Chapter 552: The New Emperor and the Chancellor

A hotel in Kyoto.

The eye-catching attire on Chou Shi Shen's body had faded away easily after leaving Qingming Xiangshan.

The long hair that was originally hanging in front of her face has also been tied up.

She now looks just like a human being.

She looks like a good-looking woman in her early twenties.

That's not entirely true, because Chou Shishen still retains extraordinary aura fluctuations in his body. But even if a keen exorcist encounters her in human form, he probably won't think much about it and will preconceptionally regard her as a companion.

This past Takiyashime, now the daughter of Choutoki, indeed has the status of a spiritual slayer in human society.

A Yaden Shinto spirit exterminator who is not under direct official command. This level of identity has even been recorded in the countermeasures room here in Osaka.

In the industry, there are quite a lot of novice spiritualists who possess certain extraordinary powers but are not actually very strong, and they are a mixed bag. This type of person only needs to occasionally deal with the official personnel who contact them.

Therefore, Chou Shishen’s disguised identity is not eye-catching.

"Porphyrin."

Chou Shishen sat on the bed of the hotel, her lips that were so red that they seemed to be bleeding were slightly open.

Another black nail was pushed out of her mouth with her tongue.

The nail landed in her palm.

"oh?"

Chou Shi Shen gently rubbed the black nails with her thin fingertips.

The next moment, the nail was twisting in her hand like a baby snake.

clang.

The nails hit the floor, shattering like fragile glass and splitting into several pieces.

"It seems to have been discovered."

Chou Shishen said to himself like this, without much surprise or annoyance in his tone.

It seems to be expected.

King Xingshi is difficult to deal with.

In the early hours of this morning in Xiangshan, Chou Shishen nailed the shadow of King Xingshi with a nail carrying a "curse".

It seemed that he wanted to control the other party and let the two little girls who made a big fuss at the Echo Festival escape. In fact, this was done to secretly brand King Xingshi so that he could be tracked later.

But judging from the results, this little trick was not successful.

King Xingshi obviously saw through the trick.

"Not only is he not dead, he is even more cunning than before."

King Xingshi joined the Demon Time as the new Tatsuki.

The code name in the organization is "Guan Bai".

Guan Bai, the official title brought back to Japan by the envoys sent to Tang Dynasty. It evolved into the first civil servant in ancient Japan, holding a high position of power.

Like King Xingshi, Chou Si Shen was also filled with surprise the moment he saw him at the organizational meeting at the time of the demon.

Although their appearance is different from that of thousands of years ago.

But the aura of Kibune Myojin on his body still made them recognize each other's identity immediately.

The two of them had a tacit understanding and didn't reveal anything in front of other members of the organization, but this feeling was unmistakable.

In Xiangshan this morning, it was the first time that Chou Shishen met King Xingshi in an unorganized meeting.

It will probably be difficult to find him again after that.

"It seems that guy woke up much later than me... Judging from his behavior in Xiangshan, it turns out that he is still dreaming about resurrecting his father."

Chou Shi Shen picked up the broken nails on the ground. The broken metal was clenched in her palms, exuding a faint blood and making a clicking metal sound.

That time a thousand years ago.

On the pretext of resurrecting Taira Shomon, King Koise coaxed Choutoki-san, who was still called "Takihime" at that time, to perform Choutoki-san's worship and seize the cursed power of Kifune Myojin's descent. Then with this power of the cursed god, he aroused the demons of Yakou and laid siege to Kyoto.

Trying to use the power of ghosts and gods to overthrow the government and reestablish a new capital.

That was the Takiyashime Rebellion.

However, that plan failed in the end.

It was suppressed by the onmyoji Abe Seimei of the Heian Kyoto Mikado at that time, and another elusive magician Ashiya Michitoshi, together with the noble warrior Minamoto Boya and others.

The most critical reason for the failure was probably that the awakened "Ghost Emperor" Ping Jiangmen was incomplete.

Yes.

With the power of Kifune Myojin, King Xingshi really awakened Taira Shomon who had become a "ghost among ghosts".

However, his plan was prematurely interfered by Abe Seimei and others, and Taira Shomon, who finally led the group of ghosts, lost his head and right arm.

"The King of Xingshi this time is completely different from his power a thousand years ago. What is he going to do?"

Chou Shishen didn't know the specific plan of King Xingshi.

After all, this time, she was no longer his accomplice.

…

In the ringing mountain.

Kamiya, Onizuka, and Ms. Sugita climbed up to the protruding rock halfway up Hibikiyama.

Continuous mountains stretch out at the feet, and the folds of black rocks and green vegetation on the ground continue to connect to the distant peaks.

"Those auras from the valley no longer exist, only a faint remnant remains."

Kamiyagawa looked away.

After condensing, the dark pupils that were so deep and bright slowly spread to normal.

"Um."

Onizuka Kiriho nodded and simultaneously took back his Kagura flute.

Their judgment was the same for both of them.

There were indeed ghost stories here that were full of resentment, but they have disappeared without a trace now.

"If that masked man really wanted to collect the strong ghost resentment in Yugu Hibiki, those ghost stories would have been eliminated by that man in some way." The little witch added.

I just don't know what the masked man wants to do by collecting resentment.

"Aba Wuji!"

After watching for a while on the hillside, the little old man sent by Kamiya to explore the surrounding mountains and forests returned with a shakuhachi in his hand.

He raised the brim of his hat a little higher and began to tell his master something with body movements.

Kamiya Chuan listened for a while and nodded: "Take us there."

The scout has made a discovery.

The little old man led his master and his party to the nearby deep forest and pointed to a tall cedar tree.

On the rough tree trunk, a piece of white paper was nailed with a thin black nail.

Kamiya condensed his pupils and carefully scanned the black nail and white paper on the tree trunk, and observed the surroundings to make sure that there was no problem, and then took the paper off the tree trunk.

It was written in deliberately distorted and indistinguishable handwriting:

[King Xingshi intends to revive the ghost emperor Taira Masakado. ]

[Using the method taught by Kibune Myojin: Taira no Masakado's corpse is used as meat, resentment is used as spirit, and Kibune Myojin's curse is used as bones. ]

"Flesh, spirit, and bones?"

Kamiya looked at the words on the white paper and was secretly surprised.

He was quite familiar with this process. "Flesh, spirit, and bones" is the ritual process of becoming a god.

Kamiya Kawa himself and his shikigami are trying to use this method to try to ascend to the throne of god.

In the past, Yamahiko on Aokigahara also used the evil variant of this ritual to try to shape the body of a god.

It feels that if you can link up with this ritual, what you get in the end will be extraordinary.

In addition, Kibune Myojin was specifically mentioned on the paper.

Kamiya didn't think that the "Flesh, Spirit, and Bones" process had any important connection with this god. After all, it seems that many gods know this ritual.

However, Kamiya Kawa has had quite a lot of indirect contact with Kibune Myojin.

According to the information he currently has-

Kifune Myojin is the Japanese god of dragons and snakes, Anyu Kamei, and is the descendant of the fire god Kagutsuchi.

He stood on the side of Hades in the war of gods.

Kifune Myojin is generally worshipped as the god of water and the god of safe navigation of ships.

However, He has another power that few people know about.

This god is also the god of curses, and it is said that he will descend on Mount Kibune at the hour of the ox in the year of the ox.

The famous curse ritual of worshipping at the hour of the ox is to worship Kibune Myojin.

Kamiya and Onitsuka had contact with this before, that is, Xiaolu's current incense teacher Miss Yunju. Miss Yunju's boyfriend was cursed by her grandmother in front of the shrine of Kibune Myojin.

"The face of the enemy, the time of the demon, Taira Masakado, Kibune Myojin... It doesn't feel good. Are there too many things involved?"

Kamiya thought to himself.

"Who left this note?" Ms. Sugita didn't quite understand the content of the note. "The masked man mentioned by the Shinagawa sisters?"

"I don't think so." Onitsuka shook his head. "Comparing with what is said on the paper, I feel that the 'King of Koze' is probably the masked man. The note should have been left by someone else, and it seems to be left for us to see. Achuan, it seems that someone wants to help us?"

"Yeah. Although I don't know if the content of the note is true, we seem to have encountered a big trouble."

"Yes, big trouble."

The little witch echoed.

...

Of course, the discovery in Xiangshanli was reported to the headquarters of the countermeasures room as soon as possible.

Uncle Yushinari quickly gathered human experts and held a video conference with Kamiya and Onitsuka who were still in Kyoto.

"The corpse of Taira Masakado is used as meat, the resentment is used as spirit, and the curse of Kibune Myojin is used as bones to revive Taira Masakado who lived thousands of years ago. This kind of thing is really unheard of."

Yushin on the screen lit a cigarette and frowned.

It's hard to stay in Tokyo for a few days. I originally wanted to rest.

I was planning to take some pills to replenish Xiao Lie's magic tonight and improve his strength... But suddenly something so tricky happened, it seems that I can't rest for long.

"I feel it is very likely to be true."

Kamiya Kawa also didn't know who left the note, but the "flesh, spirit and bone" process was unknown to most people. He was not bluffing when he wrote this. Maybe this method can really wake up the thousand-year-old Zongzi.

"Then treat it as real. If we want to prevent Taira Masakado from resurrecting, we must also start with the three elements of flesh, spirit and bone mentioned in the paper information. Resentment is spirit, um... From the current situation, it is true that the resentful spirit Fang Xiang is collecting resentment all the time, and I don't know if the amount collected is enough."

Yusei Shinkenyu entered the state.

"What about the flesh and bones?" Onitsuka took over the conversation. "I remember seeing ancient books and photos related to the Takiyasha Rebellion a thousand years ago in the countermeasures room, and it also mentioned the resurrection of Taira Masakado."

"Yes, I just asked Nagatomo to check it out. Taira Masakado was indeed resurrected a thousand years ago."

Kamiya had not seen this part of the information, so he asked: "Tell me in detail?"

"I will send a copy of the relevant information to the police station where you are now."

Uncle Yusei flicked the ash of his cigarette. In order to continue the meeting, he roughly described the content of the information he had just read through -

"This matter is related to Takiyasha."

Takiyasha, the legendary daughter of Taira Masakado, is a demon girl who knows the art of witchcraft.

In the Tianqing Rebellion, Ping Jiangmen was killed in battle, and the whole gang was wiped out. As the remaining descendant of the Taira Shomon family, Takihime was full of resentment. She performed the famous Ushiki worship ceremony and worshiped Kifune Myojin at Ushiji. On the twenty-first night when her wish was fulfilled, she was taught sorcery by the god.

Relying on the divine power, Takihime, who was renamed Takiyashahime, returned to the Lower Kingdom, gathered a group of ghosts in Soma Castle, launched a rebellion to overthrow the imperial court, and invaded Kyoto.

But this rebellion with the power of monsters was finally suppressed by the Onmyoji at that time.

During the turmoil a thousand years ago, Taira Shomon was resurrected by the Ghost Emperor who led all the ghosts.

Jiecheng Zhenjianyou: "Also, the Xingshi King mentioned on the piece of paper you found is also a recorded figure."

King Xingshi is generally considered to be Juntomo Fujiwara.

Fujiwara Juntomo was originally the local commander-in-chief of the Iyo Kingdom. One time, he was ordered to suppress pirates in the Seto Inland Sea. Instead of fighting, the pirates joined the pirates. In a few years, they became the largest pirate group in Western Japan and led the pirates. They rebelled based on Rizhen Island.

Not only did they cause trouble in the Seto Inland Sea, they even came to land from the Settsu Namba area several times and occupied the entire Seto area and part of Kyushu, directly threatening the security of Kyoto.

King Xingshi and the new Emperor Taira were rebel forces at the same time, but they did not directly proclaim themselves emperor like the Taira family did.

In addition, there is a folk saying that after Taira Shomon became emperor, he wanted to appoint Fujiwara Juntomo as Kanbai.

However, it only took less than a hundred days for Ping Jiangmen to formally proclaim himself emperor and be defeated and annihilated.

At the same time that the new emperor was suppressed, King Xingshi was also surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court, and the heads of both sides were sent to Kyoto at almost the same time.

So Guan Bai's matter probably won't work.

After listening to Uncle Yusei's explanation, both Kamiyagawa and Onitsuka Kiriho were thoughtful.

"The curse of Kibune Myojin should be related to Takiyashime who paid homage during the ugly time. However, the piece of paper mentioned that the person who wanted to resurrect Heishangmon was King Xingshi..."

Good guy.

A thousand-year-old dead man wants to resurrect another dead man.

Jiecheng Zhenjianyou: "I don't know. There are very few really useful records of what happened a thousand years ago. Many of them were lost when the Yin Yang Lao was abolished, and none of them were recovered after the reorganization of the Countermeasures Room. The existing information does not explain in detail how Taira Shomon was resurrected during the Takiyashahime Rebellion. If the information on the white paper is true, then the person who left the note has far more information about it. More than the entire countermeasures room.”

The Takiyashahime Rebellion mentioned just now happened more than 20 years after Taira Shomon's death.

According to common sense, King Xingshi Fujiwara Junyu should be dead by this time.

But it's hard to say.

If the content on the note is regarded as true, then King Heungse may still exist today a thousand years later.

Maybe King Xingshi is just a code name.

It is even possible that King Xingshi directly participated in the Takiyashahime Rebellion that resurrected Taira Shomon in some way.

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