If Su Anran guessed correctly, the prototype of that monster should be Shuten Doji, a powerful existence that ranks first in any version of Japanese monster legends - there are many legendary versions of Japan's three major monsters
,
But the two unbeatable ones are Shuten-dōji and Tamamo-mae, and the remaining spots are diverse: Daitengu, Otakemaru, Slippery Ghost, Sotoku the Emperor, Aoi Hōdō, Evil Prajna, Rao Shinbi, and Ninety-eight Eyes and Hundred Eyes Ghost.
wait.
Among them, the Daitengu is the most famous.
Su Anran didn't know the status of the twelve patterns in the world of demons, nor did he know where the oldest demons in the world came from - did the time traveler already exist when he came to this world, or did he come to this world?
Finally, Pandora's box was opened.
But if, as Song Jue said before, Jiutun is just a great demon, then the strength of the Twelve Marks will be terrifying.
And if Shuten itself is one of the twelve patterns, then...
Miss Song, how did you escape?
Su Anran was very confused.
But now, he has at least collected an piece of information.
Shuten must be a thing that the time traveler came up with after he came to this world, and it is definitely not a thing that existed in this world before.
"How much do you know about the Twelve Marks?"
After Chen Jing left, Su Anran asked immediately.
"I don't know." Song Jue's face was as confused as ever.
In the past, Su Anran thought that Song Jue was really easy to fool, after all, he looked so cute and cute.
Now?
Please remove the cute words, thank you.
"How on earth did you grow so big?"
"Hi." Song Jue waved his hand with a look of indifference, "What's the matter? I have been an orphan since I was a child. At that time, in order to survive, I did everything, including poaching bird eggs and grabbing dog food, just for the sake of survival.
You have to do your best to survive. Later, when there was a big disaster, I followed the crowd and met a master of the Zhenyuan Sect at the foot of the mountain, so I joined the Zhenyuan Sect."
"Looking back now, in fact, the days back then were not much better. But at that time, I was young, homeless, and had no meals. Suddenly, I had three meals guaranteed. No matter how hard and tired I was, it didn't matter.
At that time, in order not to be driven away, I had been working very hard to read and write, practicing kungfu and doing hard labor every day. I gritted my teeth and persevered. As a result, I worked hard and suddenly found that I was already ahead of many people.
, standing at a very high position.”
Song Jue said it in an understatement.
But Su Anran could hear the flavor of chasing a ray of light in the darkness from her words.
He now also knows why Song Jue, who is now a direct disciple of the Zhenyuan Sect, was almost expelled from the Zhenyuan Sect. He also knows why she has such a tenacious will and desire to survive, why she has such strong creativity and
He has a rich imagination, why he prefers martial arts to sorcery, and why he doesn't look like a disciple of the Zhenyuan Sect at all.
All of this, to put it bluntly, is because her childhood experience is different from that of the disciples of the Zhenyuan Sect.
Therefore, Song Jue doesn't have so many rules and regulations when it comes to her actions. As long as she can survive, she doesn't care whether she is a wild child or a major.
Naturally, she is not that serious about the importance of intelligence - maybe there is, but the importance is definitely not as high as that of Su Anran. This is because she can take the initiative to understand the basic situation and situation of the demon world, but she does not care about the demon world.
You can see it through its development history and various legends.
Of course, it may also be her own sense of superiority that is causing trouble.
This is a common problem among all Xuanjie monks who enter the Ten Thousand Realms.
Su Anran sighed helplessly.
He couldn't express the words of complaints and blame in his heart.
After all, it was already extremely difficult for Song Jue just to survive, so he didn't have the time to understand Jiutun's other circumstances.
Besides, she only had the cultivation level of her natal realm at that time.
"What now?"
"Jiutun is obviously not an ordinary big demon, otherwise the man named Chen Jing wouldn't have such a frightened look." Su Anran frowned, and then said in a deep voice, "On the surface, we have stabilized him and made him
He believed our words, but he must have gone to see the soldier commander now, and he should come to test us tomorrow to see if we have turned into monsters... But these are not problems, the real problem is, is Shuten the real problem?
It’s not the twelve lines.”
If there is Shuten Doji, then there are Yuki Onna, Aoi Hōdō, Daitengu, Slippery Ghost, Otake Maru, Tamamo Mae, and the Choude Wraith?
Su Anran does have some ideas.
But these ideas must be based on obtaining more accurate information before he can turn his ideas into practical actions.
But what was frustrating was that after hearing Song Jue's words, Chen Jing said he was going to report to the commander, and then left in a hurry. This made Su Anran's plan to further inquire about the information temporarily in vain.
As for the soldier commander bringing people here to cause trouble?
Su Anran didn't care about this at all.
After all, the strength of him and Song Jue is enough to crush this gathering place - in the entire Linshan Villa, there is only one soldier commander with an aura equivalent to the soul-condensing phase realm, and three squad commanders whose strength has reached the true realm of life - among them
The two are still just advanced, they are just look-alikes, there are more than a dozen group leaders in the real world, only two-thirds of the remaining more than a hundred people are swordsmen, and the rest are just ordinary people, or those who have not yet unsheathed their swords.
edge.
He didn't know whether a gathering place like Linshan Villa was considered strong or weak, but what he knew was that if he and Song Jue were determined to kill people, they could massacre the entire gathering place in less than a stick of incense.
Maybe that soldier commander wouldn't die that easily, but everyone under him would never survive.
But now that the other party has not fallen out, and Su Anran really wants to learn the information, she can only passively wait for the other party to take action.
…
the other side.
As soon as Chen Jing left Su Anran and Song Jue's empty house, he immediately rushed to the shrine in Linshan Villa - after every gathering place is established, a shrine will be built as soon as possible. This is a kind of belief and also represents a inheritance.
of officially established.
Of course, this is also because the establishment of each shrine has a special function: the evil-eliminating ropes invited from Nine Pillars can be laid out to form a special area that isolates evil spirits, which can weaken the power of evil spirits to a certain extent.
And through some special arrangements, it can also have the effect of sealing demons.
As for what will happen to those sealed demons, that is naturally not something the demons need to know.
It can be said that the shrine in each gathering place is the core of the entire gathering place.
Without a gathering place of shrines, no one would come to settle there.
Of course, it would be impossible to establish a gathering place without a shrine.
So there is no question of which came first, the shrine or the gathering place.
Naturally, the shrine became a place where only the leader of a gathering place could live.
The shrine in Rinzanso is not large in scale, and there is no treasure hall here.
Except for the main hall and the side halls on the left and right, there are no other buildings in this shrine.
It can be seen from this that the inheritance of Linshan Villa is actually not very good.
After Chen Jing passed through the torii gate, he went straight to the front hall of the main hall and met a middle-aged man with white hair. He quickly reported the information he heard from Su Anran and Song Jue, but he only saw
The look of shock on his face was enough to prove that when Chen Jing said these words, he was mixed with a lot of personal emotions and subjective thoughts, which was not objective enough, let alone impartial.
"Are you telling the truth?"
The middle-aged man with white hair asked in a deep voice: "Did the two brothers and sister really escape from Shuton?"
"That's what they said." Chen Jing nodded heavily, "But sir, this is simply impossible! That's Shuten!"
"There were indeed rumors before that Shuten was ambushed by five Chuuriki-sama, and he escaped death and hid in Jiutou Mountain." The white-haired man frowned, and his voice became a little more uncertain, "If Shuton's injury is serious,
If it is indeed as heavy as the rumors, then it is not impossible, although it is unlikely."
"Even if Shuten is seriously injured and escapes death, he must be the Uesen Daiyou. Just based on them..." Chen Jing still didn't believe it. "Sir, I heard that Lord Thunder Blade is over there at Amahara Shrine. Do you think I should go?"
Invite him here? After all, he was also from Jiumen Village."
"That's fine." The white-haired man thought for a moment, and then nodded, "That boy from Thunder Blade has just been promoted to captain, and he is already qualified to establish a shrine. The adults on Plateau Mountain are also very optimistic about him and intend to let him.
After traveling for a year, he went back to invite the Demon Exorcist Rope to build a new gathering place. Anyway, he will come to visit our Linshan Villa sooner or later, and it is only a few days early to invite him here."
"Okay." Chen Jing nodded, and then left.
"Wait a minute." The white-haired man suddenly started to stop.
"Don't go to this matter yourself, leave it to Xiao Er or Dayu, and ask them to speak politely when they see Lei Dao. Don't go around in circles, just say that we have two brothers and sisters here who claim to be from Jiumen Village.
He said he had seen Shutun before, so we were suspicious and wanted to ask Lei Dao to come over and take a look."
The white-haired man thought for a moment before speaking.
His speech was not fast and his tone was not serious, but for some reason, Chen Jing felt that there was a solemn atmosphere.
"Tomorrow, you and I will go visit this brother and sister."
"Sir!" Chen Jing let out a low cry, "How can they be so virtuous..."
"No matter what they said before is true or false, since they dare to claim to be chasing Shutun all the way south, it is definitely worthy of my personal visit." The white-haired man said, "Besides, if they are really monsters, do you think you can please
When they come to the shrine, how can this town suppress them? If they are really monsters, we don’t have
Having enough strength to seal them is not a good thing for us at Linshan Villa. So even if the other party is really a demon and they haven't broken up with each other now, I won't invite them to the shrine before that kid from Thunder Blade comes over. At least this way
There is still room for maneuver so that nothing happens to those little brats down there."
"I understand." Chen Jing nodded, his expression not very good.
For people in the world of monsters, there is a very clear dividing line between seniority, youth, inferiority, and strength.
Those in lower positions must never disobey those in higher positions.
Therefore, this white-haired man in the shrine is the god of everyone in Linshan Villa. As long as he is not a strong soldier who is also a soldier, he does not have to greet him. Even if other captains come to Laishan Villa, he will come out to greet them.
That is an act of showing friendship to the landlord and giving face to the other party. If he does not go out to greet him, no one can make irresponsible remarks.
Because, according to unwritten rules, the local commander is half a level higher than the visiting commander.
After all, those who come are guests, and they can only be guests.
This is why when Su Anran and Song Jue arrived, the person who received them was Chen Jing.
That's because Su Anran and Song Jue are both strong enough, even stronger than Chen Jing. Therefore, according to the rules, as the host, Chen Jing has a status that is half a level higher. If he is to receive the reception, it will be just the same.
——If two newcomers who have just been promoted to the rank of division commander are here to receive you, although it is not impossible, it will inevitably be a little impolite and it is easy to offend people.
Due to the special circumstances of the world of monsters, wolves will not be offended easily in any gathering place.
Because no one can be sure when you will need the help of wolves. Once you offend a wolf and the reputation of the gathering place is bad, when you are attacked by demons in the future, naturally no wolf will be willing to come to your aid, and there will definitely not be any wolf.
go through.
No gathering place would do something so stupid.
Chen Jing has not reached this level yet, so he can only understand half of the situation, and the other half will gradually become clear in his future life.
And if there are no accidents, then the next shrine owner of Linshan Villa will be Chen Jing.
This is also the reason why the white-haired man is willing to explain so thoroughly to Chen Jing.
He is already a bit old, and he won't be able to sustain it for long, so the search for a successor is naturally put on his agenda. After all, Linshan Villa was built by him from scratch, and it looked like there were only a dozen or so households back then.
Linshan Villa has developed bit by bit to what it is today, so he naturally doesn't want Linshan Villa to disappear like this after his death.
It's a pity...
The white-haired man sighed.
"If you work harder and put more thought into training, you won't have to invite Thunder Blade over so that we can dare to let each other step into the shrine."
Hearing the white-haired man's words, Chen Jing lowered his head in shame: "Sir, I..."
"Linshan Villa will be handed over to you sooner or later. When things happen in the future, think more and talk less." The man looked like he was only in his forties, but his words were full of old age.
"Yes." Chen Jing lowered his head.
The middle-aged man shook his head and said nothing more.
In fact, he was not that worried about Su Anran and Song Jue at this time.
Because just by looking at the way Chen Jing ran before, he knew that Chen Jing must have behaved badly in front of Su Anran and Song Jue. If those two people were really monsters, they would have already started killing people in Linshan Villa.
Of course, there was no mass killing at this time, which does not mean that those two people are not monsters. Maybe they have other agendas?
Therefore, the middle-aged man only gave up half of his mind.
The other half will have to wait until they meet the two people tomorrow before they can make a decision.
