The honest person is you

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At the time of Edo, Tokugawa Tadacho, the third son of the second generation general of the Tokugawa shogunate, ordered the samurai to be summoned to Suruga Castle for an imperial trial.Tadaga Tokugawa, who is cruel by nature, abandoned the usual tradition and changed the contest to a real sword contest.

In order to admonish Tokugawa Tadaga, one of the ministers performed a caesarean section in front of the hall and took out the internal organs with his own hands, hoping to change Tadaga's order.However, Tokugawa Tadaga, who saw this situation, showed a frightening expression of obsession on his face.

This year was the sixth year of Kanyong (1629).

You haven't left the Kamo family's mansion for hundreds of years, and you who live in the mansion for alchemy seem to be indifferent to everything.

But Tian Yuan came to tell you that someone found a strange boat along the coast, and the boat was covered with corpses covered with plants.

You, who are too familiar with that scene, realized that it was Mrs. Bian or Tianxian.

What does this mean?Others don't know, but you do—this means that Mrs. Bian's "elixir" has not yet been successfully refined, so she needs more raw materials and needs to attract more people to the dry marsh.

Tian Yuan felt fear and reverence for Tianxian and Penglai, so he asked you what to do.

You already have an idea.

In the past few hundred years, your control over "Qi" has become more and more subtle, so you have also imitated your master and cultivated "Heavenly Immortals".However, you have no interest in raising and teaching celestial beings, so you only left the body of a celestial being.

Now is the time to use him.

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A few days later, another fisherman found a boat with strange corpses on the shore, but what was different from before was that there was an "immortal" on board.

Rishi has a flawless body and appearance.

Suruga Dainago Tokugawa Tadacho heard about this and hurriedly invited the Immortal to Suruga Castle.

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You, who used the body of a celestial being to appear in front of others, received special treatment from Suruga Daiinagon.

Ever since the discovery of strange flowers and plants growing on human flesh, there have been many speculations about the cause of this spectacle.When Tokugawa Tadaga insisted on holding a real sword contest, some people used it to persuade him.

People who came into contact with the corpse were assimilated to varying degrees. It was an infection that could not be cured by any medicinal stones. Therefore, some people said that this was a warning from the heavens to Suruga Dai Nagen.

Because you touched those "flowers" but nothing changed, so your origin has a better explanation, especially when you told Tokugawa Tadacho personally——

"I'm from Penglai."

In this way, you became the fairy from Penglai that everyone said.

Suruga Dainogen Tokugawa Tadacho even regarded you as a guest of honor, and he asked your name.

You tell them that your name is "羂索".

But in fact it's not your name, it's that person's name.The person you met after you escaped from Penglai, the person you fell in love with, the person you married...

He is the "Long Suo".

The magic weapon in the hands of the Bodhisattva represents the quest for mercy and redemption, but it fails to bring you redemption, but instead makes you sink deeper and deeper.

On the coming September 24th, there will be a test run at Suruga Castle, and there will be countless samurai coming from all over the place. Tadaga Tokugawa invites you to enjoy this must be very spectacular scenery. His expression is full of A passion for blood and killing.

Your face reveals the compassion of a god and Buddha, but your mouth reveals extremely happy words.

The Suruga Dainaga said: "You are indeed a real immortal."

In this era, the famous Onmyoji families in the past are declining day by day, even the He Mao family, which was favored in the past, is the same.

However, relying on the background accumulated in the past, after changing its name to the Kamo family, this family still occupies the status of one of the "three royal families" in the magic world.

However, in the eyes of Suruga Dai Nayan, these families are just insignificant.Suruga Dai Nayan is the younger brother of the current shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu and the lord of the Suruga Domain.

On the day of the Suruga Castle Imperial Trial, you sat next to Suruga Dainagon. The result of the real sword competition was that the casualties in the competition were heavy. These rare swordsmen in the world killed each other for the illusory victory.

Tadaga Tokugawa asked how you feel.

You think for a moment and ask him if he would like to see a more beautiful extreme scenery.

"What's that?" Tokugawa Tadacho asked you.

You tell him: "It is true that these swordsmen have profound attainments in swordsmanship, but that's all. Even if their martial arts are superb, it's just a contest between swordsmanship."

But the contest between magicians is a contest of "curse".

You think of Abe Seimei, and how he showed the power of the "curse" in front of the minister. Frogs and turtles can be crushed into meat by a leaf.

In front of Tadaga Tokugawa, you also showed such strength.

You just moved your fingers lightly, and the falling leaves were driven by you, but in an instant, the winner of the first competition was already bloody.

Tokugawa Tadacho opened his eyes wide, unable to speak.

"This is the curse," you said to him. "The competition between magicians lies in the comprehension of the curse."

You are an immortal from Penglai, so you are naturally different from conjurers in the mundane world.But you told Tadaga Tokugawa that there are also "three families" of conjurers in the world--the Gojo family, the Chanyuan family, and the Kamo family, and their power should not be underestimated.

Suruga Castle Master Nayan, who was deeply involved in this, was bewitched by you in this way, so he ordered to summon the heads of the conjurer Gosan family for an imperial contest.

The current head of the Kamo family has come to your courtyard, asking you to tell him what to do.

"The six eyes of the Wujo family, the ten shadow spells of the Zenyuan family..."

This is the basis for Wutiao and the Chanyuan family to reach the top of the "Three Imperial Schools".The special physique "six eyes" of the Wutiao family, which has been encountered once in hundreds of years, can thoroughly analyze the "no lower limit" of family art.And the incantation "Ten Kinds of Shadow Magic" of the Chanyuan family is not inferior to the six eyes who have mastered the "no lower limit magic formula" according to legend.

Compared with them, the Kamo family's red blood manipulation also seemed mediocre.

You who are using the body of the "celestial being" sit beside your real physical body.Even the members of the Kamo family failed to learn the truth from you, and they, like outsiders, thought that "Renso" was an "immortal" from Penglai.

Even if they also know the name "羂索", because there was a person with the same name in the family hundreds of years ago.

They only think that you are interested in this "immortal" on a whim.

"Don't worry."

You have no intention of letting the Kamo family participate in the martial arts competition. Naturally, there are ways to keep the Kamo family out of the matter. This family is the last link between you and that person, even for this reason, you will keep them.

The reason why you want to confuse Suruga Dainagon to order is entirely because you are also aware of the lack of raw materials needed for alchemy.

Just as you wanted to transform the two-faced Nuo into "flowers" back then, you now also want to transform Wutiao and the Patriarch of the Chanyuan into raw materials for refining elixir.

You caress the face of your own flesh. This body will not grow old even after another 1000 years.

When you tell others that you are "羂索", you seem to have gained the "love" with you at the same time.

"Lian Suo" will look at you with extremely gentle and focused eyes, as if no one else is there.

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The decree was passed on to the Wutiao family and the Chanyuan family, and you also went to these two conjurer families.

You tell them that you are a fairy from Horai, and that Suruga Dana has lost his way, and you are deeply saddened by this.

When you say such words, your "celestial" face, which is between male and female, reveals the compassion of an immortal.

The appearance of "Heavenly Immortal" makes people feel unattainable, coupled with your extremely sincere tone, and the profound and wonderful "Tao" in you, they soon believed what you said.

They ask what you should do.

"Those who attain the Dao will be helped a lot, but those who have lost the Dao will be given little help..."*

You tell them that Tadaga Tokugawa will also let you accompany him during the test match in front of the hall.

In the face of cruelty and inhumanity, Suruga Dainagon, who would not be moved even if his retainers died, the usual methods were naturally powerless.

But you can create illusions.

You tell them that you came to this world from Horai Wonderland just to punish Suruga Dai Nayan who lost his way.

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Because of your special status, coupled with some speaking skills, gradually, Suruga Dainagon almost obeyed what he said to you.

So when you said that you mastered the refining method of the elixir of immortality, Tokugawa Tadacho believed it.

Although the words are true, you do not intend to refine the elixir for Tokugawa Tadacho, you are just using his identity and influence to grow flowers on a large scale.

At first, the object of planting flowers was robbers and condemned prisoners, later it was errant warriors and policemen, and later, there was no need for any reason at all.

Because you have Suruga Dai Nayan as a cover for the public, you are more and more arrogant, and it is like this until the day when the Gojo Patriarch and the Zen Monastery Patriarch are fighting in front of the temple.

You sat beside Tadaga Tokugawa, lowering your eyebrows and eyes in compassion.

The brilliance of the "unlimited spells" of the "six eyes" and the "ten shadow spells" of the Chanyuan family reminds you of the heyday of spells hundreds of years ago.

But that brilliance has long been covered up, and the magician and the curse are getting weaker and weaker.

Only you are constantly getting stronger.

You have clearly lost your way, but you have not received any punishment. Perhaps it is because you are deeply favored by the immortals even so, or... there are no gods and Buddhas at all.

You don't think about it anymore, but stare at the conjurers in the temple.

The air is filled with the fragrance of flowers, pollen and seeds have been sprinkled all over the hall by you.

The green shoots began to grow, and the people in the temple fell one after another, but Tokugawa Tadaga watched this strange and rare scene with incomparable fanaticism, telling you that this is indeed far better than letting the samurai fight with swords.

You return a soft smile.

You just watched the whole hall full of exotic flowers and plants.

"These sinful people have all been reincarnated as beautiful flowers." You said to Suruga Dainogen, "Your deeds will definitely be praised by the world."

Wujo and Zenyuan look at you in disbelief.