Journey to the West: Demon Emperor: Beginning as a Little Toad

Chapter 47 Eighteen Hells

"My dear brother, thank you for your trouble!"

The Bull Demon King took out a pile of paper money for the dead and handed it to the Bull-Headed Ghost.

Seeing this, Xiao Chen's mouth twitched:

"Another disciple has arrived. I wonder how many disciples this Bull Demon King has accepted?"

The bull-headed messenger said, "Brother, how can I say this?" But he took the ghost money without hesitation and said with a grin:
"Brother, please! I'll take you through hell!"

"Who is this brother?"

The bull-headed messenger looked at Xiao Chen and asked.

"My new sworn brother from the demon clan." The Bull Demon King did not say much about Xiao Chen's identity.

Xiao Chen and the Bull-Headed Ghost greeted each other and greeted each other.

As the three of them were walking, they suddenly heard a miserable crying sound coming from the front. It was the kind of sound that sounded like someone wanted to cry but couldn't, and it was very strange.

Xiao Chen looked up and saw a ghost holding down the ghost girl's head. Then a little ghost was prying open the ghost girl's mouth, pinching her tongue with pliers, and slowly stretching the tongue, dragging it to several meters long, and then letting go.

The tongue bounced back like a rubber band and hit the female ghost in the face with a "pop".

The female ghost felt extremely uncomfortable. She wanted to cry but couldn't. She could only look painful on her face and make strange noises from her mouth.

The little ghost then pulled out the ghost girl's tongue again, and repeated this process over and over again, torturing the ghost girl to the point of excruciating pain.

The female ghost kept making sounds of "wuwuwu" begging for mercy from her mouth, but she was unable to utter any words and could only moan "wawawa".

"This is?"

Xiao Chen asked the Bull-Headed Ghost.

"Hahaha, brother, I guess this is your first time in hell! Then I, Niutou, must introduce it to you."

Seeing Xiao Chen asking, the Bull-Headed Ghost Messenger showed a very proud look on his face and smiled.

"This is the Tongue-Pulling Prison in our underworld. It mainly executes ghosts who sowed discord during their lifetime and liked to slander others behind their backs."

"This female ghost was a village woman. She always loved gossiping when she was alive. When she saw other women wearing better silk and satin than she did, she would say that the other women must be seducing men."

"If a man glanced at her on the street, she would gossip about him, saying he was trying to flirt with her."

"This village woman was a talkative person. She caused many murders during her lifetime. That's why she is being tortured by having her tongue pulled out. She needs to have 10,000 tongues pulled out before she can be reincarnated."

Subsequently.

The Bull-Headed Ghost Officer proudly took Xiao Chen to the nearby oil pan prison, pointed at a naked man and woman who were about to be put into the oil pan, and said:

"Brother, this is an adulterous couple. Not only did the woman have an affair with another man, she also teamed up with her adulterer to poison her husband to death."

"So you deserve to be put in this oil pan."

Then, the Bull-Headed Ghost immediately gave orders to the little ghost who was carrying out the execution:
"Quick, quick, quick! Put this adulterous couple into the oil pan and make an example for my brother to see."

Then, Xiao Chen saw the little ghost put the naked male ghost and female ghost in the big clamps, and put them into the pot like fried dough sticks in a breakfast shop.

The male and female ghosts were fried in the oil pan, making a sizzling sound and screaming.

The two ghosts' originally white bodies were fried until golden and crispy.

They kept rolling and trying to climb out of the frying pan, but the little devil serving beside the frying pan hit them with an oil spoon and drove them into the frying pan. The scene was extremely cruel.

"This is the Stone Mill Prison."

"Brother, this is my favorite. I, Niutou, love grinding the most. You must take a look at it!"

"I'll turn the mill myself, let me show you!"

The Ox-Headed Ghost pointed at a large stone mill over two meters high nearby, chuckled, and ordered the little ghost to lead a fat, big-eared official in official uniform over.

"This man is a corrupt official. He was corrupt and abused his power. He was greedy and embezzled money. He was a governor, but he embezzled thousands of acres of good farmland in three years and harmed hundreds of good people."

"Come, come, put it on the millstone for me, and I will turn it myself, and make a sample for my brother to see."

Afterwards, two little devils tied up the official and put him on the millstone.

The Bull-Headed Ghost took off his uniform, bare-chested, and carried the rope of the millstone on his back. He pulled it several times with a "grunting" sound, and crushed the corrupt official into meat paste. He then reshaped his human body, and then used the millstone to crush him into meat paste again, repeating the cycle over and over again.

The Bull-Headed Ghost actually enjoyed this feeling. He listened to the corrupt official's screams and laughed out loud, "Hahahaha".

"This……"

Xiao Chen was speechless when he saw the Bull-Headed Ghost's perverted hobby.

"These ghost officials have been in hell for a long time, doing these jobs every day. Aren't they all mentally abnormal?"

"Brother Niutou, no more watching, no more watching! Let's go over there quickly."

Xiao Chen was speechless as he looked at the screams and miserable scenes everywhere in hell, as well as the groups of perverted, mentally ill ghost officials. Is this the underworld?

"Brother, no, no, you must watch it and enjoy it!"

However, the Bull-Headed Ghost Messenger insisted on dragging Xiao Chen to watch their torture scene, as if to show off and demonstrate their ghost messenger performance art.

Skinning hell, tendon hanging hell, intestine pulling hell, fire pit hell, Avici hell, pestle pounding hell, cart crashing hell...

The Bull-Headed Ghost laughed heartily and proudly introduced the seventeen hells to Xiao Chen one by one.

Finally, they arrived at another prison.

Xiao Chen saw that there were thousands of wooden frames on the execution ground, and on each frame, a ghost was tied up. The ghosts were tied into a "big" shape, and in front of each of them stood a ghost who was carrying out the execution. The ghost held a two-meter-long saw and cut the ghosts bit by bit, just like cutting wood.

Every time the ghost officer hit him, the evil ghost being tortured would let out a heart-wrenching scream.

On the execution ground, tens of thousands of screams came one after another and mixed together. The scene was as horrific as it could be.

"If there are people who traffic in women and children in this life, they will come to this hell of knives and saws, suffering the pain of knives and saws every day, and will never be able to be reborn!"

The Bull-Headed Ghost said grimly.

"If so, that would be great."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Chen stopped and looked carefully for a while at these ghosts who were suffering from the punishment of knives and saws, and said with a smile.

The Bull-Headed Ghost took Xiao Chen and the Bull Demon King through the eighteen levels of hell.

Then we arrived at the fifth stop of the underworld, Naihe River.

Xiao Chen looked around and saw Naihe:

The mighty waters flow, the steep and narrow roads are like a silk thread across the Yangtze River, but also like a fire pit floating on the surface. The yin energy chills people to the bone, and the fishy smell pierces the heart.

On the forked trees, there are silken clothes of blue, red, yellow and purple; in front of the cliff, there are lewd women who insult their parents-in-law. The bronze snake and the iron dog fight for food, and they will fall into the Nai River forever with no way out.

There is a poem saying:
"Every now and then I hear the cries of ghosts and the screams of gods, and the blood-soaked waters are turbulent. Countless bull heads and horse faces guard the Naihe Bridge ferociously."

However, what surprised Xiao Chen was that there were three bridges over the Nai River: a golden bridge, a silver bridge, and a broken bridge.

Xiao Chen had always thought that Naihe Bridge was just one bridge, but he didn't expect that there were three.

The Golden Bridge is tall, wide, and luxurious. It has its own bridge messengers to receive the ghosts who come to reincarnate, and they welcome them onto the bridge with a smile.

Although the silver bridge is not gorgeous, it is still relatively flat, and the reincarnated ghost can walk across it by himself.

Only the broken bridge was left, small, short, broken and slippery, just like the single-plank bridge. The ghosts who were about to cross the bridge cried continuously, and were beaten onto the bridge by the ghost messenger with sticks and shouts.

There are also monsters such as bronze snakes and iron dogs under the broken bridge, competing to drag and eat the ghosts on the Naihe Bridge.

There are many ghosts who can endure the punishment of the eighteen levels of hell but cannot walk across the Naihe Bridge which is several miles long.

"Brother Niutou, among these three bridges, which one is the Naihe Bridge?"

Xiao Chen looked at the three bridges and asked in confusion.

"Hahaha, since these three bridges are all on the Naihe River, therefore, these three bridges are all named Naihe Bridge."

"Different people walk on different bridges."

“Different bridges have different destinies.

The Bull-Headed Ghost said this with great pride, he was very satisfied with the design of their underworld's Naihe Bridge and boasted about it.

"Brother Niu, I would like to hear the details."

Xiao Chen asked.

"Even if those ghosts have experienced the tortures of the eighteen levels of hell, they still have to cross this Naihe Bridge before they can be reincarnated."

“Which bridge they take depends on their offerings.”

"Ghosts who are rich and powerful can naturally walk on the golden bridge if they offer money. It is flat and stable, and there are bridge messengers to pick them up."

"Those who walk on the Silver Bridge are loyal, filial, virtuous, fair and upright people."

"Broken bridge?"

The Bull-Headed Ghost said nothing.

But Xiao Chen understood, and he was silent.

The underworld has a clear division of labor and authority, with ghosts fulfilling their duties and humans exploiting them.

This underworld is so complicated, is this the ingenious design of the gods and Buddhas in the sky?

"Our underworld needs expenses too!"

“This expense…”

The Bull-Headed Ghost said this and sighed.

"It turns out that the underworld is supported by the money from the living world."

Xiao Chen seemed to understand something after hearing this.

Naturally, the Bull Demon King took out a lot of ghost money and burial gold and silver and gave them to the Bull-Headed Ghost Messenger.

The Bull-Headed Ghost took the money and naturally made arrangements for the two of them with a smile.

Afterwards, the bridge messenger brought the two monsters across the golden bridge.

After crossing the Naihe Bridge, you will reach the sixth stop of the underworld, the City of the Dead.

The underworld is inhabited by poor and evil ghosts who died unjustly. They are stuck here because they have no money to buy their way out. They are only one step away from reincarnation, and can only stay in this city of the dead day and night, waiting for death in despair.

Or, they just stay in this city of the dead, rob the new ghosts, take their travel money and give it to the ghost messenger who blocks the road so that they can be reincarnated.

"My dear brother, after passing this Wrongful Death City, we will reach Pingyang Continent. The Rakshasa Ghost Country we are going to is built on Pingyang Continent."

The arrow was on the string and had to be shot. At this moment, the Bull Demon King became a little nervous.

(End of this chapter)