A comic book, but a librarian

Just like that, as the sun gradually rose, the group gathered at Kujo-kan.

"It looks really tricky. This mark... Obviously most evil spirits don't have the ability to leave a mark on humans."

Baoyue Yexiao was holding her doll as usual. Banshee and Daimon Shuji looked at them with some disbelief that the short little girl in front of them was actually the helper invited by Uesugi Cheng.

"Yes, it's not difficult to deal with the Guanyin soldiers... the things that come later are the most important."

Uesugi Cheng had a premonition, a very strong and wonderful premonition that at the end of the incident, he would know some very important information. His soul seemed to be leaping with joy for this mysterious premonition.

"Even if one knows it well, would he have such a strong premonition?"

Uesugi Cheng touched his mark. It was clearly the mark of death that was eroding his life, but Uesugi Cheng was not afraid at all, as if death was nothing to him.

"When did I become so fearless of death..."

Uesugi Cheng touched his head. He really took his life too lightly, even though he was the manager of Silent Bookstore, even though he could escape back to the Silent Bookstore in his waking world at any time.

"Hey! Let's go!"

Baoyue Yexiao pulled his sleeve and said, Uesugi Cheng suddenly woke up, raised his head and nodded.

But when he stepped out of the gate of Kujo-kan, he suddenly had a premonition that this would not be the last time he left Kujo-kan.

135

Chapter 135: The Origin of the Curse.

Baoyue Night Snack distributed a small white snack to everyone.

"This thing... can probably resist the influence of Guanyin soldiers, but if you encounter Guanyin soldiers, you must start running away immediately."

Yashiki Kazuo and Daimon Shuji accepted Kadayo even though the latter had not originally planned to enter.

"Brother Uesugi, are you okay now?"

Baoyue Yexiao didn't know how to describe what she saw now, Uesugi Cheng. He was obviously a human being, but if you didn't look closely, he looked more like a ghost. She didn't know why she had such an illusion.

"Not bad... Let me adjust myself. I've been really busy lately. Ahem... "

Uesugi Cheng coughed a few times, patted his chest, and his eyes were so sharp that it was impossible to look directly at them.

"I'll put some charms around here, at least that'll hold it off for a while if we really have to pull out."

Uesugi Cheng took out a stack of talismans. The combination of [The Edict of Threshold] and [The Edict of Non-Invasion] can block the progress of most spirits. Of course, it cannot stop the physical breakthrough. Judging from the fact that the strength of the Guanyin soldiers is similar to that of pinching paper, these talismans can only delay it for a while at most.

"Then please... Let's go in first, and you follow after me, Brother Uesugi."

Baoyue Yexiao watched the sky gradually approaching night. They deliberately chose dusk to explore, not only because at dusk, the evil spirits in Yexiao's hands could exert the most powerful power, but also for another reason...

"Dusk, I unexpectedly like this time period..."

Uesugi Sumiko gave some of the remaining talismans to Daimon Shuji and told him to find a place to stick them. Last time, the Guanyin soldier suffered a loss because it couldn't climb the ladder and couldn't run up. God knows if it will learn from the lesson this time and find a way to rush out of the underground passage.

Walking on the intricate concrete road of the underground passage, Uesugi Cheng pasted the remaining talismans on the wall at intervals to confuse the perception of evil spirits. Soon he caught up with the two people who were scouting in front.

Or rather, it shouldn't be considered reconnaissance, it was more like investigating the room while waiting for him to arrive.

"Uesugi, look at these..."

Yashiki Kazuo made way to let Uesugi Sumiko behind him look inside. This locked room was unexpectedly empty. Apart from the huge headless Buddha statue in the corner, there was only a box in the middle of the room. The smell wafting out of the box made Baoyue Yexiao frown.

There were various Buddha heads piled up inside, including those of Arhats and Buddhas, but the most eye-catching thing was not the cultural relics, but the mummified human heads that were randomly piled there like the Buddha heads, with their dry hair, withered flesh and dark, empty eye sockets.

"That's not right. According to the information, this is something from fifty years ago... How come it still smells so strong?"

Uesugi Cheng asked, covering his nose. Of course, they soon confirmed that the smell was not coming from the mummified female head at all.

"I'll take this head with me first... Helping her find her body will also be a comfort to her."

Yashiki Kazuo put the head in the box into a bag, and then he saw what was placed underneath, which was randomly pressed underneath, but it was shining with hair of a different luster.

"This thing again."

All three of them noticed that the strange odor was coming from this hair.

"There's a curse on it... don't touch it."

Baoyue Yexiao stopped Yashiki Kazuo's hand, who was trying to pick up the hair for some unknown reason, and his eyes were full of vigilance.

"I...I know."

Bao Yue Ye Xiao found a way to wrap up the strand of hair, but she didn't plan to carry it with her. The curse emanating from this thing was so powerful that she couldn't seal it directly for the time being, even if she stuffed it into a doll.

The next room was similar to the room that Yashiki Kazuo entered at the beginning. There was an operating table on it. The only difference was that there was a headless corpse lying on the operating table, tightly tied to the table. Even after death, the belts and ropes on the corpse had not been loosened at all.

"That's her...that head is hers."

Yashiki Kazuo didn't know what kind of mood he was in when he put his head back to the position where it was supposed to be, but the moment he let go, he found himself lying on the operating table. He could feel the fear of the woman tied to the table. The doctor looking down at him looked more like an evil spirit than a human being, holding a syringe in one hand and a blackened chisel in the other, muttering to himself.

"This time, this time I will not let you down, this time I will succeed... Yes, as long as you untouchables cooperate, this time I will succeed."

Yashiki Kazuo covered his neck and knelt down in front of the operating table, almost falling headfirst onto it.

The pain was beyond words. He couldn't even make a sound because the woman's mouth had been blocked. He could only watch the chisel hitting her neck again and again. She didn't even die, not even after her aorta was punctured.

"You...you want to take revenge on them?"

The mark was getting hot, the mark on the wrist was hotter than a branding iron. A soft voice came from my right ear, but I couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman.

"I can lend you my power... As long as you hate them from the bottom of your heart and kill them all..."

"I see."

Uesugi Sumiko and Baoyue Yexiao, who were planning to take Yashiki Kazuo away so that he would not be injured again due to the attack of clairvoyance, heard the words that came out of Yashiki Kazuo's mouth and looked at each other.

"pat"

There was the sound of a key falling to the ground, and a small key suddenly slipped out of the corpse's hand. Yashiki Kazuo pointed at the key with difficulty.

"The deepest door... use it to unlock it."

About five minutes later, he barely stood up and gave a wry smile as he watched Baoyue Yexiao holding the key in her hand.

"I'm sorry to trouble you. If I came alone, I'm afraid..."

"It's okay. Compared to this, which door is the innermost one?"

Yexiao handed the key to Yashiki Kazuo.

"The source is right there... the source where the Guanyin soldiers were born."

So several people walked silently towards the deepest room. The door was wider than that of ordinary rooms and was even covered with bloody handprints, as if advising the newcomers to leave quickly.

"Right inside."

But when they pushed open the door, they saw that the things inside were no different from those outside, except for the small black box in the middle.

"Is that... the source of the curse?"

136

Chapter 136: Ancient Trauma and Fighting against the Guanyin Soldiers.

The dark black box was placed in the middle of the room, with several headless Buddha statues next to it. They all looked like failed products of the experiment. Yashiki Kazuo plucked up the courage and opened the box.

"Is it some kind of curse?"

Baoyue Yexiao was alert to her surroundings. The evil spirit in her arms had begun to become restless, as if something was hovering around, waiting for something.

"No... nothing else besides this."

Yashiki Kazuo's tone was so flat that it made people feel indifferent. He turned sideways and held up the contents of the box to let the other two see that there really didn't seem to be anything important in the box. To be honest, there was only a bright red Western-style cushion, which seemed so out of place among the pile of Buddha statues in this underground passage.

"I see... As expected... Be careful!!!"

Bao Yue Ye Xiao understood what happened almost instantly. Sure enough, the puppet Meili who claimed to be serving the Indians in the Jiujo Pavilion at that time was not a creation of the Jiujo family at all. She woke up here, and then...

"Roar!!!"

With a roar that shook the heavens and the earth, the huge Guanyin soldier broke through the floor and dropped from the sky. The spike on one of its arms went straight towards the shocked Yashiki Kazuo.

"clang!!"

The crisp sound of iron colliding was heard. Under the shocked gaze of Yashiki Kazuo and the slightly opened mouth of Baoyue Yexiao showing a surprised expression, Uesugi Sumiko stood in front of Yashiki Kazuo with an expressionless face like a ghost, and the spiritual ritual knife with symbols engraved on it in his hand blocked the awl swung down by the Guanyin soldier.

Of course, Uesugi Sumiko's weapon and strength did not support him to make a parry, so after he successfully slowed down the attack of the Guanyin soldiers for a while, Yashiki Kazuo ran out holding the cushion, and then Uesugi Sumiko was knocked away.

"Can you achieve this with just physical strength? I guess that's a bit of a miscalculation... Let's do it."

Bao Yue Ye Xiao lifted the puppet up.

"Woo!!"

A sound that sounded like a wail or a sigh was heard, and a terrifying evil spirit in white slowly poked its head out from behind her, and shouted as if to provoke the Guanyin soldiers in front of it.

Naturally, the evil spirits that provoked the Guanyin soldiers attracted its attention more than humans. However, just when it "turned" its head, the evil spirit had come behind it, and stabbed its hands into the head covered by its palms, and seemed to let out a triumphant scream.

"Roar!!!"

However, Baoyue Yexiao only felt this smug emotion for a moment, because then, Guanyinbing's body turned around without paying attention to his head, and then the remaining two hands no longer covered his face, revealing the front face that had cracked to the point that it looked more like the mouthparts of some kind of man-eating plant than a human face, and the sharp teeth with a greasy yellow color seemed to be eager to try.

Except for the two hands that were still holding the head, the remaining six hands had picked up weapons at some point, ignoring the original human structure of the Buddha statue. The six arms were more like tentacles, piercing into the body of the evil spirit.

"So... can something like this have... 'Buddha's Light'?"

Along with the evil spirit's painful screams, the six weapons of Guanyin Soldier stirred in its body, and the sound of chanting gradually rang around it. Baoyue Yexiao felt that the puppet with her hand speed was struggling constantly, and finally calmed down. The evil spirit living inside had been seriously injured. In just one round, Guanyin Soldier weakened the evil spirit she brought.

"Buddha's light? Does that thing still belong to the scope of Buddha statues?"

Yashiki Kazuo raised his head and looked at the Guanyin soldiers who were not sure whether they were in pain, angry, or both.

"No, Buddha's light is just a name for spiritual power, similar to belief. I can't explain it now... We have to deal with this voice first! We can't listen to it!!!"

Yashiki Kazuo took out a gun and pointed it at the Guanyin soldiers, but surrounded by the sound of chanting, he looked confused and pointed the gun at Baoyue Yexiao.

"Bang!"

The huge sound of gunfire echoed in the underground passage, even drowning out the sound of chanting for a moment. The two people affected by the chanting were awakened briefly because of the shock brought by the huge sound of gunfire.

“Earplugs!”

Baoyue Yexiao put on earplugs almost immediately and gave one pair to Yafu Yinan. However, during this time, the Guanyin soldiers were already rushing towards them at a very fast speed.

"Hey, hey, is it really okay to ignore me like this?"

Guanyin Bing's body froze. Uesugi Cheng, who was behind it, slowly stood up against the wall and pointed his finger at Guanyin Bing's feet. Sure enough, a crack appeared on its feet.

"How is that... done?"

Baoyue Yexiao was puzzled. There was no fluctuation of spiritual power, no sound of weapons, but only a single finger. Uesugi Cheng was able to create cracks in the body of Guanyin Soldier. How did he do it?

Uesugi Cheng didn't have the energy to think about what Bao Yue Ye Xiao was thinking. In fact, he was able to do this because of a great technique that he almost forgot [The Edict of Force].

In the [Martial Arts Garden] of the Silent Bookstore, he relied on the [Edict of Force] to learn a formula, using enough [Moons] to explore an ancient wound to awaken the violent resonance within, and then gently transfer it while the pain is still there to create a usable [Ancient Wound].

【武力敕令】（2月）＋【回忆:困惑预言】（2月）＋【回忆:矛盾】（1月）＋【悲恸】（1月）=6月。

[Ancient Wounds]: Wounds are easy to see, but pain is not. (3 Winter 2 Months 1 Blade)

The ancient wound was projected onto Guanyinbing's ankle. Instead of using it as a memory to strengthen others, Uesugi Cheng chose to use it in the opposite way at this moment and used it to attack.

The roaring Guanyin soldier obviously did not expect that his indestructible stone body would be broken so easily. He chose to temporarily avoid the attack and turned his body into a semi-spiritual body to avoid the inconvenience caused by the injury to his foot.

"Don't think you can get away so easily!"

Baoyue Yexiao rang the Kagura bell. The moment the bell rang, the process of Guanyin Bing's semi-spiritual transformation was interrupted. Angry, it could only wave the weapon in its hand, slowly but unstoppably moving towards the direction where Baoyue Yexiao was.

"Ha...right ear, attack her right ear, use this..."

Yashiki Kazuo shook his head, which was still a little confused because of the gunshot, took out the chisel that was covered with black blood and threw it at Baoyue Yexiao's feet.

137

Chapter 137: Defeat the Guanyin soldiers and prepare to face the mastermind behind the scenes.

"Right ear?"

There was a hint of doubt in Baoyue Yexiao's tone, but there was no hesitation in his actions. He picked up the chisel covered with black blood from the ground. A cold feeling was transmitted from the chisel in his hand, as if the chisel, which was covered with the resentment of the wrongfully dead, was crying to the person holding it.

Then, she started to run, and while Yashiki Kazuo looked at her with a look of "So her athletic ability is so good?", she ran quickly.

"die!!!"