When I was supposed to be slaying the dragon, I accidentally started cultivating immortality

Japan, Tokyo, inside the Genji Heavy Industries Building.

As the vanguard of the family heads, Sakurai Nanami's confrontation with Lu Mingfei ended in a disastrous defeat, but there were four other family heads waiting for Lu Mingfei.

Although Lu Mingfei's murderous look in one glance made Sakurai Nanami feel as frightened as Shura, she still maintained a considerable degree of trust in the other family heads.

"The remaining seven family heads are waiting for you in Xingshen Temple."

Sakurai Nanami led Lu Mingfei and others to a quiet room, then walked to a secret door in the quiet room and opened the secret door.

The sun shines through, and there is actually a spacious terrace on this floor. It is hidden in a corner of the building and is not easily noticeable from the ground or the sky. Only by opening the hidden secret door can one step into this cave, just like the legend. Walking through a peach blossom forest, you find the peach blossom garden on the mountain wall at the end of the peach blossom forest, which is so small that it can only be entered by one person.

Sakurai Nanami called this place Xingshenji. It is indeed a temple style, but it is not a Buddhist temple, but a Japanese Shinto temple.

What comes into view is a small vermilion "torii". Next to the torii is a hand water house for guests to wash their hands and rinse their mouths before worshiping, and a granite wall depicting gods. The granite walls are carved with gods from Shintoism, ranging from solemnity to From Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi to the mighty Susanoo and the gods worshiping them below, the shrine behind the torii winds and spreads, and a shrine with an open door can be vaguely seen at the end.

The torii gate is the entrance to the shrine. Logically speaking, there should be two stone sculptures placed on both sides of it as the guardians of the shrine. The stone carving is a mythical animal called "Komug". The one on the right has an open mouth, called "A-shaped", and the one on the left has a closed mouth, called "Hum-shaped". It is used to show that guests wash themselves in the hand basin. Later, the praise from "unclean" to "clean" is similar to the Chinese stone lion in terms of positioning.

Of course, not all shrines display Komon dogs. For example, Inari Shrine, which enshrines foxes, will directly display two fox statues.

But this situation would never appear in any shrine - there are no Koamu dogs on both sides of the torii gate, but there are dozens of clay sculptures erected on both sides of the approach behind the torii gate!

On both sides of the shrine are placed clay sculptures of ferocious mythical demons and ghosts, including Flying Man, Phoenix Fire, Reverse Pillar, Wheel of Entrance, Onmaraki, Noderabang...

The clay sculptures are dyed with cinnabar and other minerals. Some have lion-like faces with fangs exposed, and some sit cross-legged on piles of skeletons. Clouds and thunder surround these gods and demons. The trees on both sides cast shadows. In the shadows, the two rows of clay sculptures seem to A hundred ghosts walk at night.

There is actually a clear spring on the terrace not far away. The spring is surrounded by dry landscape water composed of white stones and green grass. The clear spring flows through the artificial river. The sound of the water is gurgling. It should be a pleasant sound, but at this moment it is inexplicably mixed. Mixed with a lot of coldness.

Lu Mingfei stood outside the door. At first glance at this gloomy scene, he thought the shrine had been occupied by monsters, and almost blurted out, "Where is the demon-exorcist witch?"

Looking at the alchemy matrix unfolding in front of him, Lu Mingfei suddenly understood that a new round of targeting from family heads with foreign surnames had begun. But...is this matrix a little rough?

In the shrine, a black and white stone table forms a circular Tai Chi pattern. Six people are sitting around the table. Except for Sakurai Nanami and Eri, the eight heads of the Snakeki family are all here.

The clay sculptures on both sides of the shrine extend to the outside of the shrine. The ones closest to the shrine are two tengu statues standing opposite each other. One is holding a fan and the other is holding a hammer. Both are dressed in Yamabushi, with red eyes and noses, and a tachi at their waists. Behind them The wings spread out in anger, so lifelike that they seemed ready to soar into the sky at any moment.

"Master Miyamoto, can your barrier be placed elsewhere?" Tachibana Masamune asked, "The mental intimidation of this barrier is enough to make many ghosts surrender without a fight."

The head of the Miyamoto family who was questioned by Tachibana Masamune was an elegant young man who looked about thirty years old, with tortoise-shell eyes. He didn't look like the head of the mafia family, but more like a young and promising professor and scholar-as Iwa The director of the Liu Institute, he is indeed Japan's top scholar.

The barrier in Tachibana Masamune's mouth is what alchemists call an alchemical matrix. It forms a cycle through certain items with specific properties, uses fluid as a carrier, and carries magnetic fields and elements as driving forces. This is the principle of an ordinary alchemical matrix.

Shio Miyamoto is also an alchemist. He led the Yanliu Research Institute to lay out an alchemy matrix in Xingshenji Temple in advance with the help of its unique architectural structure and topography, temporarily giving false life to the clay sculptures on both sides of the road, showing a ghost-like power. , to shock Lu Mingfei’s mind.

Of course he knows that Lu Mingfei is an internationally famous genius alchemist who specializes in technology and has only had a brief taste of alchemy. He does not think that his alchemy attainments can surpass Lu Mingfei, but this alchemy matrix is ​​between him and the Yanliu Research Institute. It is the crystallization of the common wisdom of several alchemists. As a Japanese, Shio Miyamoto firmly believes that the collective wisdom will not lose to any genius.

This barrier has no actual lethality, but it allows these clay demons to show extremely real and strong power. Even when Yuan Zhisheng was in the depths of the "Emperor", he would have the illusion of being besieged by ghosts and gods, causing his confidence to weaken, and his hands and feet to weaken. With symptoms such as coldness and difficulty concentrating, Miyamoto believed that even Lu Mingfei would not be able to break the barrier in a short time.

The barrier is extremely powerful. If he hadn't prepared alchemy pendants in advance that can expel the barrier's effect and wear them with everyone in the barrier, except for Minamoto Chisei and Tachibana Masamune, everyone else here would probably be pale and sweaty. It's no wonder Tachibana Masamune asked Miyamoto Shio if this barrier could be placed elsewhere. This barrier is powerful enough to make most enemies lose their combat effectiveness, and even the elites' strength will be greatly reduced.

"Parents, it would be difficult to place the barrier outside Xingshenji Temple," Miyamoto Shio replied to Tachibana Masamune, "The barrier inside Xingshenji Temple is based on the majesty of the shrine itself, and also based on Kanyu The technique relies on the unique Feng Shui and magnetic field around it to make ghosts and gods show such majesty. Unless you can find similar Feng Shui to perform the Kanyu technique, and build a shrine as the core, even if you can barely recreate the barrier, the power will be extremely limited."

Tachibana Masamune nodded and gave up the idea.

Although the barrier is so powerful that even young children are obviously affected, the layout conditions are too harsh. Even if the feng shui is suitable, a shrine must be recommended every time it is used. Not to mention the cost, the preparation time alone is unacceptable. .

The other family heads have also figured this out and know that something like the barrier, which values ​​​​the location, is difficult to use to deal with the elusive fierce ghosts. They are inevitably a little disappointed, but at the same time, they are also very confident - this barrier can definitely be used Let the person who flatters the head of the Uesugi family suffer greatly.

Outside the torii, Nanami Sakurai was wearing the pendant prepared for her by the head of the Miyamoto family in advance, and invited Lu Mingfei and others to come in, while Sakura stayed outside to wait.

To Sakurai Nanami's surprise, among the six people who came in, Lu Mingfei, Old Tang and Xia Mi all had calm expressions. The dog was still walking briskly. The boy named Chu Zihang held the sword and paused slightly before walking. They returned to normal, with almost no facial expressions. Only Caesar and Wiglaf looked a little pale, and their breathing rhythms were a little chaotic.

Following the procedure for visiting the shrine, Lu Mingfei immediately went to the hand basin to wash his hands, and then rinsed his mouth from the spring water. However, after rinsing his mouth, he held another mouthful of water in his mouth.

After taking two steps with water in his mouth, Lu Mingfei suddenly raised his head and spat out a mouthful of water mist at a certain location in the air. Colorful lights were vaguely refracted in the mist.

Sakurai Nanami looked at Lu Mingfei in confusion. The next moment, she felt dozens of cold and malicious eyes suddenly appeared behind her.

She subconsciously turned her head. In front of her, dozens of colorful clay sculptures of demons and ghosts seemed to come to life. The blue sky turned blood red, and the white clouds turned into dark clouds.

Feitouman has a beautiful female face, but her neck is stretched high, almost longer than her body. She twists and dances in the air like a snake. The phoenix fire ignites the flames, and the evil man is vaguely revealed in the flames. The face, the reverse pillar is dry and gray, and the surface is a twisted human face showing pain and wailing. The Yinmoluo ghost bird face is human, the face is like a corpse, the mouth is sprayed with blue flames, the wheel is a huge wheel, and there is a bare heart in the middle of the wheel. head, mouth opening and closing, calling Sakurai Nanami's name...

The clay sculpture seemed to be torn back to life in the hell at the moment Nanami Sakurai turned around, baring its teeth and claws in front of her. The scene of the Night Parade of Hundred Demons truly appeared in front of Nanami Sakurai. It seemed that she could still smell the stench of blood on the tip of her nose, and her legs couldn't help but A soft.

In the shrine, Shio Miyamoto, who was the main organizer of the barrier, suddenly noticed something strange and stood up from the table: "How is that possible!"

"What's wrong?" The old head of the Feng Mo family, who was dressed in black feathers and had white hair and beard, was the first to ask.

The next second he knew what happened. In front of his eyes, the two tengu statues outside the shrine seemed to come to life. They stretched their burly bodies that were more than a foot tall, dropped the fan and hammer in their hands, and pulled out the sword from their waists. Tachi, the blade is white and shiny, the dark wings behind the Tengu are fluttering angrily, black feathers are falling all over the sky, the sky turns crimson, the sun seems to be low blood, and the dark clouds cast black patches on the ground, rusty and bloody The smell spreads in the nasal cavity.

The head of the Feng Mo family's heart skipped a beat, and he turned to look at the other family heads. Seeing that their faces were all pale, he immediately understood that he was not the only one who could see this scene.

The head of the Miyamoto family stood up with demons dancing in his eyes. Even though he knew it was fake, he still dared not look directly. He said in a trembling voice what he had not had time to say: "Feng Shui... the flow of Feng Shui has changed! Our barrier has been taken away. , and become stronger in the opponent’s hands!”

When the barrier was first formed, all the family heads had experienced the horror within it, but those lifelike monsters and ghosts at that time could only be regarded as young children in front of these ferocious demonic ghosts, not to mention that even the color of the sky had changed in the hallucination at this moment!

The stupidity of playing Feng Shui with a Taoist disciple who is the most orthodox disciple can no longer be described by just playing tricks.

Without using any magic power or spiritual consciousness, Lu Mingfei easily changed the magic circle with only the interference of the water mist, making it ignore the alchemy pendant that could expel its effect. Dictado was not affected by being included in the white list, and it also strengthened the power of this rough magic circle, turning the original visual illusion into a feast for the three senses of sight, hearing, and smell.

With Murasame and Dictado being included in the white list, Senior Brother and Caesar are no longer affected in any way. Old Tang, Xia Mi and Xiao Tian still remain calm in the face of the enhanced magic circle. A few evil ghosts are not enough. In order to scare them, only Wiglaf was left. Because he was not familiar with her sword, Lu Mingfei could not bring her closer to the white list, so facing the suddenly strengthened illusion, Wiglaf's face became obviously pale, and his sweat dropped from his body. Oozing from forehead.

No matter how troublesome he was, he had to take responsibility for the hard work he brought. Lu Mingfei sighed in his heart, walked to Wiglaf, and stood up calmly and naturally, blocking out all the effectiveness of the magic circle.

As Lu Mingfei stood in front of him, the bloody sky in Wiglaf's eyes was suddenly cut into a piece of clear blue like a jewel. The air became sweet again, and the demons dancing in front of him suddenly moved away from him, as if blocking him. Lu Mingfei was an invisible barrier in front of her, separating her from these evil spirits into two worlds.

In Wiglaf's eyes, the evil ghost's figure gradually became distant, and Lu Mingfei's back grew taller and taller.

Although he thought it was fun to maintain this magic circle all the time, looking at the unsteady appearance of the Sakurai family head, Lu Mingfei also understood that if this formation was maintained all the time, the other family heads might go into shock at some point. , then the meeting will not be able to continue.

So after a moment of hesitation, Lu Mingfei turned to Wiglaf and spoke in a gentle voice: "Follow me, let's go."

"Oh...oh! Yes!" Wiglaf, who was looking at Lu Mingfei's back in trance, was frightened by his sudden turn of head.

Lu Mingfei didn't ask anyone else to wash their hands or rinse their mouths. Sakurai Nanami, who was struggling in the hallucinations of Hyakki Yakō, didn't have the extra energy to pay attention to such things.

Walking at the front, Lu Mingfei, although he still had not used his magic power, was stepping on the Gang Dou Steps, performing an extremely skillful step recorded in the Heavenly Book. He seemed to be walking in a leisurely manner, but every time he stepped down, he stepped in the direction of Kanyu. Above, break this barrier bit by bit.

In the real space, Lu Mingfei just walked forward naturally and leisurely, but it was reflected in the illusion of the barrier. The struggling Sakurai Nanami only saw Lu Mingfei taking one step forward, and there was a vast and vast world in front of him. Cang Qing Qi appeared out of thin air.

The blue Qi purged, and the sky turned into ultramarine. All the evil spirits swept by the green Qi immediately disappeared and turned into old clay sculptures with mottled surfaces on the side of the shrine, lying quietly among the grass and leaves, and the sunlight Dots of light fall on it through the gaps in the leaves.

Lu Mingfei moved forward slowly, and hundreds of ghosts scattered wherever he passed. The ultramarine sky above his head followed his footsteps, driving away the blood. Nanami Sakurai looked at this scene, even though she knew she was in an illusion, she still rose Arousing an uncontrollable heart of worship and reverence.

In the shrine, the six family heads smelled the strong smell of rust and blood. Demons were dancing in front of them. The bloody sun was shining high, and the blood was filled with light. Two big tengu were fighting in the open space in front of the shrine. Countless black monsters appeared every second. Feathers scattered all over the sky, and thousands of sword lights intertwined every second. It was like two full moons falling into the dark rain of petals.

Yuan Zhisheng's face turned pale and his heartbeat accelerated. He was glad that there was no real Tengu in the world. This was just an illusion. Otherwise, he might have been killed by the invisible sword as soon as he fell into the battlefield between the two Tengu. Cut them into pieces with weapons.

"Master Miyamoto, do you have a way to remove the barrier?" Tachibana Masamune asked.

"No... no," Shizuo Miyamoto was sweating profusely, "I can no longer control the matrix, but please don't worry, everyone, even if Lu Mingfei takes away the control of the matrix, he will never be able to do it to this extent. It’s very difficult, maybe even more embarrassing than us…”

Before the head of the Miyamoto clan finished speaking, the fighting tengu separated and turned to look in the direction of the torii.

The ultramarine sky is pouring in.

The young man's body was surrounded by a green aura. The blood and ink disappeared like smoke wherever he passed. The ultramarine sky spread, and even the sun turned into blue. The light shone down, as if the young man was covered with a layer of green feathers. Ecstatic.

The two tengu looked at Lu Mingfei at the same time, raised the sword in tacit agreement, fluttered their wings behind them, rolled up the black feathers in the sky and rushed towards Lu Mingfei.

After walking through the shrine, Lu Mingfei took a step forward. The green energy spread and swept through, covering the entire Xingshen Temple. If a storm suddenly rose and swept away the surroundings, the family heads subconsciously raised their sleeves to cover their eyes, and soon realized the illusion. Where does the real wind come from?

Putting down my sleeves, the green storm in front of me dissipated. The sky was no longer blue, and the sun was still orange. The warm sunshine shone down and illuminated the two mottled clay sculptures of Tengu in front of the shrine.

Lu Mingfei stood quietly in the sunshine. Everything just now was obviously an illusion, but the independent immortal aura in him became more and more lofty and vast, as if it would rise through the sky in the next moment.

"Heads of the Sheqiba family," Lu Mingfei smiled slightly and raised his hand as if to say hello, "How about noon."

The raised palm fell, and a piece of black feather slowly fell in the air. It was black and shiny under the sun, which was particularly conspicuous.

There was silence in the shrine.