si-mexico Chapter 373 Turning Longing into a Rainbow Bridge
Chapter 373 Turning Longing into a Rainbow Bridge
"Answer me quietly, don't wake Chiyo."
Xu Ning gave the Wind God a heads-up, then removed the gag from Wendy's mouth.
Wendy stretched her aching jaw and said in a low, resentful voice, "Do I have the right to object? You just do whatever you say. Let me go, I agree."
Hearing Wendy agree so readily, Xu Ning didn't immediately untie him.
After a moment of contemplation, Xu Ning pointed upwards and asked again, "Logically, He would never allow us to do such a thing, right? You agreed so readily because He is asleep?"
Wendy paused for a moment, then smiled.
"Let me go, and I'll tell you."
Xu Ning smiled too, "Drink this bowl of wine first..."
Just as Wendy opened her mouth to take the wine, Xu Ning stuffed the bundle of cloth back into her hand.
"I already know the answer. Just bear with it a little longer, and dawn will break soon."
"Waaaaah..." (swearing profusely)
In the end, Xu Ning didn't actually keep Wendy tied up until dawn, but released him early on.
He just asked Shen He to keep a close eye on him and not let him get drunk.
The following morning, Yae no Miko ordered Narukami Shrine to close its gates for a day and sent all shrine staff to guard all the mountain paths of Kagemachi, forbidding anyone from appearing in the mountains.
Kujo Sara arrived at Narukami Shrine last night, and now all personnel are in place.
Xu Ning led the group to jump into the large hole that had appeared at the mountain pool where the shadow had been the day before.
In just two days, Xu Ning sensed that the power here seemed to have increased again. If he ignored the miasma in front of him, he was afraid that the disaster that the Eighth Divine Child had mentioned, which would blow up the entire Shadow Mountain, would really happen.
"There are five branches here, each corresponding to one of the five purification sites. All the miasma will eventually be transported here."
"And all of Lord Zhaigong's memories are stored here, intertwined with those miasma and gloom, so the first thing we need to do is to completely remove the filth from the miasma and gloom."
Xu Ning pointed to the five prayer altars on the ground, "During the purification process, we will inevitably encounter resistance from the miasma. We will divide into five groups, each guarding one prayer altar, because we will need its help in the later stages, so we must not let it be destroyed."
Xu Ning then pointed to himself, “I possess a divine soul clone, guarding a prayer altar all by myself. To my right, Shadow occupies a prayer altar, with General Kujo as its guardian; General Shiki, with Wendy as its guardian; Yae no Miko, with Mikoto Chiyo as its guardian; and Goyakuzo and Yoshihoshi, with Shinkaku as their guardian.”
Xu Ning thought to himself that this arrangement had taken all possible scenarios into account.
To prevent Chiyo from having any other thoughts, these two groups were deliberately arranged to be the furthest apart.
To avoid Wendy being allergic to Wu Baizang and Ji Fashi, these two groups were also arranged to be the furthest away.
After everyone took their positions on the prayer platform, Xu Ning glanced around. Lei Yingdian, Yuishin Harunosuke (Shiki Daisho), Yae Shinji, and Isozo were all looking at him.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the culmination of five hundred years is about to be revealed today. In the long, dark night, memories endure. Even amidst the ravages of the dark will, Lord Zhaigong still retains an eternally bright memory. Now is the time to transform our burning longing into a rainbow bridge to welcome him home."
Xu Ning touched his brow with his finger and summoned the rock element body.
Xu Ning deliberately spent the entire night forging two weapons for this elemental body: a Thousand Rocks Ancient Sword and a Thousand Rocks Spear.
Today's battle focused on defending the prayer altar, so Xu Ning only had it carry the Thousand Rocks Ancient Sword to protect him.
Then, a wind elemental was summoned.
In the past, the wind elementalist had always relied on spears picked up at the foot of the mountain to fight, and was quite adept at spear techniques. Although the Thousand Rock Spear forged for the rock elementalist was heavy, it was no problem for the wind elementalist at all.
Xu Ning instructed it to patrol the surrounding area, ensuring that it could quickly arrive to provide support no matter where the situation occurred, and that today's efforts would not be in vain.
"Support the simultaneous existence of two elemental entities in the mortal world to activate the elemental burst skill - Three People in One Shadow".
"The worship of Dionysus has been elevated..."
While Qingyi was still nestled in the cave, announcing her achievements, Xu Ning tapped the gourd and said, "Qingyi, I'm not in the mood for games right now. I'm afraid it will be a tough battle. Please make sure you manage the dispensing of the wine properly inside."
The woman in blue inside stopped arguing and simply said, "Understood. All the fear stems from insufficient firepower. Six times the firepower of Jiuquan will give you sixty times the pleasure."
Xu Ning smiled and said, "Let's begin!"
Xu Ning opened the mouth of the Dust Concealment Gourd, and the wine poured out like a waterfall, condensing into a huge wine ball in the air, and then enveloping the miasma formed by the five branches.
Faced with the enveloping liquid, the necrotic tumor instinctively sensed a great threat, and the entire tumor suddenly contracted.
Then countless streams of black energy escaped from it, and a rain of demonic creatures fell down, roaring as they attacked the five prayer altars.
Wu Baizang was so frightened that his hair stood on end. If it weren't for the inhuman woman beside him who had drawn a fierce-looking spear and easily pierced through several demons, he probably would have turned into a ghost beetle and hidden away.
Yae no Miko drew a sharp longsword from her long sleeve and handed it to Mikoto Chiyo, whispering something to her. Mikoto Chiyo chuckled and then walked towards the group of demons with the longsword in her hand.
Xu Ning specifically instructed the wind elemental body to take special care of it.
Despite losing a significant amount of her memories due to the influence of the Dark Will, Mikoto Chiyo has not lost her fighting instincts in the slightest. When she raises her sword, she remains the swordsmanship master who can face a thousand swords without being harmed.
At the other two locations, whether it was Kujo Sara's arrows flashing with lightning or Wendy plucking the longbow formed from a xylophone and playing the poem of the heavens, both easily turned the monsters in front of them into dust.
Each group was able to easily thwart the monsters' attacks, making things much easier for Xu Ning.
The two divine soul clones, one above and one below, easily wiped out all the demons in their direction.
"Too little, still too little."
Xu Ning had been gradually slowing down the envelopment of the wine since the beginning, deliberately giving the miasma enough time and space to release a large number of dark demons in order to consume the filth accumulated in the miasma for hundreds of years.
Seeing that the miasma's counterattack was so weak, Xu Ning once again brought the ball of wine in mid-air closer to the miasma and then slowly touched it together.