I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 8: Qigong, start!

A huge water pressure came.

Uesugi Che opened his eyes again in the shabby thatched hut. He leaned against the door and listened for a while. After making sure there was no movement, he quietly pushed the door open.

The creaking sound of the wooden door was swallowed up by the heavy rain after only traveling three or two meters. Uesugi Tetsu stuck his head out and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the Gassho-style buildings on both sides were indeed not hanging upside down.

That ridiculously strong ghost warrior can move...

Only then did he take out the walking token from the storage compartment and hang it around his waist.

After turning around and closing the door, Uesugi Che squinted his eyes and found that his vision was limited to about 20 to 30 meters due to the dense rain and fog.

You should know that in reality, after he equipped his Prajna body with the Hundred-Eyed Demon Eyes, he could even see people's faces two or three hundred meters away with incredible clarity.

Then how can he avoid being looted by monsters?
This is not good.

Edo Castle is a four-star map, so the monsters wandering here are probably more than one star...

While thinking, Uesugi Che stepped into the sticky mud, holding his breath and looking around. Not long after walking, he saw a black shadow lying beside the road.

What the hell? A corpse?

Uesugi Che swallowed his saliva, clenched the kitchen knife in his hand and paced back and forth, ready to open his eyes and go to school.

Closer, closer.

When the distance was about ten meters, without any hesitation, Uesugi Che, who had been observing for a long time, broke through the rain curtain and started running wildly, gripping the kitchen knife and jumping and slashing.

Strike first!

The feeling of the blade entering the flesh was extremely clear, and the round object rolling to the side also proved the success of the knife.

However, no kill prompt popped up in front of me.

"A real corpse?"

Uesugi Che picked up the falling head, looked at it for two seconds, then put it down, clasped his palms together and said sorry.

Then he began to carefully search the body.

[You have obtained the fragment of Qiheshu (common item).]

【Do you want to study? 】

When Uesugi Tetsu withdrew his hand, a slippery book soaked in blood and rain was also pulled out.

He flipped through it a bit and found that the papers were all stuck together and couldn't be torn apart at all, and the words couldn't be seen clearly in the places that could be opened.

The idea of trying to learn on his own was immediately extinguished. Uesugi Che did not hesitate any longer and chose to study directly.

[You have learned the fragments of the Qi He Jue technique.]

[Qiheshu Fragments (Beginner 0/100)]

[Effect: Gathers the scattered energy of the body and combines it into one place]

[——Created by a swordsman during the Heian period as a prerequisite for practicing the difficult breathing method, it is easy to get started but has a shallow effect.]

As soon as he finished reading the introduction, some memories related to Qihejutsu emerged in Uesugi Tetsu's mind.

Then I felt a condensed and lingering breath rising in my chest, and my limbs became noticeably stronger.

[Physique: 10→11]

Hmm? Doesn't it mean the effect is shallow?

Uesugi Tetsu, who was looking down, saw the Laughing Prajna mask on the water surface, and suddenly realized.

This "shallow effect" is probably for ordinary people, but I am now a serious demon, and a Prajna who is famous for my strength!
Can this Prajna energy be as much as the energy of an ordinary person?
With the harvest from this roadside corpse search, Uesugi Tetsu's steps became more powerful.

But the good times didn't last long.

When he saw the black shadow on the roadside for the second time, Uesugi Tetsu wanted to repeat the same trick, but the black shadow knocked the kitchen knife away with one blow and chopped off his head with one blow.

【you are dead】

……

Uesugi Che opened his eyes with a grin, covered his neck with his hands and gasped for air.

This time the pain was much greater than last time, and the slashing felt jagged and twisted. I guess it was because this little monster's swordsmanship was not up to par.

He remembered the last time he saw the "Wandering Warrior" above the monster's head and the half-star following behind it, and shouted angrily:
"The sword veins are not straight!" He practiced sword for decades and only then was he one star higher than this young Prajna. Had all these decades of sword practice been in vain?

After saying that, Uesugi Che rolled over on the bed twice in pain.

After a few minutes, the pain in his neck gradually faded away. Uesugi Che opened the upgrade progress bar of Xiao Banruo with a dark face.

["Laughing Prajna (juvenile form)" is upgrading: 10%]

Tsk.

How come it's only 10% after almost eight hours? Wouldn't it take more than 80 hours, or almost three or four days, for a complete upgrade?

Slow, too slow!

This means that he will be killed by these roadside monsters seven or eight times!

Uesugi Che's neck started to hurt just thinking about it.

This won’t work. I have to think of ways to become stronger besides just waiting for Xiao Prajna to upgrade.

Thinking of this, Uesugi Tetsu turned his attention to the new skill "Qihe Jutsu" he had acquired not long ago.

Although the energy in his body is much less than when he was in the form of Laughing Prajna, it is still a force that cannot be underestimated for him in this state.

I estimate that the physical attribute should have increased by 0.5.

Uesugi Che closed his eyes and carefully gathered the energy in his body. After feeling all the energy gather into a ball, he suddenly opened his mouth:

"drink!"

With a loud shout, Uesugi Che briefly felt his limbs being strongly stimulated, becoming extremely flexible and powerful.

He then looked at his proficiency in Qigong – entry level (1/100).

This is probably the training method of Qigong.

But if that's the case, then I won't be able to use class time to practice Qigong...

correct.

Uesugi Tetsu remembered that Tokugawa Ririko was the president of the school's Kendo Club. If he wanted to find time and a place to practice Qigong like this, the Kendo Club's dojo would undoubtedly be the best choice.

By then, I will have learned kendo and practiced Qigong, isn't that killing two birds with one stone?
I’ve decided. I’m going to join the Kendo Club right now.

"Dad, I'm going out."

After saying goodbye familiarly, Uesugi Tetsu put the Nanjo doll and the walking token into his schoolbag.

……

Just as he was about to enter the school, Uesugi Tetsu spotted a familiar figure at the school gate.

"Lilizi?"

After blurting out the words subconsciously, Uesugi Tetsu realized that the relationship between the two did not seem that close, so he changed his words and said, "Tokugawa-san."

"Just call me Lilizi."

Leaning against the school gate, Tokugawa Ririko, with a cold expression, said with emotion after seeing him: "Not bad, I have lived another day."

The girl, a brand new bamboo sword pendant dangling from her neck, walked side by side with him. Under the curious glances of the surrounding students, it was Ririk who broke the silence first:
"Thanks for last night."

Lilizi bowed slightly to him and said, "If Uesugi-kun has any needs, I will do my best to satisfy you."

Try your best.

Uesugi Tetsu didn't act pretentiously and said directly: "I want to join the Kendo Club and learn Kendo, today."

"it is good."

Tokugawa Ririko didn't care that the request was actually very unreasonable, but directly called the kendo club instructor.

After a minute of arguing, the girl hung up the phone and nodded to Uesugi Tetsu: "Come to the Kendo Club at noon, I'll wait for you at the door."

Such ridiculous efficiency made even Uesugi Che open his mouth, and it took a while before he continued:
"Regarding the Friendship Club..."

As if a keyword was triggered, Tokugawa Ririko immediately looked at him fixedly.

(End of this chapter)