Chapter 136

It's night, and the moon is high in the Shikoku area, far from Kyoto.

Under the moonlight at night, many monsters are ready to move.

"Have you heard, something happened in Kyoto recently!" A small dark red monster stretched out its short arm and scratched the naked in front of it. The roots of the tree exposed on the ground, crouched under the tree, and said to the darkness in the cavern under the roots.

There was a sound of a scream coming from the dark cavern, which was as quiet as if it were empty, followed by a few "chirp" cries, as if in response to the words of the little monster outside the cave.

The little dark red monster leaned against the rough roots exposed under the stump, listened carefully to the few weak hums, and nodded with a serious face.

"I heard that the people of your ship have lost the Jade of the Four Souls!" The little monster said, "If you think about it this way, even an entire shrine didn't keep the Jade of the Four Souls, and it's normal that the Kikyo Shrine Maiden failed to protect the Jade of the Four Souls before it was taken away, but I don't know if the Shinto side can snatch the Jade of the Four Souls back this time." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, there were several more noises in the cave.

"It is said that the jade of the four souls is in the hands of a half-demon named Naraku, and he seems to have a lot of points. body, he can also hide his tracks under the noses of many Shinto, and even the Guifune Taisha has been infiltrated by him, and he seems to be a very powerful half-demon. ”

As he spoke, the little dark red monster was silent for a moment, then snorted twice.

"But what about the power, isn't the result still a half-demon?"

"Oh, I've heard that he can change his appearance to confuse people's minds, and it is said that the Feathered Fox was fooled by him and took him under his command! Otherwise, it's just a half-demon ......" The little monster pouted disdainfully as he listened to the chirping sound coming from the cave.

"Even if he wins the Jade of the Four Souls for Lord Feathered Fox, that can't hide that he is a half-demon."

"Half-demon, what qualifications do you have to join Lord Feathered Fox's Hundred Ghost Night Walk!"

The youkai in the cave was silent for a while, and then chattered twice.

"Where did I find out?" The dark red little youkai stretched out his hand and scratched the root of the tree he was leaning on, turned to face the dark cave, and lowered his voice, "I passed by the shrine of a land god today, and I heard it from the conversation between the land god and a mourning god!" It is said that this incident was witnessed by the Fu Fu God of the High Dragon God Brand. ”

"The gods don't lie, that Nai ......"

"Twitter——!!!"

"Huh? Behind? The dark red youkai turned back in confusion and saw a man in the shape of a human warrior facing him and raising his sword.

A cold light flashed, and the dark red little youkai was cut in half before it could escape.

Blood splattered out, much of it into the dark cavern beneath the roots of the trees.

The half-demon in a purple samurai robe looked lightly at the cave that was so silent that there seemed to be nothing to live in it, withdrew his sword with a calm face, looked up at the moon in the sky that was close to perfection, and after discerning the direction, he continued to move forward.

Naraku left the cave where he was cultivating and walked all the way to Shikoku, which was ruled by the Hidden God Punishment Department, and he really heard a lot of things about himself along the way.

- All of Japan knows that a half-demon named Naraku snatched the Jade of the Four Souls from Kifune Taisha.

Only Naraku himself knows his points. Being in Kifune Taisha is a solid pounce.

"Ling ......" Naraku chewed on the name as he walked down the road, and finally chuckled.

"What did the god of mourning see with his own eyes?" Naraku's eyes narrowed slightly, and there was obvious pleasure in his eyes, "...... I'm really underestimating you. ”

I've been hearing and rumoring along the way that "the half-demon Naraku took away the Jade of the Four Souls" or that "the feather-clad fox sent a half-demon named Naraku to infiltrate the Kifune Taisha and take the Jade of the Four Souls", but Naraku doesn't really care much about such rumors.

If you want to say that you care, you don't care about the rumor that "Naraku took away the jade of the four souls", but that you are a little unhappy with the title of "half-demon Naraku".

But that's just the unpleasantness.

After all, he has not been substantially affected now, and judging from the situation at that time, he really didn't think about it except for the possibility that the Jade of the Four Souls was taken away by him.

But what happened in the Taisha House at that time, the Fu Fu God of the High Dragon God Card must have known it clearly.

Naraku didn't see the Jade of the Four Souls at all.

But the Fu Fu God insisted that he had seen him take away the Jade of the Four Souls with his own eyes.

Where can the Fu Fu God of the Gaolong God Card go to see with his own eyes such a "Naraku took away the Jade of the Four Souls"?

What Naraku himself has never done, of course Fu Fushen can't see it.

- That mourning god is simply lying.

Hearing what the little monster said before, no matter how stupid Naraku is, he knows that he must have fallen into the trap.

Besides, he is not stupid, but extremely intelligent.

Thinking of this, Naraku couldn't help but laugh twice.

Strictly speaking, Fu Fu God is not a god, but Fu Fu God, who was born from the god card of Gao Long God, is very special, he has a part of his divinity.

It is precisely because of this trace of divinity that the words spoken by the Fu Fu God fall into the ears of others, and they are tacitly accepted as true.

As the little youkai who was killed by Naraku said earlier, "The gods never lie." ”

The gods don't lie, this is the most fundamental and shallow understanding of the gods of all humans and monsters.

And Naraku, although he has always had a trace of doubt about this statement, will not try to challenge the perception of universal concepts because of this doubt.

But the rumors, which were originally thought to be idle and casual, turned into a pitch-black iron pot that fell head-on without warning, and Naraku was definitely unwilling to continue to carry it.

Naraku, who didn't want to continue to take the blame and couldn't challenge the proposition of "whether the gods will lie or not", just as Ao Ling expected, thought of the disaster very naturally.

So the question is, who can he lead to?

Naraku smiled, took off the pot from his back, and vigorously buckled it on the head of the feathered fox.

The relationship between the feathered fox and Naraku is very delicate, and the so-called "cooperation" between these two monsters is nothing at all.

Even if the feather-clad fox was confident that he would be able to take the lives of Kikyo and Inuyasha for Naraku, and Naraku did find a way to transfer Sesshomaru out of the Kyoto area, the cooperation between the two of them was not guaranteed in itself.

This was the case.

Feathered Fox couldn't face the three of Kikyo, Ao Ling, and Sesshomaru at the same time, even if there was no Naraku, she would choose to temporarily retreat and hibernate and slowly look for opportunities to defeat them one by one.

Naraku came to the door at the time, and for the feather-clothed fox, it was a drowsy and someone sent a pillow, which was very intimate.

And Naraku bluntly exposed the fact that she was not Abe Haruaki's biological mother, which is enough to prove that this half-demon is not simple.

So the first time the two monsters met, it only took a few minutes to directly and happily finalize the matter of cooperation.

If there are no accidents along the way, this so-called cooperation can certainly continue.

But now there is an accident, and the first thing these two so-called allies to pit is each other.

The feathered fox over there in Kyoto seems to have believed the rumors that Naraku took away the jade of the four souls, and he was so angry that he personally spread Naraku everywhere to find out the situation in Kyoto. The bodies were all pulled out and eliminated one by one.

And the ontology is already thousands of miles away Naraku, moving his fingers to control his own points. body, he easily put a pot on the feather fox, and poured dirty water on her.

He added a little bit of material to the rumors that were spreading.

- Naraku handed it over to the Feathered Fox on the day he captured the Jade of the Four Souls, and the Feathered Fox is now chasing Naraku, wanting to give Naraku's body to the enraged Shinto side for his own safety.

and another news that was quietly released.

- The descendant of the monster who took the heart of the feathered fox appeared back then, and that monster had a natural suppression of the feathered fox, and the feathered fox is now too weak to do it.

When this is said, many people will not believe it.

But in this world, the vast majority of people and monsters have no brains.

Of course, even if you have brains, you can't stand three people from becoming tigers.

If you say too much of what is false, it becomes true.

The speed at which the rumors spread was so fast that Naraku was a little surprised.

However, in just three days, from Shikoku to Kyoto and even Tono-no-Sato in the far east, rumors have been covered.

The feathered fox exploded in anger.

Whether she has obtained the Jade of the Four Souls or not, of course, she herself knows very well.

But now things are developing - except for a few henchmen who can be counted in the slap and are extremely clear about her situation, even among the hundred ghosts under her who are walking at night, there are monsters who think that she has obtained the jade of the four souls.

And those youkai who don't belong to her Hundred Ghosts Night Walk also think so.

On the premise of not finding Naraku, the wild youkai attacked the place where the feathered fox is now in waves.

And because the feathered fox needs to be on guard at all times to resist the attacks of wild monsters, he doesn't even have time to accompany her to Kyoto to launch a night walk of the hundred ghosts.

This leads to a very awkward situation.

——The demonic aura of the feathered fox has been provoking in the city far away from Kyoto for half a month, and the onmyoji and Shinto in Kyoto have also opened the enchantment nervously and firmly protected Kyoto City for half a month.

Then on both sides, there was no movement.

Not to mention the head-to-head confrontation, now both sides are quiet, and even a close confrontation has not occurred.

According to the experience of the past few hundred years, the feathered fox should have attacked Kyoto head-on at this time, and was pregnant under the protection of the hundred ghosts.

But now, there is not even any action to leave the remote city.

This seems to confirm the rumor that "the feathered fox is now very weak and its strength has plummeted".

The fact that he has been held back by wild monsters makes the feathered fox feel very embarrassed.

She heard the sound of the monsters outside shouting to hand over the Jade of the Four Souls, and slammed the table hard, seeing that the table shattered into several pieces.

The old lady handed you the jade of the four souls!

The expression on the face of the heavy makeup female youkai was very hideous, and she gritted her teeth and said in a resentful tone: "Naraku——!! ”

She doesn't really need the Jade of the Four Souls, but if she has the Jade of the Four Souls, absorbing the power of the Jade of the Four Souls can make the fetus in her womb mature in the shortest possible time and then give birth.

For a feathered fox who has failed to give birth several times, the temptation is big enough.

The feather-clothed fox lowered his eyes and looked at his flat lower abdomen, and a few wisps of complex and gloomy emotions crossed his eyes, and finally stopped at love.

She turned her head to look at the burly monster on the side, "Kai Langtai, pass the order, no matter what happens in three days, a hundred ghosts will go to Kyoto together." ”

The youkai called Kairang Tai replied in a low voice, turned and left the room.

The feathered fox watched the back of the monster disappear at the door, raised his hand and stroked his abdomen, his tone was full of tenderness that belonged to a mother, "Qingming...... Wait, I'll bring you back to life in no time. ”

……

The people of Kyoto have recently been in a strange atmosphere of stability.

The demonic aura of the feather-clothed fox was already strong enough to affect the celestial phenomena, but even so, there was not much fear in people's hearts.

They even stepped out of the city gates at such a tense moment and harvested all the ripe crops in the fields at great speed.

- This is due to the fact that they rarely see them on weekdays, but in recent times, the streets are full of onmyoji.

The onmyoji, who patrol the city, will lead civilians who need to get rid of evil spirits to the Onmyoji of the Abe family stationed in various urban areas to receive purification and healing.

This behavior greatly inhibits the number of human demonization that breeds evil thoughts in their hearts because of the demonic power of the feathered fox.

This gave the onmyoji, who were accustomed to being often dragged back by demonized civilians when the feathered fox appeared.

But what makes these civilians most grateful and reassured is not the onmyoji of other families, but the onmyoji who put on the white hunting clothes again and picked up Abe's surname.

Abe's surname!

That's the descendant of the legendary great onmyoji Abe Harumi!

Civilians feel like a dream when they are able to come into contact with the legendary existence that has come to them, and these people who have not read much books are very blind to the trust of legends.

So they live as usual in today's demonic Kyoto.

Only when it is necessary to go out of the city, they will ask one or two onmyoji to protect them.

- Even two days ago, people went to Kibune Taisha Shrine to ask if the Kifune Grand Shrine would be held as scheduled.

The answer, of course, is no.

But despite the disappointment, there was not much uneasiness.

This is their trust in Onmyoji and Shinto.

The current Xiuyuan of the Huakaiyuan family, that is, the head of the Huakaiyuan family, is sitting opposite the Yumen Courtyard at this time, holding on to the white chess pieces, and there is a sound of falling pieces.

"Mimonin—no, it's time to call you the head of the Abe family." The old head of the Huakaiyuan family stroked his beard, and looked at the Yumen Courtyard in front of him, whose face was already worthy of the word glamorous, "Old man, I recently found something in the classics recorded by the family. ”

Yumenyuan was dressed in a white and unsullied hunting suit, his face was expressionless, his eyes were not raised, and the black chess in his hand fell on the chessboard with a "snap".

The old man didn't mind the young man's attitude, he leisurely touched out a chess piece and stared at the chessboard in front of him, "Little girl, Qingming Gong seems to have a good relationship with Gao Longshen from the beginning, right?" ”

Yumenyuan looked up at him with a knot, put the sunspot in his hand back into the chess jar, and quietly waited for the other party's follow-up.

"Look at your reaction, it's true." The old man of the Huakaiyuan family held on to Baizi, his eyes wandering on the chessboard, "You royal gate...... Your Abe family has made a lot of moves in the past few years, and it's like a purge. ”

As he spoke, the white seed in his hand gently fell into a pile of black seeds.

——It was a move to take the initiative to send himself into the encirclement of murderous machines.

"The old man doesn't mean anything else, little girl." The head of the Flower Blossom House sighed.

"Our Huakaiyuan family has been fighting with the feather fox for so many years, and we have lost a lot of talented descendants and predecessors, and we have not taken any benefits, and the Abe family has always been hidden behind the scenes, looking like they are not fighting with the world, but they are indeed secretly helping the feather coat fox, and I know this."

"The reason why you are making such a big move this time is because of that divine envoy." He asked.

"In the last days of Qingming Gong, he sent out a young man-like Shikami, with black hair, black eyes, black clothes, and black knives, I saw that pitch-black demon knife on that big monster in the Western Kingdom, it exudes the same aura as the divine envoy, so that Shikigami - it's this divine envoy, right?"

Mimonin squinted his eyes.

She knew that Ao Ling was actually unwilling to let anyone except for the heads of the Abe family know what had happened, she looked at the old man in front of her fixedly, and the puppet silk made of spiritual power in her hand trembled slightly.

"You...... Calm down, little girl, the old man didn't tell anyone else. The old man of the Flower Blossom Courtyard avoided the puppet silk stretched out, and shook his head with a wry smile, "I don't know what you learned from that oracle, I came to you this time to find out something." ”

The old man said, rubbing his eyebrows, looking very tired, "The current Abe family, can we believe it?" ”

The Imperial Gate Courtyard was stunned when he heard this, and the spiritual power that turned into a puppet silk instantly collapsed and opened, and he looked at the onmyoji in front of him in a daze.

"You see, since three years ago, the Abe family has really changed a lot."

The old man of the Flower Blossom House pondered for a moment, carefully counting and considering the words.

"Not only have you come back to the front of the stage from behind the scenes, but you have also taken the initiative to ask to go to various places to guard the town, and you have rarely shirked in the face of other families' requests for help. This time, at the request of the divine envoy, he stood up without complaint to purify and heal the civilians, which was completely different from the Abe family who looked at everything indifferently before. ”

"Little girl, maybe you haven't been in the mansion very well, but those civilians outside are all saying that Qingming Gong blessed, saying that when this matter is over, they will build a shrine for Qingming Gong."

"Since the shrine is going to be built, I have to come over and ask you, don't mind if the words are not good - after all, no one wants the civilians to worship an evil god on their own."

"Shrine." The heart knot of the Imperial Gate Temple completely ignored the other words, and just looked at the head of the flower blossom courtyard and repeated the word shrine.

The head of the Flower Blossom Courtyard nodded, "Yes, they want to build a shrine for Qingming Gong." ”

Mimonin stood up suddenly, turned around and ran out.

The head of the Huakaiyuan family was stunned for a moment, as if he was stunned by the other party's obviously too excited action, and almost didn't release his spiritual power directly.

As if he had thought of something, he stopped at the door, turned to look at the old man kneeling on the tatami mat, and bowed deeply against the light shining in from the door.

"The spirit and obsession of the Abe family today have been handed down from Abe Harumi in the Heiankyo period, so please ...... Feel relieved. ”

The head of the Flower Blossom Courtyard squinted at the back of the Imperial Gate Courtyard's knotted heart knot and quickly moved away, and squinted his eyes.

…… Haruaki Abe during the Heiankyo period.

The books of the Hanagain family are full of praise for Abe Harumaki back then—two people who describe very different things from later accounts.

In the Heiankyo era, Abe Harumi was extremely famous, leading the powerful twelve gods to sweep through the night of the hundred ghosts, and the deity guarded Heiankyo in a single person, but he was able to deter the entire Japanese yokai with the power of one person, so that those monsters were afraid and changed their voices.

"Harumi Gong of the Heiankyo Period......" The head of the Hanakaiyuan family looked at the sunspots on the chessboard that were extremely fierce and slaughtered, shook his head, smiled and took back the chess pieces one by one and put them away carefully, "The little girl just can't hold her breath, she reveals so many things in one sentence, and she is still too young." ”

He put away the chess pieces and stood up, hammered his somewhat sore waist, shook off the hand that had been touched by the little girl's puppet silk before, and carefully lifted his sleeves to take a look, which was already red and swollen, which was extremely scary.

"The old man is too, it's not okay to be old if you don't accept it." The head of the Hanakaiin family thought that when he heard that people were going to build a shrine for Abe Harumi, the little girl's face suddenly bloomed with brilliance and smacked her lips.

But that's fine.

He thought that at least from now on, the talented descendants of the Hanakaiin family would not be sent by the Abe family, who manipulated everything behind their backs, to make senseless sacrifices because of the relationship between the family and the feather-coated fox.

Don't worry about stabbing them hard when they play against the feathered fox.

Although I have a swollen hand, this time I quietly visited Abe's house alone, and I still gained a lot!

The head of the Flower Blossom Courtyard thought of the sudden rise in the murderous aura of the Imperial Gate Courtyard when he mentioned the divine envoy before, and he had to regretfully take back the idea of the story behind the divine envoy with the juniors.

……

Mimonin came out of Abe's main house with a knot, and he didn't even bother to sit in the ox cart all the way, so he ran directly to the Kifune Taisha Shrine with his spiritual power.

Kifune Taisha Shrine.

Ao Ling Kikyo and Inuyasha are wondering when the feather-clad fox who was thrown by Naraku with a big black cauldron and splashed from head to foot by a puddle of dirty water will do it.

- Although active offense is actually better than passive defense.

But because they also need to take into account the safety of civilians, they have to passively wait here for the feathered fox to take the lead.

And now, one person, one demon and half demon are discussing what to do with the civilians in Kyoto City who have no sense of tension after the outbreak of fighting.

After all, in the past half a month, the suppression of the power of the feathered fox by the stable people's hearts has had very obvious results.

Not only did the onmyoji taste the sweetness, but even those nobles also showed satisfaction with this situation.

After all, if a civilian is suddenly demonized on the street, many people can't react, and by the time the Onmyoji gets the message and runs over, the ordinary people who are powerless to fight back against the monsters have already suffered heavy casualties, and even demonized civilians often attack nobles through the protection.

But this time, in Kyoto City, which is soaked in the demonic power of the feathered fox, there is not a single accident in which civilians demonize and hurt others.

This made the nobles, who had always been dissatisfied with Ao Ling's dispatch of the backbone of the Onmyoji to inspect and help the commoners, also slowly closed their mouths and stopped talking.

- Actually, they didn't dare to say anything more at first.

You know, Ao Ling is now a recognized oracle!

"When the time comes, it depends on the situation, if you are unfortunately affected and seriously injured, you will be moved to the Kifune Taisha Shrine, and if the others are not serious, you can just hand them over to the Imperial Gate Courtyard family."

Ao Ling said and took out a cloud of yellow spring qi from the beast's teeth, and was stunned after biting two bites, the demonic qi was hooking around in the beast's teeth, and he didn't hook a trace of yellow spring qi for a long time.

Kikyo glanced at him, "What's wrong?" ”

Ao Ling came back to his senses and sighed, and said to Kikyo and Inuyasha, "The qi of the Yellow Spring has been eaten up by me, and no new ones have emerged from the soul jade. ”

Kikyo and Inuyasha, who know how much Ao Ling eats, have a meal.

Inuyasha scratched his head, "How long can you hold out?" ”

"If I insist on carrying hunger and not eating, it will be fine for ten days, but after that, I will definitely lose my mind." Ao Ling smacked his lips, "If you want to stay in the best condition, you can't stop for a day." ”

"That's it." Kikyo turned his head to look at the leak on the side, "It's evening, have a good night's rest, let's go directly to the feather fox tomorrow." ”

Ao Ling was shocked by Kikyo's ability to say that wind is rain, and he glanced at Inuyasha, who looked accustomed to it.

The black-haired monster rubbed his stomach, but he didn't hesitate, and simply agreed neatly.

"That's right, Ling." Inuyasha sat cross-legged next to Kikyo, his red robe as bright as fire, he reached out and scratched his face, "After the matter of the feathered fox is over, Kikyo and I will go back to Kaede Village, do you still want to guard Kifune Taisha?" ”

Ao Ling thought for a while, "At that time, Gao Longshen said that I should guard it for five years, but if the matter of the feather-clothed fox is over, I shouldn't need to guard it here, I guess I will go back to the West with Sesshomaru, what's wrong?" ”

Inuyasha licked his lips and glanced at Ao Ling a few times, "That's it...... After returning to Kaede Village with Kikyo, we are ready to get married. ”

"I just want to...... Would you like to be my parent? The white-haired half-demon asked, looking at Ao Ling a little nervously.

At this moment, Ao Ling seemed to smell the sour smell of love emanating from Inuyasha's body.

He was silent for a while.

Ao Ling knew that Inuyasha had very few friends, and he could be regarded as one.

But seriously, Inuyasha's silly expression of being immersed in love is really unpleasant.

Ao Ling looked at the half-demon and narrowed his eyes, "Yes." ”

Inuyasha's golden eyes lit up.

"I'll remember to bring the Sesshomaru with me." Ao Ling showed a smile as gentle as Yoshida Matsuyo, "After all, I'm here as a family member." ”

Then he saw that the white-haired half-demon was like a punctured ball, deflating at a speed visible to the naked eye.