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Xuanji and the others went through the “door” in the center of the altar and felt a great light around them, they couldn’t open their eyes and their bodies were completely immobile. As if they were falling rapidly, and after a while, inexplicably it felt like flying. The feeling is completely inexplicable and cannot be described.

Everyone closed their eyes tightly, not daring to move – in fact, they could not move, their hearts were not strong enough.

After an unknown period of time, Xuanji felt her feet gently hit the ground, standing in a stable place, and the light around her seemed to gradually fade away. Xuanji slowly opened her eyes and looked at the legendary Bu Zhou Mountain in a bewildered way.

She felt that the sky is cloudy and silent, and she can’t even hear a single sound. The full moon, like an ice wheel, slowly appeared from behind the clouds, and was so big and so close that it seemed like she could touch it as soon as she raised her hand. The cold and bleak light sprinkled on the earth, only to feel that everything here is black, black peaks that do not reach the top, black mountains that stretch for miles, quietly sleeping, no sound, no breathing …… like a dead piece of land, no life.

“Ah …… here ……” Zhong Minyan murmured and could not continue, like everyone else, is shocked and bewildered to look at this ancient and sacred inscrutable land.

Buzhou Mountain! This, together with the yin and the yang, since the beginning of the world has been straddling between heaven and earth!

Everyone was still busy being shocked, amazed, and in a daze. Zihu had already disdained to walk with them and went ahead on her own, saying, “You’re just at the foot of the mountain and you’re already dazed, I don’t know what you’re going to see when you get to the top! What a bunch of kids who have never seen the world!”

The people then retracted their minds, Xuanji saw the purple fox walking very fast, could not help but catch up, asked: “You …… you are going to the netherworld soon? Really want to go alone?”

Zihu said, “Naturally I’m going alone, I do not want you to follow, it will be a burden.”

Ruo’Yu saw that this place was extremely vast and there was no one for a thousand miles and the four of them do not know where the demons’ lair is in Buzhou Mountain. Previously they said they will be able to find it if they got to Buzhou Mountain, where did they think that this place is so vast, relying only on them to find it, they do not know where to start. So he laughed and said, “I think so. We first accompany the purple fox to the door of the nether world, and then see if there are traces of those demons along the way. We can’t let her go alone first, we are at least partners along the way.”

Everyone nodded in agreement. Zihu blushed, but the night was dark and they don’t know if they were mistaken, but she squirmed and said, “Who, who needs your company? I am not a child who does not know the way!”

Xuanji hugged her arm and laughed, “Don’t say that. You actually don’t want to be separated from us, do you? If you sneak up alone, you’ll be constantly worrying, but if there are more people, you won’t need to worry.”

Zihu was a little flustered when she said the central point, she does have some worry, so she shook the pair of large ears on top of her head and pouted, “I … I don’t care anyway! If you want to follow along, just follow!” After speaking, she pretended to sigh and looked like she was discontent, “A bunch of kids, always need someone to take care of them!”

The one being taken care of is obviously herself. Xuanji couldn’t help but snicker.

The top of Bu Zhou Mountain is the gate to the underworld guarded by Shen Tu and Yu Lei[1]. Yu Sifeng saw that this Bu Zhou Mountain was tens of thousands of miles in circumference, as high as the sky, and could not see the top. He couldn’t help but be startled, “How long will it take to get to the top of the mountain … ?”

Zihu snorted, “It was broken by Gong Gong long ago, but it used to be the pillar of the sky! But if you walk up like this, you mortals will not be able to walk for half a lifetime. There is a spell formation ahead, so you can go directly to the top of the mountain. Right now, the gate of the underworld is about to open, and Shen Tu and Yu Lei are busy, so can’t care about our trivial matter, so just go and activate it secretly.”

Is it really okay? Zhong Minyan stared at her with suspicious eyes, and the purple fox said angrily, “You follow if you like! If you don’t follow, go do your own thing! It’s like I’m lying!”

The group had to follow her forward, and within a short distance, the purple fox suddenly stopped, ears wagging from side to side, nose sniffing, and exclaimed: “Wait! Do you hear any sound?”

Xuanji listened intently for a long time but there was nothing but the sound of the wind, so she meekly shook her head.

Zihu looked astonished and counted on her fingers, and said, “No! I had forgotten that its the second lunar month[2]!” Suddenly she withdrew her finger, her face looked like joy or fear, and said through clenched teeth: “It’s okay! Let’s do it!”

After saying that, she hurriedly ran forward, the people did not understand but rushed to follow, Xuanji said curiously: “What happens in the second month? What’s the big deal?”

Zihu was running rapidly, and said: “During the second lunar month, instead of opening the side door, they open the front door! Let the evil spirits of hell roam around! Watch out!”

Watch out for what? Before anyone could ask, they suddenly saw her body tilt and fall to the ground. Xuanji was shocked and was about to help her but she felt that she was also unstable and fell to the ground one after another.

The ground actually began to shake violently, like waves on the sea, with huge ripples expanding one after another, shaking the forest, not to mention standing, even lying down is unstable, rolling from here to there.

The sky suddenly resounded with a low, desolate sound, as if a giant was whistling, and the gloomy sky suddenly shone, as if a pair of giant hands had torn open the night, splitting down a million golden lights. Xuanji hugged a tree in panic and finally stopped rolling on the ground. She raised her head and stared at the golden light splitting the sky. The golden light seemed to be bracketed by human like figures. Golden armour, fierce cloud helmet, a huge sword hanging from the waist. The two people, one on the left and one on the right are more than half as tall as Buzhou Mountain. She was so shocked that she even forgot to breathe, only to feel that the two giants in the golden light have a cold face and a solemn look, and have a similar look to the gods and goddesses enshrined in the temples, without a trace of emotion.

At that moment, a familiar feeling suddenly struck her heart, as if someone had punched her hard in the chest and the two names could not help but blurt out, “Shen Tu! Yu Lei!”

The two of them suddenly each took a step forward, and the dragons on their blue dragon boots were clearly visible. They took another step, grabbing the towering Buzhou Mountain as if it was a huge door and they wanted to pull it open.

Only to hear a shocking loud sound, the mountain was pulled by them left and right, and a crack from the huge mountain was forcibly split, really like a door, was pulled open.

The low whistling gradually disappeared, as if someone in the air began to play the odd tune of the flute, the wind swept in, with a cold creepy chill, the original dark sky is now as dark as the thick ink repainted again, she couldn’t even see her fingers.

Xuanji only felt her heart beating and a long-lost feeling gradually came to her body. Someone grabbed her shoulder tightly and the person was close to her ear, whispering: “Is everything okay?”

It was Yu Sifeng. She forced a smile, “Yes ……”

Zihu suddenly shouted: “You stay here! No one is allowed to move! I …… am going to go! You must not follow me!”

In the darkness, she felt that someone was moving quickly, Xuanji was in a hurry and just stood up and was knocked to the ground. She shouted, “Wait! We are together …… I …… will send you there with my sword!”

At this moment, who cares whether the sword can be used or not, she easily held a tree to stand up straight and immediately the sword flew up, the people below are shouting she does not care, with a few vertical and horizontal moves she flew to the side of the purple fox, who saw Xuanji came, simply cursed as she was grabbed by the back of her undershirt, lifted up on the sword.

Zihu was about to struggle, but her wrist was suddenly grabbed and she was squeezed tightly, like an iron ring, so that she could not move.

“Don’t move. I will send you there. I’ll take you there,” Xuanji whispered.

Zihu suddenly remembered the sight of being forced to desperation by her in Gao’s Mountain, she could only stay quiet and follow her obediently.

Unexpectedly, there were a few rustling sounds behind them, Zhong Minyan and the others, not to be outdone, came after her with their swords, calling out, “We’re going too!”

“Let’s go too!”

She was surprised, annoyed and happy. She really didn’t expect that they would go so far for her, but the main door of the underworld was wide open, and Shen Tu and Yu Lei was guarding the door to drive away the evil spirits. They were children, she couldn’t let them die in vain.

“Fly lower! Don’t let them see you!” She ordered in a deep voice, and they flew silently against the tree tops, feeling that the closer they got to the front, the heavier the gloomy cold air became.

It was not the freezing cold of the winter months, nor the chill of a deep cave. …… The kind of coldness that makes the pores of the body terrified, as if it were active and would penetrate the internal organs, like venom.

Suddenly Xuanji let out an ‘Ah’ and pointed to the front in horror. Needless to say everyone has seen it, The wide mountain that was pulled apart revealed a huge and wide deep hole. The inside was pitch black like thick ink and there was nothing to see. A large number of cyan-coloured evil spirits poured out of the hole, some of which had full horns growing from their heads and some had tongues hanging till their chests.

These evil spirits wailed, cried, or laughed wildly, pushing and shoving their way out of the cave, from the depths of hell, like a volcanic eruption, rushing out to the rare freedom in the world.

Shen Tu waved a huge whip in his hand and drove them back and forth. The sound of the whip broke through the air, causing the ears to buzz and even the face to feel the tremendous movement.

Seeing that they were gradually headed this way, Xuanji hurriedly got into the leaved to hide thier figures. She was happy that they walked fast, it seemed that they didn’t find a few uninvited guests hiding in the woods under their feet. When they had gone far away, Xuanji immediately flew out like an arrow and said urgently, “Zihu! You quickly go in!”

Zihu leaned behind her and said nothing but only squeezed her hand tightly. She really can not say anything.

As they were about to fly to the middle of the cracked mountain, the sword suddenly shook violently and the two of them almost fell down. Zihu was shocked and grabbed her sleeve anxiously, “What’s wrong?!”

Before she finished her words, she felt a sudden tremor in her heart, as if she had been affected by something. She stared into the air in a daze.

“Someone …… has extinguished my candle!”

She only had time to say this, then the whole person fell off the sword like a kite with a broken line.

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[1]: The Menshen (門神)—colloquially known as door gods—are a pair of deities in Chinese mythology who guard the occupants of buildings from demons and bad luck.

Yu Lei’s name is comprised of the characters for “melancholy,” yù (鬱), and “fortress,” lěi (壘), while his brother’s name is composed of the word for “god,” shén (神), and a character unique to his name, tú (荼). They were a fearsome pair of guardians who will throw evil spirits and demons to their pet tigers.

The Menshen are mentioned in both The Journey to the West and The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Although Yu Lei and Shen Tu are the original Menshen, Zhong Kui (鍾馗) is also frequently used as a door guardian. Their likenesses are often painted on the thresholds of buildings like temples or houses.

[2]: 二月(Èr yuè) – second month (of the lunar year). Literally:

二(Èr) = two or second

月(yuè) = moon

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