A samurai who doesn't want to be a daimyo is not a good onmyoji

Chapter 127 The Buddha's Light
Looking at the tragic situation on the ground, Asai Nagamasa once again summoned the paper figures and asked them to help collect the broken corpses around him.

He didn't know what the relationship between these monster-turned-monsters and the corpses on the ground was, but in any case, these monks who were willing to die to suppress the monsters were worthy of his respect.

Out of this respect, and to prevent any more monsters from being born from their corpses in the future, he had to dispose of these corpses. Anyway, with Guan Hu around, he didn't have to worry about starting a fire.

Although the paper men were completely incapable of fighting, they were still able to carry the corpses, which also prevented Nagamasa Asai from getting contaminated.

It's a pity that these monks were not only physically broken, but also wore almost the same coarse cloth monk's robes without any obvious markings. He couldn't build a stone monument or anything like that, so he could only burn them all together.

The corpses of the monks were quickly reduced to ashes in the firelight, but he was able to free them from their wretchedness.

When the corpse was completely burned and only ashes were left on the ground, Asai Nagamasa suddenly let out a startled cry and discovered something unusual. Among the ashes, there was a string of bracelets coming from the inside out, exuding... A faint light.

This light is not dazzling. Although it is weak, it appears to be extremely tough. It is completely different from his magic power or the monster power. Maybe this is the legendary Buddha's light?

He leaned over and picked it up, looked it up and down, and found that it was a string of agarwood bracelets. A scent of sandalwood that was not pungent, but extremely mellow, was emanating from the inside out, continuously, obviously. It is not extraordinary.

After he took it into his hand, the Buddha's light on the agarwood bracelet also quickly disappeared. This immediately made Asai Nagamasa more and more interested. Is this probably the legendary divine object's self-obstruction?Or is this agarwood bracelet a passive defense type?
It seems that when he has free time, he will have to study it carefully. In fact, even Abe Seimei does not understand the various methods of Buddhism in detail, because in his time, Nippon Buddhism had just emerged from the Cathay Empire. After it spread, it was still far from its current status.

Just as Asai Nagamasa was about to put it away first, he suddenly noticed that the red rope at the knot of the bracelet was something special, and it seemed to be a pattern.

"Huh? Is this the logo of Kofukuji Temple?"

There are many branches of Nibon Buddhism. Although they are all monks, in order to distinguish the believers from donating money by mistake or worshiping at the wrong gate, they still have many differences in details. For example, the most powerful one at present The powerful Yixiang Sect, their flag is a big "swastika", which can be said to be very arrogant.

The logo on this bracelet belongs to Kofukuji Temple in Nara area.

Xingfuku Temple is one of the seven major temples in Nandu. It is one of those that flourished hundreds of years ago. However, since the power of the Yixiang Sect has rapidly expanded in Nibon with its unique ability to attract believers, Xingfuku Temple is like other temples. , gradually declined, and a large number of believers were usurped by Yi Xiangzong.

But now Kofukuji Temple still maintains considerable strength and influence, because the name of the Tsutsui family, which rules the Yamato country not far from here and is also the country they will pass through next, was born in Kofukuji Temple.

The Tsutsui family themselves were born as monks and soldiers of Kofuku-ji Temple, and all the daimyos of the past dynasties were monks without exception. Although the Tsutsui family and Kofuku-ji Temple had a little bit of a boundary after they became daimyos, neither side could do without each other, so this The boundaries are actually very vague, at least in terms of foreign policy, they have always maintained a high degree of consistency.

However, there are actually some differences between the purely Buddhist forces of the Tsutsui family and the Ichikoshu Honganji family, and their reputation is much better.

The current situation of the Tsutsui family is not good, because since the previous generation of the Tsutsui family's governor suddenly died of illness, they were forced to let a child of a few years old take over, and then they were targeted by the Miyoshi family, the overlord of Kinki.

It is said that Miyoshi Nagakei, the governor of the Miyoshi family, handed over the war, which had been going on for several years and did not know how many more years it would continue, to his important minister Matsunaga Hide.

Matsunaga Hide is not someone to be trifled with. Historically, he, together with "Mino Viper" Saito Dozo and Ukita Naoie, are known as the three most evil villains of the Warring States Period.

Their common characteristic is that they are ruthless and unscrupulous in order to achieve their goals. Poisoning, assassination, and betrayal are as common to them as eating and drinking.

Moreover, the abilities of each of them were considered to be first-class in the entire Warring States Period of Nibon, which made it even more difficult to deal with.

It’s shameless to be strong, and they can’t please anyone who is their opponent. Even with the backing and support of Kofukuji, the Tsutsui family will lose more than win, which is stronger than the experience of the Asai family before, but Also very limited.

Whether the daimyo's ability is sufficient will really have a great impact on the strength of their entire force.

Asai Nagamasa didn't feel bad about this temple, not only because they were more like real monks than Yixiangzong, and their reputation in Nippong was relatively better, but also because there was a martial artist in their temple who was good at cross-style guns. The monk is a very nice person.

That's right, it was Bao Yuan Yin Rong who he had met by chance in Qingzhou City before.

He originally planned to drop by Kofukuji Temple to meet him, but now he had even more reasons.

At this time, he also recalled that he had reminded the other party to be careful when walking at night. At that time, Yinrong of the Treasure House seemed very confident, claiming that Buddhism also had methods of subduing demons and the Angry Eyes King Kong. He originally thought that the other party relied on guns. technique, but now it seems that this is not the case.

A group of unknown monks who died here can work together to create a magic circle that seals monsters. The monk from Kofukuji Temple can have a bracelet that shines with Buddha's light. Yinrong of the Treasure House may not have any special means.

After thinking about this, Asai Nagamasa's fighting spirit instantly ignited, and even the trace of fatigue that had just arisen was dissipated on the spot.

Looking at the thick evil atmosphere in the cave below, which was almost turning into reality, he also changed his mind.

Why are you still sleeping? It's better to seize the time and continue to strengthen your own strength. For example, use the special aura left by the monsters in front of you to summon the No. 2 shikigami that matches the nature.

In the battle just now, except for a few who were crushed to death under the rubble and two who were directly blown up by Guan Hu, the remaining one-eyed monks and all the great monks were killed by Asai Nagamasa himself.

Although their intelligence is extremely low, in the true sense even inferior to dogs, the increase they bring to Asai Nagamasa in various aspects such as mana is real. Every great entry is stronger than the original pig demon, providing He also has more mana, and he can now use the original relics of the Sakura Tree Demon to summon the Minotaur!

Thinking of this, he immediately took action. As usual, A Xiu, Ning Ning and Guan Hu, who were also still asleep, were guarded together, while the few paper people ran outside to guard, and used this special place to draw Magic circle.

The monks here still have a bit of foresight, this place of seal is not chosen casually, it is a place where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth meets, the spiritual energy is stronger than ordinary places, and it can also make their sealing spells play a greater role The power comes.

Magic circle, spell, spiritual stone, soul core, miscanthus, bull head bone, power of resentment, power of resentment.
With the experience of summoning the Pipe Fox last time, although summoning the Minotaur Ghost this time requires more materials and the steps are more complicated, most of the process has been completed smoothly.

But he was not careless. This time the summons became more difficult and more dangerous as it went later.

Because unlike before, Guan Hu, who still had his own life and soul and had shown a lot of kindness to himself, it was actually dangerous to use a dead object like a bull's head bone to summon the bull-headed ghost, because it was not originally It has no soul and needs to be provided by Onmyoji.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to summon the Minotaur Shikigami, one is made by Onmyojis themselves, and the other is to directly summon the judge of the underworld.

As for the self-made Minotaur, there are two ways to give it a soul.The first method is relatively safe and much simpler, which is to directly kill a cow, then ingest its consciousness and transform it into a shikigami.

However, the fighting spirit of the minotaur summoned by this method is usually not strong. After all, cows are herbivorous creatures. Unless they have to, they will not fight hard. Its fighting is more for self-protection. They have nothing to do with themselves. Offensive, even if they are transformed into shikigami, they cannot change their character traits that go deep into their souls.

So over time, this method has been gradually abandoned. The materials for summoning the Minotaur are not cheap. Not many Onmyoji are happy to see that the Minotaur they spent a lot of resources to summon turns out to be a waste.

The second is to use various negative emotions as a trigger to summon the consciousness fragments of many ghosts in the Netherworld to influence the soul of the cow. Once successful, the Minotaur ghost summoned in this way will be born with the Netherworld. The aura, as well as the strong desire to fight and kill, so they can often exert stronger power in actual combat.

But precisely because of this, this process is relatively more dangerous. The Netherworld is not that easy to mess with. Even just some fragments of consciousness are not something that the soul of an ordinary old cow can bear. The probability of failure is very high.

For the truly powerful Onmyoji, such as Abe Seimei and his ilk, they would of course choose to directly summon the Netherworld Judge from the underworld and make an employment contract with him.

This is essentially a kind of transaction. It is said that the underworld is much poorer than the human world. Whether it is spiritual stones or offerings of flesh and blood, they are all things that the bull-headed and horse-faced people urgently need.

In return, as a genuine Soul Seducer, even if he is limited by the magic power of the Onmyoji and cannot display his full strength in the human world, he is definitely better than the first two in terms of combat skills and combat consciousness. too much.

However, this method requires the Onmyoji to have extremely powerful magic power, because both parties to the transaction must be of equal strength, so that the transaction can be fair. If one party has an obvious advantage, the weaker party will definitely suffer.

Although Asai Nagamasa is still a little weak in strength at present, he can still try it in advance, because the spells inherited by Abe Seimei have unique skills in this area. To put it simply, he signed a special contract with the Netherworld Underworld. Contract, if he or his descendants use this summoning spell, they will receive extra attention.

Although hundreds of years have passed since Abe Seimei was active, I believe this is not a long time for the ghosts and gods of the underworld.

Moreover, Asai Nagamasa also wanted to personally verify whether, with the exception of Hashihime, there really are ghosts and gods in this world!

As Asai Nagamasa's mana continued to be transferred, the magic circle on the ground became brighter and brighter. Soon, a giant monster with muscles all over his body, more than three and a half meters tall, and a bull's head and body slowly rose up from the middle of the magic circle. It's the Minotaur.

It's just that the Minotaur Ghost doesn't seem to be in good condition. Its body is translucent, and it seems that the stones on the ground behind it can be seen directly through its chest.

It turned around first, and after seeing the special mark on the surrounding magic circle, it seemed to realize something, it turned to look at the caster, and let out a silent roar.

Due to the existence of the magic circle, no one was affected, but Asai Nagamasa understood what the other party meant. It was wondering that this minotaur possessed a certain degree of wisdom. Although it seemed that it could not catch up with real humans, it was no longer stupid. of beast.

So he quickly followed the steps in memory, formed seals with his hands, and channeled a large amount of mana.

The Minotaur soon seemed to feel something. It hesitated for a moment, and finally knelt down on one knee and lowered its head. This was its way of expressing submission.

Asai Nagamasa, who had always been nervous, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was slightly different from Abe Seimei's record, he finally succeeded in summoning a Minotaur. Now only the final steps are left.

He quickly imprinted his soul mark into a mass of gray-black mist, and directly signed a contract representing master and servant. From now on, he will control its life and death in the human world, as long as he wants, He can directly banish it back to the netherworld.

Then he threw a dozen large and small soul cores placed beside him into the magic circle, and then kneaded the magic formula with his hands again.

The power of ghosts and ghosts who come to the present world will often weaken a lot. At this time, onmyojis need to complement them in person, and the soul core and spirit stone of monsters are the best choices.

The illusory platycodon seal disappeared in a flash, and then, as if something had been inspired, these soul cores and all the materials originally placed in the magic circle quickly turned into gray-black. The Minotaur ghost trembled violently, and its His body quickly became solid, and then he looked up to the sky and made a roaring motion.

Although no sound came out, and even the dust on the ground around her did not feel any vibration, the little kunoichi jumped back a few meters with a "swish" sound, holding two swords on guard. She now only felt like her little head was like It looked like someone had hit her hard from behind.

Axiu also directly transformed the weapon into the most aggressive giant scythe because she felt a strong threat.

The less courageous Guanhu directly chose to get into his own bamboo tube, only revealing a pair of shiny black eyes and a small nose, observing carefully.

Obviously, with their keener senses, they and it both sensed the profound threat from the Minotaur.

The Minotaur looked around, and finally set its sights on Asai Nagamasa. Without any hesitation, it knelt on one knee on the ground with a "bang" and even cracked the stone ground.

Then it lowered its head and stared at Asai Nagamasa, who was still sitting cross-legged on the ground.

Although the distance between the two parties was very short, Asai Nagamasa could even feel the cold breath of the other party, but he did not mean to be threatened at all, because he could clearly feel the other party's tameness, and the spell this time was far better than he imagined. The ones in it are much more successful.

And the silent roar just now surprised him even more. It was not an ordinary roar, but contained some kind of special spell, which could bring fear to the enemy.

He immediately stood up, put his right hand on the Minotaur's head, and channeled a little bit of mana, trying to check the opponent's ability.

The Minotaur didn't resist at all, just knelt on the ground and let him do whatever he wanted.

Soon Asai Nagamasa received feedback, and he looked at the Minotaur with more and more satisfaction.

Although he still doesn't know who gave these magic materials to the Sakura Tree Demon, there is no doubt that their quality is of the highest quality.

Although he hasn't really participated in the battle yet, the bull-headed ghost in front of him is already stronger than the horse-headed ghost in Shisanying Village that day.

Of course, this is a matter of course. Although the Sakura Tree Demon is able to summon and control the horse-headed ghost because he doesn't know what adventures he has, but when it comes to onmyoji and summoning shikigami, can it be better than Asai Nagamasa? Are Abe Seimei's successors stronger?

However, one thing is different from what is said in legends or records. Why does this bull-headed ghost from the Netherworld seem to have no memory of that place?

Moreover, its consciousness seems to have been severely damaged, so it was so smooth when it just established the master-servant relationship. Is it possible that there will be fights and killings in the netherworld?
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