Inside the shrine, hundreds of underworld elites surround a large curtain, in front of which there are eight offering tables, on which are offered eight different long knives, and the handle of the knives is depicted with different family crests of the eight families, such as the sixteen-petal chrysanthemum of the Tachibana family, the gentian of the Gen family, the bamboo and finch of the Uesugi family, the red ghost of the Inuyama family, the spider of the Kazemo family, the horse head of the Ryoma family, the phoenix of the Sakurai family, and the Yaksha of the Miyamoto family.

This means that the heads of the eight families have to attend this family gathering, and at this moment, only the small table of the Yuan family is still empty, so these underworld elites can only wait and watch the street fighter four game screen projected on the big screen.

The gamepad is in the hands of the head of the Uesugi family, and she is the only one of the seven in the center who wears a black big sleeve, indicating that the head of the Uesugi family covered in black gauze is actually an unmarried young girl.

The head of the Uesugi family was so focused on the game that she stared intently at the curtain, deaf to Mr. Masamune's reminders.

On the projection, Chun-Li's light feet are consuming Long's blood by connecting her fists with a thousand cracked feet, but Long's anger gauge is continuing to rise, and he will soon have enough of his nidal anger, and the overall situation has been decided.

Gen Zhisheng had already entered through the side door, and at this moment he was quietly kneeling behind the head of the Uesugi family, and seeing that the defeat was decided, he took the handle and manipulated Chun-Li to use the triangle jump to dodge Taka's special kill, and rubbed out a beautiful set of combos to counterattack Takashi and hit a stun, and the game ended with one blow.

"Don't think about it if you win, and play after the meeting." Genjisheng shoved the handle back into the Uesugi family master's hand, paused, and then said, "I'll play with you when I'm free."

The head of the Uesugi family nodded and put away the handle, this young girl can play games unscrupulously in the family meeting as if no one was around, and she can't even listen to the advice of the eldest patriarch, Mr. Masamune, but in front of Gen Zhisheng, she seems to be exceptionally well-behaved.

The underworld elites finished watching the game, and Genjisheng stood up and bowed, and the kimono and etiquette were meticulous: "I'm sorry for being late, but I've already checked the front and back of the shrine and confirmed the safety matters."

After a few seconds of silence, Tachibana Masamune was the first to applaud, followed by a wave of applause that flooded the entire main hall.

"It's really worthy of the young master." The crow exclaimed.

"It's really worthy of the young master," Yaksha also whispered, "Mr. Masamune's presence didn't have so much applause, it deserves to be Amaterasu."

"No, I'm saying that the young master has a really good amount of alcohol, and he can still make such a smooth combo after drinking." Raven said.

"It's good to be here, sit down." Mr. Masamune said, "It's really hard for you to have to check the safety of yourself in this stormy weather."

Yuan Zhisheng sat at the table of the Yuan family, and now all the members of the family meeting arrived, and the main hall suddenly fell into silence, so quiet that you could hear the slightest sound of rain outside the hall.

Everyone looked at Mr. Masamune and waited for the chief minister's speech. I saw Mr. Masamune straighten his kimono, stand up, take a few steps back, and bow deeply.

This is quite an unexpected move, the eight families of Snake Qi pursue the ancient family system, the position of the patriarch is extremely respectful, in the family has the status of a gentleman like a father, Mr. Masamune's great gift, no one in the crowd present can afford it, immediately there are old people in the family who have status bowed down, and the juniors also followed suit, and the main hall bowed down a piece of the brush. ….

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Most people realize that today's issue may be more surprising than they imagined, not only is it as simple as redrawing the underworld pattern, but the foreshadowing before entering the main topic is so terrifying that the topic must be unimaginable.

"It has been 10 years since I became the head of the family, and I have been fortunate to know you for 10 years, to be recognized by you, and to bear this history with you. Over the years, I have been taking care of you, and I have barely maintained this family, and many things have not been done perfectly, which has caused you trouble." Mr. Masamune said.

"It's Mr. Masamune who takes care of us." The Wind Demon Master said.

"It's Mr. Masamune who takes care of us!" The congregation spoke in unison.

"We are all a family, and I would like to try to take care of you, and I hope that you can have a good life, and you will take care of you

I. Without your efforts, I, the patriarch, would have died a long time ago." Mr. Masamune beckoned everyone to take their seats.

"It's raining again, it's really nostalgic." Mr. Masamune himself sat down, "When I first came to Japan many years ago, it was raining like this, and the wind was wet and cold, and it was cold to my bones, and I didn't know what to do at that time."

He paused and glanced around, "Many people here know that I was not born in Japan, and it is an unexpected honor for me to be elected as the head of the family. But in the last 10 years, I have also had a great dereliction of duty, and I think you are all very aware that in the last 10 years we have lost a lot of ground and we have lost a lot of our compatriots. We had to attend the funerals of our compatriots every year, and after the war, Japan became more and more prosperous, and so did our families, but our enemies also grew, and tragedy after tragedy was repeated, and we were unable to defeat them."

"Mr. Masamune, there is no need to blame yourself, you have taken the lead in leading everyone against the fierce ghosts, and without you, the family's situation would be even more critical." The Wind Demon Master said.

Tachibana Masamune waved his hand and said, "Before I get to today's topic, I want to tell you a story."

"The main character of the story is named Akira Sakurai, and as you can tell from the name, he was born in the Sakurai family, and he can be considered an able-bodied child in every way. But at the age of five he failed the family ancestry test, which means that he was a 'ghost', and after that he ceased to be our compatriot and became the target of our surveillance. He was sent to a boarding school deep in the mountains of Kobe, where he spent the rest of his life until he was twenty-three years old."

Yuan Zhisheng's fists clenched.

"How lonely it must be for such a child, that only one person visits him every year, but not his parents, nor his friends, but the enforcer of the family. He didn't have a girlfriend, he didn't have a birthday cake, he didn't go to the playground, he certainly didn't go on a graduation trip, and you should understand how much that kid wanted these things, which were not very rare for an ordinary person, but because he was a ghost, he couldn't get anything." Tachibana Masamune spoke eloquently, and the voice was like a bell.

"But one day at the age of twenty-three, someone found him and gave him a medicine that would purify his bloodline and give him strength and freedom, and you say that a young man like that, could he refuse this temptation?" ….

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"He injected the potion and awakened the dragon's blood in his body, and he did gain strength and freedom, but this freedom only lasted for fifteen days, and after fifteen days he was obliterated by the Executive Directorate, and the Director of the Executive Bureau, Yuan Zhisheng, personally carried it out." Speaking of this, Tachibana Masamune sighed, "In fifteen days, he *** and killed many women, and his desires were wantonly vented like a torrent, like a person who has been hungry for too long and wants to make up for all the things he has not eaten."

"What are we supposed to make of that dead young man?" Tachibana Masamune looked around, "Disgust? Hate? Abandon? Or is it pitiful, pathetic, and shameful?"

No one answered, as if it were a question of doubt, and no one could find the answer.

"But I just feel sad." "He's our family, he made a mistake, so he was executed, but he's still our family, and our family made a mistake, and we're going to execute him, I just think...... It's sad."

"It's a curse that has existed since the family had one...... "Sakurai said.

"Yes, there is a curse in our bloodline, which has made some of us and destroyed others. You are here today because you are fortunate enough to have a stable lineage, but we also have some compatriots who are waiting to be wiped out on that watch list. I can't change the rules since ancient times, because the Eight Snake Clans have continued from ancient times to the present, in order not to allow the blood of the dragon to erode the family, we will guard the gate of the dragon, and we will never allow the dragon clan to be resurrected in the world!"

"Who is our enemy? Who has been competing with us in the underworld? Who instigated the betrayal of the gangs that once attached themselves to us, and who has been encroaching on our territory all these years? Who has wanted to give up their human identity and evolve into a dragon for so many years?" Tachibana asked.

"Fierce ghosts!" The Wind Demon Master said, his eyes sharp

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"Yes, the Fierce Spirits, they have inherited the dragon's blood just like us, and it is because they continue to instigate those children of unstable bloodlines, tempting them to fall, that we have to keep a close eye on every child of unstable bloodlines!" Tachibana Masamune snapped, "We have only one enemy in Japan, and that is the Oni!"

"But we haven't been able to wipe out the Fierce Demons for so many years, and the reason is clear to everyone!" Tachibana Masamune's tone became agitated, "They were our compatriots, who are we with the same blood! Every demon is born from the family, and when they gather together, they are the fierce ghosts! The fierce ghosts are the shadows of the Eight Snake Families, and they are the fate that has been following behind the Eight Snake Families for thousands of years! But now it's time to cut off fate!"

"Somebody's going to do it." Tachibana Masamune's voice was flat, but almost everyone present could smell a faint smell of blood from these bland words.

"Does Mr. Masamune want to wage war against the Fierce Demons?" The head of the Inuyama family said, "The odds don't matter, but in the eyes of some members of the family, this is tantamount to fratricide. The Fierce Ghosts are not all degenerates, they are just half-bloods with unstable bloodlines, is it really good that they must not leave a way out? After all, they are also compatriots who are related by blood."

Tachibana Masamune looked at the Inuyama family master, "Maybe the Oni are not all degenerates, but they have chosen the path of dragons, and we have chosen the path of people. If you choose one side, you are destined to be enemies of the other side, and the Tao is different, can the dragon and the man still be said to be compatriots? The demons are sin and evil! Only by completely erasing the demons can we achieve true peace and tranquility!" ….

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The owners of each family expressed their shock to a greater or lesser extent, including Gen Zhisheng, he knew that Tachibana Masamune had his own plan, but he didn't expect that Tachibana Masamune's plan was to completely wipe out the fierce ghosts, which was simply impossible, and the fierce ghosts were the shadows of the Eight Snake Families, and if they really wiped out the Fierce Ghost Families, they had to wipe out the Eight Snake Families together.

But Tachibana Masamune has been in charge for ten years, and everyone believes that this patriarch is not a person without purpose, and the head of the Miyamoto family asked, "Since Mr. Masamune has such a plan, how can we do this?"

"There is a way, but it is not an easy thing." Tachibana Masamune changed his words as he spoke, "The Fierce Oni have been trying to evolve into pure-blooded dragons, and the clues we've gathered recently are on the surface, and they're preparing to explore the Divine Burial Place!"

"God's burial place? What are they thinking?" Miyamoto asked.

"They wanted to explore the place where their ancestors buried God, and they believed that the bones of God in the deep well were the key to evolution! A dragon that can make them evolve into pure-bloods!" Tachibana Masamune said in a deep voice.

"So, Mr. Masamune, what is your so-called way to erase the Demons forever?" The head of the Sakurai family asked.

"Blow up the God's burial place, destroy it along with the God's bones, and cut off the hope of the demons! Then purge the Fierce Demons and end it all with a war!"

"Once the war starts...... I'm afraid there will be rivers of blood." The Wind Demon Master said.

"There is always some blood that has to be shed in this world, and it takes great awareness to cut off fate." "However, as the head of the family, I can't push the entire family into battle on my own, so I gather everyone here and ask everyone to tell me what is in your heart, and the future of the family should be decided by everyone in the family."

Tachibana Masamune clapped his hands, the side door opened, and the priests dressed in white came in carrying two screens and a table of pen and ink, standing behind Tachibana Masamune, with a murderous word "war" written on the left screen, and the word "forbearance" written on the screen on the right.

Tachibana Masamune took out a white cloth belt from his arms and blindfolded him, and sat in the middle of the two screens: "If you think that the family should fight to the death with the fierce ghosts, please take up the pen and write 'Zheng, the word' on the battle word screen, and if you feel that the family is not suitable to use swords and soldiers, please write 'Zheng, the word' on the ninja character screen." I swear by the head of the Tachibana family and the patriarch that no matter what kind of remarks are made tonight, I will not be held accountable, and whether you support me or oppose me, I am sincerely grateful."

"Please give you the judgment to dispel my evil thoughts of murder or my determination to fight to the death!"

There was silence in the hall, and the wind outside the hall

The rain is heavy, the madness is like a ghost's roar, and the cherry blossoms fall like snow, which makes people feel that life is so impermanent, and whether the blood flows into a river or continues the tragedy, this is a difficult and difficult choice, including the heads of the family, no one got up and put down the pen, and the pen seemed to be dipped in not thick ink, but the blood of countless young people in the family.

The dead silence lasted for I don't know how long, and suddenly the head of the Inuyama family straightened his clothes, got up and left his seat, walked to the right side of the ninja screen and drew the first stroke, then threw the pen on the pen stand, turned to leave, he pushed away the entourage who rushed up to give him an umbrella, opened a black umbrella, looked up at the charred torii, and walked into the wind and rain.

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