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

Chapter 19 Harmony and Desolate Soul
In Abe Seimei's inheritance, there are detailed records of spiritual stones.

The world holds a lot of energy, and humans have a wide range of emotions.

Kindness, justice, bravery. . .

All kinds of beautiful feelings in the world will gradually accumulate a lot of power over time. Under a certain opportunity, they will give birth to magical creatures with special wisdom and power. Abe Seimei calls them the souls.

If certain conditions are met, the soul can attach itself to human beings and form a symbiotic relationship.

The possessed person can obtain some special abilities that ordinary people do not have, such as fire-breathing and discharging, and even flying in the air, to name a few.

At this time, they are collectively called guardian spirits, just like the hidden yellow dragon in Shinkuro's body now.

In some special circumstances, some powerful spirits did not choose to possess humans, but chose to stay in a secret place and gradually displayed supernatural powers. In the end, they were often able to survive with the help of the beliefs of local residents and were called It is sacred and is regarded as a lower-level god.

However, all things in the world are balanced. When the harmonious soul is born, the various negative emotions born from human beings will not disappear out of thin air. They will eventually be transformed into another kind of creature - the wild soul.

Similar to the Japanese souls who like to possess humans or serve as guardian spirits of shrines, the wild souls can not only attach themselves to humans, animals, and other monsters, but even after acquiring a large amount of energy, they can themselves transform into evil spirits.

The beings possessed by them will also gain strength, but at the cost they will become cruel and bloodthirsty, driven only by the instinctive desire to kill, and are often more ferocious than real monsters.

Guardian spirits transformed from harmonious souls are often good, and they will protect humans with their own power. However, monsters transformed from wild souls usually have only one purpose, and that is to kill crazily, as if they want to strengthen their power.

Spirit stones are closely related to these two souls and can be used as energy to supply them, just like humans eat and drink water. Abe Seimei speculates that spirit stones may be accompanying creatures when they are born.

At the same time, spirit stones can also be used by some special humans, such as onmyojis, shrine maidens, priests, etc. Of course, monsters can also use them.

However, this also contains certain risks. Spiritual stones are food prepared for harmonious souls and wild souls, not for humans or monsters. Most of them cannot withstand the power of spiritual stones.

In particular, spiritual stones that are contaminated by the power of wild souls and full of evil power are regarded as highly poisonous by Onmyoji, and often require complicated spells to purify them before they can be used.

However, once one masters the method of mobilizing the power of the spirit stone, the user's strength will often expand rapidly. Abe Seimei had an extremely powerful enemy named Ashiya Michitoshi who specialized in using the evil spirit stone. He even once Abe Seimei was put in desperate situations several times.

Finally, Abe Seimei has an extremely bold idea: the souls and souls are slowly being born, but not all souls have found human beings worth protecting, or they may protect one and live in a certain shrine. Among them, not all the wild souls were eventually killed by the onmyojis.

So after a long period of time, except for those parts that died in the years, where did the rest of the harmonious souls and wild souls go in the end?
Combined with his later special discovery, that is, Japanese souls can also be transformed into wild souls under extreme circumstances, and the kind gods enshrined in certain shrines may also become evil gods. Perhaps, they did not disappear out of thin air in the end, but They have all been transformed into other creatures.For example, the 800 million gods in Nibon legend. . .

Demons, demons, ghosts, monsters, and even gods, in Nibon, the boundaries between them are actually very blurred. Even most of the middle and lower-level gods are essentially monsters, just because of the ignorance of the people. The fear of the strong led them to finally enshrine them on the altar in order to protect themselves from disaster.

Is it possible that the guardian spirits enshrined by shrines and believers will eventually sublime into legendary gods?
It's just that this guess was too bold, and even in Abe Seimei's era, there were no gods in the world. In the end, Abe Seimei failed to personally confirm this guess, and just kept them in his own inheritance.

While sorting out the information in his mind, Shinkuro absorbed the energy from the spirit stones according to the method inherited by Abe Seimei. After all, memory is just memory, and he still needs to experiment it himself.

A large amount of energy surged out rapidly, and in almost an instant, Shinkuro's nearly depleted mana in the battle was replenished, and there was also a lot of wealth, which even made him feel that his whole body was swelling slightly.

He quickly cut off the energy channel, and at the same time he understood why the big pig demon looked so brave before, because it had so much energy that it couldn't even get stronger.

It's no wonder that in Abe Seimei's memory, many people fought life and death for this. Lingshi is much more valuable than ordinary gold and silver.

As for the extremely pure spiritual stone that contains abundant energy, it is definitely not a companion of a guardian spirit. Instead, it is more like a senior Onmyoji who has spent a lot of time and energy to refine it specifically for use in Used to restore mana in critical moments.

Shinkuro immediately turned to look at his attendant: "Xiao Saburo, the other two pig demons?"

Kosaburo shook his head quickly: "Young Master, I have already checked them. I even cut open their chests and abdomens, but I did not find the existence of such gems. I think they may be different."

The big pig demon was turned into ashes after death. Not only Shinkuro noticed this, but almost everyone noticed it. After all, it brought them great oppression and threats before, even if they were trapped in the trap all the time. Among them, a dozen unlucky ones were seriously injured by its trunk.

"Is that so..."

Shinkuro was thoughtful, but didn't pay much attention to it. The strength gap between the three pig demons was extremely obvious. It was obviously due to the different investment in them by the ghost girl Hongye. It was understandable that they didn't have spirit stones or soul cores.

Then he gave instructions: "Jirun, clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, and then retreat to Miyabe City to rest. Well, take the pig demon's body with you, I will be useful. Kosaburo, bring my horse!"

As a female ghost like youkai, Momiji, it is absolutely impossible for her to create such a pure spiritual stone, not to mention that she seems to have just been freed from the seal.

Coupled with the volume of Abe Seimei's inheritance that she didn't know where she got, Shinkuro has every reason to suspect that there is a hidden place nearby created by Abe Seimei, which once sealed her, as well as spiritual stones and other secret treasures!
(End of this chapter)