I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 125: The illiterate fox evolves into a junior high school fox!

These books still have a slightly pungent smell of mothballs. They are very well preserved and you can tell they are carefully maintained.

Looking at this huge pile of books, Dong Yeyu inexplicably felt like a hungry rat entering a granary.

He picked up the top book, sat next to the sleeping Miko, and began to read under the bright light in the tea room.

The name of this book is Four Seasons Wish, and the author is Iori Tokifuyu, probably an ancestor of the Iori family.

The content is about how to ask the power of Inari God to pray for people to avoid disasters, and it comes with rituals, spells and some precautions.

There is also a part that talks about the author's own deeds when using magic, which inexplicably has a sense of self-boasting, as it is magic that any mortal can use.

It's not very useful to me who is not a believer in Inari God, but it's good to take a look and broaden my knowledge.

Time is always relative in people's perception. When you immerse yourself in books, you will find that time passes quickly.

In the early morning, there was a drizzle outside, a gust of wind blew, and then everything returned to calm. The silence in the tea room was never broken.

Higashino Yu, who was on high alert, paid attention to the movements around him while flipping through the Iori family's collection of books on spiritual practice.

Most of these books contain spells related to gods, which require the power of Inari Omikami to cast.

Rather than calling it a spell, it is more like a way to connect oneself with God - a one-way telephone line.

You speak and the gods listen. Whether it works or not depends entirely on the gods' will. If you are in a good mood, you can kill the enemy with a wave of magic power. If you are in a bad mood, you can shout at them whatever you want.

However, there are still some spells that can be cast using one's own magic power. There are not many spells that can be used directly for attack. After reading the whole thing, I didn't find any spells that can create super explosions, shocking thunder, etc.

Most of them are spells such as talismans and barriers, which are used to exorcise evil spirits, filth, drive away demons, and protect the home.

This is quite consistent with the situation of the Iori family being hereditary priests.

Dongye Yu was not too disappointed. In fact, he had no shortage of offensive techniques.

On the surface, it has the ability to slay demons, and it also has the Demon Thunder Flag which has a hidden energy source as a backup. In the fox fairy industry, its lethality is already superb.

After all, the average Hu Daxian can only transform and charm, and he may be able to deceive a scholar, but he will be a failure when he meets a more powerful mortal.

Not to mention meeting a knight like Yan Chixia who practiced both Taoism and martial arts, even if he met Zuo Qianhu, Hu Daxian would have died on the spot.

Therefore, compared to offensive spells, Dongye Yu actually lacks the talismans and barrier spells to fight against filth and evil spirits.

I thought that maybe I could put some talismans in my home to prevent some ignorant little monsters from breaking in and stealing things, so I watched it with great interest.

Occasionally, he would use his magic power to draw the spells from the books on the floor. The spells, which were filled with faint fluorescent light, would flash for a short while and then disappear, and the tea room would become clean in an instant.

This kind of cleansing does not mean sweeping away dust or other stains, but removing the invisible negative things that have accumulated in the room over time - some people's negative emotions and some external filth.

Thus achieving a pure realm similar to the divine realm, where no evil or filth exists.

Certain techniques for communicating with gods require this kind of environment. Dong Ye Yu didn't care whether it was useful or not. He was really tired of being poor, so he just watched and learned.

Before I knew it, there were a pile of books and scrolls around me.

As time went by, the ears, which had just been relatively quiet for a short while, began to become noisy again. A part-time college student who delivered newspapers in the town was pedaling hard on his bicycle.

thump!
He seemed to slip, and the wheels of the bicycle turned with a rattling sound.

The part-time college student lay on the ground for a long time without moving. He gritted his teeth and hammered hard on the ground which was a little wet due to the rain, and began to sob.

This city has one more talented person who is not appreciated. Sitting in a quiet teahouse, drinking tea and reading a book, Dong Yeyu sighed for the part-time college student who had a mental breakdown thousands of meters away.

After a while, the light on the paper shoji door changed slightly. Dongye Yu looked at his mobile phone. It was a little after five in the morning, so the sunrise should be approaching.

He put down the last scroll, turned his head to look around at the pile of books around him, and stretched lazily with contentment.

In one night, Higashino Yu had read through the Iori family's collection of books and gained a lot.

At least it was a hot fix for an illiterate fox like me in the field of magic.

Although I mostly just glanced through it without understanding much, many of the spells in it were not verified in practice one by one.

However, the books on magic recorded in the island country are not like the Taoist Canon, which quotes from classics while talking about them. They are more practical and the descriptions are concise.

For example, some scrolls have a talisman drawn directly on them, with notes on how to draw the talisman and how to use it written on them. It is more like an electrical appliance manual and does not require much understanding.

The book says that it is difficult in this way or that way, which is almost like a threat from the author to those who come after him. After reading it and verifying it occasionally, Dong Ye Yu felt that it was not difficult at all.

Higashino Yu took some time to organize all the books and scrolls he had read and stacked them neatly.

Yu Zi was lying on the bed, not awake yet, but her complexion looked much better than last night.

The fresh fragrance of plants and trees lingering in the tea room gradually dissipated. It seemed that the Herb Elixir had been initially absorbed and was no longer leaking its medicinal effects.

Of course, it is impossible to say how much he absorbed. As a mortal who has not embarked on the path of cultivation, it is impossible for Yu Zi to completely absorb the medicinal power of Cao Huan Dan in one night.

After all, it was an elixir that a Jindan cultivator had made by finding a bunch of spiritual objects from heaven and earth and using true fire to refine forty-nine days. It contained rich Yi wood essence and spiritual essence.

If you don't actively refine it and just passively absorb it, this time will be very long.

However, as long as you absorb it initially and the medicinal power will not leak out, you can feel a little more relieved.

Otherwise, there would be the fragrance of grass and trees wherever you go, just like the ginseng fruit moving back and forth in front of Zhu Bajie's mouth.

Seeing that she was still asleep, Dong Ye Yu gave up the plan to go out and refine today's purple energy. He turned off the lights, lay down on the quilt next to her and sorted out what he had gained last night.

Although the Iori family is behind the shrine and is protected by Haruhara, it is still more reassuring to guard it myself.

Around seven or eight in the morning, an enticing aroma came from the Iori family's kitchen. Iori Tadamichi passed by the teahouse but did not come in, but went directly to the shrine.

Dong Ye Yu listened subconsciously and found that he seemed to be performing the routine work of a priest in a certain hall.

About half an hour later, there was a gentle knock on the door outside the tea room.

"Ayu, are you awake?"

It was the voice of Grandma Iori, very kind and gentle, and her tone of voice was a little slow.

"You can come in now, Grandma Iori."

Higashino Yu walked over and opened the shoji door. He first said good morning to the old man, and then looked at Miko who was lying on the bed, frowning and shrinking into the quilt because the door was suddenly opened and light shone into the tea room.

"Close the door quickly, Dongye Nissan." The muffled voice of the girl came from under the quilt.

Dong Yeyu smiled and said, "Good morning, Yuzi, get up and take a few steps to see how it works!"

(End of this chapter)