The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 621: The picture shows the dagger
"Xu Fu?"

Li Miao's eyes flashed.

He had been waiting for this name.

Kawakami no longer lives in Japan.

Madam Xu and the old man from before were indeed very strong, but even without any mental flaws, they were just "main course" level opponents for Li Miao. They were good enough to have some fun, but they didn't pose a threat to his life.

Therefore, the matter of Japan must come to a conclusion, and in the end, it will fall on the shoulders of the person who founded Shintoism, who has never shown himself.

Li Miao suddenly turned around, pulled Madam Xu down into the air, let go, slammed his right fist down on her head, and scooped her up with his left claw in mid-air.

Bang, bang!

Two muffled sounds.

The sound was the explosion of Madam Xu's head. Xu Fu had not yet appeared, and the power of the [Hunming] attack was too great. Even knowing that Madam Xu's mind had been tampered with, Li Miao would not leave such a threat alive.

The other sound was the explosion of Li Miao's left hand.

Before Madam Xu died, she unleashed her final [Chaos] attack. No matter what she wanted to do, Li Miao would not let her succeed. So, at the cost of his left hand, he slightly deflected the trajectory of [Chaos].

A deep crater was suddenly created on the ground next to the luxurious sedan chair by [Chaos].

Li Miao frowned slightly.

He shook his severed arm, removing the tattered and sticky flesh, but did not heal the wound. Instead, he activated [Myriad Manifestations] to envelop the wound and began to recreate his left hand.

The matter of today has not yet been resolved, and a hand made of flesh and blood may not be as useful to Li Miao as a hand created by [Myriad Phenomena].

"What do you mean?"

Li Miao strode toward the sedan chair.

“Xiao Lu and Liang Tai know the basics, but Nanako has been through the Shinto Church. Speaking of which, I haven’t had time to even see her today… So, Madam Xu is here for her.”

“Xu Fu… An Qisheng could possess a body and return to life. Xu Fu had been with the old man on the river for at least several hundred years, so he might also know this method.”

"So, Xu Fu is currently inside Nanako's body?"

"Why did Madam Xu fire a [Chaos] blast at him before she died?"

Li Miao wasn't unprepared for the possibility that Nanako had tampered with the palanquin. He had already tested her with his silent light through the palanquin curtain when they met this morning, but found nothing unusual. In addition, with the Shinto cult's surprise attack following closely behind, he put the matter aside for the time being.

"Old Xu."

Li Miao stopped three zhang away from the sedan chair and called out.

"Your wife let it all slip to you. She's still hiding inside, living like a pampered young lady. Isn't she going to come out and meet the murderer who killed your junior brother?"

Whoa!

The sedan curtain was suddenly flung open.

Li Miao's eyes flashed, but his face remained expressionless. The Illusion of Silence and the True Qi of [Myriad Phenomena] had already silently spread over, ready to kill the person who stepped out of the sedan chair at any moment.

"grown ups!"

But as the sedan curtain was lifted, Lu Wushuang leaped out. Although she looked anxious, she was unharmed and ran towards Li Miao without stopping.

Ryota Miyoshi then jumped down from the sedan chair and ran towards Li Miao as well.

Li Miao squinted and scanned the two of them to make sure they were alright. When they ran up to him, he reached out and pulled them behind him.

"Is something wrong with Nanako?"

Lu Wushuang had already intended to say this, and upon hearing it, she immediately spoke up.

"Yes, my lord!"

“As soon as I got into the palanquin, I sensed that something was wrong with Nanako. She seemed like a completely different person. But since you were fighting with the Shintoists, I didn’t say anything.”

"Also, just now on Suzaku Avenue, a Shinto deity blocked the sedan chair and almost succeeded."

"Nanako suddenly lifted the curtain of the palanquin, ordering the deity to step down, and the deity actually obeyed her command... Also, Nanako was always holding a mirror, which should be the Yata no Kagami, the sacred artifact in Shinto legend that is the incarnation of Amaterasu."

"She has most likely already been..."

Lu Wushuang paused, clenching his fist. "My lord, if Nanako really becomes someone else... don't hold back, and don't worry about what we said before."

"This is a matter of great importance, and I understand the situation."

Li Miao smiled upon hearing this.

"understood."

"Let's go. Leave the golden seal and the jade seal behind; I think they'll be useful... Go down the mountain and wait for Sect Leader Ji. I think she should arrive soon."

Upon hearing this, Lu Wushuang nodded, reached out and grabbed Miyoshi Ryota, ignoring how he struggled and how desperately he shouted towards the sedan chair, and then rushed down the mountain.

The scene then quieted down for the time being.

Once the two had completely disappeared from sight, Li Miao turned to look behind him. The Shinto priests hadn't moved since Li Miao's arrival, as if they hadn't seen Madam Xu's body at all, and were busy guarding those Japanese dignitaries.

Li Miao glanced over there, then turned his head away.

"Still not coming out?"

"Shouldn't we put an end to this?"

Before she finished speaking, a small, fair hand reached out from behind the sedan curtain and slowly lifted it, revealing Nanako's calm and beautiful face.

With just one glance, Li Miao could confirm that Nanako had indeed been replaced, and the person in that body now was Xu Fu.

Xu Fu stepped out of the sedan chair at a leisurely pace. Even though he was locked in Li Miao's murderous intent and Ji Zhao's gaze, he showed no reaction whatsoever. His slow movements revealed a sense of solemnity, as if he were performing a ceremony.

A moment later, she stood up and looked at Li Miao, her gaze calm as still water.

Li Miao raised an eyebrow.

"I know you're a charlatan, but you don't need to pretend anymore... You should have something to say, right?"

Xu Fu spoke slowly.

"You bestow upon me the title of Emperor."

"Then, you and I, in the realm of the six paths united as one, will determine life and death."

If anyone else were here, they would probably frown at his words—if we're going to decide life and death, why bother bestowing titles upon you?

But Li Miao's expression turned cold upon hearing this.

He scrutinized Xu Fu for a moment, but instead of continuing Xu Fu's sentence, he asked in a cold voice.

"You're not in the right state of mind."

"Yes."

"Now, I can kill you in an instant."

"Yes."

"But you can use the influence of your investiture as Emperor on Japan to regain your divine realm... the level of the Six Paths as One, right?"

"Yes."

The two engaged in a question-and-answer session without any pause.

After asking the three questions, Li Miao suddenly stopped speaking, staring coldly at Xu Fu for a long time before slowly uttering the last question.

"The old man from the river is currently in the Central Plains, and he had already begun to take action against the Da Shuo court when I left, right?"

"Yes."

Xu Fu nodded calmly.

Li Miao slowly clenched his fist.

trap.

From the very beginning, from Ji Tianrui's journey to Japan, from the Japanese pirates' invasion of Pingshanwei, and even from the massacre of Qi Jiguang's entire family, everything was a trap—a trap to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

Now, the truth has finally been revealed.

(End of this chapter)