The demon monk in the second dimension

In just two hours, the team was full and heading back to the city.

The six carts were fully loaded with the carcasses of more than 150 Kabane.

Same as yesterday.

As the convoy carried Kabane's body back to the city, many people came to watch along the way.

They dared not approach, but simply followed the convoy until they reached the vicinity of the blood pool before stopping.

Even without Yuansong's order, this place had already been spontaneously turned into a forbidden area by the local people.

Following the convoy, Xia Zhi arrived at the Blood Pool.

He removed his leather armor, changed into a white linen robe, and addressed the warriors.

"You all stay here and watch. Those who can't vomit can stay. I'll teach you how to handle it."

Upon hearing this, the warriors who had been wishing they could hold their noses when they arrived at the blood pool perked up and focused intently on Xia Zhi.

It may stink a little, but if I can learn something from the Master, my status in the Eight Generations Inn will definitely improve!

There's even a one in ten thousand chance that you might be chosen by a mage and become a mage yourself someday!

Noticing the warriors' sudden excitement, how could Xia Zhi not know what they were thinking?

But don't even think about becoming my apprentice; all the Kabane resources on this planet belong to me.

If it can truly help him, then bestow upon him a few body-refining techniques that are at most at the Foundation Establishment stage, or help those with aspirations to become Kabaneri.

Moreover, Xia Zhi didn't think anyone here had that qualification.

Summer Solstice dragged over the corpse of a male Kabane, tore off his tattered clothes, and threw them away.

This Kabane was skin and bones, with hardly any flesh on its body. It probably didn't have a good life before it died.

The real world isn't a monster-slaying and leveling-up game where killing monsters automatically drops coins and materials.

He took a bone throwing knife and used it as a scalpel, condensing his magic power onto it, making the throwing knife able to cut through gold and jade.

The warriors formed a circle, watching as Xia Zhi used a few sharp bone throwing knives to slice open the Kabane's chest, revealing the lungs and heart encased in bone.

At that moment, the expressions on the faces of all the samurai changed.

They had never seen such a clear anatomical diagram of a chest before!

Three young warriors covered their mouths and pressed their throats, while their stomachs rumbled.

They tried to endure it for the sake of their future, but they couldn't hold it in any longer and ran to a nearby tree to vomit.

Thick, fresh blood oozed from the wound, but it did not affect Xia Zhi's actions.

With a few swift, precise cuts, he severed Kabane's sternum and ribs, removing his heart encased in a steel membrane.

A hole was pierced through it by the flying sword, and Xia Zhi took out the blood-stained heart.

Upon seeing the heart, several warriors could not bear it any longer and ran away, vomiting violently.

This is only the first step.

Then, with one hand gripping the blood-soaked Kabane heart and the other holding a bone throwing knife, Xia Zhi swiftly separated the membrane from the heart.

The membrane was made of steel, and since Xia Zhi didn't need to worry about whether the heart and the steel membrane would be damaged, the peeling was completed quickly.

He tossed the heart back into the blood pool, discarded the steel membrane, and looked again at the Kabane's corpse.

This time, he needed to take a palm-sized piece of skin from the Kabane to make the Jade Horse Talisman.

Human skin consists of three layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and the subcutaneous tissue.

What the summer solstice needs is both epidermis and dermis.

Demonic cultivators who have some knowledge of talismans generally begin with skinning.

Just like a surgeon needs to start an operation by retracting and suturing.

Compared to the yellow talismans used by righteous cultivators and the aerial talisman drawing techniques that only cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage can begin to learn, the vast majority of demonic talismans require the use of the skin of living beings.

The skin can originate from livestock such as pigs, cattle, and sheep, or from intelligent beings.

Using the skin of intelligent beings to make talismans is much more effective than using the skin of pigs, cows, or sheep.

Summer Solstice moved quickly, using the four-corner cutting method, cutting off a piece of skin in just a few seconds and carefully peeling it off the Kabane's corpse.

Xia Zhi turned the skin upside down and spread it out. She then used her throwing knife to lightly scrape away the flesh and blood that were stuck to the skin, just like shaving.

With their skin gone, the Kabane's dark red muscles were exposed to the warriors' view.

Upon noticing the size of the skin in Xia Zhi's hand, the quick-witted warrior immediately realized what was happening.

"So, that's where the talismans we used before came from?"

The warriors' faces turned pale and then red, and they turned around abruptly as if their backsides were on fire.

"vomit!"

This created a chain reaction.

None of the remaining samurai could hold on any longer; they all ran to the side and vomited.

Seeing this, Xia Zhi was not surprised.

"I knew it."

Although samurai have seen blood and undergone rigorous training, they are still different from surgeons.

Moreover, these warriors had never actually been on the battlefield and had never witnessed scenes of blood and flesh flying everywhere and intestines being torn apart.

"After the person finishes vomiting, let the other samurai come and see."

After giving the instructions, Xia Zhi continued processing the materials.

……

The next day, all the samurai at Yatsushiro Station circled the blood pool to see how Natsumi would deal with the Kabane.

As a result, no one was able to resist vomiting.

In the end, Xia Zhi had no choice but to give up on having them handle the delicate task of skinning and simply asked them to remove the steel membrane from the Kabane's body.

Even so, many samurai could not do it.

Meanwhile, Xia Zhi also found the blacksmith shop in Yadai-i Station and asked him to use the steel membrane taken from the Kabane to mix with ordinary iron ore to forge a knife.

A few days later, the blacksmith shop had the finished product.

Xia Zhi, who had been working on materials, came to the blacksmith shop with Madoka Tsuyoshi and several samurai.

……

"Now that the knife is forged, let's give it a try."

Inside the blacksmith's shop, Xia Zhi had two warriors step forward.

One man wielded a black sword forged from a Kabane steel membrane, while the other held an ordinary samurai sword.

"drink!"

"what!"

The two men clashed swords, and the ordinary samurai sword was no match for them, breaking in two with a clang.

The black knife, forged with Kabane steel membrane, only produced a few sparks, and the nick on it was less than half the size of a grain of rice.

"What a fine knife! It's truly a fine knife!"

The samurai holding the black sword praised it highly, his eyes shining.

Then, Xia Zhi had the samurai test the knife with the steel membrane he had just removed from the Kabane's body.

Although it was a bit difficult, the black knife successfully pierced through the steel membrane amidst a shower of sparks!

Xia Zhi nodded slightly and smiled at the overjoyed warriors.

"With this (bad) knife, as long as you have enough courage, strength, and martial arts skills, you can kill a Kabane on your own!"

Chapter 46 Musketeers and Ikoma

Since a black blade that can penetrate the membrane of a Kabane's heart can be forged from it, the samurai would peel off this steel membrane before throwing the Kabane's corpse into the blood pool.

Unlike simply coating a blade with a layer of steel, this black blade, forged from scratch, is harder and sharper than a plain coated iron blade.

However, forging a sword in this way requires a considerable amount of steel and leather; it takes the leather from about thirty Kabane to forge a single black sword.

Therefore, only five were produced in this batch.

Xia Zhi left a black sword for Yuan Songgang's samurai guards. This time, he led sixteen samurai, eight carts, and four black swords out of the city.

This time, they went out in the morning and returned with two hundred Kabane corpses before sunset.

……

During this period, Xia Zhi has thrown at least five hundred Kabane corpses into the blood pool.

Under the influence of the magic arrays at the four corners of the blood pool, the corpses and bones of these Kabane will turn into blood.

The essence of the blood was absorbed by the White Bone Banner, while the clothes floated above the blood pool and were retrieved by the warriors for burning.

With the blood pool now operating at a steady pace, thirty Kabane corpses are being digested every day.

Therefore, Xia Zhi would go out of the city about every five days to hunt Kabane to maintain the blood pool's consumption.

That day, he was holding the map that Yuan Song had just given him, planning where to go next to refine the White Bone Flying Sword, when he heard the sound of a steam locomotive.

Not long after, Madoka sent a maid to announce that the lord of Kenjin Station, Yoshikazuki Ken, had arrived in the Kabaneri Castle and invited Natsumi to come and have a chat.

Xia Zhi nodded, a smile appearing on her face.

"You brought this to your door yourself."

……

Japan's railway transportation system was controlled by the shogunate, so such unauthorized use of Junjo Castle was of course not permitted.

However, as the place where Junjo was manufactured and repaired, and where the chief retainers held important positions by the Shogun's side, Kenkin Station could find loopholes and violate the rules once or twice.

Moreover, the Eighth Generation Station is not far from the Xianjin Station; it only takes two days to reach it by Juncheng.

When Xia Zhi entered Yuan Songgang's reception room, Yuan Songgang and his elders immediately stood up.

Seeing this, Yoshikazu Kenshin, who had come as a guest, could no longer remain seated.

Madoka Tsuyoshi introduced Shihōgawa Kensho.

"This is the Mage. The weapon that can pierce the Kabane's heart membrane was also invented by the Mage."

"Master."

Upon hearing this, Shihō Kawa Ken immediately bowed to Natsumi.

"I am Shifangchuan Jianjiang, and I am the lord of Xianjin Post Station."

Summer Solstice did not say much to Shifangchuan Jianjiang.

He directly used hypnosis to subdue Yoshikazu Kensuke.

Yoshikazu Kenji never expected that he would get himself involved in a business deal when he had only come to discuss business.

"What did you do to Lord Jianjiang?!"

Seeing Xia Zhi's actions, the samurai beside him, Arakawa Kibito, immediately roared and drew his sword, charging over.

Xia Zhi kicked him over, and then used hypnosis to control Arakawa Kibito.

In this way, even Xianjin Post Station would belong to him, so there would be no need for any transaction.

……

Xia Zhi remembered that Xianjin Post Station fell after the fall of Yadai Post Station.

And now, aside from the fact that the plot hasn't even started yet, he has no idea how far it has progressed.

Perhaps the Kabane will breach the Yashiro Station in a few days, or maybe in six months, or maybe in a year.

Therefore, he needs to stay at Yatsushiro Station first, and only after the incident that led to the destruction of Yatsushiro Station is over will he go to Kenjin Station to resolve the matter.

This would not only keep the two post towns working for him, but also allow him to wait for a large number of Kabane to be delivered to his door.