Chapter 906
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Chapter 906 Whale Fall
The red light swept across the entire sea area, then rushed ashore like a ring-shaped radiation wave after a nuclear explosion, rapidly bursting outward!
“Mind Magic, [Demon Banishing Ring].”
“Mind Magic, [Clear Mind and Spirit].”
“Mind Magic, [Emotion Weakening Spell].”
Merlin gently raised his magic staff, and three white magic circles opened simultaneously above his and Lin Qiye’s heads, flowing into their bodies respectively.
As the red wave swept over the three of them, Lin Qiye felt his breath catch for a moment before quickly returning to normal.
“Lord Merlin, this is…”
“Do you know about whale fall?”
Lin Qiye nodded slightly, “I’ve heard a bit about it. It refers to the process when a whale dies and sinks to the seafloor, where its body’s nutrients nourish the ocean.”
Merlin watched the transformed whale’s corpse gradually sinking into the blood sea and slowly spoke, “That transformed whale absorbed a large amount of red moon essence. After its fall, all the red moon essence stored in its body dispersed. Given its terrifying size, the red moon essence impact from this whale fall is equivalent to a small red moon concentrated thousands of times.
If the moon in the sky is a continuous weak influence, then this transformed whale that fell into the blood sea is like a contamination nuclear bomb that explodes instantly.
The pollution concentration here now is probably thousands of times more than what you encountered in the fishing village.”
Thousand-fold pollution?
Lin Qiye’s expression darkened as he looked at the world surrounded by red light, feeling somewhat anxious.
The red moon in the fishing village had already tortured them to the point where death seemed preferable. With a thousand times the pollution concentration here, humans probably couldn’t survive even a second…
“I’ve placed three layers of mind magic on you, which can barely resist the red moon pollution here, allowing you to move freely, though it can only last for one day at most.” Merlin turned to look at Jia Lan beside them and said with a smile:
“As for this young lady… she probably doesn’t need my help.”
Jia Lan nodded obediently.
Lin Qiye looked at the transformed whale’s corpse in the distance, then at the red moon overhead, the confusion in his eyes growing deeper.
“Lord Merlin, I understand less and less.” He shook his head and said, “Why did this transformed whale return to Takamagahara? Why is there a red moon here? Where did the gods of Takamagahara go? And what exactly is the catastrophe you mentioned?”
Merlin smiled slightly and waved his hand in the void, and an ancient Western carriage appeared beside him. The silver-white carriage cast a faint glow under the red moon, and three ghostly white horses wreathed in holy light stood quietly before the carriage.
“Get in, I’ll explain everything bit by bit.”
…
Wang Mian took a sip of tea and continued asking:
“What was it like inside Takamagahara?”
“…Very strange.” Wu Xiangnan recalled for a moment, frowning as he spoke, “After we passed through that gate, there was an ocean of blood sea, with a nauseating bloody smell permeating the air everywhere. It didn’t look anything like the place where gods were supposed to live in mythology.
Moreover, there was a red moon hanging in the sky there… Just as you just said, under that moonlight, our emotions became uncontrollably agitated.”
“Red moon?” Wang Mian instantly thought of the corpse beast’s crimson eyes, as if understanding something, and muttered, “So, the red moon essence affecting the ‘Human Circle’ was spreading from Takamagahara?”
“Under that moonlight, our thinking became somewhat radical. Instead of choosing to leave the way we came immediately, we chose to continue pursuing the Yamata no Orochi.
When it first attacked the coastal areas of Great Xia, only three pairs of eyes among its eight heads were blood-red, but after returning here, the number of its red eyes rapidly increased – four pairs, five pairs… When seven pairs of its eyes had turned red, it actually gave up running and turned around to fight us frantically.
You should know that when it was in Great Xia, it had already been beaten to near death by your [Mask] and the Sword Saint. We never expected it could counterattack.
In the end, though it took some effort, we still managed to kill it.”
Wang Mian carefully recalled for a moment and nodded, “Now that you mention it, I do remember that the Yamata no Orochi that suddenly invaded Great Xia’s coast back then had several red eyes, very similar to being polluted by the red moon…
So, it had escaped from Takamagahara back then and invaded Great Xia while in a state of agitation and loss of control?”
“It should be so.” Wu Xiangnan continued, “After we slayed the Yamata no Orochi, we also realized that something seemed wrong with our emotions and immediately chose to return the way we came… but it was already too late.”
“Did Japanese gods find you?”
“No, not gods… it was a group of monsters with black liquid flowing from their bodies.” Wu Xiangnan’s eyes showed recollection, “Their eyes were blood-red like that red moon, they surged in from all directions, their numbers were terrifying, and the energy fluctuations they emitted were at least at the ‘Unlimited’ level.”
Wang Mian thought of the monster killed by Yuzuri Takeshiro, “Corpse beasts?”
“Yes, that’s the name I gave them, because I saw with my own eyes several of these monsters crawl out from the Yamata no Orochi’s corpse, so I called them corpse beasts.” Wu Xiangnan continued, “There were too many of them, we were forced to keep moving deeper to try to shake them off…
Finally, we met him.”
Wu Xiangnan took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and his eyes flickered with hatred…
“I will never forget that scene.
Under the blood-like red moon, he wore a blood-stained divine robe, wore a red magatama on his chest, held the Kusanagi sword, and sat atop a mountain of divine corpses that reached into the sky…
He was Susanoo.”
…
Takamagahara.
A silver carriage moved swiftly through the blood-colored world.
Lin Qiye and Jia Lan sat on one side, while Merlin sat alone on the other side of the carriage, smiling as he looked at the two people opposite him, a hint of playfulness appearing between his brows.
“Sir Seven Night, if you have any questions, ask them now.”
Lin Qiye nodded and organized his thoughts: “What exactly happened to Takamagahara?”
Merlin pointed to the red moon in the sky and said, “More than fifty years ago, the Cthulhu gods broke a corner of the seal and projected the source of pollution here, forming this red moon. You just came from that fishing village, so you should be very clear about what this red moon can do.”
“Make the gods of Takamagahara kill each other?” Lin Qiye frowned and asked, “That red moon can affect deities?”
“Takamagahara’s location is already above Japan, closest to the moon, so the intensity of pollution it receives is much greater than that fishing village.
Moreover, what you saw in the fishing village wasn’t a full moon. The true full moon only appeared for an instant at the end of the closed loop…”
