In order to become a Heroic Spirit, I had no choice but to cause trouble in history.

"..." Zuo Cun and Shiro Yukina looked at each other.

He picked up the crane wings and pheasant feathers and tucked them into his waistband, then nudged the still-sleeping Ryoma. "Hey, Sakamoto, wake up."

"We need to get ready to leave."

"Huh?" Ryoma touched his hair and sat up from the tatami mat.

Miss Ah Long swayed for a moment, then got up first.

Okita Souji picked up his katana and rubbed his temples.

Matou Sawa smiled knowingly.

Zuo Cun sighed and pondered for a moment.

"Then, let's go."

"End this purgatory."

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Chapter 316 Heavenly Hidden Ghost

Zuocun gripped the hilt of the Tsurugi sword and touched his chest with his left hand.

It still aches faintly there.

But Zuocun knew he had to go.

Behind Samura are Okita Souji, Sakamoto Ryoma, Ms. Aryu, Matou Sawa who joined halfway through, and the white Hoshiguma Yukina who absorbed the magic of the spiritual vein and chose to face her distorted self and the bear mother controlled by guilt.

Ishibashi Shozo, a retainer of the Matou family, was completely incapable of fighting, so Matou Sawa did not allow him to come along.

The sun was almost gone, leaving only half of it teetering on the brink of collapse.

The malice within the lake waters also began to gradually spread.

A slight eddy appeared on the western side of the lake.

The group stood atop the mountain, watching the vortex with bated breath.

"...It's about to appear, the black version of me, the monster version of me," said Yukina in a clear, cold voice.

The sun has disappeared.

hum-

The bluish-black color on the surface of the lake disappeared, and a floating corpse suddenly appeared.

A mud column, about two meters long, slowly rose from the whirlpool on the west side of the lake.

A woman stands atop the mud pillar.

Stripped of the ornate decorations seen in Samura that day, the black-clad Hoshiguma Setsuna looks exactly the same as the white-clad Hoshiguma Setsuna, only the colors are reversed.

The yokai Yukina spotted the group of people from the mountain at a glance.

She knew, or rather, she had been waiting all along.

Yesterday, when Mama Bear returned severely injured, she knew that today, the day of the Human Pillar, this group of people would definitely want to come here.

one more time.

To ruin himself and his life with Mama Bear.

"You're here."

"You bastard!" The demon Yukina, the Heavenly Ghost, unleashed her murderous aura in a fit of rage.

On the drowned corpses in the lake, human figures appeared one after another.

Those were evil spirits controlled by the Hidden Demon. They weren't directly in the village, but were waiting in Lake Kurokawa to confront the Hidden Demon's enemies.

Samura did not respond, but instead leaped from the crater summit of Mount Kurokawa.

Longma hung on Miss Long's back, and Miss Long instantly transformed into her true form, soaring into the air.

Okita Souji grabbed one of Arlong's claws and hung in mid-air.

Matou Sawa pulled out a staff made of pure gemstones from somewhere, activated her magic, and with a wave of her hand, an oval-shaped gemstone gathered at her feet. Matou Sawa slid down the mountain.

White Yukina sighed, swayed slightly, and floated towards the direction of the Heavenly Hidden Demon.

Driven by their own power, the evil spirits in the lake climbed ashore and surged towards the group from Zuo Village like a raging tide.

"Hey—" Okita let go of Arlong's hand when she flew very low, jumped down, and drew his katana.

"Aaaaaahh ...

This is no longer Hoshiguma Setsuna, but a demon dragged into the abyss by desire, twisted into a demon with pure malice towards humanity, the Ame-no-Kageki.

With a look of unfamiliarity and sadness in her eyes, Yukina, dressed in white, looked at Tenkakuki.

"Die—" Ten'inki's hair, like a blade, slashed towards Samura, who was in mid-air.

Zuocun grasped the crane's wings with his right hand.

Unsheathed—

Clang!

The hair, sharp as a blade, was cut off, but the severed strands, like writhing snakes, tried to coil around Zuocun.

Shirayuki styled her snow-white hair into sharp, blade-like patterns to block Tenkakuki's attack, while simultaneously grabbing Samurai's hand.

Using Shirayuki Nami, who can float in the air, Zuo Cun narrowly avoided the next wave of attacks from Ten'inki.

"Miss Arlong, head in that direction!" Ryoma looked seriously at the largest battlefield and patted Miss Arlong's neck.

Okita Souji and Matou Sawa are fighting against 577 evil spirits.

Okita Souji's sword strikes were simple and unadorned, yet almost every strike could decapitate an evil spirit.

Matou Sawa cast a spell, and three jeweled daggers appeared around her, flying around wildly.

"You are—no? What are you? Who are you?" Ten'in looked at the white-clad Yukina with a mixture of fear and doubt.

"...I am." White Yukina's white hair and Tenkakuki's black hair intertwined, subtly vying for power. "Hoshiguma Yukina."

"You're Hoshiguma Yukina? What nonsense are you spouting? I am Hoshiguma Yukina!" Tenkakuki roared, no longer caring about Samura, and shouted at the white-clad Yukina.

"...Have you forgotten that it was you who separated me from the body yourself...?" Shiro Yukina's eyes dimmed slightly.

Zuocun seized the opportunity and slashed down at the head of Tianyingui.

when--

The sound of metal clashing rang out. Zuo Cun's hands went slightly numb, and his pupils contracted slightly.

A small cut appeared on the head of the Hidden Demon, from which a few drops of dark blood flowed out.

"The resentment has stained your blood black... Sister, Heavenly Hidden Ghost, I will not blame you for anything, because I know how much we hated when we were turned into monsters by magic, and what injustices we experienced in our previous lives."

"So, let's put it down a little," Bai Xuena murmured, tears welling in her eyes. "What we did has long since transcended the realm of revenge."

“You…” Ten'in Ghost wanted to retort, but found that he couldn’t say anything. He could only irritably shoo away the flies and slap Zuo Cun.

"Huff..." Bai Xuena had received spiritual vein magic power for far less time than Tianyin Gui, and was no match for him at all. She was already feeling the strain. She shouted loudly to Zuocun, "Mr. Zuocun, attack our main body, that mud pillar!"

"You bastard!" Tianyin Gui roared, his eyes bloodshot, and he instinctively tried to sink down to protect his true form.

"Don't even think about it—" a huge roar came.

Miss A-Long suddenly lunged from behind, biting down on the neck of the Hidden Demon, her thick body wrapping around its body.

"You, you worthless maggot—!" Tianyin Gui's sharp claws reached out to grab Miss A Long.

Ryoma helped Samura up from the ground.

Zuo Cun wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

He removed the scabbard of the crane's wings, the pheasant feathers, and the clothes from the upper body, and threw them to Ryoma.

"I'll be right back!" Zuo Cun also entered battle mode.

He is just a human being.

However, it is by no means weak.

"You little brat, today I'm going to—" Kurokawa Hideo's enormous evil spirit blocked Samura's path.

"Get out of my way, don't get in my way!" Zuo Cun smirked, not using his knife, but simply jumping up and kicking Kurokawa Hideo in the head.

The fishbone broke, and Hideo Kurokawa's head was smashed by Samura's kick.

The enormous body of the Hidden Demon stood in the lake, with a mud pillar faintly visible beneath it.

However, Zuocun's goal is not the mud pillar.

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Chapter 317 Crane's Decapitation, Second Beheading

"Zamura!" Ryoma was startled, then stared blankly as Zamura kicked the giant evil spirit to pieces and then jumped up.

Ping Pong —

The black hair of the Hidden Demon was composed of countless blades, filling the sky and the ground.

Zuocun, carrying the crane's wings, cut off a clump of wildly dancing black hair with a single stroke, then stepped directly onto the hardened black hair and ran up.

Black blades kept attacking Zuo Cun, but Zuo Cun cut them all down.

Zuo Cun's expression hadn't changed since the beginning, with a strange smile on his face and his eyes wide open, staring intently at Tian Yin Gui.

Perhaps due to anger, the body of the Hidden Demon became increasingly larger, growing from three meters to at least ten meters in size.

"Ugh, really, it's gotten to this point..."

Matou Sawa looked at the Tenkakuki, who stood on the lake like a skeletal demon, gritted her teeth, and broke out in a cold sweat.

Although he occasionally took on a role similar to an Onmyoji while studying demonic arts, and had eliminated a few weak evil spirits, this level of powerful demon...

Yes, at this moment, the strength displayed by the Hidden Demon was no weaker than that of the previous Bear Demon, and was even stronger.