[Six Paths Money] was held in Kamiyagawa's hand. After a while, the gold and silver broken bridge under his feet seemed to have a sense of resonance, and it began to "rumble" and tremble.
The six copper coins also vibrated at the same frequency, and then turned into mottled copper light and flew out of Kamiya's hand.
The copper coins shuttled through the black water and white mist, and their outline suddenly became larger. They fell from the sky with a buzzing sound, and were slowly embedded into the cross-section of the broken bridge.
The waves in the River Styx resounded, and the cries of the innocent souls continued.
Kamiya stood at the end of the bridge, with the heavy moisture soaking the hem of his clothes and hair. His eyes that had become extremely deep early on looked forward, and he saw six extremely large copper coins in front of him, arranged one on top of the other.
A new bridge was built, leading to the unknown dark place in the distance.
"Six Dao Qian is really used here."
It is not the same as the legendary usage, but it has indeed become a tool for crossing the river.
Without hesitating for too long, Kamiya stepped up to the copper coin in front of him.
His feet were slightly swaying, but with his body coordination and the assistance of Ah Hung's Breath, he would not fall off the Copper Coin Bridge.
"Hiyoribo."
Because there was only one road on the bridge, the little old man temporarily returned to the Nagitori Copper Coat, and switched to Hiyoribo to carefully sit on Kamiya's shoulder.
"I'm here, Lord Kamiya."
The furious Styx filled Little Sun's heart with fear. She got closer to Shen Gu, her little hands trembled slightly, and she grabbed Shen Gu's collar with all her strength.
You can even feel her soft breath on your neck.
Somewhat itchy.
But even so, the little sun still uses her ability to summon soft and dry warmth to continue drying the road under her master's feet.
This ensures that the God Valley will not slip under your feet.
"If there is any danger, you can return to the sunny doll as soon as possible and don't worry about me."
Kamiyagawa said this to Hiyoribo and began to move towards the "Copper Coin Bridge Section".
The span of six copper coins was longer than expected. It took me a long time to walk to the end, and then I saw the bridge deck made of gold and silver.
There were no accidents along the way.
The six coins should have made up for the missing parts of the broken bridge.
"It seems that we made it to the bridge on the other side smoothly. We should be able to cross the river to the other side smoothly this time." Kamiyakawa was in high spirits. He raised his hand and gently poked Hiyoribo's soft cheek to signal her to go back, and then continued alone.
On the way.
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Beyond the River Styx.
It took nearly an hour to cross the Kamiya River across the entire Gold and Silver Bridge.
The width of Santu River is really astonishing.
Arriving on the other side, the first thing Kamiya did was to reset the location of the Kisaragi platform.
Set the platform to the other side and leave a save point. If you want to go to the other side, you can take the train. If you want to go to the other side, you can use the teleport. It will be much more convenient to move around on the map [Santuchuan].
Concrete and steel bars flew up and down, and it was quickly built into the shape of a small platform.
"Finally it came through smoothly."
After doing this, Kamiya began to carefully look at the surrounding environment.
The other side of the River Styx is different from the other side. The water mist is not so thick and the visibility range is much wider.
The soil here is dark red, like dried blood.
The red soil is full of Bianhua flowers, and it is empty and silent.
The restless sounds on the other side of the Styx were completely inaudible on the other side, as if they were blocked by a thick invisible barrier.
The slender flower stalks, the flowers curled up and blooming like dragon claws, are swaying slightly in patches. Desolation, anger, helplessness, despair and other myriad emotions are blended in the flowers everywhere. You can feel it just standing here.
A feeling of emptiness and itching arises in my heart.
This is the place where the souls of the dead rest.
Kamiyagawa opened the mouth of the [Mirage Bag] and rummaged through the [White Bone Higan Flower].
According to the identification information, this peculiar flower seed must be planted on the other side of the River Styx to "bear fruit".
Planting flowers was also one of the reasons why he came to Santuchuan.
"I just don't know what to do when planting this special Bana flower. Should I just dig a hole and bury it with some soil, or should I do other care?"
The scent of White Bone Flower is unique, and I always feel that after planting it, there will be some special harvest in the future.
While searching for flower seeds in Kamiya, he suddenly noticed something strange happened to another prop in the bag.
It’s a prop that has been kept at the bottom of his box for a long time——
[Onibumaru's military talisman (special props without rating): The military talisman held by Minamoto Yoritomo, the first general of the Kamakura shogunate and the founder of the Japanese shogunate system, is a symbol of status.]
The small token made of copper is emitting a peculiar luster.
"Why does this thing light up?"
Kamiya took out the tokens together and weighed them in his hands.
A few seconds later, he felt a strange touch on his right shoulder blade.
Ibaraki Doji's evil ghost tattoo also had a strange reaction. The ghost's hand was outlined with a "squeak" sound, and the illusory scales trembled, as if it sensed something.
It feels like facing a formidable enemy, yet extremely excited.
"Weird thing."
Kamiyagawa was confused by this series of changes and immediately pressed the Ichimonji alert.
Then, I saw the [Onimumaru's Soldier Talisman] on the palm of my hand disintegrate and turn into dots of fluorescence, with complex emotional fluctuations, sinking into the gorgeous sea of flowers on the other side.
The flowers on the other side swayed and vibrated, their blood-red petals floating in strips, silently. But between this vast and sad world, a psychedelic scene was outlined——
…
Soldiers screamed and horses neighed, and corpses lay everywhere.
The air was filled with the smell of burning and the strong smell of blood.
The fireworks on the battlefield burned together with the red glow of dusk on the horizon, making the sky and the earth a bright red.
A young boy of about thirteen or fourteen who was wearing armor was stumbling around in the sea of blood and corpses, looking for something.
Until they found the corpse of a general who had been shot by arrows, the young man knelt down in the bloody water, his shoulders twitching uncontrollably.
"Father……"
Tears mixed with the blood on his face, the boy murmured in a trembling voice, lying there motionless like a clay sculpture.
I don't know how long it took.
In the distance of the battlefield, the flag embroidered with the word "source" broke and fell, and noisy human voices rang out:
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "The rebel Genji has been executed, and the leader of the thief, Minamoto Yoshitomo, is dead!"
Then there was the heavy footsteps of soldiers, and in the distance another flag could be seen flying, with the word "平" embroidered on it.
It's the troops of the Taira family who are coming, and the enemy is coming.
The young man from the Yuan family stood up from the sea of blood and corpses, pulled off a small copper token from his father's waist, looked at the "flat" flag with red eyes, and ran away, throwing away his armor.
…
The blurred changes of light and shadow in the flowers on the other side.
He is still the young man from the Yuan family, but now he is no longer the gorgeous and triumphant person he looks like on the battlefield.
He was dressed in a completely civilian style, wearing a linen suit that didn't quite fit him, with a scruffy thin belt tied around his collar. His hair was also messy, with hay bits mixed in at the ends.
The down-and-out aristocratic boy was in a miserable state.
The boy from the Yuan family was hiding in a dilapidated wild temple, and there was a five or six-year-old boy beside him.
He was also dressed in a linen jacket, somewhat similar to a young man, and his dark eyes were as bright as a wolf's cub.
This is his half-brother.
The Minamoto family was defeated, and the Taira family massacred the Minamoto clan and abducted the female family members. However, some people in the family escaped, and the young man was tossed around, and only the young ninth brother was rescued from the chaos.
The wind in the wild temple was leaky, and the cold in the late autumn evening was very strong. The two children of the Yuan family were shivering from the cold.
The elder brother hugged his younger brother tighter, raised his hand to wipe away the tears hanging from his nose, and suddenly asked: "What's your name?"
"Minamoto no Yoshitsune."
The younger brother answered without thinking, his tone even carrying the sense of pride that a child of the Yuan family would have in announcing his or her name.
"idiot!"
The elder brother took his younger brother's hand and slapped him hard.
The beating made their palms ache.
"Let me ask you, what is your name?"
"Source... Ushiwakamaru, my name is Ushiwakamaru."
The younger brother shook his body and finally changed his mind.
"I'll ask you again, what is my name?"
"The third brother's name is Onimumaru."
"The Minamoto family is gone, and Minamoto Yoshitsune's mother was kidnapped by Taira Kiyomori. People from the imperial court and the Taira family are going to arrest the Minamoto family members and kill them. But this has nothing to do with us. Remember,
Your name is Ushiwakamaru, my name is Kibumaru, we are just two wandering beggars."
"oh."
Ushiwakamaru, who was only five or six years old, was completely confused about what his brother told him. He only knew that his father was dead and his biological mother was taken away by bad guys.
Family hatred is not very deep in his heart.
However, what the third brother says is what he says. Although he was not born to the same mother, Ushiwakamaru has been close to Onimumaru since he was a child. With his family gone and his father dead, he will listen to the third brother in everything.
The brothers leaned together in the deserted wild temple, but their thin clothes could not keep them warm in the dewy cold autumn.
Ushiwakamaru trembled for a while, then raised his hand to touch his belly: "Brother, I'm hungry."
Onimumaru's body trembled, and then he got up from the ground: "Stay here and don't go anywhere. I'll get some food."
Ushiwakamaru huddled in the ruined temple, wrapping his body with straw.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sky turned completely dark.
It was dark and quiet inside the temple. The clay Buddha statues on the windy hall looked weird and ferocious in the darkness. The barking of wild dogs came from nowhere.
Ushiwakamaru was very scared and very hungry.
He wanted to go find his third brother, but due to his brother's instructions before leaving, he really didn't dare to move, so he just shrank his body tighter.
"Has the third brother been taken away by a wild dog? Will the third brother not come back?"
He thought so in his heart.
The feeling of helplessness, fear and oppressive darkness completely enveloped and swallowed up the half-grown child, causing him to sob softly unconsciously.
He didn't know how long he had been crying, but Ushiwakamaru suddenly heard a familiar voice: "Stupid brother, what does it look like to cry?"
"I'm not crying!"
Ushiwakamaru raised his hand to wipe the tears on his face, and saw his brother staggering in from the door and sitting heavily beside him.
Onimumaru's ill-fitting suit had been torn several times, and the string at the collar had disappeared. There were some bruises on his face, but his expression was lively.
He spat blood-streaked saliva on the ground.
Then he took out a bunch of sticky rice balls from his arms and handed them to his brother.
"Eat."
"Brother, did you get into a fight with someone?"
"Yeah. But those people can't beat me. Shut up and eat quickly. Aren't you the one who said you were hungry?"
Ushiwakamaru took down the bunch of glutinous rice balls and looked at them eagerly: "Brother, you can eat them too."
"I ate outside earlier, and I ate four skewers!" Onimumaru grinned openly at his younger brother, "Don't say I'm unfair, there's nothing you can do about it, I worked very hard to get the food, so naturally I have to
Eat more. You just stayed in the ruined temple and didn't move, so you can only eat one bunch."
"oh."
Ushiwakamaru nodded.
It turned out that the third brother had already eaten, and even ate four skewers.
He didn't think it was unfair. The meatballs were indeed brought back by his third brother, and he just cried and cried in the ruined temple waiting for his brother to come back.
"Eat, eat."
Glancing at his younger brother who was devouring food, Onimumaru turned away.
His throat throbbed slightly, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva that had a faint rusty smell.
He turned around and walked into the dark courtyard, took two ladles of cold water and swallowed it, but his shriveled abdomen seemed to be even more hungry.
After wandering around the yard for a while, when they entered the main hall of the ruined temple again, they saw that Ushiwakamaru had fallen asleep holding hay.
I guess I was tired from crying just now.
Onimumaru felt that his ninth brother was stupid. He was only a little older and didn't understand anything. He probably really believed "what he ate four skewers". Ushiwakamaru never believed his own words.
Doubtful.
All four cold meatballs on bamboo sticks were eaten.
"Just be stupid, I only have this younger brother now."
Looking at Ushiwakamaru sleeping peacefully, Onimumaru raised the corner of his mouth.
Ninth brother has indeed suffered a lot recently.
After all, he is old and has fought with his father, so he has suffered a lot. Ushiwakamaru is only that old. He used to live a life of good food and clothing at home, but suddenly he was displaced. It is good that he has been able to hold on until now.
Already.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Onimumaru took the bamboo stick out of his brother's hand.
I picked up some glutinous rice residue with my teeth and found that there was no sweet taste.
"Four strings." He laughed again.
Even the theft alone was discovered, and they struggled for a long time before escaping.
Onimumaru is really not good at sneaking around.
However, once it is familiar again, he will do it again next time.
Onimumaru didn't care much about the integrity of samurai and nobles. He and his brother had to survive.
Stay alive and take revenge on the Ping clan.
"It's absolutely impossible for those people to find out tomorrow."
Ushiwakamaru slept peacefully on the haystack, while Onimumaru stood at the gate of the ruined temple and looked out.
The night outside was dark, the wind was howling, and the shadows of the trees near and far were swaying like ghosts.
"What is my name?"
Onimumaru suddenly asked himself in a low voice.
Then he took out a small token made of copper from his pocket, and gently rubbed the patinated lines on it with his thumb.
"I am the leader of the Minamoto clan in Kawachi, Kanto. I am the son of the Supreme Imperial Councilor, Si Gen Yoshitomo. I am Minamoto Yoritomo."
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1159 AD, the first year of Emperor Nijo's reign.
Minamoto no Yoshitomo, the leader of the Minamoto family, rebelled, imprisoned the emperor and the emperor, and killed the emperor's cronies.
The rebellion was later suppressed by Taira clan leader Taira Kiyomori, and Minamoto Yoshitomo died.
The Genji clan was massacred and taken into captivity, and only a small number of clan members fled.
His sons, Minamoto no Yoritomo and Minamoto Nobuyoshi, were captured during the escape, but were not executed.
Eventually, Minamoto Yoritomo was exiled to Hirudo Island on the wild Izu Peninsula.
The Taira family also arranged for Hojo Tokimasa, a local squire from Izu, to monitor all Minamoto Yoritomo's words and deeds.
A few of the younger sons, including Minamoto no Suiyi, received the Taira clan's promise that "if they live as monks from now on, their lives will be spared" and were sent to Buddhist temples.
After this incident, the Taira family, the enemies of the Minamoto family, rose to prominence and took over the government affairs. They rose through the ranks and became ministers of the imperial court.