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Their shadows fell on the wall covered with Gentianhua family emblems, dancing in the flames, and the atmosphere was solemn and a bit scary.

"Zhisheng, aren't you going to look up and look around? Those are the sages of the family. Their bones are riddled with holes. Before they died, they used their bodies to block the ancient road from hell to the human world. After they died, they were still buried in a standing position. Support the prosperity of the family in this way at Shiroha Dog Shrine." Tachibana Masamune sat surrounded by bronze busts, the firelight swaying on his face, and the unpredictable shadows made this usually gentle and kind face appear in a trance. Looks like an evil ghost.

"I'm watching. But times have changed, Dad. Today's Sheqi family is no longer comparable to the past. We can decide where we will die, and we can proudly tell our ancestors after we die that we were on the battlefield. No retreat," Yuan Zhisheng lit a cigarette and frowned with his slender eyebrows.

"But the only one we can decide is ourselves. What power do we have to control the fate of others today?"

Tachibana Masamune was stunned for a moment.

He had been away from the family for less than a month, but Yuan Zhisheng seemed to have completely replaced his position.

As the head of the Snake Qihachi family, Masamune Tachibana was at a disadvantage in the negotiations with the Americans in Chicago and lost the family's dignity. Masamune Tachibana's majesty has been hit. The emperor's blood flows in Minamoto's body, and he is the Amaterasu of this generation. The Japanese believe in fate more than destiny. The power vacuum period when Tachibana Masamune left has allowed Minamoto to establish his prestige unintentionally.

The Japanese are such a strange nation. Their bones are hard when facing painful companions who humiliate themselves, but soft when facing enemies that cannot be defeated.

Tachibana Masamune has realized that Yuan Zhisheng has a strong appeal in the family, and even legally speaking, he should be the most suitable head of the family.

"The ancestors of the family fought to the death for righteousness on this land. The Snake Qiba family has guarded the boundary between light and darkness for a long time. It is the Great Wall in desperate situations. In this ethnic group, everyone can be sacrificed, as long as they can Carry out our righteousness.”

Masamune Tachibana's body posture seemed more relaxed than that of Minamoto Chisheng, but he gave Yuan Chisheng a huge sense of oppression, and his old, wrinkled face had never been more serious. Yuan Zhisheng raised his eyes to look at the old man opposite him. He was wearing a black kimono and his body was still very tall. Inside the kimono was a plain striped cloth. Because the weather in Tokyo was getting colder, he was covered with a black haori. , although it is just the most common attire of a Japanese old man, wearing it makes people feel like they are looking up at a high mountain.

No matter how Tachibana Masamune presents himself as a peaceful old man, he has after all held the sword called power for many years. This sword hangs over the heads of the Snakeki Hachi family and even the entire Japanese shadow society. Everyone must look up to him, and everyone must fear him. As long as Tachibana Masamune is still in this world, the dark side of society will have a throne for him.

Minamoto was silent, drinking one cup after another. Tachibana Masamune's long eyebrows frowned, and Haori seemed to sway with the swaying light of the fire.

In fact, Tachibana Masamune was not looking down on Minamoto Chisei, he was just shocked by what happened and didn't know why Minamoto Chisheng would do such a thing.

Why would you hand over Uesugi Eri to someone from the academy?

You must know that to the family, Eriyi not only means a girl or a mascot-like head of the family, she is also a weapon that the parents regard as a dragon-slaying sword. This weapon has been cultivated for many years. It was about to be put to use, but Yuan Zhisheng personally sent it out.

Even though Tachibana Masamune once said that he hoped that Eri could feel the taste of freedom and the taste of being loved before he died, he still never thought of entrusting her to the commissioner from the headquarters.

Yuan Zhisheng didn't speak for a long time, until finally he took a heavy drag on his cigarette.

"I will always insist on our justice, dad. Ke Huiliyi is innocent and she should not be involved in this dispute." Yuan Zhisheng said softly, his expression was calm and his tone was gentle. It was as calm as a lake without waves caused by the wind, but the young superior subconsciously took off the cigarette in his mouth and crushed the burning cigarette butt and ashes in his palm.

"No one is innocent in this war. The gods, the Snake Qiba family, the fierce ghosts, Kassel Academy... everyone has their own desires and purposes. We always abide by the will of our ancestors to guard this country, because of this The country has protected us and allowed us to grow and prosper. In order to kill God and to be freed from the control of the Secret Party, all of us can die. I can, you can, Inuyama Ga can, Fuma Kotaro can, but Eri shouldn't. This is the exception." Tachibana Masamune said coldly. He rarely communicated with Minamoto in this tone. For many years, Tachibana Masamune's image in the family has always been that of a kind old man, and he would never harshly criticize young people.

"You didn't care about Eri that much before. She wasn't as important to you as that little girl. She might not even be as important as that girl named Sakura Yabuki. What made you change your mind?" Tachibana Masamune's gaze seemed to be able to pierce through people's hearts. No changes in emotions or waves of feelings could be seen in his dark pupils that had gradually become cloudy.

I don’t know if it was because he heard the name of Minamoto Chijo from Tachibana Masamune’s mouth, or because the old man mentioned the fact that a girl who even Minamoto Chijo himself was not aware of occupied a very important place in his heart, but Minamoto Chijo slowly hunched over.

For a moment, Tachibana Masamune felt that the person sitting in front of him was not the Amaterasu who was able to dominate the Executive Bureau, but the young man he brought out of the mountains many years ago.

That young man has very clean eyes and is very stubborn. He must do what he decides to do, never admit defeat, and never succumb to things that are contrary to his own justice.

"Lu Mingfei asked me a question." Yuan Zhisheng turned around and looked at the huge floor-to-ceiling window. Outside the window was Shinjuku at night, with bright lights and orderly traffic like a burning river. Yuan Zhisheng's gaze passed over the densely packed high-rise buildings and looked far and far away where the sky and the earth meet.

“He asked me, in all my ideas about going to nudist beaches in France, had I ever thought about taking Eri clothes with me?”

Tachibana Masamune's hand holding the wine glass suddenly stopped in mid-air. He looked at Yuan Zhisheng. The young man who had always been strong was actually a little lonely at the moment.

"I think I already knew her ending from the beginning, and so did you, right dad? We have already made preparations for Eriki to die on a certain battlefield, so there will never be any in our future. Pass her position." Yuan Zhisheng's voice was actually a little tired, and his face reflected the light and fire of Shinjuku at night, like a weak river of fire flowing.

In fact, Yuan Zhisheng didn't know why he did this, but he knew that he would regret it if he didn't. The justice he insisted on was impacted for the first time, and this impact came from the girl he had always regarded as his sister.

The first time Minamoto and Eriko met was at the White Feather Dog Shrine in the mountains. At that time, he had only come out of the mountains for a short time and had great ambitions. The day before he met Eriki, Tachibana Masamune Taking Yuan Zhisheng to have a big meal at Longyin Hotel, Yuan Zhisheng looked at the Tokyo night like today, but there was no trace of loneliness in his expression, just hope, and even his pupils seemed to light up.

Minamoto told Masamune Tachibana that day that he wanted to stand out in this city, that he wanted to drink the best wine and eat in the most expensive restaurants every day, and that he wanted to become a man as upright as his father. Tachibana Masamune laughed loudly and said that a man who stands upright has to bear a lot of responsibilities. Minamoto Chisheng, are you really ready? Yuan Zhisheng had forgotten his answer. He only remembered that Tachibana Masamune drove him into the mountains in the very old Mercedes-Benz early the next morning.

That day, the strong wind blew down the cherry blossoms all over the sky. Eriki was transferred from the Kanagawa intensive care unit to the Shiroha Inu Shrine. The little girl was completely white, lying quietly on the hospital bed, wearing a ventilator, and her eyes did not have much energy. , just staring in the direction of the mountains from a distance.

Tachibana Masamune patted Minamoto Shosuke on the shoulder and said that this is a descendant of the Uesugi family. Her bloodline is strong but not so stable, and her mental condition is also problematic. The family has recognized her bloodline inheritance, so celebrate, Shisuke Minamoto. After returning home, the Sheqi Ba family made up the last piece of the puzzle for the Nei San family.

Yuan Zhisheng didn't feel very happy. He just walked to the bedside and looked at the girl who looked healthy but had no eyesight. Her neck was wrapped in a bandage. It was said that that was when she struggled out of control. He hurt himself.

People are like this sometimes, they will empathize when they see someone weaker than themselves. Yuan Zhisheng had already killed his younger brother at that time, and his heart should have been tempered as hard as steel, but the ward was quiet that day. All I could hear was the monotonous ticking of the heartbeat machine. He thought that this girl looked very beautiful, but she must be very lonely, forever trapped in a small room listening to the never-ending beeping sound.

So Yuan Zhisheng touched Eli Yi's hair and said, don't be afraid, I will protect you in the future. Eli Yi's eyes became brighter for the first time. She looked at Yuan Zhisheng and nodded.

A feeling similar to that of an elder brother was brewing in his heart. Yuan Zhisheng felt that his love for Eriyi was the love of an elder brother for his younger sister. He had lost a younger brother and needed a younger sister to fill the vacant position.

But a lot of things happened later. Returning to his family, accepting the gift from the Minamoto family, and joining the Executive Directorate... Minamoto's own growth is getting faster and faster day by day, and he is also maturing day by day. One day, someone said that he was Amaterasu, and that he was born to be the emperor. , he will one day be the master of the world he can see.

Yuan Zhisheng was very happy at first. He vowed that he would do well and even better than his father, and he did indeed do it.

But Minamoto seems to have forgotten the promise he made to Eriki at the White Feather Dog Shrine on that afternoon when the strong wind blew down the cherry blossoms and snow all over the sky.

There is no place for her in his future, she is already a weapon destined to break.

Eriki has become a little willful these days. She sometimes clamors to leave home to find the boy named Lu, but Yuan Zhisheng thinks this is good, so that she feels like a real girl.

Know how to act coquettishly, how to be angry and how to love.

He is the one who is destined to die. If Eryi can follow Lu Mingfei, she may live for a long time, and maybe she will have children or something. One day, such an idea came to Yuan Zhisheng's mind, and then he got out of control.

"I care about Eri more than you do, but our selfishness will cause huge disasters." Masamune Tachibana slowly filled himself with sake. He also looked out the window, his old face trembling.

"The return of God is imminent, and the fierce ghosts can no longer hold back. We must suppress God to death in the Kingdom of God. This is the fate of the Snake Qiba family. We must also regain freedom from the hands of Kassel College. This is This is the destiny of our generation.”

"Do you really know what you are doing, child?"

"It doesn't matter, dad." Yuan Zhisheng lowered his head, "I made a condition to Lu Mingfei. He must kill the young girl with me again, and the threat of the fierce ghosts will be easily solved. And God... "

The young man suddenly raised his head. There seemed to be golden mandalas slowly rotating in his eyes. The golden light was so gorgeous and majestic.

"The inheritance of God will only belong to the family. Angers is already old. If I am still alive after this, I will use absolute power to let them know that the Sheqiba family is no longer the Sheqiba family in the past. If I have If he is dead, then the god must also be dead, at least our fate is ended at this moment."

Chapter 236 Sakurai Kogure

In late autumn, the leaves in the mountains have begun to turn yellow. The long winding road spirals up or down from the end of the mountains like a long snake, with red maple leaves falling on the road.

The black Hummer was driving slowly on such a mountain road. Only the low singing from the stereo could be heard in the car. The driver and the people on the passenger seat did not speak. The faint smell of tobacco filled the air, and as the low music played, There are ripples in this calmness.

The song on the stereo was a man singing a very low song, and the tone could not be said to be sad or cheerful.

Lu Mingfei's palm repeatedly rubbed the handle of Lust's knife. The texture was not hard. The ribs, which were as cold as steel in other people's hands, were as docile as a wagging pug in his hands.

Lust is the first sword among the Seven Deadly Sins, and it is probably the weakest in Norton's design. However, Lu Mingfei is best at lust. He has fought many battles with this knife and killed many dragons flowing in his body. Bloody stuff.

"So you have found the place where Kazama Liuli is hiding." The Hummer's engine roared, slowly climbing up the hill like a giant beast made of steel. Neither Yuan Zhisheng nor Lu Mingfei spoke, probably feeling a little embarrassed about each other. .

In a sense, Yuan Zhisheng is now Lu Mingfei's uncle, but he cannot accept this change in status yet. Moreover, the Executive Bureau has its own intelligence system, and the news that Lu Mingfei is surrounded by many girls is not a secret among the small group with Yuan Zhisheng as the core.

The first time I knew about this, Minamoto Chisao was on the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Chiba Prefecture, chasing a ghost who was wandering between the two cities on the left bank. He was holding Spider Kiri and looking out the window. The passing street scene was in a daze, and Sakura said that Miss Eriki's boyfriend didn't seem to be a good person, young master, and Minamoto's forehead suddenly had veins popping out.

After understanding the whole situation, Yuan Zhisheng sighed and said that the young people's affairs should be solved by themselves. Although he said that, this guy still kicked open the door of the next car, which had been evacuated. In the end, only the slightly excited ghost was left.

According to Yasha who was present at the time, he said that this was the first time he saw the young master's attacks so fiercely. Spider Kiri and Doji Kiri slashed continuously, killing six girls in Tokyo and eleven in Chiba Prefecture in one minute. The girl's extremely evil ghost was chopped into six pieces, and a huge amount of blood almost covered the entire carriage.

In short, it is impossible not to be angry. No matter what, Minamoto Zhisheng still regards Eri as his sister, although there may be times when he sees her more like a weapon than a family member.

However, later the source of childishness also thought clearly. In the mixed-race world, the moral, ethical and legal constraints of ordinary people have no effect at all. Even Tachibana Masamune, a patriarch who is considered mild and even cowardly by family members, has had this problem. Who knows how many women, other family heads such as Inuyama Ga bought real estate in Hokkaido to accommodate their sixteen wives. If nothing unexpected happens and he takes over as the head of the eight Sheqi families, he may be forced to have many women and give birth to many children in the future. Lu Mingfei's current romantic attitude seems to be justified.

It makes me angry just thinking about it. It's like you worked hard to cultivate a unique flower in the world, and then a lazy rich second-generation guy with yellow hair and riding a Harley bought it. You thought the rich second-generation guy would keep this unique flower with him, but one day you found out that the yellow-haired guy actually bought a bunch of such flowers and put them in a pot in his room.

Once the silence is broken, it collapses and shatters like an iceberg.

"No, we destroyed many strongholds of the evil ghosts, but we were not able to find those decisive people among the evil ghosts." Yuan Zhisheng said, "But we found Ryoma."

"Ryoma...?" Lu Mingfei's expression was a little dazed for a moment. He had never met Miss Sakurai Kogure. It was said that she was as strong a woman as Sakura. She was beautiful, sharp but restrained. She was in Tokyo in the last period of time. The mission report stated that she was prompted by Herzog and died in the Paradise Pavilion, which further intensified the hatred between Yuan Zhisheng and Yuan Zhisheng.

She is the daughter of Kozaburo Sakurai of the Sakurai family. When she was five years old, she was confirmed to have dangerous blood and was sent to a sanatorium in the mountains for house arrest. However, she defected from the family at the age of 14 and grew up among the demons. She also has a The half-brother is Akira Sakurai, who is also a ghost.

The Tokyo mission report stated that Sakurai Kogure's fighting level should be close to the A-level students trained by Kassel Academy. Her bloodline is extremely unstable, but she has studied yoga, jujitsu and esoteric Zen methods, and has strong self-restraint ability. Suppress your own bloodline riots to a certain extent. However, in the Battle of the Kukakukan, Sakurai Kogure, who is an A-level unstable hybrid, was unable to harm Minamoto even though she used a powerful evolution drug. From this, it can be judged that the emperor of the Snake Qihachi family is far beyond A-level. class.

"Lu Jun, you should already know that the fierce ghosts are composed of ghosts with unstable bloodlines from the eight families of Sheqi? They use the road to hell to allude to the method of evolving hybrids into pure-blooded dragons, in order to achieve an almost impossible hope. And work hard and dedicate everything you have." Yuan Zhisheng said, Lu Mingfei nodded, his understanding of the fierce ghosts may even be better than Yuan Zhisheng's.

The bloodline of the eight Sheqi families was directly contaminated by the White King. Unlike the Black King's bloodline, which has been gradually stabilized through generations of hybrid dragon bloodline optimization, a hybrid with the White King's blood flowing in its body is extremely easy to degenerate into a deadpool, and it is also They are ghosts. Ghosts will be persecuted and monitored by their families. The few ghosts who escape form the fierce ghost crowd.

The bloodline of ghosts is better than that of the commissioners of the Executive Bureau, and they have even exceeded the critical blood limit and will fall. However, their number is too small and they lack the necessary logistics and weapons sources, so they have been suppressed by the family.

But the purpose of gathering evil ghosts has never been to defeat the family's rule in Japan. Their lives have been counting down since they were defined as ghosts. They gathered just to "evolve into pure blood dragons" as an old man said. It’s an almost unattainable ideal that we can just survive.”

In the past, Yuan Zhisheng told Lu Mingfei that ghosts are extremely evil things from birth. The water of hell flows in their genes, and it is impossible to reconcile with this world.

In his words, it seems that the world is really black and white, with only good and evil.

Let's not talk about the use of the king, just talk about this group of people. They are really a group of pitiful moths hugging each other to keep warm. Good and evil are struggling among the fierce ghosts until they are torn apart.

A long time ago in history, the fierce ghosts may have been giants with their own ideas, but today they are just simple chess pieces. Herzog is just using these bad boys who are not tolerated by this world to disrupt the situation, intending to awaken the white people. King Bing usurps White King's power.

Lu Mingfei always felt that the people who joined the Fierce Ghosts were more miserable than ordinary chess pieces. Not only could they die at any time, but they actually had no way out or way out, but they thought they had one, until they bumped into the ancient road to the underworld. At the end, the evil spirits will find that there is only a bloody mouth waiting to swallow up their last value.

Just like Minamoto and Kazama Ruri always feel that they can kill the king, all the fierce ghosts feel that although their lives are unstable, they can always break free and get true freedom, but they don't know their fate. It was doomed from the start.

They respected Fengjian Liuli, but they didn't know that Fengjian Liuli was also the chess piece that would eventually die, and Fengjian Liuli didn't know it either; they were afraid of the general, but they never thought that they were just consumables in the hands of the general.

Ghosts are like moths flying into the fire, afraid of darkness and loneliness, pursuing every little bit of light and heat, and finally being burned to death by fire; they are also like weeds in the cracks of stones, and the stones on both sides want to crush them to death.

The evil ghost has power but no hope. Like a clear-headed walking zombie, he tries to change something and possess something, but in the end he has to act as Herzog's minions and is either swallowed up by his bloodline or by someone who claims to be a righteous friend. Executive board kill.

In the final analysis, the tragedy of the Ghost Clan today stems from the conspiracy of the King General and the xenophobic tradition of the Japanese branch. The Japanese branch has a high degree of autonomy and at the same time cuts off the possibility of these Ghost Clan from calling for help from Kassel Academy. They can only choose to degenerate and finally die in an unknown corner.

These are people who fought against fate and ultimately failed. Their fate has always been death.

A trace of pity flashed in Lu Mingfei's heart, but then it disappeared.

There are so many unsatisfactory things and so many hardships in this world. Everyone is alone in the torrent of fate. He can't control so many people. He can only manage himself and those he loves.

The fierce ghosts are Herzog's minions. Although they are pitiful, they are enemies after all. Today, Lu Mingfei is no longer the indecisive child. He doesn't care what the evil ghosts have experienced. If they really To harm someone, lust should drink the blood of sin.

"There is no way in the world that can turn humans into pure-blooded dragons." Lu Mingfei said lightly, "Even the college's Nibelung plan is nothing more than creating a super hybrid."

"Where is the path to becoming a god?" Yuan Zhisheng said this question calmly without looking at Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei was neither curious nor surprised that Yuan Zhisheng knew about the path to becoming a god.

The academy's library contains most of the dragon-related materials and documents that the Camarilla has collected throughout the world for hundreds or thousands of years. Many of them are recorded in words and languages ​​that humans cannot understand. They will be recorded many years later. Today it is still lying quietly on the bookshelf waiting for someone to decipher it.

Even in the classics that have been deciphered by the secret party, the path to becoming a god is not a secret. The most complete version is probably the violent blood technique passed down by the Lion Heart Club. Yuan Zhisheng has never had much interaction with the Lion Heart Club. , but with his talent and keen perception of dragon literature, it is not a big deal to find information about the road to becoming a god when browsing the materials in the library.

"Have you seen the video of me fighting Norton? In my normal state, it is almost impossible to compete with a Dragon King-level target. In the video, I show an appearance that is different from humans, but I still retain the will of a human. Then It is a manifestation of how the Road to the Gods works on me." Lu Mingfei did not begrudge the existence of violent blood. He explained, "The method of the Road to the Gods that I used was adopted by the first generation Lion Heart Society. The members named it violent blood. The violent blood I know can be pushed to the fourth degree. In this state, I can compete with the Dragon King in a short time."

In fact, from the conversation with Lu Mingze, Lu Mingfei knew that violent blood can be pushed to the fifth degree. That is the true end of the road to becoming a god, and the limit that can truly create a hybrid monarch that is no different from the Dragon King. .

But from the ancient period when the black emperor Lidhogg still ruled this land, to the medieval period when kings ruled together, and even to the modern era when dragons have almost disappeared from the earth, no one among the mixed-race species has ever referred to violent blood or sealing. The path of God has advanced to the fifth degree, which is a way for humans to compete with God that only exists in legends.

Yuan Zhisheng's heart was moved, but Lu Mingfei's next words gave up the idea that he had not yet hatched.

"The road to becoming a god has never been a gift to hybrids, but a curse." Lu Mingfei slowly looked at Yuan Zhisheng. They were running in the mountains of Osaka, heading towards a place where all evil gathered. gallop,

"Almost everyone who has used violent blood technology before me will inevitably fall. Their final destination is to become a deadpool and be killed by their companions... You should know that Chu Zihang has a pair of never-extinguishing golden eyes. , that is a sign of the early stage of Deadpool transformation. He has used violent blood for a long time and accumulated enough toxins in his body. If it were not for the smooth implementation of the Nibelung Plan, he might have turned into a ghost today."

Yuan Zhisheng took a deep breath. Although he was a descendant of the White King, he was not completely immune to the poison of dragon blood.