Chapter 180 Nura Rihan
Chapter 180 Nura Rihan
"I bought it! Ling, wait... where did that old lady go?"
Uchiha Ryo took a bottle of mineral water from Chitanda's hand. "She had something to do, so she went back first. Let's go."
"But didn't the old lady say she needed our help with something?"
Uchiha Ryo pointed to the mountain road not far away, "Ah, she actually came to ask for directions, and I've already told her."
"Is...that so?"
Uchiha Ryo: "Of course, let's go."
.....
In Natsume's room at his hometown, Uchiha Ryo was rubbing Yanyun-chan's head while feeding the cat Nanatsuji-ya's steamed buns, while Natsume and Nyanko-sensei were staring at the dark green stone.
"As expected... this ability isn't just simple demonic power, but faith. The old woman you met was probably a yokai with divine status who was worshipped by people."
The cat teacher touched the stone. "This thing should be the incense stone from her shrine."
Uchiha Ryo stroked his chin and then asked a question that interested him more.
"And who is this Lord of Demons and Monsters?"
The cat teacher narrowed her eyes. "The old woman you met probably hasn't walked among humans for decades. She shouldn't have participated in the great war fifty years ago."
Not only Uchiha Ryo, but Natsume also became curious about what happened fifty years ago.
Humans? Monsters? What exactly happened during that period?
The cat teacher lay on the ground, "Oh, something from fifty years ago, I wouldn't remember it if I hadn't eaten enough."
Uchiha Ryo nodded, then took half of the Nanatsujiya manju from in front of Yanyun-chan and handed it to Nyanko-sensei.
Yanyunjiang: "??? That was my lunch!"
Uchiha Ryo: "Go catch some more fish yourself. With your current strength, you could probably catch sharks in the ocean."
The cat teacher quickly snatched a steamed bun, then leaned against Natsume, eating as he spoke.
Fifty years ago, the Yin-Yang realm of the entire Sakura Kingdom was divided into four camps.
First, there were the Kyoto Hyakki, who took the initiative to provoke trouble. Their goal was to revive their king, Hagoromo-Gitsune, so they launched an attack on the Onmyoji.
Meanwhile, the Kakaiin clan, the official onmyoji protecting the Sakura Kingdom, is suddenly attacked by the full force of the Kyoto Hundred Demons.
"But modern Onmyoji are all incredibly weak. Fifty years ago, they were almost crushed by the Kyoto Hyakki Yagyō in just one week. In the end, it was the Tokyo native Hyakki Yagyō, the Nura Clan, who stepped up."
Legend has it that the first leader of the Nura Clan, together with the 13th generation Hidemoto, the strongest member of the Keikain clan in history, defeated the Eight-Tailed Fox Hagoromo-Gitsune four hundred years ago.
Hidemoto Keikain sealed the fox away, so the Nura Clan and the Keikain Clan can be considered as half allies.
After that, things became quite simple. With the help of the Nura Clan, although the Kyoto yokai retreated, the seal on Hagoromo-Gitsune... was also broken, and she will be resurrected as the Nine-Tailed Hagoromo-Gitsune.
"Nine-Tails—heh heh."
The cat teacher looked up. "Hey, Uchiha brat, I'm being serious. What are you laughing at?"
Uchiha Ryo waved his hand, "I thought of something happy... the Nine-Tailed Fox... hahaha."
Nyanko-sensei took another piece of steamed bun. "Hmph, don't blame me for not warning you. The Nine-Tailed Fox's strength definitely surpasses that of Nurarihyon, the leader of the Nura Clan. If they make a comeback... Tokyo will be in danger."
"That's what Nyanko-sensei said."
"However, there's a saying among you humans, something like, 'Those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts.' So even though the Nura Clan helped the Hanakasein family, Hanakasein still hoped that the Nura Commander-in-Chief would live in seclusion."
Rihan Nura, who had defeated the yokai of Kyoto, was indeed worthy of being called the lord of all yokai. He agreed to the Onmyoji's request and traveled all over the country to "negotiate" with all the idle great yokai, finally finalizing a contract for the yokai to remain secluded from the world for a hundred years.
Uchiha Ryo: "Kyoto Hyakki Yako, Tokyo Hyakki Yako, Onmyoji... So what's the fourth faction you mentioned?"
The cat teacher pointed to himself.
"There are countless yokai throughout the country. Apart from the Hyakki Yako and Nura Clan under Hagoromo Gitsune, there are far more of us idle yokai. However, we great yokai are too lazy to get involved in this kind of yokai power struggle."
Uchiha Ryo: "But you great demons were persuaded to surrender by Nura Rihan alone, weren't you?"
Nyanko-sensei jumped up and cursed, "What do you mean by 'one person persuading someone to surrender'! I was just giving face to the Nura Clan. It wasn't just me; at the time, many rogue powerful demons were indifferent to worldly affairs, which is why they agreed to let Nura Rihan represent the demons."
Natsume stared in surprise at the fat cat in front of him, who looked like a white pig and was still eating steamed buns.
"Is Nyanko-sensei strong enough to rival the Lord of Demons and Monsters?"
Nyanko-sensei raised his head. "Right now, I'm just sealed away. In my prime, I wouldn't be afraid of a lone Nura Rihan, but the Nura Clan's attack is the Hyakki Yagyō..."
Uchiha Ryo nodded. "So, the Nura Commander-in-Chief really is hiding in Tokyo?"
Nyanko-sensei sighed. "No, he's gone... I don't know the specifics, but there are rumors among the yokai that Hagoromo-Gitsune was resurrected and attacked Nura Rihan, the second leader of the Nura Clan. I don't know if it's true or not."
Uchiha Ryo: "So, the person that old woman asked me to find is already dead?"
Nyanko-sensei: "He's been dead for many years. The Nura Clan of Tokyo's Hundred Demons... seems to have fallen into complete silence."
Uchiha Ryo closed his eyes.
He really planned to go and find that so-called Nura Rihan, and then discuss how to subdue the demon world and stop causing trouble in the human world.
As for that Huakaiin family, whether it's the exorcist Baichimon or the human Shinomiya family, they should all have ways to contact them.
"One last question: now that Nura Rihan is dead, isn't the strongest yokai the nine-tailed fox now? If we completely eliminate her, yokai shouldn't be able to come and cause trouble in the human world anymore, right?"
Nyanko-sensei looked at Uchiha Ryo, "Although I don't know how strong you are, you're like that evil spirit I told you about when I was talking about Hagoromo-Gitsune."
"She is unkillable. Hagoromo Gitsune was born in a chaotic world of humans, and any negative human emotions such as hatred, jealousy, anger, and despair are the source of her power. Therefore, the only option is to seal and diminish her power."
Simply put, unless human society is completely peaceful and no negative emotions arise, Hagoromo Gitsune will only keep reincarnating and resurrecting.
Uchiha Ryo didn't speak; he was looking at the system interface.
[System Mall, Current G-Spot: 420]
[Current eye technique: Sharingan (Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan)]
[Host can exchange for eye techniques (one-time use): Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, Kotoamatsukami, Kamui, Kagutsuchi, Izanami, etc. - 500 G points]
It turns out that after his Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyou Sharingan, he could not only use his own eye techniques, but also exchange for the Mangekyou eye techniques from the original work.
Nyanko-sensei: "Hey! Don't even think about provoking those powerful demons. They're beings that even Onmyoji fear."
Uchiha Ryo: "Well, unless Hagoromo Gitsune comes here to cause trouble, I'm too lazy to go to Kyoto."
However... it doesn't seem like it would be a bad idea to keep a fox in Yanyunjiang's cat cafe.
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