419: Chapter 413: Ambushed 419: Chapter 413: Ambushed Japanese is one language Chen Hai had never really studied.
The so-called last-minute cramming is neither quick nor effective.
After deciding to come to Japan, he took two days to try and learn some of the language.
Unfortunately, even after watching several Japanese adult films about love, he only managed to learn the phrase “Yamete Kudasai.”
The reason he could understand the text on the ancient stone tablet before him was quite simple.
The Japanese script originally evolved from that of Yanhuang Country.
Among the characters on the stone tablet, five or six were legitimate Yanhuang characters.
Recognizing these characters, Chen Hai gave them some thought and naturally came to comprehend the meaning expressed by the text on the tablet.
“Trespassers will die?
Quite the bold statement, isn’t it?”
“I’d like to see who, on this Snow Mountain, has the ability to kill me.”
Chen Hai sneered.
He paused only briefly before the stone tablet, then continued forward without hesitation.
The snow peak was engulfed in whiteness, but that was just the snow.
As far as the weather was concerned, at worst, it was just howling northern winds, with no sign of heavy snowfall from the sky.
However, this was only the situation before Chen Hai crossed the stone tablet.
Moving further up the snow peak, he had only walked about forty to fifty meters.
The wind howled, and the snowflakes swirled.
Looking back, Chen Hai could no longer see the path he had come by.
Clearly, this was not normal.
“The same old trick?
Can’t you come up with something new?”
“First affecting my senses, making me feel as if I’m in the midst of wind and snow, then what, the Shikigami Snow Woman will show up soon?”
Stopping in his tracks, Chen Hai’s face showed clear disdain.
He had encountered similar situations before when Ono Sari had come to his door intending to ambush him.
With an obvious look of mockery, he glanced around.
Just as he had anticipated, in the blink of an eye, a slim figure with white hair and white clothes had come into his view.
That figure, like the messenger of the blizzard, wherever he appeared, a wild snowstorm followed!
At first, he was hundreds of meters away, but in less than a breath, he had closed the distance to less than fifty meters from Chen Hai.
“My little cutie, come and enjoy a good time with big brother…”
Chen Hai let out a weird laugh and took big strides to meet the approaching figure without waiting for it to get closer.
Ordinary people might be terrified out of their wits upon suddenly encountering such an uncanny white figure in this vast snowy expanse.
But to Chen Hai, seeing a Shikigami was like spotting a walking tonic.
Because the distance was close enough, the white figure’s appearance was laid bare to his eyes without omission.
Judging by body shape alone and not the face, the figure moved gracefully, each step as if in dance.
But its face was equally snow-white, void of any features, simply a blank slate.
This Shikigami Snow Woman, compared to Ono Sari’s Shikigami Snow Woman, besides having an Adam’s apple, also had a much flatter chest.
Chen Hai, who had been playfully calling out to the ‘little cutie,’ froze upon seeing this scene, his smile turning rigid in an instant.
“Damn it, even Shikigami are divided by gender!”
“Clearly a guy, yet dressed up like a woman?
What do you want, to gross me out?”
Amidst the cursing and complaining, Chen Hai, who was clearly in a foul mood, suddenly quickened his pace.
When the distance between him and the approaching Snow Woman shrank to less than ten meters,
he stretched out his hand, and a somewhat ethereal leech-like shadow extended from his palm, plunging straight toward the figure of the Snow Woman.
“Extreme cold, snow rising…” On the Snow Woman’s white face, a large mouth full of sharp teeth suddenly appeared.
With one breath, an endless chill spewed out from his mouth, spreading around him.
If the ground underfoot had been a vast snowy landscape before, now, with the release of this breath, the snow around its epicenter visibly turned into solid ice.
This terrifying coldness seemed capable of freezing everything.
Even Chen Hai felt that at this instant, the speed of his leech-like Divine Soul shadow, as it shot out, had decreased by more than a third.
“I’m a fire wielder, what’s the point of using this chill in front of me?”
With an expression of disdain, Chen Hai’s eyes fixed firmly on the Snow Woman Shikigami.
The next moment, an endless blaze descended suddenly, surrounding the Snow Woman completely.
And almost at the same time, his leech-like Divine Soul shadow pounced on the Snow Woman, burying its mouthparts into her body.
Surrounded by flames, even if the Snow Woman wanted to escape, she had no idea where to go!
The flames, which were the opposite of her own elemental attribute, inflicted especially severe damage.
With just a slight touch, she started howling wildly.
The deep male voice coming from her mouth clearly proved that this Shikigami Snow Woman was indeed a male!
Moreover, as she shrieked in agony, she spoke only in Japanese.
Chen Hai could not understand a single word!
Seeing such a creature that mixed yin and yang, Chen Hai felt repulsed; naturally, he had no interest in figuring out what the creature was ranting about.
Anyway, in his view, since this creature dared to attack him, it had given itself a justified reason to die.
Only a minute or two later, the Shikigami Snow Woman before him had her Soul Power completely devoured by Chen Hai, vanishing into nothingness.
“Devouring just one creature like this saves me at least a few months of hard cultivation.”
“Compared to secluded cultivation, devouring demons to cultivate is truly a shortcut to success!”
“I hope there are more Onmyoji from the Snow Mountain Sect who cultivate Shikigami; the more, the merrier.”
“As long as there are enough demons to devour, perhaps I can cultivate my Object Control to the Peak Perfect Realm at the fastest speed!”
Chen Hai retracted the surrounding flames and took a deep breath.
When he closed his eyes and clearly sensed a slight but noticeable increase in strength that had been stagnant for months, he felt a surge of joy and thought to himself.
The true body of the just-devoured Shikigami Snow Woman would probably not escape death either.
But where was her hideout?
Chen Hai did not know, nor did he have any interest in seeking out this doomed individual.
After the Snow Woman’s demise, the raging blizzard vanished as if it had never existed, leaving no trace behind.
The surroundings were still a boundless snowy expanse, but with the storm abated, Chen Hai’s vision finally cleared up considerably.
“Just stepping past that stele and onto this snow peak, I was attacked by an Onmyoji’s Shikigami.”
“This place must undoubtedly be the Snow Mountain Sect that Ono Sari hails from.”
“The location of that cluster of buildings must be the real core area of the Snow Mountain Sect.”
“No matter where those Onmyoji hide their true bodies, as long as I get to the location of those buildings, they probably have no choice but to come out and face me!”
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With these thoughts in mind, Chen Hai set out once more toward the direction of that cluster of buildings.