Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 888: 548, the strong one with built-in barrage

The red signal flare slowly descended.

Jindai Yuncang, dressed in an Onmyoji hunting suit, was standing guard beside an old man: “Grandpa, someone is coming.”

The old man’s face was full of wrinkles, like the cracked patterns on a dried riverbed in summer.

The old man was sitting cross-legged, eyes closed.

His mind locked onto the battlefield two kilometers away, attentive to every opportunity to defeat Uncle Li.

In front of him, an ugly ghost guarded him. The ghost was as tall as a human but had two horns on its head.

ATS-006, Hannya.

Among the Hyakki Night Trip, it is born from human jealousy and emits a spine-chilling laugh.

Behind the old man stood a pallid skeleton, making a chilling sound when blown by the cold wind.

ATS-005, Mad Bone.

Including Shuten-doji, Great Tengu, Bull-headed rakshasas, and the Soldier Department, who were still besieging Uncle Li.

This ancestor of the Jindai Consortium has almost incorporated the most ruthless shikigami from the Divine Bridge into his Divine Destiny Bridge.

Few people knew what the remaining six shikigami were.

Perhaps they were the true trump cards hidden at the bottom of the box.

Beside Jindai Yuncang stood only one big-footed monk with one eye, ATS-047 Seibozu.

In the Federation, many people discussing Onmyoji would debate how powerful an Onmyoji would be if they could summon twelve S-Class shikigami upon rising to the rank of demigod.

Onmyoji should be the mightiest demigods, commanding many forces!

However, these people were naive, thinking that having half of an Onmyoji’s shikigami being directly combat-capable was quite impressive.

For instance, Jindai Yuncang’s Utsusemi, White Tiger, and Fei Touman were forced back to the Divine Bridge after being defeated. Apart from Seibozu, there wasn’t a need to summon the remaining three shikigami, ATS-411 Fire-extinguishing Woman, and ATS-288 Graveyard Fire.

Graveyard Fire could ignite blue ghost flames in the fields.

Fire-extinguishing Woman would blow out oil lamps at night, preventing fires.

Someone at Hu’s Information Agency had jokingly mentioned that the former was a farmer in charge of burning stubble at his landlord’s house, while the latter was an elderly woman responsible for fire prevention in a wealthy household, ultimately having no combat capability at all…

Of course, under normal circumstances, Fei Touman, White Tiger, and Seibozu would be enough to give any same-tier transcendent headaches. Without Uncle Li, Qing Chen would have perished at White Tiger’s hands long ago.

Thus, Jindai Yuncang was also one of the few experts among Onmyoji.

At this moment, two young men wearing white windbreakers walked over from the north, with one still explaining tirelessly: “Boss, how can I make you believe me? I really only know how to fold small hopping frogs.”

The other young man took off his headphones and said: “Don’t always say you don’t know, say you can learn.”

Jindai Yuncang frowned, not understanding what they were talking about.

Before he could figure it out, he saw hundreds of small hopping frogs approaching quickly across the vast snowy field.

Those small hopping frogs were folded roughly without aligned seams, so they looked different from afar and appeared particularly bizarre.

When the small hopping frogs reached Jindai Yuncang, they jumped towards him.

Seibozu acted, stepping on the small hopping frogs with his enormous feet, while Hannya by the old man’s side exhaled a fiery breath, burning all the small hopping frogs.

Huan Yu frowned, not expecting his folded paper to have no resistance against the S-Class Hannya.

Zard shouted: “See what I mean? That old man has many S-Class shikigami; we can’t beat him! My task is to keep Qing Chen alive; there’s no need to face that old thing directly. Someone will take care of him!”

With that, he pulled Huan Yu and headed south.

Jindai Yuncang raised his brows, unable to understand how these two managed to mix into such a tense battlefield. Facing Jindai’s demigod ancestor, they were still so nonchalant?

The old man rasped: “Turns out they are helping the knights, save your walk.”

As he spoke, the pallid Mad Bone rushed toward Zard, making a rattling sound like a bone wind chime.

Zard was panicked: “No, no, no, I am here to protect Qing Chen, but the person beside me wants to kill Qing Chen every day! Don’t attack, let’s talk it out!”

At this moment, Jindai Yuncang and Huan Yu were baffled by these erratic actions.

Who were they really siding with, and why was it so complicated?

However, Mad Bone did not hesitate, leaping dozens of meters ahead.

The pallid bone frame spread its body as much as possible in the air and then violently descended.

“Can’t understand human speech, huh?!” Zard pressed his hands to the ground, and a series of earth walls sprung up between him and Mad Bone. In just a blink, ten earth walls stood tall.

Mad Bone crashed through all ten walls, kicking Zard in the chest.

“Whoa!” Zard flew backward: “You bastard!”

This guy even continued talking while being beaten!

In mid-air, Zard’s body disintegrated into a heap of yellow earth.

As he landed, the windbreaker scattered messily, sinking into the ground.

Two seconds later, another Zard emerged from the ground, fully clothed.

At the same time, the old man from Jindai floated backward, with a soil spike sprouting from where he originally sat.

The soil spike did not harm the old man but bore four words: “Ah, damn you!”

This element manipulation transcendent, top in offensive capability, had been turned into the taunting type by Zard!

It was something nobody could foresee!

The old man sneered: “Looking for death.”

Speaking, Hannya chased after Zard.

Earth walls sprung up one after another, blocking Hannya’s path, with words written on them like “Dancing on your grave” and “Your progeny will be born blind.”

Each of the ten earth walls had different taunts, and as Hannya smashed through each one, it revealed the next set of words.

Streaming by like bullets.

But at this moment, Jindai Yuncang suddenly looked to the distance, seeing a young man in the snowfield carrying a bamboo basket slowly approaching. The basket held numerous painting scrolls.

The young man appeared about thirty years old, resembling a studious scholar from ancient times walking into the capital for exams.

He carried the scrolls but also appeared to be the main character of a landscape painting.

“Grandpa, it’s Chen Yu!” Jindai Yuncang’s pupils contracted rapidly.

The young man in the distance glanced at him, making Jindai Yuncang feel his heartstop, as if he had been drawn into one of the scrolls.

This demigod’s fleeting glimpse was overwhelming for the A-Class Jindai Yuncang!

Chen Yu, a present-day demigod of the Chen Clan, son of Chen Chuanzhi.

Chen Chuanzhi had a son late in life and then secluded himself outside City No. 7, dedicating his energy to educating his son.

12 years ago, Chen Chuanzhi passed away, and Chen Yu never left his father’s thatched hut again.

4 years ago, Chen Yu became a demigod at thirty in that thatched hut outside City No. 7.

It was said that on the night Chen Yu ascended to demigod, all residents of City No. 7 smelled a fragrant aroma of plum blossoms wafting from outside the city, uplifting their spirits.

If Li Bingxi, Uncle Li, and Jindai Chika were the demigods of the previous generation, then Shadow and Chen Yu represented the new generation of demigods.

Moreover, it was rumored that Shadow was gravely ill, with words confirmed several times by the Contraindicated courts, indicating Shadow’s days were numbered.

Chen Yu naturally became the first among the younger demigods.

At this moment, Chen Yu slowly lowered his bamboo basket in the distance. He glanced at Jindai Chika, then carefully selected a painting scroll from the basket and unfolded it.

A white Divine Deer emerged from the scroll, treading upon the snow.

Running, the Divine Deer stepped on auspicious clouds, dreamy and ethereal.

Chen Yu thought for a moment, finding it insufficient, and pulled another scroll from the basket, unfolding it to reveal a Zhong Kui holding a golden club, advancing together with the Divine Deer.

Hannya and Mad Bone, pulled away by Zard, were too far to return in time!

The two shikigami had just turned back when they heard Zard laugh wildly: “Old man got tricked!”

Instantly, eight massive earth gates grew from the ground, locking Hannya and Mad Bone together. The gates were inscribed with words like “Life Gate,” “Death Gate,” “Scenic Gate,” resembling gates of the underworld.

But the next moment, Mad Bone crashed through the Death Gate with its head…

Huan Yu looked at Zard expressionlessly.

Zard awkwardly laughed: “Hahaha, they are S-Class shikigami… breaking through my gates is reasonable, right?”

But because of Zard’s delay, Hannya and Mad Bone were one step late!

“Even the Chen Clan can’t remain silent?” Jindai Chika rasped.

Zhong Kui and the Divine Deer walked upon clouds, with Zhong Kui slashing his golden club downward, dragging the falling snow along.

Snow whirlwinds connected the sky and the land!

A loud boom.

The overwhelming blast of air forced people’s eyes shut, including Zard, who had to shield his face.

When Zard lowered his arm, he saw a graceful woman with nine tails, one hand catching the golden club, and the other holding the white antler of the Divine Deer.

Everything seemed frozen.

Zard cheered: “Wow, Tamamo no Mae! Boss, this old man still had Tamamo no Mae ranked third hidden; she is so stunning!”

Huan Yu silently asked: “Which side are you on exactly?”

Jindai Chika asked calmly: “Chen Yu, why are you here?”

The elegant young man earnestly recalled: “Many people invited me, some can be refused, and some cannot, but all asked me to kill you. However, I don’t want to kill you. How about I give you a chance to retreat to your Divine Bridge?”

“Arrogant,” Jindai Chika laughed angrily.

Chen Yu sincerely replied: “Your people want you dead; dying here isn’t unfair. But today, I’ll give you a chance because I don’t want to break this balance. Now is not the time.”

Meanwhile, Li Bingxi fiercely attacked Uncle Li, suddenly noticing that Bull-headed rakshasas, Great Tengu, the Soldier Department, Shuten-doji, who were originally responsible for flanking, simultaneously turned and sprinted north.

“Not good!” Li Bingxi muttered inwardly.

Uncle Li seemed to have been waiting for this moment; as the four shikigami departed, he immediately exploded into action, shattering Li Bingxi’s doppelganger in front of him!

Qing Chen observed, knowing his master was waiting for someone, although unaware of who. But he knew the person his master awaited had arrived!

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Chapter three will be updated later tonight, but it will be very late. It is recommended to read after waking up.