A hotel in Kyoto.
The eye-catching attire on Chou Shi Shen's body had faded away easily after leaving Qingming Xiangshan.
The long hair that was originally hanging in front of her face has also been tied up.
She now looks just like a human being.
She looks like a good-looking woman in her early twenties.
This is not entirely true, because Chou Shishen still retains extraordinary aura fluctuations in her body. However, even a keen spiritualist who encounters her in human form will probably not think much about it and will preconceptionally regard her as a companion.
This past Takiyashime, now the daughter of Choutoki, indeed has the status of a spiritual slayer in human society.
A Yaden Shinto spirit exterminator who is not under direct official command. This level of identity has even been recorded in the countermeasures room here in Osaka.
In the industry, there are quite a lot of novice spiritualists who possess certain extraordinary powers but are not actually very strong, and they are a mixed bag. This type of person only needs to occasionally deal with the official personnel who contact them.
Therefore, Chou Shi Shen’s disguised identity is not eye-catching.
"Porphyrin."
Chou Shishen was sitting on the bed of the hotel, her lips that were so red that they seemed to be bleeding were slightly open.
Another black nail was pushed out of her mouth with her tongue.
The nail fell into her palm.
"oh?"
Chou Shi Shen gently rubbed the black nails with her thin fingertips.
The next moment, the nail was twisting in her hand like a young snake.
clang.
The nails fell to the floor, like fragile glass being shattered and split into several pieces.
"It seems to have been discovered."
Chou Shishen said to himself like this, without much surprise or annoyance in his tone.
It seems to be expected.
King Xingshi is difficult to deal with.
In the early hours of this morning at Xiangshan Mountain, Chou Shishen nailed the shadow of King Heungse with a "cursed" nail.
It seems that they want to control each other and let the two little girls who made a big fuss at the Echo Festival escape. In fact, they do this to secretly brand King Xingshi so that he can be tracked later.
But judging from the results, this little trick was not successful.
King Xingshi obviously saw through the trick.
"Not only is he not dead, he is even more cunning than before."
King Xingshi joins the Demon Time as the newly appeared Tatsuki.
The code name in the organization is "Guan Bai".
Guan Bai, the name of an official position brought back to Japan by the envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty, evolved into the first civil servant in ancient Japan, with a high position.
Like King Heungse, Chou Shishen was also filled with surprise the moment he saw him at the organizational meeting at the time of the demon.
Although their appearance is different from that of thousands of years ago.
But the aura of Kibune Myojin on his body still made them recognize each other's identity immediately.
The two of them had a tacit understanding and didn't reveal anything in front of other members of the organization, but this feeling was unmistakable.
In the early morning of this morning at Xiangshan, it was the first time that Chou Shishen met King Heungse in an unorganized meeting.
It will probably be difficult to find him again after that.
"It seems that guy woke up much later than me... Judging from his behavior in Xiangshan, it turns out that he is still dreaming about resurrecting his father."
Chou Shi Shen picked up the broken nails on the ground. The broken metal was clenched in her palms, exuding a faint blood and making a clicking metal sound.
That time a thousand years ago.
On the pretext of resurrecting Taira Shomon, King Koise coaxed Ushitoki, who was still called "Takihime" at the time, to perform Ushiki worship and seize the cursed power of Kifune Myojin. Then he used this power of the cursed god to awaken the Hundred Demons.
Travel at night and besiege Kyoto.
Trying to use the power of ghosts and gods to overthrow the government and reestablish a new capital.
That was the Takiyashime Rebellion.
However, that plan failed in the end.
It was suppressed by Abe Seimei, the onmyoji of the Heian Kyoto Palace at that time, and Ashiya Michitsu, another elusive magician, together with the noble warrior Minamoto Boya and others.
The most critical reason for the failure is probably that the awakened "Ghost Emperor" Ping Jiangmen was incomplete.
Yes.
With the power of Kifune Myojin, King Xingshi really awakened Heishangmon who had become a "ghost among ghosts".
However, his plan was prematurely interfered by Abe Seimei and others, and Taira Shomon, who finally led the group of ghosts, lost his head and right arm.
"This time King Xingshi is completely different from his power a thousand years ago. What is he going to do?"
Chou Shishen didn't know the specific plan of King Xingshi.
After all, this time, she is no longer his accomplice.
…
In the ringing mountain.
Kamiya, Onizuka, and Ms. Sugita climbed to the protruding rock halfway up Hibiki Mountain.
Continuous mountains stretch out at the feet, and the folds of black rocks and green vegetation on the ground continue to connect to the distant peaks.
"The aura of those deep valley sounds no longer exists, only a faint remnant remains."
Kamiyagawa looked away.
After condensing, the dark pupils that were so deep and bright slowly spread to normal.
"Um."
Onizuka Kirihota nodded and simultaneously took back his Kagura flute.
Both of their judgments are the same.
There were indeed ghost stories here that were full of resentment, but they have disappeared without a trace now.
"If that masked man really wanted to collect the strong ghost resentment in Yugu Hibiki, those ghost stories would probably have been eliminated by that man in some way." The little witch added.
I just don’t know what the masked man wants to do by collecting resentment.
"Abba whining!"
After watching on the mountainside for a while, the little old man who was sent by Kamiya to explore the surrounding mountains and forests returned with a shakuhachi in his hand.
He raised the brim of the hat on his head a little, started to coordinate his body movements, and told his master something.
Kamitani listened for a while and then nodded: "Take us there."
The scouts have discovered it.
The little old man took his master and his party to a nearby deep forest and pointed to a tall cedar tree.
On the rough tree trunk, a white paper is nailed with a thin black nail.
Kamiya narrowed his pupils and carefully scanned the black-nailed white paper on the tree trunk. He also looked around and made sure that no problems were found before taking the paper off the tree trunk.
I saw it written in deliberately distorted words with indistinguishable handwriting:
[King Heungse intends to resurrect the ghost king Ping Jiangmen.]
[Using the method taught by Kibune Myojin: Heirashoumon's corpse is made into flesh, resentment is made into spirit, and Kibune Myojin's curse is made into bones.]
"Meat and spirit bone?"
Kamiya looked at the words on the white paper and was secretly surprised.
He was quite familiar with this process. The "flesh, spirit and bone" process was the ritual process for becoming a god.
To be continued...