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The TAC team is also at the foot of Yuefeng Mountain, and they know what they will face today.
If I'm not mistaken, the 'ghost' will definitely appear.
"What are you against? This kind of ritual is deeply embedded in everyone's blood. It is a tradition. It was only because of the prosperity of science that it was refuted as superstition. However, everyone still remembers it."
This is what their ancestors did. In an ignorant age, they prayed for all living beings to the best of their understanding.
Science is indeed very powerful, but people still have such images in their memories. Even if they have never seen it since they were born, their ancestors have seen it, and their great-grandfather’s great-grandfather has seen it.
People will refute new things, but they will not refute the memories in their blood.
Even if you don't believe it, you will still have a sense of awe.
So the whole of Tokyo is unusually quiet tonight. Listen to the drums and pray quietly.
Chapter 287: The Three Sounds Formation
The Yin-Yang Dipping is modeled after the Buddhist Water Road Dharma Assembly, which is the most solemn and auspicious Dharma Assembly. For seven days and seven nights, there will be lectures and a grand fasting meeting, during which various rituals of debating scriptures and worshipping Buddha will be held.
Shintoism evolved from Buddhism and Taoism, and absorbed local mythology to piece together a local religion that also borrowed from various ritual processes.
Such a grand ceremony would only be held in an island country when humanity was at a low ebb and natural and man-made disasters occurred frequently. The royal family would then order the Onmyoji to take the lead and the Ise Shrine, which was dedicated to the royal family, to organize it.
All the major shrines across the country gathered to wipe out the evil in the world and restore the prosperity of humanity.
Judging from the scale of the festival held at the Tsukimine Shrine, it was indeed approved by the royal family and authorized by the government. Tonight's big dip was held throughout Tokyo, and there were prosperous incense and candles and bonfires for exorcism on every street corner.
It can be said to be grand.
These are the results of hundreds of shrines, large and small, in Tokyo, Shizuoka, Yamanashi, and Saitama participating in the event in response to the afternoon call.
The Ise Grand Shrine is the coordinator, and the royal shrine has the legitimate right to do such things.
"Thank you for your hard work, Lord Kagura."
Kagura Chizuru shook her head. She was not tired. She looked up at the row of exorcist candles extending into the distance, and at the Moon Peak Mountain at the end.
That's where the real danger lies.
The Hyuga priest's previous worry that no one would attend the festival because the public had not been notified in advance was unnecessary.
Because the public was not allowed to participate in this festival, the area around Yuefeng Mountain was controlled by the TAC team, and everyone was evacuated after the evacuation order was issued.
This will be a battlefield, both in religious and scientific terms.
Taking Tokyo as the battle formation, looking down from the air, you will find that the entire metropolitan area is arranged into battle formations with dense divine fire. Ling is also a Shinto novice, so there is no doubt that these were arranged by the Lord of Kagura Palace.
The center of the formation is Yuefeng Mountain. The Yuefeng Shrine is decorated very grandly, with all the necessary things for the shrine's sedan chair and fire offerings, except for people.
So Yuefeng Shrine is both lively and deserted.
"Hyuga Miyaji, the TAC team has issued an evacuation order, you should leave immediately."
"For such a grand festival, it doesn't make sense to leave only the shrine maiden here!" Hinata tried to straighten his back, he took out a wooden bow and held it in his hand.
"Very dangerous."
"I know, but my old bones are useless for fighting monsters. I am familiar with the festival."
The Exorcism Festival is an annual tradition of the shrine. In previous years, the Exorcism Festival would begin with the priest shooting a bow and the shrine maiden scattering beans after the Kagura dance performed by the shrine maidens.
Then, "ghosts" dressed in red and green and wearing masks came running from a distance, roaring and yelling, sometimes scaring children on the roadside. They ran towards the shrine at the sound of their parents' calls, and were knocked down again and again by the beans scattered by the priests and the witches, and finally fled in panic.
After the ghosts are driven away, the shrine distributes beans to the people, thus completing the entire festival process.
There are no audiences today, and the ghosts probably aren’t actors dressed in red or green clothes and wearing masks.
"Oshima Miko, please start the Kagura dance."
Then Lingya held the Kagura bell in his hand, and a melodious flute sounded.
There was no band, it was Hinata who pressed the play button on the recorder.
But Ling didn't move, she turned to look at Hinata.
"Master Palace Master, is there something wrong with this music?"
"Oh, sorry, sorry, I put it in the wrong place."
Hinata quickly pressed pause and ejected the tape that was playing wedding music in the recorder.
It was a bit embarrassing for the shrine to use tapes to accompany the Kagura dance, but that was the perspective of later generations. It was still very novel in this era.
Cassette tapes were introduced by Philips of the Netherlands ten years ago. They were rare in Tokyo at that time. It would take another ten years, after the 1980s, for them to become popular in the streets and into the homes of ordinary people.
"This was used for someone who came to the shrine to get married last week. It was a mistake."
There is no other way. The shrine does not have an extra ceremonial officer to play music, so this is the only way to do it. But using tapes to play music during a wedding is not considered disrespectful and is a trendy style.
Hinata went to the storeroom to pick some things and came out after a long while.
"It's correct this time, it's guaranteed to be the music of the Kagura dance!"
It is indeed the music of Kagura dance.
Whether it's a tape or a priest playing the instrument, Ling isn't picky; it's just a formality.
The music started again.
Ling also danced with the Kagura bell to the music.
Ding-dong! Clang!
The music on the tape seemed to extend from here to a distant, unreachable place.
"here we go!"
Kagura in the distance felt something in her heart. From her perspective, the entire Moon Mountain was shining brightly. Then, in the inconspicuous corners of the streets and alleys of Tokyo, the Shinto sacrificial fires echoed from afar. The formation formed the shape of the Eight Diagrams, which was also the shape of the Eight-foot Mirror.
Guaqi: Three Sounds
With Kagura's cultivation, it was far from possible to set up a formation covering the entire Tokyo. It was beyond human power. But with Yuefeng Mountain as the center, the vast divine power made it very simple to deploy the formation.
Believe it or not, it is automatic. The Three Sounds Array is perfecting itself.
Ling also said that she didn't understand the formation, and Kagura believed it because the formation was not worth her understanding.
No matter how hard humans try, they still cannot explore the truth of the world. But for gods, what they think is the truth, and what they say is the law, so why should we explore it?
Tokyo, not just Tokyo, but also parts of Saitama, Yamanashi, and Shizuoka are included in this formation. The demons are sealed with the Three Sounds Formation. I am afraid that even if Abe Haruaki were to be reborn, he would never have seen such a grand move.
At the top of Yuefeng Mountain, the tranquil Guanyue Lake was rippling. A shadow was cast on the lake, originally just a small drop of ink, and then it spread out on the moonlit lake. While blocking the moonlight on the water, the moonlight in the sky was also blocked.
It's cloudy.
There was a loud thunder in the sky.
The Hyuga priest clenched the bow in his hand. After the Kagura dance ended, it was time for the priest to draw the bow and announce the start of the ceremony.
But today's Kagura dance always felt particularly long.
The originally soothing and melodious flute sound on the radio seemed a little stretched out somehow, and the volume was also lowered. It should have been a dignified sound, but it took on a weird flavor.
"I didn't put the wrong tape in this time!" Hyuga Miyaji raised his hand to indicate that it was not him.
Of course it wasn't him who did it. Ling also glanced at the recorder, then quickly looked away. She looked up at the sky again, and the clear night was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and thunder struck the mountain stream, and it seemed that it was about to strike the shrine.
huh~~
She exhaled, and pointed the Kagura bell in her hand at a distance. Ding, ding! Clang!
Instantly, the thunder stopped. Everything was quiet, as if the world had lost all sound.
"bow"
Ling also said something, and Hyuga Miyaji suddenly realized.
He knew that Ling also wanted something other than the wooden bow in his hand. He quickly ran to the inner hall of the shrine and took down the magic-breaking bow that belonged to the sun priestess and was enshrined in front of the shrine.
The ebony bow was very hard, and felt like metal in the hand. After hundreds of years of precipitation, the surface of the wood was smooth as pulp. Hinata walked and ran, and quickly took the bow.
Ling also took the ebony bow. It was very heavy, and the bowstring was made of something unknown. But she bent the bow and pulled it to the full moon.
Hold your breath and stare at the sky, where there are dark clouds.
The wind blew up her Chihaya, and the beige skirt lifted slightly, wrapping around her red kimono, and also rolled up some dust, which swirled around her body.
The witch who breaks the magic seems to have walked out of a painting from the mythological era.
There was no arrow on the string, but when her grip loosened, there was a crisp sound of tearing the air, followed by a sound like a dragon's roar.
An invisible object suddenly tore apart the dark clouds in the sky, like a huge arrow shattering the clouds, allowing the moonlight to leak out again.
The flying dragon roared in the sky and disappeared into the horizon.
The clouds dispersed and the wind stopped.
A roar was heard across Tokyo. But maybe it was just the wind.
"Master Palace Administrator, Bean."
"Ah? Ah, oh!" The Hyuga priest, who had not yet come to his senses, took the ritual fried soybeans like a puppet.
He picked up the beans, but didn't know where to throw them. He couldn't see the 'ghost', and didn't even know if the ghost had appeared.
Seeing this, Ling also walked forward and grabbed a handful of beans.
"Go ahead and look at the dark places."
A dark place, but now it is night, and the places where the fire cannot illuminate are dark. Although thinking so, Hyuga Palace Master still scattered the beans in his hand.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the surroundings were brighter.
Ling also started to throw beans.
"Devils are outside, blessings are inside!"
Ling also shouted, and Hyuga Miyaji tentatively followed suit. After a few shouts, he found that his courage was gradually returning.
Although it feels a little different, I also feel that it is no different from the prayers in previous years.
"Demons are outside, blessings are inside!" "Evil ghosts, go away!"
A drizzle began to fall across Tokyo. The rain fell everywhere, and the vegetation turned visibly green.
The air is filled with the fragrance of earth, the scientific explanation is negative oxygen ions. The refreshing feeling makes people feel refreshed.
"My hands! My hands can move, Captain, my hands have strength again!" Konno shouted. He grabbed the TAC gun, but was not satisfied. He went back to the Black Panther and picked up the individual rocket launcher and carried it on his shoulder.