I just wanted to cultivate immortality, but I was forced to open a harem

Having escaped the threat of death, Mai Sakurajima felt that she should be happy, but she felt very upset.

Now that there is no abnormality in himself anymore, will Lin Hezhen erase his memories of this period of time?

Will there be any intersection between her and him?

During this time, they chatted, dined together, shopped, bickered, and dated like a couple, but they were not a real couple after all, and their relationship was based on "resolving abnormal events of existence."

What am I in Lin Hezhen's heart?

She couldn't help but ask herself.

Without paying attention to Mai Sakurajima's abnormality, Lin Hezhen was worried that the Onmyoji Ryo, which was in charge of the affairs of the island country's Onmyoji world, would soon send someone to check it out.

He then said to the Unsmiling Cat, "I think the Onmyoji people will be here soon, so we shouldn't stay here for long. You take Kato home, and I'll take Mai home, so let's say goodbye now."

So the four of them took action separately.

The Unsmiling Cat turned into the size of a horse, let Kato Megumi ride on its back, and disappeared into the night after a few jumps.

Lin Hezhen cleaned up all the traces at the scene, used talismans to block the breath of several people, and took Sakurajima Mai on a motorcycle. With the taillights flashing, they disappeared into the neon streets.

About ten minutes later, two black cars came speeding and stopped at the foot of the hill.

Six fully armed men in black carrying strange instruments quickly went up the mountain and came to the foot of a huge fir tree. After searching for a while and finding no one, they started to detect the ground with the instruments.

A leader called his superiors to report: "Reporting to Lord Kamo, no suspicious persons were found at the scene. After testing with instruments, a large amount of spiritual energy was found, which seems to indicate that a large-scale ceremony was held."

"Can you confirm what ceremony it is?" An elegant middle-aged male voice came from the other end of the phone.

"There is no relevant information in the records. It should be a ritual that has never been seen before. Judging from the style, it is more similar to the lost formation in the Celestial Empire."

"Can you trace the movements of the person who organized the ceremony?"

"No, the traces have been cleaned up very well."

"Where's the cat demon?"

"not found."

After a moment of silence, instructions came from the other end of the phone: "Seal off the scene, continue searching, and don't miss any clues."

After hanging up the phone, Yin Yang He Maoren pondered for a few seconds and gave an order: "Mobilize all nearby surveillance cameras to search for suspicious persons, and ask barrier masters and researchers related to the Heavenly Dynasty formation to investigate on the scene... Also, let Acorus come to see me."

He lay on the soft sofa, half of his face hidden in the shadow where the light could not reach, and muttered to himself.

"Is it the lost formation from the Celestial Empire? Is it related to the young man that Chang Pu met who was suspected to be a cultivator from the Celestial Empire?"

Because of the appearance of a strange formation, I don’t know how many people in Dongdu will have to stay up all night.

Lin Hezhen didn't care about that. After sending Sakurajima Mai away, he said goodbye and went home.

After he finished drinking the medicine that was prepared at a fixed time, he soaked in the medicine and practiced.

Lin Hezhen was very satisfied with his current cultivation progress. After only a month, he had already completed the body-building stage. He only needed an opportunity to jump to the Qi training stage.

He could feel that the opportunity was very close, and perhaps it would come naturally after completely resolving the abnormal presence of Sakurajima Mai.

Once he entered the Qi training stage, he no longer needed to take medicine, take medicinal baths, or practice boxing every day.

As the skills are practiced, your physical fitness will also improve. You will no longer need external assistance, and the golden finger for automatic practice will be enough.

After the medicinal bath, he took a shower as usual, changed into clean clothes and went to the living room, where he found an uninvited guest lying on the sofa.

Lin Hezhen was not surprised at all and asked calmly: "Has Megumi Kato been delivered safely?"

"Of course, I walked through blind spots of surveillance along the way, and my footprints have been processed. In addition, with your breath-masking talisman, I guarantee that no one will discover me." The Unsmiling Cat replied.

At this time, it turned into a fat orange cat again, lying on the sofa watching TV.

"Have you decided to cooperate with me?" Lin Hezhen asked.

The Unsmiling Cat sighed, "Do I have any choice? The Onmyoji have surrounded Ipponsugi completely. I guess they are looking for me everywhere. I can't stay there anymore, and I don't know where to go. The whole island is full of Onmyoji. It's only a matter of time before they catch me."

Lin Hezhen smiled and said, "You can go abroad."

The Smileless Cat rolled his eyes and said, "You think it's that easy? Which country doesn't have its own supernatural organization? They won't be polite to foreign monsters."

"Is that so? That's right. As long as modern countries know about the existence of spiritual sects, they will definitely try their best to bring them under their jurisdiction." Lin Hezhen nodded.

"I don't want to leave here, so I can only come to you for cooperation, but I have a condition."

The Unsmiling Cat jumped to the ground and said, "The 100-year cooperation period is too long. It must be changed to 10 years. After 10 years, if I want to leave, you can't stop me."

"Okay, no problem." Lin Hezhen agreed immediately.

According to his current progress in cultivation, he would have recovered to the Nascent Soul stage in 10 years and would be invincible in the world. He would not care about a spiritual pet.

So, the man and the cat signed a partnership contract.

Chapter 55 Interview

The next day, Sakurajima Mai put on her school uniform early and stood in front of the mirror to cheer herself up.

"Yesterday, Kazuma solved the problem of my abnormal sense of existence. There will be no problem going to school today. Come on!"

She went out with her schoolbag, wanting to go out with Lin Hezhen, so she went to his apartment and rang the doorbell.

I pressed the button several times but no one answered. Where did this guy go?

Mai Sakurajima had no choice but to go to school alone.

It was a road I had walked countless times, and I had only not been to school for a few days, but the whole journey was surprisingly full of freshness.

Mai Sakurajima looked around nervously, but found that the people she was traveling with still seemed to ignore her.

"Did he not notice? Or could he not see it at all?" She didn't dare to think any further.

Shaking her head vigorously, Sakurajima Mai touched the rabbit hairpin on her bangs.

She whispered, "Kazuma had already run the formation to restore his presence yesterday, and the rabbit hairpin has returned to my side. Everything will be fine, but it will take a little time..."

In this way, the girl came to the school gate with trepidation.

She was surprised to find a van parked at the school gate. Several people carrying cameras got out and walked into the school gate.

"They look like people from the TV station. What are they doing?" Sakurajima Mai looked at them in confusion.

Murakami Maki led her men to this high school in high spirits.

Ever since she got the inspiration from Lin Hezhen, she has quickly prepared for this episode and even contacted the school in advance, vowing to make a program that would attract a lot of attention.

In order to ensure that everything goes well, Murakami Maki decided to host the event herself.

"Classmate, do you know Sakurajima Mai?" She picked up the microphone and asked a girl who had just walked into the school gate.

"Sakurajima Mai? Who is that?" The girl was confused and racked her brains to recall, but found that she had no impression of the name.

This reaction was also within Murakami Maki's expectations. After all, she came to interview a "fictional female star who doesn't exist at all."

"That's Mai Sakurajima. She debuted as a child star and became famous for playing the female lead in a morning drama. A few years ago, she also played the lead role in a popular youth romance movie. Mai Sakurajima is a third-year student at your school."

According to the "settings" given to her by Hayashi Kazuma, Murakami Maki told the girl everything about "Sakurajima Mai" in detail.

Gradually, a vague figure became clearer in the girl's mind.

"Ah, is that the famous actress Mai Sakurajima? She actually goes to our school and is a super famous person. Oh, how could I have forgotten about her before?"

The girl showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, confusion and doubt.

Seeing that the girl was so "smart", Murakami Maki made a further request: "Could you please describe to the audience in front of the TV what kind of image Miss Sakurajima Mai usually has at school?"

Perhaps because she had the opportunity to appear on TV, the girl seemed a little excited.

She thought for a moment and said, "Senior Mai Sakurajima, she looks very beautiful and elegant, like a flower from a high mountain, exuding a mysterious aura. She is a very charming person."

"Well, thank you for sharing. Next, let's go and listen to other people's opinions on Miss Sakurajima Mai."

Maki Murakami asked the crew members to give a small gift to the girl being interviewed, and then went to look for the next "prey".

She spotted a boy who was paying close attention to this side, and Murakami Maki walked straight over to him.

The boy excitedly smoothed his hair, adjusted his clothes, and tried to strike the most handsome pose.

"Classmate, what is your name?" Murakami Maki cooperated and gave him a close-up of his face.

"Hello, beautiful lady. I am Yoshihiko Kamigo from Class 2-B." The boy gave a smile that he thought was charming.

"Hello Kamigo-san, do you know Mai Sakurajima?"

"Of course, Sakurajima-chan is a big celebrity in our school. Although she is a well-known popular idol, she is warm and friendly and has many friends in school. By the way, she is a hot favorite in the online voting for the 'Miss Academy' organized by the school this year!"

Yoshihiko Kamigo has completely forgotten about Mai Sakurajima. The above statement was just a guess based on the fragments of information he heard from Maki Murakami's interview with that girl.

Anyway, in his opinion, the personalities of those idols and stars in school are all very similar, and they must be similar if they follow the template.

"Sakurajima-kun? My classmate, as far as I know, Sakurajima Mai is a third-year student in your school." Murakami, the blind student, Maki, keenly grasped the highlight.

Uego Yoshihiko's smile froze: "Uh, this, haha, I remembered it wrongly, it was Sakurajima-senpai."

A gleam of light flashed in Murakami Maki's eyes.

She pressed on, "You even got Mai Sakurajima's grade wrong. Classmate, you don't know Mai Sakurajima at all, do you? No way, no way, is there anyone in your school who doesn't know her?"

Uego Yoshihiko showed a sweaty face, and smiled awkwardly but politely: "How could that be? Of course I know Senior Mai Sakurajima. Let me think about it."

He tried hard to recall and think about this strange name that seemed somewhat familiar.

During this process, his chaotic thoughts seemed to break through a thin and transparent cover. In an instant, a lot of forgotten information flooded into his mind.

"Ah, I remember now. Senior Mai Sakurajima always keeps to herself in school. She has no friends and I've never seen her talk to anyone. Rather than a high-class beauty, she's more like an independent spirit, existing in a different dimension from others."

"An independent spirit? That's a good metaphor. Thank you for your cooperation. Next, let's ask other people for their opinions."

It was like putting a catfish into a tank full of sardines. The campus welcomed an uninvited guest, adding many new changes to the unchanging daily routine.

Maki Murakami and his team stayed in the school for the entire morning and interviewed many people, including teachers, students, school doctors, security guards, cleaners, cafeteria ladies, school leaders, etc.

Through constant questioning and prompting, everyone gradually regained their memories of Sakurajima Mai.

The information about Sakurajima Mai in this world was like dust that was peeled off and was about to be blown away by the wind, but it was attracted by a huge magnetic force and was absorbed back into the world.

With the memories of everyone in the school as an anchor, the formation set up by Hayashi Hezhen is like a huge magnet, firmly pinning down the "existence" of Sakurajima Mai and reintegrating her into people's cognition and consciousness.

When people's cognition and memory are awakened to a critical point, Mai Sakurajima's figure reappears in the sight of ordinary people.

Lin Hezhen seemed to have realized something and looked back suddenly. He saw a graceful figure in school uniform standing against the light with a relieved smile on her face.

“Kazuma, thank you for saving me…”

Chapter 56 Confession

It was a bit windy on the rooftop.

Sakurajima Mai smoothed her hair that was messed up by the April wind, walked to the water tower, and said to Hayashi Kazuma, "Why are you hiding here? It's still class time."

Lin Hezhen said unconcernedly, "Yiquan Xiaojing's Chinese class is too boring. Anyway, I have already learned everything in advance, so I just put a puppet substitute in the classroom and came here to bask in the sun."

"Don't use magic for this kind of thing."

"This is not allowed, that is not allowed. How can cultivation be so inconvenient? We cultivators go into the mountains or stay in the human world, free and unfettered, at ease and at ease, doing what we want without breaking the rules."

Sakurajima Mai sighed, "What an enviable freedom! Someone like you who is free and alone should not want to be bound by anything, right?"

"Who knows? Then may I ask Miss Mai, what do you want to see me during class time?"

Sakurajima Mai put her hands behind her back, showed a breathtaking smile, and said: "The first thing, of course, is to thank you for everything you have done for me.

Whether it was helping me regain my sense of existence, letting me let go of my worries, or accompanying me on a date... Thank you for saving me when I had nothing, for tolerating my willfulness and temper, and for giving me a place to stay when I was most vulnerable."

As she narrated, Lin Hezhen recalled every moment he spent with the girl, her every smile and frown.

Although it was only a short month, her image had been vividly engraved in his life, like the bright moonlight before his bed, like the cinnabar mole between his eyebrows.

However, everything eventually came to an end.

They were originally two parallel lines that would never intersect, but an accidental incident made them meet by mistake, and now this accident has been resolved.

My Dada's horseshoe is a beautiful mistake. I am not a returnee, but a passer-by.

A layer of mist appeared on Sakurajima Mai's big and bright eyes.

She sniffed and said with all her might, "My sense of existence has returned to normal. Have you figured out how to deal with me? Brainwash, hypnotize, or erase my memory? You're not going to kill me, are you?"

Lin Hezhen was not interested in joking with her. He said seriously, "You have experienced a large-scale anomaly that affects the entire real world, which has completely awakened your spiritual roots. Anomalies always attract each other. If you are left alone, you will most likely be involved in an unsolvable crisis in the future, or even endanger your life."