I accidentally died yesterday [comprehensive]

At this time, Edo was just a small place built by the water. The most central Edo Castle had already been built, and the commercial streets in the castle town were rented out one after another.

The Tokugawa family also transferred craftsmen and girls from Shunwa, and placed them in the planning area. Unlike Yoshihara, who was located in the Asakusa area later, they were slightly lower than Edo Castle, probably in the Chuo area.

This future site, where every inch of land is expensive, is now nothing but a wet swamp, full of waist-high miscanthus and calamus.

Kurokawa watched Xu put on monk's clothes and quietly melt into the crowd, Xu wanted to return to Osaka Castle to continue his spy mission.

Kurokawa habitually stayed in Edo.

He pretended to be a wandering monk and performed tricks all over Edo. When he was free, he would also be a door singer, knocking on a stone bowl and walking on the street, singing some Buddhist tunes.

The money earned is not less than that of the magician.

Seeing his exquisite tricks, many people always thought that he was a man with great magic power, so they invited him over and over again, and before Heichuan knew about it, the name of Fire Mage was also spread.

He always appears in the mansion in the backyard, and is involved in the affairs of goblins and ghosts. He often meets his acquaintance Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan. When they are free, they will talk a few words. Common doubts—as if everyone wondered why the sun rose.

"Although I am practicing the technique of immortality, you are the first person who can live forever, except for those on Penglai Island."

"Is it immortal..." Heichuan pondered for a while, pointing to the sky with one hand: "The 800 million people in the sky should also belong to the ranks of immortality."

"That's true."

The next time we met, Kurokawa had a pipe pinned to his waist. It was made of ordinary brown wood, like a vulgar object removed from the corners. When Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan saw this thing, he was very puzzled: "You also Did you like a pipe?"

Kurokawa showed the pipe: "It's very interesting."

Like other smokers, he held the pipe in his right hand, and then a wisp of faint blue flame came out from his fingertips. The pipe was heated and steamed hot air came out. He took a deep breath, and then quietly exhaled the smoke.

Wisps of white smoke spread in the air.

Hide his face like a mist.

When Bai Yan moved his posture, he gently turned into a steed and jumped around the room, like an elf of smoke.

"Another trick."

Kurokawa said.

The last time he and Xu were on the road together in the forest, Heichuan met Diao Pinghuo, and by chance, he learned the art of manipulating flames, and based on this, he created a magical trick.

Relying on this blindfold method of matching reality and reality, Heichuan even used another interesting spell to burn a pipe with fishing bottle fire when he was bored.

This time he changed into a steed, and the next time he met Xiuyuan Huakaiyuan, he exhaled a puff of smoke, and turned into a Penglai fairyland - the tall kitchen god staggered around inside, and those lovely-looking The fairy stands on the top of the mountain.

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan clapped his hands: "It's amazing."

"It's still a lot worse than you."

Kurokawa remembered that there was a time when Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan turned into smoke and disappeared suddenly.

"That's also a blindfold."

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan said that he summoned a monster with a wave of a spell, and then said: "This is a monster that can make people travel hundreds of miles a day."

Can shikigami also carry people?

Kurokawa thought about it.

After he returned to the monastery where he lived sojourned, he summoned a black monster, which still gave birth to a ferocious appearance. Although as Heichuan practiced more and more, he began to bend down obediently in front of him, but what was hidden in the abyss The meaning of destruction is still around the corner.

If it is said that human beings are an existence that cannot be distinguished by the dichotomy of good and evil, then this thing is completely negative.

How could this thing be in his body?

The longer Kurokawa practiced, the more confused he became.

He's still casual about the thing, though—he's always been that way as long as he can handle it.

According to Hidemoto's narration, Kurokawa commanded the monster to hunch himself up. The monster ran very fast, running around like a cloud of smoke, faster than Kurokawa himself riding a bicycle.

Since then, Kurokawa has been too lazy to walk by himself, and summons this black monster whenever he goes a little farther away.

The next time he met Hanakaiin Hidemoto, he told Kurokawa: "The Hanakaiin family is going to Kyoto."

"Is it because of the battle with Sekihara?"

Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan nodded: "There is no war in Kyoto, it has been a place where Fengshui has gathered since ancient times, and it is also the best place for onmyojis to go."

"And..."

Hua Kaiyuan smiled slightly: "There are also many ministers who like to find onmyojis for divination when they have nothing to do."

"That's true."

Most of the Edo residents in Xinkaesong are civilians, and their favorability for mages is obviously higher than that for onmyojis.

Before leaving, Huakaiyuan Xiuyuan said: "I heard that something strange happened in Osaka Castle, monsters appeared frequently, and many young women died."

It must be a monster.

There are so many things like this.

……

Kurokawa lived in a temple near Edo Castle, and would sweep the floor in the temple when he was free, but he still lay lazily in the bedroom most of the time.

The scenery of the temple is always beautiful.

It seems that in order to show "empty silence", a landscape that makes people feel silent even if the leaves shake.

He was smoking a pipe one after another, and the rising mist drifted around on the roof, slowly building up the mountains and rivers of Edo.

The passing young monk saw it, and excitedly ran over with a broom, "Senior brother, can I learn this too?"

"Here," Kurokawa tapped his pipe, "you should practice more."

"Is sweeping the floor a practice?"

"Master, you told me to eat less dirty things, is it practicing?"

"Yes."

"Since eating is a practice, then sweeping the floor?"

"……Yes."

The little monk pursed his mouth: "It's so boring."

"When you realize that you are not bored, you will practice."

Kurokawa propped his head lazily, dealing with the little monk irresponsibly.

There were footsteps coming from the courtyard behind him, Heichuan exhaled smoke, transformed into a white woman, walked over joyfully, grabbed the monk's sleeves, although the eyes were not very detailed, but he could still see from the agile eyes. There was joy on his face.

Tianhai waved his sleeve to disperse the smoke, and then choked, "According to the secular grade, I'm almost seventy years old."

"Huh?" Kurokawa was surprised after hearing this.

He rolled over and sat up, "My impression is that you are still at the age of grinding soybeans in Musashi."

He said that it was Takeda who went to fight against Oda Nobunaga, and Tianhai was happily making miso in the temple.

"That was also 30 years ago."

Tianhai sat down.

It is incredible that Yodohime and Toyotomi Hideyori in Osaka Castle did not say a word about Tokugawa winning the Sekigahara War and occupying many places.

"That's a smart move."

Tianhai said.

He served as a staff officer to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Sekigahara Battle. Now that the war is over, he can take a break, but he will soon go to Kyoto to serve as the host of the Kyoto Temple.

"And you."

Tianhai asked about Kurokawa's current situation.

He used to think that Kurokawa was like a fallen monster or god, indifferent to everything, wandering like a guest in the clouds.

Now seeing him holding a pipe in his hand, it is quite a pleasure to look around, and he also has a taste of the world of mortals.

"I am the same as before, shining on the moon every day when the moon is full, and then disappearing like firecrackers."

"Sometimes it's a month, sometimes it's two months, sometimes it's a year."

"But every time I disappear, they think that I went to practice outside, and they don't have any doubts."

"that's it."

"Nothing has changed."

Yes, the world is changing, only you remain unchanged.

……

Heichuan jumped a few more times, counted on his fingers, and found that the abbots of the temple had changed from middle-aged people to old monks, and it was time to leave here and go to the next place.

He packed his school uniform, stone bowl, and camera.

——Camera, Kurokawa looked over and over, this thing has been here for half a century,...it is about to age, it seems that he will have to lose money when he goes back.

When Kurokawa left, he didn't say hello to anyone. The little monk who asked him if he could learn spells when he was a child has now become an adult monk. Come and go without a trace.

Kurokawa packed up his things and went to Kyoto. After all, according to the living conditions of this era, only big cities have slightly better water sources and accommodation areas.

He found Tianhai, and Tianhai saw him in a daze, "It's still you."

"Why, did you think it was an old man who came to look at it?"

"If it was an old man, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to climb so many mountains." Tianhai replied.

Tianhai has been planning something recently.

After the first Sekigahara battle, Tokugawa Ieyasu gained a dominant position, while the Toyotomi family's sphere of influence gradually shrank, and it was already surrounded by Tokugawa.

But it seems that you need to be famous.

Tokugawa has never done anything to the orphans of Toyotomi in Osaka Castle, and Tianhai is planning this matter.

"Osaka Castle is about to move."

Tianhai said: "Do you still remember what the Yumenyuan is planning? Use humans to replace gods."

Kurokawa nodded.

Tianhai also said: "After Feng Chen's death, he was posthumously named the Great God of Fengguo, and his descendants worshiped him as the ancestor god."

"Ah."

"But before Toyotomi, there was Abe Seimei."

"How does this begin?"

"Today's changes in Osaka Castle are related to Abe Seimei. It is said that Abe Seimei has become a god, but gods cannot come to the mortal world. Human mortal bodies need to be sacrificed and become a breeding ground for gods."

"This is……"

"Let a woman give birth to Abe Seimei."

"At that time, with the power of Abe Seimei's god, drive the magic soldiers and generals to sweep away the mountains and rivers."

"what."

Kurokawa laughed, "It's so interesting."

"Is that all?" Tianhai asked, "The coming of the gods still makes us worry."

Kurokawa said: "It should be a monster."

"Why do you say that?" Tianhai asked.

"Feeling?" Kurokawa was vague, "I just feel that the 'qi' over Osaka Castle doesn't seem like something a god should have."

"Death, despair, confusion, madness."

"This is the best breeding ground for monsters."