Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 551 - 128 The Shen Family People Like Swimming So Much

"Do the people of the Shen Family have some serious disease?"

Wang Yunxiao, Yan Yu’an, and Ito Hidemi looked at the "swimming pool" before them, speechless.

The warehouse of Yamazaki Pharmaceuticals had no drugs inside. They had dug through the entire floor, linking the surface space with the space underground to create a massive swimming pool, filled with all sorts of flesh and remains.

One could only describe it as a swimming pool, or else Wang Yunxiao wouldn’t know how else to describe this thing.

Did the people of the Shen Family have such unique hobbies, enjoying swimming in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood?

With the weather in August being sultry, one could imagine how horrifying the smell inside the warehouse was. As soon as the door was opened, Wang Yunxiao almost fainted from the putrid stench of decaying corpses.

How could they continue the investigation?

Who would dare to go in?

How was this different from diving into a septic tank to retrieve a murder weapon?

Thinking this, Wang Yunxiao suddenly realized, could it be that the Shen Family was killing people to silence them?

He took out his notebook and glanced at it, a whole page of ’Echo Erosion’ entities listed.

"Detected Echo Erosion: Guiding Bodhisattva..."

"Detected Echo Erosion: Guanyin of Gray Leather..."

"Detected Echo Erosion: Fleshly Banquet..."

"Detected Echo Erosion: Master of Ten Thousand Transformations..."

"Detected Echo Erosion: Nyarlathotep..." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Big shots, all in a row, putting heavy pressure on Wang Yunxiao.

While Wang Yunxiao felt the pressure, Ito Hidemi was a bit envious and resentful.

Look at someone else’s notebook, then look at mine.

The verses that appeared in his notebook were still semantically vague and nonsensical haikus.

"Heart’s monkey and mind’s horse"

"Seeking the true scripture, sitting on the lotus platform"

"Hard to distinguish true from false"

Would you die if you said one more word?

"This is an allusion from ’Journey to the West’ where Sun Wukong battles the Six-Eared Macaque."

Yan Yu’an glanced at the contents of the notebooks in the hands of both men, covered his mouth and nose, walked to a place where the air was fresher, retched twice, and then said seriously.

"Judging by the situation at the scene, there should be at least three parties involved."

"The Master of Ten Thousand Transformations from Fusang, the Guanyin Followers of Gray Leather, and the Red Lantern Society."

At this, Yan Yu’an’s face showed a look of confusion.

"According to past customs of the Red Lantern Society, they shouldn’t interfere with the affairs of the Shen Family. The main reason the Shen Family use foreigners for training is to avoid conflict with them. Moreover, since the disappearance of the Red Lantern Society’s higher-ups last time, the Red Lantern Society has become much more low-key."

"I know the parable of the Six-Eared Macaque. Perhaps these few words are hinting at the relationship between the Master of Ten Thousand Transformations and the Yamata Orochi."

Ito Hidemi interjected, "How much do you know about the Master of Ten Thousand Transformations?"

"Not at all."

Wang Yunxiao thought to himself that beyond the name, he had no idea what this person did.

"Put simply, Fusang of those days did not have the genuine protection of any deities."

Ito Hidemi sighed, "The ancient myths of Fusang were completely fabricated to maintain the imperial line’s legitimacy, and even the Fusang People themselves didn’t believe in them. Precisely because of this, the Fusang People’s concept of gods was particularly vague; they worshipped anything inexplicable as gods, which led to the joke about the ’eight million deities of Takamagahara.’"

"The adverse effect of diluted faith is the inability to worship a true deity that can protect the nation’s fate. After the Black Ships incident, the Holy Grail Church invaded Fusang and began spreading their doctrine. Although the Holy Grail Church claimed to be a branch of Christianity, in reality, they are an authentic heretical sect. They actually worship Mephisto, also known in another translation as Mephistopheles, one of the seven Monarchs of Hell."

"Mephisto, renowned for his cunning, is also one of the rare wise rulers of Hell. He viewed Fusang as his colony and revealed to the Shogunate General the truth about this world, which is the alternation of the New Gods and the Ancient Gods."

"Simply put, with the development of human civilization and science, the ancient gods that mankind worshipped in the past began to lose their authority and fell from their altars. For example, every ethnicity had its own legend about the originator and creator, but as humanity conquered the seas and discovered the vastness of the world, looking back at their Creator Gods, they seemed so weak and feeble. Naturally, the prestige of the Creator Gods crumbled."

"When we discovered the sun is just a star so far away from us, the Sun God turned into a joke. When we found out fire isn’t an element, but a phenomenon of combustion, the Fire God fell as well. As mankind entered the modern Industrial Revolution, the era of ancient gods was declared to be over. To maintain their divine authority, they had to find a place for themselves in the new world."

"Some ancient gods reignited their divine spark and became New Gods by obtaining the authority of new era concepts. For instance, Nyarlathotep, the God of Credit, and Bastet, the Goddess of Communication."

"Mephisto chose a different path. He persuaded the General of Shogunate to consolidate the Power of Faith from the entire population and artificially create a new deity, which later became the Yamata Orochi."

Ah, I get it, you can’t lose at the new starting line of life, right?

But why choose the Yamata Orochi?

Thinking this, Wang Yunxiao asked, "Why the Yamata Orochi? Wasn’t Orochi chopped up? Isn’t that kind of inauspicious?"

After all, he couldn’t imagine the people of Ming worshipping the Three-Legged Crow or the Nine-Tailed Fox as legitimate deities.

Ito Hidemi countered, "Do you know who it was that killed the Yamata Orochi?"

"I don’t."

"Susano-o, also called Susanowo. Do you think ordinary Fusang peasants could remember such an awkward name?"

"Alright, that makes sense."

"Of course, that’s only one reason. The true reason isn’t only high proliferation of the Yamata Orochi tale, but also the complex symbolism it represents. If you’re interested in Fusang culture, you can look up the story behind it; if not, just forget it. To sum it up — the Shogunate expended a great deal of manpower and resources to create the Orochi."

"After the Shogunate was overthrown, the Emperor of Heaven Government did not give up on this project. However, during the execution process, an unexpected product was born, which is now the Master of Ten Thousand Transformations."

"So the Master of Ten Thousand Transformations is the Orochi?"

"To be strict, the ’Master of Ten Thousand Transformations’ was what Mephisto hoped to create through the Orochi project. It’s like stewing ’Buddha Jumps Over the Wall’; the pig bones, chicken, duck, ribs, and scallops are the ingredients for the soup, and the abalone, shark’s fin, and fish maw brewed from these ingredients are the true ’Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.’"

Ito Hiromasa spread his hands and said, "But his plan was too complex and ultimately went awry. He failed to steal the power and instead nurtured a true man-made deity."

"— Which is the current Black Dragon Princess, the Master of Ten Thousand Transformations."