The eye-catching attire on Chou Shi Shen's body had faded away easily after leaving Qingming Xiangshan.
The long hair that was originally hanging in front of her face has also been tied up.
She now looks just like a human being.
She looks like a good-looking woman in her early twenties.
This is not entirely true, because Chou Shishen still retains extraordinary aura fluctuations in her body. However, even a keen spiritualist who encounters her in human form will probably not think much about it and will preconceptionally regard her as a companion.
This past Takiyashime, now the daughter of Choutoki, indeed has the status of a spiritual slayer in human society.
A Yaden Shinto spirit exterminator who is not under direct official command. This level of identity has even been recorded in the countermeasures room here in Osaka.
In the industry, there are quite a lot of novice spiritualists who possess certain extraordinary powers but are not actually very strong, and they are a mixed bag. This type of person only needs to occasionally deal with the official personnel who contact them.
Therefore, Chou Shi Shen’s disguised identity is not eye-catching.
"Porphyrin."
Chou Shishen was sitting on the bed of the hotel, her lips that were so red that they seemed to be bleeding were slightly open.
Another black nail was pushed out of her mouth with her tongue.
The nail fell into her palm.
"oh?"
Chou Shi Shen gently rubbed the black nails with her thin fingertips.
The next moment, the nail was twisting in her hand like a young snake.
clang.
The nails fell to the floor, like fragile glass being shattered and split into several pieces.
"It seems to have been discovered."
Chou Shishen said to himself like this, without much surprise or annoyance in his tone.
It seems to be expected.
King Xingshi is difficult to deal with.
In the early hours of this morning at Xiangshan Mountain, Chou Shishen nailed the shadow of King Heungse with a "cursed" nail.
It seems that they want to control each other and let the two little girls who made a big fuss at the Echo Festival escape. In fact, they do this to secretly brand King Xingshi so that he can be tracked later.
But judging from the results, this little trick was not successful.
King Xingshi obviously saw through the trick.
"Not only is he not dead, he is even more cunning than before."
King Xingshi joins the Demon Time as the newly appeared Tatsuki.
The code name in the organization is "Guan Bai".
Guan Bai, the name of an official position brought back to Japan by the envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty, evolved into the first civil servant in ancient Japan, with a high position.
Like King Heungse, Chou Shishen was also filled with surprise the moment he saw him at the organizational meeting at the time of the demon.
Although their appearance is different from that of thousands of years ago.
But the aura of Kibune Myojin on his body still made them recognize each other's identity immediately.
The two of them had a tacit understanding and didn't reveal anything in front of other members of the organization, but this feeling was unmistakable.
In the early morning of this morning at Xiangshan, it was the first time that Chou Shishen met King Heungse in an unorganized meeting.
It will probably be difficult to find him again after that.
"It seems that guy woke up much later than me... Judging from his behavior in Xiangshan, it turns out that he is still dreaming about resurrecting his father."
Chou Shi Shen picked up the broken nails on the ground. The broken metal was clenched in her palms, exuding a faint blood and making a clicking metal sound.
That time a thousand years ago.
On the pretext of resurrecting Taira Shomon, King Koise coaxed Ushitoki, who was still called "Takihime" at the time, to perform Ushiki worship and seize the cursed power of Kifune Myojin. Then he used this power of the cursed god to awaken the Hundred Demons.
Travel at night and besiege Kyoto.
Trying to use the power of ghosts and gods to overthrow the government and reestablish a new capital.
That was the Takiyashime Rebellion.
However, that plan failed in the end.
It was suppressed by Abe Seimei, the onmyoji of the Heian Kyoto Palace at that time, and Ashiya Michitsu, another elusive magician, together with the noble warrior Minamoto Boya and others.
The most critical reason for the failure is probably that the awakened "Ghost Emperor" Ping Jiangmen was incomplete.
Yes.
With the power of Kifune Myojin, King Xingshi really awakened Heishangmon who had become a "ghost among ghosts".
However, his plan was prematurely interfered by Abe Seimei and others, and Taira Shomon, who finally led the group of ghosts, lost his head and right arm.
"This time King Xingshi is completely different from his power a thousand years ago. What is he going to do?"
Chou Shishen didn't know the specific plan of King Xingshi.
After all, this time, she is no longer his accomplice.
…
In the ringing mountain.
Kamiya, Onizuka, and Ms. Sugita climbed to the protruding rock halfway up Hibiki Mountain.
Continuous mountains stretch out at the feet, and the folds of black rocks and green vegetation on the ground continue to connect to the distant peaks.
"The aura of those deep valley sounds no longer exists, only a faint remnant remains."
Kamiyagawa looked away.
After condensing, the dark pupils that were so deep and bright slowly spread to normal.
"Um."
Onizuka Kirihota nodded and simultaneously took back his Kagura flute.
Both of their judgments are the same.
There were indeed ghost stories here that were full of resentment, but they have disappeared without a trace now.
"If that masked man really wanted to collect the strong ghost resentment in Yugu Hibiki, those ghost stories would probably have been eliminated by that man in some way." The little witch added.
I just don’t know what the masked man wants to do by collecting resentment.
"Abba whining!"
After watching on the mountainside for a while, the little old man who was sent by Kamiya to explore the surrounding mountains and forests returned with a shakuhachi in his hand.
He raised the brim of the hat on his head a little, started to coordinate his body movements, and told his master something.
Kamitani listened for a while and then nodded: "Take us there."
The scouts have discovered it.
The little old man took his master and his party to a nearby deep forest and pointed to a tall cedar tree.
On the rough tree trunk, a white paper is nailed with a thin black nail.
Kamiya narrowed his pupils and carefully scanned the black-nailed white paper on the tree trunk. He also looked around and made sure that no problems were found before taking the paper off the tree trunk.
I saw it written in deliberately distorted words with indistinguishable handwriting:
[King Heungse intends to resurrect the ghost king Ping Jiangmen.]
[Using the method taught by Kibune Myojin: Heirashoumon's corpse is made into flesh, resentment is made into spirit, and Kibune Myojin's curse is made into bones.]
"Meat and spirit bone?"
Kamiya looked at the words on the white paper and was secretly surprised.
He was quite familiar with this process. The "flesh, spirit and bone" process was the ritual process for becoming a god.
Kamiyagawa himself, as well as his shikigami, are all trying to use this method to ascend to the throne of God.
In the past, Yamahiko of Aokigahara also used an evil variant of this ritual to try to create a divine body.
I feel that if I can connect with this ritual, the final thing I get will be extraordinary.
In addition, Kifune Myojin is specifically mentioned on the paper.
Kamiya doesn't think that the "flesh spirit bone" process has any important connection with this god. After all, many gods seem to know about this ritual.
However, Kamiyagawa has already had quite a lot of indirect contact with Kifune Myojin.
According to the information he currently has -
Kifune Myojin is the Japanese god of dragons and snakes, and the god of Anyu Kamei is a descendant of Kagutsuchi, the god of fire.
Standing on Huangquan's side in the battle between gods.
Kibune Myojin is generally worshiped as the god of water and the god of safe navigation.
However, He also has an authority that few people know about.
This god is also the god of curses. It is said that he will come to Mount Kibune on the ugly day of the ugly month of the ugly year.
The famous curse ceremony is performed at Ushishi, and the object of worship is none other than Kifune Myojin.
Kamiya and Onizuka had been in contact with each other before, and it was Miss Kumo, Koro's current Kōdo teacher. Miss Kumo's boyfriend was cursed by her grandmother in front of Kifune Myojin's shrine.
"The meeting of the resentful party, the time of encountering the devil, Hei Shomon, Kifune Myojin... It doesn't feel good. Isn't there too many things involved?"
Kamiya thought in his heart.
"Who left this note?" Ms. Sugita couldn't quite understand the content of the note at first, "The masked man the Shinagawa sisters mentioned?"
"I don't think so." Onizuka shook his head, "Based on what's written on the paper, I feel that the 'Xingshi King' is probably the masked man. The note should have been left by someone else, and it seems to have been specially left for us to see.
.Achuan, it seems someone wants to help us?"
"Yeah. Although I don't know if the content on the note is true, but we seem to have encountered a lot of trouble."
"Yeah, big trouble."
The little witch agreed.
…
Of course, the discovery in Xiangshan was immediately reported to Jiecheng Zhenjianyou, who was still at the countermeasures room headquarters.
Uncle Yui quickly summoned manpower experts and held a video conference with Kamiya and Onizuka who were still in Kyoto.
"The corpse of Taira Shomon was turned into flesh, the resentment was turned into spirit, and the curse of Kifune Myojin was used to turn bones into resurrecting Taira Shomon from thousands of years ago. This kind of thing is really unheard of."
The person on the screen was lighting up a cigarette and frowning.
After finally staying in Tokyo for a few days, I originally wanted to take a rest.
I also planned to take some small pills tonight to replenish Xiaochan's demons and improve his strength... But suddenly such a difficult thing happened, and it seemed that he couldn't rest any longer.
"I feel like it's probably true."
Kamiyagawa also didn't know who the person who left the note was, but most people didn't know about the process of "flesh, spirit and bone". If I wrote this, I didn't feel like I was bluffing. Maybe this method could really wake up the thousand-year-old rice dumpling.
"Then let's treat it as real first. If we want to prevent Hei Shomon from being resurrected, we must also start from the three elements of flesh, spirit, and bone mentioned on the paper. Resentment is spirit, well... from the current situation
It seems that the resentful spirit Fang Xiang is indeed collecting resentment, and I don’t know if the amount collected is enough."
Jiecheng Zhenjianyou entered the state.
"What about the flesh and bones?" Onizuka continued, "I remember that I once saw in the countermeasures room the ancient books and photos related to the Takiyashahime Rebellion a thousand years ago, and the resurrection of Taira Shomon was also mentioned in it."
"Yes, I asked Nagatomo to check it out just now. It is indeed true that Taira Shoto was resurrected a thousand years ago."
Kamiya had not read this part of the information, so he asked: "Can you tell me in detail?"
"A copy of the relevant information will be sent to the police station where you are currently staying."
Uncle Jiecheng flicked the ashes from his cigarette, and in order to continue the meeting, he roughly described the contents of the information he had just read——
"This matter has something to do with Takiyashahime."
Takiyashahime, the legendary Taira Shomon's daughter, is a witch who knows the art of witchcraft.
During the Tenkei Rebellion, Taira Shomon was killed in battle, and the whole family of men was wiped out. As the remaining descendant of Taira Shomon's family, Takihime was full of resentment. She performed the famous Ushiki worship ceremony, and paid homage to Kifune Myojin at Ushiji. The third time she fulfilled her wish
On the twenty-first night, I was taught sorcery by the gods.
Relying on the divine power, Takihime, who was renamed Takiyashahime, returned to the Lower Kingdom, gathered a group of ghosts in Soma Castle, launched a rebellion to overthrow the imperial court, and invaded Kyoto.
But this rebellion with the power of monsters was finally suppressed by the Onmyoji at that time.
During the turmoil a thousand years ago, Taira Shomon was resurrected by the Oni Emperor as the leader of all the ghosts.
Jiecheng Zhenjianyou: "Also, the King Xingshi mentioned on the piece of paper you found is also a recorded figure."
King Xingshi is generally considered to be Juntomo Fujiwara.
Fujiwara Juntomo was originally the local commander-in-chief of the Iyo Kingdom. One time, he was ordered to suppress pirates in the Seto Inland Sea. However, the pirates did not fight but joined with the pirates. In a few years, they became the largest pirate group in Western Japan and led the pirates.
Use Rizhen Island as a base to rebel.
Not only did they cause rebellion in the Seto Inland Sea, they even invaded land from the Settsu Namba area several times and occupied the entire Seto area and part of Kyushu, directly threatening the security of Kyoto.
King Xingshi and the new Emperor Taira Shomon were rebel forces at the same time, but they did not directly proclaim themselves emperor like the Taira family did.
In addition, there is a folk saying that after Taira Shomon became emperor, he wanted to appoint Fujiwara Juntomo as Kanbai.
However, it only took less than a hundred days for Ping Jiangmen to officially proclaim himself emperor and be conquered and annihilated.
At the same time that the new emperor was suppressed, King Xingshi was also surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court, and the heads of both sides were sent to Kyoto at almost the same time.
So Guan Bai's matter probably won't work.
After listening to Uncle Yusei's explanation, both Kamiyagawa and Onitsuka Kiriho were thoughtful.
"The curse of Kifune Myojin should be related to Takiyashime who paid homage during the ugly time. However, the piece of paper mentioned that the person who wants to resurrect Heishangmon is King Xingshi..."
Good guy.
A thousand-year-old dead man wants to resurrect another dead man.
Jiecheng Zhenjianyou: "I don't know. There are very few truly useful records of what happened a thousand years ago. Many of them were lost when the Yin Yang Lao was abolished, and none of them were recovered after the reorganization of the Countermeasures Room.
There are many. The existing information does not explain in detail how Taira Shomon was resurrected during the Takiyashahime Rebellion. If the information on the white paper is true, then the person who left the note has far more relevant information.
More than the entire countermeasures room."
The Takiyashahime Rebellion mentioned just now happened more than 20 years after Taira Shomon's death.
According to common sense, Fujiwara Junyu, the King of the Restoration of the World, should be dead by this time.
But it's hard to tell.
If the content on the note is regarded as true, then King Heungse may still exist today a thousand years later.
Maybe King Xingshi is just a code name.
It is even possible that King Koushi was directly involved in the Takiyashahime Rebellion that resurrected Taira Shomon in some way.