Chapter 701: The Return of the Gods

PS: Regarding Kaguya's sentence, I made a revision. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info is not a hundred years. Rather, he was born directly as a human being. If there are doubts, hereby clarify.

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Shirai Tsuki walked slowly along the country road, quietly observing this era.

Seven hundred years ago, after losing the protection of the gods, the humans of Hi-Moto have struggled with how to survive the huge number of youkai, and there was no time to develop anything else.

Nowadays, human beings can only gain a firm foothold in this land, whether it is agriculture, industry, or commerce, those labor methods and government systems are only a little more advanced than 700 years ago, and they have not even reached the level of the Han Dynasty 700 years ago.

And because of the large number of gods and the excessive interference in the world, although the gods are no longer there, their power system has been greatly affected, and it has gone a completely different path from the Han Dynasty.

Because he occupies the name of Amaterasu's heir, the emperor holds the nominal power of the Japanese and the capital, and no matter how the powerful ministers of the court and the central government try to gain power, most people today believe in the Japanese and the original of Amaterasu, and as long as the emperor family does not die by himself, his position will be unshakable.

After that, there are the priests and shrine maidens of the major shrines.

Although most of the gods are gone, the power of faith is still generated. After losing the destination of the corresponding gods, the power of faith converges and accumulates towards the shrines that still exist. And the priests and shrine maidens who serve the gods have the right to mobilize a little power of faith.

With this right, they can also be regarded as people who have mastered special abilities.

With these abilities, they have strengthened their belief in the gods, and because of these abilities, the people believe in the gods even more, and so on.

Therefore, they, especially the priests and shrine maidens of the Great Shrine, as the orthodox spokesmen of the gods, have a very great power in the kingdom of Japan and Hon.

Secondly, there is the Onmyoji.

Because of the activity of some half-demons and gods, people who use the energy in their bodies to resonate with the surrounding energy and cause various effects, or who borrow the power of the gods, are called onmyoji.

These onmyoji will be revered wherever they go.

It seems that the priest is also a type of onmyoji, but it is not.

Unlike priests who borrow the power of the gods simply by faith, Onmyoji borrows the power of the gods by offering sacrifices, which can be energy, flesh and blood, or even life. Moreover, there is no upper limit to the amount of power that the Onmyoji can borrow from the gods. As long as you can provide enough sacrifices, you can even borrow the power of all the gods that have been recorded on earth in Takamagahara. Unlike the priests, they can only borrow the power of their own belief in the gods.

This is also the biggest difference between the priest and the onmyoji.

Because this kind of people don't want to just stay in the shrine like the priest, but run around to destroy the youkai. So their status is getting higher and higher, and the influence of the Onmyoji in this country is also increasing, even approaching the priests. And the samurai who fought for the human race like Onmyoji did not turn out very well.

Although because of their mastery of force, samurai are still respected and exist like nobles in human society. However, there were so few samurai who could do damage to the big yokai to this extent, and the mortality rate remained high, and even the samurai themselves gradually changed their position from fighting youkai to delaying time for the Onmyoji, and finally gradually reduced to the force used against people.

Their status is still noble, but compared to the onmyoji and the priests and shrine maidens of those shrines, they are much worse.

Because of this, the status of the samurai is now similar to the status of the country's political leaders, and because of the emergence of human armies, the status of the samurai is even decreasing, and there have been samurai hired by the great nobles.

These hired samurai completely lost the heart to fight with the monsters, and directly lowered the word samurai to a higher level, and they were complacent about it.

Finally, it's up to the dignitaries who govern the country.

They control every aspect of the country, and it can be said that they are the real masters of the country without coming into direct conflict with these types of groups.

Knowing this information, Shirai walked towards the largest shrine in the country.

Izumo Shrine.

This is a shrine that has existed since 700 years ago, because after Shirai Yue killed the eight evil snakes that caused the disaster, the shrine built by humans for it, and what is enshrined in this shrine is naturally the mythical Suzhan Naruzun, which is also one of the identities of Shirai Moon in the mythological era.

The moment he stepped into the shrine, the power of faith that had been hoarded seemed to have found its owner, and it surged directly towards Shirai Tsuki.

When Ragnarok came, Shirai Moon hid in the Kunlun Mirror. The rules of the Kunlun Mirror are completely independent, and the cleaning of the gods in this world has not affected Bai Jingyue at all, and now Bai Jing Yue still retains the identity of Suzhan Mingzun.

And this identity, in this shrine established to worship him, directly attracts all the power of faith!

The priests and shrine maidens all looked at each other in surprise, and as the managers of the shrine, they could feel the reduction in the power of faith, which directly made them panic.

If the power of faith in the entire shrine were to disappear like this, they would inevitably be considered to have angered the gods if they lost their ability to borrow the gods, and in that case, their fate would be better if they died.

The priest standing in the main hall of sacrifice hurriedly tried to mobilize the power of faith, but he found that no matter how he envoyed, the power of faith that had been very smooth in the past did not obey the call at all at this moment, and was surging in one direction!

He opened one eye and walked out of the main hall, continuing to stare at the power of faith with the other, while this opened eye followed the direction of the flow of the power of faith.

Then he saw a young man at the entrance of the shrine. A young man dressed in a black kimono with snow-white hair.

He just wanted to scold the nearby guards to take down the other party, but found that the other party looked at him deeply, and in an instant, he felt that his whole soul did not belong to him.

Shirai Moon didn't be cruel to this priest.

Through the reception of the power of faith, Shirai Yue could feel the strong faith in himself in this priest, so Shirai Yue just used the power of the gods to control his subordinates, which made his soul tremble for a while.

After recovering all the power of faith, Shirai Yue felt something change inside the Kunlun Mirror.

Shirai Yue immediately took out that thing.

That is, a lump of ice.

Of course, that was just the appearance, and in that ice lump was the rock block that was frozen by the White Well Moon seven hundred years ago and the regular crystallization of the Great Snake of the Eight Wilds.

After a long time, the rock that was taken from the center of the battle, which had gathered a lot of energy, finally completely absorbed the regular crystals that belonged to the Eight Miscellaneous Great Serpents.

The rules of the leylines made this rock sword with an extraordinary material directly transform, and turned into a divine sword that was thick and unparalleled, and could cause the earth to move with a single slash.

And at this moment, the return of a large amount of faith power has made this rock sword deteriorate from the rock.

That's the baptism of rules, that's the reproduction of myths!

A weapon that appeared to be made of steel appeared in Shiraitsuki's hand.

The sharp edge of the sword gives people a feeling of heaviness.

Such an abrupt feeling makes people think it is an illusion, but the divine power that surrounds the sword's body shows its extraordinary.

Shirai Yue could feel that purely from the material and construction of the weapon itself, this was a divine weapon that was not inferior to Frost Sorrow and Ice Wheel Pill!

In terms of effect, it has replaced the previous god position and has become a symbol of the identity of Shirai Yue Suzhan Mingzun!

Whoever wields this blade is a god!

At the moment when the artifact appeared, Bai Jing Yue's divine power, which had been precipitated in his body for seven hundred years, was finally awakened.

The sky darkened and thunder roared. Everyone in Hi-Moto can feel a strong will sweeping across the land!

All the priests, onmyoji, and the big monsters, they all understand the meaning of this will.

That's the voice of the gods, that's the proclamation of the gods!

From this day on, the gods are back!

Its royal name, Suzhan Mingzun!

The biggest change in their minds is the priests and shrine maidens located in the Izumo Shrine at this moment, they saw the divine power erupting around Shirai Moon up close, and naturally understood that this seemingly young guy in front of them was what they worshipped, as one of the three gods of mythology, Suzhan Mingzun himself!

And what was placed in the hands of Suzhan Mingzun was the Tiancong Cloud Sword obtained by killing the Eight Miscellaneous Snakes in the myth!

Putting away the Heavenly Cloud Sword, Shirai Yue walked to the position of the main hall of the shrine under the awe-inspiring eyes of many priests and shrine maidens, and then sat down in the most central position in a grand manner.

"Lord Suzhan Mingzun!"

The head of the priest who had just been shocked came to Shirai Tsuki's side and knelt down respectfully to greet him.

Look at the many priests and shrine maidens who believe in themselves under the shrine, as well as the humans who happen to come here to worship. Bai Jingyue smiled: "You did a good job. In the future, just continue like this, and pass on my imperial name forever. ”

"Yes, sir!"

After agreeing, the priest's expression was a little hesitant, after all, now that a faith channel has been built between the shrine and Shirai Yue, all the beliefs that come to the shrine will be directly transmitted to Shirai Yue, if they can't invoke the power of faith, they won't be able to trust others, which will be very detrimental to the development of the shrine.

Seeing this, Shirai Yue said: "I will open up a branch, and in the future, a part of the faith will be left for you to use at the shrine." When the faith in the shrine reaches a certain level, I will come here again. If you are away on weekdays, you can call on your name when you encounter something irresistible, and I will give you the strength to tide over the difficulties. ”

"Thank you, Lord Suzhan Mingzun!"

For this shrine, Shirai Moon intends to stay. As for retaining the faith, Shirai Moon will not keep a part of it as said, but plans to close the faith channel between himself and the shrine and leave all the faith behind!

Nowadays, the power of faith obtained from ordinary people is already scarce, even if it is connected to himself all the time, it will not be able to help Shirai Yue anything, it is better to accumulate for hundreds of years like today, and then absorb it all at once.

Moreover, Shirai Moon is also thinking about the future.

In the future, even youkai will lose the root of their existence, let alone the gods, so Shirai Moon plans to gradually transfer the human faith in him to the shrine.

He is well aware that in the future, even if people do not believe in gods, they will still visit shrines as a legacy of the country's history and culture.

However, this act of worshipping, nostalgia for the history of the country itself, and respect for the path of civilization will become part of the power of faith, which remains in the shrine and awaits him to harvest.

Under the respectful send-off of many priests, the first thing Shirai Yue did when she left the shrine was to call out Tamamo and ask her to receive the faith that belonged to her.

As for the others, they really didn't leave any names in mythology, and even Mikoto Misaka, who often helped, never left her name in front of humans.

"Xiaoyu, when you're over there, wait for me in the palace. ”

"Husband, where are you going?"

"I'm going to the underworld. Not long after I brought Ying Ji here, something like that happened, and now I'm going to see how she is. After all, she promised her father to take care of her. ”

"Hey, is that so?, isn't it my husband who wants it~~~"

Tamamo's tone rose slightly, with a weird smile on his face, which made Shirai Yue a little angry and funny.

"Although Yingji is not small now, but that body. Xiaoyu, I'm not a pervert. ”

If the Four Seasons Eihime is a mature Yama and is also interesting to Shirai Yue, Shirai Moon doesn't mind accepting more feelings, but now the Four Seasons Eihime is just a mere Yan Luo.

"Really, don't let you stay with Kuroko all day, you still don't listen, what nonsense you think. ”

Tamamo and Shirai Kuroko, as well as Shirai Sakura, all had bad intentions towards Shirai Moon from the beginning of stepping into the Sword God Domain plane, and in order to fight against the girls around Shirai Yue, the three of them formed an alliance for a long time.

Seeing Shirai Yue's headache expression, Yuzao covered her mouth and chuckled: "I heard Tears say, when you were together, she was thirteen years old. I don't think the person who attacked the thirteen-year-old Lori was not a pervert~"

"Hey, don't talk nonsense!"

This Bai Jingyue won't admit it, he's not a pervert.

"I cried, but years later. ”

"Hey~ But I heard the tears say, you ······"

"Stop!"

Bai Jingyue sighed, the difficulty of quarreling with a woman is too high, it is better to escape as soon as possible.

"I'll go first, and then I'll go directly to the palace to find you. ”

With that, a gate opened in front of Shirai Tsuki.

That is the gate of yin and yang, that is the boundary between life and death. Today's Bai Jingyue has directly frozen the gap between the yang world and the underworld, and forcibly opened a passage to the underworld!

On the other side of the passage, the breath of death was everywhere, and a black necromantic butterfly slowly flew out.

【Necromantic Butterfly··· I don't know what happened to the original seal. 】

With some worries about the seal back then, Shirai Yue walked into the passage.

(To be continued.) )