I loaded the ghost talk game

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, the vast plains look like a magnificent unfolding scroll.

But the Kamiya River in it did not feel relaxed and happy because of the beautiful scenery in front of it.

He felt something wasn't right here.

Although on this plain, the thousands of stone walls towering in the sky are no longer visible.

But after all, this place is too close to the underworld, and it shouldn't be such a beautiful scene.

"Unless the peach forest just now has a similar teleportation function... in the process of leaving the peach forest, it teleported me to a very far away place without my knowledge."

After thinking like this for a while to no avail, Kamiya decided to explore the magnificent city in the distance first.

The appearance of the place is not dilapidated, so maybe you will find something inside.

The streams flowing out of the peach forest merge into a river on the plain.

Kamiyagawa took the little old man and continued walking along the river bank.

After marching like this for a while, the scouts noticed something and gave an early warning. Kamiya also sensed this and stopped, focusing his pupils.

After a while.

A figure flashed out from the trees on the bank of the river.

She looked like a girl with a graceful figure, wearing a plain soft silk dress. I don't know which era the style was from, but it was very simple. Moreover, there are no pattern decorations on the clothes, which looks very elegant when matched with the girl's figure.

The girl has a beautiful face and looks like an ordinary person.

She was holding a large bouquet of colorful wild flowers in her hands, and she looked very excited when she just emerged from the woods.

But she probably wasn't prepared at all, and she was caught off guard by the two figures standing outside the forest, which really startled her.

"Hey!"

The girl exclaimed and stepped back, and a few bunches of wild flowers in her arms scattered.

Then, while patting her chest, she looked at the people outside the forest again——

A monk who was shorter than a dwarf, with a short stature, wearing a monk's robe and a dark black hat.

The other is a handsome young man wearing black clothes with gold patterns, black hair and black eyes, and a handsome posture.

After seeing the handsome young man's face clearly, the face of the girl holding the flower softened a bit: "I'm scared to death, why are you standing here without saying a word?"

"Uh, sorry."

Kamitani politely apologized.

"Aba Aba."

The little old man bowed to the girl in cooperation.

Then Kamiyagawa asked again: "Excuse me, where is this place?"

"Where is this, you ask? What a strange question, of course this is Tsukushi Castle." The girl's eyes stayed on Kamiyagawa's face for a while longer, "Oh, you are from Hyuga Castle, right? ?”

That’s it too.

The girl felt that the boy in front of her was very good-looking. If he were a resident of her city, he would be more or less impressed by him.

Therefore, it must have come from another big city.

"Hyuuga Castle?"

"Yes, there is another big city on Aboqihara. It's very far away, isn't it? I have never been to Hyuga City, but my father and mother often go there." The girl said this naturally. As he spoke, he leaned over to see the bouquets of flowers scattered on the ground.

Apokihara.

Kamiyagawa finally heard a key word.

Being proficient in mythology and classics, he can think of something——

According to the myth, Izanagi arrived at Akihara after leaving Hirazaka.

And a purification ceremony was performed in the river here.

That is, taking a bath.

During this process, Izanagi's personal clothes and the filth he washed turned into many gods, including Mikiko.

In other words, Apokihara is a very important mythological place.

This is the birthplace of Sanguizi and many other gods.

While Kamiyagawa was thinking, the girl had already picked up the bouquets scattered on the ground and said, "Did you just arrive at Chikushi Castle today? Ah, you must be in a hurry to come back just like my father and mother. Watch the celebration here.”

"celebration?"

Girl holding a flower: "Yes, it is a celebration to commemorate Lord Izanagi's exorcism ceremony in Aboqihara. Today is the Millennium Celebration. It is the most grand and grand, and your Hyuga City will also hold it. I listen. Mom and Dad said that the celebrations in Hinata are not as lively as ours, so you came here to build the purple city, right? "

"Millennium? Are you sure?"

"What are you talking about? Of course I am sure. On this day a thousand years ago, Lord Izanagi performed an exorcism ceremony on the Apokihara, and gave birth to Mikiko, as well as many other gods. Don't you think you can even do this? Don’t you know?”

Kamiyagawa did not reply immediately.

A thousand years ago.

Izanagi and Izanami broke up, and Mikiko was born on Apokihara.

This time is wrong no matter how you think about it.

Unless there is a time flow pattern like "a day here and a year elsewhere" in Apokihara.

Looking at the girl in front of him with an extremely firm look that cared for the ignorant, Kamiyagawa did not continue to ask questions on this issue. He calmly looked at the outline of Tsukushi City in the distance, then narrowed his eyes, his pupils became darker and deeper, and looked at the girl in front of him.

The lively girl who originally talked a lot was a little embarrassed by the sudden, intense gaze. While avoiding eye contact, he unconsciously raised his hand to fiddle with his hair.

Then, she heard the boy on the other side speak again: "Although it's a bit presumptuous, may I ask, what are you?"

"What?" The girl was a little confused, but after hesitating for two or three seconds, she gave an answer according to her own understanding, "Well, my name is Sakura."

"Sorry, that's not what I meant. I want to ask what you belong to. The aura on you is not like that of a human, a god, or a monster."

Kamiyakawa felt that the girl who called herself "Sakura" had a strange aura.

If I had to say it, it seemed that the aura on them was a bit similar to that of Isohime and Kanihime when they first met, but it was much weaker than the two princesses of the Sea Kingdom, and did not carry the power of the ocean.

Faced with such a strange question, Sakura was obviously disappointed and embarrassed.

This guy is so presumptuous!

"I don't understand what you are talking about. Of course I am a human grass! Aren't everyone in Tsukushi Castle a human grass? And the same is true for Hyuga Castle. Except for the Great Immortal Peach God, He is a god."

Sakura felt that although the boy in front of her looked good, he didn't seem to have a good brain.

The questions asked were all strange.

The atmosphere of a romantic encounter by the river no longer existed.

She didn't want to continue to linger here, so she said, "I should go home to prepare for the celebration, and my father and mother should be home soon."

The girl turned and walked away quickly along the river bank.

Kamiya didn't call her again, but just stood there thinking.

"Human grass."

If it's "human grass", then it's right.

The concept of human grass first appeared in ancient books and myths.

It was the oath that Izanagi and Izanami made when they broke up with each other across the Senbiki stone, "One thousand people must die every day, and one thousand five hundred people must be born every day."

According to the original words in "Kojiki" -

[Izanami ordered that if you do this, the human grass in your country will be strangled to death a thousand times a day. ]

In other words, in the oath made by Izanagi and Izanami, the people who died and died every day were not real humans, but "human grass".

The so-called human grass is a descendant of gods, but in essence it is a kind of existence that is neither gods, nor humans, nor monsters.

Strictly speaking, it should be a transitional race between "gods" and "humans and monsters".

Anyway, the gods of Japan have a variety of ways to give birth to offspring.

Not only physical reproduction, bathing, bleeding, and spitting can give birth to a large number of new gods.

These new gods will also do the same and give birth to the next generation.

In this way, after countless rounds of rapid and convenient iterations, the gods of the second generation have become "human grass".

There are many such beings, and they may carry a certain degree of divinity, but their basic abilities have withered and they can no longer be called gods.

The later Kunitsu God was probably the last generation of gods of low status, or simply some stronger human grass who practiced.

"Let's go, little old man, let's go to Chikushi Castle. The human grass there should be able to provide us with more information."

Through the conversation with Ying, Kamiya Chuan has obtained a lot of useful information-

First, this is Apogihara where the three noble sons were born. There are two large cities full of human grass. Human grass may not be much stronger than humans, at least judging from the individual Sakura.

Secondly, Chikushi Castle will hold a celebration to commemorate Izanagi tonight.

Finally, the most important point is that the Great Immortal Peach God is very likely to be in Apogihara.

"Now it seems that the Great Immortal Peach God should have seen Izanagi. There may be the human master materials we need in him, and we have to find this god."

"Aba!"

The little old man responded.

Just now, when Kamiya Chuan was thinking, the scout was also thinking.

While integrating the information he had obtained in his mind, the little old man also associated some other things.

That is...

The master is worthy of being the master.

The master has such a face and such a temperament, it is indeed easy to get the favor and preferential treatment of the opposite sex.

No matter where he goes, he can easily get along with the local girls.

The human grass named "Sakura" casually told the master so much useful information during the conversation.

The master didn't even use [One Thousand Silver Needles]!

This way of collecting information... can't be learned, can't be learned.

It can only be said that Miss Kanoya privately evaluated the master as the "Takamagahara Succubus", which is really reasonable.

...

In Chikushi Castle.

Kamiya River brought the little old man's body into this big city without any obstruction.

This big city is huge and magnificent, and the architectural style is more ancient than the Oeyama Castle in the Takamagahara territory.

The red and white paper lanterns and colorful silks hung high on the streets, swaying in the night wind, full of festive and lively atmosphere.

The city is crowded with people, and a large number of human grass are active.

These human grasses have different appearances. Some look like Sakura and are almost human.

There are also human-like forms, some with horns on their heads, some with tails behind them, or some with feathers and scales on their bodies.

There are even worse ones that do not grow in human form and are more arbitrary.

However, all human grasses have similar auras.

It is rare to see so many living "ancient mythological creature samples". As a folklorist, Kamiya Kawa calmly passes by various human grasses while analyzing them in his mind -

Human grass is a secondary generation, a descendant of gods whose power has withered, and can probably still reproduce naturally.

Over time, the descendants of human grass may also have differentiated.

Human grass that no longer has any abilities may be the ancestors of humans, and those who still have some special abilities may be the ancestors of some monsters, and perhaps in this way, relatively pure humans and monsters were born.

Kamiya Kawa speculated a long time ago that gods and monsters are of the same origin.

So monsters will have a smoother way to become gods.

It is currently known that some monsters can reproduce naturally, while some monsters, such as many ghost stories, are born in various and strange ways.

And the earliest way that gods gave birth to their offspring was also strange.

Isn't this right.

According to human grass's speculation, today's humans are probably also a kind of descendants of gods in a broad sense. However, human traits are more stable, and can only rely on natural reproduction, and individuals basically cannot carry certain extraordinary powers at birth like monsters.

Therefore, humans can also become gods through the "flesh, spirit and bone" ritual, but it is more difficult than the monsters.

Anyway, the relationship between gods, demons and humans is complicated, but according to the understanding of folklorist Kamiya Kawa, the evolution process is roughly like this.

More or less, they belonged to the same family tens of millions of years ago.

But after a long period of change, they can no longer be regarded as the same "species".

Looking back at the situation in the sea country, the warrior crabs and mermaids are basically pure monsters. However, because of the fact that they are Munakata, Kanihime and Isohime can probably be classified as "human grass" with special abilities.

And they should also be among the best among the human grass.

"Kanihime and Isohime are both descendants of Munakata, one of the three goddesses of the sea, so it is reasonable to count them as human grass. But why are there so many human grass on Apoki Plain now?"

Kamiya Kawa's question cannot be answered for the time being.

After walking on the busy streets of Chikushi Castle for a while, Kamiya politely stopped a grass girl with animal ears on her head.

"Excuse me. Where can I find the Great Taoxian God?"

The grass girl with animal ears was a little confused. She looked at Kamiya and just replied: "Can't we see him in the palace at ordinary times? Oh, are you from Hyuga Castle? Tonight is a celebration. Taoxian is not in the palace, but will go to the river to release river lanterns with everyone. If you want to find him, go there."

"Thank you."

Kamiyakawa looked towards the center of Chikushi Castle.

There was indeed a tall palace building over there.

But in that direction, Kamiya did not sense any breath of gods.

Even near the entire Chikushi Castle, he did not feel any trace of the existence of gods.