Good news came from Gao Tianyuan's side, about the production of [Blank Divine Candle].
She spent three days carefully studying both the Divine Barrier and the [Takamagahara Pass], and then finally used the Pass and ebony gold as materials to successfully create a [Blank Divine Barrier].
After Kamiya got the new Kannada in Kamiya, he immediately used "Kaitan Monogatari" to conduct an appraisal. The appraisal result was exactly the same as the one previously consumed on Ouri Island.
But to be on the safe side, he still asked one more question: "Is there any problem with this thing? I can use the paper man and the divine coffin you made normally to achieve resurrection in the other world, right?"
"Of course!" Jue patted the bra as a guarantee and vowed, "If you can't be resurrected, you have the guts to give me a bad review and I will compensate you."
"...If I fail to resurrect, how can I give you a bad review?"
"Then I will die for your love? The story of the tragic death of the original master Takamaki and his loyal craftsmen sounds very good, and maybe it will be sung by the world."
"That's not necessary. It's better for us all to live well."
Kamiya complained like this, but after hearing the words of the craftsman sister, he felt completely relieved.
Generally speaking, when she says things like "I will give myself to you" or "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 the craftsman sister who worked hard overtime, Kamiyagawa left Takamagahara with the newly acquired [Blank Divine Candle].
…
After getting the blank shrine, Kamiyagawa took a day off and flew directly to Yokohama, and once again arrived at Tsushima Island's Seka Ryokan.
Jixiangsu is still under blockade in the countermeasures room.
According to the information previously received, the organization seems to be planning to cut down the hibiscus trees growing here.
The specific details of the felling project are still being discussed, and it is estimated that they will be implemented in another month or two.
There's still time.
As long as the divine coffin is successfully erected into the Santu River in the other world, it shouldn't matter much if the hibiscus tree connected to the Styx River in the real world is destroyed.
After all, Shinkami and Santukawa were already tied together at that time.
Referring to the situation of [Lost Kamui], the root land has no corresponding area in the real world, but as long as the god stands in it, the Kamiya River can enter and exit freely.
Logically it should be like this.
The area around Jixiangjuku is still blocked by the countermeasures room, but Kamiya River has entered relatively smoothly.
After the previous battle here, when Kamiyagawa submitted the battle report, the Countermeasures Room made a veiled inquiry about Kamiya's "Master Ghost" about his views on the fuso tree.
He did not give a direct answer at that time, but said that he would find an opportunity to ask Master for instructions.
If the master is interested, then she will return to Jixiang Su and do some more research according to her old man's instructions.
Now is the time to use that excuse.
The spirit exterminators guarding Jixiangsu all had unfamiliar faces. Uncle Yuuki and Masao Nagatomo who had stayed here before had already completed the handover work and left. However, the elite in the countermeasures room who is responsible for presiding over the overall situation here is still very enthusiastic and respectful towards Kamiya.
The subsequent development of things also went smoothly.
On the first day when Kamiya returned to Jixiang, he climbed the hibiscus tree and "investigated" several times.
Most of the time he was accompanied by people from the countermeasures room, but during this period he also seized the opportunity and went up alone.
The time I went up alone, I didn't stay too long. I successfully used the [Blank Divine Barrier] and entered the other world.
The newly opened map was all gray, and one could hear the sound of distant rivers and the continuous whimpering and wailing from an unknown source.
The map information shows that this is the [Santu River].
Kamiyagawa did not do any exploration in the Santukawa River, and left temporarily after fully activating the god that had been established in the other world.
After that, he pretended to stay in Jixiangsu for half a day, and then found an excuse to return to Tokyo in the afternoon of the next day.
…
In this world, Santu River.
Kamiya has conquered quite a few world maps, including the Hidden Map and the Mythical Map. Even though the scene on the Styx map still gave him a big shock.
After all, it is a scene that is completely invisible in reality.
The entire scene is filled with vast mist and gray. The sky and the earth seem to be completely connected, and there is no discernible dividing line.
The sound of raging water echoed in the distance, mixed with the cries of countless innocent souls.
The new ghosts are annoyed and the old ghosts are crying, and the sky is dark and rainy, chirping.
"The Styx map is extremely cold and the water vapor is very heavy. It is estimated that it does not need rain from the little sun, but Yin thunder and dragon thunder can have a good effect."
Kamiya made this judgment based on the environment of the new map.
Because it was a "branch map" created by myself, "Kaitan Monogatari" did not give any task prompts after entering Santuchuan.
The shrine that stands on this mythical map is still the same, with yellow-green fluorescence flying around. The statues of the shikigami and the shrines of Mary and Little Tapir are clustered around the standing sign.
Now Shen Tong is not so much a standing sign, but a small building complex.
"Shen Chu seems to have no problem at all. Sister Jue is sincere and will not deceive me."
Kamiyakawa checked Kamiya and found nothing wrong with it.
With this thing around, he is still an immortal in the Styx map, and feels very safe.
Behind the shrine is an extremely huge tree, twisting and pointing straight into the gray sky.
The size of this tree appears to be comparable to that of a hibiscus tree in the real world.
The only difference is that there are clothes hanging on the tree branches everywhere, in various styles, for men, women, old and young, some are tattered and old, and some are bright and new.
Countless clothes bent the branches. There was obviously no wind in the environment, but the branches of the big tree kept "squeaking", causing the clothes on them to flutter like ghosts, and there were many ghosts.
"This should be the collar tree."
Kamiyakawa judged this in his heart.
No matter what status they were in life, if they enter Santuchuan after death, their clothes will be stripped off by the clothes-stealing woman, and the clothes will be hung on the collar tree by the hanging clothes man to weigh the sins.
This is what the myth of Santuchuan is all about anyway.
However, the original Duoyipo and Xuanyiweng had been killed by Shen Gu, and now the collar tree has no owner.
What's also a bit inconsistent is that Kamiyagawa did not see any dead souls in the Santukawa scene.
He had a feeling that there might have been no undead here a long, long time ago.
"Santukawa is the underworld of Japanese Buddhism. It's strange that Duoyipo and Xuanyiweng, as shady agents, would crawl into the real world and attack a living person like me."
There must be something wrong with this place.
Another point is that Santuchuan was formed when Buddhism was preached in Japan and folk legends were mixed into the Chinese underworld.
It does not belong to the same system as the Shinto god of death.
This point has something to say from a cultural perspective. Kamiya also heard the folklore teacher briefly mention it in class at Tokyo University——
To put it simply, it is the change brought about by the invasion and integration of religion and culture.
Buddhism has been dominant in Japan for a long time, overpowering the native Shinto religion.
Moreover, the authority of "death" has been completely taken away by Buddhism.
Even in Japan today, temple monks, not shrines, still control the funeral field, and cemeteries are filled with statues of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
From this perspective, [Santukawa] is a bit like a Buddhist enclave independent of the country with the roots of Shintoism in Japan.
"There's something wrong with Buddhism. I wonder if it's related to the Kingdom of the Underworld. Is it because the two sides competed for power in the realm of death at a certain point in time?"
As for the cause of the abnormality in Santuchuan, Kamiya can only speculate 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 from, but after walking for a long time they could not see the actual direction of the River Styx.
Those chirping ghost cries were mixed in with the sound, but the source could not be identified at all.
After walking for a while, the mist around us became thicker and thicker.
The Jinhaori fabric on 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 surrounding water mist even hindered his body's movements. He felt that he was no longer walking forward, but "swimming" forward.
"This damn place."
Kamiya took out [Drown Girl’s Crown Hair] and tied it around his wrist.
Along the way, you can see many "small towers" made of stones, and many regular-shaped stones scattered on the ground.
None of the stone towers are completed, they are basically in an unfinished state.
Kamiyagawa can roughly know what these things are.
According to Japanese legend, children who die before their parents must build a stone tower at the "Futogahara" on the Sanzu River as compensation for not supporting their parents. But these stones will never be piled up, because every time the work is about to be completed, evil spirits will appear and destroy the stone towers of these premature children.
Those children who died young will be forced to carry out this kind of endless behavior in the plains of the Burial River, and it will never end.
"But here, just like under the collar tree, there are no dead souls. There are no dead children stacked in stone towers."
After stopping to observe a large number of destroyed 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 the rocks, but something strange happened not far away.
"Abba!"
A quick warning from the little old man.
When he finished speaking, a stone flew out from the depths of the mist and headed towards Kamiya's front door.
The ghost's residual arm immediately turned into a ghost cage hand, attached to the right arm and raised it to deflect the blow.
The sharp-edged stones hit the closely arranged illusory scales of the Ghost Cage Hand, leaving no trace behind.
Buzz——
The phone rings.
[The foreign visit catalog has been updated. ]
[Name of the ghost story: The little ghost of Kawara with the buried head]
[Classification: Class E]
"enemy?"
Kamiyakawa narrowed his eyes and saw several small figures crawling in the gray mist.
They were imps in the shape of children, some boys and some girls, with fangs in their mouths, sharp horns on their heads, and large strings of black beads hanging around their necks.
"Whoa! Whoa!"
These little ghosts were like little irritated beasts, baring their teeth and yelling non-stop.
Roughly speaking, most of the Kawara imps with buried heads are E-level, and a few are D-level.
The number is a bit high but nothing to be afraid of.
Even the little old man didn't immediately flee when he saw this wave of enemies, he just retreated behind his master. While protecting his master in front of him, he completely eliminated his own aura by blowing Shakuhachi.
The fact that the scout with super sense did not run away meant that what he encountered before him was not a threat to Kamiya at all.
Can be handled with ease.
"Santuchuan is the territory of Buddhism, and these little devils wear Buddhist beads around their necks, so in a sense, it should be considered a culprit?"
Kamiya observed the young and ferocious strange figures in the mist.
He estimated that these little ghosts of the Burial Head River were the evil ghosts in legend who kept knocking down stone towers along the way.
Well, that's right.
The evil spirits who push the stone tower in the legend are also part of the Yincai.
After all, according to old Japanese Buddhism or folk sayings about afterlife, children who die before their parents are "sinful" if they fail to provide for their parents.
Continuously building towers of stones was a punishment for those children.
This kind of legend is cruel and unreasonable.
In addition, seeing that these "Buried River Imps" all looked like children, Kamiyagawa had other suspicions——
Perhaps they were originally the souls of undead children who built stone towers on the Burial River Plains. After being tortured for a long time, they gradually assimilated into the Santu River and became a part of it.
Originally, they were pushed to the stone tower by evil spirits, and then they were pushed to the stone tower of the new generation of punished undead, and the cycle continued.
Swish, swish, swish!
Just as he was thinking about it, the twisted and crawling Little River Devils all started to move. They grabbed the stones on the ground and threw them towards the Kamiya River while howling.
Stones fell like a shower.
"The gangsters in Santuchuan are really aggressive..."
Kamiyagawa didn't even take out his weapon, and there was a rumbling sound on his body.
It was like thunder or the sigh of an ancient dragon.
An emerald-green electric light snaked out from his hand, the arc of light burst out with a noise, and finally condensed into a dazzling thunder gun.
Ah Hung's breath controlled the muscles and bones of the body, the waist, abdomen and big arms exerted force, and the emerald green dragon thunder spear was violently thrown into the air by Kamiya River.
The thunder gun surged up and down like a dragon breaking through the waves. The vast water vapor was rolled up by the thunder gun, steaming, and there was a loud thunder in the gray space. Water vapor and lightning arcs exploded at the same time, with dazzling light, tearing open the water mist, and suddenly a tree-root-shaped thunder and lightning net exploded, completely covering the flying rocks 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, red mist surged around Kamiya River, and karma was blazing.
Mary and Inugami appear.
A group of E-level and a few D-level brats were overestimating their capabilities in trying to attack Kamiya.
Under the simple attack of the two wild gods, most of the Zangtou River imps were quickly killed or wounded. They didn't seem to be particularly stupid, and they didn't insist on fighting after seeing the terrifying strength of the enemy. The remaining ones who were still alive scattered like birds and beasts, screaming and crying and running away.
"Done."
Kamiyagawa clapped his hands as if wiping away dust, and instead of chasing the little ghost of the Burial River, he called on the little old man to move forward.
They are just some unscrupulous little monsters. It will not be too late to trouble them when they are really short of soul crystals. It is better to find where the Styx is first.
