After staring at the sign outside the store for a few times to make sure that he was not in the wrong place, Zongya glanced at the three or two tourists not far away before walking into this bar with a very bold location and name.
Although the door was open, not a single person could be seen in the bar.
It's still afternoon time, and like most of my peers, this bar doesn't seem to be open yet.
Zongya walked to the bar in the darkness and sat down on one of the high stools.
After waiting for two or three minutes, nothing happened in the empty bar. This was different from the rumors he heard in Huangquan.
Zonggu began to think about what he had missed, and suddenly shook his head.
"Oversight."
He raised his hand and took off the amulet hanging on his chest. Thinking that it would be effective if he put it in his pocket, he temporarily placed it on the bar in front of him.
The moment the amulet was taken off his hands, that familiar feeling enveloped his whole body again, and then issued a warning to him.
——All around him are spirits.
The spiritual sense of liberation swept away, and I couldn't even count the number of spiritual bodies around me at once, because there were too many.
And everything in front of him was pitch black.
Zonggu moved his head back and distanced himself from the girl in front of him, while she was still sitting on his lap with her arms around his shoulders.
"excuse me……"
But the other party didn't care, his smile remained the same, and he came over with interest.
"You sat on me as soon as you came in. How bold. But I don't hate it."
"..."
Zonggu immediately stood up from the high stool and got rid of the subsequent entanglement of this seemingly fresh spirit.
The bar at this time was completely opposite to the empty situation just now. Perhaps the change from nothing to something was too eye-catching, and the spirits surrounding the bar were all looking at him.
"Is it a living person?"
"Why couldn't I feel his breath just now?"
"Isn't it a spirit remover from somewhere?"
"No, no, he seems to have a bit of the smell of that place..."
All kinds of spirits surrounded Zong Gu, discussing without restraint. But what he lacked the most was the knowledge in this area, so he would not be scared.
"Excuse me……"
He wanted to find out where the person he was looking for was, and out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of a figure walking out from behind the bar. He came to the bar, surrounded by people in front of him, and picked up his amulet.
Zonggu stretched out his hand, intending to ask for it back first.
When he raised his eyes and saw the man's face clearly without any warning, he was stunned.
Her long hair is draped behind her back, half-covering her forehead and ears. Her face is fair, her lips are thin, and her eyes are focused on her fingertips.
"It's really rare."
She held the small amulet, turned it around twice with her fingertips, and took the tall glass handed to her without looking.
After taking a sip, she raised her eyes.
"Oh."
She put down her wine glass, and her calm tone, which had nothing to do with the content, seemed to be able to melt away all emotions, including surprise.
"Isn't this Fangming?"
"..."
Zonggu pursed his lips.
"Have you found this place too?"
Seeing that she asked casually and took the spirit body next to him and handed her a second glass of wine so naturally, it took him a while before he could speak.
"Teacher Ju Tianzi, are you dead?"
"What are you talking about... This is the first time someone has been so straightforward."
She seemed to have heard a not-so-funny joke, but she still curled her lips in appreciation.
"That's right, I'm dead."
"..."
There was a dull feeling in his chest, and Zonggu couldn't bear it for a while.
He had survived even a trip to the underworld, and she was still so young... He suddenly remembered the phone call to the Sendai Children's Welfare Home.
Resign……
"Is it because of me?"
"hehe……"
Orange Emperor laughed.
"Not."
She looked at him, the smile on her face didn't seem to change, but it seemed to have a different meaning that was difficult to understand.
Much later, when the dying Soya thought about this smile again, he realized that the extra difference in it was the complacency and ridicule of the god when he showed his true form in front of the stupid people.
"...I was already dead when this world took shape."
...
The beginning of the story is not very different from the well-known Japanese mythology recorded in the "Kojiki".
At the beginning of the separation of heaven and earth, five Tianjin gods were born in the high Tianyuan and the primitive world floating on the ocean.
Then, the "Seven Generations of Gods" were born.
The last generation consists of two siblings, the elder brother is Izanagi and the younger sister is Izanami.
The God of Heaven ordered the two gods to create the world and gave them the Spear of Heaven.
The two gods, brother and sister, stirred up the sea with their spears. After lifting the spears, drops dropped from the tip of the spears to an island, which became Yuneng Qulu Island.
Izanagi and Izanami landed on the island, built the Celestial Pillar, and built the Eight Temples.
After that, they walked around the pillars, met each other, and filled in the gaps with the remaining ones, creating the Japanese islands.
Once the land was established, gods were born.
When the two gods were combined, great things happened, the God of Ninja, the God of Ninja, the God of Akitsu, the God of Bishin, and ten other gods were born, and four gods including the God of Wind, the God of Wood, the God of Mountains, and the God of the Wilderness were born. Later, the God of Birds and Boats was born, and the God of Oitoubi and the Kagutsuchi of Fire were born.
Three gods.
When she gave birth to the Kagu Earth God of Fire, Izanami was burned. She was seriously ill and vomited and gave birth to the Six Gods. She died immediately and went to the underworld in the other world.
Izanagi missed his wife and chased her to the Underworld Hall, asking Izanami to go back with him to continue creating the country.
Izana said nicely that she would discuss the matter with the then Lord of Underworld and ask her husband to wait outside the Underworld Palace. During this period, she must not see her true body.
After waiting for a long time with no results, Izanagi broke the teeth of his comb and started a fire. He went into the palace to check, but saw that Izanami's body was rotting and maggots were crawling around her body.
There are also big thunders occupying the head, fire thunders occupying the chest, black thunders occupying the abdomen, breaking thunders occupying the lower genitals, young thunders occupying the left hand, earth thunders occupying the right hands, thundering thunders occupying the left feet, and thundering thunders occupying the right feet. These are the eight thunder gods.
Izanagi fled in fear, and Izanami was so ashamed and angry that she ordered the Underworld's Daughter and the Underworld Army led by the Eight Thunder Gods to chase him.
Izanagi plucked the fruit from the peach tree in Hirazaka, and drove away his pursuers. As a last resort, Izanami chased him in person.
Izanagi sealed the underworld with a Thousand Lead Stones, and the couple faced each other across the stone and swore a decisive vow. This is where the story enters the unknown second half.
The world has been formed, all things have begun to multiply, and the creation task entrusted by the gods has been completed. Izanagi and the gods live in seclusion in Takamagahara, and from now on they have no contact with this world or the other world;
Izanami unconsciously succeeded him as the Great God of Huangquanjin, also known as the Lord of Huangquan. He guarded the souls of the other world and could never return to Takamagahara.
After realizing that she had been abandoned, Izanami was filled with resentment. She first killed all the underworld officials, causing the other world to fall into an ungovernable state of chaos. Then she tore the boundaries between the other world and the human world, and escaped from there.
Born as a god, Izanami lost most of her power after death, but still retained some characteristics of a god, such as not dying over time;
The underworld was in chaos. In the past, the Mother Goddess of Creation only cared about playing in the human world, sometimes disguising herself as a human being, sometimes associating with spirits, until now.
Tachibana Tenko, a children's teacher at an orphanage, and the owner of Takamawara Bar in Kyoto are one of her identities in the world.
"However, if Fangming falls into hell, it has nothing to do with me."
Tachibana, or Izanami, explained to Soya while playing with the peach wood amulet in his hand.
"After all, I've been away from there for a long time."
"..."
Zonggu sat in front of the bar, his chest felt so heavy that he could hardly speak a word.
Before walking into the bar, even though he had not seen her for more than two years, the former life teacher at the children's welfare home was still one of the people he trusted most in his heart;
To a certain extent, she was even his biggest motivation to escape from hell.
But reality has made a huge joke - his first love is the mother of creation in Japanese mythology, the filthy goddess of the underworld who has done many evil things, and is the culprit of his wandering life.
"I'm also very happy to see Yoshiaki in Kyoto. Would you like a drink?"
Izanami casually picked up various drinks from the bar and poured them into the glass in front of her. She poured as much or as little as she wanted, without any rules.
"After staying in that place for two years, he is still able to see the light of day again. He is indeed my most promising child..."
"In that case." Zonggu suddenly said, "Why didn't the teacher save me?"
"..."
Izanami's eyes widened, and then she burst into laughter as if she understood something.
"I see... No wonder Fangming's face is unhappy. Is he angry about this kind of thing?"
"'This kind of thing'..."
Zong Gu took a deep breath and didn't even look at the smoky cocktail she handed him.
"Why are you angry?" said the familiar flat tone, as if she had turned back into the careless teacher in the orphanage but looked at him differently, "Fangming?"
"..."
He couldn't help but want to look at her, but he kept reminding himself, looking away waveringly and stubbornly.
"Because I almost died."
"But, I'm already dead?"
"..."
He lowered his gaze, but Zonggu could feel her getting closer.
"I don't want to die yet."
"Why?"
"There is no reason, you just need a reason if you want to die."
"But if Yoshiaki also becomes a spirit, he can stay with me forever as he is now, right?"
"..."
She suddenly came closer and blew her breath like a orchid.
"To this day... I still remember Fangming's confession to me at that time."
Zonggu raised his head and she put down the empty wine glass.
"I like Teacher Tachibana, not...well."
The cold thin lips pressed up, wrapped in the cold wine, entangled, invaded, frozen, and burned.