$452, Shodaiji Temple (1/2)
Tsuchimikado Seimei turned his head and looked at the south gate behind him. Many warriors silently surrounded him and Minamoto Yoritomo.
Minamoto Yoritomo held a token in his hand that was stained red with blood.
He came running with many warriors, but he did not speak, and took out the token to check from time to time.
"Don't look at it." Tsuchimikado Seimei spoke, took out a brocade bag from his arms, handed a horse cut out of a stack of white paper to Minamoto Yoritomo, and continued, "The Shikigami Order that Minamoto Yoritomo just gave you , does not allow you to find the location of Minamoto no Ryitsuke.
When you crush the Shikigami Token, the wind tanuki will appear.
Your breath will be stolen by the 'Wind Raccoon Cat', and then dispersed in the wind. It will be sensed by the Taira family warriors and become the target of Taira Chimori's pursuit. "
Minamoto Yoritomo was stunned when he heard this.
He put away the token calmly.
Tsuchimikado Seimei said with a smile: "A big man like Minamoto Norigō-sama cannot take his words seriously even if he is about to die.
There are various considerations hidden in it. If you are not careful, you will fall into the trap he sets with your own death as bait. "
Speaking of this, Tsuchimikado Seimei lowered his voice: "I was originally sent by him to monitor your every move - but unfortunately, he never thought that the monitor and the monitored had already reached cooperation. ”
"Now Chimori Taira has sent manpower to chase 'Inoue Canteru'.
Once I have solved the reason for the rise of the Taira clan - Shuten Doji - I will lead the many ghost warriors of the Genji family to fulfill the promise between you and me - to surround and kill 'Inoue Canteru' and leave him to you to deal with!
Inoue Canteruo is particularly dangerous, and Taira Chimori's manpower is used to drain his power.
Two dogs fight, play off. "Minamoto Norigō's eyes flashed coldly, he whispered a few words to Tsuchimikado Seimei, and then distributed the stack of paper horses in his hand to the many ghost warriors behind him.
He said to the warriors behind him: "Put the paper horse on your legs to speed up your leg strength.
We must rush as soon as possible to support brother Minamoto no Yorike! "
"yes!"
All the warriors responded one after another, and there was a rustle in the team.
Tsuchimikado Seimei looked at Minamoto Yoritomo calmly. After Minamoto Yoritomo put up the paper horse, he suddenly asked softly: "When you find Minamoto Yoritsuke, how are you going to get the supreme sword from him? ?”
Minamoto Yoritomo glanced at Tsuchimikado Seimei.
As he strode forward, he said in a voice: "Minamoto Yori Sutra is an indecisive person, more than gentle but not dignified.
As long as you reason with him,
He would be willing to hand over the 'doji-giri' to me. "
Tsuchimikado Seimei stepped up to follow Minamoto Yoritomo and continued: "We will go around from the south gate to the west ferry, and take a boat from there to leave Minamotoji's residence.
I will guide you, and I will definitely let you find the traces of Minamoto no Sutra. "
"Thank you!
When I regain control of Genji, I will definitely reward you generously! "Minamoto no Yori nodded heavily.
…
Wow, wow...
Under the dark sky,
The lake is also like a mirror that can swallow up all light.
A small boat was dragging upstream of the mirror, causing ripples on the lake surface, finally adding a bit of vitality to the quiet lake.
The boat slowly approached the shore.
Su Wu stood on the boat and looked at the Genji mansion on the island in the middle of the lake.
The Genji Residence, facing the ferry, is still brightly lit and looks magnificent and beautiful.
"Sir, we've arrived."
The samurai of the Inoue family spoke in a deep voice and tied the boat to the shore.
Under a tree not far away, several Ping warriors who were chatting together clearly noticed the movement on the shore of the lake and gathered over holding torches.
The Taira samurai purged some of the Genji samurai patrolling around Mirror Lake.
Occupy this place and make it the rear of Taira Chimori and others who march straight into Genji's mansion.
The samurai instinctively felt that something was wrong with the people on the docked boat. They were not Taira samurai, so they naturally gathered for questioning and pursuit.
"who?!"
The Taira samurai called to the silent boat that was docked on the shore.
He pointed the torch in his hand towards the boat on the shore, trying to reflect the actual scene on the boat.
The golden red light of the fire first reflected the scattered shadows on the ground.
Thick black liquid overflowed from the chaotic shadows - a figure appeared silently in front of the warriors - they watched the figure appear, and before they even had time to issue a warning, they found that their throats were forever I can't make any sound either!
The figure that appeared from the shadows stretched out its black hands into more than a dozen pythons, each coiled with a blood-stained sword, and swept across the necks of the Taira warriors like a windmill!
In the darkness there was only the muffled sound of heads falling to the ground.
Blood rippled across the land.
Su Wu passed through a headless corpse and dragged Anzuna and the Inoue family warriors out of the shadows - when the boat docked, Su Wu had already swallowed everyone into the shadow world.
When many Taira warriors saw the boat docking, they
There is no one in the boat!
"Bring the horses under the tree."
Su Wu gave instructions to the samurai of the Inoue family, and then asked the remaining three people: "Which of you has been to Kyoto or walked around here? Do you know the nearby routes?"
His eyes focused on a thin-faced warrior.
The thin-faced samurai was the one who suggested that everyone leave by boat from the small ferry.
The other party observed it very carefully, and maybe he knew the terrain and paths around Genji's residence.
However,
This time, the thin-faced warrior met Su Wu's gaze and shook his head in shame, indicating that he did not know the path near the Genji residence.
"Catch a Heike samurai on the way and ask for directions."
Su Wu looked at the corpses on the ground, and without saying much, he took the reins handed over by his samurai and jumped on the horse.
The group drove their horses away from this place,
and indeed met a team of Heike samurai halfway.
Six of them were killed, and a timid one was left. He asked about the terrain and buildings nearby with a few words.
The leader of the five samurai team of the Inoue family, 'Yamazenno', killed the timid samurai with a sword, sheathed the sword, turned around and walked into the team, and jumped on his mount.
"Go south from here, you can pass through a downtown area.
After passing through the downtown area, we can leave Heian-kyo." An Gang sorted out the information obtained from the Heike samurai and gave Su Wu a suggestion.
Su Wu glanced at the Heike samurai who was killed by Yamazenno.
His face was hidden in the darkness, making it difficult to see his true expression. One could only hear his calm and emotionless voice: "He said before that if you walk east from here for more than ten miles, you will reach the 'Shodaiji Temple' that has stopped being worshipped?"
"Yes." An Gang nodded, raised his eyes to look at Su Wu who was blurry in the darkness, and asked carefully, "Does Zhu Zhaojun plan to go to Zhaodaiji Temple? Although it is a long detour and it is not convenient for us to leave the city.
But no matter what decision Zhu Zhaojun makes, we fully support it."
Su Wu said 'hmm',
and then said: "Let's go east.
I want to go to Zhaodaiji Temple to have a look."
The temple where 'Jianzhen' was found - Zhaodaiji Temple.
During the days when he was lingering in the Genji mansion, Su Wu had already heard some news about Jianzhen.
The great monk Jianzhen had suddenly 'disappeared' more than ten years ago.
It is said that since the great monk Jianzhen disappeared from Zhaoti Temple without any signs, the temple has often been attacked by evil spirits. There are legends related to this abandoned temple, such as "white hands at the temple gate", "Yuanxing Gate", "female monk", "fire front square", etc.
Many pilgrims who went to Zhaoti Temple to worship after Jianzhen disappeared claimed to have encountered some kind of evil spirit.
Some people even disappeared in Zhaoti Temple.
This led to the gradual decline of incense in Zhaoti Temple. The monks of the "Vinaya School" who took Zhaoti Temple as their sect had to abandon the temple, leaving only some elderly monks in Zhaoti Temple to clean the temple every day.
The remaining monks begged for alms and re-established the "Kinko Temple".
It became the sect of the "Vinaya School" founded by Jianzhen.
There may be evil spirits in Zhaoti Temple, or it may just be a rumor, but since the great monk Jianzhen disappeared in Zhaoti Temple, it shows that this temple is unusual.
‘Jianzhen’ carried the ‘Stone of All Living Things’ to Dongliu Island.
How did the ‘Stone of All Living Things’ merge with the ironstone vein of Dongliu Island and transform it into the ‘Stone of Killing Life’ vein?
What is the origin of the ‘Stone of All Living Things’ and the ‘Demon Buddha’?
If the ‘Stone of Killing Life’ vein is actually transformed from the ‘Stone of All Living Things’, then what about the rumor that ‘Tamamonomae’ turned into the ‘Stone of Killing Life’ after his death? Kotetsu’s family elders personally participated in the crusade against ‘Tamamonomae’.
This battle to defeat ‘Tamamonomae’ was led by Jianzhen!
Jianzhen once mentioned in a letter to Axiong that he had made some achievements in his research on the Stone of Killing Life. He refined the ‘Binding Gui Rope’. After that, did he continue to transform the ‘Binding Gui Rope’?
What is his understanding of the Stone of Killing Life?
And, the most important question - from the narration of 'Axiong', we can learn that 'Jianzhen' has never accommodated Li Gui, has never used 'Living Armor', and Jianzhen disappeared from Zhaoti Temple more than ten years ago.
It has been more than two hundred years since they crossed the Dongliu Island to the east!
How did an ordinary person who did not use the living armor live for more than two hundred years? !
Su Wu did not expect to find the answers to these questions in Zhaoti Temple,
but only hoped to get a clue about Jianzhen's whereabouts.
After he made the decision,
everyone nodded in agreement without any objection.
Although Su Wu's decision would make it more difficult for everyone to leave Heian-kyō and the vortex of the 'Genpei War', along the way, everyone's trust in Su Wu has reached an unprecedented level.
Moreover, everyone knows more clearly that
following Su Wu only makes it more difficult to leave Heian-kyō.
However, if they no longer follow Su Wu, they may not be able to save their lives in this long night!
"Let's go!"
Su Wu glanced at the faces of his men and nodded to An Gang.
The group disappeared into the darkness.
Not long after they left, Ping Lingsheng and many ghost warriors arrived here in a mighty force.
The Yin-Yang master "Kazama" dismounted to check the body of the Taira samurai who was killed by Yamazenno Ichidao. He dipped his finger into some blood from the wound of the body and scraped the blood into the round hole in the center of the compass with a small wooden knife.
The needle on the compass suddenly turned several circles,
and finally pointed to the east.
Kazama climbed on the horse and said to Ping Lingsheng: "Second Master, Inoue Zhuzhao led people to the Zhaoti Temple in the east."
"He killed so many of my Taira samurai along the lakeshore, and he is already a mortal enemy of my Taira clan.
At this time, he dared to go to Zhaoti Temple, and still wanted to visit the secluded and the victorious?" Ping Lingsheng spoke in a cold voice, and the pair of eyes under the evil mask were full of fierce light, "Let's go!
Surround the Shodaiji Temple,
Strangle Inoue Jūzō! "
"Yes!"
Dozens of ghost warriors responded loudly.
Ping Lingzi, who was trapped in a thorny wood cage and carried on the back of a tall ghost warrior, pursed his lips, with an inexplicable emotion in his eyes.