After the New Year’s bell rings, the Japanese begin to visit shrines and temples one after another, praying for success and good health in the new year.

Many Japanese people will start to visit shrines as soon as New Year’s Eve passes. Long queues will form at major shrines and temples before New Year’s Eve, with huge crowds of people creating a spectacular scene.

Uchiha Ming’s expression was a little subtle.

He himself didn’t know when the Lord of Mount Tai had acquired the duty of blessing love.

It has to be admitted that the Japanese government has indeed gone to great lengths and spared no expense to please the Lord of Mount Tai.

Sensoji Temple was razed to the ground in the battle between Gama Sage and Afei. The Japanese government had no plans to rebuild it afterwards. Instead, they spent a huge amount of money to build a new Sensoji Temple dedicated to the Lord of Mount Tai, in the name of it being a holy place where the Lord of Mount Tai appeared.

As for the original owner, the Sheng Guanyin Sect, the Japanese government allocated a piece of land elsewhere in Taito District as compensation.

Anyway, the Asakusa Incident turned half of Taito District into scorched earth, so there is plenty of vacant land.

The Holy Guanyin Sect dared to be angry but not to speak out, but there was nothing they could do as the Bodhisattva Guanyin did not perform any miracles to save all living beings. They themselves were unsure, and under the pressure of various forces, they had to accept it out of “considering the overall situation.”

The new Senso-ji Temple is much more popular than the original Senso-ji Temple.

However, this kind of thing is also natural. After all, the Lord of Mount Tai is the only deity who has shown his power in front of the whole world so far. He is unparalleled in his glory and overwhelms all the gods and Buddhas in the sky.

Although we dare not question whether the power of the Lord of Mount Tai surpasses that of other gods and Buddhas, the power of the Lord of Mount Tai really shines on this island country.

The Japanese are also pragmatic when it comes to praying to gods and Buddhas.

Since the Lord of Mount Tai is a genuine god, worshiping him must be more effective than worshiping other gods and Buddhas whose existence is unknown.

Uchiha Ming didn’t care about others building a shrine for him, but it felt a bit strange to add some messy and even love-related duties to Taishan Lord, the lord of the underworld who was in charge of reincarnation.

Japan’s shrines and temples have always taken care of marriage and love, education and promotion, safety and health.

“Are you going to pay homage to the Lord of Mount Tai? Or let’s go to another place.”

“The Lord of Mount Tai is very effective. In this extraordinary era where demons and monsters are everywhere, the Lord of Mount Tai protects mortals from harm. I also want to pray for Uncle Uchiha.”

Uchiha Ming was a little amused.

What’s so good about worshipping a clay puppet of the Lord of Mount Tai? The real Lord is right in front of you.

I don’t know the true face of Lushan, I am only in this mountain.

“By the way, although I have informed the Immortal Sect that Chiyo and I are ‘dating’, I have not let him meet her yet. Should we find a chance for them to meet?”

However, Uchiha Senmon, who is the head of the supernatural police department, has a full schedule, and even Naruto Uchiha can’t see him a few times a year.

Moreover, he has been overseas recently and has no time to spare.

Not to mention, this year is the year when the three-year agreement of Jedi Tiantong expires, and the international situation is becoming increasingly turbulent.

Full of a sense of urgency as if a storm is about to come.

He couldn’t say much about this and could only helplessly let Matsudaira Chiyo drag him towards the entrance of Shin Sensoji Temple.

Today is not the weekend yet, but there are still a lot of tourists visiting the New Sensoji Temple, and you can occasionally see a few blond and blue-eyed faces.

At this moment, Uchiha Ming’s expression changed slightly and he looked to the side.

A man wearing a black robe with red clouds and a vortex mask on his face was swaggering through the streets.

It immediately attracted the attention of tourists and pilgrims near the temple gate.

The man brushed his hair from bottom to top, and pressed his hands on the mask, his eyes were scarlet like blood.

Everyone’s expressions suddenly became extremely interesting.

“dawn?!”

Chapter 363 Chapter 364 Great Evil

The masked man wearing the Akatsuki’s signature black windbreaker with red clouds walked towards the entrance of Shin-Sensoji Temple with an arrogant look on his face. He was immediately like a tiger clearing the streets, and passers-by took several steps back as if avoiding snakes and scorpions.

Under the demonization propaganda of the Japanese government, Akatsuki has become a notorious supernatural terrorist organization, the culprit of many disturbances, and the source of all evil that attempts to destroy the world.

The masked man seemed to enjoy the feeling of being the center of attention. He put his hands on the mask in a showy manner, attracting passers-by to focus their attention on the vortex eyes of the mask.

The pupils are blood red.

The corner of Uchiha Ming’s mouth twitched and his eyelids twitched.

“A fool seeking to attract attention.”

Matsudaira Chiyo’s gaze swept over the masked man, her eyes turned cold, and then she smiled with an expression of enjoying a good show.

Sure enough, in less than half a minute, three or five uniformed police officers rushed out from the gate of Shin Sensoji Temple.

“Hey, who are you?”

“Don’t move! Put your hands above your head!”

Seeing several police officers approaching cautiously, the masked man obviously panicked and turned around and ran away.

It would have been better if he had not run, but running immediately revealed his cowardice. The police officers, who were already facing a formidable enemy, became even bolder and rushed forward like wolves and tigers, pinning the masked man to the ground.

“Protest! You are abusing violence…”

Ignoring the masked man’s protests, a police officer pulled off his swirl mask, revealing the face of a young man with a pointed chin and monkey cheeks.

Then he forcibly pried open his right eye and removed a blood-red contact lens.

“Damn it! It’s you bastards again!”

The contact lenses were thrown to the ground and smashed to pieces. The police officer cursed and raised his fist to hit the young man in the face.

He was immediately stopped by a colleague next to him, who signaled him to look at the passers-by around him.

Someone had already taken out his cell phone to film the incident, so the police officer could only retract his fist in disappointment and escort the dusty young man away with a few other police officers.

A police officer was left at the scene to educate the public about the law:

“According to the current Japanese Minor Crime Law, wearing Akatsuki uniforms in public places can result in a fine of up to 100 million yen or even imprisonment for up to one year, depending on the severity of the offense! Please do not imitate this illegal and criminal behavior.”

People in the crowd were whispering to each other.

“Is this a cosplay from the Akatsuki organization? It scared the hell out of me.”

“Before the revision of the minor crime law, half of the people at Comiket were wearing red clouds and black clothes. But this is the first time I’ve seen a Chuunibyou who dares to come to Sensō-ji Temple and show his face.”

“That’s nothing. Last week I saw an old lady preaching at the entrance of Sensoji Temple! She was also taken away by the police in the end.”

“Hiss, are you dissatisfied that Yamashita Che’s sword is not fast enough?”

“Isn’t Yamashita Che in the secret realm? Otherwise, how could these monsters dare to show up?”

After the press conference at the Prime Minister’s residence, some overseas businesses had already smelled the business opportunity.

In less than a week, the crudely made Akatsuki’s black robe with red clouds, Afei’s swirl eye mask and Uchiha’s blood-red contact lenses had already crossed the ocean and were being sold online, and were in short supply.

Seeing the Akatsuki members spreading all over the country, the Japanese government almost had a heart attack, thinking that the country’s destruction was imminent.

When they sent in fully armed policemen with live ammunition to arrest a few people, they found out that they were just cosplayers of middle school boys. They were so angry that they even wanted to kill them.

Although Japan is a country with a large cosplay culture, can you guys with chuunibyou have some sense? Is it fun to cosplay the Akatsuki organization to scare people? !

But cosplay is not illegal at all, so in the end we had no choice but to let him go.

The situation escalated and some people even formed a support group for Akatsuki.

In this world, even handsome death row inmates have female fans writing letters proposing to them, so it is not surprising that there is such a strong admiration for the Akatsuki organization. For many people, good and evil are not important, as long as they are handsome enough and strong enough.

Especially for the hopeless young boy who is a chuunibana, the idea of ​​Akatsuki destroying the world is simply too cool. Just thinking about it makes his right hand almost burn and emit a flaming black dragon wave.

As a last resort, the Japanese government had to take drastic measures and arrested several organizers of the support group, and sentenced them to several years in prison on some pretext to serve as a warning to others.

Subsequently, a special countermeasure law was promulgated, the minor crime law was amended, and a group of people were invited for tea, and finally this inappropriate trend was curbed.

“Ming, let’s go in.”

After the storm subsided, Matsudaira Chiyo took Uchiha Ming’s arm and walked towards the main gate of the New Sensō-ji Temple.

There was a slight hint of strangeness in Uchiha Ming’s eyes.

He and Miss Matsudaira had known each other since high school, and knew that this senior Matsudaira was a prankster and had a sadistic tendency.

Although three years later, Matsudaira Chiyo has always been the perfect young lady in front of Uchiha Ming, her true nature would occasionally reveal itself.

“I didn’t expect that the Wind and Thunder Divine Sect was still preserved.”

Uchiha Ming looked up at the red-painted Akamon with huge lanterns hanging on it, as well as the majestic and dignified statue of the God of Wind and Thunder, and thought thoughtfully.

The original Wind and Thunder God Gate had naturally been reduced to ashes, but the newly built Shin-Senso-ji Temple had preserved the Wind and Thunder God Gate.

“After all, Sensoji Temple is the most popular temple in Japan and the memory of several generations of Tokyo residents. When building the new Sensoji Temple, this was also taken into consideration and some of the original elements were retained.”

As the culprit behind wiping Senso-ji Temple off the map, Uchiha Ming was no stranger to Senso-ji Temple. After passing through the Wind and Thunder Gate, looking around the newly built main hall, pagoda and other buildings, he could indeed see the shadow of the original Senso-ji Temple.

When Sensoji Temple was newly built, its style was based on that of the Tiantai sect’s Chishan Zen Temple, which enshrined the Lord of Mount Tai.

The current style of the new Sensoji Temple combines the strengths of Akayama Zen Temple and Sensoji Temple.

Maybe it was because they felt that the original Nakamise Shopping Street was too money-oriented and blasphemous, so the number of shops was greatly reduced, and the shops that originally sold snacks, toys and other tourist souvenirs disappeared.

Therefore, with more pilgrims than before, the interior of the new Sensoji Temple appears more spacious.

“Please worship in an orderly manner. If you want incense, please come here…”

Amid the bustling tourists, police officers in uniform and monks from the Shin Sensoji Temple can be seen everywhere maintaining order.

No wonder the police responded so quickly before.

The main hall of the new Sensō-ji Temple is so magnificent and spectacular that it can be called a wonder.

Uchiha Ming couldn’t help but marvel at it.

Fortunately, it was not the hard-earned money of taxpayers that was spent, but rather the funding from the Taishan Mansion Civilian Committee invested by major chaebols and dignitaries, otherwise Uchiha Ming might have felt a little guilty.

In front of the main hall, there is a huge iron incense burner. A group of tourists are taking a stick of incense from a shop nearby, lighting it and inserting it into the incense burner. Then they walk around the incense burner. Some people are fanning the incense mist onto their faces with their hands, looking very happy.

There is such a custom in Japanese temples. It is said that by fumigating your head with smoke from the incense burner, you can become smarter.

After the Taishan Lord was enshrined in the new Sensoji Temple, the incense mist has added the effect of health and longevity.

Uchiha Ming didn’t care, but he was still a little surprised when he and Matsudaira Chiyo got a stick of incense from the monk in the shop without paying.

“Don’t you have to pay? I remember that in the old Sensoji Temple, you had to pay 100 yen to get a stick of incense.”

“Yes, at the new Sensoji Temple, not only the 100 yen fee for buying incense, but also the 100 yen fee for drawing fortunes have all been cancelled. All expenses will be funded by a private committee, and all you have to do is be pious to the Lord of Mount Tai.” Matsudaira Chiyo replied with a smile.

The number of visitors to Sensoji Temple originally exceeded 3000 million per year.

After the advent of the extraordinary era, the number of visitors to the New Sensō-ji Temple swelled to more than 5000 million.

The 200 yen fee for drawing incense and fortune sticks is not worth mentioning, but if you add up the pieces, it will add up to at least tens of billions of yen a year.

There were also 200 shops on Nakamise Commercial Street, all of which were making huge profits, but they were all abandoned.

Tsk, they are willing to give up such a huge fortune. The dignitaries in Japan’s political and business circles are really “pious” to the Lord of Mount Tai.

But how easy is it to flatter Lord Taishan (me)?

Uchiha Ming sneered.

However, seeing the Japanese government and dignitaries serving Lord Taishan so wholeheartedly, fearing that they could not serve him well, Uchiha Ming still felt secretly happy.

The procedure for visiting the new Sensoji Temple is similar to the previous one.

After burning incense, Uchiha Ming and Matsudaira Chiyo came to the water house to wash their hands and rinse their mouths.

After washing your hands, you can go to the temple to worship. Before worshipping, you need to put in coins to wake up the gods and Buddhas.

Matsudaira Chiyo took out a few 500 yen coins from her wallet and handed them to Uchiha Ming.

In Japanese customs, the number five means good luck, and “five yuan” means a good dollar and has auspicious meaning, so people often throw coins such as five yuan, fifty yuan, or five hundred yuan when they worship.

Even if the private committee is willing to pay this amount, pilgrims would prefer to pay out of their own pockets to pray for good luck.

Matsudaira Chiyo clapped her hands together twice, closed her eyes, moved her red lips slightly, and silently recited a wish in her heart.

Uchiha Ming had no sense of awe, nor could he feel it. He looked at the statue of Taishan in the hall with great interest.

The inner hall is covered with tatami, the floor is lacquered, and the walls and doors are covered with gold foil. The Lord of Mount Tai is placed in a niche in the center of the inner hall. On the left and right sides of the niche are Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Yama King respectively.

It symbolizes the trinity of the Lord of Mount Tai, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and Yama King.

The statue of the Lord of Mount Tai enshrined in the inner hall has a compassionate yet majestic expression, and is obviously the work of a master, perhaps some immortal sculptor.

The furnishings and decorations in the temple are all exquisitely crafted, carrying spiritual implications of various religions, making pilgrims feel their own insignificance and their worship of gods and Buddhas.