Chapter 221: Eye of Damnation (1)

But he soon came to realize that the arrows weren’t directed at him at all.

“How dare you cause trouble at the First Academy of Cultivators. What gall.” Qin Ye chuckled and swung his demonhead saber rapidly, parrying each and every one of the arrows that were pouring down towards him!

The air shone with a radiant light as the arrows were shattered one after the other, just like the dawn of the new moon.

The tengu soldiers immediately turned around, revealing a shield that they wore on their backs. It was unclear what materials they were made out of, but each of them had a different human expression painted on it. With their great cry of urgency, all of them dashed like madmen towards Tadayuki and surrounded him, stacking up a neat shield formation in just an instant.

Several silhouettes flew back like kites with broken strings, revealing a dumbfounded Tadayuki in the midst of it all. Thick wisps of true energy were visibly wrapped around his hands, and yet he simply wasn’t afforded the opportunity to unleash the powerful strike he had prepared. With another loud cry, his body vanished into a cloud of dense white smoke, and cracks appeared on the ground, causing several tombstones to collapse.

This might… is completely beyond the realms that I’ve seen!

The blade light sliced through the air with a chilling hum. Tadayuki peeked out from behind another tombstone. With another miserable cry, that tombstone was smashed into smithereens, while that particular image of Tadayuki vanished without a trace.

Interesting… He swung his saber again. This time, he was quicker than before. Tadayuki’s eyes widened in horror. He could see that Qin Ye’s attack was now filled with dark, evil energy, almost as though he had unlocked a seal, and was now tapping on the energy of Yin spirits. The blade light was accompanied by a dense aura of Yin energy that was perceptible to the naked eye. Wherever it passed, the tombstones were sliced cleanly in half, almost as though cut by a machine.

“Damn it!” He gnashed his teeth and made several hand seals in the blink of an eye. But… it wasn’t enough!

The attack was too quick. Qin Ye had secretly tapped on his strength as a Hellguard. After all, he would never engage in banal negotiations if he could compel with sheer strength. Furthermore, it was only after he utilized his Hellguard abilities that… he truly discovered just how great the difference between Hellguard and Hunter was.

Come! I want to fight ten of you!

He’e not a Soul Hunter… He’s definitely not a Soul Hunter! Where did this monster come out from?!

Qin Ye thoroughly enjoyed himself.

What was this reminiscent of?

In fact, this was a gopher game with a Hunter-class gopher. Qin Ye was aware that such opportunities came few and far between. Therefore, he thoroughly enjoyed himself. One slash, a tombstone collapses, and a cloud of smoke arises. Another slash…

Boom! Finally, after the umpteenth tombstone was shattered, Tadayuki found his entire being soaked through with sweat, and he gnashed his teeth as he made yet another hand seal again.

This is the Kamo Clan’s shame of a lifetime!

There’s no more tombstones…

In that instant, Tadayuki’s chest swelled up bizarrely, and he opened his mouth and quickly blew out what looked like a landscape painting. It started out as an ink painting. Then, as it unraveled, it quickly transformed into a floating world painting, also known as the ukiyo-e, which depicted the vast expanse of the seas below, and thousands of demons dancing in the sky above.

“Kamo?” Qin Ye waved his hand, and the talisman flew straight into his hand. He furrowed his brows, “Is it that Kamo? That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…”

There were a plethora of complex emotions in Bai Yishan’s eyes right now, including a mix of both ecstasy and fear. In an instant, he scrambled over like a dog and grabbed earnestly at Qin Ye’s trousers, “Mr Qin… thank you… thank--...”

“Ungh… ungh!” Bai Yishan waved his hands madly, as though he desperately wanted to explain himself. Qin Ye muttered, “I’ll give you thirty minutes. If you don’t explain yourself, I wouldn’t mind tying you up and leaving you here. I believe that… Mori Ranmaru is still lingering around. After all… what exactly have you done with the Obsidian Heaven’s Eye Bowl?”

He wasn’t in the slightest bit worried that they would turn tail and run. After all, Bai Yishan would be as good as a snack to Mori Ranmaru as soon as he escaped. Qin Ye sent Lin Han a message to meet in half an hour’s time. Then, he found a secluded spot to have his discussions.

Bai Yishan had already made up his mind. Nothing was more important than his life. Thus, he sighed wistfully and shut his eyes, “There’s… a long story behind this…”

He sat on the railing and pinched his forehead between his brows, almost as though such an explanation drained him of the remainder of his energy. He continued with a hoarse voice, “Since its establishment, more and more cultivators began to sign up and join us at the Guardian Auctions. That was how I first started as well, and I was eventually appointed a Master of the House, second only to the grandmaster. Most of the other employees of Guardian Auctions are cultivators who aren’t even at the Operative-class…”

“Yes.” Bai Yishan shivered slightly, and he subconsciously leaned closer to Qin Ye with an expression of ostensible fear, “Truth be told… this bowl was whole when it was first excavated…”

He recalled how the picture of the bowl he had received from Guardian Auctions showed only the remaining half of the bowl.

He lifted his chin towards the Nipponese corpse standing in the corner, “We discovered this corpse in a coffin… It wasn’t something that we had preserved and nurtured over the years. Rather… it… had looked like this since centuries ago!”

Bai Yishan began to bark with a hoarse voice, “It woke up… it woke up! Do you believe it?! A centuries old Nipponese corpse with its seven apertures all sealed up suddenly sat up abruptly! And it was sizing up each one of us here! It actually managed to open its eyes!”

He shuddered hard and closed his eyes, “Dropped it on the ground and broke it…”

“It… has a life of its own.” Bai Yishan opened his bloodshot eyes and stared straight at Qin Ye, “I don’t know whether you believe me or not… but I can hear its voice calling out to me everyday, screaming… screaming at me incessantly! There are male voices and female voices… and some others which speak in unintelligible Nipponese words. When I looked up its words, I realized it was… ancient poetry.”

“Save me…” He looked up with a pleading eye, “Save me, please… I don’t want to die.”

“I truly panicked when my usual Nipponese clients turned down this auction. And it was right at that moment that I met you. I knew that… someone here, in the City of Salvation, would definitely have the means to fix this horrible thing!”

“T-this is the very first stronghold of all Cathayan cultivators after all…”

1. Naruto’s shadow clone technique.

2. Another Ip Man reference.

𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

3.

4. The youth should be referring to Sun Wukong, who was controlling Tripitaka. Bai Yishan was Pigsy, the one who approached Qin Ye at the very beginning.