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Chapter 17 Naihe Bridge

Looking at the sincerity in Yue Dabing's eyes, feeling the hands he held him tremble slightly, and smiled Youran couldn't help but blood surged. He opened his mouth and wanted to recognize this elder brother, but before he could finish his words, he suddenly felt a heart-wrenching pain, and a feeling of inexplicable fear arose, as if doing that would definitely hurt him. He swallowed the words to his mouth, but he just slapped it there a few times.

"If you don't dislike me, what if you call me "Brother" in the future?" But Yue Dadan didn't notice his strangeness. He looked at his eyes and asked sincerely.

"This... thank you Brother Yue for your kindness, but I haven't passed the trial now. I still don't know what to do in the future. I have lost my memory and have no cultivation. I can only add burden to Brother Yue..." I was really afraid of anything. Xiao Youran wanted to refuse politely, but Yue Dadan didn't let him finish it.

"Brother, you are so arrogant! A gentleman is very close to his relationship. The key is sincerity. Why bother to care about those who have it? Who can tell the truth in the future? Maybe you will become successful in the future, and you will rely on your breath in the future! As the saying goes, if you drink today, you will be drunk now, I think it will be settled!" Yue Dadan patted his shoulder and said loudly.

"But..." Xiao Youran couldn't forget the feeling just now, and was still hesitant.

"But what? Do you look down on me? I feel that my official position is low, powerless, and poor family, and I am not worthy of being your elder brother?" Yue Dadao glared at his big eyes, and his eyebrows stood up and said unhappy.

"No, no, no, I have never said that in the next episode, the soulless body has no strengths, and being able to interact with Brother Yue is already a high point, so how could it be..." Xiao Youran knew that he was stimulating, but she still waved her hand in panic and explained.

"Hahaha... It's okay, there's no need to say anything else, why don't you call me brother?" Yue Dada laughed boldly and hammered his shoulder blades.

"Brother is here, I'm polite!" Xiao Youran could not resist such a strong sincerity, and finally got rid of the struggle in his heart. He smiled and bowed to the ground, secretly swearing in his heart that he would never let the elder brother suffer any harm from himself.

"Haha, okay! Brothers don't have to be too polite. Let's make this gentleman's appointment for the time being. When you go back, you will choose a zodiac auspicious day and then officially perform the sworn ceremony." Yue Dadan smiled very happily, as if he had found his long-lost brother, his eyes were slightly red and the corners of his eyes were a little wet.

Perhaps it was because he had been living in the shadow of mediocrity for so many years, and there was no close friend who could drink and talk about each other, nor was he who could share weal and woe and entrusted life and death. Yue Dabang had long been eager for brotherhood. Now his wish was enough, and the artistic conception of being able to win someone like this and having no regrets in his life stirred up the blood in his body, and the feeling of enlightenment made him feel even more excited.

"Brother, according to the itinerary we have set, how many places we have not arrived?" Xiao Youran thought for a moment and suddenly asked.

"Hmm? I think about it, there should be Wild**, Hall of Yama, Eighteen-level Hell, Yin Soul Castle, Naihe Bridge, and Resurrection Cliff. What's wrong?" Yue Dabing said strangely.

"It's nothing. I think it's getting late today. Let's hurry up and go to Naihe Bridge to see what the rest will be said tomorrow?" Xiao Youran suggested.

"The sky is so beautiful? You can see the sky all day and night? Besides, why are you anxious to go to Naihe Bridge? What's the beauty there?" Yue Dadan looked up at the gray sky and wondered.

"Hehe, of course there are some beautiful things. Not only are they beautiful, but they are also good things waiting for us. Let's go!" Xiao Youran said with a sly smile on the corner of her mouth and made a gesture to touch things.

"Oh? I don't know what good things are, so I must go and have a look, hehe!" Yue Dadan heard the sound of the piano and knew the elegance. He smiled strangely and set up the Yin Feng and Xiao Youran and headed straight for Naihe Bridge.

Before entering Fengdu on the way back, Xiao Youran discovered that the Ghost Pass that he had seen before seemed to have changed. The plaque originally written with "Ghost Pass" turned into three words "Fengdu City". There were also couplets on the pillars on both sides of the city gate. The first couplet was "Man and Ghost, Ghost and Human, Human and Ghost are different from each other." The second couplet is "Yin and Yang, Yang and Yin, Yin and Yang are separated forever."

The guards guards who stand guard are different in terms of clothing standards and patrol teams. After hearing the news, Yue Dadan learned that the dead souls will only see the Ghost Gate Pass when they first arrive in the underworld, and when they enter Fengdu and come out, they can only see the Ghost Gate. In other words, the passage of the Ghost Gate Pass is also a special spatial level, or a natural formation that exists in the original earthly realm. Its function can be imagined as labeling the Dead souls as the underworld, and from then on they will leave the Yang world and return to the Underworld, and there is no possibility of returning to the Yang world, which is exactly the meaning expressed by the two couplets.

After entering the city gate, they could no longer fly. The two of them walked around several teleportation arrays with tokens, and it took more than an hour to arrive at the Naihe Bridge, located at the southernmost part of the inner city of Fengdu. Standing in the distance, a long river heading north and south, which was not wide but curved and endless, was horizontally in front of them. A faint gray mist covered the river surface, making the river water unable to see the color clearly, but it felt slightly turbid. This river is called Wangchuan. Lush red flowers grow on both sides of the river bank, but the colors are different. The west bank is full of blood red, while the east bank is white.

There is a stone arch bridge that spans the river and connects the east and west banks. This is the legendary famous Naihe Bridge. There are five steps each with white jade railings, bluestone bridge decks, obsidian bridge piers, and the bridge head and tail. If you look directly from the bridge head, this Naihe Bridge is not so much a bridge as two parallel bridges, because there are two passages on the bridge, and there are stone beams connecting the bridge decks at a distance. Although it is not hollowed out here, there are still bridge rails between the two passages that cannot be passed.

Passing this bridge to the dead souls of the souls of the souls, the man walks on the south side of the souls, and the woman walks on the north side of the passage, which means that the man Yang**. The railings on the bridge are densely filled with various words, as well as tied red cloth strips and concentric locks, etc. Every word is full of deep longing and attachment, and every bit is full of deep affection and ties.

Over the years, many strict fathers and mothers have choked up and couldn't cry on this bridge, how many filial sons and daughters have roared and destroyed on this bridge, and how many foolish men and women have tears in their hearts on this bridge, who can know. The remnants left behind after they left will turn into a wisp of mist floating on the Forgetful River. Whether it is a woman throwing her chicks, a swallow flying in the shriek, or a cloud of rain, they will eventually gather with the fog on the river surface, and the fog that never dissipates is called separation of life and death.

Standing at the bridge on the west bank, Xiao Ran stared at the faint mist. He felt the unimaginable hatred, unforgettable love, and family affection that was thicker than water. Innumerable emotions were intertwined together to form a kind of resentment, which was the lingering and sad separation.

As if he was impacted by resentment, Xiao Youran suddenly felt upset, dizzy, and his chest was as stuffy as if he was about to explode. He quickly withdrew his gaze and beat his chest hard. However, he didn't expect that the inner mansion would churn suddenly as soon as he was subjected to external force, and a mouthful of blood surged up to his throat. He couldn't help but squirt out, which scared Yue Dadan beside him.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly vomit blood?" Yue Dadan quickly patted his back gently, his eyes full of anxiety.

"Ahem, it's okay, the air in the underworld is too dry and a little bit irritated. Brother, don't worry." Xiao Youran coughed lightly and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and smiled.

"Really, fake? At most, you get nosebleeds when you get angry, but you haven't heard of anyone vomiting blood?" Yue stared at him boldly and suspiciously.

"Oh, I really didn't lie to you. I'm just angry, let's go." Xiao Youran comforted him and stepped onto the Naihe Bridge along the south side.

"The air is dry and the heat? The air...ah? Wait, how do you know that the air is dry, can you breathe?" Yue Dadan followed him and muttered, as if he suddenly thought of something amazing.

"My dear brother, can you stop being shocked? This scared me. Is it normal to breathe? You don't know if I have a vagina?" Xiao Youran was so scared that he staggered and almost fell off the bridge.

"No, it's absolutely abnormal. I know you have a yin body, but the yin body cannot breathe!" Yue Dada stared at his chest and abdomen in surprise, and found that it was really a slight ups and downs due to the temptation. He couldn't help but open his mouth wide and unable to close it.

"Ah? Why can't the Yin body breathe?" Xiao Youran was reminded by his words, and suddenly remembered that when Niu Tou introduced the Yin body before, he seemed to have said that the Yin body does not breathe, and his heartbeat and body temperature are all the same.

"The Yin body is just a shell of the soul body formed by condensed and compressing the soul energy to the extreme. Although there are many flesh, bones, meridians, it has no vitality at all. It looks like a physical body and is not a physical body. Perhaps it is more appropriate to say that it is like a corpse. Soul energy is also called Yin Yuan or Yin Qi. Although it is also a resource of cultivation, it is only suitable for the use of the soul or Yin body. For the Yang body, this soul energy is a fatal dead energy. If it comes into contact with more energy, it will be eroded. At the least, it will be a serious illness, and at the worst, it will be a death.

The reason why the physical body is also called the Yang body is that it can absorb and breathe vital energy, which is also called Yang Yuan or Yang Qi. By "sucking" the vital energy into the body and circulate through meridians, it stabilizes the physical body's blockade of the soul body, so that the soul body cannot be removed from the body, and the physical body will not be eroded by the leakage of soul energy. Then, through "expiring", the harmful turbid air produced by the soul energy that is cultivated with the soul body during the vital energy blocking process is discharged from the body. This is the origin of why living people need to breathe.

The Yin body is like armor placed outside the soul body. As long as there is enough soul energy, it can protect and nourish the soul body. There is no need to rely on the energy circulation to confine the soul body. If the energy is drawn into the body, it will be melted and weakened, and may even directly cause damage to the soul body, so the Yin body cannot breathe." Yue Dadan thought for a while, and lightly pointed his forehead with his fingers and preached like a memorization.

"Oh, the Yin body does not need blood circulation to maintain vitality, so it has no heartbeat, and therefore has no body temperature, right?" Xiao Youran seemed to have some insight after hearing this.

"Well, that's it." Yue nodded boldly.

"What I know is so profound, I admire you! But since there is no need for blood circulation, why does blood still exist in the Yin body?" Xiao Youran praised him and asked.

"Uh... I don't know what I said. I just saw the compulsory classics of Yin Chou, and there is nothing profound at all." Yue Dadan was stunned by his question.

"Why is there no shadow on the Yin body?" Xiao Youran thought about it and continued to ask.

"I don't know." Yue Dadan was a little embarrassed.

"Okay, brother, can you see if there is a shadow behind me?" Xiao Youran pointed to the ground behind him.

"Huh? How is there a shadow?" Yue Dadan looked at the ground along his hand. Although the sky was gray and only under the faint light, the mist over the Naihe Bridge was shrouded in fog and isolated part of the light, a relatively clear figure could still be seen.

"Then you touch here again." Xiao Youran stretched his neck over and opened the collar to signal him to touch the back part of his neck.

"It's warm, you have body temperature!" Yue Dadan reached out and touched it and shouted in surprise.

"Come and take the next pulse and take a look." Xiao Youran stretched out a hand and turned it over, handing it in front of him.

"This... has a pulse, which means you have a heartbeat, my god! You, you have a physical body? How is this possible?" Yue Dadan was already stupid, it was too incredible.

"No, this is not a physical body." Xiao Youran shook her head.

"What is this? The Yin body? Impossible?" Yue Dadan had long been confused.

"I don't know either, I don't know anything about the Yin body. Maybe this is a mutated Yin body, right?" Xiao Youran said without comment.

"I think you seemed to understand it very much when you helped Neizi check his soul body yesterday. Why did you say you didn't understand it again?" Yue Dadan was also speechless.

"Brother, you know that there is something wrong with me here and I can't remember anything, but there are many things that seem to exist here. In short, I can't explain why, alas..." Xiao Youran patted his head and sighed.

"Forget it, brother, why bother to care about those things? As long as your health is fine, it's fine. Brother is just worried about you." Yue Dadao spread his ape's arms and put them on his shoulder to comfort him.

"Don't worry, brother, although this body is a little strange, I haven't found any problems yet. I'll ask Mr. Bao for advice when the palace is being tried next day." Xiao Youran was very moved and gently pinched his generous palm.

"Well, that's fine, but if you feel uncomfortable, tell me quickly, don't hide it from me." Yue nodded boldly.

"Okay, OK, it's really okay. How dare I deceive my brother? Let's go quickly." Xiao Youran smiled and shook Yue Dadan's arms and accelerated to move forward. Looking at the blood marks splattered on the newly recognized brother's clothes, he could only shake his head helplessly and quickly follow him.

After crossing the Naihe Bridge, I just stepped on the east bank, and I saw a huge strange stone that seemed round but not round, square but not square, standing next to the road. The stone was thick and thin on the top, with a big head and light on the feet. Two gray and black cracks divided it into three sections. Each section was different in color, as smooth as a mirror, but there was no reflection of the scenery on it. A stone tablet was erected next to the strange stone, with three large characters "Three Lives Stone" written on it, and there were four small characters "Yuan Ding San Sheng" in the lower right corner. The stone tablet and the big stone were naturally connected to the ground, and were obviously not carved by man.

When a man and a woman heading to the Cliff of Resurrection Cliff presses his hands on the Three Lives Stone, two names will appear on the surface of the three stones. If a red line runs through the three sections and connects the two names, the stone holders will often smile full of affection and love, and some people will even cry with joy. If the red line breaks from the middle, the stone holders will be inexplicably sad, and there are many people who cry with wail.

Xiao Youran suddenly had an idea when he saw those names. He imitated others and pressed his hand on the Three Lives Stone. He felt a little nervous but more anxious, wanting to see if his name would appear. But after waiting for a long time, he still couldn't see any reaction of the stone. It was bare and there was not even a stroke, let alone a complete name.

"Is the posture wrong?" Xiao Youran put on a heart-wrenching posture in confusion, but Shi Tou still didn't respond.

"Do you want to use your feet?" Xiao Youran raised his feet and pedaled on the stone in depression.

"Get out! Take away your stinky feet!" A strange voice suddenly came from the stone.

(End of this chapter)
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