Sky Dog Eating the Moon

If you have a bright moon in the sky, then let the Sky Dog Eating the Moon.

In the sky, the bright moon was suddenly shrouded in a shadow.

No wonder the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord was so confident. After learning about Shen Shuibi's background in Mount Luofu, he became even more determined to come.

This is the origin of his 'title'.

He is the natural nemesis of the Dao Lineage of the Sun and Moon Path; his true form is called "Heavenly Dog".

What is a celestial dog?

The star has hair, with short comets beside it, and dog-shaped ones below. There are meteors in the four directions, with a jar in front and a firelight behind, and thunder throughout the sky. At the spring equinox, there is a sound like thunder but not thunder, the sound is in the earth. Wherever it resides, war will break out and its master will rise up. There is thunder without clouds, and it is called "Heavenly Dog".

Famine struck the area, the people suffered from disease and plague, and many officials died.

The divination indicated. "A celestial dog has fallen; beneath it lies a corpse, bleeding profusely."

A poem says:

The gates of Bianzhou remained closed to the emperor; the sound of a celestial dog falling to earth was like thunder.

The brave soldiers vied to boast of killing Liu Hou, and the houses and buildings were burned to ashes.

The feudal lords, though close at hand, could not offer aid; how could a lone scholar possibly lament his plight?

The so-called "heavenly dog" is not a type of dog, but a demon that looks like a dog.

He is covered in hair and has a short comet tail. He often walks in the sky, surrounded by shooting stars. Wherever he goes, there are flashes of fire and thunder. Wherever he goes, there will be thunder even without clouds. Wherever he lands, famine, war, and plague will begin to spread.

Corresponding to such evil spirits is a mythical beast called the Heavenly Dog, but clearly, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord is not a mythical beast.

He is a complete and utter demon.

As the gigantic maw appeared, two points of light appeared in the endless void, like stars and fire, flowing from the southeast. Their tails were like trailing brooms, rumbling loudly, with blazing flames and a bright, glowing appearance, shaped like a dog's head.

The rabbit in the distance and Li Qi, who was watching the battle from within the Sacred Flame Realm, both frowned at the same time, and then exchanged a glance through the communication interface created by the formation.

"With these characteristics, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord's origins are... the Heavenly Dog?" Li Qi recognized it.

At this moment, Li Qi was in his cave abode in the Sacred Flame Realm. Here, through the Human Path terminal, he used a water curtain to stay beside the rabbit.

Going in person would only cause trouble. It's better to watch from here and offer some advice to the rabbit, since he does have some knowledge.

The rabbit recognized it immediately, nodding and saying, "It is indeed a Tengu. I am severely restrained by it."

Although she said this, she did not stop. Instead, she formed a hand Method Formula, and the bright moon behind her broke through, revealing a Dharma image.

Beneath the Dharma image, all other lights dimmed, except for the bright moon, which hung like a mirror. The frosty sky was exceptionally clear, and the light moved with the wind, shining brightly and perfectly, without flaw or deficiency, just as the primordial energy had been separated and the two polarities were first distinguished.

Li Qi immediately replied, "I will begin the sacrifice right away. The Child of Destiny is also ready. He has over a million men under his command, and we will all participate in the sacrifice together."

Yes, that's what they planned.

Although Li Qi could not directly participate in the battle, as the son of Wushen Mountain and a Shaman, his forte was not direct combat, but rather staying far away and performing rituals and incantations.

Shen Shuibi attacked head-on, while Li Qi kept the enemy at a distance.

As the rabbit's form rose, the process of the Sky Dog Eating the Moon was forced to stop, and the bright moon, which had been half-hidden by darkness, shone again.

"A mere trick." Hundreds of millions of miles away, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord shook his head slightly and said to the Green Mountain God, "Mountain God, please take the vanguard of the legion and first slaughter the Sacred Flame Realm. Leave this person to me to hold her back; she will never leave even half a step."

"Leave it to me." The Green Mountain God nodded, then let out a long roar, and all the million Demon Soldiers crawled toward the body of the tiger avatar, swarming onto it.

The tiger statue is hundreds of miles tall, so it can easily support a million people.

Then a golden wind blew up, and the Green Mountain God left this place and rushed towards the Sacred Flame Realm!

Anyway, the long road that the bright moon had previously formed has been destroyed by the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord, and now there is a smooth road ahead!

On the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord's side, he remained calm and composed, his hands and feet still, but the Dao aura around him kept flashing, and the giant mouth in the void had revealed its true form.

This is his Dharma image.

A strange object, resembling a star, yet also like a vicious dog.

It bared its teeth and grinned, as if a catastrophe was constantly occurring around it. In the boundless darkness, streaks of crimson appeared, illuminating billions of miles. Stars fell continuously from all directions, and blood rained down without ceasing. Countless meteors fell on its body with a sound like thunder!

This Dharma image opens its blood-red maw, faintly emanating an infinite power of devouring, as if it could swallow the moon and crush the sun!

The rabbit frowned slightly and quickly retreated.

The Sky Dog Eating the Moon is too much for her to handle. Rather than confronting it head-on, it's better to retreat and avoid its sharp edge.

Why avoid their sharp edge?

Of course, we'll wait for Li Qi to make his move.

At this moment, Li Qi gave a command to Gaga, and then, inside the cave abode, he swung his hammer and smashed it onto the gong.

The sacrificial ceremony begins!

He used Spirit Guardian methods.

Spirit Guardian is a divine shaman.

The ability to guide spirits to sacred sites, summon local deities, drive away plagues, and dispel misfortune is a special kind of Shaman that communicates with Shaman and a diviner, but it is not a traditional Shaman.

Ancient books record:

The Nine Songs says, "Think of the Spirit Guardian the virtuous and beautiful."

The Book of Rites states: "The Fangxiangshi is in charge of wielding spears and shields, leading a hundred servants to drive away plagues," and has the ability to "smash demons, brush away wandering lights, shackle celestial dogs, and bind grave sheep."

The Tengu is the power that Li Qi wants to obtain. Through Spirit Guardian's means, he wants to receive the power from the High Antiquity deity 'Fangxiang'.

At this moment, they saw the area where Gaga was located within the Sacred Flame Realm.

Gaga commanded the many soldiers to perform this strange ritual together.

The immortal instructed them to form groups of one, three, or five, to dress up as gods, ghosts, judges, and other such figures, and to beat gongs and drums along the streets. This was called "Dahyehu." He also instructed them that "the gong beaters should be loud, the shouters should be loud, and the musicians should play music in a lively manner."

Looking inside the Sacred Flame Realm, the soldiers beat two drums and gongs, each holding a different type of gong, and beat them all along the way, creating a lively scene. Wherever the horses went, the sound of gongs shook the heavens!

Li Qi also started banging the gong.

Beating gongs and drums to drive away the celestial dog is a long-standing custom, and there are, of course, reasons behind it.

The reason is simple: it really works.

The power from Fang Xiang was presented to Li Qi after being performed by countless mortals within the Gaga territory.

In the Sacred Flame Realm —everyone saw it: a bright moon suddenly rose, creating a spectacular sight of the sun and moon appearing in the same sky, even though it was daytime.

This was Li Qi's masterpiece. By utilizing Shen Shuibi's power, he used rituals to entrust the 'symbol' given to him by Shen Shuibi to the local Heavenly Dao of the Sacred Flame Realm.

In this way, Shen Shuibi can receive sacrifices from the Sacred Flame Realm through this moon.

The methods of Shaman are unpredictable and extremely strange. This is Dao Lineage can kill people by making straw figures. This ability to use symbols to transfer certain powers is a hallmark of Shaman.

The sacrifice, in which a million people participated, brought a trace of the power of the celestial being.

Without hesitation, Li Qi offered this wisp of Fang Xiang's power to Shen Shuibi through a sacrificial ceremony.

Shen Shuibi was parrying and dodging her opponent's attacks.

The two sides are separated by hundreds of millions of miles, and the key to the battle is prediction and combat proficiency, not reaction time.

In a battle fought from a distance, each attack can take anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes to land. Therefore, close-quarters combat, with its rapid-fire attacks and relentless close-quarters battles, is unlikely to occur on this type of battlefield.

Both sides resembled spiders, or perhaps they were playing chess.

There was no intense, heated battle, no scene of one-hit kills and both sides blasting each other apart.

But every attack is a strategic move, or a carefully laid net, gradually blocking all of the opponent's escape routes.

Every action is designed to deplete the opponent's 'room for maneuver,' gradually sealing off all possible escape routes and all possible escape paths through advance prediction and calculation.

I just don't know who the prey is.

Because eventually, the prey will have nowhere to escape, and one person will lose all room to maneuver and find that no matter what they do or how they react, they are doomed to die.

At that point, the losing side will find that some attacks from minutes or even tens of minutes ago have slowly flown to their previously calculated escape route, turning it into a dead end.

Or there is another option: to simply escape before the net is completely blocked, fleeing far away and disappearing without a trace.

This is why Shen Shuibi said that if the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord wanted to escape, it would be difficult for her to catch him.

In this kind of battle, if the other side wants to retreat before their retreat route is blocked, it cannot be stopped. Since they are already separated by hundreds of millions of miles, unless the difference in strength is too great, or the other side has planned ahead and laid an ambush, no one will usually die.

Both sides are meticulously setting up their own "nets." Skilled players will gradually accumulate their advantages and eventually cut off all of their opponent's escape routes before they can shout "checkmate."

Tens of thousands of Technique Method had been launched, their destinations unknown. In the boundless void, apart from the first two moves exchanged between the two sides, there were no further direct clashes.

The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord was not impatient. Only those who had just entered the outer realms and were at the fifth rank would be eager to decide the outcome of a battle. This was originally a protracted war, and it was normal for it to last for three to five days.

The Green Mountain God has already set off. The other side either ignores it, which would be tantamount to handing over the Sacred Flame Realm to them, or they will have to go back to rescue it.

When attempting a rescue, there will inevitably be actions involved, and once actions are taken, there will certainly be weaknesses revealed.

So he slowly and steadily cast different Technique Method, calculating their landing points to make Technique Method fly slowly through the endless realm.

If even one percent of these Technique Method are effective, the opponent will suffer actual damage.

At the same time, he was constantly observing Shen Shuibi's movements, judging her interruptions, and constantly adjusting his position or using Technique Method to intercept her attacks in order to avoid falling into her trap.

Every minute and every second, both sides are performing a massive amount of calculations, analyzing each other's paths, and predicting each other's predictions. The more one calculates than the other, the greater the chance of winning.

However... rabbits are never afraid of humans when it comes to calculations.

The Sky Swallowing Demon Lord was conducting his calculations when he saw a dozen or so Bagua plates arranged around the rabbit.

These were her frequently used items. In the cave in Mount Luofu, Li Qi had also touched many of her private collections, which contained many videos from the Mount Luofu period. It was because of this that Li Qi was pulled into a similar illusion by the Heavenly Demon.

These Bagua compasses were arranged around her, through which massive amounts of data passed and were calculated. After Shen Shuibi checked them once, she immediately applied them to the battle.

Both sides are making strategic moves.

But at that moment, Shen Shuibi suddenly sensed a small amount of power, but of high quality.

"Fang Xiang Spirit Qi is here..." She took it and leaned forward, rushing towards the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord in an instant.

She had already used Technique Method to set up tens of thousands of mirrors in front of her, and now, using the 'Mirror Flower Water Moon' technique, she suddenly accelerated to an unbelievable speed!

Through pre-arranged methods, she used countless mirrors to teleport, and her forward speed exploded to more than five hundred times the Heavenly Way Limit!

This is part of the overall plan.

In these kinds of battles fought outside our territory, it's all about strategic planning.

On the other side, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord's expression changed.

Wow, that's fast, but... it will still take a few seconds for it to get here.

A few seconds is enough.

Sure enough, those harmless Technique Method she had noticed earlier were actually channels she had set up to facilitate faster progress later.

Although it is unknown what the Daoists are doing getting close, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord has already taken all of this into account.

The tengu let out a loud shout, then exhaled a foul odor, from which a buzzing sound could be heard.

As the celestial dog called out, an endless stream of locusts appeared!

The locusts are a scourge, born from foul air, hence their stench and stench.

But then the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord chanted. "The world is plagued by locusts, which have not been eradicated for years. When they move, they cover the ground; when they rise, they cover the sky. Crops and vegetation are left barren and desolate."

Where the celestial dog falls, famine and plague will occur; manipulating locusts is also one of his Divine Ability.

But these locusts, each one as hard as iron, reflecting light, the smallest being the size of a human head, flapped their wings and flew toward Shen Shuibi's inevitable path.

Within those few seconds, the locusts had already crashed into Shen Shuibi.

When locusts move, they cover the ground; when they rise, they cover the sky. They have the ability to block out light and can block Shen Shuibi's path. After all, the magic of Mirror Flower Water Moon actually requires 'light' as a medium.

This is the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord's plan.

But at that moment, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord's Dharma form tilted, staggered, and his ears shattered, and blood began to flow from the ears of his true body!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Everyone else felt nothing, but the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord felt a deafening roar in his ears! It ruptured his eardrums, causing blood to flow freely.

Sacrifice! This is a sacrificial ceremony using the method of banging gongs to drive away the celestial dog! And it actually borrows the Fang Xiang Spirit Qi, otherwise it would not have such power.

I was careless; this is Shaman Path! She has accomplices?

But he immediately realized what was happening and quickly reassembled the Dharma image.

This kind of sacrifice can only cause him minor injuries and make him feel uncomfortable; he hasn't lost the ability to resist yet.

However, in that short moment of distraction, Shen Shuibi had already passed the locusts and arrived in front of the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord.

She made a hand Hand Seals and slapped it onto his body.

A raging fire broke out!

Five Revolutions Gathering Yang, Five Qi Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, blowing on the natural true fire.

This is the Alchemy Fire that Shen Shuibi uses to refine medicine!

With a deafening roar, the Sky Swallowing Demon Lord burst into flames!