Hidden God

Chapter 76: Shuhai Tiankeng

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Looking down from the edge of the sinkhole, it looks like someone hollowed out a mountain peak, leaving behind a hole with a large mouth and narrow bottom, and water accumulation. Even though I was several hundred meters away from the bottom of the pit, I could still see a lifeless dark green color coming from the pool at the bottom of the pit—that was probably not living water. The Ito family samurai gathered at the bottom of the sinkhole looked like toy soldiers placed around the pool.

Not long after, I saw someone building a fire at the edge of the pool. Four Japanese men in white robes and black gauze hats were dancing around the fire, making strange sounds one after another, but the Ito family warriors were respectful. He bowed his head respectfully to the four people.

Further away, there is a curtain made of white cloth. Under the light of the fire, I could vaguely see a kneeling figure behind the curtain, but I couldn't tell who it was.

Lu Xinyao whispered: "What are they doing?"

"I don't know." I shook my head. "Looking at the clothes they wear, they should be Japanese Shinto priests. I don't have much research on Shintoism, so I can't tell what they are doing."

I only know that Shintoism is a native religion of Japan, derived from shamanism. Like shamanism, it is a pantheistic religion. It believes that all things are animistic and worships a wide range of gods. Mountain gods, water gods, sun gods, etc. are all included in Shinto worship. In the later period, Shintoism also integrated Confucian and Buddhist ideas and formed its own characteristics. As for other things, I saw them from anime, so I can’t take them seriously.

Ito Maka said that Ito had been studying shamans and had also asked for help from Onmyoji. Now it seems that Ito Moka did not tell the truth. Onmyodo in Japan declined rapidly due to various reasons after the Meiji Restoration, and was even abolished for a time. Shintoism and Onmyodo officially broke apart. Real onmyojis are hard to find, if any.

It should be Shintoism that Old Devil Ito turned to for help. He brought the priest into Pingtianhai, probably hoping to use Shintoism to unlock the secrets of the shaman's secrets.

While my head was spinning rapidly, the spells of the four priests had already created an extremely wonderful resonance. The voices of the four people soon converged on the same frequency, surging back and forth in the sinkhole. The sudden echoes from all directions seemed to be responding to the other party's scriptures, but they also seemed to carry some strong repulsion.

Lu Xinyao whispered: "Why do I feel that there is some power to resist those priests?"

"I also think it's... wrong! They're not praying, they're forcibly subduing something. These little devils are going to cause trouble..."

I watched the water pool under the sinkhole create circles of ripples. The continuously floating water waves just started from the position of the fire and pushed in the opposite direction. It looked like the four people were using scriptures to influence Fluctuations in water flow.

How did they do that? Mental strength? Or something else

While I was wondering, the water pool suddenly turned up with water from bottom to top. In just a short moment, the water splash like a spring began to roll faster and faster, and spread to all directions. Before long, I vaguely saw a coffin made of brass dug out from the bottom of the water.

The warriors of the Ito family couldn't help cheering, and old Ito also laughed. He couldn't suppress his excitement and shouted loudly: "It's so fragrant, come here quickly, this should be the bronze coffin of the great witch. Can you get the inheritance of the great witch? It’s up to you.”

Several samurai who were guarding near the curtain simultaneously grabbed the edge of the curtain and pulled it back hard. The curtain made of white cloth was immediately torn in half. Ito Moka, who was sitting on the ground wearing a moon-white miko robe, was also at this moment. After standing up, someone quickly placed an upside-down wooden barrel in front of her feet. Ito Moka stepped on the barrel and danced a weird dance in front of the coffin.

Ito Moka's dance was not only devoid of beauty, but even a bit crazy. The wooden barrels under her feet made a clanking sound like drums, and the four priests who were dancing around the fire suddenly dispersed.

Someone was standing near the coffin holding a bronze mirror, someone was close to the bronze coffin with empty hands, and the other two were hiding in the dark with ropes.

I couldn't help but said: "What the hell are they doing?"

Lu Xinyao whispered: "They are imitating the story of the Japanese mythology where the goddess Amaterasu summons Amaterasu."

"Legend has it that Amaterasu was so angry because of his brother's misbehavior that he hid in Ama Iwato and never came out again. Amaterasu danced on an upside-down barrel. Out of curiosity, Amaterasu opened the door a crack. Wanting to see what was going on, Amaterasu Rikio who was guarding the door grabbed Amaterasu's hand and pulled him out. The other gods surrounded Amaterasu with ropes and told Amaterasu that it was impossible to enter here. Amaterasu saw her own face in the mirror again, and was filled with joy to return to the world."

Lu Xinyao said: "I only remember the general meaning, that's probably it."

I nodded and said: "It turns out that Ito Moka is dancing the dance of the gods. Her dance of the gods is not popular."

The legend told by Lu Xinyao obviously has the color of shamanic myth. Dance to please the gods is a characteristic of shamans, in which sacred drums must be used. Some shamans dance while holding the sacred drums, while others dance while standing on the sacred drums. The legend of Tian Tian Nu Ming is just that the divine drum was replaced by a wooden barrel.

Legend has it that when the advanced shaman stands on the sacred drum and dances, the sacred drum will not make any sound. The wooden barrel at Ito Maka's feet made a disturbing sound.

While I was talking, I quietly walked to the two corpses and picked up a handful of Sanba Gai and handed it to Lu Xinyao: "Kill Ito Moka down, we can't let her mess with it anymore."

Lu Xinyao took the spear and aimed it twice before shaking his head and saying: "Ito Moka is shaking too much, making it difficult to aim. How about shooting Ito Aikawa?"

"No." I shook my head and said, "Ito Akikawa has a golden mask. His perception is higher than that of ordinary people. If you aim at him, it will be easy for others to detect you. If it doesn't work, just change the target."

While I was talking, the brass coffin floating on the water suddenly made a loud noise - I watched the lid of the coffin lift up a few inches, then suddenly fall back to its original position. The loud noise just now came from the coffin. The sound that comes out.

Did Moka Ito really lure out the contents of the coffin

I pushed Lu Xinyao and said, "If it doesn't work, just hit the barrel."

Before Lu Xinyao could take aim again, the samurai guarding Maka Ito moved his position and blocked the barrel.

Oops!

In just a short moment, the brass coffin rang several times in succession. As the lid of the coffin was lifted again and again, the brass coffin quietly moved a few meters toward the water's edge. The contents in the coffin seemed to be irresistibly trying to break the coffin. Out.

Ito Mingchuan shouted excitedly: "Get ready! Get ready, make sure nothing goes wrong! Hurry up..."

The priest who was guarding the coffin simply stepped into the waist-deep water and got close to the edge of the coffin. He bent down and stretched his hand to the side of the coffin lid.

Lu Xinyao pointed the gun at the priest next to the coffin, but I gently held down the barrel of her gun: "There's no point in hitting him. Wait until the coffin is opened again, and try to see if you can hit the contents inside the coffin." If it really doesn’t work…”

While I was talking, a loud noise suddenly came from inside the brass coffin, and the coffin lid, which weighed several hundred kilograms, suddenly stood upright above the coffin. The priest who was guarding the side of the coffin was overjoyed and leaned forward and rushed into the coffin. He grabbed something inside the coffin with both hands at the same time.

As soon as his body fell down, the man let out a scream.

I don't know what he saw inside the coffin, but I can hear the heartbreaking panic in his shouts.

When everyone looked at the coffin in unison, the raised coffin lid suddenly fell down. The sound of the priest's spine being crushed by the coffin was just heard. Blood suddenly flowed out around the coffin lid, and the priest's lower body also fell into the water against the edge of the coffin.

At first glance, this scene looks like the priest's body could not bear the weight of the coffin lid and was crushed into two pieces. However, the coffin is not the knife on the guillotine. How can it cut off the human body

As scarlet blood flowers spread in all directions in the water, Ito Akikawa shouted at the top of his lungs: "Dance, keep dancing, you must draw the gods out of the water, hurry up..."

I gently touched the stunned Lu Xinyao: "Put it into the water, just hit it close to the coffin."

Lu Xinyao lowered the muzzle of the gun slightly and pulled the trigger. When the deafening sound of gunshots suddenly started, all the Ito warriors turned around and pointed their guns at the edge of the sinkhole. I originally thought that the other party would not find my position so quickly, but Lu Xinyao pushed me to the ground.

Before I had time to raise my head, the soil kicked up by the bullets burst up one after another in front of my eyes. At the same time, there was an earth-shaking loud noise from below the sinkhole. When I couldn't help but look up, I saw a wave rising into the sky from the pool. The brass coffin that was still floating on the water was like a building block thrown into the air, rolling and whistling straight into the sky.

Only then did I see that the coffin only had three long boards including the lid, and the bottom board had long since disappeared.

Before I could figure out why the bottom of the coffin was missing, I saw a monster with a long, narrow body, four claws, and something like a giant crocodile jumping out of the water. When the other party came out of the water, he leaned on the ground and bit a priest's ankle with his head turned, and quickly retreated into the water. The priest only struggled a few times before the monster suddenly swung its body. The priest bitten by the sharp teeth was torn apart in an instant, and half of his body suddenly flew a few meters away, but the monster swallowed the opponent's thigh while raising its head.

"Fire! Fire quickly!" As Ito Akikawa shouted angrily, the frightened warrior Ito finally came to his senses and fired wildly at the monster. The rain of bullets set off patches of blood on the monster's body, and the monster dived back into the water with bursts of shrill howls.

Ito Akikawa shouted angrily: "Over there! Go up and catch them!"