After Ye Sha interrogated Ibaraki, he finally figured out the truth about the Demon Realm and the Night of a Hundred Demons.
The so-called demons referred to bandits who dressed sloppily and had blood on their bodies. They would jump out at night to kill and rob. In this era, they were demons.
Those who enjoyed a reputation, had strange appearances, killed and ate humans, and had some abilities were called demons. Similarly, those who didn't kill and eat humans were called gods.
Of course, these gods were only minor gods. Great gods and some strange existences were metaphysically related to natural phenomena and only existed in concepts.
In short, all things that ordinary people couldn't accept were called demons and ghosts. It had become a common practice.
On one hand, people were ignorant and superstitious. After all, eating humans wasn't a joke. Those bandits were truly evil. The villagers were poor to begin with, so what could they steal? At the very least, Shutendoji's group really killed and ate human flesh. This was enough to shock ordinary people.
On the other hand, the Yin-Yang technique was passed down to Japan. Many people used it as a theory to support it, which led to the current situation.
The reason why the Yin-Yang Masters had so much power to explain was naturally because the Emperor himself was a god and the Imperial Court didn't do anything.
The Heian Era was a period of cultural peace. The officials were greedy for pleasure and didn't care about the poor areas. It was too troublesome to exterminate the demons.
If they were humans, then the people naturally needed the Imperial Court to exterminate them. But if they were demons, then the Imperial Court didn't need to send troops …
The Yin-Yang Masters said that the pedestrians here were often killed because of the evil spirits. They just needed to do the magic.
The officials thought that this was great and were willing to believe in the Yin-Yang Masters.
After the Yin-Yang Masters dealt with the 'evil spirits' several times, the situation naturally became worse. After one or two generations, the younger generation grew up and the older generation died. Everyone in Heian City completely believed in them. Year after year, people became superstitious and would divine good fortune every day.
The Yin-Yang Masters naturally didn't have the ability to deal with large groups of evil spirits, but they could cooperate with them.
Samurai killed people and brought back their heads. The Yin-Yang Masters killed ghosts with their mouths and some money. Even if the bandit did evil in the same place again, he could say that Shutendoji broke the gourd and let him escape the seal. He would go and catch him again. In any case, there were plenty of excuses.
Abe Seimei had said that all the ghosts and deities were giving him face, and it was true. He was equivalent to "the leader of all the ghosts and deities in the world."
He was like a leader. On the surface, he was an official, but in reality, he was in close contact with various heroes.
There were always ghosts and deities who came to visit him brazenly, and he gave them face. He made more and more 'friends', and lived well in both the good and the bad. In the world of ghosts and deities, he was respectfully called White Fox Lord.
After hundreds of years of operation, superstition was deeply rooted in people's hearts. When it reached Abe Seimei's generation, from the Emperor to the Li Shu, they all believed it without a doubt.
That was why he had such a great reputation and even caused the Hundred Ghosts Parade.
The so-called Night of a Hundred Ghosts was a group of ghosts that couldn't be suppressed and insisted on coming to Luo Jing to cause trouble.
So what if they traveled at night? They just needed to kill and rob some commoners.
When the time came, he, Duke White Fox, would step forward to take charge of the situation. He would restrain the demons and scare off the ghosts to protect the residential area of the High Officials. That would be enough. The High Officials would naturally continue to trust and support him. They would not care about the lives of the Pariahs.
That was why there was such a strange situation where the Imperial Court did not move a single soldier when a group of bandits caused trouble in the capital!
It could be seen how well Abe Seimei operated. The High Officials completely believed that these calamities were all ghosts, and Abe Seimei alone could maintain the situation and protect them.
It had to be said that the Yin-Yang Masters had created a kind of order. They had taught them the Imperial Court's bottom line. They had taught them how to not incite the Imperial Court's true anger and how to mutually benefit each other.
It could be said that if the Yin-Yang Masters said that someone was going to be unlucky, that person would really be unlucky … … If they said that someone was going to run into ghosts, that person would really run into ghosts … …
However, Abe Seimei's words about Shutendoji being arrogant and unruly were true.
Although the two sides were still in contact, Shutendoji's reputation was so great that he no longer cared about Abe Seimei.
The bandits that Abe Seimei had contacted were no longer able to suppress Shutendoji. The Ghost and Demon Realm had a situation where one of them was the strongest, and Shutendoji was not giving him any face. He was becoming more and more unrestrained.
That was why the Yin-Yang Masters had sent an army to attack Shutendoji.
However, if Shutendoji was annihilated by the army, the reputation of the Onmyojis would be greatly tarnished. Therefore, Abe Seimei decided to sell Shutendoji out. Although he had conspired against Sakata Kinshi, he had also given him a way out.
Shutendoji's group was familiar with everything in the world. They only needed to make preparations in advance for things like ghost springs, demonic flames, falling rocks. The poisonous miasma would only appear at certain times. They only needed to be led to a certain location.
Moving mountains was an exaggeration. It was just that the original path had been blocked, and the army had gotten lost in the mountains when they took a detour. In the end, they had to follow the river out.
However, even with such benefits, Shutendoji was still ambitious. He was only willing to help Abe Seimei with some small matters, such as the matter with Ibaraki and Watanabe. He continued to do whatever he wanted and even massacred villages.
It was as if he knew that as long as he kept Abe Seimei at arm's length and didn't completely fall out with him, Abe Seimei would definitely help him when the army moved out.
This time, Abe had also told Shutendoji about the crusade against Shutendoji. That was why Ibaraki had disguised himself as a woman and tried to assassinate Ye Sha.
It didn't matter if the assassination failed. There were only 12 people, while Shutendoji had 300 people.
However, Ibaraki didn't expect that his escape technique would be broken and he would be captured alive.
There were many things that Watanabe Tsuyoshi didn't know about. When he heard Ibaraki Tsuyoshi tell him everything, he was shocked speechless.
"What's there to be surprised about? Don't you know that they aren't ghosts? "Ye Sha asked.
"They actually …" Watanabe Tsuyoshi stared blankly at Ibaraki Tsuyoshi. After a long time, he finally said that he really believed that there were ghosts in the world. It was just that these ghosts weren't as powerful as he thought.
"I'm convinced …"
Ye Sha knew that the people here thought differently from him.
They would rather believe that they could kill ghosts than believe that the other party wasn't a ghost …
They would rather believe that their sword was powerful, or that their bloodline was powerful, or that they were protected by the gods.
Even when Abe Seimei used him before, Watanabe Tsuyoshi's fear of ghosts had only decreased. He didn't become an atheist.
It wasn't until now that he heard Ibaraki Tsuyoshi tell him the truth that his worldview collapsed.
"Their deeply rooted culture made them think of everything as ghosts, ghosts, and gods. After all, their ruler is also a god" Mo Qiong commented.
That's true, if Watanabe Tsuyoshi believed that there were no ghosts in this world, he would have asked me why I could summon food already "
Ye Sha silently said, then asked: "Sir, this Shutendoji is a bandit, I don't need to find him, do I?"
Mo Qiong already understood the situation of this world. If even a 'super great monster' like Shutendoji was nothing but a barbarian, then this was basically a normal world.
Of course, that didn't mean that anomalies didn't exist. The world was so big, who the hell knows where anomalies would pop up from.
Mo Qiong then said: "Go out and look at the sky"
Ye Sha didn't understand, but still did as he was told.
He stood in the village and looked up at the sky, waiting for a long time without anything happening.
"Sir, what exactly are you doing?"
"Don't worry, just wait for a bit" Mo Qiong seemed to be busy.
Ye Sha stood there blankly, Watanabe Tsuyoshi didn't know what was going on, and the villagers also didn't know what this mountain god wanted to do.
He stood there for half an hour until his body was sore, then Mo Qiong's voice came again: "Raise your head!"
Ye Sha hurriedly raised his head, only to hear a loud boom as a rocket abruptly appeared from below the clouds!
It was a small rocket, not as big as the ones he saw on TV, and didn't have any numbers or words on it.
Even its shape was a bit strange, it was square and looked more like a cigarette box.
When it appeared, it was already in a flamethrower state. Since it suddenly appeared in the sky, it seemed like it didn't shoot accurately, as if it was about to crash.
"Ah!" not only Ye Sha screamed, but everyone else also screamed in fear.
Seeing such a flamethrower appear in the sky, everyone couldn't help but scream.
"It's going to crash!" Ye Sha anxiously said.
Mo Qiong calmly said: "Don't worry, this is cutting-edge technology, the AI program inside can adjust the flight path according to the Earth's magnetic field, and can also autonomously analyze all kinds of data, it's an unmanned near-Earth orbit spacecraft"
Sure enough, the spacecraft quickly stopped shaking, and steadily rose into the sky, higher and higher, smaller and smaller, until it broke through the clouds and disappeared from sight.
It would automatically enter near-Earth orbit, becoming a man-made satellite, orbiting the Earth.
"It can orbit the Earth three times a day, you're free for now, do what you need to do" Mo Qiong said.
Watanabe Tsuyoshi was also very happy that Ye Sha didn't need to go find Shutendoji, he could report back to Kyoto with Ibaraki Douji.
Mo Qiong didn't pay attention to him for now, and went to rest.
This was just a normal world, it could be checked with a normal detector, slowly confirming whether or not there were anomalies in other continents, no need to worry about immortals, demons, or ghosts.
The unmanned spacecraft would automatically take satellite pictures, he could just wake up and enter the machine to check the data through his character, then he could check and record the information in the 'other world's electronic carrier' on Earth, without the need for the machine to transmit it back.
He and the people from the research department were checking the satellite pictures of that world.
After looking at it for a bit, everyone exclaimed in shock.
"How can this be? Where's the continent? "a researcher was stunned.
Mo Qiong was also stunned, the satellite pictures showed that this' Earth 'was mostly ocean, aside from the two poles, there was only one large island on the ocean, and that was Fuso.
Australia was gone, Africa was gone, America was gone. The Eurasian continent that should have existed was also gone, only an island was left!
"What's going on?"
"This is impossible! The Fuso people clearly know that there's a continent on the other side of the ocean, as well as a celestial empire. "
The researchers were all stunned, what's going on? The people of this world knew that there was a celestial empire on the other side of the ocean, but when they looked at the satellite, there wasn't!
Mo Qiong was shocked, he originally thought that this was just a normal ancient world, he didn't expect to find such a huge anomaly.
Was this caused by an anomaly? Or was this world originally like this? If it was originally like this, why would the Fuso people think that there was a continent on the other side of the ocean? So much of the Yin Yang culture came from that place.
But the pictures showed that there was only an ocean on the other side? Why? Could it be that aside from Fuso, everything else sank?
"That doesn't make sense, if it did, there's no way this island wouldn't be affected at all, and what's with the tides? It's too normal, there's no continent, and the water level isn't right, this isn't Earth! "a researcher immediately exclaimed.
Mo Qiong agreed, either an anomaly caused the anomaly to erase the other continents, or this planet was originally like this, and the reason why it was so normal was because someone had modified it.
"How can we confirm which possibility it is?" Mo Qiong asked.
The first time they transmigrated, they thought that they had seen through the truth of the monsters, but that wasn't important at all, the biggest anomaly was this entire planet.
"If this is the only civilized society, any anomalies related to humanity would also appear there" Wang Zhong Yue muttered to himself.
"At most, we can add in the two poles, if Fuso and the two poles had other anomalies, then this situation could be caused by another anomaly. On the other hand, if Fuso couldn't find any anomalies, then this world was originally like this! "the researcher concluded.
Mo Qiong thought for a bit: "Could it be man-made? Otherwise, there's no way to explain why the locals obtained the 'culture from the continent' "
"Mo Qiong, launch the unmanned lunar vehicle! We want to see the moon! "the researcher declared.
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