My personal opinion on Gensokyo

The dark, indifferent night swallowed everything. In the quiet valley, a large amount of crimson blood almost completely covered the surface. The remains of hundreds of people piled up into a huge mountain of corpses...

The bodies on the pile of corpses were all wearing similar clothes and armor, which confirmed their identities. They were the samurai and soldiers of the Fujiwara no Kyo court a thousand years ago.

And around the huge mountain of corpses, there were even more soldiers with expressions that could hardly hide their fear. Amid the loud shouts of the warriors, they rushed up the mountain of corpses with faces of fear, or madness and greed, waving their blades and slashing at the bloodstained and exhausted young man on the top of the mountain.

At the top of the huge pile of corpses, although his clothes were stained with dark red blood, Kikyo recognized him instantly. The young man standing on the top of the huge pile of corpses and seemed exhausted was the one with black hair and a face exactly the same as the Shang Yang she knew, the Shang Yang from a thousand years ago.

Finally, a trembling soldier, trembling with fear, carefully and slowly climbed up the pile of corpses from behind the exhausted Qing San K Si Mio Qi ⑵ R2 Division Scar ⑷ Nian. Terrified but resolute, he gritted his teeth, gripped the spear tightly, and stabbed it fiercely into the young man's back...

The young man's chest was pierced. After his body shook for a while, he lowered his head and died.

Seeing that he had actually stabbed this terrifying monster to death, the soldier shouted in almost disbelief and excitedly stood up in a hurry. He took out the short blade from his arms and hesitated for a moment before stabbing the young man's chest with the knife eagerly, cutting out the young man's dark red heart...

Seeing this scene, even the stunned witch subconsciously raised her bow, wanting to stop the soldier's actions. However, when the magic-breaking arrow pierced through the soldier's body like an illusory illusion, she remembered that this had only happened a thousand years ago...

Unable to bear it, the witch turned away her beautiful face.

Similarly, seeing the death of the terrible monster that killed countless people, the soldiers who were originally terrified and just stayed under the pile of corpses, as well as the warriors who were scolding the soldiers in fear, all fell into madness.

They crowded together, pushed and shoved each other, and trampled on the countless corpses on the mountain without any care. They climbed up the mountain one by one, and everyone's face was mixed with greed and tyranny. They all rushed up to snatch the dead body of the young man and exchange it for the rich reward from the court that they would never get in this life - the noble status of officials and nobles.

However, without any warning, the young man's dead remains exploded violently.

Countless soldiers and warriors who had rushed onto the pile of corpses, as well as the remains that formed the pile, were all blown into countless scattered debris. The soldier who had dug out the young man's heart was completely shattered from the waist down, leaving only a fragment of his upper body, which fell before the nobles who were standing at the foot of the pile, watching the whole thing in amazement...

The scenes of memories continued to change as Kikyo watched.

A thousand years ago, in the rising sun above the Fujiwara-kyo Palace in Kyoto, in the scene just now, under the brilliant Milky Way with fireworks blooming in the sky, the girl who had promised the young man to be together forever, tightly hugged the dark red heart that was still bleeding in her arms, like a cuckoo weeping blood, shouting the young man's name over and over again.

Then, the girl was dragged out of the hall by the warriors who rushed into the hall...

The specially made sticks designed to inflict pain on the victim, and even the cruel whips soaked in extremely concentrated salt water, fell on the girl's extremely weak body again and again without any sympathy or mercy...

Volume 6: Yearning Across Time and Space: Chapter 378: Shang Yang's Thousand Years (Part 2)

Even though she knew that what she was seeing was what had happened thousands of years ago, the priestess still tried to stop the executioners from coldly and cruelly whipping the girl who had done nothing wrong.

However, whether he wanted to use his spiritual power to fend off the indifferent warriors, or to use his body to block the falling rods, the executioner who whipped the girl coldly, his body was extremely weak, but under the cruel whip, he tightly protected his heart, which was still dripping with dark red blood, in his fragile arms. The girl who suppressed her voice and did not utter a cry of pain, was an illusory figure that the witch had no chance of touching...

Even though she knew it was useless and meaningless, the witch still tried her best to use her own body to block the whips and long whips that were whipping the girl's body...

Even though all this happened thousands of years ago...

The already extremely weak girl was brutally whipped for a full half hour...

Then, that night, in the cold and gloomy night, the girl who had been tortured to the point of dying was taken from the prison to the deserted and empty courtyard behind the palace.

First, the executioner's cold short blades pierced the girl's heart, and she was pushed into the already dug pit. Then, some soil, and more soil fell into the pit, gradually burying the girl who was still holding on to her last breath in pain...

The witch, who was also in the memory of a thousand years ago, could only suppress the heartache and loneliness of being unable to do anything, and watched all this...

The flow of memories suddenly began to become fragmented. Perhaps it was because it sensed Kikyo's heartache that the scene from a thousand years ago no longer appeared too much, but turned into fragmented scenes one after another.

……

late at night.

A dark gap suddenly appeared on the pile of corpses where Shang Yang was killed. The cold breath of death from the other side of the underworld filled the entire pile of corpses.

In the extremely deep crevice, a pair of calm and deep pupils faintly appeared.

Suddenly, a look of complete astonishment appeared in his calm eyes. Then, a sudden burst of violent demonic energy tore apart everything within a radius of several miles...

……

The moonless night sky was obscured by the sudden appearance of dark clouds. Amidst the strange, biting cold wind, in the empty space behind the palace, amidst the rumbling of thunder, a flash of white lightning suddenly struck the empty ground.

The surface of the earth was split open by thunder.

The surrounding trees were all ignited by the thunder and fire from the sky, burning fiercely. Similarly, in the deep pit split by the thunder and fire, a raging fire was also burning.

As the guards watched in horror, a blazing fire erupted, and within the deep pit, illuminated by the flames, a young girl, buried alive, had truly breathed her last. [The text then abruptly shifts topics.] She staggered, then stood up again...

……

The palace, shrouded in the darkness of the night, erupted in blazing flames. The raging flames continuously engulfed the palace and began to spread extremely rapidly...

These are just the beginning.

A mysterious and eerie invisible force enveloped the entire capital. The next moment, the waters that had been stagnant throughout Fujiwara-kyō, whether in the calm wells or the water flowing through the streets and alleys, erupted in raging flames. The entire capital, Fujiwara-kyō, was instantly engulfed in the bright glow of a blazing fire...

Fujiwara-kyo in Kyoto was engulfed in an unprecedentedly huge fire.

……

More and more fragmented scenes appeared in the witch's sight faster and faster, and at this moment, the "information" related to these fragmented scenes also flooded into her consciousness while the witch was in a dizzy state.

Destiny...eternal wishes...distorted karma...

This is why, thousands of years ago, Shang Yang, who had just arrived in this world, and that always lonely, yet always very, very kind girl, ended up parting ways in this life...

It seemed to be the reason for everything she had experienced fifty years ago.

……

The fragmented memories once again presented a scene to Kikyo, who was somewhat overwhelmed because she had seen too much.

Just like the fire that engulfed Maple Village fifty years ago, the raging flames engulfed the entire Fujiwara-kyo Palace in Kyoto. The tall Daigokuden collapsed amidst the raging blaze...

The same thing happened to Fujiwara-kyō in Kyoto. The entire city was engulfed in raging flames. Farmers, nobles, and aristocrats cried out in panic and fled in terror amid the raging flames. The entire city was transformed into a raging sea of ​​fire...

Inside the palace, on the high platform with high steps, in front of the collapsed and burning hall, a young man with black hair and gray clothes were stained dark red by the blood oozing from the wounds on his body. Shang Yang from a thousand years ago was hugging tightly the fragile girl whose pure white clothes were also stained dark red by the blood oozing from the wounds on her delicate body, and who was also hugging him tightly.

The dark red blood of the severely injured young man and girl stained each other's clothes. The blood of the young man and the girl, covered in blood, completely blended together, no longer distinguishable from each other...

It was in the bright light of this raging fire that the miko, who had been watching all this, clearly saw that the young man's hair, with its shaggy black hair, was as if stripped of life... gradually turning into the familiar gray-white color that the miko was familiar with, a somewhat decayed color that perfectly matched him...

Thousands of years ago, Shang Er1 Sanwu VII 镹溜叄 Woyang risked his own life to bring the girl he loved deeply back to the world of the living from the depths of hell.

A thousand years ago, the former Shang Yang turned into the man with gray and messy hair that Platycodon was familiar with.

Volume 6: Yearning Across Time and Space: Chapter 379: Shang Yang's Thousand Years (End)

Fujiwara-kyo was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames, and its past grandeur and prosperity were engulfed by the raging fire. It also completely exhausted the remaining luck of Fujiwara-kyo. From then on, this old Kyoto of Nara was no longer magnificent, and only the dilapidated ruins after the prosperity faded away remained.

For Platycodon, who has been gazing at all the memories from a thousand years ago, just what she has seen now is enough to make her think of many things. However, for Shangyang's long memory that has lasted for a thousand years, what is currently shown to Platycodon is only the beginning of the long thousand years, the beginning of everything. This brief scene from a thousand years ago is really an insignificant bit of time compared to the long time of thousands of years.

However, if she were to continue revealing everything that had lasted for thousands of years to the shrine maiden in her sea of ​​consciousness, it would be too exhausting. As a non-human being returning to the human world, Kikyo had not experienced too much time and was not accustomed to a life without the feeling of the passing of time.

For Platycodon, all the experiences contained in the long thousands of years are too complicated and long.

So, after revealing to Kikyo everything that had begun thousands of years ago through scenes one after another, all of Shang Yang's complete and long experience of thousands of years was transformed into "information" of memory, pouring into Kikyo's own memory like a surging tide. In addition to the memory of the years of her short life experience in the past, it turned into a "memory" that also belonged to her, but was thousands of years old.

Watching or reading is a way of receiving information and intelligence that is too slow. Therefore, Shang Yang, who made Kikyo fall into her own memory, gave Kikyo everything at the beginning and some of the most important information about "fate" through scenes one by one. Then, he turned all the remaining memories that spanned thousands of years into another long life and gave it to Kikyo.

This long millennium was not Platycodon's own experience. However, at this moment, Platycodon "saw" everything that Shang Yang had experienced during these long millennia...

After a devastating fire in Fujiwara-kyō, Kyoto, Shang Yang and Ai came to Yoshinoyama in Nara, not far from the ruins of Fujiwara-kyō. Deep in Yoshinoyama, they built a mansion, Onsensou, and settled there.

Ten years later, Shang Yang and Ai met the Moon Princess who descended from the Sea of ​​the Moon at the foot of Mount Yoshino, and Kaguya Houraisan who was exiled by the Moon City on the Sea of ​​the Moon.

The nobles of Kyoto were fascinated by the unparalleled beauty of Kaguya, the Moon Princess who was born in the family of Taketori Osamu. They all arrived at Mount Yoshino in Nara, hoping to win the favor of the peerless beauty Kaguya.

Afterwards, as if tired of the entanglement with the nobles, Kaguya of the Moon Sea took Shang Yang's advice and made five strange requests to the five most noble princes and nobles who proposed to her.

No prince or nobleman of high rank could obtain the precious treasure that Kaguya requested. Even one of the five princes and nobles, the powerful Minister of the Interior Fujiwara no Fuhito, went so far as to forge the precious Tang Dynasty treasure, the Imperial Seal, that Kaguya asked him for. However, his deception was exposed by Kaguya. When the living gods in Kyoto learned that the Minister of the Interior had forged the Imperial Seal, the most precious Tang Dynasty treasure, the living gods Emperor Mommu was furious and immediately ordered that Fujiwara no Fuhito be deprived of all his real power.

In order to completely resolve the ongoing dispute, the nobles residing in Mount Yoshino, Shang Yang and Ai, disguised themselves as the Moon Messengers of the Moon Kingdom. In public view of the nobles and thousands of soldiers, they took Kaguya away from the Bamboo Cutter's house on a full-moon night, making countless ordinary humans present believe that Kaguya on the moon had been taken back to the eternal pure land of the Moon Sea by the Moon Kingdom's messenger.

After being circulated in this country for thousands of years, these stories gradually became the "Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" that is familiar to the people of this land.

Fifty years later, Shang Yang, who was still living in seclusion in Yoshino Mountain in Nara, visited the Tang Kingdom across the sea with his love and Princess Kaguya, who also lived in Yoshino Mountain Hot Spring Resort. He spent twelve years there and promoted the arrival of Master Jianzhen, another eminent Buddhist monk who was dedicated to spreading Buddhism, in Japan, after Master Xuanzang who traveled west to the Buddhist land of India.

After six arduous journeys eastward, Master Jianzhen, devoted to spreading Buddhism, finally arrived in Japan. It was in this land that the Buddha's teachings truly took root and slowly grew...

At the same time, not long after the Buddhist monk Jianzhen traveled to Japan, in the underworld of the other world, Shang Yang, with the help of the mind-reading monster "Jue" and the eldest daughter of the Komeiji family, achieved the level of an ancient great monster...

At the same time, Shana, Shang Yang's most important assistant, appears in the world for the first time.

One hundred and fifty years later, Shang Yang (II), along with the eldest daughter of the Gu Ming Di clan, who had already joined Yoshinoyama Onsen Resort, Gu Ming Di Jue, and Shana, who had always been Shang Yang's important assistant, formed an alliance with two other ancient great monsters, the monster sage Yakumo Yukari and the lord of the large flower field, Kazami Yuuka. On the night of the full moon on August 9 of that year, they used the bright moon reflected in the surface of Kasumigaura Lake to open a smooth path to the Moon Sea and launched a large-scale One Hundred Demons Night Parade to invade the Moon Sea...

The war on the moon's surface was grand and brutal. Countless monsters formed a large-scale One Hundred Demons Night Parade. Under the leadership of the four generals of the One Hundred Demons Night Parade, they brazenly attacked the fertile moon sea of ​​the moon capital.

The magnificent war on the moon, the war between the monster lords and the moon sages and the moon gods, is like the legendary war between the gods of Takama-ga-hara and the gods on earth that has been circulating on this land for a long time.

During the One Hundred Demons Night Parade of countless monsters, the great barrier guarding the Fertile Moon Sea was unexpectedly broken by the monster lords. After a long and fierce battle on the plains of the Fertile Moon Sea and the Moon City guard forces, the sage of the Moon Sea, Yagi Eirin, the mentor of Kaguya-hime who was exiled to the mortal world hundreds of years ago, who went to fight against the monster lords leading the One Hundred Demons Night Parade, was also restrained by the monster sage Yakumo Yukari and the lord of the large flower field, Kazami Yuuka. The two moon princesses, sisters Watatsuki Toyohime and Watatsuki Itsuki, who commanded the main force of the Moon City Moon Rabbit Force and fought against the monsters' One Hundred Demons Night Parade, were captured by the hell monster lord Komeiji Kaku.

The Moon City's protective barrier was also shattered by Shang Yang, and the monsters' massive Night Parade of One Hundred Demons invaded the core of the Moon Sea - the Moon City...

In the final battle, Shang Yang, Gu Ming Di Jue, Shana and Feng Jian Youxiang successively fought against the Moon Goddess Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu and the God of the Wilderness Susanoo from the Moon City.

After a hard battle, Susanoo, one of the three gods of the Moon City, was seriously injured by Shang Yang and was then killed by Kazami Yuuka, the master of the large flower field who arrived at the Moon City Palace.

When the three gods of the Moon City were unable to repel the demons' Night Parade, and Shang Yang and other generals of the Night Parade found it even more difficult to completely destroy the Moon City, the demon lords who controlled the Night Parade forced the Moon Goddess Tsukiyomi to agree to make peace with the demons' Night Parade. They also agreed to Shang Yang's proposal to change the plan of sending a moon messenger hundreds of years later to pick up Kaguya-hime, who was temporarily exiled to the earth by the Moon City, and to imprison Kaguya-hime forever in the deep palace underground in the Moon City after she was brought back to the Moon Sea. Instead, they decided to exile Kaguya-hime forever.

Afterwards, the moon goddess Tsukiyomi, contrary to the expectations of the monster lords, proposed to marry the other two moon princesses, and let the sisters Wataru marry Shangyang, the lord of Yoshino Mountain and one of the four generals of the One Hundred Demons Night Parade.

This proposal of the Moon Goddess was unanimously agreed upon by both the monsters and the Moon City.

After completing the planned attack on the Moon City, the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, commanded by four ancient great monsters, once again returned to the world above ground through the path connecting the bright moon on the lake and the moon sea.

That night, at the ruins of Fujiwara-kyō, centuries ago abandoned by the Yamato court and gradually transformed into a demonic capital inhabited by monsters, a grand banquet was held to celebrate the great victory of the One Hundred Demons Night Parade, the conquest of the Lunar Sea. Shang Yang, having earned the title of "Monster Commander" for his magnificent victory in the Lunar War, heard from some monsters from the Western Kingdoms the name of "Toga-oh," a young dog-demon of the Western Dog-demon Clan. A thoughtful expression crossed his face...

The day after the grand banquet celebrating the victory of the Lunar War, at an internal meeting at Yoshinoyama Hot Spring Resort, Shang Yang and the girls who had stayed at the resort over the past few hundred years decided to travel to other worlds...

This journey lasted nearly four hundred years...

More than four hundred years later, when Shang Yang and the girls from the hot spring villa returned to this world, the already fully-established leader of the dog-demon clan in the western country, Inu Taisho Toga, who was also the father of the half-demon Inuyasha who appeared in Maple Village fifty years ago, formed an alliance with the great Kyoto monster Yuyuko who had been entrenched in Kyoto Heian-kyo for hundreds of years, and together launched a "rebellion" against Shang Yang, who was revered by the monsters in this land as the "Monster Commander-in-Chief".

The insignificant "rebellion" of Inu General Toga and Kitsune was quickly put down by Shang Yang. Inu General Toga and Kitsune, who could not bear to see the terrible power of the ancient monsters, were severely injured by Shang Yang who took action personally. Inu General Toga fled far to the west, and Kitsune surrendered to the terrible "Monster Commander" in fear.

It was after Inu no Taisho Toga fled to the deep mountains of the western country with injuries that the seriously injured and dying Inu no Taisho Toga was rescued by Princess Izayoi, the daughter of an ordinary daimyo and the mother of Inu no Taisho's second son Inuyasha.

Shang Yang, who learned about this, did not kill all the dog monsters in the Western Kingdom led by General Dog. Instead, he conveyed the imperial order of the commander-in-chief of all monsters in the world to the Western Kingdom, forgiving the dog monsters in the Western Kingdom headed by General Dog, Dou Ya Wang, and the monsters in the Western Kingdom who followed General Dog, Dou Ya Wang.

Another two hundred years passed, and during these two hundred years, the Kamakura shogunate, which actually ruled the country, was destroyed, and the two-hundred-year Kamakura period ended.

When the Kamakura shogunate, which ruled the world, fell, Shangyang and the girls from the hot spring village left Yoshino Mountain in Nara, where they had lived for seven hundred years, and went to the elusive clouds above, where they established another residence - Cloud Courtyard.

After more than ten years of war, the Muromachi shogunate was established to succeed the Kamakura shogunate in governing the world.

More than a decade after being defeated by Shang Yang, the chief demon commander of the world, and gaining Shang Yang's forgiveness, the overlord of the Western Kingdom, Dog General Dou Ya Wang, regrouped and defeated the terrifying Dragon Bone Spirit that was spying on the Western Kingdom's territory.

However, the dog general Toga, whose demonic energy was exhausted from battling the dragon bone spirit and who was seriously injured, fought to protect his human wife, Princess Izayoi, and the second son she was carrying. In a battle with a brave warrior under the command of a local daimyo, the overlord of the western kingdom, who had already exhausted all his strength, was buried in a sea of ​​flames...

In the following nearly two hundred years, the rule of the Muromachi shogunate gradually became corrupt again, and hundreds of years ago, the country fell into the Warring States Period again, which lasted for hundreds of years.

It was during the Warring States Period, a period of war that lasted for nearly a hundred years, that was fifty years ago in Kikyo's memory, on that snowy night.

Fifty years ago, after thousands of years, a young man with gray hair appeared before Kikyo...

At this point, Shang Yang, the ancient great monster, the chief monster commander, the former lord of Yoshino Mountain, and the current master of Yunzhong Courtyard, has spent thousands of years on this land...

On that cold, snowy winter night fifty years ago, the young man with the same gray, shaggy hair as the one from a thousand years ago saw her, the woman who had existed in his memory for a thousand years...

That shrine maiden who lived in the Warring States Period, Kikyo...

PS1: It seems quite appropriate to use Shang Yang’s Thousand Years as a summary of the old chapter.

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Volume 6: Thoughts on the Release + Some Reflections

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