The dim yellow light was hazy, slightly dizzy in the air, and the thick mist particles were reflected through the light, and each one could be seen clearly.
But the light was still weak after all, and the places where the light could not reach were still gray.
Suddenly a cold wind blew through the courtyard.
The dead branches of the giant tree swayed violently, and the damaged humanoid dolls on the ground, their hair and kimono clothes were floating, and they were tangled together in the dark, like a dead tomb.
"Giggle~"
Onizuka suddenly heard children's laughter mixed with the sobbing wind.
The outlines of some of the human figures standing around the shrine suddenly became weird, but also a little more vivid.
They are those dolls in the image of children.
On their mottled faces, their eyeballs rotated and their bodies twisted accordingly.
In the blink of an eye, the movements of these child dolls changed from stiff and stiff to flexible, laughing and running. They pulled the red threads surrounding the shrine, and footsteps and laughter kept ringing in the wooden shrine.
"These...are the dead spirits of children?"
Onizuka first made a fighting stance, and then realized that the dead spirits of the children had no obvious intention to attack her.
"Kekeke~"
They were still laughing and running, pulling down thin red strings, tearing down numerous humanoid dolls, and finally entered the interior of the wooden shrine without looking back.
"Are they trying to lead me?"
Onizuka Kiriho twisted the talisman in her hand tightly and quickly pursued her into the shrine.
But when she came in, the children could no longer be seen in the shrine hall, which was not too big.
The interior of the shrine is dark, and the lantern hanging at the door barely illuminates some things here.
Onizuka saw that this place was full of red thin lines.
Countless red threads are entangled with each other, winding around the shrine, and hanging from the beams, decorating the place like a red spider's nest.
On the front of the altar, there are also dense red ropes.
Under the red color, two human-shaped objects can be vaguely seen. The red ropes are entangled together like two giant cocoons, so that their original appearance is completely invisible.
"Are these red ropes...also the threads of the God of Fate?"
The little witch had noticed it before when she was outside.
These thin red threads seemed familiar, as if they were exactly the same as the thin threads wrapped around her wrist.
With this thought, Onizuka tentatively stretched out his left hand and touched the red ropes wrapped around the hall.
As soon as she touched it, the red rope on her wrist quickly floated out, and the dense red in the shrine surged at the same time, forming an endless sea of red.
The red threads stretch extremely thin and long in the air, flowing freely, twisting, and twisting. Each thread seems to carry endless energy, constantly surging, extending, intertwining, and tangled with each other.
Under the guidance of the red rope on Onizuka's wrist, they quickly gathered together and formed a regular outline.
Like...a bow?
A long red bow made of countless red threads, almost as tall as a person.
After the huge red bow condensed into shape, it slowly fell to the ground.
"This is?"
Onitsuka suddenly thought of what folklorist Sakai Etoshiya had mentioned in his manuscript -
[According to book records, in the Tsuchimikado Village, in addition to the Amado Bronze Mirror, there is another treasure originating from the goddess of childhood, which has been kept by a family in the village for generations.]
Could it be this?
Is this the bow of the Childlike Lady?
In fact, it is not complete to say that the object entangled with red threads on the ground is a bow, because it only has a bow handle, a bow arm and a bow tip made of red threads, but the bow string is not connected to the two ends of the bow tip.
"Is it because of the red rope on my hand? I feel like this bow is... calling me?"
Onizuka Kiriho hesitated for a moment and picked up the long bow with red rope on the ground.
Although this red bow is huge, it does not feel bulky in the hand.
Moreover, one can feel an extremely surging force from above. This force is definitely not something ordinary people can bear.
Just like the incense of faith, although it is a pure, "good" power, if it acts on the weak flesh and blood of ordinary people, this power of faith, which is of great benefit to ghosts and gods, will only kill people.
But the strange thing is that Onizuka was not counterattacked by the power of the red bow.
Only a tiny bit of the majestic power of ghosts and gods flowed through her body, and the rest was pulled away by the red rope on her left wrist.
The moment he raised the bow, the red rope wrapped around Onizuka's wrist began to float again. The thin threads floated leisurely, connecting the two ends of the red bow's tip to form a tight bow string.
"Looks like I could use it."
The little witch thought this, and her thoughts moved.
The longbow string in her hand quickly disintegrated, swirled around her, and quickly dissipated.
And when she pulled the red rope at her wrist again, countless thin red threads rubbed her clothes and wound out again, entangled and meandered and converged into her hands, turning into the shape of a long bow.
Onizuka felt that the reason why this strange long bow was so obedient must have something to do with the special red rope wrapped around his and Kamiyagawa's wrists.
"Achuan said that this red rope comes from the God of Yuanjie... He and I may have been chosen by the God of Yuanjie to come to this place."
According to the available information, Yuan Jie Shen should be the Child Goddess.
So, can this long bow be understood as a gift from the gods?
"It's just that I don't know yet what special function this long bow has."
The little witch is already good at using bows and arrows, and can even condense her own spiritual power into magic-busting arrows.
It's just that she can't identify extraordinary items as easily as Kamiyagawa.
This long bow, which is suspected to be a divine weapon, has no special usage yet.
But Onizuka thought that he should be able to use it like his own bow -
Pull the bowstring and use spiritual power as arrows to shoot at the enemy.
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Therefore, the little witch planned to keep this red string bow with her.
Now Tsuchimikado Village has become more dangerous and weird to the naked eye. Onizuka Kirihotaru came here without bringing too many useful tools to remove ghosts.
Having a weapon that may come from the gods is not going to make things worse.
As the red lines throughout the shrine dispersed, the parts of the main hall that were originally covered in red were finally exposed.
On the central shrine, Onizuka saw two tall statues of gods standing condescendingly.
The statue of the god is old and mottled, and has a strange sense of compassion.
But standing like this in the dilapidated main hall of the shrine, it is strange, desolate and abrupt, which is inexplicably heart-stopping.
The statues on the altar are a goddess and a male god.
Considering that the two statues of gods were connected by dense red ropes, it seems to imply that there is an extremely close relationship between them.
The goddess statue among them is very familiar to the little witch.
Her facial features are soft, her clothes are somewhat like a witch's clothes, and her clothes are smart.
"The image of Tian Tian Nu's destiny?"
Looking at the statue of a male god again, its most striking feature is the wings folded behind its back, its majestic red face, and its protruding long nose that is particularly eye-catching.
Like a tengu.
Onizuka immediately understood who this male statue was——
Saruta Bigokami, also known as Saruta Hiko no Mikoto, or Sarutobi Hiko.
Onizuka looked at the statue of Sarutahiko no Mikoto, trying to recall the mythological information related to this god in his mind, and was sluggish for a while.
"The child of the child, the goddess of heaven, the destiny of the goddess Saruta, and the destiny of Sarutahiko... So, this place is really related to the third pillar of gods."
Tenden's female destiny and Saruta Hiko's destiny.
There is also the childish goddess who is in charge of marriage.
Onizuka Kirihotari seems to have some vague idea of why these three pillars of gods are related to each other.
I also roughly understand why Tiantian Nu Ming committed suicide.
"Tenden no Ming committed suicide on Amado Rock, even breaking her own body into pieces... was she trying to break the connection with Saruta Hiko no Ming? And that connection may have been given to the childish goddess?"
Onizuka was in a daze for a few seconds, and then heard the sound of children playing next to him.
They were laughing, shouting, clapping their hands and singing nursery rhymes all over the dilapidated and desolate shrine:
"The Childish Goddess on Takamagahara, the Great God Sarutobihiko walking on the earth, and what I didn't mention just now, the torn-up Tenden Maiden..."
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Amado Rock, Grotto.
I rested for a while relying on the Breath of Ah Hum, until the medicinal power of Purple Gold Frost was fully applied to my body.
The previous feeling of weakness in the body has been completely gone.
Kamiya River set off again, trying to find the last fragment of the bronze mirror that might have been left at Amado Rock.
But we just reached the entrance of the cave.
Kamiyagawa suddenly felt a strange power emerge from the red rope on his left wrist, and slowly flowed to his body.
This breath is as warm as the lazy afternoon sunlight.
"This is...the power of ghosts and gods?"
After feeling this power, Kamiyakawa suddenly felt that the connection between himself and Onizuka had deepened.
This feeling is a bit like the connection between him and the shikigami.
Moreover, the surge of power fed back from the red rope is indeed somewhat similar to the power fed back to him by shikigami shrines.
It was as if his subordinates had created a strange shikigami shrine out of thin air.
"firefly?"
Kamitani didn't understand what happened for a while.
Is it possible that a living person can still become his own shikigami?
But soon, this idea was rejected by Kamiyagawa.
After feeling it carefully, he realized that the connection with Onizuka was different from the connection with the Shikigami Contract.
But I really don't understand why this is happening.
"Is it because of this red line?"
Kamiyagawa looked at his wrist.
The next second, a thin red thread floated out and pulled slightly.
After waiting for a response, Onizuka sent a message:
[The third god, the husband of Tenden no Ming, Saruta Hiko no Ming.]
"Saruta Hiko no Mikoto?"
Kamiyagawa knows the mythological information of this god——
Sarutahiko no Mikoto is a god recorded in the myth "The Arrival of Heaven".
The so-called Tiansun is the descendant Qiongqiongchuzun sent to the human world by Amaterasu.
When Qiongqiong Pseudo Lord came, Sarutahiko no Mikoto was still the Kunatsu God who was born on earth.
In Japanese mythology, the concept of Kunatsu God is different from Tenjin God.
The so-called Tianjin Gods are the gods born in Gaotian Plain, such as Sanguizi, Zhiri Nuzun, and Tiantian Numing all belong to this class.
He is considered a naturally noble species among Japanese gods.
The Kunijin Gods are some gods who were exiled to the human world, or simply the collective name for the gods who were born in the wilderness of the human world.
In comparison, the status of such gods is much lower.
After Saruta Yanming met Qiongqiongchuzun in the human world, he took the initiative to serve as Tiansun's guide in the world. He once protected Qiongqiongchuzun and guided him on the way forward.
Therefore, the authority of this god is also related to protection and guidance.
Moreover, just by looking at the image of Saruta Hikomei’s statue, we know that he is inseparable from the Tengu.
In some legends, the god Saruta Biko is considered to be the leader or guardian of the tengu. He and the tengu guard the mountains and nature. At the same time, the tengu is also regarded as the messenger or attendant of the god Saruta Biko, helping the god Saruta Biko. Communicate God's will and carry out God's orders.
To put it simply, Saruta Hiiko no Mikoto should be regarded as the ancestor god of Tengu.
Some myths even directly describe it as the first Crow Tengu born on earth.
In addition, Saruta Hiko no Mikoto also has a very special identity. In mythology, he is recorded as the husband of Tenden no Mikoto.
It is said that when the grandson of heaven arrived, Tenden's daughter was also among the escort team sent by Takamagahara, and she met Saruta Hikomoto and eventually got married.
The combination of Tianjin God and Guojin God.
"Are the gods here still a husband and wife? So the one who fell into hell was probably Saruta Hiko no Mikoto. And as his wife, Adeno no Mikoto, may have an inseparable connection with him. In the end, in order to cut off and transform into the underworld god's husband The impact it will bring, you will not hesitate to kill yourself?"
"So...that's why those fate-breaking gods exist?"
"What exists in Amado Iwa is the resentment of this couple's gods?"
Based on the information provided by Onizuka, Kamiyagawa Lenovo guessed what happened on Amado Rock.
But before he could think about it, he suddenly felt that the ground was shaking, and the layers of fog in front of the cave in front became more and more turbulent.
Snap, snap, snap!
Then, the dark crawling sound of fingers on the ground came from the mist, and it was difficult to tell how many there were.
"The God of Destiny is here again."
The origami bird on his shoulder started to fly, and nine red spirits appeared around him.
Because the Amado Bronze Mirror was pieced together into five pieces, the red mist controlled by Mary poured out from inside the cave with the force of swallowing up the heaven and earth.
Red and black collide violently and are at odds with each other.
And in the depths of the red mist, Kamiyagawa finally saw the familiar red and black dress swaying.
"Mary?"
But Mary is not perfect now. Her figure in the mist is very illusory, as if she has no entity.
There should be one last step left before she finally appears here.
But Kamiyagawa pulled out the Dojiri and quickly arrived at the entrance of the cave.
At the intersection blocked by the red mist, you can see the silhouettes of many giant hands crawling up and down, waving red scissors, and they are restless.
No fewer than ten Destiny Gods are trying to break through the barrier of Mary's red mist!
But that's not all.
"that is……"
He narrowed his eyes and looked further into the mist. Kamiyakawa saw that at the blurred intersection of heaven and earth, the dark mountain range extending to unknown directions was rumbling and rolling.
The highest peak among the mountains slowly stood up at the junction of heaven and earth, shaking off a mass of black creeping things like a flood.