Chapter 211

【Da Mengshen: Heh.】

【Ice Queen: What are you laughing at?】

【Lanyuan Yanzhu: I have a bad feeling about this.】

【Afterlife Angel: Very strange.】

【Da Mengshen: Then let me ask you, do you know what happens after the "Frenzy Rank"?】

【Shana: Possessing the ability to change the world?】

【Da Mengshen: That's not wrong... but I think it's more appropriate to say "let the world adapt to you." For example, Zi; her boundary power can undoubtedly do almost anything she wants, as if the world has been beaten by her into submission.】

【Da Mengshen: At her level, apart from pure stats that are heaven-defyingly strong, everyone basically develops mechanics and plays with abilities. No matter how thick your armor is or how long your health bar is, you might be killed in seconds because you don't have the corresponding countermeasures... However...】

【Yinyang Yan Jianzi: However what?】

【Nagato Da Ming Shen: It is estimated that there is an 87% probability that the next sentence will be—"Beidou Shenquan is invincible under heaven."】

【Da Mengshen: Beidou Shenquan is invincible under heaven!】

【Da Mengshen: Nani?!】

【Forever Seventeen: Alright, isn't this just you happening to run into an opponent that perfectly counters you? Is there a need for such long foreshadowing? When are we going to spar? I, Yakumo Zi, am definitely no ordinary person.】

【Da Mengshen: Acting cool? I'll make you fly to the moon!】

【Forever Seventeen: Speaking of which, what was the name of the move you used to defeat her at the end?】

【Da Mengshen: Haha, that's a new move I created by combining the Nando slash and the Beidou super kick. You can call it—"Tian Ba Feng Shen Jiao."】

【Yinyang Yan Jianzi: Such a cool name, I want to learn it.】

【Forever Seventeen: I have to admit, you do have some talent for naming things.】

What did Yakumo Zi mean by an opponent that perfectly counters?

No one else,

It was the leader of the Tengu, the strongest on Yatsugatake, the Heavenly Demon—Ri Luo Yuan Meng.

Boom!

After that angry voice fell.

A sonic boom cloud exploded in the dense forest a thousand meters away from the crowd. A small black dot shot out from the mountainside, circled once under the sun, and sped toward them.

The momentum of the charge did not stop, like a god sweeping through a wild wind, but under the martial artist's super-strong dynamic vision, one could glimpse her true form in a fleeting glance.

It was a very tall woman wearing metal breastplate armor. White silk strips were wrapped around her arms and flying backward. She wore a green short skirt tied with a red ribbon at her waist. Every feather on the wings behind her felt as sharp and hard as an upright blade.

The pitch-black wings behind her were far larger than any Tengu Jia Ji had ever seen, as if they existed to prove her status. But what was most eye-catching was the oversized naginata held in front of her slender, jade-like arms.

Ri Luo Yuan Meng's golden eyes carried a hint of inhuman coldness. Her gaze rested on Jia Ji, who was currently "attacking" Shameimaru Aya with his palm. Fire-like light flowed in her pupils, as if they were mirrors reflecting fire.

"Um, if I say this is a misunderstanding, do you believe me?"

However, if the two Great Tengu whose heads had been smashed into the ground woke up now, they would definitely protest loudly.

Although the Heavenly Demon was a thorough hedonist, full of interest in external things, and a hands-off boss who would completely throw official business aside for the sake of novel and interesting things, letting the Great Tengu handle it... but... she wasn't irresponsible enough to watch her clansmen, with whom she lived day and night, be trampled under the feet of an intruder and remain indifferent.

"Fine..."

Since it would all come down to fists in the end, Jia Ji stopped wasting words. He took a step forward, his figure growing taller again, his face gloomy and his eyes pitch black, resembling an evil ghost.

At the same moment they decided to act, both figures disappeared from their original spots.

Come, come, come!

At extreme speed, they collided fiercely!

Killing intent!

Fighting spirit!

Shooting straight into the clouds!

At the moment of collision, the ground turned into fine powder under the extremely concentrated power. The area within fifty meters of the two was pressed down to an extremely hard state, and endless yokai energy and fighting spirit clashed.

The naginata slashed down, wind and clouds rising!

The fist wind whistled, the tornado reversing!

Jia Ji's fist tore through the wild wind, creating a sonic boom. The huge force vibrated a white mist circle in the air, pressing against the Heavenly Demon's blade and hitting her body, sending her figure dancing in the air.

"What kind of... joke is this?!"

Clearly not touched, but a huge cross-shaped scar had already appeared on Jia Ji's chest, running from left to right, and warm blood stained his chest red.

Even the Oni tribe, whose physical fitness was superior to the Tengu, would be completely killed after taking this punch head-on.

But the expressionless Heavenly Demon just flapped her wings, her figure instantly disappearing from the spot without any disorder, arriving above Jia Ji like teleportation.

Waving the blade.

Down! Fall!

Slash!!!

The terrifying power caused a violent tremor on Yatsugatake in an instant. The giant mountain, which was over three thousand meters above sea level, dropped by several meters because of this blow, and the resulting vibration and shaking were comparable to an earthquake.

The "Shi Zhangji," flashing with divine light, hurriedly appeared, transferred the other three Tengu away, and then looked at the battlefield with worried eyes.

The Heavenly Demon's continuous attacks were strong to an unbelievable degree, and her speed was far beyond that of the young Shameimaru Aya. The sword light connected into a sheet, covering the sky and the earth.

Jia Ji's fists drew countless afterimages in mid-air. Every strike was a full-power Rapid Arhat Fist, but even so, he was unable to parry, and his strong arms were covered in blood-splattered patterns.

Strong, so strong that a feeling of potentially losing arose in Jia Ji's heart...

But, but!

His fierce eyes stared fixedly at the Heavenly Demon.

To crush Jia Ji was not as easy as she had destroyed other yokai in the past... Those injuries could only bring him a little pain, making his fighting spirit rise even higher and his power even stronger!

Therefore...

He simply abandoned defense.

The Heavenly Demon, who had fought hundreds, thousands, and ten thousand battles, naturally couldn't let this opportunity go. In one-tenth of a second, hundreds of slashes...

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!

That exaggeratedly large naginata scraped off piece after piece of flesh from his body at a speed inconsistent with its size, devouring it completely.

Jia Ji laughed wildly in pain. Although he was covered in dust and his whole body was in a mess, blood staining his hair and making his face as terrifying as an evil ghost, at this moment he suddenly remembered the famous quote of a certain blond big-back-head—

"No retreat! No surrender! No regret!"

He hadn't been defeated, hadn't died, so he still had a chance to win!

Therefore...

Hard,

Knobby,

Clenched fist, here it comes!

Beidou Shenquan Ultimate Technique!

Sentimental—Fierce Soaring Break!!

Hardening his resistance against the endless blades, he threw his full-power punch, a fist entwined with a blue-black ferocious dragon shape.

The extremely tyrannical power was, damn it, rising, rising, rising!

————Boom!

The tyrannical power erupted.

The power of that fist passed through the void, and the aftermath was transmitted to the sky more than ten miles away, forming huge air waves and pressure. Such a terrifying move, no matter which great yokai in this world it hit, could break them in two on the spot.

However,

"—Heh."

Accompanied by a slightly mocking consciousness, the Heavenly Demon vibrated her wings. Her rich combat experience allowed her to easily dodge this overly obvious strike from her opponent.

She was not a dead object that would only be beaten passively, but a strong person who had truly immersed herself in the Frenzy Rank for a long time. Even if she was angry, she would never lose her sanity in battle and had sufficient judgment.

The dust settled. At this moment, everyone could see their appearance.

The Heavenly Demon still maintained her initial demeanor, that infinitely profound temperament like a mountain standing and an abyss resting, ancient and solemn, full of dignity.

Jia Ji's strong body was covered in ferocious injuries. Black-red bloodstains wound and rolled on his torso. Between breaths, blood-colored steam condensed into tangible blood droplets around him. Blue-black veins exploded on his right arm, tearing into shocking wounds.

He had been sailing smoothly all the way this time, which actually had some luck involved. Although he won happily, this also made Jia Ji forget how difficult these yokai were.

The situation was really taking a turn for the worse.

However, he was radiating a shining blue light, and a more fierce momentum than before appeared, as if those terrifying injuries didn't exist at all.

At this moment, in his eyes, there was only one kind of strongest and purest fighting spirit. He beckoned again.

"Second battle, come on—"

Frowning.

The Heavenly Demon turned her beautiful face and looked at the distant sky. In her perspective, eight stars were shining in the blue sky.

Seven of them formed the legendary 【Ursa Major】, and the other star was flickering weakly on the side, appearing and disappearing.

A star that had never appeared in this world, but was called the 【Star of Death】 in Jia Ji's world.

The companion star of the Big Dipper, in legend, was the star of death that only those about to die could see.

The starlight was brilliant, but the Heavenly Demon didn't know what would happen with such an astronomical phenomenon she had never seen before. But no matter what, two words were enough to summarize it...

Great Omen.

Her pupils were locked, her breathing seemed to have stopped, and only the mountain wind moved back and forth around her.

Clearly having the upper hand, the feeling of death was shrouding her, and it became more intense and rich as time passed.

In thousands of years, she hadn't encountered this feeling of death—but that was before she was called the 【Heavenly Demon】 by the world.

After becoming the boss of the Tengu, she actually had this extremely bad feeling once again.

Uneasy...

As a veteran Frenzy Rank, the Heavenly Demon had existed for even longer than Yakumo Zi. And she, who was crowned with the title of "Great Heavenly Demon of Six Desires and Love of Ease," possessed the ability—to manipulate the degree of desire.

Not only her own desires, but also the desires of others could be controlled. There were almost no restrictions, and she had never missed.

As everyone knows, the actions of both humans and yokai are based on desire. Without desire, there is no motivation. Therefore, by cleverly using this ability in battle to cut off the opponent's desire to fight, one can place oneself in an invincible position.

If one induces fear, anger, sadness, etc., one can easily disrupt the opponent's state of mind and reveal flaws. It was just because she could crush most opponents with hard power, so she had self-sealed this conceptual ability on the grounds of "not being interesting enough."

But now, perhaps it had to be used.

"Seal."

There was no preamble, no sign, not even a trace of yokai energy fluctuation. Even the two words spoken softly were just a representation that she had used her ability, not a prerequisite for activating it...

The so-called zero-frame start is exactly this.

If you can't even perceive it, how can you talk about resistance?

That soaring fighting spirit, morale, and momentum disappeared abruptly. The tensed muscles relaxed, making Jia Ji look like he had no ability to resist.

And in his thoughts, it was completely blank. There was no longer any will to resist, and he couldn't even swing his fists...

Defeat seemed to be destined.

The black wings were raised high like battle flags. In the next second, the Heavenly Demon had accelerated to a super-high speed that was difficult for the naked eye to identify! Like a meteor piercing the sky, she swung an unstoppable ultimate blade.

Even space couldn't help but let out a wail, bringing out a long, deep black crack, slashing fiercely toward the head of Jia Ji, who was standing still.

And someone on the other side was in...

Forgot the beginning, forgot the middle, forgot the end.

Forgot where he was, who he was dueling with, forgot the purpose of this trip, forgot everything about himself, forgot the pain in his body, personal emotions, he seemed to have turned into 'empty' and 'nothing'...

But this situation was called by the Beidou predecessors—No Thought, No Mind.

Disappear.

No Thought Yin Kill.

Under the ability displayed by the Heavenly Demon, Jia Ji had already entered the state of No Thought, and his physical body disappeared before the blade hit.

No matter how terrifying the sword technique, if it can't hit anyone, it's equivalent to nothing.

One strike missed, she retreated with all her might. A look of surprise appeared on the Heavenly Demon's face for the first time, and then the world fell into absolute stillness again.

The figure that suddenly appeared behind the Heavenly Demon floated quietly in mid-air.

Since fists couldn't be used, let the rest of the body become a weapon, and use a method without killing intent or damage to defeat the opponent—

First Generation·Tian Ba Feng Shen Jiao!!!

Countless blurred shadows, multiple Jia Jis appeared at the same time, extending from his body, each attacking different parts of the Heavenly Demon.

Unable to dodge, unable to avoid, the wantonly flying slashes were like coiled dragons and snakes dancing across, and in a trance, thousands of afterimages tore through the sky.

Rip—

The sound of cloth tearing came continuously from mid-air.

Unable to damage—this meant that the Heavenly Demon, who was swallowed by the Tian Ba Feng Shen Jiao, had only one outcome at this moment: the legendary—Exploding! Clothes!

Bang!

A Tengu with no injuries on her body, and also no clothes, completely naked except for a pair of wings, fell from the sky with blank eyes.

"Enemy shame, I'm going to take off her clothes!"

Jia Ji, who had recovered, gave a thumbs up to Yakumo Zi, who was covering her face.

"Social death is also death, right?"

(End of chapter)