[Onmyoji] Set a small goal first

The body seems to be floating in the void, there is only a muffled muffled sound in the ear, the consciousness is chaotic and peaceful, and I just want to sleep here deeply.

Until, the earlobe of the left ear became extremely hot, and the pair of flaming eyes in the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness suddenly tore through all the fog——

"Well……"

Gui Xuliu suddenly opened her eyes, a series of bubbles came out of her opened mouth, and she found herself sinking in the water and going downstream.At the same time she regained consciousness, she began to swim upstream, and the moment she finally surfaced, she was shocked to find that this place seemed familiar.

The long river is full of cosmic starlight, and the colorful and bright summer festival night is unforgettable forever.

Even though it is not a moonlit night here at the moment, she can still recognize this ancient long river full of life and the breath of time. Mr. Qingming said that it is called the Styx River, also called Huangquan.

But the Styx River is very long, and the location where she is now should not be the section of the river that she saw before.

Because the riverside here is full of fire-like sea of ​​flowers from the other side, and the river is also dyed red with the blood-like color.

"Huh? Miss, do you need help?"

Gui Xuliu stared blankly at this magnificent scenery, unable to recover for a while, when suddenly an old man's voice interrupted her thoughts.

She turned her head and saw an old boatman wearing a big bamboo hat who was paddling a small boat, stopping not far from her.Gui Xuliu was rescued by him onto the boat without knowing why, she didn't realize why she fell into the underworld as soon as she woke up, what about Ibaraki?She only remembered that they purified the water unicorn together, and then Madam Li appeared...

The memory is fragmented only here.

"...It seems that you entered the underworld by mistake, but don't worry, you have the mark of the Lord of the underworld on your body, even if you fall into the underworld, you will not be swallowed."

The old man said to her while rowing gracefully.

Gui Xuliu was stunned, the mark of the Lord of the Underworld?

She raised her hand and touched her left ear, which had been hot since she woke up. There was a small earring there, which was given to her by the woman who called herself Yan Mo.

There seems to be such a passage in her memory... She thought for a while and asked, "What's the use of this imprint?"

The boatman answered her kindly and patiently: "Once the soul out of the body falls into the underworld, the evil ones will sink downwards, and the good ones will rise up. All kinds of monsters."

The old man smiled, "If I hadn't seen this mark, I wouldn't dare to carry people who fell into the underworld at will."

It sounds like it would be useful?

Gui Xuliu had the feeling of suddenly discovering that he was the Emperor of Europe.

Immediately afterwards, the old boatman asked her where she wanted to go, Gui Xuliu couldn't figure out the situation at all, but it was not the first time she had done something like hugging the thigh when she found this place, and immediately said that she wanted to find Master Yan Mo .The place where Yan Mo was located was not far from here. After the old boatman docked her and put her off the boat, he instructed her to follow the Yellow Spring all the way south to find the Lord of the Underworld.

Thanks to the good man who salvaged her, Gui Xuliu walked slowly along the river as he said.Gradually reacting, she couldn't help but start to worry. Listening to what the boatman said, she seems to have lost her soul and become a lonely ghost...

I don't know if Ibaraki will go crazy holding her "corpse".

Thinking of this, she paused.

Compared to guessing like going crazy, Ibaraki is more likely to dig a hole to bury her, so he ran over to seek credit for his best friend with the water spirit carp. Hey!

As soon as such associations entered the soul, Gui Xuliu was so angry at his unreasonable associations that his whole body was invigorated, and he immediately quickened his pace, and he would be able to rush to Yan Modian in the next second to find a way to go back.

Hmph, even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go, Ibaraki-douji!

Gui Xuliu hurriedly shuttled through the large sea of ​​flowers on the other side, accidentally trampled down several flower seedlings.

Then, she heard the heartfelt voices of these flowers one after another——

[It hurts so much! 】

[There are no rules! 】

【My lord, why don't you come and teach this guy a lesson! 】

Gui Xu paused cautiously, retreated to the flower seedlings that had been stepped on innocently just now, and restored them to their original appearance with the power of light, although doing so made her a little tired.

Under the soft golden warm light, these flower seedlings stretched out their bodies, as if they could feel their comfortable mood.

Those voices of dissatisfaction and disgust gradually turned into curious whispers. The flowers kept referring to the mysterious adult, but what they said was not very pleasant.

[She smells really good. 】

[Why don't you keep her? 】

[My lord will definitely make her a part of us! 】

Gui Xuliu frowned, now she only has a soul body, and her strength was exhausted in the battle of the water unicorn, so she is not suitable for fighting.Most of the monsters in the underworld are ferocious, so it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, it is better to find Yan Mo as soon as possible to discuss a way to return to the Yang world.

The wind in the underworld is different from that in the yang world, always carrying a slightly cool and damp atmosphere.

The blood-red flowers of the other shore swayed gently in the wind, Gui Xuliu stood up and continued walking along the river bank, but he heard the rustling of people passing through the flowers.

But it didn't emanate from her.

She paused for two seconds, then turned around abruptly, only to see a man standing in the sea of ​​flowers not far from her. He looked very ordinary, but had a resolute face.

Gui Xuliu breathed a sigh of relief, she could tell at a glance that this person was a human being.

"Excuse me, what are you doing with me?"

She hesitated, but decided to ask him if he needed help.

The man didn't speak, he was still standing there.

Gui Xuliu, who didn't get a response, felt that she was a little meddling, and decided to go by herself and leave that person alone, but after walking two steps, she found that the man followed, and when she stopped, he followed stop.

Gui Xuliu clenched the corners of her mouth, she realized that she was too relieved too early, it was the most abnormal thing for a human being to appear in the underworld with such a loud voice.

She prepared for the battle, and then walked resolutely towards the man.

"Why on earth did you follow..."

The voice stopped abruptly, and Gui Xuliu was stunned to find that the hand he reached out to the man passed through his body without touching anything.

A woman's chuckle came, and the sea of ​​flowers on the other side swayed up and down, as if responding to the pleasant laughter.

Gui Xuliu looked towards the source of the sound, and there was a woman in a gorgeous kimono standing in the sea of ​​flowers, with black hair like a waterfall, and a graceful figure.

Holding a bright red candlestick in her hand, she walked here like the most beautiful flower spirit, gorgeous and indifferent, contemptuous and playful.

"You can see the human being, but unfortunately you can't hear his response," she said.

Red and white charms with unknown patterns circled around her hand, as if red flames danced in the woman's eyes, but upon closer inspection, they seemed to be burning petals.

"Are you... the Bana Flower?"

Gui Xuliu gathered his spiritual power and recognized the woman's identity through the eyes of reality. The other party was a monster born in the sea of ​​flowers on the other side, and she was exactly the "adult" those Huazhu said before.

She asked the beautiful flower demon: "What's the matter with this human being?"

Bianhua whispered: "This is a long story..."

Her eyes were blurred, and she finally landed on Gui Xuliu with a smile, "Would you like to stay and listen to this story? Become my flower mud, and we can talk for a long, long time."

As soon as the words fell, Gui Xuliu felt that the flat ground under her feet became soft and muddy, and she smelled a strong bloody smell gushing out of the soil at the tip of her nose. She felt that the life force was being quickly absorbed by the soil under her feet. Some fell to their knees on the ground exhausted.

The bouquet of fiery red flowers danced enchantingly around her, and she instantly thought that she was in a sea of ​​flames.

"Hmm... the very sweet and bright breath is really moving," Bianhua sniffed the fragrance from the flower mud slightly intoxicated, and said, "This is indeed rare in the underworld. No wonder my flowers are I like you so much."

Gui Xuliu was trapped in this piece of flower mud that could eat people. She had no charms on her body, and her strength was almost exhausted. Just when she was at a loss, the earring on her left ear began to heat up, and emitted heat from a place she could not see. A soft glow.

The coercion belonging to Yan Mo was released, causing Bi'anhua to stop smiling and look unhappy.

"Hmph, it seems that you are destined not to be one with me, what a pity."

She withdrew her power, and the life-swallowing three-layer sea of ​​flowers gradually calmed down and returned to its original calm appearance. Gui Xuliu finally touched the brown land again.

Are all monsters in the underworld so self-talking and unfriendly?

Gui Xuliu, who was almost being used as fertilizer, trembled in fright, and when he came back to his senses, he couldn't help saying angrily: "I didn't promise to be your nourishment, you have a limit to what you say!"

If others are willing to fertilize you with their lives, don't you have a B number in your heart?

She got up from the ground, and really didn't understand what this young lady was doing.

Standing in the sea of ​​flowers, Bianhua looked at her indifferently, and said: "Human beings yearn for beautiful things, but they are never willing to pay for them. They are cowardly, timid, and afraid of death and demons. People will not stay here in the end.”

"...Even if this is the beautiful scenery that he misses the most, he is willing to swear his life to see the beautiful scenery."

Gui Xuliu stared blankly and couldn't move away from Bianhua, she was alone, surrounded by only this warm and poignant sea of ​​flowers, the extremely bright colors were both gorgeous and full of curse.

Life after life, the flowers and leaves are intertwined; life after life, grow on the banks of the Santu River, watching the passing of Huangquan.

There is no spring and autumn, no sun and moon, all passers-by are strangers, I don’t know how old the world is, and it has been a thousand years in a blink of an eye.

"Stay here all the time, you are lonely."

For some reason, Gui Xuliu had already asked this sentence.

Just thinking about it made me feel so pitiful. That man must have promised her to stay for this beautiful scenery, but he couldn't keep his promise in the end.Gui Xuliu saw the past of the man who was always standing there like a puppet. He was indeed a man full of courage and perseverance, and he did go down to the underworld without fear like the oath he had sworn.

However, the beauty of the day after day will eventually tire, and his will is so determined to come here, as he is so determined to leave here in the future.

"lonely?"

Bi Anhua's elusive and beautiful face showed a bit of stagnation, she savored the word carefully, and finally threw it away in disinterest, and said in boredom: "Maybe, but so what?"

Gui Xuliu seriously suggested: "You can go around the world more. I know a monster. She lived for a long time and was almost driven crazy by the long and boring days. Then, she found a good way to relieve loneliness."

Bi'anhua's indifferent eyes slowly fell on her, and seeing that she could finally attract her attention, Gui Xuliu spoke more vigorously.

"She likes to listen to stories, so she travels around the world to find interesting stories. Some stories are very short, and some stories are so long that a human being can't finish telling them in a lifetime. In this way, she becomes very busy and never It will be lonely and boring."

The more Gui Xuliu talked, the more he felt that Qingxingdeng should be introduced to Bianhua, and they might have a common language.And she also understands how painful it is to stay in one place for a long time without anyone talking. This is a very typical case of environmental depression!Thinking about it, it's true, the underworld is so uniform that there is no one to accompany you to gossip, so you don't have to rush to the world to suck in the yang qi to suppress the shock.

After hearing her words, Bianhua was speechless for a while.

She thought for a while, then frowned suddenly and said, "Monsters in the underworld cannot come and go from the human world at will, unless they get permission from Lord Yan Mo."

But it is very troublesome to think about the approval every time you go in and out.The only time she entered the human world was after waiting for a long time to get approval. If she came here every time, she might as well stay by the Santu River to cultivate her sea of ​​flowers.

Unexpectedly, the bright smiling girl's eyes lit up, and Bianhua was taken aback.

"Why don't you sign a shikigami contract with me? Then you can come and go to the underworld and the human world at will. If anything happens, the guarantor is also me as the owner of the contract!"

Gui Xuliu's eyes are crystal clear, just like the breath on her body, it has a warm appeal like sunshine.

In comparison, the underworld is indeed too cold.

Bi'anhua tilted her head slightly, her lips raised, and a smile with unknown meaning was extended.

... This human onmyoji is really strange.

She whispered in a clear and cool voice, "Okay."

So, Gui Xuliu was so pleasantly surprised that he almost couldn't hold back and ran up to hug Miss Meiyan and circled around, but he still controlled himself because he was afraid that his hands would be turned into fertilizer...

She didn't have any tools to sign the contract, so she had to agree to go to Yan Mo and return to Yangjian, and then deliver the signing materials through Yan Mo.

Bianhua sent her to the end of the sea of ​​flowers, and it was no longer her territory to go there.

"Then, I am waiting here to hear from you."

She held a manjusawa plant in her hand and handed it to the girl.

Gui Xuliu looked seriously at the other party's blood-red eyes, and solemnly said:

"Don't worry, I won't disappoint you this time."

The author has something to say:

Gui Xuliu: Don't you have a B number in your heart if others are willing to use their lives to fertilize you?

A group of players who succumb to the beauty of the young lady: I ​​am willing, I am willing, I am willing! !

Author: The first day Ibaraki was away, I missed him.