In Tokyo, I draw cards and become a big demon

[Each salvage operation costs 50 soul ash.]

[30% off for your first ten consecutive salvages!]

After the two lines of prompts disappeared, many translucent shadows appeared in the originally desolate shrine.

The largest of them is a phantom standing in the center of the card pool, wearing a fox mask and holding a folding fan, but because of the mask, Uesugi Che cannot tell what kind of demon it is.

He tried to click on the shadow with his mind.

Three-tailed Fox

[Quality: Rare]

Such a prompt popped up immediately above the phantom's head, making Uesugi Che both surprised and a little uncomfortable.

What surprised him was that he was able to find out how many good things were left in the card pool.

But what does it mean that this prompt only jumps halfway?

Appetizing, right?

Next, he tried clicking on the props worn by the three-tailed fox and found that each one was a high-quality or rare prop, which looked extremely tempting.

But they don’t tell you their specific effects and properties.

Uesugi Che narrowed his eyes and snorted coldly - it's just a mere 350 soul ashes. Look, daddy will use the big soul ashes to drain your small card pool!

Without any hesitation, Uesugi Tetsu directly used his mind to heavily click on the black gas-filled [Salvage Ten Times].

——Ten consecutive rounds, start!

Rumble... Rumble...

With the disappearance of 350 soul ashes, the originally quiet and deserted dilapidated shrine gradually began to shake.

The damp moss quickly receded, the dust and debris were blown away by the strong wind, and the messy branches on both sides seemed to have been trimmed and made neat.

Almost instantly, the shrine took on a brand new look.

Uesugi Tetsu thought that the card drawing animation was quite good and had a lot of details and details.

Then, as he watched, the two fox stone sculptures at the door suddenly lit up with their eyes and started moving. They ran into the shrine and carried out the props one by one.

Soon, ten props of different colors were placed outside the shrine. It was a pity that the demon three-tailed fox was not drawn in the ten consecutive draws this time.

After the shrine slowly returned to its original appearance, Uesugi Tetsu looked at the various props that were both strange and familiar.

【Soul-soothing Incense Ashes (Micro)】×3, 【Soul-soothing Incense Ashes (Small)】×3, 【Soul-soothing Incense Ashes (Medium)】.

[Seishin Amulet], [Blessed Folding Fan], [Enactment Scroll (Incomplete)].

Seven of them were the familiar requiem incense ashes, but this time it was no longer a bunch of white light to make up the numbers.

Because among them, the soul-resting incense ash marked "small" is emitting a light green light, and the [soul-resting incense ash (medium)] is even more intensely green.

Click on the panel and you can see its notes——

【Soul-Restoring Incense Ashes (Medium)】

【Quality: Super good】

[Effect: One of the necessary consumables to upgrade from two stars to three stars.]

Therefore, the Soul-Restoring Incense Ash (Small) is a necessary consumable to upgrade from one star to two stars.

Uesugi Che took a look at the upgrade conditions for Laughing Prajna and found that the requirements were slightly different from before.

[Required for upgrading: Requiem Incense Ashes (0/50)]

The estimated upgrade time is 168 hours (one week).

The upgrade condition did not become 10 pieces of small requiem incense ash, but changed from a fixed number to a progress bar.

He tried it a bit and found that if he put in Requiem Incense Ashes (Small), it would be equivalent to 10 points of progress, while Requiem Incense Ashes (Micro) would only be equivalent to 2 points of progress.

A rare conscientious design.

Uesugi Tetsu sighed.

However, the time required for upgrading has also doubled. I wonder if there are any props to speed up this.

Without thinking much, Uesugi Tetsu looked at the remaining three items.

【Pure Heart Amulet】

【Quality: Excellent】

[Effect 1: Peace. Wearing the Pure Heart Amulet will slightly nourish your spirit.]

[Effect 2: Sensing. When demons and monsters appear near you, the Pure Heart Amulet will become slightly warm.]

[——The amulets that have been enshrined in shrines for a long time have certain magical effects.]

It is a prop that allows ordinary people to discover demons, but for Uesugi Che, who can feel the breath of demons and see stars above the heads of other demons, it is better than nothing.

I'll give this amulet to Ririko later.

Uesugi Tetsu thought that after all, Ririkko was only good at using a sword, unlike the Onmyoji who had many means of discovering monsters and strange stories.

Next comes the highlight - the folding fan held in the hand of the three-tailed fox, emitting a faint blue light.

【Blessed Folding Fan】

[Quality: Rare]

[Effect 1: Gentle Breeze. Consumes spiritual energy, allowing you to accelerate a distance in a specified direction without chanting. Movement distance and speed increase as spiritual energy consumption increases. Can only be used once every thirty seconds.]

[Effect 2: Panic Thunder. Consumes spiritual energy, and releases a thunderbolt towards the designated target without chanting. The power of the thunderbolt increases with the spiritual energy consumed. Can only be released once every five minutes.]

[——The folding fan of the shrine chief priest, once blessed by the enshrined deity.]

nice one.

Anyone who has played the game knows how important "raising your hand" is. Many bosses have died because they raised their hands too slowly.

The two skills that can be cast instantly without chanting are enough to make this folding fan a rare quality.

Not to mention that one is a displacement skill and the other is a high-damage burst skill.

It's a pity that this folding fan should be a special weapon for demons like the three-tailed fox who are good at magic, and it has nothing to do with his muscle Prajna with a spiritual attribute of only 4 points.

While the weapon was great, it could only be used alongside the Gongsi robe to support the future incarnation of the three-tailed fox.

Thinking of this, Uesugi Tetsu sighed and looked at the last item——

【Performance Scroll (Incomplete)】

【Quality: Excellent】

[Effect: After use, it will provide 100 points of proficiency for the specified skill.]

He was stunned for a moment, then looked at his proficiency in Qigong.

——[Fragments of the Qi He Jue (Proficiency 201/300)].

Chapter 40: Qi He Jue, Mastery Level!

Uesugi Tetsu never thought that there would be items that could directly improve skill proficiency.

This feeling is good.

Although a scroll of performance could only increase his proficiency by 100 points, it just happened to match his Qigong technique that was about to be upgraded.

Without any hesitation, Uesugi Tetsu directly used the scroll and selected the skill as "Qihe Jutsu Fragments".

I will try to subdue the legendary Hachishaku-sama later, so of course I will increase my combat power as much as I can now.

After all, it is much more difficult to subdue a monster than to kill it.

[You used the Scroll of Enlightenment (Incomplete).]

[Your skill, Qi He Jutsu fragment proficiency +100! ]

[Your skill, Qihejutsu Fragment, has been upgraded to Mastery level!]

Since this time he used props to increase his proficiency instead of breaking through on his own, it gave Uesugi Tetsu a more novel experience.

It was as if a pair of huge hands suddenly appeared in the body, guiding all the internal energy accurately, and then practicing it countless times in a very short period of time.

Therefore, the breakthrough was completed in an instant.

[Qihe Jutsu Fragments (Mastery 1/600)]

【Effect: Qi unclogs the meridians, steps are like a swimming dragon, voice is like a lion's roar.】

[The amount of Qi in your body has decreased, and its quality has greatly increased! ]

[Because you have mastered the fragments of Qihe Jutsu, your physical strength is +2! ]

After the Qihe technique broke through to the mastery level, in addition to the basic physical bonus and changes in the effect description words, Uesugi Tetsu also felt a strange change in his internal energy.

He raised his hand and tried to direct some of the chi to his fingertips.

The next moment, a piece of white gas about half an inch long suddenly emerged from the fingertips.

The sudden change made Uesugi Tetsu's pupils shrink. He maintained the current Qigong technique and brought his fingertips close to his eyes.

This is... the internal energy can now be released from the body?

Uesugi Tetsu blinked and suddenly thought of a word "gangjin" from a novel in his previous life.

The so-called Gang Jin, as the name suggests, is to form a layer of "Qi Gang" as hard as iron inside and on the body surface, so that you can gain great advantages whether in attack or defense.

Although Uesugi Tetsu is still far from being able to release his Qi to the point where it completely covers his body surface, his Qi cannot be as hard as iron.

But I can almost achieve the state where the internal energy leaves the body half an inch, which can be considered a youthful version of Gang Jin.

Uesugi Tetsu tried again and found that he could indeed wrap Kaga Kiyomitsu's blade with his Qi.

However, doing so not only consumes a lot of energy, but the sharpness of the Qi Gang is far less than the former, which is more of a disadvantage.

After some development, Uesugi Tetsu discovered that although the mastery-level Qigong technique had many uses, it seemed that the new functions were not very practical.

He sighed, "I still need to continue improving my Qigong skills."

However, for now, the mastery level of Qigong has already made his already explosively growing strength increase even more.

It's time to go find Hachishaku-sama.

Although no trace of Hachisha-sama was found during the last scout, Uesugi Che already knew the exact location.

——In a dilapidated temple in the south of the village, the Ksitigarbha statue in the center of the temple had already fallen to the side and shattered.

As for why Hachisha-sama didn't show up, he guessed it was because he went there last time in the form of Laughing Prajna and his charm was not high enough.

This time, Uesugi Tetsu decided to conduct a sting operation.

He didn't transform into Laughing Prajna first, but used his original form to pretend to be an ignorant intruder and enter the temple. He would wait until Hachisha-sama was lured out by his 9-point charm and then capture him in one fell swoop.

Although this plan is simple, it should be very useful for ghost stories like Yashaku-sama who only care about appearances.

Along the way, Uesugi Tetsu discovered that it was rare that he didn't even see a farmer or worker. This unusual phenomenon made him alert.

There might be other dangers besides Hachishaku-sama, so you must not become careless just because your strength has increased.

After warning himself several times in his heart, Uesugi Tetsu, who had already arrived in front of the dilapidated temple, looked left and right, muttering to himself in a slightly loud voice:

"There's actually a temple here. God must be watching how hard it is for me to cultivate! Finally, I have a place to stay tonight."

With that, Uesugi Tetsu walked into the temple, picked up a worn-out cushion, put it under him, and began to practice with his eyes closed.

He looked like a swordsman from another place who had traveled here.

Moreover, he is a young swordsman with a charm of 9 points!

So, just when Uesugi Che closed his eyes for more than ten minutes, a snow-white hat brim quietly appeared at the edge of the ruined temple wall.

——Uesugi Che raised his eyebrows. He had transformed into Laughing Prajna and stayed here for half an hour without any movement.

The countryside during the Meiji period was truly in decline!

A pair of black eyes looked through the gaps in the wall and began to look at the careless and handsome swordsman.

This remote Arakawa Village... How long has it been since such a handsome young man appeared?

The eight-foot-tall girl's eyes were burning as she paced impatiently outside the wall, wishing she could rush in and pin the swordsman to the ground and have a good and detailed conversation with him.