Offer blocks to the end times

"Sleep!" Senju snapped his fingers, and the girl fell asleep. Then Senju entered her dream, stretched the time in it a thousand times, and then began to deceive—no, to instruct—the time.

Senju wasn't particularly skilled at dream design, so she chose the scene at Yato Shrine as the main setting. Looking at herself, Aizen's image seemed fine; it was just a deceptive outfit anyway.

Then, she snapped her fingers, and the girl appeared from the side. However, because of the dream, she was actually in a daze and acted entirely on her subconscious. She just stared blankly at the flowering tree on the side, where petals kept falling and gradually merging into the ground.

This is how the Thousand Hands transmit knowledge. Nanami over there received countless pieces of knowledge in a daze. Then, a blue brush and a pile of talismans appeared in front of her, and she began to practice there, interspersed with time to cultivate the AT field.

After an unknown amount of time (actually ten minutes outside, seven days inside), she finally digested all the knowledge and slowly woke up. However, the sense of time in the dream was too ethereal, and the girl only remembered that she seemed to be trying to do something.

But the memory was somewhat ambiguous. Then she looked at her hand and saw a blue calligraphy brush. She immediately froze, "Could the dream I just had been in be real?!"

"I seem to remember learning something, let's give it a try," Nanami looked around carefully, and seeing no one around, she put down her pen and then stretched out her hand in a chuunibyou manner, "Come on, my heart refuses, AT field!"

"I feel so embarrassed!" Nanami said, but when she saw the cube made of golden light membrane that appeared in her hand, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. "It's actually real! But why is this called AT field? Is it an abbreviation for some word? A, apple? Hmm, that doesn't seem right. Oh well, let's try another one. That seems to be it."

Nanami picked up the pen, her eyes fixed, and with a flourish, wrote two large characters on the blank talisman paper beside her: 'Clean.' "Go, clean the shrine!"

In an instant, the talisman turned to ashes, and then countless small whirlwinds began to swirl around the shrine, sweeping away the dust. Water began to automatically wash the shrine, removing all the filth. The weeds around the shrine were also pulled up by unseen hands, and the damaged parts were slowly repaired.

Even the poorly arranged teaware, the unfolded clothes, and the unfolded quilts were all neatly arranged and put away. Tomoe, who was cooking, watched in astonishment as the kitchen utensils next to him seemed to have grown legs and jumped into the sink to wash themselves, and then put them away neatly. "What are all these?! No, Nanami!"

Ignoring the vegetables that had jumped into the sink, he ran out and suddenly flung open Nanami's door. "Nanami, are you alright?"

"Help! Tomoe, the clothes are moving by themselves!" Nanami was desperately clinging to the clothes, which seemed to want to 'escape,' but how could Nanami let them go!

While they were busy pulling at their clothes, Senju was leisurely searching for the 'Time-Returning Incense Burner', but there wasn't one in the shrine; he only found a few jars of decent sake.

After taking these as tuition, Senju did some calculations and then slowly walked towards a certain place. He stopped in front of a reservoir, where the water slowly parted. However, the passage here not only led to the bottom of the water, but also to a small alternate dimension at the bottom of the water. There was even a shrine below this reservoir.

However, that shrine has long since decayed. It is only maintained by the remaining divine power that keeps the barrier in place and keeps the space inside intact. There is a shrine inside that looks intact, but that world is dark. This is just a remnant of the original shrine.

As Senju entered, the world slowly brightened, and Senju began to read the information about the fallen gods here. This time, the information he read was quite detailed.

The deity here is named Yoru no Mori Mizuna-hime, a water goddess born solely from human wishes, not a deity transformed from a human or a yokai. She was born from a great river, responsible for preventing the river from overflowing and protecting the people on both banks. However, later, humans abandoned the river and built a reservoir there, and Yoru no Mori Shrine was submerged, causing this deity to disappear.

"Is this what it means to have faith in a god?" Senju sighed. Although he knew that having faith in a god was dangerous, this was the first god he knew of who died because of the loss of faith. He was so responsible, but he was still simply abandoned, leaving behind only words buried in history.

"My divine power is too weak to hatch it yet. It might happen tomorrow, or it might happen in a year, or even a hundred years. But one day it will be born, definitely. Then, I will make this place a place where evil spirits cannot approach, a red plum shrine filled with the fragrance of plum blossoms, build a village, form a town, protect everyone, and let everyone live in peace. That is..."

That's my goal!

This is what she said when she was holding an egg. That egg belonged to the little white snake named Mizuki. Night Forest spent countless years finally hatching it, and it became her divine messenger. She then truly developed her shrine, which was originally just a few stones, into a great shrine. But as time passed, everything was buried in the water.

"I will not sit idly by and wait to die forever! Even if I am still weak now and can only silently endure like this, one day I will definitely become a god who makes it impossible for monsters to attack, and who can protect humans from being bullied by monsters! This is my mission, Nana!"

These were her words to Momozono Nanami after her right hand was eaten by a dragon. But why did Momozono Nanami appear in her past experiences? Then Senju remembered the Time-Return Incense Burner, the two of them had met five hundred years ago.

"After you complete your mission, you can come visit me anytime! My name is—Mizuna-hime of the Night Forest! I'll be waiting for you at the Night Forest Shrine!"

That was their promise back then, but it seems unlikely to be fulfilled now: "May you be treated gently by this world."

Chapter 1441 A Plum Blossom Arrives

Senju sighed, then suddenly had a thought, "I wonder if attribute-less faith power can revive this god? It's worth a try, consider it doing a good deed for the day."

As Senju pondered this, a beam of light emanated from his body as he gathered more detailed information. The space was crackling, and at that moment, a panicked yet composed voice rang out from the shrine below, "Which lord has descended?"

Senju looked down and saw a white-clad, white-haired boy. That was the familiar of this shrine, though it was called a 'divine messenger' here. Its true form was a white snake, the one hatched by the Night Forest. "Found it. But a white snake, what a coincidence. The Northern White Snake Shrine and all that, it's all ruins over there."

"No, may I ask what brings you here, sir?" Seemingly sensing the power emanating from Senju, after all, Senju had illuminated this place, the boy looked at Senju with trepidation, fearing that Senju might suddenly go berserk and completely destroy this place.

"Well, I was just looking for the Time-Returning Incense Burner, but now I have other things to do," Senju walked towards the plum tree. It was springtime, but the plum blossoms in this space were still blooming. However, the boy who was afraid suddenly appeared in front of Senju with a forced smile. "M-Master, the Time-Returning Incense Burner is over here. Please, please follow me."

"It seems that Yomori has taken in a rather good divine messenger." Senju, who had witnessed the entire life of Yomori Mizumihime, was arguably the person in this world who knew her best. Yomori had been gone for a long time, but this little white snake, the divine messenger hatched by Yomori—Mizuki—was still here guarding. Mizuki was taken aback. "You, you know Lady Yomori?"

“Well, that was hundreds of years ago,” Senju shook her head slightly, looking at the plum tree. “But even after all these years, she still loves plum blossoms so much. She truly deserves to be a deity who has transformed into a plum blossom.”

"Yes, this is Lord Nightforest's favorite plum blossom, and the only thing she left for me," Mizuki said respectfully, though she was a little apprehensive. This god seemed to know her, but she had never heard the god mention her before!

"Is that so? No wonder. Everything here is just to set off this plum tree. But how many years has it been since it saw the sunlight?" Senju looked at the plum blossoms for a while, and the 'sun' in the sky moved above them. The plum tree began to grow rapidly, with more flowers on it, but no leaves grew. Then, Senju reached out to Mizuki, who was standing there dumbfounded. "Alright, bring the incense burner!"

"Huh?!" Mizuki, who was initially excited, was taken aback for a moment, but then carefully lowered her head. "Yes, sir!"

As he spoke, he rummaged in his sleeve for a while, then took out an incense burner and respectfully handed it over. Senju took it and examined it for a while. This was what he considered a 'divine artifact'! It could allow the soul or even the physical body to return to the past. Although there were some minor side effects, this was undoubtedly a true divine artifact, not one of those 'divine artifacts' that only allowed soul transformation.

But why would such a divine artifact appear here? Night Forest is clearly just an ordinary god of worship, while the other gods clearly use artifacts that allow them to transform their souls!

However, Senju then realized that some gods treated souls as inferior beings, using them at will; but many gods could not treat human souls as mere tools. This water goddess was one such example, and it was precisely because of this that she obtained a true divine artifact.

This place can indeed generate time mist, but Senju, who understands the principle, had white smoke swirling around his hands, and then with a wave of his hand, a passage to the past world was opened.

However, as soon as Senju stretched out his hand, the past timeline trembled. He shook his head, flicked a ball of light, and slowly withdrew his hand. "Honestly, I don't arbitrarily change the timeline. I'm just leaving something behind."

"Here you go," Senju tossed the incense burner to Mizuki, then looked at the shrine. "But, Yomori, it's not good to be sleeping in here while guests are here."

"What?! Lady Yoru no Mori?!" Mizuki exclaimed.

I was shocked for a moment, and then I saw the light come on from behind the curtain. A set of clothes on the chair inside slowly changed, as if the former owner was being called back.

"A single plum blossom," Senji pointed to the plum tree, and a plum blossom fell from it, flying into the tree. The previously shifting humanoid figure inside solidified completely. Mizuki, watching everything, had her expression change repeatedly, eventually turning flushed. "This feeling of being bound... Lord Yoru no Mori..."

"..." Senju slowly moved a few steps away from this pervert. This resurrection was quite successful. Because of the foreshadowing that Senju had just thrown out, Yoru no Mori was completely resurrected. However, after she consumed the faith power that Senju had given her, she would disappear again, since no one here remembered her anymore.

The curtain slowly opened to both sides, revealing two little devils with umbrella-shaped heads. However, Senju noticed the blonde woman who slowly walked out from inside. She was wearing the most formal Japanese woman's attire, the 'twelve-layered kimono,' with a feather robe fluttering around her. She had a diamond-shaped mark on her forehead, but her hairstyle made her look like a girl next door, or perhaps a maid.

A plum blossom adorns her hair, with seven buds, one of which is slowly opening. This is a symbol of her faith; one bud opens each day, and after seven days, when everything is in full bloom, it will be time for it to wither.

"It's been so long, Mizuki," Yoru no Mori said first, turning to the excited Mizuki. Mizuki, tears welling in her eyes, rushed over. "Yes, Yoru no Mori-sama! Finally, finally I see you again!"

He looks like a dog, Senju thought to himself. Mizuki really does look like the Inugami that Senju had seen before. But Mizuki just doesn't stick out his tongue, otherwise Senju would be tempted to slap him to death!

But that dog—no, it was Mizuki—was hugging Yoru no Mori and crying her eyes out. Yoru no Mori patted her head and said, "Mizuki, didn't we make a promise? You're not allowed to cry alone."

"I'm not alone now, Lord Yoru no Mori. Let me stay with you a little longer!" Mizuki hugged him even tighter, whispering her reply. Yoru no Mori gently stroked Mizuki's hair, "Mizuki..."

Chapter 1442 The Incarnation of Red Plum

After patting the dog's head for a while, Yoru no Mori looked at Senju and said, "Thank you so much for letting me see Mizuki again. This child is really worrying. He's the only one I'm concerned about. Sure enough, after all these years, he's still all alone."

After being resurrected, Yoru no Mori also learned of the message sent by Senju and knew her own situation. However, looking at her smile, there was no anxiety or fear. It seemed that death was just a very ordinary thing for her.

“Well, you’re a good god,” Senju shook his head slightly. “I only asked you to return because I wanted some information about gods.”

“Even so, I’m very grateful,” Yoru no Mori nodded to Senju, then patted Mizuki’s hair. “I’ll take advantage of this time to find you a new home.”

“That’s good. I’m willing to stay with you forever,” Mizuki snuggled into Yoru no Mori’s arms, closing his eyes as if he were back in his mother’s embrace. In a sense, Yoru no Mori really was his mother. But then he looked up blankly. “During this time? Yoru no Mori-sama, are you still leaving? Please don’t go, don’t leave me alone!”

“Mizuki, you must have been lonely all these years, but I must return to nature one day, and I must find you a new home,” Yoru no Mori said, looking at Senju. Senju quickly shook his head; he didn’t need this kind of loyal dog-like youkai! Even if such loyalty was touching, he didn’t need it!

"No, I won't let you leave this time, Lord Yoru no Mori. If you return to nature, I will also..." Before he could finish speaking, Yoru no Mori covered his mouth with her hand. "Don't say such things. Didn't we make a promise with this plum tree that even if I disappear, you shouldn't cry alone?"

"No, Lord Yoru no Mori, I've been regretting it ever since, but I promised you back then, so I've been waiting here ever since," Mizuki murmured. Senju couldn't help but yawn. Although it was touching, she really didn't want to watch a loyal dog's performance!

However, seeing that the two were going to wait a while, Senju waved his hand out of boredom, and a crack appeared on the surface of the reservoir outside. The sky above this supposedly illusory world also cracked open, and then the shrine in this fantasy space actually appeared in the outside world.

Senju looked around, chose a cliff by the reservoir, and placed the shrine on it. After doing this, Senju looked at the two people who were still saying goodbye. "Oh right, I forgot something. Your name is Mizuki, right?"

“Yes, sir, thank you for letting me see Lord Nightforest again,” Mizuki wiped away her tears and looked at Senju respectfully. Senju nodded. “Now Nightforest only has seven days left to exist. Do you want Nightforest to live on?”

"Of course I want to. I wonder what my meager body can do for you, sir?" Mizuki looked at Senju expectantly. Senju nodded and pointed to the side, "There's a Mikage Shrine over there. The land god there, Momozono Nanami, is a good friend of Yoru no Mori. Go there and be a divine messenger for ten years."

"what?

"Is this the era that Nana lives in?" Yoru no Mori seemed rather pleased, while Mizuki hesitated beside her. "Me, become someone else's familiar? But, Mikage Shrine? Aren't there already wild foxes there?"

“That’s right, so you can just go and buy soy sauce. You don’t need to do anything special. But you need to bring it with you when you return to the incense burner. Someone is coming back from the future. Do you understand?” Senju said calmly. Mizuki on the other side pondered for a moment, then suddenly realized, “Does that mean you came here because someone from the future is coming?!”

“But to go back to the past, we need to return to the incense burner. Lord Night Forest’s friend? I understand everything now.” Senju nodded, knowing roughly what he was imagining. “Good that you understand.”

Senju then looked at the Night Forest to the side, and reached out to grab around. A network of laws seemed to appear there, and then fell into Senju's hand to form a dazzling gem. This was a divine spark of law that Senju casually condensed, a combination of the water laws of this region.

Then Senju placed the divine essence on Night Forest's forehead. "This is for you. In the future, even without faith, you can continue to exist, but you will be bound to this land. Leaving this land will mean your demise."

"Is that so? I was planning to look around these next few days, to find Nana," Yorumori said, a little disappointed, but then a smile appeared on her face. "But I'm really happy to be able to continue protecting everyone."

"Seriously, how close are you to each other?" Senju sighed. It seemed that the other party really didn't care about life and death. What he cared about was the lonely messenger in the future, and whether he could continue to protect him.

Senju thought for a moment, then waved his hand, and the two of them looked at the plum tree in the courtyard at the same time. The tree was growing rapidly, but even though it had grown to more than ten meters tall, it was still full of red plum blossoms.

“Night Forest, I have linked you with this plum blossom,” Thousand Fingers pointed to the plum blossom and planted a seed of law within it. Night Forest also felt the connection between herself and the plum blossom. “I see.”

After she finished speaking, the Night Forest disappeared, and a red plum blossom gently fell from the tree, forming another Night Forest. Her clothes had transformed into a bathrobe covered with red plum blossoms. "Is this an incarnation?!"

“That’s right, as long as you have this plum blossom, you can travel around using your avatar, but your avatar will only ever be an ordinary person,” Senju reminded her, watching Night Forest happily wandering around. “And…”

Before Senju could finish speaking, the bathrobe version of Yoru no Mori suddenly disappeared, and the real Yoru no Mori appeared to the side. However, she looked very tired. Senju continued, "Such an incarnation takes a lot of energy. At the current speed, you probably only have one day of free time per week. Of course, if you have enough faith power, it will be easier."

"Lord Nightforest, are you alright?!" Seeing Nightforest suddenly appear and disappear, Mizuki was terrified. Watching her god slowly collapse, Mizuki screamed and immediately hugged Nightforest, "Don't leave me!"

"It's okay, Mizuki," Yoru no Mori said, though she was exhausted, she still reached out and touched Mizuki's hair to comfort him. "Don't worry, Mizuki, I'm just a little tired. I'll be fine after a rest."

"Yes, Lord Nightforest," Mizuki replied, but his eyes were somewhat dim. He remembered how Nightforest had looked when he disappeared.

Chapter 1443 The Chaos War

Seeing the two of them, Senju shook his head slightly, his figure slowly disappearing. "Don't forget what I said..."

As the sound disappeared, Senju's figure vanished as well. When he reappeared, he was already in Kyoto. The atmosphere here was really oppressive. The demonic energy was dozens of times more active than in other places, especially now that it was night, the demonic energy was even more active. Then Senju vaguely heard a series of giggling and ghostly cries.

Looking over there, they saw the Nura Clan's yokai on a nighttime stroll. Accompanied by yokai energy that had turned into mist, Nura Rihan led his underlings as they wandered the streets. Most of the yokai hid in dark corners, too afraid to come out. The few that did jump out were quickly torn to shreds by the yokai behind Rihan.

Perhaps it's because of their patrols that even on nights when demonic energy is so strong, few demons dare to come out and harm people. Those that do are all killed by the Nura Clan!

"Is this the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons? The power of the masses?" Senju analyzed for a while, thinking to herself that if the youkai in Gensokyo could do it, no, they could never completely submit to one person! Well, anyway, the power of the whole world belongs to Senju, so there's no need for this.

Shaking his head, Senju looked in another direction. There was another small Hyakki Yagyō (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) over there. It was Rikuo's Hyakki Yagyō, though he had fewer subordinates, but his aura was rapidly growing stronger.

Under the influence of the Hogyoku, not only Rikuo is evolving, but the people around him are also evolving rapidly, and their relationship is becoming closer and closer. The fear they rely on for each other is undergoing a chemical reaction-like change, causing their strength to increase rapidly.

"He probably has thirty percent of his father's power now," Senju remarked. The original Rikuo didn't even have ten percent of his father's strength. He watched as two groups of demons paraded through the city.

While strolling through the city, Senju stood on a rooftop and looked out at the future timeline.

The future is ever-changing, and Senju saw many possibilities. He could try to jump to the future of a timeline, but that would be meaningless, since he couldn't possibly change all the timelines according to his own wishes.

However, there are many possibilities for the future. Senju slowly looked around, and then suddenly felt the world shake. The future timeline became chaotic, and then Senju saw a strange building emerge from it, something that was floating above the timeline.

"..." Senju only glanced at it and knew that the thing was monitoring numerous timelines, locking onto the future event line from which Mikage had come, and was also monitoring him. It was a pity that he had become addicted to role-playing games lately and hadn't noticed this.

However, the world then began to tremble, as if it were about to collapse. Senju saw a strange 'light' emanating from the building, freezing the past and future of this world, and then it seemed to want to move the entire world away.

But Senju had no intention of following along. His body suddenly became ethereal, detaching from this frozen spacetime and leaping back into the chaotic sea. "Is this how we determine the future? Coincidence? Or something else?"

Senju observed the chaotic sea and then he understood what was happening. In the nearby chaotic sea, two 'fleets' were fighting each other. The cannonballs fired by both sides were worlds. Countless world remnants on the battlefield formed strange world aggregates, which were then either annihilated or reborn, causing shockwaves that rippled through the chaotic sea.

As he casually brushed away a piece of rune-covered light band debris flying toward him, Senju realized that he was familiar with both sides. One was a superdimensional organization that he had allied with, and the other was a strange organization whose data he had stolen. Could it be that the war was caused by him sending the data of this organization to those superdimensional organizations?

Shaking his head, Senju refused to take the blame. How could their fierce fight be because of him? There must be a greater interest involved. However, Senju had no intention of interfering and simply watched from the sidelines.