Shinto shrines are shrines that worship and worship the gods of Shintoism, and are the oldest type of religious architecture in Japan. Due to the close connection between Shinto and the lives of the Japanese people, shrines are common. In ancient Japan, there were shrine maidens who could accept the support of the gods and convey the will of the gods, and the most famous "Himiko" was a shrine maiden who was the ruler of the "Yamatai Kingdom".

The belief in Shinto shrines in Japan is based on animism, and worships all things that are spiritualized. From mountains, trees, strange rocks, waterfalls, oceans, fields, the sun, fire, thunder, various animals and ancestral gods, they can all be the objects of worship and worship, so Shinto Buddhism in Japan has the saying of "eight million gods".

Passing through the torii gate and entering the inside of the shrine, not only are you non-human, but even the Wasuka Goemon who is an ordinary person feels the call from inside the shrine, not to mention Kaede, who has spiritual powers.

"My lord, what is this?"

Goemon raised his head and looked at Yang Xi, eager for him to solve his doubts.

"That's what caused the yokai to besiege your village."

"My lord, do you mean that those youkai attacked the village because they heard the call here?"

"Well, this kind of call is very similar to the attraction of the Jade of the Four Souls to the monsters, so those monsters mistakenly think that there is the Jade of the Four Souls hidden in your village."

"The Jade of the Four Souls?!"

A small exclamation, it seems that even the hidden ninja village has heard of the great name of the Jade of the Four Souls.

"I'm not going to hide it, my lord, in fact, I originally planned to ask for help from the demon slayer, and it is said that I gave the jade of the four souls to the famous demon slayer village guarded by the witch Kikyo."

"Hehe, if it were them, they would indeed be able to deal with these monsters. In that case, I'm nosy! ”

"No, my lord, I didn't mean that! I'm just"

He rubbed Goemon's head. Yang Xi just smiled softly at her.

Such a dazzling smile, as warm as the sun. Feeling the thick palm that caressed her head, an unprecedented sense of fullness poured into her heart, dispelling all the insecurity in her heart.

"It's not good for a cute girl like Goemon to wrap it too tightly!"

Saying this, Yang Xi gently stroked it on her head. She didn't deprecate, but just showed her hair a little, and her headscarf bulged up like a hat.

"Well, it looks so much better that way!"

"This, this"

Noticed hair exposed. Goemon looked panicked. Yang Xi naturally knew why she behaved like this, and the reason was very simple, because her hair was silver. Among the humans who are generally black-haired, Suka Goemon, who was born with silver hair, must have suffered a lot because of this.

The reason why she has androphobia is also because her unusual hair has made her bullied by boys since she was a child. In addition, her father's education is so strict that she does not dare to approach any men, including her father, and she is even more afraid to speak out about being bullied.

"You have beautiful hair!"

"Really?!"

Goemon was startled at first, then lowered his head shyly. This is still her growing up. It was the first time that I was praised by others for my beautiful hair. If someone had said this to her before, even if everyone in the world hated her, she would not have wrapped her head tightly and dared not show a trace of it.

"Cocoa, they all said. Only the yokai's hair is silver. ”

"Who said only youkai hair is silver? There are also many gods with silver hair! Also, many of the youkai have black hair. ”

"Really?!"

Wasuka Goemon didn't question how Yang Xi knew the hair color of the gods and monsters, she only thought that this gentle big brother was comforting herself.

"Now, Goemon."

"Your Excellency. Can I help you? ”

"Do you want to get a lot of power? Enough strength to protect yourself and the village. ”

Goemon didn't answer, but looked at Yang Xi with wide eyes, "Are you leaving?" ”

"Huh. yes, I already have something else to do, and after taking care of the cute Goemon please, I'm naturally leaving! ”

Is it cute?

His heart couldn't help but beat rapidly, and Wasuka Goemon only felt that his whole body was very hot, and for the first time, he felt that the clothes tightly wrapped around his body made him so stuffy.

"My lord, what is the price of gaining strength?"

In order to stop thinking nonsense, Goemon asked.

"Oh, why do you think you have to pay a price to get the strength of the force?"

"Because because the young Goemon didn't know how to answer, but the common sense of hard training since childhood told her that if she didn't work hard, she wouldn't be able to get ahead of her peers, and if she didn't go ahead of others, she would still be bullied by others."

In order not to be bullied, hard cultivation is the price.

Seeing that Goemon was anxiously speechless, Yang Xi gently put his hand on her head, "Goemon knows that there is a price to pay for what he has to do to gain strength, but he doesn't know what to say, right?" ”

"Uh-huh!!"

Looking up at Yang Xi, Bee Suka Goemon nodded again and again, as if he was afraid that Yang Xi would not believe himself if he slowed down.

"Hehe, because if you want to get, you have to give, and there will be no pie in the sky. If there is something to get for nothing, please notify me, I'll be the first to go! ”

Hearing Yang Xi say this, even Xiao Feng, who was listening, couldn't help laughing.

These two little loli are about the same height, only up to Yang Xi's waist. Stretching out his hands and rubbing the heads of the two Lori, Yang Xi stepped forward.

There is an enchantment inside the shrine, and the call is emanating from the old and broken barrier.

"It's such an evil demonic aura, I really don't know what the hell is sealed in it!"

After approaching the barrier, Kamikuya let out an exclamation.

After Shen Jiuye lost the bet with Yang Xi, Yang Xi gave her the Heavenly Maiden Feather Coat. Shen Jiuya, who has the Celestial Maiden's feather robe, can fully exert the strength of the Celestial Maiden, which is the strength of the SS rank! Faced with the slightest demonic energy leaking out of the enchantment, they were all moved, and it was conceivable how powerful the existence of the seal inside was.

Strong is strong, Yang Xi did not feel tricky. Because he could feel that the existence of the seal in the enchantment was incomplete.

With SSS-level grids, but only SS-level energy intensity, and enchantment suppression, what's there to worry about?

"You stay outside."

After speaking, without waiting for the others to react, Yang Xi regarded the enchantment as nothing, and stepped in.

As soon as he entered the enchantment, the huge resentment generated countless illusions around him, wanting to make Yang Xi indulge in it.

However, the demon was not afraid of resentment attacks at all, and he also had the divine dragon's eyes that saw through all illusory truths. Illusions or something, nothing at all.

Sealed in the barrier is a one-man tall boulder, this boulder is extremely irregular, it looks particularly awkward, and there are traces of damage on it, and it seems that part of it is missing.

"I didn't expect the legendary Killing Stone to be sealed in such a place! Now, in front of the white-faced nine-tailed golden fox Yuzao, you called a large number of monsters to come over, just to devour the demonic power of these monsters to be resurrected, right? ”

When I heard Yang Xi say "in front of the white-faced nine-tailed golden retriever fox Yuzao". The originally silent Killing Stone shook violently, and the entire earth shook as well.

"Be honest with me!"

Ignoring the fierce spell poison attached to the Killing Stone, Yang Xi stepped forward and slapped it with a strong palm, and the powerful force almost shattered the Killing Stone.

After leaving a deep palm print. The Killing Stone was completely honest.

Legend has it that Tamamo was born in India, and when he traveled to China, he incarnated as a sister in the summer and Daji in the Shang king. When the Shang Dynasty fell, she was hunted down by Jiang Ziya and forced to cross the ocean to Japan. Calling himself "Tamamo Mae", he won the favor and trust of Emperor Toba.

At that time, Tamamae was favored by Emperor Toba, and the name Tamamo was given by the Emperor; It's the same as the legend of the Kazu. Tamamo enticed the emperor to ignore the government, and got a strange illness and fell into bed, and the ministers began to suspect her, and asked Abe Yasunari to secretly investigate her, and confirmed that the thousand-year-old nine-tailed demon fox was transformed, and the emperor who had recovered from the imperial body was angry and ordered to hunt down Tamamo Mae.

Later, she was captured and killed by Harumi, but her ambition and obsession remained in Nasuno in the form of a "killing stone" (a stone that releases poisonous gas that prevents animals from approaching), always waiting for the time to take revenge.

In the Muromachi period, it was destroyed by the monk Genon, and its fragments were scattered all over the place.

If Yang Xi guessed correctly, the killing stone in front of him should be the largest part of the killing stone fragment, and it is also the most important part. Because this stone has already generated consciousness, if it is not for Yang Xi to intervene to solve the crisis of the ninja village this time, I am afraid that it can be resurrected with the help of the demon power of those summoned monsters.

However, what makes Yang Xi curious is that Shinaki Abe has also seen it. As an onmyoji, that thing is indeed very powerful, but from this killing stone, it is not difficult for Yang Xi to infer that Yuzao's strength in front of him is definitely SSS-level, how could she be captured and killed by Abe Jingming?

Well, the different worlds really can't be compared with it.

There are also legends about Tamamo Mae that say that she is a god with nine tails. The anthropomorphic deification of the sun, the awkward Amaterasu.

Originally, the fox was a god who guarded the tomb of the hill, and its true face was the feminine posture of the leyline (dragon). Although Feng Shui only mentions the yang dragon (the energy that exists for the living), the fox is the yin dragon (the feng shui energy that exists for the dead) that is more valued than the yang dragon in Feng Shui. The origin seems to be that under the moonlight, the afterimage of the white fox running away looks like a long line (dragon vein).

In addition, since ancient times, the path of light created by the sun at dawn on the surface of the sea or in the morning mist has been regarded as snakes, dragons, foxes, and so on.

Well, Japanese gods or something, it's really complicated.

What to do with this stone?

Rubbing his forehead, Yang Xi said that he was a little troubled.

Strictly speaking, Yang Xi's divine character is a cut below that of Yuzao.

Willeslana is an ancient military god who serves the sun god, and Tamaki is a royal soul split from the sun god Amaterasu, although the two mythological systems are different, but in general, Yang Xi, who plundered Willeslana's power, is indeed lower than this broken stone.

As a god killer, there is nothing that he can't beat, but when he attacks the killing stone, he always feels a little powerless.

Even if he broke the stone, it would have to take a lot of effort. Moreover, the killing stone was shattered. It's not that the trouble is gone. On the contrary, the broken killing stone is more threatening, if it is buried in the human body, the person parasitized by the killing stone can obtain infinite demonic power, and then the soul is quickly eroded, and the self and body are destroyed into evil spirits.

How many pieces of killing stones have been shattered by such a large piece of killing stone!

Moreover, even if an enchantment is set up to seal them, the seal will always die one day.

Pack and take away? It's a good choice.

If you give it to the fox mother, I don't know if the strength of the fox mother will go to the next level!

However, before giving it to the fox mother. The consciousness in front of Tamamo has to find a way to extinguish it, otherwise something will be bad if something happens. Yang Xi didn't want anything to happen that he would regret.

So, he opened the dimensional space, and despite the resistance of the killing stone, he stuffed her into it in one go.

Get it done!

Clapping his hands, Yang Xi walked out of the enchantment refreshed.

"Master, how's it going?!"

Yang Xi had just come out, and Shen Jiuye also stepped forward and asked with a concerned face.

Her sincere expression made Yang Xi stunned.

Shen Jiuye also noticed his abnormality, and almost hit the wall with the pillar.

That's not what I meant. That's not what I think! I don't care about this guy, I wish he was dead!!

It's just that no matter how God resists in her heart for a long time, the shackles of the Heavenly Dao Contract also make her always look like a good maid who is loyal to her master.

He gave him a strange look. Yang Xi didn't answer, but said to the Wasuka Goemon who was looking at him with a concerned face: "Don't worry, the things inside have been solved, you don't have to worry about being suddenly attacked by youkai again." ”

"Thank you, thank you!"

Wasuka Goemon didn't know what to say. She just bowed vigorously and thanked her.

"Okay, don't say much about thanks, have you thought about the question I asked you earlier?"

"Do you have the strength to protect yourself and your village? I've got it figured! If such strength can really be obtained. I'm willing to pay any price! ”

"Hehe, 'willing to pay any price' is not something that a girl can say casually! Well, since you have this realization, then, accept my strength! ”

Looking at Wasuka Goemon, who heard the meaning of his words, although he was a little shy but still unswerving, Yang Xi gently stroked her head and untied the clothes that tightly wrapped around her little delicate body

Leaning between his neck, he opened his mouth, and his sharp fangs pierced in without hindrance.

With a sigh, a strange feeling filled the whole body, making Wasuka Goemon reflexively hug Yang Xi tightly, and then immersed himself in a wonderful feeling.

It seems to float into the clouds, as if deep into the sea, as if it is blown by the breeze, as if it is soaked in a hot spring.

Indescribable comfort.

Even after the first hug, she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

"Okay, I'm leaving, and you'll have to protect yourself from now on."

"Then will we meet again in the future?"

"Yes, with my strength, you already have an immortal body, one day, we will meet again!"

Although Wasuka Goemon was very reluctant, he still let go of the hands that were holding Yang Xi tightly.

"Immortal?" muttered quietly, and then looked at Yang Xi with a serious face, "Well, I'll wait, waiting for the day when we meet again." ”

"Hehe, I'm also looking forward to the day when we meet again. Oh yes, these two things are for you. ”

"What is this?"

"Good thing, after I'm gone, you can find a place where no one is there to eat it, and there will be unexpected benefits! So, see you again! ”

Leaving behind the demonic energy crystals and soul crystals, he waved his hand to the Goemon Gate, and Yang Xi disappeared with Kikyo, Xiao Feng, and Shen Jiuye.

Helping Wasuka Goemon was originally a whim for Yang Xi, even if she hugged her for the first time, it was because her silver hair aroused Yang Xi's affection for Akaxia. Moeka's memories.

Now, it's time to break up.

It's just that Yang Xi didn't know that his unintentional actions changed the fate of many people.

The ninja village that was supposed to be slaughtered was preserved, and the killing stones that did not absorb enough monster power were not resurrected, and the escaped Wasuka Goemon did not become the leader of the bandit "Kawanami", nor did he serve Kinoshita Toyoshiro, join the Oda family, and participate in the world hegemony.

"Hey~ Where is this iron rooster, why do you ask so many monsters and don't know what to do?"

After separating from the Wasuka Goemon, Yang Xi and his party asked for directions from a lot of monsters, but they didn't know that the monster named Iron Rooster was not only Iron Rooster, but even the daughter of Iron Rooster, the name of the bird demon Ashihime.

Is the only way to go to the junction of life and death is through the gates of the Fire Country?

In desperation, Yang Xi could only give up the trouble of finding the iron rooster mother and daughter and walked in another direction.

The door to this world and the other world, many monsters active in the Fire Country knew that Yang Xi had found it just by casually inquiring.

Walking in from the gloomy cave, Shen Jiuye said in surprise: "I didn't expect the space in here to be so big!" ”

"Brother, brother, there is a lot of space, does it mean that the door is also very big?"

"Well, Xiao Feng is so smart!"

Rubbing Xiao Feng's hair, he never hesitated to praise cute children.

Xiao Feng smiled happily, and couldn't help but think, it would be better if it was his sister who praised him.

That beautiful sister, a serious sister, a serious sister, an older sister who doesn't smile, an older sister who never dresses up

The more I think about it, the more sad I feel.

If it weren't for the comfort of her sister's body, Xiao Feng wouldn't know how she would live.

Yang Xi, who saw what was on her mind, rubbed her hair again, "Don't worry, I will definitely save your sister's soul!" ”

"Hmm!"

Wiping the tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes, Xiao Feng nodded vigorously with a smile.

As he spoke, the hundred-meter-high gate was finally seen. (To be continued......)