Onmyoji Love Curse Volume

Qingming stepped into his very familiar house, and saw honey bugs waiting there.

"Seimei-sama..."

Honey Bug looked at Qingming, with a hint of crying in her voice.

"Honey bug, are the other shikigami settled down?"

"Yes, according to your instructions, they have been placed under a bridge."

"That's good." Qingming nodded, "If you stay here again, even you will be affected, and you should leave as soon as possible."

"Master Qingming, I don't want to leave you!"

Honey Bug cried and said, this is the first time that she, who has always been well-behaved and docile, disobeyed Seimei's order.

Qingming shook his head and said, "After you leave here, you can go to Boya or Lord Baoxian, they will definitely take you in, don't worry about having nowhere to go."

"Please let me stay with you!"

Seimei didn't respond to Honey Bug's entreaties, but just looked at her with a smile.

"...Thank you so much for all these years, honey bug."

"Master Seimei...!"

Qingming stopped talking to her, and cast a spell to turn her back into a butterfly.

However, the honey bug that turned into a butterfly still refused to leave, and kept flying and hovering around Qingming.

Qingming sighed softly, had no choice but to cast the spell again and forcefully send the honey worms out of the mansion.

Seeing the door slowly closing, Seimei's eyes showed a trace of sentimentality.It wasn't until the door was completely closed that he turned and walked towards the back porch.

The shikigami of the past are no longer there at this moment, and the whole room is empty.

Although there are still paper shikigami to drive, Seimei doesn't want to do that.He just took a wine bottle, sat down leaning against the porch pillar as usual, and poured himself a drink.

"At a time like this, I really want to have another drink with Boya..."

He spoke softly to the empty seat in front of him.

There was no wind around.Heianjing, which is nearing the depths of winter, is as depressing as the summer rain is approaching.

When Qingming drank the third glass of wine, the surrounding air suddenly began to flow rapidly.

Although it was late at night, with the help of the lights, one could still clearly see strands of black air concentrating from all directions in the capital to Qingming's courtyard.

The black air condensed together, and a figure gradually emerged from it.

The man was dressed in a shabby robe, with disheveled hair, and his eyes without pupils were completely gray.

Seimei didn't seem surprised by his appearance, drank the last glass of wine calmly, and then put the glass aside.

"Master Qingming, we meet again. I said last time that we will meet again soon." The gray-eyed man said, "However, as expected of Abe Seimei, I did not expect to face the power of Shura Orb , your spell can suppress it for three days."

"It's a pity that you still couldn't suppress your ambition after all." Qingming said the name coldly, "Gu Zang."

"Heh...hahahahaha!" Gu Zang suddenly laughed wildly, "More than 150 years! I have waited for more than 150 years, and finally waited until today!"

"I didn't know one thing before. If you are a descendant of the Baishi sect, why did it take so many years to appear in the world, and there is no record about you in the materials related to the 'Baishi Shinto'." Qingming stared at him , "But when I heard that Boya was attacked by resentment in the cave on Mount Inari, I suddenly realized that for the past 150 years, it's not that you don't want to show up, but you can't show up, because you have been secretly imprisoned, even It was sealed."

"You guessed right, but do you know who locked me in that dark place for so many years?"

Seimei didn't answer.

"It's Shiraishi Zongbu, the man I have to call 'father'!" Gu Zang's expression was a little excited, "And, he also killed my mother."

More than 150 years ago, Gu Zang was a naive boy.

He grew up with his mother in the mountains and forests since he was a child, and rarely saw strangers outside.

Gu Zang once asked his mother about the whereabouts of his biological father, but his mother was always silent.As time passed, he stopped asking.

The daily life of the mother and son is very simple. When they are hungry, they go to the forest to buy some game to eat, and when they are thirsty, they go to fetch some mountain springs to drink.

Just when they thought life would go on peacefully like this forever, a fire destroyed the forest they depended on for survival.

A large number of wild animals were burned to death, and mountain springs were also polluted.

As a last resort, Gu Zang's mother had to take him to move to Heianjing.

However, Gu Zang soon discovered that the people here did not seem to welcome their arrival.

The people of Heianjing neither have gray eyes nor the ability to control the black snake, so their eyes are always full of fear, suspicion and resentment when they look at the mother and child.

"The pair of mother and son look really scary, can't they be ghosts?"

"Yeah, I also heard that there are always black snakes around their residences."

"It's an ominous sign, what a bad luck!"

Whenever Kozo and his mother were out, someone would throw stones at them, shouting "Get out! Terrible monster! Get out of this Heian-kyo!".

If it weren't for the black snakes guarding their residence, no one would dare to approach them, and they might not even be able to keep their residence.

"I hate this Heianjing, and I hate the people in Heianjing!"

At that time, Gu Zang gradually had such an idea in his mind.

One day, a man suddenly appeared in front of the mother and son.

To Gu Zang's surprise, this man was his father - a mage named "Baishi Zongbu".

"Leave here with me, and I will arrange a better place for you."

The man said so, but he couldn't see any warmth in his eyes, only the eyes as if looking at prey.

He took the two of them to Mount Inari and lived in the "Shiraishi Shrine".

Unexpectedly, this is not the end of their miserable life, but just the beginning of another nightmare.

There are many believers of the Shiraishi sect in the Shiraishi Shrine.They are always performing some mystical rituals.

Some basic food was delivered to the mother and son every day, but they were forbidden to talk to anyone, and the man never came to ask how they were doing.

Even so, Gu Zang found that some of his familiar faces were gradually disappearing.

"Your father must be doing something bad." My mother once said so sadly.

Until one day, Gu Zang's mother was forcibly taken away and never came back.

He tried all means to know where his mother was going, but all he got was punching and kicking, until a disciple of the Baishi sect said: "Let him go, anyway, he will go sooner or later."

Then, he was taken to a secret room and saw his mother's body.

Gu Zang knelt down on the ground, looking at his mother's gray eyes that were already lifeless and could not be closed.

The man was standing next to his mother's body, and said expressionlessly: "Ah, is it true that even the Black Snake Girl in Jiuzhi Forest can't bear the curse of mermaid flesh? It's really useless."

Then, he saw Guzo by the door.

"Oh, I almost forgot, isn't there still you?" The man smiled.

Gu Zang was quickly pushed down by several people, and he was forcibly fed a piece of fish-like thing, and then passed out.

When he woke up, he saw the man's eager eyes that had never been shown before.

"Great! It's really a success! Unexpectedly, my son is the one who can help me achieve great success!"

He took Gu Zang to the secret cave of the shrine and imprisoned him, and no one was allowed to enter except him.Then go to the secret cave every day to teach Gu Zang his various secret arts.

Whenever Gu Zang wanted to resist, he would feel powerless.

"It's useless, I've cast a spell in your body, you can't disobey my orders," said the man.

He also placed a stone tablet engraved with a spell on the hole where Guzo was imprisoned, so that Guzo could not escape.

In this way, Gu Zang was forced to learn all the spells of the Shiraishi clan, and at the same time learned his purpose.

He wants to replace the emperor and become the new emperor with the help of Gu Zang's immortal power after eating piranha meat.

For this reason, he also gave Gu Zang a night pearl, allowing him to enter a place called "Sky Ghost City" and fetch four Shura orbs to change the energy of this Ping'an capital to consolidate his rule.

However, starting from a certain day, the Baishi sect suddenly never appeared again.Not only that, but even the breath of other people in the shrine disappeared.

Gu Zang seems to have been forgotten by this world.He couldn't escape, and he couldn't die. He could only count the time he was trapped by relying on the shimmering light revealed in the cracks of the stone slabs.

Every day, he carved a mark on the stone wall, and he didn't even care if his hand was bleeding.

His resentment towards the Baishi clan and Heianjing gradually turned into resentment towards the entire world.

And every engraving on the stone wall bears his infinite hatred.

"If I can get out from here, I will take revenge on Heian-kyo—no, this whole world!"

In this way, tens of thousands of days and nights passed, until one day eight months ago, the cave suddenly shook, and the sky outside seemed to be struck by thunder.

Then, Gu Zang suddenly realized that he was able to get out of the cave.

He was ecstatic to be free.He soon began working on his own plan, the one that had been in his mind for 150 years.

As the Baishi sect expected, Gu Zang entered the "Tiangui City", got the Shura Orb, and looked around for someone who could unseal its power.

The thief who was bitten to death by insects, Mrs. Kiko who was jealous because of love, the changer who fell out of favor, and finally himself.

"However, you changed the position of the acupoints, and also changed the original intention of the Baishi sect." Qingming said, "You who are determined to take revenge on this world, your real purpose is to use the resentment condensed by the Shura orb to break through the gate of hell. Seal it, then devour the resentful spirits in it, and become the Ghost Emperor!"

"Haha, as expected of Abe Seimei, yes! People in this world are far worse than ghosts! It's better to let real ghosts rule." Gu Zang laughed, "You must understand me, Seimei, who has always been called You, the 'son of the white fox', must have been stared at and bullied by these people! If so, why don't you watch them perish with your own eyes?"

"Even so, there are people in this world who are willing to treat me sincerely. As long as he is there, I will protect this Heian capital."

As Seimei spoke, the shadow of that person appeared in front of his eyes again.

"You know, Seimei. Even if you are a monster, I, Boya, will stand by your side."

That's what he had said.

"Hmph! What a stubborn obsession! Abe Seimei, at this point, do you think you can stop me by yourself?!"

"Then you should give it a try." Seimei replied in a calm tone.

Gu hid his anger, the flow of resentment around him became faster and faster, and the air became turbid.

The peach tree in the northeast corner of Qingming's courtyard suddenly split open from the trunk, and a large amount of black air gushed out from it.

The seal of the ghost gate was broken.

(To be continued)