One-Star Card Pool, Ten Consecutive Draws!

[Berserk: The more severe your injuries, the more your physique will grow and the faster your wounds will heal.]

A simple description, wonderful strength!

As for why the strength was wonderful...

Uesugi Tetsu merely made a thumb-thick gash on his arm with Kaga Kiyomitsu and discovered his physique had jumped from twenty-nine to a full thirty.

He didn't dare to imagine how much his physique would grow if he were crippled—in any case, he expected it to be around 10 points or more.

Besides this, Uesugi Tetsu now only needed to circulate his Ki-ai Technique slightly to compress the qi within his body to its limit and amplify the sensation, even before transforming into Laughing Brahma.

This couldn't help but make him sigh—humans truly do have limits.

While adapting to the surging power within his body, Uesugi Tetsu continued to read with a pleasant mood.

[As your Demon Incarnation - Laughing Brahma has reached one star, one-star limited salvage is now open!]

[One-Star Limited Salvage: Dilapidated Shrine!]

The instant this prompt appeared, Uesugi Tetsu could see the phantom image of a desolate and dilapidated shrine situated behind the title text, replacing the original bamboo forest as the new gacha pool.

Huh... why does this shrine look a little familiar?

Uesugi Tetsu leaned in for a good while, and upon seeing the two stone carvings of Three-tailed Foxes at the entrance, he confirmed his guess.

This was the dilapidated shrine in Edo Castle he had visited not long ago!

But what was the connection?

Uesugi Tetsu couldn't figure it out for the moment and had to bury the doubt in his heart.

[Each salvage costs 50 Soul Ash.]

[The first ten consecutive salvages only cost 70%!]

After the two lines of prompts disappeared, many semi-transparent phantoms appeared within the originally desolate shrine.

The largest among them was a phantom wearing a fox mask and holding a folding fan, standing at the center of the pool. However, due to the mask, Uesugi Tetsu couldn't discern what kind of demon it was.

He tried to click on the phantom with his mind.

[Three-tailed Fox]

[Rarity: Rare]

The prompt immediately popped up above the phantom's head, making Uesugi Tetsu both surprised and a little speechless.

He was surprised that he could know how many good items were left in the pool that he hadn't drawn yet.

But what did it mean for the prompt to only show half the information?

Was it trying to tease him?

Next, he tried clicking on the items worn by the Three-tailed Fox and found that each was an Excellent or Rare grade item, looking exceptionally tempting.

But they just wouldn't tell him their specific effects and attributes.

Uesugi Tetsu narrowed his eyes and snorted—it's only a mere 350 Soul Ash, watch as I, your daddy, use a lot of Soul Ash to thoroughly drain this little pool!

Without any hesitation, Uesugi Tetsu directly clicked heavily on the ominous black [Salvage Ten Times] with his mind.

--Ten consecutive pulls, activate!

Rumble... rumble rumble...

Along with the disappearance of a full three hundred and fifty Soul Ash, the previously quiet and deserted dilapidated shrine gradually began to shake.

Damp moss rapidly receded, dust and debris were swept away by a strong wind, and the messy branches on both sides seemed to have been neatly trimmed as if freshly pruned.

In almost an instant, the shrine took on a brand new appearance.

Uesugi Tetsu thought the gacha animation was quite well done, with all the details.

Then, under his gaze, the two fox stone carvings at the entrance actually lit up, came to life, ran into the shrine, and then carried items out of the shrine one by one.

Soon, ten items of various colors were placed outside the shrine. Unfortunately, this ten-pull did not yield the demon Three-tailed Fox.

As the shrine slowly returned to its original appearance, Uesugi Tetsu looked at the familiar yet strange array of items.

[Soul Soothing Incense Ash (Minute)] ×3, [Soul Soothing Incense Ash (Small)] ×3, [Soul Soothing Incense Ash (Medium)].

[Calming Charm], [Blessed Folding Fan], [Scroll of Spellcasting (Fragment)].

Seven of them were the familiar Soul Soothing Incense Ash, but this time it was no longer a pile of white light just to fill the numbers.

Because among them, the Soul Soothing Incense Ash labeled "Small" was emitting a faint green light, and the [Soul Soothing Incense Ash (Medium)] was emitting a strong green light.

Clicking on the panel, he could see its description—

[Soul Soothing Incense Ash (Medium)]

[Rarity: Super Excellent]

[Effect: One of the necessary materials to upgrade from two stars to three stars.]

So, Soul Soothing Incense Ash (Small) was the necessary material to upgrade from one star to two stars.

Uesugi Tetsu glanced at the upgrade conditions for Laughing Brahma and found that the requirements were slightly different from before.

[Required for Upgrade: Soul Soothing Incense Ash (0/50)]

[Estimated time to upgrade: 168 hours (one week).]

The upgrade requirements hadn't become a crazy 10 portions of Soul Soothing Incense Ash (Small), but rather changed from a fixed amount to a progress bar.

He tried it out a bit and found that investing Soul Soothing Incense Ash (Small) was equivalent to 10 points of progress, while Soul Soothing Incense Ash (Trace) was only equivalent to 2 points of progress.

A rare, considerate design.

Uesugi Tetsu sighed.

However, the time required for the upgrade had also doubled. He wondered if there was any item that could speed this up.

Without overthinking it, Uesugi Tetsu looked at the remaining three items.

[Calming Charm]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect 1: Serenity. When wearing the Calming Charm, one's spirit will be subtly nourished.]

[Effect 2: Sense. When specters or demons appear nearby, the Calming Charm will grow slightly warm.]

[--A charm that has been enshrined in a shrine for a long time, possessing certain magical effects.]

It was an item that could allow ordinary people to detect demons, but for Uesugi Tetsu, who could already sense demonic auras and see stars above other demons' heads, it was hardly useful.

He'd give this charm to Ririko later.

Uesugi Tetsu thought, after all, Ririko was only skilled in swordsmanship and didn't have the many means of detecting demons and strange tales that an Onmyoji possessed.

Next was the main event—the folding fan held by the Three-tailed Fox, emitting a faint blue light.

[Blessed Folding Fan]

[Quality: Rare]

[Effect 1: Gentle Breeze. Consume Spiritual Power to accelerate a certain distance in a designated direction without chanting. The distance and speed of movement increase with the amount of Spiritual Power consumed. Can only be released once every thirty seconds.]

[Effect 2: Terrifying Heavenly Thunder. Consume Spiritual Power to unleash a bolt of heavenly thunder at a designated target without chanting. The power of the heavenly thunder increases with the amount of Spiritual Power consumed. Can only be released once every five minutes.]

[--A folding fan belonging to a shrine priest, once blessed by a worshipped deity.]

A good item.

Anyone who has played games knows how important the "casting animation" is. Many bosses have died due to slow casting animations.

The two skills alone, which could be cast instantly without chanting, were enough to justify the Rare quality of this folding fan.

Not to mention one was a movement skill and the other was a high-damage burst skill.

Unfortunately, this fan was likely a specialized weapon for spellcasting-type demons like the Three-tailed Fox. It was completely incompatible with his Brahma, which had only a meager 4 points in Spiritual Arts attributes.

Even though the weapon was good, it, along with the Priest's Robe, would have to be reserved for his future Three-tailed Fox incarnation.

Thinking this, Uesugi Tetsu sighed and looked at the last item—

[Scroll of Technique Refinement (Incomplete)]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Effect: Upon use, provides 100 proficiency points to a designated skill.]

He blinked, then looked at his Ki-ai Technique proficiency.

--[Incomplete Ki-ai Technique (Proficiency 201/300)].