Chapter 64: The "Spirit Seal Book" and the Three Artifact Imitations
The god of luck may have heard Chen Xihao's wish, and he did not encounter the search troops again along the way, and Chen Xihao, who was riveted, rushed to the door of the main hall of the Yasukuni Shrine in one breath, and the plaque of the main hall read the word "Feng'an".
"Feng'an Temple" This is also the place where the white-clothed priest named Mei Jin destroyed the Chen Xihao-style Divine Insect Master just now, but at this moment it is empty.
There is hardly anything to be seen in the main hall area where ordinary people can worship, except for the large mirror hanging from the beam under the thick rope (in which you can only see yourself), there is nothing in the main hall, and the so-called worship ceremony is that the people kneel (sit cross-legged) in front of the mirror, listen to the priest recite a prayer, and then drink a glass of sake after going out, and the whole worship ceremony is over.
Many tourists from foreign countries do not know why, doesn't the Yasukuni Shrine say that the spiritual tablets of many war criminals are enshrined? Why can't I see the spiritual position, only a mirror? In fact, the worship of spiritual tablets is a custom of Buddhism and Taoism, and Japanese Shinto itself does not have the concept of tablets. The most important offering at the Yasukuni Shrine is a list of the war dead, a list of those who are transcribed on special paper with a brush, called the "Lingxi Book", and the place where the "Lingxi Book" is stored is called the "Lingxi Book Bong'an Hall". The so-called "entering the Yasukuni Shrine" means being on this "Lingxi Book," and "moving out of the Yasukuni Shrine" means that the name has been erased from that list.
It is rumored that in order to protect this most important "Spiritual Seal Book," the chief priests of the Yasukuni Shrine even imitated Japan's "Three Divine Weapons" to guard the "Spiritual Seal Book Feng'an Temple."
Therefore, the main hall is not as simple as it seems to ordinary people, and there is actually a hole behind it, but unfortunately few ordinary people know about it. For example, the "Feng'an" hall that Chen Xihao is about to enter now, the full name is "Lingxi Book Feng'an Palace", which is the most important area in the second half of the main hall.
When Chen Xihao stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of the temple, he saw a one-meter-thick note rope hanging on the beam in front of him, and below was a huge offering platform, which was divided into three layers, and the third layer at the highest point supported a thick book-like item with a special bracket; On the second floor, there is a katana, a hook-like item that looks like jade, and a bronze mirror with intricate inscriptions; On the first floor, there are many small torii houses made of mahogany and red lacquer.
In this empty hall, except for the huge offering platform and the dozen or so bamboo futons used to sit and kneel in front of the worship platform, there was no one at all, which made Chen Xihao's courage bigger, he walked to the front of the offering platform with a relaxed face, and reached out to take off the katana that looked like a martial arts sword to take a look.
"The hosts! Wait a minute! Don't move around just yet, these things are dangerous!! ”
Xiaoyin's prompt was still a little late, and Chen Xihao's fingers had already touched the golden scabbard of the katana.
At the moment when Chen Xihao touched it, a golden light on the katana collapsed towards Chen Xihao's fingers, although Chen Xihao had already withdrawn his palm, but his little finger and ring finger were still crossed by this golden light.
"Smack! Smack! Two broken fingers fell to the ground, and Chen Xihao, who was in pain, frowned, and hissed coldly between his teeth.
"It's amazing!! What's going on? Xiaoyin, do you know the origin of these things? ”
Chen Xihao picked up the two fingers that fell to the ground and put them back on the severed fingers of the palm, the power of the ghost hand was released, and there were many blood streaks between the flesh and blood, sucking the two severed fingers and sticking them together.
"Master, if you just grabbed that sword directly with this ghost hand, it might cut a few bloody wounds on your palm at most, but if you use your human body to directly touch it, it is really an act of seeking death. I looked up the information and speculated based on the appearance, these three things are very famous......"
"Oh? What are they? ”
"Japan's Three Great Artifacts! On the occasion of the arrival of the Celestial Sun, Amaterasu gave Qiongqiong the Eight Mirrors and the Eight-Foot Qiong Hook Jade, as well as the Tencong Cloud Sword (Kusanagi Sword) that was "obtained" from the body of the Eight Snakes. However, they are all imitations......"
Chen Xihao was originally excited, but when Xiaoyin finally said that the three things were imitations, Chen Xihao still showed an expression of lack of interest.
Is it just a knockoff? Alas......
As if sensing Chen Xihao's disappointment, Xiaoyin began to add again, "Master, don't look down on imitations, okay?" Don't forget that the Oni Ring you're wearing now is a replica, but it's 50% effective. These three things are imitations, but they still have some of the same properties as the real thing, and I suggest you try to break the ban here and collect them, but you'd better be prepared to avoid getting hurt again. ”
Looking at the ghost ring on his wrist, Chen Xihao smiled, if it is really as Xiaoyin said, these three things can reach half the power of the real thing, then it is really a big profit.
Chen Xihao first opened the eye of hell, carefully examined this altar, only to see that the torii gate on the first floor of the altar emitted a red shimmer, these lights shrouded every trace of space in this hall, the second layer of the altar on the "three artifacts" imitation of the golden light flashed, they and these red lights cleverly combined together, one is the "torii group" trigger trap, the other is the "three artifact imitation" attack trap.
Seeing this scene, Chen Xihao instantly figured it out, no wonder he would be attacked after reaching out and touching the imitation of the Tiancong Cloud Sword just now, if anyone wanted to touch any item on this altar, they would be sensed by the trigger trap of the first layer, and then they would immediately be attacked by the attack trap of the second layer. As for the "Spirit Seal Book" that emitted a circle of black light inside the third layer of glass cover, Chen Xihao didn't see any threat to it at the moment, this "Spirit Seal Book" was surrounded by golden light and red light, and the black haze inside even shrank into a ball, looking weak.
Chen Xihao thought about it for a while, and decided to destroy the torii gate on the third layer first, in order to prevent it, he also decided not to hide his strength anymore, and instantly took off the ghost ring on his wrist, and began to release the power of the demon in his body, and in the blink of an eye, he changed into the form of a hell ghost. Try to solve it as quickly as possible, Chen Xihao knows that the longer he releases all the power of the evil ghost, the easier it is to fall into the mood of the "killing ghost", and when the time comes, he may lose his mind again and become a rakshasa demon who only knows crazy slaughter, and he will not be able to hide in the world at that time.
"Huh!" The bone blade on Chen Xihao's right arm cut fiercely into the delicate torii group on the first layer, and most of these "open" shaped torii were instantly shattered by this blow, but the imitation of the "three artifacts" above the second layer also shone brightly, Chen Xihao's second blow had not yet been cut, and the Tiancong Cloud Sword had already been automatically unsheathed, and the blade flashing with white light slashed at Chen Xihao.
"Bell!" With a crisp sound, the bone blade of Chen Xihao's left arm held the Tiancong Cloud Sword that was split from the sky, and his right arm cut into the remaining red torii again, at this time, the eight-foot Qionggou jade in the imitation of the "Three Artifacts" floated up and landed on the first layer of the worship platform, and a cyan light shroud shrouded the remaining torii on the third layer, but this light cover was still split by Chen Xihao's bone blade.
At this time, the Tiancong Cloud Sword flew up again and cut from the back of Chen Xihao's head to his neck, Chen Xihao's right hand bone blade was blocked, and his left hand clenched his fist and smashed into the cyan light mask in front of him that was about to shatter, however, the "Three Artifacts" imitation Eight Mirrors that had not moved at all finally slowly turned around, and the direction it originally illuminated was the position of the "Spirit Seal Book" on the third layer of the high platform of the worship platform.
When the white light of the Eight Mirrors shone on Chen Xihao's ghost body, Chen Xihao's body stiffened, he felt that his body was restrained, and there was a momentary pause, and a feeling of being burned by fire appeared all over his body. It is said that the Yataga Mirror contains the essence of the sun, and it seems that this imitation also has a trace of this property.
However, just as the Eight Mirrors were spinning and moving, shining the mirror surface towards Chen Xihao, the black light that had shrunk into a ball on the harmless "Spirit Seal Book" that seemed harmless to humans and animals swelled violently, and the glass cover exploded with a "snap", and then countless black gases began to scatter and flee.
Due to the destruction of most of the torii group on the third floor, there was not much red light in the main hall, but in the process of escaping from the black gas, there were still more than a dozen unlucky black gases that touched those red lights and became a little sluggish, and the Tiancong Cloud Sword in the air, which was originally going to cut to Chen Xihao's neck, made a sharp turn, caught up with these dozen black gases, and slashed them away.