The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

"Do you need any help? You seem like you're having a hard time...?"

After hesitating for a moment, Hoshiguma Yuugi stepped forward.

"It's not just hard work, it's incredibly hard work; it's not just troublesome, it's incredibly troublesome."

Rolling his eyes, the person's words were clearly tinged with resentment.

"Heka has disappeared somewhere. It would be much better if she could help. But only I can do this right now. Do you think it will be an easy task?"

"……Feel sorry."

After a moment of silence, Hoshiguma Yuugi replied.

"In theory, we shouldn't trouble you with this kind of thing so many times... Our ghost clan already owes you many favors."

"Since you feel sorry, then please promise me one thing."

Someone held up a finger in front of them, looking very serious.

"This is my lifelong request."

"what's up?"

Seeing the other person so serious was rare for Hoshiguma Yuugi, so he couldn't help but become serious as well.

"If it's within my power, I will definitely do it."

"It's simple, next time you play cards, please don't use 'Heaven and Earth Creation' again."

"……what?"

Staring blankly at the extremely serious person in front of him, Hoshiguma Yuugi couldn't help but look quite bewildered.

"What do you mean, 'huh'?! Don't any of you have any self-awareness at all?!"

As if a floodgate had been opened, the person suddenly became agitated, his words filled with intense resentment.

"Do you guys even know what's going on? You've destroyed almost thirteen sets of my mahjong tiles!! You alone destroyed seven sets in one go!! It's one thing for Zi Ma to just replace the tiles, but how did you somehow come up with the idea of ​​erasing the tiles to make blanks?! Even if I made mahjong tiles from obsidian, you could still erase them! Where did you find this Super Saiyan?! Believe me, next time I'll just process bedrock into mahjong tiles!!!"

"Ahem... It's just a game, don't take it too seriously... Playing games isn't just about winning, right? Just have fun."

After coughing a few times, Hoshiguma Yuugi turned his head.

"And this is the cheating method you wrote in your own published 'Monthly Girl Cao Xueqin,' I'm just using it as I'm doing it."

"If playing games is only about winning, then it's meaningless!! Speaking of which, I think you were the one who drew the most on my face back then!?"

With a sudden wave of his hand, Shi Bai's face was resolute.

"In short, don't you dare destroy the mahjong tiles I worked so hard to make again! Even Zi Ma only secretly swapped a few tiles occasionally, but you were totally vandalizing them! Where did your sense of sportsmanship go?! Apologize to all the mahjong tiles in the world, you bastard!!!"

Recalling his previous experience playing mahjong with Yukari Yakumo and the others, Shi Bai's face immediately showed a look of unbearable remorse.

At first things were alright, but after one of the Purple Mothers suggested a punishment game, the situation quickly spiraled out of control.

Those who secretly swapped cards through gaps, those who forcefully wiped off the cards to make them blanks, those who secretly conspired to steal and swap cards... left this poor guy, who was playing cards entirely by luck, completely defenseless.

After all, luck is just luck. In the face of cheating that breaks the rules, even the strongest luck is useless... For those few days, he basically went to work with his face covered in notes and doodles.

"...Okay, I'll try my best."

After hesitating for a long time, Hoshiguma Yuugi nodded reluctantly.

"How long are you going to stay here? I'll go back and talk to them."

"It could take a few months at the shortest, or more than half a year at the longest. After all, this is a very precise job, and if something goes wrong, the consequences could be dire."

With a soft hum, Shi Bai propped his head up with one hand on his leg and pouted.

"During this time, it's best if you don't come here. Take care of things in your hell first. For example, you need to count how many monsters are willing to stay in the old hell. You can't just travel between the old hell and the new hell. You'd better make these things clear."

"So long?"

Hoshiguma Yuugi was taken aback when he received the answer.

"To you monsters, these things seem to be just a blink of an eye, right?"

Shi Bai raised an eyebrow, looking slightly curious.

"Strange, when did you learn the human concept of time?"

"No... if I don't go back for so long, won't your serialization in the newspaper just stop?"

Hoshiguma Yuugi looked visibly conflicted.

"Can't you write a little more each month? It would be better if you just stayed in your room all day typing away... You can probably write here too, right? Then we can have the demons from hell come and collect the manuscripts..."

"Don't even think about it, it's impossible, stop dreaming."

Seemingly recalling a certain mischievous demon from hell, someone's face inexplicably darkened.

"During this time, none of you are allowed to disturb me, and I absolutely will not waste time writing. Do you think it's easy to accurately divide out a part of hell? Is reading novels more important or building an underground city?"

"You're reading novels... Well, at least finish writing that volume, okay?"

Yuugi Hoshiguma looked sullen.

"Isn't Volume Thirteen, 'Offering Zhuzhishan to a Wonderful World,' only halfway through? Will Lu Zhishen reappear later? And..."

Shi Bai? Indifferent.jpg.

"...I'm going back first."

Shi Bai? Cold and indifferent.jpf.

"........."

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After a long period of preparation, the division of Hell was inevitable. The official reason given was that Hell was going to cut costs and streamline its operations by cutting off a part of Hell, including the Scorching Hell.

Of course, these are just superficial illusions; some powerful monsters do know the real inside story about the shrinking of Hell.

For example, in the separated scorching hell, the most evil vengeful spirits in hell are suppressed. From now on, those vengeful spirits will be guarded by the monsters who chose to go to the old hell.

To put it simply, the new hell is like an ordinary prison, while the separated old hell represents an inescapable, heavy prison where only the most heinous criminals are sent; it can also be called the Avici Hell.

Originally, Heca should have been responsible for dividing Hell, but the goddess, who was extremely averse to trouble, refused to show herself no matter what. Even though Shi Bai tried to coerce and entice Heca's subordinate, the fairy Clornpes of Hell, he still couldn't find any trace of her. So, Heca had to choose to do it herself.

There's no way around it; the pretense I put on back then, I have to keep up the act even if it's tinged with tears...

"It's all my fault for being blinded by that little girl. If I had known it would be this complicated, I shouldn't have agreed to it..."

After Hoshiguma Yuugi left, looking at the dark cave around him, Shi Bai muttered something to himself before placing his hand on the ground beneath him.

Just as Shi Bai placed his hand on the ground, a black-haired girl who had been dozing on a rock beside the Nine Heavens Waterfall of the Monster Mountain, some meters away on the ground, suddenly opened her eyes and looked up at the sky with a look of surprise and uncertainty.

In that instant, all sound seemed to vanish from the world.

Whether it was the white wolf tengu patrolling the mountain of monsters or the kappa building a machine in his laboratory, they all stopped what they were doing at the same time.

It was as if an inexplicable pressure was looming over their hearts, and everyone felt a suffocating discomfort and a trace of indescribable fear from the bottom of their hearts.

At this moment, even the ceaseless wind between heaven and earth seemed to stand still.

"What happened?"

Seeing the Great Tengu rushing towards her at high speed from afar, the girl rolled off the rock, her face extremely pale.

"No, I don't know."

The Great Tengu was pale.

"Lord Heavenly Demon, it's very dangerous here right now, we should..."

She suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked up at the sky in disbelief.

"........."

Frowning, the girl also looked up at the sky, and then froze in place.

I don't know if it was just my imagination, but the sun suddenly dimmed and the clouds surged rapidly across the sky.

At the same moment, a sudden gust of wind swept through the air, carrying with it the mist from the nearby Nine Heavens Waterfall, and the sound of the forest roaring endlessly.

The wind whistled, and their hair danced wildly in the air.

"Issue a notice that all the monsters on Monster Mountain should seek refuge as soon as possible!!"

In the shortest amount of time, the girl had already made a decision. As her black wings quietly unfurled, she gave this command to the Great Tengu in front of her.

"But Lord Heavenly Demon..."

"obey orders."

After giving the other person a brief glance, the girl flew into the air.

During their conversation, the sky had darkened completely without them noticing, and a huge black cloud vortex formed over Monster Mountain, with Monster Mountain located at the very center of that vortex.

The world was shrouded in darkness.

Compared to the enormous cloud vortex in the sky, the girl's figure was as small as an ant.

"In the end what happened?"

Looking up at the massive vortex of clouds above her, the girl's face was solemn.

Since the departure of the demons, nothing as serious as this has ever happened on the Demon Mountain in all these years.

As the highest leader of the Tengu clan who rule the Youkai Mountain, she has the responsibility and the obligation to stand up at this time.

But when she got close enough to see it, she felt a strange sense of dread from the bottom of her heart. The immense power, like the power of an entire world, seemed to be crushing her from the inside out.

"If we could get to the very center of the vortex..."

Gritting her teeth, the girl once again propelled herself toward the very center of the vortex above.

But the closer one gets to that place, the heavier the invisible pressure around them becomes. Their bodies feel as if they are surrounded by thick, suffocating air, and a sense of unbearable burden seems to emanate from within.

"Click...click..."

...If something of this magnitude were to be suppressed, the entire Yokai Mountain would be destroyed, wouldn't it?

Gritting her teeth, the girl finally reached the center of the vortex, but when she looked up and finally saw the scene inside, she suddenly froze.

Behind this massive vortex of clouds in the sky, a desolate world... the world of death, faintly emerged!

"Beyond the clouds... is there another world?! What terrifying being has our Demon Mountain provoked... that intended to destroy us with an entire world..."

As this last vague thought flashed through her mind, her figure drifted downwards. In the last corner of her vision, she vaguely saw a figure appear beside her.

Meanwhile, several thousand meters underground beneath the Monster Mountain, someone listlessly raised their head and looked up at the dark dome above.

"...So can anyone tell me where the world I summoned has gone?"

To be honest, Shi Bai is now having some doubts about life.

The first step in dividing Hell is to bring that world of Hell into contact with the present world, and to integrate a portion of the power of Hell into the present underground world.

This is the first step in trying to carve out Hell.

Logically, this step should have been very simple, but to Shi Bai's utter surprise, he encountered a major problem in this very first step.

I feel like I've already succeeded, but the problem is... where did the world I summoned go?

What a huge world!!!

P.S.: There probably won't be any updates today.

Chapter Twenty-Three: The Eastern Earth Spirit Palace

This day was destined to be the most unforgettable day for all the residents of Monster Mountain.

According to later historical records of the Mountain of Yokai, when the Mountain of Yokai was about to suffer a catastrophic disaster, the Tengu clan's Tenma stepped forward and ended the disaster. His reputation reached its peak in an instant, and he became a legend on the Mountain of Yokai.

As for the person who directly caused this disaster...

"Are you trying to kill me?!"

Heca glared fiercely at the innocent-looking person in front of him, his words filled with gritted teeth.

"Uh... this is the first time I've done something like this, so there was a slight error in the positioning... that should be understandable, right?"

Shi Bai scratched his cheek with his finger and turned his head away, feeling rather embarrassed.