Chapter 623 Fukuoka Exchange Student (Vote Update)
A chill from the bone marrow surged from her toes to Shen Dai Shanhua’s spine, and his heart screamed, “Why is this jinx here? Shouldn’t she have left with the ordinary people on that ship long ago?!”
He mechanically raised his head, only to see the girl tossing the storage bag. When their eyes met her smiling yet not smiling face, he immediately put on a smile that was uglier than crying:
“Tour…Touring Envoy, I was just kidding just now. In fact, the things in my hand are already prepared to be handed over to the Kamishiro Family.”
“I ask, you answer, or you die.”
Su Jiu blinked, her face still with an intense smile, her eyes curved, looking like a girl next door asking for candy.
Looking at Su Jiu, who gave off a cute and dark illusion, a cold sweat trickled down from Shen Dai Shanhua’s forehead. When it reached the tip of his nose, he swallowed and took half a step back with a smile: “You may speak.”
“How many types of Divine Blood Potions are there? To be precise, how many [Gods] does your Kamishiro Family control?”
Su Jiu smiled lightly, effortlessly taking the [map] that the Redbeard Pirate Group had scrambled for from Shen Dai Shanhua’s hand. After checking the scroll, she confirmed it was fine and put it away.
Shen Dai Shanhua reluctantly watched the scroll being put away by Su Jiu, then his mouth twitched, and he quickly replied:
“This is not much of a secret. There are about three levels of Divine Blood Potions. The lowest grade is the one given to those Southern Vietnamese on the ship, which is made from the blood of demonized creatures with mixed divine blood. The second grade is made from the blood of pure-blooded demonized creatures…”
He paused, then glanced at Su Jiu’s unchanging smile, and continued, “The highest grade is made from the blood of [Oni] left behind from ancient times. Our Kamishiro Family also has a certain transaction with only one ancient [Oni].”
Hearing the term [Oni] again, Su Jiu’s doubts resurfaced, and she voiced her long-standing confusion:
“What exactly is an [Oni]? A powerful monster?”
“This…”
Shen Dai Shanhua hesitated for a while, looking at Su Jiu’s silently extended fingernails. In the face of his life and an unimportant secret, he chose his life and said:
“During the Edo Period, Evil Immortals descended upon Sakura Country and enfeoffed several Oni Lords. The Oni Lords, with this power, further guided their subordinates to form the Hundred Oni.”
Taking this opportunity, Su Jiu continued to inquire: “What about the Yamata no Orochi in the myths?”
Evil Immortals could likely refer to the Others, and very powerful Ones. The Oni Lords were instructed by the Others to burn, kill, and loot, but what about the other two types?
Looking at the cold light in Su Jiu’s hand, Shen Dai Shanhua revealed everything he knew: “Among them, Yamata no Omi received the highest power. When other Oni Lords still called themselves Oni, he was already not content with being called King and declared himself a God, also known as Yamata no Daishin.”
After speaking, he still hesitated, wondering if he should say a few irrelevant things. Then he hesitantly asked, “Sir, why are you so curious about the legends of Sakura Country?”
“Am I asking you or are you asking me?” Su Jiu glanced at him and asked with a light smile, the smile on her small face not diminishing at all.
“Uh…”
Being asked this way, Shen Dai Shanhua was immediately speechless. He quickly gave a dry laugh and changed the subject to other things: “Sir, if you are interested in this mythology, you should also be interested in [Dragons], right?”
“Dragons? Do you mean the dragon-type monsters?” Su Jiu looked confused. She had heard before that there were [Dragons] and [Dragon Kings] in Sakura mythology.
“Not exactly.”
Seeing that Su Jiu’s attention was diverted to mythology, Shen Dai Shanhua also showed a relaxed expression and continued to enlighten Su Jiu: “You are Chinese, so it’s normal that you don’t know… Dragons refer to the major Demon Lords who did not accept the decree of the Evil Immortals.”
“What about Dragon Kings?”
Nodding, the vague Sakura history in Su Jiu’s mind began to become less vague. At least she confirmed what the forces represented by the two titles were.
Those Tengu who had refused the Others and remained neutral should also be members of the [Dragons], right?
“They are all peak-level demonized beings. There are two of them. One is named Izanami, the Great Lord who controls night and yin…”
Shen Dai Shanhua suddenly paused, his expression becoming serious. “The other, who controls the sun, is also called Amaterasu! It was Yamata no Daishin that He had a chosen one go and slay.”
Upon hearing Amaterasu, who controlled the sun, Su Jiu narrowed her eyes and suddenly asked, “Do you have any clues about this Amaterasu?”
“Amaterasu’s whereabouts?”
Shen Dai Shanhua looked at her as if she were an idiot, but under Su Jiu’s icy glare, he quickly shook his head and said,
“The whereabouts of Amaterasu are unknown even to the Fujiwara family. We only know that she disappeared at the same time as the Evil Immortal. Some speculate that she may have perished together with the Evil Immortal, while another Dragon King is said to be slumbering in the deepest part of the Sakura Sea.”
Facing this result, Su Jiu felt a bit disappointed, but she had basically asked what she wanted to know. She then tied up the steward of the Kamishiro Family, Shen Dai Shanhua, and instructed him:
“This should be the Sakura Sea by now. I will hand you over to the embassy of Dragon Country later. It’s best to tell the truth about everything. If I find out you’ve run away or spoken carelessly… Heh.”
This person cannot die for now. He is the human experiment witness of the Kamishiro Family. Even as one of the eight major families, the Kamishiro Family will have to pay a price in the face of the state apparatus.
Seeing that her phone showed no signal, Su Jiu casually built a small boat, knocked out Shen Dai Ryozo with one hand, and threw him onto it, then rowed forward.
“Mom…Mom, I’m hungry.”
On the way, E Huo also woke up from absorbing the dragon’s energy. The dragon was good in all aspects, except that it looked like a starving ghost. Its bones were showing on its face, as if it hadn’t eaten for a long time.
“E Huo, you look like you’re cosplaying as Plants vs. Zombies.”
Looking at her appearance, Su Jiu dared not delay. She gave all the magic crystals she had left to her.
As a result, E Huo accepted the magic crystals without hesitation. Whether they were beginner or intermediate magic crystals, under her snow-white teeth, they turned into energy with just two “crackling!” sounds and entered her shriveled abdomen.
As the energy nourished her, E Huo’s skin slowly began to recover a little, and her shriveled little face became slightly fuller. However, her aura was still fluctuating, like a newly awakened little girl.
While watching her eat the magic crystals, Su Jiu used her mental power to examine the stolen scroll and record the specific locations: “Miyako Daimei, Osaka; Yamaoka Daimei, Fukuoka; and a black star in Tokyo, which is the location of the Oni.”
In the time that followed, the heavens seemed to favor Su Jiu. After swimming until afternoon, she saw the silhouette of a rather large port under the red sunset. It was very similar to Lianyungang in Dragon Country, but there were more fishing boats here…
“I must have done too many good deeds recently and my luck has turned around. I found a place to stay overnight so soon. This place… is it called Fukuoka? I remember there was a Daimei’s treasure nearby?”
Sighing, Su Jiu nimbly landed, dragging E Huo with one hand and Shen Dai Shanhua, who was like a dead pig, with the other. With the GPS positioning on her phone, she found the local embassy of Dragon Country.
However, as she pushed the door open, the familiar feeling rushed into Su Jiu’s memory again. She remembered that the last time she came to such a place was to Aers to provide voluntary support.
Under the cautious gazes of several service staff, Su Jiu swiped her face at the reception desk, revealing her identity as the [Golden Exorcist]. Q}u&n⑥〝捌”玖儛捌零⑷lingduty〞〖
She stated that she was a law enforcement officer from Dragon Country and briefly explained what the Kamishiro Family Steward had done. Finally, she called Youyou to send people to handle the matter. Her fluid actions made the staff admire her, “This is professionalism!”
After all, Night Watchers cannot freely enter other countries. Like the intelligence organizations of various countries, their presence in other countries will attract the control of the local National Security.
The staff handling Shen Dai Shanhua looked at Su Jiu and praised her for being young and promising, then sighed:
“If our exchange students here had your Battle King level strength, they wouldn’t complain to the embassy every day about losing matches or having too few school resources.”
“It’s normal to not be able to win, after all, talented exchange students have all gone to big places like Tokyo and Osaka.”
Su Jiu brushed off these trivial matters with a laugh. Upon learning that the treasure was in this city, she had no interest in other things.
However, on the map, that area seemed to have been converted into someone’s residence. She had a feeling that the other party might have already taken the treasure.
“Those trash exchange students!”
A cold snort came from the door behind Su Jiu. The rather tall figure walked over and sat on the sofa next to Su Jiu, lifting her bear to reveal a purple bauhinia school emblem, and said with a cold laugh, “Students from private schools like us are different. Both in terms of resources and strength, we crush the Sakura girls.”
After casually appraising her, Su Jiu found that the other party only had the strength of a High-ranking War General, and lost interest. She quickly nodded and said softly, “Ah, yes, yes…”
“Miss Zi Mu, this one…”
The embassy staff member approached with a strange expression to persuade her. Before she could finish her persuasion, the tall girl glared at her and continued to look at Su Jiu with contempt: “You are still young and already show an attitude weaker than Sakura girls. Will you be kneeling when you grow up?”
“There are good and bad people. Humility does not equate to kneeling.”
Su Jiu glanced at her, truly feeling it was meaningless to argue with such a person. She turned around, petted E Huo’s head, and took out her phone to get a local SIM card.
The tall woman frowned and looked at Su Jiu. Finding that the latter completely ignored her, unlike her usual followers, she became somewhat indignant.
She asked the staff member about her father’s whereabouts. After getting the answer, she left with a wave of her sleeve. Before leaving, she even glared at Su Jiu.
After the woman left, the staff member quietly explained to Su Jiu: “The father of this young lady is one of the local chaebols, involved in both legitimate and illegitimate businesses, mainly in real estate. Not only are Dragon Country people afraid of them, but the local Sakura residents are even more afraid…”
“Look, she’s going to see her father to handle the procedures for acquiring a classmate’s house to build a kabuki theater. It is said that the classmate cursed her in front of the whole school half a month ago.”
