Volume 5 Chapter 122
by Need_More_SleepVolume 5 + Chapter 122: Yasakani Magatama
“What’s going on? Why did the Azure Fox God’s resentful spirit leave?”
Yue Liu felt puzzled.
She had been mentally prepared for a fierce battle against it, yet it had suddenly turned away, as if answering a summons, heading toward the center of Qiuqianyuan.
Still… that was for the best. It spared her from a difficult fight.
“Ha…”
Leaning against a massive rock, Yue Liu slowly sat down, taking the chance to steady her breathing.
Her earlier clash with the spirit had drained her considerably.
She needed to recover quickly, only then could she face the White Night Cult Leader.
Closing her eyes, she entered meditation, racing against time to restore her strength.
…
“It’s gone?”
While meditating, Yue Liu sensed a strange fluctuation and opened her eyes.
She stood up and looked into the distance.
The resentful spirit had completely vanished, she could no longer feel its presence at all.
Her expression changed. Something must have happened at the center of Qiuqianyuan.
“I can’t wait any longer, I have to go now!”
Though she hadn’t fully recovered, she immediately set off toward the center.
The path was unusually smooth, no traps, no enemies.
She arrived quickly.
What she saw surprised her.
The White Night Cult followers who should have been gathered there were nowhere to be seen.
Only two figures remained.
No… strictly speaking, only one.
Bai Lian’s corpse lay on the ground, eyes wide open in death, a chilling sight.
“Bai Lian… died just like that?”
Yue Liu murmured.
She had wounded Bai Lian earlier, but not fatally.
Could it be… the White Night Cult Leader killed her?
“So, you’ve arrived. Shrine maiden of the Red Fox God… we meet again.”
The White Night Cult Leader smiled.
“You… are the White Night Cult Leader?!”
Yue Liu was astonished.
The figure before her wore the cult leader’s robes, yet looked strikingly young, like someone reborn in youth.
“That’s right. I am the White Night Cult Leader.”
Still keeping his eyes closed, he raised both arms.
“And now… I have become the new Azure Fox God.”
“Did you kill Bai Lian?”
“To achieve my ascension, Bai Lian sacrificed herself.”
There was no sorrow in his voice.
“Her soul has already gone to a blissful realm.”
“…Nonsense.”
Yue Liu could not comprehend what he had done, but one thing was certain.
He was an enemy she had to defeat.
She drew Sakura Moon, pointing the blade at him.
“White Night Cult Leader, your evil ends here!”
“So, you intend to stop me?”
“Of course. Victory in this battle will belong to me!”
“Oh?”
He seemed intrigued.
“And where does that confidence come from?”
“In Qiuqianyuan, you deployed countless paper shikigami in the reed sea to block our army,” Yue Liu explained. “I admit, it’s an impressive technique, using terrain to contend against an army of a hundred thousand. But it has a fatal flaw.”
“A fatal flaw?”
“Yes, mana consumption. Controlling such a vast army of shikigami requires immense magical power. You cannot sustain it for long.”
She pointed out the weakness.
“As long as you maintain that army, you have no spare power to fight me.”
“Heh… as expected of a Fox God shrine maiden, to see through it so quickly.”
He showed no concern at all.
“This war is already ours! If you dispel your shikigami to fight me, you’ll face our full army. Either way, you lose.”
Yue Liu declared.
On the surface, the situation indeed seemed so.
He was trapped in a dilemma.
Maintain the army, and lack power to fight.
Disband it, and face overwhelming forces.
“Yue Liu, your analysis is correct, for my former self.”
He paused.
“But it no longer applies… because I have become the Azure Fox God. You cannot measure divine power by mortal standards.”
With that, he raised his hand and withdrew all power sustaining the shikigami army.
“You’ve chosen to face an army of a hundred thousand?”
Yue Liu was surprised.
With no resistance, the fox clan army would soon advance here.
In his hand appeared an ancient magatama.
“Do you know what this is?”
“Could it be… the divine artifact left behind by the Red Fox God?!”
Yue Liu sensed its extraordinary aura.
“This is the artifact sealed by the Red Fox God, the Yasakani Magatama. For a long time, I wondered why such a powerful artifact was sealed away rather than passed down. Only when I came into contact with it did I understand.”
He slowly raised it upward.
A beam of light descended from the heavens, resonating with the magatama.
“The Yasakani Magatama is not a weapon, it is a key. Only by infusing it with the power of the Fox God can one open the path and bring forth the sealed domain!”
He suddenly opened his eyes, revealing the Fox God’s Eyes.
Activating the Nine-Tailed Fox God bloodline, he poured divine power into the magatama, causing it to radiate brilliant light.
In that instant, the beam expanded, covering all of Qiuqianyuan.
Through the passage created by the magatama, an extraordinary realm descended upon the world.
“Descend… Takamagahara!”
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