The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

Instantly, Shi Yuanzhang felt a cool sensation in his kidneys, and a surge of powerful water elemental energy flowed from there.

Chapter 423 Five Qi

Seeing this, Ishihara Akira did not hesitate and immediately calmed his mind. He used his primordial spirit to envelop his kidneys while meditating on the method of cultivating the kidney spirit in the twenty-fourth chapter of the Yellow Court Classic.

Sure enough, in no time, Ishihara Akira felt the space around him change, and he arrived in a world that seemed to be formed in the form of a round sky and a square earth.

Although the interior is not a vast ocean, it is crisscrossed by countless ditches, in which large amounts of dark liquid, like oil, slowly flow.

However, the most eye-catching of them all are the nine springs, because all the dark liquid he sees comes from these nine springs, which can be called the source of all water.

A completely black temple sits in the center of an open space surrounded by nine springs, its gates wide open, seemingly awaiting the arrival of Ishihara Sho.

Naturally, Ishihara Akira didn't hesitate and strode towards the temple in front of him.

In a short while, Ishihara Akira arrived at the temple.

The temple was empty; apart from a prayer cushion and an altar, there was no statue of any deity.

Before Ishihara Sho could say anything, two bursts of spiritual light suddenly appeared, and the figures of a man and a woman, a young man and a child came into Ishihara Sho's view. He bowed slightly and said, "Xuan and Ming greet fellow Daoist."

Indeed, the two figures that suddenly appeared, one male and one female, one large and one small, were none other than the head of the Kidney Palace, the God of the Dark Underworld!

Xuan represents male, corresponding to the gender of Ishihara Sho himself, while Ming represents female, corresponding to innate destiny.

In other words, if Ishihara Yu is a woman, then the larger one is female and the smaller one is male.

"Ishihara Sho greets you both. I'll leave the Kidney Palace to you two." Ishihara Sho then realized everything, returned the greeting, and said politely.

"You're too kind, fellow Daoist."

Then, the two gods of Xuanming walked hand in hand to the altar above where the statues of gods should have been placed, and transformed into a pair of male and female statues. The entire temple seemed to come alive, heaven and earth were in order, water flowed in a controlled manner, and countless strands of Gui water essence fell from the sky like rain, nourishing the earth, washing away the filth, and making the whole world fresh.

Ishihara Sho understood that the kidney uterus had been opened.

Without further ado, he shifted his focus, leaving the kidneys and following the principle of water nourishing wood in the Five Elements, taking the innate wood energy extracted from his primordial spirit to the location of the liver...

……

Guided by the innate five elements essence that Ishihara Sho collected over a world's time, and with the cooperation of his nearly half-formed Yang spirit, the opening of the five internal organs and five palaces, which was originally thought to be very difficult, suddenly became simple.

Sure enough, in less than a day, Ishihara Sho successfully opened up the five internal organs and five palaces, and guided gods of the five internal organs and five elements, such as the Xuanming God, to reside in the temple of the five internal organs, completing the initial cultivation of the five internal organs and five energies.

In other words, he has already laid a solid foundation. As long as he is gradually supplied with the essence of the five elements and innate energy, his five internal organs and five energies will eventually be perfected, allowing him to smoothly enter the stage of the Three Flowers Condensation.

"It's a pity that there aren't any famous mountains and rivers in Nagoya, and it's not good to engage in feudal superstitions in the country. Otherwise, Ishihara Akira could combine with the earth's veins to become a true earth immortal, and accelerate the growth of the Five Elements Gods by having believers worship him, thereby nourishing the Five Elements Qi and the perfection of the Five Organs..." Ishihara Akira muttered greedily.

"Now, all I can do is travel to other worlds more often and collect the essence of the five elements..."

However, the benefits of establishing the "Five Internal Organs Temple" were considerable.

谷鈧

As mentioned before, after the establishment of the Heart Palace Temple, Ishihara Sho's power was greatly enhanced, his physique was strengthened, and his endurance increased; with the establishment of the Liver Palace, he gained the ability to be immune to all poisons, so basically as long as he doesn't do anything reckless, there shouldn't be anything in the real world that can poison him.

Once the lung palace is established, one gains the ability to exhale and transform into a sword immortal.

Once the spleen is established, appetite increases dramatically, and eating a whole cow in one meal is no longer a fantasy—a true gluttonous champion skill.

Unfortunately, Ishihara Akira had no intention of taking this route, so he could only consider it a convenience for enjoying a good life.

After the kidney palace is established, the ears can hear all information within a kilometer. Not only is that aspect enhanced, but the person also becomes energetic and not easily tired. It feels like when going to the battlefield again, ordinary women will find it difficult to keep up with his pace.

In short, it makes one incredibly powerful, with a radiant body, making them even more attractive and irresistible to women.

"Unfortunately, this is about all the cultivation I can do in the real world. If I want to accelerate further, I can only do so by accumulating good deeds..."

However, good deeds are not so easy to accomplish.

While doing good deeds and accumulating merit does exist, it certainly doesn't amount to as much as slaying demons and monsters. But reality isn't a world of gods and ghosts. If he were to expect to slay demons and monsters in this world, he might as well think about what kind of world would be more suitable for him to go to in the past.

Not to mention, he was also a Heavenly Demon.

Accumulating good deeds is not the way of the Heavenly Demon.

"Sigh, as expected, the only way is to work on the Yang Spirit." Ishihara Sho muttered to himself.

Without hesitation, he decisively used the previous test subjects as a starting point to recruit another 50,000 new people from various countries, bringing the total number of people worldwide to 10 million. These people entered the Nightmare Space as trial participants to help him conquer various worlds, accelerate the establishment of the Desire Realm, and further erode the real world.

"With a global population of nearly 80 billion, we don't know when we'll be able to digest all of them."

……

In the following period, Ishihara Akira's life returned to normal. Apart from running the temple and exchanging feelings with various women, he spent most of his time digesting the essence of the five elements and exercising his five internal organs.

The progress wasn't exactly fast, but it was still noticeable. Anyway, there were gains every day, so Ishihara Sho wouldn't get bored.

Besides that, the thing that Ishihara Yu did most was to select people from various countries around the world as test subjects to enter the Nightmare Space once a day, at frequencies of 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, and 500,000 respectively!

So during the days that Ishihara was resting in the real world, the number of people inside the Nightmare Space was growing exponentially. Until today, after Ishihara finished his last population retrieval, there were nearly 4 million testers gathered in the entire Nightmare Space.

Its impact on the real world is becoming increasingly difficult for official institutions to ignore.

After all, the emergence of groups of elites, gifted individuals, and criminals, all of whom are exceptionally skilled, could easily cause heavy casualties to officers on duty if they are not careful. The consequences of such an event are something that official agencies do not want to see.

Not to mention, the Nightmare Space Trial itself is dangerous, and as the number of test subjects increases, the number of unnatural deaths in each country is also increasing rapidly every day, reaching hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands. If this is not controlled properly, it could easily lead to social unrest.

Therefore, it is easy to imagine the defensive attitude of various countries towards Nightmare Space. In any case, countries around the world are searching for everything related to Nightmare Space, trying to find the mastermind behind it all and end this endless hidden danger that has no end in sight.

Chapter 424 The Silent Change

Therefore, Ishihara Takashi had no choice but to take it seriously.

The reason is simple: the chaos caused by the Nightmare Space Trialers has affected him.

The underground order in Nagoya became chaotic due to the presence of this group, which greatly affected Keiko Yamada's control and management of the Nagoya underground forces. In addition, some even bolder and more unscrupulous individuals caused the deaths of some of her Illuminati members due to their misdeeds.

Not to mention, after Ishihara Sho became rich, he had Sato Haruka set up businesses for him, and these guys treated him like a rich dog and harassed him. Ishihara Sho felt that if he didn't deal with it, his peaceful daily life would be ruined.

Without further ado, a notice was immediately issued in the Nightmare Space: Except in special circumstances, trial participants are not allowed to use their abilities for criminal activities; violators will be eliminated.

Below is the list of trial participants whose misconduct has been confirmed.

Then, a large number of names appeared on public display, like system pop-ups. Whether you were in the Nightmare Space or sleeping, you could clearly see the names displayed above, along with their crimes.

Finally, Ishihara Akira announced: "The above-mentioned personnel will be eliminated."

After speaking, ignoring the appeals of those people or the drastically changed expressions of others, he created another pop-up window that appeared before all the trial participants, displaying the death images of each member who was eliminated—

……

At that moment, in a peculiar venue in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district, a man who had been drinking and joking with two women suddenly stood up from between them, his expression shifting between anger and uncertainty as he growled, "What?! Annihilation? On what grounds?"

Before he could finish speaking, his head exploded like a watermelon hit by a baseball bat, spraying a head full of red and white stuff in all directions.

The girls around were initially stunned by the change before their eyes, and then let out the most terrified screams of their lives with all the strength they had ever had.

"what!!!"

Then, a girl ran out of the room like a madwoman, attracting even more people—the security personnel.

"This……"

The security personnel who saw the situation inside the room also changed their expressions and looked at each other speechlessly.

Similar incidents occurred all over the world at the moment Ishihara ordered the annihilation, and the number was enormous. According to Ishihara's rough estimate, the number of victims was around 200,000.

It is evident how much psychological change the emergence of power and ability brought about in these people.

The good thing is that these people are generally foreigners, especially white people from Europe and America and people from the Middle East. There are fewer Asians, and only a few in China.

After all, apart from the initial 1,100 people, the hundreds of thousands, nearly a million, of the subsequent trainees were specially selected by Ishihara Akira from the military and law enforcement agencies. They were not only highly qualified, but also morally above average.

This, coupled with the domestic social environment and public security, has resulted in very few people who abuse their abilities and act recklessly; the number is even less than double digits.

It was all worth it for Ishihara Sho's painstaking efforts.

Moreover, he believed that after this warning, the relevant personnel in the country should understand how to use these trainees selected from the military and law enforcement agencies to maximize their effectiveness.

With this, global security was restored, and the world returned to the peaceful state it was before the Nightmare Space Trialers caused trouble, much to the relief of governments around the world.

谷彬

But as mentioned before, the existence of the Nightmare Space is a hidden danger, so even if the Nightmare Space does something that is good for them, they will not let go of their continued investigation of the Nightmare Space.

This also includes the situation in China.

……

That night, near the crater of Nasu-Yumoto Onsen in Nasu-gun, Tochigi Prefecture, a sound like something shattering suddenly echoed through the quiet wilderness. Then, countless tiny, firefly-like lights gathered, and a black-haired woman dressed in an elegant, old-fashioned kimono suddenly appeared in the wilderness.

The woman was very tall, well over 1.7 meters, with straight hair as if she had undergone advanced ionic perming. Her skin was fair, almost like she had albinism. Only her face was unusually bewitching, looking like both a fairy and a demon, but more like a demon. She exuded an aura that made people intoxicated and obsessed.

With her bright eyes and red lips, she possesses a captivating charm that can charm countless people, making them unable to resist her allure.

"I never imagined I would be resurrected in this era in such a way. Has the world begun to change again?" The woman raised her arm, looking at her seemingly glowing white arm, and murmured as she gently stroked her arm with a charming smile.

"I don't know if it's too late."

After saying that, the woman turned around and suddenly disappeared into thin air.

Then the fluorescence exploded, illuminating the black stone tablet next to it, as well as the three large Chinese characters written in white paint on the stone tablet—"Killing Stone".

……

"Did you notice?" At the same time, Bo Xun, who had not appeared for a long time, reappeared beside him in a form that only Ishihara Sho could see, and said slowly.

"What?" Ishihara Sho, who was enjoying Etsuko's service, was taken aback and subconsciously asked in return.

"What?" Yumiko exhaled and looked up at Ishihara Akira standing in front of her, puzzled.

"It's alright," Ishihara Sho said, patting Etsuko's head.

Then, it exerts an influence, blocking the perception of one's own voice.

“The world has changed,” Mara warned.

"What do you mean?" Ishihara Akira asked, frowning.

“Although you haven’t fully activated the exchange rules for extraordinary items, the existence of the Nightmare Space and the fact that the exchange ability can be brought into reality have still shaken the belief in materialism in those you have chosen, causing fluctuations in the power of idealism,” Mara patiently explained.