As the black torrent of the Ame-no-Kurokumo sword engulfed the battlefield, Morikawa Ichiro's right arm suddenly exploded in a bloody mist. He stumbled to his knees, only then realizing that his power core had already been pierced by the sword's energy!
"Baga... This is impossible..." He roared, coughing up blood, only to see the tip of Li Yi's sword pressed against his throat. The wind and snow strangely condensed into ice crystals three inches from the blade, as if even the heavens and the earth feared this god-killing weapon.
Suddenly, the sound of a broken pipa string came from the sky.
Li Yi's pupils suddenly shrank, and the sword of Ama-no-Murakumo vibrated automatically, as if reminding Li Yi of something.
Li Yi was also shocked by the strange movement of the knife. It was the first time he saw a weapon with independent consciousness.
“Maybe this is my illusion!”
Then Li Yi denied his idea. He felt that it might be the energy fluctuations around that caused the vibration of the Ame no Murakumo sword.
At this moment, Li Yi felt extremely powerful energy rushing towards him, as fast as rays.
Li Yi stepped back violently on the tiptoes, and the ground he was standing on suddenly cracked into eighteen bottomless gullies - the edges of those cracks were as smooth as mirrors, and they were actually cut by some invisible sharp blade!
"To have driven Ichiro-kun to this point, you truly are..." a lazy female voice drifted down from the clouds, and two figures slowly emerged from the cherry blossom rain. "What a pleasant surprise."
The woman on the left wore a twelve-piece dress and held a bone-white pipa in her arms. Her hair was adorned with three gilded hairpins, each with a human-faced bell dangling from its end—those were clearly the three refined heads of psychics!
The man on the right was clad in a pitch-black ninja outfit, with only the seven short swords hanging from his waist gleaming with different colors. The most striking thing was the shadow beneath his feet—it wasn't a human figure at all, but rather countless entangled, howling spirits.
"The top of the Sakurajima Idiom List is Abe Orisa, the 'Yellow Spring Pipa'." The Pipa girl's fingertips stroked the strings, and suddenly hundreds of skeletal hands stretched out from the cracks in the ground.
"The second place is 'Shadow Devourer' Hattori Kitetsu."
Hattori Kitetsu's shadow suddenly swelled, transforming into a black tide that obscured the sky. Li Yi was shocked to realize that the weight of the Ama-no-Kame Sword in his hand was increasing rapidly—those vengeful spirits were actually gnawing at the sword's god-killing power!
"careful!"
The low roar of the sword spirit was heard in the sea of consciousness.
"Who are you!" Li Yi was shocked to hear this sudden voice.
"I am the spirit of the knife you are holding!" The voice of the knife spirit continued to come in his mind.
Hearing the answer from the sword spirit, Li Yi was so shocked that he almost dropped the sword in his hand.
"What the hell! What the hell is this!" Li Yi exclaimed.
"That woman is playing the 'Song of the Corpse Grove'. She is rewriting the rules of the battlefield!" The sword spirit continued to remind Li Yi.
Before she finished speaking, Abe Orisa plucked the fifth string.
The snow beneath Li Yi's feet suddenly transformed into wriggling flesh, and countless eyeballs surged out from the ground. Even more terrifying, he discovered that the sword energy he released was flowing backwards - this demon woman could actually manipulate the order of cause and effect!
"The sword is a good one, but unfortunately..." Hattori Kitetsu's voice sounded like the overlapping wails of millions of people.
"Today you will become the ghost in my shadow!"
Seven demonic swords were unsheathed simultaneously, and poisonous miasma in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple transformed into giant pythons and pounced. Li Yi swung his sword to shatter two of them, but found that the poisonous mist contaminated his sword energy and turned it against him—these were not physical attacks at all, but curses that directly affected the source of his supernatural powers!
The sword of Ame no Murakumo suddenly burst out with unprecedented black flames.
The memory of the sword spirit is awakening - three hundred years ago, it was this sword that killed Abe Orisa's great-aunt, the great Onmyoji known as the "One Hundred Demons Night Parade"!
"So it's you..."
As if Abe Orisa could sense the energy and thoughts of the sword spirit, her elegant mask finally shattered, and Pipa let out a shrill scream.
"Then use your sword spirit to sacrifice the Abe family's century-old blood curse!"
The entire battlefield suddenly turned upside down, and Li Yi found himself standing on the blood-red moon.
Below was a surging sea of corpses and blood, and countless green-faced, fang-toothed ghosts were climbing towards them in the moonlight.
This is the real killer move of Huangquan Pipa - [Tsukuyomi Huangquan]!
In the real world, Hattori Kitetsu's seven demonic swords formed a swastika seal. His shadow transformed into a gluttonous maw, ready to devour the motionless Li Yi whole...
The voice of the sword soul tore through the illusion: "Boy, let these ants see the real "Yaki"——!"
Eight ferocious sword-like bones suddenly protruded from Li Yi's spine, and the roar of eight giant snakes echoed from the sky. Abe Orisa's pipa strings snapped one after another, and she discovered with horror that her shikigami were collectively rebelling—all of them prostrating themselves in Li Yi's direction!
Eight sword bones on Li Yi's back pierced the sky. Under the blood-red moonlight, ancient snake-shaped inscriptions emerged from each joint. Abe Orisa's pipa wailed piercingly, and the kneeling shikigami suddenly turned their spears, and the green-faced, fang-toothed ghosts pounced on their masters.
"That's impossible!"
Abe Orisa's twelve-piece robe was torn open by the shikigami, revealing her pale skin covered with spells.
She bit her tongue and spurted out a blood mist, drawing a blood-red pentagram in the air: "Those facing the enemy in battle will not be moved by the ten thousand seals—seal!"
The ghost was smashed to pieces in front of the barrier, but Li Yi's sword had already arrived.
The moment the sword Ame Murakumo penetrated the barrier, the snake pupils on the hilt suddenly opened, and Abe Orisa was shocked to find that her spiritual power was being madly drained - this god-killing weapon was devouring the soul of the Onmyoji!
"Ki Tetsu!"
She screamed shrilly.
Hattori Kitetsu's shadow transformed into thousands of tentacles, entangling Li Yi. Seven demonic swords formed a killing array. Suddenly, eight stone snake heads rose from the ground, each holding an illusory sword. Li Yi's pupils had turned vertical, and his voice echoed: "Do you know that Yaqi's appearance requires a blood sacrifice?"
The first virtual sword fell, and Hattori Kitetsu's right arm was severed at the root.
What is horrifying is that the severed arm turned into black ash as soon as it fell to the ground, as if it had been completely erased from the causal level by some existence.
"Yamata no Orochi...you are..."
Abe Orisa suddenly crushed the magatama around her neck, and a giant hand covered with eyes stretched out from the crack in space.
Li Yi sneered and was about to swing his knife to chop off the giant hand.
But he saw that the giant hand's thumb and index finger were holding the dying Fujiwara Ken!
Abe Orisa's whisper echoed across the battlefield: "You people from Huazhen Country are so troublesome."
"Kill...kill...kill her!"
Fujiwara Ken raised his head with his remaining strength and shouted these words towards Li Yi.
When Li Yi saw Fujiwara Ken's appearance at this time, he was shocked.
Now Fujiwara Ken's eyes have turned blank.
It was like going through some kind of ritual.
With a "swish", in just a moment, the index finger and thumb of the giant hand were instantly cut off. Not only that, the entire giant hand was cut off at the same time.
After the giant hand was cut off, bursts of black smoke emanated from the cut, and at the same time, bursts of miserable wails came from the countless eyes on the giant hand.
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