Chapter 5 Shinaki Abe
A huge copper tripod the size of a cow. The tripod is used in human society for sacrifices, where cattle, sheep and livestock are put into the tripod and cooked over a high fire, and then sacrificed to the gods. There is such a big tripod on the altar of Pei'an City, and because it is too heavy, even if there will be no more sacrifices here in the future, no one will be able to move it. This tripod is like the mustard in people's hearts, and the tripod is still there, indicating that people's fantasy of the gods will still exist, and people will want to get something for nothing, and they will pray for help from the gods far away in the sky for any difficulties. Over the years, how many people have really been favored by God and received a glimmer of God's gift?
Yan Che had always wanted to destroy this tripod before, and by smelting this tripod again, many useful tools could be made, instead of putting it here as an ornament, only once a year, or using it for marginal sacrifices. Thankfully, he hadn't had time to destroy it, because now was the time to use it. Yan Che took Ji Wumei's blood pill and carefully returned to Pei'an City from Yongguo, and put Ji Wumei's blood pill into the copper tripod. The Blood Pill is a round ruby, crystal clear, but not many people will know that there is a demon in such a small bead. Yan Che bit his finger and dripped blood on the blood pill, and the blood pill sucked all the blood away as if it had found food, and then the blood pill began to emit a faint red light, seeping bright red blood from the blood beads. The blood should fill the entire copper tripod, and then detach the fragments of the Zhurong Yuan Shen in the blood pill, and slowly shape a human form in the blood pool. How long will it take to wake up again? maybe a few days, maybe hundreds of days, anyway, when Ji Wumei walked out of the blood pool, she had already existed for three thousand years, and I don't know if Yan Che will be able to see her again in her lifetime.
Yan Che lowered his face, watching the blood pill slowly overflow red blood, and was silent. Even if she were to wake up in the future, would she mind who she was without demons, and whether these friends would be the same as before? At least, they can at least see each other now.
In order to speed up Ji Wumei's recovery, they built a small pavilion above the copper tripod to shelter from the wind and rain. Then everyone will inject their own blood into the copper tripod every day, because they are also demons, although the demon nature is not as pure as Yan Che and Yan Tiege, something is better than nothing. The green wolf is an acute child, once directly cut his artery and put a lot of blood into Tongding, causing himself to suffer from blood loss and shock, and Hua Yao Flower Stamen took a lot of effort to save it. The atmosphere in this palace, like the continuous rainy days in the past few days, makes people feel uncomfortable. The blood pool has existed in the copper tripod for seven days, and the blood in the copper tripod is less than one-fiftieth of the copper tripod, and the height of the blood pool has not been able to exceed the blood pill.
It's not a way to waste time like this, especially since Yan Che's will is a little depressed now, and he has completely forgotten his ambition to unify the world. But no one dared to remind Yan Che of these things at this time, it would make his mood worse. But someone has to do it, otherwise living in ruin in the world is no different from being a wasted person. Yan Tiege finally took the opportunity of small talk to ask him about his experience in Laiguo, so as to reopen his ambition to conquer the world.
"What did you gain from going to Laiguo?" Yan Tiege found Yan Che, who was sullen in the aisle, and chatted with him.
"Gain, lose more. I fought the Evil God there, and for the first time I didn't win head-to-head. ”
"Evil God?That's really tricky, although the evil god has had it before, but it's not very strong, after all, it only appeared after there were humans, how could it be difficult to deal with?"
"Uncle, you don't know, that evil god absorbs the evil thoughts of tens of thousands of people on the entire island, and sucks the essence of ninety-nine eighty-one children every year, which means that he has nearly eight thousand lives, and he has to kill eight thousand times before he can die. What's even more outrageous is that all the people on that island believe in the evil god unconditionally like a demon, and they don't even have a trace of regret when they sacrifice their children, so how should I be degraded?"
"Isn't it because they are so depraved that they are more worthy of your salvation? Otherwise, a country that is peaceful and united still needs your intervention? Have you forgotten what the first thing you said when you came to the world: to ask human beings to face themselves squarely, so that the efforts of the Nuwa clan are not in vain? Your mother is gone, but she left her love to you, shouldn't you spread it more?"
Yan Tiege's words made Yan Che suddenly open his mouth, and he realized that his old mistake of hesitation had been committed again, but fortunately, Yan Tiege reminded him.
"Thank you uncle for the order, my nephew knows that he is wrong. ”
"Then let's talk about Laiguo. ”
"It's a country of dozens of islands, and it's surrounded by a sea of mist, and there are Jiao people in the sea of mist, so ordinary people can't enter it. ”
"Jiaoren, it's really a headache. The two gods and demons did not take advantage of the battle between my demon clan and the Jiao clan, they are indeed difficult to deal with, after all, they were the humans who believed in the water god public and obtained the ability to live in the sea, and they all have the ability to resist water. ”
"Not only that, but the island was so strange that I couldn't detect the breath of all the people, as if they didn't exist. Later I learned that their breath had been sucked away by the evil gods. But they have no qi, but they can use all kinds of spells, which makes me puzzled. ”
"Can you use spells without qi? This phenomenon is indeed a bit strange, but all living things will have qi, how can a big living person have no qi. How did you escape from Lai?"
"At that time, I fought the evil god after liberation, and killed him four times, but he still did not fall, and my demonization did not last long. When Yanagi and I fled into town, we were still surrounded by enemies. ”
"The Liu Sheng you are talking about, is it the Heart Sword Liu Sheng, one of the seven swords on the same level as Yan Qinghou?"
"Yes, he promised me to take me into Raikoku, and after entering Raikoku, he wanted to inform the Daimyo, that is, their king, to watch out for me, but he didn't expect to encounter a rebellion by the ninja organization, and their Yanagi Shogun's family were framed. While surrounded by ninjas in the town, a man who called himself Onmyoji suddenly led us into an enchantment he had created, and with his help, I got on the ship to return home. Although we encountered Jiaoren on the way, it happened that there was a half-Jiaoren child brought by Shark Po Evil on our boat, and Jiaoren took him away and let us go. Thinking of the shark's disillusioned expression when the fish intestines were taken away by Jiaoren Prince Ao Guang, Yan Che angrily slammed his fist on the guardrail of the aisle.
"It's okay, as long as you fight for what you lost, you will come back one day. If you don't come back, it's not your own, and you don't have to take all the blame on yourself. What kind of character is the Onmyoji you just mentioned?"
"His name is Abe Shinaki, to be honest, I can't feel his anger, I can't know what kind of character he is, does my uncle know?"
"Onmyoji...... I think I've heard of it, but my memory is not good when I'm old. But I remember that this man knows very well that he is a ghost. ”
"Mr. Ghost, why does he know better?"
"That was before you were born, he had lived on an island there for decades, so let's go and ask him about it, and I want to remember it too. So the uncle and nephew went to Ghost Shili to talk about everything related to Onmyoji and Laiguo.
"Abe, this surname has existed since the founding of Laiguo, but it has disappeared for hundreds of years in between, what kind of person are you?" said Yagyu Jubei to Abe's back, while Abe was watering a cherry blossom. Yagyu Juro looked at everything incredible in this enchantment, and he didn't expect that plants could be planted in the enchantment, and the figure in front of him that his father mentioned was unknown.
"Actually, I'm not human, General Yanagiyu. Shinaki Abe still turned his back to Yagyu Shibei and said, "Sometimes I really wish I could die, but unfortunately there is a person who gave me the ability to live forever, so I can only live in solitude like this." ”
"If history is not mistaken, the surname Abe is the first person to rebel in the history of Lesodis, right?"
"That's right, and I can add to that I'm the one who rebelled. ”
"What? It can't be! It's been nearly five hundred years now, have you lived so long?" said Yagyu Jubei in disbelief.
"Yes, five hundred years, in a flash. ”
"Why are you helping us?"
"I said it at the beginning, and it's a small amount of compensation for the mistakes I've made in the past. It's a long story, and you have time anyway, so let me tell you about it. Shinaki Abe came to Yagyu Jubei and Juro and sat down cross-legged, Yanagi Taro and Otome were still sleeping in the room because they were resting, and there were two youkai watching over them.
About 500 years ago, a visitor from afar suddenly arrived on a small island east of the country of Lai. No one knew the identity of the other party, and the passing ships only saw that the island suddenly became demonic, and the ghosts cried and howled, like a demon born on the island, and people called that isolated island the island of evil ghosts. The daimyo of Laikoku knew the image of the island and sent someone to check it out, and Abe Harumi, who was a priest at the time, was the one who was accused by the daimyo of leaving the island.
After Abe Harumi entered the evil ghost island, sure enough, as rumored, the island was full of evil spirits and evil spirits, and the entourage was so frightened that they left Abe and fled back to Kyoto in a hurry, leaving Abe alone. Abe mustered up his courage and walked into the center of the island, where he found the distant visitor who lived on the island in a small cave. The mysterious man looked like an ordinary old man, with a disheveled head. Abe saluted the old man, who was glad that someone dared to approach him, so he started talking to Abe. Later, Abe understood that the old man was a Taoist priest who could summon spirits and exorcise ghosts, and he came to this island to learn about the changes in the evil spirits and wild ghosts on this island, and if he could meet someone who was destined, he could also teach some spells to exorcise evil spirits and control monsters and ghosts. Abe was fortunate enough to study art on Devil Island for three years, and the people of Lai thought he was dead, but they didn't expect that the moment he finished his studies, after returning home, everyone thought that Abe was dead and resurrected. Devil Island also disappeared from the old man after Abe left. Before Abe left, he remembered that he didn't know the old man's name, and the old man told him - Oni Shili.
"I see, it turns out that Mr. Ghost and Lai Guo still have this relationship. After listening to the story of Ghost Shili, Yan Che regretted in his heart that he didn't take Ghost Shili on the ship to Laiguo. Ghost Shili is embarrassed, he didn't expect Yan Che to encounter those things in Laiguo, and when Ghost Shili lived on Devil Island, there was still no evil god in Laiguo.
"That evil god is actually my evil thoughts. Abe Jinming said to the two Yagyu, at this time the monster Otengu brought a pot of tea and made tea for the three of them, Abe took a sip of tea and continued, "After returning to Japan, I was embraced by the daimyo and made me a national teacher. I also used the exorcism spell I had learned to ward off evil spirits for the people, but one day, I got tired of it. Because even though I have such a skill, I am very lonely, and one day I will die. I used a rabbit to test whether humans could achieve the eternity of life. Until one day, when the rabbit turned into a maiden after I cast a spell, I felt that I was halfway there. Greed also makes me not satisfied with being a national teacher, I want to rule this country, make this country a country where youkai can live freely. As long as I have a strong demon energy, I can convert my soul to any youkai at any time. The ninja of the daimyo discovered my ambition and informed the daimyo, and in a fit of rage, the daimyo gathered all the forces of the whole country to attack me, and the great shogun at that time was also surnamed Yanagi, and your ancestors fought against me. But the disparity in strength is very obvious, I control the demons and monsters all over the country, defeat the army of the daimyo, just as I was about to ascend the throne as king, the rabbit I refined into a human felt that I was no longer the same person I used to be, and wanted to leave me. It was only then that I realized that I had lost my humanity, and that I had used the aura of youkai and ghosts to haunt my evil thoughts and betray my relatives, and even if I ascended to the throne, I was still alone. It was only then that I realized that I had fallen in love with that woman, and for her I sealed all my evil thoughts into a cave on Fuchun Mountain, and decided to spend the rest of my life with her in peace. But after I sealed my evil thoughts, my power was greatly weakened, and the last remaining strength of the country killed me. The woman I loved didn't want me to die, and passed on her life to me so that I could be resurrected, but I didn't learn how to bring the dead back to life, let alone a man who changed from a rabbit. The only thing I could do was leave her soul here. However, the evil thoughts that I sealed exist in the cave, and the qi it emits affects the people around it, causing the monsters on the island to remain vicious, and people cannot return to normal life. She used her soul to suppress the evil thoughts that lived on Fuchun Mountain, and since then, she and I have been separated from each other by two worlds, working hard for the peaceful survival of humans and monsters. Until more than 100 years ago, a ninja of the Koga faction walked into the Tenjin Cave, was contaminated with evil energy, and opened the seal of the Tenjin Cave, and since then, all the evil thoughts on people's bodies have been sucked away, and the evil thoughts in the Tenjin Cave have become bigger and bigger, and finally evolved into an evil god. The ninja also gained the power of the evil god, and every time he absorbed a child's soul, he was able to add a life to himself. For more than 100 years, I fought against various youkai and ninjas in an attempt to reseal the Tenjin Cave, but all of them failed, and I ended up in the situation I am today. ”
Ghost Shili also told Yan Che everything he knew, and Yan Che asked him if he had any way to deal with the evil god, and Ghost Shili touched his beard and smiled: "Of course there is a way." ”
"What is the way to destroy the evil god?" After listening to Abe Shinaki's words, Yagyu Juro immediately asked him how to destroy the evil god. Abe looked helpless and said, "There is a way, but it is not practical." ”
Yanagi was puzzled: "Why is it unrealistic?"
"Because the heart is born from the heart, the evil thoughts of the human heart will not disappear until the evil thoughts of the human heart are eliminated. In other words, to destroy the evil gods, it is necessary to purify the hearts of all people, or ...... Either kill everyone, and if there are no living people, there will be no indifferent thoughts, and the evil gods will naturally decay day by day. ”
"No matter which way it works, you can't kill people to save people, this result is too contradictory. Yanagi reluctantly affirmed Abe's words, in his heart, God is really not something that humans can touch at will, let alone be a rival with God.
And after listening to Ghost Shili's answer about dealing with the evil god, Yan Che suddenly had a bold idea: "Mr. Ghost, if the people of the entire Lai Kingdom focus their hopes on me, then do I have any chance of winning against the evil god who has tens of thousands of evil thoughts?"
When the ghost heard it, he shouted that Yan Che's idea was very likely, indeed, even if it can be destroyed physically by the strength of a person alone, it will always be indelible mentally. In the same way, the beliefs of 10,000 people and the evil thoughts of 10,000 people should be equal, if you have the support of more than 10,000 people's spiritual power, then you can kill a thousand times in an instant, and even the evil god with 8,000 lives will be defeated.
After receiving the affirmation of Ghost Shili, Yan Che was overjoyed, and his confidence returned. But as a demon race, a race that has been misunderstood by humans for thousands of years, it is not easy to get the spiritual support of human beings. But even the mountains of swords and the sea of fire couldn't stop him from moving forward, and everyone in the Nuwa clan came over like this. Everywhere they go, no one immediately understands them, but they take root where they are needed, and they don't leave until that place is full of love.
Yan Che walked out of the room and came to the hallway, and the continuous rainy weather finally cleared, as if his mood had suddenly brightened. He looked at the bronze tripod on the altar, and his heart was full of confidence that as long as Ji Wumei could return to human form, he would immediately continue the road he had not finished.