They had the advantage in numbers, but there was only one enemy. Furthermore, it was a slender young girl. However, this young girl wielding a sword was invincible!
Her speed was extremely fast inside the shrine. She was like a ghost. The people who thought they had the upper hand were now like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
"Pfft! Pfft!" She weaved between them and took a string of lives before they could react.
They were killed one after another. There were already more than 20 corpses on the ground.
However, they had suffered heavy casualties, but they could not even touch the young girl. This could not even be considered a crushing defeat. It was a one-sided massacre.
This could not go on. With the commander dead, the deputy immediately became the new commander. He then gave the order to retreat.
"Retreat! Retreat immediately! "However, as soon as the words left his mouth, the commander clutched his neck. His eyes were wide open as he collapsed.
The rest of the people scrambled out of the shrine.
"Hold on a little longer! Reinforcements will be here soon! "
In addition to comforting the people, someone shouted with a ferocious expression, "Since she's a ghost of the shrine, blow up the shrine!"
"Blast the shrine and its people into pieces."
"But we don't have cannons …"
"A helicopter belonging to us is coming. Immediately order the air-to-ground missiles to blow up the shrine and the people inside into pieces."
"Tokugawa Sama, we'll cover you. Hurry up and enter the shrine to read the imperial edict!"
The people at the foot of the mountain had finally climbed up. A few people protected Tokugawa Hisashi as he continued to charge in. The rest of the people started fighting the people in front of them.
There had been quite a number of people in front of them, but some of them had been killed by Yako when they charged in. There were less than a hundred of them left. The sound of a helicopter could be heard in the distance. There were also the sounds of cars at the foot of the mountain. There were probably more people coming. The situation was not in Tokugawa Hisashi's favor.
It was not that the shogunate was weak. It was just that the shogunate did not pay much attention to them.
However, Tokugawa Hisashi and the others could not care less. They had to go in and read the imperial edict to Yamada Shinji and confer titles. This was what they had to do now.
This was a very important part of the imperial court and the shogunate's grand plan. They could not care about anything else for now.
Hearing the gunshots and screams behind him, Tokugawa Hisashi did not even look back. He gritted his teeth and continued running.
Along the way, someone shot at him. Although he dodged, he was still hit by the shrapnel and groaned.
It hadn't been easy for him to get here. He was enduring the pain, and his eyes were bloodshot. However, he didn't dare to stop for even a moment.
The Emperor's edict was hidden in the clothes in front of his chest. It was also wrapped in a cloth, which could isolate the water and prevent it from being stained.
It was precisely because of this that Tokugawa Hisaoki was not worried that it would affect the edict inside, even though his shoulder was cut by the shrapnel and the blood spread to the front of his shirt.
"Hand over the edict!" A few people seemed to have run out of bullets as they raised their swords and charged over.
Although Tokugawa Hisaoki was an official of the shogunate, he was no weakling. He did not panic when he saw a few small fries that he had missed charging at him.
"Bang, bang, bang!" These people fell to the ground in response.
"It's right in front! Quick! " At this moment, another person rushed over. The person who followed the last person pushed him forward and continued to run while he himself stayed behind to intercept the other person.
When Tokugawa Hisashi rushed into the main hall, before he could heave a sigh of relief, a wave of killing intent assaulted him.
"It's me!"
Tokugawa Hisaoki hurriedly shouted.
Yako retracted her sword. She looked at the man whose face was pale from the shock of the sword's aura and remembered who he was.
"It's you? Tokugawa-sama? What are you doing here? "
Even if he was an acquaintance, he was an official of the shogunate and had been here before. Yako did not know about the substitution of historical memories, but among the people lying in the hall was Yamada Shinji, whom she cared about the most. Even if Tokugawa Hisaoki was here, Yako would not allow him to get close.
"Miss Yako, I'm here to read out the Emperor's edict," Tokugawa Hisaoki immediately said.
As he spoke, he glanced behind Yako, and that glance made his heart skip a beat.
Tokugawa Hisaoki saw two people lying on the ground. One of them was Sakato Genko, and the other was the owner of the shrine, Yamada Shinji.
Gunshots rang out from outside, but the two people lying on the ground did not respond. This meant that Yamada Shinji had not returned from the underworld yet. Could he really make it back in time?
Tokugawa Hisaoki felt a tinge of despair, but now was not the time to give up.
He did not delay any longer. He did not even ask Yako to kneel down. He took out the edict from his pocket and threw the cloth aside. He unfolded the edict and began to read out its contents.
Tokugawa Hisaoki could not guarantee that the edict would be of help to Yamada Shinji, who was in the underworld. He had risked his life to rush over at this time because he had no other choice.
As a loyal member of the shogunate, he knew very well that the entire world was in a moment of life and death. The two worlds were competing against each other, and it was either one of them who would die or the other.
Just a little more power might be able to turn the situation around.
Tokugawa Hisaoki had already cast aside his own life and death. He only hoped that the edict would be of help to Yamada Shinji, just as the Shinto Hall had said.
The edict that was being read this time was to confer Yamada Shinji the title of Grand Fifth Minister.
The title of Grand Fifth Minister of the imperial court was something that even the shogunate could not easily confer. It required the approval of both the emperor and the ministers, as well as various other parties, before the title could be conferred.
Therefore, the title of Grand Fifth Minister was actually quite valuable. His social status and power would rise by more than one level. However, to Yamada Shinji, this was not important.
The conferment of Grand Fifth Minister directly affected the fate of the imperial court. It meant that Yamada Shinji had been recognized by the imperial court and was now a high ranking official. He could be linked to the fate of Fu Sang and could use the fate of the nation to strengthen himself.
At the same time, he could also obtain the coordinates to reach the surface.
When the edict was read out, Pei Zi Yun, who was still killing the ghost soldiers in the underworld, had the most right to speak.
As Tokugawa Hisaoki closed the edict, an invisible golden light descended from the underworld and appeared in front of Pei Zi Yun.
"This is …?" Pei Zi Yun's eyes widened slightly as he watched the golden light extend rapidly from his eyes. It meandered towards an unknown direction. At the same time, he could feel that the connection between his soul and this world had strengthened once again.
"So it's the conferment of Grand Fifth Minister."
This was indeed helpful. At least, the power of the conferment could reach the underworld and guide him through the fog. It was even clearer than Ban Higashi Yuanzi's mark. As long as he followed the golden light, he would be able to get out. What was he waiting for?
Pei Zi Yun laughed out loud and leaped up. He raised the sword in his hand high above his head and swung it downwards.
Boom!
Millions of white lights descended at the same time. It was so dazzling that Ban Higashi Yuanzi could not bear it and closed her eyes.
Under the attack of the millions of white lights, the ghost soldiers did not even have a chance to retaliate. They were all turned into ashes without a sound.
When Pei Zi Yun landed on the ground, he found that Ban Higashi Yuanzi had already fallen to her knees and lost consciousness.
This was not a good place to stay any longer. It would not be good for her soul if she stayed for too long. Pei Zi Yun hugged her and grabbed Yamada and Hiko's soul. In the next moment, the three of them disappeared from where they stood.
At the same time, the golden light shrunk and disappeared. The area around the underworld was once again plunged into silence and darkness.
In the real world, Pei Zi Yun's fingers twitched slightly.
But at this moment, the sound of a helicopter could be heard coming from above the shrine. Yako and Tokawa Jiuxing were already standing at the entrance of the shrine. In front of them were the people that Yako had just killed. They had turned into a pool of blood and fresh corpses. Yako, who had been harassed by the enemy and had no choice but to face them, did not notice the change in Pei Zi Yun.
"Ready! Fire! "
Almost at the same time, the helicopter's missile was aimed at the shrine. With the command, the missile was fired straight down.
Actually, because the enemy's reinforcements had arrived, even though Yako had killed more than ten of them, there were still more than a hundred attacking.
However, the people behind the attack could not wait any longer. When the missile was fired, it would definitely reap the lives of more than a hundred of them. Yet the higher-ups did not care.
Yako was covered in blood, but her fighting spirit was strong. Seeing the missile coming straight for her, not only did she not sit and wait for her death, she even slashed at it with her sword. The missile was actually hit by the sword qi of her sword. However, it did not explode, but disappeared in mid-air.
This made Tokawa Jiuxing, who was tensed up, dumbfounded. He saw Yako slash down with her sword again. This time, the sword qi of the sword even carried a faint red color that ordinary people could see. It flashed past like a flame, and in the next moment, the helicopter that was still circling in the sky exploded into fireworks.
Just the power of this slash made Tokawa Jiuxing look at Yako in a different light.
One had to know that in order to prevent the people on the ground from shooting at the helicopter, the helicopter had to be kept at a high altitude.
Ordinary people would not be able to destroy the helicopter with a single slash of sword qi. Even if they were to use a machine gun to fire at the helicopter, it would be useless.
But now, Yako's casual slash had caused the helicopter to explode just like that. Could this still be considered the power of a human?
Could it be that because Miss Yako followed Yamada Shinji, she had also entered the ranks of the Inhumans?
All sorts of thoughts flashed through Tokawa Jiuxing's mind. At that moment, Yako's third slash had been unleashed.
The explosion of the helicopter not only shocked Tokawa Jiuxing, but it also "woke up" the hundreds of people who were attacking the shrine. When they realized that the helicopter that they had pinned their hopes on had been destroyed by a single slash from the young girl, a sense of despair spread through them.
To them, everything in that world was real. Regardless of whether they had been replaced by someone else or had their memories replaced today, they no longer felt a sense of belonging to that world.
Thinking of their own world and their loved ones that they had to save, even if they knew that they would only end up as cannon fodder if they charged forward, the hundreds of people still shouted, "Everyone, it's time to show your loyalty!" and charged forward.
Yako's third slash was delivered to them.
With the first two slashes, Yako could already feel a powerful force imbuing her body. With the third slash, she had a breakthrough on top of that foundation.
With a flash of the sword, hundreds of people died at the same time.
Tokawa Jiuxing, who was witnessing this scene, even forgot to breathe. His eyes widened as he looked at the people who had fallen to the ground. All of them had received a fatal slash, and the position and depth of each slash were exactly the same.
It was as if the slash had split into hundreds of slashes at the same time, and it was not the sword qi that had killed them!
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