Earth Immortal Righteous Path

Chapter 403 Kyoto at night

into the night.

In the outer urban areas of Kyoto, there are courtyard houses full of flowers.

This is a property purchased by Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan not long ago through a network.

It was originally owned by the son of a down-and-out aristocrat, and it is said that the ancestor was also the descendant of a prince.

However, judging from the architectural style of the house, this kind of rhetoric is just putting gold on his own face.

This is just a small house, and there are many houses of the same size on the same street.

In Kyoto, where every inch of land is very expensive, such a house is not necessarily something that can be bought with money.

The head of Huakaiyuan's family is currently reading in the bedroom.

The top-quality white paper has a delicate and smooth surface, and when touched in the palm of the hand, one can smell the fragrance of ink slightly.

People who know how to maintain books will place camphor tree roots in the study to prevent corrosion and insects.

This way the books can be preserved for as long as possible.

"That's right. They're all old books. They seem to be originals or rubbings."

They all have the smell of moth balls, not too pungent.

"Eternal literati dream of being a good guest, red sleeves add fragrance to reading at night. In this situation, how can we not be accompanied by a beautiful woman with red sleeves?"

With a wave of the big sleeve, two pieces of yellow paper floated out, fell to the ground, and turned into two women, one green and one white, standing pretty in place.

"Come, come, come... Hug left and right, and let me be corrupted too!"

The two shikigami cuddled up to him obediently.

This kind of shikigami created by infusing aura is not a living thing in essence, and its intelligence is very low, so it can only be used to perform some simple tasks.

But in terms of appearance, she is already a first-class beauty among human beings...the standard of future generations.

As for this era... the beauty from a hundred miles away, smiling with yellow teeth...

What's more, at this time, Miss Gongqing regards gouache as beauty, and likes to apply a thick layer of gouache, and these cosmetics contain lead powder of heavy metals...
No matter how beautiful she was, she couldn't withstand the poison of lead powder, and within three years, her face would be completely disfigured.

In this era, the real beauty is either a monster, a god, or a shikigami...

In short, whenever you meet a real Japanese beauty in this era, don't think about what you shouldn't have, absolutely!no!Ordinary people!

For example, the famous white-faced golden-haired Yuzaoqian.

Not a big house, divided into two floors.

The upper floor is a study and bedroom.

The lower floor is the living room, kitchen and others.

After nightfall, the whole of Kyoto fell silent.

No matter how busy the area is during the day, no one will walk on the street.

Kyoto in the daytime belongs to humans.

And the night is of a different kind...
All kinds of weak monsters lurking in the shadows have become active.

Under the leadership of demons and monsters, they wantonly plunder and attack human beings...

Even the families of great nobles are sometimes overwhelmed by the disturbance, and have to ask a skilled onmyoji to arrange a barrier.

As for the common people... they have to ask for more blessings.

Fortunately, the main purpose of the Kyoto monsters is not to kill people, but to frighten humans and collect a kind of power called "fear" to strengthen themselves.

The more you are afraid of monsters, the more powerful you will be. This is fear.

Fear can give birth to new monsters, and can also strengthen monster power, which is the food for the growth of monsters.

At night, even onmyojis would not dare to go out unless they were really skilled enough.

Because an onmyoji with abundant spiritual power is undoubtedly a delicacy in the eyes of monsters, so any onmyoji who appears alone at this point in time will almost certainly become the target of monsters' attacks... Except Seimei.

Seimei, a half-demon with the blood of a white fox, is the night master of this ancient capital.

Rule human beings during the day, monsters at night, the lord of monsters and monsters who run rampant in this ancient capital is the Great Onmyoji who reigns at the apex of the Onmyodao... Abe Seimei.

Of course, that's something Seimei in his 50s can do...
The present Qingming is still very young, has his own person, and has no idea of ​​becoming the lord of demons and monsters.

He is not a high official in Yinyangliao...an institution funded by the government.

A few years ago, he started as a teacher from his teacher He Mao Zhongxing, and quickly made a name for himself.
At present, he is not weaker than his teacher in terms of yin and yang.

Seimei is famous for controlling twelve high-ranking shikigami at the same time.

These high-ranking shikigami each have their own dispositions and abilities. Ordinary onmyojis can't even make one, let alone twelve, and control them.

In fact, an ordinary onmyoji spends his whole life practicing onmyoji, and can rarely control more than one shikigami at the same time.

Of course, except for that kind of cannon fodder Shikigami.

Similar to this kind of shikigami, or subdued potential monster shikigami, in order to ensure that they do not kill the master, the number should be as small as possible.

Every time one more shikigami is added, the spiritual power required to control a shikigami doubles or even increases five or six times, the more powerful the shikigami is, the more so.

Therefore, even a good onmyoji usually minimizes the number of shikigami and pays more attention to quality.

Manipulating shikigami requires multi-tasking and expending spiritual power. This does not mean that hard work can improve much... this is talent!
"With my current ability, if it is the Twelve Generals...even if it is just created now and has not yet reached the level of a big monster, it can only control three of them at the same time." , no more than five."

"However, Qingming is able to easily control the twelve, and it is obvious that he is able to handle them with ease. This is not his limit."

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan sighed, put down the scroll in his hand, and walked to the window.

The evening wind blew, lifting the hair around his ears.

In early spring, it was the second floor again, and the wind here was a bit cold.

"The evil spirit is everywhere, Kyoto is so active every day!"

In the gray night sky, nothing can be seen, but in the eyes of the onmyoji, he can see groups of birds flying... This is a bird-shaped monster, when he encounters a demon, Appeared, attacked passing caravans, and robbed all kinds of food. As for the name... Sorry, this kind of miscellaneous fish monster does not need a name.

"Between Seimei and I, there is a huge difference."

These days, Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan also learned about Qingming's performance from some onmyojis in Yinyangliao through insinuating.

Although it is very likely that the opponent is hiding their clumsiness, the outstanding record can still explain the problem.

He became a leader within one year of enrolling, but became a full-fledged Onmyoji within five years, and after traveling for another three years, he independently produced the high-level shikigami "Blue Dragon" that can grow with the master.

If that's all, it's just an elite onmyoji. In the future, he may become an onmyoji like his teacher, able to resist a big monster alone.

Corresponding to the levels of monsters, onmyojis are actually divided into official onmyojis, elite onmyojis, and great onmyojis.

Roughly divided, it refers to combat power.

A formal onmyoji needs to learn a lot, including almost all the courses of elementary school, middle school, and high school. This type of onmyoji can deal with most ordinary little monsters, and has the ability to complete daily routines such as relocation, feng shui, and divination. business capability.

This type of onmyoji is actually the pillar of the onmyoji.

Their abilities range from high to low, from the fledgling onmyoji to those who can deal with some tricky monsters.

The next level is the elite among them.

With many means, rich experience, and no obvious shortcomings, he is able to deal with a small-scale hyakki night walk alone (the hyakki night walk here refers to the collective activities of monsters), and face double-digit elite monsters at once.

The current Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan is at this stage.

Including Qingming, he is still on the rise when he is young, and he is currently at this stage.

The scale of the Hyakki Night Walk, ten people, 30 people, 77 ghost night walks, the Hyakki Night Walk... the more the number, the more elite monsters participating, the scarier it is.

Hyakki Night Walk, this kind of collective action of monsters, will gather their monster power to form a whole, and the main force is the elite monsters.

According to the number of participating elite monsters, the threat level can be divided.

Almost every ten more numbers, the degree of difficulty doubles, and the number of ghosts at night is two to the tenth power, which is more than 1000 times.

In other words, after the Hyakki Yakyou gathered by a hundred elite monsters is truly formed, combined with the fear of human beings, it can eventually reach more than 1000 times the monster power of a single elite monster.

At the same time, when the ghosts travel at night, the lord of the ghosts, the monster at the head, will be able to control this condensed monster power...
Just imagine, if a certain monster who is stuck at the critical point of the big monster level gathers enough monsters as subordinates, and then holds such a large-scale night walk of hundreds of ghosts to collect human fears, if everything is perfect in the end, can Increase your own monster power to more than 1000 times the normal state!
There is probably no need to say more about what will happen if such a huge monster power is obtained by a monster at the critical point.

That was the birth of another big monster.

This is the method that monsters have explored for tens of thousands of years to use the power of human fear to become stronger.

Although this kind of big monster made by borrowing power is slightly more dependent on fear, it is also a pretty good way to become stronger!

This is also the reason why established monster organizations seldom kill people directly.

They need the continued fear of humanity to build up their strength.

This night, Kyoto has been completely reduced to a paradise for ghosts and ghosts.

The ministers supported onmyojis and enshrined the gods, and relied on the power of the enchantment to keep them safe for a while.

Human beings humiliatedly gave up the night to a different kind.

(End of this chapter)