Night.

Kyoto's outermost urban area is home to a house with flowers.

This is a property that Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan purchased not long ago.

It was originally owned by a down-and-out aristocratic child, and it is said that the ancestor was also the queen of the minister.

However, judging from the architectural format of the house, this kind of rhetoric is just a gold paste on one's own face.

It's just a small house, and on the same street, there are quite a few dwellings of the same size.

In Kyoto, where land is at a premium, you can't afford to buy such a house if you have money.

The head of the Huakaiyuan family is now reading a book in the bedroom.

The fine white paper, the surface is delicate and smooth, and when you touch it in the palm of your hand, you can smell the ink slightly.

People who know how to maintain books will place camphor roots in the study room to prevent corrosion and insect control.

In this way, the book can be preserved as long as possible.

"Yes, they are all books that are some years old, and they seem to be originals or rubbings."

It's all a bit mothball-like, not pungent.

"The dream of a literati through the ages, red sleeves add fragrance to reading at night. In this situation, how can you not be accompanied by a beautiful woman with red sleeves? ”

With a wave of his big sleeves, two pieces of yellow paper floated out, fell to the ground, and turned into two women, one green and one white, standing in place pretty.

"Come, come, come······· Hug left and right, and let Ben Gongzi also be corrupt! ”

The two gods snuggled up to him obediently.

This kind of Shikigami created by blowing into the aura is not a living creature in nature, and its spiritual intelligence is very low, and it can only be used to perform some simple tasks.

But in terms of appearance, she is already a first-class beauty among human beings········ The standard of the Hereafter.

As for this era·············· A beautiful woman with a radius of 100 miles, grinning and smiling with yellow teeth······

What's more, at this time, among the princesses and ladies here, gouache is beautiful, and they like to apply a thick layer of gouache, and these cosmetics contain heavy metal lead powder······

No matter how beautiful she is, she can't stand the poison of lead powder, and within three years, she will be completely disfigured.

In this era, the real beauty is either a youkai, a god, or a shiigami········

In short, in this kind of era, when you meet a real Dongying beauty, don't think about the thoughts you shouldn't have, that's absolutely! No! Everyman!

For example, in front of the famous white-faced golden retriever.

Not a large residence, divided into two floors.

The upper floor is a study and bedroom.

The lower floor is the living room, kitchen, and more.

After nightfall, the whole of Kyoto falls silent.

No matter how busy the area is during the day, no one will walk on the streets.

Kyoto during the day belongs to humans.

And the night is an anomaly········

All kinds of weak monsters lurking in the shadows have become active.

Under the leadership of the ghostly spirits, they wantonly plunder and attack humans·······

Even the families of the great nobles were sometimes overwhelmed and had to ask a clever onmyoji to arrange the enchantment.

As for the civilian population······· I had to ask for more blessings.

Fortunately, the main purpose of Kyoto yokai is not to kill people, but more to scare humans and collect a power called "fear" to strengthen themselves.

The more you are afraid of the monster, the more you will increase the power of the monster, which is fear.

Fear can give birth to new monsters, and it can also increase demon power, which is the food for the growth of monsters.

At night, even if it is an onmyoji, unless he is really skilled enough, he does not dare to go out easily.

Because the onmyoji with abundant spiritual power is undoubtedly a delicacy in the eyes of the monsters, whenever a lone onmyoji appears at this point in time, it will almost inevitably become the target of the monsters··········· Except for Qingming.

Half-demon Qingming, who has the blood of a white fox, is the master of the night in this ancient capital.

Ruling humans during the day and monsters at night, the lord of the ghosts and spirits that roams this ancient capital is the Great Onmyoji who reigns at the apex of the Yin-Yang Dao·········· Haruaki Abe.

Of course, that's something that only a 50-year-old Qingming can do···········

Now Qingming is still very young, has his own people, and has not given birth to the idea of becoming the master of the ghost.

He was in the Yin Yang Liao········ Among the institutions set up by the government, the rank is not high.

A few years ago, he learned from his teacher He Mao Zhongxing, and then quickly became famous.

At present, he is no longer weaker than his teacher in terms of Yin and Yang Dao.

Qingming is known for controlling twelve high-ranking gods at the same time.

These high-level gods each have their own temperament and abilities, and ordinary onmyoji can't even make one, let alone make twelve, and control them.

In fact, ordinary onmyoji, who devotes his life to practicing yin-yang arts, can rarely control more than one Shikijin at the same time.

Except, of course, that cannon fodder god.

Similar to this type of god, or the potential youkai god that has been surrendered, in order to ensure that it does not kill the master, the number should be as small as possible.

With each additional one, the spiritual power required to control the Shikigami increased exponentially or even five or six times, and the more powerful the Shikigami was, the more so.

As a result, even a skilled onmyoji usually minimizes the number of shikigami and places more emphasis on quality.

Manipulative gods need to be multi-purpose, and they need to spend spiritual power, which doesn't mean that hard work can improve much········· That's talent!

"With my current ability, if it were the twelve gods, it would ········· Even if the twelve god generals who have just been created and have not yet reached the level of the big monster can only control three at the same time, no more than five. ”

"However, Qingming can easily handle the twelve, and it is clear that he can handle it with ease, which is not his limit."

Hua Kaiyuan Xiuyuan sighed, put down the scroll in his hand, and walked to the window.

The evening breeze blew and ruffled the hair around his ears.

In early spring, it's the second floor again, and the wind here is a little cold.

"It's all over the place, and Kyoto is so active every day!"

In the gray night sky, you can't see anything, but in the eyes of the onmyoji, you can see flocks of birds flying······· It is a bird-shaped youkai that appears at the time of the demon and attacks passing caravans, stealing all kinds of food, as for the name·········· Sorry, this miscellaneous fish monster doesn't need a name.

"Between me and Qingming. The difference is quite significant. ”

These days, through side knocks, Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan also learned about Qingming's performance from the mouths of some onmyoji in Yinyangliao.

Although it is likely that the opponent is clumsy, the performance on the outside is still very telling.

After one year of enrollment, he became a leader, but after five years, he became an official onmyoji, and after three years of travel, he made his own high-level god "Blue Dragon" that could grow with the master.

If that's all, it's just an elite onmyoji, and an onmyoji who may become his teacher in the future can resist a big monster alone.

Corresponding to the level of the monster, the onmyoji is actually divided into the formal onmyoji, the elite onmyoji, and the great onmyoji.

Roughly divided, it refers to combat power.

There are a lot of things that a formal onmyoji needs to learn, including almost all the courses of elementary, middle, and high school, and this kind of onmyoji who has learned to become a teacher can deal with the vast majority of ordinary little monsters, as well as have the ability to complete the daily business of moving to feng shui, divination, and so on.

This kind of onmyoji is actually the pillar of yin-yang liao.

Their abilities range from novice onmyojis to onmyojis who can handle some tricky yokai.

One level further up is the elite among them.

With a lot of means, rich experience, and no obvious shortcomings, he can deal with a small-scale Hyakki Night Walk (here Hyakki Night Walk, referring to the collective activities of youkai), and face a double-digit elite youkai at one time.

The current Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan is at this stage.

Including Qingming, the young man is still on the rise, and he is currently at this stage.

The scale of the 100 ghosts walking at night, 10 people, 30 people, 77 ghosts walking at night, and 100 ghosts walking at night········· The greater the number and the more elite youkai participate, the more terrifying it becomes.

Hundred ghosts walk at night, this kind of collective action of the monsters, will gather their demonic power to form a whole, as the main force of which is the elite monsters.

According to the number of elite monsters involved, their threat level can be divided.

Almost every ten more times the number of tricky doubles, and the night walk of a hundred ghosts is to the tenth power of two, which is more than a thousand times.

In other words, the Hundred Ghost Night Walk gathered by a hundred elite youkai, after it is truly formed, combined with the fear of human beings, can eventually reach more than a thousand times the demonic power of a single elite youkai.

At the same time, when the hundred ghosts walk at night, the lord of the hundred ghosts, the youkai headed by him, will be able to control this condensed demonic power·········

Just imagine, if a certain monster stuck at the critical point of the big monster level gathers enough monsters as subordinates, and then holds such a large-scale night walk of a hundred ghosts, collecting human fear, and finally everything is perfect, it can increase its own demon power to more than a thousand times the normal state!

With such a huge amount of demonic power, it is obtained by a monster at a critical point, and what will happen, there is probably no need to say more.

That's the birth of another big youkai.

This is the way that youkai have figured out over thousands of years to become stronger with the help of the power of human fear.

Although this kind of big monster made by borrowing power is slightly more dependent on fear, it is also a pretty good way to become stronger!

This is also the reason why the established youkai organizations rarely kill people directly.

They need human beings to have constant fear and to strengthen them.

At night, Kyoto has been completely reduced to a paradise of ghosts and ghosts.

The ministers raised the onmyoji, worshiped the gods, and used the power of the enchantment to keep peace for a while.

Humanity, humiliatingly, gave up the night to the alien.