Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 843: 510, Jingū-ji

Qing Chen leaped down from the mountain peak in an instant, and the Onmyoji did not move, but the three spirit creatures he controlled all chased down the mountain.

Fire Fox swayed its red body, stepping on green flames with its white paws, agilely jumping back and forth between the mountains, reaching halfway up the mountain in just a blink of an eye.

In another direction, Mountain Child climbed the rock wall with palms like bronze gongs, swinging a few times and moving even faster than Fire Fox.

Red Leaf Hunter was even more terrifying. She leaped down from the mountain peak, her tall figure wrapped in a green and red kimono, gently floating like a maple leaf, completely free from the pull of gravity.

As she descended, the accumulated snow on the rock wall behind her was stirred up, creating an impressive spectacle.

In the vast snowy mountain, the emptiness and coldness, Qing Chen, Fire Fox, Mountain Child, and Red Leaf Hunter seemed to be pulling four lines, weaving a net.

As Qing Chen descended the mountain, the net tightening around him grew increasingly tight.

Qing Chen glanced and smiled before jumping towards the east. As soon as he slightly changed direction, the three spirit creatures adjusted accordingly.

This coordinated formation aimed to lock him, the prey, firmly within the net, awaiting the hunt.

Only the young Onmyoji stood still, observing.

This Onmyoji, named Jindai Yunyi, had completed a reverse crossing through neuron possession, becoming a genius of the Jindai family.

He was an Inner World person and the Jindai family’s once-in-a-decade Onmyoji prodigy.

But now, he was compelled to partake in resetting and retraining.

Jindai Yunyi’s father, Jindai Yasuhito, was a powerful figure within the family, so Yunyi had the privilege to summon spirit creatures at the newly promoted B-Class.

Yet, fate played a cruel trick on him. When he summoned three spirit creatures consecutively, he ended up with Zashiki Doko, Mao You, and the Taocheng Temple Bell, the three useless spirit creatures.

If it had been someone else, they would have been sent to the Shrine as a great priest, but Jindai Yunyi relied on his father’s influence to secure a reset and retraining opportunity, becoming a Time Traveler controlling half of the Outer World’s Mysterious Business Department’s authority.

This time, he did not disappoint and obtained Red Leaf Hunter, ranked ninth among the Divine Bridge.

This was his first hunt, and he needed to carefully observe the prey.

Before arriving, Jindai Yunyi had meticulously examined the battle traces on Mount Okuhotaka. Despite the terrifying scene, Jindai couldn’t discern the attack methods.

However, being an expert, he noticed a problem…

That was including Wutian Yingfu, all those people weren’t severely injured.

The wounds were merely within two or three centimeters of the skin, and Wutian Yingfu managed to get up and escape after being attacked.

This indicated that the killer, despite possessing extremely powerful wide-area damage capability, lacked true single-target lethality akin to the top-tier Outer World figures.

This wide-area damage capability was effective against weaklings but revealed shortcomings when facing experts.

In fact, Jindai Yunyi’s judgment was accurate. If Qing Chen used cloud gas for indiscriminate attacks, he indeed couldn’t do much against experts above B-Class temporarily, at most causing B-Class experts to have scarred faces without posing lethal threats.

Generally, transcendent beings with distinct advantages in group damage have relatively weaker individual combat power.

This was why Jindai Yunyi dared to come to hunt.

Now, Jindai Yunyi stood on the mountain peak, witnessing Qing Chen not rushing towards him but turning towards Mountain Child.

He looked coldly down the mountain and gently murmured, “Foolish.”

Everyone knew that to deal with an Onmyoji, one must concentrate all efforts to strike the main body instead of entangling with the spirit creatures.

Anyone unaware of this common knowledge was unworthy to be an opponent of an Onmyoji.

He had even left a hidden strategy on the mountain, but unexpectedly, it was entirely unnecessary.

As long as Mountain Child and Fire Fox dragged until Red Leaf Hunter closed in, the prey would be doomed without doubt.

Yet, at this moment, Jindai Yunyi saw the boy carrying a little girl down the mountain running faster and faster.

The boy showed no fear, shouting excitedly, “Come on!”

At the moment of encounter between Mountain Child and the boy, Mountain Child leaped up, swinging its bronze gong-like palms in the air.

In the blink of an eye, amidst the swirling snow.

The boy’s palm struck first. Jindai Yunyi didn’t even see how he struck, only hearing a “slap” sound echoing through the valley. Mountain Child was already slapped across the face, flying backward and crashing into the rocks.

Fire Fox seized the moment, stepping on green flames, ascending an invisible staircase in the air.

It reached behind Qing Chen, ready to spew flames.

But right after the boy slapped Mountain Child, he turned and leaped up, gripping Fire Fox’s mouth.

The green flames hadn’t spewed out, but were forcibly held back!

The boy gently landed on the snow, one hand gripping Fire Fox’s head, the other foot pinning Mountain Child beneath him.

The battle started in an instant and ended in an instant.

The boy abruptly looked up at the mountain peak, completely ignoring the approaching Red Leaf Hunter, and instead smiled at Jindai Yunyi, “Come down!”

Jindai Yunyi’s pupils suddenly contracted. He had been the core direct line of the family since childhood, witnessing countless expert battles.

The family even had a special archive full of recordings of Federation expert battles, facilitating their reference.

Hence, Jindai Yunyi was knowledgeable. He realized that in the process of subduing Fire Fox and Mountain Child, the boy did not rely on any tricks.

It was entirely relying on formidable physical prowess for the crushing!

A single overwhelming strength!

Although Mountain Child and Fire Fox weren’t formidable spirit creatures, even with one attacking from the front and the other from behind, other B-Class experts would need to withstand it to settle them or use their ultimate abilities.

The spirit creatures’ power depended on the Onmyoji’s strength correlation.

For example, Mountain Child and Fire Fox, upon Jindai Yunyi advancing to mid B-Class, their power only inherited at the peak of C-Class.

Red Leaf Hunter, however, could reach peak B-Class strength even when the Onmyoji was still mid B-Class.

If Jindai Yunyi one day upgraded to A-Class, solely a Red Leaf Hunter would be formidable against A-Class opponents.

Spirit creatures like Soldier Department, Seibozu, Shuten-doji, Bull-headed rakshasas, Ma Mian Luo Cha, Wild Bone, Hannya, were the same.

Thus, whenever the Jindai family produced a demigod-level Onmyoji, they could ensure stability for a century.

This was why the Jindai family revered their ancestors and fully supported resetting and retraining offsprings.

Although Jindai Yunyi hadn’t reached A-Class yet, encountering ordinary B-Class, Mountain Child and Fire Fox alone would give opponents headaches.

Yet now, this boy, emerging seemingly from nowhere, had subdued Mountain Child and Fire Fox solely with pure speed and strength, leaving them completely defenseless.

His physical prowess had already reached the standards of an A-Class expert!

Jindai Yunyi was startled. Was this the chosen one from Kyushu, setting a bait specifically for him?!

But no, which A-Class expert would straightforwardly confront enemies with mere punches and kicks?

Actually, Jindai Yunyi wasn’t sure if the term “clumsy” he used was accurate because fighting in such a manner indeed worked!

Wait!

Wait!

Jindai Yunyi’s pupils contracted further, finally realizing this boy’s intent.

The other wasn’t foolish, unaware of attacking the Onmyoji’s main body first.

Instead, he was so confident that he aimed to aggressively crush Yunyi’s proudest assets into the ground.

Was this confidence… or arrogance?

In a daze, a gust of wind blew past.

The maple leaves around Red Leaf Hunter shot out continuously, the red leaves ethereal in the air.

Jindai Yunyi came to his senses, concentrating on watching the boy fiercely slam Fire Fox into the ground, scattering the snow.

In a blink of an eye, the boy casually flicked light snowflakes off his fingers.

The rumbling sound echoed. Each flick of a snowflake by the boy resembled an anti-material sniper rifle’s massive recoil airflow, causing the snow behind him to sway and scatter.

The boy’s clothes were blown backward by the wild wind, his half-long hair swaying in the snow.

Usually, he could restrain his force, keeping the commotion small, but now he purposely used full strength.

When Qing Chen first used this move, he was still C-Class, so the move’s power hadn’t revealed its full extent.

The last time he used this move, he spit out the cloud gas, exhausted, forcing him to hit lightly without full force.

Now it was different; this was his first real confrontation with an equivalent level after his promotion.

Jindai Yunyi didn’t know he had just advanced and thus was initially unsure of his intent.

Qing Chen merely wanted to test his limits.

As Shadow would say…

When a tiger comes to a new territory, it must devour the beasts there to understand its place in the food chain.

At this moment, the snowflakes shot precisely, smashing into the maple leaves. Qing Chen’s ability to calculate the trajectory was fully utilized.

The maple leaves were entirely shattered, yet three snowflakes remained.

These three snowflakes forced Red Leaf Hunter to spin and dodge, halting her attack.

As the maple leaves and snowflakes simultaneously shattered into splendid red light shadows, Jinguji Maki quietly peeked out, watching this scene, feeling the battle was incredibly spectacular, and her brother was exceedingly powerful.

Indeed, there were no opponents left…

Yet at this moment, among the shattered maple leaves, a shadow of another leaf flew out.

This was Red Leaf Hunter’s trump card, an invisible maple leaf…

Qing Chen gently tilted his head to avoid it.

But Jinguji Maki’s cheek, peeking out cautiously, was grazed by the maple leaf, leaving a fine blood mark.

The little girl widened her eyes, feeling neither pain nor fear immediately but rather worried that Qing Chen might blame her carelessness.

But Qing Chen, noticing her cheek injury, simply asked gently, “Does it hurt?”

“I’m okay…” The little girl replied, ashamed.

Qing Chen shook his head. How could a nine-year-old child not possess a child’s nature? If a child errs, it is the adult’s responsibility.

He turned to face Red Leaf Hunter, ready to settle the enemy first.

In turning, Qing Chen was stunned, and so was Jindai Yunyi.

As Jinguji Maki’s cheek blood dripped, Red Leaf Hunter gently gathered her kimono skirt, quietly kneeling down.

Moreover, not just simply kneeling, but bowing down fully.

This was a form of Island Country’s etiquette, addressing profound respect or apology, an ancient practice expressing deep humility or sincere pleas, typically indicating utmost apology or request.

This bowing was exceptionally genuine and humble.

Qing Chen suddenly recalled a segment from Outer World’s history records.

“In the Nara period, the Shrine Temple was established within every shrine and major sites. During the Heian era, Shrine Temples were across the country. By the end of the Edo period, the Shrine Temple’s power peaked.

Among them, the Jinguji clan excelled at collecting demons, and none dared to cross them.”

Qing Chen sighed, wondering if the Jinguji clan was indeed the demon collectors in the past, causing Red Leaf Hunter to kneel upon seeing a drop of blood?!

Was this bloodline so profound it deterred even Inner World’s demon spirit creatures?