For earthquakes, the commonly used magnitude standard is the internationally accepted Richter scale, which is divided into nine levels.

The country of Sakura, which sits on a geologically active plate, experiences thousands of earthquakes every day, and most of them are harmless earthquakes that are less than slightly felt.

At present, this strange earthquake was not felt at first, until time passed, and people finally felt the shaking from the ground.

And when the earthquake intensified, panic finally broke out.

"The shaking of the ground has been going on for ten minutes, why has it not stopped?"

"It's still growing, and my calves are starting to shake."

"Rest assured, our shelter is built according to the highest earthquake protection requirements, please be patient and wait for the government ......"

"But is this really an earthquake? Or the evil magic of monsters? I've never experienced such a wacky earthquake! ”

"Who's going to save us!"

In the noisy and noisy sound, the panic quickly rose, and even the elderly began to breathe, only to feel that it was difficult to breathe, and fell to the ground with their eyes rolled.

The military and police immediately began to deal with it, sending these unconscious people to the medical point in the shelter, and at the same time reported the situation to the edge of the shelter, strictly guarding the witches and priests who were guarding the demon qi.

The sanctuary is guarded by the Uchiki Minami Shrine on the outskirts of Uogawa City, where eleven shrine maidens and five priests are in charge, while the great priest is leading the rest to entangle with the giant demonic beasts in the center of the battlefield.

In the shelter, after hearing the report from the patrol captain, an elderly priest sighed and said, "Maybe it's just a slightly special earthquake, but the most important thing for the shelter to hold on to at the moment is to prevent these filthy demons and spirits." ”

As the words fell, he stared closely at the demon qi he was responsible for, which permeated through the passage of the ventilation port to a crack in the wall, and the white glow of his hands burst out, purifying it continuously.

Time passed, and the old man gradually felt powerless, and he still had companions who could be rotated.

Seeing this, the patrol commander on the side fell into a short silence, unable to think of a better way to calm people's hearts.

"Leave it to me."

The young shrine maiden spoke.

So, after obtaining the consent of the high priest, she and another shrine maiden, carrying the conch of the magic weapon enshrined in the shrine, took hurried steps until they came to a high platform erected in the square, where a ceremony began.

The two danced a sacrificial dance with a mysterious meaning, a conch in their hands. A soft blue light then diffused like clear waves on the shallows, slowly rippling across the entire sanctuary.

The crowd, who were still in a state of panic, gradually attracted their attention to this scene, watching the dance of the two young witches, and feeling the slight sound of the waves with soothing magic sounding in their ears at some point, they couldn't help but calm down a lot, at least no longer exhausted.

They just sobbed silently, with tears in their eyes, clenching their palms or clasping their hands together, praying for the disaster to pass quickly.

And the ground is still shaking.

——

When the earthquake warning centers located in various places finally realized that this was a strange earthquake, the workers in it couldn't help but feel a strong sense of absurdity.

"The intensity of the tremors has continued to rise, and in the past half hour, it has surpassed four levels, and it has become a full hundred and twenty times stronger."

"The coverage is still expanding, and seismic waves have already been detected by earthquake centers in 36 counties!"

"Oh my God, what the hell is this, can't find the source of the earthquake?"

At the earthquake warning center on the outskirts of Uogawa City, the workers looked at the constantly beating data on the instruments as if they had seen a ghost, preferring to believe that they were dazzled, that the instruments they maintained daily were wrong, and that they did not dare to believe what they saw.

The earthquake that has spread within a radius of nearly 100 kilometers has lasted for half an hour and is still increasing the intensity of seismic waves, and the most bizarre thing is that even the epicenter of the epicenter cannot be found!

Earthquakes are caused by the interaction and collision of rock plates underground, and the center of the collision is the epicenter, which is the most basic common sense.

But at the moment, this strange earthquake does not even have an accurate location of the epicenter, just like an invisible hand, shaking the land of 100 kilometers, carrying out a prank that is not funny.

"Without an epicenter, where do seismic waves come from?"

"It's like the earth is moving on its own!"

"How can the earth move on its own, is it a supernatural force at work?"

Realizing that something was wrong, the department personnel immediately transmitted the news back to their superiors, and in a short period of time, it became known to the leaders.

Sukeyuru Aso, who was sitting on a helicopter gunship and rushing to the front-line combat headquarters, was also puzzled when they saw the news.

"Including Uogawa City, the strange earthquake that covers 100 kilometers has no epicenter and is still increasing in intensity......"

Aso Suke's dragon looked at the latest situation transmitted from the tablet, then turned his head sideways, looked through the bulletproof glass of the helicopter, looked at the mountains and forests below, and really saw the strange scene of the mountains shaking and thousands of trees swaying.

"At the moment, the possibility of a natural disaster is very small."

"If it's the Yaoxing Society......"

He squinted slightly, constantly thinking about the possibility in his mind, and looked at the picture of the Heavenly Demon Sable as big as a giant mountain in the center of Yuchuan City, which was transmitted back from the tablet, and looked at the extremely vague black shadow in the center of the demon mink's eyebrows, and his heart chuckled, and a huge sense of crisis rose violently.

What Zhang Taichu had said to him all came to mind at this moment.

Mt. Fuji Riki Gate, Volcanic Eruption, Ryuki, Harari, Moki......

His pupils constricted, he turned his head to look at the heads of the major families around him, and said in a deep voice: "The battle has been going on until now, and the nine-tailed sky fox who has not seen Qingli, this earthquake is strange, maybe it has something to do with him, or maybe it is running towards the legendary Long Qi." ”

"He must be stopped!"

——

Located dozens of kilometers away from Uogawa City, on the outskirts of Nagano Prefecture.

In the middle of Togakumi Mountain, Harori still leaned back on his back chair leisurely, tasting the tea he had brewed, and the vibration from the ground seemed to him like the shaking of a baby boat, comfortable and pleasant.

In front of him, dozens of minutes passed, and the giant tree covered with blood-colored lines, thousands of green leaves had all withered, but inside the trunk, there was an incomparably rich emerald green brilliance, which had almost condensed into a substantial liquid, even through the magic circle, it also revealed a strong vitality.

These are the Qi that have been extracted from the original pathway, separated by a space, but forcibly extracted.

But that's not what the Qing ideal wants.

"Verdant, full of life, but not what I crave the most."

"O big tree, great tree, ripen quickly, and bring forth the most delicious fruit."

Harori raised her glass to the sun in the sky, muttering whining words that she had come up with on the fly.

Time passed, and another ten minutes passed.

The vibration of the giant tree suddenly became stronger, and as the order of the Earth Qi Passage was completely disrupted, and as the blood-colored twelve-pointed star array struggled to operate, the emerald green that continued to gather in the thick trunk suddenly lit up like a golden light.

The light was extremely subtle, like a silk thread, from the root of the big tree that stretched out of the darkness in the ground, hovering and surrounding under the confinement of the blood-colored lines.

And with the appearance of this golden breath.

Qingli's eyes also became extremely bright, he stood up suddenly, threw the teacup in his hand behind him, and made it disappear with all the tea sets, tables and chairs around him, and retracted into the devouring sac again.

"Ahhh

"In the island country of small projectiles, there are two magical places."

"Okay, let's smoke this dragon qi today."

His bewitching and handsome face was undisguised excitement, and even the speed of the fan in his hand swaying was a little faster, and he stepped into the blood-colored twelve-pointed star array with brisk steps, and came to the bottom of the big tree without hindrance.

"Very good, it's Long Qi."

Harori showed a smile that looked like a fox, put away the fan in her hand again, and then spread out her slender and white palm, casting a familiar seal.

With this action, the sky above the entire shrine suddenly turned gray, as if there was an invisible haze, and even sunlight could not penetrate it.

"So...... My baby Sky Fox, let's have a full meal. ”

His lips opened slightly, and after saying this sentence, his hands also remained in the last seal movement.

Immediately after, the dark place in mid-air burst out violently, blooming with thousands of white lights.

Click!

With a loud bang, the thickest white lightning bolt whipped down and descended on the deepest forbidden place of the shrine, on the huge sacred tree.

Boom.

The aftermath was shocking, and even the blood-colored array was unstable.

The white lightning dissipated, and the huge nine-tailed sky fox appeared and entrenched itself on the sacred tree.

His body was always shrouded in a layer of white divine light, but there was a black crack on the side of the blood pupil on the left cheek, and the crack was long, along the fur, dividing the entire body into left and right halves, and spreading all the way to the tail of the slender body.

There, the nine long tails that should have been swaying were cut off, and the root of the severed tail could still be seen in the black ghostly light flowing.

This terrifying injury is the ten-fist sword slash cast by Susanoo's projection in the previous riot in the harbor area, and the strange power continues to erode the body of the nine-tailed sky fox, and it still cannot be repaired until now.

But right now.

The nine-tailed sky fox's blood-colored pupils were full of joy and greed.

He stared at the turquoise and golden breath circulating in the thick trunk of the tree below him, lowered his head, opened his mouth without hesitation, and bit down hard at the fork of the trunk, piercing the blood-colored lines and the skin of the trunk with the fangs wrapped in white glow, and snatching all the treasures containing amazing power into his body!

Boom Boom –

Just as the rich earth qi, accompanied by wisps of rare dragon qi, entered his body, the earth shook more and more intensely, accompanied by the gradually clear and audible sound of the earth, all the way to the distance.

Outside of Togakushi Sacred Mountain.

Dozens or hundreds of inhuman figures hurried over, as well as more people on the gunship roaring in mid-air, suddenly felt creepy when they saw the white lightning accompanied the appearance of the sky fox.

"Is it still a step too late?"

"At all costs, Harori must be stopped!"

They roared, wrapped in all kinds of qi, and made their way to the shrine.

Between the mountains that are even farther away, the dragon of Asosuke and the heads of the family, Gao Gong, who are hurrying over, also received this information, and their eyes immediately turned red.

The dragon vein is closely related to the fortune of the country, and the Riqi Gate of Mt. Fuji has already suffered a heavy blow, but now Harori is unscrupulously stretching her hand to the second dragon vein.

"According to the report, the first batch of aid teams from the Chinese side has entered the territory of our country and is rushing to the Yuchuan area."

"The original true person of Longhu Mountain, it is said that he has also set off and crossed the strait in the flesh, and he doesn't know where he is at present, but he wants to come ......"

The voice of the combat staff officer sounded on the walkie-talkie, which made the emotional Aso Suke Dragon's eyes stunned, and the old man's face trembled, and then he sighed: "Okay, good, I didn't expect them to really come, if Zhang Taichu is there in person, he may be able to cooperate with the Protector Divine Technique to kill the demonic beast." ”

The faces of the heads of each family on one side also revealed a complicated color.

"Regardless of the cost, be sure to keep the Heavenly Demon Demon Mink, and never let it leave, wait until the Taichu True Man of Dragon and Tiger Mountain arrives, and cooperate with the killing."

The dragon of Asosuke quickly gave an order, and then looked at the white figure looming among the divine beasts in the mountains in the distance, and said extremely firmly: "Next, let us old guys destroy the scourge of Harori!" ”

——

Uogawa City.

With the passage of time, the Demon Qi has already shown signs of large-scale spreading, and transpiration has spread everywhere in the corners of the city.

And the priests and witches are casting sacred spells all the time, and even with the help of magic weapons, they have fallen into a very tired state.

But when they watched more innocent people who were infected by demonic qi and fell into a state of madness, they could only grit their teeth and constantly challenge their own limits.

At the center of the battlefield.

The Heavenly Demon Marten, which had already released a large amount of Demon Qi, had dimmed a little with purple light on its surface, and even its huge body like a mountain had shrunk by one-fifth.

"The dying throes of this group of ants really bothered me to watch."

"Anyway, what's going on with the fox mage, can you give me a letter?"

The demon marten hovered in the air, constantly dodging spell arrows from the warlock team on the ground, and occasionally got an arrow in the butt, and couldn't help but howl.

Suddenly, the ground suddenly rumbled, coming from far and near, making the earthquake strong again, and even the tall buildings had begun to shake visibly with the naked eye.

At this moment, Qu Tong felt the slight vibration of the pendant on his chest, and showed a charming smile: "It's now, let's completely explode." ”

"Let the purple rain fall on the whole city."

Hearing Qu Tong's voice, the Heavenly Demon Demon Mink's face was happy, and the whole mink suddenly became energetic.

"This king has finally waited for this moment!"

"Tremble, lowly ants!"

It flapped its wings vigorously, swatting out all the stout arrows from the ground, and then soared into the sky, swept out with its thick tail, and swung out one after another blades, emptying all the dozen helicopters surrounded by it.

Then it took a deep breath, and its abdomen suddenly lit up with incomparably rich purple lines, like a lattice of accumulated strength, spreading from the navel to the throat, allowing the bright purple light to illuminate a large area of the city, making it impossible for more people to look directly.

Its throat was deformed, rapidly expanding, and enveloping an astonishing demonic qi, like a toad balloon full of gas about to explode.

"What is that monster going to do?"

There were policemen running on the streets of the block, looking at the place where the purple light erupted, and they only felt that their eyes were stinging, and they couldn't look directly.

The next moment, a terrifying sound wave burst out, almost tearing his eardrums apart.

"Roaring ——!"

In the huge roar of the Heavenly Demon Demon Mink, the purple Qi ball that had accumulated in his body, after rushing out of the throat, turned into a pillar of light more than ten zhang wide, penetrated through the dark clouds, rushed into the sky, and finally unfolded violently, turning into an incomparably strange formation.

The purple array that presented a perfect circle as a whole, with tens of thousands of mystical runes colluding inside, quickly spread out to all sides after appearing, covering the sky and the sun in a short period of time!

Immediately afterward, dark clouds soaked in purple appeared in the void, permeating the array, then vibrating, rubbing, entangled with the humid air, and finally transformed into large raindrops, overturning towards the world!

It wasn't until the spell was fully formed that the sable stopped, feeling the rain falling on him, like a fish in a tank being replenished with oxygen, and swimming happily.

"As the king of demon spirits, he naturally has magical powers."

"Although the consumption is huge, as long as the fox mage can successfully obtain the dragon qi, then I will definitely be strong again."

With cruelty and greed in its eyes, it flapped its wings again, rushed under the demonic array, and flew away, turning into a moving array eye, maintaining this heavy rain that spread for dozens of miles.

Dada......

The raindrops fell from the sky, stained with fine dust all the way, and fell into the world.

Some landed on the helicopter hovering in the air, causing specks of rust to appear on the surface of the high-speed swinging propeller, and a short moment later a gap appeared.

Click-click-click......

The rain flowed down the cracks into the airframe, causing the high-strength alloys to rot, the delicate electronics to crumble, and the entire helicopter began to deteriorate rapidly with a strange sound.

"What happened?"

The driver looked at the special glass in front of him that could stop the machine gun, and looked at the potholed purple spots that appeared after being hit by the rain, and his hands couldn't help but tremble.

But his panic didn't last long, and just a dozen or so breaths later, a broken electrical circuit sparked and ignited the fuel tank inside.

With a loud bang, the sophisticated and advanced steel helicopter transformed into flying parts, steaming up with the flames, and smashed into the urban streets on the ground.

The same scene appeared in countless helicopter formations that heard the news.

Dozens of and hundreds of bright fires bloomed one after another over the entire Uogawa City, like brilliant fireworks in the last days, illuminating the frightened faces of more people walking on the block.

"What happened?"

"What that monster did, like it was depicted in the comics, was an evil spell!"

"Helicopters, all, all of them blew up."

"Watch the top of your head, take shelter nearby, don't get hit by shards, the nearest shelter ......"

For a while, the ordinary people who were still on the surface were even more panicked.

In an old alley that no one cared about, there was an old woman huddled in the depths of the alley, feeling a chill coming from her forehead, so she stretched out her trembling hand and watched a drop of rain fall on her palm.

She was too old to run to the nearest shelter when disaster struck, so she simply hid in a corner off the beaten track.

Da Da Da ......

The rain fell on her head, on her outstretched palm.

"Is it raining?"

The old woman muttered to herself, making a hoarse voice, and then the old woman's eyelids suddenly widened, and she looked at her palms blankly.

There, the dripping rain, flowing along the palm prints, was tinged with a strange purple, and in the next moment it seemed to come to life, like a greedy maggot, gnawing away the calloused skin that it touched, revealing the bright red flesh inside.

The purple rain came into contact with the flesh, revealing a rotten aura, and in the place where there was no skin, the vitality was extracted and turned into wisps of hair.

"Ahh Uh-a-ah......"

The old woman trembled, thinking that she was dazzled, thinking that there was no pain of falling and being eroded, but only by the rain, why did she have hair on her hands?

She looked at this terrifying scene, and suddenly noticed that her scalp was itchy, and the place that had been drenched by the rain had something strange, and then, the exposed skin, where it was touched by the purple raindrops, began to rot and ulcerate rapidly, and the old skin was peeled off, and the flesh inside was eroded, and more and more purple hairs grew.

The old woman was frightened, and then she found that the morning exercise clothes she was wearing were already ragged and corroded.

After being hit by the rain, the skin inside began some unknown transformation.

It's like an orange that has been stored for a long time, and it has grown plaque.

In a short period of time, the old man's thin body was covered with purple hair, and it seemed that all the little vitality left had been extracted and wanted to bloom in a short period of time.

"Uh-uh-"

Her throat rolled, and with the last bit of sanity, she crawled to the side of the ditch, and her originally rickety and weak body was now full of strength, allowing her to come to the ditch smoothly, lower her head, and see her appearance clearly.

It's like a humanoid mouse.

Then, her eyes gradually dimmed, and the cloudy eyes also grew wisps of purple hair, filling in the eyelids.

"Ahhhh

She began to crawl on all fours, sniffing the smell of blood in the air with her nose, like a stinky rat gnawing on nuclear waste, crawling out of the alley and onto the side of the street.

There, there are several humanoid rats that look like her, chasing the heavily armed military police!

(End of chapter)