My personal opinion on Gensokyo

"That's a fragment of the Four Souls Jade..."

She muttered to herself, and while she was shocked that the Four Souls Jade would break into pieces, an uncontrollable greedy desire seemed to rise in the heart of the ghost girl Li Tao. The ghost witch seemed to have sensed a great opportunity.

The clay body of the shrine maiden Kikyo was completed earlier than expected. After awakening Kikyo, the ghost girl Rito was also extremely confident that with her ghost magic, this powerful shrine maiden who was famous far and wide fifty years ago would be completely under her control after being called back to the world by her.

Then, it seems that it is entirely possible to let the shrine maiden Kikyo find the fragments of the Four Souls Jade for herself. It is not necessary to find all the fragments of the Four Souls Jade, but even if she finds a few fragments, the ghost girl Rito can gain enormous power with the fragments of the Four Souls Jade.

In this case, it seems that there is no need to be afraid of those two guys who threatened to resurrect the shrine maiden Kikyo...

The greedy desire was like a balloon, rapidly expanding in the ghost girl Li Tao's heart. Turning around and looking at the pottery figurine that looked like a coffin in the cave, the ghost girl Li Tao's old face also revealed a gloomy expression of deep thought.

The Cloud Courtyard deep in the clouds.

Shang Yang looked at the fragments of the Four Souls Jade scattered all over the country without caring, shrugged casually, and carried Saya on his back, still walking along the gravel path towards the hot spring resort not far away.

Just as Shang Yang was about to take a step forward and continue walking, Saya, who was lying on his back, moved her body slightly, slowly straightened up on Shang Yang's back, and stretched out as if very comfortable. Her beautiful and bright emerald eyes narrowed comfortably, and with a comfortable smile on her face, she smiled mischievously at Shang Yang, who turned around again and put her down.

"Well, let's stop here, Master. I'd really like to ask you to take Saya home, but Ai and the others might get angry if I do that."

Shang Yang didn't care when he heard the young girl's slightly teasing words. He already knew what Saya was going to do next, so he just spoke casually.

"There's no need to look for Naraku right now. This matter isn't urgent at the moment."

"Um……"

The young girl shook her head slightly, still wearing a mischievous smile.

"To the master, the evil dark monster Naraku is not a weak existence that needs to be taken seriously. But to Saya, she cannot rest easy until Naraku is destroyed."

As she spoke, a smug and mischievous grin appeared on the delicate and pretty face of the young girl with long dark green hair.

"So, although I really want to do something bolder with Master, I'm sorry, Saya has to leave now~!"

After deliberately making such a bold statement that could be misunderstood, the girl with long dark green hair still smiled mischievously, took a few steps forward, leaned back and fell into the sea of ​​clouds at the edge of the Cloud Courtyard, disappearing without a trace in the sea of ​​clouds.

Watching the naughty and petite young girl disappear into the depths of the sea of ​​clouds, Shang Yang sighed helplessly.

"...He's really energetic."

After sighing, the young man with gray hair turned around and walked along the winding gravel path towards the hot spring resort not far away.

After seeing the fragments of the Four Souls Jade flying across the sky, Shang Yang was also calculating in his heart.

I remember that the one who attacked Maple Village later was probably the monster that controlled hair - Nifajira.

However, after some time, a great monster that has disappeared for hundreds of years may come to visit.

By then...

While thinking, Shang Yang looked at the sea of ​​clouds surrounding Yunzhongting, and the mountains and plains on the land that stretched into the distance and connected with the sky.

The balance between humans and non-human creatures on this land, which had been maintained for thousands of years, has become increasingly difficult to maintain.

Volume 6: Longing Across Time and Space: Chapter 331: Eternal Pavilion in the Mist

The next day, in the East Country, deep in the rolling mountains.

Even looking back over the past thousands of years, this place deep in the mountains has always been a sparsely populated place.

There are no villages, nor are there hunters or farmers living alone in the mountains.

This deep mountain is shrouded in thick fog all year round. Even now, when this land is in chaos and wars are everywhere in this Warring States period, there is no one living here, and there is no trace of ordinary people going deep into here.

In the deep mountains and forests shrouded in thick fog, the only creatures living there are jackals, poisonous snakes, and monsters that have lived in these mountains for countless years.

However, what is surprising is that deep in the mountains, in the quiet forest, there is a emerald green bamboo forest, and in the bamboo forest shrouded in thick fog, there is an ancient house that is faintly visible in the vast white fog.

The vast white mist permeates the surroundings of this house, giving this house, which is looming in the white mist, a sense of ethereal fairyland.

This bamboo forest shrouded in white mist is called the "Lost Bamboo Forest", and the house located in the Lost Bamboo Forest is named "Eternal Pavilion" by its owner.

"Emperor...where are you?"

In the wooden corridor, a slender girl with beautiful light pink hair was walking in the corridor, looking left and right, and softly calling the name of her colleague.

Although she has a body shape and outstanding appearance similar to that of a human girl, she has two long rabbit ears growing out of her long pink hair, which just proves that the girl is not an ordinary human.

The girl with long pink hair called out several times, but after hearing no response from her companion, a confused look appeared on the girl's beautiful face, and she muttered to herself in annoyance.

"Hmm... Where on earth did that guy Di go off to again? It's just when he needs her help..."

While muttering to herself in embarrassment, the girl with long pink hair walked into the kitchen next door, stood on tiptoe, took down a small package wrapped in brown paper from the cupboard in the room, put it on the table, opened it, and inside the package were dried, yellow tea leaves.

Afterwards, the girl with long pink hair took out the teapot and teacup again and prepared to start making tea.

Just as the girl with long pink hair was preparing to make tea, another soft, slightly confused girl's voice sounded beside her.

"Lingxian, is the Emperor really not here?"

Hearing this voice, Lingxian, who was lost in her own thoughts, was a little frightened. She subconsciously raised her head and saw a girl standing outside the door. She was wearing a big white hat and had long beige hair. She had a confused look on her face and asked herself thoughtfully.

"Princess!"

Seeing the girl wearing a big white hat and long beige hair and the moon rabbit girl with long light pink hair standing outside the door, Suzusen Utankain Inaba hurriedly put down the work in his hands and answered a little embarrassedly.

"Well, I don't know where that guy Di has gone again."

After saying this, Lingxian seemed to remember something and asked in surprise.

"Wait, Princess, why are you here? Isn't Lord Shang Yang here?!"

"Oh, that's okay, I'm here to help."

Walking in from the door, the Princess of the original moon, with her long beige hair and a large white hat, Watatsuki Toyohime smiled and answered.

"I didn't see Di this morning, so I thought she might have gone somewhere again, so I came to help."

"No, you can't..."

Hearing that Watatsuki Toyohime didn't seem to care about her words, Lingxian wanted to stop the princess in a panic.

"Leave this to me. Princess, just accompany Master Craftsman and Shang Yang."

"It's okay, you don't have to be so careful."

Seeing the obvious expression on the moon rabbit girl's face, Watatsuki Toyohime laughed out loud to comfort the girl.

"Neither Shang Yangjun nor the teacher will care."

Speaking of this, the eldest sister of the Moon City princesses smiled softly.

"Besides, wouldn't it be more meaningful if I were the one to make tea for Master and my 'husband'?"

At the same time, in the living room of Yongyuanting.

"Just tell me if you have anything."

While flipping through a thick ancient medical book, the Moon Sage Bayi Yonglin held a brush and copied some content from the thick medical book into another book that seemed to be written by her own, and spoke lightly.

"I've been very busy lately, summarizing medical knowledge from the human world on Earth. But if you feel unwell somewhere, I will diagnose and treat you."

"Well, that's not necessary."

Hearing Bayi Yonglin's calm words, Shang Yang coughed and spoke casually.

"Since you've said so, teacher, I won't waste my time speaking directly."

"Teacher Yonglin, you should be able to make the medicine of Penglai, right?"

"Why do you ask about this?"

Hearing this question, Yagi Eirin did not seem surprised. He continued to write on the book with a pen in his hand while asking calmly.

"The last time Penglai medicine was made was thousands of years ago."

"Come to think of it, it seems that you don't really need the medicine from Penglai, Shang Yang."

As she spoke, Yagi Yonglin also stopped writing, looked up, and stared at the young man with gray and white hair sitting opposite her with a casual expression, and stated lightly.

"I'm very interested in studying the property that prevents you from dying."

"...Please only maintain your interest in research and do not attempt to conduct research yourself..."

After hearing the frightening remarks made by Bayi Yonglin, Shang Yang immediately spoke up to stop the possibility of danger for safety reasons, not giving the Moon Sage a chance to extend the topic.

Seeing Shang Yang's reaction, Bayi Yonglin did not show any regretful expression. He remained calm and picked up the brush again, intending to continue writing the following content on the page.

Looking at Bayi Yonglin's actions, Shang Yang didn't care and continued to ask casually.

"The creation of Penglai medicine was thousands of years ago. In other words, it's not impossible to create Penglai medicine now, right?"

When Shang Yang mentioned the medicine from Penglai again, a hint of interest appeared on Bayi Yonglin's calm face.

"...Given how much you care about those girls, there shouldn't be any need to use the Penglai medicine to give them immortal Penglai bodies. So..."

As he said this, the Moon Sage showed a look of slight contemplation, but continued to speak calmly.

"I also heard about what happened fifty years ago from the princess (Kaguya)... In other words, you plan to use the medicine of Penglai to make that human priestess become a Penglai person?"

“It’s just a consideration.”

Shang Yangting spread his hands helplessly and explained casually.

"In fact, she can no longer be classified as human. Her consciousness is intact, and her remaining soul is barely enough to support her consciousness. In our opinion, this way of existence is too weak."

"With this form of existence, if she were to possess a body created by magic and then supplement it with a dead soul, barely remaining in the human world, it wouldn't be a problem. However, if we were to place her thoughts and remaining soul back into her original body and revive her, I guess it would be impossible."

Having said that, Shang Yang added a sentence with a bit of helplessness.

"Although there's nothing we can do about this right now, it has a lot to do with me."

"That's true."

Nodding slightly, the Moon Sage spoke calmly.

"It is said that you placed the body of that human priestess in the cold hell of the otherworldly underworld. It is only natural that the cold spiritual power of fifty years has been used to create this level of fortune. It is a very interesting technique."

With Yagi Yonglin's knowledge of the events in ⑶肆凌起(二) WosiVIII, he naturally understood Shang Yang's intention of placing Kikyo's body in the cold hell of the underworld fifty years ago.

It was not just to protect the body of the witch. While protecting her body, Shang Yang also used the dragon veins flowing underground in the underworld to lay out the strange and complicated "Liang Yi Fa".

Fifty years ago, when Kikyo passed away, the life force in her body had already been exhausted. The pure spiritual power of the severe cold in the underworld hell, along with the "Liang Yi Fa" technique laid out by Shang Yang, gathered into Kikyo's body and circulated, restoring the vitality of this body. At the same time, the power of the dragon veins and cold spiritual energy was also "alienating" Kikyo's body, causing her body to gradually transition from a human to a body that was almost non-human.

In other words, Kikyo's body, which is still in the cold hell of the underworld, has been alienated by the spiritual power of severe cold for fifty years and is no longer a human body, but a non-human body.

"It's just a simple spell that uses the cold aura of another world and the power of dragon veins to transform a human body into a non-human one."

Shang Yang shrugged and answered indifferently.

"it's not a big deal."

Although Shang Yang said it lightly, in fact, Shang Yang had considered for a long time whether or not to use this "Liang Yi Method" to transform Platycodon's body into a non-human one.

Although I know that Kikyo will definitely return to this era, turning her into a non-human being like this is indeed a bit too much...

But soon, Shang Yang also made up his mind.

It's no big deal. At most, he'll just get hit by a few more Demon-Slaying Arrows. Don't worry too much about it. After all, when the witch comes back, she'll definitely use the Demon-Slaying Arrows to greet him. That's for sure, definitely, definitely...

However, until now, fifty years later, not long ago, Shang Yang discovered that the problem was not whether he would be purified by Kikyo's magic-breaking arrow after returning to the human world, or whether he would be shot into a hedgehog by Kikyo with countless magic-breaking arrows and then purified.

Rather, it is because, with the remaining soul of Kikyo, she should, probably, definitely not be able to return to her body, which Shang Yang had managed to transform into a non-human form, and return to the mortal world in her original body.

This was the current situation that Shang Yang understood after observing Kagome in Maple Village. To be more precise, he observed Kikyo's thoughts sleeping deep in Kagome's soul.

The power of Kikyo's remaining soul is too weak, and it is already the limit for her to move with the clay body made by the ghost girl Rito.

"Are you planning to use the power of the Penglai medicine to make up for this..."

Nodding slightly, Yagi Eirin's tone remained calm.

"While I agree with your approach, I'm not saying that the Penglai Medicine can't be made. However, making it would take a very long time for humans. Furthermore, due to many factors, it might not be possible to successfully make it in one go. Therefore, considering this aspect, I suggest you give up on it for now."

"That's it..."

Upon hearing the judgment of the Moon Sage, who was unparalleled in the field of medicine, Shang Yang did not show any regret, but just nodded slightly in understanding.

"Okay, I'll think of other ways."

Hearing Shang Yang's sigh, Bayi Yonglin nodded calmly.

Although Shang Yang did not feel regretful about this result, he also felt it was quite troublesome.

Originally, Shang Yang planned to wait for Platycodon to return to the human world, and then use the ability of yin and yang transformation to transform the medicinal power of Penglai medicine into the witch's thoughts, so that Platycodon's soul would be restored by the medicinal power of Penglai medicine while also having the power of immortality.

As long as this is accomplished, the remaining power of "fate" cause and effect will no longer threaten Platycodon's life, and Shang Yang will have fewer concerns.