Zongman: Harem's Music

Nishimiya Tsuyoshi, who still had plenty of points, did make some effort, spending over 1200 points to redeem several antidotes. The most expensive, a fingernail-sized amount, cost 800 points, but it still wasn't enough to save the situation. He only managed to keep Kūkai alive for now, despite the fact he should have died from the poison the previous night! (Current points remaining: 48444.5)

"Hitomi, Hitomi" Kong Hai raised his hand.

"I'm here!" Tongzi suppressed her grief and held her father's right hand, which had become as thin as skin and bones overnight.

"Si, Siyi!"

Although they had only been together for a day, Nishimiya Jiyi's willingness to spend points and put in the effort proved his attitude: "Master, I'm here too!"

"I, I've been dealing with monsters all my life."

Kūkai's gaze was directed towards the ceiling: "Master is gone, fellow apprentices are gone, Mingsha is gone too, and now there are only two of you left by my side, cough cough cough"

Kukai tilted his head and said, "The only ones I can't let go of are you two. From now on, you must take good care of the shrine. You must not neglect the daily cleaning and worship. If the village is attacked by monsters, you must cooperate with us. If someone from outside comes to you, commission you, ahem, commission you to exorcise monsters, you must do it within your ability and not act rashly. Do you remember?"

Tongzi bit her red lips lightly, tears streaming down her face as she said, "I've got it!"

Xigong Siyi said with some sadness: "I've made a note of it, don't worry!"

"In two years, you will need to go to Myogi Mountain in Sawai County, Ueno Province. There is a great monster that Hitomi's mother sacrificed her life to seal. Remember, it's two years later. If you go too early, Hitomi's spiritual power won't be enough to strengthen the seal to that extent. But if you leave it too late, the monster will escape as soon as the seal weakens! The latest time is three years, so you need to seize the best opportunity. Finally..."

"After I die, cremate me on the spot to prevent my body from being used by evil monsters!" Kong Hai looked up at the ceiling, but the person he was looking at was no longer bound by the limitations of time and space: "Bury her... beside Mingsha..."

Kūkai died during Nishimiya Tsuyoshi's first mission to eliminate the demon (of the king)!

According to his last wishes, Nishimiya Jiichi and Hitomi asked the villagers to cremate him. That day, Hitomi and Nishimiya Jiichi set out on their journey home with the porcelain urn containing their father's ashes.

The villagers of Kawada Village (the village where the shrine is located) even fell into panic for a while because of Kukai's death, but the panic faded after Qingyan witnessed Tongzi annihilating the forest ghosts that attacked the village.

Hitomi replaced her father Kukai and became the guardian angel of the villagers of Kawada Village!

Nishimiya Tsukazu devoted himself to studying the methods of cultivating spiritual power, as well as the knowledge of Yin-Yang magic, sealing magic, barrier magic, witchcraft, and word magic that had been passed down from generation to generation in the shrine.

Chapter 233: Shrine, Living with Senior Sister (Part 1)

After one month.

Swish~swish~swish~

In the courtyard inside the torii gate of Kawada Village's Goreizan Shrine, Nishimiya Tsujiichi, dressed in dark purple as a priest, slowly waved a long-handled broom like paddling an oar.

Pushed by bamboo branches tied together and stretched out in an eight-shaped pattern, leaves and flower petals that had fallen from last night's rain accumulated in one area, holding onto some moisture.

"Um?"

On the stone floor that had not yet completely recovered from the wetness of last night's rain, among the piled up leaves, a black centipede with an ugly twisting body caught Nishimiya Siyi's attention.

In a playful mood, Nishimiya Siyi broke off a bamboo branch from the broom, and quickly picked up Wu Geng, who was trying to get into the deep pile of leaves, and moved him to a dry stone slab area on the side.

A little spiritual power was injected into the bamboo branch, and it was stained with a small amount of water from the pit. Like writing with a pen, a circle was formed that just covered the centipede!

Following the method he remembered, 070 Nishimiya Tsuyoshi made a hand gesture, "Boundary Word Spirit!"

When Xigong Si opened his lips and uttered the word "still" with the condensed spiritual power, mixed with inexplicable power, the centipede in the circle seemed to instantly turn from a living creature into a statue, raising the front half of its body, with its limbs on both sides growing together, and the front part drooping slightly, obviously still.

Shintoism believes that there is a power in language that cannot be ignored. Oaths and curses are examples of its power, and thus the art of words and spirits emerged.

During the Warring States Period, Japan had already experienced the event of Jianzhen's eastward journey. The Buddhist culture introduced from the Celestial Empire and the native Shintoism of Japan wanted to combine the two to form some new religious cultures. In addition, the Onin War had already passed, and the various foreign countries in Japan were fighting each other. There was no political interference in religion, and countless monsters shared the same land with humans. These factors made Japan's religion in a chaotic state!

Because of this, even though Kukai, who was originally from a Buddhist background (Japanese monks can get married), lived in a Shinto shrine for more than ten years as a monk rather than a priest after the death of Hitomi's mother, Myosa Miko. This seemed ridiculous in retrospect, but it was not a big deal!

Because of this, the Risan Shrine not only has Shinto texts such as Yin-Yang and Koto-Spirit, but also some Buddhist knowledge brought by Kukai.

This allowed Nishimiya Tsuyoshi, a sponge from the technological world, to absorb a lot of useful nutrients.

The word art he was using at the moment was called the boundary word art.

The boundary, or limit, refers to the area circled by Xigong Siyi's concentrated spiritual power, and the words refer to the physical curses that Xigong Siyi makes to the creatures within the area, that is, to control the body.

"Aren't you old enough to play with bugs, Siyi?"

When Nishimiya Tsutomu turned his head to look at the source of the voice, he saw Tongzi, dressed in a red and white shrine maiden costume, looking at him with a doting smile.

"Forehead……"

Feeling a bit embarrassed, Nishimiya Tsuyoshi quickly came up with a clever idea. Ling Ran said sternly, "Such a filthy reptile has appeared in this holy shrine. I am punishing it and then releasing it!"

As he spoke, he bent his fingers and broke the bamboo branch into two pieces, picked up the centipede like chopsticks, stood up and took two steps, then waved his hand and threw it out of the Torii gate.

Looking at Nishimiya Tsuyoshi, who was standing with his chest puffed out and his head held high, looking as if he had accomplished some important mission and was obviously trying to amuse himself, Tongzi smiled slightly, then put away her smile and walked slowly towards the hundred steps outside the torii gate: "Breakfast is ready. After you clean the yard, go to the kitchen to get it. I have something to do in the village down the mountain!"

Nishimiya Tsuyoshi asked in surprise, "You seem to be going to the village quite often recently. Are monsters appearing so often?"

Unexpectedly, when Nishimiya Tsugumi asked about this, Tongzi acted a little shy and said, "It's something else..."

Looking at Tongzi's figure going down the mountain, Xigong Si's mind was filled with Tongzi's shyness and embarrassment, and he looked suspicious.

"Shall we follow and see?"

Xigong Siyi murmured, and took out a talisman he made from his arms. He also concentrated the spiritual power on his fingertips, and Xigong Siyi skillfully folded the talisman paper into a thousand paper cranes!

Throwing the thousand paper cranes into the air, Nishimiya Siyi made a hand gesture: "Yin Yang magic uses spirit birds."

The thousand paper cranes floating in the air symbolically flapped their wings twice and chased in the direction where Tongzi left.

After doing all this, Nishimiya Tsuyoshi picked up the broom on the ground and continued to clean the yard.

……

"Hitomi-sama!"

"Hitomi-sama!"

Tongzi smiled and nodded in response to the passing villagers who stopped to greet her along the way, and soon arrived at the village chief's house.

"You are here, please come in!"

Tongzi was greeted by a middle-aged woman, probably the village chief's wife.

"excuse me!"

The two entered the house one after the other.

The paper cranes following behind began to circle the wooden house, looking for a window from which they could peek into the house.

Chapter 234: Shrine, Living with Senior Sister (Part 2)

In the side room, there was a low seat on either side, and the village chief's wife and Tongzi were kneeling on two cushions.

"You don't actually need to learn the craftsmanship of us women. As long as you need it, no matter how much you want, we will do our best to make it and send it to the shrine!" said the middle-aged woman, her slightly rough hands moving flexibly, using an awl to hook the hemp thread through the cloth and the insole, sewing the edges of the cloth and the insole tightly together.

Carefully observing the middle-aged woman's technique, Tongzi smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm free recently!"

The middle-aged woman smiled meaningfully: "Master Siyi is so lucky!"

Tongzi lowered her head shyly, and tried to defend herself in vain: "It has nothing to do with him, I just want to learn."

The middle-aged woman smiled but said nothing.

Afterwards, Tongzi began to practice it by herself clumsily.

Outside the window, a thousand paper cranes were surrounded by a wisp of blue flames, which soon turned into a ball of ashes and dissipated into the air.

During the burning process, from the moment it was created to the point when it was completely burned out, all the recorded images within a radius of fifty meters centered on it were repeated in Nishimiya Jiyi's mind.

After dumping the last small pile of fallen leaves into the woods with a dustpan and returning to the shrine, Nishimiya Tsukasa looked at Hitomi's clumsy appearance and then looked down at the shoes on his feet.

Although I rarely go out and am always at the shrine, and I also wear them alternately with the standard shrine shoes and clogs, the pair of shoes that Hitomi gave me are starting to look worn.

"Let's make a big meal to reward senior sister!" Xigong Siyi murmured.

At noon.

According to the schedule set previously, it is time to read Buddhist scriptures.

Nishimiya Tsukazu opened the "Great Compassion Mantra" in the handwritten copy of the Buddhist scripture left by Kukai.

Nishimiya Jiichi found out by asking Tongzi.

If you understand the correct meaning of Buddhist scriptures and recite them silently with spiritual power concentrated in your throat, you can clear away distracting thoughts and achieve a clear mind. This is a commonality among all Buddhist scriptures. Depending on the type of Buddhist scriptures, reciting them will have different effects.

It can be used to kill evil, avoid ghosts, or protect the heart (specially used to break the magic spell), etc.

This "Great Compassion Mantra" seems to be used more to liberate the souls of the deceased.

Although he had never thought of becoming a wizard who performed rituals everywhere, Nishimiya Jiyi, who possessed the ability of [Talent Skill LV1-Advanced Memory] to remember everything he saw, still chose to have more skills.

He opened the handwritten copy of the Great Compassion Mantra, and then opened the Sanskrit Vernacular Translation that he had exchanged for 100 points. He spread out a piece of white paper, picked up a pen, and began to translate word for word.

In fact, the fastest way is to be taught directly by a high-level monk.

But Kukai is no longer with us, and Hitomi is a shrine maiden who has not been exposed to Buddhist scriptures. She cannot help Nishimiya Tsuyoshi in this regard, so he can only rely on himself to slowly understand it.

Sanskrit: Namo. Heluodanadoraye. Namo. Aliya. Balukediti. Shuobalaya. Bodhisattva. Mahasattva. Mahakarunikaya.

Ancient translation: Namo (refuge) Heratanadorayeya (Three Jewels). Namo (refuge) Aryaya (Holy One), Balukediti (Observation), Soprano (Free). Bodhisattva (Awakened Being). Mahasattva (Greatly Awakened Being). Mahakalunikaya (One with Great Compassion).

Nishimiya Tsuyoshi began to translate the vernacular text: Taking refuge in the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha), taking refuge in the compassionate Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, all sentient beings in the world who are experiencing all kinds of horror and suffering, vow to preach the great, perfect, unhindered, compassionate mantra to save suffering and rescue.

Asking for flowers

"Compared to Taoist literature, which discusses the ultimate principles of heaven and earth throughout the text, rarely mentions the names of saints, and rarely contains sentences like believing in someone will bring you happiness and you won't go to hell; Buddhism, which starts by asking people to convert (believe in someone...), is still as much like a pyramid scheme as ever!" Xigong Si complained in his heart.

Although religions are bound to restrict thoughts and fool people, after all, only in this way would the ancient ruling class allow it to exist, the so-called political correctness!

Nishimiya Siyi had little contact with other religions. Among the Taoism, Buddhism (including Zen Buddhism and Zen Buddhism) and Shintoism of China and Japan, Nishimiya Siyi had the least favorable impression of Buddhist scriptures, which had the strongest brainwashing nature.

Of course, even if he doesn't like it, as long as it can bring benefits, the pragmatic Nishimiya Tsuyoshi is not opposed to contacting and studying it, and will not be bound by ideology.

When Nishimiya Tsuyoshi was still studying the following text, the sound of crisp footsteps in wooden clogs came from outside the door.

Xigong Si looked up at the door behind him, and saw that Tongzi had returned!

Tongzi looked at Nishimiya Jiyi who was looking up at her and smiled, covering her mouth: "I'll go cook now..."

"No need!" Nishimiya Si stood up: "I've already done it, just waiting for you to come back!"

As he said that, he hurried towards the kitchen: "Just wait a moment!"

The food cooked by Siyi?

Being born in ancient Japan, where it was shameful for men to cook, just like in ancient China, Tongzi did not have high expectations.

I hope we don’t waste food!

Chapter 235: Shrine, Living with Senior Sister (Part 2)

"Did you make all these?" Tongzi looked at the delicious dishes consisting of three meat dishes, two vegetable dishes and a soup on the table with a look of doubt on her face.

"Is there a problem?" Nishimiya Si said with a casual tone, spreading his hands. "I just did it casually and it worked. Maybe... this is talent!"

Hitomi:→→

"Well, don't worry about it. Anyway, I didn't steal or rob..." Nishimiya Siyi placed the porcelain bowl filled with rice in front of Tongzi, "Just eat in peace!"

I've never seen the dishes, the fragrance, the luster...

Tongzi picked up the chopsticks, but for a moment she didn't know where to start.

The materials are taken from the first page of this world, which is the daily world, the "933rd" world where Nishimiya Tsuyoshi was when he got the system.

Whether it's the type of ingredients, the type of seasonings, the level of sophistication, or even the simplest cooking oil and cooking procedures...

It can be said that they were all born in the chaotic and socially turbulent era of Japan's post-war era, and no one else in this era can enjoy it.

The dishes are both Chinese and Western.

For example, squid tentacles stir-fried with pickled peppers, Western-style steak sliced ​​into pieces to make it easier to use with chopsticks without affecting the taste, mushroom soup with fish...

Nishimiya Tsuyoshi only spent 1.5 points to obtain raw ingredients and condiments, each of which was sold by kilogram, enough for two people to eat for a week... The system's pricing for these things is really low.

Common items that are easy to preserve are placed in the shrine kitchen, while the others are stored in the storage space of [Sumeru Jiewei].

Looking at Tongzi eating a small piece of beef, Nishimiya Siyi chuckled and said, "How do you feel?"

"good to eat!"

Tongzi's answer! Group 9: 8, 02:05 85/6, by Daidai. The reply is simple and affirmative.

Nishimiya Siyi picked up his bowl and chopsticks: "Then let's eat them all!"

……

The hour or two after dinner, that is, one or two o'clock in the afternoon, is probably the most pleasant time of the day.

Left Hall.

Watching Nishimiya Tsuyoshi continuing his translation of the Great Compassion Mantra, Tongzi fell asleep on the coffee table.