It seemed that because of the influence of that red thread, Saruta Hikomei's chest was pale, and his palms were all still.

But soon, the sound of a dense flesh clash and slapping sounded in Saruta's chest again.

The pale, swollen palms regained their movements, but this time they no longer tried to grab anything, instead tore at the flesh of Saruda's chest.

At this time, the already weak and embarrassed Saruta Hikomei deity still maintained a stiff state similar to the chanting and shaking before the "big move".

This gave Kamiyagawa and Mary, who were attacking him, an opportunity.

The boy cut and the ghost cut in Kamiyagawa's hand hummed and wrenched into the front door of Saruta Hikomei.

Mary's bloody machete slashed into the back of his neck.

As soon as they struck a successful blow, they didn't stop at all, and the second round of more fierce attacks slashed at Saruta like a storm.

Pieces of flesh, black maggots, and blood slid down his body like a waterfall, old wounds overlapping with new wounds, and a thousand wounds. All of a sudden, this Huangquan Yin God, suspended in the air, rotten, filthy, and heavy as a mountain, had a tendency to collapse.

And at this moment, at the entrance of the Tiando Grottoes.

Onizuka Kirita held the red bow of the childish female venerable in his hand, looked up, and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Achuan, they're going to win."

The red line just now, of course, was shot by Onizuka with the red bow in his hand.

The slender lines wrapped around the swollen palms on Saruta's chest at one end, and the other end was wrapped around the intact Ato bronze mirror around the little shrine maiden.

"As I thought, the red thread from this bow can be used to strengthen the existing connection between things by winding and connecting them."

Regarding the use of this red bow that originated from the young Japanese woman, Onizuka was also occasionally discovered during the previous attempt to escape the pursuit of the Onmyoji Necrogenomic Group of the Earth Imperial Gate.

At that time, she was in the village of Tsuchigomon, and was intercepted by the dead spirits of the Onmyoji Group and Chikako Takehara, and in a hurry, she shot the shrine maiden of the Takehara family with a red bow.

Then, the red thread shot out with the Demon Breaking Arrow wrapped around the witch of the Takehara family, and also around the photo of Shizuji Kanemaru that the other party was holding.

At that moment, Chikako Takehara's behavior changed-

Instead of being obsessed with seeking revenge on the onitsuka who injured her, she hysterically shouted the name of "Kanemaru Shizuji" and rushed to the undead spirits of the Onmyoji of the Tsuchigomon.

From this, Onizuka speculates that the connection of the red rope may have strengthened the connection between Chikako Takehara and Shizuji Kanamaru.

may even rely on Chikako Takehara's obsession with Shizuji Kanemaru to restore some of her fragmentary memories during her lifetime.

You must know that under the erosion of the miasma in the Tuyumen area, the victims who died here and turned into necromancers were extremely crazy and violent, and completely lost their minds.

This effect of miasma is especially evident in ordinary people who do not have spiritual power.

For example, the couple of Yuri Sakai and Toshima Taito.

Tidou loved Yuri deeply before his death, and was willing to risk it for her.

But after the death of Taito, he turned into an evil spirit under the influence of the Tsuchigomon region, and the first thing he did was to return to his lover and kill the other party with his own hands.

And even if Chikako Takehara is a witch chosen by the Tendo Witch Festival, she can't be generalized with ordinary people, but after her death, she has been trapped in the Tsuchigomon area for hundreds of years, and you can imagine how crazy her necromancer will be.

Even if Shizuji Kanemaru himself appeared in front of her, she could kill the person she loved with her own hands like Toshima Taito.

And after the red rope connects Chikako Takehara with the black and white photo, judging from Chikako's attack on the Necronomisis of the Onmyoji of the Tsuchigomon, it seems that she wants to avenge the death of her lover Shizuji Kanamaru at the hands of the Tsuchigomon clan.

Although Chikako was still crazy at that time, she couldn't talk about being very sensible.

But her obsession with Shizuji Kanemaru must have been strengthened by the red rope.

It was precisely because of this consideration that Onizuka Kirita would try to connect those pale palms with the Tendo Bronze Mirror.

Onizuka had just gotten some new information about what had happened on the Amado Rock.

She already knew how the palms on Saruta Hikomei's chest, including the palm-shaped broken edge god, came from.

Those things were all made up of the contaminated flesh and divine blood after Tiandian killed herself and split her divine body.

They used to be part of the shrine maiden ancestral gods.

Or rather, they are the current Tiandian women's lives.

Things have to start with Onitsuka Kirita filling in the last piece of the Ato bronze mirror-

At that time, the onitsuka was surrounded by the onmyoji necromans led by Taifu Tsuchimon, and was immediately rescued by Mary who rushed over.

As a god, Mary, against the Onmyoji Necromancy Group at the level of the Aragami, of course, wiped out all the opponents effortlessly.

After dealing with everything, Mary immediately escaped into the red mist and went to Kamiyagawa's side to fight.

Onizuka Kirita Hotaru was left alone in the cave.

She saw the dead spirits of the Onmyoji of the Earth Gate slowly dissipate into ashes, and she also saw a thick, yellowed ancient book fall from the place where the Earth Gate Taifu slowly disappeared.

That book records the Yin and Yang Dao of Qingming Kikyo.

It is a spell note left by Abe Harumi, the great onmyoji of the Heian period.

As mentioned in the Sakai Etoiya manuscript found earlier, there is a secret method of Yin and Yang Dao that inherits Abe Harumi in the Tsuchigomon village, and it is only kept in the Togomon family.

That's it.

Onizuka stepped forward to pick up the ancient book, seized the last opportunity, and channeled the earth gate Taifuku.

As a result, she mastered the secrets of the gods that only the successive heads of the Tuyumen family knew, and also saw the end of the lineage of the Tuyumen-

……

Tsuchiomon Mansion.

The environment of the mansion is chaotic and invisible, but the sun and moon are dull, and it is dim.

It is somewhat similar to the scene when it was engulfed by a miasma of fog in the future.

Flames flickered throughout the Tsuchigomon Mansion, and the sound of disorganized footsteps and mournful wails and fierce fights rang out in a cloud of fire.

In such a chaotic situation, the head of the Tuyumen family, Tuyumen Futai, just sat quietly in the study, numbly flipping through a hand-copied book at hand that I don't know how many times I had read-

[…… Before the fall of the Childish Female Venerable, he handed over the Celestial Bronze Mirror and the Childish Bow to the Celestial Girl, who had a good relationship with him. ]

[…… The ancestor Abe Qingming was ordered to live up to expectations and ascend to the position of "co-master". Tiandian Woman, who was previously selected and guided by Qingming, is the most suitable candidate for "Wu...... Tiantian's female life protects the Abe family. ]

[The gods of Huangquan are menacing, and the divine war has broken out...... The gods fought fiercely, and the gods withered...... After this battle, Qingming died, but it also roughly sealed the gate of Huangquan Birasaka. At this point, the world of ghosts and gods was completely separated from the human world, and it became an ordinary world and an ordinary world...... The Yellow Springs disaster still exists, especially in the area of Mt. Shimizu near Kyoto. ]

[Although the descendants of the Abe family do not have the power of their ancestors, they will inherit the legacy of their ancestors and will guard this place for generations.] ]

[Shimizu Mountain]

[In the area of Qingshui Mountain, there is a gap leading to one of the battlefields of the Divine War, "Tianhu Rock". After the separation of the eternal world and the present world, Tianhu Rock is not in the middle of the two worlds, vast and empty. ]

[Tian Tian Women's Life]

[Saruta Hikomei, who threw himself on the side of the Yellow Spring, fell on the battlefield of Tianheiwa.] After the death of Saruda Hiko, Tiantian's female life was too entangled with her former husband's marriage, and she was also at risk of falling into Huangquan...... Saruta Hiko's life, it is very likely that he will be revived with the Tenden Female Destiny Divine Body......]

[…… Before completely degenerating into the Yin God of Huangquan and causing irreparable disasters, Tenden killed herself in Tiando Rock and split herself, so as to sever her marriage connection with Saruta Hikomei and suppress Saruta Hikomei's recovery...... The blood of the goddess has been polluted, turned into a desolate god, and eats the belief in its temples and shrines. ]

[The resentment between Tenden's female life and Sarutahiko's life cannot be dissipated on the Tendo Rock, forming a night carving.] As soon as the night comes out, it will be a hundred miles of wasteland. ]

[Atendo Witch Festival]

[The witch sacrifice is bloody and cruel, and it is against human morality, but it can indeed prevent the revival of the Yellow Spring God in the Tianhu Rock, and block the night to overflow......]

[If the witch festival fails, the heirs of the Earth Imperial Gate in the future generations will need to perform the last method...... Remember, remember......]

"The Last Resort."

Tsuchigomon Futai muttered, tilted his head and closed his eyes, and closed the book in his hand.

The Tsuchigomon family still came to this point.

By this time, the chaotic sounds throughout the mansion had stopped.

Bang –

The door to the study was pushed open from the outside.

A man in his forties, who looked a little similar to Tsuchigomon Taifuku, strode in.

This is Taifu's youngest son, Tsuchimon Taian.

It was supposed to be the successor of the next head of the Tsuchigomon family.

In his right hand, he held a blood-stained sword and torch, and in his left hand he held three bloody human heads. He walked into the dimly lit study, his sacrificial garments soaked with blood and looked hideous in the light of the torches.

"Father."

"Hmmm......"

"It's been dealt with, and the clansmen have gone to the priesthood." Taian said again.

"Hmm."

The old master looked at his son, but continued to nod his head blankly.

All the people went to the priesthood.

Perhaps many of them went voluntarily.

But there will always be people who don't want to, and there will always be people who don't want to die.

And the fate of "unwillingness" is already very clear-

The old man looked at the head in his son's hand.

The face that was familiar in the past is now pale and unfamiliar, the outline of the facial features is covered by haze, and you can only see the unblinded eyes on the skull, and you can't tell whether the last emotion left in the eyes is fear or resentment.

"Father." Tsuchiyomen Tai'an shouted, and then he fell to his knees and kowtowed heavily, "Tai'an will go first." ”

"Hmm."

The old head of the Tuyumen family was in a trance, and when his eyes were focused again, his son had already left the study.

Through the open door, you can see that the faint light of the fire is moving in the direction of the priesthood in the darkness.

"The last resort."

The old master shook his head and stood up from his desk.

This is the fate of the Tuyumen clan.

For generations, he stayed in the area of Qingshui Mountain, guarding the gap leading to Tianhu Rock. Act as an executioner, preside over bloody witch sacrifices, and use human lives to fill the cracks in the cracks, so that the Huangquan God on the other side will not wake up, and the night will not come to the world.

And if the Tendo Witch Festival fails completely, the night breath will leak out.

Then, the ancestor who studied the ritual of witchcraft thousands of years ago also left the last remedy for future generations.

There is no way to do it-

The descendants of the Tuyumen family, those onmyoji with spiritual powers, will use their lives and their blood to fill the sacrificial tower in the depths of the mansion.

The Tendo Witch Festival has been going on for nearly a thousand years.

Such a long sacrifice, so that the blood shed on the body of the Tuyumen clan, has long been associated with the Tianhu Stone Gate.

When the night moment is unstoppable and pours out, the entire Tuyumen clan will be sacrificed, and through the last ritual, the breath of the night carving can be suppressed as much as possible, and the entire village that has begun to be affected by the night carving will be sent to a place similar to Tianhu Rock.

Not in the everlasting world, nor in the void of this world.

Outside the altar, Taifu Doomon performed the final ritual alone.

After taking care of everything, he raised his hand and slowly straightened the folds of his clothes, straightened his old waist as much as he could, and then walked towards the door that pushed open the altar.

"It's just one last step away."

Inside the pavilion, blood flowed everywhere, sticky and warm.

The old man slowly walked up to the second floor and walked into the room where the Tendo bronze mirror was once enshrined.

The smell of blood is thick here, and the corpses of the clansmen have piled up into mountains.

Togomon Taifu saw that his children were also lying in a pool of blood, and they were here......

Of course.

The old master couldn't keep his eyes on his children, and finally turned his gaze to the blood-stained straight sword blade on the ground.

White and bloody.

Taifu stepped forward, knelt down in front of the pile of corpses, and sat down in the dirt.

When he looked up again, his hanging white hair was stained with blood, sticking to his wrinkled face.

Tsuchigomon Taifu finally tidied up his clothes, and then picked up the straight sword that belonged to his youngest son and pressed it against his neck.

Since it was a sacrifice of the whole family.

So as the head of the family with the strongest spiritual power, how could he be exempt?

“…… Taifu is incompetent. ”

Taifu raised his chin slightly.

So—

Can people be treated and used like objects?

Can human destiny be arranged step by step, even life and death are left to the table?

Taifu Tsuchimondo thinks it's okay.

It is possible whether it is the life of a clansman, or the life of his children, or even his own life.

It's sad.

But the people of the Tuyumen family were born to bear such a fate.

"What will happen in the future?"

Before slashing his throat with the blade of his sword, Tsuchigomon asked himself.

Suppose the contents of the Amando Rock are a time bomb that cannot be defused.

Then the people of the Tuyumen family have been guarding this bomb for generations, and every time they reach a fixed time, they will delay the time of the bomb explosion through the Tendo Witch Festival, so as to survive.

But when there is no other way, it is time to have a final ceremony......

The bomb seemed to have been set to a "random explosion" and then planted in a corner where no one knew about it.

The only thing that is certain is that this bomb will definitely explode, maybe decades later, maybe hundreds of years from now.

Because there is no one to guard it anymore.

There is no earth house, no witch sacrifice. In the Tianhu Rock in the void, the night breath that the Tuyumen clan finally suppressed with the lives of the whole clan will eventually continue to accumulate, and the Huangquan God will slowly wake up.

As long as the Yin God recovers, it is not difficult to break through the void with the breath of the night.

Sooner or later, it will be done.

So, what exactly will happen in the future?

Will anyone come to save here?

And how can we save it?

Taifu Tsuchigomon really doesn't know.

And what is in front of him is the last thing he can do.

"Perhaps, that's a relief, isn't it?"

The straight blade slashed across the neck without hesitation.

The old figure fell, and the warm blood spilled out, and melted with the blood on the ground......

The Tuyumen lineage is a descendant of the great onmyoji Abe Harumi.

After the Heian period, the five generations of Qingming's grandsons studied the "Tianhu Witch Festival" and felt ashamed of their ancestors, so they no longer took the surname "Abe", and changed their family name to "Tuyumen".

After a thousand years later, the Taifu generation of the Tuyumen Taifu generation, due to the failure of the witch sacrifice, the whole clan died in the night calamity.

The lineage of the earth royal gate has been completely severed at this point. (End of chapter)