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There was no one in this river who could stop me, who had defeated even the divine spirit.

I went up the river, absorbing its spirituality.

The remaining monsters abandoned the river and tried to escape in all directions to avoid me.

“Yugen! These are the monsters that came out of the river and tried to escape!”

Then he was captured by Tengu, my faithful servant, and stood before me.

The number of remaining youkai was not that large; there were about 20 left. There must have been ships of this originally, but I absorbed them, and as I got caught up in the aftermath of the battle, only this number remained.

“Great youkai of great power, please have mercy on our people of the river…”

A turtle monster with an impressive white beard knelt down to greet me as a representative.

“If you swear to obey me, I will spare your life. But before that, I have to answer one question.”

“Please ask anything…”

“What is a dragon?”

Even in the energy universe, there was a legend related to dragons. So I became interested in this concept of being shared across multiple universes.

I was also curious about what Kawashiro and Hidarugami were making such things for.

“Yong is an innate great soul born from the gathering of the spirituality of the water vein. They say there is something special about their spirituality… Even Nobu doesn’t know what Kawashiro is planning…”

“I see.”

The spirituality of the lecture I absorbed had no special elements except that it was pure.

As a result, I lost interest in the river and ordered the turtle monster not to be hostile to the spirits and humans of the plains, but to report to the forest periodically and convey information.

Then, when I returned to the forest and was preparing to move to Baekmyoji in the south, I was captured by forest monsters.

“Chief! boss! Where have you been and now you are back!”

“I went to the mountains, villages, and rivers.”

“Village?! You’ve been eating humans!”

“Eat alone!”

The monsters begged him to take them with them next time.

I feel tired already.

I sprinkled the remaining candy around in subspace and asked.

“Okay, nothing special happened in the forest, right?”

“Wow! Candy!”

“Nothing happened!”

“That’s right, boss! We prepared humans for the leader!”

“You’re a stupid human who entered the forest alone!”

“You’re still young, so your skin will be soft!”

In an instant, a cruel story recommending cannibalism emerged.

So, you captured a kid?

No matter how innocent they seemed, I realized that these guys were strangers in the end, so I went to see the human being captured by the monster.

A child who appears to be about 10 years old, whose hands and feet are not tied, but who is locked in a cave and cannot come out of the entrance.

He was dragged in front of me and was trembling, and the traces of tears were clearly visible on his cheeks, as if he had already shed a lot of tears.

“What do you think? It’s a bit meaty, but that’s a delicacy.”

“I’m giving it to you specially because you’re the leader!”

“…”

I couldn’t really commit cannibalism, and I didn’t want to kill a child, so I thought about it for a moment.

It would be unbecoming of youkai to just release him, and you would have problems commanding your subordinate youkai.

“Hey, what’s your name?”

“…It’s Hito.”

“Good. Hito, would you like to ‘bet’ with me? If you win the bet with me, I will spare your life.”

“…!”

“Yugen?!”

“Why!”

Hope and vitality arose in Hito’s eyes.

“I will!”

I used my telekinesis to pull out stones, processed them, and prepared a stone plate and four stone bowls.

Then, he took out a piece of candy from subspace, showed it to Hito and the monsters, and spoke.

“Finding this is the winning condition for the bet.”

I put the candy in a stone bowl and mixed it with all my might.

It was a game commonly called Yabawi, but the problem was that I was mixing the stone bowls so fast that even a monster wouldn’t know where the candy was.

In other words, in other people’s eyes, it is an unreasonable bet that should be taken with a probability of 1 in 4.

“Haha! It’s Yuugen-sama after all! To think of a game like this!”

“Hehe… But where is the candy? Is this the first stone bowl?”

“No! If you listen to the sound at the end, it’s the third stone bowl!”

Hito started crying because he didn’t know what to do, and the monsters enjoyed watching Hito’s expression.

Just as children enjoy bullying their peers or abusing ants.

“If you don’t know, choose anything. If you’re lucky, you never know.”

I calmly urged Hito to make a choice.

Anyway, no matter what I chose, the result was the same.

Hito was crying and unable to choose anything, but when the surrounding youkai shouted and urged him to choose quickly, he shed tears and pointed to the first stone bowl.

“Hmph, black. Black with this. I will do it. Ugh.”

I lifted the stone bowl and sneaked the candy through subspace.

Even if I were to be a martial artist in full strength, I wouldn’t notice anything strange about my physical ability plus sub-space.

There was candy in the exposed stone bowl, and the monsters sighed.

“You’re lucky.”

“Damn, I worked so hard to catch it, but it’s a waste.”

“Chief! If you just catch it and eat it… Argh!”

I grabbed the head of the monster that was making useless noises and squeezed it with my grip, causing pain.

“Don’t my words sound like words? Release it as promised.”

“Uh… Uh! of course! I will do as the leader said.”

I threw the candy to Hito and said.

“Now that I have conquered the mountains and rivers of the tengu and won against the spirits, I will hold a banquet! I’ll give you alcohol and candy!”

I tried to change the atmosphere so that the monsters wouldn’t lose their minds, and the effect was so great that even the monsters who were sleepy towards me cheered and praised me.

“The leader won against the spirit?!”

“Wow! After all, it’s the leader! The pride of the Yokai Forest!”

“I like this leader’s big hands! A hundred years ago, the forest leader just took something!”

I told the monsters to wait a moment and secretly returned to Earth, filling subspace with alcohol, candy, and daily necessities.

And then I returned to the Spiritual Universe and thought while giving candy and alcohol to the monsters.

‘This is more cumbersome and bothersome than I thought. Once I become a god, I will abandon the monsters in the forest.’

Unlike the village, the monsters were unruly and difficult to control.

After reassessing the uses of monsters through this incident, I rested in the forest for a day under the pretext of a banquet.

After the banquet, as I passed the drunken monsters lying around, I thought about the supernatural abilities of ghosts that I had experienced while dealing with the spirit of ghosts, Hidarugami.

Ghostly creature

If you gain an ability that has an effect similar to telekinesis,

I didn’t know if I could further develop my current Enma Flame Mind Movement.

At that time, I will be able to deal with any A-level talent.

My main skills right now are telekinesis and physical abilities.

With that in mind, I silently walked towards the south of the forest, leading the tengu that followed me.

***

Baekmyoji Baekmyoji.

A ghost is a life that is reborn after the death of an intelligent body by gathering its own spirituality.

Therefore, as long as life continues, ghosts never disappear.

And that was the reason for the existence of Baekmyoji.

In the position of a spirit, the continuously appearing ghosts are driven to one place,

The ghosts have banded together to remain on earth against the gravitational force of the Yellow Heaven.

The Baekmyoji that was formed in this way was the home of tens of thousands of ghosts.

An eerie dark blue land.

Baekmyoji was a barren, lifeless place with a very gloomy atmosphere and drooping plants.

Strangely, even though there were no clouds here, the sun was shining very faintly.

When I looked at this land with my extra senses… a ghostly energy permeated the space itself, it was perceived as a space that was a little far from reality.

“Does ghost energy have this kind of utility?”

If yogi energy is the power that maximizes the characteristics of a species, ghost energy may be the power that rejects reality.

I walked inside with those sentiments in mind.

Upon entering, there were tombstones scattered about.

Ghosts were seen floating around the tombstone.

Because it is a low level where it cannot form ghost spirits or ghost spirits, it is tied to the corpse body.

We walked inside, ignoring the tombstones.

“Ugh!”

Underneath the feet of a tengu that was following behind, a ghost made the ground like a quagmire and tried to drown its feet.

“This guy!”

-Giggles.

The tengu, caught off guard by the ghost, swung his sword, but the ghost laughed and burrowed into the ground.

The tricky thing about ghosts is that they have no physical form.

Therefore, it was difficult to deal with because it floated freely in the ground and in the air.

Of course, it is not invincible like invisibility, so hitting with a living body filled with spirituality worked.

“Concentrate. Feeling inspired. Because from now on it will be full of ghosts.”

“”Okay!””

I thought as I walked deeper, further away from reality.

The current goal is to conquer Baekmyoji.

If I conquer this place, I can make my name known to the spirits. This is a place connected to numerous human villages and spirits.

Also, my goal was to learn firsthand by experiencing the special abilities of ghosts and ghosts.

Obtaining knowledge of this ability is simple by using a barbell on a ghost, but I have already tested it on a ghost near the village.

Most ghosts acquire their abilities naturally after death without training, so it was difficult to directly apply their cases to me.

The composition of the soul is different, such as when the soul is lost or centered around the white spirit.

If I wasn’t going to commit suicide and only have 100 souls left to train, I needed to know other cases.

Looking at it this way, isn’t this ghost spirit something that only the dead can use? You may doubt it, but

There is information that onmyoji, a human practitioner under the rank of court or daimyo, uses ghost spirits, so there is always a way to train while alive.

My job is to find a way to do just that.

The reason I bothered to learn from the ghosts of Baekmyoji was because I wanted to avoid being a daimyo, as it was presumed that it was equivalent to an S-class ability.