All living beings in hell

Chapter 38 - Chaser of Hellfire

The lotus lantern at the door lit up, and the office welcomed No. 20, No. [-] customer.

The door was knocked open by a gust of wind, and a wave of heat rushed in. The guest shouted: "Master Writer!"

Before I could say please come in, a flaming human figure burned from the door all the way to my wooden table, leaving a scorched black mark on my floor in an instant.

"My lord! You have to be careful, I'm very hot!" The guest's voice was loud, and the ink in the inkstone was shaken and rippled.

The heat wave rose from the whole body of the guest, and I also felt the burning sensation behind the wooden table.

The fire is fierce and stinging, not warm at all, it only makes me restless.

The tip of my nose already felt burning pain, but the back of my head was still cold.

"What should I call you?" I asked.

"Yingze," the guest replied, "Ze is the Ze of Three Points of Water, my master gave me the name."

I wrote the word "Yingze" on the rice paper: "Okay, Yingze. May I ask why you are looking for me today?"

"My lord, which one is stronger, the flames of hell or the flames on my body?" Yingze raised his head.

"I do not know."

The temperature on Yingze's body began to rise, and the rice paper from hell on the table turned yellow at the edges after being roasted.

I read the golden light talisman barrier and stood in front of the desk, trying to block part of the heat.

"My lord, if I want, I can burn your office to ashes."

"Yingze, if I want, I can also see off guests here."

The sapphire pen in my hand began to glow green.The green light was cool, and the temperature behind the desk dropped.

Yingze stared at the sapphire pen in my hand, and the flames on his body subsided a little: "Hey, it seems that I'm still not strong enough."

"So why did you come to see me today?"

"I just want to see how capable the writer is, which one is stronger, me or Hellfire."

"Oh, then you have already seen it. I can't answer the second half of the question for you, so you can ask someone else."

Hearing this, Yingze suppressed the flames on his body.There was only a layer of light blue glow on the outside of the skin, and the temperature in the office finally returned to normal.

I glanced sideways at the wooden chair under Yingze, and as expected, it was already black as charcoal.

"Actually, my master asked me to come to you, and I don't know what I'm here for."

"Who is your master?"

"It's the real ghost emperor of the West!"

"Then you should ask him what he is looking for me for, and come back after asking."

"My lord, why do ghosts look for you?"

"Talk about your life, what you have seen and heard, what you think and feel, everything you want me to record and bring back to the world."

"Then I probably came here for this."

"If you are willing to say it, I will record it truthfully."

Yingze thought for a while, as if deciding where to start: "My lord, I used to be a mortal..."

Yingze showed me his hands burning with blue flames in the air. If I looked closely, I found that the surface of the hands was human skin, which was constantly being burned in the flames, but it was constantly healing.The speed of healing was exactly equal to the speed of burning, so the skin became the fuel of the flame itself, and it burned endlessly like this.

Yingze continued: "I used to be a fisherman, and I was with the sea every day."

"and then?"

"I was tired of the sea water, the salty wind and the smell of fish, and wanted to visit the town. At the age of 30, I finally made up my mind to leave the wharf where I grew up and went to the capital alone."

"What happened in the capital?"

"My lord, you are also a cultivator, have you heard of the Samadhi True Fire Technique?"

"I've only heard of it, I don't know if it really exists."

"When I first entered the capital, everything I saw was new! There was a Taoist priest who set up a stall on the street, saying that he was going to teach people magic. It gave me my name and my date of birth, which shocked me!"

"and then?"

"The Taoist priest handed me a collection of various spells and asked me to browse through them at will. I sat in front of his stall and flipped through a few pages. I was firmly attracted by a line drawing - on the picture, a person With a long sword in his hand, fire spewed out from his eyes and mouth, causing the enemies in front of him to flee in all directions! I asked the priest, can he know this move?"

"What did the priest say?"

"The Taoist smiled, got up and said that it is not convenient to demonstrate here, and let me go with him. I just arrived in the capital, no relatives, no reason, no place to stay, and naturally no place to rush, so I just let him go The Taoist priest took me to a rushing river and made me stand twenty paces away from him, saying that he was afraid that luck would hurt me."

"and then?"

"He was lucky first, and he performed a set of exercises. I don't understand what he did. In short, just when I was about to run out of patience, the Taoist opened his mouth and really spewed out fire! The fire was so big, It burned straight across the surface of the water and reached the reeds on the opposite side! When the Taoist priest put his hands behind his back and looked at me with a smile, the fire on the water surface was still burning. I immediately knelt down and learned from my teacher!"

"Have you learned?"

The fire on Yingze's body became stronger again: "My lord, the fire on my body is not the real fire of Samadhi, nor did I learn it from that Taoist priest. I figured it out by myself. That Taoist priest is a charlatan. I paid him all the money and practiced hard for a whole year, only to find out that he was just using some props to play tricks!"

"Didn't he say your name and birthday at the beginning?"

"This Taoist, in fact, used to be in the same fishing village as me. Later, he got tired of the sea and came to the capital. On the day I was born, he happened to be drinking at a neighbor's house, and he heard everything. If he really has any skills, probably It’s just that the memory is good, after more than 30 years, I can still recognize a newborn baby.”

"You found out he was a liar, and what did you do?"

"I used his trick to burn down his house. At that time, he drank alcohol and left in a daze, probably because he was smoked to death."

"how about you?"

"I, I collected his remaining tools for playing tricks, thinking that I could make a living by performing fire-breathing performances in the future. But I didn't expect, I didn't expect..." Yingze seemed unwilling to continue talking, the fire on his body It turned into a blue flame again.

"what happened?"

"After that, I wanted to practice Taoism, but I didn't know how to practice. I ended up walking the same path as him...becoming a Taoist priest, setting up a stall, and tricking new melon eggs in the capital...Finally... In the end... I was burned to death by my apprentice."

"After being burned to death, you came to hell?"

"When I opened my eyes, there was flames on my skin, and the pain was terribly burning. I rolled back and forth on the ground. A majestic voice came and told me to kneel down, and I realized that I was in the palace of the king of hell. The king of hell was sitting on the high seat Above, the five ghost emperors sat on both sides of the main hall. The king of hell asked me why I came here, and I honestly confessed all the wrong things I had done. The king of hell asked me what I planned to do next. Actually, I don’t know why, I Still obsessed with the Samadhi True Fire Technique, I said back, I want to learn the real Samadhi True Fire Technique. That’s why I was accepted as an apprentice by the Western Ghost Emperor Daoist.”

"Then have you learned it?"

"How can it be so easy to practice! Look at what I have practiced myself. I don't know what it looks like now. The master told me that if one day I can burn out the flames of hell, then I will do it."

"What do you mean by burning the flames of hell?"

"I don't understand either. It's probably more powerful than the flames of hell."

"If you can't practice, what should you do?"

"How is that possible! I'm sure I can do it!" The fire on Yingze's body was burning again, as if to prove his strength.

"Well, good luck then," I said.

"The day I master it, I will replace the fire of hell! There will be no existence stronger than me inside or outside the Three Realms!"

"So you'd rather be a fire than return to the world?"

"What's so fun about being human?"

"Then what's the fun in making fire?"

"Burn anything you see! Eat anything! Conquer everything!"

"Well, good luck then," I stood up, "Thank you for sharing, the time is almost up."

"On the day I complete my cultivation, Master Writer, I will definitely let you see how powerful I am!"

"Well, come on."

Yingze stood up with his head held high, and walked towards the door of the office swaggeringly, the fire on his body was burning again.

"That's it, my lord! I'll burn it for you to see!"

"It's okay to show me if you don't burn it, come on."

I waved at him, Yingze laughed twice, and closed the door of the office.

There is still a strong smell of charcoal in the office, the cheeks are scorched and hot, but the hands and feet are extremely cold.

I opened the curtains and looked at the sea of ​​blood in the distance. Under the sea of ​​blood, in the deepest place, is the burning hell fire that will never go out.

The flames of hell are still burning at the bottom of hell, deterring the three realms, endlessly, until the end of everything.

Does anyone really want to be like that?

Maybe, I don't understand.

(End of this chapter)