Chapter 416 Huangquan
Huangquan is known as the country of eternity.
Originally, Huangquan referred to an underground spring, but later it came to refer to the world of the dead or hell where light cannot reach.
In Nioh's worldview, Yomi Hirasaka, located at the entrance to Yomi Country, is crowded with the souls of the dead and hordes of monsters attracted due to years of war.
Therefore, this is a very suitable place to practice martial arts.
Because they are monsters, there is no need to hold back at all, and the monsters of this era can never be killed, so just wait for a while and Yomihirasaka will be full of monsters again.
As a portal opened, Xia Yu and Xiu walked out.
Looking at this familiar place, Xiu was eager to try and stretched out his hand to wave towards Xia Yu.
"Forget it. I still won't join you. You know I don't like fighting."
Facing Xiu's invitation, Xia Yu shook his head. He didn't like fighting with monsters and ghosts. After all, those monsters were too ugly, so ugly that he could hardly look directly at them.
Whether it is the common hungry ghost or ape ghost, or the rare three-eyed and eight-faced ghost, they are all ugly to the point of being unbearable to the eyes.
The only exception is Shanca . After all, chubby cats are so cute, and there is also the plug-in called the Three Cats Killing God Formation.
When I first played the game, when I faced a BOSS that I couldn't defeat, I would directly use the Three Cats God-Slaying Formation. No matter whether it was Otakemaru or Huomenggui, they couldn't last more than a few rounds.
Apart from these, only Ru Nu and Ippan Mu Men are worth looking at. There is no reason, except that they are too big.
Big is justice! Big is truth!
Seeing that Xia Yu refused, Xiu did not insist any longer. He reached out to take the Kusanagi sword, a sacred weapon given by Xia Yu, and walked towards Yomi Hirasaka.
The artifact Kusanagi Sword has appeared in the game, so Xia Yu also found this artifact. Of course, in addition to the Kusanagi Sword, Xia Yu has also collected most of the other artifacts.
After all, he is a hamster player, and what he likes most is collecting. No matter whether he can use it or not, he can't live without it anyway.
The moment the living step into the land of death, the demons and monsters lingering at the entrance of the underworld will immediately notice it.
Common demons and monsters are basically brainless monsters, so the nearby monsters didn’t wonder why there were living people here, and they all appeared roaring.
The first to appear are naturally our old friends the hungry ghosts. Hungry ghosts are the dead who have fallen into the hungry ghost realm because of their deeds in their lifetime. The hungry ghost realm is one of the worlds after death. It is said that it is a world where people will always suffer from hunger and thirst.
Since hungry ghosts will spontaneously combust and disappear once they eat ordinary food, they cannot eat ordinary food. It is said that hungry ghosts will search for the breath of the real world through the eternal world and the eternal darkness, and wander in the real world in order to gnaw on the corpses on the battlefield.
These hungry ghosts had big round bellies, skinny yellow bodies, and their eyes emitted a bloodthirsty red light.
The moment they saw Xiu, the group of hungry ghosts roared and rushed forward, but Xiu just dodged and chopped down a few times, slaughtering the entire group of hungry ghosts.
The hungry ghosts didn't even have time to warm up, they just rushed forward to die.
Watching the show that was like a rose dancing on a battlefield, Xia Yu sat cross-legged on the ground and silently turned on the live broadcast.
[Niou 2]: Let me show you my Ah Xiu. I am really showing off.
[Sekiro]: What a show! It’s so showy.
[NieR: Automata]: It’s really great.
[Nioh 2]: Hehe, of course I’m showing off. After all, that’s what we call it! Definitely showing off.
[Communication from Another Dimension]: Stop showing off! I'm almost exhausted by the word "show off"!
【Nioh 2】: Huh? Well, I won’t talk about show then.
[Interdimensional Communication]: You still say!
[Niou II]: …
[NieR: Automata]: Watching Xiu blocking the door and killing people in Huangquan, I suddenly felt that it was not worth it for those girls who sacrificed themselves.
【Nioh 2】：?
[NieR: Automata]: Those girls from the Zero series.
[Niouji]: Oh, you are talking about this.
The Zero series is the general name for horror games named "Zero".
Since ancient times, legends about the underworld and sacrifices have been circulating in many areas of Japan, and the Zero series story takes place against such a background.
In the stories of the Zero series, the Onmyoji families whose spiritual power is gradually decreasing but who have to maintain the seal of various monsters can only resort to sacrifice. Every once in a while, they select the person with the strongest spiritual power in the family as a shrine maiden, and use the shrine maiden's death to suppress the Gate of the Underworld, or use the shrine maiden as a "human pillar" to sleep forever in a coffin.
And with the intentional operation of the game company, it can be discovered through Easter eggs that the Zero series, Nioh and Ninja Gaiden seem to have the same world view.
What’s speechless is that Huang Quan, who was so awesome in the Zero series, is only at the level of a back garden in both Nioh and Ninja Gaiden.
Come in when you want to, leave when you want to.
If you feel unhappy, just block the door and kill all the attacking monsters, just like Xiu is doing now.
In addition, the terrifying BOSS in the Zero series is simply a piece of trash in the world view of Nioh and Ninja Gaiden.
Those bosses might not even be able to withstand a single blow from Hayabusa and Hide, after all, those ghosts don’t even have physical bodies.
[Nioh 2]: Tsk, I feel so sorry for those girls. If Ah Xiu could go back to that era, he would just kill them all.
[Nioh 2]: I, Xiu, will slaughter Huangquan with blood today! Living sacrifice? Not happening, I will kill my way into Huangquan's home!
[Nioh 2]: Sacrifice a girl? No, I'm going to be the savior today! Disaster outbreak? No! Just kill the enemies!
[Nioh 2]: The Four Demon Kings? Kill them! The Evil God? Kill them! Kill them all, kill kill kill kill kill kill!!!
[Sekiro]: That’s too annoying. Take it easy.
[NieR: Automata]: Actually you can. I have a time-travel device here. You can just use it to go to those worlds.
[Niouji]: Yes, that’s true.
As long as he uses the time-travel device of NieR: Automata, he can travel through time and parallel worlds, so he can also go to the world of the zero series.
Although Koei Tecmo has never said that these games are based on the same world view, one can only vaguely guess the relationship between them from the easter eggs, but it doesn’t matter, he was going to a parallel world anyway.
After all, the world of Nioh 2 where he lives has long been changed beyond recognition because of his existence. Not to mention the zero series, I'm afraid the story of Nioh 1 will not even happen.
In this case, if you want to save those girls in the zero series, you can only go to a parallel world.
Fortunately, the time-travel device in the NieR world can also travel through parallel worlds. After improvements made by scientific researchers like Xia Yu, the time-travel device can not only travel through time by itself, but can also carry others through time.
By then, I can take Xiu to the Zero series to kill people indiscriminately, and let those Onmyoji families see what it means to truly kill ghosts.
It’s just Huangquan, a back garden.
It's really not worth it to risk your life just to seal the Gate of the Underworld .
[Nioh 2]: Since we are free anyway, why not take Ah Xiu with us to save those poor girls.
