Age of Heroes, ten consecutive guarantees

Kyoto.

The nominal capital of Yingzhou.

The overall architectural style is very old. Many buildings here have a history of more than a hundred years. Many streets have been fixed for a long time and cannot be demolished and rebuilt.

As soon as you step into Kyoto, you can feel the weight of history and antiquity.

It's like stepping into an alley in Beijing. The mottled walls and the dust hidden on the red walls and green tiles all tell the story of its glorious past.

Bai Yu has seen the capital city with his own eyes, witnessed its prosperity and the historical heritage behind the prosperity; now comparing it with Kyoto, but most of what he can see are old things, and the streets are barely clean and paved. A layer of cement road, but that's all.

Compared with the rows of five- and six-story buildings in Edo, as well as the centralized power supply on high-hanging telegraph poles, life in Kyoto is obviously more dependent on more traditional methods. There are piles of firewood at the door of many houses. The place was covered with a tarp.

It is hard to imagine that the level of civilization in the same country can be so different.

Fortunately, the people passing by were not in rags, they could even be said to be well-dressed.

It can be seen from the appearance. Those who walk with their heads held high are Chinese, while those who bend down and walk quickly are ordinary people.

The Chinese are different from the samurai. The latter may kill civilians because they are unhappy. However, most of the Chinese have their eyes high and regard ordinary people as property or servants. On the contrary, they are not very harsh in their attitude, and they even behave like polite corporals. , but their defiant nature has not changed. The pyramid-like hierarchical structure built by the Yingzhou Pyramid over the years has destined their way of survival.

I drove by and saw a lot of different things about the world.

Not long after entering Kyoto, we arrived at Inari Taisha Shrine, also known as Fushimi Shrine because it is located in the Fushimi District of Kyoto.

Inari God is nominally the agricultural god responsible for good harvests, but in ancient agricultural societies, rice itself was also hard currency, so businessmen would also come to worship. Therefore, Inari Taisha Shrine even has certain characteristics of the local God of Wealth in Yingzhou.

There are 9,000 Inari Shrines in Yingzhou. The Inari Shrine in Fushimi is the main shrine, so it is called the big shrine.

In front of Inari Taisha Shrine, many believers are queuing up to worship. The crowd is divided by the huge bright red torii gate. It is said that stepping over the torii gate means entering the divine realm.

According to Bai Yu's idea, in front of this scenic spot, there must be someone posing with scissor hands to take photos, but in fact the atmosphere here is quite serious and even urgent.

Because this world is different from the earth, there is the existence of extraordinary power. In Yingzhou, where belief in canonization is the main route, all believers must be sufficiently pious and respectful when visiting...the attitude must be humble enough and not noisy. No noise.

The monks in Daxia greet you with a smile after receiving the money for the incense and say, "Guests please come in." They don't care whether you worship the Buddha statue or not. At most, they will ask you to draw lots by asking you to draw lots, and then guide you along the way to interpret the lot. Earn another cancellation fee.

The Chinese-style operation of ‘sincerity is the most effective, giving money is the most effective’, without paying attention to the steps of worshiping, will not work here.

The shrine collects the money for worship, and they also want the power of the living beings. It can be said that they want both.

Ryo Sakata came with him and whispered: "Please come with me."

He passed through the crowd of worshippers and walked straight to the torii gate.

After seeing Ryo Sakata, the priest responsible for managing order checked the invitation card in his hand.

After seeing the words above clearly, the priest's expression became solemn: "Your Majesty, the Palace Secretary has been waiting for you two, please come with me."

Inari Taisha Shrine is built on a hill and has a famous landscape called Chitorii Gate... which is a path composed of torii gates erected on the way up the mountain. Most of them are red in color, and some have faded to yellow.

Many believers of Inari Taisha Shrine are successful businessmen. Once they are successful in business, they will come here with a lot of money to fulfill their vows and donate a torii gate to add, some big or small, gradually forming the landscape of thousand torii gates.

Walking between the torii gates gives you a sense of transcending time and space. If you just want to visit, the main shrine at the foot of the mountain is fine. But if you want to see the palace priest, you need to go through the thousand torii gates and go to the top of the mountain.

There are still some people at the bottom of the mountain, but the higher you go, the more eerie and cold you feel. The stone statues or torii gates are covered with green moss. The surrounding trees are tall, and the light is no longer so transparent, and the atmosphere gradually gradually gloomy.

"It's a coincidence that you two came here today." The priest who led the way said, "Today happens to be the day when Shinto sects hold religious ceremonies, and the location is in Inari Taisha Shrine."

"Shinto teaching ceremony?" Bai Yu touched his chin and asked, "What is that?"

"It's natural that the distinguished guests don't know. This Shinto Dharma Assembly is a day when Shinto monks gather together to test each other's skills. It usually happens once a year. Abbots of temples from various places, practitioners of big shrines, and even Yin Yangliu will send people here. Watch the Dharma Ceremony here.”

Bai Yuqi asked: "We clearly have different beliefs, aren't we afraid that they will get into a fight?"

"It is inevitable to learn from each other." The leading priest smiled, implying that this puja was meant to be a fight.

Sakata Ryo said: "It seems that the Palace Secretary will be very busy?"

"After the Dharma Conference is over, we may not have time to meet you two." The leading priest suggested: "You two might as well go to the Dharma Conference site to take a look first."

Bai Yu really wanted to meet the consecrated god here directly, the Daming God of Yu Cui Jin; but unfortunately, the consecrated saint could not be seen, especially in a place like Yingzhou. Most of the consecrated saints were hidden, as if a young girl was hiding from others when she got married. She is even more geeky than a certain moon princess named Penglai Mountain.

He nodded in agreement and just regarded it as passing the time. Since everyone was here, he was not afraid that after knowing the purpose of his visit, Yu Yijin would directly carry the Inari Taisha Shrine and run away overnight.

Just before a group of people arrived at the ceremony, two people walked side by side in the corridor at the door, whispering something to each other.

Even when he caught a glimpse of someone coming here, he didn't stop talking. He didn't mean to say hello at all, and his arrogance was palpable.

Although they had lowered their voices and used spiritual power to protect the surrounding area to prevent leakage, Bai Yu could still hear it clearly.

"Is the wandering swordsman really here?"

"Needless to say, she and her sister are both here."

"It is rumored that Minami Shiori has reached the realm of swordsman, but I don't know whether it is true or not..."

"I think they must have offended the Great God of Yujujin in some way and were suppressed here. As you know, usually, the canonization will extract their souls and seal them into stone statues, and then the remaining bodies will be It is also useless. We might as well discuss with the palace secretary of Inari Taisha Shrine and spend some money to purchase these two soulless bodies and make them into corpse puppets... These are the corpse puppets of such a young swordsman of the fourth realm! "

"What if you guess wrong? W can't speculate on canonization at will."

"Do you really think that I am the only one who comes with this idea? There are more people paying attention to them than you think. No matter what the attitude of Inari Taisha is, these two people have been missing here for a long time. There is no explanation at present. None, I'm afraid it would have been long ago..."

Two people dressed as onmyojis were talking when they suddenly noticed that the road ahead was blocked.

The young man with a more grumpy temper cursed impatiently: "Who are you? You dare to block my way? Get out of my way if you have sense. I am from the Kamo family..."

Bai Yu smiled at him.

At this moment, Sakata knew in his conscience that something bad was going to happen, and hurriedly grabbed the shrine priest who was trying to intercede.

Before the two onmyojis could react, they had already passed through the wall. They had mastered the wall-penetrating technique without any teacher. Their bodies were like a spinning and flying baseball, and they smashed into the ceremony venue, passing through everyone's heads, and then fell into On the thick wall, it almost completely integrated with the wall.

One body was twisted into a swastika, and the other had only half of his butt hanging outside.

The sudden scene brought the Shinto religious ceremony that was going on to a standstill.

The monks, mikos, and onmyojis looked at the human figures on the wall, and then looked back.

Bai Yu moved her wrists, kicked away the bricks that fell on the ground, and strode into the venue of the ceremony.

Not far away, the priest stared at the broken bricks on the ground, pointed at the ground, and then looked at the young man who entered the field.

"this……"

"he……"

"I……"

He was already incoherent and could only get the beginning of a few sentences out.

Sakata Ryo patted the priest on the shoulder, first expressed his understanding, then shook his head at him, and finally said very simply.

"I'll pay!"