Chapter 174 The Approaching Decisive Battle

Chapter 174 The Approaching Decisive Battle

Chapter 174 The Approaching Decisive Battle

The water was surging, and after a long time the pool calmed down. Asakusa Ruri's nine tails were scattered, floating quietly on the water like a chrysanthemum, with her head resting in Ash's arms.

Ash rubbed the fox ears with his fingers: "Asakusa Ruri, you really did not make a mistake with your name."

Asakusa Ruri said in a daze: "What's the meaning of my name, Master?"

"you do not need to know."

"Yes."

Looking at Asakusa Ruri who was completely tamed by [Dragon Climbing Pillar], Ash stroked Asakusa Ruri's head, and Asakusa Ruri also humped Ash's hand like a docile puppy.

"The full power of the Dragon Climbing Pillar is really scary."

Ash couldn't help but think to himself as he looked at the destroyed Asakusa Ruri.

To be honest, this was indeed the first time he used [Dragon Climbing Pillar] with all his strength. After all, Maria, Ye Lin and other women were in love with him, so there was no need for [Dragon Climbing Pillar] to deepen the mark.

Asakusa Ruri is different, since she has had rebellious thoughts, she will naturally do whatever she can to control herself.

Now, rather than being his slaves, they are more like slaves of [Climbing the Dragon Pillar].

"Take your tail back." Ash said.

"Yes." Asakusa Ruri retracted her nine tails, and the next moment, Ash's hand pierced into her heart.

It wasn't that he was trying to kill her, but rather purify her.

When Ash was transforming Asakusa Ruri into a dependent, he noticed the hidden trick planted on Asakusa Ruri, but since she was still a dependent at that time, it was difficult for him to remove it directly.

But now there is no such concern.

Purple lightning bloomed within Asakusa Ruri's body, destroying unclean things.

what--

A faint howl of pain came from Asakusa Ruri's body. Ash pulled with his hand, and a ball of dark liquid was pulled out of Asakusa Ruri's body.

A dark golden flame ignited, evaporating the black liquid completely.

As the black liquid was drawn out, a hint of clarity suddenly appeared in Asakusa Ruri's blurry eyes, but she was quickly overwhelmed by the waves of memories and sank completely.
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After many days, the 108 Demon Stars took action again. This time they not only killed the ghosts, but also re-erected a statue in the local shrine.

It was a statue of a nine-tailed fox, and next to it was a tablet with inscriptions that read: "If you do evil, God will punish you; if you do good, you will be blessed."

There are also words engraved under the statue: Goddess of Heavenly Fox.

As soon as the statue was erected, people came to worship it in an endless stream. Although the Fuso government immediately listed it as an obscene sacrifice and banned its promotion, the common people were not fools, and many people worshiped it secretly.

Don’t they know whether the Fox Goddess is good or bad? The ghosts she killed were all evil ghosts who exploited the local civilians, and the people who died were all notorious villains.

Just for the sake of eliminating evil, what's wrong with praying? It doesn't cost any money anyway.

The news soon reached Otomo Hideaki.

"Is it for faith?" Otomo Hideaki tapped the table with his fingers. "I didn't expect that after failing to attack the true god, this demon fox would not give up."

This made him a little tempted. After all, who doesn’t want to take a step forward?

Since Asakusa Ruri still wants to attack the true God again, it means she has confidence.

If successful, it will be a historical first.

But after thinking about it, Otomo Hideaki felt that it would be better to kill the fox.

Because there is another possibility, she is preparing for the future birth of a god.

Otherwise, the timing of her resurrection was just too coincidental.

There are enough demigods vying for the position, and we don’t need another one to grab it.

"Ryuzen, get ready," Otomo said, "It's time to hunt the demons."

"Yes."
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Bang! His head exploded like a watermelon, and Ash was drawing blood.

He discovered that there was another benefit here. Because humans and monsters lived together, many golden monsters became ghosts here.

This allowed him to collect a lot of the blood essence of the golden species.

"Now the blood essence needed for the dragon servants' blood transformation has been completely gathered."

Ash thought to himself as he looked at the blood essence that was gradually being refined in his hands.

The dark golden flame melted the power of faith and then fed it back into Ash's body.

The skull began to heat up, and Ash's level rose again to level 96.

If you eat too many snacks, you will feel full.

Ash clenched his fists. Based on the previous full value of 1,000 points, his current physical fitness should be around 1,030.

Don’t complain that your progress is low. After all, Ash has not yet become a demigod. Once he becomes a demigod, this value will be multiplied by a coefficient.

Now he is still in a state of accumulating strength for a breakthrough.

"I hope I can get the Immortal Soul this time."

Ash narrowed his eyes, and mud and rocks surged, leaving a statue in its place.

At the same time as the belief in the Fox Goddess spread, in Changshi City, the dragon servants promoted a new doctrine called Nongjia.

In a town, Otomo Hideaki met one of the evil stars that has been rumored recently, Tiankuixing Song Jiang.

He looked up and down at the man who was chained by the rune chains and asked, "Who are you?"

He saw that Song Jiang was more than just Song Jiang.

"Does it make sense?" Song Jiang asked calmly.

Otomo Hideaki thought about it and nodded: "Yes, it really doesn't make any sense. After all, we will meet each other in the end."

As soon as he finished speaking, the rune chains tightened, squeezing Song Jiang into a bloody mist.

No, he took the initiative to dissipate into blood mist.

call!
The blood mist dissipated with the wind. Otomo Yingming frowned slightly and his lips moved. The wind suddenly gathered and condensed the blood mist together.

The blood grew into a long snake and suddenly burrowed into the ground.

Otomo Yingming chanted the spell again, and the ground suddenly became as solid as a rock, preventing the blood snake from drilling any further.

The blood snake coiled on the ground, staring at Otomo Hideaki indifferently, then grinned like a human being: "This is for you!"

boom!
The bloody flames ignited, and the blood snake sprang up, like an arrow shot from a bow, shooting straight into Otomo Yingming's heart.

Pieces of talisman paper flew out from Otomo Hideaki's sleeves, forming layers of barriers.

Bang bang bang!
The arrows transformed from blood snakes broke through five layers in a row and were finally consumed at the sixth layer.

Otomo Hideaki looked at the destroyed barrier with a serious expression. This kind of penetrating power was really amazing, and this was just a clone.

How terrifying is the original body?
Otomo Hideaki was convinced that he was a strong man of the same level.

The next day, news came that Song Jiang had reappeared, which made Otomo Hideaki once again confirm this idea.

This kind of clone can be recreated at any time, and is indeed a powerful demigod.

Combined with the powerful demigod Asakusa Ruri, Otomo Hideaki already felt the pressure.

The hunt is still going on, and the number of ghosts in Fuso is decreasing at an alarming rate. Even if the Onmyoji organization fights back, it is useless because Ash can strengthen his clone to the same strength as his original body at any time.

With his demigod-level combat power, any encirclement and suppression without the participation of demigods was broken, and it was useless even with the participation of demigods.

It was just a clone, if he died, he died. He could replenish the energy consumed by the Earthly Evil Star in less than an hour, and the Heavenly Star in half a day. However, the fewer deaths, the fewer deaths. After all, if one more person died, the time for him to ascend to Demigod would be delayed a little longer.

Under Ash's terrifying hunting, the evil ghosts from all over Fuso either gave up their status as ghosts or went into hiding.

Unfortunately, with Ash's [Fire Eyes] and [Omens of All Things], they were still caught one by one by him.

Even if it was just an ant's leg, he would not let it escape.

Otomo Hideaki also fell silent for a while, because he realized that he couldn't do anything about such a shameless Ash.

Without a target and without any ties, he couldn't catch it even if he wanted to.

As for divination, if he could have predicted it, he wouldn't be so helpless.

Now he could only wait until Ash's real body reached the designated ghost or god, and then kill him in one fell swoop.

The massacre lasted for more than a month, and the time had entered the 1238th year of the Iron Calendar.

Now the upper class in Fuso is in a state of panic, but the lower class is peaceful.

Because Ash only kills bad guys, a large number of bad guys are frightened. They don't dare to gamble that Ash will send people to kill them, so they have been keeping a low profile recently, waiting for the news that the 108 stars have been encircled and suppressed.

This has also led to a significant improvement in the public security situation at the grassroots level.

Moreover, recently, Asakusa Ruri also engraved [Heart Transformed into Thousands] under the training of Ash, and she also has the ability to split herself. She also sent out a large number of walkers to punish the evildoers outside, resulting in the current situation where the Sky Fox Goddess appeared.

This also made the evil people even more frightened, and they pretended to be good people, giving out porridge, distributing money, and building roads, as if they were making up for their sins.

In this situation, Asakusa Ruri usually pretends not to see it. She is not a killer like Ash. Compared to Ash's attitude that evil is evil, good is good, and rewards and punishments go hand in hand, she is more inclined to believe that merits and demerits can offset each other.

It was still the same cave, still the same pool. Ash closed his eyes and thought about his next target.

Up to now, he had killed almost all the big and small ghosts he could. It was just that he had not achieved the achievement of killing a million people, otherwise he estimated that the people he had killed along the way would have been enough.

There is nothing left to kill as the remaining ghost kings are all gathered in Kyoto and are heavily protected by the remaining ghosts and gods.

But that’s nothing, just send your clones to assassinate them one by one.

But the more troublesome thing now is that, because of his big move, those demigods with guilty consciences have gathered together, waiting for him to come.

They thought he didn't know, but in fact he had already seen through their plans clearly through extracting souls and refining spirits.

"Let's get some reinforcements."

Ash thought, there were nearly ten demigods, some of them were half-finished products, but if they attacked together, he would not be able to handle it even if he called the bunny girl.

Moreover, the bunny girl couldn't get away at the critical moment.

But it was really a coincidence that both sides reached the critical moment at the same time.

"Is it Tzeentch's doing? It seems that Tzeentch is also the one who is causing trouble over there. It's such a coincidence. It's not a coincidence if it happens to Him."

Ash didn't think that Tzeentch couldn't find out his relationship with the bunny girl. After all, it had been exposed during the Heavy Dragon Empire.

So he also has to be on guard against Khorne.

He should have recognized him last time. He had a bad relationship with Khorne, so it was very likely that he would use him as bait to plot against Khorne.

As for Ash's wishes, He doesn't care.

"Just in case, get all the help you can get."

In Chonglong Empire, Wuwei Martial Arts School, a figure who was in deep thought suddenly opened his eyes.

He stood up, took a few steps, and arrived outside a palace gate, where he waited quietly.

Soon, Li Xuanyi opened the door: "What do you want to see Your Majesty?"

"It's about expanding territory." said Ash.

Li Xuanyi turned around and said, "Come in."

She was just pretending. Anyway, with the favor Ash had in the Queen's heart, the Queen would probably agree even if she just came to take a look.

The empress lay on the jade bed, supporting her head with her hands, looking at Ash who came in. When she found out it was her clone, the lust in her eyes disappeared instantly.

"Tell me, expanding territory, what territory do we want to expand?" Empress Chongming said lazily.

"The sea border, Fuso Kingdom." said Ash.

Chongming narrowed his eyes and said, "There are many giant beasts in the sea, and it is inconvenient to travel."

"I have a Naga demigod as his follower who can ensure a smooth sea route," said Yaxiu.

"Master comes from Wuming." Chongming said.

"There are demons and gods in Fuso who are killing the people of Chonglong, and there are already thousands of them." Ash said again.

"There are more demigods in Fusang than can be counted on two hands." Chongming said slowly, "If I send out troops, can I capture the entire territory?"

Ash thought for a moment and said, "Okay, but I have a request."

"What's the request?" Chongming asked.

Ash said, "Preaching rights. I will build a shrine there. I need the entire territory."

"Just preaching?" Chongming asked back.

"Just preaching." Ash confirmed.

"If you are willing to obey my management, it's not impossible." Chongming straightened up and said.

Ash cupped his hands, "As long as it's reasonable, I'll get her to fully cooperate."

"Her?" Chongming suddenly narrowed his eyes. "Did you go to Fusang specifically to collect women?"

"No!" Ash answered firmly, without looking away. "I went there to collect knowledge about formations, but in the process of collecting, I found that the power of faith was of great benefit to me, so I specially built a shrine there."

On the other side, under the pool, a snow-white, slender throat suddenly rolled a few times, as if swallowing something.

Chongming was not fooled by these true words. She turned cold and asked, "Why did you choose a woman?"

"I'm not specifically picking a woman, she just happens to be the right fit." Ash said seriously.

"Really?" Chongming narrowed his eyes, "I will believe you for now."

"Do you agree to send troops?" Yaxiu asked.

"I agree." Chongming lay down again. "After all, if the benefits far outweigh the risks, there's no need for me not to do it. When do you want my troops to arrive?"

"The troops and horses don't matter, as long as you arrive, we have to deal with the demigod of Fuso first." Yaxiu said, "I will use the red string to pull you when the time comes."

"Okay." Chongming nodded.

After finalizing this matter, Ash's clone left.

After Yaxiu left, Chongming took out a jade token and rubbed it. Her sight suddenly shifted to a pool of steaming water.

Then she saw a black-haired woman with fox ears emerging from the water and facing "her".

Chongming snorted softly. Sure enough, he was playing with women again.

This kind of scene was quite common to her. After all, she had watched Ash having sex with other women countless times with the help of this jade token, including Maria, Ye Lin, and Karisan.
The woman in front of him was probably the new one that Ash had recruited in Fuso.

'When you become a demigod, I will lock up your stuff!'

Chongming looked at the rippling water in the pool and rubbed his fingers unconsciously.

　I fought with the reviewer for a while.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)