Chapter 72 The White-haired Boy Thousand Years Ago
The wind blew up the navy blue figure's smooth long hair, and the black silk was intertwined with the fluttering snowflakes.
"..." Jiang Lai's posture was very casual. He simply tucked a strand of hair behind his ear and didn't pay much attention to the figure not far away. His attention continued to be on the book (mobile phone) in his hand.
——He knew that Ryomen Sukuna did this just to annoy him.
Therefore, Jiang Lai did not express anything, nor did she put up a headband to tie her hair up. She just ignored it calmly.
Seeing this, Ryomen Sukuna snorted slightly with a hint of dissatisfaction, and continued walking forward.
However, after he took a few steps forward, the tree next to him suddenly tilted sharply, and a large amount of snow poured down on his head unexpectedly.
Ryomen Sukuna: “?!”
Although he has extraordinary talents, he is still a young boy after all, and is not that alert to the surrounding environment.
At this moment, he reacted half a second late and was inevitably buried by the snow above his head.
Jiang Lai, who was standing behind him, caught a glimpse of the scene in front of him and smiled with narrowed eyes. He slowly withdrew the magical power that was controlling the tilt of the tree branches. Although he chose to ignore the action of the cherry-pink-haired boy who cut off his headband just now, it did not mean that he had no backup plan.
If verbal discipline doesn't work for naughty children, you can only try another method.
The next second, the guy with four arms blew up the snow pile and turned around with a ferocious look on his face.
Jiang Lai held the book in one hand and turned the blank page back, looking as if nothing had happened.
The two of them just stood there in silence in the snow (actually it was the young boy who was the one being violent) for half a minute before they finally started to take action.
Ryomen Sukuna said nothing. He turned around and took big strides forward, surrounded by a black aura that seemed to be materializing.
Jiang Lai was slightly surprised. He thought he would just have a simple fight with the opponent, but he didn't expect that Ryomen Sukuna didn't even make any attacking moves.
Well... But this certainly doesn't mean that the other party doesn't mind. Jiang Lai thought. After all, the other party is not a tolerant person.
I guess it's just waiting to remember the grudge. Since I can't beat him now, I'm just going to keep it in the back like all the previous things.
Ryomen Sukuna is also very good at planning, and like Noseflower, he is also very patient.
As for what happens next, we will talk about it later. Jiang Lai was in a good mood and was not too worried. He used the space technique to create a protective shield that seemed to have no lower limit around him, and then continued to walk while reading the book (mobile phone) in his hand.
As he guessed, the official website updated the content about the new chapter.
The chapter begins with a section of official narrative instructions, with a picture of a cute and sinister one-eyed cat next to it.
[A new chapter [Thousands of Years] opens, and the story of the Heian-kyō era a thousand years ago will be updated starting today! 】
[The Heian-kyō era here is a unique fictional era of sorcery. Please do not associate it with real Japanese history. Details such as clothing and diet will be adjusted. ]
[In addition, the new series is different from the previous original series. Some timelines will be adjusted according to the background of this part. Please refer to the subsequent updates of this comic for everything~]
The timeline has been adjusted. Jiang Lai touched his chin and continued to read.
After these few opening sentences, the comic section officially begins.
There are no characters appearing at the beginning, but a beautiful distant view of falling snow, accompanied by a series of slide-like jumping pictures with neatly arranged introduction texts.
[A thousand years ago. In the Heian-kyō era of the Jujutsu world.]
[This is an era when cursed power is at its strongest. The Onmyoji and monsters that were active in the past have gradually declined and disappeared, while cursed spirits, cursers, and sorcerers have proliferated and are everywhere, becoming extremely powerful.]
【……】
The rest of the article was full of information, and Jiang Lai skimmed through it one by one. From this opening statement, he learned:
In the new series, the time when the ancestor of the Gojo family, Sugawara no Michizane lived was moved forward a lot, and the history of the rise of the other two families was also moved forward.
By the Heian-kyo period, the three families had become large and prestigious families with a long history.
More than ten years ago, after a hundred years, the Gojo family finally gave birth to a chosen child with six eyes.
Therefore, at present, the Gojo family's position is hidden at the top of the triangle diagram of the three family situations.
There is no information about Nose and Tengen in the opening narration. Jiang Lai speculates that perhaps the time in which they lived was not advanced, but was in the Heian-kyō period.
After a quick glance at the opening content, the next scene of the comic turns to a huge ancient tree entwined in the forest - a navy blue figure lies elegantly and leisurely on it, with long hair hanging naturally and drooping on the rough branches of the ancient tree.
Later, the child appears, and the comic switches to the child's perspective for a few frames - from here, Jiang Lai sees how he is seen by others.
A white mist shrouds the face and lingers for a long time, obscuring the features in a hazy manner, giving people an endless sense of mystery.
The content of the first episode of [Thousand Years] progresses to the point where Ryomen Sukuna emerges from under the snow and Eira reverses time to save the murdered child.
There is an extra page of peripheral promotions at the end of the comic, which is said to be a notice to release character standees of the [Thousand Years of Life] series.
What appeared above was a long-haired dark blue figure leaning against an ancient tree, and a four-handed cherry-pink-haired boy standing on mud mixed with blood and snow.
Behind the two characters are a few black-framed question marks. The official said that other characters will be released later, and the surrounding products of the stand will be sold at the end.
Jiang Lai stared at the black frames that did not reveal any information, and thought happily, "There won't be a noose in it, right?" He didn't know what a noose looked like a thousand years ago.
In this era, are the nooses (brain flower) made with the shell or the body?
His thoughts were flowing freely, and Jiang Lai clicked on the new series of flower-growing forums and took a look.
【#Ahhh new chapter!! The long-haired Lai Shen is so beautiful that I can’t bear it. I rushed up and made a flying jump! Family members, please go upstairs and discuss!! (hot)#】
[#The master is so young and yet he doesn't follow male ethics, sleeping on the floor without a shirt! This is absurd, click me to go upstairs and see the young master's abdominal muscles#]
[#New surrounding blessing building, pray that I can buy it (real prayer nia)# (hot)]
[#Awesome, the contrast between the god Lai in the world and the master in the underworld is so obvious! Lai Shen’s skills are really awesome, let me analyze them briefly#]
Jiang Lai took a quick look and found that most of the posts were cheers and excitement for the opening of a new chapter, and some were screaming madly.
Because it was just the beginning and there weren't many intelligence elements, he didn't click in to look at them one by one.
Jiang Lai: Although I have seen it many times, I am still a little afraid of the overly enthusiastic pants-losing scene (Cosmic Cat's Thought Sublimation.jpg)
Then he noticed the message in the group chat.
Jiang Lai clicked on it and saw a link to an article posted by Kurosawa Akira: "Entertainment-oriented common sense science: A guide to eating, drinking and having fun for the ancients in the Heian-kyō era thousands of years ago"
He frowned and gave a thumbs up in his heart, thinking that Xiao Zhao was indeed a good child he had taught. He clicked in and took a quick look at the article, then saved it as a favorite.
There is also a link to an article at the end: "A Handbook for Long Hair: From Simple to Complex, Teach You How to Braid Your Hair Step by Step"
Jiang Lai: “?” That’s not necessary——!!
For Jiang Lai, having long hair was actually a little difficult to get used to at first.
But in order to better integrate into the society thousands of years ago, he chose to keep it. However, forget about braiding it. He could just wear it on weekdays and tie it up when he was in trouble. He thought so.
After simply replying to the message from his science friend and reporting that he was safe, Jiang Lai turned off the screen of his phone and put it away.
The snow stopped a while ago, and after walking along the way with Ryomen Sukuna, the shadows of trees are no longer overlapping in front of us.
At the end of the path, a spacious and prosperous scene is displayed before your eyes - on both sides of the broad and flat avenue, there are ancient wooden buildings and some simple stalls set up outside, and it is quite bustling with people coming and going.
Jiang Lai still remembered the book "Entertainment Common Sense Popular Science: A Handbook on How the Ancients ate, drank and had fun in the Heian-kyō Era Thousands of Years Ago" sent by Kurosawa Akira, which he had just read. The scene in front of him was different from the pictures in the book, and the clothes and hairstyle seemed to be different too.
...It seems that it is really as mentioned at the beginning of the comic, an era of a fictional curse-reincarnation world view.
What a pity, it seems that the linked article is not of much use, Jiang Lai thought with a little regret.
Ryoumen Sukuna stood there. He didn't rush to walk from the small path into the busy street. Instead, he half turned his head and looked at Jiang Lai: "Are you not leaving yet?"
"What's wrong?" Jiang Lai slowly walked forward a few steps and stood beside him.
The cherry-pink-haired boy raised his eyebrows slightly, moving the black lines on his face. He snorted and said, "There's enough for you to play around here, right?"
Jiang Lai put the book under his chin and said briskly: "I still think you are more interesting."
"..." Ryoumen Sukuna sneered from his throat. He certainly didn't believe this.
But he was too lazy to continue talking nonsense, and his irritable mood turned into curse blades on his fingertips. He habitually threw out a few and swung them at the passers-by who were not paying attention.
——But these venting attacks were all easily blocked by the space spell. The cursed blades hit them, just like hitting an indestructible golden bell, with no effect at all.
The dark blue figure didn't make any special movements, and his manipulation of space was as natural as breathing.
"What do you mean?" Ryomen Sukuna looked unhappy.
"It's nothing." Jiang Lai replied calmly.
"..." Ryoumen Sukuna's face was gloomy. He crushed a fruit that had fallen under his feet with his feet. The force was so great that it seemed as if he was stepping on a human's head. The bursting juice turned into spurting blood.
He glanced at the black-haired young man next to him with the corner of his scarlet eyes. His gaze was as cold as a knife, as if he was observing how to cut and cook.
At this moment, a voice sounded from the side:
"Excuse me, could you please help me pick up my jade pendant?"
A tall boy with long white hair and a layer of black and gold cloth wrapped around his eyes stood there. Although only half of his face was exposed, it could be seen that he had a handsome face.
The man smiled with his pale lips: "I just found it missing, it should be around here." He was holding a wooden cane in his hand, "But I can't see it, can you help me pick it up?"
Ryoumen Sukuna ignored him and kicked away the crushed fruit residue under his feet, pretending he didn't hear anything.
"I saw it. I'll give it to you." Jiang Lai used space magic to manipulate the jade pendant that was half-covered in the mud to float up.
"Thank you." The white-haired boy naturally stretched out a hand with his palm facing up.
But Jiang Lai did not hand the jade pendant directly to him. Instead, he smiled and said gently: "Take it yourself - after all, you can see it."