Chapter 184: Hundred Ghosts Night Procession·Great Yokai

"What—is that?" After a while, Nan's voice reached Chiyo's ears.

"A monk?" Chiyo wasn't sure; that "person's" attire looked like a white-clad monk.

"In the Hundred Ghosts Night Procession, are there such monk yokai?" Nan asked.

As for the Hundred Ghosts Night Procession, he only knew part of it; after all, there are so many yokai.

"Let me think." Chiyo pondered, "There is a 'Yatobō'; legend says a temple often receives no incense offerings, the abbot dies resentfully, and after death becomes a yokai; also there is a 'Seibōshu', also a yokai related to monks. As for others, I don't know."

"That doesn't sound like the great yokai such as Shuten-dōji, Tamamo-no-Mae, or Tsuchigumo." Nan said.

The so-called Hundred Ghosts Night Procession actually just refers to many strange and weird demons and monsters, coming from various folk legends, and there is no clear distinction of strength or weakness.

However, based on fame and some deeds, people generally feel some are very strong and some are very weak.

Like the kappa—high fame, but everyone generally thinks it's relatively weak.

While Shuten-dōji, Tamamo-no-Mae, Tsuchigumo, and the like are considered very strong yokai by everyone.

In the mission world, there are always some related to various fantasies, legends, and stories from the real world—seemingly but not quite "situations" appearing; one cannot fully believe them, but they can be used as reference to a certain extent.

"What is it sitting on?" Chiyo said, "A black inugami?"

"Probably." Nan said, "It seems this mission isn't as simple as we imagined."

"First come, first serve—of course it's not simple." Chiyo glanced at the surrounding flying head barbarian corpses and laughed.

They certainly wouldn't lose morale just because that unfathomable great yokai passed by; they are all truly veteran, powerful gods and demons walking the world.

Those who wander the line between life and death, tempered by struggle and experience—how could they easily admit defeat?

After calming their minds somewhat, Nan and Chiyo's eyes instead became excited.

"Here they come again."

This time Chiyo looked up at the sky; in the distant sky, several figures were rapidly approaching.

As they drew near, their altitude began to descend, allowing the two to see their appearance clearly.

"They're tengu!" Nan said; these are great yokai.

Unlike the canine creature in Chinese myth that eats the moon, the tengu of Sakurajima have a nearly human form, wearing attire similar to that of monks.

On their back is a pair of black wings; their face is crimson, with an exaggerated nose like a wooden club, and their visage is ferocious beyond compare.

"They're chasing that monk." The direction the tengu were flying matched the forward direction of the white-clad monk.

As the tengu descended further in altitude, the two also discovered that this yokai was much taller than they had imagined.

Over three meters, nearly four meters in height, with exaggeratedly expansive black wings; their hands held no fans, Zen staffs, or the like.

But their exposed arms were incredibly thick; even Nan, tall as he was, seemed like a child compared to this tengu.

Even more so for Chiyo—the tengu's arms were much thicker than Chiyo's waist.

There were four tengu in total; they cast shadows on the ground, and as they passed, the ground's minor yokai all trembled.

"It feels like these yokai seem to have transformed from humans." Chiyo said, "Indeed, is there a source that has mutated the people of this city?"

"A source? It seems this is the key to our mission—" Before he could finish speaking, Nan saw a shadow shoot up from the ground, pouncing onto one of the tengu.

The two collided, and in midair they immediately began to fight, and ill-fatedly flew straight toward them.

The other three tengu reacted just as quickly, immediately turning and flying toward them.

As a gust of wind blew, on this road filled with flying head barbarian corpses and still fairly spacious, four more tengu appeared.

Three of them stood about ten meters away from Chiyo and Nan.

The other one collided with the suddenly appearing human figure and crashed into a house, fighting together inside.

Their battle had no form, was primitive and brutal, like the most ferocious, violent beasts, mutually biting and devouring each other.

"How could it be this madman? I hope his mission is the same as ours." Nan instantly felt a toothache, and Chiyo's face didn't look good either.

The one fighting the tengu was a person, a person with beastly features. Expression deranged, tearing, biting, headbutting—every part of his body that could attack was used to assault and grapple with the tengu he was entangled with.

His body was covered in blood, some his own, some from that tengu.

His ferocious madness made it impossible for a moment to tell who was truly the yokai.

This person, without doubt, is also a god-demon wanderer.

Moreover, he is a god-demon wanderer quite familiar to Nan and Chiyo: the Mad Beast·Ueno Shigeru, famed for his madness, brutality, and beast-like behavior.

Such a mad beast faction, able to survive in the god-demon game, can hardly find willing companions to journey with; they can rely only on themselves.

Targeted by a wolf pack, there is still a few chances to repel them.

But fighting a lone wolf to the death? That truly is a fight to the death.

With his tyrannical strength and mad style, even strong ones like Nan and Chiyo have a few misgivings about him and are unwilling to provoke him.

"Is this idiot not doing it on purpose?" Chiyo took down the scroll from behind her, unfolded it, pressed it, and a puff of white smoke rose and appeared.

Two puppets appeared before her.

Chiyo is her real name, also the name of the owner of the fate fragment, from Chiyo the Grandmother in Naruto; she is a puppeteer.

Because of Mad Beast Ueno Shigeru's actions, Nan and Chiyo now also have to face tengu like this great yokai ahead of schedule.

It's not a one-on-one situation; right from the start, it's three against them.

"You distract it for a moment; I'll quickly kill one." Nan glanced at the Mad Beast still fighting another tengu, pulled off his white windbreaker, and threw it to the ground.

It actually made a heavy thud as it landed—who would have thought this seemingly ordinary windbreaker would be so heavy?

Taking off this rather special equipment also means Nan doesn't intend to hold back much.

On the Mad Beast's side, Ueno Shigeru has gradually gained the upper hand; estimated that in a little while he can kill this tengu.

But the problem is, this madness, completely disregarding his own fighting style—even if he kills the tengu, in the short term he probably can't provide effective combat power again.

Three against two; we are at a disadvantage.

Fortunately, Chiyo is a puppeteer and can restrain and entangle two of them; Nan can kill one tengu as fast as possible, and the situation will improve greatly.

At least we won't, due to delay, end up with strained muscles and bones.

Kill!

With a violent shout, the ground beneath his feet shattered, several pieces of rubble flying up as Nan vanished from the spot, choosing one of the heavenly dogs to attack.

At the same time, Qian Dai controlled two puppets, each lunging toward the other two heavenly dogs.

Accompanied by the wild beast on the other side transmitting sounds of flesh tearing and bones breaking that sent chills down one's spine, the battlefield.

The battle between the heavenly dogs in the "Hundred Ghosts" and these three demon-walkers erupted completely.

"Those two people, they feel like demon-walkers, could it be that survival missions always have other demon-walkers barging in?"

Tang Luo had one hand hanging loosely at his side, gently stroking the head of the Heavenly Dog, his current form being temporarily formed, neither fully real nor illusory.

Belonging to a state of full-power combat, it can be maintained for a considerable length of time.

Of course, if severely injured, it is inevitable to revert back to that little kitten.

Speaking of which, whether this form or the kitten's appearance, neither is what the Heavenly Dog originally looked like.

Originally, the Heavenly Dog was the image of a white dog, not large, somewhere between a large and medium-sized dog.

Whereas the current appearance is actually closer to that of a demon.

The experience of being reborn and then transforming into a demon ghost could not have had no influence.

The Heavenly Dog lightly shook its head, as a response to Tang Luo's words, anyway Tang Luo wasn't asking for an answer.

Just saying it out loud, organizing his thoughts, whether they are demon-walkers, the Heavenly Dog cannot tell either.

When dealing with Liu Suifeng, Tang Luo let the Heavenly Dog leave first to search for An'an and the others.

As a mature dog, the Heavenly Dog clearly knew it couldn't be tricked again, otherwise—she had seen Tang Luo researching dog meat recipes.

Poor little kitten couldn't withstand such a future.

Thus, the Heavenly Dog went full power, successfully finding An'an and the others' whereabouts before Tang Luo descended the mountain, and returned at the fastest speed.

Just in time to meet the descending Tang Luo.

At the instant of seeing Tang Luo, the Heavenly Dog's "hairs stood on end," feeling immensely relieved that its efficiency was high enough.

That unextinguishable fire in his eyes illuminated his cheeks with alternating light and shadow, making the Heavenly Dog instinctively feel a great horror approaching.

A black giant wolf stopped in front of a tall building.

Unlike the "liveliness" of the "Hundred Ghosts Night Parade" elsewhere, the surroundings of this commercial building were quite quiet, with no slaughter ghosts, flying head barbarians, or similar "demons and monsters" lurking nearby.

It was quiet to an abnormal degree.

It easily made one think of the den of a powerful beast—around it, no relatively weak beasts would roam.

Tang Luo jumped down and said to the Heavenly Dog: "Go, kill the Hundred Ghosts, save people."

In this city, there are still quite a few survivors, and along the way, Tang Luo also rescued some casually.

Now let the Heavenly Dog continue, anyway she maintains her current state, and in the building it's not particularly easy to move, the Heavenly Dog's side rescuing people and killing Hundred Ghosts, Tang Luo's side will also "share in" some merit power.

Entering the building, the ground floor is the first floor of a large shopping mall.

If the outside world is still considered dusk, then inside this building, it can be considered night.

Only a few lamps persistently emit flickering light, not as good as simply turning them all off to look more comfortable.

On the ground, traces of blood can be seen on shop glass and walls.

But looking around, no one is seen to exist.

Upon reaching the stopped electric escalator, Tang Luo had to walk on his own.

Just arrived at the second floor, from the darkness above came a sound of "rustling rustling".