hell in disguise

"Since you and I were born in hell, it means that we have done evil things in our previous lives. It is only natural to be punished now." Understanding is understanding, Tan Yangzi still has to catch it back.After all, the responsibility lies, and these ghosts cannot be allowed to wreak havoc on the world.

"No matter how bad it is, 500 years is enough! Besides, who is going to adjudicate what crime I have committed?! Who is innocent in this world?! How can gods, people and Shura have these things?! I I don't accept it! I don't accept it!" The heart-piercing howl of the Thorn Heart Ghost in his head sent chills down his back, and the scorching frostbite had already crawled to his throat.

But at this moment, the Spiny Heart Ghost suddenly let out another scream mixed with anger and panic.The ubala flower's light flickered a few times, and then went out.The thorn-like hands that had originally bound Tan Yangzi's waist loosened one after another.Where the karma-slashing sword pierced, the cyan hellfire ignited again, and it burned all over Thorn Heart Ghost's body in an instant.

Tan Yangzi's heart relaxed, it seemed that Yan Fei had successfully awakened Master Guanyi.

Gradually regaining consciousness in his right arm, Tan Yangzi pulled out his Zhanye sword, watching the Thorny Heart Ghost who was on fire writhing crazily in the darkest night before dawn.One of the two smaller Prickly Heart Ghosts next to it was hit by the big Prickly Heart Ghost and instantly caught fire, while the other wanted to run away.Turning around, Tan Yangzi threw the karma-slashing sword in his hand, and precisely inserted it into the little Prickly Heart Ghost.The cyan flame shot up into the sky again, engulfing the kid in an instant.

The three huge cyan sky pillars twisted wildly in the dark night, but the original solid figure became somewhat transparent and shrunk rapidly, so it did not cause too serious damage to the surrounding houses, but only knocked down a bell and drum tower.Probably because Guanyi escaped from the root of the big thorny heart ghost, lost the protection of the human body, and was seriously injured by Tan Yangzi, these thorny heart ghosts could not survive in the human world for a long time.

In the end, the three thorny heart ghosts turned into three small blue flames, floating in the air like will-o'-the-wisps, as if they wanted to wait for an opportunity to escape.

Tan Yangzi made a seal with his hands on his chest, opened his mouth and spit out a pearl, holding it between his lips and teeth.As soon as the pearl came out, the three ghosts made shrill screams as if they were being sucked into the pearl.In an instant, the color of the beads began to reveal some light gray.Tan Yangzi moved the tip of his tongue and swallowed the bead again.

This soul-absorbing bead is also a treasure that Qingwuchang carries with him. It can be used to temporarily imprison those weakened ghosts. If it is swallowed by Qingwuchang again, it can be suppressed for a longer period of time.Every time a ghost is collected, it will turn black by one point. When the beads become pure black, Qing Wuchang must go back to hell and send those ghosts to trial.

After the ghost shadows dissipated, a strange blue flower shaped like a lotus floated down, about the size of a palm. Each petal seemed to be carved from jade, and the fingertips felt cold to the bone.Tan Yangzi picked up the flower with the pad of his sleeve, and looked at it carefully in front of his eyes.

A lingering cold light circulates in the depths of the flower heart, like a flashing cold light in the depths of the eyeballs.

He tore off a hem of his clothes, carefully wrapped the ubala flower, and put it in his sleeve pocket.

A red shadow flashed in front of his eyes, and for a moment Tan Yangzi almost thought it was that person who had returned...but soon he saw clearly that the boy who was holding his right hand and pulling up his sleeve was eroded by panic and worry. face, "What happened to your hands? And your neck!"

Tan Yangzi withdrew his hand from the boy's hand, pulled up his sleeves to cover up the fine blue lines that had not faded in the future, "It's okay, a little injury, it will heal after a night's rest." Yan Fei looked him up and down.Except for the disheveled hair, Yan Fei seemed to be unscathed and in good spirits, which meant that he didn't encounter much resistance in Guan Yi's dream.Tan Yangzi let go of his hanging heart, and his stern and serious face eased slightly, "Where is Guanyi?"

Yan Fei pointed to the lonely figure sitting in the corner of the meditation room not far away with an umbrella, and sighed sympathetically, "He probably isn't in a good mood."

It's just that there seems to be a little evil in this sympathy.

Tan Yangzi frowned slightly, "How did you wake him up?"

Yan Fei said with an innocent expression, "I just convinced him by explaining the truth to him."

Tan Yangzi raised one eyebrow.If it's so easy to influence people, why do gods and Buddhas need to do it... This kid is obviously trying to play him off.Judging by the pained and empty expression on Guan Yi's expression at this moment, what he did was not just as simple as "telling the truth"...

He walked towards Guanyi, only to see that the originally benevolent and benevolent face of the man was dull at the moment, the whole person hugged his knees and curled up against the wall, his body was shaking back and forth unconsciously, and he was muttering, saying something "" I didn't mean to...I didn't mean to...I was wrong...I was wrong..." Such words.

Tan Yangzi squatted down slowly in front of him, calling his name in a deep voice.But Guanyi didn't respond, he was still shaking back and forth, as if he was very scared.

Tan Yangzi sighed, then turned to stare at Yan Fei, "How did you wake him up?!"

Hearing Tan Yangzi's tone became severe, Yan Fei lowered his head and played with the soul-inducing bell on the umbrella handle, and said cautiously, "He refuses to face up to his heart, and in his dreams he still looks like a Bodhisattva who saves all living beings." , and said that I was a demon that affected his cultivation. So I dug inside and showed him his eighth consciousness, and he broke down a bit. I trapped him in his eighth consciousness. It's been about a year since he was in the consciousness, and he's been like this since he came out..."

Tan Yangzi was a little dumbfounded.In these years, he has been alone, and in order to catch those spells that manipulate the consciousness of Hongwuchang, he has also learned a little bit, knowing that Hongwuchang, who has profound spells, can control the dreams or illusions of anyone who is invaded by them, including those people The passage of time in the mind.That is to say, one second in reality may be equivalent to ten years in those people's fantasy, or several years in reality are just a flick of a finger in the fantasy.What is stored in the eighth consciousness is the karma accumulated by people in countless lifetimes. Although there are good karmas, there are not as many bad karmas after all.There is like a deep pit for dumping rotting garbage, the most real and ugly self that people never want to face.Under the influence of the corpse candle array, a green and red impermanence like Tan Yangzi may be able to briefly see people's eighth consciousness concretizing into a concrete form, but in fact the eighth consciousness is a vast existence like a small world , is the most primitive building material in hell.

In other words, Yan Fei trapped Guanyi in hell, and it was tailor-made for him alone for a whole year.It was full of his suffering, resentment, grievance, fear, sorrow, and the past events and nightmares that he least wanted to think of. It was no wonder that this man lost his mind after he came out.

He didn't expect that Yan Fei could dig out the eighth consciousness of people directly in the dream.One must know that even Hong Wuchang, who was recruited by Fengdu just now, usually takes ten to thirty years to master this trick, and this kid has come to this point only by self-study.

But now is not the time to praise him.Tan Yangzi's face darkened, "You are too ruthless! Generally, such a forceful method to face one's eighth consciousness can only be used when other methods have no effect, and even if you want to lock him in It seldom lasts more than three days. You locked him in for a year?! It’s no wonder he doesn’t go crazy when he wakes up!”

Yan Fei seemed aggrieved, and said in a low voice, "Didn't I worry that you would get hurt, so I was in a hurry... He refused to face himself, and obviously all his grievances had attracted the Thorny Ghost, but he still thought he was It’s a very magnanimous and magnanimous living Bodhisattva giving teachings to others in a dream. If you want such a person to see clearly how much he hates his junior brother, there is no other way but to show him the real self..."

Tan Yangzi glared at him fiercely, just about to say that there are more ways to go.But after thinking about it, it was also my own fault. Knowing that Yan Fei was still too young and had not received serious training to let him do such an important job, he had no choice but to swallow the retort and reprimand, "You... that's all, I'll settle the score with you when I get back." What's more important now is to bring back Guan Yi's sanity.

What they Qinghongwuchang are catching are ghosts, and it is not within their scope of duty to punish humans without disturbing the order of the world as much as possible.It drives people crazy for no reason, and if the higher-ups know about it, it will definitely be troublesome again.

He patted Guan Yi's face lightly, then lifted the mage's jaw, forcing him to meet his eyes.When those dazed eyes finally settled on his face, Tan Yangzi said in a rare low and gentle voice, "It's all right, you've come out."

Guanyi's lips trembled, and tears burst out suddenly. He was obviously 50 years old, but the horror in his eyes was like a child's, which made people feel sad, "I'm guilty...I'm so guilty... I killed someone... I'm going to hell..."

"You didn't harm anyone. It's the ghost that did the harm, not you." Tan Yangzi comforted him patiently, staring at him with sharp eyes, which actually gave Guanyi a sense of peace of mind, "People can't help it." Control what you think, some sinful or dark thoughts are normal, as long as you don't actually act on it you are not guilty."

"But...but Guanyun's health has been getting worse and worse recently, and it's because of me!" Guanyi grabbed Tan Yangzi's sleeves as if he wanted to grab a life-saving straw, "I...I have always hated him in my heart, so Only then will those ghosts take advantage of it. They always say in my ear at night that they can make Guanyun disappear, and then I can become an abbot or even a national teacher to make Xiangguo Temple more prosperous, so I let them in It's... I was greedy for vanity and jealous, and I almost killed everyone in the temple... I'm guilty! I'm guilty!"

Tan Yangzi is actually the worst at these comforting words.This kind of work was done by his partner Hong Wuchang 300 years ago... Even if he was the only one left for these 300 years, he would just accept the ghost and leave, and he would rarely have anything to do with the possessed person comminicate.Now listening to Guan Yi crying, I only feel irritable in my heart, but I don't know how to persuade him.

He gave Yan Fei another hard look, meaning: It's all because of you!

Yan Fei stood there aggrieved and did not dare to speak.

But at this time, the originally quiet monk's room on both sides began to light up gradually.The doors of a few sporadic rooms opened, and some monks came out one after another hesitantly, their faces full of confusion, as if they didn't know why they were here.Presumably the thorny ghost wanted to deal with Tan Yangzi, so it trapped these monks in their dreams.In addition, most of the monks in the monastery have already been controlled by the Thorny Heart Ghost. Now that the control is lifted, they naturally don't know where they are.

When they saw Master Guanyi sitting slumped on the ground with a pale face, they immediately surrounded him.Yuan Heng was also among them. He called Master a few times and got no response. He was so anxious that he was about to burst into tears, so he knelt down in front of Tan Yangzi and begged in a crying voice, "Living Bodhisattva, since you can exorcise ghosts , just save our master!"

Tan Yangzi's general habit is to leave quietly after taking in ghosts, and he has never been surrounded by people like this before.He became more and more irritable, but he couldn't get away for a while.

At this time, the monks became quiet and separated silently. It turned out that Master Guanyun had come.The abbot was still wearing the cassock he had worn during evening class, and his expression was as dignified as before.He came to Tan Yangzi and Guan Yi, looked down at his senior brother, then slowly squatted down, stretched out his hand, and hugged Guan Yi who was still muttering that he was guilty.

Guan Yi was stunned for a moment, his whole body was like a clay sculpture, motionless.

Guan Yun patted Guan Yi's back with his hands, and said in a gentle tone that was completely different from his usual stern and selfless image, "Brother, it's okay."

Guan Yi was still dumbfounded and didn't respond.

Guan Yun said again, "Brother, I know what you're thinking. I don't blame you, because I was also at fault."

Guanyi shivered, as if he couldn't believe what he heard, "You...you know?"

"Brother, none of us are empty of all four things. You only know that you have demons in your heart, don't you think I don't?" Guan Yun said lightly, and sighed, "You are jealous of me in your heart, why haven't I ever been right? Your jealousy? You are kind and kind by nature, and you are so kind to everyone. I can’t learn this. I know that I don’t have your kindness, so I want to surpass you in other aspects. Passed the mantle to me. I think, this is probably the test that the master gave me."

Guan Yi stared blankly at Guan Yun, his lips trembled, as if he was speechless, "I...but I..."

"Brother, as a human being, we are born with karma and inner demons. Isn't it the purpose of us to find a way to overcome them when we become a monk?" Guan Yun actually smiled slightly, "If it was really perfect, we would have already After becoming a Buddha, how can you still stay in this world? After this kalpa, you and I can see each other honestly, maybe it was a blessing in disguise."

The tears in Guanyi's eyes became more and more, and the endless shame made him cry like a child, but his expression finally became angry again.

Guan Yun secretly thought that he was self-willed and did not listen to advice before, and refused to believe that there were ghosts in his monastery, which almost caused a catastrophe.It was thanks to that Taoist in Tsing Yi, I should thank him.But when he looked up to look for Tan Yangzi, he found that the Taoist and the other boy in red had disappeared.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and there were already many early-rising porters and passers-by on the cool street in the early morning.Many early morning stalls opened on both sides of Ma Xing Street, steaming hot spicy vegetable cakes were pulled out of the cage drawer, wrapped in greased paper and handed to the on-the-go guests.

Tan Yangzi took the spicy vegetable cake and handed it to Yan Fei.Seeing that there was only one, Yan Fei asked him, "Master, don't you want to eat?"

Tan Yangzi said, "Not hungry."

Yan Fei said, "Why aren't you hungry? You haven't eaten since you came back from hell the day before yesterday!"

Tan Yangzi said as he walked, "Don't worry about me, eat quickly."

Yan Fei seemed to be unable to eat any more, and asked with some concern, "Master, did you just buy one because we ran out of money?"

Tan Yangzi was so annoyed by him that he wanted to have a fit, but when he saw Yan Fei's sensible worry, he couldn't get out again, took a few deep breaths and said, "If you are not hungry, I will give it to the beggar over there."

Seeing Tan Yangzi's cloudy and cold air spreading three feet away from his body, Yan Fei knew that Tan Yangzi was not far away from being offended by him, so he quickly took a bite of the pancake in his hand.Tan Yangzi's heart softened when he saw that he didn't dare to show his air.

He knew that Yan Fei was waiting for him to train him...

"I don't blame you for the matter of Guanyi." Tan Yangzi said in a light tone, "I shouldn't have let you get involved."

Yan Fei became even more anxious when he heard this, "Master, I will definitely be more careful next time! You won't go back on your word, will you? You promised me to hunt ghosts with you!"

Tan Yangzi glanced at him, "What I said, you just said such a long list. Who is going to go back on it?"

Yan Fei was stunned, "Oh..."

"What I mean is, you haven't had serious training, so it's not important to start. From today, I will start teaching you the spell of red impermanence."

Yan Fei's beautiful red phoenix eyes widened suddenly, as if he couldn't believe his ears.

"Really?"

Tan Yangzi hummed lightly, glanced at him, frowned again, raised his hand and used his sleeve to gently wipe off the shepherd's purse leaves on Yan Fei's cheeks, but said in a cold voice, "Red impermanence I don’t know much about spells, but it’s enough to teach you for now. Don’t expect me to let you down. My requirements for you will only be stricter than those of the judges in Fengdu. If you can’t persist, you won’t be allowed to Talk about ghost hunting."

Yan Fei's eyes lit up as he listened, and his smile became more and more charming, causing passers-by to turn their heads frequently, and some pedestrians who were facing them accidentally bumped into each other.

Seeing him so happy, Tan Yangzi also felt a touch of tenderness in his heart.Thanks to him last night, otherwise I don't know how long I would be trapped in that illusion.Regardless, he should be rewarded.

Thinking of this, he turned towards Caomen.Yan Feizheng was excited, but seeing him suddenly change direction, he asked, "Aren't we going home?"

"Didn't I promise to buy you crispy cheese yesterday?" Tan Yangzi replied without turning his head.