Chapter 1066: 631. Vest falls off

Kamo Tadayuki felt incredibly frustrated at this moment.

Even with the composure developed from long-term authority, she almost couldn’t help but swear.

Damn it, why? Why could there still be an unexpected turn at this final juncture?

The Great Onmyoji was utterly unable to comprehend this.

Do you know how long she has been planning for today? Do you know what price she has paid to subdue this Ghost King Shikigami?

She sacrificed even her own daughter and wife as offerings, and she even used an Ancestor’s Clan-Suppressing Talisman to seal the scene.

For today’s harvest, she calculated everything on the Japan island, certain that no one would interfere tonight. Yet, unexpectedly, something still happened.

At this moment, she was so enraged that she almost spat blood.

As the Bureau Chief of the Yin Yang Bureau, the foremost Onmyoji of the current generation, Kamo Tadayuki realized early on that the Yin Yang Technique on Japan island had its limits.

Although called the Yin Yang Technique, it essentially was the Five Elements Technique. This could be seen from the Pentagram Magic Circle most commonly used by the Onmyoji.

The Pentagram symbolizes the power of the Five Elements.

As for why it’s called Onmyoji when clearly using the Five Elements Technique, perhaps because people desire what they lack.

Kamo Tadayuki scoured the array of family tomes left behind, eventually finding answers in her Ancestor’s cultivation manual.

The current Yin Yang Technique heritage was indeed incomplete. The full name of the complete Yin Yang Technique should be the Onmyodo Five Elements Technique, with the upper scroll Yin Yang Scroll explaining the Wheel of Yin and Yang, and the lower scroll Five Elements Scroll explaining the transformations of the Five Elements.

But for some reason, the Yin Yang Scroll, a fundamental part of the whole doctrine, has been lost, with only the Five Elements Scroll still being passed down.

However, a technique that’s incomplete leads to a dead end.

Though in the eyes of outsiders, the Great Onmyoji is already an exceptional figure, one of the strongest on Japan island, ought to have no regrets left.

But Kamo Tadayuki did not think so; she wanted to advance further.

Since the future of the Yin Yang technique is severed, she decided to abandon it and take a different path. After all, the island isn’t limited to just this immortal path.

However, the Amaterasu Shrine she couldn’t provoke for the time being, leaving only the Hyakki Buddhist Dharma on Monster Mountain as the sole option.

Fortunately, the Ancestor who revitalized the Yin Yang Technique heritage also had great research into the Hyakki Buddhist Dharma.

Even that Ancestor had comprehended the essence of the Hyakki Buddhist Dharma, discovering a method to gather the Power of Hyakki and condense the Demon Buddha Form.

The Shikigami Method, this was the Ancestor’s combination of the Yin Yang Technique with the Hyakki Buddhist Dharma, a method to borrow the Power of Hyakki.

Theoretically, as long as one could make all the Hyakki shikigami, one could gather the Power of Hyakki to achieve the highest realm of the Demon Buddha Law.

Yet the Ancestor ultimately could not successfully verify this theory, as although the method existed, there weren’t enough Hyakki at that time, with not a single Ghost King level present.

But when Kamo Tadayuki found this Ancestor’s note, she was ecstatic. To her, the Hyakki gap wasn’t a huge problem; since it didn’t exist, she decided to cultivate it herself.

Moreover, the Yin Yang Bureau on Japan island was supposed to be a department to subdue monsters and demons; often, one’s opponent knew them best, so no one understood Hyakki better than her as the Great Onmyoji.

In her view, Hyakki wasn’t difficult to cultivate. After all, those obstinate villagers were always greedy, yearning for things they didn’t deserve. Clearly, if they controlled their desires, they could live quite well by working humbly, yet there were always some blossoming desires that would drive them to become demons.

Over the years, Kamo Tadayuki cultivated quite a few Hyakki seedlings, among which Ibuki Yuuki was her most outstanding creation.

She was among the Three Ghost Kings, Shuten Douji, indeed.

Just waiting for this mongrel to go completely mad with demonization, she could then forcibly contract her as a shikigami to obtain that Ghost King Power.

Yet, the plan was grand, and everything proceeded smoothly, but at this very final harvesting stage, such an unexpected turn happened.

Kamo Tadayuki summoned all her strength to urge the ancient, somewhat faded Talisman in her hand.

This was an amulet left by her Ancestor for future generations, meant to form a powerful barrier in the face of irresistible danger, isolating the inside from the outside to buy time.

But this time, this treasure meant for protection was used by her as a means to trap, aiming to cut off Ibuki Yuuki’s escape route completely, granting herself enough time and space to handle the Ghost King properly.

Even though this mongrel was indeed somewhat formidable and not easy to deal with, it wasn’t a big problem. A sane Ghost King was hard to handle, but a rampaging demonized Ghost King was much less threatening. With the robust restraining power of the Shikigami Contract on rampaging demons, she had confidence she could handle it one-on-one.

However, the Ancestor Barrier meant to isolate everything was forcibly breached by an external force at this moment.

That power was terrifying and mighty beyond Kamo Tadayuki’s imagination; what she thought was her trump card, the Ancestor Barrier, was easily pierced, and a Void Gate boldly opened right before her eyes.