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Chapter 273 With divine gear in hand, what's the difference between not getting cocky and being a lazy bum?

"I said I came to see Asagami Fujino, can't you understand human language?"

After Xu Ming finished speaking, he pulled out a crowbar and smashed it hard against the man's head.

The head screamed and flew off like a ball.

Bang Bang Bang!

In just a few moves, Xu Ming annihilated this weak, pitiful, and helpless "weird" creature.

"Hmph! I can tell you're not human at first glance, yet you dare to show off your limited skills in front of me!"

Xu Ming glanced at the still scattered wreckage, coldly uttered a sentence, and walked into the mansion.

To be honest, he's gotten a bit arrogant now.

However, this arrogance stems from overconfidence in one's own abilities.

If you have top-tier gear but don't take risks, what's the difference between you and a salted fish who has lost all dreams?

Kick open the gate and walk inside. There is a lush path with lots of vegetation on both sides and a stone-paved road in the middle that winds its way inward.

Originally a charming forest path that brought people close to nature, it has been neglected for a long time. The vegetation has grown wildly and even spread onto the path, leaving it desolate and lonely.

As Xu Ming walked along the path, a gust of wind blew by, causing the vegetation beside him to make a strange whooshing sound.

Just then, Xu Ming suddenly sensed a strange gaze.

Xu Ming looked around suspiciously. The nearby vegetation swayed in the wind, making a rustling sound, as if something was hiding underneath.

However, Xu Ming quickly discovered the source of the gaze.

Along this path, in the style of a shrine, at intervals, stands a pair of hexagonal stone lanterns.

A charred face emerged from a crack in one of the stone lanterns.

When the face noticed Xu Ming looking at him, it immediately revealed a terrifying smile inside the stone lantern.

Xu Ming also laughed, then strode over with an air of arrogance, forcefully plunging the crowbar into the crack of the stone lantern and stirring it vigorously...

With a heart-wrenching wail, the eerie creature hiding in the stone lantern was cruelly sent to its demise by Xu Ming.

A pale, emaciated figure, whose head was spinning 360 degrees, lay in the grass and witnessed the entire scene.

Soon, a rustling sound came from the grass.

Xu Ming pulled the crowbar out of the stone lantern and turned his head to look at the bushes in confusion.

Was there something over there just now?

He muttered to himself as he walked over and used a crowbar to part the bushes.

There was nothing inside.

"Is it an illusion?"

Xu Ming shook his head, returned to the path, and continued onward.

After he left, the rustling sound started again. The pale figure poked its head out of the grass, glanced at Xu Ming's back, and then quickly turned and crawled away in the opposite direction.

Xu Ming walked along the path to the end, where a two-story Japanese-style building appeared before him.

As Xu Ming approached the house, he looked up abruptly. A woman dressed in white with disheveled hair was standing in the second-floor window, her eyes fixed on him with venomous resentment through the gaps in her hair.

Xu Ming didn't say anything, he just took out his phone, pointed it at her, and pressed the shutter button.

The purplish-gold light, like a bolt of lightning, struck the woman directly.

The woman in white immediately let out a scream, turned to ashes, and disappeared into the air.

Xu Ming shrugged and walked to the door of the house.

The house in front of us has a sliding door made of woven bamboo, giving it a strong traditional feel.

However, due to the lack of cleaning over a long period of time, a thin layer of dust had covered the door, making the brownish-red door look gloomy and giving off a sense of decay and dilapidation.

Xu Ming reached out and gripped the doorknob, pulling it slightly.

Whoosh!

He had just cracked the door open when a blood-soaked hand suddenly reached out from behind it and grabbed his wrist.

It happened in the blink of an eye.

The cross on Xu Ming's chest suddenly shone brightly, as if a small sun was born from his chest.

The golden flames immediately burned back along the hand.

"Ah~!"

A piercing scream came from behind the door.

When Xu Ming fully opened the door, all that remained behind it was a pile of ashes that had not yet dissipated.

Xu Ming subconsciously reached out and touched the cross on his chest.

A warm current instantly flowed through his body, dispelling the chill within him.

This 'Saintess's Prayer' is so powerful that some weak monsters were purified simply by touching it.

Xu Ming couldn't help but be curious. Once he activated the limited effect of 'Crusader', he wondered how much stronger 'Saint's Prayer' would become.

As for the Amaterasu Amulet, which has overlapping functions and may even cause conflicts between the two, he had already put it in his backpack and temporarily shelved it.

Xu Ming quickly stepped into the room.

A chilly wind, carrying the smell of spoilage and mold, blew over.

The cross on his chest continuously released waves of warmth, which quickly dispelled the chill, leaving only a foul stench, like the smell of rotting meat.

Before he had taken two steps, Xu Ming suddenly saw a humanoid figure, its entire body entangled in white spider webs, hanging upside down from a hole in the ceiling panel, staring indifferently at Xu Ming from the dark corridor ceiling.

The humanoid figure, entangled in spider webs, glanced at Xu Ming, then turned its gaze to the slick of ashes at his feet.

Swish!

It retreated back into the cave without hesitation.

Then a sound came from the ceiling, and it seemed to be moving away quickly.

"Stop! Don't run!"

Xu Ming quickly pulled out a crowbar and smashed it against the ceiling.

A partition was instantly smashed to pieces, crashing to the ground.

The eerie creature had already left the spot.

Xu Ming missed his target, but showed no mercy and raised the crowbar again.

He followed the sound, repeatedly striking the top of his head with a crowbar.

Soon, he smashed the ceiling panels in the corridor to pieces, as if a professional demolition team had been there.

The noise from the ceiling gradually subsided; the eerie creature seemed to have vanished.

"Tch~ You escaped pretty quickly."

Xu Ming had no choice but to temporarily abandon his plan to demolish the entire house.

He casually summoned the piglet and Erina.

Looking at the messy corridor, the little piglet hid in the corner in fear, while Erina looked Xu Ming up and down with a strange expression, as if she didn't recognize him.

"what happened?"

Xu Ming asked, puzzled.

The little piglet quickly shook its head.

"My lord, you... are alright."

Erina hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped herself.

Xu Ming didn't pay any attention to their strange behavior and led them to continue exploring the room.

Soon, they arrived at a spacious living room.

Chapter 274 You're pretty brave, aren't you?

A beautifully embroidered screen depicting landscapes sits at the entrance to the living room, beyond which lies a vast space covered with tatami mats.

On the wall directly opposite the living room door is a calligraphy and painting with the word "Zen" written in large characters.

A black samurai armor stands in front of the calligraphy and painting, looking imposing.

In the center of the living room sits a maroon low coffee table and two rows of armchairs.

One wall of the living room has a row of glass doors that face the courtyard at the back.

Through the transparent glass, the tranquil courtyard comes into view.

The courtyard is lush and green, and there is a small pond directly opposite the living room, with a small wooden bridge spanning the pond.

On the bluestone by the pond, the deer-shaped stone slab filled with water, then poured it out with a crisp "thud!"

What a leisurely and carefree scene!

But now all of that has fallen into ruin.

The small bridge was piled with fallen leaves and dust that no one had cleaned up, and the surrounding vegetation grew wildly, submerging the stone path.

The pond was littered with garbage, the water was murky, and dead goldfish floated belly up on the surface, their scales fallen off, revealing patches of scars that looked disgusting.

The courtyard nowadays offers no pleasure whatsoever.

The dilapidated living room was even more disgusting.

The grass-green tatami mats had turned grayish-green, the coffee table was covered in dust, and the cushions of the chairs were tattered, revealing the white inner lining underneath...

Even more terrifying, a pair of legs were dangling down directly above the coffee table.

Xu Ming looked up along those legs and saw a man in a bathrobe with a ferocious expression hanging from the ceiling light, his eyes fixed on him.

The man's skin was an eerie bluish-purple, his face was twisted beyond recognition, and his eyes bulged out like goldfish, as if they would burst at the slightest touch.

However, Xu Ming was not afraid at all. Instead, he crossed his arms over his chest and looked him up and down, as if he were admiring a monkey in a zoo.