"Now, is Gu Yun still worried that grandpa will die in two years?"
"Forehead…"
Gu Yun scratched his face, not knowing how to answer.
He really didn't expect that Huangquan would be like the real world, almost like a second life, and a paradise like a utopia.
To be honest, if you can reach the underworld after death, is this really death?
"But no matter what you say, you shouldn't put the word 'death' on your lips."
"Hahaha."
Grandpa did not refute, he smiled and said: "Let's go, I will take you to visit three old friends. I don't know if she has arrived."
"she?"
"Have you heard Miyako talking about it before?"
Grandpa said: "The four four kings of Yehu Zen are the three except me."
Kotaki Goshiro, Natsume Reiko, and Tsuba Kishiro.
Grandpa made an appointment with three people to gather in Huangquan today just to introduce his grandson to them.
"Reiko."
Among the three, the one Gu Yun is most familiar with is Natsume Reiko.
In his previous life, he had watched the anime called 'Natsume with a Hood' and liked the daily life in it.
However, according to the anime, Reiko seemed to have passed away when Natsume's mother was very young.
Specifically, the comic doesn't explain.
According to Gu Yun's judgment, Lingzi would have been in her early twenties at most when she passed away.
"Reiko and Goushiro are both dead."
"So they should come faster, maybe they are already waiting for us in front."
"That guy Kushiro is still alive," Grandpa said, "It's really not easy to call them all over at the same time."
Among the three, only Kogoro lives in Huangquan.
Although Reiko passed away, her spiritual power was very powerful and she had already cultivated to the point of 'supernatural power' during her lifetime. She was hailed as the most promising being to complete the [Twelve Days Trial] in the past hundred years.
Although she died young, death was just a new beginning for Reiko.
She did not stop practicing. On the contrary, after abandoning her flesh and blood body, her spiritual power increased greatly. Now, even her grandfather is no match for her.
"Twelve days of trial?"
The 'Queen Shui Tian' Gu Yun met last time was the wife of Shui Tian, one of the twelve heavens.
But Gu Yun's understanding of what exactly the Twelve Heavens are is extremely one-sided. He only knows that they seem to be twelve very powerful gods.
"To put it simply, it is to find a 'Twelve Heavens' and complete their test."
"Is the test difficult?"
"Very difficult!"
Grandpa said: "As far as I know, no one has received the title of [Heaven] for almost 100 years."
Please note that the [Twelve Days Achievements] here does not mean that after completing it, you will become a member of the Twelve Days.
Achievements are achievements, twelve days are twelve days, the two have nothing to do with each other.
"Twelve days is a legendary existence."
Grandpa explained: "They were once the twelve most powerful gods of war and fighting among the gods."
"For thousands of years, due to various reasons, the Twelve Heavens have descended into heaven one after another and become human beings," Grandpa said, "They have experienced various hardships in the human world, and they have broken their shackles as mortals and ascended to heaven again. god."
If Natsume Reiko can complete the [Twelve Days Trial], she is likely to become the strongest warlock in the spirit world in a hundred years.
Of course, Reiko is dead.
But that's not a big deal.
Reiko was a human god during her lifetime.
After the death of human gods, their spiritual bodies will not simply die, but will transform into special spiritual gods.
Spirit gods do not have godhead, but they have the same power as gods.
So when it comes to that point, if Reiko wants to be resurrected, there are many ways.
The simplest thing is to use the 'method of descending from heaven to become a human being' just like the Twelve Heavens.
"Grandpa, can't you complete the twelve-day trial?"
"Ha ha ha ha."
Grandpa smiled and said: "Me? I'm still far away!"
Among the Four Heavenly Kings of Yehuzen, the best one is definitely Natsume Reiko.
In the words of grandpa, that girl is cheating.
"Not to mention completing the trial, just finding the Twelve Heavens and having a conversation with them is enough to make countless spirit exterminators despair."
The twelve-day spiritual power is so high that it is almost impossible for a spiritual exterminator to travel to the world they are in.
"Oh, here we are."
Just as he was talking, Grandpa took Gu Yun to a wooden house built on a wooden plank road like a cliff.
"Knock knock."
"Coming~~"
The person who opened the door was a woman in her thirties. She was wearing a kimono and looked like a very virtuous housewife.
"Reiko?"
"Ah, the kid got the wrong person."
Emiko Isshiki covered her mouth and smiled softly. Grandpa introduced: "This is Mrs. Isshiki."
"Just call me Emiko."
Mrs. Emiko is a very gentle woman. Tani Yun quickly saluted and said: "My name is Tani Yun Iijima, and I am the grandson of the snail."
"He is the teacher's grandson."
"welcome."
Mrs. Emiko shouted towards the room: "Reiko~~the teacher is here!"
"It's too late, Master."
Soon, a girl with an exquisite face ran out of the back room. She scratched her head and looked like she had just woken up: "Besides, long time no see!"
The girl looked about seventeen or eighteen years old and was wearing an old-style high school uniform from Japan decades ago, that is, a blue and white sailor uniform.
"Well, I haven't seen you for almost ten years, Reiko."
"Reiko?"
Unlike the Reiko in Gu Yun's impression, the Reiko in this world is not incompatible with other people because of her psychic abilities.
"You are the teacher's grandson, right?"
Lingzi and her grandfather had not seen each other for many years, but they did not lose contact. Instead, they often exchanged magic skills, so she knew about Gu Yun's existence.
In the grandfather's description, his grandson is well-behaved, sensible, and intelligent.
At a young age, he showed great accomplishments and qualifications, and was a genius who could perfectly inherit all his abilities, far exceeding his own.
"First time we meet, I am Gu Yun."
"Natsume Reiko."
Lingzi coughed lightly, and instead of hugging Gu Yun impatiently like others did when they saw him for the first time, she stood there politely: "What, you are just like the teacher said, you are very cute. "
"Aha?"
Gu Yun was stunned for a moment, but then he saw Lingzi's cheeks were slightly red and asked softly: "Can I hug you?"
"Yes, yes."
So, after getting Gu Yun's permission, Lingzi hugged him into her arms, her eyes full of love: "Is this Xiaohuan's child? I have never seen such an attractive aura with such a majestic aura."
"Ha ha ha ha."
Grandpa smiled and said, "Really? Little Guyun is so cute!"
"Ahem, it's okay."
"That's it."
As she said this, Reiko's eyes never left Gu Yun.
Obviously, Reiko really likes Gu Yun, but her personality is a little arrogant and she doesn't want to admit it.
"But what should I call this kid?"
Natsume Reiko: "Aunt Reiko? Or senior sister Reiko."
"Why?"
Aunt Gu Yun can understand that Reiko is more than ten years older than Tamaki Iijima.
Natsume Reiko passed away at the age of 24. If she were still alive, she would be 45 years old this year, a proper old aunt.
But because he was still young when he died.
In addition, Reiko used the soul engraving technique to retain her 17-year-old high school spirit body during her lifetime.
Therefore, in terms of psychological age, Reiko prefers Tamaki Iijima and Miyako.
Even Reiko would care about age.
This has nothing to do with whether he is a warlock or not, whether he is dead or alive!
As long as you are a woman, you will not like to be called 'old aunt'.
"Sister?"
What Gu Yun is confused about is not Lingzi's age, but the 'Senior Sister Lingzi' she calls her.
"Didn't I say that?"
Grandpa said: "Reiko is my first student, the top disciple of Iijima!"
"Whatever..."
The corner of Gu Yun's mouth twitched slightly: "Grandpa, are you making it up now?"
"Ha ha ha ha."
Grandpa smiled and said, "Don't worry about the details, Gu Yun."
There is no school of magic in the Iijima family, and it is indeed quite casual.
"I'll make tea for you."
In Isshiki's mansion, Emiko went to the kitchen to cook, and Kotaki Goshiro seemed to be out on business and hadn't come back yet.
Tsuba is a prodigal son who behaves in a coquettish manner. He is the last one to arrive every time. Grandpa and Reiko have long been used to it.
So, taking advantage of this moment, Reiko told Gu Yun her childhood memories.
"I really miss the old days..."
The relationship between Reiko and the Iijima family is much closer than Gu Yun imagined.
Decades ago, Natsume's family was attacked by a group of demons because of their strong bloodline, and Reiko's parents also died in this disaster.
Only the five or six-year-old girl was left alone and helpless.
If nothing unexpected happens, Lingzi in this world will be taken in by relatives just like Gu Yun remembers, and then spend her childhood under the shelter of others.
It was also at that time that Reiko met Iijima Snail, who was about 30 years old and still in his youth.
Snail has been greatly favored by Natsume's family. In order to prevent the girl from constantly being tossed around in relatives' homes like a bottle of oil, he chose to adopt the young Reiko.
To this end, Grandpa also used his connections in the spirit eradication world to solve various legal problems.
Perhaps because of the appearance of grandpa, Reiko's fate changed.
In this way, Reiko grew up in the old house of Iijima.
In her mind, the snail is both her teacher and a father-like existence.
Of course, Reiko could not avoid some of the original tragedies.
That overly powerful spiritual power makes it difficult for Reiko to become friends with ordinary people.
The only ones who can speak are the younger sister of the Iijima family, Tamaki Iijima, who also has the ability to see ghosts, and the adoptive father, Snail Iijima.
However, they are family, not friends.
Reiko's unusual behavior led to her being bullied at school.
Naturally, the girl was not the kind of person who liked to be patient, so she decisively used spells to take revenge on those who had bullied her.
Grandpa didn't say anything about this.
Perhaps in the subconscious of Iijima Snail at that time, there was also dissatisfaction and hatred towards ordinary people persecuting warlocks.
There is a huge base of ordinary people, and the ratio of warlocks with inheritance and knowledge of magic to them has almost reached an exaggerated 1 million:1.
"Did grandpa used to be like that?"
Gu Yun always thought that his grandfather was a moderate person from the beginning, but he didn't expect that he was so violent when he was young.
But the reason why grandpa changed was because he fought.
Of course, it's useless.
Grandpa didn't change anything, but instead caused the lives of his important family members to die.
"I sometimes wonder if things would have been different if I hadn't resisted at that time."
"Well."
Reiko laughed at herself: "Sure enough, with my character, I definitely can't help it."
"So, Sister Reiko, have you taken action?"
"It's time to take action."
Reiko took a sip of tea: "I called some little monsters and scared them hard. After I retaliated, they learned their lesson completely."
No one dares to look down on her anymore, and no one dares to bully her anymore.
And Reiko also paid the price for this, that is, she completely lost such a luxury as friends.
"People started to be afraid of me."
"Both my classmates and my peers, everyone chose to distance themselves from me."
Unfortunate ghost girl.
A monster-like woman.
She's just a dark person...
All kinds of rumors made Reiko an alien in her teenage years.
This is Japan.
Whether in school or in society, heterogeneous people are disadvantaged groups who are discriminated against and bullied.
Perhaps there will be no more overt fists and verbal offenses.
But this kind of cold violence and isolation is sometimes more vicious than real violence.
If Reiko could meet another warlock of the same age at that time, they might become very good friends.
Unfortunately, there are too few such people.
Snail wanted to help, but he really couldn't help Reiko introduce friends who had the same interests.
"Humans are just such creatures."
Reiko sighed: "They are afraid of your power, but they are jealous that they cannot have it."
As time passes, Reiko, who rejects humans, begins to come into contact with monsters, and through fighting...
No, it should be said that it was a unilateral beating of monsters to vent the frustration in his heart.
Of course, Reiko is not a sadist.
It should be said that the monsters she had fought with had never been acquainted with each other. One after another, they formed a fate with her.
It was also during this process that Reiko created her own powerful forbidden art, Natsume's Book of Friends, based on the Spiritual Word Technique.
"This is my senior sister's experience," Lingzi said to Gu Yun, "Gu Yun, you must be careful."
"This, Reiko, you can rest assured."
Grandpa smiled and said: "Xiaohuan is extremely rich now."
Moreover, Gu Yun hides well and has many friends.
"Haha? Is Xiaohuan a rich man now?"
Reiko has been traveling in different dimensions over the years.
Since she is no longer in the human world, she naturally does not know how far this world has developed.
"Gu Yun is different from us. He not only surpasses you and me in his talent as a spiritual master," Grandpa said, "in the society of ordinary people, he is also a celebrity in the world."
"Scoot one!!"
After learning that Gu Yun's family was so rich, Lingzi was shocked.
By the way, Gu Yun is really a spiritual master?
Shouldn't it be that when they remove spiritual masters, each of them will be poorer than the other, and then all of them will lead a miserable and precarious life?
"that…"
Gu Yun raised his hand and said, "Let me ask, in your opinion, Senior Sister Lingzi, all spiritual masters are poor?"
"Needless to say!"
Reiko pointed at herself, then at the teacher, and then said: "There are also Goushiro and Mr. Tsuba, we are all poor!"
"......."
"Cough cough cough."
Grandpa's smile became stiffer and stiffer.
What Reiko said is indeed correct, but do you have to use one of your own as a metaphor?
Grandpa: Am I poor? That's what I call cleansing one's body and keeping oneself at ease, keeping the breeze on one's sleeves!
Just like being an official, some people live a very simple life, while others can live a lavish life all day long.
This is not to say that the latter is a corrupt official.
In fact, there are many ways to live a better life, and they are not necessarily illegal.
There are ways to live a good life within the limits of the law.
The reason why grandpa didn't do this was purely for spiritual practice.
Otherwise, he could become a fortune teller or Feng Shui master, and with just a few words, he could make a lot of money every day and become a master.
However, money, power, status, these things have no limit.
When you earn 100,000 per month, you will think about earning 200,000 per month.
If you earn 200,000 a month, you will want 1 million.
If this continues, how can you guarantee that you will stop and not want more?
A person's energy is limited.
Grandpa studied magic more because he wanted to understand the world, rather than spending a lot of time thinking about how to make more money.
As for the money, it’s enough.
Excessive wealth and power are not conducive to a warlock's practice.
Just like if officials focus entirely on how to make money, how can they serve the people wholeheartedly?
Living a simple life is not about self-abuse and stupidity.
It’s about encouraging yourself all the time and not forgetting your roots!
Iijima Snail: Yes, I just don’t have this ambition! It’s definitely not because the novel sells poorly and makes no money!
