From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

"That guy is very timid. Besides, what can he do with you here?" Xia Chuan shook his head, then took a deep breath and asked directly, "Do you know Goyeshan Mingguang Temple?"

Kamio Hitomi's smile froze on her face. After a few seconds, she tilted her head awkwardly and asked, "I don't know what you are talking about."

"The breeze brings the plum blossoms, which dance in my sleeves."

There was no sudden change of hostility as expected, and of course no violent behavior. Kamio Hitomi was silent for a long time, then shook her head: "Why did you run there?"

"Is it really you?" Her reaction surprised Xia Chuan a little. It was a little too calm. "I stole the prophecy props and the psychic from the Watchers and Cheka respectively, and asked her to predict where I could find an opportunity to increase my strength. Then, she told me about Wuye Mountain."

"Am I such a failure or are you just going too far? You would rather resort to such an illusory method than accept my conditions?"

"Because you didn't tell me the truth." Xia Chuan replied.

"Hehe~" Kamio Hitomi's mentality seemed to have adjusted. "A person who is full of secrets and lies tells others that 'you didn't tell me the truth'. Don't you think it's a bit ironic?"

"If you tell me the truth, I will definitely do my best to help you." Xia Chuan said. "You are my friend. Even if there is no interest relationship, I will do it as long as you ask. But you have to say those things. Do you blame me?"

Hitomi Kamio sneered again, but Natsukawa kept looking at her quietly, and the corners of her mouth finally dropped.

"Don't say such things casually, because so-called friendship is not worth testing. Between beings like us, it is better to achieve our goals through transactions."

"Who is that?" Xia Chuan asked.

"A person who died a long time ago." Kamio Hitomi replied. "A person I have almost forgotten and don't want to think about anymore."

"There was a landslide in that place, and everything was buried underground. If you need me..."

"You don't have to do anything. Just let him be forgotten by everyone. That would be good."

Natsukawa decided not to tell her what he had done and would bury the urn tomorrow. At this time, Kamio Hitomi sighed and said faintly: "His name is Fujita Toshisada, and he was a samurai of Mito. Do you remember the 'Tengu Party' I mentioned to you? He was a member of it."

Xia Chuan did remember this incident, and he even went out of his way to look for relevant information at the time.

He quickly remembered one of them: "Fujita Koshiro?"

"You actually checked it out?" Kamio Hitomi sighed. "That's thoughtful. However, the so-called history has long been altered beyond recognition. Except for the surviving party like me, probably no one knows the truth anymore."

"Does what you want me to do have anything to do with them?" Xia Chuan asked.

"Lord Li Zhen started the Tengu Party under my instigation, but things did not develop as I wished. At that time, Neon was facing an invasion from foreign forces. We wanted to stir up the chaos and gain a foothold, but in the end, we were used by higher-level monsters and became a tool for their game. When they decided the winner, the Tengu Party was treated as a discarded pawn... All I could do was to collect his bones after he was beheaded so that they would not be exposed in the wilderness.

At that time, I was too young and wanted to destroy their plan to take revenge on them. In the end, I was ambushed by them. Not only did I lose my body, but I was almost sealed. It was not until the last moment that I used a secret method to break free and reincarnate into the body of a nearby courtesan. However, due to the interference of the seal, there was a serious error in the casting of the spell, so I can only coexist with generations of courtesans like now, and I can never be free. "

Kamio Hitomi's narration was quite brief, but Natsukawa was still able to reconstruct the thrilling events she experienced in his mind. It was definitely not that simple.

"You want me to help you break the interference of the seal?"

"Are you willing?" asked Hitomi Kamio softly.

"How to do?"

"I've already told you. First, you have to gain her unconditional trust, then go deep into her consciousness and find the seal..."

"Why do you have to gain her trust?" Xia Chuan asked.

"Because we are not going to the real world, but the depths of her consciousness. With your ability and my help, we can certainly influence or even directly interfere with her consciousness to a certain extent, but this is her world after all. Once she senses danger and begins to doubt, the influence we exert will be immediately eliminated. And her subconscious will begin to frantically expel us."

"dangerous?"

"To be honest, it's very dangerous." Kamio Hitomi said. "In the past one hundred years, I have tried five times, but I was always expelled at the last moment. Three of the five times, my spirit was severely damaged and I fell into a deep sleep. It took several years or even more than ten years for me to slowly regain consciousness. And the other two times..."

"How is it?" Her expression gave Xia Chuan a bad feeling.

"They are dead." said Hitomi Kamio.

"It doesn't sound like a simple task." Xia Chuan smiled bitterly. "Have you ever asked someone to help you?"

"I have looked for them," Kamio Hitomi replied. "After the failure, some of the people who helped me became insane and lost their minds, some fell into a deep sleep like me, and some died on the spot. However, they did not have your ability. This is the first time that someone like you can enter my dream and actively influence it."

As Natsukawa was thinking about it, Kamio Hitomi said, "Just now you said that as long as I tell you the truth, you will do your best to help me. Do you still think so now?"

After feeling a little embarrassed, Kamio Hitomi quickly said, "So I don't expect you to help me unconditionally. For things like this, a deal is easier. Let's put it this way. As long as you help me, I will tell you all the spells I know, including my life spell, without reservation. Moreover, as long as I can successfully escape, I will join the Skeleton Society and try my best to help you achieve your wish. Finally, I know that the secret of the Yinmora clan is hidden somewhere in Kyoto. As long as you promise to help me, no matter what the final result is, I will tell you the exact location of this place before taking the last step. This is all the chips I can give you. Please think about it carefully."

Xia Chuan smiled bitterly.

There are certainly many objective reasons for not being able to agree immediately, but there is only one ultimate reason.

Is his relationship with Kamio Hitomi worth the risk he takes for her?

What about the chips she gave?

"I'm sorry, but I will definitely think about it carefully."

Kamio Hitomi nodded indifferently, and the next moment, Natsukawa was ready to leave her dream as usual, but nothing happened.

He immediately looked at Kamio Hitomi, but her expression was equally stunned.

"what happened?"

Xia Chuan stared into her eyes. Such an action immediately made her angry: "I was just about to ask you! You have always been in and out like this before. Have you ever gone through me?"

Xia Chuan's heart suddenly sank.

How did he get in? He did not actively enter Kamio Hitomi's dream, but just walked towards her room with the hairpin in his hand, and then...

"Where is she?" he immediately asked Hitomi Kamio.

“It’s just…” The fox demon also realized the problem, and she immediately began searching, but Kamio Hitomi was not moving around nearby as usual.

She glanced at Xia Chuan and tried to transfer in her dream, but nothing happened.

The next moment, she suddenly realized something and her face turned pale.

"What happened?" Xia Chuan asked.

"The ceremony has already begun!" Kamio Hitomi said somewhat uncontrollably. "How is this possible! Nothing is ready yet!"

Xia Chuan thought of a possibility. He tried it and confirmed that his ability could still be used normally. Then he quickly used the Soul Jade to make a replica of the hairpin.

"Is this what you left behind?"

Kamio Hitomi immediately thought of this possibility: "They did something!"

The hairpin was indeed placed by her in the urn. After she was reincarnated and escaped, those who were chasing her did not let go of such an obvious clue. Perhaps they were not targeting her, but people related to them, but in the end, it affected Xia Chuan.

The power attached to it may have weakened over a long period of time, or even been further destroyed by Natsukawa's power, but it was stimulated again after encountering Kamio Hitomi, leading to the current result.

"It wasn't me!" Kamio Hitomi said. "I couldn't have done that without any preparation!"

"I know." Xia Chuan sighed. "Since it has become like this, we can only continue. What should we do?"

"We must first find Kamio Hitomi." The fox said. "But this time is different from the previous ones..."

There was a wilderness surrounding them. They had not noticed it before, but now they realized that it was different from their previous dreams and more like a real existence, or rather, a scene that had existed before.

Xia Chuan quickly found a wild crow nearby. He then stuffed a soul jade into its stomach and drove it to fly high into the sky to observe the surrounding environment.

"Looking at the position of the sun, we should be in a plain. There is a fairly large lake to the east, a village to the southwest, and what seems to be a city further west."

He drew the geographical locations he saw on the ground.

After a moment, Kamio Hitomi seemed to remember something and began to ask him for more details.

"You know this place?"

Kamio Hitomi sighed, "If I remember correctly, this is near Tokyo 150 years ago, when it was not called Tokyo. I often visit this area... There should be a shrine to the north, where fox spirits are enshrined."

"That's right." Xia Chuan quickly confirmed this. "Someone is worshipping inside. He looks like a samurai."

"Can you see the family crests on their clothes clearly?" Hitomi Kamio asked immediately.

This is not a difficult task for Xia Chuan who controls the crow.

The fox sighed again: "It's the samurai of Mito Domain... Kamio Hitomi should be there, but she should be a different person now."

"Could it be?"

"I don't know how it happened, but this should be the day when I met Lord Lizhen."

Chapter 233 This World is a Little Confused

"What's going on? Didn't you say that the seal was hidden deep in Kamio Hitomi's consciousness?" Xia Chuan asked. "Why are we entering your memory now?"

"I don't know, but it must be related to the hairpin you brought back." The fox looked a little upset. This memory might not be as trivial to her as she said before. "It wasn't like this in the previous times."

"Are the rules of this world still the same as the real world? Or are they different?" Xia Chuan continued to ask. "What should we do to unlock the seal?"

"Because it is her subconscious, most of the rules are the same as the real world she knows. Under the premise that it does not conflict with her cognition or alarm her, we can also impose certain interference on this world and make it change in a direction that is beneficial to us. As for the method of unlocking the seal, we need to find it and destroy it before Kamio Hitomi reacts."

"Find it?"

"It must be something that Kamio Hitomi cherishes very much, but it is incompatible with this world and should not appear in this environment. It may be a person, a certain thing, or even a very large object. It should be noted that it can also interfere with the operation of this world, and it is very likely to affect this world more strongly than us."

That doesn't sound good.

"If Kamio Hitomi's understanding is that there are no monsters or aliens in this world, then we can't use our abilities?"

"She is not an atheist," the fox replied. "You should know clearly what her interests are. What you should worry about is whether the world she perceives is too exaggerated, allowing the seal to use a more powerful force than us."

"What about the boundaries and time limits of the world?"

"I didn't have the energy to explore the boundaries of the world a few times before, but at least the world I saw was quite vast. As for the time limit... the longer we enter, the greater the chance of being discovered by the seal, and the more difficult it will be to succeed. Her subconscious will also begin to want to expel us. If the time is delayed too long, her reaction may be quite intense!"

As expected of someone who has experienced hundreds of years and failed five times, he has mastered the rules very well.

Xia Chuan nodded: "Don't worry, with my help this time, it will definitely succeed!"

The fox demon sighed: "I don't want to involve you in this way. At least I have to be fully prepared..."

"If that were the case, maybe I wouldn't have come in." Xia Chuan said.

He felt somewhat embarrassed when facing the fox demon's question before.

He just said with confidence, "I will definitely help you as long as you are completely honest with me," but in the blink of an eye he hesitated when faced with possible danger. It was like being slapped in the face.

But he couldn't help but hesitate.

Because his life and death not only concerns one person, but also Yui Aoki, Chiyu Moriyama, tens of thousands of people in the Kasumigawa-kai, the Kiryu Group, the Skeleton Shrine, the Skeleton Organization, and may even be related to the Skeleton Faction within Akasaka.

If the members of the Skeleton Society really existed, and the Skeleton Society would still be able to protect the people he cared about after he was in danger or trapped, then he might not need to hesitate. However, on one side of the scales, there is only the friend the fox demon Hitomi Kamii, while the other side has so many chips. He is not a fool without a heart or sense of responsibility, so of course he cannot just ignore all this and give a response.

Of course, he felt a little helpless being dragged into this, but in a sense, it also solved his problem.

Since he has no other choice, there is only one thing he can do, which is to help Kamio Hitomi break the seal as soon as possible and return to the real world.

Since this world is not real, he had no scruples and began to gather the birds around him and make more magatama, turning them into weapons that were under his control and could be attached with thoughts and used at any time.

"Do you need a weapon?" He used the soul jade to make a knife for himself and hung it diagonally around his waist. Under the guidance of the fox demon, his attire was changed into the appearance of a ronin that was common at that time.

Hitomi Kamio has also changed into the appearance of a ronin. Although he has become a man, he is still too handsome, so he has to wear a hat to cover his face.

"I'll just use this." She picked up the knife made of a branch and said to Xia Chuan. "I can't use that thing even if you give it to me. But, do you really know how to use a knife?"

"Don't look down on me." Xia Chuan suddenly drew his sword and chopped off a tree as thick as a bowl.

There was nothing special about chopping off a tree, but the suddenness and concealment of the blow made Kamio Hitomi stunned. If Natsukawa was going to kill her, would she be able to react in time and escape unscathed?

"How could you..."

"I have dozens of knife-wielding men under my command. Do you think I don't know anything about this?"

The swordsmanship that he had originally learned from Kiryu Ichiryū unexpectedly came in handy in this situation.

Hitomi Kamio suddenly gained confidence. With such swordsmanship, maybe she could kill the seal before it realized the threat?

The two then started heading towards the shrine in Kamio Hitomi's memory, preparing to find an opportunity to reunite with the real owner, find a way to gain her trust and stay by her side, and at the same time find a way to find the seal. However, before they had walked two miles along the road, a group of wild samurai suddenly ran out from the bushes on the side of the road and stopped them.

"What are you doing..." Xia Chuan was a little speechless, but the other party was already rushing towards them with a roar.

"Is the era in your memory really so chaotic?" He turned and asked Kamio Hitomi. The next second, he suddenly discovered that the fox demon that had always been by his side had suddenly disappeared!

Depend on!

Even though he had experienced too many things and was forced to hone his heart, Xia Chuan was still stunned for a moment. At this time, the wild warrior who was rushing in the front had already arrived in front of him.

It’s just Kamio Hitomi’s subconscious, but will killing people indiscriminately bring about any changes?

Out of caution, Xia Chuan simply used the scabbard to whip him to the side.

The other wild warriors following behind slowed down their pace for a moment, and the next second, a warrior suddenly roared, and his body continued to rush towards him while expanding and changing. When he rushed in front of him, he had turned into a gigantic monster with a dog's head and a human body!

What expansion is this?

His sword power was completely different from before, and Xiachuan had to quickly step back to distance himself from it. At this time, the other wild warriors had also turned into various monsters!