Chapter 598: Bloodline

The bright moon had no light. In the pitch-black alley, the mysterious black cloak merged with the darkness, and under the cloak was the same pure black tight-fitting suit. A little light only outlined a curled corner of the mouth.

But it was this corner of the mouth that caused Miyoshi Ryota to suddenly lose his strength. The wounds left from fighting the priests earlier transmitted a sharp pain, causing him to almost collapse to the ground.

"Hey."

The hand pressing on his shoulder grabbed him, lifted him up, and then a warm current poured into his body from his shoulder, wandering around for a circle. A burst of numbness and itching occurred on his body, and the wounds healed instantly.

Along with the excited state of mind brought by the fierce battle and watching Nanako being taken away, they were all smoothed out together.

"Lord!"

Lu Wushuang took a step forward.

"You... came."

"Oh, Little Lu."

Li Miao smiled and patted her shoulder.

"Waited for me for a few days, how did you end up in this state? Where is Nanako? Did you lose her?"

Lu Wushuang was speechless for a while.

Fortunately, since Li Miao had already arrived, there was no need to worry about any pursuers, ambushes, or Shinto anymore, so she could slowly sort out her thoughts and explain to Li Miao.

"Lord, it's like this."

"Nanako is now in the hands of Shinto, but it was something I actively promoted. The reason is that tonight I met—"

Just as she was about to get to the point, a series of footsteps came from the alley entrance. First, a wooden clog was revealed, then the pure white priestess's robes, and finally a seamless pure white mask, and a crimson guardless sword that had already been drawn.

Shinto's pursuers had arrived.

And they were not the goods Lu Wushuang had slaughtered earlier—because he spoke.

"Corpse, mask, take off."

"You, what?"

The tone was stagnant, with only fragmented nouns and verbs, forming an incomplete question.

However, for someone like Li Miao who only learned half of the Dongying language, this kind of slow sentence without any connecting words sounded just right.

He was saying: The masks on the corpses have been taken off, what did you see?

Lu Wushuang wanted to take over the conversation, but Li Miao reached out to stop her with a smile and walked to the front, brewing for a moment.

"Ahem... Idiot (Baka Yarō)."

Lu Wushuang was stunned.

There was no way; Li Miao's Dongying language was only learned halfway from Ji Tianrui, and most of it was cursing. If he wanted to show off, he could only squeeze out such a sentence.

"Sigh, I lost face."

He shook his head with a smile.

Then he reached out from afar.

"Forget it, let's just do it."

Swish!

The protective True Qi rolled over, directly wrapping the Shinto priest from the waist, and rolled him toward Li Miao like a flight.

The priest was in mid-air and finally reacted. The guardless sword was drawn, and he slashed several times at the protective True Qi wrapping his waist and abdomen. Amidst the sparks, he actually slashed out a gap.

Then his bones and muscles rang and shifted, using a method similar to "bone-shrinking technique," breaking free from the shackles of the protective True Qi. After landing, he flashed several times, dodged the pursuing protective True Qi, and retreated to the alley entrance.

He raised his head, his gaze seeming to penetrate the mask and land on Li Miao's face.

"Li! Miao!"

He said hoarsely.

He recognized Li Miao's 【Myriad Phenomena】.

Since Li Miao landed in Dongying, he had successively conquered Hirado City, Izumo Taisha, Enryaku-ji, and Hachimangu, having already turned over Shinto's family foundation. Shinto also already had a must-kill heart for him.

The killing trap at Enryaku-ji just didn't succeed. Li Miao's methods and characteristics must already be known to Shinto's Heaven-Men.

It can be said that from the moment Li Miao arrived in Kyoto, everything was already on the table. The killing intent of the three parties—Shinto, Li Miao, and Ji Tianrui—had already been placed on the table.

"Don't shout my name like that."

Li Miao tucked his hands into his sleeves and said with squinted eyes.

"It's impolite."

"Ask you something, where is the Emperor?"

Before the words fell, the guardless sword arrived in front of him in an instant. ===== CHAPTER 599 =====