real world.
late at night.
In a suburb of Osaka, there is a garden covering a large area.
Clusters of purple and black mandala flowers are blooming in the dark night. The trumpet-shaped inverted buds are delicate and charming, and they are condensed with night dew, symbolizing the unpredictable darkness and the road of no return in life.
This is a private residence of Wushi Breeder.
At this moment, the breeder is sitting in the study room of the western-style building in the center of the garden, facing a large brown-black solid wood desk.
The floor-to-ceiling windows in the study had no curtains, and the moonlight slanted in through the glass, casting a pale white light into the study.
There is a huge white flowerpot on the desk.
The breeder grew two flowers in this flower pot.
One is an orchid, and the other is an orchid.
Although they are both orchids, the "species" are different.
One of them is a spider orchid.
Spider orchid, also known as water ghost banana, or spider lily, is a flower species that grows in America and southern Asia, but is not found in Japan.
It is named because of its peculiar flower shape. When in full bloom, the flower looks like a spider with eight legs spread out.
Of course, the spider orchid raised by the breeder is a bit weirder than normal.
The color of the flower is so pale that it's weird, and a pattern that looks like a human face can be seen at the stamen.
It's as if a human face has grown out of the spider's head.
Normally placed there, the petals will occasionally move automatically in the absence of wind, just like a spider with a human face made of petals spreading its teeth and claws.
The breeder's grimace spider orchid has already taken out its flower buds, but has not yet fully bloomed.
The flowering period of this orchid is also different from normal. Many, many years have passed since the seeds were planted, to the roots and sprouts, and then to the growth of flower buds.
"Spider Orchid is dead..."
The breeder stared at the white flowerpot without moving, with a gloomy expression on his face.
Yes.
The spider orchid that had been growing in the flower pot for many years was dead.
The originally pale petals shrank and turned black, curled up into a ball, completely lifeless.
As the breeder of this strange orchid, the breeder knew one thing very well. The death of the spider orchid meant that the earth spider he planted into the afterlife many years ago and was built by the resentful spirit was also dead.
"Again, are they the official people again? How did they do it? The seeds buried deep in the ground have obviously not yet broken ground in reality. Why did they..."
The breeder's horse face became more and more gloomy, even a little scary.
How exactly is it done?
I can't understand it at all.
Hateful, hateful...
…
The breeder's lifespan is much longer than that of ordinary people. Although he looks middle-aged now, he has actually lived for nearly a hundred years.
It is precisely because of this that this old guy was able to be active in the last century, instigating Itakura Ryozo to kill endlessly, and infinitely amplifying the sins of the paradise owner.
The reason for his longevity is directly related to the magic he practices.
Wushi Breeder was born into an Onmyoji family in a mountain village on the border of Nara at the beginning of the last century.
Their family belongs to a branch of folk Shinto and has a family tradition of magic.
Moreover, the attitudes of the family's parents all tended to be reclusive, and they lived anonymously in the mountain village and were never registered in any formal Shinto shrine.
The onmyoji technique practiced by the breeder family is quite special, called the Huangquan Naraku Curse.
This yin and yang secret technique is so sinister that it has been classified as a "lost evil forbidden curse" in official records.
The Huangquan Naraku Curse can be traced back to its origins. The source is another more famous Yin-Yang Forbidden Technique——
Taishan Fujun Festival.
Just by listening to the name, you can tell that this technique originated in the Chinese region.
Taishan Fujun refers to the Dongyue Taishan God who is in charge of the underworld.
This is normal.
Japan's Onmyodo itself was introduced to Japan by mixing the Chinese Yin-Yang and Five Elements theories with Taoist mantras and esoteric divination. After landing in Japan, it was formed by infiltrating some local culture.
In the Tang Dynasty, Taishanfu Lord was introduced to Japan by Abe Nakamaro and was regarded as the head god of the Abe family. His descendants also often worship Taishanfu Lord.
Among them, the Great Onmyoji Abe Seimei is the most famous.
The Onmyoji "Taishan Mansion Lord Sacrifice" developed based on this is a spell that sincerely prays to the great god of Dongyue Taishan and exchanges one's own life for the life of the deceased in an equivalent exchange.
To put it more bluntly, it means praying for a deal with the Lord of Taishan, exchanging the life of a living person for the life of a dead person.
During the subsequent evolution and development of the Taishan Fugun Festival in Japan, which was more local, it branched off into several branches.
The Huangquan Naraku Curse practiced by the breeder family is one of them.
The development of Huangquan Naraku Curse is quite extreme and sinister, and it has a lot of alienation in terms of "taking death".
Moreover, the original deity to whom the spell was prayed was replaced by the Japanese native mother goddess, Izanami, the goddess of filth in the underworld.
The Huangquan Naraku Curse specializes in the secret techniques of "nurturing life" and "taking death to seek life", and has a relatively close connection with the Naraku world after death.
In the principle of "taking death to live", "taking the life of the dead in order to continue living" is the fundamental reason for the longevity of breeders.
Let’s go back to the breeder’s family.
Because the Yomi Naraku Curse is obscure and difficult to understand, there has never been any powerful onmyoji in his family who is proficient in the onmyoji of his family.
Almost no one can understand the onmyoji that has been passed down from their own family.
The situation only changed with breeders.
He can be regarded as a rare and unique onmyoji genius. He combines the family's achievements and combines his own understanding to push the "Yellow Springs Naraku Curse" to a new level.
However, after training the breeder, his family completely declined.
No more descendants.
This is also something that can't be helped.
The breeder's family members may not know it, but he himself knows that the target of the Huangquan Naraku Curse that he has improved and optimized, "defeating the life of the deceased", is directed at the blood relatives of the family.
…
In the course of the breeder's century-long life, he used the method of "nurturing death" of the Huangquan Naraku Curse to cultivate three seeds that he was proud of.
He named them evil species, plague species, and disaster species respectively.
Among them, the "scourge" will be the strongest one.
However, the cultivation is not completely completed, and the final step of "breeding to death" is still needed.
The "evil seed" was bred with Itakura Ryozo.
But with the fall of Ryozo Kurama, the master of the park, the evil species has also died.
Finally, there is the "epidemic".
The infected seeds have developed the fastest and have successfully sprouted and revealed their buds.
That is another orchid in the white flower pot on the breeder's desk at the moment.
This orchid is not a real orchid from a botanical perspective based on its shape, but its scientific name is Crystal Orchid.
A white saprophytic plant.
It grows in dark and humid areas. It is crystal clear and white, with crystal-like pipes and slightly drooping flowers. It grows singly on the top of the plant and emits a faint white light in the dark.
"If the spider orchid dies, then my epidemic seed, this crystal orchid..."
It doesn't matter if the spider orchid dies.
To be continued...