Evil Spirit Consultant

Chapter 143: Past Events (Two in One)

Yang Liu and the others didn't have to wait too long. After finishing his business, Uga Shoji quickly found the two people who were strolling around the shrine.

"never mind?"

"Yeah." Uga Shoji nodded and regained his composure. "Sorry, I was a little impulsive this time."

"Ah, that's not a problem, and thanks to your reminder, we were able to complete the commission, right?" Yang Liu looked at Koizumi Ling.

Koizumi Ling also nodded vigorously in agreement.

Yang Liu suddenly remembered something: "By the way, the priest of the shrine came to me just now and told me that Yokota Teru was arranged to rest because of his serious injuries. I went to see him just now, and although he is in good condition, he looks very tired. What do you think? Do you want to stay here with him or leave with us?"

Uga Shoji turned his head to look at the main hall of the Miyajigoku Shrine next to him. Although there seemed to be no one in the entire shrine, he could feel countless eyes staring at him in the dark.

Smiling and shaking his head, Uga Shoji looked at Yang Liu and said, "Although we have fought together once, I am afraid I am not very welcome here. I'd better leave with you.

As for Yokota...it shouldn't be a problem for him to rest here, after all, his old man has a pretty bad temper."

"Let's go." Yang Liu had no objection and turned around to walk in the direction of leaving.

As for saying goodbye, because of Uga Shoji, it was obvious that the shrine didn't like him very much, so he was too lazy to try his best to please them.

……

……

The night in Itoshima City is quieter than that in Fukuoka.

Walking on the deserted street, the three of them fell into silence for a moment.

After a long while, as if he had made up his mind, Uga Shoji looked up at Yang Liu in front of him seriously:

"Mr. Yang, you must not listen to that cultist and be interested in the Three-Day Moon Lake. There is no treasure underneath, and it is extremely dangerous!"

Yang Liu, who was wondering if she had forgotten something, looked up in confusion when she heard this: "Ah? I know, so I didn't plan to go at all."

"Ah?" Now it was Uga Shoji's turn to be confused.

"It was when I first came to Fukuoka. I wanted to travel around so I went to Mt. Mikazuki and happened to notice something was wrong in the lake."

Yang Liu recalled the countless water ghosts she had seen at the bottom of the lake, as well as the ghost king who still frightened her:

"Those things under the lake are really scary. But I was wondering why there were so many water ghosts. I didn't expect it was these evil cults who did it. I don't know how many people these guys killed to create such a scene. Aren't they afraid of causing a big mess?!"

Uga Shoji lowered his head and was silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head: "The real mastermind behind this is not the cult, but some government officials."

Koizumi Ling, who had been following behind and eavesdropping, couldn't help but exclaimed: "What? How could they do this?!"

"Oh." Yang Liu nodded expressionlessly, without any look of shock.

This is understandable. After all, if a cult dares to do this, it must have someone backing it up. It would be strange to say that the Japanese government had no involvement in this matter since it has harmed so many people.

Uga Shoji was very surprised by Yang Liu's attitude: "Aren't you curious? I thought you had a lot of things to ask me."

Yang Liu smiled and patted his shoulder: "It would be a lie to say I'm not curious, but it seems that this matter has had a great impact on you, so I have to respect your thoughts."

Uga Shoji laughed, then his expression became firm: "Thank you for your concern, Mr. Yang, but since you have been implicated this time, it would not be appropriate to leave you in the dark."

Yang Liu smiled and nodded, then she and Koizumi Ling showed a look of excitement.

After a moment of silence, Uga Shoji said, "Since Mr. Yang has seen the bottom of Lake Mikazuki, he should have seen that 'existence' as well."

"You mean... the ghost king?"

"The Ghost King? This description is not bad, but judging from the reason for its birth, it might be more appropriate to call it a 'ghost god'. After all, it is a failure of a certain plan." Uga Shoji stopped and turned to look at the two of them.

"And that ghost has another identity...it's my father."

"!!!"

The fact was so shocking that Yang Liu and Koizumi Ling leaned back in shock at the same time.

"Could it be that..." Koizumi Ling has already started imagining a million-word romance novel in her mind.

Yang Liu saw through her thoughts and corrected her: "Xiaoquan, your thoughts are illogical. You know, ghosts and humans should not be able to reproduce with each other... Oh, that's not right! Can demons and humans reproduce?"

The last question Yang Liu asked was directed at Yuga Zhaoji. The little monk, who was originally planning to give a long speech, choked up when he saw this. After a long silence, he whispered, "It should... It can't be... No! This is not the point!!"

After dispelling the two people's wild thoughts, Uga Shoji regained his serious state:
"My father was originally a human being, and he was the abbot of Yongfu Temple. He became that way for some reason."

Depending on their sect, many Japanese monks are even allowed to marry and have children, so many temples in Japan are family heirlooms.

"What's the reason?" Yang Liu asked curiously.

"That's why I said you might be involved. The Japanese government once scrapped a plan, codenamed: Creating a God."

"Creating gods?" Yang Liu was puzzled. "But aren't gods all man-made?"

"That's right, but there are differences between gods. The purpose of this plan is to create gods like those in myths and legends!" Uga Shoji's expression was serious.

If the pinnacle of the magic circle is the national-level magic circle, then what is the pinnacle of man-made gods?
Japan actually gave the answer a long time ago.

"The pinnacle of existing artificial gods is Sanguizi. Strictly speaking, this plan was once successful in Japan. Japan had already created this plan during the Meiji Restoration, but it was not actually implemented until World War II. During World War II, for some reason..." Uga Shoji glanced at Yang Liu awkwardly, "The military obtained a large number of ghosts and negative energy, and was able to make this plan successful."

Yang Liu's eyelids twitched when he heard this, and after a long while he asked, "What about the gods that were created?"

"Dead." Uga Shoji shrugged.

"At that time, we were planning to create the Three Noble Sons, but even with the sacrifice of many citizens from our homeland, we could only create the 'materials' for two gods, so we created Amaterasu and Susanoo first."

"Two..." Yang Liu narrowed her eyes, always feeling that this number was very subtle.

Uga Shoji nodded without hesitation: "Yes, just as you thought. After that, Japan was hit by two nuclear bombs, which wiped out the two top artificial gods who had just been born and had not yet been put into the battlefield. It also completely destroyed Japan's last hope at the time."

I didn't expect that there was such a reason for dropping the nuclear bomb back then. However, since it can be used for nuclear bombing, it also indirectly shows the powerful strength of these two gods.

Yang Liu thought of another aspect of the problem: "Since it has been successful before, why are there still failures?"

"Two reasons. One is that my father's obstruction caused the plan to fail. As for the second reason... the previous method of creating artificial gods no longer works."

When the scale of something becomes too large or too small beyond a certain limit, the level of technology required increases dramatically.

This is true for aircraft carriers, national-level magic arrays, and naturally, man-made gods as well.

"The reason why it is said that Japan had already established a deification plan during the Meiji Restoration is because the hidden function of Japan's national-level magic circle at that time was to assist in the creation of artificial gods," said Uga Shoji.

"Hidden function?" "Yes, the establishment of each national-level magic circle consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, so the effect of the magic circle is naturally top secret.

However, most of the effects will be very obvious after long-term use, so they can be easily seen through by other countries. However, there are also some effects that are very hidden, so they are called hidden effects. Basically, hidden effects are the core strength of every national-level magic array."

After thinking about it, Uga Shoji gave an example:
“Just like the national-level magic circle during the Tang Dynasty of China: The Celestial Empire, which is basically considered to be the earliest national-level magic circle with hidden effects.

The operating principle of this magic circle is that the more people recognize the rule of the Tang Dynasty, the stronger the magic circle will be. In addition to the conventional effect of enhancing the combat effectiveness of the army, the most important effect is that it can greatly increase the resistance of the people who recognize the rule of the Celestial Empire to various diseases. Even livestock can achieve this effect.

It is also for this reason that many countries - especially the nomadic peoples in the north are willing to verbally recognize the ruling status of the Tang Dynasty just to achieve this effect.

In the minds of these countries, as long as they verbally acknowledged the status of a subordinate state, they could gain a great advantage, and it would not be too troublesome to rebel when necessary. However, they did not expect that they had fallen into a trap from the very beginning.

The hidden effect of the Celestial Empire is very simple. The vassal states that recognize the rule of the Tang Dynasty will be marked as rebels when they rebel, and all rebels will automatically reduce their combat effectiveness by 30% when facing the army recognized by the Tang Dynasty. Coupled with the strengthening of the national magic array and the already strong combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty’s army, these countries that recognize the status of vassal states have almost no possibility of rebellion. "

"The wisdom of our ancestors." Yang Liu listened with great interest.

This ability sounds simple, but it perfectly grasps people's psychology and is simple and practical.

"However, this ability seems a bit cumbersome when facing a war within the country." Uga Shoji sighed.

"The Battle of Xiangji Temple during the An-Shi Rebellion that broke out later, because both sides of the war were regular armies and labeled each other as rebels, the national-level magic circle was overloaded.

It is said that both sides consumed all the power stored in the magic circle in that battle. At the peak moment, even with the weakening of the magic circle, all the soldiers of the army reached the host level under the strengthening of the magic circle, and the leading generals could even be called immortals on land.

The war launched by hundreds of thousands of host-level warriors, coupled with the reinforcement of the military formation, is said to have caused permanent changes to the terrain in the area where they fought.

However, this war also caused the national magic array to overload and even collapse, and consumed all the power stored since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, causing the Tang Dynasty to decline from prosperity. "

After talking for a while, Uga Shoji suddenly reacted, coughed and brought the topic back: "In short, now, basically all national-level magic circles have their own hidden effects. The magic circle established during the Meiji Restoration in Japan has a hidden effect that can assist the artificial gods to maintain their own stability.

But after the defeat in World War II, several Axis countries’ national magic arrays were forcibly rebuilt, and naturally lost their previous hiding effects. In order to rebuild the top artificial gods, the government also needs to redevelop new technology. ”

"So... those water ghosts and gods at the bottom of March Lake are the traces left over from the research on new technologies at that time?" Yang Liu thought thoughtfully.

"That's right." Uga Shoji nodded with a heavy face.

What happened back then was actually very simple. The Japanese government selected Kyushu as the region for the development of new technologies.

At the beginning, the research was naturally based on the old technology of that time. Therefore, in order to obtain enough souls and negative energy, the government supported the cult of Happy Life Church.

On the surface, this evil cult was only trying to collect money for some government officials, but secretly, they used various methods to secretly trap some people who had joined the church and then drowned them in the water of Mikazuki Lake in order to obtain enough raw materials.

Anyway, most of the people who are willing to join this church are unhappy people from the lower classes of society, and their disappearance will not attract social attention, so this sensational incident has continued.

The local supernatural forces also held different attitudes towards these actions of the Japanese government. Some opposed it, some agreed, and some were indifferent. However, due to the gap in strength, even the most opposed ones did not dare to take action to stop it.

But an accident happened. The abbot of Yongfuji Temple at that time, Uga Shoji's father, heard about this incident by chance.

As a temple that started on a small island, Yongfu Temple, a small force with only one master-level strongman, was not even noticed by the bigwigs at the beginning.

But even such a small force, after hearing about the actions of the cults and those government officials, Uga Kiyoshi, who had a son in his old age, became angry and came out of retirement to fight against the huge official power on his own.

Originally, with Yuga's strength, he couldn't make much of a splash, but perhaps because they thought that this guy who suddenly jumped out could be a good chess piece, some people secretly provided him with help.

Those who helped were not all opponents, there were even some supporters, and their purpose was simply to use Yuga to muddy the waters and gain more benefits.

These people expected that Uga Kiyoshige would cause considerable trouble to the plan at the time, and the authorities would have to give up greater benefits in order to buy them off.

At that time, Yongfu Temple might suffer very severe punishment, but at least they have gained practical benefits.

“…but those people didn’t expect to mess it up.”

At this point, Uga Shoji couldn't help but sneer.

"My father's previous actions were indeed in line with their expectations, but it was only at the last moment that he exceeded their expectations."

"what happened?"

“In their expectation, when the experiment was over and they found that their power was powerless, the father could only cause some minor damage.

But they underestimated my father's determination. At the moment when the ghosts and gods that gathered tens of thousands of lives were about to be born, my father not only did not retreat, but replaced the core of the gods with himself, determined to use his own life to save all the ghosts! "

Uga Shoji's eyes showed a look of longing, and then his eyes dimmed again:

"It's a pity that it failed. The resentment of tens of thousands of people is beyond human power. My father's will and soul were almost swallowed up in an instant, leaving only the original obsession, barely comforting the ghosts in the lake."

“What a great man.”

Yang Liu had a serious expression, and Koizumi Ling beside him also showed admiration.

After thinking about it, Yang Liu realized something was wrong: "It's a bit rude for me to say this, but it has caused such a big mess. I didn't expect Yongfu Temple to still exist."

Uga Shoji laughed when he heard this: "If it had been as those people had expected at the beginning, Yongfu Temple might not have existed, but they didn't expect my father to do this.

Although my father's idea of saving the dead souls failed, he did succeed in disrupting the plan. This incident caused too much trouble, and it was even far beyond the tolerance of those people. "

Yang Liu also understood.

Given Japan's situation at the time, the amount of manpower and material resources required to implement such a plan was unimaginable. Even the tens of thousands of lives they lost only accounted for a tiny part of the resources they consumed.

Such an important plan was destroyed, and it is impossible to make up for the loss by simply launching Yongfu Temple. It can be said that the cost required to make up for the destruction of this plan is already a level that all the extraordinary forces in the entire Kyushu combined cannot afford.

Under such pressure, no matter what their original intentions were, the supernatural forces in the entire Kyushu unexpectedly united together - after all, the price to pay for surrendering was already unbearable, so it was better to resist violently directly.

After all, it is a Japanese tradition for the inferiors to overthrow their superiors, and we have to try it.

For this reason, Yongfu Temple, which should have been destroyed, was fortunately preserved.

At this point, Yang Liu also understood why it seemed that Uga Shoji was incompatible with other supernatural forces in Fukuoka, but he inexplicably had many connections with them.

"So that's how it is... The destruction of the national magic circle in the Kyushu region should have happened at that time, right?"

Uga Shoji laughed: "Yes, it is said that they were ready to rebel at that time, and they were worried that the national magic circle would restrict them in turn, so they destroyed it in advance."

"What an amazing past." Yang Liu was filled with emotion.

Uga Shoji nodded silently: "There is no special reason why I took on the position of abbot of Yongfu Temple, it's just for revenge.

Like this time, it was because when we were tracking down the cultists, we discovered their plan to attack the Palace Hell Shrine. But you also saw their attitude. If you want to gain the recognition of the local forces, I advise you not to get too close to me. "

"Huh?" Yang Liu glanced at him. "You must have lost your mind. Have you forgotten that I'm a foreigner?"

(The following is free: I have to send myself to the airport tomorrow, so I still have to take a day off tomorrow, but I can resume normal updates after that.)
(End of this chapter)