Chapter 615: The Dagger is Revealed

"Xu Fu?"

Li Miao’s eyes flashed.

He had been waiting for this name.

Master Monk was no longer in Japan.

Lady Xu and the old man just now were indeed strong, but even without flaws in their mentality, to Li Miao, they were only at the level of a "main course," something to enjoy, but they did not constitute a threat to his life.

So for the matter in Japan to have a result, it would ultimately fall on the person who had never appeared and who founded Shintoism.

Li Miao turned suddenly, pulled Lady Xu down from mid-air, then let go, his right fist hammering down toward her head, while his left claw scooped in mid-air.

*Bang, bang!*

Two muffled sounds.

One was the sound of Lady Xu’s head exploding. Xu Fu had not yet appeared, and the offensive power of [Chaos Nether] was too great; even knowing Lady Xu’s mentality had been tampered with, Li Miao would not leave such a threat behind.

The other was the sound of Li Miao’s left hand exploding.

Before Lady Xu died, she had unleashed one last [Chaos Nether]. No matter what she wanted to do, Li Miao could not let her succeed, so he used his left hand as the price to slightly deflect the trajectory of [Chaos Nether].

On the ground beside the luxurious sedan chair, a deep pit was suddenly blasted out by [Chaos Nether].

Li Miao frowned slightly.

He shook his severed arm, shaking off the sticky flesh that was on the verge of shattering, but did not heal the wound, instead driving [Ten Thousand Phenomena] to wrap around the wound and begin to simulate a left hand.

Today’s matter had not yet reached a conclusion, and a palm made of flesh and blood might not be as useful to Li Miao as a palm simulated by [Ten Thousand Phenomena].

"What does this mean?"

Li Miao stepped toward the sedan chair.

"Lu Lu Wushuang and Ryota have clear backgrounds; only Nanako has been through the hands of Shintoism. Speaking of which, I haven't had time to look at her today... so Lady Xu was aiming for her."

"Xu Fu... An Qisheng can borrow a corpse to return to life; Xu Fu has spent at least a few hundred years with Master Monk, so he might also have this method."

"So, is Xu Fu inside Nanako now?"

"Then why did Lady Xu unleash a [Chaos Nether] at him before she died?"

It wasn't that Li Miao hadn't been prepared for Nanako being tampered with; he had already tested her with Silent Illumination through the sedan curtain when they met this morning and hadn't found anything unusual. Plus, the Shintoist surprise attacks had followed one after another, so he had put this matter aside first.

"Old Xu."

Li Miao stood still at a distance of three yards from the sedan chair and shouted.

"Your lady has already leaked it for you; are you still hiding inside acting like a young lady? Aren't you coming out to see the murderer who killed your junior brother?"

*Swish!*

The sedan curtain was suddenly lifted.

Li Miao’s eyes flashed, his face remained calm, but his Silent Illumination illusion and [Ten Thousand Phenomena] Qi had already spread silently, ready to kill whoever stepped out of the sedan chair at any moment.

"My lord!"

But as the curtain was lifted, it was Lu Lu Wushuang who jumped out from inside. Although she looked anxious, she was unharmed and ran toward Li Miao without stopping.

Miyoshi Ryota jumped off the sedan chair afterward and also ran toward Li Miao.

Li Miao narrowed his eyes and scanned the two of them, confirming there was nothing unusual about them. When they ran to him, he reached out and pulled them behind him.

"Is there a problem with Nanako?"

Lu Lu Wushuang was about to say this, and upon hearing it, she immediately opened her mouth.

"Yes, my lord!"

"As soon as I entered the sedan chair, I felt Nanako was not right, almost like she had become a different person, but you were fighting with the Shintoists at the time, so I didn't speak up."

"Also, just now on Suzaku Avenue, a Shinto deity blocked the front of the sedan chair and almost succeeded."

"It was Nanako who suddenly lifted the sedan curtain and let that deity retreat, and that deity actually listened to her command... Also, Nanako has been holding a mirror, which should be the incarnation artifact of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu in Shinto legend—the Yata Mirror."

"She is very likely already..."

Lu Lu Wushuang paused and clenched her fists.