Chapter 197 Zenyuan Zhang (Two in One)

Most of the people wandering around at night were nobles.

There is a popular custom in Heianjing called "visiting his wife". The man goes to the woman's house to stay overnight at night and does not leave until dawn the next day.

This is not necessarily a relationship between husband and wife, most of the time... it is just a relationship between lovers.

It was still dark, so Ping Yayan packed up his clothes, got on the bullock cart, and left his lover's mansion.

Any later and he would encounter bullock carts of other acquaintances on the road, for which he would always leave early.

In the morning before the sun rose, the sky was as dark as at night. The oxcart took the familiar road back home. Soon he would go to court to meet the emperor.

The scenery on the road is no different from usual...

No, maybe there are still some.

He looked at the woman standing on the roadside in gorgeous clothes, with long hair touching the ground, a sad expression and cold eyes, and stopped the bullock cart.

Her skin is as white as the moonlight, her hair is pitch black, and her eyebrows are pitch black. Her whole body looks only in black and white. She is so beautiful that one loses her voice. There is only one thought in her heart -

What is the female call this day?

The thought of encountering a female ghost on the road was all forgotten by Ping Yayan.

She is so beautiful, how could she be a monster?

She is so beautiful, how could she harm others?

It's all nonsense!

This must be a goddess from heaven!

"This... I don't know what to call her?" She and he didn't know what to call the woman for a moment.

"..." The beautiful woman looked at the opening and closing lips of the man in front of her, and her eyes slowly moved downwards, "Xiao Wei, my name is Xiao Wei."

Ping Yayan was bewitched by those black eyes full of Qinghui, and enthusiastically took the person back to his home.

At the same time, in Heianjing, beautiful women began to disappear at night.

A few days later, someone discovered several female corpses in the maple forest.

They were all stripped of their skins, leaving only flesh covered in blood. Even their identities were indistinguishable, and each one had lost their heart.

He likes to peel off the skin of beautiful women, feeds on people's hearts... All these habits seem to match the female ghost in the story that appeared not long ago.

Painting skin and bones is difficult to paint a heart. She was born lacking a heart, so she kept stealing other people's hearts.

Conventional methods were no longer of use, and the nobles began to work indiscriminately.

Who is shaking? Onmyoji.

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In a courtyard of Gojo House.

"Onmyoji has begun patrolling Kyoto for traces of the Painted Ghost..." Maro reported in a low voice everything that had happened outside recently.

The white-haired boy sat under the eaves of the corridor, with a chessboard beside him, playing chess with himself.

"Onmyoji has entered the stage..." he said with a chuckle.

"What Onmyoji?" Wu Jiaoqing heard these words as soon as he came over and looked at Su Wu narrowly.

"We're talking about what happened outside... Can the Onmyoji catch the Painted Skin Ghost?" Su Wu didn't mean to hide it, and naturally started chatting with Gojo Haru.

Gojo Haru is over thirty years old, but... without a wife or children, she seems to be alone.

And his appearance didn't look old. Standing together with Su Wu, he looked like two people of the same age.

White hair, white eyebrows, white eyelashes, blue eyes and snow-skinned skin, as noble as ice and snow, but he is very generous when he opens his mouth.

I wonder if Gojo Satoru will look the same as Gojo Haru a thousand years later.

"If you are talking about the onmyoji who were sent out... no." Gojo Haru gave his opinion without hesitation.

Although the Onmyoji raised by Onmyojia are not all useless, there are indeed not many who are useful.

Most of them can only predict good and bad luck and observe the weather.

There are not many people who can subdue monsters and fight them.

The conjurers are better at fighting each other than the others, and can fight with monsters and ghosts hand-to-hand, but they have specializations in the arts. The matter of monsters and ghosts is left to the Onmyoji, and the matter of cursed spirits is left to the conjurer.

As early as when the body was discovered, Gojo Haru ran to see it and came to the conclusion that it was a demon causing trouble and had nothing to do with the curse spirit.

The credibility of what the owner of the six eyes said was extremely high.

In this way, the conjurer no longer cares about this matter.

Just waiting to see how Onmyoji performs.

In this day and age, onmyojis look down on conjurers, and conjurers look down on onmyojis.

However, there is no harmony among the magicians. The Gojo family has a six-eyed man like Gojo Haru, who has assumed the identity of the leader of magic, but there are still a lot of people who are not convinced.

There are many demons and cursed spirits who want to kill Gojo Haru, but there are also quite a few humans who want to kill him.

"That painted-skin ghost is not suitable for the newly born strength." Gojo Haru touched his chin when he said this, with a relaxed tone and a smile.

"What do you mean by this?" The young man said with a smile on his face and a relaxed tone.

"If you have to say it..." Gojo Haru explained with a smile.

Logically speaking, the story of the Painted Skin Ghost has been circulating for only half a month, and it is impossible for her to be born for more than half a month.

What is the strength of a curse spirit that is just half a month old?

They were so weak that Gojo Haru didn't even have the desire to crush them to death.

The same is true for newly born demons and ghosts, they will not be too strong after all.

However, he used his six eyes to observe through the subtle energy remaining on the corpses that the painted skin ghost's strength was no different from that of the great demon.

He was born less than half a month ago and is already a great demon? Although it is not as good as the old demons and the like, it should not be underestimated.

"So that's it, is the Painted Skin Ghost actually so talented?" Su Wu asked pretending to be shocked.

"Of course..." Gojo Haru raised his head and laughed.

"Mist, mist, what do you want to do?" He suddenly asked.

The boy had just come to Kyoto when the story of the Painted Skin Ghost was born. To say it was a coincidence would be too much of an underestimation of his intelligence.

"Me?" Su Wu was not surprised.

None of the owners of the six eyes are stupid.

Because everything that ordinary people can or cannot see, which has been "seen" since childhood, is seen by those eyes.

"It's just a try." He said softly, holding a chess piece in his left hand.

"Creating demons and ghosts is no different from creating gods."

"I can make demons and ghosts born by writing, and naturally I can make gods born in my pen." He looked at his hands, which were slender and pale, with distinct joints.

This looked like a pair of adult hands.

"... What a treasonous idea." Gojo Haru slowly opened the fan and covered his face below his eyes.

Such... blasphemy against the gods.

"They can't come down to beat me, can they?" Su Wu sneered contemptuously.

If there really is a god, just come down and beat him up if you are not happy with him.

"I also want to create a legend of killing gods." Su Wu sighed.

"This is really..." Gojo Haru laughed dumbly.

"You scared me." He shook his head and sighed. Although he said so, he did not look scared at all.

"But those who died were innocent." He said again, as if admonishing.

No matter what the boy wanted to do, it was a fact that the painted skin ghost he created killed several people.

It really shouldn't be like this.

"... If you don't stop, the people in Kyoto will be in a panic, and maybe someone will ask Lord Seimei to take action." Gojo Haru said again.

"Abe Seimei..." Su Wu sighed.

He wanted to meet the other party, but he was just a stamp collector.

"The painted skin ghost should have ended. Don't worry, it won't be a big deal." Su Wu put away the chess pieces one by one.

When playing chess with his left and right hands, he also used his brain. He knew every step of his own, so he always played to the point where there was no solution.

"It's good that you know your limits." Gojo Haru said.

He looked kind and soft-hearted. He would remind Su Wu to be careful and pay attention to the people killed by the Painted Skin Ghost.

But he was not that kind, because his tone from beginning to end was not even a little bit higher. He knew who was responsible for the Painted Skin Ghost that made the people of Kyoto panic, but he did not respond.

"I'm curious about one thing. Is the Painted Skin Ghost so powerful that it is far beyond ordinary people since its birth because of me?" Su Wu said to himself.

What if someone else wrote the story of the Painted Skin Ghost?

"Of course it's because of you." Gojo Haru said firmly.

"You should know that if people like us curse someone..." Gojo Haru didn't finish his words, everything was self-evident.

With their strength, if they cursed that person after death...

The cursed person has a 99.9% probability of becoming a special cursed spirit.

Anything born from their thoughts is more powerful than that born from ordinary people.

If the Painted Skin Ghost was written by an ordinary person, then the story must have been brewing for half a year or even a whole year before the Painted Skin Ghost was really born.

The strength would not be as strong as the one created by Su Wu.

"However, does the Painted Skin Ghost have a name?" Gojo Haru asked curiously.

He also read the story about the Painted Skin Ghost. The name of the Painted Skin Ghost was not mentioned in the whole text. Of course, the unlucky man who was targeted by the Painted Skin Ghost also had no name.

"Her name is Xiao Wei." Su Wu laughed when he said this.

When he wrote it, he stitched the setting of the Painted Skin movie.

Although her name was not revealed in the story, she should be called Xiao Wei.

"It's called this name..." Gojo Haru tapped his palm with the fan in his hand.

"Do you think I can become an Onmyoji?" Su Wu suddenly asked.

"Onmyoji?" Gojo Haru stared at the boy with his pale blue eyes.

"Of course, you can." His tone was natural.

With the assistance of the six eyes, it is naturally possible.

But... spiritual power and curse power conflict with each other and do not merge with each other. If you want to practice together, it is often twice the result with half the effort.

The more cursed power, the less spiritual power.

"Because spiritual power and cursed power don't match, the Yin Yang Master also sees the sorcerer as if he sees filth." Gojo Haru said leisurely.

After all, cursed power comes from negative emotions. Compared with spiritual power that is as pure as moonlight, cursed power looks... filthy.

So Yin Yang Masters always want to throw a purification skill on the sorcerer to purify them, provided that they can do it.

"... Doesn't this mean that I can't be a Yin Yang Master." Su Wu sighed.

It's not that I can't be one, but after becoming one, the strength of Yin Yang Master's art will not be very strong.

After all, the cursed power on him is a little... too much.

It seems that he can only be active in Heian-kyō as a sorcerer.

"Spellers are not worse than Yin Yang Masters." Gojo Haru couldn't help but say.

Why do you sound like you want to switch to Yin Yang? They are not bad sorcerers either. They are well-known to be good at fighting, and they are almost all military commanders.

"People always want things they can't get." Su Wu said casually.

After being a sorcerer for a long time, I want to try being an Onmyoji.

"But you are more free than I thought." Su Wu looked at Gojo Haru.

Gojo Satoru seems to be said to be... a 007 work system? In comparison, it is much more comfortable to watch Gojo Haru doing nothing every day.

Perhaps it is also because there are not a few sorcerers and onmyojis now, and there are many who can fight.

Unlike in the later generations... there are only two or three kittens who can fight in the sorcery world...

The onmyoji family may have completely hidden themselves after the death of Abe Haruaki.

"If even I am busy, it proves that the situation in Kyoto is on the verge of collapse." Gojo Haru just said so.

His existence is the same as Abe Haruaki, which is equivalent to the Dinghaishenzhen among sorcerers.

When others can't handle it, it will be their turn.

"Hey..." Su Wu made a meaningless sound.

Hearing this, Gojo Satoru is even more miserable.

"Woof woof..." The white dog suddenly ran into the yard, stopped in front of Gojo Haru, and barked twice.

"Hey, Jade Dog, where is Zhang?" Gojo Haru greeted the white Shiba Inu familiarly.

"The Ten Kage of the Zenin family?" Su Wu reached out to touch the dog, but the dog backed away and refused to let him touch it.

"You know, it seems that a thousand years later, someone from your generation in the Zenin family has also inherited the Ten Kage." Gojo Haru said with a smile.

A thousand years later, it seems that the situation of the three great families is still in a three-way confrontation.

"No, the person who inherited the Ten Kage is not surnamed Zenin." Su Wu said with a smile.

His surname is Fushiguro.

"There is such a thing?" Gojo Haru's face was full of happy expressions.

As if he was very happy to see an accident in the Zenin family.

"What do you mean the person who inherited the Ten Kage is not surnamed Zenin?" A man with long black hair and black clothes walked in with green eyes.

Jade Dog saw the man's figure and immediately ran to him.

Su Wu leaned against Kong behind him without much care.

The dog is not as handsome as his big cat.

Su Wu smiled but said nothing. Gojo Haru said nothing more, but changed the subject. "This is the head of the Zenin family, Zenin Akira, who is also my... um... friend?" Gojo Haru said in an uncertain tone.

"Huh? Who is your friend? We are sworn enemies." Zenin Akira crossed his arms and said fiercely.

He doesn't look like Fushiguro Megumi. Fushiguro Megumi looks like a cool and arrogant guy, and he is obviously the second male lead.

And Zenin Akira... looks like a grumpy old man who will fight if he doesn't agree with him.

Compared with Fushiguro Megumi, this guy is more like Fushiguro Shier!

"This is Gojo Kiri, a junior of my family." Gojo Haru introduced Su Wu again.

"Who would come to the sworn enemy's house to drink tea..." Su Wu complained.

The sworn enemy dared to come? Aren't you afraid of being beaten out?

"Do you have any objections?" Zenin Akira sat down by himself and poured tea for himself without any hesitation, as if he was at home.

"Whatever you want." Su Wu shrugged.

You said it was a deadly enemy, so I'm fine as long as you're happy.

Gojo Haru was hiding his face with a fan, trying to hold back his laughter.

"Is this... your Shikigami?" Chanin Akira looked at the big white tiger behind Su Wu.

This size, this appearance, and this momentum...

"I guess so." Su Wu nodded slightly.

"Not bad." Chanin Akira praised.

"Kora is naturally excellent." Su Wu responded confidently.

For a moment, the scene became cold again.

Chanin Akira is not good at chatting with people, and Su Wu is a Schrodinger chatterbox.

Sometimes he is very good at chatting, with endless topics to throw out, and sometimes he is a mute.

"..." Gojo Haru's face turned red from holding back his laughter, and he cleared his throat, "Well, tell me, what do you want to see me for?" He said to Chanin Akira.