Chapter 32: The Three Great Demons

A pseudo-immortal died just like that.

However, if you think about it carefully, Qingwei Zhenren is undoubtedly a banished immortal, while the jonin is equivalent to the bottom existence of Yin-Yang people and scattered people. There is an insurmountable gap between the two. Qi Xuansu is a scattered person in name, but in fact he is a post-natal banished immortal, so they cannot be generalized.

In addition, Koga jonin had fought a fierce battle with Dingwei Lingguan, and suffered serious losses and was no longer at his peak. Qingwei Zhenren maintained his prime state and waited for the opportunity to tire himself out, so the rapid defeat of Koga jonin was reasonable.

Koga jonin was beheaded, and his soul was also cut off by a sword, and he couldn't even escape from his body. Half of his soul remained in the Six Yang Leader, and half of his soul remained in the headless corpse. He died like a dead man.

His two semi-immortal objects, "Kitetsu" and "Koga Ninja Scroll", became ownerless objects.

By the way, there is also a prince from Ise Jingu, Jixiang Gong.

No matter how you look at it, the Taoist side has made a big profit.

At this moment, something strange happened.

Several huge fox tails seemed to appear out of thin air, blooming like lotus flowers. Each fox tail was like a dragon, just wrapping up the "Yinglong" at the "heart" position from bottom to top, making it unable to move.

One of the fox tails directly rolled away the "Kitetsu" and "Koga Ninja Scrolls" left by the Koga Jonin.

Another fox tail wanted to take away the Jixiang Palace, but it failed after seeing a flash of blood.

It was Qingwei Zhenren who took action.

This time, Qingwei Zhenren did not hold an invisible sword in vain, but held a real sword. The sword tip was as thin as a cicada's wing, and the blades on both sides were almost transparent, with only a blood line in the middle.

This sword is called "Blood-Sleeved Immortal Sword". Compared with the mysterious and unpredictable "Heavenly Demon Slaying Immortal Sword", "Blood-Sleeved Immortal Sword" is more focused on killing. It is the top among semi-immortal objects, and it is good at changing. It is said that it can stain the clothes of immortals with blood. However, its threshold is also very high. It takes at least the stage of creation to use it freely. Even in the stage of infinite, it is easy to suffer backlash. It takes the stage of pseudo-immortal to bring it to its extreme.

After Qingwei Zhenren abandoned "Human World", he chose this sword.

This fox tail floated backwards, sprinkling countless golden fox hairs. Before it landed, it turned into many illusory foxes and wandered around.

Qingwei Zhenren splashed a piece of cow hair sword energy as thin as red lines and as thin as rain, strangling all these foxes.

"I have heard of Tamamonomae's name for a long time." Qingwei Zhenren said the secret.

Even if Qi Xuansu was setting foot on Fenglinzhou for the first time, he had heard of Tamamonomae's name.

Fenglinzhou is particularly fond of the number "three", such as the three great artifacts, the three main gods, the three great shrines, etc. Among the many "three greats", there is also a three great monsters, namely Shuten Douji, Tamamonomae, and Otakemaru.

However, the three great monsters are nominally dead. Shuten Douji was beheaded by the Minamoto family with "Douji-kiri Yasuguna", Otakemaru died from the betrayal of Suzuka Gozen, and Tamamonomae is more legendary than both of them.

Because the earliest record about Tamamonomae came from the Central Plains, it is said that Tamamonomae is a golden-haired jade-faced nine-tailed fox, born in Qingqiu Mountain, which is now the Qingqiu Mountain that has surrendered to Taoism. Qi Xuansu had many intersections with the Su family, so he deliberately learned about the Qingqiu Mountain lineage.

Today, there are two major families in Qingqiu Mountain, one is dominated by white foxes, surnamed Su; the other is dominated by red foxes, surnamed Hu. From this point of view, Tamamonomae is an outlier, neither belonging to the white fox clan nor the red fox clan.

During the Daqi period, Tamamonomae followed the ship of the envoy to Fenglin Island, turned into an abandoned baby, and was adopted by a samurai. Soon after she grew up, she entered the palace of Fenglin Island and became a female official. She was given the name Tamamonomae and dominated the harem for more than ten years.

Later, it was said that Tamamonomae wanted to murder the emperor and replace him, but was discovered by the great Yin-Yang master Tsuchimikado Yasuchika, who used the Yin-Yang magic to force Tamamonomae to reveal her original form of a white-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox. The conspiracy to steal the country was exposed, and Tamamonomae fled from the palace.

Tsuchimikado Yasuchika used the power of the artifact "Yata Mirror" to injure Tamamonomae, and the emperor of Fenglin Island summoned priests, monks, Yin-Yang masters and 80,000 troops to hunt down Tamamonomae.

The nine-tailed fox has nine tails. It is said that each tail has different abilities. When one of the tails is shaken, it can summon thunder, fire, wind, earthquake, flood, summon the dead and little foxes, etc. At the same time, the nine tails also represent nine souls, and the nine tails can be regenerated unless they are broken together, and they have new strength after regeneration.

Facing such a strong enemy, the 80,000 pursuing troops suffered heavy casualties, but Tamamonomae eventually turned into stone due to severe injuries, and later generations called it the "Killing Stone". It is said that the "Killing Stone" contains the resentment of the nine tails. From then on, no matter whether it is an insect or a bird, once it touches this stone, it will die soon.

Since Tamamonomae has turned into the "Killing Stone" in the legend, where did these fox tails come from?

If the legend is true, Tamamonomae really came from Qingqiu Mountain, doesn't it mean that he still has a relationship with the Li family?

Qi Xuansu always felt that this rumor about Fenglinzhou was mostly fabricated and exaggerated. According to the classification of Taoism, the realm of fox demons is also reflected in the number of tails. The nine-tailed celestial fox can be comparable to the second calamity immortal, the eight-tailed celestial fox can be comparable to the first calamity immortal, and the seven-tailed demon fox naturally corresponds to ordinary immortals.

If Tamamonomae is really a nine-tailed celestial fox comparable to the second calamity immortal, then it is impossible for him to be seriously injured, even if Himiko descends to the world, he cannot do it.

Because there is a precedent in the Central Plains. The leader of the Confucian school in the previous dynasty, the Sage of the School of Mind, was a second-tribulation immortal. At that time, the Confucian school had already shown signs of decline, and its overall strength was not as good as before, but the Sage of the School of Mind alone could suppress the entire Taoist school. At that time, there were also immortals in the Taoist school, but no one was a match for the Sage of the School of Mind. It was not until the Sage of the School of Mind ascended to heaven and passed away that the Taoist school overthrew the Confucian school and became the common leader of the world.

Then there is Lu Wushen, who is also comparable to a second-tribulation immortal. The Taoist school dispatched a total of six immortals, including Wu Yang, a first-tribulation immortal, to besiege Lu Wushen, using more than two handfuls of immortal objects and semi-immortal objects, while taking advantage of the cave formation. In the end, they only repelled Lu Wushen, which can be said to be a victory, but it is far from being a serious injury or killing of Lu Wushen.

If Tamamonomae is really a second-tribulation immortal, then the combined strength of the entire Fenglinzhou may not be able to seriously injure or kill him.

So Qi Xuansu judged that this rumor was false.

Since the rumor is false, it is more reasonable that Tamamonomae is not dead and appears here.

After the words of Qingwei Zhenren fell, the several huge fox tails that bound "Yinglong" began to shrink and become smaller, and finally closed together.

A woman appeared, wearing the "Twelve-piece" dress of the women of Fenglinzhou public family, mainly in white, purple, blue, green and red, magnificent and beautiful, holding a colorful fan decorated with gold and silver foil, and combing large hanging hair.

There are seven tails swaying behind her, like a peacock spreading its tail, one of which is rolled up with a ninja sword and a scroll.

The beauty of the woman's appearance has exceeded the scope of ordinary people, but has integrated a kind of magic, combining thousands of charms and ten thousand styles in one body, a subtle but soul-stirring breath rushes to the face, refreshing the heart, making people unconsciously fall into it and unable to control themselves.

Qi Xuansu couldn't even look directly at this woman, she was truly soul-stirring.

Is this Tamamonomae?

Even if it is not a nine-tailed celestial fox, it is a seven-tailed demon fox, a genuine immortal, and even above the pseudo-immortal, comparable to the Yamata no Orochi.

Tamamonomae slowly unfolded the folding fan in her hand, covering the lower half of her face, revealing only a pair of soul-stirring eyes, and did not speak.

Qingwei Zhenren was not affected at all, and said loudly: "My Taoist sect invites all the ghosts and gods in Fenglinzhou to discuss important matters. If Madam Tamamonomae is interested, there is also a place for her."

Tamamonomae still did not speak, and tried to roll away the Jixiang Palace with the fox tail again.

Qingwei Zhenren did not say any more, with a sword on his right hand and his left hand raised. The "Star Sword Formation" expanded rapidly and swallowed Tamamonomae into it. Then the swords fell like rain, and a dense and airtight net was laid around Tamamonomae.

The sword energy was like rain, continuous, and there was no intention to stop. Moreover, the sword energy is also different, some are long, some are short, some are thick, some are thin, some are as long as more than ten feet, some are as short as less than a foot, some are as thick as a big tree, some are as thin as a silver needle, some are extremely yin and soft, and some are extremely yang and hard.

Tamamonomae shook the folding fan in his hand, and a circle of majestic energy as vast as the tide of the river and sea spread out in all directions with Tamamonomae as the center, like a circle of water ripples that are constantly getting bigger. Wherever the ripples go, they destroy everything, and all the sword energy dissipates.

The sword energy in the sword formation was swept away, and even the 361 flying swords supporting the sword formation were shaking, showing signs of crumbling and disintegrating.

Qingwei Zhenren had a calm face, took the initiative to disperse the sword formation, and even put away the "Blood Sleeve Absolute Immortal Sword", then took a step forward, and made a virtual grip with both hands in front of his chest, as if holding the hilt and scabbard of a long sword respectively, and then slowly pulled his hands outward, and a three-foot sword completely condensed by true energy appeared in his palm. Then the sword energy continued to rise, as if there was no end.

After a while, the infinitely rising sword intent spread over a hundred feet around the two people. As for the sword energy, how could it be more than a hundred feet?

Qingwei Zhenren raised his hand and pointed, and the sword energy gathered into a line, and the sword energy rushed forward like a river flowing eastward.

At this time, the figure of Qingwei Zhenren was no longer visible, and only the sword energy was vast and majestic.

Facing this sword, Tamamonomae did not move, and the seven giant tails behind her slowly closed, like a flower bud that had not yet bloomed, wrapping her in it.

The sword energy washed over her, and she stood still.

But at this moment, a line of blood-colored sword energy suddenly emerged, passed through the fox tail, and sank into Tamamonomae's chest.

Tamamonomae covered her chest, and blood flowed between her fingers.

Blood stained her clothes.

Tamamonomae finally spoke: "We are from the same lineage of Qingqiu Mountain, why are we so anxious to fight each other?"