Chapter 861: Mighty Lord of Ten Thousand Corpses
Plants withered, and corpse qi blanketed the sky.
As Master Wan’s arm emerged from the yin-yang rift, the shinkan halted their pursuit, formed a formation, and jointly summoned a pillar of sunlight that descended from the sky under the lead of a jokai-rank shinkan. It pierced through the overwhelming corpse qi, illuminated the darkened world, and continually purified the foul air before finally landing on the fist, instantly transforming into blazing golden flames.
The human faces on Master Wan’s arm began wailing in pain as they burned away under the flames. But Master Wan paid no mind to the fire or the faces. His fist pressed forward unwaveringly, clearly intent on annihilating the gathered shinkan with a single blow.
One major reason Qi Xuansu waited until now to summon Master Wan was that he intended to frame the incident on the Westerners. From beginning to end, only the Wuliang-stage shinkan and the miko had seen Qi Xuansu and Little Yin’s true faces. The shinkan was killed by them and had his soul devoured by Little Yin, while his body was dissolved by corpse qi. The other pursuers had only been tracking their aura and never saw their faces, let alone knew their age, gender, or ethnicity.
If Master Wan showed up within the forbidden grounds, it would have drawn too much attention. The fact that a Yin Being conveniently hindered the pursuers right after someone broke the seal and escaped would be too suspicious. It would lead the Jingu to conclude a connection between the Yin Being and the intruder. Besides, the Holy Court was not known for controlling the undead.
By waiting until now to unleash Master Wan, Qi Xuansu could not completely erase suspicion, but at least he introduced doubt. The shinkan might think the arm’s owner was not an accomplice but a terrifying monster born in Ise Province itself. After all, Master Wan’s grotesque body was pieced together from countless corpses, and there was no shortage of unburied dead within the war-ravaged Ise Province.
This way, the setup involving the miko would not go to waste. At the very least, it would sow doubt and confuse the Jingu’s decision-making, buying much-needed time.
No matter what, this was Ise-jingu’s territory. Qi Xuansu could not fight a full-scale battle alone unless he summoned all Three Yin Beings, which would certainly alarm the first-rank Spirit Guard stationed at the Ghost Pass.
After all, Qi Xuansu was not given the authority to command the Three Yin Beings. He could summon them in secret, but doing so openly was another matter, and it would be difficult to contain the consequences.
Qi Xuansu began to suspect that Sage Qingwei already knew of his link with the Three Yin Beings and had deliberately sent him to Ise Province to give him the freedom to use them to their fullest.