The evil spirit fell to the ground, and Sugawara Kyoko put down the bamboo bow in her hand.
The accurately hit arrow did not give her much joy.
If what Soya said is true, then what she just did was to kill one of her own beliefs and even the entire Fuun Shrine with her own hands.
Time goes back a few minutes.
"...Is that Huangquan?"
Jingzi looked at the pure darkness. It was the first time she saw the daughter of the underworld opening the door to the underworld in the human world, and she couldn't help but be afraid of the nothingness behind the crack.
"That's right."
Zonggu stared intently, "In order to prevent the spirits inside from escaping, they chose the most desolate place in the underworld, with nothing."
"Are they planning to exile the entire forest to the other world?"
"This is the most labor-saving and safest method."
He raised his eyes and followed the figure that suddenly rose into the sky, "Although it has no effect on him."
"...appeared."
Jingzi watched intently, then subconsciously reached for the demon-breaking arrow in Soya's hand.
He didn't let go. She was startled for a moment and then came to her senses.
"Sogu just said, who is that evil spirit?"
"Sugawara-senpai, you have to believe what I said before."
"Izanagi-sama's comb teeth..."
She looked at the arrowhead of the Demon-Breaking Arrow, "Since Zonggu picked it up in the underworld, I choose to believe it."
"That would be much more convenient."
Zong Gu nodded and pointed in the air, "He is actually the spirit body formed after Tsukuyomi's death."
"..."
Because she heard this name every day, Kyoko did not immediately think of the original meaning of [Tsukiyomi], but instead thought about the metaphor.
But Zongya didn't let her think too much:
"It is one of the three noble sons enshrined in Sugawara-senpai's shrine. The god Izanagi-sama was born when he bathed in the river and cleaned his right eye after returning from the underworld, Tsukiyomi..."
"——What nonsense are you talking about."
Jingzi's face changed instantly and she interrupted him unceremoniously.
This was the first time he saw her so angry.
But after all, she was a god that her family had worshiped for hundreds of years. Zongya could understand her anger very well, and even felt the same.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, even if Asagiri Suzu, whom he trusted the most, came to tell him that Tachibana Tenko's true identity was Izanami, he would still be angry with her.
"If it were a spirit body transformed from the soul of an ordinary person, could it be so powerful?"
"..."
Jingzi hesitated slightly, "Spiritual bodies will mutate due to various factors..."
"That's why Tsukuyomi is like this."
The cold gaze was directed at him again, but Zonggu ignored it.
"In the "Kojiki", it only records that Tsukuyomi was sent by Izanagi-sama to take charge of Yonohara, and then there is nothing more about it, right?"
"...That's right."
"Yanohara is the underworld. Tsukuyomi came to the underworld on his father's orders, but before he could take over, he was killed by his nominal mother, Izanami-sama."
"..."
"Then Tsukuyomi's spirit wandered in the underworld for tens of millions of years, absorbing the darkest parts of it, losing its true nature, and eventually mutated into the unprecedented evil spirit it is now.
Now, only the teeth of the comb contaminated with Lord Izanagi's breath can wake him up."
After telling Kyoko the ins and outs of what Asagiri Suzu told him, Soya handed her the Demon-Breaking Arrow again.
"If you still can't believe it, Sugawara-senpai, then forget everything I said and just treat it as a try."
"..."
She took the arrow, looked at him again, turned around and ran towards the best shooting position of the Demon-Breaking Arrow Array below.
"Now... wait!"
Caught off guard, Soya failed to stop Kyoko immediately, so he had to pick up the amulet and follow him immediately.
The witches were leaving, in a hurry, and no one was stopping them.
When Kyoko was bending her bow to nock an arrow, Soya finally caught up and grabbed the arrow.
"..."
Loud prayers were heard from below. She looked at him coldly, but he just asked her to wait.
"I also want him to do me a favor."
"What?"
The black flames in the sky suddenly stopped expanding. Zongya didn't think anything, and relied on his instinctive reaction to hold Kyoko with the hand wrapped around the amulet.
He turned around, and Asagiri Suzu was only a few steps away.
"..."
As if there was just a gust of wind, she looked at him and suddenly collapsed to the ground.
Jingzi beside him took a breath of air, and turned his head again, just in time to see the spiritual awakeners falling one after another.
"bell!"
Soya went to help Asagiri Suzu on the ground, and Kyoko, who had regained her spiritual awareness, once again saw the wonderful scene she saw that night at the shore of Lake Biwa.
"..."
Looking at the gray snowflakes falling all over the sky, she also understood Soya's intention of helping and asking her to wait.
The black flames subsided, and the lone shadow floating in the sky remained the same as when he appeared.
Kyoko saw what Asagiri Suzu said was the place where she could get twice the result with half the effort - a conspicuous wound on her chest.
"..."
She took a deep breath, raised her bamboo bow, and put the arrow on the bowstring.
"Whoosh!"
The magic-breaking arrow arrives in an instant and hits in one strike.
The evil spirit fell to the ground.
It was actually shot from such a distance...
Zonggu, who turned his head to look, was startled, then quickly came back to his senses.
"Leave it to me next, and I'll ask my senior to take care of Ling."
Kyoko turned around and he passed by her, heading straight to the place where he fell.
Climbing and rolling, Zonggu slid down the steep cliff more than ten meters high to the ground. After staggering a few steps, he quickened his pace and ran over, showing his amazing flexibility.
He had to take the spiritual awakeners away from Tsukuyomi before he came into contact with him, so as not to cause too much trouble. What's more, he still had to use the bloodline of this god.
Tsukuyomi had already flown out of the woods before falling, and the landing point was almost surrounded by spiritual beings.
"Ah...ah!"
Zong Gu heard his painful moans midway, filled with resentment and anger, almost blending in with all the negative emotions in the world.
After getting closer, he was even more shocked.
Tsukuyomi fell to the ground and kept struggling. There was a black shadow very similar to him lying on his body, biting his spirit body while trying to pull out the magic-breaking arrow from his chest.
That was the collection of all the negative energy he had absorbed in the underworld for thousands of years.
In a sense, it is an existence with the same nature as the female in Huangquan.
"ah……"
The black shadow bites, and Tsukuyomi is still moaning in pain.
The spiritual awakeners around him didn't know what was going on and couldn't move. They all stared blankly here. Soya saw Minami Noma among them.
But she could only sit up with difficulty, and he couldn't count on it.
"..."
Suddenly, the divine spirit on the ground looked towards him and opened its dark gold eyes.
The next moment, a dark shadow struck.
Zong Gu was startled, quickly dodged aside, and picked up a bamboo sword that someone else had left behind.
boom!
Dust and smoke rose from the ground, and the attacking black shadow was clearly humanoid, but it was on all fours, like a wild beast.
Dark gold flowed in the god's eyes, and the black shadow struck Zong Gu again, and he suddenly jumped when he was approaching.
Zonggu stepped back, swung the bamboo sword in his hand, took it straight to the black figure's neck, and immediately cut a gash.
"Soya?!"
He heard Noma Minami's shocked cry, but had no time to respond. His neck was severely injured, but the black shadow acted as before and pounced forward again.
"..."
Zonggu's eyes were sharp, and after turning around to dodge the attack, he suddenly turned around and kicked the black figure to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, he quickly approached and slashed at the waist with his bamboo sword, directly splitting it into two.
Kicking the lower body away with one kick, Zonggu stepped on the upper half of the black shadow's body, slashed the neck with a sword, and then penetrated the skull with a sword. The movements were decisive and smooth, leaving the spiritually aware people around him stunned.
Picking the shadow's head with his sword, he discovered that the black shadow that split into two and then three was not dead yet, but it could no longer attack him for a while.
Throwing the head away in another direction, Soya jumped on Tsukuyomi again in the next moment, looking at the spirit of the god at close range.
Shadows flowed in the dark golden eyes.
"really……"
Everything happened too suddenly.
When Kyoko stood up on the high ground, supporting Asagiri Suzu, and looked this way, she only had time to see Soya pull out the demon-breaking arrow from Tsukuyomi's chest.
Then, it penetrated hard from his lower jaw!
"ah--"
The sudden sharp scream almost pierced everyone's eardrums.
The gods on the ground raised their heads and straightened their necks.
His eyes widened, his mouth opened to the extreme, and traces of black breath continued to pour out of the seven orifices, penetrated into the night sky, transformed into various strange appearances, and then dissipated in the air with a wail.
"What is that..."
But when the black energy dissipated and everyone's eyes returned to the ground, they found that only the young man holding the magic-breaking arrow was left in front of them.
"The one who destroys evil spirits——"
He panted and climbed up, looking around under everyone's gaze. The Demon-Breaking Arrow also spun around in his hand, and then he raised it high.
No one noticed that there was a small dent in the arrow.