Miss Heber is fighting her way out of the Lostbelt!

"Then we met that fox. Ha, if it weren't for that fox, we would still be living happily in the mountains. But it was also because of her that we were able to create the Kurama Eight-Ryu School and become the so-called eternal master of kendo."

"I've always dreamed that one day I'd defeat that demon fox fairly and earn her unwavering respect." Daitengou chuckled self-deprecatingly. "But now that demon fox is dead, who should I show this sword to?"

"And yet this damned fox gave me an amulet—what? In her eyes, am I some kind of rebellious monster?"

"Later, we accepted a useless disciple named Minamoto no Yoshitsune." Guiyi Hōgen held the sword and looked at Heian-kyo in the distance.

"This doesn't surprise us at all. After all, the fox had predicted this long ago. That incompetent disciple naturally couldn't change his fate and died early due to his brother's betrayal."

"It's just bad luck and a difficult life." Guiyi Hōgen shook his head. "If only Minamoto no Yoshitsune had been born a hundred years earlier and met that evil-minded fox demon... well, it's all due to my incompetence as a teacher."

Daitengu untied the rope holding the amulet from his wrist and threw it to Saga.

"You, little dog demon, are now an accomplished cultivator." Gui Yifayan looked at Saga. "The Shogun established the shogunate and ended the Heian period. This has caused the intelligence of all non-human species to degenerate and their lifespans to shorten... Now all the demons are hiding in the borderlands or fleeing into the wilderness."

"If we go, we will undoubtedly be struck down by the General's sword. As a result, the lifespans of all the monsters still walking the earth will be drastically shortened. Newly born monsters might not even survive two hundred years... Ha, are you really not afraid?"

"I'm not afraid." Saga replied.

"Ha, great." Gui Yifayan laughed.

A grotesque iron-colored mask covered the Tengu's face.

The Tengu flapped its wings, and a huge dark cloud swept over the shogunate's army. A strong wind fell from the cloud, blowing the flags all over the place. The shogunate's soldiers were dizzy and threw away their weapons and armor. They could no longer tell the difference between north and south, and near and far.

Gui Yifayan was wearing extremely high wooden clogs and landed gracefully on the Suzaku Gate.

With a slight force of his foot, he kicked the mirror that Minamoto no Raikou had hung to scare away the Kuhuo bird, and it was shattered into pieces.

His slender white eyebrows were raised, and his golden pupils were full of pride and unruliness.

Tengu held a long sword in his arms and exhaled slowly, as if spitting out all the resentment, depression and anger of the past two hundred years.

"Where is Minamoto no Yorimitsu?!"

"I have come to ask for your advice, the Great Tengu Demon of Kurama Mountain!"

More than two hundred years have passed since the shogun's name was tabooed, and few people know that "Minamoto no Raikou" is the shogun's real name.

The clouds over Kyoto City suddenly darkened.

Tengu finally stopped suppressing himself, and the long sword in his arms rose from the wooden sheath inch by inch and fell into her palm.

A crack appeared in the clouds.

Gui Yi Fa Yan laughed loudly as she flew upwards, and an unprecedentedly fierce light rose from her sword.

"Look carefully, this is not a copy of Tengu!"

The Heavenly Dog flapped its wings and soared into the sky.

Thunder rumbled in the clouds, and suddenly lightning flashed in all directions.

Soon the thunder subsided and the clouds grew thicker.

The next moment, the clouds broke and a ray of light appeared in the sky.

There is no more ghost in the world.

......

In Kiyomizu-dera Temple, the sound of the waterfall rumbles.

The faded amulet in the palm of his hand once again took on the color of cherry blossoms.

[Secret Sword: Tengu Sheng]

[Nature: Blade (representing the principles of fighting, resistance, and domination)]

[This body is a flame, and all aspects are bright and clear.]

[The stronger the will of the one holding this secret sword, the higher their speed will be! This secret sword ignores all armor and will definitely arrive first after being struck!]

Behind Heber's body, the illusion belonging to the ghost's Dharma Eye grinned silently, as if asking: How about this sword?

"Of course it's a good sword," Hebe replied. "I'm defeated with all my heart."

The Tengu laughed silently, patted Heber's shoulder, and then disappeared.

Hebe stood at the water's edge.

She knew that this was just her own imaginary "Ghost Eye", but if it was a real Tengu swordsman, he would probably do the same.

The fox demon twitched the corner of his mouth.

The moment the amulet was activated, she felt the presence of several other amulets.

"Not all amulets have been sensed. Over the past millennia, some have been damaged..." Heber's eyes were deep. "The General and Miss Aaron's amulets are missing because they are currently in the singularity of the fifteenth century of the solar calendar."

The amulet of Guiyi Fayan was returned to its original owner.

Then the only things left were the two amulets that were originally given to Youkai no Mori and Devil no Suzuko.

Surprisingly, neither of them was very far away.

One of the amulets is even located in Kyoto City.

......

Li Xi turned down the teahouse owner's enthusiastic recommendation with a cold face.

Of course, this doesn't mean that she doesn't like the weird and the quirky.

Although Li Xi is not like her fellow raccoon demons who clamor to go down the mountain to tease humans, she does not dislike humans' food, clothing and living standards.

After all, staying in the mountains is always boring.

But some things have to be done by the raccoon.

When Li Xi thought of the instructions passed down by his ancestors, his expression became even uglier.

Tamamonomae is already dead.

But our ancestors also left us a teaching: when the amulet begins to heat up and regains its color, it means Tamamonomae is about to return.

The raccoon monsters in the Yokai Forest have remembered the agreement they made with Tamamonomae for generations and are eager to serve this great monster they have never met.

But in Tanuki's opinion, that was just Tamamonomae's obsession that had not yet dissipated.

What QikliSng Bawu needs is not a raccoon dog, but an onmyoji or a monk.

"If I die, I'd rather die completely..." Li Xi thought to herself, "How lingering it is."

She tightened the rope around her wrist again, checked the wakizashi and katana at her waist again, and finally touched the emerald green leaf above her head.

Thanks to the illusion, Li Xi's disguise is perfect at this moment.

Apart from her slightly sour face, she is completely a young and beautiful swordsman.

"Very good, let's rely on the amulet to find the trace of Tamamonomae's obsession, and then use my secret sword here to cut off the thousand-year-old sorrowful wish of the demon raccoon clan..."

Closing his eyes to re-feel the direction, Li Xi gradually walked towards Kiyomizu Temple.

......

Heber stood in front of the vermilion torii gate of Kiyomizu-dera Temple with a calm expression.

An invisible influence began to spread out from her as the center, which was the remnant of the struggle and the influence of "dispute".

As she released her suppression of "disputes", the temperature in the air rose for no reason, the paint on the wooden pillars of the torii gate became sharper, the leaves of the red maple trees in the mountains began to tear against each other in the wind, and even the eaves seemed to be collided with the sky.

In the perception of the swordsmen, the terrible storm appeared again.

ps: Foreshadowing recovery

Eastern Kingdom Volume: 97 Use Heaven's Punishment on the Fox Demon

The terrifying aura of a tense situation could not be more clear to the sword masters, like needles pricking them, forcing them to squint their eyes and tense their spirits to endure it.

"So scary, so scary...ho ho ho." The master of the training hall, Saito Yakuro, laughed strangely.

The bald old man in a kimono, nicknamed "Saito of Strength", held his sword as if to give himself courage, while reaching out to pull his beard, and the terrifying muscles under the loose kimono were surging.

Chiba Shusaku was about to say something when he saw his second son walking towards him from the end of the long street.

The man, who was no longer young, held the sword at his waist, his back straight, his eyes fixed on his father and elder brother.

"Eijiro, you—"

The old swordsman looked at Chiba Eijiro's soul +-dream first*, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and the expression on his face was no longer the love of a father looking at his son, but the expectation and excitement when seeing the opponent.

"The young are formidable! The young are formidable." Saito Yakuro stroked his beard. "My son's defeat was not unfair at all. The Chiba family has gained another swordsman."

"Senior, you are so kind." Eijiro nodded modestly. "If I hadn't witnessed the battle between 'Demon Fox' and my brother, I would never have been able to comprehend the secret sword."

Chiba Eijiro's talent is no less than Juutarou's. The reason why he was unable to comprehend the secret sword was because he witnessed the military officer of the United Federation shooting and killing two swordsmen.

The blood of the two swordsmen flowed on the long street. They held the hilts of their swords tightly until their death, without loosening at all.

After that, Eijiro, who had easily defeated Saito Yakuro's son, fell into silence.

——Anyway, no matter how much you practice swordsmanship, it is just an embroidery needle in front of guns and cannons.

People who hold this idea are by no means isolated cases.

Saito Yakuro also thought so, but this old senior with a free and easy demeanor did not give up swordsmanship. Instead, he spent a huge amount of money to build a square for practicing guns and artillery.

This old swordsman studied artillery with a group of like-minded friends, built artillery batteries, and continued to explore ways to combine swordsmanship with guns and artillery.

After witnessing the duel between his elder brother and Yin Hebo, Eijiro finally realized that he really liked swordsmanship.

If you like it, then do it.

Don't worry about what other people think.

After realizing this, Eijiro became a swordsman.

As soon as he became a swordsman, Eijiro felt the "storm" that covered most of Kyoto City.

That was both a provocation and an invitation.

——Come and kill me.

If you can do it.

......

Okada Izo endured the bloating and pain coming from the top of his head. He felt dry mouth and hot blood.

Ah, I want to kill—I want to kill something with my swordsmanship.

The "executioner", one of the four great executioners at the end of the shogunate, murmured and restrained his emotions with deep breaths.

"Not now, not now."

He suppressed his restlessness and walked into the Tosa clan's secret base in Kyoto.

Those "companions" fled away as if they were avoiding tigers and wolves, leaving Okada Izo with a large space.

The Tosa clan was a radical faction within the anti-shogunate movement, and even within Tosa, Okada Izo was an unusual figure—he seemed to have no particularly strong sense of identity, yet his actions were more ruthless and brutal than anyone else. As the sharpest sword under Takechi Hanpeita, Okada Izo rarely interacted with others.

"Teacher Takechi." Okada Izo walked into the room, "That man has been punished by heaven."

"Ah."

Takechi Hanpeita's expression was not very good. He stood in front of the window with his arms folded across his chest. "Izo... do you know that 'demon fox'?"

Okada Izo was stunned: "'Demon Fox'...what happened?"

"Izo, we're a step too late!" The top leader of the Tosa anti-shogunate faction lamented. "Kondo Isami, a dog of the shogunate, actually had the nerve to work as a doorman for the 'Demon Fox'—who now lives next door to Okita Souji."

"Do you know what this means, Izo?" said Takechi Hanpeita. "It means that the 'Demon Fox' has been recruited by the Shinsengumi, a bunch of shogunate dogs, and has become a minion of the shogunate... If we let her adapt to her identity, our actions will become even more difficult!"

He quickened his pace and walked a few steps, then put his hand on Okada Izo's shoulder, his eyes burning.

"Yi Zang, at this point, there is only one solution."

Takechi Hanpeita clenched his fists, revealing a determined and expectant expression.

"Let's punish the fox demon with Heaven's Punishment!"

......

It is no coincidence.