421: Chapter 415: True Man?
421: Chapter 415: True Man?
Unable to communicate due to language barriers.
Such a magnificent language as Yanhuang, yet none of these Onmyoji before me can speak it.
No wonder these guys, each one well on in years, have such weak abilities.
After listening to their gibberish for a while, without ever understanding what they were actually saying, Chen Hai grew impatient.
As soon as his Divine Soul’s shadow emerged, whether it was the Snow Woman or the Dog, these two Shikigami were devoured cleanly within a minute or two.
The remaining Onmyoji, upon seeing his two companions’ Shikigami destroyed and them instantly dead, was clearly frightened!
A man in his thirties or forties, his knees buckled, and he actually knelt down, bumping his head against the ground repeatedly toward Chen Hai.
Babbling away, he said a whole lot.
This time, the single sentence of Japanese that Chen Hai understood finally came into play.
When he learned this phrase, the word “Yametekudasai” had been uttered by a sweet-sounding girl!
The phrase meant “please stop,” describing someone who was extremely fearful and terrified to a shocking extent.
But now, seeing such a rugged man, kneeling and repeatedly bumping his head while shouting “Yametekudasai,” Chen Hai found the sight somewhat difficult to bear.
He wanted to slap the man to death out of annoyance, but he also felt it was a bit of a waste!
After all, this Onmyoji’s Shikigami was deeply hidden within his body and had not been directly summoned.
Protected by his physical body, Chen Hai could not devour his Shikigami.
If he killed the man, his Shikigami would also dissipate into the world.
Having attempted communication with the man for some time to get him to summon his Shikigami, the man either played dumb or whatever, just kept knocking his head against the ground in front of Chen Hai.
His forehead was bleeding from the knocks, but he still refused to heed Chen Hai’s kind persuasion to use the power of his Shikigami.
“Stop, hurry and stop…”
Just as Chen Hai was about to immolate the man with a burst of fire, a furious shout entered his ears.
With white hair and beard, wearing a white robe, Yukizo Hayato of the Snow Mountain Sect finally rushed back to the Four-direction Pavilion.
Standing about ten paces from Chen Hai, he looked furious and sized Chen Hai up and down.
Only pausing for a moment, he continued, “We of the Snow Mountain Sect live reclusively and cultivate away from worldly strife.”
“Who exactly are you?
By intruding like this, you have nearly wiped out the people of our sect!”
“Do you not think that what you’ve done is somewhat excessive?”
The several corpses lying on the floor of the Four-direction Pavilion’s hall had already caught Yukizo Hayato’s immediate attention.
The few Onmyoji of the Snow Mountain Sect, apart from one kneeling on the ground, still alive, the others had all stopped breathing, completely dead.
Upon seeing this, Yukizo Hayato’s heart was already bleeding.
If not for the fact that he didn’t know the details of Chen Hai and had no confidence he could defeat him, Yukizo Hayato would have taken action without a second word at this point.
“Do you speak Yanhuang?”
As Yukizo Hayato stared intently at Chen Hai, Chen Hai was also observing him.
Hearing this man speak in Yanhuang language, he couldn’t help but take a few more glances at Yukizo Hayato.
“I traveled around the great lands of Yanhuang when I was young.”
“At that time, the Taoist heritage was still alive in your region, and I’ve sparred and shared friendships with many True Cultivators!”
Staring coldly at Chen Hai, Yukizo Hayato hesitated for a while, but finally spoke up and responded.
“It’s good that you can speak Yanhuang,” said Chen Hai.
“Murakami Taro, he’s hidden here with you, isn’t he?”
“Hand him over, or I’ll exterminate your entire Sect!”
With a wave of his hand, the kneeling Onmyoji begging for mercy turned into a man of fire and, in the blink of an eye, was reduced to ashes by Chen Hai.
Unable to devour his Shikigami, which was a pity, but since the man failed to see reason, Chen Hai couldn’t be bothered to waste more time on him.
This Yukizo Hayato had run in, raging, demanding that he stop!
If he really stopped, wouldn’t that make it seem like he was beneath this old man?
With a mere flick of his wrist, burning the remaining Onmyoji to ashes, was not without his intention to make an example of one to awe the others, to intimidate Yukizo Hayato!
“Control over the elemental power?
That is something within Taoism only True Men possess.
Are you a True Man?”
With wide-eyed disbelief plastered over his face, Yukizo Hayato was utterly shocked.
Almost all his disciples had perished here.
When he arrived, he was very cautious about Chen Hai’s strength and did not attack immediately.
But as for Chen Hai’s true power?
He had never witnessed it with his own eyes.
Now, as he witnessed Chen Hai summon flames with a mere wave of his hand, even with his mental fortitude, he couldn’t help but cry out in shock.
“I have yet to even visit to True Realm.
Can controlling flames really make me a True Man?” Chen Hai said, neither confirming nor denying as he curled his lip in response.
Last time, those two Rat Demons from Conggui Mountain called him ‘True Man’ the moment they saw his Flame Power!
Now, this white-haired, white-browed Yukizo Hayato similarly believed him to be a True Man…
Chen Hai himself began to wonder if he had inadvertently become a True Man.
After a moment’s thought, he felt the ‘True Man’ title was just that, a title.
Regardless of whether he actually had achieved the status of a True Man, his power was now truly formidable, verging on superhuman.
“Elder, with your strength, you would surely survive in the True Realm,” said Yukizo Hayato.
“Not having entered the True Realm doesn’t mean you aren’t a True Man!”
“Murakami Taro dared to offend you; that was his death wish.”
“He used to be a disciple of my Snow Mountain Sect.
Indeed, he is now on the mountain.”
“If you wish to find him, I can take you there right now!”
After a moment’s hesitation, a struggle appeared on his face, before Yukizo Hayato finally bit the bullet, as though he had made up his mind, and spoke to Chen Hai.
“Is that so?” Chen Hai said with insinuation, giving Yukizo Hayato a meaningful glance before speaking in a heavy tone, “After killing so many of your Snow Mountain Sect, you don’t hate me, and you’re actually willing to honestly hand him over to me?”
“What’s most important for a person is to see clearly who they are.
Insisting on opposing a True Man is purely courting death!”
“Handing Murakami Taro over to you, True Man, might, perhaps, allow our Snow Mountain Sect’s lineage to continue unextinguished.”
It seemed as if he had truly resigned himself to fate when Yukizo Hayato reverently bowed to Chen Hai and explained.
His words seemed to make some sense.
Staring at him for a long time, Chen Hai couldn’t detect any pretense on his face.
“Seeing as you’re so understanding, I won’t make things difficult for you!”
“Lead the way honestly, and as long as we find Murakami Taro, it’s not impossible for me to show mercy and offer you a way to live!”
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Hai nodded.
He wasn’t actually fond of killing; the main reason he had gone on a killing spree after entering the Snow Mountain Sect was because those people had attacked him first!
Had those Onmyoji treated him with respect and invited him in, even if he had coveted their Shikigami, whether he would have attacked remained an unknown.
“True Man, please follow me!”
Che called to Chen Hai, Yukizo Hayato led the way ahead, escorting him outside the Four-direction Pavilion.