My personal opinion on Gensokyo

It must not be used again by the hideous ancient monster in front of it, even if it means destroying this false clay body and losing its current "life".

This is Kikyo's unshakable and cold obsession.

Hearing such a cold question, Shang Yang felt extremely helpless and sighed. After organizing his words again, he slowly advised in the most sincere tone.

"...No, Kikyo, I just want to take you back to Maple Village once."

"If you don't want to talk to me, why don't you go see your sister Feng? It's been fifty years, and she really misses you..."

"At her current age, I'm afraid there aren't many more years left for you to see her..."

"...No need."

When her only relative was mentioned, the cold-looking witch was stunned for a moment, and then revealed a hint of deep-seated loneliness.

"...There's no need for that. Xiao Feng...is much better than me..."

This revealed the true feelings of the lonely shrine maiden.

Compared to Kikyo, who failed to protect the Shikon Jewel and lost everything when Maple Village was engulfed in fire during the heavy snow fifty years ago, her only sister Kaede defended Maple Village from the fire in the following fifty years.

Maybe Feng's talent is not outstanding, and her spiritual power is even worse than that of her extremely talented sister Kikyo. However, in Kikyo's view, Feng... has long been more competent and better than herself, and is an outstanding shrine maiden who is capable of protecting Feng Village.

……Chance.

Suddenly, the yin and yang power of Shang Yang, which Platycodon had never truly seen fifty years ago, manifested in this world.

Taking advantage of the distraction of the shrine maiden when she heard Maple mentioned deliberately by Shang Yang, Shang Yang originally wanted to use the method he had used to simply freeze Kagome Higurashi and Inuyasha to freeze the shrine maiden in front of him, but was blocked by Kikyo's keen intuition. This time, in order to be absolutely sure, he used the real power of the two yin and yang.

There was no sign of unfolding, no time of activation. Deep in the forest in the dark night, where Shang Yang and Platycodon were facing each other, the long river of time that slowly flowed towards the future disappeared.

Even the slightest "change" was completely locked down.

Sound no longer transmits, air no longer flows, and the physical world is "frozen".

Not only here in reality, but also in this dead silence, all causal connections of "change" are completely isolated, and the connection between all things no longer exists.

Although there was no sign of unfolding, no activation time, and the conceptual structure was different, Shang Yang and Shana, who completed this technique together, still named this technique after the "Freedom Method" from another parallel world, the "Red World", which originated from the "Red World Demon King", the consultant of the "Masquerade", "Tan Dan Qiu Jiu Dantalio", and was improved by the Red World's Freedom Method Master "Spiral Organ Lian Nancy".

"Seal off."

Unlike the free method "Sealing" that unfolds with the power of existence, the "Sealing Technique" completed by Shana and Shang Yang is a compatible technique that does not pick and choose the form of power.

In the simplest case, the "Sealing Technique" can be launched with the demonic power of the monsters. This is also the universal method of the "Sealing Technique". For more advanced cases, for example, Shana can also use her power of cause and effect to launch the "Cause and Effect Sealing". Kaguya Hourai can also use her power of moment and eternity to launch the "Eternal Sealing". These are both unique versions of the "Sealing Technique".

Similar to the "Heavenly Demon Reincarnation" technique designed by Shang Yang, which is used by all the girls in Yunzhongting Hot Spring Villa, this "Sealing Technique" completed by Shana and Shang Yang is also one of the secret techniques of Yunzhongting Hot Spring Villa.

The one in front of him relied on the power of Liang Yi to distort the flow of time, denied the conceptual law of change, and completely blocked the "Sealing Technique" of all changes. This was Shang Yang's personal "Liang Yi Sealing".

Similarly, similar to the "Heavenly Demon Reincarnation" that distorts the ability to objectively perceive everything, the "Sealing Technique" that denies objective concepts and locks off the objective world is also a true "Law-level technique."

The forest in the deep night has become a still painting, and the beautiful witch with a cold expression, holding a sharp arrow against her snow-white neck, has become the most beautiful scene in this painting.

Taking a few steps forward, the young man with gray and white hair slowly raised his hand, and his slender index finger touched the sharp arrow that the cold-looking witch was holding against her snow-white neck.

Suddenly, the Demon-Destroying Arrow began to break into pieces. The wooden arrowhead turned into countless wood chips, and the sharp arrowhead also broke into pieces and scattered on the grass.

After removing the dangerous arrows that would endanger the witch's life, the young man with gray hair withdrew his hands and casually snapped his fingers.

The pure white yin-yang energy wrapped around the shrine maiden's simple red and white robe, turning into a chain that bound her delicate body. Without any warning, the "Sealing-镹溜琉罒O榴qEi８鍌陾拔绝之術" that had completely locked this area also suddenly disappeared without any warning.

The flow of the long river of time once again "injected" into the static painting, all the tiny changes were unblocked, the air began to flow again, and the dead painting gradually came to life.

"...Is this the power of an ancient great monster that has lived for thousands of years?"

After the "seal" was lifted, Kikyo was shocked to find that she had been bound by strong chains wrapped around her body without knowing when. Although she felt unexpected, the cold-blooded shrine maiden also understood.

My resistance seems to have completely failed...

Looking directly at the ancient monster with gray and white hair in front of her, the witch still maintained a cold and indifferent expression.

"Heh...it seems like you're starting to get tired of all this fake pretense."

"It's really not what you think... Well, whatever."

Facing Kikyo's emotionless and cold gaze calmly, Shang Yang wanted to explain as if by reflex. After he subconsciously said these words, he shook his head and sighed again in some distress, then raised his hand naturally and opened his palm.

A pale blue lotus of the soul emerged from the palm of the young man with gray hair and slowly rotated.

Some weak gray air currents emerged from the dark pupils of the young man with gray and white hair, spun several times in front of Shang Yang's eyes, and fell into the green lotus of the soul floating in Shang Yang's palm.

Countless faint gray-white air currents continuously repeated the above process. After the last gray-white air current overflowed from Shang Yang's pupils and fell into the Soul Green Lotus, the pale blue Soul Green Lotus seemed to have also been stained with a hazy gray-white color because it was filled with gray-white, smoky air currents.

"This is my memory, and this is what I want to tell you."

Slowly speaking, the gray-haired young man calmly met the still-cold-faced witch's gaze. Without giving Kikyo any time to react, the Soul Green Lotus floating in Shang Yang's palm, following Shang Yang's will, slowly floated in front of Kikyo and sank into her body...

Then, the memories of Shang Yang, stretching back thousands of years, completely flooded into the witch's heart...

PS1: Shang Yang’s Thousand Years will be published tomorrow, and there are still several old chapters that have been written.

PS2: A new reader told me that the Orange Goddess I wrote has a very similar feel to the original novel. Hmm, thank you for your recognition~

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Volume 6: Yearning Across Time and Space: Chapter 376: Shang Yang's Thousand Years (Part 1)

The essence of the ancient monster that has existed for thousands of years, the origin of the Yin and Yang theory - the Yuanshen Qinglian, after being filled with grayish-white mist, seemed to be stained with a vague and hazy grayish-white.

Without any obstruction, the pale blue lotus with several wisps of gray-white air scattered on its surface floated in front of the witch who was bound by chains and sank into her body.

Without any thought, Kikyo's consciousness fell into a long memory that stretched back thousands of years...

……

In countless memories, Kikyo saw that in a memory thousands of years ago, in a room decorated in a somewhat strange style, a "boy" with black hair and a face exactly the same as Shang Yang with gray hair, but who seemed to be two or three years younger than Shang Yang, sat on a chair, staring intently at the strange thing in front of him that the witch had never seen before.

Like a bronze mirror, the front of that strange square object reflected one vivid picture after another.

However, when Kikyo turned her gaze to the moving picture, she was stunned as she saw the "boy" who looked almost exactly like the Shang Yang she knew, but with a different hair color.

The shrine maiden in that picture, dressed in a simple red and white shrine maiden costume, clearly looked very similar to me...

The scene kept changing. In it, the miko, who looked exactly like herself, was leaning weakly in the arms of the half-demon Inuyasha from fifty years ago. A gentle smile of relief emanated from her, transforming into soft light. Surrounded by dead soul bugs, she transformed into tiny points of spiritual light, soaring into the dazzling night sky filled with countless twinkling stars...

This is……

Seeing this unreal yet extremely beautiful scene, Kikyo frowned slightly.

She knew that these were Shang Yang's memories from a thousand years ago, which he had shown her. However, seeing this scene before her, Kikyo became even more confused. These memories should have been left behind thousands of years ago, or even longer than a thousand years ago...

Then, how could she exist in this memory...

Thinking so, subconsciously, the confused witch shifted her gaze back to the face of the young man beside her. However, after seeing the young man's face, the witch was stunned again.

Seeing the "self" in the picture transform into tiny dots of light and fly up into the starry sky, the "young man" with a face similar to Shang Yang seemed a little bit unbelievable, staring blankly at the picture, the emotions deep in his eyes also became extremely complicated...

Unbelievable, sad, disappointed...

It seemed that the boy had never imagined that such a scene would appear.

……

The picture is shattered.

The bewildered witch didn't have time to observe again. The picture depicted by this very, very ancient memory from thousands of years ago shattered into countless pieces like broken glass and disappeared without a trace.

Then, Platycodon saw that this time, the "young man" who had only different hair color but whose appearance was exactly the same as Shang Yang came to a magical place. It was pitch black there, but at the very top in the center, there was a big light ball that looked like a big egg and emitted white light.

Seeing this egg-like white ball of light, the young man seemed very happy and wanted to shout something to it. However, he said nothing afterwards. He just stared at it blankly, as if he was distracted...

Then, the scene that Kikyo saw changed instantly. The originally pitch black scene with only a large white light ball turned into a vast and boundless chaotic sea with unimaginable grandeur, gray air currents everywhere, and a chaotic atmosphere.

In this vast gray and hazy chaotic sea, from afar, Platycodon can see a huge, unimaginably magnificent light blue lotus, quietly resting on this vast and boundless chaotic sea.

In the Chaos Sea, the lotus that seemed to have remained unchanged since ancient times gradually underwent a change. The extremely magnificent lotus gradually shrank and disappeared, as if it had never existed in this Chaos Sea filled with gray and hazy chaotic air currents.

Later, everything the witch saw returned to that mysterious dark place where only a large white ball of light like a big egg was hanging in the air. A pale blue lotus as big as a normal person also appeared here.

A light blue light flashed, and the blue lotus disappeared. The young man who appeared in the same place was still Shang Yang, only with a different hair color, but his clothes had become complicated clothes similar to Shang Yang's fifty years ago.

……

Similarly, this memory disappeared after it was revealed.

But the scene in Shang Yang's memory that followed made the witch feel inexplicably familiar.

It was a slightly dilapidated view of Kyoto.

Compared with the Kyoto Heian-kyo that the witch remembered, which she and Shang Yang had visited fifty years ago, this capital was just as old and dilapidated.

Extremely cold.

Just like Kyoto Heian-kyo fifty years ago, poor farmers wearing patched clothes, carrying loads and walking barefoot in the streets of the capital in groups of three or two, while nobles still traveled in luxurious carriages decorated with gold and silver.

However, although it is very similar to Kyoto Heian-kyo fifty years ago, this place is not Kyoto Heian-kyo.

This was the capital of the Yamato nobles and the imperial court a thousand years ago, Nara Fujiwara-kyo.

This is the true origin of Shang Yang, the chief monster commander who has lived on this land for a thousand years. It is also the time when Shang Yang first came to this world.

……

The memories of Shang Yang, who had lived in this world for thousands of years, continued to stretch out. The shrine maiden saw that a thousand years ago, in the ancient Kyoto Fujiwara-kyo, a young man who appeared in this world for the first time met a girl who had lived in Fujiwara Palace since childhood.

It was a fateful encounter thousands of years ago.

In order to relieve the loneliness and solitude of the girl who had never left the palace and had a somewhat cold personality, the young man who had just arrived in this world resolutely went with the girl to the continent across the sea, to the greatest country in the world a thousand years ago.

The young man brought the girl the greatest, most brilliant and most glorious things of that era a thousand years ago. In the capital of the Tang Empire - the sacred city Luoyang, the young man showed the girl the most beautiful, dreamy and miraculous scenery of that era a thousand years ago.

In such memories, Kikyo also clearly saw what the young man and girl had experienced a thousand years ago, the miraculous and glorious scene of the capital of the vast Tang Dynasty across the sea - the divine capital Luoyang.

The sky is filled with beautiful fireworks, the magnificent and splendid Tongtian Palace, the colorful and brightly lit Heaven Tower reaching into the sky, the sky is filled with fireworks, and the lights of thousands of homes are shining, filling the divine capital Luoyang with joy and peace.

A thousand years ago, in Luoyang, the greatest divine capital in the world, where greatness, glory, dreams and miracles gathered, a girl who had been accompanied by loneliness since birth, felt joy for the first time. For the first time, she completely cast aside the loneliness that had accompanied her for more than ten years.

A thousand years ago, in the divine capital of Luoyang, for the first time since her birth, the girl's peerlessly beautiful, yet always cold face revealed a genuinely happy smile...

PS1: There are three chapters today, at 6pm, 9pm and 12am respectively.

Volume 6: Yearning Across Time and Space: Chapter 377: Shang Yang's Thousand Years (Part 2)

Thousands of years ago, fireworks filled the sky, one after another, blooming across the sky. Under the brilliant Milky Way that split the dark night sky dotted with stars into two, the streets of Luoyang City, full of the bustling atmosphere of the world, were crowded with bustling crowds of people.

Leaving Fujiwara Palace, her birthplace, for the first time in her life, the young woman arrived in Luoyang, the divine capital of the Tang Empire. She was immediately overwhelmed by the unprecedented bustle and joy before her, a truly joyful smile spreading across her face. Without a word, she reached out and grabbed the young man who had brought her to Luoyang, pulling him along as they joined the bustling crowd, heading towards the brightly lit Heavenly Tower, perched in the heart of Luoyang, reaching into the night sky...

In Shang Yang's memory, the divine capital Luoyang a thousand years ago was filled with warmth, liveliness and joy. In the bustling streets with lights, Platycodon also watched all this quietly.

Although everything here is just Shang Yang's memories from a thousand years ago, Luoyang, the Kyoto Heian-kyo, completely copied the planning and design when it was built. However, it was also limited by the scarce manpower that the Yamato court could mobilize. Kyoto Heian-kyo was far inferior to the divine capital Luoyang a thousand years ago that actually existed in Shang Yang's memories.

Moreover, this place, the divine capital Luoyang that existed in Shang Yang's memory a thousand years ago, is also very different from the Kyoto Heian-kyo that existed fifty years ago in Kikyo's memory.

Fifty years ago, the Kyoto Heian-kyo that Kikyo witnessed was ancient, dilapidated, and gloomy, but in Shang Yang's memory, Luoyang, the capital of the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago, was filled with the bustling, lively, and warm atmosphere of the human world.

Unconsciously, the witch realized that she too seemed to be attracted by the glorious and magnificent divine capital Luoyang thousands of years ago...

Ever since her birth, the country in Kikyo's memory had been the Warring States Period, a period of famine and war that had lasted for hundreds of years. Every inch of land was rife with war, and in every village, poor villagers died tragically from famine, plague, and looting by bandits...

Fifty years ago, in her short life, the witch had witnessed too much tyranny, cruelty and pain of the Warring States Period.

It was precisely because the Warring States Period of war and famine had lasted for hundreds of years on the land of the Warring States that the despair and suffering brought to the poor people living in this land of the Warring States, and the Buddhist teachings that completely denied the human world and advocated aversion to the filthy world and longing for the Pure Land, could develop under the guidance of the Ikko sect into the Ikko Ikki that swept across most of the land of the Warring States, pushing the Warring States Period, which had already lasted for hundreds of years, into an even more cruel and tyrannical chaos.

However, now, in Shang Yang's memories of thousands of years ago, he saw countless witches who had experienced famine, war, natural disasters and man-made disasters during the Warring States Period, but he also saw what a "prosperous age" was.

Luoyang, the capital of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, also made Platycodon feel a little unsettled.

On the nearly three-hundred-meter-high Heavenly Pagoda, Kikyo quietly watched the young girl, seemingly convinced it was all a dream. Tears streamed down her face, yet she was incredibly happy. She tightly embraced the young man who had brought her to the divine capital of Luoyang...

Atop the majestic, towering Heavenly Pagoda, beneath the radiant Milky Way ablaze with fireworks, a young girl, weeping uncontrollably, and a young man, holding her tightly, made a vow in Luoyang, the divine capital, a thousand years ago, to be together forever...

Quietly watching the girl and young man hugging each other tightly under the brilliant Milky Way with fireworks blooming in the sky a thousand years ago on the pagoda in heaven.

It seemed a little hard to explain, but the shrine maiden on the highest level of this towering, majestic Heavenly Pagoda felt a sense of emptiness in her heart, yet at the same time, an inexplicable sense of security...

……

Suddenly, the extremely beautiful painting under the dazzling Milky Way of fireworks was cruelly torn apart.

"……This is?!"

As the divine capital Luoyang, where fireworks were blooming all over the sky under the brilliant Milky Way, disappeared, another violent scene unfolded in front of Kikyo without any warning, causing the originally calm shrine maiden to reveal complete surprise.