Onmyoji Love Curse Volume

"Lord Boya, the bullock cart can no longer move forward."

Hearing Junhong's words, Boya got off the bullock cart, only to realize that he had arrived at Mount Inari.

There are stone steps going up step by step in front of you, with mountain walls and woods on both sides, which is really not suitable for bullock carts to move on.

Boya asked Junhong to stay where he was and wait for him, and then stepped up the stone steps alone.

It has been a whole day since the Emperor fell into a coma.

The setting sun has gradually set in the west, and it is not a very suitable time for what Boya is about to do.But he knew very well that he had no time to rest.

According to Seimei, Heian capital is already in danger, and His Majesty's life is hanging by a thread. We must seize the time as much as possible to stop Gu Zang's ambition and save His Majesty and the people in the capital.

Thinking of this, Boya has unknowingly reached a fork in the road.

And he suddenly realized a problem - he didn't know the exact location of the Baishi Shrine back then.

Speaking of Inari Mountain on weekdays, people's first reaction must be the Fushimi Inari Shrine on the mountain, where the gods who can bless crops and good weather are enshrined.

However, the old sites of evil and heretics like Shiraishi Shrine are presumably not together with Inari Shrine.He didn't even know if it still existed there.

As a result, Boya couldn't help but worry, how should he find the way to the ruins of the Shiraishi Shrine?

At that time, I was in a hurry to come out, and I was only thinking about solving Qingming's problems, but I forgot to confirm the exact location of Shiraishi Shrine with him. It was really careless.

"Hey, are you here to worship Inari God? It's getting dark."

Boya was still thinking, when a childish voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

He looked around, and sure enough, behind a tree not far away, a little boy about eight or nine years old was looking at him with a pair of big black and white eyes.

The clothes on the boy's body were very shabby, even a little ragged, and it seemed that he was probably a child from a nearby farmer's family.

"I'm not here to worship Inari God." Boya said to the child.

"Then what are you here for?"

"I'm here to find the ruins of the 'Shiraishi Shrine', do you know where it is?"

"Bai...Bai...Shi...shrine?" The boy tilted his head in confusion, "I haven't heard of it."

Boya sighed inwardly.

Also, how could an eight or nine-year-old child who may not even know a word have heard of a place that was annihilated 150 years ago?

"There... there are probably some broken bricks and rotten wood..."

Boya said in a low voice, originally to laugh at himself, but he didn't expect the child to give him an unexpected response.

"If it's a place with a lot of rotten wood and broken houses, I know it."

"is this real?!"

"Yes, I've been there."

"Can you take me there?"

The boy tilted his head and looked at Boya again: "What are you doing there? It's an unlucky place."

"I...cough, anyway, there are some things that must pass, can you help me?"

Boya didn't intend to explain to this child the principles of saving Heianjing.

"But I'm hungry, and I want to go home and eat."

Boya gave a wry smile, and touched the bag beside him, but luckily there were still some Chunbing in it.

He handed the snack to the boy: "This is for you to eat."

The boy took a bite of the pastry, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "It's delicious! I've never eaten such a delicious thing!"

Boya felt pity for the boy and asked, "What's your name?"

"My name is Aji." The boy replied with his cheeks puffed up while chewing on the Chunbing.

"Do you live near here?"

The boy nodded: "Well, I live in the village east of the foot of the mountain."

"What about your parents?"

"My mother usually works in the village, and my father died long ago!"

Boya couldn't help but sympathize with Aji again.

"Aggie, do you come here often?"

"Well, I often come here to catch wild rabbits."

"Then how do you know that the place I'm going to is unlucky?"

"The old people in the village say that. It used to be a place where many bad people stayed, so it was unlucky. And..." Aji swallowed the last bite of Chunbing, and his voice suddenly dropped, "I saw..."

"What did you see?"

"A freak."

"wack?"

"Well, it's in the place you mentioned."

Boya had some guesses in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Aji, can you tell me in detail what happened to that strange man?"

"It was about seven or eight months ago. That day I was also chasing a wild rabbit, and I accidentally ran to the place you mentioned. There are many old and dilapidated houses, either collapsed or burned down. Anyway, it’s uninhabitable. I remembered that the old people in the village said that this place was unlucky, so they wanted to go home after catching rabbits.”

"Then you saw that weirdo?"

Aji shook his head: "I didn't see it at first. When I was about to go back, suddenly there was thunder and lightning, and then there was an earthquake, shaking very hard."

"Thunder? Earthquake...?"

A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Boya's mind.

On the day of thunder and earthquake eight months ago, wasn't that...? !

"Aji, what then?!"

"Well, I couldn't stand, hit a tree, fainted, I don't know how long I was fainted, when I woke up, the rabbit had already run away, fortunately, it was not dark, and then I saw him .”

"The weirdo?"

Aji nodded: "I saw him running out of a broken house, and I was shocked. The weird man had long, long hair, clothes that were more torn than mine, and his body was dirty, and his eyes... ..."

"What happened to the eyes?"

"I... I can't tell. Anyway, it's different from ours. It's all gray and has no eyeballs. It's like he's blind, but he can recognize the way."

"What happened after that? What did that weirdo do?"

"After he ran out, he laughed towards the sky for a long time, saying, 'I'm finally out'. But the house he ran out of was obviously uninhabitable. It's really strange."

Boya thought for a moment, and then asked, "Aji, can you take me to the place where the weirdo appeared."

"Okay, for the sake of treating me to delicious food, I'll take you there."

"Thank you, Aggie!"

The place Aji mentioned is on the other side of the mountain.

Boya followed him for a long time, and the scenery on both sides gradually became dilapidated and overgrown with weeds.

It was completely dark, and the moonlight was extremely dim tonight.Fortunately, Boya brought fire tools and made a torch to continue on.

"It's here, it's here." Aji finally stopped.

Boya held up a torch to shine a light, and in front of him was a dilapidated house—not even a house, half of which had collapsed.As Aggie said, it can't live with people at all.

But judging from the time, it is very likely that the weird person Aji mentioned is Gu Zang.And if his guess just now is correct, there must be some mystery in this house.

Boya entered the house holding a torch, and Aji entered with him.

There were only some rotten wood, gravel and weeds left in the front hall, and Boya continued to walk towards the backyard.

"Huh? Is there a hole there?" Aji suddenly asked.

Boya looked towards the place he pointed, and there was a dark place that looked like a hole near the mountain wall.With the light of the fire, there is actually a stone step going down inside, which is bottomless.

There is a large stone slab next to the entrance of the cave. It seems that it was originally used to block the entrance of the cave. Some characters that Boya can't understand are engraved on it, but it is already full of cracks.

"What's this?" Aggie asked.

"I don't know either, but I think it has something to do with that weirdo."

"Did that strange man live in this cave?"

"Go down and have a look, maybe you will know."

Boya originally wanted Aji to wait outside, but Aji became curious, and there was no lighting tool. It would be more disturbing to be alone, so Boya had no choice but to let him continue to follow him.

They descended fifty or sixty steps and finally touched the ground.

Boya found that there were still some leftover lamp sockets on the stone walls on both sides, and quickly lit them up with a torch, but the scene in front of him shocked him quite a bit.

This is a rather large space. There are iron chains, wooden stakes and some sundries on the ground. It seems that someone has lived here.

But what shocked Boya was the stone walls on both sides.It is engraved with dense vertical lines, about tens of thousands of them.Moreover, each line seems to be artificially ground, and there are many notches with dried blood on them, as if the person who carried the engraved lines is full of resentment.

"What... what are these?" Aji seemed a little frightened, and shrank behind Boya.

Boya patted him reassuringly, but did not answer.

It seems that his speculation is correct.

Gu Zang was imprisoned here for 150 years.

The stone slab at the entrance of the cave and the runes on it were probably used to seal him.

During these 150 years, he has to draw lines on the rock wall every day, counting the days of his imprisonment.

Until that day eight months ago, under the planning of the phantom horn, his son Xu Zuo turned into the God of Desolation, unleashing the power of the Amazono Cloud Sword, causing the entire Heian capital to shake with lightning and thunder.

And those runes were probably destroyed at that time.

Gu Zang, who was lifted from the restriction, finally came to the world through this.

And the resentment that had been sealed for 150 years was also liberated at the same time.

"The one who really activated the Shura Orb is probably Gu Zang himself." Boya murmured.

Thinking of this, according to Qingming's instructions, he took out a white talisman with the sign of Kikyo from his pocket, and placed it on the rock wall.

The white talisman emits a faint light.

"What is this? It's so beautiful!"

Aji was full of childlike innocence, and was about to step forward to observe carefully, when he accidentally kicked over a jar by his feet.

A puff of black mist suddenly rose from the jar, attacking the two of them.

"not good!"

Boya hurriedly pushed Aji away, and the black mist narrowly passed between the two of them. After hitting the stone wall, it bounced back immediately.Not only that, but it turned into two branches and attacked them respectively.

"Aggie, run!"

Boya yelled anxiously, but Aji was a child after all, and at this moment he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground, unable to move at all.

Seeing that the black air was so close to Aji, Boya took out the only golden charm that Qingming gave him from his bosom without thinking, and threw it in Aji's direction.

A golden light dispersed the black energy rushing towards Aji, but it was too late to resolve the crisis on Boya's side.

Boya was hit by the black air, hit the rock wall, and then fell heavily back to the ground.

His vision went dark and he lost consciousness.

(To be continued)