novelraw Chapter 110 Journey to the Underworld
Chapter 110 Journey to the Underworld
Flan's heart tightened, but she still asked calmly, "Lying? What did Qingming lie to me?"
Ibaraki Doji chuckled lightly and said, "Abe said that he had no news of Fusangshen since Heianjing was sealed. What a joke. He, Abe Seimei, is he trying to say that the plan to separate the yin and yang worlds is the result of him alone?"
'What? ! ’ Fran’s pupils shrank slightly, and she was shocked by the subtext of Ibaraki Doji’s words, which meant: “He, Tokaima, participated in the separation of Yin and Yang?!”
Ibaraki Doji nodded and explained: "This matter is considered a secret in the underworld. After all, it is not pleasant to say that there are gods involved. That Fusangshen himself also asked to keep it secret. However, I participated in the matter back then. So I have some understanding. The separation of the yin and yang worlds is a very huge plan, which requires a lot of data calculations and superposition of spells to separate the laws of space, time and power. We big monsters provide the activation power for the separation, and Qingming provides A large part of the techniques were developed by Sanjo Togama.”
Knowing this information suddenly, Fran thought to herself: "That's right, Feijian can jump the world wall and take advantage of the loopholes in the rules to be reborn. They should know space and laws the best among them. If Feijian participated in this Things make sense. '
Thinking of this, Fran asked: "Then what happened next?"
"Later?" Ibaraki Doji tilted his head and recalled: "Later, he and Abe had some conflicts for some reason, and Abe, who was originally in the Yang world, suddenly went to the Yin world. After that, I don't know. He stared at Fulan, and said in a deep voice, "Perhaps, Abe Seimei did the trick."
Fran looked at Ibaraki-douji in front of him, his eyes were open and his movements were natural, he didn't seem to be hiding anything, he looked generous and straightforward.But Fran can no longer fully believe their words, whether it is Ibaraki, Seimei, or Shuten...
'Everyone has a different story, all are hinting at each other's unreliability and lies, everyone seems to have their own agenda, and keep me in the dark in the name of my good...'
'That's enough tricks, and that's about as much information as I can get...'
'Now, I need to take the initiative back into my own hands...'
Fulan, who was full of thoughts in her heart, just lowered her eyelids, and said with a smile: "Ibaraki, thank you for telling me this, I will consider it carefully." She looked at Ibaraki Doji seriously, and said softly: "Now I am very confused. I want to sort it out. Tomorrow, I will give Seimei an answer, please let me calm down today."
Seeing Fran's tired expression, Ibaraki Doji nodded and said, "Okay, then you should go to bed early, and if you have any requests, just tell the demon servant."
Seeing the back of Ibaraki Doji leaving and the slowly closing door, Fran raised her hand and touched the hair ornament on her sideburns, shaking her head and chuckling: "This hair ornament made by demon power is a natural locator." '
The next day, Ibaraki and Seimei, who had been waiting for Fran for a long time, knocked on the door of Fran's room. They were greeted by an empty room and a snowflake hair ornament lying quietly on the dressing table.
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Fulan, who left Dajiangshan, regained the ronin's attire, wearing a high black ponytail, wearing a three-day moon Zongjin on her waist, and wearing a simple dark blue straight body, walking around human villages and towns with straw sandals on her feet.
Pretending to be a wandering martial idiot samurai, inquiring about powerful weapons and swords, this is not a suspicious identity.After all, in this world of perennial wars and banditry, except for poor farmers, old and weak women and children, almost everyone is a martial artist, and people like Fulan can be found everywhere.
Fran, who shuttled through human settlements, also went to several major human cities, and visited famous local knife makers and collectors. As a wandering samurai, he has experienced in the market.
Just as Fulan was heading west all the way, preparing to go to the Western Kingdom to meet the dog monsters who like to collect famous knives, a sudden accident interrupted her plan.
The strong demonic aura and faint divine power attracted Fran, who was walking on the main road, she turned her head to look in the direction she felt strange, without much hesitation, she plunged into the dark woods under the twilight. It was the time of encountering demons, in the underworld where demons danced wildly, it was very common to encounter monsters at such a time, and Fulan had killed a lot of them recently.But the breath of divine power may not even be possessed by the maiden with the purest spiritual power.
'Which powerful witch is expelling demons? Fran thought to herself as she approached her destination.
It wasn't until recently that Fran saw an unexpected scene.
In some dark woods, dark spider monsters are lying everywhere. Some of them are only the size of a fist, and some are as high as knees. Looking from a distance, they are densely packed.These spider monsters have frightening sharp fangs, eight legs covered with steel needle-like fluff, and three pairs of eyes shining with dim light on their backs with dark patterns, adding to the already terrifying monsters. A bit hideous.
Surrounded by the monsters, it was not the exorcist or witch that Fran expected, but a thin boy who was struggling.
It was the fusangshen boy in black windbreaker and braids that he met outside the city of Kyoto that year.At this time, he was not as clean and tidy as he remembered, but his temples were disheveled, his clothes were torn, and he could vaguely see the wound under his clothes, which was still bleeding.Even so, the young man still drew his sword and waved it with a murderous aura, and his steps were not chaotic. At first glance, he looked like a strong-willed and experienced warrior.
Fran didn't hesitate much, and joined the battle with a light leap.She drew her sword out of its sheath, and a stream of light flashed like a crescent moon, and the row of monsters that came to kill were cut off by the middle and fell to the ground.
"Sanriyue Palace?!" The young man shouted in surprise in a somewhat hoarse voice, but there was no time for doubts at the critical moment, and he refocused on the monster attacking from the opposite side.
'how? Fran also had some doubts about the young man recognizing herself as Mikazuki Zongjin again, but now was not the time to think about it, she swung her knife and killed a few approaching spider monsters, and then stood with her back to the young man, Simply said: "Leave the back to me, one person on one side, quick battle!"
With Fran's joining, the pressure on the boy was greatly reduced. With just a cup of tea, the two joined hands to eliminate the besieged spider monsters.When the last monster was cut by the knife, the young man half-kneeled on the ground exhausted, supported his body with the knife, panting heavily.
Fran frowned and looked at the bloodstains on the boy's body, and said, "You need treatment."
The half-kneeling young man stood up with force, shook the demon blood from the knife, put the knife into the sheath pretending to be unrestrained, and said with a smile on his embarrassed face: "My injury is not important. This time, thank you for your help." It is." He first stared at Fran's face, then glanced at the sword at Fran's waist, and asked a little strangely: "The sword at your waist...is the famous sword Mikami Tsukimune, are you a master of the Ashikaga family? "
Fran stared closely at the young man in front of her, and her doubts grew. Instead of answering the young man's question, she asked instead, "Don't you remember me?"
The boy opened his mouth in surprise, showing a confused expression: "Have we... met?"
Fran reminded: "A few years ago, outside the city of Kyoto, we met once. At that time, you were with a few of your companions. I remember one named Hotaru and the other named Hasebe. "
The boy suddenly opened his eyes wide, showing a mixed expression of surprise and horror, he opened and closed his mouth a few times, and then said: "Ah, yes... that's right, I'm sorry, I just remembered, so It's you."
Fran's eyes dimmed, and then she smiled and said tentatively: "Ah, yes, long time no see. Speaking of which, thank you for your kindness in saving my life at that time, and solved those dark weird people."
The young man tilted his head uncomfortably, and said with a smile, "Ah...you're welcome, you saved me today too. Thank you for your kindness. I still have something to do, so I'll take my leave first."
"Please wait a moment!" Fran called to the young man who wanted to leave, her expression darkened: "Have you really remembered?" She paused, and then said: "Still, you and that Fu Sangshen are the same Isn't it the same?" She looked at the boy and asked, "Is it a different timeline, or is it not the same individual at all?"
"You!" The boy looked at Fran in horror, as if she was a terrible monster: "How did you know?!"
Fran sighed and stepped forward. The boy opposite saw Fran approaching and couldn't help taking a step back.
Fran could only spread her hands and said, "I just want to heal you. As Fusangshen, ordinary people's healing methods are not very effective. You need spiritual power to heal, right?" Fran shrugged and continued: "You don't have to be so guarded. First of all, I don't have any malice towards you, otherwise I wouldn't fight with you. Secondly, I know a lot more than you think. There is really no need to keep secrets."
The boy pursed his lips, acquiesced to Fran's approach, and whispered thanks when Fran enveloped his wound with spiritual power.
While treating the boy's wounds, Fran cast a relaxing spiritual spell, and said calmly: "Speaking of which, I know your companion's name, but I don't know yours. My name is Lan, and I don't know how to call it. you?"
The boy hung his head and replied, "My name is California Qingguang."
'California Clear Light. Fran turned around in her mind and found that she didn't know any famous knife with this name, so this knife might come from the future.
"Why are you here alone? Are you separated from your companions? Besides, your enemy is a retrograde army, so why did you fight with ordinary monsters?" Fran asked casually, as if I'm chatting with friends.
Hearing Fran's accurate statement, California Qingguang really thought that Fran knew them well, and coupled with the effect of the spell, he replied without vigilance: "Ah, I don't know, maybe there is something wrong with the positioning." , I am also looking for my companion. The retrospective army did not find it, as for those spiders... are they monsters?"
Fran sighed in her heart, and roughly guessed what happened to this hapless bastard. She withdrew her hand, helped California Qingguang, and finally confirmed: "California Lord, the purpose of you fusangshen is to eliminate the retrospectives that want to change history. Army, let’s protect history.” Seeing California Qingguang nodding, Fran continued: “Then, is the time coordinate of your arrival this time the reign of Ashikaga Yoshiki?”
Although California Qingguang was surprised by Fran's understanding of them, he hesitated and nodded.
Flan raised her forehead, looked at the fusangshen boy who couldn't figure out the situation with some pity, and said, "In this case, there is indeed a problem with your positioning, and it's not just a problem of you being separated from your companions." Pointing to the ground, he said, "This...is the underworld, a world dominated by ghosts and ghosts. There is no Ashikaga shogunate, no Ashikaga Yoshiki, and no retrograde army...You should go to the Yang world."
"What? What?! How could it be?!" The black hair of the young man in pigtails was about to explode, he jumped up suddenly, looked at Fulan in disbelief, and asked in a trembling voice: "Lan Jun , are you kidding me?!"
Fran sighed: "I'm not joking, I came from the Yang Realm, and I also met the retrograde army and you fusangshen in the Yang Realm." She looked at California Qingguang and asked, "I remember you are wearing For props that can be returned, you should be able to go back first."
Qingguangkeng of California said bluntly: "A team has only one time-space converter. In our Honmaru, it is usually placed on the dagger or Wakizashi."
"Time-space converter, Honmaru, dagger, Wakizashi..." Fran secretly wrote down these terms in her heart, looked up at the darkened sky, and said, "Mr. California, many monsters are nocturnal. Night in the underworld is not safe. Why don't we stay in the town for a night and make plans tomorrow."
Dazed by the sudden news, California Qingguang looked up at Tianguang, then looked around at the increasingly dark and frightening woods and the wreckage of monsters on the ground, and finally nodded heavily.
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In the evening, Fran and California Kiyomitsu lived in a shrine in a nearby village. The shrine was very simple, and there was only one elderly priestess who took care of the shrine, who was called Granny Keiko by the children in the village.The priestess Keiko received the two of them warmly, and stared at Qingguang for a while, and even teased that if Qingguang was a girl, she would definitely become a powerful demon-killing priestess, and the boy with pigtails would have a big blush.
Fran knew in her heart that although the priestess Keiko was old and frail and her spiritual power was declining, her perception was still good.She should have felt the pure spiritual power and aura of California, as well as the murderous aura as a sword, so she said so.
At night, the lights of the village were turned off one after another, the villagers who had worked hard all day fell asleep one after another, and the shrine fell silent.Fran sat on the porch, staring at the Kunai in her hand under the moonlight, gently stroking the spell engraving on it, and sighed.Just when Fran had put away her things and was about to fall asleep, the barrier surrounding the shrine was touched.
"There are monsters coming to attack!" A large group of Keiko priestesses who were still on vigil at night pulled Kagura Ling in the shrine, and the ringing of the bell blessed with spiritual magic resounded throughout the village in an instant.
Flan who was awakened suddenly sat up, and couldn't help but hold her forehead:
"What's the situation?!"
The author has something to say: After the holiday, it seems like a salted fish whose day and night are turned upside down... No, Nishang needs to cheer up!
small theater:
Fran: Wait a minute, are you... a girl?
California Qingguang: ? ? ?
Fran: Braids, earrings, red nails, high heels... Are you actually a female fusangshen?
California Qingguang: What are you talking about? !Of course I'm a man!These...just trying to be cuter!
Fran: Uh... Boys, don't they like to be more heroic?
California Qingguang: Rough guys like you can't understand this kind of fashion.
Fran: ...