The self-cultivation of the passer-by hero

"Yes. First, let me answer a question that has been bothering you. It can also be said to be a question that bothers most monsters and humans in Gensokyo."

Saying that, the ancient priestess took out two cans of beer from the outside world from nowhere: "Do you want to drink?"

"Hey, I'm underage."

"Hehe, brat."

As if she had guessed Takeya's answer a long time ago, the ancestral priestess opened the beer and drank it, and at the same time led Takeya to the bench on the side of the road.

It seems that her story should be very long.

It's just that Wu Ye, who was following behind the previous priestess, for some reason, always felt that the can of beer in the opponent's hand had a feeling of deja vu, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

"Anyway, sit down first."

The Xiandai Miko sat down by herself, and then motioned for Wu Ye to sit on the chair next to her.

After Takeya and Elliot sat down, the Daidai Miko said, "Speaking of which, Takeya, you have asked this question before, right?"

"What do you mean?"

"The power of Hakurei Miko."

Wu Ye no longer dared to think about it with just a few words, for fear of missing something.

"In Gensokyo, Hakurei Miko is invincible-this is what Zi said, and it is also a conclusion proved by the fact that countless youkai have been defeated."

The ancestor shrine maiden shook the beer can in her hand, and her expression didn't seem to be much complacent: "The fact is the same. I can tell you clearly that in Gensokyo, Hakurei shrine maiden is 'invincible'."

".I know that," Wu Ye paused, and said, "You can tell by the appearance of Reimu, Hakurei Miko is so strong, it's almost like cheating."

"Cheating?" Chewing these two words in her mouth, the expression of the ancestor priestess seemed a little inexplicable.

"What's wrong?"

"No, this is because I suddenly felt that even though Wu Ye stayed a little longer, you are actually quite discerning."

"."

Wu Ye's face is a bit dark, are you complimenting me or hurting me?

"Cheating, this is indeed a very suitable description."

The ancestor miko raised her head and took a sip of wine, her eyes calm and frightening: "As you said, Hakurei miko's power comes from cheating."

"Ah?" Takeru was stunned, as if he didn't understand what the previous witches meant.

"If you think about it carefully, don't you understand? That kind of power is simply impossible to rely on cultivation, let alone, have you seen any Hakurei priestess who has practiced?"

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This is true, at least Wu Yi has never seen Lingmeng practice before, she spends almost all her time on Saiqian's obsession with Saiqian and drinking tea and eating dumplings

"Since this is the case, where does Hakurei Miko's power come from? Is that what you want to ask?" Looking at Takeya who was silent, the former Miko smiled and said, "Don't you already know the answer? ? Of course it's cheating."

Wu Ye looked at the former priestess, still did not speak, but put on a posture of listening. The former priestess was drinking alone, and I don't know whether it was because of the light beer or her good drinking capacity. There was no sign of a blush on the head.

"A long time ago, no, not too long ago, in the era when monsters had not yet faded out of the human world, there was such a person whose name was no longer known, and people only called her by the name of the shrine she represented .”

"Because she is a shrine maiden affiliated with Hakurei Shrine, people call her Hakurei shrine maiden."

"The life of a shrine maiden is an extremely ordinary one. The shrine where she lives is so small that she is the only one in the shrine."

"The daily job of the witch is to undertake the commission of the pilgrims. Some ask for demon removal, and some ask for extermination of monsters. In short, as long as the witch can do it, she will do it."

"Even if she walks out of the shrine, no one will know her. Even if she has been cured several times, no one will remember her. Her life is small, ordinary, boring, and nobody cares about her—it should be like this .”

"But at the end of her life, the miko accomplished a great deed that several generations, or even dozens or hundreds of generations, could not accomplish."

"She sacrificed her own life and used her soul as the cornerstone to build the world called Paradise - the original appearance of Gensokyo."

"The Hakurei barrier that separates Gensokyo as 'uncommon knowledge' from the real world—this is the great achievement of the first generation Hakurei Miko."

"In the short and ordinary life of the first generation of priestesses, this is the only thing that can be called insurmountable greatness - that's what I thought a long time ago."

The voice of the ancient priestess paused, she lowered her head, and her shadow slanted to the side, like the scattered dandelions, a sense of hesitation of not knowing where to go.

"Isn't it like this?" The long silence made Wu also at a loss, and he couldn't help but said: "The great enchantment created by that ancestor maiden sacrificed her life, our words seem to be "very powerful" Nothing else to say?"

"Is it great? Ah, indeed, it's great."

The former miko nodded, and the smile on her lips was a bit unclear: "She is indeed very powerful. It is better to say that the first generation is simply too strong. It is precisely because of her 'gift' that the reputation of the Hakurei miko can continue to this day." .”

".Gift?"

"Didn't I say it before? Hakurei Miko's power was obtained by cheating, and the person who helped us cheat was the ancestor miko. This power was inherited from her."

"Yeah?"

It's not that Takeya has never thought about this, it's just that he has never confirmed it because he has no way to prove it.

If the power of the previous generations of mikos can be explained by their extraordinary talents, then there is no reason why Reimu, who had just inherited the power of the Hakurei miko, was so powerful.

But if there is an inheritance, then all the doubts can be put to rest. There are many examples of power being stored in objects and passed down. Isn’t that how those so-called treasures come from?

If you think about it this way, is it Yin Yang Jade or Royal Coin? Could it be that miko costume?

"hehe."

Probably sensing what Takeya was thinking, the laughter from the previous generation of shrine maidens was sinister and very penetrating.

"You seem to be overthinking it, Takeya. My words have made it very clear. The power of Hakurei Miko is 'inherited from previous generations of mikos'."

"Well?"

"Don't you understand? Then let me put it another way."

The ancestor miko glanced down at Takeya's right hand and suddenly said: "Takeya, did you get the great monster-level monster power in your body from other monsters?"

"Uh, yes."

"How does it feel?"

"It feels like nothing. I just suddenly gained a lot of power. You have been practicing for so long and you don't feel like me all of a sudden, eh?"

Takeya said that he was suddenly stunned. When he looked at the ancestor miko again, he felt that he seemed to understand what the so-called "cheating" meant.