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"Clang!"

The villagers pushed down the iron gate of Moriki Academy, and it slammed to the ground with a crisp sound.

These villagers, controlled by sorcery, surged into the school through the gates, running directly toward the gymnasium.

The commotion outside naturally did not escape the notice of the GUTS team.

Seeing the controlled villagers flood into the school, Zong Fang's expression changed slightly, and he quickly said:

"Quick! Close all the doors and windows!"

Moriki Academy is not large, and the gymnasium is not big either, with only two doors and a few windows.

Daigo and his two companions managed to close all the doors and windows before the controlled villagers arrived.

The controlled villagers pressed their faces against the windowpanes, coldly watching the crowd inside the stadium.

Those faces, pale and lifeless, with their strange pupils and expressionless expressions, looked extremely terrifying.

"Didn't you say that evil spirit wouldn't take any harsh measures?" Shinjo asked, turning to Iida Iryu as he looked at the wandering villagers outside.

"Perhaps this evil spirit knows that we will not harm these humans, so it is using them to exhaust our energy. It would be best if it could subdue us, but even if it cannot, it can weaken our power," Iida Ryu said in a deep voice.

Such behavior certainly seems like something a demon would do.

"This is too insidious. This guy is much harder to deal with than Sukuna-ki," Horii said.

Compared to this sinister demon, the previously resurrected Sukuna Oni is simply too cute.

"Most of the evil spirits I've encountered in my life are treacherous and cunning. Simple-minded guys like Sukuna-ki are actually a minority," Iida Ryuya said with a sigh.

Sukuna-ki was the strongest demon he had ever encountered in his life, and its power was far beyond what these evil spirits could possibly contend with.

"This isn't the time to talk about this. Step back, they're about to come in," Shen Yun reminded them.

These villagers, who have been taken into custody, have already picked up tools and started breaking down doors and windows.

Although these villagers were controlled by the evil spirit's sorcery, their intelligence was still normal.

"Bang bang bang!"

The stadium's doors and windows were being smashed loudly.

The students present huddled in a corner, watching the villagers outside the gymnasium in horror.

Hearing the commotion inside the gymnasium, Lina, Karen, and Miri, who were taking care of the injured in the gymnasium's medical room, also rushed out.

"Does this gymnasium have any other exits?" Shen Yun asked, looking at the female teacher, Miri.

"Yes, there is." Misato nodded, pointing in the direction of the infirmary, and said, "You can go out through the infirmary window."

"Quick! Before these villagers come in, Karen, go and assist this teacher," Shen Yun instructed Karen.

"Understood." Karen nodded and immediately got to work.

"Students, come with me!" Misato organized the students present to leave the infirmary through the window in an orderly manner.

"Crack!"

At this moment, the glass of the stadium was also smashed by the villagers, and glass shards fell all over the ground.

The villagers, who were under the influence of sorcery, immediately climbed in through the gap in the window.

Upon seeing the villagers who had stormed into the stadium, Lina, without saying a word, drew her Victory Hyper rifle and fired at them.

"Bang bang bang!"

Gunshots rang out one after another, and the villagers at the forefront fell to the ground.

However, there were too many villagers, and they simply couldn't take care of them all.

Especially after the villagers broke open the stadium doors, a large number of villagers rushed into the stadium and frantically charged towards the Victory Team.

The Victory team could only fight and retreat until they reached the medical room in the stadium.

"Have all the children gone out?" Shen Yun asked while changing the magazine.

"Please hang in there a little longer," Misato said, glancing at the fewer than ten children remaining beside her.

"Hurry up, they're almost here!" Shen Yun urged while firing his gun.

"Leave the rest to me," said Jing Tianjinglong.

"What? Are you crazy?" Shinjo looked at Ida Iryu in disbelief.

Jing Tianjinglong didn't say much, but simply picked up a broom and swung it cleanly and decisively.

The villager struck by Jing Tianjinglong's rounded grip collapsed to the ground.

"This is... acupressure?!" Shen Yun looked at Jing Tianjinglong with a subtle expression.

"That's right." Jing Tianjinglong nodded, explaining as he struck the surging villagers, "The human body is covered with acupoints. By striking these acupoints and stimulating them, even if the person has the will to fight, they will be unable to move their body."

"Amazing!" Daigo exclaimed.

Shen Yun's expression was slightly strange; the style of Jing Tian Jing Long's painting was indeed quite unique.

Outside the medical clinic.

Karen reached out and took the last child from Misato, then placed it on the ground.

At that moment, the two teachers, who were under the control of the sorcery, went around to the outside of the infirmary. Seeing the children gathered around Karen, they immediately ran over to them.

"So you were here!"

"Class, listen up and open your mouths!"

Seeing these people running towards them, the children all looked at Karen in fear.

"Sister Karen..."

The oldest of these children was only twelve years old.

They have absolutely no ability to resist adults.

"Learning martial arts..." Karen's eyes gleamed with a deep blue light.

A few seconds later, the blue light in Karen's eyes gradually faded.

"I have mastered all of Japanese karate." Karen put her hands into the starting stance of karate.

With Karen's current computing power and abilities, analyzing and learning human martial arts is incredibly easy for her.

Seeing the arm reaching for her, Karen slapped her left hand away, and at the same time, she took a step forward and thrust her right palm out like lightning, striking his jaw.

"Bang!"

The male teacher had barely reached Karen when he flew back at an even faster speed.

If Karen hadn't held back, that blow could have shattered his jawbone.

Even so, Karen's attack had already put him into a deep, infant-like sleep.

At that moment, another teacher arrived in front of Karen and launched a sweeping kick at her.

Karen immediately bent her arm and raised her knee to block the male teacher's sweeping kick.

The male teacher quickly pulled his leg back and threw a punch at Karen's face.

Karen deflected the male teacher's punch with her right hand, then twisted and delivered a spinning back kick to his head.

"Bang!"

The male teacher fell straight to the ground.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. Before Misato could even react, Karen had already dealt with the two male teachers.

"Karen is amazing!" The students cheered for Karen.

After Miri sent all the children out, she immediately said without delay, "The children are all out now, you should come out too."

"Let's go!" Upon hearing this, Zongfang immediately retreated to the infirmary.

After the Victory Team members emerged from the infirmary window, the controlled villagers did not pursue them further.

They then led the children to rest inside the school building.

Miri also arranged for the students to return to their respective classrooms for a short rest.

Haruna and Yumeko returned to their seats and sat down.

Yumeko immediately took the wooden hairpin that Haruna had given her from her desk, handed it to Haruna, and said, "Haruna, if your dream was real, then the owner of this hairpin must have saved you. Maybe it can help the GUTS team."

"Oh right!" Haruna exclaimed, a look of sudden realization on her face.

Haruna quickly grabbed the wooden hairpin and ran to the GUTS team members, explaining the origin of the hairpin to them.

"It's her..." Ida Iryu looked at the wooden hairpin with a white fox pattern carved in Haruna's hand, his expression complicated.

"You two know each other?" Horii asked curiously.

"I know him." Jing Tianjinglong was silent for a moment, then said, "Back then, when I killed this evil spirit, I was also seriously injured by it. When I was on the verge of death, I was saved by the owner of this hairpin."

……

Late Warring States period.

The aroma of food wafted from the thatched hut.

After the woman ladled the porridge into a bowl, she handed it to Jing Tianjinglong.

Jing Tianjinglong looked at the woman in front of him and reached out to take the bowl.

He picked up his chopsticks and put the porridge in his mouth.

The delicious taste of the rice and the aroma of the chives spread in his mouth.

Then, the bitter taste of the unknown herb made the flavors in my mouth more vibrant.

Jing Tianjinglong focused intently on turning the chopsticks, scraping all the porridge in the bowl into his mouth.

After chewing, the food passed through Jinglong's throat and into his stomach.

Jing Tianjinglong focused intently on eating his porridge, and the bowl in his hand was emptied in the blink of an eye.

He breathed a sigh of relief and then put down the bowl.

The woman reached out and took the bowl.

She smiled as she ladled more porridge into the bowl.

"What are you laughing at?" Jing Tianjinglong asked.

"I just feel that the way you eat doesn't quite resemble that of a samurai," the woman said.

"Is it because I didn't test the poison?" Jing Tianjinglong asked again.

"Yes." The woman nodded at him and handed the bowl back to Jing Tianjinglong.

"You saved my life, but I have no idea what your purpose is."

A smile appeared on the woman's face as she listened quietly to Ida Izuru continue.

"However, if you wanted to kill me, you didn't need to poison my food. If you had simply abandoned me in the forest back then, I'm afraid I would already be inside that wolf's belly, turned into bones."

"The samurai are truly heroic and valiant."

The woman spoke, and it was clear she was very happy.

"You probably already know my true identity, right?"

"I am still unaware of your true identity," Jing Tianjinglong said, picking up his bowl again. "All I know is that you are not human."

Upon hearing this, the woman's face revealed a smile that was both alluring and melancholic, and she nodded slightly to Jing Tianjinglong.

Jing Tianjinglong began eating his second bowl of porridge.

The woman silently watched Jinglong.

Iida Ryu didn't say anything more.

Time flowed by quietly.

"It's quite a commotion outside the city," the woman said to Jing Tianjinglong after extinguishing the candle.

"What's going on?" Darkness slowly enveloped Jinglong as he asked the woman.

"Yes. It seems that a very powerful samurai was assassinated."

"This isn't exactly rare."

"It's a curse."

Upon hearing this, Jing Tianjinglong swallowed the rest of his sentence that he had originally intended to say.

"It seems they weren't killed by ghosts, but by humans."

"Since it's a curse, the probability of it being man-made is indeed higher," Iida Ryu agreed.

"The world is truly terrifying these days," the woman sighed. "It's really too terrifying, even for us ghosts."

Jing Tianjinglong remained silent. He wanted to take a closer look at the woman, but he couldn't see anything in the darkness.

He was puzzled.

What is the purpose of this woman... no, this ghost?

In his entire life, he had never encountered a ghost like her.

Is this a strategy of feigning indifference to lure the prey into a trap?

still is……

Many conjectures surfaced in Ida Iryu's mind, appearing one after another and disappearing one after another.

However, Jinglong was also aware that he was still seriously injured.

Given his current injuries, no matter what happens, I'm afraid I'll be powerless to help.

As he pondered...

In the darkness, Ida Ryu sensed something moving slightly.

In the corner of the thatched hut, where the candlelight had faded, something stood up in Ida Iryu's hazy vision.

"Who are you?!" Jing Tianjinglong immediately looked over and saw a small child standing in the corner.

This should be a girl.

Her hair, tied up, reached her shoulders, and her slender eyes revealed the same expression as the lady of the cottage.

However, there was no life in the girl's eyes.

Ida Ryu focused his attention, trying to listen to the girl's breathing.

But he couldn't hear anything.

"This is my daughter," the woman in the hut said.

"It seems she has already passed away."

The woman nodded in the darkness.

The girl stood in the corner of the hut for a long time, then suddenly disappeared, as if she had never been there.

After a moment of silence, the woman squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth.

"We ghosts and monsters cannot go to the underworld after death. After we die, we will immediately turn into dust, trees, and rivers."

"So, why is your daughter here?" Ida Ryu asked.

Hearing Jinglong's question, the woman's tone was filled with helplessness: "Because she was killed by a curse."

"Died from a curse?" Ida Ryu frowned slightly.

A beam of light illuminated the thatched hut in an instant, and Jing Tianjinglong could clearly see the woman's appearance.

After the light appeared, a deafening sound resounded throughout the entire forest.

Jingtian Jinglong looked at the woman, wanting to confirm her appearance one more time.

He didn't have to wait long before the next lightning bolt shone its light into the hut.

Almost simultaneously, Ida Iryu's eyes had already captured its true form.

Before him stood a white fox, thin and frail from old age.

Moreover, the fox's tail tip branches out into several branches.

It is a nine-tailed fox spirit.

"Warrior, I have a request." The fox's tone was very calm at this moment.

"Do you need something from me?"

"That's right." The fox nodded and continued, "I was observing you the whole time when you were fighting that demon. It was only because I had a request of you that I presumptuously took the liberty of rescuing you from the forest."

"What do you want?" asked Ida Ryu.

The fox took a deep breath and said, word by word, "I beg you to cut me down like that evil spirit."