Chapter 172 The Yamata no Orochi Arrives

"Fellow Daoist Jiang, are you going to be someone who goes back on their word?"

Jiang Chen just said indifferently, "I promised to help you retrieve your incomplete divinity. The task is complete, so how can you say I've gone back on my word?"

Su Baiwei was speechless for a moment.

Jiang Chen's coldness toward Su Baiwei at this moment was not because he was cold-blooded or heartless.

Although he didn't have much interaction with Su Baiwei in the past, it was rare to encounter a figure from the Tang Dynasty in reality, so naturally, he wouldn't treat her with cold words.

However, although the two had an agreement beforehand, Su Baiwei clearly knew he had come for Jianzhen's remains.

Yet, just now, when Jiang Chen was battling Amaterasu Omikami, Susanoo took the opportunity to damage Jianzhen's remains, and Su Baiwei did not stop him at all.

Although their agreement didn't require Su Baiwei to help him protect Jianzhen's remains, since Su Baiwei acted this way, she shouldn't blame him, Jiang Chen, for disregarding their old ties.

Jiang Chen's words, however, made Amaterasu Omikami's mind start racing.

She was not a broad-minded person to begin with; otherwise, she wouldn't still be obsessed with Tamamo-no-Mae after all this time.

Especially now that she had been beaten up by Jiang Chen, she naturally wanted to find a target to vent her frustrations on, and Tamamo-no-Mae was the best choice.

However, what she found strange was that Jiang Chen clearly could have easily killed her just now, yet why didn't he do it?

But she didn't dare voice this doubt and could only bury it deep in her heart.

Jiang Chen shifted his gaze away and fixed it on Jianzhen's remains.

On the other side, Susanoo was terrified into silence, standing still and not daring to move. That one glance from Jiang Chen earlier had almost killed him.

Seeing Jiang Chen look over now, he was so scared that his limbs were trembling.

Jiang Chen naturally wouldn't waste his attention on Susanoo. He looked at Jianzhen's remains with a strange expression in his eyes.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but just now, when he was unleashing the full power of his Dharma Seal and Life Wheel, he had vaguely heard Jianzhen's voice.

And looking at the golden light radiating from Jianzhen's remains now, along with the chanting that was clear enough to reach his ears, he couldn't help but feel a bit surprised.

Jiang Chen moved his feet slightly, stepping on the Void Realm as if walking on flat ground, moving toward Jianzhen's remains step by step.

Seeing Jiang Chen approaching, Susanoo's heart was in turmoil. In the end, his nature triumphed over reason, and he instinctively bared his fangs at Jiang Chen.

But as soon as he bared his teeth, he realized what he was doing and hurriedly switched to an extremely twisted, fawning smile. Because the transition was too abrupt, his expression looked somewhat distorted.

"Get aside."

Jiang Chen said indifferently.

"Yes!"

Susanoo let out a cheerful cry and then consciously moved aside.

But when he saw Su Baiwei, he instinctively bared his fangs at her again; don't think he hadn't heard what Jiang Chen said earlier.

Su Baiwei turned her head away in disgust. She couldn't fathom how the brain circuits of someone like Susanoo grew.

Jiang Chen looked at Jianzhen's remains, listening to the bursts of Buddhist chanting coming from within the corpse.

The response he had vaguely heard before seemed to be just an illusion.

In Jianzhen's hand, the previously active kusanagi no tsurugi had calmed down once again.

Jiang Chen reached out, and the kusanagi no tsurugi, which had been tightly gripped by Jianzhen's remains, suddenly let go and fell into Jiang Chen's palm.

He was slightly stunned and looked at Jianzhen's bones thoughtfully.

Seeing his sword fall into Jiang Chen's hands, Susanoo was heartbroken. It would have been better to let the remains hold it; at least he would have had a chance to take it back.

"Fellow Daoist Jianzhen, I am taking you... home."

Jiang Chen said firmly, and then, to everyone's surprise, he grabbed the golden skeleton.

The golden remains, which had stood in place and remained unmoved no matter how Susanoo bombarded them, as if they were the Dinghai Shenzhen, were easily lifted by Jiang Chen.

...

On the other side, Xiangliu, who had already exited the passage and walked a long way, did not leave directly.

Instead, he stood inside the main hall of the Ise Grand Shrine with an uncertain expression.

"This isn't right. I clearly felt his aura. With his cultivation, it's impossible he didn't detect me there. How could he not have chased after me by now?"

Xiangliu was wavering in his heart; the more he thought about it, the more wrong it felt.

"Could I have been tricked?"

But how could that guy's aura appear in Takamagahara?

"Could it be that the vixen brought something of his from the Tang Dynasty, making me smell it and misunderstand?"

"No, I can't just leave like this. I'm not reconciled. Even if I die, I have to take a look!"

Xiangliu gritted his teeth and turned back. He seemed to have made up his mind, and his pace did not falter again.

And when he stepped back into the portal leading to Takamagahara, he inevitably felt that aura coming from within Takamagahara again.

His body couldn't help but tremble, and his previously firm steps began to falter.

"Maybe I should just go back and collect my laundry..."

But after calming down, Xiangliu realized something was wrong.

This aura didn't seem as powerful as in his memory?

It was like a weakened version, and a heavily weakened one at that.

"Could it be that he also had his cultivation eroded over these long years?"

Xiangliu didn't understand. With the cultivation of such a figure, neither heaven could bury him nor earth could destroy him; how could his cultivation be depleted by time?

But the aura he felt couldn't be fake, so there was only one possibility: the aura he felt was very likely something that flirtatious fox had brought over from the Middle Kingdom.

Xiangliu had heard some rumors in the past, saying that the guy had some unspeakable stories with Princess Yuzhen of the Tang Dynasty and a certain flirtatious fox from Qingqiu.

At the time, Xiangliu had scoffed at it; with the guy's lightning-fast cultivation speed, how could he be interested in women?

Besides, he had seen Princess Yuzhen, and she wasn't even that good-looking; she wasn't as pretty as the young lasses in their own clan.

But now it seemed the rumors might be true... wait, what was he thinking?

Xiangliu quickly cleared the distracting thoughts from his mind, walked forward resolutely, and then, without further hesitation, stepped into Takamagahara.

In an instant, the entire world of Takamagahara was swept by wind and clouds, and the sky changed rapidly.

Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, and the third person all changed color simultaneously. They respectively controlled the authority of the sun, moon, and ocean in the Takamagahara world, and therefore, they had a deeper perception of this world.

At this moment, they clearly felt that an unstoppable figure had intruded into Takamagahara!

Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto's expression changed drastically. He had already guessed who had broken into Takamagahara, but because of Jiang Chen earlier, he hadn't had time to explain the situation outside.

"Yamata no Orochi has come!"

He said quickly and urgently, and then began to flee from the place at high speed.

Even if Yamata no Orochi wanted to beat someone up, he would beat Susanoo first. There was no need for him to throw his life away for this stupid brother.