Volume 5, Chapter 162 – Throne

Volume 5, Chapter 162 - Throne

Translator: Aoi

“Guy? How dare you insult him, you shameless woman! He was my everything! You’ll pay for taking him away from me!” Shenzu blitzed towards Lily while shrouding an aura of frigid azure flames!

The six blades attacked in succession with flames of grudge trailing behind them and they overwhelmed Lily eventually. Expplôre uptodate stories at no/vel//bin(.)com

The attacks were faster than Lily’s reaction speed, so she found it difficult to respond to them. Although Lily could see through Shenzu’s attacks, her body’s response failed to catch up with the latter’s attack speed. As a result, Shenzu ended up suppressing Lily by making her retreat back repeatedly.

“Where did this Nanashi come from? How come she has such exquisite skills?” Minamoto no Yosh*tada furrowed his brows in the viewing platform.

The four spirit arms behind Shenzu didn’t need to have a physical connection between her and them, so they flew away from her occasionally and launched attacks on Lily from different angles!

The strikes from the blades of these spirit arms were much heavier than Shenzu’s strikes and even had a powerful hellish intent!

Lily danced like a faerie as she dodged the attacks with her footwork, but she still failed to evade all the attacks from the spirit arms’ relentless charge!

Clang! Failing to evade in time, Lily barely managed to parry the heavy strikes from two of Shenzu’s spirit arms with her nodachi.

The heavy strikes made Lily kneel and crush the firm wooden floor underneath her knees. The whole arena toppled over to one side and many of the Genji samurai shouldering it also tumbled down.

The wind pressure from Shenzu’s attacks also pushed Lily back towards the arena’s edge.

“Are you planning to concede by exiting the arena? I won’t let you get away so easily! Die!”

The remaining two spirit arms doubled back towards Lily’s rear and struck at it while Shenzu formed a cross with the dual blades in her hands and slashed towards Lily’s abdomen!

Although Lily had a transcendental body and also had the spirit defense from the celestial maiden underwear, it was still difficult for her to endure the simultaneous attacks from four blades!

A poignant intent filled Lily’s in this critical moment.

She blocked the blades of the spirit arms in front of her with Yasutsuna by executing an upper slash, releasing a crescent sword beam in the process to ward off the dual blades.

The crimson sword beam had a trace of gorgeous and bright moonlight within it, and it broke out from inside when her blade clashed with the spirit arm’s blades, pushing the dual blades in the spirit arms’ hold aside. Lily ignored the dual blades attacking her back and spun Yasutsuna to slash up towards Shenzu instead!

A bright crimson crescent moon shot out from Yasutsuna the next moment!

This attack packed 10 times her strength from her attainments in the Tsukuyomi Swordstyle and was one of the lunar force’s mysteries that Lily had grasped until now!

“What?!”

The sword beam pushed aside Shenzu’s dual blades and slashed towards her body, forcing her to jump back in haste to evade it.

Splatch! However, the crescent sword beam’s edge still managed to cut into Shenzu’s forehead a little.

As for Shenzu, she got blown away by the incredible impact from the sword beam and crashed on the other side of the arena, restoring its balance once again.

Lily’s eyes flashed with iciness as she used Tsukuyomi Swordstyle, Lunar Force and Application of Charm simultaneously to unleash a blood-red lunar sword beam from Yasutsuna.

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! The blades in the spirit arms got blown away and the sword beam continued charging towards Shenzu!

The blood-red crescent moon formed from the fusion of Lunar Force and Application of Charm struck the dual blades in Shenzu’s arms and flooded her body with a terrifying Lunar Force.

Boom! Almost all of Shenzu’s dress shredded into pieces as she crashed down to the floor, leaving a crater behind on it!

At least 50% of the samurai shouldering the arena were forced to their knees from the weight of the strike.

“What?!” Yosh*tada, Mori and the other samurai stood up in shock.

“S-She hadn’t used her full strength until now?!”

“Although her power hasn’t increased, the strike just now fused Lunar Force and Charm Intent quite intricately... boosting her strength to the late-stage Throned General level!” Yosh*tada was amazed to the point of dying, “This is her true strength, the late-stage Throned General level? It would require even me to spend a lot of strength and methods to defeat her if we were to battle! Why is her progress so quick?”

Lily landed on the floor slowly and walked towards Shenzu who was lying on the floor now.

Shenzu’s body shuddered all over and she had received severe injuries from Lily’s strike. Her strength seemed greatly diminished as she raised her body up feebly.

“That Shenzu is going to lose.”

“To think that Lily’s strength was at the late-stage Throned General level. She deserves to win the tournament.”

The experts handed down their judgements one after the other. However, Ayaka’s eyes filled with worry as Shenzu made her feel uneasy for some reason.

“Surrender, Shenzu. I won’t be killing you. You should speak the truth and repent your crimes for playing a role in Lady Yoruko’s death by accepting the court’s trial,” Lily pressed her blade against Shenzu’s neck after arriving beside her.

“Hahaha... Are you crazy?” However, Shenzu just sneered back at Lily.

“You don’t need to act like this now, do you, Shenzu? This is too unsightly. I’m giving you one final chance to keep your dignity as a woman since we’re both women, so just concede. I don’t want to have the blood of a Jade Maiden on my hands,” Lily said calmly.

“Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha! It seems like you really do not understand me, Kagami Lily. I told you that your fate was set the moment you stood across me in this duel! I’ve waited a long time for this chance to come!”

Shenzu’s eyes emitted a dazzling golden glow suddenly.

“Oh no!” Ayaka cried out in alarm.

Boom! A powerful hellish force broke out from Shenzu’s body and the shockwave from its emergence alone sent Lily flying while tearing most of her white priestess dress into pieces.

A two-headed massive phantom manifested under the curtain of night and grabbed Shenzu with its arm, following which it issued a scream that quaked through the entirety of Heian-kyo. A bunch of tentacles appeared from the phantom and stabbed into Shenzu’s back after that, filling her eldritch energy.

“Argggghhhhh!” Shenzu screamed frantically in pain as streams of black lightning surged through her body.

The dark-purple moonflower Permanence Spirit surrounding the Spirit Jade inside Shenzu’s body absorbed the hellish energy from the two-headed phantom and began to transform gradually, turning into a purer and stabler form as it exuded an incredibly powerful aura!

The moonflower transformed into a translucent, blue-violet, floating throne hall that was surrounded by twinkling spirit stars—A Throne Palace!