I am Jinshan Youxia

No, he's right here beside me!

The large cow opened its mouth and lunged to bite to the side.

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Let's rewind to the time when Inuyasha first appeared.

"Lord Rat God, look up," Cui Zi reminded him.

The most powerful victory?

Zhang Chengyi looked up and saw the insects that were faintly visible in the sky. His interest was immediately changed. An ordinary human city lord was no big deal, but Naraku had offended him and was a red-named character.

"Can we find Naraku?" His voice was somewhat serious.

"Northeast direction."

As Cui Zi's voice faded, Zhang Chengyi glanced over and spotted the man in the crowd wearing a baboon pelt. Without hesitation, he jumped off the large cow and quickly approached.

Naraku seemed to sense something, but instinct ultimately couldn't overcome magic. He only realized that the Rat God had successfully captured him when a field mouse stepped on his head.

However, it was just a puppet.

"Cuizi."

A cold, rat-like squeak rang out, followed by spiritual energy flowing into the wooden puppet's brain, instantly destroying the puppet that was supposed to cooperate with the strongest warrior to retrieve the Shikon Jewel fragments.

"Snapped!"

Zhang Chengyi held the wooden doll, looking at the hair tangled around it, and said, "Cuizi?"

"Please leave it to me."

Cui Zi remained silent and reliable as always.

Chapter 174 My Cui Zi Has the Potential of an Emperor

"boom!"

Another violent explosion.

Zhang Chengyi looked back and was shocked to see the city lord's army indiscriminately attacking the execution ground, and what's more, they were using muskets, cannons similar to cannons, and even throwing tea canisters that would explode.

He was momentarily confused. Was this still the Warring States period? Where did I end up?

However, it seems that the monster is indeed having a hard time with firearms. The big cow, because of its large size, took two solid cannonballs and was hit a few times by the tea canister, leaving its back a bloody mess.

After all, the demons in the world of Inuyasha are demons who can be killed by cold weapons, so it's normal that they can't withstand firearms.

However, human firearms had very poor sustained effectiveness. Cannons would explode after only a few shots, instantly killing the soldiers firing them. There were also only a few muskets, and their reloading speed was slow. Explosive tea canisters were gone after only a dozen or so shots.

Less than two minutes into the battle, humanity's ranged attacks were reduced to a whirring barrage of arrows.

The cow was too big to dodge in a fight; it was a sitting duck.

Tenguyama Fushi, who was also a target of the attack, was extremely agile and dodged left and right. Apart from his clothes being blackened by the burning execution ground, he was not injured. Logically speaking, he should have been able to escape, or even rush up the city wall and kill all the humans who were attacking him.

But the problem was that the big cow was desperately trying to stop him, willing to get beaten and injured just to keep him there.

Both were empowered by the Shikon Jewel, giving them inexhaustible stamina and demonic energy. Tenguyama Fushi was actually much stronger, but the Shikon Jewel inside the cow's belly was a large piece. As the stalemate continued, despite the cow's numerous wounds, the effects of the Shikon Jewel were rapidly taking hold. The quickly healing flesh squeezed the charred skin piled on top and solidified into strange and ugly tumors, which then burst open in the fierce battle, spreading pools of filthy blood on the ground. The flames not only did not shrink but grew even more intense.

After the tumor ruptured, regenerated fleshy tentacles swayed and joined the battle. A nauseating miasma and evil aura spread, and soldiers fell one after another. At this point, the giant cow no longer looked like a cow at all.

It does resemble Naraku in the later stages of the manga.

Tenguyama Fushi initially had some strength left, but as the fight progressed, he had to use all his strength, even pushing himself beyond his limits. He didn't have the massive body of a cow to absorb damage, and his superhuman strength didn't improve his physical resilience. Fortunately, he had a slight advantage in movement and agility, so although he couldn't gain the upper hand, he could still remain undefeated for the time being.

While desperately squeezing out their demonic power, both demons were frantically demanding the Shikon Jewel.

"Lord Rat God, the cow monster has lost its mind."

Cui Zi pointed out, "The Shikon Jewel inside its body is too intact, and its severely injured body makes it difficult for it to control the evil thoughts in its heart when it is fighting with all its might. Qu Ling may be about to emerge."

Zhang Chengyi nodded and asked, "How much longer will it take to trace Naraku's location?"

After thinking for a moment, Midori said, "It might take several days for just one hair."

"Let's end this farce first," Zhang Chengyi said arrogantly, then quickly climbed onto the city wall, chose a spot where everyone could see him, and snapped his fingers—

The snap of fingers, enhanced by Cui Zi's magic, quickly covered the entire city, and then the barrier that Cui Zi had painstakingly set up the night before was opened.

Ripples appeared, and an unprecedented surge of spiritual energy erupted, freezing all living beings, whether human, demon, half-demon, or monk.

"The farce is over."

Zhang Chengyi's deliberately low voice was diligently relayed by Cuizi.

"Damn it, this guy!" With one hand holding the monk Mengxin and the other holding Miroku, Inuyasha frantically tried to resist with his demonic power, but it did not shake the barrier in the slightest.

At this moment, the half-demon protagonist is still too inexperienced.

Not to mention that she was facing Midori in her strongest form ever.

"This spiritual power, this spiritual power..."

Maitreya felt a chill; no wonder Coral said that the rat was a god.

"Cui Zi." Zhang Chengyi pointed his little paw at the big cow, and the cow's soul, which had been corrupted by Qu Ling, was extracted.

Cui Zi's unique purification ability instantly cleanses away filthy, bloated, and unhealthy souls.

A cloud of murky fog separated from the cow's soul.

Cui Zi explained, "Lord Rat God, these obsessions catalyzed by Qu Ling may take some time to purify. Destroying them directly might prevent the cow demon from ascending to heaven."

Obsession is something that is stripped from the soul; it is a part of the soul.

The resurrected Kikyo is a combination of her own spiritual power-carrying skeleton and the soil from her grave, along with a part of Kagome's soul and her obsessions from her previous life, forming a priestess who was already dead but was reincarnated.

The large cow in front of them was in a similar situation; the part of its soul filled with obsession, corrupted by Qu Ling, was cut apart by Cui Zi.

"sorry."

The giant cow, in its spirit form, lowered its head in apology, its eyes filled with regret.

Zhang Chengyi stroked his chin with his paw and said, "Tell me, can the obsession of the big cow be stuffed into my body alone?"

He has an idea.

Midori paused for a moment. Of course, she didn't want to be neighbors with such filthy things, but...

Forget it.

"As you wish." She gave up arguing and stuffed the black mist into the field mouse's body.

"Oh, oh, oh~ It's here!" Zhang Chengyi excitedly rubbed his hands together. The value modification interface showed the [Corrupted Cow Monster Remnant Soul]. "Can you separate the obsessions within it?"

“No problem,” Midori said softly, “but it may take some time.”

She is currently operating in a multi-threaded manner, remotely tracking Naraku using the demonic power extracted from the hair, controlling the barrier to hold the city and separate the cow's remnant soul's obsession.

She could never have done it before yesterday, even with several times stronger spiritual power, but she can do it now.

When she returned yesterday, Zhang Chengyi had allowed her to purify the Shikon Jewel fragments dozens of times by consuming them and locking in the quantity. The spirit within the fragments was purified, while her own remnant soul merged with her without any problems.

Originally a remnant soul, she merged with other remnant souls, constantly layering herself as she completed her transformation, resulting in a wildly increasing upper limit.

This is something she couldn't do in her previous life. Only after endless battles within the Shikon Jewel, losing all her trivial thoughts and transforming into a pure and straightforward spirit, could she achieve such a feat.

Zhang Chengyi is the kind of guy who loves a good show, so he pushes the limits to the maximum, resulting in Cui Zi, who now only has one-third of her original soul's integrity, possessing hundreds of times more spiritual power than she did in life.

Since spiritual power is the manifestation of the soul, the power of Midori's soul, which is only one-third complete, has reached an unimaginable level, allowing her to easily do things that no other priestess can do.

For example, using a barrier to solidify a city, handling things in multiple threads, or tracing back to Naraku through a tiny bit of demonic power, etc.

If the spiritual energy in this world weren't so weak, she could have wiped out Japan with a single slap if she had used the same amount of internal energy from the Tianlong world.

Chapter 175 Turning into a Cow

"Let us go right now, you bastards!"

While Zhang Chengyi was entertaining himself, Inuyasha couldn't help but shout and yell.

The aggressive Tenguyamabushi remained silent, looking up at the field mouse standing on the high place, seemingly lost in thought.

"Cuizi."

Zhang Chengyi said something, and Cui Zi immediately released Inuyasha, Monk Mengxin, and Miroku.

He belatedly had a feeling that even if he just lifted his leg, Cui Zi would know how much poop he was going to take.

However, he was too lazy to think about it that much. Players are generally straightforward and don't have many tricks up their sleeves. It's normal for smart people to figure them out. It's just that it's not so easy to take advantage of or trick him.

Zhang Chengyi did not ask Cui Zi to kill the city lord. Instead, he jumped onto the frozen city lord's shoulder and said with a smile, "I am a fellow villager of the cow. Tell me, is it a monster that drank milk?"

The people nearby weren't just the lord's retainers, but also an outsider named Amari Nobunaga, whose expression froze.

If I tell them, wouldn't the plan have completely failed? If I don't tell them, I'm now at their mercy. What should I do?

Zhang Chengyi extended his claw and slowly pressed it against the city lord's eyelids, feeling the rolling eyeballs, and said leisurely, "If you want to join the Takeda clan, you don't need to do any fancy stuff. They've already decided to go to war with the Oda clan of Owari. Just lead your troops there, and they'll take you in no matter what."

"But the prerequisite for all of this is that you have to survive first, right?"

Before the city lord could even respond, Gan Lixin was visibly shocked, his expression practically screaming, "How did you know?"

He's a fool after all; he can't hide his thoughts.

How did Zhang Chengyi find out...?

Even if he knew very little about Japanese history, he knew from some games that the Takeda clan would go to war with Oda Nobunaga. In the first battle, he won a great victory against Tokugawa Oda. However, the following year, Takeda Shingen died suddenly. His death was kept secret, but the situation remained deadlocked. A few years later, in the Battle of Nagashino, Oda Nobunaga decided the outcome in one battle, and the Takeda clan was destroyed.

Even if the historical timeline doesn't match, the events will always align. This year, Takeda and Oda only had a minor skirmish, clearly not to the point of a full-scale war. Sending a fool to win over the surrender faction and opportunists in Musashi Province shows that Takeda Shingen was determined to win the battle and was looking for cannon fodder.

As for why he insisted on threatening her himself, it's mainly because the Inuyasha world's concept of four souls and one spirit means that if one becomes too attached to any of the extreme emotions like greed, anger, ignorance, or murder, and starts heading towards the spirit, they will inevitably fall into depravity.

Humans, especially those with too many thoughts, fall into depravity incredibly quickly.

Zhang Chengyi's soul hasn't fallen into depravity at all, so he's not afraid at all. But Cui Zi is indeed very dangerous. Her soul is incomplete and too powerful. If she kills too much and causes problems at the mental level, she will fall into depravity very quickly and strongly. And after falling into depravity, she will completely lose her mind.

What's the difference between that and Greymon mistakenly evolving into Zombiemon? As a trainer, he would never do that.

Even if it could evolve into BlackGreymon later, who knows how much time that would waste? It's better to just stay a regular WarGreymon and follow the King's Path; maybe then—

Oops, I think I've wandered onto the wrong set.