Mysterious, but Naruto

After dinner, while Louis sat at the table drinking tea and reading the newspaper, the butler reported on the day's work to him.

"Oh, you've already gotten the clothes back, right?"

"Okay, we didn't have a tailor in the family before, but from now on, any changes to the styles of custom-made clothes will be handled by a tailor, so you won't be too busy."

Louis didn't come up to dismantle the butler's power. In fact, as long as the funds and decision-making power for household purchases remained in the butler's hands, those below him could not really overstep their authority.

Therefore, the butler was happy to have one less thing to do, thanked Louis, and was about to leave.

"Wait, keep this list safe. Buy everything on it as discreetly as possible. If you don't have enough money at home, just let me know. Remember, don't let anyone else know."

Louis gave half of the list of potion ingredients he had written in the early morning to his butler, and the other half was transmitted to Audrey via his ring, so that she could collect them for him.

After doing all this, Louis left the restaurant and returned to his study on the second floor.

Here, there is also that painting that was only half-finished.

Louis actually had a very simple and direct way of dealing with this painting: he could use the power of Ōtsutsuki Shibai to directly examine the painting's past.

In that way, Louis could not only see how the painting was imbued with spirituality, but also directly see the artist who created it.

But he really didn't want to start unsealing the "wedge" in his body over such a trivial matter, especially since the matter itself didn't have much to do with him.

In the end, Louis simply used a knife to scrape off some of the paint mixed with blood and bone meal and stored it in two small glass bottles.

The reason Louis did this was because he remembered that among the knowledge the Light Gate had given him, there seemed to be a way to use the spirit world to find connections between things, which is divination in the common sense.

The blood and bone powder in this painting are perfect materials for divination.

Louis closed his eyes and began to use chakra to simulate spirituality, while simultaneously using his mental power to sense the spirit world.

As Louis vaguely sensed the outline of the spirit world, he suddenly opened his eyes and felt as if he were confused.

In another flash, he appeared inside the Divine Tree space.

"Ha, sensing the spirit world is nothing compared to being directly in the spirit world."

Louis entered the manor within the Divine Tree space and placed the two bottles of materials he was carrying on the desk in the study.

When I closed my eyes again and released my spirituality, I no longer felt the hazy, indistinct sensation I had before, but rather a clear connection with the spirit world.

Hold the bottle containing bone meal in your palm and use your spirituality to amplify its connection with the spirit world.

The next moment, Louis noticed that the bone powder was scattering out many threads, each thread ending in a "deep red" bright spot.

These silk threads vary in thickness and brightness.

Discard the extremely fine and obscure threads, leaving only the obvious ones.

Louis started with the thickest one. This time, instead of using his spiritual power, he tried to touch the thread with his mental energy.

"Great, you succeeded!"

The moment his mental energy came into contact with the thread, Louis gained a new perspective: a woman cleaning up the tragedy in her kitchen.

At first glance, you can see the person's straight blond hair. If you look more closely, you will notice that the fingers on the person's left hand are not the same length and are missing a section of a finger.

Clearly, the woman before us is the owner of the bone powder in the painting.

I looked away and examined the other threads, but I didn't find anything particularly special.

Even after Louis examined the finer and darker threads, he still couldn't find the culprit.

Of course, it's also possible that the other party's behavior was so normal that Louis didn't notice anything amiss.

But Louis felt that wasn't the case. After all, the other party was someone who could leave a spiritual mark in the painting, so they should be different from ordinary people. But these people were all too normal.

Left with no other option, Louis had to give up and place his hopes on another bottle, which contained blood and perhaps offered some clues.

This time, Louis wanted to try using mental power to connect with the spirit world instead of spirituality.

Unfortunately, the experiment failed, and for the time being, he can only connect to the spirit world by using spirituality.

This time, the blood in the bottle revealed several thick lines, though these lines were rather dark.

Louis used his mental powers to explore the past, but was surprised to find that the perspective was wrong; it wasn't a person but a wall.

This discovery left Louis somewhat bewildered, but then a possibility immediately came to mind.

Louis immediately exited the view and checked the other threads again, and found that, as expected, the remaining threads were either inside the wall or in the soil.

From one perspective, Louis notices a tombstone on the ground with a clear inscription: it is the body of an unidentified woman, whose body has been brutally mutilated, with her head, hands, and feet missing.

"Ha, looks like I've found a clue to that serial killer, but... I can't tell anyone about this."

Louis couldn't help but shake his head, because among these threads, he still couldn't find anyone who resembled the murderer.

This led Louis to speculate: "Well, it seems the other party is no ordinary person, and may even have considerable expertise in manipulating the spirit world. At least based on my current understanding of the spirit world, it should be very difficult to find them."

In fact, in the slums of East Backlund, a carpenter with a full beard was painting in his attic one moment, and the next moment his expression suddenly changed.

"Why? Why can't you understand? The spirit is the essence of humanity, and the body is a cage that binds the spirit. I'm merely helping them break free of that cage and set their souls free!"

Just now, he sensed that someone was searching for him through the spirit world. Fortunately, the other party's sequence should be lower than his, so he was able to successfully hide himself using his spirituality.

He waited in the attic for a few more minutes to make sure no one was divining for him before getting up from his easel. He wiped the paint off his hands onto his apron and began rummaging through drawers and cabinets. Finally, he took out a crystal ball the size of a fist from a corner of the attic.

He placed the crystal ball on the floor of the attic and set up a simple ritual circle around it. The crystal ball then began to use its spirituality to construct a sealed space to prevent external disturbances during the reverse divination.

As this person began to communicate with the spirit world spiritually, changes began to appear inside the crystal ball in front of him.

The originally transparent crystal ball began to show a large area of ​​chaotic yet dazzling light inside. This was him using the power of the spirit world to track down the person who had previously divined his fate.

About three minutes later, a blurry human figure finally appeared in the crystal ball.

Judging from the background, the person appears to be in a study, currently reading a newspaper.

The person in the picture suddenly looked up at the crystal ball, a sudden change that made the fake carpenter's heart tighten, knowing that the other party had noticed him.

He acted decisively, severing his spiritual connection immediately. Despite the severe headache caused by the backlash, he kicked the crystal ball off the ground, preparing to disrupt the ritual he had set up.

But just as he kicked the crystal ball, he noticed that the image inside the crystal ball had changed.

It was no longer a human figure, but a blood-red expanse, within which were concentric circles of silk threads. Between these threads, there were indistinct objects that were rapidly rotating around the center point.

That was the end of the fake carpenter's thoughts. He then collapsed to the ground, motionless.

On the other side, Louis, who was sitting in his study feeling uneasy about having clues in his hands but not being able to use them, felt that someone was watching him.

Almost instinctively, Louis opened his Rinne Sharingan and released a defensive genjutsu.

The illusion itself wasn't particularly dangerous; it merely put anyone looking at Louis into a deep sleep.

Louis blinked, sensing that his illusion had been triggered.

Then he realized what had just happened; someone must have been spying on him through the spirit world.

Having come here without any prior grudges or enemies, who would use supernatural powers to find me?

The answer is obvious: it was the "suspected murderer" he had been looking for but couldn't find.

"Okay, would you call this waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump?"

Once the opponent fell under Louis's illusion, it was equivalent to simultaneously falling under Louis's mark. Louis easily located the opponent's position, and as soon as a spatial rift opened, he arrived at the opponent's location.

Looking at the bearded man lying on the ground, his breathing gradually becoming steady, Louis reached out and fanned his nose, finding the smell here strangely odd.

Louis immediately stopped waiting, reached out and grabbed the man on the ground, and saw a semi-transparent ball of light float out from the man's head.

Louis grabbed the incoming ball of light and began to examine the memories within it.

He stared at it for more than ten minutes, during which Louis's expression changed, eventually settling into a deep frown.

"Tsk, the Gnostic Society, a cult, and a witch cult too..."

Based on the other person's memories, Louis had a general idea of ​​their identity: they were a member of the Gnostic Order.

The Gnostic Church claims that "the spirit is the essence of man, and the body is a cage that binds the spirit." Its extremist members take the elimination of other people's bodies as their action plan, and have committed many bloody cases. As a result, it has been designated as a cult organization by various countries.

The man before them was an astrologer at the Apprentice Path Sequence 7, a high-ranking member of the Gnostic Order, who controlled two underground strongholds of the Gnostic Order in Backlund.

During the detailed investigation, Louis made an additional discovery: the Gnostic Society had some connection with the Witch Cult, but it was through another line of communication within their organization, and the person in front of him didn't know much about it.

This person is born with a love for killing. In the other storyline, whenever he is given a mission, he doesn't care whether there is any real problem behind it. He just goes and kills people. He is a complete psychopath.

Having read through the other party's general memories, Louis tapped his right hand lightly, and the other party unknowingly stopped breathing.

Once he was certain the man was dead, Louis turned his attention to the crystal ball on the ground, the very one the man had used earlier.

But now it seems that the crystal ball is covered with cracks and can no longer be used normally.

That's normal. This crystal ball isn't an ordinary item; it was enhanced by a magical ritual, which can improve the accuracy of divination to some extent and prevent being divinated by someone else.

The crystal ball had tried to block Louis's illusion before, but Louis's illusion was not something that a crystal ball could stop.

To avoid being detected by others through the crystal ball, Louis pushed his right palm forward, and a beam of white light suddenly shot out. The next moment, the entire crystal ball disappeared.

Louis used the Dust Release: Detachment of the Primal World technique. However, Louis had extremely strong control over these techniques. After separating the crystal ball into atomic states, he stopped the technique. Only a very shallow mark was left on the floor under the crystal ball, not even half a millimeter thick.

After dealing with the crystal ball, looking at the man on the ground, one could see that his body was filled with spiritual energy, which moved, gathered, and was expelled, eventually leaving a crystal the size of an eye next to the corpse, which looked like a diamond.

But it only appears to be; Louis could see that it was actually formed from a large amount of spiritual energy.

"So this is the extraordinary characteristic of the other party's memory land? It really is beautiful."

Through the other person's memories, Louis learned that these so-called extraordinary characteristics were the extraordinary essence of these extraordinary individuals, just as potions were actually a stable carrier of extraordinary characteristics.

Furthermore, when extraordinary beings or creatures die, these extraordinary characteristics, such as spiritual stability, gradually dissipate because they are no longer present.

At this point, these extracted extraordinary properties can be consumed as a special magical potion.

For example, the person in front of us advanced to Sequence 7 by consuming extraordinary ingredients.

Compared to taking potions to advance, taking extraordinary traits is actually more dangerous, because it includes not only the extraordinary traits of Sequence 7, but also those of Sequence 8 and Sequence 9, which will be released together after a person dies.

The extraordinary properties extracted from this person after his death are even more dangerous than the one he took before, because it contains an additional Sequence 8 and Sequence 9.

In other words, if you take a medication that is taken based on your weight, but your weight doesn't change, the dosage increases, and naturally, the side effects also increase accordingly.

Through memory reading, Louis learned that the person in front of him had hidden some money and jewelry downstairs, which he had stolen while committing murder.

But Louis didn't take it; instead, he opened a spatial rift and entered the Divine Tree Space. He was now very interested in this extraordinary property.

Looking at the clear, sparkling diamond in his hand, Louis's thoughts had already wandered.

"Extraordinary characteristics, potions, extraordinary nature... This world is really interesting."

So, how should I use them?