This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 160 - 156. Beichuan Si feels he is not poor (Requesting monthly passes!) (Update 26)_2

Chapter 160: Chapter 156. Beichuan Si feels he is not poor (Requesting monthly passes!) (Update 26)_2

He didn’t rush to open his outdoor backpack though.

Below this, there still was a reward for completing the task.

System’s crisp prompt sounded again: Task ’Soul Leading Flower’ completed.

"Cruel vengeful spirits, horrifying ceremonies, a history unknown and bloodstained, knowing all of this, your mood is tense, and fear gradually corrodes your limbs. You want to escape from the vast Shenzhu Mountain but find that you have already become one with the mountain. You endure the fear and expose all the frightful history."

"Now, are you still yourself, or have you become a walking corpse dominated by fear?"

Beichuan Si touched his head, impassively and without any emotional fluctuation, he looked at these inexplicable system prompts and continued to read on.

"Task reward: Soul Summoning Flower."

A slightly ethereal and pure white flower slowly emerged from the air and silently floated in front of Beichuan Si.

"System prompt: You have discovered a new type of oddity: Soul Summoning Flower."

"Integrate?"

Beichuan Si raised an eyebrow and, without a second thought, clicked ’Yes’.

The Soul Summoning Flower tightly pressed itself into Beichuan Si’s chest.

And at the moment the Soul Summoning Flower entered Beichuan Si’s chest, the system prompt sounded again.

"System prompt: Your total amount of death qi has greatly increased."

"System prompt: Your proficiency in basic death qi usage, and death qi healing has increased."

An item that directly improves basic death qi usage proficiency? And it also significantly increases total death qi?

A hint of surprise crossed Beichuan Si’s mind.

He straightforwardly opened his status bar.

A pale green window appeared:

Name: Bai Fan (Beichuan Si)

Combined Physical Attributes: 60 (seven times that of a normal person)

Death Qi: 30/162. (Branch Skills: Healing, Mutation.)

Skills: Baji Fist (Intermediate, Training Upper Hall), Spiritual Dagger Technique (Low Level, Enter Hall), Basic Death Qi Usage (Advanced, Mastered), Jiu-Jitsu (Advanced, Mastered), Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced, Mastered).

Trait (1): Your trait means you will always attract oddities and supernatural phenomena.

Trait (2): Your body harbors the sacrificial fire from Shenzhu Village; low-level vengeful spirits and intermediate low-level vengeful spirits will not be able to harm you. Similarly, you cannot gain malice from vengeful spirits of the above levels.

Trait (3): Your body harbors the Soul Summoning Flower; all your skills related to death qi and spiritual power are permanently increased by one level, and your total death qi permanently increases by 60.

Remaining Skill Points: 7.5.

Remaining Items: Voodoo Doll x3.

Firstly, there was physical conditioning.

His physical condition went from six times to seven times stronger; Beichuan Si’s speed and strength would reach another level.

Then there was the total amount of death qi.

Previously Beichuan Si’s total amount of death qi was only 102, now it had directly increased by 60 points thanks to the Soul Summoning Flower.

It’s important to know that after death qi broke through the 100 point bottleneck, it was very difficult to increase it just through simple exorcism.

Yet, the Soul Summoning Flower directly increased it by sixty points.

Next up were the death qi sub-skills.

’Mutation’ appeared among the death qi sub-skills, likely the change brought about by the fire in the qi; Beichuan Si hadn’t experimented yet, so he didn’t know what the effect would be.

And among the normal skills, the basic mastery of death qi was forcibly elevated to a high level by the Soul Summoning Flower.

The curse on Jian Ding was also weakened quite a bit, the stained blood on the tip of the dagger had completely flaked off.

Beichuan Si was already considering whether to buy some climbing ropes someday and explore the hollow beneath Shenzhu Mountain, to see if he could find a few more Soul Summoning Flowers.

Regarding the traits... two more had been added, as displayed in the status bar.

Ordinary low-level vengeful spirits could no longer provide Beichuan Si with any improvement.

However, considering the amount of resentment that low-level vengeful spirits could bring to Beichuan Si at present, he didn’t care about that at all.

"But intermediate vengeful spirits are also hard to come across."

Beichuan Si rubbed his fingers.

Just as he said, in this trip to Shenzhu Village, there was only one knife-wielding miko who could reach the level of an intermediate vengeful spirit.

But the knife-wielding miko, Shenzhu zhong, was not an ordinary intermediate vengeful spirit.

She was immune to most exorcism methods, and even Jian Ding couldn’t completely tear open her body.

If you really counted the knife-wielding miko’s combat power, she should be comparable to an advanced intermediate vengeful spirit.

But even without gaining the skill points of Shenzhu zhong, this trip for Beichuan Si was quite profitable.

His current combat power, when dealing with intermediate low-level vengeful spirits, was absolutely no issue, as for intermediate-level vengeful spirits—

The knife-wielding miko isn’t a reference; Beichuan Si had never encountered a true intermediate-level vengeful spirit, but it’s assumed it wouldn’t be particularly difficult to handle.

Beichuan Si then took out those three voodoo dolls again.

The three voodoo dolls had no faces; they were simply grass dolls tied together with straw.

System prompt: You have discovered a new type of oddity ’Voodoo Doll’.

’Voodoo Doll: These fierce straw dolls seem to be able to take on the injuries of their masters.’

Substitute props?!

Beichuan Si’s heart skipped a beat.

These substitute-type props were, no doubt, the most comforting to have.

The mere fact that they could substitute for injuries was quite terrifying.

If he had had these dolls just now when facing Shenzhu zhong, Beichuan Si could have totally fought with the notion of trading injury for injury and driven the adversary away.

After all, any damage would be borne by the substitute props.

Beichuan Si could have engaged in an unfair life-for-life struggle without any reservation.

However, it was quite rare to find someone like Beichuan Si who would actively use the substitute function to battle vengeful spirits.

Beichuan Si stuffed the three voodoo dolls into his outdoor backpack.

When he looked up at the sky again, the soul lights had all leaped over the light bridge and vanished into the beyond.

At this point——The trip to Shenzhu Village had completely ended.

But...

Beichuan Si looked down at Magong Tong, who was sleeping soundly, even letting out silly laughs in her sleep, and couldn’t help but rub his temples.

He simply reached out and patted Magong Tong’s delicate cheek.

Mmm—

"Huh? Beichuan?" Magong Tong’s eyes widened as she looked at Beichuan Si standing in front of her, and then her mouth dropped open in shock as she saw the enormous pit behind him.

Under the especially clear moonlight tonight, she could see everything clearly.

"Wha, what happened? The, the shrine..."

Magong Tong stammered.

Such a big Shrine, it was there just a moment ago, how could it be gone now?

And Shenzhu Mountain looked as if it had been hollowed out, leaving such a huge void, who was going to take responsibility for this afterward?

While she was lost in her wild thoughts, Beichuan Si, who had already put his outdoor backpack back on, spoke up:

"Shenzhu Shrine no longer exists, and the calamity within you has also been exorcised, that’s all there is to it."

"...Is... is that so?"

"Yeah, let’s get down the mountain quickly."

Beichuan Si didn’t believe that the violent shaking and abnormal changes here could be kept from the reporters of today.

Some matters from the past, as long as someone investigated with intent, might just spawn many urban legends and tales.

But what did that have to do with Beichuan Si?

He wasn’t an urban legend.

...

Beichuan Si and Magong Tong left Shenzhu Mountain and returned to the guesthouse.

After resting and relaxing for a day and a night, the two of them then set off for the tourist bus and took the bus back to Tokyo.

Ibaraki Prefecture was very close to Tokyo, and it was only a bus ride of an hour or two away.

They found their seats and once settled, Magong Tong bowed her head in thanks to Beichuan Si sitting beside her:

"Be, Beichuan! Thank you so much for everything this time!"

Although she had been loafing the whole trip and even passed out towards the end, she knew that Beichuan Si must have spent a lot of effort protecting her.

This was the only way she knew how to express her gratitude.

"No need to thank me, it was a mutual necessity," Beichuan Si replied with a calm expression.

He wasn’t looking for any repayment for his kindness.

The compensation he was to be given, Magong Tong had provided from the start.

Having accepted her 500,000 yen, Beichuan Si had seen the matter through.

Some people might think that Beichuan Si got a short end of the stick, receiving only 100,000 yen for helping the Hirakawa’s house with a small task.

But Beichuan Si didn’t think so.

Helping the Hirakawa’s house was one thing, helping Magong Tong was another.

There was no necessary connection between the two.

After all, for Beichuan Si——

A man can be poor——

But he must not be without honor.

Moreover, Beichuan Si considered himself not poor at this point.

Thinking this, Beichuan Si glanced at Magong Tong, the rich girl.

After a moment’s thought, he blinked and took back his words.

Maybe... there was still a tiny bit of poverty.

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