[Gintama] The Way of Slaying Ghosts

It was an extremely old oil lamp, with fine and strange patterns winding from the bottom to the top.

There is no wick inside, only a small group of dark green flames. Although it is a flame, it emits a cold air, and a strange fragrance spreads in the air.

The tip of the nose is faintly lingering with strands of strange fragrance, Jiu Tsuji-san seems to have seen his past in a trance, and the things he remembered or forgotten passed through his mind in a hurry, even the trivial things Nothing was left out either.

"I didn't expect you to be able to get this thing." Rensi turned into a human form, with a flash of surprise in his scarlet vertical pupils, and then asked with interest, "But what are you going to do when you bring it back? Or What does the existence behind you want to do?"

Hearing Rensi's words, Jiu Tsuji suddenly looked away and looked at the ghost clan.

He was wrapped in an insubstantial black robe, and his head was covered by a black hood. All he could see was a blur of black mist, and the most peculiar thing was that there were no shadows under his feet.

The other party didn't answer the question. I thought it would take a lot of effort to solve it, but I didn't expect the ghost to throw the oil lamp over neatly, and his whole body turned into a black shadow and sank into the ground and quickly disappeared. .

"...What is this?" Sakata Gintoki looked at the empty space in front of him with the corners of his eyes twitching, "Leave an important item and run away without hesitation!"

Jiu Tsujisan also fell silent, and after a while he said dryly: "Probably because I can't win anyway, why not take the opportunity to escape?"

But Rensi didn't say anything after catching the oil lamp, and he didn't chase after him, he just frowned slightly and looked at the place where the ghost clan disappeared.

"Speaking of which, what exactly is this?" Sakata Gintoki moved a little closer curiously, and the strange fragrance he smelled from the tip of his nose became more and more mellow, making him feel dazed.

Jiu Tsuji-san took a few steps back when he pulled Sakata Yin past him: "Don't lean in, this will have a greater impact on human beings."

Rensi said absent-mindedly: "The soul-inducing lamp and the backtracking incense are born together. It is said that they can take people through time and space, but I just don't know if it is true or not. This is the first time I have seen the real thing."

Rubbing his forehead, Jiu Tsujisan felt himself becoming more and more drowsy: "No, it affects me a bit."

"That lamp... is it alive?" Sakata Gintoki raised his sleepy dead fish eyes, rubbed and rubbed, "I always feel that the lines on it are moving?"

It was only then that Rensi noticed that the fragrance from the lamp in his hand was so strong that it almost surrounded them all, and even it was a little in a trance.

But at some point, the surroundings gradually became foggy, and the pure white fog surrounded them imperceptibly with a strange fragrance.

Wind blows.

With the three of them as the center, the surrounding white mist began to spin, faster and more violently.

When they were about to lose their hold, the surrounding fog suddenly dispersed without warning.

The eyes are wide open.

The first thing that came into sight was the huge sacred tree that shot straight into the sky. The lush canopy covered the entire enchantment, forming a world of its own. They seemed to be able to see the traces of time from the long growth rings on the trunk , I don't know why, just looking at this tree, I have a special sense of peace of mind, so relieved that...as long as it still exists, then there is no need to worry about anything.

"Who?" A gentle voice broke the silence.

Jiu Tsujisan subconsciously turned around, only to see a handsome and elegant young man walking towards them.

"Outsider?" The young man's eyes fell on the giant tree, and then moved away, "Please don't approach the place where the sacred tree lives."

"Sacred tree?" Renmi looked thoughtfully at the huge tree that completely surpassed the imagination of few people.

"Ghost clan?" The young man frowned and stretched his eyebrows after seeing Jiu Tsuji-san, "Slaying ghost clan, why are you here?"

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Jiu Tsuji-san always feels that he seems to be looking at himself a few more times intentionally or unintentionally.

"No, we don't know what's going on, we came here when we recovered." Sakata Gintoki still looked at the tree and couldn't recover, and murmured after struggling to find his voice , "That's the lamp, what about the lamp?"

"No more." Rensi raised an eyebrow.

"It's gone?" Sakata Gintoki was so startled that he wanted to jump, "It's gone!?"

The young man watched them meditate silently, then smiled slightly: "Please follow."

Jiu Tsujisan was stunned for a moment, he thought he would be arrested as an intruder, but he didn't expect to be so friendly.

After all, that tree...is very important, I don't know why, Jiu Tsuji-san just feels so convinced.

"Um... you believe us?" Sakata Gintoki looked over suspiciously, "So easy to believe? It seems like a random reason for this? It's too credulous."

The young man's face was calm and calm, and the smile on his lips was leisurely and light. He looked at the distance leisurely, and he was not annoyed when he heard Sakata Gintoki's question: "I'm just sensitive to other people's perceptions. Did you lie to me? You can see it."

"...I always feel very powerful." Sakata Gintoki muttered.

The sacred tree that is gradually moving away from the center can start to see some human smoke.

It seems that there is not much difference from ordinary human beings here, some of them have just returned from picking herbs, and some are plowing the fields, if not for the sacred tree, I am afraid that Jiu Tsuji Sanzhen would think this is just an ordinary hidden room.

"Master Qianli, are these guests?" A young man made a strange courtesy to Qianli when passing by, and then looked at them curiously.

"Ah, I'm going to take them to meet the patriarch now." The young man called Qian Li replied unhurriedly.

The boy blinked and said, "The patriarch just happened to call you over."

Qianli nodded calmly: "I see."

Along the way, Rensi didn't say anything, he didn't know what he was thinking, only a trace of uncertainty about his guess flashed in his red eyes.

The patriarch they saw was a young child, and his clear eyes showed surprise when he saw them.

"Master Patriarch." After Qian Li came in, he only called out this sentence and stood aside with his sleeves folded.

"So that's it, so..." The little boy fell silent, and said with a little complexity, "Sure enough, the established fate cannot be changed. Maybe you are right, I am obsessed with it." He said with his lips Showing a bit of bitterness: "It's just that I want to try it no matter what, but now... I give up."

Qianli smiled and said nothing, the little boy waved his hand wearily: "Go."

Then a few people came out out of nowhere, and Sakata Gintoki couldn't hold back and asked, "What was that just now? What are we here for? Is it really okay for the patriarch to be so young?"

"The patriarch is different from us." Qianli glanced at the sacred tree in the center, "When life enters the final time, the body will grow backwards and eventually return to the sacred tree."

Sakata Yinshi was stunned for a moment: "In other words, he is only a few years old now..." After all, the little boy looks only five or six years old, and if he grows backward, his life expectancy is only five or six years.

"Hmm." Qianli's expression didn't seem to change at all, and he didn't feel any sadness at all.

"Aren't you sad?" Jiu Tsuji-san asked the question that Sakata Gintoki wanted to ask.

"No." Qianli said without pausing, "Because I knew it from the beginning."

This sentence is a bit strange, what did you know from the beginning?Is it death or... death time?

Qianli suddenly stopped, and they realized that they seemed to have reached their destination.

A gentle young girl came out from the inside and bowed to Qianli, but she was different from the previous boy.

"Qianhua, I entrust you to take care of these people." Qianli glanced at Jiu Tsujisan again at this moment.

The girl's eyes flicked over them, she paused when Jiu Tsuji-san saw it, and then said softly: "Okay."

And Jiu Tsujisan was stunned on the spot, he felt that the special feeling on Qianli seemed familiar before, and now this girl is also the same, and her face is very similar to the woman he saw in hell.

The difference is that the woman has accumulated years and has become more gentle and calm, as if nothing would disturb her heart.

But she is still different from that Qianli, as if... a little more human, and if Qianli's gentleness is just indifference to anything, then she really treats people with heart.

When the girl named Qianhua was walking in front, Sakata Gintoki looked at her back and whispered strangely: "Hey, do you think... that person looks a bit like you?"

It was only then that Jiu Tsujisan realized that there was indeed some resemblance between their eyebrows and eyes, and a certain guess quietly arose in his heart.

"What the hell is this place?" Renmi asked suddenly.

Qianhua glanced at him indifferently: "The Shenyin family."

Rensi's eyes suddenly sank, and then returned to normal: "Who was that person just now?"

"The high priest of the clan." Qianhua replied calmly.

"What about you?" Jiu Tsuji-san couldn't help asking.

Qianhua paused: "The next high priest."

"What's that tree in the middle?" Sakata Gintoki interjected and asked, "It seems very important."

"That was the first sacred tree at the beginning of the world, and our family lived by it." Qianhua was not impatient with their successive questions, and only stopped after walking through the corridor and turning the corner: "This paragraph You can live here for the rest of your life."

After Qianhua left, Sakata Gintoki sat on a chair casually, clutching his natural curly hair tangledly: "Ah, what should I do now that the lamp is gone? And why does this place feel weird..."

At this time, Rensi said abruptly, "The Shenyin clan is your mother's clan."

Jiu Tsuji-san was completely stunned.

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