I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 356 A Huge Sum of Money, 12 Soul Ashes! Sacrifice, Ancient Demon Gods Resurrected! Where are my Blood-Eating Ghost Lantern Clan?
It seemed like only a moment, yet it also seemed like a long time had passed.

The pure white, colorless sun above the Hozuki family's land finally disappeared.

"Brother Yong, are you alright?"

Uesugi Tetsu squatted down and patted Hozuki Isamu's shoulder with concern. Isamu was slumped on the only intact stone brick and his pants were soaked with sweat from fright.

He was able to easily and directly reveal his secret thanks to Yong-ge's kindness in leading him to the front of Hozuki's house.

Otherwise, if you kill the little ones first and then the big ones come, and kill the big ones first and then the old ones come... it would be so troublesome and time-consuming to keep doing this.

Hozuki Isamu trembled slightly and didn't dare to reply.

His pupils, which had been trembling violently from fright, gradually stabilized, and he unconsciously glanced around.

Air, air, glistening wasteland, piles of coke.

Apart from that, there is nothing.

The once magnificent Hozuki family main hall was gone, the clan grounds with hundreds of buildings were gone, and the hundreds of geniuses, elders, and clan head who were far stronger than him... as well as those terrifying shikigami that had previously frightened him to the point of paralysis with just a single one...

Within Hozuki Isamu's field of vision, only half a round, barren mountain remained.

And then there's... Uesugi Tetsu, who's currently concerned about him.

Everything the Hozuki family had—hundreds of years of heritage, their so-called elite troops and powerful demons—was destroyed in an instant by the man before them.

But unexpectedly, Hozuki Isamu felt that he did not resent the other party; instead, he felt a slight sense of gratitude.

They were grateful that the other party had wiped out the damned Hozuki family.

become free.

I no longer have to endure those damn brats mocking me every day.

Even a moment of freedom is good.

Hozuki Isamu thought to himself, and involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief.

"Brother Yong."

Uesugi Tetsu reached out his hand to him: "Can you still stand up?"

Hozuki Isamu instinctively grabbed the hand, stood up from the ground, and almost lowered his head into his pants to say thank you.

"It's good that you can stand up and are alright." Uesugi Tetsu grinned. "I was worried that I might have hurt you if I didn't control myself properly."

After a moment of silence, Uesugi Tetsuya waved his hand and asked, "Yong-ge, aren't you leaving?"

Hozuki Isamu, who had been prepared to die on the spot, was stunned.

Can I leave?

"I don't have the weird fetish of saving people only to kill them later."

"Then, shall I leave?"

Hozuki Isamu stammered as he tentatively asked.

“Let’s go.” Uesugi Tetsu pointed to the downhill path that barely qualifies as a cliff and said, “Once we get out, every time we go somewhere, we just have to say that I destroyed the Hozuki family.”

Hozuki Isamu understood why he had survived, and nodded excitedly.

"no problem!"

澈。

This is the man's name.

Hozuki Isamu remembered the name deeply, as well as the prefix "Great Onmyoji".

……

The recent Five Thunderbolts "nuclear explosion" almost wiped out all the Onmyoji and more than 95% of the clan members within the Hozuki clan's territory.

Only a few small, marginalized creatures survived.

Uesugi Tetsuya needed them to spread his reputation.

If someone has a strong sense of belonging to the Hozuki family, then perhaps each generation will take revenge on them as their life goal, which will bring them a lot of prestige.

That's a good feeling.

But in retrospect, this battle was surprisingly simple...

Uesugi Tetsu had never fought such a simple and mindless battle before.

—Because that group of brainless Onmyoji from the Hozuki family were all gathered together in a huge crowd, and they were so close to him, he didn't know who gave them the courage.

What use are those spiritual energy shields, which are as thin as paper, even if they are stacked in hundreds of layers?

Do you really think that having more people means you can win?

Uesugi Tetsuya, who had exhausted his spiritual power and was about to draw his sword to continue killing, never expected that he would actually raze the Hozuki family's territory to the ground with a single move.

Leaving aside the substitute dolls, don't these guys even have any less useful life-saving items?
These fragile Onmyoji had such low health that they died so quickly that the shikigami who had signed contracts with them died before they could even make a move, and before they themselves had suffered much damage, they were dragged into the mess and died in utter frustration.

A shikigami that dies because of a contract will not be counted as being killed by him, and naturally, the soul ash and rewards will not go to him.

For this reason, Uesugi Tetsu's gains were much smaller than theoretically expected.

"Ugh……"

Uesugi Tetsu sighed helplessly; he simply couldn't understand why these guys were so arrogant.

Where is their confidence? Where is their capital? Where are their trump cards?
Just because they die ten times faster than their shikigami?

Uesugi Tetsuya grew angrier the more he thought about it, so he comforted himself by saying, "This matter has two sides; it's not all bad."

If those idiots from the Hozuki family hadn't stood together, he might have really had a hard time dealing with hundreds of powerful demons and thousands of monsters, and he might have ended up with a smaller harvest.

Even a large number of ants can kill an elephant, and besides, they are not considered ghosts or gods.

"Even so, this is still an unprecedentedly outrageous gain."

The Hozuki family pulled off a job that yielded more soul ash than all of Uesugi Tetsu had ever acquired before!

After all, aside from the Hozuki family, a bunch of brainless fools with no trump cards, why would they allow every Onmyoji in the clan to contract with a Shikigami, and why would they all happen to be gathered on a mountain?

Such an opportunity might only come once in a century!
[You used the All-Spirit Furnace Core - Five Thunder Technique to kill the Great Kappa (2.5 stars)...]

[You used the All-Spirit Furnace Core - Five Thunder Technique to kill the artificial vengeful spirit aggregate (3.5 stars)...]

[You killed... using the Myriad Spirits Furnace Core - Five Thunder Technique]

You used...

Uesugi Tetsu didn't look at the notifications that were still refreshing, they were too noisy for his eyes.

A thought flashed through his mind, and he combined all the clues into one—

You have slain a total of 342 demons, earning a total of 110322 Soul Ashes!

You have obtained a huge amount of various materials (click to view)!

[Your Kaga Kiyomitsu - The Blade of Parting has slain a large number of demons, earning you 9277 Soul Points!]

[Your Spider Slash has slain a large number of demons; the "Wraith Overlord" now stores a vast number of vengeful spirits!]

"Fuck!"

Although he knew this was already a youth version of the reward that saved a lot of demons from dying, Uesugi Tetsu was still shocked when he saw the six-figure amount of soul ash with his own eyes.

I was shaken to my core, feeling as if my understanding of finance had collapsed.

He couldn't help but be alarmed!

11 Soul Ashes, 1 Soul Points...

Uesugi Tetsu glanced at Qing's panel again and found that the [Wraith Lord] could release as many as thirty great demons and hundreds of monsters.

It was truly a parade of a hundred demons!

This can no longer be called a sudden windfall; it's practically... an instant meteoric rise!
There are still more good people in Hozuki's family!

[Your skill, Five Thunder Method: Qi Combination Proficiency +300!]

【Five Thunder Techniques - Qi Harmony (Expert 5188/5600)】

[Your skill, Spirit Control Technique - Qi Proficiency +100!]

【Spirit Control Technique - Qi (Master 7022/8000)】

There's not much to see with that level of skill.

Xiao Jia and Qing, who had taken advantage of the Five Thunderbolts nuclear explosion to reap the lives of tons of demons, flew back to Uesugi Tetsuya's side at this moment.

Even though neither of them spoke, Uesugi Tetsuya could tell from the light emanating from the blade that he was "stuffed" with a sense of satiated satisfaction.

The blood-red pupils on the spider-cutting knife handle gleamed brightly, their blood-red jade already filled with tons of flesh and blood essence.

Uesugi Tetsu glanced at the current reserves of Soul Ash.

【Soul Ash: 120444】

I've never fought such a rich war before!

With so much soul ash, there's more than enough to fill up all the materials needed for the three demon incarnations—Hundred-Eyed Demon, Six-Tailed Fox, and Red Hannya—to advance to the level of demon gods!
Unfortunately, we'll never see a situation where a bunch of idiots summon such a high density of demons again...

"What a pity, what a pity."

Uesugi Tetsu clicked his tongue.

If I don't drain their spiritual energy myself, but instead let the Onmyoji kill these shikigami one by one...

Forget it, I won't think about it anymore!
Uesugi Tetsuya took a deep breath, staring at the tiny black dots fleeing in panic. After a long moment of contemplation, he nodded. "That's the right thing to do... When you come back, you have to be high-profile."

So, the next moment.

The spiritual energy that had just been restored dissipated once again.

With his near-master-level mastery of spirit manipulation techniques, Uesugi Tetsu's indifferent voice echoed across a radius of five hundred miles, centered on the Hozuki family's territory.

The booming voice echoed between heaven and earth, causing all the Onmyoji with any skill to stop in their tracks and look up in alarm.

Good day, everyone.

You may not have heard of me before, but that doesn't matter. Now that you have, please don't forget me.

Remember this well.

【Great Onmyoji Che, you may address me as such.】

[The Great Onmyoji, Che, proclaimed this to everyone within a 500-mile radius of the Hozuki family's territory, hoping that everyone would take this as a warning.]

A year ago, the Hozuki family, an ancient Onmyoji clan in Mikawa Province, cast a curse on the head of the Imagawa family, allowing their shikigami to become untamed demons and slaughter surrounding villages.

[Now, I have just slaughtered all of the hundreds of Onmyoji, hundreds of Great Demons, and thousands of Demons from the Hozuki family.]

[Takes 15 minutes.]

After speaking, the spirit control technique immediately spread out.

Uesugi Tetsu slumped heavily to the ground, his face pale, a feeling of suffocation emanating from all parts of his body.

The feeling of having all the spiritual energy in your body squeezed dry in a short period of time, leaving not a single drop, is not pleasant.

But the effect is good.

He smiled, watching his Warring States Era reputation soar like a rocket, and silently activated his Spirit Control Technique to absorb the increasingly thin spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him.

"Now... Lord Yiyuan should know that I'm back."

Uesugi Tetsuya wasn't in a hurry. He sat there, maintaining his weak appearance, while quickly absorbing spiritual energy and organizing the supplies piled up in his storage backpack.

ten minutes later.

Amidst a sound like an eggshell cracking, a hoarse voice filled with resentment rang out.
"I never thought that my old man's methods... would ever be of use..."

Then came the sound of footsteps.

"Ok?"

Uesugi Tetsu blinked in surprise, looking at the crystallized wasteland: "There are still people here?"

He is the former head of the Hozuki family.

The old patriarch was about to let out a mocking laugh when his face suddenly froze.

Because he noticed his surroundings.

"Wha...what?"

The old patriarch was bewildered.

What happened to the Hozuki family?

The old patriarch first paced around in a daze, then picked up the few pieces of charcoal on the ground, and for a moment revealed a heartbroken expression.

"Aze..."

"Xiao Qi..."

"Old Tuo..."

After looking around, the old patriarch finally understood what had happened during the time he was dead.

Uesugi Tetsu remained in that extremely weak state, barely breathing, and thought to himself, "How can someone be resurrected even after losing all their ashes? Could it be that this old man has a substitute doll?"

The old patriarch's gaze was initially filled with fear when he looked at Uesugi Tetsuya, but then he noticed the latter's weakness, and in a fit of rage, he threw his head back and laughed loudly.

"Che! You still haven't left... Hahaha! Even the heavens want you dead!"

"You slaughtered my Hozuki family! I will make you pay with your life a thousand times over, so that you may wish you were dead!"

Uesugi Tetsu watched the old patriarch roar with great interest, hoping he could come up with something different.

A red light condensed in the old patriarch's hand, and he thrust it fiercely towards his heart.

At the same time, he laughed loudly.
"Offer my body to break the seal!"

A crimson light, like blood, appeared, and the incredibly complex sealing technique gradually shattered.

A subtle, ancient, ghostly aura emanated from it.

"My only regret is that I cannot see you cry out in the underworld..."

Seeing that the destruction of the technique was irreversible, Uesugi Tetsuya, who had been nourished by the blood jade for a full ten minutes, suddenly stood up, all traces of weakness vanishing from his body.

"Great! Let me see what's inside the seal!"

The old patriarch, whose physical body had already been half-melted away, froze, his smile vanishing: "You..."

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up!"

Uesugi Tetsu stepped in front of the decaying old patriarch and slapped the still-barking old man into the broken blood-red magic circle.

The ancient, ghostly aura grew even stronger.

"Ghosts and gods... they really are ghosts and gods!"

"Moreover, it's an extremely weak demon!"

Uesugi Tetsu's eyes gleamed as he drew Kaga Kiyomitsu and Spider Cutter from his waist, silently shattering the Qi and Blood of the Core Formation and activating the Limitless State of the Lin Word Technique.

The six-thousand-foot-high sea of ​​qi surged, five-colored waves roared, and liquid qi flew out of the sea of ​​qi like a dragon sucking water.

Blood beads seeped from the porcelain-white flesh, making Kaga Kiyomitsu and the Spider Cutter's blades even more exquisite.

Uesugi Tetsu is gathering his strength.

Don't think that he has no other tricks up his sleeve just because he has used up all his spiritual energy... You should know that he only used the Spirit Control Technique and the Five Thunder Technique as auxiliary methods at the beginning!
The heavy seal did not break completely until five minutes later.

Snapped!
The instant the spell shattered, a chilling, viscous, and violent aura of demons and gods spread throughout the entire Hozuki family's territory.

A sharp, maniacal laugh erupted into the sky!

"Jie Jie Jie Jie Jie Jie!"

"Hundreds of years, hundreds of years! Finally, someone triggered the backdoor of the spell and sacrificed themselves. I can finally see the light of day again!"

Amidst the overwhelming black stench, Uesugi Tetsuya finally saw the true form of the demons and gods within the sealed giant pit—

A huge, yellowish skeleton, with only a few pitiful bits of black flesh hanging from its body... a tengu?
At this moment, the dog was waving its two thick, bony arms and barking loudly.

"Blood food! Blood food!"

Corrupted Tengu (Four-Star) (Extremely Weak)

The corrupted celestial dog grinned maliciously: "Activate the great formation! Bring the blood sacrifice!"

The entire territory of the Ghost Lantern Clan was instantly enveloped in a dense red light.

If there were still members of the Hozuki family or their shikigami in the Hozuki clan's territory, they would immediately become the source of power for this corrupting tengu.

If all goes well, hundreds of Onmyoji, thousands of Shikigami and demons...

In less than half a minute, its power will return to its peak!

This was a backup plan left hundreds of years before it was sealed away!

Who would have thought?

Who can stop it!

"Jie Jie Jie!"

But after waiting for quite a while, the Corrupted Tengu did not receive a single drop of blood.

In the deep pit, the corrupted tengu was stunned.

It released the red light array several times, further weakening itself, and then muttered to itself in bewilderment,
"Where are my... my backup plans in my barrier, and the blood food that allows me to recover my strength?"

"Where did they go? Where did they all go?!"

"—Lord Tengu, why don't you take a look around?"

A cheerful voice came from above.

At this moment, the corrupted tengu, who had been looking up at the sky with a smile, finally lowered its head and looked around.

A...wasteland?
What about people?

What happened to my Hozuki clan?

For a long time, it stared blankly at the only man in front of it, who exuded a subtle ghostly aura and a strong sense of danger.

"You...you did all of this?"

"Yes, I did it."

The man in front of him smiled and raised two blades in his hands, blades that, even through the air, seemed about to shred his fragile old frame.

"What, you don't accept it?"

The corrupted tengu swallowed a non-existent mouthful of saliva, involuntarily retreating and crying out in alarm.
"Boy... I surrender... I surrender, I surrender! Don't, don't come any closer!!!"

(End of this chapter)