I became the Lord of the Eternal World in Tokyo.

Kaga Kiyomitsu suddenly sprang from his scabbard, the blade flowing with pale and black hues.

After exchanging a few words in "sword language," the two swords immediately went from tentative communication to a confrontational stance.

"Xiao Jia, stop fooling around."

Uesugi Tetsuya pressed Kaga Kiyomitsu down and said earnestly in his heartstrings, "Maybe this will be your colleague in the future."

"Oh no, Jia doesn't like him..."

After saying that, Kaga Kiyomitsu pretended not to hear anything and did not reply.

Like a child throwing a tantrum.

Uesugi Tetsu sighed helplessly, while also feeling somewhat puzzled.

—This Spider Cutter isn't some kind of demonic sword like "Hotaru" or "Murasame," so why does it have such a heavy aura of resentment, it's practically dripping with water?

Seeing this, Yuan Jingshui didn't say anything, but simply took out a wooden plaque from his waist and threw it on the stone platform.

In an instant, the resentment that would have killed an ordinary person by touching it was completely suppressed, and a halo of light appeared centered on the stone platform.

Source: Still Water

"Uesugi-kun, step into the circle of light and touch the spider statue to begin the trial."

"it is good."

Without saying a word, Uesugi Tetsu did as he was told, raising his hand to touch the long, grayish-white legs of the stone spider.

Cold, rough...

A familiar feeling came.

When Uesugi Tetsu opened his eyes again, he was on a desolate wasteland with nothing in it.

He looked up and recognized it as the sky of the ordinary world.

It was just slightly different from what I had seen before.

A moment later, a blood-stained, tattered strip of cloth fell from the sky and landed in front of Uesugi Tetsuya.

There are two lines of words written on it.

[Trial]

[Slay all the demons...]

The four characters “斩尽杀绝” were written in scarlet blood.

After Uesugi Tetsuya finished reading it, the strip of cloth turned into ashes in the sparks that appeared out of nowhere.

What followed was the life force of one demon after another that intruded into Uesugi Tetsu's senses.

Although small, their numbers...

It can be described as covering the entire mountainside.

Standing on a relatively high point in this wasteland, Uesugi Tetsu looked down and around. He saw countless densely packed labels and prompts surging incessantly, like a gray tsunami sweeping in.

The vengeful spirit of the Red Demon

The vengeful spirit of the little kappa

The vengeful spirit of Grandma Fire

……

There were too many prompts for Uesugi Tetsu to read them all.

"So that's where all that resentment came from. It turns out this trial is about regularly hiring free cleaning services for the spiders..."

Otherwise, the 'spirit' the spider cuts will eventually be corrupted by these prematurely dead things.

Uesugi Tetsuya suddenly realized and smiled: "But this is my old profession."

He glanced at the panel and found that he could still use the Demon Avatar.

"It was supposed to be a bit difficult..."

Uesugi Tetsu originally wanted to go straight for the classic four-tailed fox thousand-faced mask + red Hannya mask + hundred-eyed possession.

But thinking about it carefully, it seems that he has never transformed into Hyakume-ki on his own yet.

Uesugi Tetsu stared at the exquisite card depicting the alluring Dokumei loli, wondering what she would look like as the Dokumei...

Perfect timing, let's use these "living materials" to test telekinesis in detail.

With this thought in mind, Uesugi Tetsu gently closed his eyes.

A demon incarnate, the Hundred-Eyed Demon.

A sparse black mist, yet one that swallowed all light, rose up.

Seconds later, a man dressed in an impeccably clean black tailcoat, wearing a formal black tie and spotless white gloves replaced Uesugi Tetsuya.

The man was thin, with a sickly pale complexion, and his angular face was shrouded in a deep black mist.

Only a pair of blood-red eyes, like rubies, lit up.

"So this is what the Hundred-Eyed Demon looks like in its incarnation."

The man took out a mirror from somewhere and looked at himself from head to toe.

"Why do you look so respectable... Isn't this just the natural attire of a corporate slave?"

That's right, the mysterious man in the suit who was still fiddling with the black mist on his face was none other than Uesugi Tetsu.

To be precise, it was Uesugi Tetsuya in the form of Hyakume-ki.

At this moment, the kappa closest to him opened its beak wide and, with a strange laugh, lunged at Uesugi Tetsuya to bite.

Puff puff puff——

The kappa was halfway to pounce when it was crushed into a bloody pulp in mid-air.

[You have killed the vengeful spirit of the little kappa and gained 0.1 Soul Ash.]

Uesugi Tetsuya, who was still studying the black mist on his face, was slightly taken aback.

This was the first time he had ever seen a Soul Ash unit with a value below "1".

But this is not the point.

The important thing is...

A cross of light shone from the depths of his blood-red eyes, dispelling the black mist on his face and revealing a pale face with a ferocious, gleeful smile on it.

His hoarse voice was tinged with barely suppressed laughter.

"So, you can get Soul Ash by killing monsters here!"

"Hoohoho!"

The boundless waves of demons roared with a chilling howl.

"Alright, alright! Even a mosquito's leg is still meat!"

At the top of the small mound, swallowtail coats fluttered in the still air.

Puff puff--!

What followed was that countless demons were crushed into minced meat by an unseen force from above.

Uesugi Tetsu walked down the slope, closed his eyes, and carefully felt the all-seeing vision of the All-Seeing Eye and the telekinetic power he could control at will within it.

He walked slowly amidst the roaring and resentful tides, then silently crushed all the chaotic noises with a powerful voice.

"So this is what telekinesis is."

After an unknown amount of time, Uesugi Tetsuya, standing atop a mountain of corpses tens of meters high, pulled off his white gloves and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He breathed a sigh of relief and gave a heartwarming smile to the remaining demons, whose end he could see at a glance.

"I must thank you all for your selfless help in getting started with this subject."

Uesugi Tetsu said sincerely.

He had no way to repay these demon brothers who were so polite even in death.

The only thing we can do is probably to give them a quick death.

thump.

Spiritual energy seeped into the dark red furnace core drop by drop, beating in sync with the heartbeat, causing the vast earth to tremble.

Then, heavenly lightning appeared.

Above the sky, thick, leaden thunderclouds covered the sky.

On the desolate wasteland where there was no need to consider the consequences, endless lightning, guided by telekinesis, precisely and equally reduced every demon to ashes.

Just as Uesugi Tetsuya's spiritual power was almost exhausted for the third time, the roars belonging to demons in his ears completely disappeared.

"Phew... No wonder only Yuan Xinshui has been able to pass the trial in the past one or two hundred years. With such a lineup, how many people below the level of gods and demons can hold their own?"

Uesugi Tetsuya was about to step down from the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood when he paused slightly.

The crimson eyes of the Hundred-Eyed Demon shifted their gaze, looking towards the horizon.

[Earth spider’s resentful soul projection]

A huge label stretched across the sky, proving its BOSS status.

"The Earth Spider's [projection]... Is this the final stage of the Spider Cutter?"

Uesugi Tetsu clearly sensed the "aura" of a demon or god from the giant eight-legged spider that was tens of meters tall.

But it was not a ghost or god, but rather seemed to be forcibly restricted to the realm of ghosts and gods by some special means.

—Is it because he hasn't reached the level of becoming a ghost or god yet, and this is yet another trial?

"Reasonable."

Having just been beheaded by Fang Xiangshi not long ago, Uesugi Tetsu walked down the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, and he knew all too well how deep and long the "abyss" between them truly was.

"If I hadn't obtained Hyakume-ki, I probably wouldn't have been able to beat you."

Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, Uesugi Tetsu walked unflinchingly toward the Tsuchigumo that hurtled towards him like a hurricane.

He slowly drew Kaga Kiyomitsu, and the embodiment of the tuxedo and white gloves vanished into the black mist.

Instead, a crimson mask, powerful enough to scare away all demons, was used!

"hiss--"

Amidst the roar of the earth spider, spider silk, far more flexible than thread and harder than steel, falls like a rain curtain.

Hundreds of bristles, like missiles, burst forth from its massive body.

rumble……

Two hearts pumped together within Uesugi Tetsuya's body, unleashing a vast power, while the silver light of the Lin-word technique shone on the back of his hand.

The five-colored energy flowed and mixed between black and white in the blink of an eye, then swept across the center and eight legs of the earth spider.

"Unfortunately, it's too late now..."

Five colors, black and white, bloom in mid-air.

Uesugi Tetsu turned around and calmly watched as the monster, which was tens of meters tall, turned into huge pieces of its corpse and crashed heavily to the ground.

A sharp pain came from my left shoulder.

Uesugi Tetsu pulled out the enormous forelimb, which was tens of meters long, and casually tossed it to the ground.

The ground tremors slightly.

Just a moment later, the earth spider's right forelimb could have torn half of Uesugi Tetsuya's body apart, causing him considerable trouble.

[You have killed the vengeful projection of the Earth Spider, gaining 99 Soul Ashes!]

"Ninety-nine o'clock!?"

Uesugi Tetsu, who had been staring at the wound that was almost completely healed, suddenly shifted his gaze and couldn't help but exclaim, "It's nine hundred and ninety times that of that kappa!"

As they were talking, everything around them vanished into nothingness.

Whether it's the remains of the earth spider, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the wasteland, or the sky...