I became the Lord of the Eternal World in Tokyo.

The boss, who works almost 24/7, 30 days a month, and 12 months a year, raised a finger.

"Actually, you could take some time off and go on a trip with her."

"Ugh?"

Chisa's face lit up with joy at first, but then she pursed her lips and shook her head.

"How can this be? There's so much work to do right now..."

“You don’t need to consider that, Chisa,” Nanjo Manami interrupted her. “Besides, don’t you have a promise with Uesugi-kun?”

Don't keep him waiting too long.

"This is a perfect opportunity for you to go and see the seeding battle live and witness firsthand what true power is."

Nanjo Manami clasped her hands together, rested her chin on her hand, and offered the girl a plausible excuse: "I think no matter what the outcome, this is a great opportunity to broaden your horizons."

This series of moves made Chisa, who couldn't refute it, think it made more and more sense.

A dozen seconds later, she clenched her small fist and bowed deeply to Nanjo Manami: "Then... thank you very much, Nanjo-sama!"

Uesugi Tetsuya withdrew his gaze: "I'll go to the spirit room first."

The girl smiled and waved to him: "Goodbye, Uesugi-nii!"

"Okay, see you in a couple of days."

……

Walking familiarly to the original quiet room, Uesugi Tetsuya turned his head again and saw the training room with a hundred times the spiritual energy concentration, marked with a red warning sign.

For an ordinary Onmyoji, they would likely faint from the Drunken Spirit within minutes of entering, and their lives would be in danger within ten minutes.

Therefore, prominent warning signs are essential to prevent accidental entry.

Uesugi Tetsu pushed open the door and stepped through the thin, water-like barrier.

Almost simultaneously, Uesugi Tetsu felt a viscous, water-like spiritual energy surging wildly into his body and into his pores.

For a moment, even Uesugi Tetsu felt like he couldn't breathe.

The flame seed between his brows emerged automatically, emitting a bright black-red light under the nourishment of rich spiritual energy.

"This is a hundred times the concentration of spiritual energy..."

Activating the Spirit Control Technique, Uesugi Tetsu immediately felt the pressure brought by the spiritual energy disappear.

A hundred times the concentration of spiritual energy was swallowed up by a whale.

Instead, you see a continuous stream of "+1, +1" proficiency numbers popping up in front of you.

However, after a few dozen seconds, the rate of increase in the numbers stabilized.

—While the growth rate wasn't as terrifying as a hundredfold increase, it was at least several times, or even ten times, more.

"How are you doing? Are you able to adapt?"

Nanjo Manami's voice echoed in the meditation room like it was being broadcast from a loudspeaker.

"Absolutely no pressure!"

"Great! That's exactly what I was waiting for!"

The sound quickly faded into the distance.

Immediately afterwards, the already viscous concentration of spiritual energy in the room surged again, increased dramatically, and increased dramatically!

Even Uesugi Tetsuya, who was already operating the Spirit Control Technique at full speed, felt a sensation similar to drowning.

Of course, this is a good thing.

—Stars! Incense and candles for solace! Incense ash for solace!

Uesugi Tetsuya presented one by one the auxiliary cultivation methods, and the method of condensing the Flame Seed immediately flowed through Uesugi Tetsuya's heart.

In an instant, he determined the locations where the second and third Flame Seeds would condense.

These are the heart and the right chest.

In this way, the three Flame Seeds can form a stable triangular structure, allowing the Flame Armor to reach the minor completion stage!

Chapter 268: About to Touch the Master's Spirit Control Technique, a Shocking Change Happens to the Hanafuda Shop Archives! [The Imagawa Family's Memory Orb]!

Within the dazzling crimson light, almost dripping with spiritual energy surged around Uesugi Tetsuya.

An unprecedentedly rich and pure spiritual energy, under the skillful manipulation of the Spirit Control Technique, expertly constructed the basic structure of the Flame Seed.

The condensation of the inflammatory seed here proceeded almost without any delay or obstruction.

Because the concentration of spiritual energy is simply too high.

On the contrary, if the condensation of the Flame Seed were not used as a channel for the release of spiritual energy, then Uesugi Tetsuya's body would have been burst apart first.

Blah, blah!

The translucent liquid spiritual energy turned fiery red, transforming into tiny inscriptions that landed on the surface and inside of the Flame Seed, before being stained black by the aura of the Guhuoniao.

Even if we condense two Flame Seeds at once this time, the speed is much faster than yesterday.

Just an hour later, feeling as if he had swum for the same amount of time, Uesugi Tetsuya snapped his fingers through the liquefied spiritual energy in front of him and took a deep breath.

"Even if the spiritual energy is drawn to me, the concentration in the outer area is still dozens of times higher."

Uesugi Tetsuya, choked by the smoke, exhaled and looked at the notification that had popped up just after the third Flame Seed had been formed—

[Because you have condensed three Flame Seeds, the Yin-Yang Technique: Flame Armor has been upgraded to "Minor Success"!]

[Your Flame Armor has been upgraded to minor perfection, your Physique +1!]

His physical strength increased by half a point due to the inflammation seed implanted in his heart, which was already quite significant compared to his current body, which was comparable to steel.

If placed in the initial stage where one is completely powerless, then it would at least be at the level of [Physique +8].

With a single Flame Seed implanted into the heart, one can tear apart foxes, dogs, and raccoons.

"Moreover, the intensity of the Qi circulation is also slowly increasing."

Because the three Flame Seeds have taken their positions, they have formed an unusually stable triangular shape as Uesugi Tetsu had predicted, creating another stable source of power output.

Therefore, following the cyclical flow of Qi, the Qi input into the circulation also has an added fiery sensation.

At the same time, my proficiency in spirit control techniques has also improved significantly!

[Because you cultivated in an environment with extremely high spiritual energy concentration, your skill, Spirit Control Technique - Qi Proficiency +300!]

[Note: Do not expose yourself to extremely high spiritual energy concentrations for extended periods or repeatedly. Excessive differences in spiritual energy concentration between the inside and outside may lead to unforeseen consequences!]

He gained a full 300 points of proficiency in one go, even though Uesugi Tetsuya had focused most of his energy on condensing the Flame Seed.

Uesugi Tetsuya's gaze fell on the Spirit Control Technique panel.

【Spirit Control Technique - Qi (Expert 3678/4000)】.

With just over 300 more points of proficiency, the Spirit Control Technique can break through the expert level barrier and reach the unknown [Master level] realm!

This is on par with Ririko's swordsmanship, a level of skill that is rare in the world and truly divine.

Taking swordsmanship as a reference, it is a realm that only a master swordsman can reach.

Ordinary people may never see someone with master-level skills in their entire lives.

If I focus on practicing the Spirit Control Technique this time, I can easily get four or five hundred proficiency points, and might even become a master directly...

However, as mentioned in the [Note], it is still best not to stay in such an environment with an abnormally high concentration of spiritual energy for too long.

—In just one short hour, even with the physical strength of Uesugi Tetsuya, he experienced a subtle feeling of difficulty breathing.

Now that the Flame Seed has been fully condensed, can we still use the Spirit Control Technique to absorb spiritual energy...?

Of course not!

The reason why he stopped cultivating immediately after the two flame seeds were condensed was not because Uesugi Tetsu felt that it was time to stop there.

Rather, it is because Uesugi Tetsu has been gritting his teeth and persevering until now.

—If he doesn't stop soon, he's starting to suspect that his body will burst from the sheer volume of undigested spiritual energy.

After circulating his spiritual energy to the corner of the room, Uesugi Tetsuya was finally able to catch his breath and scan all the prompts in front of him again.

Apart from that, there was no unnecessary or redundant information in the prompt.

The specific effects of Yan Jia are best understood and applied through personal experience.

With a slight thought, three flame seeds—one black and two red—slowly appeared from between his eyebrows, on his left chest, and on his right chest.

The crimson flame seed was also imbued with the power of the Guhuoniao during the cyclical process, but it was difficult to detect with the naked eye.

Uesugi Tetsu had no reason to stop such a good thing.

"come out."

A faint light suddenly bloomed from the depths of the Flame Seed, and flowing fire enveloped Uesugi Tetsuya's entire upper body, finally sticking together tightly.

Except for his legs, forearms, and palms, his entire body was covered in flame armor!

Furthermore, the strength of the Flame Armor has also been significantly improved.

This can be achieved simply by concentrating all the flowing fire onto a single armor plate as usual, and then observing it with the Eye of Interpretation—it has been forcibly increased to almost double its intensity.

Now, relying solely on the Flame Seed's automatic spirit absorption, it should be able to withstand Kaga Kiyomitsu's ordinary slashes and thrusts.

If an unlimited supply of spiritual energy were provided, the strength could be multiplied many times over.

Not to mention directly resisting Minamoto no Shizumizu's slash, it should be about the same as dealing with the Yin-Yang technique of "Takizawa Kai," who was from the same district as Saito Ryuichi, whom he had met before.

Uesugi Tetsu clenched his fist again, transforming the Flame Armor into a completely opaque "glass bead" the size of a fingernail.

A captivating surge of spiritual energy emanated from it, only to be forcefully compressed back by Uesugi Tetsuya using a spirit control technique.

Tsk tsk, if this thing were thrown out...

"However, turning it into a ball doesn't seem very practical."

Uesugi Tetsu stared at the glass bead, pondered for a long time, and then slowly stretched it out, stretched it out.

Finally, he transformed this glass bead into a thin thread about twenty meters long, so thin that even Uesugi Tetsu wouldn't be able to perceive it without careful attention!

Uesugi Tetsu commented,

"As long as any point of the fine thread touches the enemy's wound or penetrates their body, the power of the entire Flame Armor will explode directly inside the enemy's body."

To achieve this, one only needs to concentrate the spiritual energy compressed to the extreme within the long, thin thread into that single point of "touching" in an instant.

This kind of thing might be a bit difficult for expert-level spirit control techniques.

However, master-level spirit control techniques would likely be second nature to them, requiring no effort whatsoever.

Uesugi Tetsuya, who had developed a new way to play with the Flame Armor, smiled, but quickly shook his head in disappointment: "However, this method is really hard to control. Once it explodes, it will be difficult to save."

After all, how can you save it if it's been blown into charred fragments?

Therefore, the "Flame Silk" gameplay can only be applied to demon and monster tales, and it is probably not very effective in seed battles.

Uesugi Tetsuya manipulated the new Flame Armor with his mind for a while before finally returning this Yin-Yang technique, which could be used as a trump card, to his body with satisfaction.

All of these methods will definitely be greatly enhanced after he has condensed all five Flame Seeds!

—Because he absorbed the memory orb, Uesugi Tetsuya only needs spiritual power to quickly condense the Flame Seed.

Without that memory orb given by the nameless Onmyoji, even if Uesugi Tetsu had learned the Onmyoji technique of Flame Armor, the time it would have taken to become a Daimyo would have been dozens of times longer than it is now.

According to the normal procedure, Uesugi Tetsuya would need to first understand the thousands of astronomical characters and cryptic texts in the Flame Armor Method.

Then figure out how to use spiritual power to inscribe these ciphers onto the semi-finished Flame Seed.

This process must be done with extreme care, otherwise the flame will explode due to uneven stress.

But now Uesugi Tetsu doesn't need to worry about anything; he just needs to focus on absorbing spiritual energy.

Therefore, the memory orb is a really good thing.

With some difficulty breathing, Uesugi Tetsuya pushed open the door to the secret room and breathed in the fresh air outside with a sigh of relief.

Then, several Onmyoji in the waiting area turned around in shock at the same time.

—With such a high concentration of spiritual energy, how did he not suffocate?!