I became the Lord of the Eternal World in Tokyo.

A quick glance at the group revealed that everyone there was a potential talent belonging to the Arakawa Ward Special Affairs Department, including Hattori Ayako, Maki Hitomi, and even Ririko.

The group owner is Kitano Runa.

Uesugi Tetsu smiled.

—As expected of a socially awkward anime girl who is also socially awkward online, it's not surprising that she did something like this.

It's probably late at night now, and even though Uesugi Tetsu has joined the group, no one has sent a welcome message.

After casually setting up "group message blocking," Uesugi Tetsu glanced at the time and realized that only three minutes had passed.

There's still a full halfway to go before the six-minute deadline.

So Uesugi Tetsu clicked on Ririko's profile picture, thought for a moment, and then sent her a message.

He knew that Ririko was definitely not asleep, or she was either pretending to be asleep and practicing in her visualization world.

[Moon Sand: Ririko, I've finished the skin tempering.]

[Moon Sand Sauce: Also, I was lucky enough to find the subsequent methods for forging tendons. I'll teach you when I get back.]

Sure enough, when Uesugi Tetsu silently counted to the tenth number in his mind, a big exclamation mark appeared.

【Li: ! 】

[Li: Okay!]

[Li: I'm waiting for you to come back!!!]

—In the villa of Uesugi Tetsu in Arakawa Ward.

Sitting cross-legged in front of the large character "武" (Wu), bathed in the cool moonlight, the girl fell into deep thought after replying to the message.

—How much time has passed since Uesugi-kun went on his "business trip"? A whole day? He actually went from just finishing the toughening process to completing the entire tempering process.

The training in the Palace of Flesh must be done step by step in reality; there is no room for faking it.

What method did Uesugi use to achieve such speed?

Incomprehensible.

A fleeting look of distress involuntarily appeared on Ririko's small face.

She stared at the words "Good luck" on her phone screen and sighed, "But it's alright, although I can't keep up with Uesugi-kun in terms of progress in the Palace of Flesh..."

Ririko closed her eyes and began to "introspect" herself.

She murmured softly, "But after two thousand three hundred attempts, we have finally achieved some results. The internal tempering of the five internal organs has been perfectly completed, and the flow of qi to the four poles should be achieved in a few days as well."

Of course, there's also the [Double Circulation Without End] which follows, and the most important one in the Sea of ​​Qi stage,

—【Clear and bright!】

Although there's no clear direction yet, the first two steps have been completed, so it's impossible for the latter two steps to completely block me.

Try more, make more mistakes, and die more.

Standing on the backs of countless fallen "selves" will always yield some results.

According to the third sister's notes, having clear vision of all orifices is a necessary prerequisite for opening the sea of ​​qi.

and.

There is a world of difference between one aperture, ten apertures, and a hundred apertures.

Based on the information that Ririko has obtained so far, it seems that the complete Tongming Baiqiao (通明百窍) method is only recorded in the Four Extremes Breathing Method.

This is one of the reasons why geniuses who rarely emerge from small places and small training grounds are often brutally beaten by even some mediocre members of the four major families.

Because the Four-Pole Breathing Method is truly on a completely different level from most other breathing methods!

"Then I'll give it my best."

Ririko lowered her eyes and deleted everything she originally wanted to say, word by word, wanting to give Uesugi Tetsuya a surprise when he returned home in the future.

He helped me discover the path to forging tendons, so I will forcibly open this sea of ​​qi shrouded in mist for him—

To break new ground!

the other side.

Uesugi Tetsu looked at the "typing..." message that had lasted for a long time but then disappeared, and smiled silently.

It's probably been less than 24 hours since he left home, so it's understandable that Ririko would be shocked.

After delivering the good news, Uesugi Tetsuya tossed his phone back into his storage bag, closed his eyes again, and lay down on the bed.

Everything in the present world vanished in an instant, accompanied by this somewhat familiar yet strangely distorted feeling.

Wow——!

But this dive seemed to be different from the previous ones.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion.

Before his consciousness began to fade, Uesugi Tetsuya seemed to see the distant horizon, an unknown distance away on the sea...

It stirred up a colossal wave that blotted out the sky!

……

In the room of Uesugi Tetsuya at the Imagawa residence.

He took two heavy breaths, expelling all the stuffiness and repression from his lungs, and then gently jumped up to retrieve the Key of History from the roof beam.

Before Uesugi Tetsuya could recover from the dazed scene just now, he heard the extremely panicked voice of the Second Master outside the room.

"Hey! Um, um!"

The two-foot-tall man blocked him from the left and right, anxiously saying...

"Lord Imagawa! Can we go in later? My Lord Tetsu has instructed that no one is allowed in. If I let anyone in, I'm going to get a good spanking tomorrow!"

Unfortunately, these words seemed to only fuel the already strong curiosity of the girl outside the door.

Through the thin sliding door, Imagawa Yoshimoto's deliberately suppressed laughter rang out simultaneously with the utterly dejected voice of the two-foot-tall man, who hadn't even noticed the change in his heartstrings.

"Waaaaah, Lord Imagawa..."

"Che-jun, I'm coming in..."

Chapter 175 With the arrival of Lord Yiyuan, justice will prevail! [Hard Bones] Completed! Not a single one of those in the portraits will be spared.

"Che-jun, I'm coming in..."

At the doorway, Yoshimoto Imagawa was about to place his hand on the edge of the sliding door when the entire large sliding door suddenly slammed against the other side.

Snapped!

A sudden breeze lifted a strand of her hair.

Wearing only a large outer robe, exposing his strong chest and abdomen to the air, and radiating a faint warmth, Uesugi Tetsuya lowered his head, seemingly having just finished his training.

He laughed at the girl who almost bumped into his abs.

"Good evening, Lord Yiyuan."

Then Uesugi Tetsu looked away and nodded to the two-foot-tall man not far behind her, indicating that she had done enough.

After all, as the shikigami of the Onmyoji Che, all he could do was symbolically stop her with words and actions.

She couldn't possibly do anything to the head of the Imagawa family!

"Um……"

Imagawa Yoshimoto casually pulled his nose away from the area enveloped by the heat, then curiously peeked out from under his arm: "Che-kun, what are you doing in your room so late?"

Uesugi Tetsu stepped aside, revealing the spotless room to Imagawa Yoshimoto. He gestured for the latter to come in.

"I had some insights into cultivation this afternoon, and I was refining and consolidating my understanding on my own."

The girl took off her wooden clogs, walked quietly into his room, closed the sliding door behind her, looked around, and nodded in satisfaction.

—A man as diligent in his self-cultivation as Che Jun is indeed very particular about his personal hygiene.

She was very satisfied with this.

Unlike Yuanxin... every time he stayed in the room for less than two days, he would leave the whole room in a mess, with discarded weapons and the smell of alcohol everywhere.

In that light, the little monster that looked just like a mouse was indeed a good match for her.

After looking around, Imagawa Yoshimoto unceremoniously knelt down in the main seat in front of the small wooden tea table and calmly asked Uesugi Tetsu, who was sitting cross-legged,

"Che-jun, do you know what you did this afternoon?"

"What did you do this afternoon...?"

Uesugi Tetsu exhaled a breath of scorching energy, pinched his chin with his hand, and pretended to be deep in thought.

After a long silence, he snapped his fingers and answered seriously.

"Take a stroll. On such a beautiful day, it's only right to let Shiroishi and Erchi experience more of the prosperity of Junpu City under the rule of Lord Yoshimoto."

"Puch."

When Imagawa Yoshimoto heard this ridiculous lie, he couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckle.

But it was really hard for her to feel displeasure when Uesugi Tetsu said such things.

Imagawa Yoshimoto had been tired of hearing these kinds of words for a long time.

But the key point is that the person who said this is the only great Onmyoji, the Onmyoji Che who cut off 30,000 kan with a single slash today.

He will offer the compliments.

The feeling is completely different.

At this moment, Uesugi Tetsuya seemed to remember something trivial and casually mentioned, "By the way, I went to the testing ground to stretch my muscles a bit."

"Slightly?"

Imagawa Yoshimoto exhaled softly from between his lips and teeth, clasped his hands together, lifted his chin with the back of his hands, and stared with a smile at the oblivious Uesugi Tetsu.

"Che-kun, the news about the slash you made this afternoon has spread like wildfire. It's everywhere, from Sunpu Castle and Imagawa Mansion to Suruga Province, from ordinary people and vendors to the elders of the family..."

Countless people already know that the Great Onmyoji Che's swordsmanship is also unparalleled in the world.

Imagawa Yoshimoto paused deliberately at this point: "By the way, those old geezers were like frightened birds, hastily summoning their long-unseen guards to their side."

"The Imagawa-kan was very lively at night."

Upon hearing this, Uesugi Tetsu glanced at the notifications that kept popping up.

[Your reputation during the late Muromachi and Sengoku periods +3...]

[Your reputation during the late Muromachi and Sengoku periods +2...]

His reputation has been increasing non-stop since the afternoon—and this growth will likely continue for a long time.

Uesugi Tetsu turned his gaze and saw that the head of the Imagawa family had already stared into his eyes, his gaze deep and unfathomable.

"—Che-jun, you really know how to surprise me."

"Oh? So Lord Yiyuan was quite pleasantly surprised when he learned of this."

Uesugi Tetsu nodded with a smile: "Then, Tetsu, you must add more different colors to Lord Yoshimoto's life from now on."

Boom!

"Don't play dumb with me, Che-jun!"

Imagawa Yoshimoto slammed his hand heavily on the wooden tea table: "You must have already thought about what might happen after you swung that sword, even before you left the Imagawa Mansion today."

“You’re not Yuan Xin, who does things impulsively when he gets excited.”

"Lord Yiyuan, you'll hurt Sister Yuanxin's feelings if you say that."

Imagawa Yoshimoto stared quietly at Uesugi Tetsu, who was sitting across the coffee table from her, thinking to herself that the more accomplished a person is, the more unpredictable their thoughts become.

—He unleashed a powerful strike, which could have been his trump card, right in front of the general public, squandering the momentary misjudgment of Che Jun's strength by others.

Even she couldn't figure out what Uesugi Tetsu was thinking.

Imagawa Yoshimoto rubbed the bridge of his nose and subconsciously licked his dry lips with the tip of his tongue.

However, afterward, she reflected on it and found that the benefits of Chejun's strike far outweighed the drawbacks.