The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

Extinction's expression changed...

"Don't forget, I just swore an oath," Ishihara Akira reminded him.

"Let's wait until tonight. I'm not used to daytime." Abbess Miejue's expression changed, and she said in a low voice.

"Alright. Then take this opportunity to tell me about your Emei Sect's martial arts techniques. By the way, is the Heaven-Slaying Sword still in your possession?" Ishihara Akira didn't force him. He put his arm around the sandalwood-scented Abbess Miejue and returned to the inside of the house. He sat down on the bed where she had been sitting cross-legged and looked at the expressionless Abbess Miejue beside him, asking her questions.

"This is it." Abbess Miejue placed the sword she had been holding in front of her...

At the same time, she suddenly recalled that Ishihara Akane had managed to hold the incredibly sharp Yitian Sword, capable of cutting through gold and jade, between her fingers with her own flesh and blood, making her even more curious about Ishihara Akane's identity.

Could he really be a banished immortal?

Or perhaps a demon?

Otherwise, aside from coincidences, an ordinary person cannot swear an oath and command the heavens and earth to respond with thunder.

Without any hesitation, Ishihara Akira took the Heaven-Slaying Sword into his hand. After closing his eyes and sensing its power for a moment, he suddenly noticed two thin pieces of silk cloth with tiny, finely written characters on them. He then put down the Heaven-Slaying Sword and carefully read the contents of the cloth.

It was the two martial arts manuals, the Nine Yin Manual and the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, hidden in the Heaven Sword, that he memorized.

"Here, this is what you've been longing to retrieve." After reading the manual, Ishihara Akane handed it to the astonished Abbess Miejue and said calmly.

Abbess Miejue took the item blankly and subconsciously looked over.

"After you've finished reading, remember to find all the techniques of your Emei Sect and show them to me. I'll see if there's any room for modification or enhancement," Shi Yuanzhang said calmly.

Abbess Miejue looked up at Shi Yuanzhang, did not refuse, and stood up, saying, "I will have my disciple go and fetch the secret manuals from the Sutra Pavilion."

Having witnessed Ishihara Akira's power and extraordinary methods, Abbess Miejue, who was even more eager to see his next move, did not hesitate. As soon as she finished speaking, she quickly walked out of the meditation room, called her disciples, and told them to go to the Sutra Repository and bring over the secret manuals from there.

Moreover, the speed was very fast. In just over half an hour, about forty minutes, the female disciples of Emei, led by Bei Jinyi, delivered all the martial arts manuals collected in the Sutra Repository, including the Emei Nine Yang Skill.

Of course, this also surprised them greatly, as they never expected that there would be other men in their master's room.

And he was so young, seemingly about the same age as us.

This filled Bei Jinyi and others with gossip.

However, Ishihara Akira didn't pay much attention to it at the moment. After all, there was still a long time ahead, and sooner or later he would have the opportunity to bring the good-looking ones into his possession. So he calmly picked up the secret manuals in front of him and began to read them carefully.

"By the way, do you have a female disciple named Zhou Zhiruo under your name?" Ishihara Akira asked, suddenly remembering something while flipping through the manual.

"No," Abbess Miejue shook her head.

In other words, the story hasn't even started yet, and Zhang Wuji hasn't met Zhou Zhiruo by the Han River...

I've arrived quite early.

"And what about Ji Xiaofu?" Ishihara Sho asked again.

"Xiaofu? She went down the mountain on business." Abbess Miejue frowned.

In other words, Yang Buhui has already been born...?

That makes sense, after all, the Heaven Sword is back in Miejue's hands, so it's not surprising that Ji Xiaofu gave birth to the child. It's just that it's not good to let Miejue harm the child again...

If Ji Xiaofu really suits my taste.

As for Yin Liting?

Just make up any excuse to get rid of it.

After all, that guy has already been cheated on by Yang Xiao, so preventing him from being further tricked by Ji Xiaofu is a good thing...

Of course, it also saved Yang Buhui from a crisis, preventing her from ending up like in the original story, taking care of Yin Liting to make up for her mother's mistakes, and ultimately getting herself involved and becoming Yin Liting's woman.

……

"Father, look, there's a big ship!" At the same time, on the ocean outside the Central Plains, a boy pointed to a large ship that was faintly visible in the distance and shouted to his father beside him.

"How come there's a boat here?" The boy's father, instead of showing joy, became even more serious upon seeing this.

"Father? What's wrong?" the boy asked, puzzled.

"Fifth Brother..." The boy's mother also came over, putting one arm around the boy's shoulder and holding the boy's father's hand with the other.

"It seems our journey back to the Central Plains will not be peaceful," the man, whom the woman called Fifth Brother, said in a low voice with a complicated expression.

Chapter 339 Begins the Transformation

"How much time is left until Master Zhang of Wudang's 100th birthday?" That evening, having successfully suppressed Abbess Miejue and used his Double Perfection Hands to improve her physical condition, making her skin, muscles, and even facial features more delicate and beautiful, and younger than before, Ishihara Akira finally asked.

"There are still less than three months left." After the Yin and Yang were harmonized, she felt that her cultivation was becoming smoother and that her internal energy level was even showing signs of a breakthrough. Her temper also became much gentler, and she answered in a calm voice.

“This time, let’s just have a proper birthday celebration and stop with all that useless nonsense. You don’t need to use the Dragon-Slaying Saber to break the Heaven-Reliant Sword to get the martial arts manuals inside,” Ishihara Akira said.

"My affairs are none of your business," Miejue said with displeasure.

"You're forcing me to take action against you." Ishihara Akane moved Extinction over to face him and said, "Don't you think that since I have the means to capture souls, I can't directly extract the soul of a living person and modify it to turn someone into my puppet?"

As expected, Miejue's expression changed upon hearing this, and her face darkened.

"And you've seen my character; I'm not a decent person at all. Aren't you afraid of what will happen to the female disciples of your Emei Sect after you're controlled?" Shi Yuanzhang continued to remind him with a smile.

"If you dare to lay a hand on my Emei disciples, I will haunt you even as a ghost!" Miejue sat up, glaring at Shiyuan Zhang and shouting angrily.

“Even your senior brother Gu Hongzi can’t do anything to me, let alone you?” Shi Yuanzhang sneered. Then, before Miejue could speak again, he continued, “So if you don’t want the Emei Sect to be thrown into chaos by me, you’d better listen to me. That way, at least you can supervise me and advise me so that I don’t go too far. Otherwise… Emei? What a prestigious name.”

"You!" Miejue glared at Ishihara Sho, but in her heart she knew that what Ishihara Sho said was all true, and it was not something that she could change by trying to resist or fight to the death.

He fell silent, suppressing his anger, and exuded a terrifying aura that made people afraid to look him in the eye.

"Alright, go to sleep early. I have something to tell you tomorrow." Shi Yuanzhang pulled Miejue's arm and drew her, who, despite being a nun, still had hair, into his arms, saying with a smile.

Extinction did not resist; she simply endured everything that should not have happened to her with a gloomy expression, bearing humiliation and protecting the future of Emei.

……

Then the next day.

Just as Shi Yuanzhang had said, Miejue gathered all the Emei disciples—whether they were the female disciples of the inner sect or the male disciples of the outer sect who could only learn rudimentary skills and basic internal energy cultivation methods—and introduced Shi Yuanzhang's identity to everyone.

"The man beside me is named Shi Yuan, your junior uncle. He has been traveling the world and has not been in the mountains for some reason. However, starting today, he will stay in the Emei Sect and be responsible for teaching and examining the disciples' martial arts. Please pay your respects to him." Abbess Miejue announced loudly to the many inner and outer disciples, as well as Buddhist disciples standing below.

"Greetings, Junior Uncle." The disciples bowed respectfully to Ishihara Sho.

"Get up, everyone," Ishihara Akira said casually, waving his hand.

The disciples stood up.

"The next matter is the second one: to sculpt a statue of your junior uncle, to create a golden body, and to place it in the main hall to receive the worship of you and the pilgrims below the mountain, alongside all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas." Ignoring the whispers of her disciples, Abbess Miejue declared directly and forcefully, "Jin Chuan, this matter is entrusted to you. You must complete it in the shortest possible time, or I will hold you accountable!"

“Yes, disciple will take care of this matter immediately,” the male outer disciple named Jin Chuan replied solemnly.

"Third, after the statue is completed, I don't care what you think, but whether you are an inner disciple, an outer disciple, or any other Buddhist disciple, you must sincerely worship the statue of Junior Uncle after the start or end of the morning and evening prayers, without fail!"

"Alright, that's all I wanted to say. Everyone except Bei Jinyi and Ji Xiaofu may leave now."

"Yes," the disciples responded, and then dispersed, whispering amongst themselves.

There was no other way. After all, erecting statues or even worshipping the living was something they had never heard of before, and it even seemed strange to them. Worshipping is usually a privilege reserved for the dead. For the living to receive this privilege was rare, except for those who had performed great acts of kindness—such as saving countless lives during a disaster that affected an area, thus earning the heartfelt gratitude of the affected people who erected longevity tablets for them. This kind of forced request was something they had never encountered before.

Therefore, they couldn't help but have wild thoughts. They wondered if their junior uncle had injured his brain while traveling, or if he had been tricked by some evil guy, which was why he asked the sect leader to help with this kind of thing. Otherwise, what normal person would do such a thing?

Then came the question: the sect leader is clearly a shrewd person, so why would he help his junior uncle achieve this even though he knew it was abnormal?

Could it be that there's some hidden secret they're unaware of?

……

"Master, Junior Uncle." After everyone had dispersed, Bei Jinyi and Ji Xiaofu, who had been left behind by name, came to the two men and greeted them.

"From today onwards, you two will cultivate together with your junior uncle." Miejue looked at her two disciples, suppressing her irritation, and spoke to them as calmly as possible.

"Yes." The two of them agreed without much thought.

"Then, junior brother, I'm entrusting these two to you. I hope you will treat them well, otherwise, I, your senior sister, will not allow it." Miejue turned her head and looked at Shiyuan Zhang, who was admiring and sizing up Bei Jinyi and Ji Xiaofu, with a resolute gaze, and said in a deep voice.

"Don't worry, Senior Sister, I will teach them well," Shi Yuanzhang replied with a smile. And perhaps to provoke Miejue, he deliberately emphasized the words "teach them well," which made Miejue's anger surge, wishing she could slap him to death on the spot.

He didn't linger, gave a muttered snort, and got up to leave the main hall where they were talking, leaving the space to Bei Jinyi, Ji Xiaofu, and Shi Yuanzhang.

"Nephew Bei, you should go down first. I'll talk to you after I've finished talking with Nephew Ji," Shi Yuanzhang said gently to Bei Jinyi, who, although not particularly stunning in appearance, had a pleasing and traditional beauty that grew on you the more you looked at her.

“Yes, then I’ll take my leave.” Bei Jinyi replied politely.

He bowed, then turned and walked out, leaving the space to Ji Xiaofu and Ishihara Sho.

Then, Ishihara Akira stood up, walked up to Ji Xiaofu, looked at her with a smile, and suddenly said softly, "Yang Buhui."

Instantly, Ji Xiaofu's face turned pale, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably—

How did he know about the existence of the Unrepentant One?

Chapter 340 Ji Xiaofu

"What Yang Buhui?" Ji Xiaofu suppressed her shock and asked in feigned confusion.

"Aren't you curious why Senior Sister would do something so serious, knowing full well that erecting statues of living people and even moving them into halls to receive offerings and worship from ordinary people?" Ishihara Akira smiled, not answering her question directly, but instead casually asking in return as he walked around Ji Xiaofu.

"Why?" Ji Xiaofu asked, puzzled.

"As a disciple of Emei, you should know what a Stream-enterer is, right?" Ishihara Akira asked again.

"Is what my senior uncle is referring to, the first fruit of enlightenment that a monk can attain after entering the stream of enlightenment, namely the Stream-entry stage?" Ji Xiaofu thought for a moment and then replied.

“That’s right.” Ishihara Akira nodded, then continued, “Do you know what a True Man of Omniscience is?”

"The All-Knowing True Man?" Ji Xiaofu frowned. She knew that "True Man" was a title that Taoist practitioners could only obtain after reaching a certain level of cultivation. In terms of martial arts realm, generally only Taoist masters who had reached the Innate Realm could be called True Man. Looking across the martial arts world today, apart from that centenarian from Wudang, no one was qualified to be called True Man!

Even the so-called "true men" within the Taoist sect are the same.

Although they have the title of "True Person," it is a title conferred by secular emperors. While they can be addressed as such, they are incomparable to those who have cultivated to the level of a True Person.

However, she was unaware of the title "All-Knowing True Man".

After all, Emei is now a Buddhist sect. Although the founder studied a wide variety of things, including Buddhism, Taoism, and even Tantric Buddhism, he was not specialized enough. Therefore, he was not bad at Buddhist things, but when it came to Taoism and Tantric Buddhism, he really only had a superficial understanding and did not understand the principles.

"The so-called 'Omniscient True Man' is the title that Taoist practitioners receive after achieving the Earth Immortal realm. 'True Man' refers to his status, while 'Omniscient' refers to the supernatural powers possessed by the Earth Immortal True Man. Just as a Buddhist practitioner who has reached the Stream-Entry stage can awaken the supernatural power of knowing past lives among the six supernatural powers, he can not only know all the past and future changes of a person when they are face to face, but even in private conversations where people are not face to face, as long as his name is mentioned, the person being talked about will have a corresponding perception and know what the person is talking about," Ishihara Akira explained with a smile.