidered with manjusawa, her bare feet swaying carelessly.Half of her face is extremely gorgeous, while the other half is dying.Youth and decay are strangely blended together, which is impressive.

He thought it was another earth fairy guarding the checkpoint, but Dan Zhu passed by as if he didn't see her, and there was no ghost in front of this woman to challenge her.

And her gaze passed through those exotic flowers and plants, and directly collided with his gaze.For a moment, Yan Fei felt a strange feeling of dizziness, a deep fear that leaked from the darkest corner of his consciousness.

Seeing his expression, the woman seemed a little sad. She stretched out her index finger, put it on her lips, and made a "shh" gesture.

In the next moment, Yan Fei blinked, and the woman disappeared again.He almost thought he was hallucinating.

"What are you looking at?" Dan Zhu stopped and asked him.

Yan Fei hesitated and shook his head, then continued to catch up with him.

At the end of Kuipu's cemetery, there is really a cliff.Thick bloody water was tumbling down there, constantly surging towards the sea of ​​blood pools in the distance.There are a few blood-red traces exposed in the gloomy clouds on the horizon, which complement each other with the red sea, which is so gorgeous that it hurts the eyes.

Are you going to swim to the sky in this swim... Even if you live in the water like a fishwife ghost, I'm afraid you will swim to death...

From a distance, I could already see some black spots in the river, rising and falling with the waves, like dust and sand, which would be swallowed up at any time, probably some ghosts who were faster than them had already jumped into it.

Difficulty also appeared on Danzhu's face, but he also felt that there was no other way.He was about to throw away the heavy weapon on his body, but Yan Fei stopped him, pointing to dozens of dark holes on the cliff and said, "Look at that!"

"That's... Guhuo Bird Cave?"

Guhuo birds perch on the edge of the blood pool and feed on the little ghosts hatched in the blood pool. Those little ghosts they can't eat will be thrown away by them to different hells, and gradually transform into different forms of ghosts.

Therefore, the ghosts in hell always have a kind of fear rooted in childhood about Guhuo Bird. Their pale eyes are always full of blood and tears, and there are huge hideous wounds on their stomachs. Their shriveled and thin bodies have terrible strength. .Some people even say that they have never been reincarnated at all, because they were betrayed by their dearest people in the previous life, and they have too much resentment. Only revenge can make them peaceful, so Fengdu arranged for them to live beside the blood pool and take charge of guarding the area. An endless sea of ​​blood.

If you see a guhuo bird, it will cause instinctive fear and nausea in the other ghost, and you want to run away immediately.

But Yan Fei had no such fear.After all, he is not a real ghost.

Danzhu showed a look of disgust and fear, "What do you want to do?"

"Guhuo Niao flies very fast and has great strength. If they can send us across the sea of ​​blood, we can reach the outside of Datiewei Mountain in less than half a day!" Yan Fei said excitedly.

Dan Zhu looked at him with an expression of "Are you crazy", "Then how are you going to 'convince' them?"

"Although the charm they gave us looks very simple, if used well, it can affect any species, regardless of language." Yan Fei looked around, and suddenly remembered what he saw just now. Passing the weird woman's skull, "Wait for me, I'll go back as soon as I go."

Dan Zhu watched Yan Fei run away in bewilderment, and ran back with a lot of strange-shaped flowers in his hand after a while.Living in the Great Red Lotus Hell where not a single blade of grass grows, Dan Zhu has never seen these beautiful but very confusing plants, let alone what Yan Feicai did with them.

"Many people don't know that Guhuobiao likes flowers, especially flowers that look good and smell good. Probably because although there is only resentment left in their hearts, they still retain some tender memories. Is there any girl who doesn't like flowers?" Yan While talking, Fei was looking for a way down the cliff.

Seeing that he looked confident, Dan Zhu sighed and said, "I'll take you down."

He wrapped his arms around Yan Fei's waist with one hand, and the other hand was instantly covered by the red crystals. The crystals condensed on his fingertips, forming bloody claws as sharp as knives.Similar sharp claws were also formed on his feet.He plunged his sharp claws into the rock like this, and climbed down the cliff as quickly and nimbly as a gecko.

Suddenly, they heard a shrill hiss that almost pierced their eardrums falling from the sky, followed by a hurricane, accompanied by a stench similar to that emitted by animals.Yan Fei heard Dan Zhu's heartbeat suddenly quicken, and said in a low voice, "We've been discovered!" A burst of confusion ensued.

A gigantic bird descended from the sky waving its huge wings.The huge blood-red bird claws scratched deep bloodstains on Danzhu's back in an instant, and even those red crystals could hardly protect him.While protecting Yan Fei, Dan Zhu tried hard to drive away Gu Huo Niao, in a panic.

"Go to the hole next to it!" Yan Fei shouted at him.

Danzhu couldn't help it, so he swung violently and rolled into the cave with Yan Fei in his arms.The two of them rolled on the ground for a few laps before stopping. They didn't have time to look at the surrounding scene, but felt that all the bones in their bodies were about to break.Yan Fei was on top of Dan Zhu, but he didn't fall so hard.As soon as he looked up, he saw Dan Zhu's face wrinkled together in pain.

"Are you okay!" Yan Fei hurriedly climbed off him, a little embarrassed and embarrassed.Dan Zhu waved his hand, and finally regained some strength, but his cheeks were also slightly flushed.

However, when they raised their heads, they all froze in place.

A few girl birds surrounded them, staring down at them blankly with white empty eyes.

Gu Huo Niao, commonly known as childbirth, is a fierce ghost transformed into a child who died unjustly.The thin female body is blue and white, with only a piece of blood-stained cloth wrapped around the waist and dark red bird legs wrapped around it. There is no hair on the head, only overlapping semicircular bird feathers, and a pair of them are wide open. The white eyes without irises were dripping with blood and tears.

Stared at by such a pair of empty eyes, even the murderous ghost king, I'm afraid the hairs will stand on end.

At this time, the even bigger guhu bird that attacked them just now also landed at the entrance of the cave, blocking their way out.Light came from behind the big bird, casting shadows on them.

Yan Fei looked around and felt that the bird that attacked them just now was probably the leader of this cave.

So he stood up cautiously, keeping his eyes on the young bird standing at the entrance of the cave.But as soon as he moved, the guhuo bird suddenly raised its huge wings and roared at Yan Fei like a demonstration.The miserable and broken cry echoed in the cave several times, and it sounded more thunderous and intimidating than it sounded outside.

Dan Zhu also flinched, his whole body was cold.There are so many young birds in this cave, if they attack at the same time, he and Yan Fei might die here.

But at this moment, Jian Na Yaoyao, who had been circling several times in mid-air, watched them enter the Guhuo Bird Cave, and was in a state of confusion for a while.Even if he rushed towards the direction of the cliff, he couldn't care less about hearing that Hongwuchang behind him was reporting to him the situation of the candidates everywhere.

But when he got to him, he hesitated again.Regarding the aunts and birds, he told Yan Fei many stories about them.Yan Fei...if he had any plans of his own?

If he made a move at this time, it would be regarded as disrupting the selection, and Yan Fei's candidacy would probably be cancelled.Although this was what he wanted, he knew that if it was because of this willingness to quit, Yan Fei would not be convinced.

So he had no choice but to suppress the anxiety surging in his heart, fixed his eyes on the hole, mobilized the seven souls in his body to the extreme, and made his intuition several times stronger than before.With the depth of his bond with Yan Fei, as long as something happened to Yan Fei, he should be able to detect it immediately.

But in the cave at this time, Yan Fei was not scared off by the roar.He knew that if he showed fear and flinched at this moment, he and Danzhu would really be dead.

He wants the girls to know that he is not afraid of them, but he will not hurt them either.

Yan Fei raised his spiritual power to the extreme, and exuded charm from every pore in his body.His bright yellow eyes stirred up circles of vortexes, which infiltrated into the soulless eyes of Guhuo Bird one by one.

He remembered that the master had told him about those young birds guarding the pool of blood.They are the first catastrophe for the ghosts in hell after they are born, but they themselves are actually more pitiful than anyone else.

They died in the process of giving birth.In their most vulnerable moments, when they needed the most care, they were killed by their husbands, killed by their own families.The people she loved the most, at the moment when she told the doctor to "keep the child", when her husband turned around and left without hesitation as soon as he heard that he was giving birth to a girl, their illusion of happiness in life was shattered.

They are stuck in the moment of motherhood, unable to move forward and unable to retreat.They love their children and hate them, and go to them before they can hug their own flesh and blood.Too much resentment distorted their souls into the appearance of aunts, unable to reincarnate, and only wanted revenge.They stood guard on the other side of the pool of blood, waiting for an opportunity for revenge that they didn't know when it would come.Endless time, all they have is survival and hatred.Hatred swallowed and distorted them, turning them into monsters who drank blood and ate flesh.

Yan Fei was not born in hell, so he felt less fear of them and more sympathy for them.

These girls had naively hoped and yearned for it. When they were young, they had fantasized about what kind of husband they would marry in the future and what kind of lovely children they would have.They all once looked at the peach and apricot blossoms outside the window and bent their eyes with a smile, and they all had the cardamom years that were in bud.

But life turned them into monsters in the end.

Yan Fei thought back to Master's gentleness, recalled the rare smile that Master showed that fascinated him, and then turned this tenderness into his own weapon, showing it through his own eyes.He carefully raised the flowers in his hand and handed them to the girl from a distance, showing a faint smile.

That kind of smile, even Dan Zhu couldn't help forgetting his fear when he saw it, and stared dumbfounded.

Gu Huo Niao stared at him suspiciously.In these long years, no one has ever smiled at her like this, let alone showed such a gentle and sympathetic expression to her.This is something she is not very familiar with, but feels very familiar to her. It seems that she has obtained something long, long ago, so long that she can't even remember it.

Who is this boy?Why are you smiling at her?Why do you smile so nicely?Why did you send her flowers?

She was a little scared, so she yelled again in self-defense.But not only was the man not scared away by her, but he still stared at her quietly, as if he was distressed by all the wounds left on her body.The bouquet of colorful flowers still stood quietly in front of her.

Something warm and soft, something that should have died in the previous life, quietly revived in a heart destroyed by resentment.

She likes this man in red, she doesn't want to eat him.He should not be the enemy.

When the auntie approached Yan Fei, cold sweat dripped down Dan Zhu's forehead.He squeezed the hilt of the sword in his hand tightly, but his palm was wet, and he couldn't hold it firmly no matter what.

But in the next moment, the girl lowered her head slightly and sniffed the bouquet of flowers.

Almost instantly, the atmosphere in the cave changed subtly.The previous moment was full of danger and killing intent, but this moment suddenly relaxed.The other aunts also showed some curiosity and approached Yan Fei one after another to sniff the flowers in his hand.

In fact, they are not fierce at all, but no one thinks that they can be very happy just by sending a bouquet of flowers.

Yan Fei turned his head and smiled at Dan Zhu with a smug smile.

At that moment, Dan Zhu felt that Yan Fei was not a ghost, but a god who was still shining in the mud.