Seven Days to Kyoto-Whoever Blocks the Way Dies! The Iron Tower Two-Shaku Undergoes a Huge Change! On the Second Day, the Mountain Hag Appears in the World!

1560, the third year of Eiroku, January 21.

Deep winter.

Four in the afternoon.

Several hours earlier, Imagawa Yoshimoto, head of the Imagawa Clan in Suruga Province, had announced his March to Kyoto and invited the world to witness it.

Not long afterward, the moment the skull from the Demon Guiding Society equated stopping Imagawa's March to Kyoto with resources capable of nurturing three Ghost God levels, the air in the Ancient Clan Alliance's conference room instantly fell silent.

Then came a wordless eruption!

Nearly everyone turned toward the shriveled, withered monk who had appeared after the black-smoke skull dispersed—Daruma!

Resources capable of nurturing Ghost God levels—and three of them at that!

The Demon Guiding Society's [bounty] was truly generous, and far too tempting.

Everyone knew that unless they used the foundations accumulated by generation after generation since ancient times, given the current state of the world, even the Onmyoji families in the alliance would find it difficult to nurture a single genuine Ghost God.

Ghost God—what exactly was a Ghost God?

A being that had surpassed the mortal class, resembling a ghost yet nearing godhood.

Following the normal timeline, it would take at least ten or twenty years for a naturally cultivated Ghost God level with exceptional talent to be born.

Now, as long as they completed the Demon Guiding Society's bounty, they could obtain multiple Ghost God levels within a few years.

Just imagine it. If, at the opening of this great age, a clan could gain three relatively normal Ghost Gods, how far ahead of everyone else could it get?

Moreover, even without the bounty, the Demon Guiding Society's objective was still the same as that of these Ancient Clans.

—No matter what, they could not let Imagawa Yoshimoto March to Kyoto this early and show signs