Qiao Xi casually told another interesting story about when he was staying in Kyoto and occasionally found Shuton Ibaraki for a drink. Then when he looked up, he caught a glimpse of Nura Huabo's very strange eyes.
Qiao Xi: "..."
Qiao Xi was silent for a moment, then couldn't help but ask: "What are you looking at?"
Nu Liang Hua Piao was silent for a moment, and stopped talking for a long time before saying, "Can I ask..."
His face looked a little tangled.
—— Such an expression fell on his evil and ferocious face. Qiao Xi really wanted to laugh. However, considering the current situation, Qiao Xi only coughed, raised her chin and said, "What are you asking?
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Nu Liang Hua Piao stared at Qiao Xi with strange eyes. After a long while, he finally asked what he wanted to ask: "When... did you know them?"
——He actually wants to ask you which era you are an old monster who survived!
Qiao Xi blinked her eyes, her vision blurred for a while, and she replied after a long time: "Of course it was from the Heianjing period - think about how long it has been since now."
He laughed softly. This smile looked a little disappointed for no reason. Nuliang Huaiao was startled for a moment, and then he subconsciously opened his eyes wide after realizing it.
However, he didn't say anything else, and asked Qiao Xi about the interesting things he had done when he got along with the two big monsters.
As he listened, he felt that something was very wrong.
"I feel that the Ibaraki-dōji you are talking about and the current Ibaraki-dōji are not the same person at all!"
Nuliang Huaiao said this with great certainty. Qiao Xi looked back at him and saw a very personal and contagious smile on the face of this young man with strange hair:
"Since you can become friends with them, then I believe that the real Ibaraki Doji will never be so heartbroken!"
Qiao Xi: "..."
Suddenly I really want to complain but I don't know where to start.
Qiao Xi was speechless and choked, staring at Nu Liang's face with a wicked but inexplicably reliable smile. For a moment, she couldn't help but shake her head and laugh.
"Of course that's not Ibaraki. As I said, Ibaraki will not succumb to any monster except Shuten Douji."
Qiao Xi said, with a hint of contempt suddenly flashing in her eyes: "As for the nine-tailed fox who claims to give birth to Qingming...ah, she is not qualified yet!"
——Until this moment, Nuliang Huaiao suddenly felt the aura of Qiao Xi that was completely different from the other monsters he had seen.
The momentum of this seemingly young monster is majestic and broad, giving people the impression that it is like the sea. No matter how big the wind and waves blow, the sea is still the sea after the dust settles.
If Qiao Xi's outburst before because her friend was offended made Nuliang Huaiao admire her very much, then the momentum Qiao Xi showed when she mentioned the nine-tailed fox now made Nuliang Huaiao burst out from the bottom of his heart.
A kind of awe for the strong.
When he discovered his inner feelings, Nuliang Huaiao was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing loudly.
——Since he became conscious, Nura Huaxiao has relied on the unique racial talent of the slicker to get along like a fish in water among the big monsters. From living in no fixed place to now taking the entire Edo into his pocket, from being single-handed to now
Behind him followed the huge Hyakki Yakou.
He has seen many monsters, many of them powerful, and he even came close to death several times because of his unwillingness to admit defeat. However, he has never really felt such emotions towards another monster.
——More specifically, Nura Huadiao has never felt that he would be inferior to any monster. Even if he is not as powerful as the other monster now, he knows that as long as he is given enough time to grow, he will one day surpass the other monster.
However, for the first time, for a moment, Nura Huada felt that he seemed to be really inferior to the monster in front of him.
It's not just the strength in terms of force, but the feeling that emanates from the soul.
Although it was unexpected, Nuliang Huaiao did have such a feeling in his heart for an inexplicable moment.
But he didn't feel frustrated, instead he only found it interesting.
——Is this a monster that survived from the Heiankyo period?
So he laughed in accordance with the thoughts in his heart. When he had laughed enough, he turned his head and saw Qiao Xi looking at him as if he was looking at a psycho.
He suppressed a smile and said to Qiao Xi: "You are right, but I just sealed the nine-tailed fox. I don't know when he will come back. There was an onmyoji in the Huakaiyuan family who once divined the result.
Four hundred years later."
Qiao Xi raised her eyebrows and asked curiously: "Onmyoji from the Huakaiyuan family?"
Nu Liang Hua Piao showed a bad smile on his face and said: "Xiu Yuan is a very interesting Onmyoji,"
As he spoke, he glanced at Qiao Xi and added: "Although I have never experienced the demeanor of the great Onmyoji Master Seimei, I heard that that guy is praised among humans as having the character of Seimei Gong back then."
When he said this, Qiao Xi became interested.
When he rushed from the shrine to Kyoto, he heard some monsters mention Hanakain Hidemoto's name, but at that time he wanted to come to Kyoto quickly, so he didn't inquire carefully. Now
Seeing that Nu Liang Hua Lao had a good sense of him, he became really curious.
Nu Liang Hua Piao briefly told Zhang Qiao Xi how he and Xiu Yuan met.
Only then did Qiao Xi know that Nu Liang Hua Lao was able to seal the Nine-tailed Fox, and it was with the help of Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan.
This onmyoji has a somewhat similar personality to Seimei. Unlike ordinary onmyojis, he does not destroy monsters when he sees them. Although Hanakain Hidemoto cannot treat monsters and people equally, he is much better than ordinary onmyojis.
The nine-tailed fox used the power of the royal family to control the entire Kyoto, and ordered his Hyakki Yakou and his human nobles to find human hearts for her to supplement, thus making Kyoto full of monsters.
Hanakain Hidemoto's attainments in divination are not low. Under such circumstances, when he divined that Kyoto's chance of survival lay in Nura Huayu, he took the initiative to approach him and proposed cooperation.
It happened that the princess Sakuraji that Nura Huadiao fell in love with was captured by the nine-tailed fox - the nine-tailed fox was keen on eating the hearts of humans with special abilities. The more noble the human beings, the more benefits they would get from eating it.
As a princess, Sakura-hime also had rare healing abilities, so she was dedicated to the Nine-tailed Fox by her family.
Nu Liang Huaiao, who unilaterally recognized Princess Sakura as his future wife, ran to the nine-tailed fox with passion and the aura of the protagonist (?) to bring Sakura back.