[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky":3,"chapter-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-30":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Sparked the Hundred Demon Night Parade in Tokyo",{"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},2326248,4550,"Chapter 30: Heian-kyō?!","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-30",30,"\u003Cp>Not just him—everyone else was glaring angrily at President Yamazaki.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because, in everyone’s eyes, Osaka Castle, compared to the ancient city, was utterly incomparable in grandeur and beauty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two could not even be mentioned in the same breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Osaka Castle was magnificent, it was nowhere near as majestic as the ancient city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gazing afar at the ancient city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each additional moment they gazed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their shock deepened, and their understanding of what a city could be was rewritten anew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world contained an ancient city so towering and magnificent, like a divine palace of the ninth heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost unbelievable, like a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this were a mirage?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They did not believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because this boundless ancient city was so crystal clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its buildings, tiered pavilions and jade halls, stacked upon one another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every pillar supporting the palaces and towers was carved with intricate patterns and painted in vivid detail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All manner of dazzling jewels and precious stones were inlaid upon them, adorning the halls with opulence, yet never losing elegance or antiquity, fulfilling every human imagination of nobility and refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Words like “nobility” and “refinement” seemed invented solely for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These could not possibly be the work of a mirage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene was utterly real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breathtakingly magnificent!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sakura Tian   Wenzhijie  and the others were awestruck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to this ancient city, the Imperial Palace of Emperor Chōtoku, the Meiji Hall—everything was trash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Sakura Tian   Wenzhijie  and the others gazed at the ancient city, exchanging awed remarks,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Tokyo, the highest conference room of the Metropolitan Police Department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where’s the lip-reading expert? Go find him—I want him here in three minutes!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Section Chief Saitō roared, his eyes never leaving the conference screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene in the Cloud Lake reflected Sakura Tian  Group and others, but captured no sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They watched like a silent play—seeing the figures in the image open and close their mouths, yet hearing nothing at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone present felt agonized, their nerves twitching with impatience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait—the city has writing on it!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mizuno Yūichi cried out in shock, pointing frantically at the very top of the ancient city, urgently alerting everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far away,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The setting sun, crimson afterglow, fading light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The magnificent ancient city was surrounded by drifting clouds, like an aged elder, slowly floating—until a gust of wind swept the clouds aside, revealing the view from the city’s highest point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There stood a pavilion, soaring into the clouds, piercing straight into the heavens, level with the moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pavilion was immense, built of immortal stone; its weathered marks bore witness to eons of time. No matter how many millennia of wind and rain battered it, it never perished—time could not corrode its glory; it stood as old as the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At its peak, immortal mist swirled, divine light flickered, painting streaks of dazzling radiance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These wondrous phenomena originated from the plaque hanging at the pavilion’s summit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon it, iron-hooked silver strokes, as if a celestial deity had descended, using blood as ink and fingers as brush, carving brilliant, glowing ancient characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s—!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sakura Tian   Wenzhijie ’s pupils dilated—he froze in place, struck like lightning, every hair on his body standing on end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mizuno Yūichi and President Yamazaki turned to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Group Leader Sakura Tian ?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They knew Sakura Tian   Wenzhijie  loved antiques and spent his free time studying ancient calligraphy and paintings, with some knowledge of classical Japanese script.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From his reaction, he must have recognized the plaque’s inscription.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Sakura Tian   Wenzhijie  seemed on the verge of suffocation, summoning every ounce of strength just to speak one sentence—he screamed it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heian-kyō! That’s Heian-kyō!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His legs staggered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>President Yamazaki and his assistant Yamamura nearly collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did you say?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s Heian-kyō? How is that possible?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike Mizuno Yūichi and the others, President Yamazaki and Assistant Yamamura had received higher education from prestigious universities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, they had studied Japanese history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could not possibly be unaware of what Group Leader Sakura Tian  meant by “Heian-kyō.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heian-kyō.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This term originated in Japan’s Heian period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the ancient name for the imperial capital of Kyoto during the Heian era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes—Heian-kyō was Kyoto during the Heian period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Heian-kyō was precisely the imperial palace-city of that era!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That magnificent ancient city in the sky—was it the Heian-kyō imperial palace?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impossible. Heian-kyō could never have been this grand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>President Yamazaki shook his head vigorously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew Japanese history well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heian-kyō could never have been this large.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to history, the entire Heian-kyō covered only about twenty square kilometers—but the Heian-kyō before them stretched far beyond that, by countless multiples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of joke is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A capital city smaller than its own imperial palace?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As everyone stood in stunned disbelief, utterly baffled as to why the ancient city in the sky bore the name Heian-kyō,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They suddenly realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The streetlights around them were swaying, creaking loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power poles trembled violently, their wires thrashing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounding buildings shook as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A violent tremor swept over them—they instantly understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t the surroundings shaking—it was the earth itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Earthquake?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this an earthquake?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was startled, thrown into sudden panic by the unexpected quake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically, as Japanese, they should have been somewhat immune to earthquakes—but even as it began, they were terrified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main reason: the place they stood in was utterly bizarre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The melancholy twilight sky, the deserted, silent streets, the ancient city in the distant heavens—any one of these alone was enough to strike fear and dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This earthquake filled them with dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no idea what would come next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arakawa Ward, Tokyo, Japan\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the sky, within the Cloud Lake, the scene trembled violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same moment, the most terrifying thing occurred: as the earthquake raged within the lake’s imagery, Arakawa Ward shook as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The earth quaked wildly, thundering endlessly—as if the land were splitting open, the sky about to collapse, the ground about to be ripped away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strange and horrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one had anticipated that the earthquake within the Cloud Lake’s imagery would trigger an earthquake in Arakawa Ward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if the two were truly one entity—when one thrived, the other thrived; when one fell, the other fell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps one was merely a mirror, reflecting the true events unfolding elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Earthquake?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Run, everyone!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violent shaking sent countless people into panic—they had no time to ponder which was the mirror and which was real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arakawa Ward descended into chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Section Chief! The Earthquake Agency just called—they detected a magnitude six quake in Arakawa Ward, and the tremors are intensifying.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department meeting room, a police officer hung up the phone and spoke urgently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What did you say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chief Saito turned pale with shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had seen everything on the screen clearly—the Yunhu lake was shaking with earthquakes; how could the Arakawa district be trembling too?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were horrified—could it be that… everything happening in Yunhu was manifesting in reality?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that were true…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is the Yunhu in the sky real? Or a mirror? Or perhaps…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those present, holding positions in the Metropolitan Police Department and government, were no fools; with even a scrap of information, they could deduce much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>",1207,"2026-06-20T17:56:08.120Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","0cca91ecc847e91e829544363727d2d46244e2263e9c2fdb861739061cd1ce73","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-31","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-29",477,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-cover.jpg"]