I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 325 The Trial of the Spider Cutter: The Rare Appearance of the Hundred-Eyed Demon! The Earth Spider Projection, Slashed in One Blow.
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Uesugi Tetsuya's CPU was instantly overheated.

What... is this guy saying?

This uncle looks like he's only in his thirties or forties, but he's actually over a hundred years older than Tokugawa Motoyasu.
Moreover, if he calls himself "Little Brother", wouldn't the way he addresses people be all messed up if he meets several generations of the Yuan family later?
The man stroked his healthy stubble, walked up to the two with a half-smile, and asked Yuan Jingshui, "Little Jingshui, is this Uesugi guy here to retrieve the spider?"

Minamoto nods: "Yes, I have come here with Uesugi Tetsu, the champion of the Eastern Region Seed Battle, to obtain the champion's reward, Spider Cutter. Please lead the way, Great-Grandfather."

The man responded, then looked at Uesugi Che, scrutinized him for a while, and chuckled: "You made quite a commotion at the door earlier."

"Not bad, young man. You're quite physically fit."

He patted Uesugi Tetsuya on the shoulder, making a dull thud.

Uesugi Tetsu didn't feel any "terrifying gaze that saw him clearly"; instead, he just felt that it was an ordinary look from an elder.

In Uesugi Tetsu's eyes, this great-grandfather of Minamoto Shizumizu looked like nothing more than a middle-aged man, and had nothing to do with the word "extraordinary".

As we all know, the stronger the essence, the greater the "existence," and the more an existence surpasses the current "sea level" of the world, the more difficult it is for it to hide.

Even if Uesugi Tetsu can blend in with ordinary people now, he might not be able to do so once he ascends to become a demon god and his life essence changes.

But this man, like Uesugi Tetsu, was "ordinary".

It's hard to imagine just how powerful he is.

Uesugi Tetsu breathed a slight sigh of relief—thankfully, he had anticipated this and hadn't transformed into a four-tailed fox to use Thousand Faces to enter the Minamoto clan.

Otherwise... the probability of not being seen through is almost zero.

Da da.

Uesugi Tetsu could hear the man's toes tapping twice on the stone pavement.

And so, the secluded bamboo forest that stood behind him, which also gave Uesugi Tetsuya a strong sense of danger, was cleared in the blink of an eye to make way for a road that was wide enough for several people to pass through.

Along with some of the "terrifying beings" in the bamboo forest, they were also reduced to ashes in that instant.

disappeared without a trace.

The man gestured with his lip towards them.
"Go in, the road is clean now."

"Thank you, great-grandfather."

Gen Shizumi bowed slightly, then led Uesugi Tetsuya into the dimly lit depths.

"in addition."

A man's voice came from behind: "Although the Spider Cutter's test usually doesn't last very long, remember to come out before midnight tonight."

His voice was somewhat sinister and terrifying.
"Otherwise, if I fall asleep, who knows what might happen."

"Jing Shui will keep in mind his great-grandfather's teachings."

Uesugi Tetsu didn't reply; he only realized what had happened after the bone-chilling cold sensation behind him disappeared.

It turned out that his back was already covered in cold sweat.

The Yuan family truly lives up to its reputation as a place where hidden talents abound...

The temporary path leading to the Spider Cutter was quiet, so quiet that he could hear the barely audible heartbeat of Gen Shizumi beside him.

Uesugi Tetsu's thoughts drifted, and he couldn't help but calculate the Minamoto clan's fighting strength based on the information he had just received.

—There are probably many brothers and sisters in the generation of Yuan Jingshui's great-great-grandfather alone, and this "great-great-grandfather" may just be "Yuan Jingshui" of that generation, and not "Yuan Xinshui".

The middle-aged man was four generations removed from Yuan Jingshui, which means there were at least three or four people who were at a similar level to this "great-grandfather".

Perhaps even earlier relics are still alive, they just haven't shown themselves yet.

Uesugi Tetsu couldn't help but smack his lips.

The Four Extremes Breathing Technique... is still too overpowered compared to the Onmyoji. If the "great-grandfather" wanted to slay demons and gods, wouldn't the great Onmyoji before the Tide Slash have been able to kill them all with a single strike?
In the end, it all boils down to one sentence.

Sword Saint is truly awesome...

Twenty minutes later, the sound of Yuan Jingshui's footsteps disappeared, pulling Uesugi Tetsu back to reality.

He looked up but did not see a divine weapon similar to, or even surpassing, Kaga Kiyomitsu.

All that could be seen was an ancient stone pillar with a peculiar shape, resembling a real spider with its claws outstretched and covered in moss.

The stone pillar spider was enormous, even larger than the circular stone platform on which it was placed.

Uesugi Tetsu pinched the tip of his nose and smelled a distinct, intense, and extremely complex demonic aura and a nauseating stench of blood from the stone pillar spider.

It was like an entire ancient battlefield laid out before us.

Minamoto Shizumizu said, "Uesugi-kun, this is Spider Cutter."

"How long has this thing been here? Why does it exude such a demonic aura?"

Uesugi Tetsu stared into the lifelike compound eyes of the spider. If it weren't for the fact that the thing was grayish-white, he would have been afraid that it would suddenly pounce on him and bite him.

"It should be around two hundred years ago."

After thinking for a while, Yuan Jingshui replied, "The previous owner of the Spider Cutter dates back to the early Edo period. In the last one or two hundred years, only a handful of seven or eight people have been qualified to touch it to participate in the trial."

Of all those who participated in the trials, only my elder sister passed… that was a long time ago.”

As Yuan Jingshui spoke, she was completely unaware that a hint of pride had crept into her expression.

Uesugi Tetsu asked in surprise, "Since she passed the trial, why didn't she take the spider cutter?"

Yuan Jingshui immediately replied,
"It's because Spider Cut and my older sister have different ideas; they rejected each other."

"Is this so..."

Uesugi Tetsuya seemed to be deep in thought.

It seems that the spider-cutting creature before us does indeed possess a "spirit".

Uesugi Tetsu had just taken two steps forward when he heard a buzzing sound coming from his waist and directly in front of him at the same time.

It is Kaga Kiyomitsu and Spider Cutter.

At the same time, grayish-white powder was also floating around.

buzzing...

Buzzing?

hum.

Click click click...

Stab it!

The gray-white statue of the earth spider seemed to stir restlessly, almost coming back to life, with a red light appearing in its compound eyes.

Kaga Kiyomitsu suddenly sprang from his scabbard, the blade flowing with pale and black hues.

After exchanging a few words in "sword language," the two swords immediately went from tentative communication to a confrontational stance.

"Xiao Jia, stop fooling around."

Uesugi Tetsuya pressed Kaga Kiyomitsu down and said earnestly in his heartstrings, "Maybe this will be your colleague in the future."

"Oh no, Jia doesn't like him..."

After saying that, Kaga Kiyomitsu pretended not to hear anything and did not reply.

Like a child throwing a tantrum.

Uesugi Tetsu sighed helplessly, while also feeling somewhat puzzled.

—This Spider Cutter isn't some kind of demonic sword like "Hotaru" or "Murasame," so why does it have such a heavy aura of resentment, it's practically dripping with water?

Seeing this, Yuan Jingshui didn't say anything, but simply took out a wooden plaque from his waist and threw it on the stone platform.

In an instant, the resentment that would have killed an ordinary person by touching it was completely suppressed, and a halo of light appeared centered on the stone platform.

Source: Still Water
"Uesugi-kun, step into the circle of light and touch the spider statue to begin the trial."

"it is good."

Without saying a word, Uesugi Tetsu did as he was told, raising his hand to touch the long, grayish-white legs of the stone spider.

Cold, rough...

A familiar feeling came.

When Uesugi Tetsu opened his eyes again, he was on a desolate wasteland with nothing in it.

He looked up and recognized it as the sky of the ordinary world.

It was just slightly different from what I had seen before.

A moment later, a blood-stained, tattered strip of cloth fell from the sky and landed in front of Uesugi Tetsuya.

There are two lines of words written on it.

[Trial]

[Slay all the demons...]

The four characters “斩尽杀绝” were written in scarlet blood.

After Uesugi Tetsuya finished reading it, the strip of cloth turned into ashes in the sparks that appeared out of nowhere.

What followed was the life force of one demon after another that intruded into Uesugi Tetsu's senses.

Although small, their numbers...

It can be described as covering the entire mountainside.

Standing on a relatively high point in this wasteland, Uesugi Tetsu looked down and around. He saw countless densely packed labels and prompts surging incessantly, like a gray tsunami sweeping in.

The vengeful spirit of the Red Demon

The vengeful spirit of the little kappa

The vengeful spirit of Grandma Fire

……

There were too many prompts for Uesugi Tetsu to keep up with. "So that's where all that resentment came from. It seems this trial is just a way to periodically provide free cleaning for Spider-Kiri..."

Otherwise, the 'spirit' the spider cuts will eventually be corrupted by these prematurely dead things.

Uesugi Tetsuya suddenly realized and smiled: "But this is my old profession."

He glanced at the panel and found that he could still use the Demon Avatar.

"It was supposed to be a bit difficult..."

Uesugi Tetsu originally wanted to go straight for the classic four-tailed fox thousand-faced mask + red Hannya mask + hundred-eyed possession.

But thinking about it carefully, it seems that he has never transformed into Hyakume-ki on his own yet.

Uesugi Tetsu stared at the exquisite card depicting the alluring Dokumei loli, wondering what she would look like as the Dokumei...

Perfect timing, let's use these "living materials" to test telekinesis in detail.

With this thought in mind, Uesugi Tetsu gently closed his eyes.

A demon incarnate, the Hundred-Eyed Demon.

A sparse black mist, yet one that swallowed all light, rose up.

Seconds later, a man dressed in an impeccably clean black tailcoat, wearing a formal black tie and spotless white gloves replaced Uesugi Tetsuya.

The man was thin, with a sickly pale complexion, and his angular face was shrouded in a deep black mist.

Only a pair of blood-red eyes, like rubies, lit up.

"So this is what the Hundred-Eyed Demon looks like in its incarnation."

The man took out a mirror from somewhere and looked at himself from head to toe.
"Why do you look so respectable... Isn't this just the natural attire of a corporate slave?"

That's right, the mysterious man in the suit who was still fiddling with the black mist on his face was none other than Uesugi Tetsu.

To be precise, it was Uesugi Tetsuya in the form of Hyakume-ki.

At this moment, the kappa closest to him opened its beak wide and, with a strange laugh, lunged at Uesugi Tetsuya to bite.

Puff puff puff——

The kappa was halfway to pounce when it was crushed into a bloody pulp in mid-air.

[You have killed the vengeful spirit of the little kappa and gained 0.1 Soul Ash.]

Uesugi Tetsuya, who was still studying the black mist on his face, was slightly taken aback.

This was the first time he had ever seen a Soul Ash unit with a value below "1".

But this is not the point.

The important thing is...

A cross of light shone from the depths of his blood-red eyes, dispelling the black mist on his face and revealing a pale face with a ferocious, gleeful smile on it.

His hoarse voice was tinged with barely suppressed laughter.
"So, you can get Soul Ash by killing monsters here!"

"Hoohoho!"

The boundless waves of demons roared with a chilling howl.

"Alright, alright! Even a mosquito's leg is still meat!"

At the top of the small mound, swallowtail coats fluttered in the still air.

Puff puff--!
What followed was that countless demons were crushed into minced meat by an unseen force from above.

Uesugi Tetsu walked down the slope, closed his eyes, and carefully felt the all-seeing vision of the All-Seeing Eye and the telekinetic power he could control at will within it.

He walked slowly amidst the roaring and resentful tides, then silently crushed all the chaotic noises with a powerful voice.

"So this is what telekinesis is."

After an unknown amount of time, Uesugi Tetsuya, standing atop a mountain of corpses tens of meters high, pulled off his white gloves and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He breathed a sigh of relief and gave a heartwarming smile to the remaining demons, whose end he could see at a glance.

"I must thank you all for your selfless help in getting started with this subject."

Uesugi Tetsu said sincerely.

He had no way to repay these demon brothers who were so polite even in death.

The only thing we can do is probably to give them a quick death.

thump.

Spiritual energy seeped into the dark red furnace core drop by drop, beating in sync with the heartbeat, causing the vast earth to tremble.

Then, heavenly lightning appeared.

Above the sky, thick, leaden thunderclouds covered the sky.

On the desolate wasteland where there was no need to consider the consequences, endless lightning, guided by telekinesis, precisely and equally reduced every demon to ashes.

Just as Uesugi Tetsuya's spiritual power was almost exhausted for the third time, the roars belonging to demons in his ears completely disappeared.

"Phew... No wonder only Yuan Xinshui has been able to pass the trial in the past one or two hundred years. With such a lineup, how many people below the level of gods and demons can hold their own?"

Uesugi Tetsuya was about to step down from the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood when he paused slightly.

The crimson eyes of the Hundred-Eyed Demon shifted their gaze, looking towards the horizon.

[Earth spider’s resentful soul projection]

A huge label stretched across the sky, proving its BOSS status.

"The Earth Spider's [projection]... Is this the final stage of the Spider Cutter?"

Uesugi Tetsu clearly sensed the "aura" of a demon or god from the giant eight-legged spider that was tens of meters tall.

But it was not a ghost or god, but rather seemed to be forcibly restricted to the realm of ghosts and gods by some special means.

—Is it because he hasn't reached the level of becoming a ghost or god yet, and this is yet another trial?

"Reasonable."

Having just been beheaded by Fang Xiangshi not long ago, Uesugi Tetsu walked down the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, and he knew all too well how deep and long the "abyss" between them truly was.

"If I hadn't obtained Hyakume-ki, I probably wouldn't have been able to beat you."

Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, Uesugi Tetsu walked unflinchingly toward the Tsuchigumo that hurtled towards him like a hurricane.

He slowly drew Kaga Kiyomitsu, and the embodiment of the tuxedo and white gloves vanished into the black mist.

Instead, a crimson mask, powerful enough to scare away all demons, was used!

"hiss--"

Amidst the roar of the earth spider, spider silk, far more flexible than thread and harder than steel, falls like a rain curtain.

Hundreds of bristles, like missiles, burst forth from its massive body.

rumble……

Two hearts pumped together within Uesugi Tetsuya's body, unleashing a vast power, while the silver light of the Lin-word technique shone on the back of his hand.

The five-colored energy flowed and mixed between black and white in the blink of an eye, then swept across the center and eight legs of the earth spider.

"Unfortunately, it's too late now..."

Five colors, black and white, bloom in mid-air.

Uesugi Tetsu turned around and calmly watched as the monster, which was tens of meters tall, turned into huge pieces of its corpse and crashed heavily to the ground.

A sharp pain came from my left shoulder.

Uesugi Tetsu pulled out the enormous forelimb, which was tens of meters long, and casually tossed it to the ground.

The ground tremors slightly.

Just a moment later, the earth spider's right forelimb could have torn half of Uesugi Tetsuya's body apart, causing him considerable trouble.

[You have killed the vengeful projection of the Earth Spider, gaining 99 Soul Ashes!]

"Ninety-nine o'clock!?"

Uesugi Tetsu, who had been staring at the wound that was almost completely healed, suddenly shifted his gaze and couldn't help but exclaim, "It's nine hundred and ninety times that of that kappa!"

As they were talking, everything around them vanished into nothingness.

Whether it's the remains of the earth spider, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the wasteland, or the sky...

In the silent, still darkness, Uesugi Tetsu witnessed the endless carnage, carnage, and more carnage produced by the Spider Cutter…

Aside from slaying demons, it's still about slaying demons.

The scenes of carnage gradually disappeared only after Uesugi Tetsu became somewhat sleepy from watching.

He looked up and "looked".

Even though there was no light, I could see a little boy dressed as a samurai standing in front of me.

The boy's left half of his face was covered with hideous spiderweb patterns, and his eyes were empty; the right half of his face was delicate and serene, with eyes as calm as water.

A brief, dark red light flashed above the boy's head, like the color of congealed blood—

Spider Cutter

"Your Excellency, congratulations on passing the trial."

The boy, or perhaps the "spirit" of the spider, spoke to him.

"Next, I need to use a very simple question to test your compatibility with me."

"Very well, I will devote myself to you until my death."

"If that doesn't work, I will continue to sleep here and wait."

(End of this chapter)