Chapter 358 The soul returns to its hometown
In the solar system, a spectacle once again appeared that amazed all astronomers on Earth.
Although Lao Gai's trip was not as grand as that of the emperor, it was definitely extraordinary.
I saw a rainbow bridge starting from outside the earth and extending towards the location of the ancient star Mars.
Even a great sage would need some time to cross this distance.
For Lao Gai, it's just one step!
Yan Ruyu and others witnessed with their own eyes what it meant to truly shift the stars and change the constellations. In the blink of an eye, the starry sky appeared from a different perspective.
A moment later, Lao Gai brought Lu Zhou and others to the ancient planet Mars!
Standing above the Martian sky, patches of brown rock and soil and scenes of desolate and dead silence filled the vision of Lu Zhou and others.
"Mars."
Ye Fan hummed.
They looked down from the sky and soon rushed in one direction.
That is the five-colored altar, and not far away is the ruins of the Great Leiyin Temple.
More than ten years have passed, and the light curtain covering the five-colored altar and the ruins of the Great Leiyin Temple has long disappeared.
This caused it to be buried by the dust on Mars.
The Leiyin Temple, which was already in ruins, looked even more dilapidated.
Lu Zhou and his companions were walking halfway from the Five-Colored Altar to the Great Leiyin Temple.
The sound of scriptures from the Sutra of the Redemption of Humanity was being recited, breaking the deathly silence of the planet.
It was Ye Fan and Pang Bo who were chanting to save people, to liberate their classmates who had died on Mars because of the Crocodile Ancestor.
Although, Ye Fan and Pang Bo do not believe in reincarnation or rebirth.
But these are the only things they can do now.
Suddenly, Pangbo stopped.
Because in front of him, there was a human skeleton half buried in the brown rock.
Due to the harsh environment on Mars, this skeleton has been severely weathered.
Even so, with their current eyesight, they could clearly tell that this was the skeleton of a young woman.
Moreover, a round hole can be clearly seen at the back of the skeleton's head.
Scenes of memories that had been buried in Pangbo and Ye Fan's minds flashed before their eyes again like light and shadow, making them feel depressed.
To the two of them, this ancient planet Mars is a place of hatred and hurt!
They will never forget that they all fled in panic.
I can't forget the frozen expression on the face of that female classmate when the crocodile pierced her back of the head.
This scene once hurt Ye Fan!
"is her."
They recognized it. Even though only a severely weathered skeleton remained, Ye Fan and Pang Bo still recognized it as the skeleton of one of their female classmates.
They still remember the voice and smile of this female classmate in the past, and remember every little bit of time that female classmate had spent with them in college.
"They were both in their prime years, and should have had a bright future, but they withered away so early in this foreign land."
Ye Fan sighed softly!
"The executioner who killed you is dead. You can rest in peace now."
They didn't feel too sad about the passing of time.
The past is a thing of the past, there is no point in thinking too much about it!
Ye Fan and Pang Bo continued to recite the Sutra of Saving People. After finishing, they carefully collected the bones of the female classmate.
We must bring her body back to the earth, so that her soul can return to her hometown and her roots, and not let her body continue to be exposed in this desolate and cold foreign land!
It was not just this female classmate. She was not the only classmate who died on the ancient planet Mars that day.
Next, Ye Fan and Pang Bo recited the Sutra of Salvation to pray for the salvation of their classmates who died on Mars, while searching for their remains.
In the end, fortunately, even after more than ten years, the remains of their classmates, although they had suffered extremely serious damage, were still found by them.
They took the initiative to collect all the remains, and planned to visit their homes after returning to Earth to return their remains to their families for burial.
Soon, they found themselves in front of the ruins of the Great Leiyin Temple.
"I didn't expect that more than ten years later, this Leiyin Temple has not been buried by the dust on Mars. Look, there are still a few broken leaves of the Bodhi tree among the rubble on the collapsed temple."
Pangbo pointed to a place ahead and said.
He still likes to call this place Mars.
He remembered that sandstorms raged on Mars from time to time.
Looking at all this, Ye Fan was also a little dazed.
However, after hearing his words, the others looked in the direction of his finger and paid more attention to the Bodhi tree he mentioned!
Someone raised his hand and tried to pick up a Bodhi leaf.
As a result, the Bodhi leaf turned into a wisp of smoke in an instant.
"The divine power is all gone. It's useless."
No one felt disappointed about this.
Even Li Tian and Yan Yixi are the same.
After all, the previous Crocodile Ancestor rushed to the Earth from here. If this Bodhi leaf really had any magical effect, it would have fallen into the hands of the Crocodile Ancestor long ago.
They just sighed.
“I didn’t expect that the Bodhi tree, one of the immortal trees, had once taken root here.”
"Ye Zi, you didn't get your Bodhi seeds here, did you?"
Suddenly, Li Tian suddenly remembered that Ye Fan owned a Bodhi seed.
Ye Fan nodded and said!
“Yes, I got it here.”
Having said that, Ye Fan looked at Lu Zhou and suddenly laughed!
Lu Zhou felt the same way!
Obviously, they both remembered that more than ten years ago, when everyone rushed into the temple in a hurry to search for Buddhist treasures.
The two of them ran to the Bodhi tree, one climbed up the tree to pick Bodhi leaves, and the other squatted down to dig Bodhi seeds.
At that time, they were not very familiar with each other and did not communicate much.
They just looked at each other and smiled kindly.
Everything goes without saying!
They both confirmed from each other's smiles and eye contact that the guy in front of them was the same guy as themselves!
"Ah ghost!"
Suddenly, a scream came from the little girl who was looking around with her big black eyes open.
She saw that in the darkness behind the crowd, at some point, a tall and majestic figure suddenly appeared.
In the darkness, I couldn't see who it was or what it looked like, but the figure's eyes were as bright as two big light bulbs!
In little Nannan's little head, she subconsciously thought of some horror stories that Ye Qi had told her.
It reminded me of the ghosts in some horror stories.
She was so scared that her chubby little face turned pale and she subconsciously hugged the round neck tightly.
At the same time, Ye Fan and others all felt a sense of alarm the moment the figure appeared, and looked behind them.
Some people are already prepared to take action.
But at this moment, Lao Gai's voice suddenly reached everyone's ears, making people feel at ease immediately.
They almost forgot that there was this big guy traveling with them.
As long as this big guy is here, let alone ghosts, even if there are more evil spirits coming, they believe that they can be defeated with just one punch!
"Don't worry about it, it's not a ghost, it's the temple-guarding demon god!"
"The temple-guarding demon god?" Not everyone knows what the temple-guarding demon god is, including some of Lu Zhou's fellow Taoists.
However, Ye Fan and Pang Bo, because they have similar interests with Duan De, Hei Huang and the old blind man, often talk about finding opportunities to make a fortune.
Through what they have seen and heard, they have also gained a lot of understanding about some strange things.
Now when they heard Lao Gai say that it was the temple-guarding demon god, they immediately figured out what was going on.
Ye Fan saw that Qin Yao and Ji Ziyue's eyes were also full of confusion and curiosity.
He then started to explain to everyone what the temple-guarding demon god was.
At the same time, he also mentioned.
"It is rumored that there is a demonic land under the Great Leiyin Temple, with eighteen levels of hell, which suppresses many extremely evil demons. I think..."
His gaze turned towards the ruins of the Great Leiyin Temple, and then he looked at Lu Zhou.
Previously, he had heard from Lu Zhou that there was a treasure on Mars that was refined by Lingbao Tianzun.
He was very curious about what kind of treasure it was.
He now suspected that the treasure might be under the Great Leiyin Temple.
Thinking of this, Ye Fan simply asked Lu Zhou.
"Lu Zi, the treasure you mentioned earlier, isn't it underneath this Great Leiyin Temple?"
Everyone looked at Lu Zhou.
Then Lu Zhou smiled and nodded.
"Yes! The light is right down there!"
As he spoke, Lu Zhou waved his sleeves and cleared away all the ruins of the Great Leiyin Temple, revealing a very eerie-looking foundation.
When they saw the black and red cornerstone that was engraved with many mysterious runes and was obviously infected with a lot of demon blood, many people present changed their expressions.
This scene is somewhat scary.
Xia Yilin, who once went to the Western Desert to practice with her hair uncut and has now become Lu Zhou's Taoist companion, stared with her eyes wide open and uttered a cry of surprise.
"I didn't expect that the foundation stone of the Great Leiyin Temple built in the Buddhist land would be like this. Could it be the entrance to the Eighteen Layers of Hell?"
After passing over those cornerstones, everyone's eyes were attracted by the huge black hole in the center surrounding the cornerstones.
They all felt that there were evil spirits rising from the black hole.
Ye Fan and Pang Bo both suspected that the Crocodile Ancestor escaped from the black hole in front of them.
"It's not the eighteen levels of hell, it's only two levels."
Lu Zhou stepped forward and led everyone towards the black hole.
When they leaped into the black hole, in addition to the increasingly dense demonic aura, they all felt waves of murderous intent rushing towards them from all directions.
These murderous intentions will definitely not cause any harm to Lu Zhou and others.
They arrived at the first level of hell smoothly.
Although it was dark around them, they could still see clearly that this was a very wide and grand space. On the surrounding walls, there were engraved many arhats, bodhisattvas, Buddhas, etc. with different expressions!
There were voices of discussion coming from Ye Fan, Li Tian and others.
For example, things like suppressing demons and refining demons.
Lu Zhou was not in a hurry to get the treasure. He saw that Xia Yilin, An Miaoyi and others were quite curious about the various scenes in the first level of hell, so he let them look around.
After everyone had almost completely toured the first level of hell, he led everyone into the second level of hell below.
"Ah ghost!"
This time, the scream also came from the round back, but it was not from the little girl.
It was Ye Tiandi’s sister Ye Qi who let out screams that seemed to pierce one’s eardrums!
While she was screaming, she stretched out her hands, covering her eyes with one hand and covering little Nannan's eyes with the other, to prevent little Nannan from seeing the ghost and being frightened by it.
What did she see?
Of course it’s some guy who likes to make trouble.
The ghost lantern refined by Lingbao Tianzun emitted a green light, making the second layer of hell even more eerie and terrifying.
Just in front of the ghost lantern, there was a sarcophagus, and on the sarcophagus, squatted a little old man who looked very gloomy and haggard.
He was acting like a demon, showing an extremely weird smile to all the people who suddenly appeared in the second level of hell!
Just tell me this scene, is it scary?
Not to mention Ye Qi.
Even her brother Ye Tiandi and Pang Bo and others, when they suddenly saw this scene, they were subconsciously a little creepy.
If it weren’t for Lao Gai being present, and if it wasn’t for Lu Zhou bringing them here.
I'm afraid Ye Tiandi's first reaction would be the same as in the original novel. After seeing this scene, he immediately took out his tripod.
This became another small episode in Lu Zhou's process of obtaining the lamp.
Lao Gai held the coffin-suppressing lamp in his hand, played with it for a while, and then handed it to Lu Zhou.
He has no interest in this lamp.
Not only was he not interested, but when Xinyue and the others found out that this was a coffin-suppressing lamp, and that it burned the oil extracted from the bodies of saints, they were also very surprised.
Yao Xi, Ji Ziyue and others all felt a little uncomfortable.
They had completely lost interest in the lamp.
They have no shortage of treasures!
Even though this is a precious lamp that was personally refined by the Heavenly Venerable of the mythological era, it is still the same to them.
They really didn't expect that the treasure Lu Zhou mentioned was actually this thing.
However, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Tian and others were quite interested in this lamp.
Lu Zhou threw the lamp to them and asked them to study it slowly and give it to him after they had played with it enough.
After that, they didn't stay in this rather gloomy place for too long.
They returned to the surface of Mars again and stood on the ruins of the Leiyin Temple.
As soon as he returned to the surface, Lu Zhou heard Pangbo make a proposal.
"It's not easy to come to Mars, let's continue to explore Mars."
"The last time I came to Mars, I was just trying to escape. Who knows, there might be other opportunities on Mars."
Apparently, he wasn't the only one who had this idea.
Ye Fan and others, including Lao Gai, were obviously very interested in this.
After all, there once stood the Great Leiyin Temple here, with a five-colored altar!
Earlier, when they had just landed on the ancient planet Mars, Lao Gai had used the technique of returning to ancient times to show everyone the glorious scene of Mars, the ancient planet of life.
Now that Mars has arrived, they don't have anything urgent to deal with anyway.
Naturally, I want to take a good stroll around this planet that was once so glorious but is now dead and dilapidated.
Lu Zhou naturally had no objection to this.
He nodded.
"Then let's go shopping together, don't go alone"
In fact, he has actually been thinking about one thing and whether he should deal with it now.
Needless to say, that thing is naturally the Immortal Emperor. That bird, no, not a birdman, is a meatball.
(End of this chapter)
