Before the summer solstice, a carriage had already left the imperial city and headed west.
From time to time, the little monk excitedly opened the curtain and stuck his head out to look around. This was the first time he had left the imperial city, and he was heading to the desert to the west.
Quietly leaning on the soft couch in the soft carriage, Li Xiuyuan was still recalling those times on the mountain.
Jue'er, Qin Xiangyu and the young monk picked countless baskets of Xing'er, and finally gave most of them to the old monk down the mountain.
You can't keep this stuff for long, you have to eat it as soon as you pick it off.
Only Li Xiuyuan marinated two jars with the honey he brought back from Lingshan Mountain in Wangchuan, and left one jar in No. 47 in the Imperial City for the three masters and disciples to satisfy their cravings from time to time.
Carrying a jar with you can help the young monk in front of you remember the old monk under the snow-capped mountains in the years to come.
After waiting for an unknown number of days, no one came from the desert seeking revenge.
So these bad debts can only be left to the old man to deal with.
The arrays up and down the mountain have been handed over to the old man. Before he returns to the imperial city, he can only take care of them according to the old man's wishes.
Only the young monk was reluctant to let go of the old monk who was like his father. The master and the disciple struggled with this for many days, but finally the old monk made up his mind.
Sanzang learned that Li Xiuyuan was leaving early, and followed his instructions to wait for that day in the imperial city with peace of mind.
Seeing that Li Xiuyuan was about to leave, Xiao Jui'er cried a second time with red eyes and wanted to follow him to the desert to see him.
There was no other way, so Li Xiuyuan had no choice but to promise her that he would accompany her again when she grew up.
In this way, only Hongchen Inn is left unfinished. In Qin Xiangyu's words, it may have to wait until late autumn.
Taking advantage of the summer rainstorm yet to come, Li Xiuyuan and the young monk set off for the desert.
Looking at the scenery outside the carriage, the young monk asked: "Brother, are there any temples in the desert?"
Li Xiuyuan replied quietly: "The great monks there are no worse than your master. It's possible that your departed master and uncle are also practicing in the desert."
The young monk then smiled with satisfaction: "That's good, the master also said that I will meet my great-uncle."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "It's a long way to go, and you have to find time to meditate and move your Qi. Don't forget the practice method taught to you by the old monk."
Monk Xiaodian nodded and said, "Don't worry, brother, I will remember it."
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Li Xiuyuan, who had nothing to do, took the young monk to visit friends in the desert, but he didn't know that something big had happened in the imperial city.
The reason is that a dragon lost a bet with a fortune teller he met and violated the laws of heaven, so he had to be executed according to the law.
It just so happened that the executioner who executed the execution above the Nine Heavens was named Wei Zheng. Wei Zheng was a minister of Emperor Taizong in the lower realm of Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the dragon prayed to Emperor Taizong in a dream, asking him to save his life and prevent Wei Zheng from executing him.
Emperor Taizong responded to the dragon, but the dragon above the nine heavens was still killed by Wei Zheng.
As a result, the dragon's ghost came to the Tang Dynasty and entangled Emperor Taizong to demand his life. As a result, Taizong could not breathe that night and came all the way under the Nine Netherworld.
A ray of ghost went straight down to the underworld. Emperor Taizong trembled at the scene in front of him, staring straight ahead.
Along the way, he always felt that the atmosphere around him was wrong, as if something was staring at him.
It wasn't until he roared three times, thinking that he was also an emperor, that he calmed down.
No matter where you are in front of you, you have already come here. No matter whether you live or die, you have to go in and take a look.
However, his footsteps were obviously much heavier.
Not long after, he had to stop. A closed door appeared in front of him, and the door exuded a cold atmosphere.
But I saw four simple characters written on the door: "Netherworld Underworld."
After just one glance, Taizong felt that his soul had been drawn into the door. As a last resort, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and try to push the door open...
What he couldn't figure out was why he hadn't crossed the Forgotten River Bridge? I didn't even drink the bowl of Meng Po soup, so I came here directly.
If this was the underworld, wouldn't it mean that we were going to see the King of Hell in the Ten Palaces? And the legendary Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva?
With a creaking sound, he slowly pushed the door open through a gap.
He wanted to go in and see what was behind this door.
When he entered the door sideways, he realized that the place was even more gloomy than outside. When he wanted to retreat, he found that the door had been closed and could no longer be pushed open.
There was chaos before his eyes, the heaven and earth were in chaos, and there was nothing everywhere.
Before he could take a step forward, he saw a group of headless Yin soldiers approaching in neat steps not far away. The Yin soldiers were very scary.
But he ignored Emperor Taizong in front of him and passed him by.
I secretly thought to myself, could it be that the Yin soldiers were taking advantage of this? If these guys were to attack him, how would he respond? Seeing this team of Yin soldiers getting further and further away from him.
"What mistake did I make?"
Sighing and waiting for Taizong to turn around again, he found that the door behind him had long since disappeared, and he was left wandering alone in the chaos.
Suddenly, a whine of wind sounded.
Another group of skeleton soldiers holding swords came, and the sound of killing was loud for a while, and they came towards Taizong in the blink of an eye.
Faced with such a strange scene, Emperor Taizong was so frightened that he could not say a word.
Seeing that the sword in the bone marrow soldier's hand was about to fall on his head, he had no choice but to take out a shiny golden sign from his arms.
His whole body was trembling and he shouted: "I am ordered by heaven..."
Fortunately, what Taizong held in his hand was the Emperor's Token, and an extremely majestic and pure imperial energy rushed out, instantly driving back the charging skeleton soldiers.
Otherwise, if the skeleton soldier slashes his sword, he will be dismembered.
These skeleton soldiers arrived out of nowhere, dispersed like a tide, and disappeared in an instant.
So Taizong had no choice but to hold the gold piece in his hand and move forward.
He didn't know when these guys would appear again, let alone when that sword would strike at his head.
I had to hold up the gold medal like a lantern.
While he was wandering, a man in black came in front, looked at him and said, "My king invites you, come with me."
Taizong was shocked when he heard that he actually came under Jiuyou and had to meet the King of Hell.
With no choice but to follow him all the way forward.
Before entering the Palace of Hell, I met the ghosts of my eldest brother Li Jiancheng and my younger brother Li Yuanji on the road.
Although the two of them drank Meng Po soup, they could no longer recognize Emperor Taizong in front of them.
But the obsession in my heart could not be eliminated even by drinking Meng Po soup.
I saw the two brothers looking at Taizong who was coming towards them, shouting one after another: "The people of the world will return my life, the people of the world will return my life!"
Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, covered in blood, rushed toward Taizong while shouting.
Taizong couldn't dodge, and his dragon robe was grabbed by two people. He was so frightened that he was trembling all over, and he was about to drop the gold medal in his hand.
He murmured: "I am not your citizen..."
Just as Taizong was in shock, the judge surnamed Cui from the front came towards him and drove away Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, so that Taizong could escape.
Today among the ten kings of hell, only King Qin Guang is free and comes to see Taizong.
The other nine kings, such as King Chujiang, King Song, King Wuguan, King Yama, King Pingping, King Taishan, King City, King Biancheng, and King Zhuanlun all have troubles to escape from.
King Qin Guang asked the judge to take Emperor Taizong into the Senluo Palace and greeted Taizong on the high platform.
When Taizong saw it, he quickly bowed his hands to King Qin Guang on the high platform.
King Qin Guang asked: "Why does Emperor Taizong have time to come to my Jiuyou? Or are you here to visit relatives and friends?"
With the temper of King Qin Guang, he was very polite to the murderous Emperor Taizong.
Emperor Taizong shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I was in a dream...but I came here unknowingly..."
King Qin Guang chuckled, looked at Judge Cui on the side and said: "Get the book and carefully check how much Taizong's Yangshou Tianlu should be?"
Judge Cui turned to the treasurer, took out the Tianlu General Book of Life and Death of All Nations in the World, and looked through it one by one.
I saw clearly recorded on it: Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty died in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan.
Judge Cui took the wolf hair from the inkstone on the table, added a word with a wave of his hand, and then presented the book to King Qin Guang.
King Guang of Qin took a look and saw that the life of Yang Yang, named Taizong, ended in the 23rd year of Zhenguan.
King Qin Guang frowned and asked, "When did Taizong ascend the throne and how long did he sit on the throne?"
Taizong cupped his hands and replied: "I have just ascended the throne, and this year is the first year of Zhenguan."
When King Qin Guang heard this, he smiled faintly: "Taizong, please relax, there is no need to worry too much, you still have decades of life to live, you just felt something in your heart and were entangled by some resentful spirits, so you came to Jiuyou under."
Taizong was shocked when he heard this, and immediately replied: "That's it, please let me go back to the Tang Dynasty..."
King Qin Guang smiled faintly, thinking that Li Xiuyuan went to Datang at this time just to see this guy, and he couldn't help but sigh.
I thought to myself: "I feel so worthless for you."
It seems that I have to ask Meng to talk to Li Xiuyuan, even if the person in front of me really doesn't look at him.
He waved his hand and told Judge Cui below: "While it's still early, let's send Emperor Taizong back to the earth."
"I accept your orders." Judge Cui looked at Taizong and said with a smile, "Please follow me..."
Taizong thanked King Qin Guang again and followed Judge Cui out of Senluo Palace.
After leaving the main hall, Judge Cui was not in a hurry to take Taizong away, but took him all the way forward.
But it was frightening to see that there were endless cries of sorrow everywhere under the hell, and countless resentful souls were shouting.
Before he could recover, another bull-headed ghost and a horse-faced ghost came in front of him, and a copper hammer fell down, beating a bunch of resentful ghosts and crying to the sky.
Taizong was frightened when he saw it, and for a moment he felt weak in his hands and feet, thinking that he was the resentful spirit in the cry.
Judge Cui didn't say a word and led Taizong all the way to the City of Fusi.
I only heard countless resentful souls shouting: "Li Shimin is here, Li Shimin is here! Give me back my life!"
When Taizong heard this, he was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground. He saw headless resentful souls coming in one after another, stopping him and shouting: "Li Shimin, give me my life, give me my life!"
These countless resentful souls all rushed up to seek Taizong's life.
Taizong was so frightened that he had to hide behind Judge Cui.
Judge Cui sighed, looked at him and replied: "Your Majesty, those people are the ghosts of the sixty-four smoke and dust, the seventy-two grass bandits, and the princes and leaders."
"These innocent souls who died in vain have nowhere to take care of them. They are not allowed to be reincarnated, and they have no money to support them. Your Majesty needs to donate some money to help you escape."
Taizong searched all over his body but couldn't find a single tael of silver. He looked at Judge Cui frowning and rubbing his hands anxiously.
Judge Cui seemed to know that he had no money, so he asked Taizong to make a contract and borrowed money from the inner treasury under Jiuyou.
Judge Cui asked his men and a group of resentful souls to distribute the money while shouting: "These gold and silver are the travel expenses given to you by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Let him leave early."
"It is still early for Emperor Taizong to live a long life. We have received the decree from King Qin Guang to send him back to life. When Taizong returns to the earth, we will hold a water and land ceremony to save you and all your reincarnations..."
The group of resentful souls first collected the money, and then gradually dispersed after hearing Judge Cui say that they would find a way to help everyone be reincarnated.
Judge Cui sent Taizong all the way to the closed door.
Only then did he explain seriously: "When Emperor Taizong returns to the earthly world, he must hold a large water and land Dharma ceremony to redeem the wronged souls who have no owners. Don't forget it."
"Only if Jiuyou has no more cries of resentful souls, you can enjoy a peaceful life in the Yang world. Whatever is bad can be corrected."
Taizong sighed: "I will obey the king's decree."
