Chapter 694: Sakura of Chaos (Part 2)
Thinking this, Su Jiu’s mind moved. She closed her eyes and quickly withdrew from her True Dragon Avatar. A second later, a cinnabar mark appeared on her brow. When she opened her eyes again, a flash of orange-gray flames streaked through her pupils.
“Flame of Innocence.”
Su Jiu slightly raised her hand, and the flames in her eyes erupted into her palm. Unlike the previous two, this flame felt warm, like basking in the sun.
This was a fusion of the Fen Shuangluan’s feathers, Dark Erosion, and Ghost Car’s flames. As Fen Shuangluan had said, it would bring warmth to those with pure hearts and had a purifying effect. The Dark Erosion attribute supplemented its lack of offensive power.
“Let’s try it.”
Su Jiu stared at the flame. The external qi erupting from her body acted like gasoline, instantly expanding the orange-gray flames. She then formed her fingers into a sword shape and pointed it at the snake-head armor on the ground.
In just a moment, the orange flames completely enveloped the armor. The red aura lingering on the armor visibly diminished, revealing the full appearance of the pearly white armor. However, the armor itself still showed no significant change.
Only a “sizzling” sound quietly echoed, like the sound of a hot pan. Su Jiu’s eyes were fixed on the snake head. She noticed that a trickle of liquid seemed to be seeping out from there…
It was very little, but it was there.
The two individuals fighting above also glanced over from time to time. Wei, noticing that the armor had not changed at all, couldn’t help but chuckle:
“Five minutes have passed, and there’s no change on the armor’s surface. You’re going to lose your bet.”
“So what if I lose? Yamata no Orochi’s origin was shattered by Amaterasu’s feather. Even if He revives by eroding divine consciousness, His own strength will be greatly reduced.”
Slicing forward with a flaming longsword and using the momentum, Inari God retreated several meters. Her petite body began to become somewhat illusory. She glanced below, and the flames in her eyes flickered slightly.
Careless, I forgot that without a purifying flame like mine, essence blood cannot be extracted at all…
“Time is tight, and the mission is heavy.”
Glancing at the ruins that were almost completely collapsing, Su Jiu exhaled a breath of stale air and began to increase the external qi to boost the combustion. The orange-gray flames surged into the sky, causing the air to ripple.
Behind her, there was a “boom!” as a pair of illusory wings appeared. This was a manifestation of the Avatar being used at high power.
Su Jiu felt that her flames were not inferior to those of the two foxes. Of course, the intensity of the flames depended on the user, and there was still a significant gap in her own strength. She could only win by quantity.
Time flowed by amidst the sounds of their clashes in the sky. Just after the seventh minute, suddenly, the liquid on the snake head of the armor condensed into a droplet of deep blue water. The water droplet, upon encountering the flame, did not ignite. It simply floated there.
A hint of joy appeared in Su Jiu’s eyes. She raised her hand and drew it into her palm. Then, with a wave of her hand from her ring, she used the baby bottle left by Xiao Yezi to store it.
My goodness, this can actually refine “oil”!
“Armor brother, drop some more gold coins.”
After obtaining the reward, Boss Su licked the sweat from the corner of her mouth and continued to increase the heat to refine it. Another two minutes or so passed, but no matter how much she increased the heat, the armor remained unresponsive…
Glancing at the black sky that was almost completely collapsing, Su Jiu pouted and scolded the armor with a hint of disappointment, “Armor brother, armor brother, only one drop of essence blood, how can I catch little birds with this!”
After burning for another half a minute with no results, just as Su Jiu was about to dust off her hands and leave, the “sizzling” sound resumed. As if hearing her words, a few pale blue liquids appeared around the snake head of the armor…
They slowly condensed into a droplet of pale blue water, and then the snake head on the armor’s chest dimmed slightly, though it wasn’t very noticeable in the flames.
“Armor brother, you’re amazing.”
Seeing this, Su Jiu didn’t stand on ceremony. With a giggle, she reached out and collected it, putting it into the baby bottle. After shaking it a couple of times, she put it into her ring.
However, the moment the liquids entered the baby bottle, the two droplets collided with each other before suddenly merging into a large droplet of bluish-green, about the size of a pinky fingernail. The energy contained within became increasingly powerful.
Before Su Jiu could rejoice for long, a “rumbling” sound came from the sky. Fragments of the ruins fell, hitting the red earth and kicking up clouds of dust.
“Now that I’ve got the essence blood, I need to leave quickly. Inari God’s body will dissipate like Ibaraki’s soon, and there are still a lot of people outside watching.”
She frowned, looking at the situation in the sky. Then, she took a deep breath, quickly mobilized the cells in her body, and clenched her fist. Removing the mask from her face, a simple, ancient thin armor began to appear on her body, and her aura grew stronger…
Elegy, third layer, activate!
Hovering in mid-air, Wei looked at the increasingly illusory Inari God, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and sneered, “Heh heh, as expected of a demon that was once called a god by humans. Even without a body, you can still fight me to this extent with your soul…”
“Rather than worrying about the fox, you should worry about yourself.”
Inari God glanced at her opponent, her face expressionless. Although she had little energy left within her, she retorted, “There are quite a few Onmyoji outside. If the Genji clan finds out that you’ve possessed their descendants to revive the Great Serpent, will they turn you into a fur coat?”
Wei’s eyes flashed, a hint of contemplation passing through them. After a moment, she suddenly let out a cold laugh, “In your current state, you can’t stop me. Why should I bother with a dying soul like you? Isn’t it better to just take back the armor?”
“Then Miss Su won’t be able to withstand my attack…”
As Wei’s cold laugh fell, without waiting for Inari God’s reaction, she flashed through the sky and headed straight for Su Jiu’s location.
“Not good!”
Seeing Wei’s actions, Inari God’s expression changed drastically. She cursed inwardly and, no longer caring about her dissipating body, transformed into a blurry shadow and quickly pursued.
Wei’s speed was terrifyingly fast. Before her voice had even finished, her figure had already appeared not far from Su Jiu. Within two breaths, they were already close!
“Miss Su, how dare you scheme against me? If this plan hadn’t been meticulously planned for so long, and if my strength hadn’t been maintained at the Intermediate War God level, I would have fallen for it.”
A smile devoid of warmth appeared on Wei’s slightly seductive face, giving her the aura of a vixen. Immediately, the butterfly fan, enveloped in azure flames, shot out and swung towards Su Jiu.
“Fine Snow!”
In her pupils, the shadow of the butterfly fan rapidly enlarged. A cold glint flashed in Su Jiu’s eyes. Without further hesitation, veins bulged on the back of her hand, and her arm trembled as she swung out several knives fiercely.
“Chī!”
As the blade energy surged, snowflakes erupted in the air. Up close, they resembled snowflakes but were formed from orange-gray flames, constantly flickering as if welcoming their sovereign.
“Clang clang clang!!!”
A fierce collision sound rang out. Su Jiu was sent flying dozens of meters away, while Wei, though only retreating half a step, did not have time to dodge the instantaneous eight strikes. A burn mark appeared on her face, and her clothes were scorched black.
Feeling the stinging sensation of the burn on her face and looking at Su Jiu in the distance, Wei felt a surge of nameless anger. With a forced smile, she flickered in that direction:
“I didn’t expect this! A Dragon Country person like you knows this sword technique and can even block a blow. However, there is still a gulf-like gap between us. A single sword technique is useless.”
The law light at the back of her head flared, and her speed increased by several more points. With a flip of the butterfly fan in her hand, she returned to within three meters of Su Jiu.
Looking at her opponent’s attack, Su Jiu’s expression was slightly serious. She lowered her body slightly, and the tip of her longsword emitted a milky white glow, already hinting at the imminent release of [Dream of Blossoms]. As long as she could use the flashing effect of [Dream of Blossoms] to escape at the moment the ruins were destroyed, she could completely get away. After all, her opponent’s goal was the armor, not her.
“Let’s go, the fox doesn’t have much energy left!”
Just as Wei was about to step within two meters of Su Jiu, the fiery fox shrine maiden blocked in front of her. With a “rumble,” the flaming longsword in her hand grew to several meters long and then swung down fiercely towards Wei’s legs.
Near a hundred zhang of blade energy erupted from the edge of the flaming longsword. The high temperature made the air blur slightly, but the blade energy was not fast, perhaps a price for its great power.
After releasing it, Inari God grabbed Su Jiu and charged towards a corner of the ruined ruins at an extremely fast speed!
“With this speed, you think you can hit me…”
Wei’s eyes flashed with a cold glint. She easily dodged by simply leaping upwards. Just as she was about to pursue, she seemed to remember something, suddenly stopped, and turned to look at the armor. She saw that the flaming slash was indeed pressing towards the armor.
“Not good!”
Wei’s face changed slightly. The next moment, she discovered that a hunched figure had appeared next to the armor at some point. The figure extended its palm, forming a cherry blossom energy shield that easily neutralized the flame slash.
“Is this the torso bone of a god?”
The old man lowered his head and looked at the patterns and design on the armor. He gently caressed it as if it were a beloved piece of art, his turbid old eyes filled with intense desire.
The Kamishiro Family had waited too long for this day.
While caressing it, he didn’t notice the red aura on the armor quietly spreading…
As she moved towards the other party, Wei said softly, “Who are you, sir?”
“Are you that Genji girl? Was the battle just now caused by you?”
Upon hearing this, the old man looked up. Seeing Wei’s appearance, his face showed a hint of surprise, but he quickly regained his composure and directly put on the armor. His hoarse voice slowly came out, “This armor is mine now.”
Wei narrowed her eyes and watched this scene. Her lips, originally bright red, pursed slightly. She smiled and said, “Of course, I won’t fight you for it.”
…
Outside the ruins, it was still a heavy rain accompanied by a strong smell of sulfur. All sorts of strange snakes and monsters kept appearing, and even quite a few Battle King level monsters attacked nearby villages and towns, forcing the Fujiwara clan and the Onmyoji to temporarily put aside their differences and choose to eliminate the demons. Only a small group of people were left to guard the area.
“Bang!”
Su Jiu and the other two broke through the ruins and rushed into the sky. The huge commotion naturally attracted the attention of these people, but due to the powerful aura emanating from Inari God, no one dared to step forward for a moment… They could only watch as they flew into the distance. When the people present noticed the opening of the ruins, those left behind by various factions hurried to notify their superiors.
In the sky, Su Jiu had long since exited the Elegy state and could only be passively held. Her hair was blown into a straight line by the wind, giving her a look of having no will to live: “Are we there yet?”
Meanwhile, Lin’s thigh deliberately kept nudging Su Jiu’s lower back with her knee, up and down, with a steady rhythm, causing the conniving merchant Su to blush and frequently look back.
“What is Little Foolbird doing now?”
However, Little Foolbird remained in a dead-fish sleeping posture, tilting her head back and emitting faint snores. She was in a state of deep sleep…
Inari God shook her head. “The fox wants to taste some grains before dying.”
After flying in the sky for some unknown time, Inari God finally landed in a cornfield in a small village. After putting Su Jiu down, she staggered and plopped down on the cornfield.
“After all, the fox was often hungry when she was young.”
Without considering what Su Jiu was thinking, she nonchalantly picked a corn cob nearby, took a bite, and her eyes became a little moist, as if recalling something…
She remembered in the past, when her strength was weak, she often went hungry. To find food, she would sneak into human cities. One time, she fainted from hunger on the ground near a corn cake vendor. When she woke up again, someone was stroking her head and handing her several corn cakes: “Little fox, eat. Once you’re full, leave, or you’ll become a scarf.”
After that near-death experience, the little fox cultivated diligently, her strength increasing step by step. She also occasionally traded items for corn cakes. Until one time, after several years of secluded cultivation, when she returned to that city, she found that the city was sparsely populated, and she couldn’t even find the corn cake vendor who used to call out. She only found out through inquiries that due to the invasion of demons like [Ghosts], there was a grain shortage and a lack of various resources, leading to the displacement of ordinary people.
The little fox had experienced hunger, so she didn’t want others to go hungry. But how could she ensure that the refugees had enough to eat? She didn’t know. Until she met someone who called himself the legendary Amaterasu. That entity possessed her body and smiled, asking, “Little fox, do you want to help me do something?” The little fox nodded, and this help continued for hundreds of years…
On the sidelines, Su Jiu didn’t know what to say, and could only watch silently.
After eating one corn cob, Inari God ate a second, and then a third. After eating the sixth one, she stopped, blinked her eyes, and asked Su Jiu a very philosophical question: “The fox’s soul cannot consume things, but it has high temperatures. You say, will there be a lot of popcorn inside its stomach after death?”
Hearing this, Su Jiu looked at the fox girl in front of her, her mouth twitched, and she said softly, “You’re very humorous.”
