Chapter 211: Ice Lantern Festival (Part 2)

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The earth-colored divine power surged in the sky above Sapporo, like a tsunami. Facing this tsunami, Abe did not dodge.

He was like sand, swallowed and melted.

It was an illusion.

“Minamoto Nagatoku,” Abe’s real body appeared above the tsunami. “You are not my opponent. I don’t want to waste my divine power on you. Admit defeat.”

“You cultivate spells against people?” Minamoto Nagatoku asked.

Yokai were huge. In order to cause damage, practitioners’ spells, compared to being cunning, paid more attention to range and power.

‘Spells against people’ were the opposite. They were more refined. Whether it was the power concentrated at one point or the cunning, they were more complicated than ‘spells against yokai’.

Of course, there were also spells that were both strange, had a wide range, and were powerful, but they were all difficult to learn great spells and supreme spells.

Since this Abe had participated in the competition, he had been using ‘spells against yokai’ that were biased towards range. It was not until he faced Akagi Mayumi that he showed his exquisite illusion spell.

The illusion spell was a typical spell against people.

“In the Kasen battle, there are no restrictions on what spells to use, right?” Abe was indifferent.

“Of course there are no restrictions,” Minamoto Nagatoku’s body slowly rose. “Because the spell I’m going to use next can also be considered a spell against people.”

In the ice palace, the practitioners watched with concentration.

Most practitioners did not cultivate ‘spells against people’. Yokai were their most troublesome and most urgent enemy, and even some Kasen were no exception.

Now that they could see two masters who were good at ‘spells against people’ fighting in the Kasen battle, it was like a group of people who ate meat suddenly saw a plate of green vegetables. Their eyes were shining.

“What kind of spell against people is Uncle Nagatoku cultivating?” Minamoto Kiyomi asked Minamoto Kiyone.

“I don’t know,” Minamoto Kiyone shook her head, looking at her father with worry and anticipation.

In the past year, she had been dissatisfied and disappointed with her father. Seeing him fawning over Minamoto Kiyomoto, she felt ashamed and spineless.

It was not until Minamoto Kiyomoto turned the Coral Demon Moth into a demon body and became the Honshu Shinto Lord that she realized that her so-called ambition and矜持were just because she was young and her vision was shallow.

At this time, she began to admire her father who could put down his airs at that time.

But whether it was dissatisfaction or admiration, it would not change her feelings for her father. She knew that her father wanted to become a Kasen. When they chatted, he always talked about it.

At this moment, Minamoto Kiyone prayed for her father with all her heart.

Minamoto Nagatoku was unaware of his daughter’s thoughts. He had even forgotten about Abe. He concentrated all his thoughts and cast the spell that Minamoto Kiyomoto had taught him.

In the sky above Sapporo, it suddenly became bright. The clouds and snowflakes were clearly reflected.

Three or four seconds later, a “rumble” of explosions shook the vast snow mountain. The ice palace, which was wrapped in lights, also trembled.

“The world has exploded?” Fatty, who was staring at the snow woman, was caught off guard. He covered his ears and shouted in pain.

No one paid attention to him. He followed the gazes of Monkey and the others and looked at the sky above Sapporo.

Hundreds of lightning bolts, like silver branches, covered the night sky.

Minamoto Nagatoku’s earth-colored divine power swayed crazily. In the blink of an eye, his surging divine power was almost exhausted.

“What is he doing?” the crowd looked at him with confusion.

At this time, Minamoto Nagatoku pressed his hands down, raised his head, and roared at the night sky that had turned into a pool of lightning:
“The human body hides its brilliance, and ten thousand thunders face the god!”

“Boom!” Ten thousand thunders roared and scattered the clouds.

In the thunder, lightning danced in the sky. The huge lightning divine energy turned into lightning divine power, and the rolling and blazing light struck Minamoto Nagatoku’s head.

“Ah—” Minamoto Nagatoku let out a shrill wail.

The people in the ice palace were dumbfounded, staring at this scene in a daze.

Abe realized that something was wrong and held a spell seal, but before the spell could get within ten meters of Minamoto Nagatoku, it was struck by the lightning from the sky and turned into fireworks.

There was even lightning rushing towards him, treating him as Minamoto Nagatoku, wanting to strike his body.

Abe didn’t know what spell Minamoto Nagatoku had used, or what changes had happened to these lightning bolts, that he could actually absorb lightning with his physical body, but he himself would never dare to try and quickly retreated.

Like a breach in the Milky Way, in Minamoto Nagatoku’s mad roar, the bright silver lightning, like a series of white wronged souls, continuously rushed into his head.

Under the gaze of the crowd, his whole body exploded with dazzling white light.

His eyes were no exception, as if they were marble statues without pupils.

His mouth was also wide open. He couldn’t see his teeth, and he had no tongue. It was a vast expanse of white.

At this time, Minamoto Nagatoku, with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open, was like a thunder god, and also like a dried corpse that had been scared to death.

When the lightning disappeared, he lit up the night sky like a light bulb.

Minamoto Nagatoku slowly closed his mouth, but his terrifying eyes remained pale and empty like a statue, without blinking.

A low growl of a beast came from his throat. Abe couldn’t help but wonder if the other party was still human.

In the ice palace, many people couldn’t help but stand up, hold their breath, and watch carefully.

This place was 10 kilometers away from the sky above Sapporo. Standing so far away, their scalps still felt a numb feeling of lightning.

“What spell is this?” someone murmured.

“Could it be the Eight Gods of Thunder?”

“No, it’s not. Even if it’s the Fu Thunder, it’s just wrapped in lightning. It’s not directly absorbed into the body!”

Minamoto Nagatoku’s whole body was in excruciating pain, as if it was about to explode at any time. Along with this excruciating pain, his whole body was filled with an unparalleled explosive power.

“Ah!” he roared, both to vent his pain and to express his excitement of controlling a powerful force.

With a fierce wave of his right hand, his five fingers turned into claws of light. The claw marks formed by lightning pounced on Abe at the speed of lightning.

4.4×105 meters per second.

With a flash of white light, Abe’s body was torn apart. The five claw marks continued to pounce into the distance. Because it was too fast and too strong, no one knew where it would appear in the sky and what would happen.

“Father!” Minamoto Kiyone shouted, full of worry.

“Uncle Nagatoku!” Minamoto Kiyomi also shouted.

The crowd also exclaimed in surprise.

Minamoto Nagatoku’s right hand was vaporized.

A faint blood mist rose and quickly dissipated.

“Amazing!” In a certain part of the night sky, Abe flashed out, his face full of fear and admiration.

If he hadn’t used the illusion spell in advance, he would have ended up the same as the illusion.

“But you don’t seem to be able to control this power yet!” Abe looked at Minamoto Nagatoku, who had lost his right arm.

Minamoto Nagatoku was the last to realize that his arm was gone. It was a matter of an instant, and he didn’t even feel the pain.

No, perhaps it was because his body had been enduring excruciating pain, and that little pain was like a drop of water in a heavy rain, which he didn’t notice.

He stared at Abe with his pale and terrifying eyes. His whole body had endless power, but he couldn’t easily use it.

Even with Minamoto Kiyomoto’s experience, he had only barely mastered this ‘Thunder Guiding Spell’. He couldn’t eliminate the pain, let alone control the force.

One move was all he had. The power of lightning would destroy his body, like that right arm.

Betting on his four limbs, he had to win this battle in the next three moves!
Abe met Minamoto Nagatoku’s sharp gaze. It was like a red-hot sharp arrow, which really stung his eyes.

He didn’t make a move. He didn’t believe that Minamoto Nagatoku could keep up with such a powerful spell.

That arm was the best proof.

In the sky above Sapporo, there was a strange silence.

Minamoto Nagatoku was in the white light, enduring the excruciating pain of his body being torn apart. His originally calm state of mind also became anxious and anxious because of the pain and power.

He thought that with the ‘Thunder Guiding Spell’, this Kasen battle was a sure thing. Who knew that the final opponent was Abe, who was good at illusion spells?

The stronger and faster the attack, the other party had already dodged in advance. If he couldn’t hit the person, what was the point?
The pain in his body became more and more intense, as if the lightning plasma was about to break through his bottle and drill out from inside.

He couldn’t wait any longer!
He lost his mind and became as furious as thunder.

Minamoto Nagatoku raised his left arm. Abe’s face changed. He used a protective spell and flew towards the snow mountain.

Minamoto Nagatoku didn’t care about this body that he didn’t know if it was real or fake. He let out a shrill roar again.

With a faint ‘hiss’, he lost the sensation of his left arm.

The thunder was like a giant hammer, hammering the earth, hammering the snow mountain, hammering everyone.

Across 10 kilometers, in the ice palace, many guests covered their ears and wailed, as if their bodies were about to explode, and also as if they were about to be flattened.

In the earth-shattering thunder, the white dazzling light exploded, like a searchlight, sweeping in all directions.

A ray of lightning shot straight towards the ice palace. In the blazing white dazzling light, countless people were stabbed and couldn’t open their eyes.

In the exclamation, the Hokkaido Shinto Lord floated forward and pinched the white light with his big hand.

“Humph!” the Hokkaido Shinto Lord let out a muffled hum.

The crowd looked. The Hokkaido Shinto Lord’s arm, which looked powerful and indestructible, was charred black on the outside.

The peak of a distant snow mountain was directly melted by the lightning. The Hokkaido Shinto Lord was only injured in his arm.

The practitioners thought this was a matter of course. They were even more amazed at the terror of this spell—the ray of lightning that the Hokkaido Shinto Lord had caught was just one of the white lights that had exploded from Minamoto Nagatoku’s left arm.

Before the death ray could stop, Minamoto Nagatoku let out a hoarse roar again, and his legs directly turned into ashes in the white light.

“Bang!”

A thick white light, like a fountain, gushed out and shot straight into the sky from Sapporo city.

From a distance, it was as if Sapporo was firing a terrifying laser cannon at the sky.

The crowd stared at this pillar of light in a daze. The shadows under their feet swayed as if they were afraid.

“What about Abe?”

“He’s not dead, is he?”

“He’s still alive!”

The crowd followed the left eye of the Akagi Kasen and looked at the sky, finding Abe’s real body.

Behind the clouds, he was running like an ordinary person.

Because it was scattered, the speed of the lightning was relatively much slower, but it still came towards the sky with an unparalleled momentum.

Just as Abe was about to be swallowed by the white light and disappear in the big wave of lightning, he jumped up with a ferocious expression, jumped down from the clouds, and jumped into the moon.

The moon splashed with water. Abe was like a person who had fallen into a large bucket of water and disappeared.

The pillar of light that reached the sky slowly disappeared. Minamoto Nagatoku, who had lost his arms and legs, floated in the air very miserably.

Immediately after, because he had exhausted his divine power to attract the lightning, it also left him, and he began to fall.

“Father!” Minamoto Kiyone flew out.

The Fujiwara clan leader and others were faster than her and brought the unconscious Minamoto Nagatoku back to the ice palace.

Without any nonsense, the Suitengu Miko walked over and pressed her hands on Minamoto Nagatoku.

A miniature tree grew out of Minamoto Nagatoku’s chest.

The tree withered, and the leaves drooped. The roots were even cracked as if they had been struck by lightning.

From the Suitengu Miko’s fair palm, dewdrops continuously dripped, watering this illusory tree.

The crowd held their breath and looked at Minamoto Nagatoku, who was lying on the ice.

“Lady Suitengu, my father?” Minamoto Kiyone knew that she shouldn’t disturb the treatment, but she couldn’t control the worry in her heart.

The Suitengu Miko’s face was solemn. She said in a deep voice, “The lightning remaining in his body is still destroying his vitality… It’s very difficult to deal with.”

“Let me do it,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said with a laugh.

He dipped a drop of wine in his finger, bent his finger, and when the wine turned golden, he flicked it out.

The water drop hit the illusory tree. Then, at a speed visible to the naked eye, the tree began to recover its vitality.

Along with the recovery of the tree, Minamoto Nagatoku’s breathing gradually became even. His hands and legs wriggled with flesh and blood, and blood vessels and bones, like snakes, swam and coiled, forming new limbs.

At this time, Abe also climbed out of the moon.

He was soaked, breathing heavily, as if he had really come out of the water.

After taking two deep breaths, Abe evaporated the water on his body and landed back in the ice palace.

Minamoto Nagatoku happened to open his eyes and saw the unharmed Abe. Even though his body had recovered and was full of energy, he still sighed weakly.

“It’s no skill to just run away,” Minamoto Kiyone was very dissatisfied with Abe’s fighting style.

“Kiyone!” Minamoto Nagatoku reprimanded.

He stood up and said to Abe, “You won.”

“I did win, but I only won by running away,” Abe said.

Minamoto Nagatoku nodded and walked back to the Minamoto clan’s palace in disappointment.

“Is there anyone else who wants to challenge?” the Hokkaido Shinto Lord looked around and asked the practitioners in the ice palace.

Yuka and the others immediately cast their gazes on Itomi Sayaka.

Itomi Sayaka shook her head and said, “I have a way with the illusion spell, but I can’t see through the spell that hid in the moon just now.”

The ice palace was in an uproar for a while, but no one stood up.

“Is there anyone else who wants to challenge?” the Hokkaido Shinto Lord asked again.

Still no one.

The Hokkaido Shinto Lord walked to the top and reported, “Lord Taiko, Lord of Kyoto, Lord Ogosho, the winner of the second Kasen battle has been decided. It’s Abe from Kanto.”

The Taiko slowly nodded and said weakly, “Then let’s call him the Rakuzuki Kasen.”

“Yes.”

“Thank you, Lord Taiko, thank you, Lord Ogosho, thank you, Lord of Kyoto!” Abe bowed to the three of them.

“Good job. When you get back, Kanto will have a reward for you,” the Ogosho said with a laugh.

“Lord Ogosho, I don’t want a reward!” Abe’s eyes were burning as he stared at Minamoto Kiyomoto.

“I forgot!” the Ogosho laughed twice and said to Minamoto Kiyomoto, “Honshu Shinto Lord, please be merciful.”

Minamoto Kiyomoto nodded with a smile and asked Abe, “You can rest for a while.”

“No need!” Abe’s tone was excited, but his gaze on Minamoto Kiyomoto was bloodthirsty and excited. “Please teach me, Honshu Shinto Lord!”

He didn’t need to win, and he didn’t expect to win. As long as he could make Minamoto Kiyomoto not win so easily, it would be his victory!

Minamoto Kiyomoto could certainly show his demon body and win easily, but at the same time, it would also make people feel that—the Honshu Shinto Lord was nothing without his demon body.

The crowd looked at the two of them with anticipation, wanting to know what kind of ending Abe, who had been in the limelight tonight and was invincible, would have in Minamoto Kiyomoto’s hands.

Tamahime saw through this kid, no, she saw through the Ogosho’s plan.

She sneered and said, ‘Aren’t you trying to lower your prestige? Use the spell you asked me to perfect during the New Year!’

“Alright,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said, “you’ve been fighting all night and you’re tired. I’ll only use one spell. If I can’t defeat you with this spell, I’ll lose.”

Abe was a little hesitant.

At this time, Minamoto Kiyomoto raised his voice and said to everyone with a smile, “I need a hundred people, with a cultivation level below ten times. Who is willing to help me?”

“Me!”

“Me!”

“Lord Shinto, I’m willing to go through fire and water for you!”

“Lord Shinto, we’re willing too!”

In an instant, thousands of people in the main hall stood up.

“Haha, thank you all, but a hundred people is enough. The cultivation level must be below ten times,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said the requirement again.

Those with a cultivation level above ten times sat back down unwillingly.

The remaining people began to argue over the hundred spots.

“Rabbit, you help me pick a hundred people,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said to Rabbit, who had mixed into the team.

“Okay!” Rabbit said excitedly.

“When did Sister Rabbit go?” Fatty asked in a daze.

No one answered him. He turned his head and saw that only Yuka, Itomi Sayaka, and Itomi Yuki were left beside him. The rest had all gone up.

“Why didn’t you go?” Fatty asked Yuka timidly.

Yuka glanced at him, “I’m surprised you didn’t go.”

She had a grudge against Minamoto Kiyomoto, but why did Fatty dare not go up and show his loyalty at this time?

Fatty was about to cry, “They didn’t call me.”

In the Divine Medium’s hall.

Shirako asked Kamibayashi Miko, “Lady Miko, what is the piglet doing?”

“I don’t know,” Kamibayashi Miko watched Minamoto Kiyomoto. Seeing his smiling face, she knew that he had a way to deal with the provocation.

Abe was also very puzzled. A hundred people seemed like a lot, but their cultivation level was too low. Even with the “卍” character light wheel, with these people’s cultivation level, they would definitely not be his opponent.

What’s more, these people were temporarily put together. No matter how strong the ‘array spell’ was, it was impossible to exert its power.

“Lord Shinto,” Abe said, “if I defeat them, can you let me challenge you directly?”

“As long as you win against them, you win. You don’t want it?”

“No, I want to fight with you!”

“This little thing, let’s agree to it,” the Taiko suddenly said.

“Since the Taiko has spoken, alright,” Minamoto Kiyomoto nodded and agreed with a smile.

Rabbit was quick and efficient and quickly picked a hundred people.

“Please form a line of two, like a centipede,” Minamoto Kiyomoto’s right index finger and middle finger, from front to back, indicated the formation he needed.

A hundred people quickly transformed.

Rabbit and Koi stood at the very front.

“Rabbit, what is he doing?” Koi asked in a low voice.

“I don’t know, but let him see us is enough,” Rabbit also replied quietly.

Soon, under the gaze of the crowd, a hundred people, two in a row, a total of fifty rows, lined up in the center of the ice palace like a bicycle chain.

The center of the ice palace was very empty. Hundreds of snow women had just been dancing here.

“Lord Shinto, we’re ready!” a lively and cheerful little girl said loudly.

“Thank you,” as he spoke, Minamoto Kiyomoto took out a red and black diamond-shaped crystal from his sleeve.

Many people’s eyes shrank, revealing surprise, fear, shock, and disbelief. They thought of a possibility.

Minamoto Kiyomoto whispered a few words to the red and black diamond-shaped crystal in his hand, and then threw it above the heads of the hundred people.

The red and black diamond-shaped crystal let out a faint dragon’s cry, and then a stream of red and black divine energy gushed out.

In the exclamation of the hundred people, this stream of red and black divine energy enveloped them.

The shockwave rolled and quickly took shape. A hundred-meter-long Hakone Fire Dragon lay across the center of the ice palace.

“Ah!” the guests in the ice palace exclaimed in unison. Some couldn’t help but stand up, and some were about to run away.

Suddenly, the left hind claw of the Hakone Fire Dragon came the voice of the girl who had said, “Lord Shinto, we’re ready,” “We… have we become yokai?”

“It’s a demon body!” the right hind claw corrected.

“What powerful strength! I’m so strong!”

“This is a demon body?!”

The dragon’s tail twitched awkwardly. The beams and pillars of the main hall collapsed with a rumble. The guests who were affected were hit by the stones and their heads were bleeding. They quickly ran away.

“Don’t move!” in the dragon’s mouth of the Hakone giant dragon, Rabbit said loudly.

It was also accompanied by a whimpering, intermittent dragon’s cry.

“Hey, why did my voice turn into a dragon’s cry?” Rabbit couldn’t help but be curious.

“Who is the tail?”

“…Me,” a weak girl’s voice.

In the dumbfounded gaze of the crowd, the body of the Hakone Fire Dragon, with the efforts of a hundred people, finally floated up.

But not to mention the beauty and sacredness of a dragon, it was simply like the first dragon dance performance. The body was in sections, and each had its own ideas.

“Everyone,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said with a laugh, “this time the opponent is the Abe Kasen. I will control you. I’ll let you play next time.”

“Lord Shinto, please do as you wish!”

“At the disposal of Lord Shinto!”

“Great, Lord Shinto, let us feel the power of the Hakone Divine Dragon!”

“Thank you all for your cooperation,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said with a laugh.

Under the gaze of the Ogosho, the Taiko, and everyone else, he put his right index finger and middle finger together at the tip of his nose, and a black mist overflowed from his body.

The Hakone Fire Dragon was stunned and stood still.

Then, the dragon’s body straightened, and it slowly swam, stretching its body in the ice palace. Its eyes flashed with red light.

The ice-carved palace was silent.