Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 348 The Ruins of Distorted Reality

The judges of Fengdu do not prohibit marriage, but they forbid men from having casual relationships with women.

Li Xuan pulled his arm out of Yamano Reiko's arms, glanced at her, and said, "Reiko-san, would you mind sharing some information about Kawakami Tomie?"

He's already disposed of two pieces of Tomie's body, so he's really got his hands on her. If he wants to survive in this world for three years, he has to deal with Tomie's problem...

Reiko Yamano smiled slyly and said, "Then please come to our Fox Shrine with Li Che."

As the three were talking, a silvery laugh rang out. Kawakami Tomie walked over with her hands behind her back like a young girl. She tilted her head and said, "Li Che, why are you so distant from me? Am I not as good as these two ordinary-looking girls?"

She raised her right hand and slowly ran it across her collar, a hint of something ambiguous in her expression, and said with a smile, "A girl like me is a thousand times better than them. For example, date me. I know everything!"

Only four people remained in the classroom.

Li Xuan walked towards Kawakami Tomie, made a hand seal with his left hand, and suddenly grabbed her neck with his right hand, activating his thunder magic, with arcs of electricity flashing!
Caught off guard, Kawakami Tomie trembled violently, her eyes rolled back, and smoke billowed from her seven orifices. As Li Xuan released her, she collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud.

boo...

The corpse turned into wind and dissipated.

Reiko covered her mouth, afraid of making a sound.

When Yamano Reiko saw this, her pupils dilated. It was unbelievable that a human could generate lightning from his hands. As the shrine maiden of the Fox Shrine, she had to perform a large-scale ritual, singing and dancing, in order to possibly protect a cursed person.

She thought she had overestimated Li Xuan, but she hadn't expected that she had underestimated him.

Li Xuan said, "I am a judge from Fengdu in China, and I happen to be in charge of matters related to gods and ghosts. In the two days I've been here, I've already killed three Tomie and a snail-like creature. I must say, there are so many monsters here, it's really bizarre..."

……

Fox Shrine.

Led by Yamano Reiko, Li Xuan arrived at the Fox Shrine. The layout of the Fox Shrine was similar to that of a traditional shrine, with a torii gate serving as the boundary separating the gods. Walking inside, one would enter the shrine itself.

There is a donation box outside the shrine.

If believers have something to ask for, they will come to the box to pray and then throw some money in.

Reiko Yamano opened the shrine's gate, and what came into view was a fox statue surrounded by hemp rope and white talisman paper. The statue was made of marble, which is rarely used for carving because it is prone to cracking.

The fox statue has some cracks on its head, and a piece is missing from the horn of its left ear. It is gazing into the mountains, and a dried flower wreath hangs around its neck.

Li Xuan could sense a faint trace of spirituality emanating from the fox statue.

As he was observing closely, Reiko Yamano carried a wooden box into the room. The lid was open, revealing densely packed booklets and photographs. She took out a plastic file bag, unzipped it, and placed the thick stack of paper materials in Li Xuan's hands: "The Kawakami Tomie you see appears to be a 17-year-old female student, but she actually existed decades ago. Although photography technology wasn't as convenient and fast back then, my grandmother still left behind quite a few photos."

The yellowed black and white photo carries a heavy sense of history. It is a group photo of a group of students wearing old-fashioned school uniforms. Behind the boys stands a row of girls. In the center, the face of one girl is particularly clear. She is Tomie Kawakami, with a smiling face, as if she has traveled through time to greet people in the present.

On the back of the photo, a few words were written in crooked handwriting: "Tomie Kawakami, I love you so much. Why don't you understand? I really want to hold every inch of you in my arms."

The corners of the photo are stained with some blackened marks, which are the blackened color of old bloodstains after oxidation.

Reiko Yamano said, "This photo is from 43 years ago. Tomie Kawakami went to the same school as my grandmother. Her appearance caused quite a stir on campus at that time. A lot of boys went crazy for her. How crazy? Just like what happened at Fox Cliff two days ago..."

Reiko, who was listening nearby, felt a chill run down her spine and asked tremblingly, "Is Kawakami Tomie already this old? After all these years, she still looks so young."

Reiko Yamano smiled, took out some even older letters and portraits from the box, and said, "There are also photos taken a hundred years ago with an old-fashioned Clunker camera, look..."

In the ancient portrait, Tomie Kawakami, dressed in a kimono, stands with a man. Although her hairstyle and clothing have changed, her strange smile remains the same.

Reiko Yamano said, word by word, "We can't really say what Tomie Kawakami is. Maybe she was human a long time ago, but was influenced by something and became this endlessly resurrected monster who likes to play with people's hearts."

The town of Black Vortex also possesses this kind of power that can distort people's hearts. The houses in the entire town used to be all connected longhouses, which looked like mosquito coils if viewed from above.

The people of Black Vortex Town were influenced by a mysterious force, becoming obsessed with vortex-like objects. Their bodies mutated, transforming them into elongated figures, snail-like beings, and even their ashes after death carried vortexes.

Although Reiko was timid, she was a smart girl. She said, "Reiko, do you mean that Kawakami Tomie and Kurozuchi Town might be the same force, and what they have in common is that they distort the perception of reality!"

Reiko Yamano's lips curled up, and she squinted at Reiko, laughing heartily, "It seems our Reiko is quite suited to be a shrine maiden. Indeed, after generations of information gathering, we've discovered something influencing reality. The longhouse in Kurozuchi Town, and Tomie Kawakami's body, are all mediums carrying this power..."

My grandmother disappeared while exploring the town of Black Vortex, but she left behind some clues indicating that there was something wrong with the lake in the center of Black Vortex and that the forces that warp reality might be beneath the lake.

The trail went cold here. I've gone to the central lake in Black Vortex Town several times to investigate, but to no avail. Only one of the supposed mosquito coil longhouses from back then remains in the vicinity.

Li Xuan put the documents back into the box and said, "I went down there last night. It's a vortex ruin inside, with a shell-less conch shell that's over twenty meters tall locked inside. It tried to attack me, but I killed it."

Reiko clapped her hands and said, "Li Che said in class that he once killed a snail-like conch. So this is it."

Reiko Yamano looked enlightened and said, "Xia Keng Town and Heiwo Town are adjacent. I pass through them briefly on my way to school. No wonder Heiwo Town felt different when I passed by it this morning."

Li Xuan said, "Inspired by the whirlpool ruins I discovered last night when I infiltrated Central Lake, and based on the clues you provided, I now have reason to suspect that the source of Kawakami Tomie's power may be a ruin hidden somewhere. All we need to do is destroy its core."

Tomie Kawakami may not have much else, but she has plenty of flesh and blood.

We can use two pieces of meat to make a decoction, and based on the logic of the interdependence of flesh and blood, we can find other scattered pieces of the corpse. As long as there are enough of them, we will surely be able to trace the source of the power and find possible relics.

(End of this chapter)