Chapter 63: Explosion, Assault
Yumesaki looked up and saw that the entire Aoi Spiral Castle had become a battlefield in various places.
Cu Chulainn was facing off against Abe no Orochi, the Heroic Spirit Emiya was dealing with Abe no Yoshihira, Heracles was fighting Abe no Ariyuki and Gokadoin Yasunaga, while Medea clashed with Gokadoin Yuiyui.
In addition, Medusa was matched against the tenth-generation head of the family, Gokadoin Arihiro.
Nero was trading blows with Gokadoin Tenkai from the seventh generation.
The Old Man of the Mountain stood against the eighth-generation head Gokadoin Yasutada and Gokadoin Hiruko from the ninth generation.
Even Nurarihyon was locked in combat with Gokadoin Nagachika from the eleventh generation.
Kubinashi, Gyuki, Yuki Onna, and Karasu Tengu, who were under his command, also charged forward in succession, engaging in a massive brawl alongside the other Shikigami.
As for the injured Gojo Satoru, he had been blindsided by a sudden attack from Kenjaku, the representative of the Star Religious Group.
Right now, Kenjaku was still using the face of Suguru Geto, which had dealt a massive emotional shock to Gojo Satoru.
However, because Gojo Satoru had already been heavily wounded by Abe no Seimei, he couldn't even exert fifty percent of his body's total power, forcing him to constantly retreat under Kenjaku's relentless assault.
Left with no other choice, Yumesaki had been forced to dispatch Number One to aid Gojo Satoru so they could fight Kenjaku together.
Therefore, as far as the eye could see, explosions and roaring sounds echoed everywhere.
The Spiral Castle, which had originally been neat and orderly, had turned into ruins at this very moment, filled with the endless, overlapping cries of battle and slaughter.
Only the space immediately surrounding Yumesaki and Abe no Seimei remained completely devoid of enemies.
Watching this scene unfold, Yumesaki felt his entire body go stiff.
No way, what exactly do you all mean by this?
Why hasn't a single person stepped up to face Abe no Seimei? Are you seriously planning to leave this old Yokai, who has lived for thousands of years, to me?
There's no way. I'm just an ordinary passerby, and I'm not an expert in combat at all.
Yumesaki felt Abe no Seimei's gaze slowly fall upon him, causing a sudden surge of panic to well up inside his heart.
"Person from another world, no matter where you came from, you will not be able to stop our deepest desire forged over thousands of years."
"It is time for this farce to end."
Just as Abe no Seimei finished speaking, an overflowing power surged upward from his body, like a landslide or a tsunami, creeping up layer by layer.
When this power, accumulated over thousands of years, reached its critical point, it finally exploded.
Then, the sky turned dark.
It was as if someone had taken a massive piece of cloth soaked in thick ink to completely cover the entire Aoi Spiral Castle and the sky within a hundred-mile radius.
Abe no Seimei was finally revealing his terrifying, unprecedented level of power.
A sudden sensation of death weighed heavily over everyone's heads.
It felt as though if they made even the slightest movement, they would be completely wiped out by this sheer force.
Nurarihyon used a single technique to force his opponent back, and as he felt the dense yoki looming overhead, he couldn't help but shudder.
"Abe no Seimei..."
He could sense the absolute malice and horror contained within that power.
It was truly far too terrifying.
He had always possessed immense confidence in his own strength, but at this moment, facing an Abe no Seimei who was unleashing his full capabilities, that confidence vanished.
Heracles looked up, and upon witnessing this massive display of power, he slowly gripped the Axe-Sword in his hand even tighter.
Nero's face was filled with an eager, restless expression, looking ready to unleash a massive counterattack at any moment.
Medea let out a faint smile, and her gaze shifted over to Yumesaki.
Master, what kind of method are you going to use to deal with this move?
Facing the crushing pressure of this power, Yumesaki no longer dared to maintain his indifferent attitude.
Without a single shred of hesitation, he activated his Shinigami powers.
A towering, ethereal phantom of a Shinigami manifested from right behind Yumesaki's body.
The moment this Shinigami phantom appeared, a freezing chill originating straight from the Underworld, accompanied by a soul pressure heavy enough to collapse everything, instantly swept through the entire Spiral Castle.
Time itself seemed to freeze.
Even Abe no Seimei found himself frozen in place.
But it didn't end there.
Yumesaki slowly raised his right hand, and in an instant, a faint green light began to pour madly out of his palm like a raging flood bursting through a dam, transforming into a boundless shockwave that swallowed the entire Aoi Spiral Castle, blotting out the very sky.
The first wave of the impact crashed directly onto the massive army of Shikigami belonging to the Gokadoin family.
Thousands of fierce Yokai and Cursed Spirits, manifested from sheer terror, instantly went rigid the moment they came into contact with that flowing stream of souls.
Immediately afterward, their bodies began to violently tremble, coughing up thick green foam from deep within, as their physical forms began to peel away like ash caught in a whirlwind.
The Shikigami didn't even have the time to let out a single groan.
They simply crumbled away in absolute silence.
From their heads to their limbs, from the blades of their weapons to their fangs, and from their fangs to their tails, every single strand of cursed energy that formed their bodies was pulled out from the inside by that faint green soul stream, looking like a thousand yellowed ancient paintings being consumed by a roaring fire all at once.
As the final speck of cursed energy dust drifted down from their outer shells, all that remained in their place were hollow, kneeling puppet husks that had completely lost their souls.
Those husks quickly scattered into dust in the wind.
Following that, Yumesaki commanded the Shinigami to unleash his other power, the power of the Pound Pound Fruit, which also swept across the entire battlefield.
Gokadoin Yuiyui was currently slumped limply on the ground like a helpless doll controlled by someone else, a trail of saliva hanging from the corner of her mouth and slowly trickling down the collar of her beautiful Lolita dress, while her mouth uttered mindless, self-deprecating murmurs.
"I... am not fit to be an Onmyoji... the cloth puppets I make are also so ugly... I am nothing..."
Gokadoin Hiruko from the ninth generation let out a hysterical, sobbing cry that shattered the quiet stillness, "The strongest! What do you mean, the strongest?! Aren't we still getting beaten to a pulp by someone else anyway! I beg you all, please don't fight anymore! I don't have any talent!!"
The knees of Abe no Orochi from the third generation slammed heavily against the ground, his two hands dangling limply and powerlessly at his sides.
The eighth generation, the ninth, the tenth, the eleventh...
Every single head of the Gokadoin family who was still standing collapsed one after another.
In the blink of an eye, their souls were emptied out, their wills to fight were completely stripped away, and they were utterly swallowed by the deepest despair known to mankind.
Finally, it was Abe no Seimei's turn.
Abe no Seimei stood there, his pure white Onmyoji Kariginu robes fluttering madly under the heavy battering of the soul stream.
His entire body was surrounded by incredibly dense, five-pointed star formations.
At this moment, in order to withstand Yumesaki's attack, he unleashed the entirety of his thousands of years of cursed energy, constructing layer after layer of Jujutsu barrier walls.
The soul stream slammed into his barriers, kicking up massive black waves that rose as high as mountains.
Both of Abe no Seimei's feet dug deeply into the ground, his face pale as paper, yet he remained standing tall.
"I have surpassed humans and Yokai, surpassed life and death, this measly amount of power is completely insufficient to..."
Suddenly.
His words ground to an immediate halt.
Because the Shinigami phantom moved, looking down directly at Abe no Seimei.
Then, it slowly extended its two arms, reaching out to grab him.
Abe no Seimei's barriers seemed entirely nonexistent to the essence of the Shinigami.
The Shinigami's arms passed through those iron-clad, layered barriers with absolute ease, wrapping its grip around Abe no Seimei.
"This... is impossible..."
Abe no Seimei found it difficult to believe. He looked down at his tearing soul form, and that face, which had always remained calm and relaxed, finally contorted in shock.
His soul was starting to be peeled away.
A brilliant blue soul was forcibly dragged out from within his physical shell.
That was the true soul form of the great, thousand-year-old Onmyoji Abe no Seimei, struggling desperately, twisting, and screaming inside the giant grasp of the Shinigami's palm, yet completely unable to break free from the Shinigami's restraint no matter what.
Yumesaki felt his own power draining out like a flood, realizing that pulling Abe no Seimei's soul out of his body was by no means an easy task.
Fortunately, he had the backing support of the Golden Gate. Whenever Yumesaki's energy ran low, the golden gate would absorb Mana from another world and pour it straight into his body.
Controlling the Shinigami, Yumesaki steadily ripped Abe no Seimei's soul out completely.
And then, it swallowed Abe no Seimei's soul in a single bite.
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