I became the Lord of the Eternal World in Tokyo.

In the silent, still darkness, Uesugi Tetsu witnessed the endless carnage, carnage, and more carnage produced by the Spider Cutter…

Aside from slaying demons, it's still about slaying demons.

The scenes of carnage gradually disappeared only after Uesugi Tetsu became somewhat sleepy from watching.

He looked up and "looked".

Even though there was no light, I could see a little boy dressed as a samurai standing in front of me.

The boy's left half of his face was covered with hideous spiderweb patterns, and his eyes were empty; the right half of his face was delicate and serene, with eyes as calm as water.

A brief, dark red light flashed above the boy's head, like the color of congealed blood—

Spider Cutter

"Your Excellency, congratulations on passing the trial."

The boy, or perhaps the "spirit" of the spider, spoke to him.

"Next, I need to use a very simple question to test your compatibility with me."

"Very well, I will devote myself to you until my death."

"If that doesn't work, I will continue to sleep here and wait."

Chapter 326 Slaying Demons and Monsters? I'm not going to do something so childish! Spider Slicer, Squeeze Every last drop of value from the demons.

Did Yuanxin give up on the spider-cutting issue?

Uesugi Tetsu nodded: "Please speak."

The boy, like a broken record, remained expressionless, speaking in an utterly calm voice,

"If you hold my power, then from this day forward, you must slay demons and monsters every day, month, year, and even if you do not draw your sword, you must keep this in mind."

From this day forward, there will be no rest, not even for a moment, until you pass away.

After the boy finished speaking, he stared silently at Uesugi Tetsuya.

His "eyes" possess the power to see through people's hearts.

Therefore, no matter what Uesugi Tetsu says or how he answers, he can always glimpse the truest answer in Uesugi Tetsu's heart.

The young man standing in front of me is very good, better than so many others.

They could even be considered among the top five challengers in the past millennium.

So the boy also showed him a slight preference, and said, "Please follow your heart and answer directly."

But even if there is a "preference", it doesn't mean that only the young people in front of you are suitable.

Even the best people, the greatest geniuses, he has rejected without hesitation.

As long as the ideas are different, the paths will diverge.

Seeing that Uesugi Tetsu had fallen silent, the boy spoke in a calm tone, as if reminiscing.

"Eleven years ago, a girl passed my test empty-handed, and I asked her the same question."

It's exactly the same as the previous hundreds of times.

"Then, I was rejected."

The boy said, "The girl said that although she liked slaying demons and monsters, her ambition lay elsewhere. She wanted to be free and do whatever she pleased, to pursue what she wanted to pursue no matter what."

"She said she wanted to travel to all things in the world and make endless choices."

She said she did not want to be bound by a knife, and that no strong person should be bound by external things.

"—The girl and I rejected each other."

The boy raised his two eyes, one black and one white, and stared directly into Uesugi Tetsuya's eyes.

"So, what is your answer?"

The girl from eleven years ago.

Who else could it be but the girl from the Yuan family who rejected Spider Cutter at the age of eight?

Uesugi Tetsu asked, "Is her name Gen Shinsui?"

"I didn't ask her name."

The boy shook his head: "If you are not my master, there is no need to know your name."

Uesugi Tetsu thought for a moment and asked, "There's something I'm curious about."

He spoke, asking the same question as the boy had asked.

"—How do you distinguish what you absolutely want to pursue?"

The boy said expressionlessly, "You seem to be the same kind of person as her."

Uesugi Tetsu shook his head.

"I was just curious and wanted to know the answer to this question... I think she should have answered it."

"give up."

The boy repeated the words of the eight-year-old girl from eleven years ago: "Human energy is limited. If you try to do everything well, you will most likely end up doing nothing well."

Only by letting go can one become focused and pure.

Blood ties, casual friends, ordinary hobbies... all unimportant things should be abandoned, no longer done, no longer cared about.

Until the very end, that one thing you can't give up no matter what, that's what you absolutely want to pursue.

"Apart from that, it doesn't matter what."

After listening, Uesugi Tetsu thought that this was quite similar to Ririko, and that Gen Shinsui and she would definitely get along very well.

He shook his head,

“I am different from her, completely different.”

Uesugi Tetsu changed the subject and began to answer the boy's first "request".

He replied almost without thinking, "Of course I'm willing to slay demons and monsters until I die."

The truth.

The boy paused for a moment, something he hadn't done in a long time.

He hadn't met such a pure person in a long time.

—Didn't the young man in front of me just say that he and that girl weren't the same kind of people?

Now it seems they were all equally "pure"...

"But is simply 'slaying demons and eliminating evil' a bit too simplistic?"

Uesugi Tetsu's words interrupted the boy's thoughts.

The boy frowned: "Simple? What do you mean?"

"To put it bluntly, it's a waste of time." Facing the boy whose face suddenly turned ashen, Uesugi Tetsu smiled and said, "You're just trying to move yourself."

As soon as he finished speaking, a chilling murderous intent and resentment spread through the darkness, even making Uesugi Tetsu more energetic.

However, Uesugi Tetsu remained unmoved and explained according to the original plan: "How many demons can one person kill if they take your whole life to slay demons?"

"One thousand, ten thousand... one hundred thousand, one million, ten million?"

Uesugi Tetsu shrugged: "What does this amount mean to the entire Eternal World?"

The boy lowered his eyes and remained silent.

His clenched fist revealed his inner thoughts.

So Uesugi Tetsu seized the opportunity and said, "What I want to do is to completely separate the Eternal World from the Present World."

The young man spoke softly, but the faint sound seemed deafening to the boy.

"—Simply put, it is the destruction of the mortal world."

The truth.

"Those I approve of, I will let live in this world; those I do not approve of, I will let perish along with the world."

The truth.

The boy looked up, and incredulously began to scrutinize the smiling man in front of him.

Is this man crazy? Or is he just not thinking straight?

No, even a madman couldn't possibly say something like that from the bottom of his heart.

Destroy the eternal world?

Who does he think he is?

Is this an ant's joke?

Even Lord Raikou had never imagined something like this...

But all of these are the truth, spoken from the heart.

no doubt.

This man not only said it, but also believed he could do it.

"How about it?"

Uesugi Tetsuya allowed himself ample time to wait, then took the initiative and extended his hand to the boy.

"—Want to become my sword, and together see how beautiful the destroyed world can be?"

silence.

After a long silence, the boy nodded, both reluctantly and with great anticipation.

In that instant, he suddenly understood what the girl from eleven years ago had said.

I want to see this scene.

I want to see this scene no matter what.

—Apart from that, it doesn't matter what.

He extended his rough palm and firmly grasped the hand that Uesugi Tetsu had offered.

Uesugi Tetsu felt a slight pain from his palm, and then saw the boy's right eye change from ordinary black to a turquoise-green color.

"Whether it is the ravings of the ignorant or a promise that will one day be fulfilled, let me witness it by your side."

Uesugi Tetsu laughed and shook the boy's hand vigorously: "No need to be formal, my name is Uesugi Tetsu, you can call me whatever you want... By the way, what should I call you?"

“Just call me Qing,” the boy said.

"From now on, I'll call you Xiaoqing."

Uesugi Tetsu breathed a sigh of relief, thankfully he didn't have to name her himself: "Then Xiao Qing, you'd better get along well with Xiao Jia from now on!"

Qing stared at him without saying a word.

The silence speaks.

……

The darkness has passed.

Uesugi Tetsu opened his eyes and felt the presence of light again.

He looked up.

Only about half an hour has passed?

After standing silently outside the aperture for half an hour, Minamoto Shizumi looked at him and asked, "Uesugi-kun, how did the trial go?"

"Passed?"

If Uesugi Tetsu becomes the master of Spider Cutter, then let him stay at the Minamoto family's residence for a few nights and take the opportunity to meet the Sword Saint together.

Conversely, one must be very polite and courteous in asking Uesugi Tetsuya to leave.

—That's what the elders in my family said this morning.