Chapter 432: The Source of All Evil
【Nioh 2】：picture.jpg
[Niou II]: How is it? This big sun is very shocking, to be honest, the sun that never sets is really unscientific.
[Sekiro]: …
[Sekiro]: There are ghosts in your world, how can that be scientific? But you've come here, have you rescued Kurosawa Fuyo?
[Nioh 2]: Not yet. The big sun is quite shocking, so I’m sending it to you.
[Sekiro]: Why are you still chatting here? Go and save those people. Don’t you know that every second you delay will cause them one second of pain?
[Sekiro]: Totally heartless!
【Ghost Line Tokyo】: Conscience awakens!
[NieR: Automata]: Retribution in this life!
[Niou II]: …
Looking at the group chat that suddenly started using idioms, Xia Yu was speechless. What a bunch of idiots.
But one thing is true, every second he delays, Kurosawa Aise will suffer for one second.
Thinking of this, Xia Yu suddenly reached out his hand towards the Night Spring below and used his telekinesis to fish out the black box at the bottom of the deep black pool.
After pulling the black box out of the water, Xia Yu waved his hand to open it. Inside the box was a beautiful woman wearing a white wedding dress, soaking in the night spring.
The woman looked exactly the same as in the photo, but at this moment, her soul had been eroded beyond recognition by the night spring.
She is Kurosawa Fuyo, and also the pillar that seals the barrier on Mt. Rishang.
The appearance of the soul also foreshadows her impending collapse as a major pillar.
"So the soul is sleeping inside the body?"
Looking at Kurosawa Aoi whose soul and body had reunited, Xia Yu nodded in understanding. No wonder he had never encountered Kurosawa Aoi's vengeful spirit before. It turned out that she had never come out from the beginning to the end.
But this also made things convenient for him, as he no longer had to stuff Kurosawa Fengye's vengeful spirit back into his body.
Facing the still sleeping Kurosawa Fengye, Xia Yu held her hand.
The next moment, the scene changed.
That was the shore of the Night Spring leading to Kurosawa. A woman in a white wedding dress was walking towards the black box in front of her step by step.
She knew her fate, knew what her future fate would be. She would become a human pillar, falling into the night spring forever.
Her name is Fengshi and she comes from a small village, but her hometown is destroyed in a flood and she opens her eyes among the corpses.
After experiencing a life-and-death crisis and the death of all her relatives, she was left alone and awakened extremely strong spiritual powers.
After that, she was adopted by a priest of Mt. Higami, given the surname "Kurosawa", and trained as a great pillar among the sealed human pillars. She has always maintained a secluded life and abided by the precepts of the human pillars.
But a few days before she was about to be sealed in the Great Pillar, she met Kunihiko Aso, the embodiment of disaster who caused trouble wherever he went.
That’s right, it’s this old guy again. He not only owes Bai Ju, but also affects Feng Shi.
Because the shrine maidens have the consolation of ghost marriage, a few days before they become human pillars, these shrine maidens will have their portraits drawn and kept to be chosen by the right person.
However, with the development of the times and the progress of society, Rishangshan also came into contact with a lot of news from the outside world, including Kunihiko Aso and the projector he invented.
Therefore, Kunihiko Aso was invited to the mountain to take photos of Kurosawa Aise, who was about to become the leader. Compared with the ema portraits, more realistic photos would undoubtedly increase the success rate of the secret marriage.
However, at this time, Kunihiko Aso had already forgotten the promise he made with Shiragiku when they were young. Even if he remembered a little bit of it, he just thought it was a dream, not reality.
Because Kunihiko Aso did not bring Shiragiku's scent with him, Shiragiku could not sense it.
The situation became like this. Shiragiku was waiting at the Katashiro Shrine for Kunihiko Aso to go up the mountain to fulfill his promise, but she didn't know that Kunihiko Aso had already gone up the mountain and took a picture of the great pillar Kurosawa Aise.
While taking pictures of Kurosawa Aise, the big pig's hoof Aso Kunihiko was attracted by Aise's beauty!
Of course, he was just moved and he didn't say it out loud, but he didn't know that the priestesses of Rishang Mountain had the ability to see.
The so-called seeing is the ability to see other people's thoughts, memories, and secrets.
The priestesses of Higami Mountain will see the last secret and sin in the eyes of those who visit Higami Mountain at the last moment , and turn it into their own memory.
Sharing emotions and feeling sadness and pain with each other in this way can be said to be a way to save those who die alone.
The shrine maidens are part of water. They take on the emotions of dying people and guide people to death through water. Finally, the shrine maidens who carry a lot of emotions will become human pillars and be locked in boxes. Those secrets will also be sealed in them and never leaked out.
A shrine maiden with less power can see by touch, while a shrine maiden with greater power can see by just observing with the eyes.
Kanqu is a hidden power. By soaking the body in mountain water and immersing the heart in the water, the power can be strengthened. The body and hair of the shrine maiden are often wet by water, so she is also called the "wet crow shrine maiden."
The more and stronger the intention of Kanzuki is, the more powerful the shrine maiden can become, so Kanzuki is also a part of the shrine maiden's practice.
Just when Kunihiko Aso was showing the taken photos to Kurosawa Aoi, the two accidentally touched each other, causing Kurosawa Aoi to directly see Kunihiko Aso's inner thoughts.
I like you!
This strong emotion directly rushed into Kurosawa Aise's numb heart, causing ripples in her originally stagnant emotions.
So, by chance, the two fell in love with each other.
But in the end, neither spoke out their feelings. Aso Kunihiko was just a passer-by on Mount Higurashi, and Kurosawa Aise will sleep forever as a pillar.
After Aso Kunihiko, the arsonist of her heart, leaves, Kurosawa Aise will also enter the black box, but her feelings for Aso Kunihiko will always linger in her heart like a curse.
Kurosawa Aeyo didn't want to be locked in a black box with her lover, but wanted to live a normal life with him. However, every time she thought that Aso Kunihiko would never come back, the sadness would fill her heart again.
Just as Feng Shi entered the black box, closed the lid, and was about to fall into the Night Spring, a tough guy came from the sky to assist him and swept Rishang Mountain with killing.
He is the culprit who turned Rishang Mountain into a ghost mountain, the real source of all evil that deserves to be destroyed.
The source of all evil was named Kururugi Kyozo, a woodcutter who had a morbid love for his sister and even killed his brother-in-law for this.
Unable to accept that her brother killed her lover, Kururugi Kyozo's sister chose to go to Mt. Hikami and hang herself.
After that, Kururugi Kyozo, who was alone, also chose to go up the mountain to end his life, but just as he was about to commit suicide, according to the ritual process, his inner thoughts were seen by the Crow Priestess, and those ugly things were known to others.
Because the biggest secret in his heart was no longer a secret, Kururugi Kyozo became furious and the more he thought about it, the angrier he got, so he directly killed the miko who had seen into his heart.
Not only that, after escaping from Mt. Higami, Kyozo Kururugi picked up a hatchet and turned into a murderous demon. He went crazy and slaughtered all the priestesses in Mt. Higami and gouged out their eyeballs.
Even the other people on the mountain, including Kazuki Kyozo and the priests, were taken away by Kururugi Kyozo. Afterwards, Kururugi Kyozo, feeling satisfied, also burned himself to death.
Because the shrine maiden is part of water, and water can carry the emotions of the dying, therefore, when the people on Higashyama were slaughtered, Kurosawa Oyo, who was soaking in the night spring, took on the thoughts of all the dead.
The tragic death of the shrine maiden and his own unrequited love caused Kurosawa Aise's CPU to overload and his mind to collapse.
The consequence of the collapse was that the lid of the black box was opened, the Night Spring gushed out, polluting the entire top of Rishang Mountain and causing a huge disaster.
Although Feng Shi, who fell into the night spring, managed to hold on in the end, there has been no priestess who could replace Feng Shi since that day.
Those witches who managed to survive the massacre chose to retreat to the countryside, and their ability to see gradually evolved into the ability to see shadows and was passed down.
As for the shrine maidens who died tragically, they continue to wander around Mt. Higashi as vengeful spirits, continuing to perform their duties, which is to lure people around them to the mountain to commit suicide as a sacrifice in order to continue to suppress Kurosawa.
Until now, Kurosawa Aise is on the verge of collapse.
The memories of those deaths, the deaths experienced by those slaughtered witches, washed over her mind again and again.
The curse of love and the shadow of death have brought her spirit to the brink of collapse.
Kurosawa Fengshi, who fell into the Night Spring forever, looked at the dim Night Spring with lifeless black eyes. She knew that no one would come to save her, and she would be completely melted in the darkness alone.
But even in this desperate situation, the broken mind can't help but fantasize.
Kurosawa Fengye looked at the unchanging Night Spring, feeling the pain of falling forever, and reached out his hand towards the water surface like a whisper.
"Who will accept my feelings..."
"I'll take over your feelings!"
Suddenly, she seemed to be grabbed by someone, and the next moment, a huge force pulled her out of the abyss of eternal fall.
