Soaring in the air, Marika looked down at the earth. The only thing that catches her eyes is the lush and lively forest, just like the Ura forest that she arrived at when she was first isekaied. Looking at this refreshing scene of beauty, she couldn't help but feel at peace physically and mentally.
But at this moment, she passed by a natural cave while flying. This cave has a strange feeling that she can't describe. It looks very ordinary. It is just a cave that is surrounded by mountains, covered with flowers, grass and moss, and the entrance is about two people high. But that weird feeling that her new type ability keeps giving her made her stop in the air and observe this weird cave with her clairvoyance skill.
Suddenly Marika's new type senses suddenly sent out warning signals all over her brain, and a powerful aura similar to high-level magic suddenly burst out in the cave!
With the burst of energy, an old man walked out of the cave. This old man is wearing a Taoist robe, with a long, slender white beard, sharp eyebrows, and an overwhelming presence around him. Marika could easily tell this old man is likely no ordinary person, but more trouble for her.
The old man fixed his eyes on Marika, and without a word, soar into the sky as if he is stepping on air. After a while, he flew to a position parallel to Marika.
The wind around the old man moved his hair and long beard, and the hem of the Taoist uniform moved with the wind, and a divine aura surrounded him like the wind. The old man snorted, put his hands behind his back, all with a look of arrogance in his eyes.
Marika observed that the air mass wrapped around the old man's body, or to be precise, his chi, was hundreds of times stronger than Wenzong and Yufeng combined! Moreover, the rhythm of his qi floating around him is very stable, not as violent as the two brothers. Marika guessed that since the old man could stably control the qi around him, he must be a master-level musha.
At this time, the old man began to speak, his voice was full of arrogance in his bones.
"I retired and trained for so many years in order to break through to the third rank of the Divine realm. And after I just finished my training, a little brat like you comes flying by. Hmph! Tell me your name! What intention do you have for passing by the great Long Doutian's training cave?"
The old man who called himself Long Doutian asked in an arrogant tone. The old man was also slightly surprised by Marika's beauty, especially her rare golden hair and golden eyes. However, the old man who has practiced chi martial arts for many years has long since gotten rid of vulgar and mortal desires, so he doesn't care too much about Marika's appearance.
Regarding Long Doutian's unfriendly tone, Marika only felt that the old man was very rude, so she didn't give him any smiles, but asked instead:
"Then who are you, sir? I'm just a passing tourist, I don't even know that you live here."
Long Doutian slightly opened his eyes in surprise, apparently not expecting Marika's reaction. But after a moment of astonishment, the old man put away his expression, returning to a serious expression and asked:
"Little girl, do you know who this old man is?"
"Nope."
Marika answered without hesitation. The old man's tone only made her more and more unhappy, and she thought grudgingly:
'Little girl? This old lady is already thousands of years old, so who is the little one here? '
The old man was of course not very satisfied with Marika's answer.
He flicked his sleeves, stroked his beard slowly with his right hand, and said arrogantly:
"Then you must know the Long family?"
"Who?"
The Long family? Who the hell are they? Marika has only heard about the four major families from the Chen brothers. When did a fifth family become a thing? Could it be that it is the same reason that when a demon king has four generals, there is always a fifth hidden one?
Seeing Marika's confused reaction, Long Doutian also began to wonder. Why doesn't the little girl in front of him recognize him? What's even more strange is why she wasn't surprised that he could fly with his own chi? Most normal mushas would be terrified when they saw a musha who could fly, but this blonde girl had a flat expression and didn't even acknowledge his feat.
'Is she just an ignorant little doll? '
Long Doutian guessed, but felt that it couldn't be justified.
Long Doutian thought that the girl in front of him was a member of the Jinchi School, because they were the only ones who could use the Heavenly Bead, one of the four great artifacts they mastered, to allow mushas below the Divine Realm fly. Moreover, Marika had a young face, and Long Doutian couldn't feel much qi from her, so he subconsciously thought that she borrowed the Heavenly Bead to fly.
Hundreds of years ago, in order to seal the leader of the demon clan, the demon king, the Long family handed over the four artifacts to the current four major families for safekeeping, and then disappeared. And three years ago, Long Doutian sent his son Long Aotian to gain experience through travel and notified the four sects of his decision. It's possible for ordinary musha to not recognize him, after all the Long family had remained hidden for so long. But the blond girl in front of him has the Heavenly bead which means that she should be one of the high ranking members of the school. Only high ranking members in the schools are allowed to use the artifacts and know about the existence of the Long family. So it is impossible for her not to know his name, unless...unless she stole the Heavenly bead!
Long Doutian thought he had figured out the ins and outs, he held his beard up and laughed. Marika just looked at the old man as if he had gone mad and thought:
'Is this old man having dementia? '
The old man stopped his laughing, then suddenly his face became ruthless, and he shouted angrily:
"Well, you little thief! How dare you steal the Heavenly bead, one of the four great artifacts! Then I, Long Doutian, the leader of the Wulin league, will deliver my punishment!"
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Long Doutian immediately waved his fingers like a blade, and swung several sword qi waves at her, that are so powerful that even she felt danger from.
"Eh?!"
Marika was also a little surprised that this old man claimed to be the master of the Wulin league who had been missing for many years. And now he is suddenly trying to kill her over their small disagreement. She just came to this world, how could she steal something from others! And what the hell are the four great artifacts?
However, Marika still emitted Strike Air from her body, and easily accelerated to avoid the old man's attack. Her new type ability already sensed the murderous aura attacking her from afar.
"Mission Triggered: Defeat or kill Long Doutian. Task Difficulty: Medium. Task Reward: Multiverse Lottery Draw x1"
As Long Doutian continued to attack, the system also appropriately gave out a side mission. But Marika has no time to read it carefully.
Long Doutian raised his palm, and swung it violently, a substantial air flow was blown out by him, going straight to Marika's face.
Marika quickly took out the Moon Gundam psycho plate for defense. A powerful air wave blasted on the psycho plate, but was blocked by the psycho energy of the plates.
"Interesting chi weapon!"
Seeing that his attack was blocked, Long Doutian climbed through the air and used his palm slap at Marika at a close range.
But this time, Marika chose to push forward to the rear left to distance herself from the old man.
"Old man, I didn't steal anything! I just happened to pass by! I don't even know what the Four Artifacts are!"
Marika tried to explain while dodging the attack.
"Hmph! Who would believe you, a little yellow-haired girl!"
Long Doutian snorted coldly with disdain.
Marika saw that the old man really wanted to kill her, so she had no choice but to continue to maneuver and fly around to avoid his attacks and use the psycho plates to defend against the unavoidable attacks.
Marika really wanted to avoid violent conflicts with people in this world as much as possible. After all, she didn't have any deep hatred for these people. In addition, according to the description of the Chen brothers, although there are many superhuman-like mushas in this world, it is still a world with modern laws, and killing people at will will only cause trouble for her. And although the old man was arrogant, it seemed that he just misunderstood her.
"Sir, I have no qualms with you. Is it really okay for you to break the law directly for such an arbitrary purpose?!"
Marika reasoned while continuing to maneuver at high speed.
"Ha! The law? The Long family has been rooted as the masters of Zhongyuan for thousands of years! We are the true masters of the Capital, and the other four major families are just our dogs! So I can do whatever I want! Kill whoever I want!"
Long Aotian looked disdainful, and said with a sneer.
"What the hell are you talking about, you crazy old bastard?!"
Marika was now angered by the old man's attitude and disregard. While roaring, she opened dozens of portals of the Gate of Babylon to aim at Long Doutian.
"Hahaha! It's useless! This old man is now at the third rank of the Divine realm! I am invincible!"
Facing the noble phantasm shot at him, Long Doutian was amazed by the power of these weapons, but he still shuttled back and forth easily and comfortably, avoiding each weapon with a distance of a millimeter, as if to show off his strength.
The old man continued to laugh contemptuously:
"The entire Zhongyuan is I, Long Doutian's back garden! Do you understand? You little girl!"
Marika was never as lawless as this old man when she was king. While Marika agrees with the law that the strong rules, it's no excuse for misbehavior. With great power comes great responsibility, this truth is deeply rooted in her heart.
"If you are so strong, then you should use your own strength to help those who are weak. What kind of hero bullies the common people!?"
Marika fired the psycho plates at the old man as she roared. The old man was a little surprised by these strange weapons. Even though he could detect some of the mental fluctuations within them, he couldn't understand what kind of power it was. Seeing that Marika possesses unknown powers, Long Doutian is more determined to kill her.
Even as thePsycho plates approached him, the old man still continued to laugh at Marika's condemnation:
"It's ridiculous! Does this old man need a reason to kill people? You little girl, die and be gone!"
Suddenly, Long Doutian's figure flashed and disappeared from Marika's sight. Marika was startled, and immediately used her newtype perception to search for the whereabouts of the old man.
"What! Behind me!?"
Sensing malice behind her, Marika immediately turned around and punched back, but the old man had already got her where he wanted, and hit her with his palm.
"Pffw-!"
Marika, who had no time to defend herself, took in the full force ofLong Doutian's palm. The extremely powerful qi in his palm ruptured her internal organs, causing her to spit out a mouthful of blood!
Marika was blown away by the power of his palm attack, spinning uncontrollably in the air. Thankfully her self-healing abilities healed her wounds in a few breaths. Marika recovered, and immediately erupted with magic power to stabilize her figure. At this time, her position in the sky is lower than that of Long Doutian, so she has to look up to him. The old man looked down on Marika condescendingly, as if she was an ant that could be stomped to death easily.
At this moment, the old man noticed that his cheeks were a little wet, and remembered that in the attack just now, the blood spat out by that yellow-haired girl splashed on his face. The old man wiped the blood off his face with his fingers in displeasure, but when he took a closer look at the blood on his hands, his eyes widened in surprise.
"What!?"
The blood on his hand was actually golden! Long Doutian had never seen such a strange thing in his long life! Even when the masters who have reached the fifth rank of the Divine realm are injured and bleed, their blood is the same dark red color as that of ordinary people. What kind of monster is this that has golden blood? !
He looked back at Marika, and suddenly found that Marika was still floating in the air without incident.
'This little girl actually took my Dragon Subduing True Palm without harm! ? '
Long Doutian opened his eyes wide again in disbelief. His Dragon Subduing True Palm is his family's unique skill, and few people in the world can resist this killer move.
Back to Marika, she was completely livid. This Long Doutian is so contemptuous of life. Then the four major families under his rule are probably the same. These hateful scumbags reminded her of those nobles in this world who disregard human lives. They also regard the people as playthings, and the lives of the people in the world are just tools for fun to these nobles who think highly of themselves. But Marika would never accept such a world! Never! ! ! ! !
It was only a few seconds before Long Doutian wiped off the blood on his face and was shocked by it. But Marika had seized the moment and pulled out a noble phantasm from the Gate of Babylon that she thought would bring her victory.
Gae Bolg, a red spear with a ferocious tip. The original user of this spear was the great hero of Ireland, the guard dog of Culann, Cu Chulainn and his master, the warrior goddess Scathach. But the Gate of Babylon, as the treasure house that houses the prototypes of all noble phantasms in the world, naturally has the Gae Bolg in its collection.
This magic spear, which was originally used for throwing, was transformed into a noble phantasm for close combat after being reforged by the master and apprentice. The spear itself was imbued with magic from the age of the gods, specifically the law of causality. Its ability is a move that reverses the "cause and effect" . At the moment when the Noble Phantasm "Gae Bolg" is released, the "effect" of "the opponent's heart is pierced" will be created first. The "cause" of "the spear hit because the heart was pierced" occurred later. So after activating it, it will have the ability to "penetrate no matter how the opponent hides"!
When using Gae Bolg, it requires the user to jump up high into the sky after a run-up, and throw it with all their strength to the ground from there, so it needs to use all the magic power of the whole body when using it.
However, as a god, Marika's strength and magic power are naturally higher than Cu Chulainn who is only a demigod. This allows Marika to release the full power of the noble phantasm directly like Scathach!
Marika held the spear backward with her right hand, straightened her left hand, spread her legs apart, tensed her back muscles, and made a throwing posture. With her movements, the spear boiled with powerful crimson mana!
Marika clenched the spear tightly, the muscles and veins on her arms bulged, and then loudly called out the noble phantasm's real name!
"Gáe Bolg!"
With its real name, the red spear was thrown in the direction of Long Doutian by Marika with all her strength! It approached Long Doutian's heart in an instant!
At this critical moment, Long Doutian did the impossible! He dodged!
"Hmph!"
The spear passed him by, which made the arrogant Long Doutian sneer. The old man was really surprised by the power and murderous aura of the red spear just now. He couldn't feel a trace of chi in the spear. This made him extremely puzzled, any divine weapon or qi weapon would require qi to power, but this weird spear gave Long Doutian the sense of threat that only divine weapons possess. But he is the great Long Doutian! This terrifying spear was still dodged by his astonishing power! Just when he turned around and wanted to taunt Marika, something incredible happened again!
Gae Bolg suddenly stopped in mid-air, and then, like a homing missile, it rushed towards Long Doutian's heart at a faster and stronger speed than before!
And this time, can Long Doutian escape this time? Under the absolute power of the law of cause and effect, there is no possibility! Absolutely not!
Just when he realized the danger and turned around, Gae Bolg approached his chest at a speed that he couldn't react to, and then went straight through! Straight fucking through Long Doutian's body! ! ! !
"Gwahhh! No—Impossible! I'm Long Doutian! Long Doutian!"
Long Doutian vomited blood and screamed, but it was too late. The moment the old man's heart was pierced by the magical spear, his life ended. In a moment, he lowered his head, fell from a high altitude, and completely lost his vitality.
Long Doutian, the leader of the Wulin League who once dominated the world, the head of the four major families, fell here!