I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 429 and 430: The Divine Descent Ritual

Abe no Seimei was so rebellious!

Taizan Fukun is the principal deity of Yin-Yang Taoism. Through the promotion of the Yamato court and shogunate by Abe no Seimei and the Abe family (Tsuchimikado family) generation after generation, Taizan Fukun's divine status rose again and again, eventually becoming the national deity of the Edo period.

Now, Abe no Seimei, an Onmyoji, plans to hunt down the Lord of Mount Tai...

Rebellion! Rebellion! How dare this servant turn against his master!

When the Uchiha Immortals first heard of Kuro Seimei's wolfish ambitions, they couldn't help but feel secretly alarmed.

The Trinity of the Lord of Mount Tai is the ruler of the underworld, a powerful being who severs the connection between heaven and earth, and a super-shadow-level existence even stronger than gods and Buddhas.

During the Asakusa Incident, the Uchiha Senmon had the privilege of witnessing the immense power of Lord Taisan, who instantly killed Tobi with a single move.

Even the legendary Onmyoji Abe no Seimei, could he really tame such a supreme deity into his own shikigami?

"Under normal circumstances, trying to command the Lord of Mount Tai would be nothing short of wishful thinking."

Bai Qingming pondered for a long time before slowly replying:

"However, Lord Taishan has already fought Pain to a standstill and is now in a deep sleep. It is not impossible to forcibly bring Him down to the mortal world and take advantage of his weakness to subdue Him as a shikigami."

Payne!?

Uchiha Senmon's gaze sharpened.

Pain, the leader of the Akatsuki organization, who killed Jiraiya.

Moreover, he was able to fight to a draw with the Taishan Lord, who was at the Super Shadow level, so he was undoubtedly a Super Shadow level expert as well!

"Lord Seimei, that Pain..."

Uchiha Senmon couldn't help but speak up, wanting to find out more information about Pain.

"Your strength hasn't even reached the Kage level, so there's no need to worry about Pain for now."

Uchiha Senmon pursed his lips and remained silent.

The biggest crisis Japan faces right now is the Tengen Game launched by Kuro Seimei. Although Pain is terrifying, he is not imminent.

"Lord Seimei, I have another question. Is this Tengen Game necessary for summoning Lord Taishan?"

Kuro Seimei selected five cities for the Tengen Game: Sakurajima, Kobe, Karuizawa, Sendai, and Aomori, arranged in sequence along the Ghost Gate Line running from southwest to northeast.

Moreover, in Japan, where the terrain is so naturally formed and aligns with the Ghost Gate line, the power of the ritual can be greatly enhanced.

"Blood sacrifice! The resentment and curses released when about 100 superhumans are sacrificed and fight each other will fill every node of the Ghost Gate with cursed power, summoning Rashomon."

Uchiha Senmon remained silent, lost in thought.

Judging from the way Abe no Seimei sealed Kaguya-hime, she really did have a fondness for witchcraft.

A thousand years ago, Abe no Seimei used witchcraft to cut and dismember the immortal Kaguya-hime into hundreds of demons.

"So as long as the players don't kill each other, Kuro Seimei's plan will fall apart halfway."

Uchiha Senmon raised an eyebrow, but then realized that this was unrealistic.

Abe no Seimei has already announced the opening of the Tengen Game to the world, and there will certainly be ambitious individuals and adventurers who will not give up this opportunity to rise to the top in one step and become extraordinary.

Desperados who disregard their own lives would hardly care about the lives of others.

Although Tianyuan Games is also a self-destructive, monster-raising game, its rules are indeed more lenient than the first battle royale in Kobe City.

The Uchiha Immortal Sect didn't believe that Kuro Seimei would suddenly become so "kind." They probably changed the rules because they were dissatisfied with the rehearsal.

Under such harsh rules, it's inevitable that some people will give up.

On the surface, the survival and success rates of Tianyuan Games are several times higher than those of the battle royale game in Kobe City, making it seem more promising and more likely to motivate players.

In the Tianyuan game, there are 100 people within a barrier. Killing one player earns 10 points, and you need to kill 10 players to escape the game and become a true superhuman.

Including the player, theoretically, a maximum of nine people can emerge from a single barrier.

But this is only in theory. After all, it is foreseeable that points will be wasted during the process of mutual combat.

It would be good if two or three people survived to the end inside the last barrier.

"Based on my understanding of 'me,' Tianyuan Games couldn't possibly be without a backup plan. We'll have to wait until after the opening ceremony to find out the specific details."

Bai Qingming analyzed:

"However, judging from the layout of the five barriers, we need at least five Kage-level fighters to prepare to defeat them one by one."

Uchiha Senmon remained outwardly calm, but inwardly he was making plans.

With the elusive Uchiha Sasuke as one, and myself as another, the remaining twelve generals can barely hold their own against a Kage-level powerhouse. Therefore, the remaining two Kage-level combatants can only be provided by the Hawk Organization.

But can the Eagle's hidden combat power really be equivalent to that of two Kage-level powerhouses?

Kuro Seimei's ultimate goal is to transform all of humanity into immortal undead through the Taishan Fujun ritual, and to achieve this, he must use Taishan Fujun as a shikigami to control and manipulate.

The Tengen Game, which uses the Ghost Gate Line to create five barriers, is a ritual that forces the Taishan Lord to descend to Japan.

Although the Uchiha Sage Sect obtained more inside information through Bai Qingming, they cannot reveal it to the public now in order to conceal Bai Qingming's existence.

Guided by Professor Nagayama's theory of the "Ghost Line of the Land," the Japanese government is increasingly inclined to believe that Abe no Seimei intends to launch another "Hyakki Yagyō" (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) on the day of the Obon festival in the lunar calendar.

This time, the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons will obviously be ten or a hundred times more terrifying than the one in Kyoto.

However, the many high-ranking Japanese officials present were also helpless, shifting blame and attacking each other for a long time, but they could not come up with a good plan.

In the end, the plan was largely the same as that used during the Kyoto Hyakki Yagyō (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons): evacuate residents from the five cities as much as possible, deploy the Supernatural Police Department and Self-Defense Forces to the vicinity, and request assistance from Yokota Air Base.

Besides that, we can only leave it to fate.

The closed-door meeting at the Prime Minister's official residence lasted all day. Although the Uchiha Senmon's current extraordinary physique meant he felt almost no physical fatigue, the mental burden was unbearable.

As the minister's car approached the headquarters of the Supernatural Police Department, Uchiha Senmon, who had been deep in thought, suddenly looked up as if sensing something and gazed at the roof of the headquarters building.

"Are they here?"

Taking the elevator straight to the thirteenth floor, before opening the door, Uchiha Senmon casually made up an excuse to send Ichimaru's assistant away, and then opened the office door by himself.

A beautiful young girl, dressed in a long, black high school sailor uniform that reached the ground, stood there gracefully.

"Greetings, Chief Uchiha."

Shiranui Yuge curtsied, appearing quite obedient, and said...

The Uchiha Senmon were not surprised that Shiranui Hagoromo appeared at the heavily guarded headquarters of the Supernatural Police Department.

Even disregarding the Eagle Organization's teleportation array called the Anti-Membrane, superhumans have countless methods to infiltrate secret and vital locations undetected.

"Miss Shiranui, I wonder how your Five Kage are considering this?"

Uchiha Senmon slammed the door shut behind him and said in a deep, calm voice:

"We desperately need the help of the Five Kage."

Although Bai Qingming has a way to lift the Taishan Fujun Sacrifice, he cannot reveal it too early in order to avoid alerting the enemy. The Eagle Organization's power is necessary to break through the five barriers of the Tianyuan Game.

Uchiha Senmon's gaze was dark and piercing, carrying a faint chill.

If Shiranui Hagoromo doesn't agree, he'll have no choice but to go all out, using his Sharingan to forcefully control her, and then use that as a springboard to hypnotize the Hawk Organization's superhumans.

However, this was a last resort, as the Uchiha Sage knew that even his eye power was insufficient to control so many people, including the Twelve Divine Generals, all at once.

"We are willing to cooperate with you, Your Excellency."

Unexpectedly, Shiranui Hagoromo readily agreed.

"Thank you so much!"

While Uchiha Senmon was overjoyed, he couldn't help but feel skeptical and wondered why this was so easy.

"But I have a small request," Shiranui Hagoromo said with a faint smile.

The main event is here!

Uchiha Senmon's eyes sharpened, but he said without changing his expression:

"Please feel free to speak."

"We, the Eagles, are cooperating with the Minister, not with the Supernatural Police Department, nor with the governments of Japan and the United States," said Shiranui Hagoromo, her red lips slightly parted in a half-smile.

"You mean to keep this matter confidential."

The Uchiha Immortal Sect immediately understood.

However, this can hardly be called a requirement.

Then, Shiranui Hagoromo finally revealed her true intentions, smiling as she said:

"Because we want to invite Minister Uchiha to join the Hawk."

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Senmon immediately narrowed his eyes, sensing whether there were any other people around.

His ministerial office naturally did not have cameras installed.

Furthermore, since they did not sense any eavesdropping, they naturally had no reason to worry that their private conversation might be leaked.

"Join the Eagles..."

Uchiha Senmon looked directly into Shiranui Hagoromo's eyes and said, word by word:

"Are you asking me to betray the Supernatural Police Department and the government, just like Tosu and Satomi?"

-

Abe no Seimei's interview with a reporter from Le Monde quickly spread like wildfire around the world.

The Tianyuan Games' battle royale tournament, where 500 players compete to become true superhumans, has become a sensational news story that has immediately ignited the attention and discussion of people around the world in our information-driven global village.

Although supernatural beings such as yokai and evil spirits are no longer exclusive to Japan after the Asakusa Incident, they occur in Japan far more frequently than in any other country or region in the world.

The secret realms that produce extraordinary resources and the opportunities to transform into extraordinary beings are almost entirely monopolized by Japan.

Other countries don't even have a single superhuman, yet Japan has managed to assemble a team of twelve superhuman generals with incredible extravagance, which is truly enviable.

Over the past three years, Japan has presented itself as a superpower and has reaped considerable benefits through propaganda.

Following the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons in Kyoto, news spread that five cities had become the stage for Abe no Seimei's Tengentoku game, causing the Nikkei index to plummet and all the gains made to be returned with interest.

For the Japanese government, the silver lining is that the Sakurajima-Aomori line, a route fraught with danger, is closer to the west coast than to the more prosperous East Coast Pacific Rim Economic Zone.

If it were to run through Tokyo, Japan's economy would likely have been cut in half.

While other countries gloated, they couldn't help but secretly be tempted.

After all, the winner of the Tianyuan Game can become an extraordinary being, and even if the probability is only one percent, it seems like a good deal.

Immediately, countries urgently contacted the Japanese ambassador and sent additional observation teams to Japan, hoping that Japan would allow them to observe the war nearby, or even directly participate in the war.

Besides official actions, there are no shortage of ambitious schemers and self-proclaimed lucky gamblers, each with their own wishful thinking. They want to infiltrate five Japanese cities before the opening of the Tengen Games, gain player recognition, defeat all competitors, stand out, and rise to prominence in this extraordinary era.

The sheer number of these foreigners with ulterior motives and inexplicable self-confidence forced the Japan Tourism Agency to urgently suspend visa-on-arrival.

Some officials even made the outlandish suggestion that they should simply offer foreign countries access to the Tianyuan game for a fee, then collect a large sum of money from the entrance fees, making as much money as they could.

They don't have the guts to confront Abe no Seimei, but they certainly have the guts to use this opportunity to make money, and a great deal of them.

Of course, this money-grubbing plan was predictably stopped by the Uchiha Sage.

In contrast to the influx of foreigners into Japan, Japanese citizens flocked abroad to seek refuge.

There are plenty of intelligent people in Japan like Professor Nagayama who have deduced the same conclusion from the arrangement of the five cities along the Ghost Line in the Tengen game and from the game's deadline.

Rumors spread like wildfire on the Japanese internet.

If a Hundred Demons Parade occurs in Kyoto, people can still seek refuge in other cities. But if a Hundred Demons Parade were to occur throughout all of Japan, then the only option would be to flee overseas.

For several days, the situation in Japan has been extremely chaotic and unpredictable.

Time flies. On the eve of the opening of the Tengen Games, in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture.

"How's the clearing going? Have all the townspeople gone to take refuge?"

Several Self-Defense Force officers were on the outskirts of Karuizawa, smoking and exchanging information.

Behind them were military tents and prefabricated houses that had already been built, and self-defense members with police dogs were patrolling and inspecting the surrounding area.

"Most people sought refuge, but there were also some rebellious commoners who, harboring the stubborn belief that fortune favors the bold, hid away!"

"They're courting death, so let's just leave them be."

Karuizawa is a famous resort in Japan, surrounded by mountains. How could they possibly have the energy to search the mountains and seas and find people?

In addition to stationing a battalion-sized Self-Defense Force unit outside Karuizawa, elite troops have also been dispatched to the deserted villa areas and resorts in Karuizawa.

They were also assigned special tasks.

A few hours later, a dark red, blood-red pillar shot into the sky from the Karuizawa Resort, and then transformed into a large dark red barrier that covered the area below.

All the reconnaissance satellites placed over Japan around the world simultaneously captured images of the large barrier appearing over Sakurajima, Kobe, Karuizawa, Sendai, and Aomori.

"The dark red barrier is exactly the same as the barrier that appeared during the eruption of Mount Fuji."

"The divine descent ritual of Abe no Seimei has begun."

(End of this chapter)