Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1494 1466. Often Dark
"Ohhh! There's also this trick!"

Bai Ze was very excited and circled around Lan En.

"Use your eyesight and magical weapons to pierce the vital points of the golden light?"

"It's no wonder that his eyesight and martial arts are so good."

"Whoosh!"

The entire ancient dragon of Qilin stood up straight.

The barrier proportionally increases physical exertion. For others, it just feels like a layer of lightness, but for it, it is like regaining freedom.

He immediately became alert, and with his hooves flashing with lightning, he kicked a few more times, crushing the lotus base of the stone pillar into pieces.

Wuming also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although crashing into the temple gate is still too exciting, at least there is hope if we can break the opponent's gate barrier.

"Let's go." Lan En raised his head and looked at the empty sky again. "There are three more hubs. After we cut them all off, we'll be much safer."

In his [Spiritual Vision], the patterns of power in the sky had become more agitated because he had removed a core, and thus more veins were revealed in front of him.

He has already figured out the locations of the other three central stone pillars, so is the rest just a matter of walking there?
Just when several people felt relaxed because the pressure on them was reduced.

But two or three minutes later.

Silently, several people who were walking among the rocks and wilderness all stopped at the same time!
"Om~"

A silent roar erupted from the top of Jiulin Mountain!

That is a huge amount of [filth]!
The dirty black smoke looked like a tsunami in the eyes of Lan En, Wu Ming and others who had a high level of "void wisdom" as the local term says.

With Changzai Temple as the explosion point, all of these compressed [remnants] emerged and spread down the mountainside of Jiulin Mountain like an avalanche!
Above the temple, the so-called Nichiren sect barrier, which was a combination of Buddhist magic and Yin-Yang magic, had no restraining power on these [remnants].

To be more precise, it even seems to be guiding these [filth]!
Let them fill every inch of land within Jiulin Mountain!
Lan En subconsciously stood in front of everyone, with the hemispherical light surface of the [Quen Seal] held in front of him.

However, the black smoke that spread out like an avalanche did not physically collide with the real world.

The black smoke ignored the [Quen Seal] blocking its way, but automatically moved away from Lan's body.

The guardian spirits on several people appeared as if stimulated, and the black smoke around them was illuminated to a limited extent.

After the black smoke that was pouring down like an avalanche had completely dispersed, the guardian spirits also disappeared on their own.

"This is."

Lan En removed the hemispherical [Quinn Seal] and instead covered his body with its normal state. He now frowned as he looked at everything in front of him.

Behind him, Qilin and the flannel ball had their mouths open, and Wuming had his eyes wide open.

The entire world changed color in their eyes.

Although the original Jiulin Mountain was not very colorful, it was covered with grass and trees, and dotted with a few unknown wild flowers.

There are also many insects and animals.

But now, it was as if all the colors in the world had faded away, and the sounds had also gone silent.

All that remains is gloomy gray, black and white, and sporadic red.

Blood red.

The blood-red illusory flowers scattered across the ground seemed to be growing, blooming, withering, and growing again as if in a thousand-fold fast forward.

Mandragora, Lycoris radiata, the flower of the dead that blooms on the other side of the underworld.

"【Always Dark】." Wuming looked at the scene around him and uttered two words with difficulty.

Lan En immediately grasped the point and asked directly: "What is [Eternal Darkness]?"

"The [Eternal World] is just something like monsters and evil spirits, which summons out a little bit of the filth from the underworld."

Bai Ze came up and took over the question. He floated to Lan En's side and while speaking, he looked at Lan En meaningfully, as his guardian spirit did not appear just now and the black smoke was circling around him.

"As for [Changan], you can think of it as something directly pulling a part of the underworld into the living world!"

"The environment here is close to the underworld. It is the paradise of wild souls. Souls like us, the guardian spirits, will be suppressed from the lives of the human world."

"Generally speaking, the larger the range of [Eternal Darkness], the stronger the thing that pulls this dark world in is."

"Although the world is in chaos now, it's not like the Heian period, where a monster that can cover a small mountain in darkness suddenly appears out of nowhere, right?"

As he spoke, Bai Ze's tone also revealed uncertainty.

"This is not a monster." Lan En, who was looking at the temple on the distant mountain, interrupted.

"This [Eternal Darkness] was not pulled into the human world by the power of a certain monster. It was the result of the [Residue] that had accumulated over the past decade being channeled and arranged by the barrier!"

This pair of eyes that can see the deep truth of the world just witnessed the interference of the barrier power of Changzai Temple on [Remnant] in the sky.

Combined with Bai Ze's statement, Lan En directly figured out what most likely happened just now.

"Relying on [Residual Filth]?" Even the knowledgeable Bai Ze was shocked, "Then how much [Residual Filth] has been gathered together!" Being able to accumulate such a tiny power like [Residual Filth] that is usually like dirt to this point, it is hard to imagine how many people the other party has implicated in the form of "infection" in the past ten years.

I guess no one in the world can accurately tell how many people were implicated in Changzai Temple.

But obviously, when they covered the present world with this piece of [eternal darkness], what they paid for was obviously not only the accumulated [filth].

"Uhhhh!!!"

"Roar!!!"

The screams that came one after another were mixed with human roars and roars that gradually became less human.

In the apparently silent [eternal darkness], it was transmitted very far, and seemed very distant and profound.

Today is neither a festival nor a holiday, so there are few people going up the mountain to worship Buddha. So the source of these screams and roars is very clear - the monks and monk soldiers who often stay in the temple.

Frightened by these horrific cries, the birds and beasts in the forest fled in panic.

But most of the birds fell straight to the ground after flying up and flapping their wings a few times.

It seemed that he died of exhaustion and exhaustion.

But a few birds flew faster, and their movements seemed more ferocious, their calls were sharper and piercing, and their eyes flashed red.

The filth in [Eternal Darkness] can suppress the soul and the human world, but it can also infect oneself, making one's nature closer to that of a demon, or even becoming a demon. This is also a natural survival strategy.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Wu Ming was so shocked that he took off the evil ghost mask hanging on his forehead and looked towards the direction of Changzai Temple. "Are you kidding?! It's just a few people crossing the mountain, and he doesn't want to take over such a big temple?"

How is this any different from exploding when someone steps on your toe?
Not only Wu Ming couldn't figure it out, even Lan En and Bai Ze couldn't figure it out either.

But sometimes things just don’t make sense.

"really!"

The Higurashi stood in the courtyard with his hands making magical gestures, overlooking Mount Jiulin. He spoke harshly, but his eyes were staring across the Nagara River at the Inabayama Castle opposite.

"Horenbo! Your son is also a nuisance! A poisonous snake!"

At first, when the novices reported to him that someone had broken into the mountain, he was just filled with vicious anger and dissatisfaction.

But after the Dream-Eating Tapir showed abnormal behavior, he immediately began to think seriously and took this incident seriously.

Sure enough, after changing his perspective, he immediately realized that something was wrong!

What do you mean by 'someone broke into the mountain'?
Is this what a simple "climbing the mountain" looks like?
How powerful is Changzai Temple? How could he, the abbot who has been in charge of the temple for decades, not know it?

What kind of thing can rush straight from the foot of the mountain to the middle of the mountain without even taking a breath?!

Are the monk soldiers just there to eat and do nothing?
I made it to the middle of the mountain in one breath and didn’t die of exhaustion. What the hell is this?

Moreover, this mere 'mountain adventurer' was not only not suppressed to death by the [Always in the Buddha's Light], but just now!
Just now!

One of the core barriers of the temple they often stayed in was directly dismantled!
How long had they rushed up the mountain? With such efficiency, didn't it mean they were heading straight for the center of the barrier to destroy it? !

But how many people in the entire temple know where the barrier's core is, how to set it up, and how to get close to it? Is there a possibility of a leak?

And why today? Why today is the day he started to take action?
For a moment, Master Rihu's thoughts were in a mess.

But no matter how confused his thoughts were, he was very 'rational' and immediately locked onto the most likely answer -

Saito Yoshitatsu, the son of Saito Dosan, who has taken over as the head of the Saito family and is stationed in Inabayama Castle!

Such a swift and fierce raid must have been planned for a long time, and a huge army as fast as thunder was dispatched!

Fa Lian Fang really never thought of letting him go! Now his son is going to do it for him!
In the short two minutes that Lan En cut off the core of the barrier, regret, anger, resentment, and unsurprising relief raced through Master Rihu's mind.

Finally, his expression became extremely calm.

A possible traitor in the temple? Never mind.

Maybe it was the Yilong army that sneaked up from the foot of the mountain? It didn't matter.

All the resentment and hatred accumulated over the years suddenly rushed to his mind at this moment.

Even though he had been the abbot and managed the temple for decades, Master Rihu no longer cared about the long-standing grudges.

Then, the accumulated [filth] surged out from the small scroll like a gushing out! And came into the world!
No matter if he is a traitor or not, or if he is a large army or not! Let them all die in this [Eternal Darkness]!

As a result, the entire Jiulin Mountain was covered in [eternal darkness].

Therefore, even in the eyes of ordinary people in the distant Inabayama Castle whose [Void Wisdom] was not high.

The usually sacred and majestic Vulture Forest Mountain, where the Changzai Temple is located, suddenly seemed silent.

All the sounds coming from a mountain not far away suddenly disappeared. Anyone would subconsciously wonder if there was something wrong with their ears, and then look in the direction of Jiulin Mountain.

Immediately afterwards, these people suddenly saw that the sunlight shining on the area where Jiulin Mountain was located had changed from the warmth of near noon to a blood-red color that made people feel cold.

A thick and magical black cloud, as if it was imprisoned by some force, covered the top of the mountain.

(End of this chapter)