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Fenggu Yumen was talking, while getting familiar with this world.

The Taisho era was the most romantic era for Sakurajima.This era is moving from tradition to modernity. Various cultures are blooming. The wind of freedom blows all over the wilderness, blooming all kinds of flowers.The prosperity of this era is unprecedented, and the creativity and enthusiasm of human beings are unleashed, which makes the gods look sideways.

But such prosperity must first belong to the city.In a place like Xiaojiao Village, it is still difficult to break away from tradition.

The village head asked: "How did the priest come here?"

Fenggu Yumen said: "I am looking for a miracle under the order of the gods. With the help of the gods, I can walk through the well."

The village chief exclaimed: "The gods are really great."

Judging by his expression, it seems that there is no doubt at all.

"People in this era are still so simple," Feng Gu Yumen seemed to feel a little guilty about cheating.

"Master Village Chief, is there a shrine in Xiaojiao Village?" Fenggu Yumen asked.

The face of the village head changed slightly when he heard the words, and it seemed that there was something unspeakable.

"Eh? Did I ask a question that shouldn't be asked?" Fenggu Yumen wondered.

The village chief hesitated for a moment, then said, "That's not true."

"Xiaojiao Village has a shrine. We grow a lot of plantains in our village and enshrine the Basho God. The shrine is at the end of the village."

The village head looked embarrassed, and said, "But the old priest of the Basho Shrine is very difficult to get along with, so unless it's a big celebration, we don't want to get close to the shrine."

"Ah,? That's it." Fenggu Yumen showed a regretful expression, and said: "I still want to visit."

The village elder said: "But you are also a priest,? Maybe you go to visit? He won't be so difficult."

Fenggu Yumen said: "Let me try it,? After all, there are gods enshrined. Even if the old priest is not easy to get along with, he probably won't refuse to visit."

The village head took Fenggu Yumen to the end of the village.

Xiaojiao Village is indeed full of plantain trees. Even the roadsides have deep and shallow plantains, and the plantain garden in the distance is a deep green. It looks too dense at night, but it makes people feel fearful. .

Basho Shrine is at the end of the village, relying on a huge banana garden.

The shrine is like embedded in the banana garden, the dim lights are lit in the gloom, and there is a feeling of a soul-inducing lamp leading to the underworld.

The village chief asked again: "My lord priest, are you really going? In fact, it is also possible to use it at my house at night."

Feng Gu Yumen said: "I'll try it, if it doesn't work, I'm afraid I have to trouble you."

Fenggu Yumen knocked on the gate of the shrine. After knocking for a while, I heard a hoarse inquiry from inside, "Who is it?"

The voice was full of impatience for being interrupted, and it sounded like he was angry.

The wooden door of the shrine was opened, and an old man with gorgeous hair and a gloomy expression poked his head out. He was wearing a priest's costume, with deep wrinkles on his face, and an ugly scar that almost covered his left eye.

He squinted his eyes, looked at the young man who knocked on the door and the village head beside him, and asked with an unkind face, "Is there anything going on so late?"

Fenggu Yumen's youth and vigor are in stark contrast to him. They are both priests, but they don't look alike at all.

Fenggu Yumen said: "I am the priest of Sakurai Shrine. I came to Basho Village after I went down the mountain to find miracles according to the god's will. I wonder if I can borrow a night at Basho Shrine?"

"Miracle?" The old priest sneered and said, "Then you came to the wrong place. There are no miracles here."

Fenggu Yumen smiled and said: "Why do you say that, aren't you a miracle?"

Sensing that Fenggu Yumen's gaze fell on the scar on his left eye, the old priest was a little angry, but Fenggu Yumen looked too calm, not only not afraid of him, but also not afraid of the scar on his face, which made him feel a little bit nervous for a while. Difficult to start with.

The old priest looked at this junior carefully. He was wearing a cotton and linen short-sleeved top and shorts of the same color, baggy and handsome. He looked like the young master of a rich family, not a priest in a shrine.

After a while, the old priest said: "Come in, but I only have one side room here, you can leave after staying for one night."

really went in!

The village chief showed a surprised expression, and was immediately caught by the old priest who was in a bad mood, and said in a bad tone: "Go away first."

With a bang, the gate of the shrine closed.The village chief was scolded by the old priest, his lips twitched, comforting himself not to argue with him, then he snorted coldly and went back to the village.

Fenggu Yumen entered the shrine, and the old priest walked in front of it, asking: "Remember from now on, don't go out at night, no matter where you go, you must find a shelter before sunset."

Fenggu Yumen responded, but still asked: "Why?"

The old priest turned his head, the scar on his face twitched, and said, "There are ghosts at night."

"Ghost?" Fenggu Yumen showed a puzzled look.

The old priest didn't know what bad things he thought of, the wrinkles on his face trembled, and he said: "The man-eating ghost is not a monster in the legend, it is a real, man-eating ghost."

Fresh Basho leaves are enshrined in the main shrine of Basho Shrine.

A half-human-tall girl sat on a banana leaf, watching Fenggu Yumen and the old priest walk in.

The old priest prayed silently, "My lord, this is a priest from another shrine, come here for a night."

The old priest obviously couldn't see the gods on the banana leaves, but Fenggu Yumen could.

Fenggu Yumen clasped his hands together to show respect.

The girl god looked at Fenggu Yumen with interest until Fenggu Yumen smiled at her, which surprised her instead.

"Human, can you see me?"

Fenggu Yumen nodded, and the girl god's eyes lit up immediately, and she floated in front of Fenggu Yumen like a feather, saying: "Great, finally someone can see me."

The old priest turned his head and led Fenggu Yumen towards the residence, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Have you had dinner yet?"

Fenggu Yumen came here from the future, and he was not hungry, so he replied: "I have eaten."

The girl god followed him and said, "Are you really a priest? Why did you come here?"

Fenggu Yumen had no way to answer her, after all the old priest could not see, but could hear.I had no choice but to ignore the girl god for the first time, then turned around and continued to ask about the somewhat familiar "man-eating ghost".

"What's the matter with the man-eating ghost?" Fenggu Yumen asked.

The old priest said: "It is an extremely vicious ghost, with infinite power, insidious and cunning, it can recover immediately no matter how much damage it receives, it feeds on human beings, it is extremely active at night, and only sunlight can kill them."

Only then did Fenggu Yumen confirm, and said: "I seem to have seen this kind of ogre, it is indeed a monster that is difficult to deal with."

The old priest looked at him, "Ha, have you seen an ogre? If you have seen an ogre, you will not be alive."

Fenggu Yumen shook his head and said: "No, I have seen it, and I even killed one."

His tone was too serious and calm, it didn't seem like he was bragging at all.

The old priest suddenly made a move and punched Fenggu Yumen on the forehead, but Fenggu Yumen avoided it lightly.

The old priest immediately slashed at Fenggu Yumen's neck with his back, but was blocked by Fenggu Yumen's hand, and he couldn't get an inch in.

"How is it possible!" The old priest was extremely surprised. He had practiced hard for many years, and his strength was no longer comprehensible to mortals, but was blocked by Fenggu Yumen's casual hand.

Fenggu Yumen grabbed his hand and explained: "I am a priest, it is normal to be able to eliminate demons, don't be so surprised."

The strength of Fenggu Yumen overturned the cognition of the old priest, and he asked: "How can ordinary humans compete with ogres?"

Fenggu Yumen laughed, pointing to the scar on his face and asked: "Then how did you survive from the hands of the ogre, even keeping your eyes?"

The old priest laughed at himself: "I'm just lucky."

Fenggu Yumen shook his head and retorted: "That's not the case, the gods saved you."

The old priest was stunned for a moment, Fenggu Yumen's words brought back his very long memories.

At that time, the old priest was still young, and was attacked by ogres on the way back from the city.The old priest is not an ordinary person, but a strong man with warrior training, but he was quickly defeated by the ogre's terrible magic and physique.

The ogre's claws almost broke his head, and he was severely injured and passed out.When he woke up, he was already in the shrine.His father told him that he was covered in blood and almost crawled back, but fortunately, he only had a scar on his face, and he did not lose his life, and his eyes were fine.

This is an incomprehensible thing. In the later narration of the old priest, everyone who heard it felt that it was a miracle. No one could escape from the hands of the ghost alive like this.

Apart from the blessing of the gods, there is no other reason.

"God..." the old priest said, "It is indeed God's blessing."

The girl god got annoyed and said, "I really can't stand this idiot anymore, can you lend me your body for a while?"

"No." Fenggu Yumen refused without hesitation, jokingly, he is the priest of Sakurai God, how can he let other gods descend?

The old priest didn't know what Fenggu Yumen was talking about.

"Wait a moment." Fenggu Yumen didn't want to be a translator, picked up the teapot on the table, chanted a mantra, and said: "The holy thing, show yourself."

Fenggu Yumen poured a little water onto his hand, and then flicked it on the eyes of the old priest.

The old priest suddenly felt that his eyes seemed to have double images, and said, "What did you do?"

He rubbed his eyes, and the double image in front of him disappeared again, but in front of him, there was an angry girl who was only half the height of a person.

The girl is wearing a green kimono, with a bun on her head and a banana flower on her hair. She is beautiful, youthful and holy.

The girl god stepped on a banana leaf and flew in front of the old priest, almost level with the old priest.

The old priest had already realized what had happened. He was so shocked that his pupils shrank, and he didn't know how to react.

The girl god stretched out her hand to caress the scars on his forehead and eyes, and said displeasedly: "After all these years, there is still no progress."

Snapped.

The girl god knocked on the head of the old priest, "Stupid."

The old priest finally came back to his senses, his hands were stiff, as if he was being punished, and he muttered: "God... Lord God."

Fenggu Yumen put the teapot on the table and said: "That's it. In fact, you were almost dead back then. It was the gods who saved you and controlled your body to escape."

"Thank you, Lord God." The old priest thanked him sincerely.

Looking at the eyes of Fenggu Yumen, it is completely different.In the past, although the gods were enshrined and believed in, the gods were still floating in the clouds, illusory. Now when I see the gods, I know that the gods really exist.

How can such a person be an ordinary person who can see the gods, and even cast spells to make him see the gods.Then killing the ogre should be a matter of course, not surprising.

The old priest's words and tone changed: "It seems that you have indeed killed ogres."

Fenggu Yumen said: "Well...Although you like to call them ogres, I still think they are monsters, monsters infected by monster aura and evil thoughts, almost like monsters."

The girl god said: "When I rescued this idiot, I had a face-to-face encounter with an ogre. It was really terrifying."

Fenggu Yumen thought of the information about ogres that he had borrowed from the Yahara Shinto Hall. It seemed that during the Taisho period, the activity of ogres continued to rise. Finally, because someone eliminated the leader of the ogres, the ogres Falling into a weak position, he will soon have to stick to the Infinite City.

A few months ago, I heard that Director Ishikawa said that the Shinto Office’s anti-ghost special operations team would attack Infinity City and completely wipe out the ghosts. Later, Fenggu Yumen didn’t pay attention to this matter again, but with the style of the Shinto Office, it should have already killed the ghosts. are all wiped out.

Fenggu Yumen said in relief: "Don't worry, they won't be able to play for a long time."

Fenggu Yumen recalled what the village chief said, and asked: "So the bandits attacking the village are just empty words, and the real reason is that ogres are attacking humans, killing people to feed themselves?"

The old priest said: "That's exactly the case, that's why I advised you not to walk in the dark."

Fenggu Yumen frowned deeply, "Man-eating ghosts are unforgivable."

The old priest deeply agreed, and said: "These beasts should go to hell! To deal with the ogre, you should nail his head with a sun wheel knife and let him die wailing under the scorching sun."

He speaks too well and has obviously done this more than once.

Fenggu Yumen gave him a high look and asked, "Did you kill ogres later?"

The old priest said: "After I almost died at the hands of ghosts, I learned about ogre creatures, so I went around to find a way to deal with ghosts. Later, I met the ghost killing team - this is an organization that specializes in fighting ghosts." .I trained in the Ghost Slayer Squad, and was once a member of the Ghost Slayer Squad.”

"Later, my father passed away, and I had to come back to inherit the shrine, so I no longer accepted the task of the ghost killing team."

"But you miss that time all the time, and you want to rejoin the battle, and you are miserable." The girl god revealed his true face.

The old priest became embarrassed.

For so many years, my performance has been watched by Lord Shenming. I don't want to be a priest and want to return to the ghost killing team. This is almost a betrayal to Lord Shenming.

The girl god continued her efforts, and said, "You still have the team uniform and the sun wheel knife, and you have to miss it every day."

Fenggu Yumen couldn't bear to listen any more, and naturally ended the topic, saying: "Sunlun Saber? A knife that can kill ghosts?"

The old priest quickly took up the conversation and said, "Yes, it is a knife forged from a special ore that can absorb sunlight, so it can kill ogres."

The old priest went to his room, took back the team uniform and the Sun Wheel Knife, and said, "This is the Sun Wheel Knife."

Fenggu Yumen took a look at the sun wheel saber, and said: "It is indeed the spiritual power of the sun, no wonder."

But Fenggu Yumen saw other things besides the spiritual power of the sun, and asked: "This sun wheel knife still leaves your unique aura, is it the secret technique you practiced?"

"It's the breathing method." The old priest said.

"Although my family is also handed down from a samurai family, the samurai have declined since the Meiji era. My practice can't compete with ghosts. I learned the secret technique from the ghost killing team, breathing method, using breathing method to drive qi, strengthen own power."

Fenggu Yumen was a little curious about the breathing method, but the old priest was a little embarrassed.

"The breathing method is the inheritance of the Ghost Killing Team. Without permission, I cannot teach it to others. If you want to obtain the breathing method, you may have to contact the trainer of the Ghost Killing Team."

Fenggu Yumen expressed his understanding, and said, "Then can you help me contact the trainer of the ghost killing team?"

The old priest said: "Yes, the breathing method I learned is the breath of water. Now the trainer of the breath of water, Zuo Jinci, is my senior brother. I can write to him to contact him."

"Then I'll have to work." Fenggu Yumen thanked.

The old priest said: "No, I should be the one thanking you. You are willing to participate in the ghost hunting, and you have helped the ghost killing team a lot."

"Hunting ghosts?"

Fenggu Yumen exhaled, and said: "There is a boundary between human beings and monsters. Such unscrupulous accumulation of fear is really unforgivable."

Humans and monsters are supposed to coexist, but one side is stronger than the other, and the balance is overwhelmed, which is not a good thing.

Going to the Taisho era, if there is something that can be done but not done, then Fenggu Yumen will definitely feel sorry.

It was late at night, and the old priest was about to leave, asking Fenggu Yumen to rest.

Fenggu Yumen knew that he would not be able to sleep tonight, and when he saw the gods, he would definitely have a lot to say.

The old priest met the girl god, but he was separated from his own god.

"My lord, what are you doing now?"

"And grandpa, I haven't found a way to go back yet, will he be worried?"

Thinking that several ages have passed between her and the one she loves, Fenggu Yumen is also tormented by longing, and it is difficult to sleep.

The author has something to say: the yearning that travels through the times has the flavor of Kagome.