Lord of the Earth

Chapter 673 Japan’s three major monsters!
"What's this……"

"Oh my god, there's a ghost, a ghost!"

As the black fog swept around, the entire "Shogunate Royal City" was pulled into the ghost den with a blood moon in the sky and black fog everywhere.

One after another, the terrifying-looking "ghosts" could not wait to rush into the location where humans were. Amid the latter's screams of fear, they did not rush to devour them directly, but instead played with them in various weird ways first.

After the fear and panic in his heart reached the extreme, he then swallowed his body and soul with a grim smile, and chewed it into pieces and pulp amid his screams!
This is because, for ghosts, humans in this state are truly "delicious"!
Only three figures that resembled human forms remained in the same place.

Each of these three exudes an extremely powerful aura, and their cultivation has all reached the upper limit of the current stage, "Peak of the Seventh Realm of Transcendence"!
"What? Now that you two are free, aren't you planning to leave?"

The first figure spoke, his voice as hoarse as a crow on an old tree!
His face is like red copper, his nose is round and plump as if dyed with cinnabar, lightning patterns are faintly visible in his sunken pupils, he is wearing a dark purple crow feather cloak, holding a round fan with bone patterns, wearing wooden clogs with hexagram patterns, and his body is surrounded by blue-black miasma!

"Didn't Brother Tengu always say during the 'seal' that once the seal was broken, he would devour a hundred children's hearts as soon as possible?"

"Why are you still staying here? If you are slow, all the children in this city might be devoured by other ghosts..."

The second voice spoke, and although his face was as handsome as a teenager, his voice sounded a bit old.

A dark red ghost horn pierced his hair bun on his forehead, and the cold gleam of fangs was faintly visible at the corners of his mouth. He was wearing a scarlet hunting robe, and a green-scale snake-shaped necklace was wrapped around his neck. His ten fingers had black claws, and he was holding a "big red wine gourd" that was steaming with blood-colored wine mist!
"Shuten-doji, why don't you go... didn't you say you wanted to use the blood of 990 girls to make wine? Why are you taking so long here... You know, the city is in chaos right now... Those pure girls might be defiled by those rebellious humans in the evening..."

The third ghost figure was a beautiful woman!

Her face is as beautiful as cherry blossoms in March, her pupils stand upright like a cat's, and her lips are as bright as blood.

She is wearing a twelve-piece robe, with a chihaya patterned with gold thread. The nine jade hairpins in her hair sway like fox tails when she walks. There is a skull embedded in the mirror frame hanging at her waist, and the white bone bells on her ankles are revealed when her skirt flutters.

The ringing of the bell makes people's minds addicted, as if they are falling into a hell of bones!

"Hmph! Tamamonomae, are you trying to get yourself out of this by saying this?

"You do not like to eat humans... but you like to absorb the Yang Qi of human emperors, and you will even transform into the emperor's appearance and replace him... You are causing harm to the country and the people, but you are more harmful than us. We only eat a few hundred or dozens of people each time, but you want to destroy an entire country at once..."

The handsome young man with dark red devil horns on his head said with disdain on his face.

"Tamamonomae, Shuten-doji... the two of you should stop pretending. We know that your purpose is to compete with me for this 'One Hundred Demons Night Parade'!"

After a round of "sarcasm" by the three ghosts, they all looked at Hattori Hanzo who was still holding the "One Hundred Demons Night Parade Scroll" in his hand, with expressions full of desire!
In the folk legend of "One Hundred Demons Night Parade" in the Land of Sakura, the three most powerful among these creatures are: Great Tengu·Emperor Sutoku, Shuten-doji·Gedomaru, and Nine-tailed Fox·Tamamonomae.

The three are the leaders of the "Hundred Ghosts", and they are also the figures who once dominated a region!

Now that he has escaped from the "One Hundred Demons Night Parade Scroll", he naturally sets his sights on using this "scroll" that can "seal" himself!

"Humph, this thing belongs to me, how dare you snatch it?"

The aura of the three emanated, and above each of their heads appeared the “holy image” representing the seventh realm!
Roar!
A gigantic Tengu with wings growing on its back, its jet-black wings spread out to block out the sun, causing a hurricane to tear through the clouds, and the blood mist beneath its feet surged like a red lotus of karmic fire!

A nine-tailed fox stretches out like a bright moon in the sky. The sky and the earth change color when the nine tails dance. Blue-white fox fire burns at the end of each tail, and scenes of the fall of dynasties emerge in the fire!

An extremely ugly "evil demon" appeared above Shuten-doji's head. Its entire body was red like flowing magma, its muscles were knotted like mountains, its horns dripped with poisonous saliva that corroded everything, and its bloody mouth spewed out purple-black miasma!

"What is this... Such a powerful aura..."

"A terrifying monster invaded my 'royal city'?"

The terrifying ghostly aura emitted by the three men's astonishing momentum almost swept across half of the "Shogunate Royal City", causing the people of the Sakura Country who were originally fighting for treasures, burning, killing and raping to tremble in fear, and many of them fell to their knees on the spot.

"Hmm, no! They are actually three beings at the peak of the seventh realm? Moreover, their grades are very high, and they all have the potential to become gods..."

Even the "Sea Saint" who was fighting with "Sakai Tadatsugu" in the sky had an ugly expression on his face!

Are these humans crazy?

How come there are so many peerless monsters in a random "sealed" item? It seems that I have made some wrong decision just now!
"Wow... guys, are you planning to get rid of me?"

Hattori Hanzo, who was targeted by the "big demons" at the peak of the three-headed and seven-realm realms, spat out a large mouthful of black blood on the spot.

With his strength at the early stage of the sixth realm, he was obviously unable to fight against the three great monsters at the peak of the seventh realm.

However, it seemed that because of the injury, his consciousness had recovered from the previous state of "ghost energy entering the brain"!

"People of the future generations, submit to this emperor, and I will naturally protect your safety..."

The eyes of the great dog are like the moon, looking down from a high place, and the voice is like thunder.

According to the legend of Sakura Country, he was the incarnation of the resentment of Emperor Sutoku of Sakura Country after his death after being exiled.

Therefore, he called himself "Emperor" and tried to attract the "loyalty" of this outstanding person in later generations with this identity!
"General, you must not believe him! This man is not the real Emperor Sutoku. Instead, he devoured the vengeful spirit of Emperor Sutoku after his death. He is the murderer of your emperor... General, just give this thing to me, and I can agree to any request you have... Hehe..."

Tamamonomae's voice appeared, with its bewitching power.

She was originally a fox demon, and later transformed into a beautiful woman. She was taken as a concubine by an emperor of the Sakura Country, but she tried to absorb his yang energy and transform herself into the "emperor" to rule the world. She is a true "demon that brings disaster to the country"!
"Humph, so much nonsense... just kill him directly..."

The "Evil Devil Holy Image" above Shuten-doji's head took a step forward, and the flames it spewed out corroded the earth into a scorched earth...

He is a pure evil ghost. In the legend of Sakura Country, he transforms into a handsome boy and is known for seducing women and eating their bodies. In terms of combat strength, he is the strongest among the three.

Faced with a mere "Sixth Realm" saint, he was unwilling to waste too much time with him.

Boom!

The huge "evil ghost" waved its arms, and its ten sharp claws crossed like scimitars. As it swung its arms, the void collapsed, the grass and trees withered, and the rocks melted into red pulp, and the distorted faces of countless women appeared in the ghost fire surrounding its body!

This blow was meant to kill him instantly... "Hmph, sir, do you think you can defeat me?"

The next moment, "Hattori Hanzo" shouted loudly.

Then the figure suddenly "exploded" and split into hundreds of identical figures, each rushing in one direction, and scattering like fireworks...

It is because of him as an eternal genius that he has obtained the "innate magical power" bestowed by the eternal land!
Although his cultivation was weaker than his, this magical power could temporarily bridge the gap between the two realms...

Not only that, the person who was differentiated from this magical power even had the "One Hundred Demons Night Parade Scroll" in his hand, everything was exactly the same.

Even three ghost leaders who have reached the seventh level of transcendence find it difficult to detect the whereabouts of the real body!
They could only change their expression and try to intercept by various means.

In the end, only two-thirds of them were destroyed, and one-third of the "clones" still escaped...

The most important thing is that the "One Hundred Demons Night Parade Scroll" in the hands of these destroyed clones are all fake, and the aura of the real scroll disappeared all of a sudden, as if it was covered up by some means, making it difficult for even them who are related to it to perceive it!

"Damn it... a mere human! Did you two just deliberately not use your full strength and let it get away?"

Daitengu was furious and bared his teeth.

At this moment, he no longer called himself "Emperor Sutoku".

"That is a Xuanhuang heavy weapon that cannot be refined in a short period of time, and without the assistance of this 'shrine', it is impossible for it to control us..."

"Great Tengu, I know you are eager to regain your throne, but there are more forces than just ours in this city. If we start an internal conflict now, I am afraid that others will benefit in the end..."

"What we need to do now is to devour these humans and regain sufficient strength before deciding our respective territories... How about we make a bet... Whoever gets this scroll will be qualified to rule over the other two..."

At this time, Shuten-doji spoke slowly.

They themselves could not destroy this scroll, and they were unwilling to hand it over to anyone easily.

After all, this thing could even be related to one's life and property.

Now that he has escaped with Hattori Hanzo, it can be considered a better choice.

Whoever can get this treasure will be the real "King of Ghosts"...

"Okay, I agree... Now let's divide up our respective territories... Let's first take control of this 'Shogunate Royal City'!"

Said from the mouth of the Great Tengu.

The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons will bring endless killings!
Especially since most of these ghosts are "catastrophe creatures" themselves, they are more eager to devour eternal creatures to "exchange their lives".

Now, as soon as it appeared, it has carried out a "massacre" on a large number of "human civilians" in this city!
"Woo... run, take the child with you... cough... run... ah!"

Shrouded in black fog, in a wooden house with flames burning, a woman from the Sakura Country was holding a crying child, running towards the inner room with a panicked look on her face!

Her husband was a short samurai from the Sakura Country.

At this time, he was covering his body and shouting loudly at it.

It was because, lying on top of it, there were a few pale-faced, slightly unreal babies with their eyes closed that looked like they were not yet fully formed!

The latter's umbilical cord was wrapped around the man's neck, making his body increasingly illusory, while the sizes of these "babies" were constantly growing stronger. This was one of the hundred ghosts - the resentful baby!

Those are ghosts transformed from children whose parents wanted to abort them before they were born. These spirits were strangled before they could open their eyes, and they turned their resentment towards their complete families into a force that devours vitality!
They would kill the husband and children in a happy family, leaving the mother alone like a walking corpse, and draw strength and "maternal love" from her body...

"No, no..."

The man died soon, but the baby had grown up. When it opened its eyes, they were pitch black, as if there were no pupils. Then it floated from the man's body and chased after the man who was holding the child and covering his mouth, hiding in the corner of the house...

The latter had difficulty seeing because the entire city was shrouded in black fog.

At this time, he had huddled in the corner, shivering against a "shrine"...completely unaware that he had already been surrounded by these "resentful babies".

hum!
However, just as these "enemious babies" stretched out their fingers with purple and black nails and tried to hug the woman's body.

Suddenly, endless golden light emanated from the "shrine" next to the woman.

The four characters "Tosho Shinjun" appeared prominently on the tablet in the shrine.

When the translucent arms of these "resentful infants" came into contact with the golden light, they were like candles encountering flames, and suddenly became illusory, and retreated in fear...

Shintoism, as the state religion of the Sakura Country, is flourishing throughout the entire Sakura Country area. In this "Shogunate Royal City", every household has prepared a "shrine".

The "god tablets" enshrined in these shrines are all "Tosho Shinto"!
Tosho-jin is the guardian of the Edo Shogunate and one of the incarnations of "Amaterasu Omikami" in Japanese legend. He is also the "god's name" created by the people of the Sakura Country to commemorate "Tokugawa Ieyasu" who founded the Edo Shogunate!
"It's the God. Can the God destroy ghosts?"

After screaming, the woman realized something and cried with joy while holding her baby.

The repelled "enemies" were unwilling to give up their "mother" and tried to grab her again... although they were repelled by the power of the "shrine" again!

However, it also made the light of the "shrine" dimmer, flickering and shaking.

"No, God, please protect my child..."

The latter realized something, shouted hurriedly, knelt on the ground and prayed, and the pure "power of faith" immediately gathered on the "shrine" and flowed further towards the "Tosho Shrine" located in the center of the entire "Shogunate Dynasty"...

(End of this chapter)