Tokyo, another district.
At this moment.
Glasses ambled down a street, seemingly in good spirits, humming a Peking Opera tune as he walked.
Not long ago, he had found an Onmyoji and, after a period of brutal interrogation, obtained some useful intelligence. He was now on his way to verify its authenticity:
"If what that Onmyoji said is true, I'll have a way to enter the Onmyoji's headquarters. The intelligence there is far more valuable than what can be gathered from the Onmyoji families. Then Hua Hua can improve her strength faster. It's going to be a bountiful harvest, today is a good day."
However, in the next second.
Ding dong.
A message arrived on his phone.
Glasses picked up his phone and looked at it. His smile vanished instantly, replaced by a chilling killing intent emanating from beneath his reading glasses. It was a 'distress' message from Hua Hua.
"Dare to touch my Senluo Division, you're asking for death!"
At this moment.
Glasses made no attempt to conceal his menacing expression. In the blink of an eye, he had vanished from his original spot, rushing madly towards Hua Hua's location.
On the way, he did not forget to send Hua Hua a message:
[Glasses]: Wait for me, I'm almost there.
After sending the message, his anger did not subside at all, feeling like the Mount Fuji volcano that had been accumulating for hundreds of years, on the verge of eruption at any moment. He muttered incessantly:
"No matter who it is, if they dare to touch Hua Hua, I'll make them die!"
Following that.
With Glasses at full speed, he soon arrived at the shrine.
Then.
He witnessed a bloody scene.
Looking closely.
In this forest, the ground was littered with the corpses of yokai, none of them intact. They were covered in claw marks, either ripped open or torn apart by claws. Limbs were scattered all around, and the blood of yokai and spirits permeated the area.
Among them.
There were even some splattered, blood-stained areas that exuded the aura of a Ghost King, as if Ghost King-level spirits or yokai had died there, beaten into a bloody mess.
In addition.
Around Hua Hua were over a dozen heavily injured spirits and yokai. They were roaring at Hua Hua, their expressions showing an undisguised desire to devour Hua Hua. When Glasses arrived, they paid him no mind, their eyes solely fixed on Hua Hua, furiously attacking her.
Seeing this.
Glasses's anger erupted at this moment:
"All of you die!!"
His top-tier Ghost King aura exploded. At this moment, Glasses was no longer smiling; he was like a bloodthirsty demon king descending, reaching out to grab the spirits and yokai surrounding Hua Hua.
Without any mercy.
Glasses casually grabbed a yokai's head and crushed it with his fingers. But that wasn't enough. He raised his other hand and tore the yokai's body apart, letting blood splatter all over him.
At this moment.
He was furious because he saw that Hua Hua, the future of his beloved Senluo Division, was covered in blood and looked weak, clearly having suffered severe injuries. If he hadn't arrived, he had reason to believe Hua Hua would have died here from her injuries.
Thinking of this situation.
Glasses's anger was uncontrollable…
The future of my Senluo Division almost died in this tiny country of Sakura, it's simply a great humiliation, a slap in the face to my Senluo Division. If this were to get out, Senluo Division would be laughed to death.
Damn it!
All of them deserve to die!!
Glasses scanned the remaining yokai, his voice chillingly devoid of emotion echoing softly:
"Not a single one of you will leave here alive today."
With that said.
Glasses made his move.
The terrifying power of a top-tier Ghost King, known as the most brutal existence in the Senluo Division, was displayed in its entirety. Glasses didn't give any of the yokai a chance to speak, brutally torturing and killing them all. This place had become a living hell.
Until the last yokai was tortured and died in agony, Glasses finally stopped.
However, even so.
His pathological madness showed no signs of abating.
Just then.
Hua Hua's voice came through:
"Meow~ You're really slow."
After saying that, Hua Hua's expression shifted as if she had finally overcome the danger and could relax. Immediately after, she closed her eyes and fainted.
"Hua Hua!"
Glasses's expression changed. He quickly picked up Hua Hua and left the place. The immediate priority was to treat Hua Hua, otherwise, Senluo Division would lose a future pillar, a situation he could not accept.
At this moment.
The victim, who had been hiding far away from the shrine, filming with their phone, was stunned on the spot. They remained in a daze for a long time before recovering:
"Is this what Kamisa called ghost exorcism? It's too terrifying… The shrine cannot be kept."
...
Tokyo, a hotel.
Some time had passed since Hua Hua returned from the shrine.
"Hua Hua, how are you feeling now?"
Glasses asked.
After returning from the shrine, Glasses brought Hua Hua back for treatment. Fortunately, when Glasses came to Sakura Country, he had made arrangements in advance and prepared a lot of healing supplies. After all, Hua Hua's improvement in strength would inevitably lead to injuries. Now, after a period of treatment, Hua Hua had recovered significantly.
Hua Hua looked at her injuries and casually said:
"Meow, I'm alright, I won't die. A few days of rest should be enough to recover. The medicine you gave me is good."
"That's good."
Glasses nodded upon hearing this and continued:
"What happened on your end? Why did you suddenly go to the shrine? I remember the yokai information I gave you didn't include the shrine, and why did you get into a conflict with those yokai?"
Hearing this, Hua Hua flicked her cat paws, her plump cat face filled with coldness:
"Meow, don't mention it. It's all because you mentioned that Sakura Country had invaded before. Today, I went looking for all the yokai information you gave me and dealt with them. Then, seeing that I had nothing else to do, I searched on Baidu for the invasion you mentioned, and found that shrine."
As she spoke.
Hua Hua revealed a look of anger and cursed:
"Then I got curious and went to take a look, and ended up encountering a Ghost King leading a group of yokai, doing something. I saw them as an opportunity to improve my strength. But before I could make a move, they also discovered me. When they heard me speaking in Daxia language and saw me by the shrine, they thought I was here to support Daxia and disrupt the shrine."
Hearing this.
Even without Hua Hua saying more, Glasses had already understood. He said coldly:
"They mistook you for a Daxia ghost trying to disrupt the shrine and attacked you?"
"Mhm."
Hua Hua nodded and said:
"They didn't attack me immediately, though. They extended an olive branch, saying they wanted to recruit me into their faction, claiming they were the faction of Shuten-doji, very powerful in Sakura Country, and that I, a ghost king with such potential, was suitable to join."
It could be seen that.
As Hua Hua spoke, the eyes beneath Glasses's reading glasses became so cold they could freeze people to death. Especially when she mentioned refusing them, and they directly attacked Hua Hua, saying that this was their Sakura Country's territory and that she dared to disrupt the shrine in front of them, even if she was from Daxia, it wouldn't be allowed.
Instantly.
Glasses's expression became unprecedentedly cold. It was no longer a volcanic eruption but more like a nuclear explosion. He said directly:
"Very good, very good! Do they think that because they are in Sakura Country, my Senluo Division cannot reach here? They dare to touch my Senluo Division people, dare to poach my people. No matter which faction you are, all of you will die."
At this moment.
Glasses was so angry he was about to explode. He hadn't been this angry even when Senluo Division was surrounded and attacked by the Wei Dao Division. He, the dignified Senluo Division, had been insulted in Sakura Country.
Without hesitation.
He looked at Hua Hua and slowly said:
"Hua Hua, remember one thing: no matter where you are, no one can touch my Senluo Division people, especially not in Sakura Country."
With that said.
Glasses opened his phone and tapped the number in his contacts labeled 'Senluo'.
...