321. Chapter 317 New Chapter 0290 Suzu Hikohime in White
When Li Mengnan returned to the cell again, the middle-aged shikigami had completely lost the vigor that he had before. Although his appearance was not damaged at all, his eyes were extremely distracted, and his face was as yellow and old as an old man.
This kind of torture from the soul is far more painful than physical injury.
"How was the performance just now? I think many people will never see so many ways to die... Of course, you don't need to thank me. I just set up a few classic scenes based on Hollywood horror movies, but the really wonderful thing is
Mrs. Ling and your beloved are allowed to express themselves freely."
Li Mengnan crossed his legs and sat on a seat that appeared out of thin air. The angle from bottom to top was just enough to meet the middle-aged divine envoy's eyes.
To be honest, even if all the plots are arranged by him, he actually doesn't know exactly what happened just now. Mental pollution is an indiscriminate killer weapon that does not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. If you don't isolate information when using it,
, even the illusionist himself may suffer a nervous breakdown.
Throughout the ages, it is not uncommon for illusionists to become overly obsessed with the god-like power in dreams, first becoming perverts, and finally becoming madmen.
"You...you are a devil...just kill me..."
Two tears of blood flowed from the eyes of the middle-aged divine envoy. He never thought that one day he would actually look forward to death so much.
"There is a devil living in everyone's heart, but some people let the devil control them, and I only release this devil when needed..."
Although this Japanese shikigami looked miserable at the moment, Li Mengnan would not feel any pity for him because of this.
This has nothing to do with the generational hatred between the two countries. Since these Japanese envoys had murderous intentions towards him at the beginning, they must have the consciousness to be killed by him.
"Tell me everything and I'll give you a good time." Li Mengnan offered up his exchange conditions, but in his opinion, this could no longer be called a transaction, but more like a charity.
The middle-aged Shikigami nodded feebly. His psychological defense had been completely destroyed. At this moment, besides wanting to free himself as soon as possible, he could no longer think about anything else.
This kind of gloomy dungeon was obviously not a good place to talk. Li Mengnan snapped his fingers, and the surrounding scenery once again changed back to the previous Japanese-style teahouse. By the way, the middle-aged shikigami also put on a brand new yukata.
Feeling the familiar environment similar to his hometown, the middle-aged shikigami recovered a little from his sluggish spirit. He took the hot tea from Li Mengnan with trembling hands, took a tentative sip, and then drank it all.
"The demon spirit we were ordered to capture is named 'Suzuhiko-hime'."
Hearing this, Li Mengnan almost knocked over the tea cup in his hand and said in disbelief: "What? It's actually that?"
Suzuhiko-hime, in Japanese mythology, was a succubus who used the "Tianyu Betrayal Dance" to lure out Amaterasu from hiding in the Amano Rock.
The so-called banshee is just the Chinese Guoqi Sect practitioners’ understanding of Suzuhiko Princess. In the Japanese spiritual system, the three demons, ghosts and gods are actually the same thing, so this legendary bird escapes wearing a bell on its head and holding a paper umbrella =
The beautiful girl wearing clothes and dancing has always been regarded as a kind of deity in the Japanese country.
Of course, the Suzuhiko-hime this middle-aged shikigami refers to is not the Suzuhiko-hime in mythology whose graceful dancing can seduce the main god of Japan, but a specific personality consciousness formed by the collective thoughts of many people who believe in her existence.
body.
In essence, it is the same thing as the ghosts that appear in the rumors of so-called "ghost buildings".
So in a sense, this Suzuhiko-hime is actually the magnificent dancing girl in myths and legends. At most, due to the limitations of the ideas that constitute her existence, she does not have as much magic power as in myths and legends.
"What kind of Suzuhiko-hime is worthy of your Tsukimiyama family going to such great lengths of war?"
What shocked Li Mengnan was not the myths and legends behind Suzuhikoji. What really puzzled him was that, as a demon spirit native to Japan, although Suzuhikoji was relatively rare, it was not
It is that kind of unique demon spirit. If you are willing to put in all your efforts to hunt them down, it will not be difficult to catch a hundred and eighty in the entire Japanese country. There is no need to go to China to catch them.
Then the only reasonable explanation is that the Suzuhiko-hime they want to catch is definitely not an ordinary Suzuhiko-hime.
"According to the information given to us by the head of the family, the Suzuhiko-hime we captured this time was one of the shikigami commanded by Lord Seimei back then. She may be the only white-clad Suzuhiko-hime in the world."
"Wait a minute, the amount of information is a bit large, I need to sort it out."
Li Mengnan didn't know much about the Qimen of Japan. He only knew that the "Seimei Gong" mentioned by the middle-aged shikigami should be Abe who was active in the Heian era thousands of years ago and was revered as "the number one onmyoji of Japan".
Qingming, but as for the last sentence, I am a little confused.
Fortunately, the memory in the subconscious can be easily retrieved in the state of dreaming. A book as thick as a brick appeared out of thin air in Li Mengnan's hand. After a quick look, he understood the seemingly simple words of the middle-aged shikigami user.
How much amazing information is hidden there.
A demon spirit like Suzuhiko-hime is harmless to humans and has absolutely no offensive power. Compared with those demon spirits that can evolve themselves by devouring other demon spirits, or even directly devouring humans, Suzuhiko-hime is almost
It is at the bottom of the entire demon spirit system, and under normal circumstances cannot evolve to a higher level until death.
But just like in online games, there will be high-level players carrying top-notch artifacts to genocide the chickens in Novice Village. There will always be some idle people in this world who do things that normal people would never do when they are extremely bored.
What he did was just like the great Onmyoji of Japan mentioned earlier.
To this day, Abe is still recognized as the number one Qi sect person in Japan. His cultivation level at that time was far beyond that of other practitioners of the same era. Perhaps it was because he was too cold at high places. This Abe
Da Neng is always thinking of finding something interesting to do that no one else has done.
At that time, the Japanese country happened to be in an era when demon spirits were overflowing and demons were dancing wildly. One day, Ampei, the great master, was looking at the demon spirits he had sealed over the years, and suddenly came up with the idea to kill all the demon spirits that had appeared in the Japanese country.
Types to add to his collection to show future generations his great achievements.
It can be seen from this that this powerful person is actually a person with a serious collecting habit.
It is much more difficult to seal a demon spirit than to kill one. The mental power of some big demon spirits is so strong that even Ampere can't handle it, let alone sealing others. Therefore, "Ideals Are Very Strong" appeared.
Due to the embarrassing situation that he is plump and skinny in reality, his collection of "demon spirit gashapon" came to a standstill for a time.
Low-level demon spirits like Suzuhikohime were still very common at the time. Because of their beautiful appearance and ability to sing and dance, they were kept as pets by many spirit masters. It just so happened that Abe Ounou also had one like this.
At that time, no one had ever come up with such a groundbreaking idea of evolving Suzuhiko-hime. It may be that he drank too much sake. For some reason, Ampere wanted to study a way to evolve Suzuhiko-hime, and it was even more outrageous.
Yes, this method was actually researched by him.
As a result, this originally extremely ordinary Suzuhiko-hime unexpectedly became the first and possibly the only Suzuhiko-hime to evolve in history.
Because the clothes on the evolved Suzuhiko-hime changed from red to white, this unique Suzuhiko-hime was also named with the prefix "white clothes" to distinguish her from the ordinary red-clothed Suzuhiko-hime.
What is even more unexpected is that although the white-clothed Suzuhiko-hime has not changed in strength after evolution, she has developed an extremely special ability - spiritual melting.
As long as the white-clothed Suzuhiko Ji dances the legendary "Tianyu Betrayal Dance", whether it is a demon or a human being under her gaze, the mental barriers will be melted layer by layer until the other party's consciousness is completely defenseless.
state.
This is an extremely terrifying ability, because this kind of dissolution is unlimited. Theoretically, if this white-clothed Suzuhiko-ji is given enough time, she can completely melt away even the mental barriers of the legendary gods.
It was precisely with the unique ability of Suzuhiko-hime in white that Abe Seimei finally completed his collection of "demon spirit gashapon" and transferred all the sealed demon spirits to a scroll before his death.
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This picture scroll is the legendary treasure of the Japanese Kingdom - the true picture of a hundred ghosts walking at night.
"If I remember correctly, Abe Seimei's Suzuhiko-hime in white clothes should also be sealed in your national treasure "The Night Journey of One Hundred Demons". How could it appear in China?"
Li Mengnan didn't think that an F-class demon spirit with no offensive ability could cross the vast sea and run all the way to the mainland of China under the eyes of tens of thousands of Qimen practitioners in Japan.
"This matter will involve another difficult secret of our Japanese country..."
Li Mengnan's ignorance of this matter made the middle-aged shikigami a little confused, but he could no longer arouse any curiosity. He just wanted to answer the questions that the other party wanted to know as soon as possible, and then get rid of it as soon as possible.
"More than ten years ago, our great Japanese empire had a holy war...well, for you Chinese people, it was a war of aggression. I do not deny this."
As soon as the middle-aged Shikigami opened his mouth, he realized that the two sides had different positions on this matter. In order to avoid needlessly irritating Li Mengnan, he decisively changed his words.
"In the war of aggression that year, although our army was unstoppable at the beginning of the war, it was later blocked by your Chinese Qimen and warriors, causing heavy casualties. Then our Japanese Qimen and warriors joined the army at the request of the government.
Although the expedition has alleviated the pressure faced by the military to a certain extent, the price paid is also quite painful... After all, for our Japanese country, your China is too big.
In terms of quantity and quality, we, the Japanese, are not on the same level as you, the Chinese."
"Fortunately for warriors, modern thermal weapons and equipment have narrowed the ability gap between most warriors and ordinary people, but the power possessed by Qimen practitioners cannot be easily equaled by mere guns and cannons.
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"The war at that time was caused by the greed of the military. They wanted to take advantage of China's extremely weak situation, just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty who entered the customs back then, and put all their chips on the line to gamble on a century-old national destiny. However, as things developed later, it became clear that
It’s become a bit difficult to ride a tiger.”
"In order to help the military win this war that is related to the fate of the country, the Abe family, the first family of the Japanese Qimen, took the initiative to donate the spiritual treasure "The Picture of the True One Hundred Ghosts at Night", and a group of Japanese Qimen each
A small team composed of sect elites secretly brought into China, and used the birth of a genius treasure as bait to lure the main Qi sect forces in China to one place. When they fought for the ownership of the unwarranted treasure,
Unlocking the seal on "The True Night Journey of One Hundred Ghosts" and releasing all the demon spirits in it..."
"Fuck!"
Hearing this, Li Mengnan couldn't help but cursed at the vicious plan of the Japanese Qimen back then.
The Onmyoji of Japan, Abe Seimei, was one of the most famous Qimen masters in history. All the demon spirits he had sealed in his entire life were released at the same time and at the same place, and the power was definitely no less than that of a detonation.
A large-yield Harmony bomb, and the sustained damage caused by it may be far longer than the contamination time of nuclear radiation.
Li Mengnan finally understood why the middle-aged divine envoy showed that expression when he realized that he didn't know about the matter. The ambush in that year must have been written into the history of the major Qimen sects in China.
It should not be a secret among Qimen for a long time.
The line of magicians he inherited has always been thin in modern times. It is estimated that they were self-aware and did not join in the fun, so there are no relevant records of this disaster.
"Due to the sudden unpreparedness of the incident, and the fact that there were ancient great demon spirits such as the Great Tengu, Phoenix Fire, Peng Hou, and Fengli sealed in the "Zhen*Hundred Ghosts at Night", almost all Chinese Qimen practitioners present at the time
The army was wiped out, and the vitality of the major Qimen sects in China was also severely damaged. The disciples who escaped the disaster left their original residences one after another, chose secluded places to live in seclusion, and no longer interfered in the war..."
Li Mengnan nodded. From here on, it was consistent with what he knew about the history of China's Qimen.
"Then what does this have to do with Suzuhiko-ji in white?"
"Because the people of the Ampei family want to remake "The Night Journey of One Hundred Ghosts", and if they want to remake this secret treasure of soul control, they must not get around Suzuhiko-hime in white, who only has the ability to dissolve spirits."
Most of the demon spirits sealed in "The Night Journey of One Hundred Demons" were unique ancient demon spirits. Their powerful strength is far beyond what the low-level demon spirits generated from urban legends in today's society can match. Ampei from the Japanese Kingdom
Although the family is called an Onmyoji family, they are indeed good at controlling spirits. It is normal to want to find these great demon spirits left by our ancestors and refine them into our own guardian spirits or shikigami.
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As for whether they have the same abilities as their ancestor Abe, that is beyond Li Mengnan's concern.
Li Mengnan originally wanted to ask them how they knew the white-clothed Suzuyan Ji was hiding here, but after thinking about it for a moment, he realized that this question was quite idiotic. The Yue Jianshan family and the Anbei family were from the Fulu lineage who were good at tracking talismans.
One is the Yuling lineage that specializes in capturing demon spirits to refine guardian spirits and shikigami. They must have special methods for finding specific demon spirits.
"Then the last question - how many of you are here in total?"
The middle-aged shikigami user was slightly startled, and immediately realized the purpose of Li Mengnan asking this question, and subconsciously asked: "You... want to snatch the white Suzuyanji from the hands of the Ampei family?"
"Why not?" Li Mengnan did not hide his intention to get involved.
Although he is not of the Yuling lineage, the ability of the white-clothed Suzuhiko Ji is so special that it is tailor-made for illusionists to perform illusions.
If you don't know, forget it. Now that you know that there is such a special demon spirit in the world, and it happens to be nearby at this moment, if you don't try to grab it, Li Mengnan won't be able to pass his own test.
As for the ensuing revenge of the bullshit Ampei family, Li Mengnan simply ignored it selectively. Wealth and wealth are found in danger. Qimen practice is inherently a risky thing. It is better to waste one's cultivation to become a person than to be hesitant about everything.
An ordinary person.
Besides, Sanshan City is located in the interior of China, hundreds of kilometers away from the national border in the east. Even if the Anbei family can send people over without anyone noticing, once there is a disturbance, they want to go back.
It's not that easy to go back intact.
What's more, the opponent's dispersing array and hypnosis array have eliminated the possibility of witnesses. As long as his hands and feet are clean, no one may know that the Suzuyan Princess in white is in his hands.
"Okay." The middle-aged Shikigami shook his head. No matter what Li Mengnan wanted to do, it no longer mattered to him. "There are five of us in total, and three of them are members of our Yue Jianshan family, responsible for setting up the formation and guarding.
, the other two people are members of the Abe family and are responsible for capturing Suzuhiko-hime in white.
Because Huaxia Qimen has always closely monitored the Japanese Qimen, the two family heads have not sent out core disciples who have already gained a certain reputation, so as not to be overly concerned by Huaxia Qimen, and peripheral disciples like us who have only been introduced for a short time or have little talent.
Disciple, I don’t have this worry. It is said that the two members of the Anbei family are the same."
Li Mengnan suddenly realized. No wonder he had previously thought that these three Japanese divine envoys were very weak. They did not look like elites who could be sent deep behind enemy lines to perform special tasks. Instead, they looked like cannon fodder who came to die to attract attention.
After working on it for a long time, this is what happened.
But having said that, to deal with a harmless little demon like Suzuhiko-hime, you really don't need to use any elites. Five cannon fodder disciples are already a quite luxurious arresting lineup.
"I've told you everything you want to know. I hope you can fulfill your promise, please." The middle-aged Shikigami knelt down on the ground and bowed deeply to Li Mengnan quite formally.
Li Mengnan didn't make any statement, and his whole person gradually faded away in the space like a wisp of smoke.
The middle-aged shikigami's body suddenly shook, and he seemed to have suddenly forgotten something in his mind. He raised his eyes and looked around, only to find that he was sitting at the table in the restaurant at home, and his wife Keiko was busy preparing in the kitchen.
During dinner, my daughter Reiko helped me while talking enthusiastically about interesting things that happened at school.
"Dad, it's time to eat... What are you doing?" His daughter Reiko came over, put the tableware on the table, and hugged his neck affectionately from behind.
"It's nothing, I just feel like I forgot something, but it's so easy to forget, so it shouldn't be something too important... Okay, let's not talk about it anymore, let's ask mom to have dinner with us."
Outside the window of the restaurant, Li Mengnan's figure slowly emerged in mid-air, quietly looking at the happy family in the room, and then gradually disappeared again after a while.