Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1206 Preparing to Catch the Monster
"You're right," Fu Yuanshan nodded. "If we take shelter according to the information you brought and avoid every major earthquake, then Shangluo, you can be said to have done a great deed. After all, you have saved countless priceless lives and recovered astronomical losses. But because Xu Fu's project disturbed the earth veins, these predictions could not be fulfilled, and the merits cannot be attributed to you."

"What did I say?" Ao Zang slammed his hand on the railing. "I said that old Xu Fu was full of bad intentions! Lord Shang Tian, ​​he owes you karma now, right? You have to collect interest from him too!"

"If the good guys knew in advance, they would never let him get away."

[Eh? Shangluo, your blood pressure is high again. Your blood pressure is not high? Aren't you angry? ]

"Angry? This actually makes me happy - I didn't know where to redeem my merits before. Now Xu Fu has wiped out my merits, so I can just go to Xu Fu to redeem them. How can I be angry? This is a huge profit!"

[Well, you can always find blind spots that others can't. Now, you really have a reason to settle accounts with Xu Fu.]

"This is actually quite crucial - you can see that although Xu Fu was not afraid of anything, he was still afraid of the First Emperor, because he did owe the First Emperor karma. He owed karma to the Dragon Palace, and he has always remembered it. Now, he owes me. I will not let him escape without exposing himself to death."

Xu Fu was always in a state of being particular and not particular. But as long as he owed a debt, Xu Fu was locked in the state of "escaping from debt", which could help Shangluo to grasp Xu Fu's motives and lifeblood.

Ao Zang was so excited that he couldn't express it in words - because now there was one more creditor in the same situation as him. Also, if Shangluo didn't take it, he would be embarrassed to take too much.

"Then, Lord Shang Tian! Let's go find that old man and get our debt back!"

"I don't know if he can afford to pay both of us back at the same time."

"Oh, you're talking about that." Ao Zang spread his hands and said, "It doesn't matter. When the time comes, let Xu Fu repay the debt to you, the Heavenly Monarch, first."

"You're so generous?"

"Public interests come before private ones. The merits you have done are of course more important than the financial debt owed to Dragon Palace. Besides, this is the duty of a subject. If you take it, then we in Dragon Palace can get some."

"You are not shy about it at all. However, you should be prepared that Xu Fu cannot pay it back. The difference may be huge."

"That's easy, easy." Ao Zang had a confident smile on his face, "It doesn't matter if he can't pay it back. I will lend him money to pay it back."

"???"

"Why are you looking at me? Xu Fu is a high-quality asset. I would love to make him go into debt. Hehehe, it would be best if he couldn't pay back a single cent, and then owed us an astronomical sum with compound interest. Hehehehe~~"

[Commissioner Ao can no longer hide his smile. He is not holding back at all. If you take, he can actually take more - so the less he takes, the more he will get.]

"Okay, okay." Shangluo shook his head. "I care about the part that can be cashed right now, because I need assets that can be obtained immediately."

He looked at Ao Zang and said, "Then, let's split up. You guys continue to go to Qianye to contain Xu Fu's army, and the king's division is coming to catch the monster!"

The Royal Division, which had already landed, began to gather on the ruins of Edo Castle. The railways of old Edo were still usable, but the vehicles on them were not normal trains, but railroad destroyers - high-powered locomotives with steel plows hanging behind them, which plowed through all the sleepers wherever they went, and the rails curled up like wool. The commuter tracks, which cost a huge amount of money to build, would be destroyed by war machines in just a few hours. The soldiers of the Royal Division did not enter Edo, but waited at the Yokohama landing site. They were the reserve force for this operation and would come in when Shangluo needed them.

The location of Shangluo is the key node where the railway was later destroyed - Torigoe Shrine.

Although it is called a "shrine", the place is actually flattened. Unlike the surrounding steel and concrete ruins, the wooden buildings here are extremely damaged. From the outside, it looks like a wasteland.

"Indeed." Fu Yuanshan half-knelt on the ground, supporting himself with his hands. "The spiritual energy here is suppressed. When the railway is destroyed, the suppressed spiritual energy here should be released. But, what kind of formation is this? Can you explain it briefly?"

"Tokugawa Ieyasu arranged the Big Dipper, and this is the first star. As for why it is the Big Dipper, it is because that is the deity Myoken Bodhisattva worshipped by Taira no Masakado, the dead general sealed here. And here——

"This Torigoe Shrine is dedicated to the war god in Japanese folklore. It is a certain mythical king of Wa. His name is [Yatake no Mikoto]."

"What's the connection between these two?"

"There is a connection in Japan's Shinto-Buddhism system - they believe that local gods are incarnations of Bodhisattvas. Myoken Bodhisattva is a god of war, and Yamato Takenoko is also a god of war, so Yamato Takenoko is the incarnation of Myoken Bodhisattva who manifested in the local area to promote the Dharma. That's why this is the primary node in the entire formation. The other parts are buried with the body fragments of Taira no Masakado himself, and this place uses divine power to amplify his strength."

"I see." Fu Yuanshan nodded, "It's a very good plan - Xu Fu's plan is also good."

Xu Fu's orbit separated the temple that possessed the power of Myoken Bodhisattva from the fragments of Taira no Masakado, making Taira no Masakado a simple vengeful spirit, and he was not guided by the power of the god of war to protect the "samurai" - this was the purpose of Tokugawa Ieyasu himself in setting up this formation.

"And this railway." Fu Yuanshan looked at the ground. "This railway is also wonderful. Railways are popular, and the huge number of passengers coming and going every day can suppress the local spiritual energy. This is similar to using schools to suppress graves. And when it comes to crowds, nothing is more crowded than commuter railways. Even the monstrous power of curses can indeed be suppressed by the huge number of passengers coming and going every day. When Xu Fu is caught, if he is still alive after paying your debt, I would like to invite him over."

"You want to use his knowledge?"

"This is the most classic, lost pre-Qin magic. It is really wonderful, isn't it? If we can regain these long-lost powerful magics from Xu Fu, Da Nei may be able to make further progress - but then again, what is the name of our gang here? What is the name of that vengeful spirit?"

"Taira Masakado. He wanted to be the King of Wa, but he was killed because of rebellion."

"Will he listen to us when he wakes up?"

"He's probably in a bad mood when he wakes up - but he's just a dead general. If he dares to draw his sword against the king's army, let him die again. The battleship's cannon is pointed at this place. Even if we don't take action, using this cannonball to flatten his remains will be enough to scare him to death. What I'm planning is something else."

"Huh? What's the matter?"

"He wants to be the King of Japan, and I want to be crowned the King of Japan. You see, how can it be such a coincidence?"

(End of this chapter)