coobybook Chapter 103 The Ribs of the Eight-Headed Serpent
Chapter 103 The Ribs of the Eight-Headed Serpent
Ye Jingchen did not respond to Chen Motong. He manipulated Wuming and flew towards the direction of the Corpse Guardian King.
There lies the body of the Yamata no Orochi, guarded by the King of Corpses, and within the Yamata no Orochi's body resides sacred remains.
Originally, it was supposed to be the Black Serpent that took the Sacred Remains, but the Black Serpent had already been killed by Ye Jingchen at the bottom of the sea, and it no longer had the chance to transform into the Yamata no Orochi.
Susanoo was once bewitched by the sacred remains and transformed into Yamata no Orochi. Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi joined forces to seal Susanoo in Takamagahara.
This ruin is Takamagahara, and everything here was built by the older generation of mixed-race descendants of the White King.
The older generation of White King bloodline hybrids are different from the current East Japan Snake-Gi-Hachi family hybrids. They are all descendants of the White Emperor, and every member of the clan is an "Emperor" who can use the Dragon Bone form.
Just like the older generation of Lionheart Society members, all of them were S-class, such as Kassel, Angers, and Lu Shanyan.
The descendants of the Old White King are a terrifying and powerful family, whose members are all humanoid dragons.
But behind their power lies a tragic destiny; they are all flesh and blood prepared by the White Monarch for the mortal world.
On the day the White Monarch is revived, these humanoid dragons will attach themselves to the sacred dragon bone cross, becoming nourishment and returning to their origin.
Their power did not last, something the White King's descendants had not anticipated; there would always be someone who could not resist the temptation.
Susanoo's transformation into Yamata no Orochi nearly brought annihilation to his clan.
Only three surnames of the White King's bloodline survived: Minamoto, Uesugi, and Tachibana. The later "Emperor" was born from these three surnames.
Later, the three major clans absorbed other mixed-race individuals as subordinates and slaves, which are now the five outer clans: Madman, Inuyama, Sakurai, Ryoma, and Miyamoto.
These slave-mixed-race individuals were not of the White King's bloodline, so it was only natural that they submitted to the "Emperor".
The outside world does not know much about the family history of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, and naturally assumes that the current hybrids of the Snake-Headed Eight Families are all descendants of the White Emperor, but this is not the case.
Ye Jingchen looked down at the monster below, manipulating Wuming to stop in mid-air. "Is this the King of Corpse Guardians?"
Chen Motong followed Ye Jingchen's gaze and looked down.
It has a head full of long hair, and a huge eye with a vertical pupil of gold ring and black iris, hidden under the long hair.
Its massive body was covered in white skin that had turned yellowish from oxidation, and countless faces with their eyes closed were piled up on its skin, densely packed together.
Lying on the ground, its four legs and six arms were pierced by huge steel nails engraved with dragon patterns.
It had a wolf-tooth iron chain around its neck, and a red copper tube inserted into a vein in its neck, continuously drawing blood from its body.
"Do you know why we're drawing its blood?" Chen Motong patted Ye Jingchen on the shoulder.
Ye Jingchen pointed to the huge, rotating gears that meshed perfectly, "After all, it's not the Nibelungen of the Dragon King. If it were, it wouldn't need to rely on a power system, but rather on the power of words."
The designer of this site was a genius in the fields of alchemy, architecture, and mechanics.
This site has two power systems.
A power system relies on the power of seawater. The external blade-shaped structure can absorb the natural power of ocean currents and act on the gears in the internal structure of the ruins. Through the torque and leverage of these gears, the power of seawater is cut and distributed to different places.
The other power system relies on the blood of the Corpse Guardian King. It uses the blood to feed the Corpse Guardians. In the center of the ruins, there is a huge millstone-shaped gear, where one-third of the Corpse Guardians are bound.
If they want to taste the blood of the Corpse King, they must push the giant gears forward before they can approach the thin metal pipes and lick the blood with their tongues.
As the gears are driven, the torque changes, and the metal pipes flowing with the blood of the Corpse King will move away from them.
They can only survive by endlessly pushing the giant gears.
This designer brilliantly utilized Deadpool's violent, hungry, bloodthirsty, and long-lived traits—it's simply amazing!
Chen Motong wasn't interested in these sophisticated and complex systems. Seeing the joy in Ye Jingchen's eyes, she paused, "What's the point of this lump of iron?"
"Such a genius design, even after a thousand years, still inspires admiration." Ye Jingchen glanced at Chen Motong. "Just like the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in China, even after a thousand years, it is still thousands of times superior to those shoddy water conservancy projects by those so-called experts."
The myth of Yu the Great taming the floods illustrates that water should be channeled, not blocked. Yet they're still there, piling up reinforced concrete to contend with the Yellow River and the Yangtze.
Chen Motong patted his forehead. "Okay, so you know why the blood of that big monster down there hasn't dried up after all these years?"
"It's probably because it evolved and added points, all of which were allocated to the spinal cord hematopoietic function." Ye Jingchen glanced at the monster below and manipulated Wuming to fly towards the corpse of the Yamata no Orochi.
The enormous body of the Yamata no Orochi lay limply on the ground. It had eight heads and was covered in white scales. Each head was pierced by steel nails engraved with dragon patterns and pinned to the ground. These steel nails were more than ten times thicker than those of the Corpse King.
The steel nail pierced the skull, and you could even see the brain wriggling at the wound site.
The lower half of the Yamata no Orochi was placed in the magma and was constantly being burned.
Chen Motong covered her mouth in astonishment, "No way, it's not completely dead yet? All eight of its heads have been pierced, and its lower body is still in the lava!"
"This is all thanks to the Word of Power: Orochi." Ye Jingchen said coldly, looking at the body of the Orochi.
Chen Motong glanced back at the Corpse Guardian King and asked, "Why did that genius use the Corpse Guardian King's blood instead of the Yamata no Orochi's blood for the power system?"
"Of course, we're afraid that those corpse guardians who drive the giant gears will undergo a qualitative leap in their bloodline after consuming the blood of the Yamata no Orochi, and break free from their restraints." Ye Jingchen manipulated Wuming to descend towards the Yamata no Orochi.
Chen Motong patted Ye Jingchen's back, "What are you going to do?"
“The sacred remains are inside its heart.” Ye Jingchen glanced back at Chen Motong.
Chen Motong stared wide-eyed at Ye Jingchen, "You want to pull the Sacred Relic out of the Orochi's heart? No, you want to become the Orochi!"
"Tch, who turned into this thing?" Ye Jingchen stepped on the body of the Yamata no Orochi and held Wuming in his hand.
Black ghost flames instantly enveloped the nameless sword.
"My grand dream is about to be realized!" Ye Jingchen used the nameless creature burning with black flames to cut open the scales, epidermal tissue, and dermal tissue on the back of the Yamata no Orochi.
Under the influence of "Word of Power: Orochi", fresh granulation tissue instantly sprouted from the wound, attempting to heal.
The black ghost fire engulfed the fleshy buds, inflicting severe damage, and the buds quickly withered and died.
Ye Jingchen was using an axe to chop up a pig's thigh bone, and he was using the nameless sword to kill the ribs protecting the heart of the eight-headed serpent!
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A clanging, clanging sound...