[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo":3,"chapter-chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chapter-207":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Chat Group: My Northern Dipper Fist Will Never Lose!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2349772,4593,"Chapter 207: The Aya Tengu Young Lady: (Questionably) Upright and Honest","chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chapter-207",207,"\u003Cp>Ba Yun Zi is absolutely brilliant at courier delivery — by someone unwilling to reveal their name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splash! Splash!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Continuous sounds of water echoed endlessly beside their ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thick smoke rose from the peaks of distant mountains; the distant sky held a faint gray-black hue, and upon careful sniffing, a faint scent of sulfur lingered in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, Hachinohe is an active volcano, and after careful sensing, one could detect its towering streams of spiritual and vital water vapor, infused with a trace of scorching heat — a perfect harmony of water and fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So beautiful, family!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to Daijyama, a place brimming with demonic energy and crawling with wild primitives, Hachinohe was several orders of magnitude more beautiful — countless towering trees thrived in lush greenery, and the ground was carpeted with a riot of fallen blossoms in every hue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside them flowed a waterfall like a silken ribbon plunging straight down, its torrents pouring into a pool, churning ceaseless spray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The depth of the pool’s center was unknown — any shattered rocks or broken branches swept down by the waterfall vanished into a froth of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along its outermost edge, near their feet, the water was calm and transparent, revealing the bottom: rocks shaped like turtle shells, cracked and uneven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Formed from hexagonal basalt blocks cooled after volcanic eruption, this vast pool stretched over a mile in every direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding cliffs, too, appeared carved into hexagonal pillars as if shaped by divine hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t this Xuanwu Marsh? Is River Child Heavy Industry doing something here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though tengu, like oni, were scattered across the nation, their presence and legends were mostly confined to remote mountain wilds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had their own codes of conduct and behavioral norms, forming a strict social hierarchy with clear divisions — more civilized than humans and other savage yokai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet since this place was inherently a “closed mountain,” outsiders could not verify whether any of this was true, leaving only rumors circulating beyond its borders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more civilized the tengu became, the more arrogant they grew, the less willing to interact with the mortal folk below, preserving their solitary nobility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Traditionalist tengu who advocated seclusion primarily dwelled in great mountains and rivers — such as Atago, Kurodani, Koya, and Asama — and now standing before Jia Qi was Hachinohe, Japan’s tallest peak, the sacred ground of all tengu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excuse me, but to answer certain questions — isn’t Japan’s tallest peak Mount Fuji? How did it become Hachinohe?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— It’s the doing of the Fuji God, the Cherry God, Ye Ji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mountain deity of Hachinohe is Shi Zhangji, sister to Kaiye Ji — though “sisterhood” among gods is pure plastic; perhaps they were once close, but…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…not for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon as expected, one day the two sisters quarreled over which mountain was taller — Fuji or Hachinohe — and proposed connecting them with bamboo tubes filled with water. The water flowed from Hachinohe toward Fuji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Defeated, Kaiye Ji flew into a rage and struck Hachinohe, lowering its elevation below Fuji’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This woman seems a bit too extreme.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet mentioning her now isn’t without reason — the mastermind behind the postscript of the Taketori Monogatari was Kaiye Ji!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Centuries ago, the Moon Princess, Hōrai-san Kiyohime, left behind an elixir of immortality. Under various pressures, the Emperor was forced to decide to destroy it at the place closest to the Moon — to rid himself of this hot potato…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The malicious goddess Kaiye Ji refused the Emperor’s request, incited the samurai escorting the elixir to kill each other, and through a twist of fate, created an immortal Hōrai man at the cost of an upright man’s death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By bloodline, that Hōrai man — now unknown, hunting yokai in some forgotten corner — was the distant ancestor, generations removed, of Yuyu Zi: Fuwari Mihong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The complexity rivaled a six-nation grand alliance drama.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not sisters? Why didn’t you call me when the Taketori Monogatari happened?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Qi, heartbroken over missing Kiyohime’s iconic scene and the fragile Mihong, accused the Yokai Sage beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s my fault?” Ba Yun Zi pointed incredulously at her own face, then immediately prepared to unleash the “Realm of Wave and Particle” on this unreasonable fool, ready to blind him with danmaku.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Qi raised a hand to stop her, his expression shifting — he had sensed something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind’s sound and air currents carried a slight dissonance — faint, almost blended into the breeze — yet it escaped none of his senses. A flicker of black vanished from the corner of his eye, gone in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Was that crow feather?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ba Yun Zi asked uncertainly; the thing had moved too fast, leaving her only a fleeting afterimage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wrong! It’s an Aya Tengu!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Qi’s face split into a wicked grin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ba Yun Zi suddenly felt a chill — as if some yokai were about to meet misfortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the myriad low-tier tengu — Yamabushi Tengu, White Wolf Tengu, Leaf Tengu, Cunning Tengu (bushi)… numbering in the tens of thousands — stood the Great Tengu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Aya Tengu ranked below the Great Tengu but above the low-tier, forming the mid-to-high echelon of their kind — notable for… exceptional flight ability!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As legends of speed, their strongest could break the sound barrier with a single wingbeat — and the one that had just appeared before them was faster than any other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, Aya Tengu Young Lady, wait—!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment “wait” left his lips, Jia Qi vanished from his spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom!” “Boom!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Jia Qi was tall and muscular — appearing slow and clumsy — under the power of Thunder God Steps, his speed surged beyond supersonic, his body streaking like a meteor, leaving a faint white trail in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One!” As he spoke the second word, his legs swelled violently; immense power exploded midair, a gale so fierce it seemed to blot out vision, erupting from his toes with overwhelming force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps lacking finesse or endurance, in short-range, full-speed dashes, he would not lose to any yokai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“—Down!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hand like iron tongs pierced through the wind pressure, fingers curling into claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Loud crashes echoed behind him; the subtle sensation of fingertips brushing wings reached his brain. If time slowed, one could clearly see a girl’s mouth slowly opening, her pupils contracting, gasping in terror as she let out a shrill, piercing scream:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Eeeeeeey?! I’m gonna get caught!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1070,"2026-06-21T02:38:14.072Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","4153e9cf76afbf177d1ece85d04ebaec78f267664e773ac29d7ba9cbf63acaac","chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chapter-208","chat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-chapter-206",355,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fchat-group-my-northern-dipper-fist-will-never-lo-cover.jpg"]