Hyperdimensional Player

Chapter 220: Bitch
The marks of strength in the East are quite unique.

Some abilities can suddenly improve, as if they had been hiding their strength all along.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Nurarihyon usually only has a four-star silver-gray mark. If he unleashes his hidden power, he can transform into a five-star silver-gray unit at any time, making him stronger than many Servants.

A nine-tailed fox in beast form.

Those eerie pupils seemed to contain some kind of power, originating from the divine laws of ancient times.

The phantom of the immortal overlapped with the avatar, and Duncan reached out and grabbed the tail of the giant fox that was attacking him in an instant. With a burst of terrifying brute force, he actually grabbed and dragged the nearly 100-meter-long behemoth in front of him. Its claws frantically dug and tore at the ground, directly plowing out trenches more than ten meters deep.

With the power of a giant, it is truly not afraid of ancient demons in beast form.

The representative giant of the East is Kuafu. After entering the Eastern lands, Duncan's laws of power underwent a slight change. The Root World has a very high degree of inclusiveness; in contrast, smaller worlds can only accommodate one or two fundamental laws.

If we were to categorize cultivation systems, the Root World has three major branches: the Eastern system (Central China, India), the Western system (divine arts, magic), and primitive shamanism (North America, Africa, etc.).

However, the Root World also has a flaw: the limitations of the real world are greater.

However, without such restrictions, the Hindu pantheon would probably have already been at war with the Western gods long ago.

"Hand over the Three Lives Stone of the Underworld."

Duncan, with a detached expression, dragged the nine-tailed fox in front of him and calmly said, "I promised Yama that I would take the things back."

Business matters.

Fusang is a crucial geological node that must be marked; the mythology here has been in decline until the Sengoku period in Japan. As for the Americas, there's no need to rush; the Mayan gods are relatively weak, and the Native American civilization is far behind its time.

The nine-tailed fox let out a mournful cry and began to struggle frantically, its tails wrapping around her.

In an instant, the earth shook violently. Duncan exerted his strength and slammed the enormous nine-tailed fox to the ground with a single over-the-shoulder throw. The cursed spear transformed into a staff, and instead of using the spearhead, he used it as a staff, striking the nine-tailed fox's buttocks hard.

One stick, two sticks, three sticks.

The saying goes, "Spare the rod and spoil the child," and the nine-tailed fox's cries grew ever more mournful.

Even in the mythological era, the nine-tailed fox was not known for its martial prowess; among the many ancient demons, they were more adept at bewitching their rulers.

Duncan was already holding back.

If it were to descend in the form of an immortal, the nine-tailed fox before them would most likely be severely injured.

"His Majesty."

"I will go and fetch it right away."

A soft, tearful whisper rang out, and the white-faced, golden-haired nine-tailed fox transformed back into human form, looking pitiful as she murmured, "I'm just borrowing this place for a while, hoping to settle down and make a living here."

Duncan remained unmoved, raised the stick again as if to strike, and slowly said, "Go."

"I can't go back on my word when I make promises to others."

Myths are receding.

Even such ancient demons have become much weaker, no wonder they all fled to Fusang.

At this moment, wisps of eerie will-o'-the-wisp appeared.

Before anyone knew it, a bewitching woman appeared outside the bamboo forest; she was none other than Rakshasa Enma, whom they had met once at the shrine.

Her expression was angry, with a hint of satisfaction at having avenged a great grudge.

We all came to Japan to make a living because we were struggling to survive in the East. Why should you steal my treasure?

Now that you've met a truly ruthless person, you'll behave yourself.

This Rakshasa woman wandered all the way from India to the East, and then, taking advantage of the spread of Buddhism to Japan, she managed to obtain the rank of Yama. But before her good days could begin, before her underworld kingdom was fully formed, the Nine-Tailed Fox came from the East to Japan and, without saying a word, stole her Three Lives Stone.

She had almost convinced a powerful demon to take over Meng Po's position.

Meng Po of Fusang is ultimately considered a minor deity.

But when the demons saw that she couldn't protect the underworld, they immediately wanted to back down, and the promising situation suddenly turned into a parade of a hundred ghosts.

Many legends about Japan were brought from the East, and the spread of Buddhism brought together many new myths.

But Enma's position isn't so easy to hold.

At this moment, the nine-tailed fox in front of her also had a sad and resentful look on her face. In the pre-Qin era, she could still live in a secluded corner, but after Zhang Tianshi founded Taoism, she was harassed all day long. No matter where she hid, she would encounter the disciples and grand-disciples of Taoism.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, her life was already very difficult.

After the myths faded, the monsters who survived, such as Zhang Daoling and Zhang Jiao, had to hide themselves, and some even went to Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

It's no longer the era in which they were active.

On one hand, mythology is fading and strength is weakening; on the other hand, totem worship is declining, and the nine-tailed fox is no longer a totem of ancient times.

In fact, the representative figure of the nine-tailed fox totem in the mythological era was Tushan, the wife of Yu the Great.

Tushan is the true origin of the nine-tailed fox.

Moreover, the vast majority of the descendants of Yan and Huang have a trace of nine-tailed fox blood in their bloodline, because Yu the Great married Tu Shan and had Qi, Qi had Tai Kang, Tai Kang lost his country, and then Shao Kang restored it. As long as it is the bloodline inherited from Yu the Great, they are basically all inextricably linked to the nine-tailed fox.

The legend of the nine-tailed fox wouldn't have been so popular if it weren't for the Nine Cauldrons suppressing its fortune. They were the ones who fought for the auspicious omens of ancient times, but things didn't go so well later, and they were stripped of their title as auspicious beasts.

She really is just a little demon.

Of course, the Nine-Tailed Fox lineage is entirely dependent on Yu the Great, which demonstrates the influence of royal power in the real world.

Even in the mythological era, the power of the human king was immense.

The connection between heaven and earth was severed.

This is the embodiment of the king's authority.

At that time, Zhuanxu, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor and one of the Five Emperors, was still suppressing the primitive shamanistic religion. In the later years of the Yellow Emperor, the Jiuli people believed in shamanism, worshipped ghosts and gods and abandoned human affairs. Everything was decided by divination. Every household had someone who acted as a shaman and did divination. People no longer sincerely worshipped the heavens and were not at ease with agricultural production.

To solve this problem, Emperor Zhuanxu decided to reform religion and personally offered sincere and respectful sacrifices to Heaven, Earth, and ancestors, setting an example for all people.

This was the first large-scale religious reform in the East.

This marked the beginning of the primitive worship of heaven, earth, and ancestors in China, which has continued ever since.

The nine-tailed fox lived her life as it always had. After the mythological era ended, there weren't many powerful demons left in the real world, and she was able to make do. Until one day, a ruthless figure suddenly emerged from among the disciples and followers of Taoism, suppressing the world and causing all demons to flee, forcing her to escape to Japan.

She had originally intended to leave behind a legend in Japan, even if it was as a great demon to maintain her existence. But she never expected that even after hiding here, she would encounter another powerful figure.

Those who know the current affairs are handsome.

Duncan had clearly held back; if she hadn't been oblivious, she might have been killed.

One of her greatest assets is a wisp of divinity condensed in the mythological era, originating from the time of Yu the Great, when people worshipped the nine-tailed fox, but Duncan suppressed all of this.

Many ancient demons possessed a trace of divinity.

Because in the Age of All Souls, they were all tribal totems, and only began to decline after the dragon totem appeared.

"His Majesty."

Tamamo-no-Mae was no longer the arrogant woman she once was. She looked like she was about to cry, pitiful and delicate. She held a red and black box in her hands and respectfully handed it to Duncan, saying, "The stone is inside."

"I only wish to use it to gather the legends of Fusang, to secure a place here, and to make a living."

It doesn't seem like a lie.

However, it seems that Tamamo-no-Mae's final fate was to be killed as a great demon.

—The Killing Stone (Demon Transformation) (Legendary Item).

Ok?
Isn't it the Stone of Three Lives?

Duncan reached out and took it, then paused for a moment. Yama, who was in the distance, also changed his expression drastically upon seeing this. He flew over angrily, glanced at the nine-tailed fox, and immediately glared at her, saying, "You stinking fox! How did you turn my Three Lives Stone into a demon?"

Although Tamamo-no-Mae feared Duncan, she did not have much reverence for Enma. She narrowed her eerie eyes and said in a deep voice, "Rakshasa woman."

"It is inherently a poisonous substance from the underworld, what Three Lives Stone is this?"

"Do you think that the tiny land of Fusang can so easily gather the Three Lives Stone of the Underworld?"

Humph.

A mere minor deity from a foreign land.

Bah! That's not right!

They weren't even minor deities; they were just demons and monsters who couldn't survive in India and fled all the way to the East.

If she hadn't come to Japan with the Japanese envoys to Tang China in her early years, how could a Rakshasa demoness have been able to sit on the throne of Yama?

A dead skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

Although the legend of the nine-tailed fox has faded, she still doesn't take the little Yama seriously. She was as scared as a quail in front of Duncan, but she immediately stood up straight in front of Yama.

The alluring Yama laughed in exasperation and cursed, "It is clearly you who have defiled my Three Lives Stone."

"It took me hundreds of years to bring together the legends of the underworld into this object."

Upon hearing this, Tamamo-no-Mae smiled smugly, her tone disdainful, saying with a half-smile, "Overestimating yourself. A mere Rakshasa demoness dares to presume to condense the River of Oblivion."

"Do you think you can call yourself Meng Po just because you hired a demon to work for you?"

A knock-off is still a knock-off.

After Buddhism spread eastward to Japan, the folk legends it brought were basically imitations of the Tang Dynasty in the East. It was through this that Yama (the demon king) was able to carve out a small territory in the underworld.

If it weren't for the convenience of the spread of Buddhism, would she even be worthy of coveting a divine position?
He's just a great demon.

It's from India.

At this point, she turned to look at Duncan beside her, bowed gracefully, and said pitifully, "Your Majesty."

"I would never dare to lie to you."

"This is a creature from the netherworld, and it is inherently poisonous. I merely used it to refine it."

That damn vixen!

The alluring Yama was furious.

Despite her alluring and seductive appearance, Rakshasa demons are masters of killing. Their racial characteristics are simply that the men are ugly and the women are beautiful. They are nothing like the nine-tailed fox, who has a scheming and manipulative appearance. For a moment, the argument was completely lost, and the demons wished they could draw their demon-slaying swords and tear her to pieces.

This nine-tailed fox has sharp teeth and a vicious mouth; its words can be infuriating. One of its slang terms, something like "a monster from India," drove the Rakshasa demon mad.

Nine-tailed foxes all possess a special ability to bewitch lords. Although they are putting on a show, they have clearly gained the upper hand.

Big victory.

Enma couldn't win an argument with her at all.

"Take the things first."

At this moment, Duncan glanced at the trembling fox cubs and their offspring around him, looked down at the nine-tailed fox bowing gracefully before him, and said indifferently, "Get up."

Tamamo-no-Mae slowly rose to her feet, and as she raised her head, she immediately revealed a face of unparalleled beauty and captivating charm.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

That charming voice made one's bones feel lighter.

Enma, who was standing nearby, gradually calmed down. She stared expressionlessly at the nine-tailed fox in front of her and couldn't help but think of Lady Himiko's evaluation of the nine-tailed fox.

It seems that His Majesty came to capture the Nine-Tailed Fox, but a skilled hunter often disguises himself as the prey to lure people in.

Go and see for yourself.

As expected, the nine-tailed fox will immediately attach itself to that emperor.

As Lady Himiko had predicted.

That shameless vixen! Last time I fought her in the Netherworld, it was such a fierce battle that the sky darkened, demonic winds raged, foxfire roared, and all eighteen magical weapons were unleashed.

She almost overturned the Ghost Realm.

Today, however, he looked like he hadn't eaten enough; he was beaten down in no time.

Enma was so angry she wanted to grind her teeth!

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(End of this chapter)