Chapter 40: The Night of the Afterearth, the Beginning of Atonement
Looking at the huge celestial bodies in the sky flying higher and higher, Haromo and Hamura's hearts were filled with inexplicable emotions. On the other side, not far from the two of them, there was a black unidentified object quietly spread there. With its grass-yellow eyes and a mouth, it was Kaguya's last yin-yang creation before the seal was completed, an extension of Kaguya's will, and had an independent personality. It took one last look at the moon, and with Kaguya's mission, it turned into a liquid state and infiltrated into the cracks in the rocks.
"Tick ······ Tick ······"
Kaguya opened her eyes, and the sound of water droplets woke her up. However, when she opened her eyes, the sound of water droplets disappeared again. Looking at the dark space in front of her, and the depth of the water at her ankles, she followed her inner call and walked forward.
Gradually, the front became a little brighter, and it turned out that there was a cloud of light there. She walked step by step, placing her hand on the ball of light. In an instant, the entire space became incomparably brighter, turning into a white space, and the water under his feet disappeared.
Kaguya came back to her senses from the changes around her and looked at the position of the ball of light in front of her.
The orb of light vanished, revealing Kaguya with long black hair and black eyes, and a face identical to hers.
"You're here······" The woman said in a light voice, with a blank face.
Kaguya frowned slightly, her lips opened slightly, and she was about to speak, but unexpectedly, the woman seemed to know her thoughts, and preemptively spoke.
"I know what you're trying to ask, ······ My name is the land after you, but it is your past life, and you are my hereafter. ”
"Yes. Do you think I'm going to believe your words? Kaguya said.
"Now, it doesn't matter if you don't believe it." Hou Tu said: "Before the seal, your strength had already surpassed me, and you had already reached the realm of approaching a saint. Originally, I thought that the three-life technique in this life would not be able to continue, but I didn't expect that the two boys of Yuro and Hamura ······"
"Thanks to them, you can finally wake up."
"Humph! Amusing! Kaguya sneered, "Kaguya is Kaguya, and I will never admit that I am you." Forehead ······" Before he finished speaking, he saw Hou Tujiao take a step and come to Kaguya's side in a flash, hugging her tightly.
"Your pain, your joy, your love, your hate. I know all of this, come on, it's time to wake up. Houtu whispered in Kaguya's ear. The words fell, and the two of them disappeared into this white space at the same time.
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Between the cycle of life and death, Houtu, who was sitting on the stone statue of the Houtu Sage, opened her eyes, she looked at her palm, and then clenched her fists.
"Is this love? What a beautiful and precious emotion! However, it seems too one-sided to explain the true meaning of "love" just the love between mother and child. But ······" A smile appeared at the corner of Houtu's mouth, and he said, "Is this feeling of joy?" I'm one step closer to that goal. ”
The clenched fist was released again, and Hou Tu looked at the purple light in his palm and said, "Is this my heart in this life?" Mysterious, elegant, noble, glamorous, proud. The color of the heart ······" Shaking his head, Houtu put away the light of his mind and closed his eyes again.
After that, the Houtu, which fused with the memories of the afterlife, began to get stronger and stronger. The experience of this life named Kaguya not only completed part of the broken soul of the earth, but also advanced the power of the spiritual lock to the fourth-order advanced stage for Echakra, who understood the truth of this world.
It can be said that the help of Kaguya's memory in this life to Houtu is incomparable to the memories of the previous lives of the mortals of the previous lives of the Houtu (Xiao Ying's causal line, after Xiao Ying and his predecessor Houtu are integrated, the memory of Xiao Ying's previous life can only be obtained by using the technique of three lives). And this made Houtu have a great interest in the reincarnation of non-ordinary people, and laid the groundwork for the rest of the five lives.
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On the other side, Katsuya, or Houtu, who is in the center of the moon's core, opened her eyes. Although Kaguya and Houto's consciousness merge into one, the same relationship between the Ten Tails and Kaguya is formed. However, with her current body, she would still consider herself Kaguya.
She looked at the space, it was a spherical space twenty meters in diameter, half clear water, half breathable air, plus the circular stone platform in the center, forming a place of imprisonment after Kaguya's seal.
Although it is at the center of the moon, gravity is always in one direction.
"Da~Da~Da~"
Hearing a sound of footsteps behind him, Kaguya stared at the water in a daze, not looking back.
"Mother." Someone shouted.
"It's Hamura. Did you come out of here to see my posture as a loser? I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you? ”
Hamura lowered his eyes, was silent for a while, and said, "Mother, I have already said goodbye to my brother. From today onwards, I will always be by your side. ”
Kaguya raised her head when she heard this, "Really? I don't need you to pretend. ”
Hamura pursed his lips, he knew that Kaguya was still angry now, and said, "Mother, I'll go first." With that, he turned and left.
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Earth, the palace of the ancestral country.
Since the end of the battle that decided the fate of humanity, Haji has untied the "Infinite Moon Reading" technique, freeing the people who had fallen into the illusion. And these days, he has been repairing the living conditions of the people in the ancestral country.
To this day, having settled their feathered coats, they decided to leave here.
One is that after the war, the earth was devastated. This time, Feather will travel through this world with a heart of atonement in an attempt to restore the land. At the same time, he is also very interested in the world depicted in Kaguya's travelogues, after all, there are many places in this world that he has not visited.
The second is the problem of the Ten Tails. Because of sealing the Ten Tails into his body, Feather Armor became the first Ten Tails Pillar Force in history. So he knew very well how powerful the power of the Ten Tails really was. At the same time, he also understands the relationship between the Ten Tails and Kaguya, although the two are two bodies, they are actually the same life.
It is to understand the relationship between Kaguya and the Ten Tails, so, in order to prevent the will of Kaguya after the seal dies and returns to the Ten Tails, and then resurrects. The power of the reincarnation of the Wheel Eye, which represents the power and will of the Ten Tails, is divided into nine parts according to the nature of the power that dwells in the eyes. In addition, using the power of Yin and Yang to create nine chakra lifeforms called Tailed Beasts, he also gave them their own names. Finally, in order to prevent the nine-tailed beasts from quarreling with each other and being taken advantage of by those who have a good intention, he had to think carefully about their shelter during his travels.
Bidding farewell to the people of the ancestral country and Toad Maru, Yuromo embarked on a journey alone.