While Yu was battling the Hannya King in the Ancestral God Realm, an unusual tea gathering was in full swing within Kamui's Shikigami Hall.
A Shikigami with a round, prosperous-looking face, a comical little mustache, a standing-crown headdress, and a general's belly that even his broad-lapeled kimono could not conceal sat upright in the VIP seat Kamui had specially prepared.
From his throne, Kamui addressed the Shikigami. Rarely, he used an honorific. "Priest Zengpo Jiali, you have been visiting my humble abode for days, and only today have I invited you to take a seat of honor. You do not blame me for my poor hospitality, do you...?"
As he spoke, Yumotolu God, Lord Kamui's wife, who attended beside the throne, rose on her husband's behalf and offered her respects.
Zengpo Jiali replied, flattered, "Not at all, not at all. Your Excellency is too courteous. Everyone present is my elder. Inviting this junior here already does me great honor. I am deeply honored."
Zengpo Jiali held the authority of the "Deva Path," and was thus known as the "High Priest of Heavenly Authority." His status was the loftiest and most noble among all Shikigami, yet he called himself a junior because he had been the last of all Shikigami to be born.
As mentioned earlier through Void Yu, the ability the Deva Path used to create Shikigami was precisely that of "Zengpo Jiali." After the Deva Path created all Shikigami, Zengpo Jiali separated from it and became a god in his own right. Strictly speaking, he was both the elder brother and father of the Shikigami, as well as their youngest brother.
At that moment, the Ōmononushi Shikigami, whose status rivaled Zengpo Jiali's, known as the "High Priest of Creation" and whose true form was a "gyroscope," hovered silently in