Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

She turned around with difficulty and called out to Xia Fan...

But he found that Xia Fan was still standing there in a daze with lifeless eyes.

There was clearly no sign of any "spiritual power protecting his body", but the extremely dense foul aura around him seemed to be non-existent to him.

"Ancestor, the oracle has been sent down..."

At the same time, the "residents" had stopped dancing and were looking towards the two with strange smiles on their faces.

"The 32nd generation of the Matsudaira clan, the 7th branch, welcomes you two to stay..."

Under the stone tower, two translucent spirits, a man and a woman, emerged.

Their originally gorgeous ancient robes were in tatters, their mouths, eyes, ears and noses were covered with dirt, and their exposed skin had been burned to a carbonized black color...

The two spirits walked silently towards Xia Fan and Jinguji Aoi.

"Do you want these two evil spirits to possess us and turn us into 'meat puppets' like those people?"

Sensing that something was wrong, Aoi Jinguji reached for the longbow on her back.

But the thick foul air around her was like a deep sea with strong water pressure, making it difficult for her to even move her fingers...

"No...don't even think about it..."

Even if she tried her best, the two male earthbound spirits had already arrived in front of Xia Fan before she could touch the longbow.

Chapter 244 The method of breaking the formation

2024-07-13

"My Seventh House has waited for so many years... finally... finally it will see the light of day again..."

“Hahahahaha… How transparent… Innocent… A beautiful and young body…”

Looking Xia Fan up and down, the spirit seemed to have seen the most precious treasure in the world, and a dull laugh escaped from its distorted face.

Xia Fan, who possesses an innate psychic body, is naturally a perfect container with fatal temptation for spirits.

"Damn it! Even if I die, I will never let you touch Lord Xia Fan!"

Jinguji Aoi gritted her teeth, leaving a trace of blood between her lips, and finally grasped the longbow in her hand.

But before she could draw her bow, the earthbound spirit had already greedily reached out and touched Xia Fan's face...

"..."

Then, the body of this earthbound spirit disappeared silently, as if it had been wiped off the world by an eraser.

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"This is……"

This strange scene made Aoi Jinguji, who was struggling to draw the bow, slightly stunned.

The "residents" around seemed to not understand what was happening and stood there like statues.

"Jinguji..."

"Have you ever heard of such things as the Human Soul Tower and the Corpse Guarding Wild Soul?"

Xia Fan's eyes somehow regained their spirit, and he asked Jinguji Aoi softly.

"I have never heard of the wild soul guarding corpses. But I have seen the Human Soul Tower in ancient books..."

Seeing Xia Fan wake up in time, Jinguji Aoi suddenly felt at ease and his thoughts became more active.

"The people of the ancient Eleventh District believed that after death, even though the body and soul of a person were gone, their souls still wandered in the world. Therefore, they would hold a soul-calling ceremony to call the souls of their relatives back to the stone tower to prevent them from becoming wandering ghosts. This tower for the dead souls is the Human Soul Tower..."

"But this kind of 'Human Soul Tower' was mostly built by famous families in ancient times. Why would it appear in a newly built community like this?"

After answering Xia Fan's question, she suddenly realized and looked at the pile of stones vigilantly.

"According to what I just learned through spiritual communication, a family named 'Matsudaira' once lived here, but was later razed to the ground during the Tokyo bombing."

"Before dying in the bombing, the last member of the Matsudaira clan prayed to this family's 'Human Soul Tower' and buried himself alive underground according to the location of those houses, waiting to be resurrected in the future..."

The situation was critical, and Xia Fan explained the situation to Jinguji Aoi in a concise manner.

"The Matsudaira clan has been a famous samurai family since ancient times. Even the famous shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu was a hostage of the Matsudaira clan. His real name was Matsudaira Motoyasu."

"Saitama Prefecture was formerly known as Kawagoe-han, and the first lord of the han was named Matsudaira Nobunaga."

"The reputation of the Kawagoe Matsudaira clan has gradually fallen in the wars that have continued from the Edo period to the present day..."

"I see!"

Thinking carefully about what Xia Fan said, Jinguji Aoi suddenly woke up.

"The Kawagoe Matsudaira clan is a prominent family that knows how to worship the 'Human Soul Tower'. The Human Soul Tower must contain the souls of ancestors who are proficient in the way of yin and yang."

"When the Tokyo bombing was imminent and death was inevitable, the dead souls in the tower instructed them to sacrifice themselves and set up the 'Northern Dipper Soul Summoning Formation' on the spot to keep the dead souls within the formation..."

“I’m afraid that when the real estate developer’s staff conducted on-site surveys, they were already influenced by the spirits of the dead on this land and planned the housing plots according to the formation points.”

"With such a huge amount of foul energy accumulated in the Human Soul Tower over the years, the residents who moved in one after another, and even the children born here later, must have no resistance and were 'possessed' when they first encountered a demon."

As she pieced together the true circumstances of the incident bit by bit, her face turned pale as paper and her body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"These undead spirits, naturally and without a trace, took over the bodies, identities and lives of the residents, completing another form of 'resurrection'."

"It's really so vicious, so clever, and a cunning and sinister way of living in the face of death!"

The reconstruction of antique buildings, the retro style of residents' dressing, and the sudden "rise to wealth" of young residents are nothing more than the souls of the Matsudaira family continuing their past living habits and making use of their accumulated knowledge, skills, and wealth. It has nothing to do with "luck" at all.

This strange "community activity" every afternoon is actually these dead souls controlling the living, holding a "resurrection ceremony" for themselves, worshipping their ancestors, and consolidating the effect of "possession" day after day...

This also explains why these residents did not move away after becoming rich and still live here in seclusion.

Having been away from this land for too long, without formations and summoning rituals, these earthbound spirits will not be able to maintain the effect of "possession".

"There's no need to delve into the specific 'supernatural principles'. The most important thing right now is that these people are still alive. We have to figure out a way to properly save them!"

Looking at the twenty or so residents possessed by evil spirits, as well as Saejima and Higurashi lying on the ground with painful expressions, Xia Fan whispered a reminder to Jinguji Aoi.

"The method to break the formation..."

"This formation was set up in a hurry, so it's very easy to break it."

"There are seven plots of land where corpses are buried, and this soul-summoning tower in front of us, which is the 'core' of the formation. If we destroy any one of them, the entire soul-summoning formation will collapse..."

"Once the foul air escapes from the broken formation, without the formation's protection, the earthbound spirits of the Matsudaira family will also leave the bodies of these people and die naturally."

After waking up from her terrifying thoughts, Jinguji Aoi quickly confirmed the method to break the formation.

"How about I hold them back here, while you, Lord Xia Fan, go dig out the bodies from the nearest plot of land and burn them!"

She drew the longbow in her hand and aimed at the nearest female spirit.

District 11 has a long tradition of worshipping the spirits of ancestors as gods. This human soul tower is solid in shape, but contains a monstrous foul aura. I wonder what kind of terrifying existence is hidden inside.

In addition, with more than twenty possessed living people guarding on both sides, it might be difficult to make a head-on breakthrough for the time being.

Therefore, the most reasonable option is to have one person hold the enemy back while the other person breaks through other areas with weak defenses.

"Mr. Xia Fan?"

But before she finished her words, Xia Fan had already put his hands in his pockets and walked straight towards the stone tower...

"I didn't find the body when I was digging the foundation, and I don't know how deep it is buried. It would be a waste of time to dig it alone..."

He moved lightly and leisurely, and the thick foul air around him, which was like the pressure of the deep sea, had no sense of existence, just like the air.

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The moment she passed by him, the translucent figure of the female evil spirit who was standing in a daze not far in front of Jinguji Aoi collapsed and turned into a wisp of black ash that soared into the air.

When Xia Fan moved, the "residents" standing around the stone tower all looked surprised.

Chapter 245 Justice in the World

2024-07-13

"Since you are a psychic, you must have witnessed that apocalyptic human disaster from our memories."

Men, women, young and old, with different voices, all said the same sentence in unison, as if they were being borrowed by some existence.

"The entire Edo was engulfed in flames, with corpses burning everywhere and lives being destroyed..."

"In this human disaster, charred corpses are everywhere, and people are like weeds..."

"We, the Matsudaira clan, just want to survive. What's wrong with that?"

They took stiff steps and gathered towards Xia Fan, trying to stop him from approaching the Human Soul Tower...

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But as soon as they got half a meter closer to Xia Fan, the transparent spirits that were overlapping the residents' bodies seemed to be pulled into the air by a pair of invisible hands, and their souls flew away in the twisting...

"I don't know about the past, and I'm not qualified to comment on it."

"I just know that you are not 'living' like this..."

"And these living people have the right to decide their own lives, instead of being your puppets."

Under the surprised gaze of Jinguji Aoi, Xia Fan put his hands in his pockets, walked through the crowd as if he was in an empty place, and walked slowly to the bottom of the pile of stones.

"Uhhhhhhhhhh!"

As if sensing a huge threat, the stone tower shook violently, and countless voices resonated into angry roars.

"So, this thing is most likely the 'corpse-guarding spirit' mentioned in the oracle, right?"

Xia Fan looked up and saw a number of translucent faces with twisted expressions of pain squeezing out from the cracks in the rocks.

"So that's how it is. The stones that make up the tower are not stones, but bone china made from ashes..."

"Bone china engraved with the names of every deceased member of the Kawagoe Matsudaira family!"

Moss, dirt, and dust fell from the tower, and the irregular stones with smooth surfaces like porcelain and the names engraved on them became clearly visible in Jinguji Aoi's eyes.

"The spirits of the ancestors of the Kawagoe Matsudaira family, who have been buried here for generations, have become what Mr. Xia Fan calls the 'corpse-guarding spirits' through the long-term worship of the descendants."

She couldn't help but think of the scene where the Matsudaira clan members were burned into ashes after their death, and then burned into bricks with grass and wood, and then piled up into a stone tower...

"These 'meat puppets' have their own lives, but what about us..."

"God, has he ever given us, the Matsudaira clan, a glimmer of hope?"

These transparent human faces squeezed out from the cracks in the rocks, and above the top of the tower they formed a giant, scattered mass of flesh, emitting layers of monster-like sounds.

"History has already made its final decision on the war."

"As far as I know, the Matsudaira clan has always been a war advocate and has sent soldiers to the military..."

"Your Matsudaira family is one of the thousands of sinners who caused the endless war and the suffering of all people!"

The evil spirit's conceited remarks seemed to have stung Jinguji Aoi's nerves, causing her face to turn cold instantly.

"The Japanese suffered the consequences of their own actions. They lost the war and became a colony. Even the then emperor surrendered and apologized, issued the "Human Declaration", denied his identity as a 'living god', and erased his own divinity..."

"The Ru Kawagoe Matsudaira clan rose in war and perished in war. In my opinion, this is the justice of the world!"

"Hachiman's Prayer: Great Demon Shooting!"

She loosened her slender hands, the bowstring trembled, and an invisible arrow pierced through the foul air, creating a hole in the giant face.

"Even 'Late Loss' can only go this far?"

But the human faces on the "corpse-guarding spirits" just greedily inhaled the foul air around them and filled the holes as before.

"With this stone tower as the divine body, it is worshipped by later generations and gradually reaches the threshold of becoming a 'wild god'..."

Aoi Jinguji, who was holding a longbow on the ground, had surprise in her eyes.

Since ancient times, the "Chilai Shi" shot by the wooden bow of Hachimangu Shrine can inflict heavy damage even against the gods of the wilderness...

But in her hands, she encountered nemesis such as Chi Shen and Corpse Guarding Wild Soul who were good at self-healing.