Evil Spirit Consultant

Chapter 229 Past Events

The so-called "soul-locking chain" is a relatively special spell.

Its function is very simple. It connects a part of the essence of the recipient to the target object through a specially refined iron chain.

Although the production of the Soul-Locking Chain is extremely troublesome, once the spell is successfully cast, it can not only control the life and death of the recipient through the target object like other curse spells, but it can even extract the recipient's strength, vitality, mental power, and even a part of the soul essence through the target object.

At this moment, Uga Shoji finally understood why Kurama Yuki had been weak after she was freed from suppression, and he also understood why the host Uga Yoshihito protected her by suppressing her.

Although this will cause Kurama Yuki to lose her freedom, at least she can use the isolation ability of the suppression spell to prevent the enemy from continuing to influence Kurama Yuki through the soul-locking chain.

"What happened back then? Why would someone put such a curse on you, a nine-tailed fox?" Holding the fragment of the soul-locking chain in his hand, Uga Shoji couldn't help but ask.

The Nine-Tailed Fox is the pinnacle of demons. If she does not allow ordinary curses, they will not even be qualified to approach her. Even if they are forcibly imposed, the caster will only suffer the backlash and die.

After devouring a large amount of Yang Liu's vitality, Kurama Yuki's condition recovered a lot and his spirit also seemed to have recovered a lot.

After listening to Uga Shoji's self-introduction, her eyes were a little evasive, but soon they were filled with anger:

"It's all because of that bastard called Kageyama! He threatened the lives of everyone on the island and forced me to cooperate with his experiment!!"

Shadow Mountain...

Hearing this word, Yang Liu and Yuga Zhaoji looked at each other. They had also heard this name from the mercenaries in the abandoned observation station before.

"Can you tell us what happened back then?" Yang Liu asked in a low voice.

After taking a look at Yang Liu, considering what he had done before, Kurama Xue did not have too much resistance:
"There's nothing special about it. It's just another betrayal by humans because of their own desires..."

As Kurama Xue told the story, Yang Liu and others also understood the details of what happened that year.

More than 55 years ago, around , a Japanese Onmyoji named Kageyama proposed to restart the "God-making Project."

However, Japan was in a period of rapid development of the economic bubble at that time. Even though the government was dazzled by the rapidly increasing economic strength, it did not feel it necessary to take huge risks and consume a lot of resources to restart a plan that seemed useless.

The suggestions made by Onmyoji Kageyama were also shelved, and he himself was ridiculed and even excluded by many factions.

However, Kageyama's family could be considered aristocracy after all, and they had considerable influence in Japan. Plus, the economy was booming at the time, so his family members didn't mind taking out some of their spare money to invest in his "delusion."

So, relying on the family's financial support and connections in the military, Kageyama brought a group of troops to Nokonoshima.

This was the optimal research area he determined after years of collecting information, because at that time there was a top demon on Nogu Island who had guarded the entire island for hundreds of years: the nine-tailed fox.

The nine-tailed fox clan is an extremely special existence among the demons. In addition, it has been worshipped by the residents of Dragon Bone Island for so many years that it has developed some characteristics similar to artificial gods. It is the best experimental subject for restarting the god-making plan.

Although the Nine-Tailed Fox is very powerful, Kageyama has discovered her only weakness through research.

As she possesses some of the characteristics of an artificial deity, after years of worship on Nokonoshima, Kurama Yuki's strength has greatly increased, but most of her power is also closely related to the residents of Nokonoshima. Once the residents are seriously injured, Kurama Yuki herself will also be severely damaged.

In addition, for Kurama Yuki, the current residents of Noko Island are all children who have grown up in front of her eyes, and she cannot allow them to get hurt.

So Kageyama negotiated with Kurama Yuki in the capacity of a military official, and used the island's residents as hostages to impose soul-locking chains on her.

Later, Kageyama used this to threaten the supernatural forces on the island, namely Uga Yoshihito, the then abbot of Eifuku-ji Temple, and asked them to cooperate with him in the experiment.

At the beginning, in order to appease both parties, Kageyama did not make excessive demands when threatening, and claimed that he only wanted Kurama Yuki to assist in the experiment to study the combination of spiritual power and modern technology to improve human life.

Later, his purpose gradually became clear.

In order to study artificial gods, Kageyama constantly uses various special instruments to extract Kurama Yuki's power, trying to replicate her abilities.

In the later period, every experiment seemed to tear her soul apart and make her suffer unbearable pain.

Seeing her like this, Uga Yoshihito, who was originally forced to sign a contract with Kageyama, decided to resist and help the "god" who had guarded the island for hundreds of years to be freed.

"…and then he succeeded. Although I lost most of my powers, he did succeed in freeing me from the lab."

At this point, Kurama Yuki's tone was somewhat gloomy: "But the price is the life of that little guy Uga Yoshihito and my freedom."

After listening to what she described, Yang Liu fell into deep thought.

What Kurama Yuki said was similar to the information they had investigated, except that it was a little more specific.

But no matter what Kurama Yuki said or the information they investigated, there are two unavoidable questions that cannot be answered.

"Since Abbot Uga Yoshihito chose to suppress you in the basement of the temple, it should not be just to deprive you of your freedom, right?"

Kurama Yuki nodded: "He left a secret door in the suppression spell. I can use the secret door to attract ordinary people from the outside world and plunder their energy..."

Yang Liu nodded. She was not surprised by this matter. After all, if a demon wanted to recover, the fastest way, besides gaining the fear of a human, was to absorb the vitality of the human.

Moreover, Kurama Yuki is quite sensible. After all, he is a great monster who has guarded the island for hundreds of years, and the amount of energy he absorbs from humans is kept within the limit that will not affect his health.

Uga Yoshihito probably wanted to rely on the power of time to allow Kurama Yuki to slowly recover while eliminating the soul-locking chain in her body.

"…But I don't know since when, the curse that had been mostly exhausted in my body has become active again. It has become more and more serious in recent years. I can even feel that someone is constantly draining my strength through the curse."

"That's why you managed to break through the blockade of the underground secret room and escape."

Yang Liu nodded, and now he had an idea about the second question.

(End of this chapter)