The demon monk in the second dimension

Beneath this thick hair, many arms were hidden.

Four female ghosts crawled out of the ghost well. They looked and dressed differently, but the only thing they had in common was that they all had long, jet-black hair.

They stretched out their pale hands, their faces showing either joy or anger, and tightly gripped the bandages on Xia Zhi's body.

The four female ghosts worked together, and the water from the well continuously assaulted the bandages that covered Xia Zhi's body, trying to drag him into the well.

Chapter 431 Leaving the Ghost Temple, the Exorcist Leader

Looking at the four female ghosts, Xia Zhi immediately understood the significance of their number.

He has a ghost hand, a new wrestling leg, a skull, and a newly acquired ghost eye—that makes exactly four ghosts.

Therefore, Oni-ji also sent four demons to deal with him.

fair enough!

These four female ghosts were not tall, but they exerted tremendous power.

They pulled at Xia Zhi, trying to drag him into the well.

But three of the ghosts seemed to have been trained, and as if by reflex, they grabbed the withered leaves that Xia Zhi had placed behind her, and suddenly stopped moving.

These three withered leaves are decaying at a very rapid rate and are estimated to last less than five seconds.

But now only one female ghost is still holding onto Xia Zhi's bandages, buying him some time.

Xia Zhi took out a wood-chopping axe from his gray cloak and chopped off the arm of the female ghost who was holding him.

Immediately afterwards, he took out the ghost rope, wrapped it around the neck of the one-armed female ghost, and then pulled hard.

The ghost rope tightly bound the one-armed female ghost's throat, immediately restraining her, and Xia Zhi dragged her out of the well.

On the summer solstice, bypassing the Ghost Well, he arrived outside the Great Buddha Hall and stuffed the female ghost into his human skin bag.

Then, he picked up the two severed hands of the female ghost with bandages.

Xia Zhi glanced at the other three female ghosts on the Ghost Well who were frozen in place by withered leaves, but did not intend to take them away as well. Instead, she decided to leave the ghost temple first.

"A demonic cultivator's revenge is never too late! Let me go outside and devour some ghosts first, then I'll come and deal with your ghostly temple!"

He activated the Ghost Domain, and a flash of black light appeared around him, instantly leading Xia Zhi away from the Ghost Temple.

After Xia Zhi left, the three female ghosts who had been holding the withered leaves found that the leaves in their hands had become rotten and scattered into fragments.

The three female ghosts crawled out of the ghost well, glanced at the golden Buddha statue in the Buddhist hall with great apprehension, and then turned and left.

Water dripped continuously from their bodies as they traveled along the path leading to the summer solstice, leaving a trail of water stains in their wake.

The three female ghosts seemed to have been lonely for a long time and did not want to give up their plan to bring Xia Zhi to keep them company in the well.

But just as the three ghosts arrived at the square, a gentle breeze blew, stirring the withered yellow leaves on the large, dead tree.

Three withered leaves drifted down from the tree, swirling and landing right on the three ghosts, freezing them in place.

The three female ghosts stood still, but the withered leaves on their bodies quickly began to rot and could not last long.

Just then, many bloody handprints appeared on the nearest dead tree.

The bloody handprints trailed down the tree canopy, as if something had climbed down from above.

An unseen bloody hand landed on the ground, grabbed the three immobilized ghosts, and threw them onto a large, withered tree, easily hanging them there, just as Xia Zhi had seen before.

Immediately afterwards, the bloody handprint came to the temple gate and slapped it four or five times, leaving several deep bloody handprints that replaced the original, much fainter handprints, as if to reinforce it in some way.

Finally, the bloody handprint returned to a withered tree.

But after a series of actions, the bloody handprints on the tree became much fainter, and it seemed that they could not last much longer.

……

If there are words, it will be long; if there are no words, it will be short.

Although a lot happened, it only took Xia Zhi four or five hours from entering the Ghost Temple to leaving, and it wasn't even dark yet.

After leaving the Ghost Temple, Xia Zhi called Mishima and quickly found him inspecting work at the branch office.

Upon seeing Mishima, Xia Zhi spoke directly to him.

"Let's upgrade the Ghost Temple to an S-class paranormal event. This temple was built by a ghost tamer decades ago and seals hundreds of ghosts inside. Several of these ghosts have their own ghost domains, making it very difficult to deal with and impossible to completely eliminate."

"Hundreds of ghosts? And several ghost realms?"

Mishima was taken aback.

He knew that before the current batch of demon tamers were born, there had been demon tamers in the world, the earliest of which could be traced back to the Taisho era.

The exorcism society knows a lot about this and has left behind some documents.

But unexpectedly, the Ghost Temple was actually created by these ghost-controlling predecessors, who also sealed so many ghosts inside.

Such a big thing wasn't mentioned at all in the documents!

Is it because they're afraid some people will vandalize the haunted temple if they find out?

Countless guesses flashed through Mishima's mind as he solemnly asked Xia Zhi for confirmation.

"Sir, is it true? It's not that I don't trust you, but this matter is extremely important! If there really are hundreds of ghosts inside, then we have to completely seal off this place! It involves the evacuation of more than 100,000 people and trillions of dollars in economic losses!"

In his haste to escape, Xia Zhi didn't even take the gold from the Arhat Hall and the Heavenly King Hall. He glanced at Mishima, revealing a pair of pitch-black eyes without any whites.

He spoke with a harsh, metallic tone.

"If you don't believe me, you can send someone in to investigate. But whether they come out or not depends on luck."

Looking at the pair of eyes that didn't seem human, one of which was deathly cold, Mishima was startled and quickly bowed to Natsumi.

"I'm so sorry!"

If there really are hundreds of ghosts in the Ghost Temple, and Xia Zhi can still escape unscathed, then he is incredibly strong!

At Mishima's request, Natsumi reluctantly went to the Exorcism Society's branch and told them about some things that happened at the Ghost Temple, asking the branch to record them.

Mishima had originally wanted to invite Natsumi to stay for dinner, to let him experience the branch's special hospitality, and to try and salvage some of the impression he had just given Natsumi.

He flashed a knowing smile that even a lecherous philanderer would understand, and extended an invitation to Xia Zhi.

"Your Excellency, the Exorcism Society branch has already reserved a table at the restaurant and invited famous local dancers and singers. We urge you to grace us with your presence."

"No need."

But Xia Zhi didn't give Mishima any face at all, resolutely refused, and directly used the Ghost Domain to return to Tokyo.

He's just like that guy before he transmigrated halfway through his life, he doesn't even have a penis, so what's the point of listening to your bullshit!

……

Back in Tokyo, I stayed at the Mitsuko-dani Shrine during the summer solstice.

He looked around but found no signs of anyone coming.

Inside the shrine, Xia Zhi opened the human skin bag and pulled out the female ghost who had been strangled with a ghost rope.

He digested the female ghost's two arms on the way. This time, holding the female ghost, Xia Zhi released black mud, which slowly devoured her.

The female ghost crawled out of the ghost well. Xia Zhi was worried that she might have some kind of inexplicable connection with the ghost well, so she quickly dealt with the matter.

After leaving the Three Fox Valley Shrine, Xia Zhi once again used the Demon Domain to return to the villa where Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana lived.

Inside the villa, several people were watching a horror movie.

With Xia Zhi absent, they followed the methods Xia Zhi had taught them before, discussing together what possible murderous rules the ghosts in the film might have, and how to avoid them.

Looking at Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana, Xia Zhi, who had read the information about the exorcism society, understood that the best way to help them escape the situation of being attacked by ghosts and living in constant fear, and to enable them to protect themselves, was to make them ghost tamers.

However, after becoming ghost tamers, both of their thoughts and bodies will lean towards ghosts, becoming neither human nor ghost.

There is also the possibility of vengeful ghosts resurrecting, which could lead to an even faster death.

"Anyway, this matter isn't urgent, so let's tell them first and let them decide for themselves."

Xia Zhi was only protecting Yotsuya Miko because she had once acted as bait for him; she wasn't her nanny.

This protection is only temporary.

Besides, he has already decided to eat more ghosts and go to the ghost temple to get revenge as soon as possible, so he can't stay in the villa all the time.

That evening, Xia Zhi told the Yotsuya and Yurikawa families about the demon tamer.

"A demon tamer is someone who controls demons and can use their power to fight against other demons, but is greatly influenced by them."

Xia Zhi smiled as she looked at the group of people who were deep in thought and looking tense.

"Jianzi, Xiaohua, you don't need to make a choice for now, just know about this. Xiaochuan and Yulia will stay here while I'm away, which should be enough to ensure your safety."

Anyway, the two of them are very weak, and they can't do anything except scout and give away kills.

……

So, a few more days passed.

These past few days, Yotsuya Miko has been perfectly safe. Not only have I not seen any ghosts, but I haven't even seen any wandering spirits from before.

She and Yurikawa Hana were relieved and stopped thinking about the demon tamer.

After all, this matter is quite dangerous.

But at noon, while Mrs. Yotsuya was cooking, the phone in the living room suddenly rang.

She picked up the phone and found it was an unfamiliar number.

"Could it be an advertisement or sales pitch?"

Mrs. Yotsuya muttered as she answered the phone and began to speak.

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

But no one spoke on the other end of the phone; there was only static.

Mrs. Yotsuya was very strange.

"Hello? Hello?"

After a while, a somewhat distorted, smug voice came from the other end of the phone.

"...Hehe, found you!"

Just then, Yotsuya Takakawa suddenly jumped up from the sofa.

He slapped the phone out of Mrs. Yotsuya's hand, spread his arms to block her way, and quickly said.

"Nanami, quickly go and invite the deity!"

Nanami Yotsuya was taken aback, and then saw a blurry figure appear in front of Takakawa Yotsuya.

The figure was completely charred corpse. When he appeared, a foul stench, as if from burning, filled the room.

Yotsuya Takakawa spread his arms to block him, but the charred corpse also stretched out its arm to press down on Yotsuya Takakawa.

Yotsuya Takakawa's face remained expressionless, but the areas where his arms were being held down by the charred corpse were rapidly turning black, as if they had been scorched by flames.

The black burn marks quickly spread from his arms to his surroundings, startling Nanami Yotsuya.

She rushed upstairs and shouted at the top of her lungs.

"My Lord God! My Lord God!"

Before Yotsuya Nanami had taken more than a few steps, a flash of black light appeared around her, and Xia Zhi's figure appeared in the living room.

"I already know."

He kicked the burning ghost, knocking it to the ground, and released his hands from Yotsuya Takakawa's arms.

These new wrestling legs are pretty good. After Xia Zhi kicked him, the burning ghost seemed to be stunned, lying on the ground for at least three seconds before getting up again.

But by then, Xia Zhi had already walked over with her axe.

He chopped off the head of the burning ghost with an axe. The blackened head fell to the ground with a thud and rolled a few times.

Then Xia Zhi followed up with a few axe blows, dismembering the burning ghost into eight pieces.

This kind of demon that can release flames and high temperatures is somewhat restraining of Xia Zhi's bandages, so it's safer to do so.

After dealing with the ghost, Xia Zhi's bandages extended and devoured the burned ghost.

He looked at Yotsuya Takakawa, whose arm injury was beginning to heal slowly, and asked Yotsuya Nanami, who was still in shock.