I loaded the ghost talk game

Good news came from Gao Tianyuan's Jue, about the production of [Blank God].

It took her three days to carefully study both the sacred tree and the [Gao Tianyuan pass], and finally successfully created a [blank sacred tree] using the pass and ebony gold as materials.

After Kamiya got the new tree in Shenju, he immediately used "Kaitan Monogatari" to make an appraisal, and the appraisal result was exactly the same as the one that was consumed on Oguri Island.

But just to be on the safe side, he asked one more question: "Is this thing okay? I can use the dead paper figurine and the ark that you made normally to be resurrected in the other world, right?"

"Of course!" Jue patted the chest cloth to guarantee, and vowed, "If you can't be resurrected, you can boldly give me a bad review, and I will compensate you for myself."

"...If I fail to revive, how can I give you a bad review?"

"Then I will die for you? The story of the tragic death of Master Gao Tianyuan and his loyal craftsmen sounds very good, maybe it will be sung by the world."

"It's not necessary, it's better for us to live well."

Shengu complained like this, but after hearing what the craftsman sister said, he was completely relieved.

It is generally felt that when she says such words as "I will compensate you", "I will marry you", it means that she has absolute confidence.

In the professional field, Jue has always been reliable.

After paying 600 soul crystals to the sister craftsman who worked hard overtime, Kamiyagawa left Takamahara with the newly purchased [Blank God].

...

After getting the blank kami, Kamiyagawa took a day off and flew directly to Yokohama, and then arrived at Tsushima Island's Jixiangshu.

Jixiangsu is still under the blockade of the countermeasure room.

According to the information obtained before, the organization seems to be planning to cut down the hibiscus trees that grow here.

The specific details of the felling project are still being discussed, and it is estimated that it will be finalized in a month or two.

There is still time.

As long as the sacred tree is successfully erected into the Santu River in the inner world, it should not matter much if the hibiscus tree connected to the Styx River in the real world is destroyed.

After all, at that time, the new god tree and Santuchuan had already been tied together.

Referring to the situation of [Lost Kamuyi], the land of roots does not have a corresponding area in the real world, but as long as the shrine stands in it, Kamiyagawa can freely enter and exit.

Logically, that should be the case.

The surrounding area of ​​Jixiangsu is still blocked by the countermeasure room, but Kamiyagawa entered relatively smoothly.

After the previous battle here, when Kamiyagawa submitted the battle report, the countermeasure room had secretly asked what Kamiya's "Master of Ghosts and Gods" thought about the hibiscus tree.

He did not give a direct answer at that time, but said that he would find an opportunity to ask Master for instructions.

If the master is interested, then I will go back to Jixiangsu and do some more research according to his old man's instructions.

Now is the time to use that excuse.

The spiritual masters guarding Jixiangsu are all fresh faces. Uncle Yuki and Changyou Masao, who stayed here before, have finished the handover and left. However, the elite of the countermeasure room, who is in charge of the overall situation here, still has a warm and respectful attitude towards Kamiya.

Subsequent developments also went smoothly.

On the first day Kamiya returned to Jixiang Residence, he climbed the hibiscus tree to "investigate" several times.

Most of the time, he was accompanied by people from the countermeasure room, but he also seized the opportunity to go up alone during the period.

The time I went up alone didn't stay too long, and I successfully used the [Blank God] and entered the inner world.

The newly opened map is gray and gray, and the sound of the river flowing in the distance can be heard, as well as the continuous whimpering and wailing that does not know where the source is.

The map information shows that this is exactly [Santuchuan].

Kamiyagawa didn't do any exploration in Santuchuan, and left temporarily after fully activating the Kamito which had already entered the inner world.

After that, he pretended to stay in Jixiang Suduo for half a day, and only found an excuse to return to Tokyo the next afternoon.

...

In the world, Santuchuan.

Kamiya Raiders has conquered a lot of maps of the world, including hidden maps and mythical maps. The scene on Dudan Styx's map still gave him quite a shock.

After all, it is a scene that is completely invisible in reality.

The whole scene is filled with mist and mist, and it is gray. The sky and the earth seem to be completely connected, and it is impossible to see where the dividing line is.

The sound of the turbulent water reverberated in the distance, mixed with the crying and howling of countless innocent souls.

New ghosts annoy the wronged old ghosts and cry, and the sky is cloudy and rainy and wet and chirping.

"The map of the Styx River is extremely cold, and the water vapor is very heavy. It is estimated that there is no need for a small sun to rain, and the cloudy thunder and the dragon thunder can produce very good results."

Kamiya made such a judgment on the environment of the new map.

Because it was a "branch map" opened by myself, after entering Santuchuan, "Ghost Story" did not give any task reminders.

The shrines standing on this mythical map are still the same, with yellow-green fluorescent lights flying, and the statues of shikigami and the shrines of Mary and the little tapir are clustered around the stand.

Now the arbor is not so much a standing sign as a small building complex.

"Shen Jing looks completely fine, Jue sister is not deceiving me."

Kamiyagawa inspected the ark, but found nothing wrong.

With this thing, he is still undead in the Styx map, with a full sense of security.

Behind the sacred tree is an extremely huge tree, twisting and pointing straight at the hazy sky.

The scale of this tree appears to be comparable to that of real-world hibiscus trees.

The only difference is that there are clothes hanging on the tree branches everywhere, in various styles, styles for men, women and children, some are ragged and old, and some are bright and new.

Countless clothes bent the branches, and there was no wind in the environment, but the branches of the big tree kept making "squeaky" noises, causing the clothes on them to flutter like ghosts, and there were many ghosts.

"This should be the collar tree."

Kamiyagawa judged this in his heart.

Regardless of one's status during one's lifetime, if one enters the Santu River after one's death, one's clothes will be stripped off by the Duoyi woman, and the clothes will be hung on the collar tree by the Xuanyi Weng to weigh the sins.

The myth of Santuchuan is like this anyway.

However, both Duoyipo and Xuanyiweng had been killed by Shengu, and now the collar tree has no owner.

What's more, it is a little inconsistent that Kamiyagawa didn't see any dead souls in the scene of Santuchuan.

He has a feeling that there may have been no undead here a long, long time ago.

"Santu River is the underworld of Japanese Buddhism. It's too strange that Duoyipo and Xuanyiweng, as ghosts, would crawl into the real world and attack me, a living person."

There must be something wrong with this place.

Another point is that the Santu River was formed when Buddhism was preached in Japan, and some folk legends were mixed into the Chinese underworld.

It does not belong to the same system as the kingdom of the root of the underworld that governs death in Shintoism.

There is a saying on this point from a cultural point of view. Kamiya also heard a brief mention from the teacher of the folklore direction in the classroom of Dongda University——

To put it simply, it is the change brought about by the invasion and integration of religion and culture.

Buddhism dominated Japan for a long time, overpowering the native Shinto religion.

And the power of "death" is completely taken away by Buddhism.

Even in Japan today, it is still temple monks rather than shrines that control the field of funerals, and cemeteries are full of statues of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

From this point of view, [Santu River] is a bit like a Buddhist enclave independent of the root country of Shintoism in Japan.

"There is a problem with Buddhism. I don't know if it has something to do with the country of the root of the underworld. Is it caused by the two sides competing for the power of the death domain at a certain point in time?"

Regarding the reason for the abnormality of Santuchuan, Kamiya can only guess vaguely at present.

He stood under the collar tree for a while, and then released the little old man to officially start exploring the new map.

...

The master and servant walked towards the direction of the sound of water, but they could not see the real direction of the Styx after walking for a long time.

Those chirping ghost cries were even more mixed in, but the source could not be identified at all.

After walking for a while, the surrounding mist became thicker and thicker.

The haori on Kamiya's body was soaked in mist, and water dripped from the hem of his clothes. His breathing began to become difficult, and the surrounding water mist even hindered his body's movements. He felt that he was no longer walking forward, but "swimming" forward.

"This damn place."

Kamiya took out [Drowned Girl's Top Heart Hair] and tied it around her wrist.

Along the way, you can see many "small towers" piled up with stones, and many regular-shaped stones scattered on the ground.

None of the stone pagodas are complete, and they are basically in an unfinished state.

Kamiyagawa can roughly know what these things are.

According to Japanese legend, if children who died earlier than their parents had to build stone towers in the Sanzu River's "Funtou River Plain" as compensation for not supporting their parents. But these stones will never be finished, because whenever the work is about to be completed, evil spirits will appear to destroy the stone towers of these premature children.

Those children who died prematurely will be forced to carry out this kind of endless behavior in the plain of the buried head river, which will never end.

"But here is the same as under the collar tree, and there are no undead. There are no undead children stacking stone towers."

After staying and observing a large number of destroyed stone towers, Kamiyagawa even tried to pile up stones, and then called the little old man to move forward again.

I don't know if he piled up stones, and then something strange happened not far away.

"Abba!"

The little old man gave a quick warning.

When his words fell, a stone flew out from the depths of the water mist with a "shua", and was heading towards Shengu's front door.

Immediately, the ghost's stumped arm turned into a ghost cage hand, attached to his right arm and lifted it, blocking the blow.

The sharp-edged stones knocked against the densely arranged illusory scales of the ghost cage hand, leaving no trace of them.

Buzz——

The phone rings.

[The catalog of different visits has been updated. ]

[Ghost Story Name: Buried Head Heyuan Little Ghost]

[Rating: Class E]

"enemy?"

Kamiyagawa narrowed his eyes and saw a few small figures crawling in the gray mist.

They were little ghosts in the shape of children, there were boys and girls, each with fangs, horns on their heads, and a large string of black Buddhist beads hanging around their necks.

"Whoa! Whoa!"

These little ghosts were like irritated little beasts, baring their teeth, babbling and yelling non-stop.

Roughly speaking, most of the little ghosts in the funeral river are E-level, and a few have D-level.

The quantity is a bit much but not to be feared.

Even the little old man didn't run away immediately when he saw this wave of enemies, but retreated behind his master. While protecting his master to his body, Fui Shakuhachi completely eliminated his breath.

The fact that the scout with super perception didn't escape meant that what happened before him didn't pose any threat to Shengu at all.

Can be handled with ease.

"Santuchuan is the site of Buddhism, and these little ghosts wear Buddhist beads, so in a sense, it should be considered a ghost?"

Shen Gu observed the strange immature and ferocious figures in the mist.

He reckoned that these funeral ghosts should be the evil ghosts in the legend who keep knocking down the stone towers along the way.

Well, that's right.

The ghosts pushing stone towers in the legends are also part of the evil.

After all, according to the old Japanese Buddhist or folk sayings after death, children die before their parents, and they are "guilty" if they don't support their parents.

The constant pile of stone towers is the punishment for those children.

This kind of legend is cruel and unreasonable.

In addition, seeing that these "Burning Head River ghosts" all look like children, Kamiyagawa has another guess——

Perhaps they were originally undead children who built stone pagodas on the Zantou River. After long-term torture, they gradually assimilated with Santu River and became a part of it.

Originally, they were pushed to the stone tower by the evil spirits, and then they were pushed to the stone tower of the new generation of punished undead, and so on, and the cycle continued.

Swish Swish Swish!

Just as he was thinking, the little ghosts of the Zhantou River twisted and crouched on the ground all moved. They grabbed the stones on the ground, screamed, and smashed towards Shenguchuan desperately.

Stones fell like a shower.

"The servants of Santuchuan are really aggressive..."

Kamiyagawa didn't even draw out his weapon, and there was a rumbling sound from his body.

Like the sound of thunder, but also like the sigh of an ancient dragon.

An emerald-green lightning glow snaked out of his hand, and the arc of light shot out with noise, and finally condensed into a dazzling thunder gun.

Ah Hum's breath controlled the muscles and bones of the body, exerted strength in the waist, abdomen and arms, and the emerald green dragon thunder spear was thrown into the air by Kamiyagawa.

The thunder gun undulates and rushes like a dragon breaking through the waves, the vast water vapor is rolled up by the thunder gun, steaming, and the thunder is loud in the gray space. The water vapor and lightning arc exploded at the same time, the light was dazzling, and the water mist was torn apart, and a tree-root-shaped thunder and lightning net exploded, completely covering the flying stones in the air.

All the stones were crushed into fine powder by the roaring dragon thunder.

At the same time as Long Lei was released, beside Shen Guchuan, there was still red mist surging and karma raging.

The figures of Mary and Inugami appeared.

A group of E-level and a few D-level brats are a little overwhelmed in their attempt to attack Shengu.

Under the simple attack of the two Rage Gods, most of the Zhantouhe kid was killed or injured very quickly. They didn't seem to be particularly stupid. They didn't insist on fighting after seeing the terrifying strength of the enemy. The rest of them scattered like birds and beasts, screaming, crying and fleeing.

"Done."

Kamiya Chuan clapped his hands like dust, and didn't go after the Zuntouhe kid, but called the little old man to go forward.

It's just some low-level erratic mobs. It's not too late to trouble them when they really lack soul crystals. It's more important to find out where Styx is.