Horror/Fear Anime: Starting with a Tomie Hairstyle.

When she arrived at Jiuzhiche, she paused for a moment.

"May I ask who you are?"

"I am Xiaomei's friend. She helped me when I fell before. She is a good girl. My condolences."

In most cases, saying you're friends and praising the other person can quickly dispel any doubts.

The girl's emotions were choked back, and her eyes reddened first: "Thank you. Xiaomei will be so happy to know you came to see her off. She loves collecting idol posters..."

The girl choked up when she mentioned her younger sister.

Her younger sister is cheerful, has a good personality, and is popular. Everyone in the family dotes on her, as she is like a ray of sunshine.

She had only just started high school and had a bright future ahead of her, but now, everything was ruined.

Jiu Zhiche was silent for a while, "I heard that Xiao Mei was just missing, so why did you hold a funeral?"

"She's been missing for so many days, and the police found obvious skid marks and blood at an intersection. I think, I think Xiaomei must be..."

"You must be Xiaomei's older sister."

The girl nodded through her tears.

"The deceased is gone, but she would surely want you to carry her thoughts with you as you continue to see this world. If there really is a murderer, justice will prevail, and he will not have a good end."

Jiuzhi Che's firm tone instilled a sense of warmth and hope in Xiaoquan's heart, and her nose tingled with emotion: "Yes."

After leaving Koizumi's house, Kujikichi asked a passerby where the town's shrine was.

After following the directions for a while, Jiuzhiche paused slightly.

Ahead was a corpse, half petrified, but not like Xiao Mei's corpse. This corpse was petrified from the inside out, and the petrified half was a flat stone.

A ghostly figure silently embraced the stone, its eyes closed, its face contorted in pain and struggle.

Jiuzhiche noticed something strange: if turning into a tombstone really leads to Buddhahood, why would the soul have such an expression?

and!

Jiu Zhiche suddenly realized that the system notification had not appeared since he encountered the tombstone!

When you encounter ghosts or strange creatures, even harmless ones, you can acquire initial spirituality.

What does it mean?

This means the tombstone is haunted! Not that kind of ghost, but something sinister behind the whole story of the tombstone becoming a Buddha!

Jiuzhiche threw a purification spell at the tombstone.

"Purification": It can drive away evil spirits and demons, eliminate filth, harm ghosts and demons, and purify the source of strangeness, curses and other evil products.

P.S.: Reaching 10% activation progress unlocks a new feature: the ability to deliver ghosts from suffering.

This is the introduction to the revamped system; it's quite detailed.

If there were a rating system, Jiuzhiche would definitely give it a six-star rating right now, because it's a 6! He would also be willing to give it a ten-star rating, because it's perfect. It would incentivize the system to improve in the future!

As the purification process was completed, the stone parts of the corpse began to fall off, and the expression on the soul's face gradually changed from pain to peace.

Light emerges from the depths of the soul, gradually fading the outline and making the figure transparent.

In the final moment of dissipation, the soul opened its eyes.

"Thank you."

The wind shattered the faintest sounds, mingling them into the empty天地 (heaven and earth).

"You're welcome."

[Slay lost souls and gain 0.02% spirituality]

Jiuzhiche found another intact tombstone, purified it, and threw it away.

A faint ray of light appeared on the tombstone, as thin as a spider's thread, stretching into the distance with no end in sight.

The tombstone began to shake violently, and the light threads suddenly tightened, dragging a soul from afar.

Immediately afterwards, the tombstone exploded, scattering stone fragments everywhere.

[Gain 0.05% initial spirituality]

[Slay lost souls and gain 0.05% spirituality]

Jiuzhiche's eyes shone with an astonishing brightness.

Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are.

Besides, Tombstone Town is full of tombstones!

He abandoned his plan to visit the shrine and began frantically casting purification spells!

leave!

I lost it!

Two lost!

[Gain 0.03% initial spirituality]

[Slay lost souls and gain 0.03% spirituality]

[Gain 0.01% initial spirituality]

[Slay lost souls and gain 0.01% spirituality]

[Get...]

The accumulation of spirituality is growing rapidly!

The people of Tombstone Town were horrified to discover that, without them noticing, many shattered tombstone fragments were scattered on the ground.

Anger surged rapidly in people's hearts.

Who is it? How could someone be so immoral! To do something so heinous and outrageous!

Their ancestral graves were blown up!!!

At the same time, the dense resentment in the shrine's ancient well was churning, and a murderous intent surged forth.

"Who dares to touch my food?!"

Chapter 31 The Tombstone Monster Strikes

[Available spirituality that year: 7.32%]

[Template selection progress: 84.51%]

Jiuzhi Che looked in a certain direction.

There seemed to be some powerful force there, but upon careful sensing, nothing was discovered.

He refocused his attention. He had just sent out at least dozens of purifications. Each one consumed very little mental energy, but the sheer number of them made up for it.

I need to rest for a while.

The results were pretty good; I gained 2.2% spirituality.

Some souls are thicker, meaning they are more solid, and thus receive more spirituality. However, some tombstones explode without any soul appearing or receiving any spirituality.

A tombstone where the soul has vanished has no spirit.

The underlying reasons for this are worth considering.

After the tombstone exploded, the souls were pulled back and thus regained their initial spirituality; something had abducted their souls!

The tombstones left behind are merely shackles on the body; instead of enabling the soul to attain enlightenment, they bind them!

What use is a soul to the things behind it?

Jiuzhiche pondered, and when he thought of the soul, the first thing that came to his mind was the demon.

After all, demons like to collect and devour human souls.

Thinking of this, Jiu Zhiche immediately made a decision: to prepare the props first!

He examined his system panel.

"System, use up all the lottery chances."

[4 draws remaining, drawing in progress]

[Gain 3 Spirit Orbs, 1 Limited-Time Power Buff]

Mental Orb: Effectively restores mental energy. It can quickly restore mental energy consumed by using the Magic Eye or purification. If you are frightened, feel anxious, listless, or suffer mental damage such as shock, you can use it to restore your mental vitality.

Limited-time buff: Briefly gain immense strength, capable of lifting a 1,000-pound stone, for 60 seconds.

Name: Jiu Zhiche

Templates activated: "Immortality (100%)", "Purification (12.96%)", "Magic Eye (10%)"

Inactive template: ......

Triggering template selection progress: 84.51%

Allocable spirituality: 7.32%

Status: Long Dream Curse

Items: Healing Orb x2, Spirit Orb x3, Powerful Limited-Time Buff x1, Silver Hair Appearance x1

(At the host's request, the numerical value has been visualized to two decimal places.)

Next, Jiuzhiche continued to throw purification.

When he occasionally encountered a group of people gathered together, Jiu Zhiche would pretend to be a passerby.

Did you see who was here just now?

A bald man looked at the stones on the ground, his face turning red with anger.

Jiuzhi Che shook his head.

Another beer-bellied man stared at Jiu Zhiche: "I find you very suspicious. Did you do it?"

Jiuzhiche seemed even more furious than them: "Do I look like someone who's carrying tools? Don't say anything more, my ancestral graves, my great-great-great-grandfather's graves have all been blown up! You're catching that bad guy, right? Let me know when you catch him! I'm going to beat him up!"