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Chapter 671 Prajna Shock Ball

The Prajna mask of Noh is also notorious in Japan and is extremely powerful, otherwise the Noh president Mishima Yukio who was killed by Wang Zhen's ball would not have the ambition to replace Ishikawa Nobuo and become the leader of the Fish Dragon Society.

He even dared not to think of luring the Baixi Liyuan to Karakura Town and trying to combine the divine mask with the Prajna mask to use as a bridge to become an international force.

Wang Zhen is the boss of Qiutian Capital, and he is also a quirky person who is good at disguising himself and cheating.

The fierce actor Xia Liuqing didn't teach him seriously. He even didn't get the costumes that the master should prepare for the disciple when he starts to work in the opera world. It was still Wang Zhenqiu who thought of some ways on his own and hastily made a clay mask to serve as a makeup tool.

Although he had only been practicing the Prajna Noh mask for less than half a month, he was already very proficient in it. Combined with the Noh costumes he swindled from Mishima Yukio, his power was extraordinary.

Especially the ninja from Higashiyama who revealed the truth about Prajnaparamita actually helped him.

The principles of the Prajna Mask and the Deity Mask are similar, but not the same.

The mask of the deity is used to communicate with the gods to obtain the ownerless faith stored in the spiritual status of the gods, but the Prajna mask is different.

In fact, Japan is the same as China. Taoism and wizards first emerged in China. In Japan, the pioneers of shrines and Shintoism have already compiled the genealogy of gods and monopolized the belief in gods. Small households and individual people are not qualified to enter Shintoism.

However, the reason why humans can become the leaders of all spirits is their endless creativity and never-give-up enterprising spirit.

If the road ahead is blocked, find another way, cut a path through the mountains and build a bridge over the water.

The strange people in the country practiced Shintoism, and they welcomed new gods and created new customs, just like Erlang Shen, the Monkey King, or the Lion Club. During festivals, they paraded through the streets and alleys, getting close to the general public and consolidating the belief in the auspicious lion with the most intuitive performances.

However, Japan was a small country with a narrow territory and no room for maneuver. Apart from the cities, there were few villages in the mountains, and each village was very xenophobic, making it no soil for cultivating new gods.

The shrines and the royal family cooperate to keep the faith tightly controlled. No one can use the power of faith privately without the knowledge of the shrines and the royal family. That's why big shrines like the Meido Shrine and the Inari Shrine are deeply rooted in Japan. Even the president of the Gyoryūkai, Nobuya Ishikawa, finds it difficult to control them. He has to hold meetings to discuss and exchange benefits for their support.

If it weren't for the Mingdao Shrine, which lacked successors or was involved in a natural disaster like the "Emperor's Descent", these shrines might really be able to share the same fate as the country.

  There is no way to create new gods, but the Japanese wizards have some clever ideas. They even thought of creating ghost stories and collecting the "fear" among mortals.

Among the seven emotions, love and hate are rare to be sincere, sorrow and anger are short-lived, grief and desire are hard to last. Only fear is the easiest to get and will take root in the heart, making people paranoid and afraid of everything.

The founder of the Noh Association and his disciples fabricated and collected many bizarre Noh plays involving the deeds of monsters and evil spirits such as Yamaubada, the evil woman Prajna, the snow woman, the great tengu, and Shuten-doji.

On the surface, it is a story about monsters to guide people to be good, or to ridicule human nature. In fact, it is to spread the horror of monsters and evil spirits, arouse people's fear, and use the prepared Noh masks to collect the "fear" of evil spirits and monsters.

When the stories spread to a certain scale, the ghost stories were born. No longer needing the promotion of the Noh Association, people began to talk about these stories spontaneously, and even derived different storylines, combining local customs and filling the ghost stories with details that echoed local customs, enriching the stories and making them more vivid.

It also allowed it to spread further. In modern times, ghost stories have even become a native custom of Japan, deeply engraved in local culture. Even in modern technological civilization, the stories of the slit-mouthed woman and Sadako still appear.

Monsters have their own status and no longer need to store fear. Just like gods, they have become an unconscious existence in the dark, leaving their mark on humanity and becoming natural phenomena like rain and earthquakes.

There is no need for masks anymore, relying on acting is enough to guide the "fear" to transform into a monster.

Just like a disciple of the Lion Club, once he has become proficient, he no longer needs to wear a lion skin to become a lucky lion. The emergence of ghost stories may not have attracted the attention of the shrine in its infancy, but when it has developed, it is impossible that the shrine has not realized its mystery and importance.

However, the shrine did not suppress the development of ghost stories, but condoned their spread.

After all, there is beauty because of ugliness, there is fragrance because of stinkyness, there is yearning for heaven only when there is suffering as a backdrop, and there is desire for hope only after experiencing despair.

Only when strange stories are rampant can the greatness and holiness of gods be highlighted.

Ghost stories can highlight the majestic deity, but shrines do not allow all ghost stories to spread.

All ghost stories are harmful to humans. They all feed on humans or play tricks on humans. Almost no ghost stories have the positive ability to heal others. Even monsters like Nura: Oni, which can be considered neutral, simply do not kill, but do not save people either. They have no mercy.

On the divine and demonic side, the name is just a code name. No matter it is called Yamaubada or Inari God, as long as it can save people and is compassionate, it is a god.

The shrine has a clear view of the foundation of its own life.

Therefore, the ghost stories played by Noh mask are almost all very lethal, unlike the masks of divinity, which also have functional divinity like Yuchi Gong.

Ghost stories are like deities. It is not that the higher the status, the stronger it is. Instead, the more details there are, the stronger the story is, the closer it is to the lives of ordinary people, the more it is sung by people, and the more widely believed it is, the stronger the ghost story is.

Therefore, the Monkey King is stronger than the Sun God Xihe who few people have heard of, Prajna Girl is stronger than the Wenche Demon Concubine, and Cthulhu is stronger than the Creator God Azathoth.

The Prajna evil woman mask obtained by Wang Zhenqiu is a widely circulated ghost story, and therefore has great attack power. As soon as he combined the human face with one and transformed into a demon, he had already defeated Biheshan and no one was his opponent.

Prajna Girl can also devour the enemy's fear on the spot. The more the enemy fears her, the stronger her power will be and the heavier her pressure will be. Over time, she will even form an aura of fear, manifesting all kinds of fearful illusions.

Therefore, the ninja of Higashiyama would shout out "Silence of Mind", ordering everyone to keep their minds still and suppress their emotions to prevent Prajna from becoming stronger and stronger.

However, it is really difficult to keep a calm mind when there is a big demon waving its claws around and may kill them at any time.

That is a realm that only some true eminent monks and enlightened masters can reach. How could a group of ninjas and onmyojis possibly do that?

In other words, if they could do that, they should be the ones giving the order, not that jonin.

The jonin of Higashiyama also understood what kind of people his subordinates were. Seeing that most of them were afraid, they did not dare to step forward.

They knew the best way to deal with Prajna Girl, but since they couldn't do it, the only way was to use a method that would hurt both sides.

The Higashiyama ninja took a deep breath:

"Everyone, take the mad ghost potion!"