"This is impossible! You're just a third-tier cultivator, how could you possibly summon such a being! I can't even do that at fourth-tier!" The woman in the kimono exclaimed in horror.
"Hehehe... What are you to dare to compare yourself to me?"
Devour them, you gluttonous beast!
Upon receiving the command, the Taotie suddenly stretched out its massive, rotten flesh hand that blotted out the sky and viciously grabbed at the Tengu and Shuten-dōji.
Karasu Tengu and Shuten-dōji naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait to die; they both unleashed their strongest attacks to defend against Taotie's Hand.
A storm of crows!
The tengu let out a cry similar to that of a crow, and then suddenly flapped its wings, sending countless jet-black feathers shooting out from them.
Transforming into a sky full of black crows, they launched a suicidal attack on the Taotie.
Shuten-dōji!
Shuten-dōji's moves were simple and brutal. His veins bulged all over his body as he raised his sake gourd and smashed it down.
The two men's attacks raged across Taotie's arms, instantly splattering blood and flesh, leaving it riddled with holes.
However, it was all in vain. The power of the attack was completely absorbed into Taotie's arm, and his injuries were healed in the blink of an eye.
The Taotie's strength never lay in its defense, or rather, it had no defense at all.
On the other side, even the lowest-level snakes and insects could easily devour the flesh and blood of the Taotie in its true form, which shows how strong its defenses are.
But Taotie never needs to defend itself; it only needs to devour. Anything and any attack can be devoured and turned into its own nourishment.
The phantom of the Taotie withstood the attacks of the two, firmly grasped them in its hand, and then threw them into the giant maw of the abyss.
Click, click...
Karasu Tengu, Shuten-dōji... died!
Pfft!
The woman in the kimono suddenly turned pale and vomited blood, clearly suffering a backlash from the shikigami.
"We can't fight them head-on, run!"
The moment the word "escape" was uttered, the woman in the kimono froze on the spot, because she realized that Miyamoto Fujiji had already disappeared.
It turned out that when they realized the situation was not good, they had run away without saying a word.
The woman in the kimono stopped cursing and turned to run away.
If the facts weren't right in front of her, she would never have believed that two fourth-tier powerhouses could be defeated by a third-tier spirit master.
This is simply a fantasy.
They found it incredible, but Fang Xiu only found it boring.
They're too weak. These two fourth-tier islanders are far inferior to the captain of headquarters.
Fang Xiu had a clear understanding of his own strength. When using Pain Manifestation, he could deal with ordinary fourth-tier opponents without any problem. After all, he hadn't died for nothing by being killed by the Ghost God so many times.
By leveraging his status as a deity, he gained the power to challenge opponents of higher levels.
However, for a fourth-tier peak like the headquarters captain, the outcome of a real fight is still uncertain.
It mainly depends on its own spirituality. Similar to the Taotie, a strange god can only be summoned in a battle, and it does not exist for a long time, otherwise its spirituality will be exhausted.
Furthermore, in battles between spirit masters, the outcome often depends not on who possesses more spiritual power, but on the unpredictability, application, and counterplay of their abilities. This is the key to victory.
Logically speaking, a Spirit Master who can be sent to represent an island nation as an ambassador should at least be close to the peak of the fourth rank, if not the peak of the fourth rank.
But these two are only at the early stage of the fourth tier.
Fang Xiu speculated that this might be related to the small size of the island nation.
After all, the purpose of the supernatural is to eat people, so naturally, the more people there are, the more supernatural things there will be.
Although the island nation has a high population density, its numbers are still far fewer than those of the Xia Kingdom. If 10,000 people attract one strange creature, then the Xia Kingdom has more than ten times the number of strange creatures as the island nation.
And as long as they can withstand more bizarre invasions, the local spirit masters will naturally become stronger.
Fang Xiu watched the fleeing woman in the kimono, and with a thought, he withdrew the phantom images of his wife and the Taotie.
With his current strength, he cannot recklessly support the two of them appearing for an extended period of time.
In just a short while, his spiritual energy has been mostly depleted.
However, this level of spiritual power is enough to deal with the woman in the kimono. A summoner who has lost their summoned creature is not very strong.
As for Miyamoto Touji, he seemed to be extremely sensitive to killing intent, and he fled the moment the Taotie appeared.
The woman in the kimono ran on the ground, while Fang Xiu flew in the sky, waving wings made of black flames.
He had just gotten some inspiration from the tengu, and it was time to put it to the test.
With a thought, Fang Xiu's black flame wings on his back suddenly trembled, and tens of thousands of flames shot out, transforming into black crows made of black flames.
The black crows seemed to come alive, frantically flapping their wings and flying towards the woman in the kimono.
The woman in the kimono caught a glimpse of the black fire crow behind her out of the corner of her eye, and was immediately terrified. She hurriedly summoned her last remaining shikigami.
This refers to the bandaged monster who helped Miyamoto Touji heal his injuries.
The bandaged monster appeared out of thin air and stood in front of tens of thousands of fire crows.
Bandages shot out from various parts of its body, dancing wildly and entangling countless fire crows.
However, this black fire crow is not an ordinary flame, but the flame that was worn on the primordial mask, a flame that can burn with spiritual energy.
The foundation of any ability is spirituality, and the ability to ignite spirituality means pointing directly to the source of that ability.
No matter how bizarre the bandaged monster's abilities are, they are nothing more than derivatives of spirituality.
As the black flames burned, the bandages on his body were instantly ignited, and his body transformed into a human torch.
It was eventually burned to the ground.
As the bandaged monster died, the woman in the kimono was suddenly struck by a severe blow, vomited a mouthful of blood, and collapsed to the ground.
Fang Xiu retracted the black fire crow and nodded in satisfaction.
He found this trick quite useful, much better than directly spraying flames. The fire crow could flap its wings and change direction, greatly increasing its agility.
However, he didn't like the name "Crows Storm".
He pondered for a moment.
"Crow burial!"
Fang Xiu finally decided on the name of this move: to bury the enemy with black fire crows, hence the name Crow Burial.
Suddenly, he slowly descended from the sky, and the wings formed from black flames vanished instantly, along with all the black flames surging into the Primal Mask.
Immediately afterwards, the original mask disappeared, revealing a calm, fair human face.
Her long silver hair slowly turned back into short black hair, and her heterochromatic eyes, one red and one black, were restored.
Tap tap tap...
Fang Xiu walked step by step toward the heavily injured woman in the kimono who had collapsed to the ground.
At this moment, her face was deathly pale, and blood soaked a patch of her chest, making her large breasts stand out even more.
This kind of magnanimity doesn't quite match her baby face; it creates a kind of incongruous and unconventional beauty.
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