There are hungry ghosts in the hungry ghost road
The judge's platform is so high and majestic that when people face the judge, it is like a mortal facing a god. Just from the momentum, it is the difference between cloud and mud.
"You can start to prove yourself." The judge's voice is majestic and ethereal, as if it came from the clouds.
Qin Ruqing thought for a while, raised her eyes, straightened her back and looked at the judge calmly, and said: "I can't prove myself."
The judge didn't say much, as if he had already predicted the result, and announced: "The criminal can't prove himself, and the round of trial is over."
For the judge, it was over, but for Qin Ruqing, everything had just begun, and her punishment came. She was thrown into the arena.
This was a dark environment, and it was pitch dark. Qin Ruqing habitually lit a fire to illuminate the space, but found that her natal fire had lost its resonance with her.
Qin Ruqing paused and realized that something was wrong. Her natal fire was like a part of her body. Now that the fire was sealed, what about the others... Qin Ruqing began to calmly try to circulate her spiritual energy and sense her cultivation.
Then she calmly came to a conclusion: she seemed to have become a mortal now.
The next second after this conclusion, the scene in front of her suddenly changed, and she seemed to have come to an ancient city. The ruins were broken, and the sky was filled with yellow sand.
There was a rustling sound from behind a collapsed stone wall. Qin Ruqing stared at it closely. After a moment, a figure appeared from behind the wall.
Well... strictly speaking, it can't be considered a human. It seemed that the flesh and water in the body had been completely drained, leaving only a dry skin. The skin was stacked up layer by layer, piling up and sliding like sticky cement. Some places were rotten and decayed, revealing dark red and purple rotten flesh, which was attracting demon flies as big as thumb nails to hover and suck.
Qin Ruqing's breathing stagnated, as if it smelled the scent of fresh flesh. The skinny and rotten humanoid creature slowly turned its head and looked towards her. The eye sockets were deeply sunken, the eyeballs were extremely protruding, and the pupils were sharp and vertical, which made people's scalps numb.
In the second when Qin Ruqing looked at the humanoid creature, a name emerged in his mind:
Hungry Ghost!
This is the hungry ghost of the Hungry Ghost Road, the hungry ghost of the judgment place in Sin City!
The hungry ghost saw Qin Ruqing and showed its brown and yellow fangs. Its legs like dead branches obviously could hardly support its shaking body, but it had an extremely unreasonable running speed, and it came towards Qin Ruqing with its teeth and claws.
Qin Ruqing opened his eyes wide and took a breath of cool air, and ran away.
Although his spiritual power was sealed, Qin Ruqing's abnormal physical condition was still there. He had just formed a pill and had experienced the baptism of the nine-turn thunder tribulation. He was still able to get rid of a rotten creature that trembled as it walked.
After confirming that he had gotten rid of the hungry ghost, Qin Ruqing hid in the shadow of a corner of a ruined building, touched his chest and took a deep breath.
"Oh my god, this is the hungry ghost, it looks like a zombie, so disgusting!"
After calming down, Qin Ruqing frowned and began to analyze the situation in front of him.
"Is this the punishment of the trial? It seems that I have to escape from the hungry ghosts in this deserted city. It looks easy, but my spiritual power is sealed now. Apart from my physical fitness, I am almost the same as an ordinary person. When my physical strength is exhausted, I will almost die in this deserted city."
Qin Ruqing looked ahead, and a gust of wind happened to blow, rolling up yellow sand, directly covering her eyes.
"And... Oh my god, there is sand in my eyes!" Qin Ruqing rubbed her eyes in a panic, and it took her a long time to recover. She blinked her red and tearful eyes and muttered the following words:
"Besides, this deserted city doesn't look like there is any food or water. Now I am just a mortal. If I don't have food and water, and I have to avoid the pursuit of hungry ghosts, I am afraid I can't hold on for a few days."
Qin Ruqing used her spiritual sense (which she found was not working) to check the surrounding environment with her eyes. After finding no abnormality, she stood up.
"Let's find out if there is a place like a supply station first... It's getting dark." Night is always the peak of danger. "
Well, you have worked so hard to cultivate for so long, and now you are fucked until the liberation." Qin Ruqing shook her hand, and the red slim figure began to move forward briskly, and in this desolate ancient city, the sky was brighter.
Before dark, Qin Ruqing found a house that had not completely collapsed and moved in.
The temperature difference between day and night in the ancient city is huge. It is extremely hot during the day, but the temperature drops sharply at night, and it is so cold that you can see white smoke
when you exhale. Qin Ruqing huddled in the corner, hoping to spend the night in peace. But obviously things did not go as planned. In the middle of the night, Qin Ruqing heard rustling noises again. She opened her eyes and saw a windowless window opposite. A pair of white ghost eyes stared at her greedily.
Qin Ruqing:!
Before she could react, another head popped up next to the ghost eyes. Obviously, there were more than one hungry ghosts gathered around this leaky house.
Qin Ruqing rushed out and fought them with bare hands. There was no scene where Qin Ruqing dealt with the hungry ghosts and then returned to the house to rest, because more and more hungry ghosts gathered in this direction after hearing the noise.
Hungry ghosts actually have the attributes of night owls!
Qin Ruqing began to flee in a hurry at night, and her spirit hardly relaxed for a moment. When it was dawn, Qin Ruqing huddled in a corner of a dilapidated house without a roof, her eyes as big as copper bells, alert to the surroundings, and there was a dark circle under her eyes.
Even if she is the number one female fairy in Nanling Village, she will have dark circles under her eyes if she doesn't sleep all night!
After dealing with hungry ghosts all night, Qin Ruqing was not tired physically. Even if she didn't eat or drink, her current physical condition could handle it. She was tired mentally!
For a moment, Qin Ruqing stopped thinking about exploring the environment and the source of the judgment in the city of sin. She began to think about when this first round of judgment would end. She wanted to go back to sleep.
On the third day in the ancient city of sin (approximately), Qin Ruqing poked a hungry ghost nest and was besieged and hunted by thousands of hungry ghosts.
It was an experience Qin Ruqing had never had in her life. She thought of what Diwu Youlin said, "You will be in pain in the city of sin."
Qin Ruqing felt pain when she was roasted by the fire in the pool of earth fire;
Qin Ruqing also felt pain in the five-color sea and every moment in the eighteen levels of life and death;
when she was forming a pill, the nine-turn thunder tribulation struck down, and the power seemed to split every layer of flesh and blood into ashes. That was the extreme physical pain that Qin Ruqing could experience.
But now, with tens of millions of hungry ghosts besieging her, what used to only require a fireball to be thrown at her now had to be done with her fists and feet because her spiritual power was sealed. In this process, Qin Ruqing's perception of pain was once again refreshed.
She would hammer the rotten flesh of the hungry ghosts, who were completely unaware, but her hair stood on end. As she counterattacked more and more, her body seemed to be gradually stained with the rotten breath of the hungry ghosts. Some of the flies that were circling around the hungry ghosts to suck the rotten blood also began to circle around Qin Ruqing.
She knocked down one hungry ghost after another, watching the bulging eyeballs of the hungry ghosts burst. After a long time, Qin Ruqing actually felt that there was no difference between herself and these hungry ghosts.
Two fists could not defeat four hands. Qin Ruqing began to feel exhausted. A hungry ghost bit her in the chaos, and it felt like her flesh was torn apart. Then this tearing feeling became more and more frequent.
After Qin Ruqing fell, her vision turned and turned into the gray-yellow sky above her head. Soon, the sky was no longer pure, and the heads of hungry ghosts appeared, with their sharp and greedy eyes.
When the hungry ghosts surrounded her and completely blocked the sky above her head, the thought that flashed through Qin Ruqing's mind was:
She would rather be eaten by beasts than by these hungry ghosts.
At least the beasts are not as disgusting as the hungry ghosts.
Her body suddenly startled, and when she opened her eyes again, Qin Ruqing found herself at the entrance of the beast arena. The humanoid puppet in golden armor had empty eyes and opened the door mechanically. When
the sky brightened, Qin Ruqing walked out in a trance. There was no ancient city, no hungry ghosts, the air was clear, and the sunlight was dazzling.
Qin Ruqing suddenly woke up and began to gasp for breath. For a moment, she wanted to collapse to the ground. The spiritual energy filled her body as if it had never disappeared, and her life fire burned vigorously in her body, just waiting for her to call, and it would be released naturally.
That was the feeling of power. This power supported Qin Ruqing. She held the wall with her hands, and after a while, she slowly left the arena.
She returned to the old woman's yard and did not see the children. The old woman saw Qin Ruqing's appearance and was startled for a moment, and subconsciously supported her with her soft palm.
After observing for a while, the old woman concluded: "You have been judged." There was fear and indifference in her tone.
Qin Ruqing smiled weakly, "Will new judges in Sin City be reported?"
The old woman shook her head, "No, because there are new ones every day. And there is no need to report, I can tell by your appearance." The old woman looked experienced.
Qin Ruqing didn't know how scary she looked now. Her forehead was covered with cold sweat, her face was as pale as paper, without a trace of blood, her expression was extremely tired and extremely tense, and it was difficult to relax. This was exactly the look of someone who had experienced a trial.
Rich spiritual food was prepared for Qin Ruqing, as well as hot water for bathing. The old woman considerately withdrew.
Although the cultivator had mastered the art of cleansing, the old woman knew from experience that Qin Ruqing probably needed hot water.
Sure enough, when Qin Ruqing saw the hot water, he didn't even have time to eat. The first thing he did was to take a shower.
After a long sleep, Qin Ruqing woke up, sat up, was silent for a while, and began to curse.
"So this is the kind of pain that Diwu Youlin said. Who can bear it! I'm so disgusted!"
"Which logical ghost came up with this assessment method!"
After cursing for a while, Qin Ruqing calmed down and began to frown and recall the details of the first round of trials.
First of all, what exactly is this hungry ghost that looks like a zombie? Does it really exist?
Qin Ruqing came to a conclusion based on his memory of the trial. This thing should not be an illusion, it should be real. The specific species is unknown, it may be a specialty of the ancient city.
Secondly, the deserted city is like a real space, and Qin Ruqing did not find any loopholes in the details to prove that it is an illusion. It is not an illusion. If you want to leave, you have to break through from the inside.
Finally, through this trial, Qin Ruqing already knew the purpose of her entering the Hungry Ghost Road.
She has now transformed into "Ruqing", shouldering the crime and becoming a member of the Sin City. What she needs to do is to get rid of the cycle of being judged and leave the Hungry Ghost Road before the six-month deadline!
The old woman later told her that after entering the trial, there will be a seven-day interval. After seven days, she will enter the second trial.
Seven days passed in a flash, and Qin Ruqing entered the ancient city again.
This time, while escaping from the hungry ghosts, she began to pay attention to whether there were any special buildings in the deserted city.
She first assumed that this deserted city was not an illusion, so the only way to break out of here was to go through the inside. In this case, there must be something special.
However, the space of the deserted city was too large, and this time, Qin Ruqing gained nothing.
This does not mean that the second trial was mediocre. Qin Ruqing met a person this time, who was also trapped in the trial cycle in the sin city.
Qin Ruqing witnessed him being eaten up by hungry ghosts.
When Qin Ruqing found him, he was only left with a skeleton and a look of fear and helplessness before death.
This gave Qin Ruqing a great shock. During
the third trial, Qin Ruqing took the initiative to help some residents of the sin city, helping them to lure away the hungry ghosts, or taking the initiative to gather with them into a team.
They huddled together in a dilapidated hut without a roof in the deserted city at night.
The torture Qin Ruqing had suffered so far was all mental, and the physical torture was actually not bad, so she could still endure it.
But on this night, she deeply felt the fear of these people.
Night is the peak period of activity for hungry ghosts, and hungry ghosts may appear at any time. They dare not relax, staring with big eyes, like frightened birds.
Even tonight has actually been peaceful until now, and they can take this opportunity to rest for a while. These people dare not.
After so many trials, Qin Ruqing has found a way to survive in this deserted city.
That is, reduce mental activity, and leave everything to the body's instincts. Alert, escape, and counterattack, leave everything to the body, train the body to have a mechanized instinctive reaction, and when the instinct is generated, the spirit can get a short rest.
But these people obviously don't know this method. They are the bottom of the sin city, and even more so the bottom of this deserted city. They have no power to resist, and the fate that awaits them is to be judged.
The hungry ghosts are finally here. The sword of Damocles hanging over their heads finally fell!
Another group of hungry ghosts, no less than five hundred in number. Qin Ruqing had a hard time protecting himself, and there was no way to save them.
Qin Ruqing watched their trial end that night, and felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart.
The spiritual power was sealed, the life fire was sealed, and the Tao body was sealed. Qin Ruqing found that without all of this, he was actually so weak.
Didn't they say that life would never end? Obviously not.
How can the endless life that can be sealed be called endless life!
For the first time, Qin Ruqing was no longer confident, but began to doubt herself.
After the third trial, Qin Ruqing returned to the old woman's courtyard. But he found that the old woman did not bring him spiritual food and hot water in the first time.
After searching for a while, he found that the old woman was hiding in the room crying, and her numb daughter knelt beside her, with obvious fluctuations in her expression for the first time.
It turned out that the old woman's son died during the trial.
The old woman held a funeral for her son. She was sending off her son with white hair. When the court was sealed, she suddenly said angrily: "I hate it!"
That night, the old woman entered the trial.
This mother-in-law who made Qin Ruqing feel very good entered the trial court for the first time and never came back.
The only remaining daughter in the family held a funeral for the old woman. Seeing her crying, Qin Ruqing crouched beside her and asked softly, "Have you ever thought about resisting?"
"Resist?" The daughter was at a loss, "We are born guilty. Isn't it our destiny to be judged?"
The people of Sin City took absurdity for granted day after day.
Qin Ruqing was extremely angry.
She didn't know if what she saw was real. However, whether it was true or not, she had truly brought herself into and empathized with the tragedy of the residents of Sin City.
She now wanted to overthrow the judge and overturn that damn beast arena!
Seven days later, Qin Ruqing entered the fourth trial.