The Great Seminary

Chapter 376 Killing

At the Emperor's command, scattered responses soon echoed from within the Guiyang Palace's inner chambers.

"The ministers obey the order."

These elite figures at the very top of the True Dragon Kingdom, when faced with the emperor's orders, while unlikely to respond with the same orderly precision as military drills, would not be in such a chaotic and disorderly manner.

Clearly, they were all captivated by Zhang Gui's various 'bold' conjectures, which is why they lost their composure like this.

After all, the extraordinary world speaks of the most ancient times and touches upon the core secrets of demons and gods, which is very frightening to anyone.

Because those true stories might themselves carry 'weight' in the realm of mystery.

If one cannot 'bear' the burden, it is normal for their primordial spirit to be 'crushed' when the attack occurs in the future.

Therefore, after a long while, someone finally managed a dry laugh to make amends:
"Other countries all have a 'sage emperor who governs by doing nothing,' but my True Dragon Kingdom has relied entirely on His Majesty's wisdom and martial prowess, and only through his personal involvement has it been able to achieve smooth sailing and take off."

It can be said that the whole country is blessed, but the emperor alone is burdened with worries.

Whenever I think of this, I am filled with shame and secretly shed tears.

This unrealistic flattery is so blatant that it would make any decent person gasp in disbelief and secretly sneer, giving them goosebumps.

However, in his previous life, Zhang Gui had personally witnessed an elderly official in his fifties traveling thousands of miles to wear mourning clothes for his deceased superior's father in order to curry favor with him.

The difference in official rank between two lifetimes means that even a mere prefect or county magistrate would have subordinates fawning over him.

Moreover, he was an overseas emperor, a wise and capable ruler.

It was impossible to stop it, so in the end, he just smiled and remained silent...

Meanwhile, the main camp of the Yingri army, stretching for hundreds of miles outside the capital city of Jinling in the Eastern Continent, was shrouded in night.

Dressed in a black and white hunting robe, Abe no Seimei quietly slipped out of the military camp.

The guards here are the Emperor's own men.

Even the most incompetent person is a Class D extraordinary individual.

Around the main camp, there was a person standing like a stake every ten feet or so.

Furthermore, the "Imperial Banner Masters" of the Guardian Army are a large number of powerful samurai and Onmyoji who start at the fifth rank "Ci Shang Zhong" and reach the fourth rank "Shang Bing".

The security is so tight that even a single mosquito could not escape detection.

But strangely, everyone was concerned about this person.

The prestige of Emperor Amaterasu, the master of 'Kyoko Tengen' and the human god Naruto Jin, was so great that no one dared to speak of it.

Secretly, however, everyone from high-ranking officials in the imperial court to ordinary people knew about it.
Her bloodline originates from the ancient, chaotic demon, the white-faced, golden-haired nine-tailed fox, Tamamo-no-Mae.
The young man, currently the 'Number One Onmyoji' of Japan, turned a blind eye...

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a naturally born demon with a body covered in golden fur, a long tail divided into nine strands, each with its own supernatural powers: the Golden-Fur, White-Faced, Nine-Tailed Fox.

She transformed into an unparalleled beauty who appeared in Japan, named 'Tamamo-no-Mae'.

Because of her extensive knowledge and unparalleled beauty, she is still regarded as the "peerless enchantress" overseas.

There are even legends that Tamamo-no-Mae's predecessor was Daji, the last evil queen of the Shang Dynasty, who played a "poisonous role" in the great historical changes of the "Zhou Ritual replacing the Shang Ritual" in Dongshengzhou!

With her beauty, scheming, and ruthlessness alone, she overthrew a once powerful dynasty that ruled most of the Eastern Continent and left countless indelible marks on history!

It was only because she was acting on the orders of Nuwa, the 'first ancestor' of the human race, that she wreaked havoc on the world, and therefore her sins were extremely grave.

Akari was also killed by Jiang Taigong, the "God above Gods," to appease the countless wronged souls in the world.

But in reality, he was exiled overseas and never allowed to return to the mainland!

Of course, such old stories involving divine power are now difficult to distinguish between true and false.

In short, after Tamamo-no-Mae appeared in Japan, she swallowed a noblewoman from the Abe family, the "ancestor of the Onmyoji lineage" among the "Sixty-Six Ancient Clans," thus substituting one woman for another.

Because of her exceptional intelligence and beauty, she soon entered the palace, causing all the other beauties in the palace to pale in comparison, and became the emperor's favorite concubine.

As a result, after gaining power, he became indiscriminate in his killings and his nature changed drastically.

Her atrocities aroused suspicion from the father of the Abe noblewoman she had impersonated, who was then the Japanese national advisor, Abe Yasuchika.

The truth was eventually revealed.

After Tamamo-no-Mae revealed her true nine-tailed form, she was said to fly away and disappear from sight.

However, Abe no Yasachika, grieving the loss of his beloved daughter, risked his life, sacrificing his own flesh and blood to activate the Yata no Kagami, one of the three sacred treasures of the Japanese Empire, which captured his whereabouts. In the end, Abe no Yasachika even sacrificed his life to use the power of the divine mirror to knock Tamamo-no-Mae down to a desolate plain called Nasu.

The Imperial Advisor has passed away.

The Nasu Guardian Miura, whom he had summoned, had no choice but to bite the bullet and order his army to charge straight in, attempting to physically deliver Tamamo-no-Mae from her wounds.

Unexpectedly, Tamamo-no-Mae's mere first sway of her tail shattered the attacking spearmen.

Seeing that he could not win in close combat, Miura Suke turned to command his army to attack with bows and arrows.

But Tamamo-no-Mae's second tail swayed, stirring up a gust of wind that blew the arrows back, killing countless soldiers.

Fortunately, reinforcements arrived at this time.

When Minamoto no Yoritomo, the top samurai of Japan at the time, arrived, he saw that the bows and arrows were weak and ineffective, so he immediately replaced them with the catapults and crossbows he had brought with him.

But the hundreds of massive stones weighing tens of thousands of kilograms that were thrown, and the swarms of arrows as heavy as spears, could pierce through the hurricane.

But the nine-tailed fox tangled its third and fourth tails together, emitting countless white and red rays of light.

A wave of heat swept by, and the boulder turned into lava, while the spears and arrows burned to ashes.

Then, a torrential downpour of lava fell from the sky, burning tens of thousands of soldiers to death.

Seeing this, Minamoto no Yoritomo had no choice but to bring in giant shields and wooden carts.

A giant shield was installed in front of the vehicle, which was filled with ice water to form a barrier, thus surrounding Tamamo-no-Mae.

As a result, the fox demon shook its fifth tail.

The earth shook violently, the giant chariots collapsed, and the army suffered heavy casualties.

Immediately afterwards, Tamamo-no-Mae flicked her sixth and seventh tails.

First, a meteorite blocked the army's path, then a flood surged from the earth's crust, scattering the general's formation.

Fortunately, as the top samurai in Japan at the time, Minamoto no Yoritomo, though not particularly outstanding in military achievements, was extremely resilient.

Despite repeated defeats, he remained undeterred and, disregarding his pride, petitioned the court to summon thousands of Onmyoji (yin-yang masters) and invited eminent monks and masters from all over Japan to come and assist him.

Unexpectedly, on the very day the army regrouped, a massive bolt of lightning struck down, destroying the main camp.

Immediately following from the direction of Nasuno, a strange, lifeless army appeared.

They were all soaking wet, charred black, and covered in blood and gore. They were actually Japanese soldiers who had died in battle and turned into ghosts. They were controlled by Tamamo-no-Mae by shaking her eighth tail and launched a counterattack.

Fortunately, by this time, many Onmyoji had already set up a huge magic array, which blocked the Nine-Tailed Fox's sneak attack.

Taking advantage of the situation, he activated a barrier, trapping Tamamo-no-Mae.

Finally, after tens of thousands of Moonbow Lords' "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons" powerful army attacked at night, thousands of Onmyoji joined forces during the day to use Susanoo's secret "Killing Food God Technique" to wear down his fate.

Tens of thousands of monks then formed a demon-subduing formation, creating eighty-one chains that pierced through bones and refined the demons. Several thousand Yin-Yang Masters further enhanced the demon-subduing formation on top of the 'barrier'.

Finally, before Tamamo-no-Mae could unleash her terrifying power by waving her ninth tail, he severed her ninth tail.

With two hundred thousand people as sacrifices, all the demon hunters exhausted their cultivation to annihilate this nine-tailed fox demon!
After that, in just a few breaths, Tamamo-no-Mae's remains turned into a fossil, as if they had undergone millions of years of weathering.

The resentment emanating from it instantly enveloped the surrounding area for miles.

She caused all her enemies who killed her to fall into a hallucination, committing suicide and avenging herself on the spot.

And this terrifying stone has been known ever since as the 'Killing Stone'...

"The Sessho-seki (Killing Stone), the Sessho-seki, joy, anger, sorrow, thought, grief, fear, shock, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind."

The seven emotions and six desires can all bewitch people's minds, and they can all lead to death...

Under the dim moonlight.

Abe no Seimei gently touched the small, brand-new jade pendant hanging around his neck.

Looking back at the dazed 'Imperial Bannermen' not far away, a thought flashed through my mind.

I walked into the darkness.

(End of this chapter)