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However, due to various reasons, the ritual failed, and the magic circle went berserk. This caused the energy accumulated during the ritual to erupt directly, sweeping through the entire Fuyuki City and killing nearly two-thirds of its residents.

After that, the surviving residents hastily moved away from Fuyuki City, leaving the entire city completely abandoned and turning it into a ghost town.

Although Kato Megumi spoke calmly, Xu Ming was terrified.

Nearly two-thirds of the city's population, hundreds of thousands of people, were wiped out just like that.

In a sense, this can indeed be called a 'war'.

However, it was mostly innocent civilians who died.

In the face of extraordinary power, ordinary life is far too fragile.

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Xu Ming returned home in his personal vehicle, a Wuling Hongguang.

As soon as he got back, Xu Ming sprawled out on the sofa in a classic Ge You slouch and began to tally up his spoils.

After he opened the system.

Ding Ding Ding!

The system information immediately flooded the screen.

Xu Ming quickly began browsing through the items one by one.

—Congratulations, host, on completing the mission 'Konoha: The Thousand-Year-Old Nine-Tails (5.5 stars)'! Mission settlement in progress...

Overall task completion rate: 90%

—Initial difficulty of this mission: four stars. Final difficulty: five and a half stars.

—Rewards have been significantly increased.

—Gained 100000 Strange Points.

— Obtain 'Evolution Gem (6-star)' and 'Killing Stone (7-star)'.

Xu Ming was stunned when he saw these rewards.

Not to mention the massive amount of bizarre points.

Two top-tier items, plus the White Bone Bell and Snake Magatama that were obtained in advance, make a total of four top-tier items.

It was so generous it was outrageous.

However, Xu Ming thought about it again.

Reinforcing the five array points is equivalent to five branch tasks, plus the final showdown with the Nine-Tailed Fox, a great demon of soul level seven.

This explains the generous reward.

After all, regardless of other factors, their own system is quite reliable in that respect, as you get what you put in.

Xu Mingping calmed his excitement and began to check the attributes of the two newly acquired items.

The 'Purification Gem (Six-Star)' can directly evolve a Soul Level 6 'Strange' into a Soul Level 7.

It seemed to simply save Xu Ming some strange points from leveling up his shikigami, but after carefully reading the system's description, Xu Ming realized just how precious this 'purification gem' was.

Before reaching Soul Level 6, as long as he spends some Mysterious Points, he can allow his Shikigami to advance at will, even from Level 1 to Level 6 in one go, without any problem.

However, aside from a stroke of luck, the only way to advance from Soul Level 6 to Level 7 is by using an 'Evolution Gem'.

The reason is simple: advancing from Soul Level Six to Soul Level Seven is a process of quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

The difference is like that between an ordinary person with no power and a person with extraordinary power.

This is why Kato Megumi, upon seeing the Nine-Tailed Fox unseal itself, showed no intention of resisting and decisively prepared to retreat.

Soul level seven and level six may seem to differ by only one level, but in reality, they are separated by an entire dimension.

To advance from level six to level seven, one must either rely on the slow and steady process of accumulating power little by little, but this process often takes hundreds of years.

Or they might have various serendipitous encounters, acquire treasures, and by chance advance to level seven.

The Evolution Gem, however, breaks the shackles, allowing level six to directly advance to level seven.

Do you think it's precious or not?

I originally thought it was just some cheap street vendor stuff, but it turned out to be a limited edition luxury item.

Without a doubt, Xu Ming immediately arranged it for his older sister.

After the Evolution Gem was decided, Xu Ming turned his attention to the 'Killing Stone'.

The Killing Stone is said to be a crystallized piece of demonic energy separated from the Nine-Tailed Fox by the great Onmyoji Abe no Seimei, and could even be considered a part of the Nine-Tailed Fox.

So what special abilities does this Killing Stone possess?

After receiving the Killing Stone, Xu Ming couldn't wait to open its attribute panel.

Killing Stone (7-star, special item, cannot be upgraded) - A crystallized piece of demonic energy separated from the great demon Nine-Tailed Fox. Holding it allows one to borrow the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Unparalleled Charm – Increases the holder's charm, including but not limited to the opposite sex.

(Note: This also applies to targets with 'strange' abilities, reducing their hostility. The higher the target's soul level, the weaker the effect.)

Fox Flame – Releases the flames of a nine-tailed fox, which can protect the wielder at close range or detach from the wielder to launch ranged attacks.

(One Fox Flame is restored per minute. Storage limit: 6 flames)

Demon Transformation – Sacrificing the Killing Stone can transform the holder into a member of the Nine-Tailed Fox clan.

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"what?"

Xu Ming looked at the attribute panel in front of him with some confusion.

The first effect of the Killing Stone is clearly useless, and the reason is naturally the note in parentheses.

The ability to reduce enemy hostility is not a bad effect in itself, but it is affected by the enemy's soul level, which greatly diminishes its effectiveness and renders it useless.

For low-level "weirdos," Xu Ming grabbed a crowbar and his phone and went straight for them, killing them without caring whether they were hostile or not.

If we could reduce the hostility of high-level 'weirdness' towards him, that would be much more useful.

Don't be fooled by his use of a crowbar to beat people up or his exorcism phone to deal damage; he's actually a summoner who relies on shikigami (spirits/ghosts).

Reducing the enemy's hostility makes it easier for him to hide behind and launch a sneak attack.

That's why Xu Mingcai said this effect was completely useless.

The second skill effect, 'Fox Flame', is both offensive and defensive, and is much more useful.

The way 'Fox Spirit Fire' is restored is somewhat similar to that of an exorcism phone; both are energy-storing.

As for the power of the 'Fox Demon Fire', Xu Ming had already witnessed it on the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Once it becomes equipment, the power of 'Foxfire' may decrease.

However, since both are seven-star equipment, comparing 'Saintess's Prayer' to it, 'Foxfire' wouldn't be much weaker.

This might be because the first effect was so terrible that the system compensated for the other two effects.

Xu Ming then turned his attention to the third effect.

The third effect is quite obvious and is the core and most valuable ability of the Sesshōseki—conversion!

It can transform the wearer into a member of the Nine-Tailed Fox clan. Even without any attribute bonuses, the Nine-Tailed Fox's exceptionally long standby time alone will attract the covetous eyes of most people.

Xu Ming's face showed a strange expression.

This damn system, I thought it had learned its lesson, but it's still up to its old tricks.

They're actually trying to lead him down the path of becoming a scoundrel again.

However, when faced with the option of 'not being human' again, Xu Ming's attitude was not as resolute as before.

Once my older sister advances to Soul Level Seven, it's foreseeable that her standby time will become very, very long.

In this situation, if Xu Ming chooses to die peacefully as a human, leaving his sister alone in the world, wouldn't that be too selfish and irresponsible...?

Thinking about this, Xu Ming's attitude became less resolute.

Ultimately, one cannot live only for oneself.

This matter is so important that it could almost determine his future.

He needs to think it over carefully before making a decision.

Let's put the matter of the Killing Stone aside for now.

Having obtained such a large number of strange points, how could one not squander them and enhance one's own strength?

Xu Ming immediately opened the panel and began to think about what to strengthen first.

Xu Ming immediately focused on the 'energy recovery' level of the exorcism phone.

Currently, 'Energy Recovery' has been upgraded to level six, and it only takes four minutes to recover one energy storage charge.

This time, Xu Ming chose to level it up to the maximum level, level 10, in one go.

It cost: 3200 + 6400 + 12800 = 22400 Weird Points.

Xu Ming originally had more than 10,000 strange points left, which, with the rewards, amounted to more than 110,000. However, he has now spent nearly one-fifth of them, which really makes him feel the pinch.

Xu Ming then gritted his teeth and upgraded the 'Flash Charge Module' to 'Flash Charge Module Extreme', spending a full 50,000 Mysterious Points.

When Xu Ming activated the 'Flash Charge Module - Extreme', the phone's energy storage time was reduced to 1% for one minute, with a cooldown time of ten minutes.

Xu Ming then upgraded the exorcism phone's "Exorcism" and "Purification" functions from level six to level seven, spending another 30,000 Weird Points.

Xu Ming still had a little over 10,000 strange points left.

Since we're going to strengthen it, we should strengthen it to the end.

Xu Ming chose to upgrade all four skills—"Suppressing Ghosts, Slaying Demons, Exorcising Monsters, and Destroying Monsters"—to level two. This way, the Exorcism Phone could deal triple damage to all types of "demons, monsters, and strange creatures."

Each of the four branch attributes requires 1000 points to upgrade to level one and 2000 points to upgrade to level two.

Xu Ming had already upgraded his Ghost Suppression and Demon Slaying skills to level one.

So now he only needs to pay 10,000 Weird Points.

The bizarre points that had just made me rich overnight were wiped out in the blink of an eye.