Each shikigami's fighting moves are incredibly exquisite.
The painter Chen gritted his teeth; he feared that all the paintings he had accumulated over the past year would be lost here today.
He no longer had the composure he had before, but instead took all the remaining paintings out of the bamboo basket in one go, intending to crush them all!
But just then, he reached out to touch it, only to find nothing beside him.
The painter Chen turned his head and saw a piece of soil and gravel shaped like a palm lifting up the bamboo basket and fleeing into the distance.
"Thief!" The painter Chen was immediately alarmed.
After Zard was injured, he lay listlessly on the ground, as if he had fainted.
But this guy didn't faint. Instead, he squinted and continued to pretend to be unconscious, secretly manipulating the sand to get closer while the Chen family expert was fighting the shikigami.
The painter Chen was going to chase after the bamboo basket.
But suddenly his feet sank, and the sand on the ground turned into a giant hand, firmly holding him in its grasp.
The next moment, the Bone Woman and the Horse-Faced Rakshasa suddenly broke free from the Golden Guard's slashes and turned to rush towards the Chen family painter.
But then the bone woman's bone sword pierced straight into the neck of the Chen family painter, and she greedily licked the spilled blood.
Qing Chen shook his head. This Chen family painter was like a bookworm, far inferior to Shen Daiyunhe's fighting instincts.
This may be the difference between a master who climbs up from the bottom and a master in a greenhouse.
Right now.
But then Bai Rongyi lowered his head and sent Shendai Yunluo down to the ground. This expert from the Divine Era skillfully gouged out the eyes of the Chen family painter. He looked at Qing Chen and asked, "Is this corpse still of any use?"
“Yes,” Qing Chen said, “I want to offer the corpse of an A-level expert as a sacrifice to the puppet. This will be enough to add another string to the puppet, allowing it to control four people at the same time.”
On the other side, Yangyang worked with Hyakume to suppress the fire element awakener.
Qing Chen turned around and stared intently. Back then, even when facing Xu Linsen, Shen Dai Yunluo was unwilling to easily summon the Hundred-Eyed Demon. Now was a good time to observe.
Meanwhile, Kamishiro Unra teased, "Don't be so serious. Are you observing Hyakume's fighting style so you can deal with me later?"
Qing Chen glanced at it: "I'm just curious about what makes this shikigami, which you've worked so hard to collect eyes for, so powerful."
Kamishiro Yunluo laughed and said, "Actually, I am more fragile than ordinary A-rank beings, and this Hyakume-ki has collected more than half of the eyes and is about to break through the threshold of demigod."
"Huh? Isn't it only by collecting a hundred pairs of eyes that one can possess strength comparable to a demigod?" Qing Chen asked in confusion.
Shindai Yunluo smiled and shook his head: "Isn't this all thanks to you? We found a few pairs of A-grade eyes. Keep an eye on them."
The fire-elemental awakener turned to flee.
But then he saw the gigantic, white-clad Hyakume-ki blocking his path like a ghost. Its speed was between A-rank and demigod, and it could even leave a blur in the naked eye.
The next moment, the Hundred-Eyed Demon's sleeves fluttered, revealing the sixty-three pairs of eyeballs on his two arms.
Each pair of eyes looked in a different direction, each with its own thoughts, each exceptionally agile, as if when Kamishiro Unra handed the eyes to Hyakume-ki, he also entrusted it with the souls of those dead masters!
In an instant, the eyes that were originally looking in different directions turned around at the same time, staring intently at the fire element awakener!
Blood-red tears streamed from each of those eyes simultaneously, as if dozens of people were weeping blood together.
Kamishiro Yunluo said softly, "The Ten Directions World."
At this moment, Qing Chen was shocked to see the fire element awakener in front of Hyakume-ki being forcibly separated from his elemental state.
Immediately afterwards, the body of this fire element awakener seemed to be displaced, as if two worlds had crossed over him. His upper body shifted to the right by a full five centimeters, his neck shifted to the left by five centimeters, and his whole body was inexplicably divided into several parts by space.
The body of the awakened one was like a Lego toy that had been maliciously misassembled, twisted and bloody.
Meanwhile, a rumbling sound of collapse echoed from the mountainside behind the awakened one.
The strange "Ten Directions World" power of Hyakume-ki actually passed through the awakened one's body and even acted on the stone wall, causing the stone wall to displace and collapse!
With a loud crash, huge boulders fell from the stone wall to the ground, their edges bearing smooth and neat cut marks.
Qing Chen glanced at Shen Dai Yunluo: "Has anyone ever collected a hundred pairs of eyes before?"
Kamishiro Unra shook his head with a smile: "Of course not. When you're almost there, you'll become the enemy of the whole world. Nobody wants you to have fighting power close to that of a god. So, the previous master of Hyakume-ki was killed by a group of people when he had collected eighty-three pairs. Kamishiro Chika was among those who did it. This ancestor didn't want anyone to threaten his position."
Qing Chen shook his head: "The Divine Era is also adept at internal strife. What are your plans for the future?"
“Of course we’re running away,” Shindai Yunluo said with a smile. “If we don’t leave now, we won’t be able to leave once Chen Yu and Li Bingxi arrive.”
With that, he stepped back onto Bai Rongyi's head and flew into the sky: "Remember, you owe me a drink. When we no longer have enemies and don't need to be so sober, let's sit down and drink this drink together."
The white-haired man's beard, hair, and horns were all snow-white, perfectly complementing the white hunting robes worn by the Onmyoji.
The young Onmyoji traveled a long way to help, then left just as quickly.
Extremely elegant.
This friend from afar is like a character living in a poem.
Qingchen watched as the other person ascended into the sky.
Just then, a goddess descended from the distant sky, her colorful ribbons fluttering in the air.
Wherever the goddess, seemingly flying out of the Dunhuang murals, passed, flowers fluttered and silk ribbons danced, a rain of flowers fell along the Silk Road, the pipa played in reverse, and music played softly and silently.
Extremely fast!
In the blink of an eye, she had arrived in front of Shendai Yunluo. But when the goddess flicked her finger, the sound of the pipa suddenly rang out, and Bai Rongyi's huge body... shattered inch by inch!
That is one of the gods and Buddhas in Chen Yu's painting, a Gandharva!
The dashing figure of Shindai Yunluo vanished, and she coughed up a mouthful of blood before falling downwards.
Fortunately, Okihori materialized in time and caught him in mid-air.
Qing Chen's heart skipped a beat. The power of Chen Yu's painting was so terrifying that the goddess had only played the pipa once, yet it shattered Bai Rongyi's spirit!
Even if Bai Rongyi is a shikigami ranked very low, she shouldn't be this fragile!
Kamishiro Yunra shouted angrily, "I'm fine, run!"
The goddess swooped down to pursue, while the Hyakume-no-Oni, Hone-onna, and Horse-faced Rasetsu of Kamishiro Unra all fought back fiercely, trying to buy their Onmyoji a chance to escape!
Qing Chen picked up Shadow and turned to run for his life with Zard and the others. The demigod had arrived, and any resistance at this point would be futile!
It's no use!
Heading south, through hills and low mountains, through valleys and streams, Zard blocked any obstacles he encountered with earthen walls, showing no interest in fighting.
Until they finally crossed a mountain and saw the magnificent and towering tree in the distance.
No matter how many times Qingchen sees it, he will feel a sense of awe from the bottom of his heart. At this moment, even if someone says that it is the Tree of Origin of the World, he will believe it.
However, when they crossed the mountain, Qingchen was filled with despair.
Just then, a young man and an old man were playing chess in the mountains, and the two of them seemed to merge with the world, as if they had become one with it.
Demigod!
Chen Yu, Li Bingxi!
The enemy used soldiers to drive away and exhaust Qing Chen and the others, forcibly driving them here, as if Qing Chen and the others were running frantically to find these two demigods.
Chen Yu laughed and said, "Do you think the people from the Northern Age of Gods can just run away after taking advantage of us? I think they've oversimplified things. I'm curious how you guys became friends. You should be people who would fight to the death the moment you meet, but you've become friends. I underestimated the strength of his Hundred-Eyed Demon Shikigami because he managed to escape this time. But he's returned to the Age of Gods severely injured, so he probably won't live much longer."
Qing Chen stared at the two demigods with a livid face, saying nothing.
After leaving City 10, it seems like there are dead ends everywhere.
It was as if everyone in the world wanted to kill him.
All power in this world has weight; when fate bestows a gift, it has already secretly marked the price.
What the shadow wants to give him may require him to gamble with his life.
Li Bingxi looked at the shadow behind Qing Chen with great interest: "Is this the true face of the Qing family's shadow? There are probably not many people in this world who have seen his true face... But it doesn't matter anymore. People don't need to remember the appearance of a dead person. Boy, and you too, today you will pay off your master's debt."
Qing Chen calmly said, "Go to hell."
Lee Byung-hee paused for a moment, then his face darkened.
Qing Chen was already prepared to go all out; even if he died here, he was determined to get something out of these two demigods.
Just as he was about to fight desperately, he suddenly heard someone yawn behind him.
"I had a good dream. I dreamt that I killed that little brat Chen Yu and Li Bingxi."
The shadow on Qingchen's back said with a smile.
The world is silent.
It's as if this person, as long as he's awake, is the protagonist of this world, and everything needs to quiet down and listen to him speak.
Chapter 643, Taking Pride in Qing Chen
Shadow had a good dream; he dreamed of Qingchen and his father.
In my dream, he wasn't a shadow, but a worker on a construction team.
My father wasn't the head of the Qing family; he was a foreman for a renovation team.
Qing Chen was not a time traveler sent to the surface world for internal testing, but a seventeen-year-old student with excellent grades who was preparing to apply for Qinghe University.
I heard that a girl wrote a love letter to Qingchen the day before yesterday, but his father found the letter and tore it to shreds, telling him to focus on his studies and not think about anything else.
During the day, Shadow and her father would work as carpenters in the Upper Three Districts, making ceilings and wainscoting for the wealthy.
My father would eat a protein bar and say, "These rich people are so extravagant. They spend so much money renovating a house."
They toiled on the construction site, covered in sawdust and dust, but they didn't have to think about power struggles.
During his breaks, Shadow would sit on the construction site, counting on his fingers, trying to figure out when he could save enough for a down payment on a house in the fifth district.
As his father chopped the planks, he looked at him and asked, "How much more money do you need?"
Shadow laughed and said, "We're still short two hundred thousand. We'll save enough in two more years."
After a long silence, the father said, "I'll lend you 200,000 yuan first, and then deduct it from your salary. Ningxiu has had a tough time too. She could have earned so much money and married a rich man, but instead she's suffering with you. Buy a nice house and move in sooner rather than later, so the whole family of four won't have to squeeze into a small room. I'll still live in the Seventh District with your younger brother, and you and Ningxiu can move there. Give me a grandson soon, and I'll help you take care of him."
Shadow scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "It wasn't easy for you to save up 200,000 yuan. Your younger brother will be taking the college entrance exam next year, and tutoring classes are very expensive."
After thinking for a moment, the father said, "Don't worry, I've worked hard for most of my life, so I still have some savings."