After saying this, Duan Xu suddenly turned around and said to Jiang Ai with a smile: "I didn't hear you clearly just now. What did you say about me, integrity?"
Jiang Ai nodded.
Because of what the young man just said, she was looking at him again, and she said, "Isn't it? Really?"
The young man in front of him shook his head, and the black gauze on the curtain swayed. There was a smile in his voice, and there was also a hint of joking, as if he had heard some funny remarks.
"I am not a good person. I have countless blood debts on my body. I have killed many strangers, unarmed people, who begged me to let them go, and who could not even make a sound. I did these things. There is no bright reason, I am just trying to save my life. If these laws are used on me, I may not be able to escape intact."
"But I also vowed that I will save more people in the future, protect more people, and let them be free. I will fight for my life and go all out."
Jiang Ai was stunned. She knew that children at this age were somewhat ambitious and impassioned, wishing they could go up to the sky to embrace the bright moon. There were many wealthy young men like this who spent a lot of money in gambling houses, and they were always confused and restless.
But this kid was different. His impassioned attitude seemed too sober.
Before she could comment on his description, she saw the child take a few steps back and changed the topic with a smile: "Before, you said this was the second most annoying place for evil spirits, so what about the first one? Where is the disgusting place, the legendary Nine Palaces Labyrinth?"
Jiang Ai only felt her eyelids twitching. She smiled softly and said, "Don't you want to go to the Nine Palaces Labyrinth?"
No evil ghost likes the Nine Palaces Labyrinth. In other words, all evil ghosts avoid the Nine Palaces Labyrinth. Let alone go in, they don’t even want to pass through the gate.
"Excuse me, Lord Zuo Cheng, please show me the way?"
Duan Xu innocently made a "please" gesture.
Recently, Jiang Ai feels that this child's innocence is always full of traps and troubles.
The Nine Palaces Labyrinth Prison is located underground in Xusheng Mountain. The entrance is on the mountainside. It is a dark locust wood door, as if it is the door of an ordinary warehouse. There is no decoration, it stands there plainly, without any hint of terror, and there is no evil ghost guarding it, which does not match its reputation at all.
Jiang Ai and Duan Xu stood in front of this famous prison. She confirmed again: "Are you sure you want to go in?"
Duan Xu asked, "Don't you want me to come in?"
"She didn't say that, but if the guard doesn't let you in, there's nothing I can do about it."
Jiang Ai knocked on the door, with three long and one short sounds. The dark and simple door lit up with a charm, and then white strips of raised lines began to appear on the door, which looked very much like a human being's forehead was squirming with exertion. Zhang’s bloodline.
Following the direction where the white meridians converge, a pair of huge pure white eyes with a radius of about three feet suddenly opened on the two doors. They moved their eyes flexibly up and down, left and right, not knowing which direction they were looking in, or what direction they were looking. Know what you are looking at.
"Sign up if you come."
I couldn't even tell where the sound came from, but it was so full of energy that it sounded like a loud bell.
"The master of the Ghost Palace, Jiang Ai."
The eyeball looked close to Jiang Ai and said with a smile: "Jiang Ai, Xi Ke, Xi Ke, what have you done? Why didn't I receive the king's order?"
Jiang Ai waved his hands and laughed so hard: "Xusheng, what are you talking about? How can I, a good ghost like me, who is knowledgeable, courteous and law-abiding, go to jail?"
Xusheng is the mountain spirit of Xusheng Mountain. The entire Xusheng Mountain is transformed by his body. His eyes are above the gate of the Nine Palaces Labyrinth, and the Nine Palaces Labyrinth is above his head. ?Inside.
"I just want to go in and take a look and bring my friend with me."
Jiang Ai stretched out her hand and pointed at Duan Xu behind her.
The huge eyes suddenly stood up and ran towards Duan Xu. Duan Xu subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but he immediately stopped and stood there, letting the pale vertical eyes look left and right in front of him.
Xu Sheng said: "He has the aura of the king, a very heavy aura."
"There is the king's charm on his curtain hat." Jiang Ai replied.
"It doesn't stop there."
Xu Sheng suddenly withdrew his eyes and turned on the door carelessly: "He is a living person, and I will not put a living person in."
This was what Jiang Ai wanted. She was about to tell Duan Xu that it was me who wouldn't help you, but Xu Sheng who wouldn't let you in. But I heard Xu Sheng continue to say: "But, does the king want to marry you? Are you the king's fiancé?"
Jiang Ai hesitated for a moment in surprise, and then the young man said with a reaction speed that ordinary people couldn't: "Yes, we have made a lifelong agreement."
Will you be a curser for the rest of your life? That’s for the rest of your life.
Xu Sheng spat. If his eyes weren't all white, he would definitely roll his eyes.
"It seems so. The last living person who was deeply imbued with the aura of the Ghost King is His Highness the former Ghost Queen. Okay, come in then."
The young man turned his head. Jiang Ai couldn't see his expression, but he could imagine that he was smiling proudly. She pressed her temples, thinking that the hundred boxes of gold bricks in the palace's treasury were really profitable. Next time Simu gave her such a job, she would buy more. After walking around the Nine Palaces Labyrinth in the past, there was nothing major except for being very comfortable.
She knocked on the door and said, "Xu Sheng, give me two heart candles."
"okay."
Red mist surged in those pure white eyes, like the red clouds on the horizon, and gathered into two drops of red tears flowing down the eyes, falling into Jiang Ai's hands and turning into two red candles.
Jiang Ai waved in the air, and a golden candlestick appeared in her hand. She inserted one of the candles into the candlestick and handed it to Duan Xu. The moment Duan Xu took the candlestick, the candle burned automatically.
"Haosheng, take good care of it. This is your heart candle."
Jiang Ai followed suit and concocted another heart candle, which also burned with flame. However, the flame of the candle in Duan Xu's hand was red, while the flame of the candle in Jiang Ai's hand was blue.
Duan Xu asked: "Is this your heart candle?"
"That's right. Only by holding the Heart Candle can you avoid getting lost in the Nine Palaces."
The door slowly opened, and behind it was darkness beyond sight. Jiang Ai held his heart candle and said, "Follow closely after you go in. There's nothing interesting inside. It won't take more than half an hour to walk around and come out."
Duan Xu responded and followed.
As the name suggests, the Nine Palaces Labyrinth Prison is arranged according to the Nine Palaces Bagua Diagram. There are one hurdle, two kuns, three shocks, four sundas, five combined tai chi, six stems, seven dui, eight gens, and nine li, weaving various desires and puzzles in the world.
Jiang Ai was walking in front holding a candle. When Duan Xu stepped into the prison, he saw a faint light on the ground, revealing the word "Hop" and then returned to darkness. Screams of pain came from a distant place, echoing into countless overlapping sounds, and wandering souls occasionally bumped into the range of weak candlelight in the darkness.
They seemed to be sailing on the sea in the dark night. There were rough waves around them, but there was only black as far as they could see.
Duan Xu asked: "Why is it so dark in this Nine Palaces Labyrinth Prison?"
Jiang Ai leisurely replied: "Are people here? Their hearts are dark."
She said before that there was nothing interesting to see in the Nine Palaces Labyrinth. This was not an excuse. In fact, when entering the Nine Palaces Labyrinth with a heart candle, she could only see the boundless darkness and hear the screams of the evil spirits exiled here. I won't bump into any evil spirits head-on, so it will be very boring.
Only when the heart candle is extinguished can we see the real Nine Palaces.
Without the heart candle, the evil ghost will immediately fall into the illusion woven by the Nine Palaces, forgetting the boundary between reality and illusion, and be in the pain of countless rebirths, old age, illness and death, resentments, separation from love, and unrequited desires.
"Evil ghosts don't feel pain, but you also saw Fang Chang howling for a long time when he was burned to death. That's because the ghost fire of the Ghost King Lantern can remind evil ghosts of all the pain they suffered when they were human. The evil ghost was tortured by this immersive memory, and he was in unbearable pain."
"And in the Nine Palaces Labyrinth, the punishment is hunger."
All evil ghosts turn into wandering souls after death because they have obsessions in their hearts and seek but do not get what they want. Even if they become wandering ghosts, they have to eat each other for hundreds of years to become evil ghosts. Only those with extremely deep desires will not be able to become evil ghosts. Maybe that's why. But what you cannot ask for while alive, can you ask for it after death
In fact, the wishes of evil ghosts can never be fulfilled, and all evil ghosts are in eternal hunger. Cannibalism can relieve hunger, but it cannot cure hunger. This is the punishment of evil spirits for their stubbornness.
The Nine Palaces Labyrinth is to amplify the various desires and desires in the hearts of evil spirits, creating the most painful and recurring illusion.
"The evil ghost who has lost his heart and is exiled in the Nine Palaces is like a donkey with a carrot hanging on his head. He is pursuing endlessly in the illusion, but there is nothing. What if he is just sentenced to a few days in the labyrinth? Years later, the evil ghost's heart candle will be kept by Xu Sheng and lit outside the door of life. When the time comes, he can be awakened and taken out. If he is in the Nine Palaces, the heart candle will be completely destroyed. , and will be lost forever in the Nine Palaces and disappear into ashes."
Jiang Ai introduced this labyrinth prison specially built for the desires of evil spirits. Duan Xu had been listening to her story quietly without interrupting or asking questions.
When the introduction came to an end, Jiang Ai looked at the young man's thoughtful expression and became interested in watching the fun again. She smiled and said: "Children, you see that things in our ghost world are very different from those in the human world. Before you wanted to ask me about the king's past, do you know that she has lived for four hundred years, even though she is in the ghost world? Still very young, but an unimaginable amount of time for a mere mortal."
"Four hundred years, that's more than 146,000 days and nights. Even a book with 146,000 pages is enough for you to read for a lifetime, let alone such an evil ghost. , can you understand her?"
The steps of the young man behind him stopped. Under the darkness and black veil, his expression was not clear, but it was vague that he was not smiling as usual, and his voice was calm.
He said: "This is indeed not an easy thing. She said she didn't need me to understand, probably because she thought I couldn't do it."
Jiang Ai thought, did this young man say that because he wanted to give up
After a pause, the young man said, "Master Zuo Cheng, there seems to be a voice?"
Jiang Ai was stunned. She was about to ask what the sound was. Why didn't she hear it? As soon as he thought about it, he noticed the sound that was approaching quickly. A figure suddenly broke into the range illuminated by the heart candle and attacked Jiang Ai. Jiang Ai immediately drew a spell to fight against it. The moment they fought, She just used a faint light to see clearly the appearance of this evil ghost.
His hair and eyelashes were all white, and his skin was extremely pale. He looked like a man in his thirties. He had many scars on his body, which were particularly shocking on his pale skin.
The only thing with strong color on his body was a pair of dark eyes.
Jiang Ai was stunned and said: "Bai Sanxing...are you still not wiped out?"
This evil ghost must have been immersed in a fantasy. He looked confused. When Jiang Ai was stunned for a moment, he broke her spell, held her wrist, and took the heart candle from her hand.
"I want to go out... I want to... go out..." he murmured.
Seeing that Jiang Ai's heart was about to be taken away by him. The young man immediately stepped forward, holding his own candlestick in his mouth. He pulled out his double swords and slashed around the evil ghost's wrists. The evil ghost immediately retracted his hands to dodge, and then was attracted to his attention, and turned to fight with him. The teenagers fought.
Only then did Jiang Ai come back to her senses from the shock. She knew that no matter how powerful the young man was, he would not be Bai Sanxing's opponent, so she immediately started making talismans and shouted: "Kid, don't..."
Before she finished speaking, she heard the sound of metal falling to the ground. As the two of them fought, Bai Sanxing's sleeves flew up, and as his sleeves flew up to the sky, there was also a glimmering candlelight.
That was Duan Xu's heart that was cut off at the waist.
Jiang Ai's eyes widened, and the hand that was making the talisman stopped in mid-air. If her heartbeat had stopped, it would have stopped by now. In this urgent stall, the young man suddenly said: "I heard that Mr. Zuo Cheng likes to gamble. Gambling house Open up the whole world.”
He turned his head, and Jiang Ai saw a pair of bright eyes in the flying black veil: "Master Zuo Cheng, do you want to take a gamble with me, if I can come out alive from the Nine Palaces Prison? , just tell me about Simu’s childhood history?”