The Mysterious Journey of the Blue Lantern

What Qingdeng didn't expect was that after he and Ibaraki Doji stepped into the shrine, what they saw was not the scene that Qingdeng just imagined in his mind.

I saw that the dilapidated shrine was covered with dust and spider webs everywhere as they expected, but what really surprised them was the place where the original statue was placed inside the shrine. , the original god statue disappeared for some reason, and the Yimulian they wanted to see was locked in the place where the god statue should have stood. Yes, the adjective is not wrong, it is locked in this place, but it is not in the normal sense Instead, from under his feet, for some reason, there protruded countless chains formed by black air slightly similar to the Yin air that Ibaraki Doji and the others had seen before, firmly chaining Yimu in place, countless chains of pitch-black ghosts Spreading out from the bottom, tightly entangled on Yi Mulian's skirt and white body, coupled with his noble and mysterious temperament at this time, it is like a beautiful giant beast imprisoned here...

"This is..." Looking at the scene in front of him, Qing Deng couldn't help but widen his eyes and muttered softly in surprise.

"Is this yin energy?" Seeing the black energy constantly swimming around Ichimolian's body, Ibaraki Doji narrowed his golden-red ghost eyes slightly, and asked with a hint of hesitation in his tone, because it seemed that It's Yin Qi, but he and Qingdeng are already so close to Yimulian, and he hasn't felt the icy coldness and ominousness unique to Yin Qi before, which makes him somewhat uncertain...

"Are you talking about this on me?" After hearing Ibaraki Doji's words, he glanced helplessly at the black air entwined on himself and the accompanying dragon, sighed, and said, "Maybe Right...but don't worry for now, I've temporarily suppressed him."

"...Suppress it?..." Hearing Yimulian's words, Qingdeng was slightly dazed for two seconds, then focused his gaze on Yimulian's locked 'chain', and instantly understood.

"Have you suppressed the spread of these yin qi with your own demon power? No wonder we haven't felt a trace of yin cold since we entered the mountain..." After hearing Qingdeng's slightly puzzled words, Ibaraki Doji couldn't help using his gold The red ghost pupil glanced slightly complicatedly at the Yin Qi that kept flowing out of his feet and was forced to go back, and then he thought of the rotten things that passed away when he and Qingdeng entered the mountain today. There was a flash of understanding in his eyes, and he said to him in a firm tone, "But it seems that even if you can hold it, this Holy Peak Mountain can't hold it for long..."

"You're right, the mountain range of the Holy Peak Mountain is also gradually being eroded by Yin Qi. Even if my demonic power suppresses these Yin Qi, it only prevents them from leaking out and slows down the power to erode the mountains... "After hearing Ibaraki Doji's affirmative words, Yimulian nodded, and gave Qingdeng and the others a general description of the situation of Shengfeng Mountain. All the divine power and vitality of this holy peak mountain have been sucked away... At this time, most of this mountain is just an empty shell with no appearance, and they have all started to rot from the inside..."

"It turned out that the rotten smell that Ibaraki and I smelled at that time was the same thing." After hearing Yimulian's narration, Qingdeng couldn't help but glanced out along the dilapidated corner of the shrine. After getting up from the forest, which was growing extremely ferociously and seemed to be still full of vitality, he sighed, then turned his gaze back to Yimulian, and asked him, "Master Yimulian, I have a question to ask you, I don't know if you want it or not?"

"Qingdeng, just call me Yimulian, you can ask, if I know, I will try my best to answer you."

"Okay, Yimulian, can you tell me how you came to this holy peak mountain, did you also come to this world through the crack in the underworld? Have you ever seen Yamata no Orochi?" After agreeing, he threw the questions he wanted to know to Yimulian one by one.

"...I didn't come here through the rift in the underworld you mentioned. I don't know how I got here..." Yimulian looked at Qingdeng and Ibaraki who were waiting for the answer. The boy and the boy shook their heads slightly, and said a name they had never heard of before, "But Yamata no Orochi and the crack in the underworld, I have seen it before I died."

"No?" After hearing Yimulian's narration, Qing Deng grasped the key point and asked Yimulian.

"He was the original real god on this holy peak mountain. I came here for some unknown reason, but he took me in the shrine..." With the question of Qing Deng, Yimulian gradually seemed to fall into memory , a trace of nostalgia and tenderness flashed in the pale golden pupils, and he narrated to Qingdeng and the others, "Just like me, his strength is weakening day by day due to the reduction of believers, but maybe it's because our experiences are too similar. I don't want him to be depraved like me, and after hearing a rumor about the so-called Izumo, he temporarily left Mount Sacred Peak..." He seemed to have thought of something, and he closed his eyes slightly in pain, and continued.

"...But a few days after I left, a crack in the underworld, as you call it, began to appear on the top of the mountain, but the scale should be very small, so Wu didn't seem to notice it until the only remaining one at the bottom of the mountain A few villagers still living at the foot of Shengfeng Mountain began to change for some reason. They continued to kill each other, and even died suddenly. He contacted me, but when I came back, he was already dead. It was too late, and the yin energy emanating from the cracks in the Yin world gradually took away the last tranquility and vitality of the entire Shengfeng Mountain. Wu's godhead disappeared, and even the people with him disappeared. Seeing that the yin energy seemed to continue Spreading in other directions, I had no choice but to use my own strength to temporarily control all the cracks in the underworld and the yin energy in it..."

"But even if my monster power can last for a longer period of time, this holy peak mountain can't last. If I guessed correctly, the entire holy peak mountain should be full of yin energy. When it completely collapsed In an instant, the yin energy in it will overflow and quickly spread to the surroundings..." Saying that, Yimulian couldn't help frowning, and persuaded Qingdeng and the others solemnly, "So you should still Take those humans down the mountain and get out of here quickly..."

"We're leaving, what about you? What are you going to do? Don't tell me that you have to sacrifice yourself to control the spread of this yin energy..." Hearing Yimulian's persuasion, Ibaraki-douzi raised his eyebrows and glanced lightly. At this time, Yimulian with his head down, with a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth, spoke to him in a slightly mocking voice.

"........."

"Tsk, no way...you're really good..." Seeing Yi Mulian who was suddenly silenced by what he said, Ibaraki Doji couldn't help but clicked his tongue lightly, and said mockingly to him, " But you don't really think that you can use your demonic power that has suppressed Yin Qi for so many years to control the Yin Qi that explodes in an instant? Stop teasing me..."

"That's right, Yimulian should think of a way together at this time. After all, it is not a trivial matter to wait for this yin energy to leak out, and now Baqi is seriously injured due to an accident. If it absorbs the divine power and vitality of Shengfeng Mountain It's really troublesome..." After hearing Ibaraki Doji's questioning, Qingdeng couldn't help frowning, and persuaded Yimu, "How long can I last?"

"...It should be fine for two or three months..." After listening to Ibaraki Doji's unabashed 'sarcasm' and Qing Deng's careful persuasion, Yimulian replied after being silent for a while.

"That's good. Two or three months should be enough. We need to go to the Mikage Shrine and the Nuragumi in a while. It shouldn't be possible to do it alone." After answering, Qing Deng couldn't help but exchanged glances with Ibaraki Doji, and spoke to him.

"As for Nuliang, how is Nuliang Lusheng? We need your help..." Said Qingdeng cast a shadow in his eyes and said.

"Of course, I will go and inform Grandpa." A figure gradually revealed himself. It was Nura Rikusheng who had followed them into the shrine 'quietly' since they entered the shrine. Even when the three of them found him and didn't chase him away, after listening to the details of the incident and understanding the significance of the incident, they nodded to Qingdeng without hesitation, and agreed.