Aige took the roasted sweet potato, tore off the skin, and having learned from her previous experience, she blew on it again and again before taking a bite.

"Is it delicious?" Xiangbei was not afraid of the temperature. He tore off the sweet potato skin and bit into it directly. While eating, he waved to Alice and Lilith beside him and said hello.

"It's delicious... No, that's not right!" Ai Ge was about to agree when she realized what was happening.

"Xiangbei, where have you been for so long? You left without saying a word. I searched for you for a long time before I heard about you from Youxiang..."

"Wait, where did you go to Youxiang? When did you go to the sunflower field?" Alice heard a familiar word.

"Um... I went with Fran and the others." Aige shrank her head. It seemed that her mother followed Feng Jianyouxiang and didn't get along with him... or was she a little scared? Obviously, Youxiang said it very nicely.

"I'm sorry, I really forgot about this..."

He patted Ai Ge's little head. Although only a few chapters had passed, Xiang Bei had not seen Ai Ge for a while. Now seeing Ai Ge again, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"To show my apology, how about I take you to Jiugong to buy the most expensive and delicious cake?"

"Really?" Aige's eyes lit up.

"Really? I want to eat it too."

He quickly finished the sweet potato in his hand, feeling the sweetness lingering on his tongue, then turned north to Alice and Lilith and said.

"Would you two like to come too? It's my treat."

"Thank you for your kindness." Alice shook her head slightly and apologized, "But we have to go to the banquet at the shrine next. Since there is still some time before the banquet, I brought them here to fill their stomachs. If they eat too many desserts, it will not be good."

"No Alice."

Aige patted her belly and said nonchalantly.

"Dessert is in another stomach, so it doesn't matter how much you eat."

“…That’s right.”

Even Lilith responded that instead of attending a boring party with a bunch of strangers, she would rather go to a dessert shop with this guy she knew to buy some cake she wanted.

"No means no." Alice's attitude was like a parent who doesn't want her child to eat too much dessert.

"By the way, Mr. Xiangbei, are you also coming to the banquet today?"

The banquet venue still needs to be decorated. If Xiangbei wants to go, he can just find a strong man to go with him.

"I'll let it go." He shook his head.

"I've been up all night for a while, and now I just want to go back to sleep as soon as possible."

"Is that so?" Alice didn't insist.

Ai Ge was very concerned about Xiang Bei's current condition: "Are you really okay? Xiang Bei, you look very tired. Do you want to go to Yongyuan Pavilion to take a look?"

"Do I look tired... Well, it's nothing serious. I just stayed up late lately. I just need a good night's sleep."

"Oh." After hearing Xiangbei say this, Ai Ge's expression calmed down.

"Then when you wake up, I'll come over to play with you."

"Row."

After yawning and saying goodbye to Ai Ge, Xiangbei returned to his house.

There was actually another reason why I didn't follow Alice and the others to the shrine.

He planned to fight with Reimu Hakurei after he finished resting.

Volume 3: Return to Fantasy: Chapter 174: Can’t think of a title… Anyway, it’s still Reimu

Reimu Hakurei is the current shrine maiden at Hakurei Shrine in Gensokyo.

With the blessing of Hakurei's power and the Hakurei Great Barrier, she is almost the strongest existence in Gensokyo.

However, even in the first setting, Reimu cannot be called the strongest, after all, there are the likes of Yoshihime, Toyohime, Junko, and Heka above her.

In this kind of secondary setting story, the value of this "strongest" is not guaranteed. For example, various BBAs such as Yakumo Shifumi Yuuka can theoretically fight against Reimu.

If that was the case, Xiangbei felt that he was definitely stronger than Reimu, but he didn't fight Reimu to prove that he was stronger than her or anything like that.

He came for the power of Hakurei.

I slept soundly all day, until noon the next day. When I woke up, I didn't see Ai Ge coming.

Maybe Ai Ge felt that she could sleep longer, or maybe Ai Ge was still on the road. After all, this place was a bit far from the human world and the magic forest.

"What are you going to do now?"

Huo's voice rang in his mind. After spending such a long time together, Xiangbei and Huo and Rika had become quite familiar with each other.

As for the two other residents in the mind...Yakumo Kurenai's other two personalities, White and Oni, there is no communication at all. However, given the current situation, not communicating is actually the best choice.

Apart from communicating with Xiangbei and Rika, Huo spends the whole day fiddling with her so-called "system". As for Rika, it seems that she is in a daze most of the time.

Fortunately, these two guys had the experience of being in prison for a long time in the past, so they were not bored to death after staying in Xiangbei's spiritual world, and were able to relieve boredom through their own means.

Xiangbei had thought about giving Huo and Rika their entire bodies and giving them freedom... The main reason was that he couldn't do it because he didn't have enough conditions.

The essence of the ability to transform without action is to change the body by changing the structure of the soul. If you want to create a body out of thin air, it is actually impossible.

As for transferring souls and letting Huo and Rika take on the bodies of other people... he doesn't support this in his worldview.

Using a construction technique to construct a body? In fact, creating a human body is more difficult than imagined, let alone a body with life.

Fortunately, he also got a lot of inspiration from the "body with life and able to accommodate the soul" given by Shenqi. If some time passes, he may really be able to rely on the combination of various magical abilities to directly create a physical body for Huo and Rika.

There is another point... It's strange that Yakumo Hong's system entered his body along with the souls of Huo, Bai, and Gui, but he couldn't detect it... And whether it was his own system or Yakumo Hong's system, it seemed as if they didn't detect any trace of the other party.

It was a bit strange, but Xiangbei didn't know why it was like this, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

"Plan."

Xiangbei climbed out of bed and thought while washing up.

There are three days left until the agreed date to use the time machine.

"Does hitting Reimu count?"

"That's fine." Huo had no objection.

"It's a good opportunity to test the improvement in your strength over the past two months... Well, just be careful not to overdo it."

"That's it then."

So, Xiangbei finalized today's itinerary - to go to the shrine and fight with Reimu.

He put a note on the table and went to buy some snacks and cakes to greet Ai Ge who might come over after he left, as well as the other little ones who might be there.

Then, head north and you will arrive above the shrine.

……

……

"The weather is getting colder."

Although she said this, Reimu Hakurei, who was still wearing her armpit-exposed shrine maiden uniform, was now reluctantly dealing with the aftermath of yesterday's banquet at the shrine.

Her movements were skillful and swift. As a shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine, she had dealt with countless aftermaths of banquets, and handling these matters was already a daily routine for her.

But cleaning up these messes is like washing dishes after a meal. It’s not tiring and doesn’t take much time, but I just don’t want to do it.

But this is a shrine, and she personally cannot stand the shrine being left in a slovenly state after a banquet, not to mention her ethics as a shrine maiden.

Although she is poor, she pays great attention to hygiene... Maybe it's because her life in the shrine is too idle, so she often passes the time by cleaning the shrine. Over time, she has developed this kind of clean character.

However, loving cleanliness is one thing, and being lazy is another; the two are not contradictory.

"Tsk, why didn't anyone stay the night before, or was everyone hungover? Otherwise, I wouldn't have to clean up here by myself..."

Reimu was muttering to herself when the red bow on her head shook. She subconsciously looked up and found Xiangbei falling from the sky.

"Long time no see, Reimu."

"Yeah, long time no see."

Although they were friends whom he hadn't seen in a while, Reimu didn't show much emotion.

"If I hadn't heard Alice and the others mention you yesterday, I would have thought you had been eaten by some monster somewhere."

"Are you kidding? What kind of monster could eat me? Putting aside other things, with my abilities, I can easily kill all the monsters in Gensokyo who want to eat humans. How could I possibly be eaten?"

"Ah, right, right." He ignored Xiangbei's nonsense and said, "But you came at the right time. Come and lend a hand and help clean up this place. Yesterday, those scumbags were busy drinking and didn't even remember to clean up before leaving. They didn't even pay a single cent. I have to clean up the place the next day..."

Xiangbei didn't care about Lingmeng's attitude. He clapped his hands and summoned out a dozen clones that looked exactly like himself to clean up the mess of the banquet.

"Oh my, you can even use the clone technique?" Reimu looked at Xiangbei's real body in surprise - among all the people, only Xiangbei's real body was not working, so it was easy to identify.

"I understand a little bit." Xiangbei responded.

"Then can you teach me--" Reimu's face showed excitement, as if she had come up with a good idea.

However, the good ideas this guy came up with basically had no good results, so Xiangbei interrupted her before Lingmeng asked.

"This is a unique ability of mine. It's not a learnable technique like magic. You can't learn it."

"Tsk, boring~"

However, since they had clones to do the work, the two of them were happy to have some free time and stopped working.

Xiangbei followed Reimu into the shrine and put some more money into the money box.

The crisp sound of coins falling into the box made Reimu's face brighter. When Xiangbei walked into the room, Reimu had already brewed tea for her and Xiangbei.

"By the way, what have you been doing lately? I heard Alice say you looked very tired yesterday. Have you been working on anything lately?"

Reimu took out a box of senbei from the cabinet, not sure if it was expired or not. She picked up a piece and put it in her mouth, chewing it with a crunching sound.

"Literally hellish training... Yeah, I almost forgot about the main thing."

Xiangbei, who had just sat down, slapped his head and looked at Lingmeng and said.

"Reimu, fight me again."

Volume 3: Return to Fantasy: Chapter 175: The Second Battle Begins Again!

"play one more time?"

The senbei tasted a bit strange, perhaps because it had been left for too long. Plus, she had just done some work, so Reimu felt her mouth was a bit dry, so she picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip.

"That's fine with me, but do you have the money ready? I don't want much this time, 100,000 yen will be fine."

"You're really asking for too much, but I won't lose this time. I've prepared a new trick... Hey, the taste of your senbei... is expired. Don't you have money? Why don't you buy some new snacks?" Xiangbei frowned as he took a few senbei from Reimu and put them in his mouth.

"I remember that Jiugong Cake Shop in Renli is pretty good, although the prices are a bit high. And I remember I gave you quite a bit of money before, right? Don't you want to buy some?"

“I did buy it, but I spent it all.”

"...6."

In the first setting, Reimu is just short of money for incense offerings at the shrine, so she won't give up any means to attract worshippers. However, in this second setting, this guy is a real poor and greedy red killer who spends money lavishly.

He patted the crumbs in his hands, stood up, and pointed to the open space outside that had been almost cleaned up by his clones.

"Then let's have a fight now without further delay."

"Oh, I really can't do anything about you."

Reimu took out her half-human-length coin from some corner, stood up lazily from the floor, and walked slowly to the open space outside the shrine.

The clones acted very quickly and cleaned up the mess from yesterday's banquet in just a short while. Xiangbei followed behind Reimu and stood in front of her.

"You said you had a new method prepared, so show it to me."

Pointing the imperial coin in her hand at the guy in front of her, Reimu's lazy eyes suddenly became sharp.

Reimu Hakurei is the Hakurei shrine maiden who lacks the most sense of crisis in history. She is also negligent in self-cultivation and is far more greedy and lazy than her predecessors.

Even among all the Hakurei shrine maidens, she is quite powerful. No, or rather, she is the strongest Hakurei shrine maiden of all generations.

In addition to her terrifying strength, Hakurei Miko also has innate good luck and very sharp intuition.

This intuition allows her to keenly perceive some unusual situations at an unknown distance. It is also with this super intuition that she can easily solve so many anomalies.

Two months ago, her mother came to her and asked her to investigate information about Xiangbei... This made her feel a little strange.

Why do we need to investigate that guy? Could it be that Xiangbei is just like Bao Zixian, a decent person on the surface, but a ghost or something like that in secret?

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