Chapter 167 Cleaning

Chapter 167 Cleaning

Chapter 167 Cleaning
Ash glanced around with his molten gold eyes and walked straight towards somewhere.

In the town far away, there was a lot of noise and a sacrifice was being held.

The scarlet lanterns hung up made the whole street look like a blood vessel, and the townspeople walking on the street with red bands tied on their heads were like blood transporting nutrients.

The end point where several blood vessels converge is the shrine with red bricks and red tiles.

It was like a greedy monster, devouring the offerings sent by the townspeople.

When Ash walked into the town, many people looked at his black clothes with gold patterns, with worry, amusement or teasing in their eyes.

Finally, a man with a yellowish complexion came up to Ash and whispered, "Sir, the ghosts in this town don't like the color yellow. You should change your clothes."

Looking closely at the fabric of Ash's clothes, the man knew that Ash was either rich or noble, and he unconsciously used the honorific title.

"I understand. You can leave now." Ash nodded casually.

In Fuso language, the pronunciation of "gui" is close to "shen", so in Fuso country, "gui" is a noble title.

In the country of Fuso there are one hundred ghosts and gods, eight hundred ghost kings, eight thousand big ghosts, and countless small ghosts.

Each ghost is the lord of a city, town, or even village, and accepts offerings from there.

As for the composition of these ghosts, some are humans, some are monsters, or some are other races.

Ash walked towards the shrine in the center step by step, not caring about the strange looks from the townspeople.

When he arrived at the shrine, a priest stopped him and said respectfully, "Sir, unclean things are not allowed to enter the shrine."

He also saw that Ash was either rich or noble, so his tone was very respectful, without any of his usual domineering attitude.

Ash turned a deaf ear and walked in.

The priest wanted to stop him, but found that his vision had been split in two.

The two halves of the body fell to the ground, and blood washed the ground.

The entrance of the shrine, which had been bustling with activity, suddenly became silent, and everyone looked at Ash with horror as he was walking towards the depths of the shrine.

They knew that things were about to change in this town.

Ash slowly walked into the shrine. The priests and priestesses around him couldn't help but frown, but before they could scold him, the head had already fallen to the ground.

He has no interest in listening to a bunch of scum chattering.

Deep in the shrine, a tall, red-skinned ghost with straight horns was eating the meat in his hand. In front of it, two heads with childish faces were placed, and next to them were incomplete bodies.

The mouth full of sharp teeth paused, and the red-skinned ghost frowned, because it realized that a priest had died.

There are actually people in this town who dare to ignore its reputation.

The red-skinned ghost stood up, wanting to settle the score with the person who killed its priest, but before it took a few steps, it saw the person who killed its priest appear.

Then it died too.

It was burned into nothingness bit by bit by the dark golden flame.

Dark golden flames floated into Ash's body, and a strange color appeared in his molten gold eyes.

Divine power?

Ash narrowed his eyes and looked around. Suddenly, he thought of two words: the power of incense and vows, and the power of faith.

In previous novels, both of these were closely related to divine power.

In the flame he had just absorbed, he felt a similar feeling to when he was refining the power of Khorne.

However, compared to the difficulty of Khorne's power, this power is indeed quite simple.

After being purified by divine punishment, it is easily absorbed by the human body. It is not like the power of Khorne, which will not stop until it kills you. In this state, it is too late to expel it, let alone absorb it.

Ash absorbed this bit of divine power and his physical condition improved slightly.

"This is good stuff."

A hint of greed flashed in the molten gold eyes. A little ghost has this thing, not to mention the more advanced ghosts.

However, it is not clear whether there are top-level ghosts and gods.

It is normal that the little ghost is of low level and cannot be used, but it is not necessarily the case for high-level ghosts.

Ash stroked the hilt of the sword in his hand. Fuso is a big country after all, and those who can serve as ghosts and gods must be above level 90.

Strong beings of this level might be able to absorb divine power.

Suddenly, a smile appeared on Ash's lips. Why think so much? He could just kill all those he didn't like.

[Achievement Points: 843-》840]

[Inherent Skill: [One Mind, Multiple Uses] has been upgraded, and Inherent Skill: [Mind, Thousands of Things] has been solidified.]
[Mind Transformed into Thousands]: You can divide thought threads with less mental effort. The current number of threads is 124.

[Multiplying Things at Once] was already close to its limit, so consuming three achievement points was within Ash's expectations.

An endless sea of ​​blood spread out beneath his feet. The first person to walk out of the sea of ​​blood was a man with short stature, dark face, eyes like red phoenixes, and eyebrows like double eyelids.

He opened his mouth and said, "I am Tian Kui Xing, Song Jiang!"

Next came a man with twinkling eyes, split brows, and a body as thick as silver. He shouted in a low voice, "I am the Tiangang Star, Lu Junyi!"

Next came a man dressed like a scholar, wearing a barrel-shaped turban with a browband, a wide linen shirt with a white edge, a brown belt around his waist, silk shoes and clean socks. He had a handsome face, a fair complexion and a long beard.

He fanned himself with a feather fan and said, "I am the star of heaven, Wu Yong!"

Tian Xian Star: Gongsun Sheng, Tian Yong Star: Guan Sheng, Tian Xiong Star: Lin Chong… Di Gou Star: Duan Jingzhu.

A total of one hundred and eight clones appeared next to Ash.

Without Ash saying anything, the 108 clones all walked outside.

They are going to kill ghosts.

Originally, Ash only wanted to raid some important places in Fuso, collect knowledge about formations and leave, but after digesting the red-skinned ghost and sensing the existence of divine power, his thoughts changed.

He wants to cleanse the land thoroughly.

However, thirty-six clones alone should not be enough to cleanse the land in one or two months. After all, he did not even let go of the village.

So he upgraded his [One Mind, Multiple Uses] which was already close to its limit, in order to obtain more clones.

The second body emerged, and several invisible hands took out secret treasures from various hidden places and put them into the space ring.

After collecting the spoils, Ash took a step and headed towards a certain location. This short period of time was enough for him to collect information about the surrounding area.

Still in the same town, in a mansion, a figure suddenly appeared.

Ash glanced around and used the fire smoke of [Fire Eyes and Golden Pupils], dragging all the Onmyoji here into the illusion.

All those who deserve to die will be tortured to death, and those who do not deserve to die will be punished according to their crimes.

In just a short while, Ash learned from them their knowledge of formations and the hiding places of rare items.

The second body walked and collected the things he wanted one by one.

Dark golden flames ignited, burning some corpses, forming flames that returned to Ash's body.

Ash did not choose to absorb this energy but stored it instead.

Because the quality is too low, it won't improve at all even if he absorbs it. Now the only ones who can give him an improvement are the gods' favored and chosen ones. Ordinary cultists are not worthy of it at all.

However, it is useless to him, but it is still somewhat useful to some low-level people, such as his two apprentices and two magical pets.

Ash left, leaving the town in complete chaos.

Mitsui Castle, a famous big city in this area, is known for the Sun, Moon and Star Mitsui.

As dusk approached, a figure suddenly appeared on the top of the city wall.

His molten gold eyes stared at the city, especially the shrine in the center, and then he nodded slightly. He deserved to die.

With one step, the whole person appeared above the shrine.

The ghost king of Mitsui Castle was a pale man, and at this moment, he was sticking out his sharp canine teeth to pierce the neck of a beautiful girl. Silently, a hand pressed on his head, and an extremely terrifying force burst out, directly crushing his head.

The blood squirmed, trying to regenerate, but the dark golden flame ignited, burning it all into nothingness, leaving only a flame swaying slightly in the air.

Ash looked at the flame in his hand. He had not paid much attention to the flame left by the red-skinned ghost before. Now, looking carefully at the flame left by the Mitsui Ghost King, he could vaguely see colorful silk threads moving.

After Ash swallowed the flame flower, his physical condition improved significantly again.

Eight hundred ghost kings, even if one can only improve by 0.1, eight hundred of them is only eighty points, which is enough to be a very obvious improvement.

Ash couldn't help but lick his lips again.

The memories from the man in black emerged, and a map of the entire Fuso country appeared in his mind. Although some small cities and towns were not on it, it was enough for him.

Anyway, his original body will kill the Ghost King, and the remaining big ghosts will be left to the Thirty-six Stars of Tiangang clones, and the countless small ghosts will be left to the weaker Seventy-two Stars of Disha clones.

Mark nine points on the map, which are the sealed locations of the nine tails of the golden-haired, jade-faced nine-tailed fox.

After planning the route, Ash went to the Onmyoji of the city again before leaving. He dealt with them in the same way as before, killing the evil ones and punishing the non-evil ones. He also packed up all the books, secret treasures, etc. and took them away.

In Kyoto, Fuso, two giant mulberry trees intertwined with each other formed into one large tree, reaching high into the sky, with fiery red leaves emitting a faint glow.

Because its canopy is so large and wide, it can make the entire city as bright as day even at night.

This is the Fusang, the sacred tree of the Fusang Kingdom.

Under the Fuso tree, a series of palaces were built around it, and the highest palace was home to the nominal ruler of the current Fuso Kingdom, Emperor Asuka.

Further down, there are the three palaces of Front Saint Palace, Middle Saint Palace and Back Saint Palace, where the three saint masters of the current Onmyoji live respectively, and they are also the actual rulers of Fuso Kingdom.

At this time in the Zhongsheng Palace, Otomo Hideaki, one of the three holy masters, was looking at the information in his hand with a frown, because Nomura Hideo, one of the imperial envoys, had not reported the progress of the experiment to him.

Although it was just a small experiment and there was nothing wrong with delaying the report, Hideo Nomura usually reported everything to him in detail, so this situation was very unusual.

"Ryuzen, go see what Hideo is doing." Otomo Hideaki whispered.

The shadow behind him flickered and there was no response, but Otomo Hideaki knew that his ninja had gone to Nomura Hideo's residence to check.

Soon, a figure in night clothes emerged and said to Otomo Hideaki: "My lord, Nomura Hideo is not in the mansion, and the anchor of the Taoyuan demiplane has been damaged."

"Did something go wrong?" Otomo Hideaki tapped the desk in front of him with his fingers. His first thought was that Nomura Hideo had done something wrong, causing damage to the Utopia plane, and then he fled for fear of punishment.

But after a little thought, he denied this possibility, because Hideo Nomura was his right-hand man. With his intelligence, he knew that even if he had done something wrong, he would know that it was definitely not a crime punishable by death considering his value.

On the contrary, fleeing from the crime is the truly fatal crime, and I will never let him go.

"It looks like something unexpected happened. Ryuzen, go check what Hideo has been involved in recently." Otomo Hideaki said.

"Yes." Honda Ryuzen nodded, and his figure immediately merged into the shadows.

Otomo Hideaki's fingers were still tapping the table, but he was not just tapping the table, he was fortune-telling.

He doesn't like things happening that he doesn't expect.

But he couldn't calculate it.

This made his eyes become deep. There were very few people in the whole world whose fortunes he could not predict, and there were only two of them in Fuso.

Could it be those two who did it?

On the other side, Ash suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky thoughtfully. With the ability to see into the future, he was naturally highly resistant to divination and other spying. After learning the [Omens of All Things], his sense in this regard became even more acute.

Just now, he realized that someone was trying to predict his future.

However, his world's favor has not expired yet, so that person naturally cannot predict his future.

'Is it Otomo Hideaki or Ashiya Shihiro?'

Ash thought that the former was Hideo Nomura's direct superior, and the latter was Hideo Nomura's cult superior.

But after just thinking about it for a moment, Ash didn't think any more about it. They would face each other sooner or later anyway, so just let them be.

At this time, Ash had already arrived in front of a small hill.

This seemingly ordinary hill in front of you actually seals one of the nine tails of the golden-haired, jade-faced nine-tailed fox.

Ash walked towards the top of the mountain step by step.

Such a carefree attitude naturally attracted the attention of the mountain guards.

An old man with extremely long white eyebrows and beard appeared in front of Ash and said, "Young man, what are you doing up the mountain so late at night?"

Ash looked at him, then waved his hand and said, "Go away, don't get in my way."

"I'm sorry, but my family has been guarding Jinwei Mountain for generations, and no outsiders are allowed to enter without permission." The old man said in a serious tone, "Young man, I know you are very strong, but please don't make things difficult for me."

"I said, get out of here." Ash's voice was calm, but it sounded like a divine oracle from a god.

The old man suddenly felt his body stiffen and he walked to the side like a puppet.

He watched Ash approaching the round stone on the top of the mountain with a red knot tied around it.

That was no ordinary stone; it was specially used to suppress the great demon that was guarding their lineage.

Seeing Ash raising the scarlet scabbard, the old man knew something was wrong.

The person is not good!
Although his body could not move, it did not prevent him from using his mind.

In an instant, eight golden light pillars shot into the sky, illuminating the mountain top, and then dozens of chains flew out from the light pillars and locked onto Ash.

But before that, the scabbard had already fallen on the boulder.

Hundreds of runes condensed on the boulder and blocked Ash's scabbard. After hundreds of them were destroyed, he finally blocked the attack.

Ash raised his eyebrows in surprise, he didn't expect the defense here to be so strong.

But it's not strong enough for him.

Ash raised his sword again, and simply ignored the chains rushing towards him.

As the old man looked expectant, dozens of chains approached Ash, but did not approach him because they all broke three meters away from Ash, as if there was some restricted area around Ash.

This made the old man's eyes dull. How could it be possible? This was the most powerful sealing formation in their lineage. Even if a demigod came, it could seal it for a period of time.

But what he didn't know was that some people are born beyond common sense.

The scabbard fell again, like a towering mountain falling.

With a loud bang, all the runes on the round stone in front of Ash collapsed, and then the entire stone turned into rubble.

Seeing this scene, the old man couldn't help but sit on the ground and yelled at Ash: "Do you know what you are doing? You are destroying this area!"

Ash simply waved his hand and the old man fainted on the ground, he thought he was being a little noisy.

The rubble began to collapse, revealing a deep cave entrance, and a dark breath began to emerge from the cave.

That was demonic energy, and Ash recognized it at a glance. After all, he had a demon in his family, so he was very familiar with demonic energy.

"Is this the abyss passage?" Ash thought.

The situations in each sealed place are different. The one in front of us was built with the idea of ​​killing two birds with one stone.

The abyss passage, the passage from the abyss to the material world, is also the beginning of the demonic disaster.

Demons are generally chaotic evil creatures, and they all have a great desire for souls, so the material plane with richer soul resources has become the place they always want to go.

Once an abyssal passage appears, demons will swarm in from the other end of the passage, step into the main plane, and start a massacre.

There are temporary and permanent abyss passages. The abyss passage in front of you is a permanent one.

In order to kill two birds with one stone, the person who set the seal directly threw one of the Nine-Tailed Fox's tails into the passage.

This seals both the Nine-Tailed Fox and the passage to the abyss, killing two birds with one stone.

Looking at the passage in front of him, Ash jumped down without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)