Chapter 1018

"As far as I know, the Shouchen Ding's inheritance has been cut off after Tuyumen Shinto was defeated in Yinyang Liao. How did the royal family recover..."

Amidst the hoarse voice, a heart that was still throbbing slightly was pulled out from the Shouchen Ding's chest by thick tentacles...

"So, the secrets are all hidden in the black vines that replace blood vessels and meridians... The principle of symbiosis should be..."

These dense black vines penetrated every inch of blood vessels in Shou Chen Ding's body, and finally converged inside that heart...

"hiss!!"

The ear-piercing hum quietly exploded, and the heart and the black vines wrapped around it, like a black octopus resurrected from the dead, directly swarmed towards the man in black...

"Hey, this is not the legendary 'Shou Chen Ding' at all!"

Flood-like tentacles gushed out from under the hem of the black-robed man's clothes, resisting those black vines, making a "sizzling" corrosion sound...

"They are just monsters bred by Yinyangliao through this tree vine, neither human nor ghost! Hahahaha..."

But the man in black who was in it laughed wildly as if he had never heard of it.

"I will never give up until I squeeze out the last spiritual power in the corpse of the 'host'. What a powerful vitality it is!"

Under the lifted hood, an old face with wrinkles like tree bark was revealed.

He didn't know about the tentacles that entangled with the black vines, eroded and fell off, he just stared at the rapidly shriveled heart and the shriveled vines due to the exhaustion of nutrients.

If Araki Sousuke and Tokimoto Ichiro were here, they would be stunned...

This person was actually confirmed dead by them in the Supernatural Research Institute, Koji Mochizuki.

"Is this the key to cultivating Shouchen Ding? It looks like spores of some kind of plant..."

Cut open the heart with sharp nails, and in Mochizuki Koji's palm, there was a black seed broken into several petals.

"I have no intention of disturbing your research, but now is not the right time. The network of fate tells me that the situation in Tokyo seems to have calmed down. If Yinyang Liao reacts, this once-in-a-hundred-year opportunity may come to an end. Fleeting."

Ahead, came the urging voice of the black-robed woman: "...Next, which way should I go?"

"Ah, I'm sorry, the old man can't help himself when he sees such a novel species..."

Propping up the huge wooden box on his back, Mochizuki Koji slowly got up, took out a thick green scroll from behind him, and examined it muttering.

"So, did the summoning of the 'Hundred Ghosts Night Festival' in Tokyo fail? It seems that the background of Yin Yang Liao and the Spirit Eliminator Association is stronger than I thought..."

This thing, of course, was Araki Sousuke's back on his waist, fighting for several nights and absorbing a large number of "soul fragments", Taketori Escroll.

"It's a pity, Kotomine Jiro is a serious student... I just hope that the old man's clone can delay them a little longer."

At this moment, the arrow condensed with white light on the surface of the picture scroll is pointing forward in the dense fog where you can't see your fingers.

"Go this way..."

Holding the Taketori painting scroll in his hand, Mochizuki Koji passed in front of the black-robed woman with a more vigorous footstep than the young man, and walked into the dense fog at the head.

"The fog of death in the sea of ​​trees in Aokigahara really lives up to its reputation."

Walking for a long time between the white mist and the dense forest that isolates all spiritual power, resentment, hearing, and vision, it seems that even the concepts of "time" and "self" have to be stripped away. If it is not guided by the arrows on the scroll, The two have no doubts that they will stay here forever.

"Fortunately, even the dense fog formed by the death breath of Aokigahara Tree Sea cannot isolate the connection between Taketori Scroll and Mochizuki Secret Treasure."

I don't know how long I walked, the black trees that were originally standing all around gradually became sparse, until I couldn't see any of them.

But above the heads of the two, there is still a dense canopy of trees that came from nowhere and blocked the sun.

"?!"

A giant tree with a height of more than 100 meters that could not be surrounded by ten people suddenly broke through the thick white mist and appeared in front of the two of them.

"Is this the secret hidden in the depths of the sea of ​​trees in Aokigahara that has troubled us for many years?"

This towering black tree stands quietly in the empty plain paved with black volcanic soil.

The canopy at the top of the tree spreads out like a giant umbrella, covering an area of ​​several kilometers, and there are no other plants except for the volcanic rock soil and the thick roots exposed on the surface.

And the strange white mist covering the entire sea of ​​trees is gushing out from the cracks in the bark.

"It's not an exaggeration to call this the Devil's Tree, right? Even the web of fate doesn't have any signs..."

Looking at the strange surroundings, and feeling the unknown coercion coming from the black tree, the black-robed woman couldn't help but let out a low cry.

"Look, what's on the tree?"

Mochizuki Koji, who was walking in front, stopped quietly, his vigilant eyes swept across the dense black canopy of the giant tree...

"The corpses of humans, animals, ghosts... and grievances... there are so many of them?!"

A variety of indistinguishable objects are being entangled and hung between the branches by thick black vines, like ripe fruits.

"Sure enough, all the grievances of level "two" and above that were determined to be permanently sealed by Yinyangliao were all sent to the sea of ​​trees in Aokigahara..."

Under his robe, a bundle of thick tentacles quietly wriggled out, rolled up the bamboo painting scroll, and handed it out towards the tree crown above his head.

"They actually used this black tree to seal the uncontainable grievances and unkillable ghosts here."

Guided by the arrow on the surface of the scroll, the tentacles holding the scroll quickly came under one of the tree crowns.

"The Jade of the Dragon Head...the Jade Branch from Penglai...is really here!"

As the picture scroll approached ~lightnovelpub.net~ Between the black branches, two things wrapped airtight by black vines, echoing each other, exuded incandescent light.

"Ahahahahahahaha...Emperor Wenmu, so what if you arranged everything carefully..."

Seeing those two things turn into streams of light, seep out from the trees and vines, and melt into the inside of the Taketori scroll, Mochizuki Koji screamed to the sky, crying: "I searched for more than a thousand years, but I finally found it! "

"Congratulations Your Excellency, I got what I wanted."

Perhaps, feeling empathy for the sadness in the whistling sound, the woman in black robe at the side reached out and patted his shoulder.

"Your Majesty Destiny, now that you have arrived here, what I promised you has been fulfilled. I will finally see the light of day in this life, and I have no time to stay here, let's just say goodbye..."

Taking back the bamboo scroll, Koji Mochizuki bowed slightly to the woman in front of him: "May fate guide you to find the answer you want."

Then, without even looking at the densely packed things in the canopy, he turned around and disappeared into the white mist without hesitation.

(end of this chapter)