Palace That Suppresses Shikigami

Kamishiro Yunwu is dead.

The chosen one of his generation, the genius Onmyoji on whom the Kamishiro Family placed their hopes, thus perished in the Outer World.

The playing card stuck in his chest, stained with blood, still silently mocked him.

However, his death was not as shocking as the phrase "kneel down".

The Onmyoji, whose lineage has been passed down for over a thousand years, held the authority for the Kamishiro Family.

Every spring, the Onmyoji Grand Festival at the shrine is held under the cherry blossoms, where shikigami (spirits) dance to worship the gods.

Although Onmyoji have rarely participated in wars within the Federation in the past, everyone knows how powerful Onmyoji are; they are the origin of the Kamishiro Family.

However, it is this mysterious and ancient tradition.

Those are the hidden yet powerful shikigami.

Incredibly, a mere mortal knelt down, and he actually knelt in the grandest form of worship, the "dogeza" (僡輝).

Humble.

Respectful.

Not far away, Kamishiro Yunjue stood there dumbfounded. The shock he felt at that moment was even greater than when someone had just snapped the blade of his sword with a finger.

He felt a dark tide pounding against his heart, which was as hard as a rock.

Kamishiro Yunye stared intently, no longer feeling any pain in the arm that had been cut in two by the playing cards.

He felt that something inside him was collapsing, and that it was no longer so sacred.

Something sacred, with this kneeling, also knelt down.

How could there be beings in this world that are naturally able to counter shikigami?!

On the rooftop terrace, Kamishiro Kongxu murmured, "Brother Yunluo, what's going on?"

Kamishiro Yunluo looked down at the mortal realm below. "Kamishiro Unichi sent back a message saying that someone is able to intimidate shikigami. I was wondering if it was just an excuse for his defeat, but it turns out it's true. Such a person must not be allowed to live in this world. He will destroy the foundation of Onmyoji, the foundation called 'Source'."

Kamishiro Kongxu's expression was resolute. "Brother Yunluo, let me make the move."

Kamishiro Yunluo shook her head. "Don't worry, someone will step in. But not now, this sword is still useful."

In fact, everything Qing Chen did was extremely extreme.

Jingūji Maki's blood aura only had a range of ten meters, and under the influence of the Mirage Tower, he couldn't see where Kamishiro Yunwu and the shikigami were at all.

You can only use your hearing.

So he charged forward without hesitation, rushing across the hundreds of meters between them with a do-or-die attitude, and only when he was within ten meters did he say the word "kneel down".

Everything was done flawlessly, and everyone thought that it was the word "kneel down" that made the shikigami kneel down, but that wasn't the case.

What ultimately brought them to their knees was Xiao Zhenji's blood.

However, Qing Chen made everyone believe that it was his decree that had achieved his goal.

From then on, he would be a thorn in the side of the Kamishiro Family, while Jingūji Maki could continue to live a peaceful life.

That's enough.

That's the role of a master.

However, at that moment, a sudden change occurred.

After Kamishiro Yunwu died, the three ownerless shikigami seemed to have sensed something and turned into wisps of red smoke that entered Qing Chen's wrist.

The unseen crimson mark on Qing Chen's wrist held an unparalleled allure for the shikigami.

They followed the bloodstains on his wrist into Qing Chen's body, rushing towards Qing Chen mind, searching for the divine bridge that should exist.

The real Sacred Bridge.

Seeing this scene.

The Kamishiro Yunluo above the sky also frowned, no longer as calm as before.

He stared intently at Qing Chen: "Ordinary people have no place to belong in their minds, and simply cannot withstand the backlash from shikigami! Forcibly taking in shikigami will only result in death!"

After the three shikigami entered Qing Chen's mind, they discovered that Reagan!

There is no place to return to here!

The mirage ship began to shake and tremble. The Shadow Woman let out a shrill wail in Qing Chen's mind, and the Snow Woman waved her hand, trying to freeze all the consciousness here.

Shikigami are all manifestations of the spirits and wills of living beings after their deaths, and these three shikigami are all vengeful spirits.

When they begin to lose their minds, all that resentment almost destroys the world.

Qing Chen felt his mind was in complete chaos, and he even lost his balance, half-kneeling on the ground.

Under the neon lights of the long street, Kamishiro Yunjue keenly sensed something amiss. "Make your move!"

He bent down and sheathed his sword.

It was like a sculpture, all its strength and spirit gathered into the scabbard along with the broken sword.

Draw your sword and strike, then calm your mind!

"Kill!" Kamishiro Yunjue roared, his entire body slamming into Qing Chen like a cannonball. The hilt of the sword he was gripping sprang up from the scabbard, and a silver streak burst forth from the scabbard.

When the katana was drawn, the broken edge was somehow restored by a silver light!

At this moment, Qing Chen's consciousness was still being entangled by the three shikigami.

Hearing the wind, he instinctively tried to dodge, but the drowsiness in his mind prevented him from exerting his full strength.

The first strike from Kamishiro Yunjue left another dense bloodstain on his chest. The intense pain made him instinctively take a few steps back, but his unbalanced body staggered and half-knelt on the ground.

But the blade's momentum did not stop.

Drawing the sword, using iaido, and Kishare Gomen —this is a set of techniques for consecutive kills.

In the usual island nation's swordsmanship, iaido means drawing the sword, but in the Kamishiro family's swordsmanship, iaido means sheathing the sword.

Drawing a sword requires speed, precision, and ruthlessness; it's about using the unparalleled force of its unsheathing to slay the enemy. (Gu)

Iaido emphasizes the decisiveness of sheathing the sword; once the sword is sheathed, the person must die.

At this moment, the gleaming katana had already slashed back, but Qing Chen was still not awake.

If this continues, he will die.

Qing Chen felt the volatile energy of the shikigami in his mind.

He cannot die yet.

No one knows what price a knight would be willing to pay for his apprentice!

Qing Chen not only has to help Jingūji Maki clear her name.

Not only must the god of war be killed to collect interest.

We must return alive.

The little girl, standing on the Ferris wheel amidst the backdrop of fireworks, tearfully said that her grandmother told her there must still be things worth looking forward to in her life.

The little girl began to look forward to it from that time on. She would press her face against the window in winter, looking through the thick and distant snow, wondering when the thing she was looking forward to would come.

Now she has finally waited for something worth looking forward to in her life. This wonderful thing that she has been waiting for for nine years cannot be so short.

At the critical moment, Qing Chen's loud roar echoed in his mind, "Enough! Get inside, all of you!"

The shadow woman was wailing pitifully when she suddenly found a magnificent palace pressing down on her.

The palace suddenly opened its three large doors, and from the dark doors, an unparalleled suction force pulled all three shikigami inside.

Boom!

The three doors closed again, and Qing Chen's mind returned to calm.

Those three shikigami were actually suppressed by the Memory Palace!

The katana has arrived.

As Kamishiro Yunjue his knife nearby, he suddenly noticed that the thug who had been kneeling on the ground in a daze had somehow pulled out a black sniper rifle.

Irritable!

Roar!

The 12.7 caliber bullet spins in the barrel, and the precise rifling makes it go completely crazy!

The man Kamishiro Yunjue, had his heart shattered at such close range.

With his speed, if it weren't for this full-force sword draw, he would have had a good chance to dodge the projectile.

He didn't expect Qing Chen to take out a sniper rifle with him, nor did he expect Qing Chen to use this ultra-long-range anti-material sniper rifle as a close-range artillery!

Tonight was supposed to be a hunt, but it ended with two of the three chosen ones dead and one injured.

No.

It's not over yet.

The true hunter is always the most patient.

With the death of Kamishiro Yunjue, the one who borrowed the knife was going to destroy it.

Just as Kamishiro Yunjue died, a blade flashed behind Qing Chen, who was kneeling on one side!

The blade's momentum was as long as an inverted Milky Way, as if the riverbed of the Milky Way in the sky had burst its banks, and a waterfall was rushing down.

Kishare Gomen!

But what went towards the silver waterfall was not Qing Chen's body, but a wall of earth several feet high that rolled up after the ground suddenly turned into sand!

Blade flash!

Smoke and dust!

Mixed together, they collided with deadly intent.

The chosen one, Kamishiro Yunxiu, unleashed a silver blade over ten meters long, its power as fleeting as a glimpse of autumn sunlight, cleaving the earthen wall in two as it hung upside down.

It struck Qing Chen.

Fortunately, the earthen wall was sturdy, and the force of the blade only knocked Qing Chen back more than ten feet, without destroying his life force.

Qing Chen looked up and was shocked to see words on the earthen wall.

"The Pledge of Allegiance, +1!"

For a moment, Qing Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Zard could always be so irreverent.

As he pondered, the earthen wall grew again, firmly locking the burly, black-suited Kamishiro Yunxiu inside.

Qing Chen turned and ran; this time, he was really leaving.

Although he successfully suppressed the shikigami, the effects of the three shikigami's rampage had left him somewhat dazed.

At this point, he was no longer at his peak, and the 20-centimeter-long external wound on his chest began to ache.

"Are we just going to let him go like that?"

This time, watching Qing Chen's rapidly fleeing figure, Kamishiro Kongxu was somewhat unable to remain calm.

If we include Crimson Leaf Hunt, Fox Fire, and Mountain Child from Kamishiro Unichi, plus Kage-onna, Yuki-onna, and Shinki-ro at this time, six shikigami from the Onmyoji lineage have gone missing.

This is a loss that Onmyoji cannot afford, because the number of shikigami has not increased since a thousand years ago!

Kamishiro Kongxu glanced at Kamishiro Yunluo: "Brother Yunra, what should we do?"

Kamishiro Yunluo said, "I will personally take action and stop that Awakened, so that Yunxiu can free up her hands to kill this Lord of Daybreak."

Everything planned for tonight went as scheduled, but now, an unexpected event has occurred.

He wanted to use someone else to kill him, but the knife ended up hurting him instead.

Mezu Raksha and Bone Woman had already materialized behind him, but just as Kamishiro Yunluo was about to send out two shikigami, he suddenly looked at the rooftop next door, which was the spot where he was supposed to assassinate Si Nianhua.

On the rooftop under the night sky, a young man in a gray suit, leaning on a black scepter, was smiling at Kamishiro Yunluo and Kamishiro Kongxu.