Chapter 283: The Sword of Damos
It has been more than a thousand years since the establishment of Unjima Shrine, but the village of Sakagami at the foot of the mountain has always been home to dozens of households. It's not that Sakagami Village is unwilling to expand, but that Sakagami Village has been cursed since the ancestors sealed the Demon God.
Every baby born feeds on blood. As soon as I drank milk, I vomited.
When he grows up, he naturally has the ability to see at night, and although he yearns for the light psychologically, he physically hates the day. Because of the curse, Sakagami Village has been locked in seclusion. And the whole curse can't be told to outsiders, otherwise as long as you open your mouth, you will definitely die with blood flowing backwards, which is terrifying.
This strange phenomenon is like the sword of Damos hanging overhead, and the kind of mountain-like pressure has crushed generations of people in Sakagami Village.
It wasn't until modern times that the people of Sakagami Village finally began to rebel. In other words, this is not the first time to resist, but several, dozens of times.
In the past thousand years, Sakagami Village has actually rebelled a long time ago. But they were all persuaded by the onmyoji and shrine maidens of Cloud Island Shrine.
However, passed down from generation to generation, the onmyoji and shrine maidens of the Cloud Island Shrine have long forgotten their original intentions, and this is not because the onmyoji and shrine maidens of the Cloud Island Shrine have any different intentions, but because they are threatened and bewitched by the demon god.
The first onmyoji in charge of the Cloud Island Shrine was the most powerful onmyoji in Sakagami Village, but the cultivation inheritance will eventually be broken. The onmyoji and shrine maidens of Cloud Island Shrine were all selected by Sakagami Village, but Sakagami Village, which has always maintained a population of dozens of households, has only about 200 people at most!
In the era when the aura was thin, it was very difficult for more than 200 people to have a person with cultivation qualifications. But even if there is no cultivation qualification, when the onmyoji of each generation of Yundao Shrine is approaching, he will continue to select people from the village to pass it on. This inheritance, in addition to ensuring the continuous cultivation method, is also to let the inheritance of the onmyoji know that the Yundao Shrine suppresses the demon god.
When suppressing, there is no need for the onmyoji to do anything, as long as the seal is checked every day for nothing unusual. Because the seal of the demon god is the jade of the four souls that has the purest power in the world.
And the inheritance god of the Cloud Island Shrine has been guarding the Cloud Island Shrine. It's just that if the Onmyoji is just an ordinary person, then the inheritance god will always fall into a deep sleep until the onmyoji who can cultivate appears, and then he can drive the inheritance god.
So when the Yundao Shrine was controlled by an onmyoji who had no strength and was no different from ordinary people, these onmyoji and witches had been living in the Yundao Shrine, and they had to check the status of the seal every day, and they were naturally affected by the demon god subtly. In addition, it is more difficult to find an onmyoji who can cultivate, so Yundao Shrine has been controlled by ordinary onmyoji and shrine maidens for most of the past thousand years, and these ordinary people have long been bewitched and confused.
It's just that even if it's bewitched, it won't affect the seal.
The curse of the Cloud Island Shrine has made the people of Sakagami Village themselves an evil existence. Therefore, the Jade of the Four Souls also has a very powerful deterrent effect on the people of Sakagami Village.
It's just that even so, a year ago, the Jade of the Four Souls was destroyed.
And being sealed for so long, the demon god spent most of his time in a state of deep sleep, and after the Jade of the Four Souls was destroyed, he parasitized on Sakagami Otome. During her school year, Otome Sakagami attended classes during the day and sucked blood all over Tokyo at night. And she is very cautious, every time she sucks the blood of homeless people, even if these homeless people die, no one cares.
As for sucking her boyfriend Koizumi Keiichi in the end, it was also because when she returned to the village this time, she had to use the energy in the Jade of the Four Souls to restore her strength, and she would not go to school again after that.
It's just that now the Jade of the Four Souls was obviously taken away by Kimura and Shu, and depending on the situation, these people are not in the Cloud Island Shrine, and there is no breath in the village. Have you already gone back?
Otome Sakagami couldn't help but think deeply, if she came to investigate the Cloud Island Shrine and got the Jade of the Four Souls, and learned that the Demon God had broken the seal, I'm afraid she would also leave, right?
Sakagami Otome's face was cloudy.
Without the huge energy inside the Jade of the Four Souls, if she wanted to recover, it would be very slow.
Just as Otome Sakagami was thinking, she, who was controlling the puppet, saw a middle-aged man holding an umbrella up the mountain. Seeing this, Sakagami Otome's heart moved. She knew this man, the son of the chief of Sakagami Village.
The other party went up the mountain in broad daylight, obviously trying to confirm that Kazuki Kimura and the others were still there.
The curse of Sakagami Village is known only to the people of the village, and a ceremony to lift the curse has been prepared recently, so naturally outsiders cannot be allowed to be present at the scene. So this is also why Grandma Sakagami revealed the Jade of the Four Souls, in order to let Kazuki Kimura and others get the Jade of the Four Souls, and then leave quickly.
Sakagami Otome, who was hiding behind a tree, looked at the middle-aged man, the other side was pale at this time, and now August is the hottest season, even if it is morning, the scorching sun is enough to dry people. Ordinary people don't go out at such times, let alone people from Sakagami Village. The scorching sun is the strongest poison for the people of Sakagami Village. Even if he is holding an umbrella, the heat makes middle-aged people feel as if they are about to evaporate.
His body was shaky, gritting his teeth and rushing towards the Cloud Island Shrine, secretly scolding Kimura Kazuki and others in his heart, these people happened to come to Sakagami Village at this time, and at the critical moment when they were about to remove the curse, they were simply poisonous.
He was rushing towards the Cloud Island Shrine, apparently not noticing Otome Sakagami, who was approaching behind him.
The next moment, the middle-aged man's body shook, he lowered his head and looked at a rough arm that directly pierced his body, and subconsciously pressed this hand with both hands. Shivering all over, when the sun umbrella of his finger fell to the ground, the middle-aged man was covered in the scorching sun, and he only had time to turn his head to look behind him, and he was illuminated by the scorching sun, which made him feel uncomfortable and wanted to avoid the sun.
"Uncle Naocheng..."
For a moment, the middle-aged man looked at the puppet controlled by Otome Sakagami, and opened his mouth incredibly. In the next second, the middle-aged man felt that his neck was bitten, and he was about to scream out with his mouth, but his mouth was suddenly covered, and in the intense pain, after a while, the middle-aged man's entire body was directly turned into ashes.
Sakagami Otome looked at this scene indifferently, she frowned, and spat out a mouthful of blood, "This blood stinks." ”
The middle-aged Uncle Zhicheng is the puppet she controls.
The puppet's full name is Naonari Sakagami, who was the last Onmyoji of Cloud Island Shrine and the last. Naomari Sakagami, as the onmyoji of Cloud Island Shrine, naturally can't let the villagers of Sakagami Village break the seal, but the villagers of Sakagami Village have obviously been driven to the point of going crazy and can't live a normal life, let the villagers know that if this continues, their children and grandchildren will not be able to get ahead.
Plus this is modern society, not ancient times. Sooner or later, Sakagami Village will be exposed, and if the curse cannot be lifted, it is better to destroy the village, and the descendants of the province will suffer.
Breaking the curse, this is the will of the entire Sakagami Village.
But Naonari Sakagami wanted to keep the rules of the Cloud Island Shrine, and in the end, he could only be sacrificed.