Chapter 274: Hundred-eyed Demon Hastens The Edo Castle Change! Human Divine Treasury, Activate! Lili Zi Heats Up, Come Here!
Shangshan Che opened the Edo Castle gacha pool with immense doubt and confusion, discovering the black-haired, bare-footed loli floating in mid-air as usual.
At first glance, it indeed seemed like nothing was different.
But as the “caretaker” who had fed Hundred Eyes tons of eyeballs, Shangshan Che immediately saw that Hundred Eyes was emanating “unease” all over her body.
Nervousness, unease, hesitation, doubt…
All sorts of negative emotions piled onto Hundred Eyes as if they were free, but what was strange was that the gacha pool page showed no signs of anything that could cause this situation.
After Shangshan Che stared for a while, Hundred Eyes seemed to sense his presence and let out a soft sigh.
—In Hundred Eyes’ subjective time, Shangshan Che had not opened the gacha pool or fed her for a very long time.
This made Hundred Eyes think that her brief period of happy light was about to end, and she would once again fall into endless darkness.
However, this time, Hundred Eyes wasn’t “knocking” for such a trivial reason.
What loneliness, what darkness… she was long accustomed to such things. It would be best to leave, but returning to that state was also fine.
Under Shangshan Che’s gaze, fragments of pale white bones floated up and formed two lines of ancient characters in the air that he couldn’t understand.
Hundred Eyes naturally understood the possibility of a language barrier, so she made the bones constantly change, transforming into all the languages and characters she knew.
Finally, on the sixth change, Shangshan Che understood.
【If you don’t take me away from here soon】
【Perhaps I will be swallowed by the surging darkness】
The inexplicable two lines of text made Shangshan Che scratch his head—he could understand the first line, which was that Hundred Eyes wanted him to pull her out.
But the second line… if he didn’t pull her out, would the Hundred Eyes he had nurtured for so long be torn apart by the “surging darkness”?
Who or what was this surging darkness?
Shangshan Che couldn’t quite understand at the moment.
Aside from his transactions with Hundred Eyes, or him putting things into the gacha pool, could the gacha pool change due to other external factors?
Under his silent gaze, after Hundred Eyes completed a total of thirty-nine transformations of bones, a black mission prompt popped up—
【Hundred Eyes has prompted you with a mission: Edo Castle Change!】
【Edo Castle Change · Beginning: Vast amounts of death and grudges, continuous rain for years, sticky and dripping mud and blood. For a long time, Edo Castle has been soaked in them.
To this day, the extreme point of change has arrived, and the writhing darkness will ultimately devour it all.】
【Mission Objective: Obtain Demon Incarnation · Hundred Eyes】
【Mission Remaining Time: 88 days 22 hours 33 minutes 1 second】
【Mission Failure Penalty: Unable to obtain Demon Incarnation · Hundred Eyes by any means.】
“Oh?”
Is the main event about to happen?
The appearance of the black mission text made Shangshan Che narrow his eyes, watching the digital “1 second” turn to zero, and the countdown tick away.
It felt like a death omen.
This meant that if he didn’t pull Hundred Eyes out within these 88 days, before the great change in Edo Castle, she would no longer be pullable by him due to the changes in Edo Castle within the Eternal World.
The gacha pool was truly linked to a certain place in the Eternal World.
Was this because of Hundred Eyes’ special connection to Edo Castle, or something else?
Shangshan Che didn’t know.
But in any case, he had to thank Hundred Eyes for the reminder—she had opened a new series of missions for him that looked like they would be extremely profitable.
However, this didn’t have a significant impact on Shangshan Che’s own gacha pull plan.
Because even if Hundred Eyes hadn’t made a move, Shangshan Che had planned to pull her out around the time of the Seed Battle to obtain his third Demon Incarnation.
This “around the time” was divided into two scenarios.
The first scenario was encountering an unbeatable strong enemy in the Seed Battle, in which case he would directly pull out Hundred Eyes, have the demon card define his Qi Sea, and equip her Incarnation Item.
After all, the increase in Demon Incarnations wasn’t a simple addition to strength, but a multiplication… or even a more advanced and terrifying increase!
Secondly, if he could conquer the Seed Battle and win first place, he could exchange some of the rewards for large eyeballs to feed Hundred Eyes.
Feed her until she was plump and white, and raise her to an unprecedented Super Epic quality in one go!
This plan was sound. At most, it would take about a week, and he still didn’t know how many weeks away that was from the 88-day mission countdown.
“With four thousand Soul Ash and a Pity Card, pulling out Hundred Eyes should be perfectly fine.”
Shangshan Che smiled at Hundred Eyes, whose expression in the gacha pool was as solemn as ice, and threw in a portion of Soul Ash inscribed with the words “Rest Assured.”
The Soul Ash drifted down, and Hundred Eyes caught it with her soft black hair, bringing it to her eyes.
She gently closed her eyes and let out a sigh, temporarily putting her mind at ease.
Because at least until now, Hundred Eyes felt she had never been deceived by him—the promised eyeballs always arrived early.
Casually tossing the Soul Ash onto a pile of treasures, Hundred Eyes began to float and tumble aimlessly in mid-air again.
It seemed that inscribing words on Soul Ash was a feasible method.
Shangshan Che also felt relieved, but just as he was about to exit the gacha pool page, his gaze couldn’t help but drift to the glowing “Summon Ten Times” in the bottom right corner.
Damn it! Just looking at it made me want to pull, didn’t it, Haki Che, you rascal…
With unprecedented willpower, Shangshan Che controlled himself to exit the gacha pool page, closed his eyes, and lay down on the bed, no longer thinking about anything else.
The best way to deal with temptation is to sleep soundly!
It should be fine to pull to his heart’s content in his dreams!
…
Two hours later, early morning.
Shangshan Che, who was about to pull out a large batch of Demon Incarnations in his dream, was dragged out of bed by Lili Zi.
“Shangshan Jun, what kind of dream were you having to be smiling like that?”
Lili Zi recalled his expression just now, which combined the joy of a prosperous old farmer, unbelievable excitement, and a nearly drooling look, and pouted.
“So disgusting.”
“You could have called me up two minutes later…”
Shangshan Che rubbed his throbbing temples and circulated Qi Barrier within his body, dispelling all his confusion.
He sighed regretfully, “They wouldn’t even let me finish my dream.”
“Then can’t you make this dream a reality?”
Lili Zi snorted and walked with Shangshan Che to the rooftop, witnessing the tip of the sun’s disk just peeking over the horizon.
“I don’t know when the best time to cultivate is, so I called you up before the sun had even risen.”
“Thank you for your trouble.”
“Hmph, don’t say such polite things, it’s meaningless.”
Lili Zi waved her hand, sat down cross-legged facing the sun, “If our cultivation improves even a tiny bit because of this, it will be completely worth it.”
Shangshan Che also sat down cross-legged.
The Sunday Acupoint was the fixed starting point among the 108 acupoints, and naturally, it was the simplest one.
It only required bathing in sunlight as described in the Life River Breathing Technique, and then finding the acupoint to open it.
This process wasn’t difficult for cultivators who had already completed Qi Circulation, let alone for the two of them.
He consumed the Soul Incense Ash, felt the sunlight, which transitioned from cold to warm, gradually cover his body, and experienced every moment.
Recalling Tokugawa Yugoro’s experience, Shangshan Che easily found the Sunday Acupoint located above the Void Qi Sea, which shouldn’t have existed.
Ten minutes later, the sun had fully risen.
At this moment, it felt as if an entire round, smooth, warm sun had entered his Dantian, making Shangshan Che feel as if he had opened a circular, yet not perfectly circular, opening in the void.
The warm sun rolled in.
After following his memory and completing these steps almost instinctively, Shangshan Che suddenly realized—had the opening of the Sunday Acupoint already been completed?
His entire body felt warm, and Shangshan Che exhaled contentedly, feeling the warmth emanating from the Sunday Acupoint nourishing every part of his physical body without any blind spots.
Some subtle hidden injuries that hadn’t been removed due to intense combat were also cleared.
At the same time, a portion of the Qi Barrier circulating within his body obediently entered his muscles.
Shangshan Che knew that this indicated further progress in Muscle Refining.
【Your skill, Corona Breathing Technique Proficiency +100!】
【You have completed Sea of Qi Cultivation: Sunday Acupoint!】
【You have gained progress in Palace of Flesh Cultivation: Muscle Refining Stage: Profound Flesh!】
【Because you have opened the Sunday Acupoint, your Qi Barrier storage limit has increased, and your Qi Barrier recovery speed has increased!】
The prompts that appeared before his eyes validated Shangshan Che’s thoughts.
And after this, came the part he hadn’t felt.
【Because you have opened the Sunday Acupoint, the Life River Breathing Technique · Human Body Divine Treasury Trial has officially begun!】
【Please open all one hundred and eight Great Acupoints to fully complete the opening of the “Complete Human Body Divine Treasury”!】
【Current Progress: 1/108】
Opening all one hundred and eight Great Acupoints, completing the Human Body Divine Treasury, and enhancing and evolving one’s Life Essence.
Tokugawa Yugoro’s memories were correct.
The “Human Body Divine Treasury,” composed of a full one hundred and eight Great Acupoints, truly existed.
However, there weren’t many acupoints as easy to open as the “Sunday Acupoint.”
As one progressed, they would encounter Great Acupoints that required emptying oneself, even risking one’s life to open.
“And precisely because the difficulty of opening those final Great Acupoints was so exaggerated, Tokugawa Yugoro’s memories actually included a compromise…”
Shangshan Che recalled.
—Besides this divine and perfect Human Body Divine Treasury, there was also the highly cost-effective “Minor Divine Treasury” obtained by opening twenty-eight acupoints, and the “Major Divine Treasury” obtained by opening eighty-one acupoints.
These were choices made by those who lacked talent or willpower and had to settle for less.
These two “Divine Treasures” were essentially weakened versions of the complete Human Body Divine Treasury, but they could still possess some of its effects.
At the very least, they were much stronger than not having completed the full one hundred and eight acupoints for the Human Body Divine Treasury.
Conversely, once one chose to open either the Minor or Major Divine Treasury, they could no longer open further acupoints, and the excess acupoints would be isolated, unable to exert much efficacy.
Shangshan Che clearly recalled the exact locations of all 108 acupoints, then looked at what was before him.
【You have obtained the Trait: Sunday!】
【Sunday】
【Effect: While bathing in sunlight, your stamina and Qi Barrier recovery speed slightly increase.】
The independent effect of the Sunday Acupoint.
Even without completing the Human Body Divine Treasury, the cumulative effects of these individual acupoints would still be quite significant.
“Not bad…”
Shangshan Che marveled at the wonders of the acupoints and saw the panel for the second acupoint.
【Corona Breathing Technique （Moonlight Acupoint 0/150）】
【Effect: Sun nourishes the Dantian, Moon nourishes the spirit.】
【—Nourishes Qi, nurtures spirit.】
The “spirit” here referred not to deities with names and titles from myths and legends, but to one’s mind and intellect.
The Sunday Acupoint warmed the physical body, while the Moonlight Acupoint nurtured the spirit.
One internal, one external, they perfectly complemented each other and laid the most solid foundation for the subsequent opening of acupoints.
Opening the Moonlight Acupoint was also simple; one only needed to bathe in moonlight at night. However, one had to be careful not to make too large a movement when opening it at the glabella to avoid injuring their forehead.
“But, isn’t the essence of sunlight and moonlight the same?”
Shangshan Che muttered and looked up at the faint moon shadow that had not yet completely disappeared beside the sun.
Perhaps it was due to certain existences that the essence of moonlight had changed.
After all, Magatsu-kami and Take Mikazuchi actually existed, so…
Shangshan Che cut off his thoughts and stopped thinking.
In this world where deities actually existed, it was best to not mention such names.
He stood up, carefully feeling the changes within his body, while watching Lili Zi, who was still closing her eyes and searching for the Sunday Acupoint.
Lili Zi had no memories to refer to, and even the Life River Breathing Technique was learned through her own verbal description, making the cultivation of acupoints naturally much more difficult.
After waiting in place for nearly half an hour, Shangshan Che suddenly looked up, his gaze drawn to the surge of Qi and Blood resembling a smoke signal rising into the sky.
It was Lili Zi.
Her Sunday Acupoint had been opened.
The girl’s skin was as red as a branding iron, and tangible Qi and Blood surged on her surface before being completely retracted into her body within seconds.
“Hoo…”
Lili Zi exhaled bursts of hot white steam, feeling her Dantian, which was linked to the Sunday Acupoint, furiously pumping out Qi and Blood.
She opened her eyes helplessly and said to Shangshan Che, “When the compressed Qi and Blood are dispersed, this is what happens.”
In the hazy sunlight, Lili Zi, momentarily flush with surging Qi and Blood, stared at the familiar face for two seconds.
The strong impulse of youth arose, and she quickly suppressed it.
“What’s wrong?”
Shangshan Che felt this gaze, which was different from usual, and asked in confusion.
Lili Zi shook her head as if nothing had happened, “Nothing.”
“That’s good then.”
Seeing that Lili Zi was alright, Shangshan Che began to arrange his plans for the next couple of days.
First, he would definitely open the Moonlight Acupoint… He had a premonition that once the Moonlight Acupoint appeared, the original “Profound Flesh Stage” should also be completed.
In that case, the efficiency gained by combining the Life River and Corona Breathing Techniques was not just a little; it had saved him hundreds of proficiency points at least.
His spiritual energy within his body was almost depleted these past few days. Once he used the last bit of the perfected Flame Armor, it would be time to…
Boom! Boom!
The rumbling thunderous sound once again drew Shangshan Che’s attention. He saw Lili Zi, her skin a vibrant red, rapidly taking deep breaths to transport and consume Qi and Blood.
—The compatibility between the Sunday Acupoint and the Human Body Great Elixir was a bit too good, to the point where it forcefully generated several tenths of excess Qi and Blood!
Even if that were the case, she could suppress it and convert it into breathing technique progress.
But then the Sunday Acupoint unexpectedly expanded as well, triggering a second round of Qi and Blood surge!
This time, even though Lili Zi exhausted all methods to consume Qi and Blood, she couldn’t keep up with the speed at which Qi and Blood appeared.
If this continues, this Qi and Blood, which is normally extremely precious, will be spat out and wasted for nothing!
What a waste, such a waste!
Lili Zi gritted her teeth, remembering that there was still one person beside her.
Wait, there’s him too…
Yes, him!
The girl’s thoughts were already swept away by the surging Qi and Blood like a tide, she exhaled hot steam and rasped,
“Give me your hand!”
Shangshan Che, who was standing at what he considered a safe distance, observing the flushed Lili Zi with interest, blinked and asked, “What for?”
“Don’t ask so much, just give it to me!”
Without waiting for Shangshan Che’s reaction or answer, a hot, soft palm grabbed him and pulled him into an embrace without a word.
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