long way home

Several people who came back from Guichuan Mountain told Qingming and He Si about their experiences during the trip.

"Good job, Diarmuid." He Si praised his followers very bluntly, "Thank you for your hard work!"

After being praised by his lord, Diarmuid nodded modestly, "Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life!"

"Huh? Didn't find Qiongqi?" Qingming had other concerns, and he disliked his grandson unceremoniously, "I said, Changhao, you probably let Qiongqi run away because you were holding back? Oh, you don't have to cover up for my useless grandson."

The veins on Chang Hao's forehead popped out. He never expected his grandpa to praise him like that over there, but he never thought that his grandpa would make such random speculations to belittle himself...

So, there is no harm without comparison!

"Old man, just wait and see! I will definitely find Qiongqi and destroy it!" Changhao left such a statement and left angrily.

Honglian looked at Seimei, who was covering her lips with a sleeve, and sighed, turned around and chased after Changhao.

"Mr. Qingming, Changhao has actually helped us a lot. If he hadn't unsealed the seal and summoned the God of Gao, we would have fallen into a bitter battle, and we wouldn't have come back so unscathed." Dilumu Most of them are very honest knights, and they will never be greedy for credit.He thought that Qingming had misunderstood something, so he hurriedly defended Changhao a few words.

"Hahaha!" Mikazuki Zongjin sat at a good angle, so he could clearly see Seimei's expression mixed with relief and pride on his face covered by his sleeve. "My lord, I really misunderstood something! Lord Qingming is just using his method to motivate the younger generation. This is the way of communication between their grandparents, so you don't have to pay too much attention to it."

"Is that so?" Diarmuid still couldn't understand such a tortuous incentive method.

"That's right." Qingming himself nodded in agreement, "Changhao is still a young man after all, if you praise him too bluntly, I don't know how complacent he will be?"

"Diarmuid, you are too serious." Because everyone was sitting on the tatami, He Si could easily reach the top of his servants.He plucked the strand of hair (silly hair) hanging in front of Diarmuid's forehead, "People have various ways of getting along with each other, which is a tacit understanding between each other. Because Diarmuid upholds humility Your attitude never invites credit, so I will praise you without hesitation!"

(So ​​the way you get along with your servants is to lick his hair? ←_←)

Since his lord said so, Diarmuid no longer entangled in this matter.Instead, he asked, "Now that Qiongqi's whereabouts are unknown, should we expand the scope of our search?"

"The Taotie is dead, and Qiongqi will naturally feel it. In this case, it will make no more than two choices." He Si stretched out two fingers, "either hide because he is afraid of the strong man who will kill the Taotie Stand up, or grab more 'sacrifices' in order to strengthen its own strength. How does Qingming think it will choose?"

"Well... Qiongqi escaped here after being seriously injured in the Tang Dynasty. If he just hides blindly, he will just sit and wait for death. Therefore, the death of his companion will only prompt him to recover his strength quickly. Qiongqi will definitely take action in the near future!" Qingming made such a conjecture, and then made a request, "Can you guys hand over the strange matter to Changhao? I think this is a good opportunity to train him."

"Of course." He Si agreed without hesitation, "We came here for a different purpose. The gluttony incident was caused by me, and we have a duty to do it, but Qiongqi is not one of them. But is it really good to rely on Changhao alone? I admit that he does have great potential, but if Qiongqi's strength is almost the same as Taotie's, I'm afraid he is still not a match."

"I believe in Changhao. He is my chosen successor, and this is also the test I gave him. If he fails, he will not be able to inherit the gods in the future." If Changhao heard Qingming's words at this time, he would probably feel a lot of emotion.

Thinking of the scene he saw in the afternoon, He Si was a little puzzled, "I thought you, Qingming, had already decided to use my method to prolong your life, why are you still acting like you're going to confess your funeral?"

In the afternoon, Qingming couldn't resist the pleas of the generals, and changed his original decision to die calmly.

"Oh, I really can't do anything about them." Seimei also had a headache when he thought of how the gods and generals tried their best to change their minds. "The Twelve God Generals were born because of the wishes of humans, and they will only obey the orders of humans. If I awaken the blood of the sky fox, I will no longer be a human being, and naturally I will not be able to command them. Therefore, we must find a better one for them. A suitable host."

Taiyin threw herself on Qingming's back and hugged him, "Although it's a pity that Qingming can't be our master anymore, we can continue to be friends!"

Taishang also nodded and said yes, "As long as Qingming is still there, we don't mind changing the way we get along."

Seeing the attitudes of the generals, He Si couldn't help sighing, "Oh, it would be great if Diarmuid also had the same awareness after breaking the contract between the heroic spirit and the master!"

It was rare for Diarmuid to refute He Si's words, and he said firmly: "You are the lord I believe, and I will never compromise on this alone!"

"Hey, hey! I got it!" He Si helplessly spread his hands ╮(╯_╰)╭

The men with swords and swords looked at each other, and they thought so too. Even if one day Diarmuid was no longer the God-inspector, he was still the lord they believed.

This kind of thinking can probably be called a similar tacit understanding between knights and samurai?

In the next few days, Masahiro Abe and Guren patrolled the streets every night, trying to find traces of Qiongqi and his men.

On the other side, the men with swords are also looking for their enemies around Heianjing - the time retrograde army.

But both parties unexpectedly got nothing.

"That's weird! Isn't it the style of a retrograde army to hide?" Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki scratched the back of his head irritably, making his already messy hair look more like a chicken coop, "By the way, are we here? Has this era stayed too long?"

Whether it is the hidden enemy or the long-term battle, it has broken the usual cognition of the sword man.

Kunihiro Yamabuchi glanced at Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki blankly, "You just realized it?"

"What do you mean?" Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki was a little unconvinced, as if he was the only fool when he said this.

Yamabuki Kunihiro suddenly found that this guy was really dull, and felt that he shouldn't be too harsh on him, so he patted Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki on the shoulder with a complex expression, "I heard that there are fresh cold yellowtail for dinner, Let's go back early today."

"Really! Is it the very rare and rare fish in the legend? Wow, Ryoma has never eaten it!" Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki was immediately distracted, and began to look forward to dinner with his eyes shining.

Yaken Toshiro covered his face, feeling that this scene was like training a large dog, and he couldn't bear to look directly at it.

After eating and drinking enough at night, when a group of people gathered to discuss the harvest of the day, Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki came to his senses, grabbed the white cloth of Yamabuki Kunihiro and said, "Isn't that right? You haven't answered my question yet! You Was this guy just perfunctory me before?"

"What's the question?" He Si was a little curious.

"It's about the timing of this battle." Seeing Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki pestering Yamabagi Kunihiro for questioning, Yaken Toshiro explained.

"Huh? I thought you should know." He Si was puzzled, "Generally, sword men have limited time to play battles because their spiritual power is not enough to support them. This time, Diarmuid and you guys have improved the teleportation formation The restraint of time is lessened, so naturally it can stay here longer."

"Although I don't know the specific situation, everyone has already guessed it." Sanri Yuezong had a clear expression on his face, and sure enough, working with He Si cannot be inferred by common sense. "Probably only Mutsu Mori realized the problem today!"

"Eh?" Seeing Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki's bewildered expression, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Okay, now that I've come to this point, I'll explain it to everyone." Heji is also a relief for Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki, "In fact, most of the history about thousands of years ago only has simple records. There is also no way to accurately determine what has changed, and there is no way to confirm whether these changes are caused by the retrograde army."

Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki suddenly realized, "That's why we couldn't find traces of the marching army?"

"Exactly." He Si nodded, "I suspect that the time fluctuations in this era detected by the Government of Time before were not caused by the retrograde army, but because of Taotie. Taotie was brought to this world by me. Originally, it did not belong to this era, and it is not difficult to understand that it disrupted the order of time."

"Now that Taotie has been beheaded by me, do we still need to stay here?" Diarmuid always remembered that the government of time concealed the real location of its lord, and the chaos of time and space in the Heian era was just to lure Excuse them for attention.

He Si shook his head, "Although Taotie has disappeared, its influence is still there. Do you guys still remember the name of the girl who was targeted by monsters?"

"Is it Akiko Fujiwara?" Diarmuid didn't understand why his lord asked this question.

"Oh!" Mikazuki Zongjin suddenly realized, "That Ji Jun is a famous figure in history. Not only was she married to the emperor, she was also the mother of the next two emperors."

"So?" Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki was still confused.

"How can a woman coveted by monsters enter the palace to serve the emperor?" Higakiri also understood something. "After all, the fate of that Ji Jun is related to three generations of emperors. If something goes wrong, it will inevitably affect history."

Kemimaru said seriously: "Since we have taken over the task of the Government of Time, no matter whether it is caused by the retrograde army or not, we must ensure that history will not be affected."

"Wait, wait!" Mutsu Mori Yoshiyuki finally figured out the key points, "So we must prevent history from being changed, and we must ensure that Fujiwara's daughter becomes the queen as Mr. Heji said before. ?”

Hearing what he said, everyone immediately thought of the weird inference He Si made that day when they first arrived in the Heian Era, and immediately looked at He Si with tangled eyes.

"Theoretically, it is true." He Si spread his hands innocently, "After all, I promised Qingming before that I would hand over the Qiongqi matter to Changhao, and now I have to wait and see."

A group of people who are basically only good at fighting are suddenly speechless. This style of painting can change as soon as it is said, they really can't accept it!

The author has something to say:

Cough, what, this is a serious boy manga, it won't really become a Gongdou drama!

In fact, the setting of "Young Onmyoji" is inconsistent with history, so this pot is neither from the retrograde army nor from Taotie, but from the original author (Taotie: My **** meow's body is cold, and I still want to go to me Throwing the pot away?).

PS: Calvin, the plot is a bit procrastinated. I didn’t plan to write this chapter _(:з」∠)_