Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 844: The Land of Destination

Red Leaf Hunter knelt down…

Within the Onmyoji’s legacy, the ninth-ranked shikigami everyone desires, just like that, performed a “dogeza” bow to the enemy.

As if it had met its father.

This was something Jindai Yunyi had never encountered before, and there was no record of such an event in the clan’s history.

Why?

Jindai Yunyi simply couldn’t figure out why this was happening!

Not only that, when Red Leaf Hunter bowed, the Mountain Child and Fire Fox also bowed.

The Mountain Child, a small white monkey, knelt on the ground like a human, with its large hands the size of gongs pressed to the ground.

The red Fire Fox stretched out its forelimbs, prostrating completely still.

This indicated that the problem was not with Red Leaf Hunter, but there was a natural being suppressing the bloodline of the shikigami!

His mind raced. There were two people in the direction Red Leaf Hunter bowed to: a young boy and a little girl.

First, consider who exactly it is bowing to?

It shouldn’t be the boy, because when Red Leaf Hunter attacked him, it had no reservations, until the girl’s cheek was cut.

Jindai Yunyi stood on the mountaintop, silently watching everything. He tried to continue controlling the three shikigami, but there was no response at all.

This is the Outer World. If the information provided by the Mysterious Business Department is correct, this little girl should be Jinguji Maki.

But why would this little girl, who isn’t even a Time Traveler, an ordinary person, have the ability to command shikigami?

How can we fight now? Without shikigami, an Onmyoji is no different from advanced infantry!

Jindai Yunyi only felt his plight. It was so difficult to restart and acquire the coveted Red Leaf Hunter, only to encounter a girl with cheat-like powers?!

At this moment, Qing Chen looked at the three shikigami beside him and whispered to Jinguji Maki, “Try to command them and see if it works.”

“Huh? How do I command?” the little girl asked, confused and uncertain.

“…Have them do a split,” Qing Chen said.

The little girl hesitated, then said to Red Leaf Hunter, “Do a split for big brother.”

But, Red Leaf Hunter didn’t respond.

She repeated the command to Mountain Child and Fire Fox, but there was still no response.

“Brother, it doesn’t work,” Jinguji Maki said weakly.

“Strange, could it be that they can only be made to bow?” Qing Chen wondered. “Can you communicate with them in your mind?”

“No…” the little girl replied.

Qing Chen thought for a moment and realized they could only make these shikigami bow.

Even so, he had struck gold.

With this little girl around, even if she can’t become a Time Traveler, she could walk fearlessly among Onmyoji in the Outer World.

No, rather, every Onmyoji should avoid her.

The Jindai family had two main legacies. With this girl, one was essentially rendered useless.

Qing Chen wondered if this girl’s bloodline could affect higher-level Onmyoji shikigami. Thinking this, he quickly took a small glass bottle originally used for black ointment and scraped a drop of the girl’s blood into it.

This scene left Jinguji Maki baffled.

“Brother, what do we do now?” the little girl asked.

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “Kill this Onmyoji and see if there’s any change in the shikigami.”

With that, he carried the girl up the mountain, stepping several meters at a time, as if walking on flat ground.

Jindai Yunyi was terrified at this sight. Recalling how the boy crushed Mountain Child and Fire Fox earlier, he feared one punch from this boy would kill him on the spot.

Moreover, Jindai Yunyi had witnessed Qing Chen’s battle with Red Leaf Hunter. He suspected that even without the girl’s suppression, Red Leaf Hunter wasn’t a match for him.

Because the boy fought with such ease and calmness.

As Qing Chen went up the mountain, Jindai Yunyi turned to flee in the opposite direction, not even caring if the shikigami could return to his Divine Destiny Bridge.

Every Onmyoji has a Divine Destiny Bridge in their mind, where shikigami can usually return to and rest.

But now, he couldn’t even retrieve his shikigami.

As Qing Chen began running, he had only gone a few steps before Red Leaf Hunter, Mountain Child, and Fire Fox stood up and attacked again as if nothing had happened.

But as soon as they approached within ten meters of Jinguji Maki, they knelt down again.

Qing Chen took another step in confusion, and the shikigami stood up again. This time, they seemed to look for another route to reunite with Jindai Yunyi and return to his Divine Destiny Bridge.

But before they could fully stand, Qing Chen jumped back, and the three shikigami knelt again…

“Huh, is there a distance limitation?!” Qing Chen remarked after thinking for a moment. “Xiao Zhenji, you stay here and suppress them. I’ll be back soon. If they move, cut your finger again.”

In the past, Qing Chen couldn’t bear to have a little girl do this, but now, since she had entered the Knight Organization, she had to bear this responsibility.

Cutting a finger wasn’t a big deal.

“Ah… okay,” Xiao Zhenji obediently jumped down from Qing Chen’s back and stood among the three shikigami.

Qing Chen tested the distance before leaving, finding that the three shikigami remained suppressed, he then pursued.

He wanted to see what would happen to shikigami if the Onmyoji died. Logically, if they were suppressed and couldn’t return to the Divine Destiny Bridge, they would have to find another place to reside!

Without a master, and unable to repair their spirits on the bridge, shikigami would eventually dissipate.

As Qing Chen left, today’s revelation of Jinguji Maki’s abilities was a surprise, unexpected even to him.

He couldn’t let Jindai Yunyi get away, because if the Jindai family knew, they would use every resource to ensure the girl couldn’t leave the Island Country.

This girl was a shadow over the Jindai family, and no one would allow her to live. Even returning to their home country wouldn’t be safe.

She could drive the Jindai family crazy.

Qing Chen had to ensure Jindai Yunyi took the secret to his grave.

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The frail Jinguji Maki stood alone in the snow, watching the shikigami around her with some fear…

What if they moved when her brother went too far away?

The little girl held a small knife to her finger, ready to cut herself and draw blood again.

As time passed, Jinguji Maki gradually relaxed. She wondered if the shikigami’s knees hurt from kneeling for so long on such a cold ground.

She hesitantly whispered, “Um… do you want to get up and rest for a bit? Rest and then kneel again.”

The snow was quiet, with only the sound of wind howling through the mountains.

The three shikigami didn’t “rest,” but Red Leaf Hunter gradually straightened up and lifted its head. The little girl, frightened, prepared to cut her finger again, but Red Leaf Hunter only smiled at her and then knelt back down.

The girl was stunned for a moment. She noticed Red Leaf Hunter’s eyes weren’t as blood-red, and its smile was quite beautiful.

At first, she had thought, from a distance, that Red Leaf Hunter looked older, so she called her aunty.

But up close, she realized Red Leaf Hunter’s face was heavily painted with traditional Japanese makeup, and she was actually a young woman.

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Qing Chen chased after Jindai Yunyi. Despite being a B-Class Onmyoji, his physical abilities were pitifully weak, comparable to a peak C-Class or early B-Class.

That’s why Hu’s Information Agency advised that to kill an Onmyoji, one must capture the king.

Qing Chen and Jindai Yunyi leapt and bounded through the mountains, as agile as swallows.

The distance between them shrank…

Jindai Yunyi, panicking, pulled out a satellite phone while fleeing, shouting, “Beware! The killer can suppress shikigami! All Onmyoji, withdraw from combat for now, and let the other legacy handle this!”

Qing Chen frowned. He was too late.

Modern communication was so advanced, and with high signal coverage in tourist hotspots like the Alpine Hidaka, intercepting satellite phones was nearly impossible.

What to do? He’ll have to run away with the girl.

But then, unexpectedly, about to catch up, Jindai Yunyi, in his panic, missed his footing, tumbling straight off a cliff.

Jindai Yunyi screamed as he rolled down the hundred-meter cliff, trying to grasp at rocks several times but only touching loose stones, continuing to fall.

“Ah~thud!”

With a final heavy sound, Jindai Yunyi lay still at the bottom of the valley.

Qing Chen stood mid-cliff, looking down in shock: “That was so abrupt?”

He had expected more rounds of fighting to kill the Onmyoji, even though Onmyoji were physically weak.

Well, it saved him the trouble.

If he had the Puppeteer, he could sacrifice Jindai Yunyi.

He hadn’t fulfilled this month’s Puppeteer’s containment conditions. Missing several months would make the Puppeteer’s life sacrifices astronomically high.

Not thinking further, Qing Chen confirmed Jindai Yunyi’s death with several precise snowflake hits before returning.

When he returned to Jinguji Maki’s valley, he was shocked by what he saw. Red Leaf Hunter, Mountain Child, and Fire Fox stood up and surrounded the girl.

Even cutting her finger didn’t make them kneel again.

Qing Chen panicked and rushed forward.

Before reaching her, Red Leaf Hunter, Mountain Child, and Fire Fox turned into streams of light, entering Jinguji Maki’s brow, disappearing.

Qing Chen blinked in astonishment: “Did they recognize you as their master? Can you command them?”

The little girl, bewildered, replied, “I don’t feel anything. I can’t sense them.”

“Huh?” Qing Chen frowned.

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Sorry for only one update today, I have an MRI appointment at 8:20 PM.