The world is restarting

Chapter 286 From Hell

Kushida Shrine's annual festival, also known as "Gion Yamakasa Festival", has a history of more than 700 years.The original purpose was to commemorate an eminent monk who stopped the plague during the earthquake, and at the same time, it was also a festival dedicated to the "Gion God" enshrined in the shrine.

The people of Hakata have great love and affection for this festival, and have passed down the entire ritual of the festival from generation to generation.Up to now, the Gion Yamakasa Festival in Hakata has become one of the three important folk festivals in Japan.Every mid-July, during the Yamakasa Festival, a large number of tourists from all over the country will come to visit, and most of the posts in Hakata City will also be on holiday, allowing everyone to immerse themselves in the celebration of the festival.

People who have turned Yamakasa Matsuri into a festival don't know what the original purpose of this festival with floats around the city is—it is a ceremony to invite gods.

Walk through Hakata with a float weighing one ton with the most pious heart, and then respectfully invite the gods to descend.

On that day, everyone at the scene saw that unforgettable scene.

The pure light sprinkled from Gao Tianyuan, and fell on the float in strands, slowly weaving a sacred and illusory shadow.

The red clouds in the sky were also dispelled by the light, and the rising sun seemed to break free from the shackles, and jumped out from the horizon, shedding a radiant light.

It was the men carrying the float who first noticed the phantom reflection on the float. They obviously ran a long distance with a heavy burden on their shoulders, but suddenly felt that their bodies were getting lighter and lighter. When they accidentally looked up in surprise, they happened to see that The reflection sitting on the float.

That figure was very illusory, like an illusion formed by the setting sun, but more than one person saw it.

The turbulent flow of people froze for a moment, until the first shocked voice blurted out.

"Master Gion God?!"

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In the courtyard, Tsuchimikado Motoharu, who finished correcting the last spell at the critical moment, threw down the brush, sat down on the ground, and wiped his cold sweat while panting.

The little girl who stood in front of the formation and presided over the ceremony slowly opened her eyes.

The pure divine light brushed over her shoulders like a breeze, and gently brushed her cheeks like the hem of a god's clothes.

The dark clouds covering the courtyard had already been dispersed, and the shadow of the giant snake retracted into the bell of Daocheng Temple, hiding in the grass under the stone slab and pretending to be dead.

Zenji Baba stood in the center of the magic circle, staring at the divine light heading towards Kushida Shrine, he still hadn't recovered his senses in a daze.

It was rare for him to understand what had happened.

Just now, after Tsuchimikado Motoharu asked the question that puzzled him, he ran out of the formation without waiting for his answer, and the silver-haired little girl next to him pushed him back into the formation.

Tsuchimikado Motoharu was picking up the crystal pendulum from his hand, when he saw this, he stopped and asked, "Can he?"

Sawada Ya nodded, "Yes, Hakata likes him very much."

Tsuchimikado Motoharu looked him up and down with eyes like picking pork, and nodded, "Let's go with him. Just right, although they are both land gods, I'm worried that it's inappropriate to directly use the Ksitigarbha."

After the two of them had the above confusing conversation, he watched them order him to stand in the center of the formation and not move, and then tacitly began to modify the formation on the ground.

Halfway through the formation, it seemed that there was not enough time. Sawada Ya stood directly in front of the formation and began to recite the sacrificial rites, leaving only Yuanchun to continue to change.

The work of the two was almost completed simultaneously. The moment the last word of the sacrificial oration landed, the little girl held up the bell of Daocheng Temple, and lightly bumped the bell wall with her fingertips.

The sound of the vast Kongming bell filled the entire courtyard in an instant, soaring upwards, leading directly to Qingming, paving a ladder for the gods to walk down.

Then, the guardian deity of Hakata City, Gion God, descended.

Tsuchimikado Motoharu wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the distant divine light and murmured, "This kind of nonsense can be successful, His Highness is too generous."

Bachang Zenzhi finally came to his senses, "You were not sure before?"

"Of course not." Tsuchimikado Motoharu said confidently.

The racecourse looked at him quietly, and the blond boy rubbed his nose and turned his head embarrassingly, "Actually, I'm not sure about the plan to invite God Inari to descend, anyway, it's no use betting at this point anyway. In comparison, please Your Gion God has a higher chance of success. Anyway, if you fail, you will die, and there is no loss, so just bear it."

The racecourse was speechless for a moment, but he didn't think he had anything, but this person acted so decisively at the beginning, he thought he was absolutely sure, who knew he was just betting on luck.

"So, just now I assumed the role of the carrier of the coming of the gods?"

"Yes. The coming of the gods is equivalent to jumping from a high altitude. You need a transition, or something like a stepping stone. It is said that Seimei's ancestor's era was not so troublesome, but the situation has changed now. Fortunately, this is Hakata. It is the site of that Lord God, so He only needs you to step on his feet to move freely, otherwise you have to lend your body to that Highness."

Tsuchimikado Motoharu paused at this point, and looked at him with research eyes, "Do you feel anything strange about your body now?"

Zenji Baba felt it seriously and shook his head.

"I see," Yuan Chun stroked his chin thoughtfully, "It seems that His Highness really likes you."

Like a murderous killer?He felt that His Royal Highness's taste was indeed unique enough.

But these are none of his business.The blond boy propped one hand behind his back, and squinted his eyes as he watched the slowly spreading morning light in the distance.This long night finally passed, and after the tense nerves suddenly relaxed, a mountain of exhaustion spread from all limbs.

Tsuchimikado Motoharu was paralyzed on the ground and didn't want to move anymore, and even wanted to take a nap on the spot.

Until he heard crisp footsteps, approaching slowly, and finally stopped in front of him.

Yuan Chun's drooping eyelids froze, and he lifted them up cautiously, and then a delicate and beautiful face appeared in his field of vision, but angrily written "Settlement after Autumn" was written all over it.

Those clear eyes reflected his bewildered face, the little girl said with a sullen face, "Yuan Chun."

Tsuchimikado Motoharu: "..."

Worse, he really relaxed too soon.

Tuyumen Yuanchun's brain turned sharply for a moment, and his eyes quickly scanned the surroundings. Unfortunately, he found that Dao Chengsi Zhong's fighting power was too strong, and the onmyojis in the yard fell to the ground. At this moment, there is not a single unlucky person who has a sense of humor to jump out. To divert attention, Motokado Tsuchimikado, the mastermind behind the scenes, escaped while the gods were not paying attention.

While gritting his teeth in his heart and saying that the old fox is extremely cunning and treacherous, the blond boy straightened up with a guilty conscience, but he forced a calm expression on his face and said, "Miss, what do you think we should do next?"

This sentence stunned the little Lolita, and the momentum of preparing to settle accounts also froze slightly, and she asked doubtfully, "Next?"

"That's right, even though Lord Gion has descended, we don't need to worry about the cracks in hell. But no matter what we say, what we do is to snatch her sacrifice from Iyana's hand. "

Tsuchimikado Motoharu lowered his face seriously, with a solemn aura of "this matter is very serious", "According to the legend, the founding god is not a good-tempered existence, we have to discuss how to appease him Ah meow."

Baba Zenzhi glanced at him silently, only felt that this person was so serious that he seemed to be genuine, and for a moment he couldn't tell the truth from what he said.

Sawada Ya, who had little experience and didn't think too much, nodded in a daze, and followed his words, "This, it doesn't matter."

"Ok?"

"Because Iyana Goddess of Fate did not want this sacrifice."

"???"

Back to more than half an hour ago, Sawada Ya met the ghost lamp in the pavilion in the outer courtyard, and heard him explain his purpose of coming to Hakata——

A week ago, the bull-headed horse-face guarding the gate of hell discovered that the edge of hell had connected with a certain yang world.

This situation is very strange. Although several high-level beings in hell also know that there are worlds beyond the world, this is the first time that they have actually collided with other worlds.Yama of the Ten Temples quickly got together for a meeting, before discussing at the meeting whether to politely send someone to say hello to the neighbors, Iyana, the beautiful goddess who stayed in the temple all year round, suddenly broke into the room in a hurry Come in and say someone sacrificed a city to her.

"It's totally adding to our workload!"

Ghost Lamp slapped the railing next to it with a black face. The wooden building was overwhelmed, and it shattered into eight petals with a "click".Several monsters and a milk cat trembled in fright, and scrambled to shrink to Ze Tianya's feet.

Little Loli hugged the trembling Maoyou, blinked her eyes and asked in confusion, "Don't you want it?"

"Not at all!"

Ghost Lamp refused without hesitation, even with a stern look on his face, "Suddenly there are so many more people, we need to redo the population statistics and divide the areas, and the new residents will definitely have conflicts with the old residents in the early stage. It seems to be more abundant, but if you suddenly take over a city, you will definitely be understaffed and have to recruit people again..."

His speaking speed was getting faster and faster, as if he had seen piles of work flying towards him, not only his face became darker and darker, even black air came out from behind.Sawada Ya sat at the side and groped Maomata's back, which was shaking more and more violently. After he finished the whole sentence like a machine gun, he sighed with half understanding, "It seems to be really troublesome."

Ghost Lantern said gloomyly, "In short, there are no gods and no hell in your world, right?"

Sawada nodded obediently.

"Iyana, the Goddess of Fate, is very satisfied with this world, because there is no such rubbish husband of hers—this is her original words. The underworld is also willing to take over the operation of the yang world here, but!" Ghost Lamp suddenly increased his voice, "Sacrifice There is no need to buy it! You have to find a way to take it back! The underworld doesn’t need these sudden extra population, and the sudden extra workload!!”

"That's it." After repeating the ghost lamp's words, Sawada Ya picked up Maomata who rubbed against her feet again.

Yuanchun Tuyumen and Zenzhi Bachang were silent.

"How should I put it, the hell this time really has a character, meow, I feel that there is also a breath of social animals over there, which unexpectedly matches Japan."

"I just feel that even death is hopeless. Even if the social animals die suddenly and go to hell, can they still not escape the fate of being forced to work? This world is too real."

The silver-haired little loli, who has never worked and can't understand the sadness of social animals, holds the cat and looks at the two suddenly feeling confused.

Tsuchimikado Motoharu stretched his waist, "Well, let's leave things after death to think about after the real death. Anyway, our affairs are over..."

As soon as he said this, his voice suddenly stopped in mid-air.Sawada Ya raised his head suspiciously and looked towards the sky.

On the high sky, the red light representing the sacrifice was slowly fading away, and the pure divine light of Gion God, like a rising tide, was rushing over from the eastern sky, gradually taking over the city.

Just when the two pieces of light ebbed and flowed, and were about to complete the handover, a crack suddenly opened at the edge of the halo.

To be precise, it was not split, but artificially torn apart by "people".A huge pale bone claw stretched out from behind, ripping a hole in the sky like tearing a piece of paper.

Pairs of dim yellow eyes and hideous white bone masks are densely crowded behind the cracks, like beasts that smell blood and gather.