An Xiu: I'm Just a Passing Onmyoji / An Xiu: Everything Went Wrong, but the Result Was Right

Just listen to An Xiu say.

"However, the appearance of these wolf demons is not useless at all. Perhaps they can carry us to the nearest human gathering place.

In this way, there will be no loss of speed, no need to walk by themselves, and it will not affect An Xiu and their appreciation of the natural scenery along the way.

"Then do you need me to use illusions to continue to control them and serve as our mounts?"

Meli asked, while Yae Kasumi on the side took a step forward.

"Maintaining illusions inevitably takes a lot of effort, so I'd better leave this little thing to you."

I saw Yae Kasumi slightly releasing his power, and the dark red energy symbolizing the power of Authority of Corruption instantly spread from his feet, and spread to the whole bodies of several wolf monsters in an instant.

Suddenly, several wolf monsters that were still immersed in the illusion of Meli collectively stopped for a moment, and then crawled down in front of the An Xiu trio.

Obviously, these wolf demons have now been corroded and controlled, and their consciousness has been completely erased by the power of Herrscher of Corruption.

Yes, Herrscher of Corruption's power is not only able to corrode the flesh of dead and living things, but also the spirit and energy of more ethereal beings such as Nihility. Moreover, due to the inheritance of the property of Collapsing Energy, once it is contaminated, it will be as difficult to resist and get rid of as maggots attached to bones.

This is why An Xiu believes that even in a world without any technology, the strength of Authority of Corruption will not be affected at all.

Herrscher of Corruption's power does have a special attack on technology, but it is not just a special attack on technology. Theoretically, unless there is the ability to isolate the corrosive power, everything, whether living or dead, is within the scope of the corrosive special attack.

With the help of several wolf monsters taking turns to carry them on their way, without considering their physical condition at all and running as fast as they could as long as they didn't fall apart, the three of them, An Xiu, arrived at the gathering place of humans that was originally expected to arrive at night only at dusk.

"It looks like a medium-sized village, but there seems to be a layer of evil spirit surrounding the village?"

"Hmm... if you listen carefully, there are sounds of fighting. It seems like there are monsters attacking this village."

Looking at the village at dusk not far away, Meli touched his delicate chin and spoke with a thoughtful look.

"After all, dusk is not a good time in this Japan background world with monsters. It is normal for monsters to attack."

Dusk represents the time of encountering demons in Japan culture, symbolizing the time when ghosts are most likely to appear.

In a normal world view, this can only be regarded as a cultural symbol and metaphor, and at most it can be used to make up stories to scare people. But in a world where monsters really exist, the time of encountering a monster truly symbolizes the most dangerous moment of the day for ordinary people.

"Let's go and take a look."

Leaving behind a few wolf monsters whose bodies had already collapsed and were hanging on solely by the power of erosion, An Xiu and the other three walked towards the entrance of the village.

Chapter 300: An Xiu: I am a passing onmyoji

At this moment, at the entrance of the village, a middle-aged monk holding a rosary was confronting several monsters surrounding the village with a solemn expression.

Behind the monk, there were many villagers with sallow faces and thin muscles standing, randomly holding some wooden sticks and bamboo poles as weapons, but they did not dare to step forward at all.

Looking at the villagers behind him and the monster in front of him, the middle-aged monk in cassock couldn't help but take a deep breath.

He was a wandering monk who had been practicing Buddhism for more than 20 years. He happened to pass by this village today and planned to stay overnight. Unexpectedly, on the day he stayed overnight, this village was unfortunately attacked by monsters.

To be able to be a wandering monk in this era, the middle-aged monk naturally has a certain amount of magical power. However, his talent is mediocre. Even if he has been practicing for more than 20 years, he can only deal with ordinary monsters. The monsters attacking the village now have developed wisdom that is not inferior to humans. If there is only one, he may still have a chance of winning, but the number of monsters surrounding the village at this moment has exceeded one hand.

In a head-on confrontation, he has no chance of winning, so if nothing else goes wrong, the middle-aged monk and the villagers behind him may be in trouble today.

"I didn't expect to find a village in a place like this. I'm really lucky."

"Because of the Nura Clan's rules, we haven't eaten a living person for a long time. After we deal with this troublesome monk, I will eat a few more children for fun."

Outside the village, a monster who seemed to be the leader of a group of monsters and the one with the strongest monster aura spoke up. His greedy eyes and words about treating ordinary people as food made many villagers standing behind the middle-aged monk tremble with fear. On the other hand, a group of monsters surrounding the entrance of the village roared excitedly.

Seeing this scene, the middle-aged monk knew that he could not continue the confrontation, so he immediately threw out the rosary beads that gathered spiritual power in his hand.

Pure white spiritual power wrapped around the rosary and hit the nearest monster, causing a harsh hissing sound.

The monster that was hit by the rosary screamed and retreated as if it was stuck with a red-hot iron. However, the other monsters saw this and showed no intention of caring about their companions. Instead, they took the opportunity to attack the monk who lost his weapon.

However, just when these monsters were about to approach, the middle-aged monk seemed to have expected it. A simple barrier formed by spiritual power quickly unfolded and blocked the monsters.

For a moment, demon power and spiritual power collided, and the originally seemingly stable barrier began to flicker in and out of sight in a very short period of time, as if it might disappear at any time.

Seeing this scene, the middle-aged monk had a heavy expression, and then turned his head to look at the villagers behind him.

"Everyone, the barrier that the poor monk put up during the previous confrontation with these monsters will not last long. Soon the poor monk's spiritual power will be exhausted and he will be unable to maintain the barrier."

"Please take advantage of this time to escape as soon as possible."

"But Master, where should we escape to?"

A villager standing behind the monk asked.

Compared to monsters who possess monster powers, are agile or powerful, they, ordinary people who don't even have enough to eat, can't escape the monsters with just one pair of legs.

Not to mention that the nearest village to their village is also separated by two mountains. The wilderness in this era is extremely dangerous. Once they leave the village, they may not be able to reach the nearest village even if there are no monsters chasing them.

In this regard, the middle-aged monk could only remain silent.

This is the sorrow of ordinary people in this world. They are hungry, poor, and face the threat of monsters at any time, and may lose their lives at any time.

If you live in a big, prosperous city, you are still relatively safe. After all, those big and prosperous cities are usually protected by onmyojis and witches invited by the nobles. Ordinary monsters dare not approach. But if you live in a more remote village, like this village, it is really precarious.

The reason why the middle-aged monk is letting the villagers escape now is just to leave a little hope. In fact, he also knows that even if he is here to delay time, the probability that the villagers behind him can survive is still very slim.

At this moment, the middle-aged monk who was still using his spiritual power to maintain the barrier suddenly widened his eyes. The next second, before the surrounding villagers could ask what happened, he saw that the barrier that was still blocking the monsters suddenly exploded.

Seeing this scene, the villagers suddenly looked desperate, but the middle-aged monk no longer paid attention to the monsters in front of him, but turned his head and looked in another direction.

Because only he knew that the reason the barrier was broken at this moment was not because he ran out of spiritual power or because of the monsters in front of him, but because a force suddenly burst his barrier from another direction.

Someone or something is coming from over there?

Under the gaze of the middle-aged monk, a figure slowly walked from the direction of the broken barrier.

There is no doubt that this figure is An Xiu. Previously, he had planned to go to the location where the evil spirit of the village came from with Meli and Yae Kasumi to take a look, but unexpectedly, he was blocked by a sudden rising barrier, and the scene just now occurred.

At the moment, An Xiu, who had just arrived at the scene, simply glanced at the situation at the scene. First he looked at the middle-aged monk whose face was pale because the barrier was forcibly broken, and then he looked at the monsters in front of the village, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"They all seem to be intelligent monsters, and we can learn some things from their mouths."

"In that case, just leave one alive."

"A shameless human being!"

At this moment, the monsters who had already rushed forward were furious when they heard An Xiu's words, but before they could take action, a figure surrounded by thunder quietly appeared beside An Xiu.

"Let's do it, Kasumi."

The figure whistling with blood-red lightning flashed by instantly, and before the monsters had time to understand what happened, their bodies were cut into two pieces in an instant.

The only one who survived was the leading monster with the strongest aura, but even so, its limbs were pierced by four kunai, completely losing its ability to move.

After doing all this, Yae Kasumi, who had fox ears on his head, returned to An Xiu again, and at the same time looked at the middle-aged monk and the villagers.

"Fa, what happened?"

At this time, the villagers were looking at the monsters lying in front of the village in shock. They did not understand what had just happened. They only knew that all the extremely terrifying monsters that were still attacking the village were killed in an instant.

But then, they reacted and looked at Yae Kasumi with even more fear.

This is not difficult to understand. After all, in the eyes of the villagers, Yae Kasumi with fox ears on his head is also a monster, and Yae Kasumi's identity in this world is indeed half-demon, so it is natural for him to be feared by people.

After noticing this scene, An Xiu on the side waved his hand. Yae Kasumi took two steps back upon seeing this, and then the figure disappeared from everyone's eyes in a haze.

When the middle-aged monk saw this, he recovered from the shock of all the monsters being wiped out in an instant. He quickly braced himself and stepped forward, bowing respectfully to An Xiu in front of all the villagers.

"Thank you for your help to us. I am a wandering monk passing by here. I wonder what your name is?"

"My name is An Xiu. I am an Onmyoji who passed by here. I sensed the evil spirit here, so I came here to take a look."

Just listen to An Xiu reply casually.

Chapter 301: An Xiu: The process is all wrong, but the results are all right

"It turns out to be Onmyoji-sama. How wonderful."

"If Master Onmyoji hadn't arrived in time, we would have been eaten by monsters by now."

"Thank you, Onmyoji-sama, for saving our village!"

Perhaps because Yae Kasumi's figure disappeared, many villagers managed to regain their composure. After hearing An Xiu's words, they gathered around to thank him.

They did not doubt An Xiu's words, or they, as ordinary people, had no ability to judge at all. They only knew that Yae Kasumi, who had eliminated the monsters that attacked the village, did not continue to hurt them because of An Xiu, and even left on his own. In this case, naturally they would believe whatever An Xiu said.

At this time, a group of villagers had already begun to discuss the plan to find some valuable things in the village and give them to the middle-aged monk and An Xiu as a reward.

However, An Xiu was obviously not interested in this and asked all the villagers to return to the village. The reason was that he wanted to further deal with the monsters left behind in the village.

In response to this, the villagers present naturally did not dare to disobey and returned to the village one after another. After a while, only An Xiu and the middle-aged monk were left in front of the village.

"Your Excellency, you are not an Onmyoji, right?"

It wasn't until all the villagers left that the middle-aged monk spoke nervously again, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he revealed the identity of the Onmyoji that An Xiu had just casually made up.

"How did you tell?"

An Xiu didn't have any other emotions because of the middle-aged monk's words. He was just curious, and the middle-aged monk also gave an explanation.

"Whether it's a monk like me, a shrine maiden or an onmyoji, all of them need spiritual power when using their abilities."

"But I didn't feel the slightest spiritual power from Your Excellency An Xiu. Whether it was when the monster next to you previously appeared and destroyed the monsters that attacked the village, or when it disappeared, all I could feel was the opponent's monster power."

"So I judge that Sir An Xiu is not an Onmyoji, and the monster you call Kasumi is not a Shikigami that you conquered using your Yin-Yang Cursed Technique, but one that follows you voluntarily."

After hearing the middle-aged monk's words, An Xiu suddenly understood.

The emotional reason is that he never used any power before, either when he asked Yae Kasumi to take action or when he ordered Yae Kasumi to hide himself. As a result, he was regarded as an ordinary person by the other party.

Because he is an ordinary person, he naturally does not have the ability to subdue Shikigami through yin and yang Cursed Technique like an Onmyoji. However, An Xiu had actually given orders before and was able to instantly kill all the orders. The monster Yae Kasumi that monks were helpless for years, so they judged Yae Kasumi to be a monster that was not subdued by Yin and Yang Cursed Technique, but followed An Xiu voluntarily.

The ordinary words he used to call himself an Onmyoji were probably used as words to appease the villagers.

How should I put it? Although the process was all wrong, the results were unexpectedly all correct.

It's not that An Xiu has no spiritual power in his body. In fact, through the adaptive function that comes with the system's ability to produce, An Xiu, including the clones under An Xiu, will automatically adapt to the power system of the current world every time they enter a new world.

In other words, after coming to the world of Gensokyo, An Xiu not only has spiritual power in his body, but also a lot of it. He can also switch between demonic power, magic power, divine power and even various power systems in this world at any time.

The reason why the middle-aged monk couldn't sense An Xiu's spiritual power was purely because the strength gap between the two was too big, and An Xiu really didn't use any power in the whole process.

To a certain extent, for An Xiu, who advocates leaving everything to his avatar and only being responsible for enjoyment, there is no problem in treating him as an ordinary person.

Moreover, the clones around An Xiu did follow him voluntarily, and the reason for calling themselves Onmyoji before was to appease the villagers to a certain extent.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the judgment made by the middle-aged monk at the moment.

Seeing that An Xiu confirmed his words, the middle-aged monk realized that his judgment was not wrong and continued to speak.

"I don't know what the relationship is between Mr. An Xiu and that monster, but I still have a piece of advice to tell you."

"No matter what, monsters should not be trusted, and often the more powerful the monster, the more cunning it is."

Monsters are not worthy of trust. This sentence is not a problem in this era where monsters are everywhere and eat people. After all, without God's perspective, a person cannot judge whether the monster he encounters is good or bad.

There is a bit of a problem with the saying that the more powerful a monster is, the more cunning it is, but not much. Excluding those with special personalities, under normal circumstances, the stronger the monster, the more intelligent it is.

The middle-aged monk had seen a little bit of Yae Kasumi's strength before. Not to mention instantly killing a group of monsters that attacked the village, the wisp of monster energy emitted when he attacked was enough to make the middle-aged monk feel terrified.

Without knowing An Xiu's abilities and the existence of the system, from the opponent's perspective, such a powerful monster follows An Xiu, an ordinary person, and is willing to obey the orders of An Xiu, an ordinary person. Is it possible that it has no purpose?

Although the middle-aged monk could not tell the specific purpose of the other party, this did not prevent him from thinking that this situation was abnormal. It was just that because he was not a party involved, he was not aware of what was wrong.

This is why the middle-aged monk specifically told An Xiu about this matter and gave An Xiu advice.

It's a pity that the middle-aged monk didn't know that he and An Xiu were not on the same channel from the beginning, so such advice was destined to be in vain.

After a brief chat, An Xiu sent the middle-aged monk away, and then came to the leading monster who was the only one to survive among the previous monsters, and whose limbs were penetrated by Yae Kasumi's kunai and deprived of the ability to move.

The scene next to An Xiu also fluctuated, and the figures of Yae Kasumi and Meli appeared on both sides of An Xiu.

Yes, whether it was Meli who disappeared after entering the village before, or Yae Kasumi who suddenly appeared and then disappeared in front of the villagers after being ordered by An Xiu, in fact, he never left An Xiu's side and only used some means to hide his figure.

Among them, Meli naturally relies on his own illusions to hide his figure. As a master of illusions, it is not difficult for Meli to make himself disappear from the perception and sight of others.

Yae Kasumi, in essence, also relies on illusion, but it does not rely on the illusion of Meli, but the effect of Hell Path in its own ability called [Six Paths of Heresy].

Six Paths of Heresy, as the name suggests, has six different abilities. In the Honkai Impact 3rd event story Kasumi Hidden Flower Scroll, Yae Kasumi itself has collected all the abilities mastered by the curse seal at the end, which are Hell Path that uses the soul., Animal Path who contracts monsters, Human Path who controls people's hearts, Asura Path who liberates power, Heavenly Path who is immortal (anti-sensitivity) and immortal, and Hungry Ghost Path who swallows everything.

The ability of Hell Path can be summarized simply as the degraded version of Divine Key o Yu Duchen. By using the ability of Hell Path, Yae Kasumi can interfere with consciousness and soul to a certain extent.

It was precisely with this ability that Yae Kasumi had previously copied Meli's operation and made himself disappear from the sight of the villagers, but now, there is obviously no need to do so.

Looking at the leading monster lying on the ground in front of him, Yae Kasumi used Six Paths of Heresy again, using the power of Human Path, and then spoke to him.

"Next, you must answer all our questions truthfully."