Lily made a tentative attempt to manipulate her vast spirit sea according to the breakthrough thod described on the stele.
Her spirit sea was completely unmovable!
It was a thousand tis larger than a regular expert’s spirit sea. This was the Lunar Blossom, the great secret technique created by the great god Tsukuyomi, but at the sa ti it had beco a difficult trial to pass.
If a regular adept was destined to practice the Lunar Blossom, though their spirit sea would be vast, it would not reach such an exaggerated size, and Lily just happened to have a twelve moon phase permanence spirit which raised the difficulty again…
No matter how talented she was, facing a difficulty increase of a thousand tis, there was no way she would be able to breakthrough in a single night. Without countless practice attempts, it would be impossible, but she had no ti…
Lily couldn’t help but worry.
It looks like using the normal breakthrough thod would take a long period of ti.
But what about the secret thod?
First of all, she had to refine the purity of the energy within her ten thousand mile long spirit sea to the extre.
In normal cases, once soone had reached the peak-stage permanence realm, their spirit sea could no longer be purified before breaking through to the throne realm, but if a secret thod was used then it was possible.
“Endless Spirit Circulation, Everlasting Ceremony”
The na of the secret thod. The na was excessively long so she simply referred to it as the Endless Spirit thod
1. She gave the technique a try, it wasn’t too hard and didn’t take her too long to grasp it.
Lily drew out so anima from the Sakura Parasol. For her first attempt, she made an attempt with a hundred spirit jade anima. Through the Endless Spirit thod she managed to integrate the spirit energy of the hundred anima into her previously saturated spirit sea.
Only… the purity of the energy within her spirit sea did not change.
Perhaps the amount of energy was too low? Or maybe she couldn’t sense any change?
But that was a hundred spirit jade anima! It was a huge amount of wealth on the market, how could it be low? And she knew just how sensitive her body was, how could she not feel anything?
But it was as if… it was no use!
Lily proceeded to absorb three thousand awakened anima into her spirit sea, but these anima also accomplished nothing!
She gritted her teeth and pulled out fifty permanence reald anima!
……
Nothing!
“What!??”
Did she make a mistake sowhere? Did she miss sothing when learning the secret technique?
It wasn’t as if this was her first ti practicing the Lunar Blossom.
She rapidly looked back at the stele and reviewed the technique. There were no mistakes, and a technique created by Tsukuyomi would definitely have no problems!
Then where was the problem? Fifty permanence reald
2 anima had not done a thing.
Wait, her spirit power had already reached the peak of permanence, if she wanted to improve did she have to use an anima that surpassed the permanence realm?
Throne realm anima?
She didn’t have many of those! Right now she only had five throne reald anima.
These anima couldn’t be wasted. Throne reald arch-demons, just how rare were those entities. Even if Lily had the ability to kill arch-demons of that realm, where would she go to find them?
Carefully, Lily activated the secret thod and absorbed a throne reald anima.
“Nnmnn—”
Deep within Lily’s vast spirit sea, a spot of light appeared, as if looking at a bright pearl within the sea.
“It worked!”
She wasn’t sure how effective a throne reald anima was, but at least there was so effect.
That purity of the spirit power at that dot of light had reached a new level! But unfortunately, that spot of light was too small. Lily’s joy turned into another wave of disappointnt…
Breakthrough with this secret thod would make her throne palace stronger and her future accomplishnts greater…
But all that required her first breaking through to the throne realm, and to do that she had to purify her ten thousand mile wide spirit sea! The amount of throne realm animas required for that would be an impossible number!
Lily wasn’t sure how many throne arch-demons there were in the world, but in that war against Shuten, all the forces in the crusade and all of Shuten’s subordinates, she had not seen more than ten throne reald experts…
If she included all those experts with the few anima she had on hand, then it wouldn’t reach a tenth of what she needed…
The first thod of breakthrough required a very long period of ti to practice and train, it was unbelievably difficult.
But the second thod… that was simply impossible! There was no need to even consider the second thod… She would slowly walk the first path step by step…
She would need to go to Yomi Hirazaka and see what sort of power resided there. Train at the edge of life and death and perhaps a brand new road would open. Afterall, Lord Yoshitsune had delved into Yomi Hirazaka and returned as humanity’s leading expert.
There really wasn’t any need for Shinsenen to warn her of the danger of the Path of Yomi, of course Lily knew it was dangerous to the extre! The dangers a female adept would encounter on the Path of Yomi would be beyond imagination!
But this was also a chance.
“I can only go, I must go and… I will definitely return!”
Lily’s heart, which was often soft and girly, was inexplicably steadfast.
……
The flight ti was shorter than she had expected by several hours. Perhaps it was because Lily’s strength had improved and as a side effect, so had her summons.
In front of her, was a vast wilderness surrounded by mountains.
This wilderness was ruined, no grass would grow, the land was dry and scattered dead trees and ruins littered the landscape. In the distance, a ruined, deserted rectangular ancient city could be seen under the light clouds and night mist.
“That should be the ancient Nara capital.”
Lily simply looked at the city from a distance, from here she could sense the endless resentnt billowing from the city, it was dense enough that it could be seen with the naked eye.
And the desolate wilderness around the Nara Capital was the notorious Sinless Domain.
In the Sinless Domain, there were many ancient experts and who knows how many manslaughter dojos. In an ancient city older than Heian-kyo, how many old monsters would be within?
Lily had no doubt that within Nara-kyo, there would be many existences far stronger than herself, she dared not fly into Nara-kyo like this.
She had her mount descend into the wilderness before dispelling the summon. Putting on a bamboo hat and a white veil
3, she departed towards Nara-kyo.
Though she was traveling by foot, her speed was fast as she sprinted through the wilderness.
The location of the Rashomon was marked on the ancient map of Nara-kyo. It was not very difficult to find, the Rashomon was in the center of Nara-kyo, directly across the square facing the imperial palace.
Not far ahead of her, she could see multiple ancient ruins, and red flickers of fla. The skies were dyed red, a mixture of fog and resentnt.
Lily slowed down and proceeded at a brisk yet more careful pace.
Dirt-faced, raggedly dressed vagrants lined both sides of the dirt road. So sat on the side of the road while others leaned against the broken walls.
The vagrants all turned their malevolent gazes towards Lily.
Despite wearing a veil, her figure exuded seductive beauty from every angle. Her tall stature for a woman only added to her allure, making it unsurprising that she caught the attention of passersby.
Lily ignored the gazes and continued forward.
As she passed, two vagrants got up and followed behind her.
She didn’t take those two seriously, but from the front four vagrants in tattered black clothes walked towards her and blocked her path.
“Woman, you’re wearing such a fancy kimono, you’re not from around here.” A tall thin vagrant spoke up.
“I’m sorry, but I’m in a hurry, please step aside.”
The vagrant looked at each other, their eyes lit up with a nacing light.
“Woman, do you know where you are?”
Lily nodded.
“Since you know, you should understand your situation. How about you accompany to the ruins and have so fun, or I’ll just kill you.” This threat was quite different from what she was used to hearing, this man spoke as if this was natural. He spoke as if it was a normal thing to assault a woman whenever he t one, it was as if he was sick if he didn’t go and assault.
At this ti, the two vagrants also spread out and surrounded her from the back.
A burly vagrant in blue shouted, “This woman, we discovered her first!”
“Hm? You want to take her from us?” The slender vagrant sneered.
“Let’s see who’s blade is faster!”
“Yea!”
Both sides drew their blades.
“Die!”
“Die!”
In this place, the mont two disagreed, it would beco a life and death battle.
Lily simply stood in the middle.
Very quickly, three vagrants had fallen while the remaining three continued to slash and hack. The side that only had one remaining vagrant turned to flee while the other two chased!
He managed to flee ten ters before being killed.
Of the six vagrants, only two were left, one of which was the slender vagrant. They imdiately knelt down and rummaged through the clothes of the dead, grabbing treasures and weapons.
Lily continued to watch, though she was used to battles many tis more intense and powerful than this, the craziness of these vagrants shocked her. For these people it was natural to kill whoever they saw and use their sword to solve all their problems.
Even the evil Shuten Doji did not act like this.
Being powerful was one thing, but life was just as important as power.
Despite facing opponents strong enough to threaten their lives, these weak vagrants didn’t hesitate to casually get into a fight to the death. It was really sothing…
“So this is the Sinless Domain… an absurd place where killing is everything.”
Lily didn’t want to kill such weaklings, but before she could act, from the ruins and darkened valley ca ten odd vagrants with weapons out, howling and hacking at the two vagrants. They imdiately ran with the horde chasing.
“……”
Lily had a feeling that language was of little use here, the only thod of communication the people of the Sinless Domain understood was killing
4.
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Robinxen: I wish authors would do this more often.
Robinxen: Yes I know reald isn’t a real word.
Yuki: Wouldn’t she benefit from so disguise training? Like maybe a skin mask or costics, and then bind up her chest and act like a man….
Robinxen: So it’s sinless because the concept of sin was irrelevant?
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