After thinking back for a moment, Shen Luo suddenly remembered that when they had been in the Western Regions, young monk Jiangliu had spoken of how Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had made the great vow, "Until hell is empty, I swear I will not attain Buddhahood," then entered the Underworld to save the myriad ghosts of hell.
At the time, Jiangliu had mentioned that the Underworld had scattered ferries for receiving the dead throughout the Four Great Continents. Those built within the cities of each major province were City God Temples.
Those scattered through remote mountains and wilderness were called Ghost Mountain Gates, under the jurisdiction of minor mountain gods, while those distributed across rivers and waters fell under the jurisdiction of water gods from the Water Palace and were called Yellow Springs Ferries.
However, since few people died in the mountains and wilds while many drowned in rivers, Ghost Mountain Gates were difficult to find, whereas Yellow Springs Ferries were easier to locate.
Shen Luo buried the bodies of the humans and gods who had died tragically at Wuzhuang Temple, then soon departed.
Now that the land was shattered, most sizable provincial capitals had already been utterly destroyed. Even where remnants remained, the temples connected to the Heavenly Court and Underworld had long since been occupied by demons.
Rather than searching for a City God Temple, Shen Luo found a Yellow Springs Ferry several hundred li away from Wuzhuang Temple.
Though it was called a Yellow Springs Ferry, it was not actually a ferry crossing at all, but rather a bend in a river.
When he arrived, he saw from afar that dense "figures" lined the riverbank, numbering roughly several thousand, perhaps even close to ten thousand.
Before he even approached, Shen Luo saw black mist shrouding the riverbank, with resentment