Chapter 90: The Eight Directions Soul Gathering Array
On the outskirts of Nara Prefecture in Tokyo, Hishima, several people are talking in a beautiful wooden building.
"President, a letter from the dark market, the plan sent by the clan to Yingtang to repair the Changyun Great Array to activate the hub has failed, and one person has been killed in battle, and the remaining two disciples are on standby, and I now ask to send someone to support."
It was Hideyo Kinoshita, the ninja leader of the Koga faction who spoke.
"That disciple was killed?"
Hearing Kinoshita Hideyou's statement that a disciple had been killed, Iga Ninja Leader Masaji Ito and Tokugawa Ingotho, vice president of the Toei Onmyoji Association, asked in unison.
"The one who died was Taichi Miyamoto, a young talent from Owari."
"Oh......"
When the two of them heard the name Taichi Miyamoto, they both breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.
Toshihide Tokugawa is the nephew of Tokugawa Ingotpo and is related to him by blood, and Miyuki Ito is the daughter of Masaji Ito, not to mention.
"Who killed Taichi Miyamoto?"
Fumio Konoe, the head of the Toei Onmyoji Association, asked.
"It's a young man named Xiang Dou, and it is believed that the young man has a powerful spirit, and they are defeated without any resistance."
"Kinoshita-kun, Tokugawa Toshihide has the 'Thunder Fire Infant Spirit' that ranks twelfth in the ghost list, can there be such a powerful ghost thing in that small land of Yingtang? Could it be that the information is wrong, or that someone else is secretly playing tricks? ”
Tokugawa Ingotpo was very important to his nephew Toshihide Tokugawa, and he always thought that he was a figure standing at the top of the younger generation, an outstanding rising star, so when he heard Kinoshita Hideyo say that it was a young man who beat him, he was very suspicious.
"Tokugawa-kun, my Kinoshita Murazo of the Koga faction has two ghost spirits, didn't he also die in Yingtang? Do you think Toshihide Tokugawa will be better than Kinoshita Murasan of the Koga faction? ”
Kinoshita Hide, who has never been eye-to-eye with Tokugawa ingots, sneered.
"Did the letter tell you what kind of ghost it was?"
Fumio Konoe asked.
"It's a little girl in red."
"The little girl in red? There is no little girl in red among the top ten ghosts on the ghost list, what is going on? ”
Fumio Konoe pondered with the white beard on his chin.
"President, do you think this little girl in red will be the same as my Ito family's ghost 'Tomie', she is a ghost who has not been ranked on the ghost list."
"It's very possible that the times are advancing, and different eras will breed different ghosts, and 'Tomie' is the strongest ghost of our era."
"President, why don't we go and ask 'Tomie' to come out and let it go to Yingtang to solve the matter!"
Fumio Konoe pondered for a while:
"It's okay, 'Tomie' hasn't shown up for a long time, so let it go out for activities."
……
"Zhang Fan, how do I feel like hell in this place?"
On a small wooden bridge, a man and a woman are walking on it, the wooden bridge looks very tattered, the planks seem to break at any time when stepped on, under the wooden bridge is a pool of green and black water, and there are faint hands ready to stretch out and pull feet in the water.
"Ma Zhen, it is estimated that there were many innocent people who died unjustly when this place was built, and there were many grievances, and it was uncomfortable for people to stay there, and this place should be the kind of place where the grievances were very heavy."
The man and woman who spoke were Ma Zhen and Zhang Fan, who had just entered the leading array.
After the two of them walked across the broken wooden bridge, a temple-like room appeared in front of them.
"This place is built larger than the underground mausoleum of the ancient emperors, and there are temples in Jingran."
"It's not a temple, it's an altar, but the shape in front of it is somewhat similar to the temple."
"Let's go over and see, if it's an altar, there should be some traces left inside."
After the two finished speaking, they ran towards the altar, and just when they reached the altar and were about to step on the steps, Ma Zhen suddenly stopped and said:
"Wait, I'll go over there."
After saying that, Ma Zhen walked to a stone drum not far from the steps, and then leaned down to pick up something.
"What's so nice about this copper bump?"
Ma Zhen took the thing in his hand and was inspecting it, when Zhang Fan, who came to her side, asked.
"This copper pimple is a magic weapon town spirit seal from my Maoshan Mountain, but unfortunately it has been damaged for some reason, and I can't tell that the name engraved on it is that senior."
"Ma Zhen, your senior brother Wei Tianyang and Master Xinci also picked up a lot of your Maoshan magic weapons today, there should be some traces in this altar, let's go in and search carefully."
Entering the altar, there is a corridor leading to the front, and there are some strange runes painted on the walls on both sides, and after carefully inspecting those runes, the two of them unanimously believe that the runes on the wall are runes from Dongying.
The two of them walked along the corridor to the end, and a tall altar appeared in front of them, and in the center of the altar were eight huge statues with hideous faces, and those eight statues opened their mouths to face the eight directions.
In front of each statue was a blackened corpse, each sitting on the ground, and the shape of the hand seemed to be pinching the decision.
In front of a corpse, Ma Zhen's senior brother Wei Tianyang and junior brother Chen Feng were kneeling there and crying loudly, Master Xinci stood aside, chanting the Buddha's name in his mouth, while the others were nowhere to be found.
"Senior brother, ...... you?"
Ma Zhen went up to the altar and came behind Wei Tianyang, with some doubts in his heart.
Wei Tianyang wiped his tears and stood up from the ground:
"Little junior sister, all the corpses on this stage are my predecessors in Maoshan, and after inspection, this corpse can already be confirmed to be the thirty-fourth generation head of my Maoshan Songhe Dao Chief."
"Matsuru Dao Chief? Senior brother, the bodies of these corpses are so black that they are unrecognizable, how did you identify him as the corpse of the Songhe Dao Chief? ”
"Little junior sister, you can find a magic weapon marked with Maoshan anti-counterfeiting logo on each corpse, and the Dao decision that each corpse is pinching is also my Maoshan unique secret decision 'sacrificing' decision!"
"This corpse is wearing an iron plaque, and the pine crane pattern on it is recorded in our Maoshan catalogue, which is the identity security identification of my Maoshan pine crane ancestor."
Ma Zhen was relieved after listening to the elder brother's explanation, she is the head of the Maoshan faction, and she also has her own anti-counterfeiting identity, which will only appear when she wears it, and others wear it on her body is just an ordinary jewelry.
After Ma Zhen knelt down in front of the corpse of the Songhe Dao Chief:
"Senior Brother, why did Daoist Songhe and so many Maoshan disciples die here, have you found the reason?"
"Little junior sister, you go behind these eight huge statues and take a look."
Ma Zhen turned to the back of the statue, and behind the statue there was a white circle, and in the circle there was a black word for 'mourning'.
As soon as the word 'mourning' is looked, an inexplicable sense of sadness rises in people's hearts, as if they are the unfortunate people of this earthly world, abandoned by heaven and earth and degraded by all things.
Seeing that Ma Zhen looked at the statue as if he was thinking deeply, Master Xinci stepped forward:
"Miss Ma, this altar is a feng shui array, in this array, the eight statues correspond to eight directions, and there is a word behind each statue, which is 'sadness, sadness, fear, shock, resentment, hatred, death, and cripplement', and the big mouth of each statue is absorbing the soul of the corresponding direction, which is an extremely vicious feng shui soul collection array."
After Master Xinci finished speaking, Wei Tianyang continued:
"Seeing that Daoist Songhe and my predecessors in Maoshan are still pinching the 'sacrifice' after their deaths, we know that they voluntarily sacrificed their lives here in order to block this soul-gathering array and absorb souls."
"The reason why their bodies are black is because they use their bodies as containers to stop the resentment of those souls that are to be absorbed, and they must know the purpose of this feng shui array, to sacrifice their lives to stop the operation of this feng shui array."