There is good news from Takamagahara's Kakura, about the production of [Blank Divine Tree].

It took her three days to carefully study both the Divine Tree and the [High Heaven Plain Pass], and then she finally used the Pass and Ebony Gold as materials to successfully create a [Blank Divine Tree].

After Kamiya got the new Kamitsu in the Divine Residence, he immediately used "Strange Tales of Things" to make an appraisal, and the appraisal results were exactly the same as the one that was consumed on Oguri Island before.

But to be on the safe side, he still asked one more question: "Is this thing okay?" I'm able to use the Dead Paper Man and the Divine Coffin you made normally to achieve resurrection in the inner world, right? ”

"Of course!" Jue patted the chest cloth and vowed to him, "If you can't be resurrected, you will boldly come to give me a bad review, and I will compensate myself to you." ”

“…… If I fail to resurrect, how can I give you a bad review? ”

"Then I'll give you a martyr? The tragic death of the master of Takamagahara and his loyal craftsmen sounds like a good story, and it may be sung by the world. ”

"No, it's better for us all to live well."

Kamiya complained like this, but after listening to the words of the craftsman's sister, his heart was completely relieved.

Generally speaking, when she says things like "I will compensate myself to you" and "I will marry you", it means that she has absolute confidence.

In the professional field, Jue has always been reliable.

After paying 600 soul crystals to his craftsman sister who worked hard overtime, Kamiyagawa left Takamagahara with the newly acquired [Blank Divine Tree].

……

After getting the blank shrine, Kamiyagawa took a day off and flew directly to Yokohama, where he arrived at Keikajuku on Tsushima Island again.

This side of Jixiang is still under the lockdown of the countermeasure room.

According to the information we received earlier, it seems that the organization is planning to cut down the Fuso trees that grow here.

The details of the felling are still being discussed, and it is estimated that it will be finalized in another month or two.

There's still time.

As long as the god is successfully established into the Santu River in the inner world, then the destruction of the Fuso tree related to the River Styx in the real world should not have much to do with it.

After all, at that time, Shinjin Chun and Santuchuan were already tied together.

Referring to the situation of [Lost Kamui], the Root Land has no corresponding area in the real world, but as long as the god is standing inside, Kamiyagawa can enter and exit freely.

Logically, that's right.

The area around Jikajuku is still blocked by the countermeasures room, but Kamiyagawa has entered relatively smoothly.

After the battle here was over, when Kamiyagawa submitted the battle report, there was a vague inquiry in the countermeasure room, asking Kamiya's "Onijin Master" what he thought of Fuso Tree.

He didn't give a direct reply at that time, but said that he would find an opportunity to ask Master.

If the master is interested, then he will return to Jixiang Su and do a little more research as her old man instructed.

Now is the time to use that excuse.

The soul slayer who guards Jixiang Su is a fresh face, and Uncle Yuki and Nagatomo Masao, who stayed here before, have already completed the handover work and left. However, the elite of the countermeasure room who is in charge of the overall situation here is still quite enthusiastic and respectful towards Kamiya.

The follow-up development is also very smooth.

On the first day of Kamiya's return to Keika-juku, he climbed the hibiscus tree and "investigated" several times.

Most of the time, he was accompanied by someone from the countermeasure room, but during this time, he also seized the opportunity to go up alone.

I didn't stay long when I went up alone, and I successfully used up the [Blank Divine Tree] and entered the inner world.

The newly opened map was gray, and the sound of the river could be heard in the distance, and the constant whimpering and wailing of not knowing where the source was.

The map information shows that this is the [Santu River].

Kamiyagawa didn't do any exploration in the Santu River, and completely activated the god that had been established in the inner world and left temporarily.

After that, he pretended to stay in Jixiang for half a day, and only found an excuse to return to Tokyo in the afternoon of the next day.

……

The world, the Santu River.

Kamiya has raided a lot of maps of the world, and even the hidden map and the mythical map have been won. But the scene of the map of the River Styx still gave him a lot of shock.

After all, it's a sight that can't be seen in reality.

The whole scene is filled with a vast mist of water, and it is gray, and the heavens and the earth seem to be completely connected, and it is impossible to see where the dividing line is.

The sound of the raging water echoed in the distance, and countless cries of unjust souls were mixed in.

The new ghost is annoyed and the old ghost is crying, and the sky is cloudy and rainy, and the wet voice is chirping.

"The Styx map is extremely cold, the water vapor is very heavy, it is estimated that there is no need for a small sun to rain, and the yin thunder and dragon thunder can play a good effect."

Kamiya made this judgment about the environment of the new map.

Because it was a "branch map" opened by himself, after entering the Santu River, "Strange Tales of Strange Things" did not give any task hints.

And the gods that stand on this mythical map are still the same, yellow-green fluorescent flying, and the statues of the gods and the shrines of Mary and tapir are clustered around the stands.

Now the god is not so much a standing card as a small building complex.

"Shen Zhen looks like there is no problem at all, and I feel that my sister is honest and does not deceive me."

Kamiyagawa checked on the kimaki and found nothing wrong.

With this thing, he is still undead in the Styx map, and he is full of security.

Behind the kami was an extremely large tree, twisted and pointed straight into the gray sky.

The size of this tree looks like a real-world hibiscus tree.

The only difference is that clothes hang from the branches everywhere, and there are all kinds of styles, men, women and children, some ragged and old, some bright and new.

Countless clothes bent the branches, and there was obviously no wind in the environment, but the branches of the big trees kept "creaking", driving the clothes to flutter ghostly, and there were many ghosts.

"This should be the collar tree."

Kamiyagawa judged in his heart.

Regardless of his status during his lifetime, after his death, when he entered the Santu River, he would be stripped of his clothes by the clothes snatcher, and the clothes would be hung on the collar tree by the hanger to weigh the sins.

That's what the myth of the Santugawa River says.

However, the original Clothes Snatcher and the Hanging Clothes Man have been killed by Kamiya, and now this collar tree has no owner.

And what is also a little contradictory is that Kamiyagawa does not see any dead spirits in the Santugawa scene.

He had a feeling that there might have been no undead here a long, long time ago.

"The Santugawa River is the underworld of Japanese Buddhism, and it's strange that the Yipo and the Hanging Yiwen, as Yin Yin, would climb into the real world and attack me, a big living person."

Something must be wrong with this place.

In addition, the Santu River was formed by some legends of Buddhism being preached in Japan and mixed with folk in China.

And Shintoism's country of death, which is in charge of death, does not belong to the same system.

This point is said from a cultural point of view, and Kamiya also heard the teacher in the folklore direction briefly mention it in the class of Todai -

To put it simply, it is the change brought about by the invasion and integration of religion and culture.

Buddhism dominated Japan for a long time, overpowering the native Shintoism.

And the authority of "death" has been completely taken away by Buddhism.

Even in today's Japan, it is still temples and monks who control the funeral field rather than shrines, and there are Jizo Bodhisattva statues in cemeteries.

In this sense, [Santugawa] is a bit like a Buddhist enclave that stands alone in the country of Shinto roots in Japan.

"There is a problem with the yin on the Buddhist side, I don't know if it will be related to the country of Huangquan roots. Is it caused by the fact that the two sides have competed for power in the realm of death at a certain point in time? ”

As for what the cause of the anomaly in the Santu River is, Kamiya can only guess like this at the moment.

He stood under the collar tree for a while, and then released the little old man to officially start exploring the new map.

……

The master and servant walked in the direction where the sound of water came, but they couldn't see the actual direction of the Styx for a long time.

The chirping ghosts were even more mixed with the sound, but they couldn't identify the source at all.

After walking for a while, the mist around me became thicker and thicker.

Kamiya's body was soaked in mist, and the hem of his clothes was dripping with water. His breathing began to become unsmooth, and the mist around him even hindered his body's movements, and he felt that he was no longer moving forward, but "swimming" forward.

"This is the place of the hell."

Kamiya took out the [Drowning Girl's Heart Hair] and tied it to her wrist.

Along the way, you can see many "small towers" made of stones, and many stones of regular shapes scattered on the ground.

None of the stone towers are completed, and most of them are in an unfinished state.

Kamiyagawa can roughly know what these things are.

According to Japanese legend, children who die earlier than their parents must build a stone tower at the "Futou River Plain" on the Santo River as compensation for not providing for their parents. But the stones will never be piled up, because whenever the work is about to be completed, evil spirits will appear and destroy the stone towers of these premature children.

Those children who die early will be forced to carry out this kind of never-ending behavior in the plain of the burial river.

"But here, as under the collar tree, there are no dead souls, no child undead in the stone towers."

After stopping around the ruined stone towers for a while, Kamiyagawa even tried to pile up rocks, and then called the little old man to move forward again.

I don't know if he piled up rocks, and then something strange happened before he went far.

"Aba!"

The little old man gave a quick warning.

When his words fell, a stone flew out of the depths of the mist and was heading towards the gate of Kamiya.

The ghost's stump arm immediately turned into a ghost cage hand, attached to the right arm and lifted it up, blocking the blow.

The sharp corners of the stones slammed against the illusory scales tightly arranged by the ghost cage hand, and there was not even a trace left.

Buzz –

The phone rings.

[The Atlas has been updated.] ]

[Strange talk name: Burial head river plain ghost]

[Classification: E]

"Enemies?"

Kamiyagawa narrowed his eyes and saw that inside the gray mist, several small figures were crawling.

It was a child-shaped imp, both boys and girls, with fangs in their mouths, sharp horns on their heads, and large strings of black Buddhist beads around their necks.

"Wow! Wow! ”

These little imps are like irritated little beasts, baring their teeth and screaming.

Roughly speaking, most of the ghost ghosts in the buried head river are E-class, and a few have D-class.

It's a bit of a lot, but it's not to be feared.

Even the little old man did not immediately open his mind when he saw this wave of enemies, but just retreated behind his master. While protecting his master in front of him, he completely eliminated his own breath.

The fact that the scout, who had a strong sense of perception, did not run away, which meant that what he was encountering in front of him was not a threat to Kamiya at all.

It can be handled with ease.

"Santuchuan is the territory of Buddhism, and these little ghosts wear Buddhist beads around their necks, so in a sense, it should be regarded as yin?"

Kamiya observed the strange figures in the mist, immature and hideous.

He estimated that these ghost ghosts should be the evil ghosts who kept knocking down the stone towers along the way.

Well, that's right.

The demons in the legend of pushing the stone tower are also part of the shadows.

After all, according to the old Japanese Buddhism or folk posthumous sayings, a child who dies in front of his parents is "guilty" if he does not provide for his parents.

Constantly piling stone towers is a punishment for those children.

This kind of legend is cruel and unreasonable.

In addition, seeing that these "burial river ghosts" are all children, Kamiyagawa has other conjectures-

Perhaps they were originally the ghosts of children who had been tormented for a long time, and gradually assimilated with the Santu River and became a part of this place.

Originally, they were pushed to the stone tower by the evil spirits, and then they were pushed to the stone tower of the new generation of punished undead, and so on, and the cycle continued.

Whew!

Just as they were thinking, the little ghosts of the Burial River who were twisted and crawling on the ground all moved, and they grabbed the stones on the ground, howling and smashing them towards the Kamiya River.

Rocks rained down.

"The Yin of the Santu River is really aggressive......"

Kamiyagawa didn't even pull out his weapon, and a rumbling sound sounded on his body.

Like thunder, like the sigh of an ancient dragon.

An emerald green lightning snaked out of his hand, and the arc of light burst out with noise, and finally condensed into a dazzling thunder spear.

Ah's breath controlled the muscles and bones of his body, and his waist and abdomen exerted his strength, and the emerald green dragon and thunder spear was thrown into the air by Kamiyagawa.

The thunder spear undulated and rushed like a dragon breaking the waves, and the vast water vapor was rolled up by the thunder spear, steaming, and the thunder roared in the gray space. The water vapor and the thunder arc exploded at the same time, the light was dazzling, tearing through the mist, and a large net of thunder and lightning in the shape of tree roots exploded, completely enveloping the flying stones in the air.

All the stones were crushed into powder by the roaring dragon thunder.

At the same time as the dragon thunder was released, by Kamiyagawa's side, there was also a red mist surging, and the karmic fire was raging.

The figures of Mary and Inugami appear.

A group of E-class, individual D-class imps, trying to attack Kamiya in vain are still a little overwhelmed.

Under the simple attack of the two Aragami, most of the imps in the Burial River were quickly killed and injured. They don't seem to be particularly stupid, and they don't insist on fighting when they see the enemy's terrifying strength, and the rest of them are scattered like birds and beasts, screaming and fleeing.

"That's it."

Kamiyagawa patted his hands like dust, and did not go after the little ghost of Touhe, but called the little old man to move forward.

It's just some bad little monsters who don't really get into the stream, and it's not too late to come to them to trouble when they really lack soul crystals, so it's better to find out where the Styx is first.