Chapter 651: Qingshui Terrace
There are cherry blossoms in spring and maple in autumn, pink lotus in summer and snow in winter. Kiyomizudera Temple, as the first scenic spot in Heian Kyoto, is full of tourists all year round, but today, this is the best time to enjoy the autumn foliage, but the mountain gate is closed, and the green net vermilion wall is outside, and rows of bamboo and wood barriers are erected. Hundreds of people also stood on the periphery to stop the visitors.
Li Shaoyang brought Zhong Kui to the top and bottom of the sound feather, but when he saw the maple leaves in the mountains like fire, layered like silk, and the red leaves changing in the breeze and sunshine, just like a dazzling oil painting, he couldn't help but be in a good mood.
Walking only 500 meters from Mt. Otowa is a trail for hiking, and a barrier made of bamboo is at the foot of the mountain, and Li Shaoyang even saw a policeman standing in the distance.
The classification of the police in Dongying is very perfect, and because after World War II, Dongying did not allow the establishment of an army, and even the domestic armed forces, the police, were restricted by all sides at that time, and even were replaced by US patrols for a long time, so the Dongying police after the war have always been very low-key, mainly to maintain law and order and serve the public. However, in fact, after many internal improvements, a very powerful intelligence capability and combat capability have long been formed.
At this time, it was the personnel of the "Life Service Department" of the Heian Kyoto Prefecture Police Department who appeared near Kiyomizuji Temple, but behind the police car, there were several hidden black unlicensed cars, but they were people from the "Public Security First Lesson". In fact, Dongying's public security is different from the police, more like domestic spies, they have a clear division of labor, and the first lesson of public security is to investigate the "political ultra-left forces", that is, to investigate the special departments of the left wing of Dongying.
From the distribution of these people at the foot of the mountain, Li Shaoyang generally grasped the purpose of this gathering at Kiyomizu Temple at the shrine. This is a public demonstration, a public demonstration by the shrine to the Toei government, because they have forcibly blocked Mt. Otowa and Kiyomizu-dera Temple, you must know that Kiyomizu-dera Temple is a national treasure building in Toei, and this kind of behavior of closing the mountain and the temple is really a little too arrogant. However, the response of the public security lesson is to stand still, which is a bit interesting.
Li Shaoyang despised the Dongying government in his heart, and he actually coaxed it, but this can also be seen from the inherent flaws of Dongying's political level, Dongying politicians are only the spokesmen of the consortium, and the boss standing behind those consortiums is a shrine.
Before the two of them could reach the barrier, the black-clad samurai who were in charge of guarding the mountain gate stood in front of them, wearing kimonos, like a cosplay, and even the knots on the belts were the costumes of the noble samurai of the Heian period. They stopped Li Shaoyang and Zhong Kui, but they asked for a post.
The post sent by the Nanxing Shrine was ruined by Li Shaoyang, so he stretched out his finger and pointed to the sky, and gently reported a long number, which was the password engraved in the air by the demonic power, even inside the shrine, only the high-level god lord had the ability to view it, and the warriors who stopped them were very shocked, and after confirming it a little, they immediately let it go.
After passing through the mountain gate and climbing the stone steps, you will officially enter the territory of Kiyomizudera Temple in a short time, and after passing through the Niomon Gate, then through the West Gate and the three-storied pagoda, you will come to Kiyomizudera Temple's famous Suiyuando.
When he arrived here, Zhong Kui suddenly stopped, pointed to the signing furnace and said, "Wait a minute." ”
Li Shaoyang was surprised: "Brother Zhong, do you still ask for a signature?" As the saying goes, if you ask for a sign, you are all ghosts and gods in the underworld, what else do you want to ask for a sign. ”
Zhong Kui shook his head slightly: "The way of heaven is impermanent, it is important to be in one heart, sometimes I still have to maintain a sense of awe for the way of heaven, I am not asking for ...... for myself"
He walked over and stroked the stove without saying a word. Although it was just a simple action, the entire mountain seemed to shake at this moment, and Li Shaoyang felt the trembling of a huge amount of demonic power in an instant, but the time for this change was too short, and it was over before he could reminisce. But he also understood that Zhong Kui was definitely not an ordinary request, but used his own strength.
Now he could only wait silently, and saw a sign landing, but Zhong Kui didn't look at it himself, but picked it up and handed it to Li Shaoyang: "Bodhisattva, take a look." ”
For the title of "Bodhisattva", Li Shaoyang still feels a little awkward, but it is even more strange why Zhong Kui let him unsign, but he also knows that this person does things secretly in line with the way of heaven, so he naturally has a deep meaning in doing so, so he no longer hesitated, but there was no bad luck when he opened the sign, only four words were written: "Cihang Pudu!" ”
Li Shaoyang didn't know why, but Zhong Kui was thoughtful, looking at Li Shaoyang's eyes were a little different, and after a long time, he suddenly smiled: "There is a will left by the ancient gods in this Suiyuan Hall, with the help of this rare will, our gods can divinate once, I just came in and found that this kind of will of the ancient gods is gone after one use, so I don't want to waste it." ”
It turned out that this was the case, Li Shaoyang himself didn't feel anything, but he was curious: "What did you divination?" ”
Zhong Kui smiled and didn't say anything, only stretched out his finger and pointed at him: "I didn't divinate for myself, but for the Bodhisattva you divined." ”
Ah, divination for me...... Li Shaoyang was surprised, but Zhong Kui stopped explaining. Only pinching the sign he asked for and laughing while walking, Li Shaoyang had no choice but to follow him and continue to move forward.
As they moved on, there was a cliff in front of them, but above the cliff was a platform, the bottom of which was all made of wood, and the whole platform was suspended on top of the boulder, forming a suspended stage.
Looking up, you can clearly see this "overhanging" structure supported side by side by giant beech columns, without the use of a single nail, which is spectacular. Li Shaoyang and Zhong Kui walked onto the stage from the wooden steps next to them, looking at the scenery down the mountain together, which was very quaint and almost impossible to see any high-rise buildings.
In terms of the location of Kiyomizuji Temple, the eight-foot jade shrine of the five major shrines is the dragon in the east, the white tiger in the west of the Inari Taisha shrine, and the dragon and white tiger in the east and west are guarded, and the pattern is completely different.
Zhong Kui tasted it, but he stomped his feet lightly, only to hear a bang, and the bottom layer of the entire Qingshui tower broke thirty centimeters of wooden pillars, and it was Zhong Kui's foot, and the platform was neatly thirty centimeters shorter.
Dust flew under the platform, and Li Shaoyang looked at Zhong Kui: "Heh, this is the power of dismounting." ”
It took a long time for the wooden pavilion of the building to stabilize, but the entire Qingshui platform seemed to have lost that height, and it actually made people feel half a head shorter, at this time, a group of people below ran up desperately, they were all wearing kimono yukata, but at this time they were gray-faced, and they all looked at Zhong Kui and Li Shaoyang: "That power just now came from here, you ...... Who and which shrine did you destroy Kiyomizu-dera Temple......"
The people at the shrine and the temple were a little stammering, because no one could have imagined that someone would come to destroy the mountain temple, especially the god of the eight-foot jade shrine to which Kiyomizu Temple belongs, and he almost fainted in anger.
Zhong Kui flicked his sleeves and sneered: "What about the Guoxiong Heavenly Wolf, didn't he say, 'Unless the Qingshui High Platform is broken, the Nanxing Shrine will never fail', now that Benjun has broken the Qingshui Platform for three feet, then shouldn't he come out and reply." ”
The people below were overwhelmed by his momentum, and under the look of each other, an old man in a white god robe walked out, he held back his anger and looked at Zhong Kui: "I am the national male wolf!" ”
It turned out to be him, the god of Nanxing Shrine, Lord Oda Matsuri. This person is one of the three major gods of the Nanxing Shrine, and he is also a fanatical left-winger, and even within the shrine, he is a little dissatisfied with his fanatical behavior, and at the same time he is behind the manipulation of many conglomerates in the Kanto region, and many political families in the House of Representatives are his followers, so this person is definitely a big man who can influence the political situation in Toei.
It is said that his real surname is Yasuya, but he spent money to buy the genealogy of a descendant of Oda Nobunaga in the Kansai region, and changed his name to Oda Matsuri...... Chasing stars to this extent is unprecedented.
At this time, Oda Matsuri held up his fat belly and opened the fan in his hand very majestically, and the four big characters of "World Buwu" appeared on it. This person has learned the majesty of Oda Nobunaga, and looked at Zhong Kui proudly: "You are that rude guy?" The one who said he was going to duel me here? Do you know who I admire the most? I am the lord of my heart, and I am the lord of the faith...... That's why I'm not going to duel with you. ”
Zhong Kui didn't know what trick he was playing, because the era when Oda Nobunaga was active was already the time of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty of Huaguo, and at that time, Zhong Kui's brother had already sealed himself under the bottom of the well for more than 800 years, so he was not familiar with that period of history and the characters in it. Just hearing that this guy was going to regret it, he was immediately furious, and he reached out and grabbed it.
Oda Priest instinctively dodged to the left, his body was quite flexible, Zhong Kui's grasp did not catch him, but the force he brought up crushed a wooden pillar with a diameter of at least half a meter in the air, and in an uncomfortable squeak, the load-bearing wooden pillar of Shimizu Platform was broken. Zhong Kui sighed, but he was very dissatisfied with the power of his move.
The Oda Festival may not have understood it yet, but several of the shrine powerhouses here were shocked to see the power displayed by Zhong Kui. That's a power they can't even imagine. Because these few people with abilities clearly knew that for today's operation in Kiyomizu Temple, the two envoys of the Xuanlong Society and the Spiritualist Society teamed up to seal the demonic energy near Shimizu Terrace and create a powerful enchantment.
In such an enchantment, everyone's abilities were suppressed to one-tenth of the original, and this monster-like man used his tricks in the enchantment, but the destructive power was still so powerful.
"Lord Oda, please get out of here quickly." The samurai of Nanxing Shrine led a team of twenty people to block the Oda Festival, and the others on Shimizu Terrace already knew that something was wrong and fled obediently.
"Heh......" Zhong Kui said to Li Shaoyang: "It seems that someone has set up an enchantment here, but it's okay, I'll tear it open now." ”
Wait a minute! Li Shaoyang said softly: "Let's solve this annoying guy first." ”
Oda Matsuri now realized that something was wrong, but before he could raise his feet and escape, a vermilion light slashed horizontally, and the sword light flickered and disappeared immediately, and the young man on the opposite side chuckled and threw the blade with his backhand, and not a drop of blood fell, but ......
The twenty warriors of the Nanxing Shrine in front of him fell to their knees without saying a word, and then hung their heads, blood spurting ......
The sound of high-pressure water gun-like blood spurting made Oda's legs weak.
Zhong Kui was very dissatisfied with Li Shaoyang's first move: "This is my business." As he spoke, he stepped in.
Oda Matsuri screamed, knelt on the ground and moved desperately, his legs rubbing the floor, and shouted again and again: "Don't kill me, don't kill me......"
Zhong Kui walked over and stepped on his neck, then reached out and pressed his face, and with a light grab, a faint shadow was grabbed by him from the body of Oda Matsuri.
Zhong Kui swallowed the shadow in two bites, very dissatisfied: "The taste is too bad." ”
Is this the method of extracting the soul? Li Shaoyang pointed to the twenty dead warriors: "You're welcome, just taste it." ”
Zhong Kui shook his head: "They were killed by you, and I can't take the soul of the next life." Bodhisattva, you have countless ghosts in your previous life, and when you see me devouring your soul, why don't you stop me? ”
How did Li Shaoyang know the story of him and Jizo Bodhisattva in his previous life, only a few vague words, and then he heard a coquettish and surprised voice from above: "Brother, you, you are here!" ”