Volume 5 Chapter 119
by Need_More_SleepVolume 5 + Chapter 119: Severing The Future
“Bai Lian.”
Yue Liu looked at the nine-tailed fox girl before her and frowned.
Both of them were shrine maidens of the Fox God.
However, she herself served the Red Fox God, while Bai Lian served the Azure Fox God. The two stood in complete opposition, like water and fire, utterly incompatible.
“Those paper shikigami were all the doing of the White Night Cult Leader, weren’t they?” Yue Liu demanded. “You set a trap here in advance, just waiting for our arrival!”
“That’s right. Those were shikigami controlled by Father,” Bai Lian admitted with a smile. “You really are foolish, did you truly think that relying on sheer numbers would let you crush the White Night Cult and claim victory? What a ridiculous delusion!”
“What exactly is the White Night Cult Leader plotting?”
“You really want to know that badly?”
Bai Lian’s face brimmed with disdain.
The way she looked at Yue Liu was as if she were staring at a fool who didn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth, someone courting death.
“Well, it won’t hurt to tell you. Father… will become a god who rules the world, right here!”
“A god who rules the world? What nonsense are you spouting?”
Yue Liu felt the Azure Fox shrine maiden before her was utterly incomprehensible. Has she already gone mad?
“Heh… how could you possibly understand? Ponder it slowly in the underworld, shrine maiden of a false god!”
Bai Lian touched her talisman case, her hands rapidly forming seals.
Immediately, numerous talismans flew out, floating around her like orbiting rings, spinning endlessly.
As a fellow shrine maiden, Yue Liu quickly grasped Bai Lian’s combat style, talisman manipulation.
Unlike herself, who specialized in swordsmanship, Bai Lian excelled at controlling talismans to cast spells and fight.
“Burn, Ignis of the Unknown Flame!” Bai Lian drew a talisman, infused it with magic, and activated it.
Fierce flames erupted around Yue Liu, encircling her completely.
The fire seemed alive, lunging at her like a savage beast.
“Sakura Moon!”
Yue Liu summoned Sakura Moon into her hand.
Facing the incoming blaze, she unleashed a single draw-cut. The roaring flames split cleanly in two under the force of her blade.
Not only that, she leapt directly into the gap within the flames, the tip of her katana aimed straight at Bai Lian.
“Shukuchi!”
Empowered by her movement technique, Yue Liu’s speed surged instantly. As if compressing distance itself, she appeared before Bai Lian in a flash and thrust without hesitation, a sharp streak of blade-light piercing through Bai Lian’s body.
“Heh, what a crude fighting style,” Bai Lian mocked.
Her severed body dissipated like mist.
Turning around, Yue Liu realized that countless Bai Lians had appeared simultaneously.
“Mirage.”
Bai Lian held up a talisman and spoke the name of her spell.
“All of these are my illusionary clones. Can you guess which one is the real body?”
“Do you think… I need to guess?”
Yue Liu slowly sheathed Sakura Moon.
“These tricks no longer have any effect on me. I am not the same as before.”
“And who gave you that confidence? My defeated opponent.”
“The Fox God.”
Yue Liu flicked the hilt with her thumb, letting a sliver of the blade slide out, reflecting her piercing gaze, as if it could cleave through Bai Lian’s very soul.
“…”
For some reason, Bai Lian’s heart trembled.
She sensed death.
No, why would she feel fear toward Yue Liu?!
Her expression twisted instantly, even turning furious. Her pupils changed, both eyes blooming into the shape of peach blossoms.
“Fox God’s Eyes!”
Bai Lian activated the bloodline of the nine-tailed fox, releasing the Fox God’s Eyes and elevating her power further.
Beyond illusion techniques, her Fox God’s Eyes synergized with her talisman arts, allowing her to step into a realm beyond humanity.
The talismans around her spun faster. She drew one out while the others shimmered in different hues, as if undergoing transformation.
“Future Divination!”
Bai Lian invoked a shrine maiden’s ability, beginning a divination. With the aid of the Fox God’s Eyes, she glimpsed the near future.
This was the transcendence of a Fox God shrine maiden.
The future she saw was Yue Liu using a draw-cut to clear the mirage clones, forcing her true body to appear, before launching an attack.
So that’s how it is.
The Azure Fox shrine maiden smiled.
Everything about her opponent had already been seen through.
She quickly devised a strategy: exploit the opening after the draw-cut, use a sealing talisman to restrain her, and finish her off completely.
“Secret Art of Iaijutsu.”
Yue Liu placed her hand on the hilt, slowly gripping it, assuming a draw stance.
“Useless! Every movement you make is already within the foresight of my Fox God’s Eyes!”
Bai Lian drew a sealing talisman, having already predicted the attack trajectory, preparing to move to safety and seal Yue Liu.
However…
At the very moment Bai Lian moved, Yue Liu’s eyes changed. Cherry blossom patterns bloomed within her pupils as she unleashed the complete Fox God’s Eyes.
She activated the bloodline of the Nine-Tailed Fox God, ascending to a level even higher than Bai Lian, transcending the fox clan itself.
“Severance Slash!”
At the pinnacle of iaijutsu, Sakura Moon left its sheath. In that instant, time seemed to slow, and the surrounding space became a domain under Yue Liu’s control.
Within this world slowed to the extreme, countless slashes were engraved into the domain.
Blade-light followed, igniting one after another until every corner was consumed.
Each strike not only cut through space, but also severed the future Bai Lian had divined, reducing it to unpredictable fragments.
H-how is this possible?!
Bai Lian screamed inwardly.
Yet slash after slash shattered every mirage clone. Her vision dimmed steadily, swallowed entirely by darkness.
She could see nothing. She lost her grasp over the future, crushed from every direction, utterly at a loss.
Finally, a slash that split the darkness cut across her vision, landing precisely upon her body.
The talismans surrounding Bai Lian shattered. Her talisman case fell to the ground along with her.
“Ugh… ah!!”
Disheveled, Bai Lian’s long hair scattered as she clutched her wound and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Her former composure was gone. Her face twisted with fury, filled with hatred.
“You damned… wretch… when did you… surpass me…?!”
“It’s over, Bai Lian.”
Yue Liu flicked her blade, shaking off the crimson blood.
“This time… victory is mine.”
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