Chapter 218 - Offering to the Emperor of Taishan

Leng Yueyan and Ning Zhe also returned to the Blood Hunter Manor.

Even if they were the most talented people except Wang Bugui, they still came back with serious injuries. Because they had encountered Nattiavelle, a powerful existence among the Infantes only second to Field.

If it were not for the fact that one of them possessed the ancient Taoism body and the other was the reincarnation of a powerful ancient Buddha, they would have died.

In front of that absolutely powerful force, the will of Taoism, the extremely exquisite mystical skills, the 30 Foot Golden Body Manifestation and the Three Thousand Buddhist Countries were all broken by the opponent mercilessly.

Fortunately, the two of them also had magic weapons in their hands, plus their strength was close to that of the Greater Powers, so they escaped the deadly pursuit smoothly. In this battle, Leng Yueyan’s Divine Needle of the Heavenly Girl almost broke.

And her Bronze Tripod was also marked with depression. The only alms bowl Ning Zhe had was also almost destroyed by the Cerberus.

However, when they came back, they found they were not the most badly injured. And they had to cure all the wounded.

“Thank you. You two are indeed powerful. You can come back without serious injury even if you met the second Infante.” Zhao Changge grinned.

“Speak less and save your energy to adjust your breath.” Leng Yueyan reminded him.

“Yes, madam!” Zhao Changge gave a grin again, focusing on circulating his qi to help the treatment.

Leng Yueyan was also badly hurt. This time, healing Changge and Lyu Hao with her spiritual power, she was covered with sweat all over her body and looked pale.

On the other side, Ning Zhe was also treating Feng Tianming and Misawa Chihiro with their internal injuries. During the treatment, he also vomited extravasated blood.

The onlookers found that he still maintained the 30 Foot Golden Body Manifestation. On this body as strong as the top holy weapons were many terrible claw marks and sword holes. He started to bleed again because of his passing spiritual power to the two.

“Whiz!”

A moment later, another ray of light came out of the sky. After it landed rapidly, people only saw Kamikawa Hiko who was covered with blood all over his body, carrying Meiqing who had already fainted in his arms.

“Save her, please!”

Kamikawa Hiko trilled, knelt down on the ground and begged with Meiqing in his arms. He had never been so embarrassed in his life and never begged anyone this way.

But this time, somehow, he felt really anxious.

There was a voice in his heart telling him that he couldn’t let this woman die. He had to wake her up no matter what it took.

“What happened to you? Why did Meiqing get hurt so seriously?” Feng Tianming asked in surprise.

“Hurry to infuse spiritual power into her!”

Leng Yueyan knitted her eyebrows and took the lead in passing her spiritual power. Ignoring their own serious injuries, the others began to work together to infuse their spiritual power into Meiqing. But they had been weak, so the spiritual power was not enough.

“Come on!” Feng Tianming clenched his teeth.

Then, he took out a wine gourd and poured the spiritual wine of Shushan into his mouth.

“God of Wine Incantation!”

Slight red wine gas emerged around Feng Tianming. He forced himself to recover strength temporarily to instill spirit power into Meiqing.

However, she was so badly hurt that she didn’t recover at all, no matter how much spiritual power they passed into her.

“Puff!”

A moment later, Feng Tianming was backfired on and vomited a lot of blood. But he still kept on passing his spiritual power, enduring his own injuries.

In the whole process, Kamikawa Hiko was kneeling on the ground with anxiety in his eyes. He couldn’t pass his power to Meiqing, because the incantation power would conflict with the spiritual power. He could only watch and do nothing.

After fifteen minutes, everyone stopped the transmission of spiritual power and lowered their heads one after another. But the beautiful woman on the ground still didn’t wake up.

“Why did you stop?” Kamikawa Hiko asked in a trance. Staring at Meiqing with rapt attention, he had a foreboding in his heart.

But he was desperately rejecting the idea to appear in his mind.

“Alas!” Leng Yueyan shook her head with tears in her eyes.

She looked at Meiqing peacefully with sad eyes. The next most, she actually burst into tears. She cried and felt broken-hearted like an ordinary person for the first time in her life.

“I, beg you to save her. Maybe there’s still hope!” Kamikawa Hiko held the clothes of Leng Yueyan and Feng Tianming, crying for help.

“Alas, what a pity! But Meiqing’s heart has stopped beating. Her primordial spirit is also about to disappear.” Ning Zhe made a long sigh while shaking his head, trying to hold back his tears.

“No. That’s not true!” Kamikawa Hiko held his head and shouted.

Losing all his calm and rational side, he, at the moment, turned mad because of the woman.

“Hiko, Meiqing… is really dead.” Zhao Changge bowed his head and said.

“What exactly have you been through?” Misawa Chihiro asked with red eyes.

Kamikawa Hiko lowered his head, answering, “We met the fourth Infante and a dozen Counts. We’re unable to defeat them at all. She had already been seriously injured in the battle.”

“At last, when we were escaping, she took a heavy attack from the Infante with her body in order to protect me, and then forced to display the third move of the A Thousand Flower Dance.”

Hearing that, Leng Yueyan gave a short sigh, “No wonder she’s so badly injured. She hasn’t been familiar with the last two moves of the A Thousand Flower Dance, which can only be activated by Greater Powers.

“In order to activate them forcibly, vitality is consumed.”

“She managed to block all the vampires when she was so seriously injured, which is enough to prove that she has completely activated the third move, the Nine Turns of Reincarnation. Every turn is made by burning her life. Once the reincarnation dance ends, her life ends, too.”

These words stabbed into Kamikawa Hiko’s heart severely like the sharpest dagger. It kept pulling out and stabbing in, over and over again, pulverizing his heart.

Because of his calculation error, he let this woman who had accompanied him for a short time die for him!

Shaking incessantly, he knelt on the ground with his head in his arms and hurried to search for all ways in his mind.

“Ah!”

Suddenly, he stood up. He finally thought of a kind of powerful Onmyōdō.

“Yes, there is another way which can save her definitely!”

Clenching his fists, he rushed back to his room. After a while, he came out with some materials.

“Hiko, what are you going to do?” Zhao Changge asked with worries.

“There is a kind of supreme Onmyōdō that can save her!” Kamikawa Hiko said resolutely.

Then, he placed the materials to be an array and put Meiqing in the center. He, himself, put on the hunting clothes of the onmyōjis and held a Soul Calling Flag in his hand.

“The Emperor of Taishan, please show up to save Meiqing. Obey at once!”

After reciting the incantation, Kamikawa Hiko began to dance the Sunny Dance of the Emperor of Taishan. His body moves were elegant and soft with hard. His every step and every movement are elegant and mysterious.”

This kind of dance was even difficult for a woman. But as a real man, he performed it perfectly. With a flexible body, he could make all kinds of difficult movements.

But, there was a strong power to support the whole sacrificial dance.

“What’s he doing?” Feng Tianming asked with a frown.

“He said he could bring Meiqing back. Is that true?” asked Lyu Hao.

“Now, only her primordial spirit is still there. Can she really be saved back?” Zhao Changge worried a lot.

“He mentioned the Emperor of Taishan just now. If my memory is correct, the Emperor of Taishan is also called the Emperor of Eastern Mountain, a Chinese deity who is also believed by the onmyōjis!” Leng Yueyan recalled.

“What?! He can communicate with the Emperor of Eastern Mountain?”

Everyone was puzzled. Could this kind of array really summon such a master like the Emperor of Eastern Mountain?

It turned very quiet here. Everyone dared not speak, for fear of disturbing the progress of the Onmyōdō. The atmosphere fell into a dead silence, and even the sound of breathing seemed disturbing.

Kamikawa Hiko’s sacrificial dance was still going on. He kept singing the name of the Emperor of Taishan devoutly. That voice was like a sincere prayer, as well as a whisper in everyone’s ears.

Although the tone was solemn, it was also pleasant. It was gentle and stable, quiet and classical. This kind of praying sound seemed to come from ancient times, very mysterious.

Finally, after a few minutes, he opened his eyes, saying solemnly, “Once the greedy wolf appears in the sky, so does the Star Emperor of Yang. Once a giant gate appears in the sky, so does the Star Emperor of Earth!”

After that, he formed the Yin Yang Seal again, and his hands were shining with golden lights.

“Buzz!”

The golden lights rose to the sky, scattering the clouds in the sky. Seeing that, Leng Yueyan and the others began to cast martial arts to separate here from the outside world.

Then, the golden lights in the sky fell back, and a golden light gate appeared beside Meiqing.

“Mortal, are you calling me in this way to save her?”

Suddenly, a majestic voice came from inside the gate. It could be imagined from the voice how mighty the emperor was.

“Emperor of Taishan, bring Meiqing back, please!”

Kamikawa Hiko knelt down and began to kowtow with a pious look.

“You should know that I’ll save one life by exchanging another. Are you ready to pay your own life?” The Emperor of Eastern Mountain came straight to the point.

Hearing that, Kamikawa Hiko looked up and said, “I owe her my life and I have to pay it back. But I can’t die now. Can you allow me to stay with her for a few more years?”

“Yes. I’ll shorten your lifespan. You have ninety-five years to live and I’ll leave you only five years.” The Emperor of Eastern Mountain said slowly.

“Oh, no, Hiko!”

“In this way, you’ll only be sorrier for Meiqing!”

“Your life is saved by Meiqing. If she knows that you lose so many years of life for her, she’ll feel guilty for life!”

“You should accompany her for at least fifty years.”

Hearing the demand, everyone all uttered to stop Kamikawa Hiko.

But Kamikawa Hiko shook his head slowly and said, “What I owe her can only be repaid in this way. I feel enough to have five years left to pay my debts on her.”

“But have you ever thought about how Meiqing will live her life after these five years?” Zhao Changge asked in a hurry.

“But if she’s not saved back, I’ll feel guilty for my life. I can’t bargain with the emperor. That’s all.” Kamikawa Hiko said while shaking his head.

Then, he made a pious kowtow to the Emperor of Eastern Mountain again and said, “Emperor, please start exchanging!”

“Okay!”

The Emperor of Eastern Mountain agreed readily, and released a beam of golden light directly into Meiqing’s body, curing all her injuries.

Then, another beam of golden light entered Kamikawa Hiko’s body. A moment later, a light ball flew out. That was his ninety-year lifespan.

“The exchange is done. Take good use of your last five years.” The Emperor of Eastern Mountain slowly disappeared in the world with the light ball.

Kamikawa Hiko saw him off, and then walked to Meiqing, accompanying her quietly. At this moment, an unknown seed was planted in his heart.

But he didn’t notice it.