The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

For example, characters like the Monkey King, Erlang Shen, and Nezha should ideally be widely worshipped among the people. Then, you should try to plunder the power of belief that is attached to the clay or stone sculptures by visiting the temples where these gods are worshipped. After refining it, you can make it your own and truly master the art of creating a divine mask.

Therefore, not only is it extremely time-consuming, but after successfully completing the training, you will be typecast and basically can only play the character you have chosen, and what you know will mostly be the skills that character possesses.

For example, Xia Liuqing himself plays the Monkey King, so his fighting style is as wild as a monkey and as exquisite as a stick. As for magic, he has the Seventy-Two Transformations and the ability to create clones with his hair...

Since the God Mask is just a mask, it can only represent the surface of a person. It cannot manifest things like magic, which are beyond the logic of reality.

Therefore, the Divine Mask technique can be considered both powerful and ineffective, depending on the specific user and the role they play. It has a very high ceiling, but also a very low floor, truly testing the practitioner's acting skills.

"What does Elder Xia want?" Ishihara Akira asked with a smile.

Although the mask of divinity has many drawbacks, its ability to utilize and steal the power of faith is what Ishihara Akira values ​​most! Because in the real world, there is a vast amount of unclaimed faith power available for his use—

For example, God's.

God’s.

Buddha, the Venerable One.

Although according to Mara, these people are actually real, it is because of changes in the world environment and the spread of scientific rules that these gods and Buddhas who follow the ideal path have abandoned the real world and gone to a higher dimension and level of world. However, the power of faith cannot penetrate countless spaces and reach the level where their original bodies are located.

Moreover, even if they could actually reach it, these gods and Buddhas might not appreciate the power of belief in the real world, which is filled with human distractions, so there should be a lot of it left behind.

But that doesn't mean that Ishihara Sho, as a demon, looks down on them!

It should be understood that the Heavenly Demons themselves cultivate using the distracting thoughts and various emotions and desires of the human mind. Therefore, if they could truly obtain these "wools," Ishihara Sho's Heavenly Demon realm would definitely be able to rise again on the spot, on the basis of what it already is. Not to mention immediately becoming a god or ancestor, but by using this power of faith to influence their source—humanity—they could be made to change their foundation without realizing it and accept their existence. However, this would also accelerate their theft of the real world and turn the real world into their private property.

Therefore, he had quite a few ideas about the Divine Mask technique.

"At my age, I'm long past the competitive stage, and I have no interest in vying for the title of the best in the world. So even if you, Sect Leader, put your cultivation technique in front of me, I might not be tempted. On the contrary, if you could consider my old bones and be willing to assign me fewer tasks, allowing me to continue living as carefree as I am now, that would be truly wonderful," Xia Liuqing calmly replied, as if he had seen through the ways of the world.

"So Elder Xia means he wants to get special privileges from me and not participate in future missions?" Ishihara Sho asked, squinting his eyes to confirm.

"If the sect leader agrees, then I, Xia Liuqing, am willing to offer up the cultivation technique of the Divine Mask with both hands," Xia Liuqing replied readily.

"Alright. I didn't expect you elders to be of much help anyway. Since Elder Xia isn't interested, I'll grant his request. However..."

"Sect Leader, please speak frankly."

"If I ever need to ask Elder Xia for help, I would be grateful if Elder Xia could lend a hand, considering that we are all from Quanxing, even if it is just to offer some advice. I would be extremely grateful."

“No problem. This old man has no intention of leaving Quanxing.” Xia Liuqing replied straightforwardly.

The two then skipped over these topics and started talking about other things. For example, Ishihara Akira revealed his intention to take action against Quanzhen and asked Xia Liuqing for her opinion.

Xia Liuqing, on the other hand, was equally generous with her knowledge, revealing everything she knew about Quanzhen Sect. Everyone was happy and felt they had gained a lot.

Then, Ishihara Akira suddenly asked about something else.

"By the way, Mr. Xia, do you know a white mercenary named Barron?"

"Baron?" Elder Xia was taken aback and said with a strange expression, "To be honest, I do know a foreign mercenary named Baron, but I don't know if he is the Baron you are talking about."

"Then it must be him. After all, with our country's system, ordinary foreign mercenaries can't enter our territory. Plus, he's an alien and knows you, Elder Xia. If it's not the Baron I'm looking for, then it would be too strange."

"I wonder what business the sect leader has with him?" Xia Liuqing asked curiously.

"I have some information I'd like to confirm with him. I wonder if Elder Xia could take me to see him?" Shi Yuanzhang asked with a smile. However, he didn't reveal any information related to the Six Treasures Immortal Thief, lest the old man Xia Liuqing be tempted and cause any further trouble along the way.

After all, that's the Six Treasures Immortal Thief, the only one among the Eight Extraordinary Techniques that can grant immortality. For someone like Xia Liuqing, who's practically half-buried in the ground, it might be a fatal temptation. So it's best to be on guard.

"That's easy. I'll contact him later and have him come over directly." Xia Liuqing replied readily without much thought.

"Then I'll have to trouble Elder Xia," Shi Yuanzhang said with a smile.

After a brief chat, Xia Liuqing left Shi Yuanzhang's tent and went elsewhere to write down the special techniques he was practicing with the Divine Mask.

……

"Let Shen Chong organize a team to infiltrate Zhongnan Mountain. I plan to take down Quanzhen before the Luotian Grand Ceremony officially begins." Ishihara Akira, who was still in the tent, pulled Xia He into his arms, holding her ball in one hand, and said in a low voice.

Chapter 294 Baron

The next morning, Shi Yuanzhang obtained the complete cultivation method for the Divine Mask from Xia Liuqing.

Xia Liuqing didn't linger after that. She said she'd contact him by phone and then left the grassland. As for when they'd meet again, she guessed they'd have to wait until Balun arrived...

So Ishihara Akane didn't pay much attention to it, and went back into the tent, picked up the newly acquired divine mask and began to read, study, memorize, and then try to cultivate.

After all, he's not from this world, so who knows if he can cultivate the Qi of this world?

Just like when he first entered the Naruto world, he couldn't cultivate chakra either.

Fortunately, he is no longer the same person he was back then. He has completed the Three Wheels and Seven Meridians Technique in both spirit and body, opening up the left, middle, and right meridians and the seven chakras. He has achieved the true perfection recorded in the Three Wheels and Seven Meridians Technique—the unity of Brahman and Atman. Therefore, even though he is not from this world, he can still use the spiritual energy he obtained after successfully cultivating the Three Wheels and Seven Meridians Technique, known as the mother energy of all things, to transform into the Qi recognized by this world, thereby manifesting the effects of the technique.

After all, according to the explanation, although the essence of Qi in this world is high, in nature it is actually the same thing as the Mother Qi of All Things that Ishihara Sho cultivated. It is even the same energy with different names in two countries and sects, so there is no problem in converting it.

At most, it requires the Qi of this world as a sample during the transformation.

This is not a problem at all for Ishihara Akane, who has Natsume by his side!

Not to mention that he had previously obtained the Minghun Technique from Lü Liang for free, so with just a little effort, he successfully reproduced the effect of Qi using spiritual energy and mastered the technique.

With this, Ishihara Sho was relieved, because being able to cultivate the Divine Mask meant that he could also cultivate other techniques in this world. Therefore, there was no need to worry that he would be unable to enter the Inner World if he obtained other sorcerer techniques to cultivate. As a result, he was not so eager for the Zhuge family's Returning Origin Formation.

After all, it's based on the fact that when one is unable to cultivate the techniques of this world or enter its inner realm, it's the only way to bring oneself, a non-sorcerer, into the inner realm. So no matter how much importance one attaches to it, it's not a problem.

As for now...

Even Wang Ye and his Feng Hou Qi Men technique lost their appeal.

After all, he no longer needed the Guiyuan Formation, so he no longer needed the elements of the formation's generating and restraining directions, and therefore he no longer needed the special power of Feng Hou Qi Men, which Wang Ye cultivated—"Transform Me into King".

Coupled with the various problems in Feng Hou Qi Men cultivation, he naturally lost his ambition, causing Wang Ye's importance to him to plummet, making him a dispensable figure.

Even in terms of importance alone, she is not as important as Xia He, who is right next to her.

"Aren't we going back to see Lü Liang?" Xia He, dressed lightly, asked listlessly as she lay in the tent.

"No need. With Liu Yanyan watching over him, there won't be any problems for now. And even if there are problems, it's a good opportunity to push that kid a little harder and make him awaken his Dual-Hand Technique faster," Ishihara Akira said with a calm smile.

"Are you so sure he can awaken the Dual Hands?" Xia He asked curiously.

"Ah."

"What if we can't?" Xia He pressed.

"Lu Liang isn't the only one in the Lu family who knows the Soul-Brightening Technique. He's just the one with the best aptitude and the most skilled at using it. If he really can't awaken it, I wouldn't mind wiping out the entire Lu family and having them help me awaken the Dual-Handed Technique," Shi Yuanzhang said indifferently.

Just like the Lü family, one of the four great families in the world of supernatural beings, who was just an ordinary mortal family, he didn't take them seriously at all.

However, this wasn't entirely his fault. After all, Ding Shian, one of the two heroes hailed as being second only to the Supreme One, had performed poorly. This not only gave him a clear understanding of the combat power of the Extraordinary Ones but also made him realize his own place in this world.

It can be said that as long as Zhang Zhiwei doesn't make a move, he can basically run rampant in the domestic circle of supernatural beings, and destroying a mere Lü family is really not too much of a troublesome thing.

So now he's not only eyeing the Quanzhen School, but also the Wang family.

After all, the Spirit Binding and Commanding skill among the Eight Extraordinary Techniques is in the hands of the Wang family. If the Eight Extraordinary Techniques truly gather the invisible authority of this world as he thinks, then he definitely needs to acquire them.

It just so happens that the Wang family is a notorious and wicked family, so it was no burden for Ishihara Akira to destroy them.

On the contrary, the Feng family, out of consideration for the fact that the other party had helped them in the beginning and that they were still eyeing the other party's daughter, found it difficult to take action.

His temperament wasn't as cold and heartless as a true demon, nor could he be so ruthless and indiscriminate in his actions, simply for the sake of pleasure...

At most, they can be ruthless and decisive when facing their goals.

For example, the Quanzhen Sect that he is currently targeting.

There was no enmity between the two sides. If he didn't have enough determination, why would he have mobilized these lawless Quanxing gang to cause trouble for them?

After all, people can really die in battles involving the Quanxing sect.

……

Two days later, Shi Yuanzhang and Xia He met their target, Balun, who had come with Xia Liuqing, in a city next to the grassland.

"I heard from Elder Xia that you wanted to confirm something with me. I wonder what it is?" After the introductions, Baron asked Ishihara Akira with a somewhat puzzled expression.

"I want your cultivation technique. What conditions would you require for me to teach it to me?" Ishihara Akira asked Balon directly without any preamble.

"A cultivation technique?" Baron was taken aback. He turned to look at Xia Liuqing, who was also somewhat surprised, and then looked back at Ishihara Akira and asked, "Can you tell me your reasons for doing this?"

“Because I know about it, and I also know who you learned it from. I’m very interested in him. By the way, I remember that the reason you came to the country was to find out about the person who taught you the technique, right? I can tell you, in exchange for the technique you have.” Halfway through his sentence, Ishihara Akira suddenly remembered the reason Baron came to the country and replied with a smile.

"Do you really know anything about that old man?" Baron didn't seem pleased at all; instead, he frowned and asked with some doubt.

“I can tell you the information first, and then you can decide whether or not you want to make a deal with me,” Ishihara Akira replied.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll change my mind after I get the information?" Baron asked curiously.

“From the moment you met me, you were already in my grasp. So if you don’t want to die for no reason, you can try to see if what I’m saying is true,” Ishihara Akira said with a smile.

Just as he said, the moment they met, Ishihara Akira had placed the Flying Thunder God mark on him, so he had no chance to back out, let alone escape.

As for why they didn't immediately devour and digest the information in his mind...

To reiterate, Ishihara Sho's Heavenly Demon realm is not yet high enough to devour souls without batting an eye. Moreover, devouring too many souls would also have a certain impact on his consciousness as a non-Heavenly Demon being. Therefore, he will not devour other people's souls unless he has no other choice.

Chapter 295 The Six Treasures Immortal Thief

"Please allow me to confirm." Upon hearing Ishihara Sho's words, Baron responded with a mixture of surprise and disbelief.

“Sure, you can leave here for five minutes first, and hide yourself in any way you think is safe. See if I can find you then,” Ishihara Akira replied with a slight smile, sounding confident.

“Alright, if you can find me then, I will hand over the cultivation technique I practice. Otherwise, you must tell me all the information about that person, and I will not hand over my cultivation technique,” ​​Barent said.

“Sure,” Ishihara Akira said with a smile.

Baron didn't stand on ceremony. After greeting Xia Liuqing, he left the place where they had met and disappeared from the sight of Shi Yuanzhang, Xia He, and Xia Liuqing.

"Is the sect leader really confident that he can find him again?" Xia Liuqing asked curiously after Baron left.

“As I said, from the moment we met, he was already trapped. Naturally, no matter how far he runs or where he hides in those five minutes, I have a way to find him immediately and bring him back,” Ishihara Akira replied confidently.

"Really? Then you're quite impressive, Sect Leader. Judging from this, the cultivation technique that Balun practices must be very mysterious, to the point that even you, Sect Leader, have designs on it." Xia Liuqing asked tentatively.

"Want to know?" Ishihara Akira asked with interest.

"To be honest, I'm quite curious about that kid's martial arts techniques," Xia Liuqing admitted honestly.