Chapter 83: The Red and Black Evil Dragon

Every step Minamoto Kiyomoto took, his capacity was filtered by a layer. By the time he reached the upstream, only one kind of temperament was left on his body.

A certain terrifying aura overflowed from his body.

The abbot of Sanzen-in Temple couldn’t help but widen his eyes. He didn’t expect that Minamoto Kiyomoto, who had just obtained the “Nen-ryu,” had already cultivated to this extent.

‘Ashiya Doman’ stood upstream and glanced at Minamoto Kiyomoto twice.

“Another person from the Minamoto clan?” he seemed to be mocking a tiny thing.

“Yes, and no,” Minamoto Kiyomoto sized up the other party.

A person who had been dead for thousands of years could be resurrected with the help of a descendant’s body. There was actually such a curse.

‘Ashiya Doman’ put his hands behind his back and said with a faint smile, “Are you also going to summon the Suzaku?”

“I’m not interested in things that others have used,” Minamoto Kiyomoto smiled.

If it were normal, he would have added: except for what Miss Kamibayashi has used. But now, he had completely entered his own world.

“Then you’re here to die?” ‘Ashiya Doman’ revealed a cruel smile.

His every word and action was filled with contempt for people.

According to ancient records, ‘Ashiya Doman’ was such a person a thousand years ago. Besides Abe no Seimei, he didn’t take anyone seriously.

He took pleasure in manipulating the fate of others with curses.

“Kiyomoto!” Minamoto Nagatoku said, trying to persuade him. “There are two empty seats for the Kosen tonight. Why must you go against a senior?”

“If you can’t even defeat Ashiya Doman, how can you be worthy of the Xiangye crown?” the head of the Taira clan, Taira Ise, said with ill intentions as he drank.

“Lord Taira, Lord Kiyomoto dares to stand up. He will naturally not retreat like a mouse,” the head of the Sugawara clan said with a smile.

“The Dainagon is right. I was overthinking it,” Taira Ise raised his glass to the head of the Sugawara clan, and the two of them drank a cup with a smile.

Just as everyone was watching the show, they suddenly heard Minamoto Kiyomoto say in a cold tone:
“What are you two? You’re not worthy of talking about me.”

“Insolent!” a minister of the Taira clan shouted. “How dare you speak to the Naidaijin and the Dainagon like that…”

“Shh,” ‘Ashiya Doman’ smiled and put his finger to his lips.

The Taira clan minister’s tone stopped, and he couldn’t help but swallow. The head of the Taira clan could ignore this middle-aged Kosen, but he didn’t dare.

‘Ashiya Doman’ put down his hand with satisfaction and looked at Minamoto Kiyomoto again.

“Not much skill, but quite arrogant,” his gentle smile changed and became gloomy. “Unfortunately, I, Doman, can’t stand seeing others being arrogant.”

The blood-red divine power wrapped around him, like a blood-soaked man, extremely creepy.

“What a coincidence,” Minamoto Kiyomoto shook his red sleeves. “Me too.”

Everyone was dumbfounded and looked at him in disbelief. It was already surprising that he had stood up, but they didn’t expect him to dare to have this attitude towards ‘Ashiya Doman.’

Many of the monks who had heard Minamoto Kiyomoto preach were puzzled.

The impression Minamoto Kiyomoto gave was not this sharp and arrogant.

As for those noble ladies and young ladies, they were already made their hearts beat faster by Minamoto Kiyomoto’s unrestrained and unruly manner, and his casual甩袖动作. They couldn’t help but worry for him.

Shirako said strangely, “Why is the piglet different from usual? His tone of voice is so annoying.”

“Because, he was originally this kind of person,” Kamibayashi Miko explained lightly.

‘Ashiya Doman’ squinted, and the expression on his face was as if he were flipping through a dictionary.

“The Eight Divine Thunders, the Mahavairocana Sutra, the curse of turning into a yokai… ridiculous. How can there be such a curse between heaven and earth?”

He spoke as if he were reading a book, then opened his eyes and looked at Minamoto Kiyomoto:
“Is this the confidence you have to stand in front of me?”

“Not entirely,” Minamoto Kiyomoto said. “My confidence is mainly from you, Senior Doman.”

“Me?”

“Although you have been resurrected, you are using someone else’s body after all. The amount of divine power is not enough, it’s just that the curse is exquisite.”

“Just’?” ‘Ashiya Doman’ looked at Minamoto Kiyomoto.

The cultivators present were all discussing. To dare to say that ‘Ashiya Doman’ was just exquisite in curses, there were probably not many people in history.

“My curse is a little weaker than senior’s, but when I turn into a yokai, my divine power is a little stronger than yours. Is this enough for me to come up?” Minamoto Kiyomoto looked back without avoiding.

“Enough, of course it’s enough,” ‘Ashiya Doman’ said with a ferocious smile. “Then let’s begin.”

The Divine Lord of Shikoku glanced at Minamoto Kiyomoto and announced, “The third battle, Ashiya Doman versus Minamoto Kiyomoto.”

“Kid, I’m going to pull out your soul and seal it in a hairless mouse,” ‘Ashiya Doman’ said sharply.

The blood light danced, and the air waves shot into the sky. Everyone’s breathing stopped, and their hair and clothes all billowed backwards. The cherry blossoms filled the night sky.

The Kamo River, starting from his feet, stirred up waves, which surged downstream.

“I hope senior won’t be beaten by me and run around like a mouse,” Minamoto Kiyomoto stood steadily on the waves and responded unceremoniously.

“Swoosh!” A series of terrifying sounds of chains rolling came from the night sky.

Four thick blood-red divine chains instantly bound Minamoto Kiyomoto and locked him in mid-air.

“Ah!” Minamoto Kiyomi grabbed Minamoto Kiyone’s sleeve and watched nervously.

Minamoto Kiyone also held her breath and watched.

Although she hated Minamoto Kiyomoto, compared to ‘Ashiya Doman,’ Minamoto Kiyomoto was countless times cuter.

But even Abe no Seimei couldn’t break free from the curse. What would Minamoto Kiyomoto do?
“Lady Miko,” Shirako called out nervously.

“It’s fine,” Kamibayashi Miko picked up her soup and gently brought it to her cherry-colored lips with a spoon.

“Kid,” ‘Ashiya Doman’ slowly rose into the sky, “is this your confidence?”

Minamoto Kiyomoto’s four limbs were pulled tight. He felt the blood-red chains. Not only was there divine power in them, but they could also drive the divine breath.

It was said that one of the Eight Divine Thunders, the “Black Thunder,” could summon thunderclouds and command the power of heaven and earth. The curse used by ‘Ashiya Doman’ also had a similar effect.

‘Ashiya Doman’ slowly stretched out his right hand and held it above Minamoto Kiyomoto’s head, about to pull out his soul.

“Kid, go to hell,” ‘Ashiya Doman’ had a sinister smile on his face. He was actually going to crush Minamoto Kiyomoto’s soul in front of everyone.

What was a soul? Capacity.

Heaven’s great mandate. What one’s capacity was born with, was what it was.

What was Minamoto Kiyomoto’s capacity like?
When fighting the red and black evil dragon, it was not him who consumed the red and black evil dragon, but the red and black evil dragon who consumed him with its indomitable will. This was Minamoto Kiyomoto’s capacity.

In the past, when ‘Ashiya Doman’ kneaded someone’s soul, it was like kneading dough. He could knead it as he pleased.

Now, when he grabbed Minamoto Kiyomoto’s soul, it was like his fingers hitting steel, and he himself felt pain.

“What kind of curse is this?!” he asked in surprise. He had never thought that someone’s capacity could be so solid.

“It seems I can’t turn into a hairless mouse. Next, it’s your turn to run around like a mouse,” Minamoto Kiyomoto smiled.

Everyone was either looking at the night sky or staring at the water.

Rumble, rumble, the thunder was incessant. Dozens of lightning bolts suddenly lit up, like wild snakes dancing wildly.

The sky was filled with flashing thunder. It was black lightning, even blacker than the night.

The lightning fiercely struck Minamoto Kiyomoto and ‘Ashiya Doman.’ The two of them instantly disappeared in the black thunder light.

Everyone watched intently. Before they could see the situation clearly, another bolt of lightning struck the circular thunder light where the two were.

The world was filled with the deafening sound of thunder.

“Kid, is this your curse?” In the midst of the thunder, everyone heard ‘Ashiya Doman’s’ mocking voice.

Before his voice had finished, hundreds of lightning bolts shot up from the dark night sky, dancing wildly. Everyone’s eyes could not look directly. They only heard Minamoto Kiyomoto’s loud laughter:
“It’s just getting started, senior. Don’t be anxious!”

“Rumble, rumble!” The thunder exploded, deafening.

These few thunderclaps made even the Kosen’s faces change. It wasn’t that they were so strong, but that with Minamoto Kiyomoto’s strength, he could actually release such a strong thunder curse. It was simply shocking.

“Alright, alright! You have some skill, but it’s far from enough. Go to hell!”

Not to mention the people in the lower and middle reaches, even the Kosen couldn’t see the situation in the thunder light for a while. They could only hear the voices of the two.

“What’s going on?” Minamoto Nagatoku asked anxiously.

Even the head of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto Kiyohiro, looked at him coldly, but he couldn’t care less.

“What else can it be? Can this kid still live under Ashiya Doman’s curse?” the Taira clan sneered.

The thunder light dissipated, and the two reappeared in everyone’s sight.

‘Ashiya Doman’ hadn’t lost a single hair, and Minamoto Kiyomoto was still bound by the chains.

The Taira clan and others burst into laughter and began to mock Minamoto Kiyomoto.

At this moment, Minamoto Kiyomoto let out a long howl.

A diamond-shaped yokai remain fell from the sleeve of his dark red haori and floated in the night sky.

“It’s the remains of the Hakone dragon!” Date Masamune immediately said.

Before everyone could hear his words, another heaven-shaking roar came from the mid-air. They quickly turned their eyes to look.

They saw that the black light around Minamoto Kiyomoto was raging and dancing, getting bigger and bigger, like a black sun hanging in the air. The blood-red chains were also melted.

‘Ashiya Doman’s’ figure flashed and appeared in the distance. He squinted and sized up the black sun, feeling a threat.

“Hahaha!” The world was filled with Minamoto Kiyomoto’s wild laughter.

“He’s going to turn into a dragon! He’s going to turn into a dragon!”

A pretty and tender voice suddenly sounded. Everyone looked and saw a butterfly shikigami beside Kamibayashi Miko, clapping and cheering.

Minamoto Kiyomoto’s laughter gradually disappeared, and in its place were a series of excited dragon roars.

“Boom!” The black sun exploded, and the air waves were like a strong wind.

Everyone looked against the wind and saw a hundred-meter-long red and black evil dragon circling in the midst of the fireworks.

Its body was like a giant python, with deer antlers and a lion’s mane. It bared its fangs and brandished its claws in mid-air, roaring ferociously.

The fireworks were reflected on its red and black scales, majestic, evil, and extremely oppressive.

Everyone was dumbfounded and stood there in a daze.

Many people stood up with a “whoosh” and stared at the roaring and soaring evil dragon.

“He actually, actually turned into a yokai,” the Taira clan’s face was pale.

“Good! Good! Good!” Minamoto Nagatoku was so excited that his whole body was numb.

“Hahaha!” The red and black evil dragon let out a deafening wild laugh. “Ashiya Doman, today I will use you to sacrifice my yokai body!”

Just hearing this voice, many cultivators felt that the air in their lungs was about to be squeezed out. Their souls trembled, and they were dizzy, swaying from side to side as if they were drunk.

“Yokai, it’s a real yokai!” someone shouted in horror.

The vast majority of the people present had participated in the subjugation of yokai. The aura of a yokai was already deeply engraved in everyone’s bones!

Some of the young cultivators who had not yet participated in the “battle” had pale faces. Some fell to the ground with a “plop,” losing all their image.

Some even fainted directly.

“Kid, the yokai I’ve killed are more than the number of times you’ve seen cherry blossoms bloom!” Although ‘Ashiya Doman’ was shocked, he was not flustered at all.

His divine power was far inferior to his own body. The opponent was just the remains of a yokai!

He landed with a spin and made a hand seal.

“The underworld is a city of immortals, the soul-hooking chains, search for the evil spirits!” ‘Ashiya Doman’ chanted a curse, roared to the sky, and mobilized all the divine power in this body.

Rumble, rumble, the earth trembled. Countless arm-thick chains, like sharp arrows, shot from the depths of the earth towards the red and black evil dragon circling in the air.

Minamoto Kiyomoto let out a long roar, turned over and danced, did not dodge, brandished his dragon claws, and actually grabbed all the chains.

“Roar—” the evil dragon roared to the sky and pulled hard.

“Clang!” The sound of metal echoed through the world, and the chains were pulled taut.

Then there was a rumbling sound. The earth trembled, and everyone’s figures couldn’t stop shaking, as if the entire ground was about to be pulled up by the evil dragon.

Everyone was so scared that their livers and gallbladders were about to burst, and their faces turned pale.

‘Ashiya Doman’s’ face changed. The divine power in his body flowed out like a flood. If this continued, the opponent could exhaust him just by relying on his physical strength.

“Ha!” he shouted with a hand seal.

The chains broke with a sound, and the red and black evil dragon, who had not stopped his force in time, flew backwards.

Minamoto Kiyomoto stabilized his figure, threw away the chains, and laughed, “Ashiya Doman, that’s all you’ve got!”

As soon as his voice fell, he threw his huge tail high and then slammed it down on ‘Ashiya Doman’ like a whip.

The dragon’s tail crossed the sky, and the strong wind on its face was like the sky collapsing and the earth cracking. The cultivators who were close to ‘Ashiya Doman’ screamed and fled for their lives.

‘Ashiya Doman’s’ figure turned into a blood light and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

“Bang!” The dragon’s tail hit the surface of the Kamo River, directly piercing through the bottom of the water, and slammed out a deep pit.

The water gathered and formed a vortex. The sky was filled with raindrops, like a torrential rain.

Everyone screamed, cursed, and cried for help. All kinds of sounds rose and fell.

“Is this the curse you researched yourself?!” ‘Ashiya Doman’ appeared in the air and asked loudly.

“Can it catch the eye of Senior Doman?” saying this, Minamoto Kiyomoto suddenly rushed forward, brandishing his sharp claws.

“Boom!” The strong sound of breaking the air, the night seemed to be cut open.

“Alright, alright!” ‘Ashiya Doman’ appeared in another place. “I didn’t expect that after Seimei, there would be someone who could excite me in curses!”

Minamoto Kiyomoto laughed wildly, and the red and black evil dragon let out a series of domineering dragon roars.

Everyone heard him say:

“What is Abe no Seimei? He’s not worthy of being compared to me!”

Everyone was shocked, astonished, and angry. They stared at the red and black evil dragon that spanned the sky, but they couldn’t say a word of rebuttal.

A trace of blame flashed across Kamibayashi Miko’s face. She decided to teach Minamoto Kiyomoto a good lesson when they got back tonight.

“You,” ‘Ashiya Doman’s’ eyes were bloodshot, and his tone was like the cold wind of the North Pole, “are courting death.”

He roared to the sky, and blood light splattered.

“Boom!” A blood-red pillar of light descended from the sky and landed in the east of Kyoto.

“Boom!” Another pillar of blood landed in the south of Kyoto.

“Boom!”, “Boom!”, a pillar of blood landed in the west and north respectively.

“Drink!” ‘Ashiya Doman’s’ figure was already covered by the scattered blood-red divine power, like a drop of flowing blood.

The pillars of blood formed a barrier between them.

“It’s the extermination curse!” the head of the Abe clan said in horror.

Back then, when Ashiya Doman fought with Abe no Seimei, in order to curse the other party to death, he had painstakingly created this curse.

Once it was laid down, its power was enough to destroy an ancient town. It could be called a world-shaking great curse.

This curse, besides Ashiya Doman himself, no one had mastered.

Even the Ashiya clan themselves, for so many years, there were those who had mastered the ancient magic curse “soul-returning curse,” but not a single one had mastered the “extermination curse.”

“Only four, huh,” ‘Ashiya Doman’ glanced at the pillar of blood. “But it’s enough.”

In his prime, when he fought with Abe no Seimei, there were a full sixteen pillars, four times the current number.

“Kid, go to hell,” he looked at the red and black evil dragon that was circling in the air and looking down on everything.

He put his hands together, and blood flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears in the blood-red divine power.

“Those who follow me will live, and those who oppose me will perish. Those who dare to resist will be turned into dust! Ah!” he roared to the sky. The tragic degree was not just that his throat was hoarse, but that his face was about to be torn apart.

“Buzz,” the world suddenly fell silent.

Everyone watched quietly. The next moment, a dazzling blood-red glare suddenly lit up in the sky.

The colorful light rippled in the sky. Everyone looked, as if they were at the bottom of the sea, looking at the water waves on the surface of the sea.

The world was a sea of blood.

Before everyone could understand what this curse was, they heard the red and black evil dragon let out a painful roar.

Many Kosen used pupil-type curses, passed through the heavy divine power waves, and looked intently.

They saw that the red and black evil dragon was wrapped in red light, and blood beads seeped out from between its scales.

When the scene in the red light also appeared on the surface of the water, the blood on the red and black evil dragon was already pouring down like a waterfall.

In less than a minute or two, it would die from blood loss.

“As expected of a yokai’s body!” ‘Ashiya Doman’s’ hair and beard flew, maintaining the curse. “A ten-thousand-ton boulder would melt under my extermination curse, but I didn’t expect it to only squeeze out your blood.”

“Brother Kiyomoto…” Minamoto Kiyomi looked at the red and black evil dragon in the water with a worried face.

Just by looking, one could tell what kind of pressure the red and black evil dragon was under—the space around it was already distorted.

“Is he going to lose?” Minamoto Kiyone said in a voice that had not yet recovered.

In the dead silence, the red and black evil dragon suddenly raised its dragon head, opened its huge mouth, and let out a dragon’s roar.

It was thousands of meters away from the ground, but everyone was still shaken by the shocking sound wave.

Some with weaker cultivation were almost knocked over.

“What’s going on?” someone asked loudly.

“Rumble, rumble!” In the midst of the dragon’s roar, dark clouds gathered, and thunder rolled.

“Roar—” the red and black evil dragon roared again, and suddenly rushed into the sky and into the clouds.

“The world is under my control. Where can you go! Drink!” ‘Ashiya Doman’s’ face was pale, and the blood-red divine light in his eyes had almost condensed into a substance.

The red divine light of the “extermination curse,” like rising steam, rushed into the dark clouds.

The red and black evil dragon roared like thunder, stirring up the sea of red, black, and purple clouds.

In the clouds, the red and black scales shone, and the huge dragon’s body was sometimes visible and sometimes hidden.

Suddenly, the red and black evil dragon stopped tumbling and stopped. The huge dragon’s head poked out from the clouds, and its ferocious scarlet dragon eyes stared at ‘Ashiya Doman.’

The evil dragon’s huge mouth slowly opened, like drawing a strong bow. The endless black lightning gathered and condensed in the dragon’s mouth.

“Not good!” ‘Ashiya Doman’s’ face changed. He put his hands together more tightly, squeezing every organ in his body, wanting to inject all his divine power into the curse.

“Roar!” The red and black evil dragon roared, and a black thunder light, like a laser, shot towards ‘Ashiya Doman.’

The rolling thunder shook everyone’s hearts. The surface of the water shook violently, and it was impossible to see what was happening.

Vaguely, they saw a red and black dragon shadow, swooping down like a madman.

The lightning danced wildly, the blood light filled the sky, and the giant dragon’s body was sometimes visible and sometimes hidden.

“Minamoto Kiyomoto!” Everyone heard ‘Ashiya Doman’s’ angry roar, but they didn’t know what was happening.

After a while, in the blood light and black light, they heard Minamoto Kiyomoto’s wild laughter again. The laughter grew louder and louder, even drowning out the thunder and all the noise.

The figures of the two finally reappeared in everyone’s sight.

The red and black evil dragon was covered in blood, its dragon claws were broken, and half of its dragon horn was broken. It was very miserable, but the dragon’s mouth still let out a series of domineering dragon roars.

Along with the dragon’s roar, there was also Minamoto Kiyomoto’s wild laughter.

“Boom!”

The man and the dragon collided again, and the air waves were like a colorful rainbow, rushing into the sky.

The red and black evil dragon paused for a moment, and a large piece of its scales fell off.

‘Ashiya Doman’s’ face turned from red to white, and then from white to red. After holding on for a moment, he finally couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

“Roar—” the evil dragon, although covered in injuries, its dragon roar was still sonorous and powerful.

“A great wind rises, the clouds fly!” Minamoto Kiyomoto chanted, and the sky-filled thunder light “boomed” and gathered around him.

“Ashiya Doman, I’m ready!” The dragon’s head looked down at ‘Ashiya Doman,’ moving forward without turning back.

This was the final blow. It was either you die or I die—even a person with shallow cultivation understood the current situation.

Many people held their clothes tightly, so nervous that their brains were about to melt.

‘Ashiya Doman’ gasped for breath. His clothes were torn, his hair was disheveled, and his right leg was gone.

He stared at the red and black evil dragon, and his eyes suddenly flashed. His figure turned into a blood light and rushed towards the crowd on the Kamo River.

“The world is under my control. Where can you go!” Minamoto Kiyomoto laughed loudly, bowed his body and swung his tail, and the thunderous force rushed down towards the crowd.

The earth roared, the sky roared, the strong wind blew, and the cherry blossom trees shook. The ground was about to be overturned.

Everyone fled in all directions, screaming and crying for help.

The expected thunderous force did not appear.

The red and black evil dragon meandered over the Kamo River, and its ferocious and majestic dragon head swept around.

Its huge scarlet eyes, like licking, swept over everyone one by one, like a god scanning the world.

Minamoto Kiyomoto’s rolling and thunderous wild laughter came down like a waterfall.

“Ashiya Doman, you old mouse, where have you gone?”

It was like a giant snake looking at a frog, or a lion eyeing a rabbit.

Everyone looked at the dragon body that meandered up the Kamo River, and a chill ran down their backs. They didn’t dare to move.

(End of Chapter)