Time flies.

It's been a year since Natsume and Komei Jiju's wedding. In this year, Natsume really never took half a step out of the old hell, and Komei Jiai was influenced by Natsume, and rarely ran to the surface again. Only the flame cat still ran to the surface to steal the corpse from time to time according to the previous rhythm of life, but she just needed this, and she wouldn't cause any big trouble, so it didn't matter, no one in the Earth Spirit Temple would condemn her for this.

No matter how lively and noisy Gensokyo is, there are many talents, and Natsume never cares. Even if Flame Cat Rin occasionally enthusiastically described to them the changes on the surface, the new interesting monsters, and the martial arts tournament of the nature of the ring, everyone in the Earth Spirit Hall only listened to the story and did not have any idea of getting involved.

The more he realized how happy his life was now, the more he cherished his life, and the more he feared that one day these would be far away from him, like a dream bubble.

Natsume sat cross-legged at the door of the Earth Spirit Temple, and in his arms sat a flame cat in the form of a two-tailed black cat. He reached out and scratched the chin of the flaming cat as he gazed at the silence of the old hell, causing the black cat to squint comfortably and flick its two tails around comfortably.

"Looking at the old hell again?"

Komei Jisatoru appeared next to Natsume and knelt down next to her husband. She has matured rapidly in this year's time, although her height and appearance have not changed much, but both her demeanor and temperament are very different, and now she doesn't even need to be reprimanded if she wants to calm down Gu Mingdi, as long as she looks at her with calm eyes for a moment, the little girl will become honest.

Although in the words of ancient Ming love, it is more and more similar to Natsume.

"Hmm. ”

Natsume nodded, he had actually grown a lot in the past year, but because Natsume had always been quiet and calm, it didn't seem to have changed much. For the first time after starting a family, the man really felt the responsibility on his shoulders, he was already the actual hall master of the Earth Spirit Palace, and all the things that needed to be worried about by Gu Ming Dijue in the past were now all up to him. In fact, Koaki didn't want to do this, and Natsume didn't have the experience to be the leader no matter what he said. However, when she found out that Natsume could actually handle everything very well, and his strength also made the negotiation quite easy, Koming Jijue was left to him. As she once said, the Earth Spirit Temple should not be his restraint, but a ladder for his growth.

"You want to renovate the old hell?"

Gu Ming Dijue handed him a cup of bitter tea, which was a taste that only Natsume liked, and only Gu Ming Dijue in the Earth Spirit Hall occasionally drank a little with her husband. Perhaps it was this bitter taste that stimulated the brain and made the mind of the Psychic Warlock more awake, and Natsume fell in love with it after touching it, and it was the only external substance he would ingest, and he still wouldn't eat it.

"Yes. Natsume took a sip of Kuding tea, the tea was warm enough for his cat's tongue to accept. The familiar bitter taste made his tongue tingle a little, but this illusion did not affect his speech, and Natsume's words were still clear.

"I've been thinking about it for a long time. ”

The young man's dark eyes were deep and dark, and there was no such thing as "ambition" in them, but the words he said were enough to make any youkai dumbfounded and dismiss them as whimsical.

"Gensokyo and the human world are too dangerous for us to get out, but the old hell is really just dead silence. I've also dealt with the Enmas during this time, and this was originally the territory of the former Tarzan King, and it was the base of his office. It's just that after the fall of the former King Taishan, this hell was implicated with the master's qi, and it also turned into an ownerless barren land, but even the Engols couldn't use it again, so they had to abandon it. ”

"It's an abandoned land inhabited by a bunch of losers. I now regret why I was so strict with the ghosts in the first place, in fact, even if I left them alone, they would not be able to eat people again, what I did gave this poor group of people another blow, just bullying the weak. ”

Gu Mingdijue showed an indifferent and warm smile: "You have grown to the point of learning to be merciful, but the ghost clan does not need mercy, they are also weak to you, at least I can't beat Yongyi, but you can give it a try." ”

"Jue, the Earth Spirit Hall belongs to the forces of the Lost House, and it is an organization used by the monster sages to spy on the ghost clan, right?"

"That's right. The Yokai Sage has helped us in our most difficult times, and I am grateful to her, though I can't like her. ”

"In other words, in fact, she just doesn't want the ghost clan to return to the surface, and wants to eliminate the possibility of threatening her crown, it doesn't mean that the ghost clan is valued by her, otherwise the surveillance will definitely be much greater than now, so that we don't want to control the ghost clan just by relying on our Earth Spirit Temple, you didn't have so much energy before I came. ”

"yes, what do you think?"

Koaki looked at Natsume's side face with a smile.

"I know you, you've never been a talkative person. Since you've said so much, you must have something on your mind, right?"

"That's right. ”

Natsume nodded.

"I have two abilities, Reality Alteration and Genesis. Creation can create a half-plane that belongs to me, but in the real world, manifest energy will become an extinction, destroying the same size of the material world. But by changing reality, I should be able to distort the definition of the Old Hell, and then I might be able to gain control of the Old Hell by casting Genesis, and I will be able to make a normal ecosystem appear here, and it will be better than it is now. ”

Natsume gently pinched the ears of the flame cat: "The forgotten land, the abandoned race, since no one wants it, then it shouldn't matter if I take it." ”

"Have you asked the Oni Clan what they think?"

"To be better than they are now, they must be willing. ”

"Then what if there are ghost clans who don't want to?" Of course, Gu Ming Dijue didn't mean to raise the bar with her husband, but just teased him.

"Then let them fend for themselves. ”

Natsume took out a small comb and began to bow her head to brush the flame cat.

"I've never been a benevolent person, but I respect other people's choices. ”

"What is the success rate, and how much does it cost?"

"The success rate is also at least seventy percent, and the cost is ...... It's big, but it's worth it. After I succeed, I can get feedback from the plane every moment, and my strength should increase instead of decreasing. ”

"Natsume, why do you want to change the old hell?"

The young man sighed slightly.

"Because I don't want our future children to live on a scorched earth. ”