Me and countless me.

Chapter 556 The True Face of the World

Although it was indeed frustrating, Miko still nervously walked towards the somewhat timid Yamabuki Otome and led her to a nearby cafe to wait.

Touka also quietly walked over and began to help Miko with the hospitality.

After all, it doesn't matter to her whether Li Ke is her husband or not, she's the same to him... Ah!

She rushed over only to avoid missing out on food, not to actually fight for anything, so she felt relieved after confirming that Li Ke was still the same lecherous guy.

However, Kiyosa Ai couldn't help but put her hands on her hips and watch Li Ke frantically trying to manage her harem, which was already starting to burn.

"This guy really is a womanizer."

She touched her lips. Although she was heartbroken, she did not show her concern for Toshio Utsumi in front of Hitomi Kisugi. After all, her feelings for Toshio Utsumi were rather complicated. It was hard to say whether she felt like a father, a brother, or a lover.

So although I was sad, it wasn't as heartbreaking as Hitomi Kisugi's.

But Lai Sheng Rui saw it very clearly and expressed her opinion.

"After all, he is a strong person. Strong people do not follow the rules. They only follow the rules of the stronger people, as well as their own rules."

Hitomi didn't say anything, but silently carried her things and walked towards her room. Right now, she didn't want to talk about love between men and women at all.

Unlike the naive and innocent Lai Sheng Ai, or the insightful and worldly-wise Lai Sheng Lei who has already seen through love for the sake of her family and others, she is at an age where she is immersed in love and cares about her own love even more.

Therefore, at this moment, all she felt was sadness for the lost love, and she didn't care about Li Ke at all.

He felt neither love nor hate for Li Ke. He didn't even know what to say when he looked at Li Ke, nor did he know how he should treat her—whether to be excited, calm, grateful, or hateful.

All she knew was that she wanted to be alone.

"Let's go."

Lai Sheng Lei sighed and then walked into a place they had chosen.

It was a relatively independent dormitory, quite large, with four or five rooms, enough for the three sisters to use, and it could also accommodate a lot of their equipment.

She had even considered making this place their base a long time ago, but because of Toshio Utsumi, she stayed at the Inunaki Police Station. But now, she decided to sell it.

After all, they would never go back.

The three sisters then went to the chosen location and began to work with the housekeeper to set up the rooms.

But Hitomi Lai sat there quietly, gazing into the distance.

However, the aura of Tamamo-no-Mae on her body grew stronger and stronger. At some point, the gem that Li Ke had broken was once again formed from countless resentments and silently came to lurk in the jewelry box of Hitomi Kisaragi, emitting a strange magic.

Li Ke keenly sensed that something was wrong and immediately looked in the direction from which the aura was coming. He then saw Yamabuki Otome tasting tea with unease and frowned.

"what's the situation?"

However, just as he relaxed, Aoyama Tsuruko and Wu Garuda started fighting! This forced Li Ke to immediately separate the two!
"Don't rush me... In short, I won't let the girl I like down, and my body can definitely handle it! But things aren't as urgent as you think!"

Pressing down on Wu Jialouluo and Qingshan Hezi's heads, Li Ke separated his two harem members, mainly Wu Jialouluo, and then spoke with a serious expression.

"Leaving aside how strong they would be after escaping hell, the deterrent power they could generate in modern society is incomparable to that of Japan back then. After all, many martial artists who can suppress evil spirits are helpless when faced with firearms. Times have changed."

Upon hearing Li Ke's words, even Kosaka Shigure nodded in agreement. As the daughter of a weapon, she naturally knew just how powerful modern firearms and missiles were. Although powerful martial artists with the ability to generate energy could basically ignore small-caliber firearms, and some physically strong martial artists, such as Yujiro, could do the same, they would be helpless if they were ambushed.

"So even if you escaped, there's no need to be in such a hurry. Besides, I don't really know much about the supernatural world, so could you tell me about it, Aoyama Tsuruko and Kosaka Shigure?"

Upon hearing this, Aoyama Tsuruko, who had originally planned to tell Li Ke just how powerful Hagoromo Gitsune and Tamamo-no-Mae were, suddenly stopped, because she remembered that Li Ke was a complete novice who had no idea how powerful Tamamo-no-Mae and Hagoromo Gitsune were, or the reality of this world. So she sighed.

"Okay, since you don't object to having a child with me, it's only right to tell you. But should we inform the other people as well?"

She glanced at Miko and Touka, who were having tea with Yamabuki Otome, and thought it would be better to ask Li Ke about these matters, whether these concubines should know.

After all, in the supernatural world, "knowing" something can sometimes be a disaster.

"Let me be frank, I'm still quite curious about this world."

Li Ke sat down in the dojo with her arms crossed, watching Aoyama Tsuruko's performance. When she began to narrate, she noticed that even Furinji Miu seemed very interested, which made Aoyama Tsuruko glance at Kosaka Shigure a few more times. She was a little curious as to why Furinji Miu would show such an excited expression, but she still sat down and began to speak.

"The world is divided into several worlds. Some worlds overlap with our world, but in different dimensions. Under normal circumstances, they do not interfere with each other, such as the Mirror World and other peculiar worlds. However, some worlds are in the same world as ours, but ordinary people cannot see them and require special passages to reach them. The Heavenly Realm, the Underworld, and the Demon Realm are all like this..."

She described a lot about the geography of this world, and Li Ke finally learned that the celestial realm was an alternate dimension located between the universe and the sky, while the underworld was located underground, but was also an alternate dimension.

The demon realm occasionally connects with the human realm, but usually, one can only travel to the human realm through a passage connecting to the underworld. Most demons lack complete emotions, are very obsessive, and lack rationality in their souls. Therefore, by consuming humans who possess more rationality, they can complete their souls and increase their power.

One can achieve something similar through self-cultivation, but the Demon Realm is a world where the strong prey on the weak, so unless one is a born strongman, it is basically impossible to become stronger solely through self-cultivation.

Because humans are too spiritual and rational, they become ghosts after death. The various emotions they generate also carry a lot of power, thus creating monsters that are almost identical to demons. There are even legends that the demon realm was formed because of human power and legends.

Both demons and gods can absorb this power and cultivate their own mental strength, so it is not uncommon for humans to become gods or demons. Gods reside high in the heavens, selecting those who are kind, talented, and willing to maintain order to become deities. Many people also become deities through sacrifices and then gain recognition from the heavens.

However, many gods perished in battle while protecting humanity. There were also selfish and treacherous gods and divine beasts, but generally speaking, they were willing to protect humanity from demons and various evil forces. However, some had rather bad tempers and had strange and peculiar rules.

As for the differences between things like magic power, spiritual power, divine power, and demonic power, they are actually just mental and physical power. The differences only arise because of the user's affinity and preferences.

"As for the criteria for judging strength..."

Aoyama Tsuruko pointed to himself.

"If I were to use the secret techniques of the Shinmei-ryu style, I could probably defeat a B-rank yokai. I could fight an A-rank evil spirit without mind, but not in a long run. As for Motoko, she's currently at most a C-rank yokai, and can only handle two B-rank evil spirits without mind. Ordinary fighters can only handle some C-rank and D-rank yokai and evil spirits at most. Fighters like Shigure Kosaka and Miu Fuurinji, who have mastered the power of ki, might not be able to defeat those who don't understand ki, but they can defeat A and B-rank evil spirits."

Aoyama Tsuruko was also helpless about this. Although as the current head of the Kamimeru-ryu school, she could only fight B-rank monsters at most, and that was only because the Kamimeru-ryu swordsmanship was naturally effective against monsters. But there was nothing she could do about it. After all, no matter how much she trained her body, it was still difficult to compare with those beings who were born with strong bodies.

The monsters that can become B-rank or higher are not the kind who just squander their talents. Instead, they are strong individuals who, like humans, constantly train and seek the path to power, given their already strong physical bodies!

Li Ke nodded upon hearing this.

"It sounds like humans are completely at a disadvantage."

Aoyama Tsuruko sighed helplessly.

"Yes, in recent years, the renowned powerful beings have either been demon-demon hybrids who are willing to live among humans, or demons themselves, or they are naturally born saints and their children. The power of humans is indeed somewhat insignificant."

She sighed as she spoke, then looked towards a school campus not far away.

"Actually, there are indeed people within the Kamiryu school who can fight A-rank youkai using the Kamiryu style, but she is not human, but a tengu, so we..."

At this point, Aoyama Tsuruko sighed again and then spread out his hands.

"I have failed my ancestors!"

At this point, Aoyama Tsuruko unceremoniously grabbed Li Ke's belt and looked at him very seriously.

"So for the sake of the Divine Roar Style, and for the glory of humanity! Mr. Li Ke! Let's have a child that's strong enough! I don't want the Divine Roar Style, a sword technique specifically designed to slay demons, to end up with a demon as its strongest user! Please! Sleep with me! Please! This is my lifelong wish!"

She knelt before Li Ke without any dignity, hoping only to obtain his seed! Wu Jialouluo was furious again.

"You bastard! I was here first, okay?!"

She wanted Li Ke to give her a child strong enough, so how could she allow someone to achieve this before she did!

"Um, I understand how you feel, and I'll agree, but there are more important things to do right now..."

Li Ke looked in the direction of Yamabuki Otome. He sensed a fox's scent rapidly approaching, and the increasingly strong aura of 'Tamamo-no-Mae' in that direction made Li Ke realize that this was not a problem with Yamabuki Otome who was still obediently munching on chocolate cake, but rather with the three sisters of the afterlife!

Although they call themselves "Cat's Eyes," their ability to attract foxes is truly undeniable!
"So, does this mean I've stirred up a hornet's nest? How come every little thing I do seems to involve foxes?"

Li Ke muttered a complaint and rushed out, heading straight for Lai Sheng Tong's room. At that moment, Lai Sheng Tong was changing clothes. Upon seeing Li Ke, she immediately put down the clothes she was about to take off and put them back on. Then, she picked up a stool and tried to hit Li Ke on the head. But just as she grabbed the stool, a tremendous force surged in from the window!
The walls and windows were instantly destroyed by the explosion, and the violent blast swept towards Lai Sheng Tong in an instant. If Li Ke had delayed even half a second, Lai Sheng Tong would have undoubtedly died here!
How dare you act so presumptuously on my turf!

Seeing this, Li Ke's power surged, he took a step forward, and the energy of movement wrapped around his fist. In the instant he grabbed Sheng Tong, he blasted it towards the direction from which the attack came!

From the direction the attack came from, a monster with the typical appearance of a Japanese demon suddenly burst out of the smoke and dust, directly slamming its fist into Li Ke's fist!
The two enormous forces collided, the air instantly distorted and exploded, and everything in the room flew out!
Using this force, Li Ke retreated back into the corridor, placed the slender Lai Sheng Tong aside, wiped the blood from the gravel on his cheek with his thumb, and focused intently on the three figures in the dust.

As the smoke cleared, a short man who looked like he had chuunibyou (a Japanese term for someone with delusions of grandeur), a red-haired effeminate man who looked as beautiful as a woman, and a Japanese demon who looked like a minor character appeared in Li Ke's eyes. The demon who was still in the position of swinging his fist was the one who had just fought with Li Ke.

However, after seeing Li Ke clearly, the short man sneered and then looked at the evil spirit.

"A fighter? Steel Demon, you're fine with this guy, right? After all, you're supposed to be getting stronger by extracting human souls."

The evil spirit named Steel Ghost nodded, then clenched his fist and waved to Li Ke.

"Hurry up! I can't wait to devour your soul!"

Li Ke silently raised his fist, because just like he had treated the fox, he intended to test the quality of these things!

(End of this chapter)