Although Tomie always felt that the relationship between Minamoto Yorimitsu and Onikiri was a bit too ambiguous, now that it was indeed a special moment, Minamoto Yorimitsu did not entangle with Onikiri too much and simply let them go.

Later, Tomie did not go home, but directly followed Minamoto Yorimitsu to the border between Kyoto and Tamba Country.

They predict that the final battlefield will be here.

Tomie took root here as a representative of Shinto, and the high priests of other shrines have spontaneously gone to shrines from the direction of Shikoku in order to delay enough time for the final battle.

The one who stayed here in Onmyodo was Seimei. He stayed here for the same purpose, which was equivalent to the last line of defense. Most of the capable Onmyoji in Onmyoji also went to the war zone like the priests.

As the general of this battle, Minamoto no Yorimitsu did not stay here to prepare for the battle. He directly led his troops to the front line. When he came back, the decisive battle began.

The one who was temporarily left here to command on his behalf was Tsuna Watanabe, who was later called one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Yorimitsu.

The conjurers were already short of manpower, and almost all of them were dispersed, leaving only Tengen, who was good at accounting, to stay here. Tomie didn't even have time to say goodbye to Kamo Ga-ryu, and he already received the message that all the conjurers were heading to the war zone.

Watanabe Tsuna's character is too simple and honest, Seimei doesn't like to show off, Tian Yuan can't convince others because of his identity as a magician, and in the end Tomie is inexplicably pushed out and becomes the top commander here.

Fujiang took the personnel assignment list and knew that it was not appropriate to delegate power at this time. He simply issued a death order. He divided the dark fragments brought back from the sea into small pieces and gave some to Tianyuan. The only requirement was to ensure that there was no curse. The spirit can break through the barrier here.

The other part is given to Qingming, asking him to find a way to deal with it before the dark army arrives.

As for Watanabe Tsuna, he really didn't know anything about it, so he could only temporarily call Minamoto Boya to help. He would be in charge of management, and he would go through anything first.

After all the preparations were over, all they could do was wait.

Bad news keeps coming from the front line. The monster forces somewhere have been conquered and are fleeing to the direction of Tanba Country. A human village somewhere has also been attacked. Because they don't believe they will be attacked by monsters, they don't want to leave the land where they have grown up for many years... The area has been reduced to black soil, lifeless.

According to the results passed back, the losses of humans were much more serious than those of monsters. According to the news that was passed back later, humans finally began to move towards Kyoto because of the bad news.

In March of the fourth year of the lunar calendar, the winter snow is still there. News comes back from the front. The dark monsters are not marching in a straight line. They are like exploring the map in a sandbox game, exploring every land they can touch to find hidden places. He attacks monsters everywhere and turns them into his companions in large numbers.

In April of the fourth year of the lunar calendar, it should have been the spring when the temperature is rising. The winter snow has not even completely melted. The first wave of little monsters fleeing the country has arrived, all of them little monsters.

Seeing the new little monsters, Tomie finally realized how bad the battle situation ahead was. The battle reports sent back before might not be intuitively understandable because they only had text, but now there are only cubs here, and they seem to be... It's the kind of age that human children are no more than seven or eight years old at most, but seems to disappear in the older ones.

Either they were young in terms of monster power, or simply their age. Tomie looked at them from a distance and found that they were all of an age that could be called cubs.

Tomie had seen it from a distance. They stumbled to the territory of Tamba Country. After startling each other with the residents here, they carefully pretended to be invisible to each other and ignored each other as much as possible.

Both monsters and humans have been informed that Tanba Country is temporarily regarded as a peaceful place, and they are no longer allowed to attack each other and fight together. However, the fears and prejudices accumulated over the years cannot be easily resolved.

Being able to ignore each other like this is the best result.

Even later, the fleeing humans finally arrived, and there were even many little monsters mixed in among them. It seemed that they were met by monsters on the way to escape together. They thought they had a common destination, so they came together. In the group of monsters, it seemed that Human survival rates have also improved a lot.

But the feeling of exhaustion between them could not be concealed.

Only then did Tomie react, and he found Watanabe Tsuna to discuss extending the stationed protective circle outwards, wanting to hand over a location closer to Kyoto to the humans and monsters who had fled here.

At this time, I am very grateful to Watanabe Tsuna who stayed with Minamoto Yorimitsu. Although he accompanied Minamoto Yorimitsu on many years of expeditions and expeditions against monsters, he still made the decision to protect him indiscriminately at this juncture.

The biggest good news at this time is that Tianyuan has completed research on a barrier that is absolutely free of cursed spirits. Even if it cannot isolate all cursed spirits, it can detect the cursed power of the cursed spirits that touch the barrier at the first time and lock it. The only drawback is that this enchantment temporarily requires someone to serve as the 'eyes' and 'brains' of the entire enchantment in order to be officially operational.

Tianyuan can only serve as the 'eye' and 'brain' as the center of the barrier for the time being.

Tomie was worried that the nobles in Kyoto who were afraid of death would force him to summon him to Kyoto as a protection after knowing the news, so he temporarily blocked the news. At present, only Seimei knows about it except him.

In May of the fourth year of the lunar calendar, five months of snowfall finally stopped, and the wind and snow on the ground finally melted completely. Although there is still no sunshine, as long as there is no wind and snow, it is very gratifying.

At the same time, news continued to come back from the front line, and more and more places were lost. The only thing to be thankful for was that the captured places were not dyed black, which seemed to indicate that as long as they could win, people could return to where they were originally. Place of residence.

In mid-May, Seimei finally made a breakthrough in lifting the suppression of the jet-black infection. The news was sent to the battlefield by a small crow tengu. However, at the same time, the news came back that the jet-black youkai had given up after the snow stopped. Switch and march directly towards Kyoto.

At the end of May, Minamoto no Yorimitsu returned, and everyone knew that the decisive battle was about to begin.

Although it has stopped snowing, the sky is still covered with dark clouds, and the waning moon occasionally appears in the sky through the thick clouds. However, the Palace of Iron in Dajiang Mountain is brightly lit and very lively, and there are a large number of human villages at the foot of the mountain. Or the human military camp that can be seen from the top of the mountain is simply a world of difference.

Just because the master of the country, Shuten Doji, said that he didn’t know whether he would be able to drink wine next time, so he might as well drink to his heart’s content while he was still alive.

So Dajiangshan has been holding a banquet of wine and wine for eight days.

Obviously this year is definitely going to be a lean year, but the only one who can continue to have such extravagant drinks is Dajiangshan.

Although everything greatly increased the workload of Hoshikuma Doji and Onikiri, at least this behavior greatly appeased the hearts of the little monsters who had nowhere to go and had temporarily fled to Dajiangshan.

Fu Jiang was wrapped in a thick cloak made of fine fur. The fur was all on the inner side, only a ring of fluffy white fur was exposed on the hat. This was made for Fu Jiang by Xuemei herself hunting animals a few years ago. , weighing a full five kilograms. When making it, I folded the hem of the cloak and the shoulders. I thought that if Fujiang grows taller, it can be made bigger for him to continue wearing.

Who would have thought that Fujiang stopped growing six years ago and remained at a height of more than 1.5 meters, even if he secretly drank milk, there would be no chance for his clothes to be fully unfolded.

If he is not wearing a mask, the cape and hat can be set off by the ring of white fur, which makes him look particularly cute. But he has to wear it. In the past, it was to block Kawakami Tomie's special attraction to evil spirits, but now he is worried about his own mask. Having a baby face will lead to dissatisfaction with your management.

He stood in the open space of the camp with his hands folded, looking for traces of stars in the gaps that appeared from time to time under the sky covered by dark clouds.

Qingming passed by and couldn't help but look up at the stars with curiosity after seeing his appearance.

The next person passing by was Yuan Boya. Seeing the appearance of the two of them, he looked up curiously to see what they were looking at.

After a while, Tomie lowered his head and sighed, but he still couldn't find it. Whether it was the 'double star' that the gods suggested was very close to him as a transfer, or the 'star' that Huang gave to him, he couldn't see it at all.

The sky was full of dark clouds and it was hard to see any stars, but they were all pointless.

"Why are you more irritable?" Qingming asked with a smile.

Tomie looked at him expressionlessly, almost filled with jealousy. This man was really not afraid at all. He was so big-hearted that it didn't matter if the world ended tomorrow, and he was so calm that he had the demeanor of a big boss.

"Are you observing double stars again?" Yuan Boya asked him.

Fu Jiang sighed deeply: "Yes."

He didn't dare to say something like "can't find, can't see" such words. Their Shinto believed in this kind of secret. What if the reality couldn't be found or the turning point could not be seen because of random talk?

"There is no perfect path." Qingming patted him on the shoulder, his tone still relaxed.

"I also think you are too nervous. When you were a child, you should have smiled and said to me that this is a battle for the survival of mankind. Instead of believing in the illusory fate, it is better to believe in ourselves!" Yuan Boya also specially learned a lesson. A child's innocent but serious tone.

"Don't talk nonsense! How could I say such a thing!" Fu Jiang's eyes widened. He could only complain in private at most, how could he say it out loud.

"Yes, you will have weird ideas when you were a child." Qingming also added, "For example, when you go to slay demons with me, you are never allowed to ask you to dinner when I set off."

Fujiang's eyes widened as he watched the two men reveal his dark history, and suddenly heard the bell on his neck ringing.

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