591: Chapter 591 Don't they have any pride?

Great Tengu stood opposite, the killing intent in his eyes growing thicker.

It wasn't directed at Ye Chen, but at Tamamo-no-Mae.

This woman who had once rejected him was now actually flirting in front of a man from the Dragon Country and calling him master?

What a great humiliation!

"Tamamo-no-Mae, you have disappointed me too much."

Great Tengu's voice was as cold as ice. "The King of a Hundred Demons who once looked down upon the world has now been reduced to a person's plaything."

Tamamo-no-Mae poked her head out from behind Ye Chen and looked at him with a smile.

"What's wrong with being a plaything? At least someone wants a plaything."

"Unlike some people, whom no one wants even as a plaything."

Great Tengu: "..."

His chest heaved violently, and fire almost spewed from his blood-red eyes.

baka!

He had lived for over a thousand years and had never been so humiliated!

"Since you insist on seeking death, then I shall fulfill your wish!"

Great Tengu gave a roar, and the black wings on his back suddenly unfurled, blotting out the sky. A gale blew, and the candle flames in the hall were instantly extinguished, plunging the area into darkness.

In the darkness, only Great Tengu's blood-red eyes remained, like two blood moons, emitting a suffocating sense of pressure.

Seimei Kangyue's breathing quickened, his eyes full of excitement.

Yes!

Just like this!

Great Tengu, kill them!

However...

In the darkness, Ye Chen's voice rang out unhurriedly.

"Alright, stop messing around."

"Do you think you're so powerful just because you're a ghost king?"

"In my eyes, you're no different from those little ghosts."

As his voice fell...

A golden light lit up in the darkness.

Wherever the golden light passed, the darkness melted like snow and quickly receded.

Great Tengu's expression changed.

He looked at the golden light, and for the first time, fear appeared in his blood-red eyes.

"This is..."

"The power of Houtu?"

His voice was trembling.

He was a ghost king, the incarnation of a vengeful spirit, an anomaly between heaven and earth.

And the power of Houtu was his greatest nemesis.

That was the power of the Mother of the Earth, the power of the Lord of the Underworld, the terminator of all things yin.

Ye Chen stood within the golden light with his hands behind his back, looking at Great Tengu as he spoke calmly.

"It seems you have more insight than that fox."

"Then you should also know that in my presence, you have no right to remain standing."

Upon hearing this, the smile on Tamamo-no-Mae's face instantly collapsed.

Then...

Her mouth quirked, her eyes reddened, and she looked as aggrieved as a young wife.

"Master, how can you belittle me like that?"

She stomped her foot, her nine tails swaying gently behind her, looking as if she had suffered a great injustice.

"I am the King of a Hundred Demons after all, a being who has lived for over a thousand years. For you to say I'm no different from those little ghosts..."

"Don't I need to save face?"

Ye Chen glanced at her, expressionless.

"I'm telling the truth."

"You have the right to stand before me; he does not."

Tamamo-no-Mae was stunned for a moment, then she blinked, and the grievance on her face instantly vanished, replaced by a touch of smugness.

She turned her head to look at Great Tengu, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly as she spoke in a delicate voice.

"Did you hear that? My master said I have the right to stand, but you don't."

"Oh my, I suppose this is the joy of being a pet, isn't it?"

"Some people don't even have the qualification to be a pet. How pitiful, how tragic, how lamentable~"

Great Tengu's face turned completely black.

No.

It went from black to purple, purple to red, and red to green!

"So what if it's the Houtu Inheritance?"

His voice was like thunder, exploding within the hall.

"You're just a brat who's still wet behind the ears. Even if you are the successor of Houtu, you're nothing more than a junior who has just started!"

"With just a smidge of power, you dare to talk big in front of me?"

He suddenly took a step forward, and the ground exploded into a large crater, with gravel flying everywhere.

"Today, I shall tear you apart!"

"And then I'll seize the Houtu Inheritance!"

"At that time..."

"I shall be invincible in this world!"

As his voice fell, the aura around Great Tengu's body suddenly surged.

Black mist gushed out from his body, spreading in all directions like a tide.

Wherever it passed, the ground corroded, the wooden pillars rotted, and even the air seemed to be polluted.

That aura was more than a hundred times stronger than Ibaraki-doji's.

That pressure was more than ten times heavier than Tamamo-no-Mae's.

The ministers in the hall turned as pale as paper; some slumped to the ground, while others fainted outright.

Seimei Kangyue lay on the ground, feeling that terrifying power, his eyes filled with wild joy.

He could feel it...

Great Tengu's aura was climbing!

That power was strong to the extreme.

Even if Ye Chen had started practicing while in his mother's womb, he absolutely could not match even a fraction of it!

The expressions on the faces of Wasunoko Ruozhi and Hattori Senjun changed from fear to excitement.

Great Tengu was going to get serious!

This time, Ye Chen was dead for sure!

However...

Ye Chen looked at Great Tengu and merely sighed.

"Look at you. Why did you have to become a monster instead of being a perfectly good Emperor?"

"It's one thing to become a monster, but to be so brainless as well..."

"If I were you, I would have stayed obediently in the mirror; at least then you could have lived a few more years."

Great Tengu's pupils shrank suddenly, and the killing intent in his eyes grew even more intense.

"Death is at your doorstep, yet you still dare to be so stubborn?"

He suddenly spread his arms, and the black wings on his back fully unfurled, blotting out the sky and shrouding the entire hall in darkness.

In the darkness, a pair of blood-red eyes like two blood moons emitted a suffocating pressure.

"Today, I shall let you witness..."

"What true power really is!"

With a flap of his wings, he became like a bolt of black lightning, charging towards Ye Chen.

His speed was incredibly fast; no afterimages were left in the air, only a black trail, as if space itself had been torn apart.

Tamamo-no-Mae's expression changed slightly, and she subconsciously took a step back.

But soon, she remembered something and forced herself to stop.

She couldn't retreat.

Her master was still in front.

If she retreated in front of her master, wouldn't that make her look very cowardly?

Although she really was cowardly...

She couldn't show it.

Ye Chen looked at that bolt of black lightning and finally pulled his hand out of his pocket.

Then...

He raised his right hand.

He extended his index finger.

And tapped lightly.

Just a simple tap.

A golden light lit up at his fingertip and collided with Great Tengu's charging figure.

Boom!!!

A massive explosion rang out.

Great Tengu's figure came to a sudden halt, as if he had crashed into an invisible wall.

His body froze in mid-air, motionless, as if he had been pinned by something.

His blood-red eyes were filled with terror.

"This... is impossible..."

Even his voice was trembling.

Ye Chen withdrew his finger and spoke calmly.

"I said, in my presence, you have no right to remain standing."

"Kneel."

As that single word fell...

Great Tengu's body suddenly sank, as if pressed down by a great mountain, falling straight down from mid-air.

Bang!!!

He slammed heavily onto the ground, his knees smashing into the cracked bluestone floor.

His body leaned forward, hands propped on the ground like a tamed beast.

He struggled desperately, wanting to stand up and break free from that invisible force.

But he couldn't.

That force was too strong—so strong he couldn't even move a finger, so strong he didn't even have the strength to lift his head.

Great Tengu knelt on the ground, his entire body trembling.

"You're only in your twenties; how could you possibly master the power of Houtu to this extent?"

Ye Chen remained expressionless.

"You don't need to know why I can control such power."

"Because I have no need to say such things to a dead man."

Great Tengu's body shook, and endless shock and rage surged in his eyes. "You want to kill me?"

He was Great Tengu, the head of the three great ghost kings of Wa Country, an immortal being formed from the resentment of Emperor Sutoku.

For a thousand years, countless Onmyoji had tried to seal him, and countless experts had attempted to eliminate him, but no one had ever succeeded.

Because he was not a living creature, he was not bound by the constraints of life and death.

But at this moment, for the first time, he truly felt the aura of death.

Ye Chen looked at him, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.

"Yes, I intend to kill you."

As his voice fell...

He raised his right foot.

Then...

He stepped down.

Boom!!!

He stepped right onto the top of Great Tengu's head.

Golden runic light erupted from the sole of his foot like a bursting flood, pouring into Great Tengu's body.

Great Tengu's body suddenly stiffened.

His blood-red eyes bulged, and his mouth hung wide open.

Golden cracks spread from the top of his head to his entire body, like a golden spiderweb wrapping him completely.

"No..."

He let out a heart-wrenching scream, so shrill that even the candles in the hall flickered three times.

In the next second...

Bang!!!

Great Tengu's body exploded violently, turning into countless tiny black fragments that scattered in all directions.

Those fragments drifted in the air, and as soon as the golden light shone on them, they instantly vanished into nothingness.

Nothing was left.

Not even a trace remained.

The hall was deathly silent.

Everyone stood there like wooden blocks, frozen in place.

Who was Great Tengu?

The most powerful monster in Wa Country, even stronger than the ghost king Shuten-doji.

But they never, ever expected...

That such a being would actually! Actually! Actually! Be stepped to death by Ye Chen!?

Everyone was drenched in sweat, their entire bodies beginning to tremble.