I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 333 The more the Black Book opposes it, the more it proves I'm right! The progress of the Heavenly Path Trial is skyrocketing!
"Little Black, is this a prophecy or a warning from you?"

Uesugi Tetsu asked with a chuckle.

The bloody words did not immediately appear on the yellowed paper; the black-covered book hesitated for a long time, undecided.

It was wondering whether it should tell the truth.

In any case, given Uesugi Tetsu's eyesight, he definitely wouldn't be able to tell the difference...

As he stared at the black book in his hand, Uesugi Tetsu's smile slowly faded.

He stroked the thick, black cover and said softly, "If you don't know, we can go to the Traveling Gathering again and have Lord Mokujin ask you..."

[This is not a prophecy! This is not a prophecy!]

【Lord Uesugi! This is merely... a small, sincere reminder from me.】

Before Uesugi Tetsuya could finish speaking, two lines of slightly panicked blood-red characters immediately appeared on the black book.

"I see."

Uesugi Tetsu gave a long "oh" and nodded towards the black book: "Little Black, I understand what you mean."

This black-skinned book is no good.

If I hadn't teamed up with Lord Mokujin to give it a nudge earlier, I don't know how much of what it said was true and how much was false.

—So the more the Black Book opposes something, the more it proves that I'm doing the right thing!
Moreover, the Black Man Book is a rare item with a certain prophetic quality; and Karudo is the "God of Possibility" that the factory owners wanted to create together.

Although the factory owners have yet to fully create this God of Possibility from scratch, even the vast factory buildings that were originally built in a remote location in the mortal world have been abandoned.

However, judging from her previous interactions with Karuta, Uesugi Tetsu knew that she still possessed a certain ability to "sneak a glimpse of possibilities."

—If it were her, coupled with the methods that Mokujin left in the Black Man's Book, she should be able to use it well, or even control this "book of prophecy".

This refers to making the best use of resources.

There couldn't be a better arrangement... if Karuta is willing to stay and become his shikigami.

Uesugi Tetsu tapped the black book lightly with his knuckles, gazing out the window in deep thought.

In the future, when going to the Eternal World, try not to bring Kadoya along. Even if you have to let her enter the Eternal World of this era, the time should not be too long.

Heaven knows if those factory owners had the means to locate her from a distance of tens of thousands of miles, and then snatch Karuta away together in their true forms.

Judging from the factory owner Z's reaction, Korudo is of extraordinary importance to them.

"Just right."

Uesugi Tetsu temporarily interrupted his thoughts, looked down at the black book in his hand and said, "Karuta needs to record my schedule from now on, and I happen to need a practical and durable notebook."

【Lord Uesugi...】

Blood-red words suddenly appeared on the seemingly endless yellowed pages.

Uesugi Tetsu gently slapped him, deciding kindly,
"Little Black, you're the one."

No, no, no, Lord Uesugi, look what I'm saying...

Before the bloody words on the black book had even appeared on a single line, Uesugi Tetsuya tossed it into his storage backpack.

The matter has been decided, so there's no room for this little black guy to make excuses.

After arranging the black-skinned man's book, Uesugi Tetsu sat down and opened the system panel while looking out the window at the lush, vibrant green landscape.

He needs to provide the Six-Tailed Fox with enough resources to advance to three and a half stars before he can begin the advancement process.

When I first became a six-tailed fox, I was almost killed by Xiao Qing. After that, I went to speedrun the Flower Card Workshop and didn't pay attention to the subsequent promotion.

The soul ash spent is a minor issue; the real problem is the delay.

Uesugi Tetsu casually opened the old gacha page, and Kuku pressed the ten-pull button, drawing a huge amount of Requiem Ash and a bunch of fashionable little junk.

He was unlucky this time; it took him more than 1700 Soul Ashes to gather enough Soul-Soothing Incense Ashes for the Six-Tailed Fox's advancement.

That time, Red Prajna only spent a little over 1000 points of Soul Ash.

[“Six-Tailed Fox” Advancement in progress: 0% (30 days remaining)]

Uesugi Tetsu glanced at the remaining soul ash again, as if it were a routine matter.

【Soul Ash: 10357】

With just over 10,000 Soul Ash points, a single 10-pull will only leave you with 2,000 points. There's no need to throw them all into the [Here Leads to Supremacy] material card pool yet.

After all, it's still a long way from completing Hyakume's Heavenly Trial...

Uesugi Tetsu blinked, glanced at the progress of the Heavenly Trial on the panel, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

[Current Trial Progress: 0.13%] → [Current Trial Progress: 5.41%]

Unexpectedly, in just the blink of an eye, the trial progress increased by more than 5% in less than two days!

Uesugi Tetsu thought that it was probably because he and Xiaoqing, this legendary sword from the Heian period, had formed a contract.

It was because he went to Tokosei to witness, or even directly participate in, the "Karuta Project" initiated by factory owners in the Edo period hundreds of years ago.

At this rate, who knows, maybe a trip to the Warring States period later, doing something big, could complete a large part of it, or even directly complete the progress of the Hundred-Eyed Demon Heavenly Path Trial.

"Good thing, good thing."

Uesugi Tetsuya closed his eyes again and sensed that the number of acupoints in his body had unknowingly increased from twenty-nine to thirty-two.

During this period, he did not actively open up any acupoints.

Now, it's truly become a way to continuously cultivate and improve even while sleeping.

In addition, the Wanling Furnace Core has been operating quietly and diligently—the number of Zhou Tianyan seeds has increased from ten to twelve, and the proficiency of the Five Thunder Technique has also increased by more than one hundred points.

It should be noted that only a little over a day had passed since Uesugi Tetsu last conducted an introspective self-examination.

Such a significant improvement in proficiency in such a short time... especially at the expert level.

If no powerful opponent is willing to be blasted to death for free, even if Uesugi Tetsu transforms into a six-tailed fox and bombards the Tokoyomi with heavenly lightning for a whole day, he would probably only gain about this much proficiency.

Furthermore, the Void Sea's structure has become more stable due to the transformation from a four-tailed fox to a six-tailed fox, and its expansion speed has maintained a steady rate.

The "five-colored" sea of ​​qi stores and is rapidly increasing a massive amount of qi, sometimes even giving Uesugi Tetsuya the illusion that "even ghosts and gods are nothing special."

Now, the only thing missing for this Five Elements Qi Sea to be temporarily complete is a sufficiently qualified [Earth Attribute Defining Object].

Uesugi Tetsu opened his eyes with satisfaction, exhaled a slender, pure white sword of energy, then pinched it between his fingers and tossed it into the Qi circulation.

He looked up at the sun and moon overlapping in the sky.

It's almost dawn.

With a slight thought, Uesugi Tetsu opened the door to the guest room, causing Minamoto Shizumi, who was walking towards the door, to pause slightly.

Yuan Jingshui glanced at the two-foot-tall adult who was talking incoherently about modern common sense on his phone, then at the spider-like creature standing next to her and a... pink-haired stranger.

She stared at Ge Liu for a couple more seconds before looking away.

She had never seen this woman before.

Is she also Uesugi Tetsu's shikigami?

In Yuan Jingshui's perception, this pink-haired woman didn't have any circulating internal energy or gathering spiritual energy around her, nor did she possess even the slightest trace of demonic or supernatural aura. At most, she was just an ordinary woman with some signs of training.

But Yuan Jingshui didn't ask any further questions.

What does it have to do with someone else's shikigami?

As for not being able to sense the depth of the situation—perhaps this pink-haired woman is a support-type shikigami.

Within seconds, Uesugi Tetsu appeared in her line of sight.

Yuan Jingshui nodded slightly to him.
"Uesugi-kun, your elders at home would like to have a chat with you."

She paused for a moment, then looked at Spider-Cut, who was standing close to the two-foot-tall man, intently absorbing modern knowledge.

Uesugi Tetsu immediately understood.

"I know."

He plucked a string in his heart: "Xiaoqing, we have to go now."

The blood-red pupil on the hilt swivel turned, paused for a moment in the direction of Yuan Jingshui, and then spoke with dissatisfaction in the heartstrings.

"Lord Uesugi, I'm only halfway through learning this..."

“Your old friends from the Yuan family want to see you. You should meet them and hear what they have to say.”

"Fine……"

Qing rarely revealed her superfluous emotions.

He pointed at the hilt of the sword at the two-foot-tall man, and then it flew to Uesugi Tetsuya's waist.

Uesugi Tetsu patted the twin swords at his waist and nodded slightly to Minamoto Shizumi.

"Let's go."

……

The two spent more than ten minutes passing by the mansion located in the very center of the Gen family. Uesugi Tetsuya saw the grand hall, which was quite spacious and no less than the main hall of the Imagawa family, even several sizes larger.

However, Yuan Jingshui said that the meeting would not be held here, as this place is too formal.

They were going to a nearby, ordinary meeting room.

After walking for a few more minutes, Uesugi Tetsuya, who was tilting his head to count the beams supporting the house, paused slightly.

Arrived.

This is a fact that can be known without even turning around.

Yuan Jingshui, who was beside him, also stopped walking.

Uesugi Tetsu heard her say, "Chief Kiyohiro has brought Lord Uesugi here."

Kiyohiro?

Upon hearing the familiar name, Uesugi Tetsuya paused for a moment, then looked in the direction Minamoto Shizumi was speaking and saw the white-haired old man sitting in the main seat, smiling and waving at him.

Still acting like a master?!

Even though Uesugi Tetsu had guessed the identities of the two old men playing chess yesterday, his thoughts suddenly went blank.

He originally thought that the white-haired old man, Gen Kiyohiro, was just an ordinary family elder, while the black-haired old man held a high position and great power.

No, the main problem is that yesterday, Gen Kiyohiro dragged me along as an outside helper, and after we won, he was so smug. He didn't act like the head of the Gen family at all.
Looking around, Uesugi Tetsuya noticed that the chairs in the reception room, which was neither too big nor too small and was about a hundred square meters, were almost half full.

Most of them looked older than he and Yuan Jingshui combined.

—Most of the elderly people were summoned by Minamoto Kiyohiro, the head of the Minamoto family, so there were not many people who really paid attention to Uesugi Tetsuya.

Instead, it was the black-haired old man who had lost the game yesterday who spoke first, nodding to Uesugi Tetsuya and breaking the silence.

"Yuan is pure and upright, and the Yuan family is old."

"By the way," Gen Kiyohiro, sitting at the head of the table, also spoke up with a smile, "Young Uesugi played a wonderful game of Go yesterday. It wasn't long, but every move was brilliant..."

Seeing that Uesugi Tetsu and Minamoto Shizumi were still standing without saying a word, he gestured for two chairs: "Sit down, sit down, Shizumi, and Uesugi, let's sit down and talk."

Just as Minamoto Shizumi hesitated for a moment before wanting to thank him, Uesugi Tetsuya had already sat down with an air of nonchalance.

Left with no other choice, she sat down as well.

Seeing this, Gen Kiyohiro's smile widened, and he continued,

"—Not only is he young and has profound chess skills, but his overall strategic vision also far surpasses that of us two old geezers."

"The Lord praises you."

Uesugi Tetsu replied "neither humble nor arrogant"—in fact, if he had said a few more words, he might have burst out laughing.

Yesterday, the one who made Minamoto Kiyohiro win against Minamoto Kiyomasa wasn't Uesugi Tetsuya at all... he was practically an intelligent mechanical dog!
Aside from the youngest generation in the Ke Yuan family who risked using electronic devices, who would have known that AI could play chess in this day and age, and that it could be operated on a mobile phone?

"Hahaha……"

Gen Kiyohiro laughed twice, then looked around.
"You all don't seem very happy to see this young friend Uesugi arrive."

—Of course.

Uesugi Tetsu thought calmly to himself.

This group of practitioners of the Yuan family's Returning Abyss Breathing Technique are all old men of the Yuan family who are at least unmatched among the Ghost God level, and may even be Desolate Gods. Why would they be interested in a junior like him who is not even a Ghost God?

The reason he was brought here today is probably because of Xiaoqing...

Sure enough, before he could even exchange pleasantries with Minamoto Kiyohiro and Minamoto Kiyomasa, an elderly man with silver hair and age spots on his face looked at the Spider Cutter at his waist and spoke in a hoarse voice...
"Your Excellency Qing, it's been a long time."

The old man forced his eyes open a crack, straightened his bent back, and forced a smile, saying, "I suppose it's been two hundred and twenty-three years."

no respond.

Qing remained unmoved.

Spider Cutter rested quietly at Uesugi Tetsu's waist, even the blood-red eyes on the hilt remained motionless.

It looked like a dead object.

Uesugi Tetsu listened to the question echoing in his heart, a slight smile playing on his lips.

He tapped the Spider Cutter at his waist, speaking calmly yet clearly.
"Qing, why don't you catch up with your old friends?"

At this moment, the blood-red pupil on the spider-slicer's hilt turned to the silver-haired old man who had greeted him, and replied in a lukewarm, indifferent tone,
"Yes, it's been a long time."

The topic was abruptly ended by Qing.

However, the facts revealed in this question and answer are of extraordinary significance.

The moment Uesugi Tetsu spoke and Seisai replied, all the old men in the reception room who had previously been indifferent and completely unconcerned about Uesugi Tetsu sat up straight.

The elders of the Minamoto family looked at Uesugi Tetsuya with gleaming eyes.

They immediately understood a fact.

This current owner of Spider Cutter... is probably completely different from the previous ones!
(End of this chapter)