587: Chapter 587 Tamamo-no-Mae!

Hattori Senjun froze and turned to look at Seimei Kangyue.

"Master, you..."

"baka, shut up!"

Seimei Kangyue finally couldn't hold it in anymore; he shouted sharply, cutting Hattori Senjun off.

Hattori Senjun was startled by the shout, subconsciously taking a step back with a bewildered expression.

"Master?"

Seimei Kangyue took a deep breath, trying hard to calm himself down, but his eyes were practically spitting fire.

"If you say one more word, I'll slaughter you first!"

Hattori Senjun's face turned pale instantly; he opened his mouth, then closed it again.

He didn't understand why his master was suddenly so furious.

He was only trying to defend his master's dignity...

Seimei Kangyue's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Ye Chen, don't push your luck too far."

"Even a dog will jump over a wall when cornered!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen nodded with a smile.

"I know you're a dog; you don't need to emphasize that."

"I even think..."

"You're insulting dogs."

Seimei Kangyue: "???"

Hattori Senjun: "???"

Wait... was this guy calling Onmyoji worse than pigs or dogs?

Seimei Kangyue's face shifted from black to the color of a pig's liver.

Fury! Absolute fury!

His lips trembled several times before he finally managed to squeeze out a sentence.

"I didn't mean I was a dog..."

"baka! I meant that if you dare to touch the shrine, you people from the Dragon Kingdom will never leave the Wo Island alive!"

Ye Chen shrugged, his expression turning strange.

"You're wrong about that. If I want to leave, no one can stop me, even if your ancestor Xu Fu came, it would be the same."

"If you don't believe me, why don't we test it out?"

Seimei Kangyue's expression flickered uncertainly.

Of course, he wanted to test it... he wanted to slap Ye Chen to death immediately.

But he didn't dare.

The image of the three great ghost generals being killed in an instant was still replaying in his mind, like a dull knife slicing at his nerves again and again.

He was an Onmyoji, not a martial artist.

His power lay in controlling the Hundred Ghosts and in the mysterious and bizarre nature of Onmyoji arts.

But Ye Chen happened to possess the Power of Dao.

He happened to be the nemesis of the Hundred Ghosts.

And he happened to be so strong that his Hundred Ghosts didn't even have a chance to attack.

How could he fight this battle?

"Stop being so sissy."

"If you don't make a decision, I'll make it for you!"

Ye Chen didn't give him time to continue hesitating and strode toward him.

One step. Two steps. Three steps.

His unhurried pace made Seimei Kangyue's heart tighten violently, a chill shooting from the soles of his feet straight to his scalp.

"Once I reach you, the game will be over."

Ye Chen's words constantly agitated Seimei Kangyue's nerves.

Who was he? Seimei Kangyue!

What was his status? The Onmyoji of the current generation!

He was held in high esteem by countless people, and his status even surpassed the Emperor.

But now? Being threatened like this by a person from the Dragon Kingdom?

He simply couldn't swallow this insult!

In an instant, Seimei Kangyue's expression became completely ferocious.

"You forced my hand!"

He let out a roar, thrusting his right hand out, his fingers forming a claw, and plunged it fiercely into his own left chest.

"Pfft—" Blood sprayed out.

His five fingers pierced through skin and flesh, embedding deep into his chest cavity. Bright red blood flowed down between his fingers, dripping onto the tatami mat and blossoming into shocking flowers of blood.

Hattori Senjun was completely stunned.

"Master! What are you doing?!"

He screamed, struggling to crawl up from the ground, but his bones felt like they had fallen apart; he barely propped up half his body before falling heavily back down.

Seimei Kangyue ignored him.

His right hand churned inside his chest cavity, his expression pained and crazed, as if he were searching for something.

Finally, his fingers touched something.

Then, he yanked it out violently.

A ball of scarlet light was forcibly dragged out from his chest cavity.

The light was as thick as congealed blood, slowly wriggling in the air and emitting a nauseating, fishy-sweet scent.

Within the light, one could faintly see the silhouette of a fox.

Nine tails. Each one was slender like a snake, swaying gently in the air.

"Tamamo-no-Mae..."

Watching this scene, Hattori Senjun muttered to himself, the shock in his eyes turning into fear.

Tamamo-no-Mae. The great demon from Wo Island legend, the King of a Hundred Demons.

Legend had it that she was a thousand-year-old white-faced, golden-furred nine-tailed fox with heaven-defying powers, who once transformed into a peerless beauty to bewitch a king and bring chaos to the world.

But that was just a legend...

He had never imagined that Tamamo-no-Mae truly existed, and even less did he expect that she had been sealed inside his master's body all along.

Seimei Kangyue's face was pale as paper, and the wound on his chest was still bleeding, but a hint of crazy laughter flashed in his eyes.

"Ye Chen, don't you possess the Power of Dao?"

"Can't you destroy the Hundred Ghosts?"

"Then I'd like to see if you can destroy... Tamamo-no-Mae???"

As his voice fell, he pushed his right hand forward violently.

The ball of scarlet light left his palm and slowly unfurled in the air.

The nine tails fully extended, each several zhang long, waving wantonly inside the hall. Wherever they passed, the air was stained with an eerie red hue.

Then, from within the light, a woman stepped out.

No. Not walking. Floating.

Her feet were three inches off the ground, her body hovering in mid-air. Her white kimono drifted like clouds, and her long golden hair cascaded down to her waist like a waterfall.

Her face was so exquisite it didn't seem human; she was like the most perfect creation in heaven and earth, breathtakingly beautiful, unrealistically beautiful.

But those eyes. Blood-red. Without pupils, only endless eeriness and coldness.

Tamamo-no-Mae looked down at Seimei Kangyue, who was kneeling on the ground. The corners of her mouth lifted slightly, her voice as soft as a lover's whisper.

"Seimei, you finally decided to let me out?"

Seimei Kangyue clutched the wound on his chest, panting as he spoke.

"Kill that man."

"Do whatever you want."

Tamamo-no-Mae followed his gaze to Ye Chen and tilted her head, a hint of curiosity flashing in those blood-red eyes.

"Oh?"

"A human actually managed to push you to this point?"

She paused and suddenly smiled. That smile was breathtakingly beautiful, yet cold enough to chill one to the bone.

"Interesting."

Ye Chen stood in place, looking at Tamamo-no-Mae, and raised an eyebrow.

"A nine-tailed fox?"

"I thought it was something impressive."

"Turns out it's just another one that ran out of the Dragon Kingdom."

Tamamo-no-Mae's smile stiffened slightly.

Ye Chen looked at her and continued.

"The nine-tailed fox originates from the Dragon Kingdom's 'Classic of Mountains and Seas'."

"'On the Mountain of Qingqiu, there is a beast. Its form is like a fox with nine tails. Its sound is like a baby. It can eat humans, and those who eat it are protected from poison.'"

"You people of Wo Island really don't have a single thing that is actually your own."

Tamamo-no-Mae: "???"

Seimei Kangyue: "???"

Hattori Senjun: "???"

Ye Chen ignored their expressions and continued speaking to himself.

"And..."

"If I recall correctly, you should be that Su Daji who bewitched King Zhou, right?"

Tamamo-no-Mae: "???"

Seimei Kangyue: "???"

Hattori Senjun: "???"

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow and smiled teasingly.

"What?"

"After coming to Wo Island, did you change your name and surname like Sister Zhiling, becoming the Wo Island's Tamamo-no-Mae?"

"Are you worthy of your ancestors?"

Tamamo-no-Mae: "???"

Seimei Kangyue: "???"

Hattori Senjun: "???"

Every word was heart-piercing!

For Tamamo-no-Mae, that was a past not worth recalling.

And yet... Ye Chen had dug it all up piece by piece.

Tamamo-no-Mae's face darkened completely: "I am Tamamo-no-Mae. I am pure and innocent; I am not some Su Daji!"

"Huh?"

"You're not even admitting that now?"

Ye Chen looked surprised, then suddenly realized, "That's true. Change your identity, and you become clean again. What if your new identity, Tamamo-no-Mae, is still a... virgin?"

Fury! Uncontrollable fury!

At this moment, Tamamo-no-Mae was completely enraged.

In those blood-red eyes, an eerie light danced crazily.

"You are courting death!"

Ye Chen shrugged, looking indifferent.

"I don't know if I'm courting death, but I know..."

"If you don't run now, your master will have already run away."

Tamamo-no-Mae was stunned and subconsciously looked back.

The hall was empty.

Seimei Kangyue was gone.

Even Hattori Senjun, who was lying on the ground unable to move, was gone.

On the wall behind the hall, there was a large human-shaped hole. The night wind blew in through the opening, making the screens rattle.

Tamamo-no-Mae's face turned completely black.

"Seimei Kangyue!!!"

Her voice was filled with anger and unwillingness.

She had just been released from the seal and hadn't even had time to savor the taste of freedom before she was used as a meat shield by her own "master"...

He ran away???

baka! What a complete baka!

Ye Chen looked at the hole in the wall and couldn't help but laugh.

"He runs pretty fast."

"He deserves to be an old fox who has lived for hundreds of years."

He paused and looked back at Tamamo-no-Mae.

"But it doesn't matter; the monk can run, but the temple can't."

"As for you..."

"What do you plan to do?"

Tamamo-no-Mae's expression flickered uncertainly.

Fight? She had just come out of the seal, and her power hadn't fully recovered yet.

Furthermore, the aura radiating from this young man from the Dragon Kingdom made her feel instinctively uneasy.

That feeling was just like... like facing a natural predator.

Don't fight? She, the dignified Tamamo-no-Mae, the King of a Hundred Demons, being scared into running away by a human—how could she show her face if that got out?

Ye Chen looked at her expression and sighed.

"Alright, stop hesitating."

"I'll give you two choices."