The three trucks stopped, and a few people got out of the car, and among them, I was the only one who was more familiar to me, Abe Izukawa. To say that I knew Abe Izukawa or he took the initiative to visit me after the black parrot incident, the youngest son of the head of the Abe family has high emotional intelligence, and it is also relatively rare in their generation to take the initiative to learn Chinese.

"Hello, Mr. Ba." He saw that I was very polite, and nodded at me slightly.

"Oh, you're leading the team this time." I said with a smile on my cigarette.

"Well, you guys get in the car, the schedule is quite tight, and you may have to spend it in the car tonight, please don't mind."

I waved my hand and got into the truck with my luggage, there were quite a few people sitting in the back of the truck, and after I glanced at it, there were about twenty people, plus the front and co-drivers of the three trucks, there were nearly thirty people in total who participated in the trip to Takamagahara.

I found a place to sit with the former Li Yulang, and the onmyoji in front of me looked tired, and nodded politely when they saw us.

"You're also going to Takamagahara for the first time, right?" I asked the former Li Yulang.

"Yes, with your light. However, I also knew in the past that the Abe family was qualified to enter Takamagahara for the annual worship ceremony, but where did I qualify to participate in the past, this time it will be an eye-opener. The former Li Yulang said with a smile. Entering Takamagahara is equivalent to entering the Japanese divine realm, which is a very high honor for Japanese onmyoji, and even a glory for the main family.

"Oh, so do you know about their Abe's worship ceremony? Can you tell me about it? "I asked the former Li Yulang.

"Oh, there are three stages of the Abe family's worship ceremony, and they mainly worship the main god in Japanese mythology, but in Takamagahara, there are often the spirits of minor gods floating by, and if the small gods eat the worship of the big gods, the ritual will be considered a failure. Therefore, in the first stage, they will set up an enchantment to prevent spirits other than the main god from approaching. The second stage is to ask the shrine maidens who have been trained at home since childhood to dance and attract the attention of the main god. After the main deity is apparitioned, the presiding onmyoji will present the prepared tributes, and when the main deity takes these offerings, blessings will be sent down, and the worship ceremony will end. These three stages basically take a day, and the most important of them are the dancing of the shrine maiden and the willingness of the main god to accept the tribute. The shrine maiden must maintain a pure and clean body, and start cultivating from a very young age, and the higher the talent, the stronger the mana. When you are eighteen years old, you are eligible to become a shrine maiden. When you become a shrine maiden, you have to live a simple life, you can't get married and have children, and you also have to keep a virgin, and this life will last for ten years. For ten years, shrine maidens took on important responsibilities within large families such as the Abe family, such as the practice of rituals such as worship and rituals and dances. ”

Hearing this, I nodded, and my eyes looked to the sides, but I didn't see the shrine maiden.

"Why isn't the shrine maiden here?" I asked.

"Oh, the shrine maid has a very high status in the family, and it is not easy to cultivate a shrine maiden with talent and mana, so she is usually hidden like a treasure, how could she be placed in such a place. I guess I arranged a car to take her to Takamagahara. ”

"Oh, did you have a shrine maiden in the former Li family?" I asked with a smile.

Qianli Yulang thought for a while and said: "There used to be, although our family has always been inferior to big families like Abe or Ashiya, but when the former Li family was at its peak, there were still hundreds of people, and they also cultivated witches and did many rituals in many places. The last shrine maiden was my sister, but unfortunately, she was killed by an evil god in a ritual. After my sister's death, the family's prestige fell to a low point and has been in decline ever since. "I didn't expect to inadvertently bring up the sad past of the former Li Yulang, so I patted him on the shoulder.

"By the way, you just said that in addition to shrine maidens, there is a very important part in the worship ceremony, what is it?" I hurriedly shifted the subject.

"Oh, the second ring is the tribute. Worshipping the main god is not a trick, and if you take some unqualified tribute, you will be punished by the main god. So every year, the Abe family prepares very good and a lot of tribute, and the last two trucks must be loaded with tribute, which is really a lot. ”

"Hehe, I'm also very curious about the main god of Japan, don't be like a door." I grinned, the car staggered, and I saw that it was still early to stop, so I slowly fell asleep against the car.

I slept for about three or four hours and was woken up.

"Brother Shan, the car is parked." I rubbed my eyes and stood up, jumped out of the car and saw that the car had stopped but it seemed that the place had not yet arrived, and the road in front was blocked.

"What's going on?" I walked over and asked curiously.

Abe Izukawa heard my voice and walked over and said, "There are rockfalls and trees on the road ahead, and I'm having them cleaned up." ”

Thinking something was wrong, I nodded and turned around to walk over to continue sleeping, but as soon as I took a step, I saw someone carrying something like a lunch box in the direction of the truck behind.

I was also curious, so I asked in passing: "Who wants to eat so late?" ”

Abe Izukawa was obviously nervous, but it was not very obvious, and he just said casually: "Some people are hungry, if you want to eat, I will have people prepare." ”

I waved my hand and didn't care, climbed into the truck and continued to sleep in a daze. After more than half an hour, the truck slowly drove up, and I fell asleep again in the rocking car.

This sleep is not very sound, maybe because of the relationship between waking up once before, or because the car is shaking too much, I always wake up from sleep, as if I saw someone looking at me in a daze, but I was soon ignored as a dream. The truck traveled hundreds of kilometers and finally stopped, and in some places the mountain roads were very old and in very bad condition, and the speed of the truck could not be pulled up at all, and sometimes it was necessary to drive a few kilometers down to clean up the garbage on the road and then move on. So what could have been a place that could have been driven in half a day on China's highway was driven for a full day at this time.

"In front is a village created by the Abe family near the Takamagahara barrier as a final foothold." When I got out of the car, I said to him. When I looked up, the village ahead was small, but it looked like there were quite a few guards. There were four people standing at the gate alone, and the village was surrounded by a stone wall, and from a distance, it looked more like a fortress built by the Abe family than a village. The logo of the Abe family is printed on the wall.

The truck arrived at the door, and Abe Izukawa ordered the door to open before slowly driving in.

I was standing outside smoking, and when the door opened, I was going to go in after smoking this cigarette, but I saw a black sedan driving behind me, which stopped not far from me, and then two people hurriedly walked down from the car, both holding white cloth rolls, and after getting out of the car, they spread the cloth rolls on the ground, all the way from the car door to the village. When I saw this scene, I was stunned, who is so noble, can't he get out of the car and take a step?

But that's not all, there were already a few Abe's guards walking over to the gate, carrying something similar to a sedan chair and waiting, and it seemed that when the distinguished guests in the car walked to the village gate, they got into the sedan chair and carried it into the house.

I was going to go into the village, but now I was interested in seeing who the person who couldn't get his feet on the mud was so solemn.

At this time......, one of the people who had finished laying the ground walked to the door, opened the door, and there was a crisp sound from the door, which at first glance sounded like the sound of wind chimes, crisp and pleasant.

A girl dressed in a red and white witch costume walked out of the car, with long black hair, a white veil on her face with her head down, a red spot at the center of her eyebrows, and her eyes were clear, perhaps the cleanest eyes I had ever seen in years. She stepped on the white cloth, stood up straight, and slowly walked along the white cloth towards the village.

Standing on the sidelines I looked at her, this girl was about twenty years old, but she had strong spiritual powers. It is not difficult to see from the dress that she should be the former Li Yulang said, the witch of the Abe family. I heard the sound of wind chimes coming from the hair ornament on her head, which was a silver bell.

She walked in front of me, coughing, perhaps smoky from my smoke.