For the four people who ran out of the shrine first, the life and death of the monk in white was not important at all, so they didn't care much.
Speaking of these four, Sun Yixie took the lead and ran out just now, Hayabusa and Huang Donglai followed closely behind, and Chongzang also chased after him after a brief hesitation.
Logically speaking, in this situation, Sun Yixie should be the one running at the front...
But everyone knows Brother Sun. He is born to be a "old six". I don't know how he operates. Anyway, he is running. Before half a minute, Brother Sun has shrunk behind Hayato. Huang Donglai
In front of you - a place where you don't need to explore unknown dangers ahead, nor need to be wary of strangers coming from behind.
Because Hayato's contact time with Sun Yixie was still short, he didn't even realize anything, and his attention had already shifted to exploring the road; and Huang Donglai, although he was very familiar with Sun Yixie, but at the moment this
The situation was indeed more reasonable for Hayato, an onmyoji, to explore the way, and now was not the time to argue with Brother Sun over such a nonsense, so he didn't say anything.
There is another matter that Huang Donglai thinks should be dealt with first: "I said, the ninja brother behind you, haven't you asked me your name yet?"
Even if Huang Donglai was not familiar with Japanese things, he could definitely guess the identity of the other ninja after seeing Juzo's use of kunai and his light kung fu, so he directly put this information clearly in the
The question can be regarded as a kind of pressure.
When Juzo was asked this question, he thought for two seconds before replying in a thoughtful tone: "Ah, I'm sorry, everyone... just call me Yuzo."
Sun and Huang both understood the profound meaning of these words: since Juzo is a ninja, even if his profession is seen through, he cannot easily reveal his real name. But in such an occasion, Juzo, as a "husband"
"Thigh" wanted to express a certain degree of sincerity, so he used such a tone to imply that he "can only give such a false name."
"Okay, brother Youzang." Huang Donglai tasted the product and agreed with Chongzang's attitude, but he then said, "As you can see, we have just met you for the first time, and it is not easy to judge whether you are an enemy or not.
Friend; so I have to say something ugly up front... I suggest you not to make any changes, otherwise in this environment, it will be difficult for me to ensure that I will not overreact, do you understand this? "
"I understand." Chongzang is also a veteran of Jianghu. He naturally understands Huang Donglai's approach. "I don't want to cause trouble to you. I just want to leave this ghost place alive as soon as possible..."
While they were trying to mediate with these words, Sun Yixie, who was running in front of Huang Donglai, also said to Hayato: "No, it's a shame. Is the road downhill so long? Why haven't you seen the red one yet?"
Archway?”
"Uh...Brother Sun, first of all, that thing is called a torii gate..." Hayato thought for a while before he understood what Sun Yixie was talking about. "Secondly, we should be trapped in a kind of torii gate now."
In the realm of "Eternal Darkness", this kind of realm is usually maintained by one or several big demons with their own powerful demon power. Sometimes it is maintained by some powerful spiritual objects, but no matter what the source is,
, in short, once a person enters Changdian, it is equivalent to entering a chaotic space, and the routes and distances originally remembered are of little significance..."
"Damn!" Unexpectedly, Sun Yixie only listened to half of what the other party said before he responded by himself, "Needless to say, if you want to escape, you either have to find a 'gap' between the realm and the real world, or
We have to kill all the sources of power that maintain Chang An and let Chang An disappear by himself, right?"
"Eh? Brother Sun, you know this, right?" Hayato was also surprised. Sun Yixie couldn't even name the thing "Torii", but after hearing part of the setting of "Eternal Darkness"
, he was able to explain the method of escape immediately.
Of course, as readers, we all know that the people of the Hunyuan Star Gate are very familiar with this set of settings after the battle at Zhihua Temple in the capital; although in the Central Plains this is not called "Chang An Dark"
”, but these types of spaces all have similar meanings.
From a certain point of view, Sun Huang and the others have even dealt with big demons of the level of "Thirteen Dead Animals", but now Chang An and the others at Tianshangshan Shrine are a little bit indifferent.
"Harm, I'm not..." Sun Yixie was about to say a few words, but unexpectedly...
Roar--
Suddenly, a deafening low roar sounded from the downhill corner in front of everyone.
The roar was like a tsunami. The invisible sound wave rolled up the mountain road, whizzed past the four people, and stirred up a large amount of fallen leaves and flying sand.
Rumble...Rumble...Rumble...
Immediately afterwards, with a movement like an elephant running, a strange and huge black shadow crawled out from the corner of the downhill slope.
At this time, the bright moon in the sky has turned blood red, and under the moonlight, the red glow is everywhere.
Under the bloody light, at first glance, everyone thought it was a very big spider. But upon closer inspection, they found that this "spider" only had four legs, and these four were not actually "legs", but spiders.
human arm...
These four arms are thick and thin, with different muscle lines and skin smoothness. It is obvious that... these are the limbs of four different people.
Of course, this is not a big deal, because the roots of the four "legs", which are the body parts of this "spider", are even more chaotic; its "body" looks like a pile of internal organs and pieces of meat mixed together.
The surface of this pile of meat is irregular, with eight heads crowded together.
The eight heads are all human heads, and each head has a different appearance, hairstyle, age, and gender, but one thing they have in common is... they all have one eye, that is, where there should have been two eyes, now there are only
It has a very wide and very big ghost eye.
Also, not every head has its eyes open.
Of these eight heads, only three had their eyes open, and their huge open eyes glowed bright red, and all of them were smiling; but the other five heads with their eyes closed all showed pain on their faces.
His face was open and his mouth was always open, as if he wanted to wail at any moment.
As mentioned in the book here, this thing is called "Three Eyes and Eight Faces". Legend has it that it is a monster that lives in a mountain called Shenshan in the Tuzuo Kingdom. Although the tissues that make up its body seem to have been removed from humans.
, but Three Eyes and Eight Faces is actually a monster formed by multiple animal spirits devouring each other and eventually entangled together, and does not possess any human intelligence and emotions.
As soon as Sun Yixie saw this thing, he was so scared that he turned around and ran away. If the speed and power of his "reverse charge" were used to face the enemy head-on, he would be comparable to a first-rate master.
Fortunately, because of the previous lesson on Yan Deng Slope, Huang Donglai had already predicted that Sun Yixie might turn around and hit his teammates out of cowardice. Faced with Sun Yixie's sudden counterattack, Huang Ge just turned sideways and avoided it.
passed.
Chongzang, who was following the three people, saw the cowardly-looking Sun Yixie rushing toward him like a bull. He was also stunned at that time. Fortunately, he was not familiar with the three people in front of him, so they were separated by a few meters.
, and as a ninja, his reaction was not slow, and he managed to avoid Brother Sun's collision.
"Quickly retreat!" Three seconds later, when Hayato, who was standing at the front, recovered from the shock caused by the three-eyed appearance and turned around to shout, Sun Yixie had already run more than ten meters, and it was only 10 meters away.
Huang Donglai and Chongzang are still waiting for Hayato's opinion.
As soon as the words fell, the three of them turned around and ran uphill again.
"I said, Hayato, why don't you even try to cast a spell on this one?" Huang Donglai asked Hayato while running.
"This one is much more powerful than the previous one. I'm afraid I won't be able to seal it with the move just now." Hayato replied.
"Holy crap! Don't you have any more powerful moves?" Huang Donglai said again.
"I've used it a long time ago! Isn't that true?" Hayato was gradually getting angry at the question, and he said in his heart that you always make the same demands on me as the monks from the Central Plains, so where can I go to reason with you?
As for Huang Donglai, he really didn't understand Hayato's situation, or the entire Onmyoji profession, so he felt that he was a bit too weak as a person who specialized in "slaying demons."
In fact, Hayato's sect is higher up, that is, the Kamo family. In the past few hundred years, there have been some profound masters. There are also people who can kill a mountain lady in an instant by making a paper man with his bare hands.
.
However, like the Buddhist sects in the Central Plains, the Onmyoji sect also has its own limitations. To achieve the above-mentioned combat performance, unless you are the reincarnation of some kind of fairy spirit or an innate spirit bone, you must use powerful
"Shikigami" or "spiritual weapon" will do.
In the words of the Central Plains Taoist sect, you have to borrow power from guardian spirits or magic weapons, otherwise you, a mortal, cannot do it with your own spiritual power. After all, Onmyojis are still practicing in the world, and their power must be the same as those in the Central Plains who have been absorbing energy in the mountains all year round.
There is a big gap between monks who take elixirs for spiritual energy.
Why do we often see villains in Japanese games or comics who start by "resurrecting a certain demon king" and "unlocking the seal of a certain demon king" to gain power, and then achieve the goal of ruling the world?
Because they can't hold it back on their own without borrowing the power of these demon kings.
This is not only true for villains, but also for righteous people like Hayato; as a descendant of a certain branch of the Kamo family, the powerful shikigami and spiritual weapons from his ancestors cannot be passed on to him, and he can still learn most of them.
He already burns high incense with the orthodox martial arts passed down from the Kamo family, so what else do you expect of his combat prowess? That's a bit too much.
"Fuck you!"
At the same time, Sun Yixie, who started running back faster than the three of them, let out another sharp scream as soon as he returned to the gentle area above the stone steps.
What's going on?
It turned out that when Sun Yixie returned to the slope, he first saw the mountain old man who had been temporarily sealed by Hayato...
At this moment, the mountain bastard had escaped from the "Light Prison" and retrieved the kitchen knife that had been thrown before. It reappeared in a dual-wielding posture and chased down the slope.
In addition to Shan Lao, the iron rat, which had already eaten and drank enough, and had a lot of minced flesh and blood stuck to its body, also came out of the shrine; this time it didn't even plan to make a sneak attack, and just followed Shan Lao towards this place.
As he walked over, he looked like, "I can eat you without a sneak attack."
Sun Yixie saw that he couldn't go this way, so he turned around and ran down the slope, shouting as he ran: "Don't come up! Two more are coming up!"
Hearing this, the three people below were also shocked and chilled. Huang Donglai said to himself at that time, "This one monster is enough for us to drink a pot. If three of them come to attack us,
Are we afraid that we will be destroyed here?"
However, at this moment, Hayato quickly calmed down.
Some people, especially those who are capable of great things, have this characteristic - the more they are faced with a life or death situation, or when they are forced into a desperate situation, the more they can push their wisdom and abilities to the limit.
The same was true when Hayato helped Sun Yixie win a chance of life from the pirates. Without his quick words of wisdom, Sun Yixie's fate would have been unknown.
At this moment, seeing that there was no way forward, Hayato immediately left the middle of the stone steps and leaned against a tree on the slope next to him. He used the friction between the tree and his back to prevent himself from rolling down the hillside.
And he shouted softly: "Come to me, everyone!"
After hearing this, everyone looked towards Hayato one after another. Seeing Hayato's firm expression, they didn't say anything and quickly gathered over.
Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai and Ma Shanjuzang are all people who have experienced life and death for a long time. They know that Hayato is definitely not giving up in his current state, and they can only believe in him unconditionally at this time.
When the four of them gathered together, Hayato immediately clasped his hands together, formed an "inner binding seal", chanted the word "formation" in a nine-character mantra, and activated his special skill - the art of invisibility.
This is different from the invisibility technique in ninjutsu mentioned in the previous article. This technique can actually make people invisible to you. Hayato was able to escape from the sea and return to Japan alive because of this technique. This technique can be said to be the best among Hayato and others.
Nian Ansheng is the trump card, so he has high proficiency and can do it instantly.
Of course, it stands to reason... this technique can only make him invisible, and he has to stay as still as possible when he is invisible, otherwise he may be seen.
So he didn't use this trick when he and Sun Yixie were robbed together: firstly, if he used this trick, it would be equivalent to abandoning Sun Yixie, who was suffering from gout at the time, and leaving the latter to die alone.
Secondly, even if he ignores Brother Sun and survives temporarily by being invisible, and the pirates do not drive away or sink the plundered ship, Hayato will not be able to destroy the ship full of pirates by himself.
The boat carrying the body returned to the shore.
But today, at this moment, in the "eternal darkness", Hayato thought that he could use the abundant spiritual power in the field to try and activate an invisibility technique that would include the three people around him.
Rumble...Rumble...
A few seconds later, on the other side of the downhill, the three-eyed footsteps were getting closer and closer. Its huge body and unparalleled strength pushed the woods on both sides of the stone steps down as easily as building blocks. It was obvious that everyone was at this moment.
If they escape into the forest on the side of the road and are affected by the slopes and trees, they will be overtaken and crushed by these three eyes.
On the other side, Shan Lao and Iron Rat, who were above them, were also approaching the uphill slope of the stone steps road, and their shadows stretched by the blood moon had already been cast down.
The three people who came near Hayato, although they did not communicate with each other verbally, they all noticed that their companions around them seemed to be gradually becoming transparent... The three people immediately understood what Hayato was doing.
By this time, Sun Huang was no longer worried about whether Juzo was trustworthy or not. Everyone quickly imitated Hayato's behavior, staying away from the middle of the road as much as possible and pressing their bodies against the trees on the side of the stone steps.
Then hold your breath and concentrate, trying to remain still.
Not long after, the three monsters from the upper and lower roads had arrived only a few meters away from the crowd. At this time, the four of them were basically completely transparent and could not even see their shadows; even if they still had shadows, they could not see them.
It will overlap with the trees on the roadside and cannot be easily distinguished.
By chance, the three monsters each stopped one or two meters away from where the four of them were... At this time, as long as those three monsters took two more steps forward, they might be crushed to the point where they were standing.
The lowermost repository.
But the three monsters really didn't seem to have much intelligence. When they got close, when they saw no one in sight, they stood there in confusion for a while, then each turned around and headed back in the direction they came from.
In this way, four people escaped.
When the monsters on both sides were gone, Hayabusa released the spell and let out a long sigh of relief.
"I'm sorry, Hayato... No, Brother Hayabusa! I misunderstood you, you are still capable." Huang Donglai, who was rescued, turned his face and started calling people brother.
"Damn it, I'm scared to death. Fortunately, those guys are stupid and can only identify the enemy with their eyes." Sun Yixie was completely paralyzed on the ground at this moment.
Even Chongzang was a little stronger than Sun Yixie. Although he was also scared, he was not so arrogant: "Huh... I also want to thank this gentleman for saving his life." After thanking him, he immediately asked Hayato respectfully.
, "Excuse me, sir, what will happen next?"
"Don't worry." Hayato looked much more relaxed at this time, "Through the technique just now, I have roughly understood how much my limit has been increased in the constant darkness... After I take a rest, I think I can try
Try the 'Wisdom Fist Seal' to open a domain rift. If it succeeds, we can escape directly; even if this method doesn't work, I can also use the 'Outer Binding Seal' to release a paper crane that leads the way to help us avoid danger and
Find a way out."
Hayato didn't blow his hair.
To make a long story short, after adjusting his breath for a while, he really opened a crack with the mantra of the word "Lie" and the "Zhi Fist Seal" on his hand, and led the three of them to escape from Chang An smoothly.
The moment they stepped out of the darkness, everyone felt that the chaotic atmosphere around them suddenly dissipated, and then a little winter morning light shone on them through the trees.
The four of them looked back and found that not far behind them was the bright red painted torii that they had seen when they went up the mountain last night. However, at this moment, the torii looked dilapidated and old in the sunlight, almost rotten.
They never came closer, but quickly walked down the stone steps and took a detour out of the mountain.