Chapter 252

Tonight, it was destined to be an extraordinary night.

Whether it was the people who happened to look up and see the moon change, or the powerhouses who had inexplicable premonitions in their hearts, they experienced many twists and turns one after another.

First was the red moon mutation that ordinary people could see, then it was the moon's orbit shift and rotation speed change that could only be detected by the dynamic vision of yokai, followed by a giant blood-red "Spider Lily" that looked like those "Moon Seas and Moon Lands" suddenly appearing, and then disappearing in just a few minutes.

One night, I don't know how many gods, immortals, and yokai on earth didn't sleep, staring with red eyes at the moon that had never changed from ancient times to the present, but suddenly started to go crazy, their hearts terrified.

What happened?!

The moon's orbit deflection was naturally Hecatia's good deed; after she got the moon's authority, like a child who got a new toy, she used it a little bit, which caused such consequences.

Gravitational fluctuations, tidal amplitude and frequency changed greatly, affecting ocean circulation, thereby changing the global climate; the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events increased significantly, and even volcanic and earthquake activities increased.

Countless species, biological clocks were disordered, and even the human calendar created based on moon phases was changed after this, from 30 days a month to 28 days, and so on, countless.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, the souls of people or animals who accidentally died during this period will return to hell, and rounding up, they will return to Hecatia's hands.

The principle of return says so.

And why did that flower of killing intent released by Chunhu to absorb Chang'e's life disappear in just a few minutes? Shouldn't it have been maintained for at least thousands of years?

Time returns to the end of the negotiation.

Before Chunhu and Hecatia left the Moon Capital and returned to hell.

The pale Jia Ji suggested to Chunhu: "It's really troublesome to consume power to suppress Chang'e like this; I have a way to solve it once and for all."

"Oh?"

If it were someone else who proposed it, Chunhu would naturally ignore it, but now that Jia Ji spoke, Chunhu would naturally not refuse.

"Cough cough, that is—Udumbara!"

Someone whose eyelids were half-closed and half-open and was about to fall asleep didn't care about selling suspense and shouted directly: "Go find Yuuka Kazami and let her use Udumbara to suppress Chang'e!"

Right, Yuuka Kazami!

Yukari Yakumo finally reacted; they were missing a yokai from beginning to end—"Flower Tyrant" Yuuka Kazami!

A few minutes later, Toyohime Watatsuki finally found the flower yokai who was demolishing the Moon Capital, having a posture of wanting to turn the Moon Capital upside down.

"Stop! Lord Jia Ji asked me to take you to find Udumbara!"

Before the magic cannon blasted, Toyohime Watatsuki, who stopped the flower yokai's flower-seeking journey, stroked her forehead and sighed.

Completely ignoring the battlefield where the fighting was fierce, only acting for her own goal, this guy belonged to the extremely willful kind among the yokai.

"Udumbara is a tree that only exists in the Moon Capital; although it has the same name as the phantom flower that blooms once every three thousand years in the legends of the ground, if you want to talk about 'Hourai Jade Branch', then it can only be it."

"Silver as branches, gold as stems, fruit as jade... legend has it that it has incomparable beauty."

But unlike the rumors, when Toyohime led her to a certain place, what appeared in front of her was a potted plant that was not beautiful.

There were no leaves or fruits on the coral-like branches, and at first glance, it seemed to have withered.

This potted plant would bloom and bear fruit, but that was only in the records; no Moon Person had ever seen it, and the Watatsuki sisters were no exception.

Udumbara to them was a boring plant that neither grew leaves nor bloomed, and never bore fruit.

Although the appearance was simple, it gave people a plant with the feeling of 'loneliness' in 'wabi-sabi', which neither withered nor grew, just took root there.

It just existed, placed there, and had never grown.

"'Beautiful Udumbara flowers are the privilege of people on the ground', Kaguya seemed to have said such things before."

That's right, if a certain condition is not met, the flower will not bloom.

And that condition is—filth.

It is a wonder that a plant that uses filth as nutrients grows in the Moon Capital, which has no filth.

After bringing its branches to the ground, the filth on the ground caused its appearance to undergo huge changes. It began to grow with filth as nutrients and would bear fruits of seven-colored jade.

Except for the Moon Rabbits who acted as messengers of the moon, and the sinners banished to the ground, only people on the ground had seen the Udumbara flower.

After the rulers on the ground received the Hourai Jade Branch given by the messengers of the moon, their full-body filth immediately made it bear seven-colored fruits. The greater the power, the more beautiful the fruit borne; this fruit also became a symbol of the power of the rulers.

However, things that exist on the ground must perish. The prosperous must decline, and power will eventually decline.

At that time, the Udumbara flower branch became an object of contention, the peace on the ground was broken, and it turned into troubled times.

The treasure "Hourai Jade Branch" referred to the Udumbara flower branch that bloomed and bore fruit; back then, no matter how Fujiwara no Fuhito racked his brains, he couldn't get it.

It was no wonder the Watatsuki sisters despised Kaguya; she was just playing with the people of the world and had no intention of fulfilling her promise at all.

As Yorihime said indignantly: "The reputation of the Moon People was ruined by her!" "How can this still be considered a Moon Princess!"

Udumbara doesn't bloom? The professional counterpart just arrived—

The master of the four seasons of flowers used the "ability to make flowers bloom".

Then, she pinched the wilted, listless Udumbara and inserted it into Chang'e's corpse, absorbing the filth continuously produced by the immortal body of the Hourai person.

Up to now, Udumbara had only been broken off a branch and brought to the ground, and those rulers with the greatest power could only turn the withered branch into a jade branch, and even fewer bloomed and bore fruit.

And to what extent could the filth of a Hourai person make this Udumbara bloom?

"Boom!"

Countless Moon Rabbits shivered, stopped the work of cleaning up the ruins, and looked up at the sky.

The sky suddenly brightened.

Is that... thunder and lightning?

The sky of the Moon Capital, which had been dark all year round, was suddenly separated into fragments by silver-shining strip-like objects; looking at the shape... it seemed to be tree branches?

A golden tree that seemed to want to break free from the cage and tear the sky stood on the moon's surface; its trunk and root parts had broken through the restrictions, squeezed through the palace, and directly occupied the west side of Guanghan Palace, with nebula-like rotating light chips scattering between the branches.

The vision of the yokai and Moon People was completely filled with brilliant colors.

And Chang'e had been completely "embraced" by the sea of gold and silver; the branches seemed to be alive, clinging to her recovering corpse, constantly tightening, shrinking, as if wanting to swallow her completely into the body and turn her into its nutrients.

Udumbara, since its birth three million years ago, had never touched a bit of filth.

It had been in a state of starvation at all times, and it had been on the verge of death at all times; it had waited for this opportunity for too long, too long!

It was about to drown and swallow the half-Hourai person suffocatingly, greedily absorbing her seemingly endless filth.

"To say that it is Udumbara... it's too big."

Chunhu looked up, but couldn't see the full picture; the towering tree crown had already exceeded her vision, growing to an exaggerated size.

Is that a tree?

It's more like a skyscraper, a palace.

Udumbara bloomed.

The Udumbara on the ground needs a thousand years to sprout, a thousand years to bud, a thousand years to bloom, and it withers in a snap, a moment of beauty.

And the Udumbara on the moon only took three seconds from nothing to something.

Petals that were warm and moist like stone and jade drifted down to the streets of the Moon Capital, the ears of the Moon Rabbits, and the palms of the girls.

Like the sunset glow melting into the sea, the Moon People, who forever resided on the moon and had never set foot on the ground, saw seven-colored jade fruits hanging on the branches.

This was a rare wonder of the world, a rare sight in the world.

The umbrella-shaped tree crown covered the starlight of the stars, but cast a sky full of rainbow colors.

In the shadow of "Udumbara", the girls' eyes were blurred, staring at the crystal-clear seven-colored glazed petals and golden branches as the final curtain call of this war.

Yuuka Kazami smiled contentedly, and Chunhu also retracted the murderous lily, allowing this Udumbara flower to bloom forever, until the day Chang'e was completely killed.

Perhaps in a thousand years, perhaps until the future of eternity, but the current Chunhu had the patience to continue waiting.

"Eh, damn it, isn't this the Erdtree?"

This was the last word Jia Ji left before falling asleep.

Scarlet rot flower (murderous lily) and Erdtree (Hourai Jade Branch), plus Moon Princess (Toyohime Watatsuki) and Tsukuyomi's blade (Yorihime Watatsuki)?! Is this moon surface fighting...

After research by yokai historians of later generations, it was decided to call this yokai-Moon Person war: 'The First Moon Surface Shattering War'!

(End of chapter)