From Earthbound Spirit to Tokyo Evil

Its attack method is also somewhat different from the evil spirits that Xia Chuan is familiar with. Instead, it is more similar to Xia Chuan himself, both of which use pure spiritual power to attack.

As for its appearance... Although Xia Chuan tried very hard to see it clearly the second time, he still couldn't see it clearly because it appeared too abruptly. He could only see part of it roughly.

It seems to be a deformed monster that is a fusion of the human body and some kind of creature.

The power is indeed very strong. It should be impossible to defeat it head-on by relying solely on the spiritual power brought by the crow.

But...what if the priestess lets him descend as a god?

Should be able to kill it?

Chapter 253 Between the Seals

There are only three people who can be used, but if Nomiya Wakana suddenly disappears under the watchful eyes of Akasaka, it will easily attract unnecessary attention. And as a promising shrine maiden, Kawaguchi Rena has a relationship with Asakawa Manabu, it is impossible to let her take the risk.

Then, it can only be Yuriko Kiyokawa.

Her potential has reached its limit, at least as of now, after receiving a large amount of spiritual energy, she has reached her bottleneck. With the qualifications of a raccoon cat, there is almost no room for improvement.

In other words, she is the strongest among the three truly inspired witches at the moment, but will most likely be the weakest in the future.

If not at this time, then when should it be used?

Xiachuan immediately ordered her to set off for Toyama overnight. Considering that the two raccoon cats were of little use and might even cause trouble for him, he specifically asked them to stay in Tokyo.

Yuriko Kiyokawa quickly arrived in Toyama by the Hokuriku Shinkansen. Although she was a little uneasy, as a shrine maiden, she resolutely followed Natsukawa's request, put on the mask, took the car driven by Mitsuharu Akai to the vicinity of the cave, and then walked up the mountain to that place.

The place was still the same, and there was no sign of anything special or dangerous. Considering the scope of application of the God's Descent Technique and the pattern of the monster's appearance, Natsukawa asked Kiyokawa Yuriko to draw a magic circle after entering the cave for more than ten meters, and use the Hinoki Dance to summon himself here again in the form of a god.

"Go out of the cave now, the farther the better!" Xia Chuan said.

"Yes!" Yuriko Kiyokawa breathed a sigh of relief. Mitsuharu Akai hesitated for a moment, nodded silently, and took her and ran quickly down the mountain.

Only when they walked out of the cave did Xia Chuan slowly float towards the hall-like space, but when he was about to enter, he suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the depths of the cave that he had not been able to set foot in the previous two times!

A huge black shadow suddenly appeared, but Xia Chuan, who already had enough strength, easily left it behind him.

Like a meteor, he continued to move deeper into the cave along the traces of man-made excavation. After walking less than twenty meters, he entered the second open underground space.

The road suddenly turned down here, as if it suddenly fell into a huge well in the belly of the mountain. In the center of this deep well, there stood a huge stone that was emitting a strange faint red light. It was surrounded by ropes and talismans, but what surprised Xia Chuan was that it was surrounded by corpses. Most of them were ordinary humans, and there were also huge skeletons that were obviously monsters.

This is……

When Xia Chuan saw this thing, he realized that his guess was wrong. No matter how he looked at it, this place didn't look like the burial place of great monks. On the contrary, it looked more like a prison used to seal powerful monsters.

It's really unlucky...

Xia Chuan suddenly felt a little bored. At this time, the shadow of the monster behind him had caught up with him. He no longer avoided it, but instead rushed directly towards the monster. The divine power and resentful power collided violently in the air, making a huge noise, and even causing the cave to tremble slightly.

After all, the monster's power was no match for Xia Chuan, who was summoned here as a god, and it disappeared in an instant. But just when Xia Chuan decided to go down to the stone to take a look, a short and thin shadow suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Please don't do anything yet!" His voice sounded very old. "I have no hostility!"

It was a monk who looked like a mummy, but of course, it was a spirit rather than a physical body.

Regardless of whether he was an enemy or a friend, at least he was someone with whom he could communicate, so Xia Chuan stepped back slightly.

"who are you?"

"Good, good, I used to be the monk official here, but as you can see..." The ghost of the old monk sighed. "There is no time to chat anymore. The noise just now must have woken them up. Let's go outside first!"

It’s only a distance of more than 20 meters, does it make any difference?

Although he thought so, Xia Chuan also had to go back to read the inscriptions, so he flew out with him.

"They can't stray too far from the seal. We can only rely on the evil spirits they create and control to capture people who accidentally enter this cave and bring them to the other side of the seal. The farther we are from them, the safer we will be."

Xia Chuan was very skeptical of his words. If that was true, then how did he survive here?

"Thank you very much for killing that guy and freeing me." The old monk bowed to him solemnly. "After I was accidentally killed by them, I was pieced together with the spirits of other dead people and became the Baimang ghost that attacked you before. In the past few hundred years, I had to be its accomplice and watched it kill people who entered here one after another. Amitabha, thanks to your help, I finally broke free from this hell."

"You are the only soul left?"

"Perhaps it's because the old monk is the only one who still has good thoughts in his heart, so he hasn't been saved?"

"What's your name?"

"I am the old monk Pingquan Temple Benzhen." The old monk's spirit bowed to Xia Chuan again, and then asked: "Excuse me, what year and month is it outside the cave now? Why hasn't my Pure Land Sect sent anyone to check the seal here for hundreds of years? Could it be that something big happened outside that made them forget about this place?"

Xia Chuan looked at him and shook his head slightly: "It has been hundreds of years, it is hard to explain in a short time, can you first tell me what is sealed in here?"

Benzhen hesitated for a moment and whispered, "The one sealed here is the guardian deity of the Togashi clan, Yiyou."

"Yiyou?" Xia Chuan repeated. "What happened?"

"The last descendant of the Togashi clan sneaked into the seals, destroyed some of them, and tried to release Yiyou. I led the monks to defeat them, but when we tried to repair the seals, Yiyou used the escaped power to kill us all... Someone should have discovered the abnormality here soon and notified the Gobo, asking the Buddha to send people to reinforce the seals... But for some reason, for hundreds of years, there have only been mountain people and monsters who strayed into this place, and no disciples of my Jodo Shinshu sect have come."

“Who was the Buddha who managed this place at that time?”

"The great monk who built the Dharma Bridge behind him is Zheng."

"That means Xiajian Lai Zhao?" Fortunately, after reading the relevant records, Xia Chuan was not confused by such a name.

Heiquanji Motojo seemed a little uncomfortable with him calling him by his name, but he didn't say much.

"What's the curse here?" Xia Chuan continued to ask.

But Benzhen suddenly stood there in a daze. After a moment, he raised his head again, but the expression on his face was completely different from before.

"Who are you? What do you want to do?"

Chapter 254 The irresistible temptation

The surrounding environment has completely changed. It is no longer the cave surrounded by stone tablets, but the top of the huge rock emitting a faint red light.

The strange thing was that as a god, Xia Chuan didn't realize how he was transferred to this place. He quietly used some of his spiritual power to explore the surroundings and confirmed that he was not in an illusion, but was actually transferred to the top of the boulder.

"Who are you?" he then asked.

The shadow on the opposite side was obviously no longer the old monk Heiquanji Motozhen, but the thing sealed in this huge stone.

But, is what the old monk said before true?

"Arrogant." The shadow sneered, and a powerful force suddenly attacked from all directions.

Xia Chuan had been quietly on guard, and immediately rushed towards the shadow. The two sides collided heavily in mid-air, and the shadow soon disappeared. A moment later, the figure of a middle-aged man in ancient clothing appeared on the other side of the boulder, but soon turned into a young man in mountaineering clothes.

"As a guest, shouldn't I answer the host's questions first?" He asked in a completely different voice and wording from before.

What should I do?

Xia Chuan thought quickly.

Of course, the most straightforward way to deal with it was to fight and then go their separate ways. However, the previous collision had already made him realize that the opponent's strength was no less than the divine power that he had been summoned here by Yuriko Kiyokawa. The key point was that the opponent seemed to want to negotiate now, and he also wanted to see if he could get some useful information from him.

"My name is Haibi." He then said. It was just a pseudonym anyway and should have no meaning to this guy.

"Skeleton Spy? Skeleton Society?" The young man opposite asked with a little surprise.

Xia Chuan was also surprised, but soon understood: "You took away their memories?"

"It should be their honor to be a part of me." The other party said with some pride, but then he bowed slightly to him formally. "I am Yiyou, the lord of the five hundred miles of mountains and rivers in Echizen. If I am not mistaken, the business focus of the Skeleton Society should be in Kanto. What are you doing here?"

"I came here at the request of the Qingkong Society." The other party's attitude seemed to be acceptable, so Xia Chuan simply said.

"So that's how it is." Yiyou smiled, but didn't say anything else.

"What will happen to them?"

"He died on the street, and was arrested and became a ghost." Yiyou said. "Either become a part of my power, or become a part of the new Baimang ghost."

This attitude gradually made Xia Chuan feel unhappy.

Yiyou wanted Xiachuan to beg him, but the question was, why?

Akai Mitsuharu was not worthy of Xia Chuan's humbleness, and he probably couldn't save Akai Mitsuharu and other monsters, but wasn't it easy to kill the guy in front of him? He didn't even have to do it himself, it was just a matter of a phone call.

Akasaka and Tokyo Watcher might not listen to other youkai, but he is Mukuroki.

"I see." He then smiled as well, and then said, "Goodbye."

"Wait a minute!" Yi You finally said. "It's just a piece of cake for me to lift the curse, but shouldn't you show some sincerity as well?"

"What kind of sincerity?" Natsukawa was already prepared to give up on Akai Mitsuharu and the others, so he asked with an indifferent attitude.

"I probably already know the current situation of this world." Yiyou's attitude suddenly became enthusiastic. "It is unreasonable for stupid and weak humans to climb over the heads of gods. Haizhai, let's join forces! The power of the Skeleton Society plus me will definitely completely change the situation of this world! We will definitely be able to take back everything that should have belonged to us!"

"The world?" His words made Xia Chuan couldn't help laughing.

The monsters he merged with probably didn't know as much about this world as Xia Chuan did, and Yiyou probably couldn't really understand the knowledge in their memories, and ignored the truly important content.

In his mind, perhaps just like when he was sealed by the Ikko sect, he regarded this small island country as the whole world, but the problem was that this world was no longer what he knew it to be.

More importantly, Xiachuan never thought that it would be better if monsters ruled the world, and he never felt that anything had been taken away from him by humans.

After all, he hasn't been an alien long enough, and perhaps some things have changed quietly, but the vast majority of ideas are still on the side of humans.

This guy in front of me, no matter whether his name is Yiyou, whether he is a great demon or a former god from Echizen, it is better for him to continue to be locked up here.

His smile made Yiyou a little confused and alert.

"Haizhi, did I misjudge your thoughts?"

"Not really, but this is not something I can decide alone. Let me go back and ask other people for their opinions," Xia Chuan said.

"Don't you want knowledge related to gods?" Yiyou suddenly asked. "The Skeleton Society has been collecting all kinds of knowledge, right? So, how to become a god, how to obtain and purify willpower, how to use divine power, how to select and train your own followers and clergy, don't you want this knowledge?"

His voice gradually became charming: "Hai Jue, I don't know what kind of background the skeleton has, but I have a method to condense the divine body and take over the body of an adult. Don't you want it?"

His words made Xia Chuan feel a little moved, but at the same time he also became alert.

How did he know I wanted this?

"Haizhi, if I'm not mistaken, although you have obtained the status of a god, you have not obtained the relevant inheritance, right?" Yiyou waved his hand gently, and some of the skeletons beside the boulder stood up, and soon pieced together into a huge monster.

"I heard that you can control crows, but judging from your performance in the two previous times you entered the cave, you only have the most basic control methods, right?" The monster stretched out his hand to them, and a small crow body appeared in front of them. It should be the corpse of the crow left behind when he possessed the body and entered the cave. "You should control them through the amulet attached to the crow's body? Don't you think that is inconvenient and seriously restricts your power?"

The crow's body suddenly stood up, and then a large amount of bones were transferred from the giant skeleton monster to it. Soon, with this small corpse as the center, they were pieced together into a huge bird's skeleton.

A shadow moved from the boulder under their feet to it, and flesh and blood suddenly grew out of the skeleton. In just a few seconds, it turned into a giant crow that was two meters tall.

It flapped its wings and chirped, flying to a higher place in the cave, then landed and stopped in front of Xia Chuan.

"I can teach you all of this." Yiyou said, and the shadow left the crow. In an instant, it turned into a skeleton again, and then scattered everywhere, leaving only the body of the little crow.

"And all I ask for is some small help."

Chapter 255: Ancient Gods Cannot Be Trusted

"A little help?" Although he was very interested in what Yiyou said, Xia Chuan did not relax his vigilance at all.

The piles of bones surrounding the boulder are enough to show what kind of person this guy is. If it weren't for his own uniqueness, would he really be so easy to talk to?

"In the past few hundred years since the seal was loosened, I have accumulated a lot of strength and made many attempts, but the restrictions set by those bald thieves of the Ikko Sect cannot be broken by ordinary means." Yiyou said sincerely. "Mr. Haizhai, I need your help. It may take a little time, but I can assure you that when I get out of this predicament, the rewards you get will far exceed your efforts!"

"Take some time?"

"This kind of restriction can only be lifted through specific methods. I will teach you how to select and train qualified clergymen and let them learn how to borrow power from the gods. Then, they can use formations and magic to offset the power of this seal."

"It sounds like it will take a long time?" Xia Chuan said calmly.

"If we can find someone with superior qualifications and use divine power to assist us, it will only take one or two months to reach the basic requirements for using divine arts. Mr. Haishi, the Skeleton Society should have its own believers and supporters, right? You should also have your own favorite followers? I can help you quickly build a team of clergy. By that time, the Akasaka Society and the Styx Society will not be your opponents. Mr. Haishi, no matter what the Skeleton Society's ambitions are, the more power we have in our hands, the better, right?"

"What about you? If you get out of this predicament, what would you like to do?"

"First of all, of course, I have to understand and adapt to this world. Then, I have to rebuild my own shrine, select and train clergy, and finally restore the rule over this land and restore the former majesty and glory. Mr. Haisui, this shouldn't be an excessive request, right?"

"It's not really." Xia Chuan said. "Give me some time to think about it."

"No problem." Yi You said. "You can bring the people from the Clear Sky Society here first, so that I can postpone the curse on them, so that they don't die in the process. I hope you can understand this approach. I don't want to do anything to them, but I must have certain means to ensure that they will not endanger my safety."

Xia Chuan thought about it for a moment and nodded: "Okay."

"I have a feeling that we will become close friends in the future." Yiyou said. "Haizhi-kun, you can investigate something about me. You won't regret it."

Akai Mitsuharu was obviously not satisfied with this result, but the pattern on his arm had spread to his shoulder. Faced with this situation, he did not dare to bet whether the existence in the cave was lying. Instead, the two monsters who were in a better situation asked if they could be given some time to make a decision. After all, they had seven more days than Akai Mitsuharu, so they could make a decision based on his situation.