Bai Cangshu refused to believe it and groped around the Fox Divine Envoy's spirit body again. In the end, however, he could not touch the spirit body itself at all.
His actions changed the expressions of both the white-haired old priest above the torii-lined path and the Fox Divine Envoy.
They could sense that Bai Cangshu held no reverence whatsoever for this solemn shrine, or even for Inari Ōkami himself.
Watching this, the professor's breathing tightened, and his body instinctively shrank back. He felt that if things went wrong, he ought to run immediately.
The professor was one of The Chosen. Every Chosen possessed a special ability related to the authority of space, and that ability was often the first ability acquired after entering Reincarnation Space.
The professor's first ability was called Crystal Divination. It had originally been a low-level ability barely above a parlor trick, with extremely poor accuracy and the restriction that he had to use a crystal ball.
But after he studied it, the ability mutated. The D-rank Crystal Divination became the B-rank Crystal Revelation.
He only needed to consume a crystal of any quality to receive a certain "revelation."
Such "revelations" were sometimes warnings of danger, sometimes a special kind of Spiritual Perception, and sometimes highly secret information.
The professor guessed that his sensitivity toward the plot and his talent for uncovering hidden events might be manifestations of this Chosen ability.
After becoming a reincarnator, the essence of being Chosen began to take tangible form through the abilities he acquired.
At this moment, the reason he had appeared before Kyoto's largest shrine was because, after consuming an exceptionally high-quality blue crystal, he had received a revelation related to the shrines in Kyoto that had declined due to Kibutsuji Muzan's changes.
He believed he had figured out