69novels Chapter 196 Ping An Jing
Chapter 196 Ping An Jing
Chapter 196 Ping An Jing
On the fifteenth day after arriving in this world, Su Wu finally arrived in Heian-kyo.
It was indeed much more prosperous than the villages and towns before, with a dense population, and most of the people coming and going were dressed quite appropriately.
You can still see nobles; they are quite easy to spot in the crowd because their clothes are... particularly thick.
Looking down at Kyoto from above, Rokugan can clearly see the scene below.
The number of demons, ghosts, and cursed spirits in Kyoto... was more than he had encountered along the way.
But when you think that most demons and cursed spirits are born from the human heart, everything makes sense.
Only wealthy and leisurely nobles have the time to think about these things, or rather, they have the extra imagination. As for the illiterate common people... they either work or sleep every day. If you asked them to imagine what demons and ghosts look like, they probably couldn't even come up with one...
There are plenty of nobles like this in Kyoto, especially in Japan, where the beauty of mono no aware (the pathos of things) has been popular since ancient times, and there are many who lament the passing of spring and the coming of autumn.
The energy fluctuations of Onmyoji and sorcerers are different. After all, one uses incantation power and the other uses spiritual power. Incantation power, which is born from negative emotions, usually does not look very righteous, and the user himself also looks like he is both righteous and evil.
The spiritual energy appears to exude a clear and pure aura.
There are many Onmyoji and sorcerers, numbering in the thousands.
And among them, the one with the most vigorous life energy...
Su Wu's eyes swept over each and every mansion.
Very good, they live in an upscale neighborhood, so they're probably either nobles or government officials.
Just then, he felt a stinging pain in his eyes, and even his two small eyes, which were originally closed, opened uncontrollably.
Bright red blood involuntarily welled up in his eyes.
"Hey...really?" He opened his bloodshot eyes, not surprised but delighted, and even felt a surge of excitement.
"There's a six-eyed creature here?!"
"Where? Where?"
"Come out."
"You can sense me too, right...?"
"You felt it too, didn't you?"
A smile of barely suppressed excitement spread across his face, his eyes darting up and down, searching for the six-eyed figure of this era.
Gojo House.
A man in a white robe admired the falling cherry blossoms under the eaves of the courtyard.
Suddenly, the world before my eyes was shrouded in blood, and I could no longer see anything.
Gojo Haru knew that with his strength, it would be difficult for any human, demon, or cursed spirit in this world to harm him.
And... the problem was with his eyes.
Gojo Haru touched her eyes and her hand was covered in blood.
"Lord Qing!?! Your eyes are bleeding?!" The maid who brought the items knelt on the ground beside him, carefully reaching out her hand, unsure of where to put it, her expression anxious.
"I'll go inform the others," she said, getting up to leave.
"No need." Gojo Haru took out a fan from the side, speaking leisurely with a smile on her face.
"You can leave now. Don't tell anyone," he said, his words leaving no room for argument.
"...Yes." The maid knelt on the spot, bowed her head deeply, and then slowly retreated.
He didn't get up and leave until he had walked some distance away.
After the maid left, Gojo Haru's gaze fell on a corner of the courtyard—on a figure that had suddenly appeared.
"And who are you?" Gojo Haru stood up and walked step by step toward the cherry blossom tree.
Those were cherry blossoms he had moved to his yard on a whim when he was a teenager.
At that moment, under the cherry blossom tree stood a young man with white hair and red eyes, dressed in a magnificent black and red robe.
Unlike ordinary people, he has four eyes.
And like Gojo Haru, blood was constantly flowing from his eyes.
Even so, he was still handsome; the blood on his face only made him more magnificent.
The young master is handsome beyond compare. He is of noble birth and of distinguished lineage.
It resembles a demon or a ghost, but is not human.
"You are... from the Gojo family?" The white-haired, red-eyed boy looked at Gojo Haru, the smile on his face revealing a hint of malice or amusement that was hard to tell.
"Are you not human?" Gojo Haru opened her fan, covering the lower half of her face, revealing only a pair of azure eyes that resembled the distant sky.
An era can only have one pair of six eyes.
A six-eyed creature can only appear once every few hundred years.
The six eyes are blue, and white hair is a characteristic that appears alongside the six eyes.
What if two pairs of six-eyed people appeared in the same era?
The white-haired, red-eyed boy in front of me—his eyes are clearly red, so why…?
Why do I resonate with his six eyes?
Even... everything they saw seemed to be intertwined.
They are able to exchange their perspectives.
"...Is it really that troublesome...?" Su Wu frowned and closed her eyes.
Yet he could still see himself through the eyes of the other six-eyed person opposite him.
Seeing yourself through another person's eyes is a unique experience, especially... in those six eyes, he also exists as an energy being dissected in almost every aspect.
When Su Wu saw the energy body representing himself, he finally understood why Six-Eyed of this era had uttered those inhuman words.
Because his energy body... is extremely... strong.
Visibly strong.
The consequence of cultivating both Nen and Spell abilities is that he is now outrageously strong in every aspect.
Both physically and mentally.
If he is an NPC, then he must be a top-tier boss.
"So I'm this strong..." Su Wu said knowingly.
Having faced the world's consciousness and experienced two world travels, he is now incredibly strong...
It wasn't too outrageous; it was still within expectations.
"...Could something have gone wrong with Tianyuan? How could a second pair of six-eyed beings have been created?"
"And... he only appeared today." Gojo Haru still looked at the white-haired, red-eyed boy with a smile.
"You don't belong to this era, do you?" he said with certainty.
The moment they met, they noticed Su Wu's problem.
After all, he has six eyes; who can blame him for having six eyes?
There can only be one pair of six-eyed people in the same era. If there are two pairs of six-eyed people, then according to the boy's age, he would have been sensed by Gojo Haru more than ten years ago, the moment the other person was born.
But ironically... he only sensed it today.
In other words, the other party... is today...
wrong……
"My eye strain a few days ago was probably related to you," Gojo Haru said, shaking her head as she recalled what had happened not long ago.
No wonder he said that for the past two weeks, his eyes have been acting out of control, and he often sees flashing images.
Looking back now, I think what I saw was probably the other side's view.
"...I don't feel anything." Su Wu thought for a moment, her face expressionless.
Six eyes are uncomfortable? Hmm? Isn't this normal? Has it ever made you feel comfortable?
He completely forgot about the feeling of no pain or itching.
"So... what is your purpose in coming to this era?" Gojo Haru looked at the other person, perhaps because they both had six eyes, and subconsciously felt that this was a descendant of the Gojo family.
From the Gojo family, whoever is not yet aware of how many years later.
It can only be a junior, not a senior.
"...It was a momentary lapse." Su Wu blinked, instantly realizing her mistake.
He needs a suitable identity to stay here, while the system finds a way to get him to a thousand years in the future.
Otherwise, if he had stayed here, he probably would have died before the main plot even started.
What kind of person could live for a thousand years?
Are you suggesting he imitate Ryomen Sukuna or Naoka?
And now, the right bridge has been presented to him.
"A mistake?" Gojo Haru blinked.
"My name is Gojou Kiri, and I come from a thousand years in the future..." Su Wu only thought for three seconds before telling a story without stopping.
In order to conform to the aesthetic of Japanese mono no aware, he came up with a poignant love story for his non-existent parents, Gojo.
In short, the story is about Lady Gojo and the illegitimate son of the Zenin family falling in love but being separated by their families. After giving birth to Gojo Kiri, Lady Gojo died in melancholy. The illegitimate son of the Zenin family was unaware of this at first and spent his days killing cursed spirits and drowning his sorrows in alcohol until he learned of Lady Gojo's death.
Then he stormed into Gojo's house, and in full view of everyone, he hugged his lover's urn, set fire to the room where his lover had lived, and stood inside the room holding the urn, letting himself be consumed by the flames.
Then young Gojo Kiri stood in the crowd, used as a tool to threaten the man, but it was of no use whatsoever, and couldn't even make the man stop in his tracks for a moment.
Finally, she watched as her own father, along with her mother's urn, was burned to ashes and disappeared.
This couple loved only each other from beginning to end. Five fogs? That was just an accident.
His depressed birth mother ignored him after he was born, and his birth father was someone he only saw once before he died.
After losing both parents, they also have to face indifference from other elders and bullying from their peers.
Ah, no, that's not right.
With six eyes, he knew that this alone would prevent him from being bullied or ignored by the Gojo family.
I almost got caught because my story was too far-fetched.
Su Wu stopped herself in time and rephrased her words.
Because he has six eyes, the Gojo family treats him like a god, praising him highly, yet demanding that he be aloof and inhuman, etc. They even start arranging women for him when he is fifteen years old, preparing him to be a stud and have children.
Unable to bear this life, he angrily attacked the old men of the Gojo family, and during the fight, he unexpectedly fell into this era.
"That's it." Su Wu looked at Gojo Haru after finishing a long story.
The other person never put down the fan in their hand, and it covered the lower half of their face the whole time. It was hard to tell whether they believed it or not.
"I see..." Wu Tianqing simply nodded without offering any further comment.
If a nobleman were more emotionally expressive, he would probably write a poem about this tragic life at this moment.
But Gojo Haru was never that kind of nobleman.
Perhaps those who possess six eyes are the same in some ways.
For example—confidence.
Although most people who know them prefer to call it arrogance.
Because of arrogance, they do whatever they want without caring about what others think.
"So... what is this?" Gojo Haru put away her folding fan and gently tapped the ugly baby perched on Su Wu's shoulder.
"My pet is quite cute, isn't it? It's a space-type pet, and it's very useful," Su Wu said, patting Chou Bao's head.
cute?
Gojo Haru tried to analyze the meaning of the word from its literal meaning and from the spirit itself, but... looking at the spirit's ugly, brainless appearance, he looked away.
My eyes actually felt a bit uncomfortable after looking at it for a while. It's true that having two pairs of six-eyed people together has a lot of drawbacks.
No wonder there has never been an example of two pairs of six eyes appearing together.
"So, are you going to stay at the Gojo family's house?" Gojo Haru changed the subject.
"...I'm homeless." Su Wu thought for a moment and said seriously.
Penniless, he slept on the streets the entire time.
"In that case..." Gojo Haru laughed again, "You are a distant relative of the Gojo family from the Tang Dynasty." He said this.
"That's excellent," Su Wu said in a refined manner.
Gojo Haru was very efficient. On the same day, he introduced Gojo Kiri to the Gojo family and arranged a room for him, as well as maids to serve him.
I don't know if it was out of genuine kindness or simply because they wanted to place the second pair of six-eyed people closer to them.
On the sixteenth day after transmigrating, thanks to Liu Yan, Su Wu was living the life of a young master and no longer needed to pitch a tent outside the city.
"My lord... what are we doing...?" Maro was still somewhat puzzled.
So, sir... you know someone here too?
"I was lucky," Su Wu said slowly.
He was holding a calligraphy brush and writing something.
There was no paper and pen in the wild, but here he finally found them.
"In Kyoto, a man was walking at night when he encountered a woman..."
Thus, a short story was completed.
Since it was just copying from a book with only minor modifications, it was naturally very quick to write.
"Have someone copy this story multiple times, then throw it all over the streets and alleys, preferably so that everyone in Kyoto can see it." Su Wu handed the written paper to Maro.
"I understand," Maro nodded.
Although I didn't understand why the adults were doing this, I still chose to do as they said.
"Well then, let me see if my experiment will succeed." Watching Maro's departing figure, Su Wu also took out a folding fan and tapped it twice in her palm.
……
Paper with writing on it floated down from the air. It was obviously good paper, and the handwriting was brilliant and powerful.
It's clearly a masterpiece.
Such skill and such characters are not something an ordinary person could produce.
Only then will someone be willing to pick it up and take a look.
Regarding the above content about "Painted Skin Ghost".
One after another, stories of the Painted Skin Ghost spread among nobles and commoners, or rather, throughout Kyoto.
The Painted Skin Ghost instantly became a very famous ghost.
When men walk at night, they often look for beautiful women who throw themselves into their arms. If they do, they are considered to be sleight of hand.
There are many different opinions about who wrote this story.
Some say it was written by the man who encountered the painted-skin ghost in the story.
Because the author wrote at the end of the story, "This event was witnessed and experienced by me personally; please read with caution."
But some people say it's just a tactic.
However, such a high level of discussion has still led to some changes.
A change that Su Wu was pleased to see.
(End of this chapter)