Chapter 352 - Turning The Shrine Into a Bloodbath (1/2)

Chapter 352: Turning The Shrine Into a Bloodbath

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Lord Susano had presided at Kyushu for hundreds of years. His influence far exceeded that of the Yukis.h.i.+ro family.

In other words, the Yukis.h.i.+ro family was just one of Lord Susano’s subjects.

A few swordsmen brandis.h.i.+ng sharp Uchigatanas swarmed at Chen Fan. Their expression heavy, eyes focused and darted toward Chen Fan like gusts of winds. It was evident that all of them were Internal Force users.

Anyone of these men were mighty figures in their own right. Not even the Lu family in China—also a hundred-year-old faction—could have rallied so many deadly warriors at once. Chen Fan wagered that Lord Susano had summoned all of his subjects from all over Kyushu island to deal with him.

“Hooo!”

Men wielding Uchigatanas let out deep grunts almost in unison as they threw themselves at Chen Fan when they were still half a dozen meters away. They launched themselves into the air and hacked at Chen Fan.

Suddenly, lights ran down from the body of their blades, turning into streaks of silvery light in the air. Although these men were not nearly as powerful as Kawakami Gensai, their combined might nonetheless posed a significant threat. Even a Grandmaster might be chopped and diced into pieces by them, much less any internal force master.

However, Chen Fan was much more powerful than any Grandmaster. He proved it by killing a few of them with ease.

Chen Fan waved a hand, sending a wave of powerful energy that smashed into the half a dozen warriors who led the group. Those men were reduced into piles of b.l.o.o.d.y body parts in an instant. It was as if a large semi-truck had plowed through them. The energy wave didn’t stop and kept knocking many more warriors to the ground, killing a few.

“Hurr!”

As a dozen warriors were laid low, two dozen more appeared behind their formation, ready to join their ranks.

These two dozen warriors unsheathed their blades and sprung forward to hew the Uchigatana at Chen Fan. They acted out every movement in perfect unison as if they were synchronized robots.

Their Uchigatana were made out of steel that had been held and hammered a hundred times until they were extremely sharp and ductile. These deadly blades come at Chen Fan’s protective True Essence that surrounded him.

“Clank!”

Their attack landed on Chen Fan and made a loud metal-on-metal sound. Blood spilled out from many warriors’ mouth and a few Uchigatanas were snapped in half. However, their joined attack and finally broke Chen Fan’s True Essence with causing any casualties to themselves.

“uh?”

Chen Fan was slightly impressed.

He thought that the energy he shot out should have killed at least a hundred of them, and it did. However, the remaining twenty or so warriors that survived his attack were able to fight back with considerable results.

Such was the difference between the martial artists in China and j.a.pan. In China, only the military would have put together such a deadly team who were not only powerful by themselves but were also extraordinary team players.

Chen Fan didn’t much mind the minor set back. If he put in slightly more effort, all these warriors were fodders. Chen Fan shot out two fingers as azure Blade Auras lanced out from the top of his fingers.

He slashed air with the Blade Auras in a flat backhand sweep to covered a large swath of area.

Those twenty or so warriors were no match against the Blade Aura. They were severed in half; entrails, along with blood spilled out from their belly to the ground. The twenty or so deadly warriors were dead.

However, these warriors were only the beginning of the attack. A dozen or so warriors emerged from the dark corners as soon as the first twenty were dead.

So powerful was Lord Susano that he had the entire Kyushu island under his tight grip. Only the Susano Shrine could rally hundreds of deadly warriors at the same time.

“Shooshooooshooo.”

When the warriors threw themselves at Chen Fan, the Onmyojis and priests of the Susano Shrine didn’t stand idly. They started to prepare for deadly spells.

These Onmyojis stood in a carefully arranged formation. This was a spell that they had practiced by rote. Chizuru Masahiro was the leader of the formation and he was in charge of the threads of energy that came out from each and every Onmyoji into his own system.

A squall suddenly came up behind Chizuru Masahiro as roiling Dharmic powers gathered in his system.

The Grand Onmyoji of j.a.pan slowly produced a Dharma Artifact from his robe and held it out with both hands. The artifact looked ancient. It was a small bell made out of bronze. At the front of the bell was an engraving of an Oni’s face that mimicked the face of Lord Susano.

This was the most prized Dharma Artifact of Susano Shrine.

“Bell of Five Onis”

Chizuru Masahiro jingled the bell as he poured all of his Dharmic powers into it. He pointed to Chen Fan with one hand and shouted:

“Hold!”

The Dharmic powers in all seventeen Onmyojis surged and sent seventeen pulses of energy through Chizuru Masahiro and into the Bell of Five Onis. The sudden swelling of energy stretched the powerful Grand Onmyoji’s ability to the limit. His face was flushed red and the body trembled uncontrollably, trying to contain the surging power.

In the end, all the energies were sucked into the bell. The bell jiggled a little with even being moved and let out a crisp chime. Suddenly, an invisible force, ten times stronger than Lei Qianjue’s Qi Net of the Thousand Trickeries, surrounded Chen Fan. Its potency was on par with that Zhou Daoji’s Dharma Array of Jiu Long.

“Kotodama—Hold!”