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"Okay, if you say thank you or not, I'm going to scold you." Shen Luo clinked his glasses and said with a smile.

After drinking, Bai Xiaotian asked: "Tomorrow evening at Xushi, the Water and Land Ceremony will be officially held, and the north gate of Chang'an City will be opened at midnight, and the ghosts will be extradited out of the city at that time, do you want to go and have a look?"

"I can be regarded as a person who experienced the ghost trouble in Chang'an this time. I should send these Chang'an people off for the last time." Shen Luo hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"There are many dead people in Chang'an City this time, so the scene will probably be spectacular." Bai Xiaotian said.

"A tragedy in the world, when the curtain finally comes to an end, it's worth a spectacle." After Shen Luo finished speaking, he drank the wine in his glass in one gulp.

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Chapter 0659

The next day.

In the entire Chang'an City, from the imperial palace to the government, from the mansions of high officials to the houses of ordinary people, all the streets and alleys are hung with white lanterns, and the whole city is completely plain.

Throughout the day, smoking and fire are banned for one day, and the whole city is not allowed to make fire for cooking, and cold food is sacrificed.

In the evening at Xu time, the evening bells sounded in the city, and all the squares and cities were closed early and entered a curfew. People could only move around in the squares and were not allowed to set foot on the main roads in the city.

And in the square in front of the imperial city, hundreds of monks from Xiangguo Temple sat cross-legged on the ground. Each of them lit a lotus-shaped oil lamp in front of them, holding a wooden fish in their hands, and chanted the mantra of passing away while beating.

On the altar in the center of the square, there is a wooden altar, which is three feet high, and six eminent monks from Baoxiang Temple, Huasheng Temple and Jinshan Temple are standing on it, twirling Buddhist beads and reciting scriptures.

Among them, Zen'er, who looked immature, also put on a brocade cassock. Because of his young age, he stood out among the few people.

This chanting lasted for a full hour.

It wasn't until the time of Haishi that the religious ceremonies here were over, and the monks began to parade on every main road in the city with lotus lanterns in their hands, calling for the souls of the people who died tragically in various parts of the city along the way.

As the lights lit up everywhere in the city, figures of resentful souls described as terrifying began to emerge, some of which had lost consciousness and floated blankly behind the monks, while some were still whining and crying, their voices like whispers , densely packed.

In addition, some resentful souls have turned into wandering evil spirits. They wanted to attack the monks, but they were repelled by the light emitted from the lotus lamp.

These lotus lamps are all long-burning lamps invited from the Baoxiang Temple, and the burning oil in them is added by thousands of believers. The evil spirits attacked several times, not only failed to hurt the monks, but purified for the brilliance of the lamps. The black evil spirit on his body gradually peeled off, slowly revealing his true colors.

However, some evil spirits that were already strong, such as near wells and icehouses, still gave birth to some evil spirits that could not be purified by the lamp, and were finally killed by the monks arranged by the government.

As midnight approached, Shen Luo, Bai Xiaotian and some court officials stood on the top of the north city gate, overlooking the city.

I saw that although the people in the city were not allowed to go out of the workshop, there were still some fires lit up inside the workshop, but it was the people who spontaneously paid homage to their relatives and neighbors who died in the disaster.

I don't know from which square, a paper-made Kongming lantern was first lifted into the sky, followed by Kongming lanterns that entrusted the grief of the living and flew up from each square city.

The white lights jumped into the sky, scattered high and low, and echoed with the stars in the sky, as if they also connected a bridge between heaven and man, and drifted slowly towards the north of the city.

Shen Luo's eyes slowly fell, and he saw near the city gate, the monks who came in procession holding lotus lamps were lined up on both sides of the road. On the main road in the middle, there was only a small solitary figure left, wearing cassock, holding Buddha beads, bow your head and chant.

Behind him, hundreds of thousands of ghosts and ghosts were floating densely, following his footsteps towards the outside of the city.

Tens of thousands of ghosts gather in one place, even if they are just ordinary ghosts with no evil thoughts, the condensed evil spirit has reached a terrifying level, and ordinary people can't bear it at all.

However, at this moment, Chan'er's body exudes a layer of hazy white light, soft like moonlight, but with a hint of warmth, like a candle in a cold night, illuminating the progress of these ghosts way.

Chan'er slowly walked through the gate of Chang'an City. The moment he stepped out of the gate, light suddenly gathered under his feet, and the shadow of a golden lotus appeared. After that, every time he took a step, a golden lotus would appear on the ground.

At this moment, he is really like the reincarnation of the Buddha's disciple Jin Chan, with the Buddha's light in his body, saving all living beings.

Seeing this, all the people in the city thought it was the manifestation of the immortal Buddha, and they all worshiped.

I saw Chan'er leading the ghosts out of the city gate. Hundreds of feet away from the city, layers of night fog suddenly rose on both sides of the road. In the fog, there were faintly leafless flowers blooming and swaying abnormally.

Shen Luo recognized at a glance that those flowers were the Bianhua flowers that can only be found in the dark place.

Chan'er walked to the place where the mist meets hundreds of meters away, stopped and stopped moving, but put his hands together, and the light on his body became brighter and brighter.

Those ghosts who followed him all the way floated forward one after another, bypassing his body like a river diverting, walked into the mist, and disappeared one by one.

However, at this moment, a strange light flashed suddenly on the Buddhist beads worn on Chan'er's chest, and a bloody mist surged out, spreading in all directions, engulfing Chan'er and hundreds of ghosts.

"No, something happened." Seeing this, Shen Luo's expression changed suddenly, and he jumped out of the wall.

His footsteps stomped along the city wall and rushed straight down, stomping heavily on the city wall, his body leaped up, and the whole person rushed straight into the shadow like a falcon, and swept towards Chan'er's direction.

The surrounding ghosts were affected by the blood mist, and the orderly situation reversed instantly. The green pupils of a large number of ghosts suddenly turned blood red, and they turned directly from ghosts into evil ghosts.

Sensing the majestic aura of living souls in the city, these undead spirits transformed into evil spirits rushed back towards the city gate like hungry beasts.

Wherever it passed, it seemed like a plague was spreading. A large number of ghosts turned into evil spirits in an instant, and the entire gate of the city fell into an out of control situation.

The monks of Baoxiang Temple inside the city gate immediately rushed out of the gate with their magic weapons in their hands. Elder Zhe Shi also flew to the front, reciting the mantra of rebirth and meditation mantra, trying to appease these ghosts.

However, the ghosts infected by the blood mist seemed to be unable to hear these Buddhist scriptures at all, and they still rushed back, turning more and more ghosts into evil spirits.

"Disciples of Baoxiang Temple, set up the formation." Seeing this, Zen Master Lude shouted loudly.

All the monks of Baoxiang Temple jumped out one after another, lined up in a row, and built a human wall, cutting off the entire army of ghosts, preventing the follow-up ghosts from leaving the city, and preventing the evil ghosts in front from counterattacking.

I saw these monks knocking on the wooden fish and other magic tools in their hands one after another, and the mantra they chanted changed from the mantra of rebirth to the mantra of descending demons. All the sounds mixed together and turned into bursts of solemn Sanskrit sounds.

The sound waves of the Sanskrit sound changed from weak to strong, louder than louder, and gradually turned into tsunami waves, turning into bursts of translucent sound waves, rushing towards the raging evil spirits.

The moment those evil spirits rushed into the sound wave range, they all seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall of air, and their forward momentum stopped suddenly.

However, the evil spirits were fierce, and when their forward momentum was blocked, they became even more ferocious. They all continued to charge bravely without fear of death, and the combined strength became stronger each time.

Every time they collided, the invisible air wall would vibrate violently, and the monks who activated the sound barrier circle would receive an impact. After a few times, some of them who were not well-cultivated would already be groaning, blood oozing from the corners of their mouths.

Chapter 0660 Inquiry

Above the top of the city, there was a sharp sound of "cang clang", and the sound of a sword's edge coming out of its body, and Bai Xiaotian's figure also flew down from the sky, rushing towards the crowd of evil spirits.

"Xiaotian, these are the living souls of the common people in Chang'an. They are temporarily polluted by the devil's blood and cause their souls to feel uneasy. Just help stop them, and don't kill them at will." An elderly Zen master named "Kongdu" in Huasheng Temple saw this , immediately sound a reminder.

After all, he first stepped out in front of the monks, raised his hand, and a Bayeux Buddhist scriptures flew out, "cracking" stretched out, like a long scroll of poetry and painting, entangled more than a hundred evil spirits In a circle, a soaring golden light was emitted in the middle.

The evil spirits in the picture scroll couldn't help roaring up to the sky, with scarlet blood escaping from their mouths and noses, their madness gradually subsided, and they began to regain their calmness.

At the same time, countless ancient Sanskrit characters on the Bayeux Buddhist scriptures were peeled off one by one, absorbing blood energy instead of the ghosts of the common people, rising into the sky like fireflies, burning into sparks, and dissipating.

Immediately afterwards, Zen Master Luchen waved his hand, and a pillar of the Eight Treasures Sutra fell from the sky and fell outside the city gate. It radiated lights of multicolored glass, and all the evil spirits were imprisoned in the area where it was reflected. , unable to move at all.

Elder Zhe Shi coughed lightly, and also flew out, landing in front of the crowd, walking among the evil spirits, holding a Buddhist mirror in his hand, reflecting the crazy evil spirits one by one.

Every time the light fell, the evil spirits caught by it froze, staying in place and unable to move.

Bai Xiaotian pinched the sword formula with his hand, raised his hand, and streaks of golden sword light fell from the sky, like shields lined up next to each other, blocking the two wings of the road entering the city, and scattered those who tried to bypass the city gate to both sides of the city. The evil spirits blocked back.

Various cultivators from the government in the city also took action one after another, temporarily stabilizing their positions and blocking the counterattack of the ghost tide.

On the other side, Shen Luo plunged into the area filled with blood mist, and there were bursts of devil whispering sounds in his ears, and his eyes turned blood red.

But to his surprise, there was no scene of ghosts fighting for food and rushing towards Chan'er. On the contrary, as soon as he approached, those ghosts rushed towards him as if they saw the food.

Shen Luo also knew in his heart that these ghosts were affected by the blood mist, so naturally he would not kill them, so he quickly turned around, and when the moonlight scattered under his feet, he used the oblique moon steps to walk among these ghosts And pass.

When he passed through many ghosts and saw the innermost Chan'er, he couldn't help being taken aback.

He was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his legs crossed, his head raised with a dull expression, looking up into the sky, with two tears hanging from the corners of his eyes.

Directly opposite him, there is a tall white figure floating, dressed in a snow-white cassock, wearing a five-Buddha crown and a Pilu hat, looks quite young and handsome, with a kind smile on his face, bowed his head and separated from Chan'er Look at each other.

It was the hazy light emanating from this figure that protected Chan'er from being corrupted by ghosts.

As if noticing Shen's gaze, the monk turned around in phantom, raised his palms in salute with him, and seemed to silently recite the Buddha's name.

Immediately afterwards, the figure suddenly pinched the magic formula with one hand, and moved five fingers towards the void.

Suddenly there was a strong wind in the surrounding area, and the billowing blood mist immediately rolled back one after another, and condensed towards the monk's phantom, until it was solidified to the extreme, turning into a string of nine blood-colored Buddha beads, which were connected in series by a strand of gold thread Together.

The monk twirled the blood-colored Buddha beads in his hands, and his body was lit with multicolored glazed light. With bursts of Buddha's righteousness, he condensed towards the Buddha beads in his hand, but his figure gradually became transparent and illusory.

Until all the glazed light merged into the blood-colored beads, the two wore off each other until they all disappeared.

The moment the blood-colored Buddha beads disappeared, the surrounding world returned to clarity, and the blood in the eyes of the bewitched Chang'an people disappeared, and their eyes returned to the green color, but their soul power was consumed a lot, and they all seemed a little confused chaos.

"Amitabha……"

At this moment, a Buddha chant sounded, Shen Luo looked back suddenly, and saw that Chan'er had stood up again, walking straight in front of the dark mist, and continued to recite the mantra of rebirth.

This soft sound turned into a guiding voice again, leading Chang'an Yinhun to walk towards Yinming again.

Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and evacuated.

With a flash of his figure, Shen Luo came to Chan'er's side, stood shoulder to shoulder with him, and guarded the way for him invisibly.

……

A grand water and land ceremony, due to this twists and turns, did not finally come to an end until the end of the ugly era.

In the middle of the night, after Shen Luo returned to his residence, the scene of thousands of lanterns rising into the sky in the night sky of Chang'an and thousands of ghosts entering the dark outside the North City Gate was always reflected in his mind, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

He sat cross-legged on the futon, meditating for a long time, and with a thought, he took out the jade pillow.

His palms caressed the jade pillow, his mind sank into it, and soon he felt the heavenly book floating in it.

Ever since he accidentally summoned Tianshu to fight against the enemy, and projected the cultivation base in the dream to the present world, Shen Luo has been trying to communicate with Tianchu, but it has no effect.

However, according to what Li Jing said at the beginning, the communication with Tianchu depends entirely on the spirit, and he is unable to communicate now, probably because the power of the spirit is not strong enough, or the fluctuation of the spirit is not strong enough.

Previously, he was able to summon Tianshu almost all when he was in distress and his life was dying. At that time, the strong desire to survive and the fluctuation of his soul were probably the key to successfully communicating with Tianshu.

With this in mind, Shen Luo calmed down a little, and began to put his hands on the jade pillow, concentrating all his mind on it, and deliberately turned it into a flame of mind, floating towards the book of heaven suspended in the jade pillow .

As the flame of mind got closer and closer, the book of heaven suspended in the jade pillow became bigger and bigger, almost hanging in front of it like a palace.

Shen Luo tried to penetrate into it with his mind, and touched a few times like knocking on a door.

The heavenly book only exuded a faint light, and did not respond to Shen's careful attempt.

Shen Luo hesitated for a while, the flame in his mind suddenly lit up, and almost divided his mind to explore the heavenly book, this time, he slammed on the door like a bad guest.

However, the halo on the heavenly book flickered a few times, but there was still no response.

"Or not?" Shen Luo thought slightly, and made a decision in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, the flame transformed by his divine thoughts suddenly rose up, turned into a ball of blazing flames, and rushed towards the heavenly book without reservation.

"Boom..." There seemed to be a thunder in his heart, and that mind hit the heavenly book with all its strength.

This time, there was finally a change in the book. The surface was covered with golden light, and the book slowly unfolded. The words written on it flashed brightly and darkly. A name written at the end shone brightly and left the book. , suspended in the void.

"sink"

The moment his divine sense subconsciously recited those two ancient seal characters, an incomparably powerful attraction suddenly uploaded from the heavenly book, pulling his divine mind into it instantly.

Chapter 0661 Mysterious Space

Shen Luo only felt that after a violent twirling, his divine sense had already entered a strange golden space.

The moment Shen Luo's soul entered, his body sitting cross-legged in the room turned into a streak of light in an instant and was sucked into the book of heaven in the jade pillow.

After Shen Luo's feet settled down, he clenched his fists and discovered the fact that his physical body had entered, and he couldn't help but shudder in his heart.

His divine sense immediately swept in all directions, and his eyes also looked around.

The surrounding area seemed to be a golden hall, which was very similar to the battle space that Li Jing had brought him into back then, but the area was only about tens of feet in radius, and outside was shrouded in a layer of golden mist.

He couldn't see through his sight, and couldn't detect it with his divine sense.

"What is this place?"

Shen Luo murmured in a low voice, subconsciously raised his hand, and the Chunyang sword embryo appeared beside him.

"You can also summon magical artifacts..." Shen Luo frowned slightly, walking towards the side of the hall while being careful.

"Ding Dong"

As soon as he stepped up, there was a sound of water under his feet. When he looked down, he realized that the ground beneath him was like the surface of a lake, and there were circles of ripples rippling around his feet.

But what is a little strange is that although the ground is as smooth as a mirror, it does not reflect any image.

Shen Luo bent down, raised his hand to stroke the ground, but found that there was no water on the ground, and it was no different from stone jade when he touched it.

His thoughts moved slightly, and he sensed the fluctuations of spiritual power around him with his spiritual thoughts, but he found that the place was empty, he could not feel the flow of breath, nor could he feel any changes in the spiritual energy of the world.

"Go" Shen Luo sipped lightly.

The pure yang sword embryo floating in front of him shot out immediately, towards the opposite fog wall.

I saw the flash of the sword light "swish", like a bolt flying in the void, and disappeared into the golden mist on the opposite side in an instant.