Chapter 132 It is better to have a six-year-old son than a sixteen-year-old son and a thirteen-year-old daughter.


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Chapter 132 It is better to have a six-year-old son than a sixteen-year-old son and a thirteen-year-old daughter.

The Great Onmyoji did not accept Tianyuan as his disciple.

If we have to talk about the teacher, Tenyuan’s teacher is Izumo.

Tianyuan had just arrived, and within three days, Chuyun asked her if she wanted to learn to read and study.

"I think I can teach you something, right?"

For Izumo, picking up the girl meant he took some responsibility. This world is full of cannibalism, especially for a technique like Tengen, it is easy to attract malicious intent.

A sorcerer cannot tell fortunes. To put it bluntly, what a sorcerer uses is a "curse". The spell itself is a curse, a curse from heaven. Those who are cursed are not worthy of exploring destiny.

However, the sorcerer can use a barrier, or draw a talisman.

Borrowing the power of spiritual energy, although it is a little weaker, it is also combat power.

Before that, being illiterate is not an option.

In this era, it is wishful thinking for ordinary people to study. Education was concentrated among the samurai nobility, and paper books were a luxury. Tianyuan never thought that she could still go to school, because in the village where she lived, no one could even write their own names.

She was still quiet and just nodded silently.

So Izumo taught her to read seriously.

In this way, I taught throughout the spring and summer.

In winter, Izumo began to teach Tengen Talisman Technique and Barrier Technique.

Both of them have experienced a lot of hardships, are very hardworking, and cannot stand extravagance and waste. Even though Izumo had earned a huge amount of money working for others that he could not spend in his lifetime, he was reluctant to live as extravagantly as those nobles.

Tianyuan's talent in talismans was average, and she wasted a lot of paper while practicing. She didn't just write on paper without any basis, but no matter what, she could not be as smooth and natural as Izumo, who could succeed with just one or two strokes.

Izumo's talismans rarely fail. As for Tianyuan, he can only succeed once in ten attempts.

After wasting a lot of paper, Tianyuan couldn't stand it anymore and turned to specialize in barrier techniques.

In fact, it is not so simple for an Onmyoji to learn talismans. Practicing Yin-Yang magic itself is an expensive business. It costs money to find a master, buy materials, etc. In order to learn from their teachers, many talented people go to their teachers' homes to do odd jobs and pay money to learn just a little bit. It will take half a lifetime to achieve some small results, and the money spent can cover the expenses of an ordinary person for several lifetimes. In other words, these two people are extremely talented. They learn in one year what others would learn in ten years, but they still complain that the cost is too high and the speed is too slow.

Tianyuan’s talent in barrier technique is quite good.

Even because Tianyuan is immortal, her body can store other people's spiritual power, so she will not die from the invasion of other people's power, but it is very painful. Similarly, because she has spiritual energy in her body, she can learn more barrier techniques than other sorcerers and is closer to an onmyoji.

The girl is not afraid of pain, she is afraid of having no strength, afraid that her life will be worse than death and she will be unable to die.

Sensing that Tengen was becoming increasingly anxious and depressed, Izumo stopped teaching and took her out to work.

In this era, it was not convenient for unmarried girls to show their faces in public. It was okay for girls from poor families with no status, but girls from noble families either never went out or covered their faces and did not show their faces to others. The identities of Tengen and Izumo are quite awkward in Heian-kyo. Izumo has not publicly become a disciple, and on the surface he is not considered a disciple of Abe Haruaki. However, everyone knows in private that he is indeed being taught by Abe Haruaki.

He was sandwiched between commoners and nobles, neither high nor low, not worthy of the nobles, but actually superior to commoners. In fact, it would be better for him to be an official, but he had no ambition to do so. Abe Haruaki also mentioned that he didn't want to, so he just stayed in this awkward state, and everyone got used to it after being awkward for a while.

When Tengen went out, he did not cover his head, but just tied his hair into a high ponytail. He did not even wear formal clothes. He was wearing a light men's outfit and followed behind Izumo. It was very strange, but if you think about it carefully, Izumo himself is a weird person, and the people of Heian-kyo got used to it very quickly.

Izumo takes Tengen out to eliminate curses and remove cursed spirits. Occasionally, there are demons and monsters causing trouble, but demons and monsters are the real enemies of Onmyoji.

It so happened that this year there was a sudden rumor in the north that there was a rampant chaos caused by the Guhuo bird. Izumo and Tianyuan traveled for more than half a month. When they arrived, the Guhuo bird had already taken away more than a dozen children. All the children in the village fled or died. In the village of nearly a hundred people, there was not a single sound of children laughing or crying.

The Guhuo Bird likes to steal human children and eat them after seven days. This is the common point of this type of monster on paper. However, we cannot only look at the common points of monsters, as each individual has different temperaments and preferences. The one they were facing was much more vicious and smarter. After taking away many children, she was still not satisfied. She even kept pregnant women in the village in captivity and forced them to take away their children as soon as they gave birth.

This monster had eaten many people and had become a big monster. Chu Yun fought with her in the ravine for three days and three nights before he managed to get rid of her. When he rushed to the cave where the pregnant women were imprisoned, there happened to be a pregnant woman who was already full-term and was frightened and on the verge of giving birth.

The other pregnant women had been hungry for several days and nights and had no strength or energy to help the pregnant women who were about to give birth. Tianyuan was still a child. She had a younger brother, but she was only three or four years old when her brother was born, so it was impossible for her to deliver the baby.

In the end, it was Izumo who delivered the baby, and her movements were very skillful.

It was a boy and the environment was too harsh. Izumo tried his best to give him a safe environment. After sending several victims away, Izumo and Tianyuan took advantage of the darkness and chaos to leave the village and barely arrived at the temporary residence. The blood on Izumo's body had not dried yet, so he went to the water to wipe the blood off his body. When he turned around, he saw Tianyuan looking at him quietly.

“It’s amazing, isn’t it?” he smiled.

"Magical?" Tianyuan tilted his head.

"A person's life starts from such a small point. The mother is so thin, but she can give birth to such a big child. The child is so small, but he can grow into a strong adult." Izumo gestured: "The first time I delivered a baby, I even cried while holding the baby."

"Frightened and crying?"

"No... not really. I just feel that the existence, growth, reproduction, and death of human beings, the direction of good and evil of human beings, and the differences in human thoughts. Everything that belongs to human beings is so magnificent and great. This is the first time I truly realized the excellence of human beings. I was moved accidentally, and it was tears of joy..."

The boy was always very honest with Tian Yuan:

"I can help children grow up, adults work and live in peace, and the elderly die peacefully. If I can do this, I will have no regrets in my life, even if I die soon."

Tianyuan didn’t understand. In fact, Tianyuan still hated this world.

Half of the suffering in her life came from the interference of humans during her escape. Those cruel humans who had taken a strange path even tried to cut off her torso, borrow her immortality, and eat her flesh and blood to fill their stomachs.

Logically speaking, the malice suffered by the young boy Izumo was not much less than that suffered by her. Even if he himself was not a weakling who was bullied, he should have glimpsed the rotten dark side of human beings.

It's really strange that Izumo can still have such thoughts at this point.

Tianyuan doesn’t understand.

I don't understand anyway.

She is a sorcerer and represents the evil side of the world, so it is difficult for her to understand Izumo's ambitions.

But for some reason, looking at the boy's soft yet vivid smile and his unrestrained spirit, Tianyuan slightly curved his eyes.

Izumo is a very great person.

"Don't let Izumo die." Tianyuan said, "I won't die. If you need me, please leave it to me, okay?"

"I was just kidding!"

Izumo slapped her head in annoyance:

"Go to bed! Go home when you wake up!"

"I'm telling the truth." Tianyuan said.

"No need!" Izumo shook his head: "I'm still here. If anything happens, I'll be the first to go. Now is not the time for you to show off. You're only this old, what can you do?"

The young man's care was so genuine. It had nothing to do with any friendship between men and women, but was the tenderness in his bones that would treat anyone in the same way no matter who was here at the moment. The cold heart was gradually warmed by the consideration. Tianyuan looked at him and smiled. As he smiled, his eyes became blurred.

She is Tianyuan.

It’s Tianyuan, that’s enough.

She no longer cares about the future or the past. It is enough for her to live well every day in the present.

Tianyuan thought so and abandoned her previous depression. At this moment, she truly showed the childish expression that a child of her age should have.

**

It took another half a month to rush back to Heian-kyo from the countryside.

The coldest weather has arrived. Walking through the alleys along the way, I realized it was probably New Year's Day.

He hurriedly sent Tianyuan back, sent the boy out to buy some New Year's things, changed his clothes, and went to visit the teacher. The teacher was still easy-going and calm.

The teacher asked:

"You'll be sixteen next year, what are your plans?"

Izumo really didn't have any plans. He thought for a moment:

"Tianyuan still needs some time to recuperate. Once she's adjusted, I'll go out and gain experience."

The teacher sighed and said, "Well, it's time for you to gain experience."

The teacher never hired servants, and the house was controlled by shikigami inside and outside. After bidding farewell to the teacher's shikigami, Izumo walked out enviously.

His cursed spirits were not that smart, and Heian-kyo was full of sorcerers and Onmyojis. If he released cursed spirits at random, it might scare people, so he hadn't used cursed spirits for a long time.

He also wanted to use a Shikigami, but finding a suitable god or demon spirit was much more difficult than searching for the cursed spirits that were everywhere.

Izumo didn't know where his teacher's Shikigami came from. He had contracted a few of them before, but they were all little monsters and didn't look very good when they turned into human forms. As a person who was obsessed with looks, he couldn't stand it. He thought that he would go out and gain experience before conquering a few powerful Shikigami.

If the family could prepare some Shikigami, there would be no need to hire outsiders to clean up and organize. His Shikigami would definitely not be weak, so Tianyuan would be taken care of.

Thinking about this, when he returned, he saw Tianyuan cleaning the house seriously. Izumo thought:

Now he is not alone anymore, if there are two of them, then it is okay not to hire someone.

If two people live together, many things will be much more convenient.

But what will Tianyuan do when he leaves?

Taking the cleaning tools from Tianyuan, Izumo was half-focused on making plans for the future.

As expected...Teach him a little more about barrier techniques, and then ask someone to take care of him.

**

The first New Year for the two of us didn’t feel like a new year at all.

They had never celebrated much. To be honest, they were more familiar with the harvest season celebrations than the New Year. They just had a simple meal and then dispersed.

After the New Year, it is the time for big and small families to worship their ancestors. Big families will naturally look for famous Yin-Yang masters. Small families cannot afford to hire one, and the rules are not strict, so they will use their connections to find Yun.

Izumo soon became busy, and was busy for half a month before he finally had a chance to take a breath.

Tengen was very well behaved and studied hard. Abe Haruaki understood that it was not easy for a boy to take care of a girl, so he called a feminine-looking Shikigami to take care of Tengen. After not seeing her for half a month, when he saw her again, Izumo realized that Tenyuan had already possessed some of the calmness and elegance of a girl.

…although you can’t see it when you’re climbing a tree.

...You couldn't tell when she was chopping the cursed spirit, this girl is super fierce.

It snowed a little recently, and Tianyuan didn't go to clean up the yard. Instead, he took a wooden stick and drew something like a barrier or talisman on the snow. Weird symbols covered most of the yard. She moved a bamboo chair and sat on the ground, staring at the ground in a daze.

Then, a voice suddenly came from behind.

"She is Tianyuan?"

The sound was very cold, like the sound of jade and ice cubes knocking against each other, crisp but chilly. Tianyuan shuddered and turned around to see Izumo following a white-haired young man.

"Yes, yes, how about it, very beautiful, right?"

"……whispering sound."

The white-haired young man didn't even look at her, and walked into Izumo's room.

Izumo walked over and touched Tengen's head.

"Sorry, that's just his temper. Even though he looks cold, he's actually a very nice person..."

"who is he?"

"…It's the one from the Gojo family." Izumo winked.

At this time, the Six Eyes Without Limits was not yet a particularly eye-catching technique. It was indeed powerful, but not enough to be named the Son of God. The ancestor of the Gojo family was Sugawara no Michizane, who was a big figure who overthrew Heian-kyo with great fanfare. After his death, many strange phenomena occurred in Kyoto. First, the princes died of illness one after another. Then, the emperor was struck by lightning during a meeting to discuss whether to pray for natural disasters. The two thunders caused the sky to shake and the earth to crack, and many people died. Although the emperor was not injured, he died three months later.

Sugawara no Michizane is a very sociable person. He never keeps anyone overnight if he has a grudge or a grievance, and he usually takes revenge in this lifetime. Even the one-way street of the Naihe Bridge cannot stop him.

At this time, more than ninety years had passed since Sugawara no Michizane's death, and at least three generations had passed in between. The Gojo family was a branch of the Sugawara family. Although it was the Gojo family, it was still taken care of by the ancestor whose influence still remained, and was able to serve the emperor with the family background of pure sorcerers. They are not very powerful in Heian-kyo and cannot enter the center of power, but no one dares to mess with them.

It just so happened that this generation had a pair of Six Eyes and No Bottom Line, a heaven-defying duo. The Gojo family didn't feel anything different at first, but when the child grew up and his fighting power gradually emerged, the Gojo family was suddenly excited. The ones who should be trained are trained, and the ones who should be prepared for marriage are arranged to pass on this bloodline. Liuyan himself can feel the subtle changes most, and it feels even more ridiculous after he was designated as the next head of the family at the age of fourteen.

Sugawara no Michizane was a very rebellious person. How could his descendants be normal?

So Liuyan rebelled briefly for a month, causing great trouble to everyone.

Izumo and Rokugan met during the rebellious period of that month. The specific cause and effect are not very clear, all we know is that the two of them flattened a mountain, and when they came back, Rokugan's rebellious period was over.

The two of them became bad friends and seemed like decent people, but kids of their same age knew that they were two-faced and good at making trouble for others. Rokugan comes from a good family so he understands the tactics of the upper class, while Izumo comes from a lower class and can also win over the common people. The two of them, one above and one below, have almost become the overlords of their generation (the version where they are not doing their job properly).

Neither of them wants to be an official. If they don't want to do their job properly, then that's fine. Their first wish is to be a swindler and the strongest thug (? ). No one can do anything to them.

Let’s talk about Rokugan’s rebellious period. After the rebellious period, Rokugan quickly inherited the family. He was a very reliable person, and no one in the Gojo family said that he did a bad job. However, he became colder and colder, and he didn’t like to laugh. When he was annoyed or tired, he would just give a cold glance. Just standing next to him felt like the chill of winter.

Recently, a piece of funny news came out of Kyoto and reached Izumo's ears. He laughed so hard that he couldn't breathe. Tengen also learned about such a person in the Gojo family through this.

That fun is about the six-year-old son of the seventeen-year-old six-eyed man.

right.

The six-year-old son of a seventeen-year-old boy.

"Hahahahahahaha, when your son gets married, I will definitely give him a big gift!"

After comforting Tianyuan, Izumo started laughing wildly from the moment he stepped into the door. He couldn't hold it back at all.

The Gojo family was really anxious. Most of the techniques were inherited through bloodline. In order to let Rokuyan get married and leave behind bloodline, they put a lot of thought into it. However, Rokuyan was smart since he was a child, and when he really took power, his family had no way to force him to get married and have children.

Gojo complained to Izumo many times, and Izumo even comforted him, but his words were not very nice.

"I've calculated it, Gojo," Izumo said, "You will never have a wife or children in this life. Not only in this life, but you will never have a wife or children in your entire lives."

Izumo's divination is famous for its accuracy, but this sentence doesn't sound very pleasant to other people's ears.

However, Gojo and he are indeed a perfect match. After realizing that it was indeed impossible for him to get married and have children, Gojo did not leave any wiggle room for herself. Things that once seemed annoying, he immediately found solutions.

Well, he adopted (robbed) a child from his cousin.

By the way, I discussed it with my ancestors and they said that the bloodline would pass through this child from now on and would have nothing to do with him. I don’t know whether the ancestors would agree. Anyway, the elders in the family saw that he was willing to do such a thing as snatching the child, so they didn’t dare to urge him anymore.

He is still young, what if he becomes smart when he grows up?

This matter caused quite a stir. At the same time, the Gojo family had already chosen a woman with two children to be Rokugan's wife and they were almost engaged. Coupled with Rokugan's eagerness to snatch the children, the matter became quite dramatic.

They both got married very young, and the girl had children in her teens. The woman had two children but was less than 30 years old. She was smart and beautiful, and very famous in the aristocratic circle.

But even though our time is quite open, it is not that open.

Seeing that Yun Xiao was out of breath, Liuyan remained silent and complained expressionlessly:

"It's better to have a six-year-old son than a sixteen-year-old son and a thirteen-year-old daughter."

Izumo couldn't hold it in and let out a loud laugh.

"HAHAHAHAHA! My sixteen year old son HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Haha!"

Liuyan looked at him and smiled, then he realized it and curled the corners of his mouth. He tore off the cloth on his face and threw it away.

"Where did you go before the New Year?"

The two of them did not communicate frequently, as it was not appropriate for Izumo to have close contact with nobles. However, Rokugan was also quite puzzled after there was no news for a month or two.

"Northern Guhuo Bird."

"Did you do it?" The white-haired young man suddenly realized that although he was a pampered young master, he was really humble. He poured himself a glass of water and reached out to Izumo, who took out a jar of wild honey from the cupboard and handed it to him. He weighed it and raised his eyebrows:

“So little?”

"Tianyuan is growing."

"……whispering sound."

In Izumo's opinion, Rokugan is a person who loves to show off. He has a stern face all day long and wrinkles between his eyebrows. But in private, he is actually a child who likes to sulk, is a little rebellious, and has a special love for sweets but is too embarrassed to say it.

Sugar was very expensive in that era and no one could afford it, so he had to go to the mountains to get some honey from time to time. He used all his magic to steal honey, and he was a famous honey thief within a ten-mile radius.

But speaking of this, Izumo remembered something:

"I will go for training in the second half of the year and come back the year after. By then, I'm afraid Tian Yuan will still need you to take care of him."

Liuyan was drinking the sweet water happily when he heard it. His clear and beautiful eyes glanced at him.

"I'll give you three cans." Izumo said quickly.

The white-haired young man spread out his five fingers.

"No, I have searched all the nearby mountains. We have to give them a chance to rebuild their homeland."

The white-haired young man dipped his finger in water and wrote the number seven on the table.

"Okay, five cans then." Izumo gave up.

I'm sorry, bees, but once he leaves, you'll have enough time to rest and recuperate.

He thought compassionately.

**

In July, Izumo left Kyoto, went south through Nara and Osaka, and then went north again by boat or on foot. It took him more than a year to reach the future 'Musashi Province', which was almost Tokyo a thousand years later.

There are too few mountains and rivers that can be traveled by human power alone. Izumo often used cursed spirits to get around along the way, but even so he could not reach the other end of the land. As he was about to turn eighteen, Izumo was worried about his teacher's health, so he wrote a letter to him. He was not sure whether the letter would be received, but he still wrote it and then packed up to return.

The place where he was at that time was far from being as prosperous as it would be in the future. It was quite desolate. Most of the people there were small villages where people lived in poverty and comfort. Izumo heard that there was a man-eating monster in the jungle not far away. While wondering whether it was a cursed spirit or a demon, he carried his bag and went into the mountain, intending to solve this problem and leave immediately.

It's a cursed spirit.

That's easy.

After removing the cursed spirit, Izumo determined the direction and prepared to go back directly.

However, he did not expect to suddenly catch a faint fluctuation of spiritual power. He turned around and walked towards the direction of the fluctuation.

Then, he looked down and saw a spirit under the tree.

His hair is not like the white hair of a normal person, but is somewhat similar to the lower half of Tianyuan's hair at home. His eyes are golden, a common color for monsters. It looks very small and well-nourished, like a pampered little monster.

God-given shikigami? ——This was his first reaction.

Soon, he came to his senses and felt that he should not be so crazy. Even if God was looking after him, he would not suddenly send a spirit to him, right? No way, no way?

No... this guy... seems to be a living soul?

He thought that since he had picked the person up, he had to send him back properly.

So he bent down, smiled and greeted.

At this time, Izumo didn't know yet that every bit of care from heaven would have its price.

Eighteen years old.

The time has come to pay the price.

**

At the age of eighteen and a half, Izumo returned to Heian-kyo. Gojo, who heard the news of his return home from his family, pushed open the side yard that had been deserted for a long time and suddenly looked into the eyes of Tianyuan, who had grown a lot since he was thirteen years old.

The relationship between him and the girl was always lukewarm. They neither quarreled nor got heated up. They got along in a cold and indifferent manner, but it was quite harmonious.

The girl looked at him with red eyes, and for some reason, she seemed a little subtly sad.

"What's wrong?" Gojo looked a little uneasy.

"Izumo... seems..." Tianyuan hesitated, showing rare indecision.

While the two were talking, the door was pushed open and a young man with long black hair, who had lost a lot of weight and grown taller, changed his clothes. When he saw Gojo, he forced a smile, looking a little worried and depressed.

“Ah, you’re here…”

He hesitated:

"I'll go find the teacher first, you two can chat..."

He walked hurriedly, and the people in the yard looked at each other, feeling inexplicably cold for some reason.

The Great Onmyoji, who had been waiting for Izumo for a long time, sent the shikigami to bring him in, and then closed the paper sliding door. For some reason, the teacher lit incense, and in the light smoke, the Great Onmyoji had a dull expression, with his eyes half-closed.

"Teacher, I'm back. Are you okay?"

"Um."

Izumo knelt down and said in a low voice:

"Teacher...everything went well during this training. I wrote down all the details on paper. However, on the way back, I saw one thing..."

He suddenly fell silent.

Abe Haruaki looked at him calmly, neither sad nor happy:

"What did you see?"

"Through divination, I saw..."

Izumo gritted his teeth. Now that he had met a teacher he could trust, he was finally able to break free from the high pressure he had been under for days. His tone was calm, but his body was shaking uncontrollably:

"Spiritual power is depleted, but cursed power has not died out at the same time. After the population surges, the number of cursed spirits increases greatly, and the sorcerers are completely unable to deal with it alone. So death, disaster, death, endless and endless. Teacher, the world a thousand years later is a hell on earth..."

"I saw... I saw hell..."

"…What should I do now, teacher?"

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