Chapter 1361 The Returnee's Notes 435
Xuanzu expressionlessly put away the flowers, then looked the old man up and down. "Yu Shengli, if you have nothing to do, go to sleep. Don't come here every day to watch evil spirits being tortured."
They have no idea how to cherish their own spiritual bodies.
"Wow, I enjoyed watching it so much, it's much more comfortable than sleeping."
It's just a small shop on the outside, but once you go through that door, you enter a huge space.
Looking at the endless scene, Xie Ning couldn't help but glance back at the small door, comforting himself that this was not the human world and he couldn't view it with the logic of reality.
The old man brought Xie Ning in, but then disappeared in a flash. He looked small, but his feet moved incredibly fast.
Xie Ning didn't bother to chase after them, since there were guards here and it should be safe.
She was standing on a suspension bridge over the river, only two meters above the water. The river below was shallow, barely reaching her knees.
Below, countless souls were crossing the river. As soon as their feet touched the water, they couldn't help but howl, as if the river water could corrode flesh and bones... No, it really could. Xie Ning saw with his own eyes that the skin and flesh on the legs of a soul that had walked about two meters were corroded away, revealing the ghastly white bones inside.
Xie Ning leaned forward to take a closer look and found that all the spirits were like this. Looking up, he saw that the river, which was as wide as the Yangtze River, had no end in sight, and the banks and the water were covered with spirits.
If a soul refuses to cross the river, the guards will throw it in.
These guards were different from the Xuan Clan she had seen before; they looked like ordinary people, but none of them wore shoes and walked barefoot.
"What are you doing?"
Upon hearing Xie Ning's question, the spirit watching from the side explained, "This is the River of Oblivion. The people inside are all sinful. The deeper the sin, the heavier the suffering. If you can't cross it the first time, you have to cross it the second time, the third time... until all the sins on your body are gone before you can get ashore."
That's not all. Those with grave sins must climb up from the ninefold hell before they can be reincarnated. Otherwise, they can only endure the tortures of hell day after day.
Another spirit said, “We are all sinners. Who can live a life without incurring some sin? It’s just a matter of degree.”
Xie Ning kept walking forward, but didn't find a single person she recognized. But that wasn't surprising, given how many people and spirits there were in the world.
Unlike her, the old man was more lucky. He saw people he knew, which is why he came here every day to watch those spirits be punished.
As Xie Ning approached, he could still hear the old man cursing in his hometown dialect. Although it was crude, Xie Ning glanced at the man in the yellow military uniform under the bridge and couldn't help but sincerely praise him, "He curses really well."
The old man's eyes lit up. "Little kid, you have good taste! I'll treat you to roast duck when we get out!"
After saying that, he started cursing again. If there hadn't been guards nearby, he would have jumped down and started fighting.
Actually, it's not that he's never done it before, but he's been warned too many times, and in the end, the Japanese got away with it, so he stopped. He can only vent his frustrations on the bridge.
Most of the spirits on the bridge were silent. Xie Ning even saw a woman holding a little girl's head, silently watching the man crying and crawling forward below the bridge.
The man's lower body had been completely corroded, leaving only his skeletal hands crawling forward, with more bones occasionally being washed down the river.
It looks really creepy.
The little girl's eyes were still quite innocent, but she wasn't afraid of the scene. She just softly asked the woman, "Mommy, bad people will be punished."
That's true.
"Um."
Although she hoped that bad people would be punished while they were still alive.
"Time's almost up, little one, hurry up and come with me, I'll take you to eat roast duck!" the old man urged.
Ghosts eat and drink offerings. If they don't have offerings from their descendants and relatives in the human world, they can work to receive incense offerings.
However, these foods are not actually necessary for ghosts. Humans find it hard to resist the urge to eat, and ghosts are no exception.
Therefore, ghosts would work to earn incense offerings, which they would then exchange for food.
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