The Appearance!

With the blessing of the Mindless Divine Power, all sorts of Phantom Object traced graceful trajectories as they pierced the body of the Yamata no Orochi. The sixteen eyes, which were being targeted, were given no chance to recover before being pierced again.

The wildly waving snake head spewed out all sorts of energy, turning the world into chaos. Even Phantom Object couldn't withstand the corrosive power of that strange force, withering and collapsing.

But Feng Xue didn't care about the loss at all. All the Phantom Object in front of him were just random products he mass-produced. He didn't even look at their attributes. The combination of [Item Master] and [Make the Best Use of Everything] could even use ordinary Miscellaneous Item as Phantom Object. When facing real Phantom Object, it could unleash power beyond the limit.

The only pity is that he couldn't control the types of Phantom Object, so some of the buff-type Phantom Object were also thrown out.

"If only I had a fantasy collapse ability," Feng Xue muttered regretfully. However, faced with such a massive Weird Tale at this moment, Feng Xue simply didn't have time for precise manipulation.

Just like farmers cultivating the land, if they only have a small plot of land, they will naturally cultivate it intensively to squeeze out every bit of its potential in order to produce more grain. However, if they have a large plot of land, without hiring manpower or using more advanced farming tools, they can only choose to cultivate it extensively and try to maximize the cultivated area.

Meanwhile, Yamata no Orochi, seemingly still under the control of the Hundred Tales, was trying to cope with the torrential downpour; its ever-expanding body began to shrink instead.

When Feng Xue leaped seventy meters into the air using the Phantom Object, the giant Snake Pupil, which were already over a hundred meters long, were now level with his.

The Snake Pupil, which flickered like ghostly blue flames, shot out a venomous light. Even Feng Xue dared not be careless at this moment. The golden cloak behind him suddenly unfolded and flapped vigorously as if it were alive, which made Feng Xue's figure grow taller in an instant.

The Yellow Robe Eighteen Falls technique is essentially a skill that integrates the cloak into the body. For Feng Xue, it's not impossible to temporarily fly using this cloak.

Avoiding the Snake Pupil rays, he suddenly reached in and pulled out a camera, which instantly appeared in the sight of countless viewers.

This is the famous spearman, Abe no Hirakiri Ya!

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Two gunshots rang out in quick succession, Yamata no Orochi let out a mournful cry. Although it had been shot in the head, a hole suddenly exploded in the area where its heart should have been.

The filthy blood splattered into the sky like a volcanic eruption, as if it would stain the sun and moon in the sky as well.

"You can always believe in death!"

Seeing the Yamata no Orochi no Orochi fall, Feng Xue suddenly realized something, but he was not careless at all, because he could see that the Supernatural Tale Fire had been extinguished instantly reignited.

He wasn't mistaken; it wasn't just flickering, but truly burning again after it had been extinguished.

Without a doubt, this is a power of [resurrection].

However, the Yamata no Orochi, whose Supernatural Tale Fire had been reignited, did not rise to continue its attack. It lay prostrate on the ground as if it were truly dead, its foul blood flowing down its eight heads, turning into a murky red stream that polluted the Takama-ga-hara, a place that should have possessed a touch of divinity. The sinister power spread along the earth, staining the surrounding land with a thick curse.

Feng Xue waved his cloak, floating in the air, and looked at the giant snake that was "playing dead." A strange feeling arose in his heart. Then, he took out a full bottle, intending to go all out and put the [consciousness] of the Yamata no Orochi into the Kamen Rider System.

The purple and black mixed [consciousness] detached from the Yamata no Orochi no Orochi and poured into the empty full bottle in Feng Xue's hand, transforming into eight ferocious dragon Dragon Head that coiled around the bottle. However, even after the bottle was completely filled, the Yamata no Orochi no Orochi showed no sign of moving, and the raging Supernatural Tale Fire did not weaken in the slightest.

"What's going on?"

Confused, Feng Xue looked at the Yamata no Orochi pretending to be dead. After a moment's thought, she decided to ignore it and instead looked up and rushed towards the huge scroll in the sky.

Without a doubt, this Night Parade of a Hundred Demons Picture is the foundation of the Hundred Tales. If it is destroyed, the Hundred Tales's decades of accumulation will be destroyed in an instant.

With this in mind, Feng Xue took out a bag of chocolates, activated her [Make the Best Use of Everything] power, and connected the "ghost" in "fighting ghosts" with the "ghost" in "The Night Parade of a Hundred Demons Picture". As she scattered a handful of chocolate beans like a rain of flowers, before the chocolates hit, the scroll depicting thousands of Weird Tale spontaneously combusted.

Illuminated by the leaping flames, the scroll fell rapidly. Feng Xue used her [Plunder] power, but only managed to grab a phantom.

The [cling Preservative Film ghosts] was thrown out by him, but it did not stop any matter. Instead, it was easily burned through by the flames, just like ordinary plastic film.

The burning Night Parade of a Hundred Demons Picture landed on the Yamata no Orochi, and the flesh and blood in its belly, which had a rotten-like color, began to writhe. The phantoms of demons rose and fell, as if people who had been forcibly sealed with a sheet of latex were trying to break free.

In Feng Xue's vision, the once raging Supernatural Tale Fire suddenly began to split—one, two, three...

At the same time, a faint and desolate voice echoed between heaven and earth.

"A slippery demon, a fallen guest god, who likes to enter other people's homes and freeload..."

A cold, emotionless voice narrated a short tale of a yokai, and as the story was told, the phantom of an old man with a huge head appeared above the flesh and blood of the Yamata no Orochi.

Seeing this scene, Feng Xue immediately realized that this might be the revival of all the Weird Tale the Hundred Tales, so she immediately took out a bullet and loaded it into Abe no Hirakiri Ya.

The limitation of this gun is that it can only fire two shots at each target of higher status. However, he had previously used the Choice Cane and joined the Hundred Tales faction. By betraying them, he became known as a "traitor to Hundred Tales".

As everyone knows, a traitor is the lowest of the low.

In other words, every member of the Hundred Tales is above him in status!

In other words, anyone who hasn't been shot by him with this gun will die instantly upon eating it!

Just as he was smugly waiting for the Nurarihyon to revive and shoot him twice, the flames went out.

"Resurrection failed?" Feng Xue frowned slightly, but then, Kamaitachi, Sea Monk, Kyuumei Neko, Inugami...

Each Weird Tale was recited in the simplest of tales, and as each phantom appeared, the flames went out.

One flame after another vanished, and one after another, the phantoms disintegrated.

Feng Xue finally vaguely realized something, but at this moment, he didn't even have any means to stop it. He could only watch quietly as the Supernatural Tale Fire of the Yamata no Orochi burned down to just a tiny wisp.

As dawn approached, the quiet, somber voice that had been murmuring all night finally uttered its final story of the night—

"Legend has it that after lighting one hundred candles, you tell Weird Tale, blowing out one candle after each story. The moment all the candles are extinguished, a monster will appear."

A cold wind swept through, and the already thoroughly polluted Takama-ga-hara collapsed. The corpse of the Yamata no Orochi burst into flames. A barefoot woman wearing a demon mask and a blue kimono appeared in mid-air. She reached out and removed the demon mask from her face, and bowed slightly to Feng Xue's still-functioning drone...

Why is it that the Hundred Tales, spanning decades, is less significant than the protagonist's few years?

First, there's the foundation. All Hundred Tales are role-playing Weird Tale, characterized by mass production. They can produce a large number of Weird Tale, but their very nature makes them difficult to digest. Moreover, because of the animistic Group Supernatural Tale, Hundred Tales basically lacks human characteristics. Their non-human images create a fixed impression. Even if you add settings, it's just adding elements like Kuzunoha, Inari, and Amaterasu's servants to Tamamo-no-Mae. It's difficult to create new characters like humans do with Weird Tale.

Secondly, there's the issue of dissemination. The protagonist travels to the end of 2012, a time before Alipay was widespread, and Self-Media platforms like live streaming and Short Video were just emerging. While Hundred Tales could enjoy its own niche, its global reach could only be achieved through the slow, gradual erosion of culture, not to mention the added obstacles from the resistance forces in the Eastern Kingdom. The anime, comics, and games (ACG) culture of the Eastern Kingdom based on yokai (supernatural creatures) in the book was largely driven by Hundred Tales, but without a sufficiently developed internet, that was about all it amounted to.

Finally, there's the issue of expansion. Because they're not like humans, even if they travel to other worlds through the Tower of Babel, it's difficult for them to promote themselves from a similar perspective like Feng Xue did. The setting has to be left to humans to guess, so the speed is naturally slow.

Hundred Tales is clearly aware of its disadvantages, so it has made many efforts, including mentioning Another Kamen Rider, moe culture, and anthropomorphism in the book. However, the problems are deeply entrenched and difficult to overcome, so it can only suppress other Kamen Riders to maintain its own advantages.

To put it bluntly, Hundred Tales isn't the kind of ultimate boss who's the strongest in every aspect like in traditional Webnovel. Instead, he's a boss who pioneered a path but went astray and is now in decline. If Feng Xue had traveled back ten years earlier, she probably wouldn't have been able to defeat him.