On the bank of the river, a man and a woman were sitting next to each other.
There was darkness between heaven and earth, with only a faint light shining from the pilot lighthouse on the dock in the distance.
The man and woman stared at each other in the dim light.
They looked like the granddaughters of their grandfather, the man was white-haired, the woman was young and beautiful, but the way they looked at each other looked like a pair of lovers in love.
Qin Songling kept talking and laughed heartily and happily from time to time.
The beauty in white had a smile on her lips and listened quietly.
Just like fifty years ago, except that the man's hair had turned white and his appearance had aged, nothing seemed to have changed.
Dark night, big river, old man, beautiful woman.
This is a beautiful picture that is strange yet warm.
But when Shu Guan and Cheng Huangye Jiao Zheng appeared beside them, this beauty was broken.
The beauty in white suddenly turned her head. After seeing Shu Guan, her eyes showed fear. When she saw Jiao Zheng, the beauty in white was startled for a moment. It seemed that she was meeting her own kind for the first time, and her eyes were nervous. The fear is even stronger.
The next moment, the beauty in white grabbed Qin Songling's wrist, and the two of them disappeared again.
City Emperor Jiao Zheng took off the chain from his waist without haste.
"Do you know where she went?"
He asked Shuguan with a leisurely smile.
Shu Guan shook his head, pretending to be all ears.
When he was in Qin Songling's manor, the female ghost took Qin Songling away in the same way. She disappeared almost instantly, and then he could no longer sense the female ghost's aura.
"Between yin and yang, in the gap between the underworld and the yang world."
Jiao Zheng shook the chain in his hand and said:
"This is a ghost chain."
"The ghost chain and the soul-binding tablet are magic weapons left over from the underworld after the destruction of heaven to deal with the ghosts who refuse to go to the underworld."
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Qin Songling stared at him angrily and desperately, roaring like a wounded beast.
"Mr. Qin, you don't want to know who we are, but you should already know that your wife is a ghost now."
Shu Guan sighed.
"Of course I know that Xiaomei didn't hide anything from me, and I'm not a fool. Xiaomei has been dead for more than fifty years. When she appeared in front of me again last night, I already understood what was going on."
"But it doesn't matter if Xiaomei is a ghost. I only love her as one woman in this life. I don't care if she is a human or a ghost."
"This is not a matter of whether you care or not, but it is a matter of different paths between humans and ghosts. It is impossible for you to be together."
"Why can't we be together!"
The beauty in white who was bound by the iron chain screamed unwillingly. Her originally beautiful face now became so ferocious.
"I was trapped in that coffin for fifty years, and I only had one thought in my mind, which was that I wanted to see my husband again, otherwise I would die in peace."
"Now that I have finally come out of the coffin, I will only stay with my husband from now on and will never go out to harm others. Why can't I be with my husband."
"Because if you stay with your husband, your husband will die in less than ten days!"
At this time, Jiao Zheng also came over, and he said seriously to the beauty in white.
The beauty in white was suddenly stunned and looked at Jiao Zheng without knowing why. Perhaps because she knew that Jiao Zheng was of her own kind, her mood became slightly more stable.
"You are a newborn ghost. It is normal not to know these things, so I will tell you now."
"We ghosts are pure yin bodies. If we get along with ordinary mortals, the yang energy in the mortal body will be slowly exhausted by us. Unless the other person is a practitioner and can lock his own yang energy, he will not escape death. fate."
The beauty in white shuddered, looked at Jiao Zheng doubtfully and asked:
"real?"
"Look at your own husband and see what's different about him yesterday and today."
Jiao Zheng pointed blankly at Qin Songling Road.
The beauty in white turned her head and took a closer look at Qin Songling. In addition to the pain and anxiety at this time, Qin Songling's face was pale and pale, his eyes were a little black, and his eyes were bloodshot. He was the same as when he first met yesterday. Compared with his energetic look, he looks obviously old and haggard.
The most important thing is that she herself is a soul. When she calms down and feels it, she can clearly feel that Qin Songling's soul seems to be in a state of dispersion.
The beauty in white suddenly changed her expression and said to Qin Songling in a weeping voice. ….
"Husband, I'm sorry. I didn't know this would happen. It was me who hurt you."
"Xiaomei, it doesn't matter. As long as I can be with you, it doesn't matter if I die. We just happen to be ghosts together, so we can always be together."
Qin Songling quickly comforted the beauty in white.
"Want to become a ghost? There is only one outcome if you die after being sucked out of your yang energy by a ghost, and that is your soul will be scattered. There will be no chance of becoming a ghost, or even reincarnation."
Jiao Zheng said this.
After hearing this, the beauty in white changed her color again and said pleadingly:
"Sir, what should I do? Is there any way you can save my husband's life?"
"It's too late for you to leave him now. After that, your husband will rest for a while and regain some strength. He should still have more than ten years of life."
"Then where should I go?"
The beauty in white asked in a trembling voice.
She was originally the wife of the Qin family. She died fifty years ago. When she woke up again, she already had a home and could not return.
"The underworld, that is the world that belongs to our ghost clan."
"And you have an extremely powerful soul body. After you reach the underworld, Master Zhong may accept you as a disciple and become a true ghost cultivator."
"As long as you become strong enough, when your husband dies and comes to the underworld, you will naturally be able to find him and help him resist the power of reincarnation.
They can still be together and become a couple in the underworld. "
Jiao Zheng continued.
"Really?"
The eyes of the beauty in white radiated hope.
"I don't have to lie to you, you know I can take you away at any time."
The beauty in white suddenly turned her head and said to Qin Songling in surprise:
"Husband, then I will go to the underworld to wait for you. We will be reunited as husband and wife in the underworld one day!"
"Xiaomei, I want to go to the underworld with you right now."
Qin Songling replied eagerly.
At this time, Jiao Zhengdan interrupted.
"Those who commit suicide will enter the 18th level of the Hell of Wasted Death after death. They will not be able to leave until they have been incarcerated for a hundred years. So do you want to wait for more than ten years or another hundred years?"
"Husband, live a good life in the world of the world. When you come to the underworld, we, husband and wife, can get together again."
The beauty in white also advised softly.
Qin Songling let out a long sigh and nodded.
The two stared at each other reluctantly.
Jiao Zheng suddenly shook his wrist, and the ghost chain was loosened from the white-clothed beauty's body like a snake.
"You will know later that these love affairs are meaningless."
The City Emperor murmured something in a low voice, and then waved to the beauty in white and Qin Songling.
"If you need to finish what you have to say, go and finish it quickly. You must leave at dawn."
Shu Guan glanced at Jiao Zheng in surprise.
…
Shu Guan sat on a bench by the river, took out the cigarette rod from his inner pocket, lit a pot of cigarettes and started smoking silently.
In the distance, the beauty in white and Qin Songling walked along the riverside avenue, talking while walking.
The final result of this matter was better than he originally expected.
Jiao Zheng came over and sat next to him.
“Prince Cheng, don’t you really dislike being near me?”….
Shu Guan asked with a smile, indeed a little surprised.
"The smell of that thing makes me very happy."
Jiao Zheng pointed at the cigarette rod in Shu Guan's hand.
Shu Guan raised his eyebrows. Jiao Zheng was a ghost. His body was actually a soul. Would a soul without a body also like the smell of smoke?
Sure enough, addiction to smoking is a need from deep within the soul.
Shu Guan thought a little deceivingly.
Of course, there might be another reason. After all, the tobacco he smoked was grown by the old cripple himself.
But now Shu Guan is extremely suspicious of anything that the old cripple made with his own hands, and doubts what it actually is.
For example, is this tobacco, which can make even a ghost feel happy, really just tobacco?
"Emperor Jiao Cheng, is what you just said true?"
Then Shu Guan suddenly asked.
"What?"
"So the two of them can meet again in the underworld in the future?"
"Oh, it's true, but it's basically impossible to realize it."
"Why?"
Shu Guan, who had just put the cigarette holder into his mouth, was suddenly stunned.
"First of all, she must be really attracted by Master Zhong and become his disciple."
Shu Guan knew that Lord Zhong that Jiao Zheng was talking about was Zhong Zhengnan, the ghost immortal among the seven immortals who founded the Seven Immortals Alliance.
"Of course, regarding this matter, I don't think it's a big problem. The female ghost's soul body is naturally at the sixth level. There are naturally sixth-level soul bodies in the ghost clan, which is equivalent to the level of your human cultivators. A peerless genius, it is impossible for Lord Zhong not to accept her as his disciple."
"The problem for them is how to find the old man named Qin after he dies."
"Because the underworld now is no longer the underworld before. The underworld and heaven have perished together, and the whereabouts of life and death are unknown. Now so many ghosts are pouring into the underworld every day.
, who can figure out the identity of those ghosts during their lifetime, so there is a chance that they will meet again in the underworld in the future, but it is very slim. "
"Then why did you lie to them just now?"
"I didn't lie, I just didn't say how small the chance was."
Jiao Zheng chuckled.
"One can go with peace of mind, and the other can live with peace of mind. Do you think this is bad?"
Shu Guan was silent for a moment, put the cigarette holder into his mouth, and took a drag of the cigarette.
What Jiao Zheng said was right, and what he did was right, but the relaxed mood he originally felt because he thought today's matter would end well was gone.
"You are completely different from the person recorded in the history books."
Then Shu Guan looked at Jiao Zheng and said this.
In the inscription in the Chenghuang Temple, the famous official of the Great Hua Dynasty five thousand years ago was praised as being loyal, honest, and a gentleman.
Jiao Zheng burst out laughing and said:
"If I were really the person written in the book, Jingcheng might have been captured by the Monkey Army in a few days."
"I have never been a good person. I deceived many people when I was alive, including the Monkey Army, but the ones I deceived the most were the soldiers and civilians in the city at that time. And let me tell you a secret. The official position of the prefect was actually mine. I bought it with money, ****, it’s such a loss. If I had known, I wouldn’t have wasted the money!”
Shu Guan looked at Jiao Zheng in astonishment.
At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind, and that was that history books were indeed lies.
"Isn't the underworld very chaotic now?"
Then Shu Guan asked another question, because just now Jiao Zheng said that the ghosts who are now going to the underworld can no longer even confirm their identities in life. You can imagine how chaotic it is there now.
"Oh, you want to know? Why don't you go and see for yourself."
Jiao Zheng narrowly blinked at him.
"...Let's talk about it later."
Shu Guan suddenly smiled and said.
This Jiao Zheng is indeed not a serious person.
Then Shu Guan originally wanted to ask Jiao Zheng a lot of questions, such as what kind of army the Monkey Army was back then. Everything you need to know about the Monkey Army is kept secret in the history books of the Great China. , and Jiao Zheng was someone who had personally fought against the Monkey Army, so naturally he should know some of the truth about the rebellion.
In addition, Shu Guan also wanted to know how to make a soul have a new body. This was naturally for the sake of Xiao Yi in his mind. As for things involving the soul, I think the ghost clan should know about it. a bit more.
But at this moment, Jiao Zheng had already stood up and looked up at the eastern sky.
"The yang energy is starting to get heavier, and it will be dawn soon.".
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