[{"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-42":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},2326260,4550,"Chapter 42: Chapter Forty-Two: Standing Firm Amidst the Vast Heavens and Earth","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-42",42,"\u003Cp>Professor Nakata stared at the screen, his face flushed, waving his hands helplessly, completely ignoring Director Saito’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yamata no Orochi—so the lord of chimei wangliang is Yamata no Orochi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There must be an error in ancient history—or I’ve misinterpreted my research. The combat power of yokai isn’t as I imagined—it’s far, far higher.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He acted like a deranged old child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After realizing his research on yokai combat power was wrong, he babble endlessly about how to correct it, how to fix it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout, he felt no regret for his mistake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary, he was like a primary school student who couldn’t sleep at night because he was excited about an outing tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Professor Nakata didn’t care at all about inquiries from police or government elites—no matter how powerful or wealthy they were, he only wanted to examine what new discoveries remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Takahashi and others exchanged glances, smiling bitterly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They say scholars go mad and recognize no one—this isn’t just talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, scholars who drive cultural progress and technological advancement are never ordinary people—but it is precisely their single-minded devotion, their mad thirst for truth in ancient history and science, that created today’s world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Professor Nakata’s frenzy began to subside,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Saito asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Professor Nakata finally replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I cannot say with one hundred percent certainty whether the lord of chimei wangling is Yamata no Orochi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uh.” Everyone’s faces darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Nakata changed tack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But there’s an eighty percent chance the lord of chimei wangling is Yamata no Orochi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on numerous ancient texts passed down through history, as well as folk manuscripts and illustrated scrolls, whenever Tsukumogami is mentioned, Yamata no Orochi is almost always mentioned alongside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their relationship is complex, with many versions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve compiled the data and distilled two most likely relationships between Yamata no Orochi and Tsukumogami.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, Tsukumogami is Yamata no Orochi’s son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, Tsukumogami is Yamata no Orochi’s most capable subordinate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of these two, I personally lean toward the second, because many versions of their Liuchuan  relationship mention Tsukumogami as an abandoned infant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Legend says Tsukumogami’s mother carried him for over sixteen months, so he was born labeled a ‘demon child’ and despised by all, ultimately leading to abandonment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In my view,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the first relationship can be understood as: after being abandoned, Tsukumogami became Yamata no Orochi’s subordinate, and Yamata no Orochi treated him like a son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Tsukumogami regards Yamata no Orochi as closer than a biological father.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Professor Nakata, you mean Tsukumogami is Yamata no Orochi’s subordinate, and the scholar-yokai suspected to be Tsukumogami is the lord of chimei wangling—so the lord of chimei wangling is very likely Yamata no Orochi?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afraid he’d misunderstood, Director Takahashi voiced his interpretation aloud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Nakata nodded vigorously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. And I have another reason for being certain the lord of chimei wangling is Yamata no Orochi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ‘Kojiki’ and ‘Nihon Shoki’ records, along with the folk investigations by yokai scholars like Waterwood Shigeru and Komatsu Kazuhiko, all state that Yamata no Orochi was one of the great yokai of the Heian era, once the king of a hundred demons who ruled over all yokai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>King of a hundred demons, ruler of all yokai—doesn’t that title sound exactly like the current lord of chimei wangling?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he spoke,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>everyone froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes—the lord of chimei wangling commands yokai like divine spirits, roams freely through heaven and earth; Yamata no Orochi was a great yokai of the Heian era, also a king ruling over all yokai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The title ‘ruler of all yokai’ is not one anyone can claim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, ‘chimei wangling’ literally means ‘yokai’—so calling the lord of chimei wangling the ruler of all yokai is perfectly accurate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The conference room fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone’s expressions were stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So if the lord of chimei wangling is very likely Yamata no Orochi, what if yokai invade—and he joins in?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think we should contact the Americans—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as a government official was about to speak,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Translate! Quickly translate what Tsukumogami is saying!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Nakata, who had been watching the screen, suddenly roared, his voice piercing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All eyes turned to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>everyone’s expressions hardened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dusk fell, the afterglow trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scholar opened his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who struck first?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words were like the voice of Huangquan from the deepest netherworld—stealing lives, seizing souls, startling ghosts and gods into screams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words were brief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But all the yokai understood what the scholar meant…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost simultaneously, every yokai turned to Dainyudo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They dared not speak, as if afraid their voices would defile the scholar’s hearing—or as if afraid they’d meet the same fate as the previous yokai, erased instantly by that terrifying child-yokai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet they dared not remain silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could only express their words through action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“N-no… not me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling all the yokai’s gazes converge—and even the three humans staring at him—Dainyudo panicked, staggering backward with his massive body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That single step back—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>revealed to the girl and others that Dainyudo was terrified, while the other yokai first looked shocked, then cast him a look of pity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere silently declared:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dainyudo is doomed—he moved without permission before the Master. He has committed sacrilege.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the absurdity of this thought,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the girl and others felt nothing strange—they found it perfectly reasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it simply had to be this way. No reason needed. Before the supreme, one must behave this way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their thoughts were quickly confirmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Before your Master, when he didn’t command you to move, how dare you act on your own?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The child seated on the bone scythe had eyes like a weasel, glowing with cold, deep fire—his voice icy, devoid of any emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crimson winds surged again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around Dainyudo, crimson winds churned, piercing metal and shattering stone, trembling space—its power more terrifying than before. The void tore open jagged, grotesque fissures, black within, radiating an aura that terrified even souls and spirits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone caught in it would die, their soul extinguished, sinking into nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone’s scalp prickled, blood reversed in their veins, faces drained of color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No! Don’t come closer!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dainyudo screamed in terror, trying to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he took one step, the crimson wind encircled him, forming a wind prison, sealing every escape route—he could not retreat, could not flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll fight you to the death!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A roar shook the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dainyudo, frenzied, flung his arms wide and roared—his voice made stars flicker and mountains and rivers tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under countless horrified gazes, Dainyudo’s yokai aura surged like a tidal wave, his body growing taller, swelling with every gust of wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hundred meters, two hundred meters, five hundred meters, one kilometer, two kilometers…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Nakata’s eyes widened as he cried out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No wonder I couldn’t identify what kind of Dainyudo he was—he was hiding! He’s… the one recorded in ancient texts—the Dainyudo capable of embracing mountains!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dainyudo had grown immense, towering ten thousand zhang, his yokai aura blanketing the heavens, his entire body glowing with terrifying light, obscuring the blue sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, Dainyudo was less a yokai than a primordial giant deity born in the age of antiquity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing firm amid the boundless heavens and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>",1206,"2026-06-20T17:56:08.120Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ca08e693ef170ec3ed4a833e8d396d34b127f3adfca98e99ef3d74248b5c46e4","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-43","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-41",477,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-cover.jpg"]