Chapter 556: Unbreakable, Absolute Defense

"Masakado..."

The human body on the stone slab slowly straightened up.

The muscles of his huge body were tangled together, like a burning flame, squirming, tense, and full of explosive power.

"Hu——"

The sound of breathing like thunder.

Taihara Masakado's left hand began to stroke his body, hard abdomen, strong chest, and bulging shoulders.

This body of the new emperor from a thousand years ago really revived as planned.

And it was even more violent and hideous.

"My head, and your body...the new emperor and his kanpaku are combined. Masakado, I will fulfill our promise, and we can create great achievements again."

The pupils under the mask of Fang Xiang flashed a crazy blue glare.

The head of King Xingshi was completely adapted to Taira Masakado's body.

Even the connection of the neck could not see any obvious suture marks.

Since waking up in the present era, King Xingshi has been planning this.

This plan to replace Taira Masakado's head with his own head.

He covered his face with the mask of the resentful Fangxiang, which was full of resentment from Taira Masakado, and let this "resentment" that shared the same hatred with Taira Masakado erode himself.

In order to create a compatibility with Masakado's body.

In addition, Fangxiang was originally a Nuo god, with the function of driving away ghosts, which was consistent with the ghost emperor Taira Masakado who became a "ghost among ghosts" after death.

In addition, the "bone" used to resurrect Taira Masakado, that is, the spell of Kibune Myojin, came entirely from the body of King Kozei.

"Spirit" and "bone", as well as a certain degree of authority, are all connected.

King Kozei used his body as a container, just like raising a Gu, and raised an evil Gu head that could fit Masakado's body.

"This time, we won't lose again."

The stitched ghost emperor hummed, and the sound was as harsh as a cat's claw scratching glass.

Yes, we won't lose again.

The main reason why the siege of Kyoto failed a thousand years ago was because of the interference of the annoying Onmyojis in Heian-kyō at that time, and King Kozei was forced to summon the incomplete Taira Masakado.

The Demon King, who lost his head and right arm, was besieged at two vital points and naturally could not hold on.

But now it is different.

This stitched Demon New Emperor already has a head that matches the body.

Even if King Kozei's strength is far less than that of a thousand years ago, the stitched Demon New Emperor is definitely stronger than that time.

Now this body is only missing a right arm to be perfect.

Because King Kozei's arm is not strengthened by something like the resentment of Fang Xiang, it is far from matching Masakado's body.

If you want the Demon King to become the ultimate body, you have to take back the remains of Masakado's original right hand.

"Sanjurokugen-do."

King Kozei knows where Masakado's right hand is.

It is in Osaka.

This is also the reason why he chose Osaka as the place to revive Taira Masakado.

Next, King Kozei will attack that Buddhist temple.

In fact, he already knew that the Onmyoji of this era, like those annoying opponents a thousand years ago, were trying to stop his actions.

But he didn't care.

This time he took more initiative.

King Kozei had tentatively launched feint attacks on Kanda Shrine in Tokyo and Sanjurokugen-do Temple in Osaka.

It is certain that the guards at Kanda Shrine are much stronger than those at Sanjurokugen-do Temple.

This is also normal. Knowing King Kozei's plan to revive Taira Masakado, the exorcists of this era will definitely concentrate the strongest personnel forces at Kanda Shrine in Tokyo to protect Masakado's head.

A thousand years ago, Abe Haruaki and Ashiya Michiman and others also made the same decision.

However, they never thought that King Kozei had no intention of taking Masakado's head remains this time!

"The Yin-Yang masters of this era are more cautious than I thought... They have never tried to unlock the sealed Nuo formation."

"But it doesn't matter. If they don't, we will go there."

"The top Yin-Yang masters of this era are pinned down at Kanda Shrine. And we, Masakado, with this body, only need to attack the Sanjuroku, where the defense is relatively weak, and seize your right hand."

"I can feel that your body is excited, Masakado. You are also eager to fight, right? This time, we will win everything. This body can definitely do it."

...

Rustle.

The team of exorcists led by Yusuke and Onitsuka are trekking in the mountains at night.

"Over there, look, there is a cave over there."

After several more tracking and positioning, they finally found this cave in the deep mountains of Osaka.

Yusuke Shinkensuke summoned the slit-mouthed woman, lit a special cigarette at a distance outside the cave entrance, and peeked through the misty smoke.

Onitsuka Kirihota also took out her Kagura flute.

Both sides used their own methods to check the situation, and finally came to the same conclusion-

It seems that something big happened in the cave, but now the source of the change is no longer here.

It is safe inside for the time being.

Uncle Yusei left a few people outside the cave, holding a revolver, and entered the cave with the slit-mouthed woman and the Onitsuka little witch.

"Here, there is indeed the smell of Masakado's corpse."

The priests of Kanda Shrine and the monks of Sanjurokugen-do became a little anxious after entering the cave.

They are very familiar with the smell inside.

In fact, not only those experts who were familiar with the condition of Heishangmon's corpse, but also Lienari and Onitsuka could feel the obvious remnants of strange power after entering the cave.

He walked forward for some distance.

"That is……"

Several beams of bright police lights swayed around the cave, and then focused on one spot.

Through the striking light, a cluster of extinguished and cold bonfires could be seen.

There is also a stone slab with obvious traces of manual polishing.

"It seems that some kind of ritual has been performed here." Onizuka's little shrine maiden's Kagura flute was suspended in the air, flying randomly in the cave, making sharp whistles from time to time, "I have a bad feeling."

"It must be King Xingshi. He probably brought Pingjiangmen's corpse without his head and right arm, and did something here." Uncle Jiecheng made a rough guess based on the current actual situation.

"Has he already tried to resurrect Taira Shomon? However, the head and right arm are clearly still controlled by our people."

At this time, the priest of Kanda Shrine who entered the cave together answered:

"Didn't King Xingshi have already tried to attack our shrine and the Sanryokugendo? Perhaps the disciples of ghosts and gods and the ancestors were so powerful that King Xingshi felt that it was hopeless to snatch the remains, so he had no choice but to resurrect him. Ping Jiangmen’s mutilated body wants to fight to the death.”

Onizuka doesn't particularly agree with this conjecture.

In her opinion, as early as a thousand years ago during the Takiyashahime Rebellion, it was because the resurrected Taira Shomon was missing his head and right arm that the Ghost Emperor was suppressed by the Onmyogliao at that time.

Now a thousand years later, King Xingshi, who was suspected of participating in the last ghost rebellion, has a second chance to start over.

Will he make the same mistakes again this time?

It feels like it shouldn't be.

To think this way is to underestimate the opponent.

But if that's not the case, what exactly is King Xingshi planning to do? What has been done?

Unexpected.

But the general feeling of bad premonition became stronger and stronger.

Just when Onizuka was about to say something, she saw Uncle Yui and two spirit exterminators squatting down in front of the completely extinguished bonfire.

Jiecheng wiped the ashes on the ground with his index finger and raised it to his eyes.

Taking another puff of the cigarette, the blurry smoke gradually rose up and then faded away.

With the help of the mist, he could see more.

"The ashes of burning wood...but there seems to be something similar to ashes mixed in these ashes?"

…

After exploring the cave, the priests of Kanda Shrine and the monks of Sanjujugendo conducted another position measurement at the entrance of the cave.

The blackened salt particles were sprinkled into the hot charcoal of the stove, and the fishy smell dispersed slightly.

Pillars of smoke rise in curls, jumping, tumbling, spinning in the air, gathering and spreading.

The smoke rose to a certain height and branched out again. However, this time the forked smoke seemed to only flow in two directions.

The two branches are thick and thin.

"The thin one points to the direction of Tokyo, and the thick one points to Sanjujukgen-do."

"Why are there only two left? We could still see three before. Could it be that the part of Ping's body except his head and right hand can no longer be traced?"

"No...is this thick cigarette too thick?"

"..."

The exorcists watched and discussed the positioning results.

Of course, some people can roughly guess what happened by just looking at the smoke column of the stove——

It's not that the part of the body except the head and right hand cannot be traced. Judging from the thickness of the smoke column, it should be that two of the original three branches have merged in the same direction.

In the direction of Sanjujukgendo!

Kisei Shinkensuke: "Everyone, let's go to Sanjukuken-do immediately!"

Little Miko Onizuka: "Little old man, please let Achuan know about the situation here!"

…

Thirty-six rooms.

This Buddhist temple is a Japanese Tendai sect temple. The main hall is rectangular and more than 60 meters long. It is named because there are 36 spaces separated by beams and columns in the building.

The sorcerer who was sent from Tokyo has been living here for nearly half a month, and during this period he has only repelled one not-so-powerful Hyakki Yakou.

After that time, Sanjukgendo became peaceful and nothing happened again.

Until today--

Master Ancestor, who was sitting quietly in his room and meditating with his eyes closed, suddenly sensed something.

At the same time, he heard someone shouting outside: "Master Ancestor, those things, those things are here again!"

here we go again.

There was a blue-black mist, hazily sweeping across the ground, rolling like clouds on the ground.

There is a little hazy light in the clouds, and with the help of the light, you can see a large number of silhouette-like shadows crawling inside the clouds, and their outlines gradually become clearer.

Those strange nocturnal ghosts.

Master Ancestor walked out of the room holding a vajra demon-subduing pestle.

This pestle has a vajra at one end and a bronze three-edged pestle at the other end. There are three Buddha statues in the middle, one smiling, one angry, and one cursing, revealing a heavy ancient pressure.

The bronze on the magical instrument has a strange green rust. If you look at it carefully, it will make your heart flutter.

The old mage was like a twilight old wolf, standing still facing the rolling blue-grey mist.

His expression was very serious, which was completely different from the relaxed state he had last time when he had to defeat the Hyakki Yakou.

Because Master Zuxia can feel that this time's strange night walk is obviously different from the last time. There seems to be other terrifying things hidden in the fog that are difficult to deal with.

For a moment, it was as if a strong wind suddenly fell from the sky, the trees in the temple made a loud noise, and a huge unknown object was surrounded by a group of ghosts, and its outline gradually became clear.

The powerful wind was blowing in all directions, and everyone present felt chills standing on end.

After calming down and looking again, the huge figure in the mist could finally be seen clearly.

That man was nearly three meters tall, with shaggy hair that exploded in all directions like steel needles, and an armored body.

The face was covered by a mysterious and eerie three-color mask, making it difficult to see clearly. The mask gave the impression of being full of resentment, but also extremely majestic.

"Heijiangmon! That's Heijiangmon!"

"The ghost...the ghost emperor is resurrected! He is resurrected with the face of resentment!"

The monks of Sanjujukgendo were very familiar with what Taira Shomon's aura looked like, so they immediately recognized him as the Oni Emperor.

"Pingjiangmen?" Master Zuxia tightened his grip on the demon-subduing pestle in his hand, "But his head..."

Why does Pingjiangmen have a head?

Could it be said that the Kanda Shrine on the Ghost Disciple side has been lost?

Master Ancestor didn't have much time to think, as Hei Shomon with his head intact had already appeared in Sanjujukgendo Hall.

What he should do now is spare no effort to defend this place.

call!

The demon-subduing pestle in his hand flew out, carrying the strong wind, and shot out flowing rainbow light.

Master Zuxia aimed at the Ghost Emperor's broken arm.

According to the information given in the document, the ghost emperor's body is difficult to destroy, but the wound where the limbs and head were severed is where the gate of life is.

Bang!

The extremely powerful demon-subduing pestle hit the Ghost King's body and was bounced away. The sound it made was like a metal collision, loud and harsh.

This blow did not directly hit the broken limb of the Ghost Emperor's right arm, but only caused him to shake slightly.

Because Ping Jiangmen's body made an extremely simple movement——

His left hand crossed his chest, covering the broken limb of his right arm.

The body of Jiangmen is like cast steel and is difficult to destroy. As long as the wound is blocked, in a sense, this is absolute defense.

"Om Panzal Sa Duo Hum..."

Master Ancestor put his hands together and chanted the mantra.

The power of the curse stirred the air, and caused the demon-subduing pestle to spin and hit the ghost new emperor's head.

Bang!

It's still the sound that comes from the violent impact of metal.

The Ghost King simply did not dodge or defend this time.

"useless."

He spoke condescendingly to his ancestors.

Although his face was covered by a mask of resentment, sarcasm and disdain could be clearly felt from the exposed blue eyes.

Then the Ghost King left his ancestors alone for the time being and rushed directly towards one of the thirty-six rooms.

There is the Nuo formation that seals the right hand of the general.

"No one can kill the Emperor!"

The group of ghosts started shouting and swarmed out in all directions.

In the presence of the emperor, these strange stories were in high spirits.