The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

After struggling for most of the day, Lü Liangcai finally heard the words "That's enough" from Ishihara Akira, and he breathed a sigh of relief, finally able to escape from this torturous state of self-harm.

Then, Ishihara Akira's hands flashed, and the unique red light of the Double-Handed Technique appeared in his palms. Before Lü Liang could react, the kitchen knife in his hand reappeared in Ishihara Akira's hand. Then, with a flash of light, the familiar pain once again traveled from his fingers to his mind.

Before he could react, the power of the Dual-Hand Technique that Ishihara had just mastered was applied to him, and just like when Lü Liang had healed himself, it helped him regenerate the finger that had just fallen off...

"Sect Leader, could you please let me know in advance next time you make a move, so I can be mentally prepared?" He couldn't help but smile wryly as he saw the strength in his hand return.

"Do you hope there will be a next time?" Ishihara Akira teased with a mocking smile.

"I don't want to, I don't want to," Lü Liang quickly waved his hand in refusal.

He must be crazy to want to suffer this inhuman treatment again.

He is not a patient with any kind of mental illness.

Afterwards, Ishihara Akira cleaned up the blood and flesh fragments that Lü Liang had used for testing in the basement, and then led Lü Liang out of the basement and back to the villa that he, Xia He, and Liu Yanyan were temporarily renting.

……

"Have you explained it clearly?" Shi Yuanzhang casually gestured to Lü Liang and addressed Tu Junfang, Xia He, and Liu Yanyan, who were sitting in the living room drinking tea and chatting.

“I already said that,” Xia He replied.

"When will Shen Chong, Gao Ning, Dou Mei, and Ding Shian arrive?" Shi Yuanzhang plopped down next to Xia He, took a sip of the tea offered by the sensible Liu Yanyan, and asked again.

"Sister Mei will arrive tomorrow morning. However, Shen Chong and Gao Ning both have things to take care of, so they may have to wait a couple of days before they can come and join us."

"Then let them wait for us near the operation location. Oh, right, the location is in Liupanshui. You can also have Shen Chong investigate whether there is a village called Biyou Village nearby, so we don't have to search for it when we get there," Shi Yuanzhang instructed after thinking for a moment.

"Ok."

"By the way, didn't Ding Shian say when he'll arrive?"

"He might be a little later."

"Try to confirm the time, so that we don't wait until we're about to take action and he still hasn't arrived."

"understood."

Chapter 315 Subduing the Three Corpses

"By the way, Lao Tu, I'm planning to try to subdue the Three Corpses. Can you come and protect me while I perform the ritual?" After finishing his business, Shi Yuanzhang seemed to suddenly remember something and said to Tu Junfang, who was standing to the side.

"Have you found a way to subdue the Three Corpses?" Tu Junfang asked with interest.

Lu Liang, who had already begun practicing the Three Demon Sect's techniques, also showed particular interest in this.

"It seems like I've found it, but it also seems like I haven't. However, judging from the Taoist scriptures and Quanzhen cultivation methods I've been studying, there should be about enough. I just need to verify it to see if my idea is correct," Ishihara Akira said with a smile.

“Alright, I’ll protect you.” Tu Junfang looked at him and nodded in agreement.

As for persuading Ishihara Shou to give up...

Subduing the Three Corpses is not a big deal. At least in the eyes of Tu Junfang, who specializes in controlling the Three Corpses to fight and has a whole set of methods to deal with them, the Three Corpses are nothing special. Even if Ishihara Akira fails the final test and the Three Corpses emerge from his body and go berserk, he is confident that he can suppress them. So in terms of danger, there is really not much. He can completely cover it up.

“Alright, then we’ll start after dinner,” Ishihara Akira said readily.

Afterwards, the group discussed Taoist scriptures, the Three Corpses, and the methods and means for subduing the Three Corpses that Ishihara Akira had come up with. Before they knew it, it was midnight. The delivery guy brought over the food Xia He had ordered, and everyone sat together to enjoy this ordinary dinner, which was neither lavish nor luxurious, but it was definitely enough to fill their stomachs.

After sitting for a while to digest, Shi Yuanzhang invited Tu Junfang and Lü Liang, who was now considered a member of the Three Demons Sect, to his rented room, a training room he had specially set up. They sat cross-legged on the futons.

"I'm starting."

Tu Junfang nodded and turned his attention to Shi Yuanzhang, wanting to witness firsthand whether Shi Yuanzhang's method would work and whether it could be used as a follow-up technique for their Three Demon Sect.

Unfortunately, Ishihara Sho's method works within the body, rather than like the Three Demons Sect, which directly manifests the three corpses and then suppresses and subdues them. Therefore, Tu Junfang could only watch the emptiness and nothing else.

As for Ishihara Akira, after exchanging greetings, he naturally entered a state of tranquility. As his primordial spirit separated from his physical body, his physical body naturally activated the Three Demon Sect techniques, especially the secrets of how to stimulate the awakening of the Three Corpses, making the Three Corpses hidden within him active. Then, his primordial spirit followed its senses and charged towards the location of the Three Corpses...

The most important location is the space between Ishihara Sho's eyebrows. As the chakra node closest to the Niwan point, a vital point in Taoist cultivation, this place has also become the escape and hiding place of Peng Ju, one of the Three Corpses. It will take a lot of effort to find it.

Of course, it wasn't too troublesome for Ishihara Sho, the owner of the chakra. With a little effort, Ishihara Sho found a middle-aged man in human form in a rockery environment that looked like some kind of garden decoration. The man was dressed in extremely luxurious and extravagant clothes, like a newly rich man who had just made money.

Without hesitation, he swiftly stepped out, appearing before the corpse Peng Ju, giving him no chance to react or resist, and threw a punch at Peng Ju.

At this moment, Ishihara Sho was glad that he hadn't indulged in women in the world of Under One Person. Instead, while indulging in women, he had also collected cultivation techniques. Because he was now in a primordial spirit body, the Naruto's chakra and the Shinigami's Kido were not completely useless, but they were almost impossible to use. Therefore, if he wanted to fight, he could only use methods that were in accordance with his primordial spirit.

Coincidentally, the Qi cultivation system in the Under One Person world is very compatible with the power of the Taoist primordial spirit. Especially with the Tongtian Talisman he recently acquired, the Yin Five Thunders, Yang Five Thunders, and Spirit Binding and Commanding techniques are more like magic. Even though Ishihara Akira did not directly cultivate them for other reasons, because they already existed in his mind, he knew their operation and activation techniques very well. With a turn of his primordial spirit, he mastered the corresponding methods of use, which could be used to deal with the Upper Corpse Peng Ju in front of him.

Peng Ju hurriedly dodged, his speed was incredibly fast, as if he had the wind on his feet. He turned around and ran more than ten meters in one go, but it was still not enough for Shi Yuanzhang. He continued to use the Shrinking Earth to an Inch technique to chase after him, and came behind Peng Ju. Then he used the Spirit Capture and Ghost Subjugation technique from the Spirit Capture and Ghost Subjugation method to forcibly restrain Peng Ju. Then he used the Yin Five Thunders stolen from Zhang Lingyu. Peng Ju gradually collapsed amidst a shrill scream, and turned into a ball of essence, which entered Shi Yuanzhang's primordial spirit.

Then Ishihara Akira turned and walked towards the middle dantian where the corpse Peng Zhi was located...

……

The process can be described as almost identical.

After all, the strength of the Three Corpses lies in their influence on their master. In other words, they can make the master make choices that are not rational or the best option at present, thus affecting the development of the situation and creating various hidden dangers for the master, leading the master on a wild run towards death.

As far as my combat ability is concerned...

It can be said that apart from the system created by the Three Demon Sect, the Three Corpses themselves have no combat ability. At most, they can use gold, silver, jewels, power, wealth, beauty, and magnificent palaces to tempt their master and make him give up suppressing them.

But in the eyes of Ishihara Sho, who was a master of such things, these were just ridiculous games. Therefore, after he had restrained the influence of the three corpses on himself, the three corpses were nothing more than three strange-looking non-humans to Ishihara Sho, their master.

Therefore, after easily subduing the Upper Corpse Peng Ju, he also subdued the Middle Corpse Peng Zhi and the Lower Corpse Peng Qiao, completing the subjugation of the Three Corpses and the perfection of his primordial spirit.

At this point, Ishihara Sho's cultivation of the primordial spirit stage is complete. After that, as long as he finds a way to transform his primordial spirit into a yang form and refine out the yin residue and yin essence within it, he can formally achieve the yang spirit realm and become a Taoist immortal.

Moreover, Ishihara Kaname was prepared to suffer for this...

Then, Ishihara Akira returned his primordial spirit to its original position, stopped the Three Demon Sect's cultivation technique that was still running but had little effect, and broke out of the meditative state.

His eyes flashed with a glint that nearly blinded Tu Junfang and Lü Liang, who had been watching his body, expression, and aura closely.

"How is it?" After using Qi to nourish his eyes and waiting for them to return to normal, Tu Junfang asked Ishihara Sho with an expectant look.

After all, it concerns the inheritance of the Three Demon Sects, so he couldn't help but feel both anticipation and nervousness.

"Success! I successfully annihilated the three corpses and absorbed their essence," Ishihara Akira replied with a smile.

The outward impression is that Ishihara Yu's feelings and pursuit of money, power, material possessions, food, and even women have further diminished, and he seems to have a touch of detachment from worldly desires.

However, once Ishihara Sho's celestial magic changed, he returned to normal.

“It just doesn’t seem to apply to you, or rather, if you want to use my method, you need to re-cultivate your Yin Spirit,” Ishihara explained.

Chapter 316 Biyou Village and Temporary Workers

Two days after subduing the Three Corpses, Shi Yuanzhang, having received the news, did not wait any longer. He took Xia He, Liu Yanyan, Dou Mei, Lü Liang, and Tu Junfang, who was pondering how to cultivate a Yin Spirit or whether to cultivate the Quanzhen Danfa, and flew to Qianzhou by plane, heading towards Liupanshui.

Then, they met up with Shen Chong, Gao Ning, and Ding Shian, who had already arrived there. Led by Shen Chong, who had already investigated the exact location of Biyou Village, they headed towards Biyou Village.

"What is our objective for this operation?" Ding Shian asked on the way.

"Arrest Ma Xianhong, the village chief of Biyou Village," Shi Yuanzhang replied.

“Then we need to act quickly,” Shen Chong chimed in from the side.

"Hmm?" Ishihara Akira looked at him with a surprised expression.

“Although I don’t know the specifics, when I was investigating Biyou Village, I found that the company’s people seemed to be paying attention to the situation here as well, and judging from their posture, it seemed like they were planning to take action,” Shen Chong explained.

In other words, if you don't want to run into the company, it's best to resolve things quickly.

“The people in the company…” Ishihara Akira frowned.

Did Chen Duo's incident happen so quickly?

They really know how to time things right.

"Then speed things up," Ishihara Akira ordered.

"Yes!" the crowd responded in unison.

The group then quickened their pace, heading towards Biyou Village at an increasingly rapid speed.

……

"Everyone, has everyone arrived?" Gao Erzhuang, a temporary worker from the Northeast region, sent a message in the temporary workers' group chat, asking this question. His profile picture was a funny smiling face.

"Ah, the North China team is here?" Xiao Zizai, a temporary worker from the East China region whose profile picture was his own, chimed in the group chat, "Tsk, everyone seems uninterested in the gathering... Well, if it weren't for this mission, I wouldn't want to meet you all..."

"Have you all received the mission briefing?"

Then came reports and information about Chen Duo's movements before her disappearance, or rather, before she entered Biyou Village. The content was extremely formulaic and did not conform to the harmonious and friendly work environment that Zhang Chulan had imagined.

"Shall we go and make contact with this Wan Youcai first?" Gao Erzhuang replied.

Wan Youcai was the last person Chen Duo saw before entering Biyou Village.

"Hehe, nobody mentioned the gathering. It seems like nobody's planning to show up..." Xiao Zizai typed again after seeing the quiet chat in the group and only Gao Erzhuang talking to him.

"How about this, I'll make contact with Wan Liangcai. You can do whatever you want. If you don't want to show yourselves this time, I can complete this task by myself."

"Brother Xiao, I'll go with you, hehe. I wonder how shameful the other guys are, hehehe. Everyone, I'm from the Southwest, just call me Qiu'er." Then, although he also used a surrendering expression, Wang Zhenqiu, a temporary worker from the Southwest region who couldn't help but laugh, typed: "Hehe, this mission should be as exciting as possible. I wonder how good Chen Duo is. It's rare for all six of us to go out together, it wouldn't be fun if she couldn't keep us entertained, hehehe."

"Don't think it's that simple, you bastard! All the information about Chen Duo came from my personal informant. I was probably the first one to arrive in Liupanshui. As soon as I got there, I went straight to my informant, but he had already been killed! The wound doesn't match the methods of the Gu-body Saint Child Chen Duo recorded. Chen Duo likely has accomplices." Black Pipe, a temporary worker from the Central China region with an angry emoji on his profile picture, immediately sent the message.

“They might not be accomplices. This is the latest intelligence I’ve found…” Gao Erzhuang denied. Then a bunch of pictures were sent out and presented to all the temporary workers: “This person is Shen Chong. He also arrived in Liupanshui in the last two days, and coincidentally, he is also asking around about Biyou Village. If his target is not Chen Duo, then I have reason to suspect that their target is also Biyou Village.”

Then came information about Shen Chong's identity, especially his identity as one of the Four Madmen of Quanxing.

"In addition, because I noticed Shen Chong's connection, I also paid special attention to the passenger information on vehicles and trains that have recently arrived in Liupanshui, to see what else I've discovered..."

"Ding Shian, Gao Ning, Dou Mei, Xia He, Tu Junfang, Lü Liang... Ding Shian, one of the Three Corpses of Quanxing, the Four Madmen, and the Two Heroes, has all arrived. If their target is indeed Biyou Village, it might conflict with our actions."

"Who are the remaining two people?" Wang Zhenqiu didn't care much about the Three Corpses of Quanxing, the Four Madmen, or the Two Heroes. Instead, he became interested in the two people who weren't mentioned in the information.

"According to the intelligence I've gathered, the remaining two are Ishihara and Liu Yanyan. Liu Yanyan's background is very clear: she comes from the Liu family of Xiangxi and is a descendant of the corpse-driving clan. Her parents are..."

A series of reports about Liu Yanyan revealed her background completely.

“All I have about the other person is his name; I can’t find anything else,” Gao Erzhuang replied.

“Ishihara…could he be the new leader of Quanxing?” Wang Zhenqiu exclaimed.

"We cannot rule out this possibility."

"So what do we do now? Given Quanxing's modus operandi, if their target is really Biyou Village, they won't care whether there's a Gu-body Saint Child inside."