I am Jinshan Youxia

Zhang Chengyi patted his belly and said angrily, "I never intended to help you, okay? Give me back my Shikon Jewel fragments!"

Since he has no soul, he can't communicate through spirits; he can only communicate with the simplest words.

"..."

Midori paused for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry, I can't revive them."

Originally immersed in the battle, she had little consciousness other than fighting spirit. Moreover, she was just a piece among countless fragments, her soul was incomplete, so how could she communicate with others?

As a result of the power given by the rat, her soul fragments instantly became countless times stronger, even several times stronger than the complete her. So she defeated Qu Ling without hesitation. While releasing her spiritual power, she also killed Qu Ling in the other fragments and retrieved the soul fragments.

Battles at the soul level are the simplest and most direct; once the evil thoughts of the monsters are destroyed, they disappear completely. She cannot revive the evil thoughts of the monsters.

Chapter 156 Reincarnation is such a cliché!

"Yinmu, what happened?!"

A girl dressed in a kimono and carrying a giant boomerang rushed over. After discovering that the Shikon Jewel shards were missing, she looked at the glowing giant rat with wary eyes.

"Meow meow~"

Mica squatted in place, staring intently at Zhang Chengyi, and called out twice.

The kind that humans can't understand.

The girl Sango gripped her weapon, Hiraikotsu, and muttered to herself, "A youkai? Hand over the Shikon Jewel!"

Although I didn't sense any demonic energy, a rat that can glow must be a demon.

"Hehe~" Zhang Chengyi chuckled dryly, "Um, would you believe me if I said I'm the Rat God?"

"Whoosh!" The moment he opened his mouth to speak, Coral threw the flying bone over, completely disregarding her own building.

Zhang Chengyi successfully anticipated the demon slayer's attack. He leaped to avoid the flying bone, then quickly shrunk his body. Since the Shikon Jewel fragments were all shattered anyway, he might as well use a smaller size to escape.

His larger size gave him greater strength, allowing him to leap to the eaves. Then, his smaller size and greater agility allowed him to grab the eaves and easily flip onto the roof.

"Crack!" The flying bone crashed into a wall and flew back in a whirl.

Just as Zhang Chengyi was about to escape further away, a scythe flew over. He managed to dodge it with a backflip and saw a boy with a ponytail running towards him on the rooftops, clutching the chain of the scythe in his hand.

Before he could even think about what to do next, he saw the scythe he had thrown into the air suddenly come back down.

"laugh!"

The sound of blades slicing through the air drew ever closer. The kusarigama, a unique weapon, is capable of continuous attacks in mid-air and is extremely difficult to control and learn.

What bad luck!

Zhang Chengyi stared intently at the approaching blade, using the speed-shifting mechanism to freeze time. His consciousness returned to the modifier's main body, and various coping strategies swirled in his mind, each involving simply sacrificing a part of his body.

"Please let me control your spiritual power." Midori's voice was drawn out as the speed gears slowed down.

Be prepared to discard your left arm, and then trust her.

Zhang Chengyi made a decision, loosened his forceful control over spiritual power, and then disengaged the gear shifter.

With a "whoosh," immense spiritual power gathered at the tip of the claw, and with a bang, it knocked the chain scythe away.

"Lord Rat God, please be mindful of my technique in releasing spiritual power. However, doing so is a waste of spiritual power, even for me now, eh—"

Cui Zi was earnestly trying to teach Zhang Chengyi how to gather spiritual power and turn it into a real attack, but she found that her spiritual power had not been consumed at all, so she fell silent.

Less than a second later, she said again, "I understand."

I don't know what she understood, but she continued, "Please open your arms."

"It's claws," Zhang Chengyi corrected, but still obediently opened his claws, and spiritual energy flowed out rapidly.

"boom!"

The kusarigama and the flying bone that attacked again were deflected by an invisible barrier.

Is this the barrier?

Yes, the shrine maiden's specialty is all kinds of barriers. In the manga, Kikyo almost made barriers into a variety of forms, such as barriers that can block outsiders from coming, barriers that can defend against attacks, and earth barriers that chase Naraku so far that he didn't dare to show his face.

Zhang Chengyi thought about it and felt a bit of a headache. The power that required learning the corresponding knowledge to unleash was a bit of a waste for him.

It would be better to become a monster.

"Snapped!"

Coral grabbed the Flying Bone again, about to continue her attack, when the middle-aged man in the black bodysuit landed and said, "Stop!"

The boy stopped what he was doing upon hearing the sound, went to the middle-aged man's side, and said, "Father... Chief."

"Leader," Coral called out, her gaze fixed intently on Zhang Chengyi.

"This spiritual power..." The leader of the exorcists said with a serious expression, "May I ask which priestess or high monk has arrived here?"

Magic is very mysterious; there might be some kind of magic that turns you into an animal, which could be an illusion or a curse.

"I am the shrine maiden Midori."

"Even if it's just a soul, with her current spiritual power, I can still speak like a normal human," said Cui Zi calmly inside the mouse's belly.

"It's...it's the reincarnation of that priestess!"

The leader of the exorcists looked shocked. Such powerful purifying spiritual energy, almost purifying the soul, was undoubtedly consistent with the abilities of the legendary Miko Midori.

I never imagined that the legendary witch would be reincarnated as a rat!

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm not some reincarnated witch!" Zhang Chengyi shouted loudly. His translation ability allowed him to convey the message even if the speaker made the smallest or strangest sound or no sound at all.

None of them, including the shrine maiden Midori in her womb, sensed anything amiss; this was a rule.

The leader of the demon hunters nodded. He had heard of stories about awakening in a past life and then refusing to acknowledge it in this one. His face was full of "you're right" expressions. He asked, "Lady Cuizi, what brings you here so late at night?"

"Leader, the Shikon Jewel shards are missing," Sango said.

Zhang Chengyi felt a bit aggrieved. How could he, a dignified wandering knight of Jinshan, be mistaken for some kind of random reincarnation? His voice and Cuizi's voice rang out together:

"Didn't you notice that I'm a male mouse and Midori is a shrine maiden? The genders are completely wrong."

"I purified that Shikon Jewel shard."

"I see." The leader of the demon hunters nodded and said earnestly, "Thank you for your hard work, Lady Cuizi."

“No, are you even listening to me?” Zhang Chengyi spoke again.

"I'm sorry, Lord Rat God." Cui Zi took the initiative to greet him, and then said to the exorcists, "I am just a soul resurrected by Lord Rat God, and I am currently possessing Lord Rat God's body."

The leader of the exorcists looked surprised. The Rat God was a god he had never heard of before. He could understand the other water gods and mountain gods, but what was the Rat God? Was he the god of rats?

Could it be a god who specifically kills rats?

"My apologies, Lord Rat God." He thought to himself, bowed to express his apology, and after standing up, said again, "Coral, Amber."

"I was rude about what happened just now, Lord Rat God." Coral bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle to apologize.

Because she was wearing a yukata-type kimono and no underwear (and the concept of underwear didn't exist in that era), there was a huge slit in her chest, almost big enough to stuff a field mouse inside.

Zhang Chengyi turned his face away. He was capricious, but he wasn't a pervert or a male rat who liked to take advantage of others.

Amber also bowed and apologized. The two of them did not raise their heads for a long time. Many of the demon exorcists in the mountain village gathered around and whispered among themselves.

"Sigh." Zhang Chengyi sighed. He couldn't hit a smiling face. After a day of understanding and the impression from the comics, there was no doubt that the exorcists in this village were all good people. They were friendly NPCs that he would try not to fight in the dungeon. He really couldn't bring himself to be hostile.

"Never mind, I also have something to apologize for."

“I stole your Shikon Jewel, which is why Midori appeared.”

"Don't worry, I will definitely return one to you in the future."

His initial idea was to swallow it, copy it, and then try to vomit it out or excrete a piece to return it. However, Cui Zi directly purified the Shikon Jewel fragment, making it impossible for him to try to control the soul of the spirit or the man to obtain power other than spiritual power.

It's all Midori's fault!

The leader of the demon exorcists was startled and quickly said, "No, no, no, it's better for you and Lady Midori to keep the Shikon Jewel safe."

Chapter 157 Mysterious Secrets!

the next morning.

"Rice cakes, rice wine, dried fish..."

Looking at his exquisitely plated breakfast, Zhang Chengyi glanced at the demon hunter outside who was gnawing on some kind of monster's leg and said speechlessly, "Are they treating me like a Japanese person? They didn't even give me any real meat."

He used his paw to fork a piece of rice cake, took a small bite, chewed it, and then spat it out. He then took a bite of dried fish, which was so salty and unpalatable that his face scrunched up in disgust.

Mice have a highly developed sense of taste and can distinguish between sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty flavors, making their diet relatively similar to that of humans.

Normally, Japanese mochi should be grilled and then eaten with soy sauce or red bean soup. However, the mochi served by the exorcists was neither grilled nor served with soy sauce or red bean soup. Instead, it was served with rice wine.

A normal field mouse would certainly find it quite nice, but he's a cheat code user who frequently logs into various bodies. He doesn't necessarily eat delicacies every day, but he'd at least have plenty of meat and fish, so his palate has long been spoiled.

At the farmer's house, they eat melons and fruits, which are barely palatable due to the field mouse's preference for them. Their mouths are so bland that they taste like nothing at all. The food they are offered as a deity is not even as sweet as melons and fruits.

“Lord Rat God,” Midori reminded him, “this is a divine delicacy.”

The translation is something offered to the gods.

"..."

Zhang Chengyi didn't admit it was his fault, so he left a large plate of the leftover food and drink and skipped over to Amber, the boy who was cultivating outside the door. He looked up and said, "Kid, give me some other food, roast meat, fruit or anything, I can trade you money for it."

Amber put away the scythe, wiped the sweat from her forehead, looked down at the field mouse with a somewhat blank expression, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I...I'll go ask the chief."

Zhang Chengyi picked up two leaves from the ground, quickly climbed onto his shoulder, stood firm, and said, "You're not going to call everyone else for just a little bit of food, are you?"

What are the leaves for? Are they going to use them as money?

Amber paused for a moment, her young mind filled with many curious thoughts, and then said, "Okay, please follow me."

A man and a rat arrived at the house next door. He respectfully placed the rat god on the table and then turned to leave.

Incidentally, Zhang Chengyi, as the Rat God, slept in the ancestral hall last night.

The exorcists seem to have genuinely worshipped him as a god, since all sorts of gods truly exist in this world, especially in Japan during this era.

"Secret Mystery—"

Watching Amber leave, Zhang Chengyi prepared the reward in advance. He jumped off the table, found a corner, used leaves as a cushion, clenched his fists, half-squatted, closed his eyes, and maximized his excretion capacity to empty his bowels. Then, he quickly adjusted the number of gold nuggets in his stomach and used external martial arts techniques from the Tianlong world to control his intestinal peristalsis, making gurgling sounds.