Inuyasha: A Different Kind of Dog General

The moon was as bright as a mirror, and the silver light pouring down turned the buildings in the royal city into a flowing river of stars.

Millions of lights flickered among the glazed tiles, like stars falling into the mortal world.

The sound of a night banquet in the distant East City drifted in with the wind, mixed with the crisp sounds of children playing.

The murderous aura that lingered between Dou Ya's brows gradually faded into the moonlight and disappeared without a trace.

Chapter 214: Mirror Flowers and Water Moon: Three Thousand Worlds

At the junction of Kinki and Chubu, which is now the dividing line between Yangzhou and Toshu, lies the lush and continuous Kurama Mountains.

It was mid-spring, and the clouds rising from the mountains were like a veil, covering the green peaks with a hazy gauze.

Halfway up the mountain, an ancient temple lies quietly in a sea of ​​cherry blossoms and clouds.

The mottled stone steps wind their way up, with fluffy moss growing in the cracks between them.

On both sides of the faded vermilion lacquer mountain gate, weeping cherry trees cascade like snowy waterfalls.

The bronze wind chimes swayed gently on the eaves, startling a few fallen petals covered in incense ash.

The most amazing thing is the thousand-year-old cherry tree in front of the temple——

Half the branches were in full bloom with bright red flowers, which were driven open by the warm wind from Yangzhou.

Half of it still holds a green bud, hesitating because the chill from the direction of Dongzhou has not yet dissipated.

When the morning bells pierced through the clouds, petals started flying, and a red and white rain fell on both sides of the invisible state border.

This should have been a beautiful place to cultivate one's mind, but with the arrival of Taotie, one of the four evil beasts under Kirinmaru, it became a scene of solemnity and coldness.

This giant monster, which possessed some of the blood of the Four Evils, had a crocodile-like body standing upright like a human, and was at least ten feet tall. Its dark blue scales scraped against the cherry branches, bringing up a shower of broken flowers.

Every time the long snout opened and closed, it spewed out a foul smell. You could see pieces of monster meat that had just entered its mouth stuck between its fangs, and its orange-yellow eyes were full of ferocity and brutality.

Wherever the thick tail swept past, the stone lanterns exploded one after another, and incense ash mixed with sparks flew all over the sky, completely destroying this elegant scene of cherry blossom viewing and poetry recitation.

Except for being timid in front of Kirinmaru, outside of him, he is an extraordinary and noble Taotie Lord!

"Yataguro!"

The roar of Taotie was like thunder, and in its huge blue-black claws was a ghost-head sword that fit its body. Then it stepped in front of the gate of the Kurama Mountain Temple!

The moss-covered stone steps cracked inch by inch as he stepped on them, and the shock wave spread in a fan shape.

The weeping cherry trees on both sides of the mountain gate suddenly became half bald, and the petals fluttered like blood rain.

The bronze wind chimes were shattered into pieces, tinkling and scattering on the tiles.

The Crow Tengu girl, peeping from the shadows of the roof, was caught off guard. The impact sent feathers flying from her still-downy wings, and her claws scraped harshly against the slippery tiles.

"Ah ah!"

The petite body rolled down, and the wisteria sac tied around the waist exploded in the air, and the talisman paper and petals mixed together and floated away.

Acorus spread its wings hastily and fell on the bluestone slab with a "pa" sound. Its limbs immediately stiffened and its wings spread out.

He even held his breath - he looked like a crow specimen that had been scorched by lightning.

(I’m dying! I’m dying!)

That’s a big monster!

She was just a weak, pitiful, helpless little monster, not even enough to fill his teeth!

(Yatagara-sama, save me!)

"Yatagushi, this is already my third visit."

Taotie was too lazy to pay attention to the little crow, but if Yatagarasu continued to refuse to see him, he wouldn't mind eating the little crow as a snack. "Give me your answer!"

"Otherwise, I will smash your temple, destroy your golden statue, and eat your monks!"

A gust of mountain wind blew, making Changpu shiver. Her tightly closed eyelids kept shaking, and she peeked at the ferocious Taotie through the gap. When she heard that the Taotie was going to eat her, she kicked her legs and fainted.

"Is Dongyun's hospitality so rude and brutal?"

An old yet majestic voice descended from the clouds. Taotie suddenly looked up, only to see above the temple's golden roof—

The Yatagarasu's true form is revealed, its three eyes are like torches, and its jet-black wings spread out, scattering thousands of golden flames.

Each feather radiated divine light, illuminating half of Mount Kurama like daylight.

"Hahaha!"

Taotie laughed instead of fear, and plunged his ghost-head knife into the stone steps. "Courtesy is for friends! If you are willing to form an alliance with Dongyun, I will apologize right now!"

The golden flames and the fishy wind collided in the void, causing the bronze bells in the entire ancient temple to hum.

A hint of scorn flashed in the third eye of the Yatagarasu, and the tail spines of the Taotie were already erected with excitement - this negotiation finally tore off the hypocritical courtesy.

Yatagarasu glanced at the ruined temple, and with a thought, the unconscious Ayame was wrapped in a wisp of golden flame and floated towards the back mountain.

Taotie watched coldly, his barbed claws slowly rubbing the hilt of the knife, and the friction between scales and metal made a teeth-grinding sound.

"Your Excellency Taotie."

The divine crow's wings folded, and the golden flames around it became more and more intense.

He knew very well that joining the sinking ship of Dongyun was not a wise choice.

Kirin Wan's delusion of fighting against the demon god is like an ant trying to shake a tree.

But Taotie, who inherited the bloodline of ancient ferocious beasts, is not an easy opponent. His strength is indeed stronger than his. If he goes crazy, he will be able to destroy the thousand-year-old incense of Mount Anma.

(If you can't win in battle, you can't defend in retreat.)

Not wanting to give up all this, and even more unwilling to be hostile to the royal court for material things, the Yatagarasu opened its three eyes wide in anger.

The divine flames around him suddenly surged, illuminating the entire mountaintop like a furnace.

As the wings spread, thousands of golden flames transformed into flowing Sanskrit characters, forming the Acalanatha seal in the void.

Those dancing tongues of fire were not bluffing - each one contained the burning power to burn the soul, and even the black smoke exhaled from the mouth and nose of the Taotie was evaporated into a fishy mist.

In the fragments of the future, Yatagarasu did not see his own death, and Taotie could not kill him!

"Humph!"

Upon seeing this, Taotie's brows knitted into a river, and two streams of black flames spurted out of his nose, and the aura on his body became more and more ferocious.

Kirinmaru's mission was to recruit the Yatagarasu, and now the other party was showing an attitude of preferring death to surrender, which made him very angry.

(A mere native crow dares to act so arrogantly towards Dong Yun?)

Taotie lowered his posture, but Yatagarasu took a fighting stance, which was simply an insult!

"It's true that if you don't eat the toast, you will be punished with a drink!"

The ghost-head knife let out a sharp scream, and the Taotie pattern that appeared on the blade came alive, opening its bloody mouth to devour the surrounding spiritual energy.

As the beast's fangs chattered, the cherry blossoms on the entire Kurama Mountain withered instantly, and even the falling petals turned into purple-black ashes.

"One last time—"

Taotie's pupils shrank into needle points, and every word he uttered was accompanied by the hissing sound of flesh and blood being corroded.

"drop!"

"Or die?!"

The Yatagarasu responded with a sudden storm of flames.

The golden and black torrents collided at the state line, and the shock wave shattered the remaining vermilion lacquer gate of the ancient temple into dust.

The Yatagarasu flapped its wings suddenly, and the golden flames in the sky turned into countless fire crows, which screamed and pounced towards the Taotie.

Taotie laughed wildly and swung his ghost-head knife horizontally. The murderous aura wrapped around the blade instantly turned into a huge mouth of the abyss, swallowing up all the fire crows that attacked first.

"Old Crow, is this all you can do?"

His thick tail slammed the ground so hard that the entire Kurama Mountain trembled.

A foul-smelling purple-black mist gushed out from the cracks in the ground - that was the ancient evil contained in the blood of the Taotie, and ordinary monsters would rot if they came into contact with it.

The three eyes of the Yatagarasu burst into golden light at the same time, and a blazing pillar of fire fell from the sky, instantly evaporating the poisonous fog.

Suddenly, a roar like the echo of the abyss came from the depths of Taotie's throat. Its long tongue covered with barbs rolled over its fangs, forming a terrifying vacuum vortex in its mouth.

When his huge mouth opened to the limit——

"boom!"

The air in the entire battlefield was violently sucked away, and the golden flames of the Yatagarasu turned into a dazzling line of fire that was sucked into the bottomless pit like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

The flames in Taotie's throat exploded with a sound like molten iron, but were eventually swallowed up by the pitch-black stomach.

A faint light like molten gold seeped out from the gaps between the scales. It was the temporarily suppressed divine flame, rushing left and right in the body of the ferocious beast.

The third eye of the Yatagarasu suddenly opened wide.

"You can swallow it, but you may not be able to dissolve it!"

Thousands of golden feathers exploded as the wings flapped, and each feather spontaneously combusted into a new sun in the air.

These high-temperature fireballs, like miniature suns, did not attack in a straight line, but attacked Taotie from 360 degrees simultaneously.

Taotie looked disdainful, grinning grimly as he opened his bloody mouth again—

"belch--!"

He actually spat out the flames he had previously swallowed mixed with gastric juice.

The golden and red pillars of fire collided with the fireballs in the sky, exploding into a mushroom cloud in mid-air that covered the entire mountain.

The shock wave tore the remaining prayer flags in the ancient temple into pieces, and the burning cloth flew like blood butterflies.

The most insidious thing is the gastric juice mixed with the flames -

"laugh!"

The dark green venom penetrated the golden flame barrier like an arrow, splashing on the left wing of the Yatagarasu, instantly corroding a burn mark the size of a bowl.

Smelly green smoke rose from the edges, and rotten flesh melted and dripped like wax.

"Woo——"