Chapter 430: Chapter 50: Queen of Green Tea The mark of Eastern power is very special.
Some can suddenly increase, as if their strength was hidden all along.
Don’t underestimate the Slippery Ghost with his four-star silver-gray mark; once he unleashes his hidden strength, he can become a five-star silver-gray entity, stronger than many Heroic Spirits.
Beast form of the Nine-tailed Fox.
Those strange eyes seem to contain a certain power, deriving from the Divine Law of the Ancient Era.
The shadow of the Immortal and the embodiment overlapping, Duncan reached out and grabbed the giant fox tail coming at him in an instant. With a terrifying burst of Barbaric Power, he forcibly dragged the colossal figure, nearly a hundred meters tall, toward him. Its claws madly scraped the ground, creating trenches more than ten meters deep.
The giant’s strength truly doesn’t fear beast-formed ancient demons.
The representative Eastern giant is Kuafu; after entering the Eastern Land, the Power Law on Duncan’s body has also changed slightly. The Root World’s inclusiveness is very strong, while smaller worlds can only accommodate one or two Law Origins.
If we were to divide the cultivation system, the Root World has three major branches: Eastern system (Middle-earth, India), Western system (Divine Technique, Magic), and Primitive Witchcraft (North America, Africa, etc.).
But the Root World also has a drawback: greater restrictions on the reality plane.
However, without these restrictions, the Indian Pantheon would have long since fought with the gods of the West.
"Hand over the Three Lives Stone of Yellow Springs."
Duncan’s expression was indifferent as he dragged the Nine-tailed Fox, calmly saying, "I promised Yama to take it back."
Business matters are urgent.
Fusang is a necessary marked geoline node, and the mythological ebb here can be maintained until the Japanese Sengoku period. In the Americas, there’s no rush for now; the Maya gods are relatively weak, and the Indian civilization is already far behind.
The Nine-tailed Fox let out a mournful cry and began to struggle wildly, wrapping its tails around.
In an instant, the ground shook and the mountains swayed. Duncan exerted force, and the enormous Nine-tailed Fox was thrown to the ground over his shoulder with a single-handed smash. The Cursed Long Spear turned into a shadow of a stick, not using the spearhead but wielding it as a stick, harshly striking the Nine-tailed Fox’s rear.
One swing, two swings, three swings.
Children thrive under discipline, and the Nine-tailed Fox’s cries grew increasingly piteous.
Even in the Mythical Era, the Nine-tailed Fox was not known for martial prowess. Among many ancient demons, she was more adept at Charming kings.
Duncan was quite merciful.
Were he to descend in the stance of an Immortal, the Nine-tailed Fox in front of him would likely suffer severe injuries.
"Your Majesty."
"I shall go retrieve it immediately."
A quivering whisper echoed as the White-faced Golden Nine-tailed Fox transformed back into human shape, looking pitiful and murmuring, "I merely borrowed it for a while, seeking a way to establish myself here."
Duncan was unmoved, lifted the stick again, threatening to strike, and slowly said, "Go."
"I cannot break my promise to others."
The great ebb of mythology.
Even such ancient demons have become much weaker, no wonder they’ve fled to Fusang over here.
At this moment, wisps of Ghost Fire appeared.
Unbeknownst to anyone, outside the bamboo forest stood the figure of a seductive woman, none other than the Rakshasa Yama seen at the shrine.
Her expression was furious, with a certain satisfaction of seeing a great grudge resolved.
Everyone had fled from the Eastern Land to Fusang to make a living; why should she steal my treasure?
Encountering a true hardliner has subdued her, right?
The Rakshasa Demoness fled from India to the Eastern Land, and then by chance obtained Yama’s position due to Buddhism’s spread to Japan. But before she could enjoy her good fortune, her Netherworld Realm was scarcely consolidated when the Nine-tailed Fox fled from the Eastern Land to Fusang, seizing her Three Lives Stone without a word.
She was about to persuade a major demon to take over Meng Po’s role.
Meng Po of Fusang, after all, counts as a lesser divine position.
But once the demon saw that she couldn’t control the Ghostly Realm of Yellow Springs, they instantly had an excuse to evade, turning a prosperous situation into a Night Parade of Hundred Demons.
Many of Fusang’s legends came from the Eastern Land, and Buddhism’s spread brought together many new myths.
Yet, the position of Yama is not easily taken.
Now the Nine-tailed Fox’s face was also filled with deep sorrow and grudge. During the Pre-Qin Era, she could still dwell in solitude, but later, when Celestial Master Zhang established Daoism, she was incessantly harassed, encountering Daoist followers no matter where she hid.
In the Han and Tang periods, her days were already hard.
Figures like Zhang Daoling and Zhang Jiao, after the mythological ebb, surviving demons had to hide obediently, many fled to Ba and Shu, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan.
Now is not their active era.
On one side, the ebb of mythology weakens them, while on the other, the decline in totem belief means the Nine-tailed Fox is no longer an ancient era’s totem.
In fact, during the Mythical Era, the representative figure of the Nine-tailed Fox totem was Dayu’s wife, the Tushan Clan.
Tushan is the legitimate origin of the Nine-tailed Fox.
Moreover, almost all Descendants of Yan and Huang have a trace of Nine-tailed Fox blood in them, because Dayu married the Tushan Clan and bore Qi, Qi bore Shaokang, Shaokang restored the dynasty after Taikang lost it. Basically, all the descendants of this lineage are intertwined with the Nine-tailed Fox.
If it weren’t for the Nine Ding suppressing fortune, the legend of the Nine-tailed Fox wouldn’t be so prosperous; Ancient Auspiciousness was something they strove for, but later it fell off, and the title of Auspicious Beast was stripped away.
She truly is just a small demon.