Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1890 - 983: Amber (Part 5)

After becoming its complete form, The Giant Whale’s wingspan spanned hundreds of meters. Even the airship seemed like a docile toy in its presence, like sesame seeds on a bun.

At that moment, a missile hit the side wing of The Giant Whale. However, it only resulted in a burst of flames, failing to inflict any substantial lethal damage on The Giant Whale.

It merely caused a small piece of its skin to be blown off, not even affecting its flight.

The sobbing sound of The Giant Whale echoed through the night sky as it flapped its wings, causing the airflow to overturn all nearby airships, making it hard for them to stabilize.

The Soldier Department stood at the highest point of the Mirage Tower, hunched like a crumbling old man.

He gazed at the night sky, and in an instant, materialized 365 long halberds, launching them towards the sky like a military arrow matrix of ancient times.

The halberds pinned onto the airships, some even piercing directly through the most fragile tails of the airships!

The 192 shikigami formed a crushing strike capability against the entire Air Force Fleet of Phoenix City.

At this moment, Qing Ji also walked out of the Mirage Tower: ”Don’t get bogged down in the battle; the Phoenix City Air Force is already crippled. There’s no point in continuing to fight. We should leave here quickly, I have a bad feeling.”

Until now, the Drama Master had yet to show up, and those old monsters from the Golden Coffin were nowhere to be seen as well.

This makes no sense at all!

Qing Ji said, ”I’ll open the Door of Shadow and leave now.”

Li Changqing looked beyond the battlefield: ”It might be too late.”

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Outside the battlefield, an extremely elderly white man clad in a black robe stood on top of a mountain peak, with more than a dozen Drama Masters standing respectfully behind him.

Beside him lay a recently opened Golden Coffin.

They stood on the peak, watching in awe as The Giant Whale and Yamata no Orochi appeared out of thin air, completely overwhelming the Phoenix City’s Air Navy Fleet.

The Giant Whale in the night sky evoked a feeling of invincibility, as if humans were utterly insignificant in its presence.

The old man sighed, ”Just a century of slumber and the clan faces such enemies, it’s no wonder you all awakened me.”

The fantastic and bizarre spectacle of the Hyakki Night Trip concealed the deep apprehension of the Drama Masters.

”Step back, seal this area with the Taboo Artifact, and let no one escape. If my life is used here, then it’s appropriate,” the old man said, taking out an amber relic from his bosom.

But what’s sealed within the amber is not insects like scorpions or mosquitoes, but a miniaturized version of mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, aircraft carriers, tiger whales, and fighter jets.

These items, not even from the same era, were all miniaturized into a palm-sized piece of amber.

Within it also lay strange artifacts, such as a longsword, a cup, a poster, and a brush, all items the Drama Masters once sacrificed to contain this Taboo Artifact.

If sacrifice is neglected, the lake would immediately expand, engulfing everything within a ten-kilometer radius. It once swallowed a village on the West Continent because of this.

The old Drama Master from the Golden Coffin cut his palm, allowing the amber to greedily absorb the blood.

He held the amber, facing the battlefield.

The amber began to swell, and in the space of a breath, it enveloped the old man, becoming the newest specimen within the amber!

Even Zero did not know that the cost of using this Taboo Artifact was not just an annual sacrifice of a Taboo Artifact, but it also required the sacrifice of a Demigod’s life to use!

The Taboo Artifact, ’Freezing Time!’

In an instant, the amber grew rapidly like a tsunami crashing onto land, instantly lowering the temperature to minus a hundred degrees. Waves and people on the shore were all ’frozen’ within the amber!

In just ten seconds, a ten-kilometer radius was encased in orange-yellow amber, turning the entire area into a ’specimen’ of frozen time.

The Great Tengu, wanting to escape during battle, was caught off guard and froze, maintaining a posture of open wings, yet its expression and feathers halted in the previous moment.

Yamata no Orochi was also sealed in the amber, maintaining its hideously terrifying form.

The Giant Whale, in the firmament, seemed as though it returned to the yellow depths of the ocean, standing lonely and desolate.

The broken Qing Shan Ship, Phoenix, Heaven Ship were all sealed within.

This Taboo Artifact was long hidden and nurtured by the Drama Masters, turning a ten-kilometer radius into a colossal amber today!

More than a dozen Drama Masters stood hundreds of meters behind the elderly man, unaffected. One of them stated, ”The ancestor completed the seal at the cost of his life. No one on the battlefield should be able to leave, threat neutralized. Ten years later, the amber will return to normal size, allowing us to recapture it.”

The Drama Masters, with the Golden Coffin, using the Poison Cup to sustain the ancestor’s life, ultimately sacrificed the scant remaining life to seal the Hyakki Night Trip with a Taboo Artifact!

This battle, the ultimate target of the Drama Masters wasn’t the Qing Shan Ship or the Heaven Ship, but Jinguji Maki’s Hyakki Night Trip!

The Drama Masters turned away, retreating into the night.

Within a 20-kilometer radius, three copper rivets needed to be retrieved. Previously, some were devoured by the gold-seeking beast of the Contraindicated courts, leaving only three to barely seal the space without discarding them.

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At Ginkgo Manor, Qing Ji panted with lingering fear, with XiaoTongyun, Jinguji Maki, Li Changqing, Li Su, Lao Wan, and other personnel from the airship by his side.

These were the ones Qing Ji managed to bring out in those final ten seconds.

Li Changqing questioned, ”The Drama Masters should have been fully prepared and have methods to seal space, yet it doesn’t seem to affect you. You could still use the Door of Shadow.”

Qing Ji smiled, ”Before heading back to the West Continent, Qing Chen perhaps realized he no longer needed the Taboo Artifacts, so he left Outer Three Realms to me, the Black Sniper to Kunlun, and the Power Bank, Puppeteer, and other Taboo Artifacts at Ginkgo Manor.”

Qing Chen understood that if he didn’t become a god, these Taboo Artifacts might fall into the hands of the West Continent if he died. If he did become a god, he wouldn’t need Taboo Artifacts anymore.

From that moment, no Taboo Artifact could affect him anymore.

At that time, the Arbiter was using copper rivets to seal the space, and Qing Chen did not attempt to break through the Spider Web Array recklessly because Outer Three Realms was no longer in his possession then.

At this moment, Outer Three Realms was in Qing Ji’s possession, achieving unusual effects even the Drama Masters couldn’t foresee.

Yet, even after escaping death’s door, there was no joy.

Li Changqing knew three thousand Li Family soldiers remained forever trapped in the amber, while Xiao Zhenji stared blankly into the distance, as the shikigami... were Genji’s retainers.

The Giant Whale was still an ancestral illusion.

And all of this was forever trapped in that battle.