Recaps

Uesugi Tetsu watched two Minamoto elders play Go and used a Go AI to help Minamoto Kiyohiro win, learning a technique for manipulating Spiritual Power in the process. After advising Minamoto Nao about discipline and training, Uesugi entered Everworld and completed his Demon Incarnation-tailed Fox upgrade.

• Uesugi Tetsu left the bamboo grove with Minamoto Shizuka and noticed two elders' Go moves subtly changing the Minamoto Clan's Spiritual Power.
• Uesugi Tetsu used a Go AI to guide Minamoto Kiyohiro through twenty-three moves, making the black-haired elder concede and gaining Imperial Spirit Technique proficiency.
• Minamoto Shizuka caught Minamoto Nao and Minamoto Yoshino spying, then sent them to escort Uesugi Tetsu to the guest room.
• Uesugi Tetsu told Minamoto Nao that the clan's restrictions made sense if he wanted to grow stronger, and warned him not to waste his advantages.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered Everworld with Spider-Cutter and Kaga Kiyomitsu, and his Four-tailed Fox upgrade completed as Demon Incarnation-tailed Fox.

Uesugi Tetsu’s Four-tailed Fox advanced into a Six-tailed Fox, greatly strengthening its disguise, spiritual power, and alluring appearance. After incarnating as the new fox demon, he faced Spider-Cutter’s demand for an explanation and a threat to cut him down.

• Uesugi Tetsu discovered a vast, unnaturally smooth rift valley beside Kisaragi Station and wondered what had caused it.
• Uesugi Tetsu examined the Six-tailed Fox’s enhanced talents and learned that Thousand Faces, Myriad Phenomena could fool ordinary entities of Five Stars or below.
• Uesugi Tetsu saw the Four-tailed Fox Jade Token become a Six-tailed Fox Jade Token, gaining stronger effects and a new bonus while he planned to visit the Karuta Factory.
• Uesugi Tetsu incarnated as a Six-tailed Fox and tested its powerful spiritual presence and captivating appearance.
• Spider-Cutter addressed Uesugi Tetsu as Lord Uesugi, then threatened to cut him down unless he gave a convincing explanation.

Uesugi Tetsu convinced Qing that his demonic forms were only sources of power used by an Onmyoji, then revealed he was a Walker to explain his arrival in Everworld. At Hanafuda Market, Hoshikuma Doji wagered that Uesugi would go home with her if he lost their karuta match, while he secretly prepared a card that guaranteed victory.

• Uesugi Tetsu transformed into a Six-tailed Fox, Red Brahma, and Hundred-Eyed Demon to persuade Qing that his appearances and demonic aura were part of his Onmyoji powers.
• Uesugi Tetsu showed Qing the Walker Arrow, and Qing assumed it explained how he could travel freely through Everworld.
• Uesugi Tetsu covered Spider-Cutter and entered the Karuta Factory, then reached Hanafuda Market and proceeded to the fourth round of the Grand Karuta Tournament.
• Qing recognized Hoshikuma Doji and reacted with murderous intent, but Uesugi Tetsu told him she was only an illusion.
• Hoshikuma Doji proposed that Uesugi Tetsu come home with her if he lost their karuta match, and Uesugi agreed while secretly preparing a card that guaranteed victory.

Uesugi Tetsu defeated Hoshikuma Doji in ten more karuta matches, winning their challenge 11:0 and claiming the Mask of Wrathful Brahma along with several jars of wine. He left to attend the final round of the Grand Karuta Tournament, where he found a familiar figure waiting behind the door.

• Uesugi Tetsu beat Hoshikuma Doji in ten consecutive karuta matches, and she asked him how he had won so decisively.
• Hoshikuma offered dozens of jars of aged wine and the Mask of Wrathful Brahma as her wager, explaining that she had taken it from a Great Aragami at Mount Oe.
• Uesugi Tetsu examined the mask, recognized it as Super Epic+ equipment tied to his Red Brahma incarnation, and accepted it.
• Uesugi Tetsu collected several jars of wine, declined Hoshikuma's invitation to stay, and left her room.
• The fox-masked attendant congratulated Uesugi Tetsu on winning the fourth round and escorted him to the final-round venue, where he saw a familiar figure behind the opened door.

Uesugi Tetsu defeated Karuta in the Grand Karuta Tournament, learned she was an abandoned failed creation, and claimed Karuta’s Edict. As Hanafuda Market collapsed, he formed a temporary contract with her, but Factory Master Z appeared and declared Karuta’s residual image would live while the Six-tailed Fox would die.

• Uesugi Tetsu entered the hall and challenged the fox-masked woman to a best-of-five karuta match after she promised answers if he defeated her.
• Uesugi Tetsu won three consecutive karuta matches, and the fox-masked woman removed her mask and revealed herself as Karuta’s Afterimage.
• Karuta told Uesugi Tetsu that the Factory Masters had abandoned her as a failed creation and presented him with Karuta’s Edict as the tournament’s first-place prize.
• As the hall began collapsing, Uesugi Tetsu invited Karuta to join him and established a temporary contract with her using the Universal Possession Item.
• Factory Master Z appeared through the shattered ceiling and declared, “Karuta’s residual image—live” and “Six-tailed Fox—die.”

Uesugi Tetsu had Qing unseal Spider-Cutter to strike down Factory Master Z’s eye, then returned from Everworld alive and brought Karuta to the mortal world. He offered Karuta freedom or a place as his Shikigami, while the Black-Skinned Book warned him not to let her take possession of it.

• Factory Master Z restrained Karuta and called her a tool, leaving her shaken as Uesugi Tetsu prepared to act.
• Uesugi Tetsu told Qing to unseal Spider-Cutter, and Qing split Factory Master Z’s eye in two before it could finish speaking.
• Uesugi Tetsu used the Universal Possession Item to bring Karuta back, then disintegrated from the unsealing’s backlash; Koga and Qing followed him to the mortal world, where he revived unharmed.
• Uesugi Tetsu explained to Karuta that their temporary contract would end in a week and offered to make her independent or take her on as his Shikigami; Karuta said she wanted to serve him for life.
• Uesugi Tetsu left Two-Shaku-Sama to teach Karuta and Qing about the present era, then found the Black-Skinned Book warning him not to let Karuta take it.

Uesugi Tetsu decided to make Karuta keep the Black Book as a notebook and was surprised by how quickly the Heavenly Path Trial had progressed. At a Minamoto Clan gathering, Qing’s response to an old acquaintance made the elders realize Uesugi’s bond with Spider-Cutter was unlike that of its past owners.

• Uesugi Tetsu rejected the Black Book’s advice, decided Karuta should keep it, and put the book away.
• Uesugi Tetsu spent more than 1,700 Soul Soothing Incense Ash to begin the Six-tailed Fox’s advancement, then saw the Heavenly Path Trial progress rise from 0.13% to 5.41%.
• Minamoto Shizuka told Uesugi Tetsu that a Minamoto Clan elder wanted to speak with him, and Uesugi brought Qing along.
• Uesugi Tetsu met Minamoto Kiyohiro, Minamoto Kiyomasa, and other elders in a reception room at the clan residence.
• An elderly Minamoto Clan member greeted Qing as an old friend, and Qing replied only after Uesugi Tetsu prompted him.
• The Minamoto Clan elders watched Uesugi Tetsu closely and realized he was a different kind of owner for Spider-Cutter.

Uesugi Tetsu left the Minamoto Clan’s reception room after learning that he should be cautious when meeting the Sword Saint, then entered Everworld to use the Mask of Wrathful Brahma on Red Brahma. The mask triggered an evolution choice, leaving him to decide between a Super Epic path and a Legendary path.

• Blue showed that she willingly regarded Uesugi Tetsu as her lord, prompting the Minamoto elders to reassess their relationship.
• Minamoto Kiyohiro advised Uesugi Tetsu to say as little as possible when he met the Sword Saint because the Sword Saint liked geniuses.
• Uesugi Tetsu declined Minamoto Shizuka’s invitation to train and said he might visit Fushimi Inari Shrine before leaving Kyoto.
• Uesugi Tetsu returned to his guest room, where Karuta studied modern knowledge with Two-Shaku-Sama, then entered Everworld.
• Uesugi Tetsu transformed into Red Brahma and used the Mask of Wrathful Brahma, which offered him two evolution paths.

Uesugi Tetsu chose a legendary evolution route for Red Brahma that required him to gather resentment and jealousy, and the jealousy mask began filling quickly after his Seed Battle victory. He then contacted Nanjō Emi, whose promotion and voice messages revealed that Hokkaido’s demons and supernatural phenomena were running rampant while she dealt with them herself.

• Uesugi Tetsu chose the Red, White, Laughing evolution route, receiving masks that filled through resentment and jealousy instead of requiring him to hunt rare Brahmas.
• Uesugi Tetsu saw the jealousy mask’s progress rise rapidly, likely because millions of people envied him after his undefeated Seed Battle victory and Ririko’s public claim over him.
• Uesugi Tetsu added a trip to the Warring States era to his plans so he could provoke enough resentment to fill the other mask, and the Wrathful Brahma Mask strengthened his talents and increased his Constitution by five.
• Uesugi Tetsu returned to the Minamoto Clan residence and learned that Nanjō Emi had become an Onmyo Great Administrator and was working in Hokkaido.
• Nanjō Emi told Uesugi Tetsu that demons and supernatural phenomena were rampant in Hokkaido, then claimed she was merely practicing sword strokes as splattering sounds came through her voice message.

Nanjō Emi carried out a purge of Hokkaido’s corrupt officials and supernatural collaborators while discussing the aftermath with Uesugi Tetsu, who learned that Hokkaido would be important to his future. After arranging positions there and deciding not to visit Fushimi Inari Shrine yet, Uesugi continued training with the Minamoto Clan until the day he was to meet the Sword Saint, with the Mask of Jealous Brahma completed.

• Nanjō Emi told Uesugi Tetsu that she was executing Hokkaido’s corrupt officials and described how local authorities had colluded with supernatural entities, causing more than five hundred thousand confirmed deaths.
• Uesugi Tetsu asked the Black Book whether Hokkaido would matter to him, and it prophesied that the region would be a crucial point in his future.
• Uesugi Tetsu asked Nanjō Emi to arrange several honorary and official positions for him in Hokkaido, and she agreed.
• Nanjō Emi answered Uesugi Tetsu’s question about Fushimi Inari Shrine through her hidden Line account, advising him that a visit would likely yield little unless he went only to sightsee or draw a fortune slip.
• Uesugi Tetsu trained with the Minamoto Clan for two days, then prepared to meet the Sword Saint as Minamoto Shizuka came to escort him; the Mask of Jealous Brahma had been completed.

Uesugi Tetsu traveled with Minamoto Shizuka to meet the Sword Saint, while considering how to have his Mask of Jealousy forged and reviewing his cultivation gains. The pair arrived at the Nine-Layered Heavenly Keep and saw the Cloud Pavilion, as Factory Master Z ordered an investigation into Spider-Cutter.

• Uesugi Tetsu examined the Mask of Jealousy prototype and asked Minamoto Shizuka whether the Minamoto Clan knew any master blacksmiths.
• Minamoto Shizuka advised Uesugi Tetsu to meet the Sword Saint alone and warned him not to speak carelessly about that person.
• During the drive, Uesugi Tetsu reviewed his gains in cultivation, breathing techniques, and swordsmanship.
• Factory Master Z failed to restore his lost right eyeball and ordered his subordinates to investigate the Six-tailed Fox and Spider-Cutter.
• Uesugi Tetsu and Minamoto Shizuka arrived at the residence of the Sword Saints, where they saw the Cloud Pavilion above the mist.

Uesugi Tetsu entered the Nine-Layered Heavenly Keep and met Miyamoto Musashi, who led him to the current Sword Saint. After the Sword Saint examined him and tested his sword technique, he plunged Uesugi Tetsu into an experience of centuries of cultivation and combat, leaving him to awaken before Miyamoto amid a flood of notifications.

• Uesugi Tetsu crossed the impossible stairway and encountered a powerful, disheveled swordsman inside the Nine-Layered Heavenly Keep.
• Qing identified the swordsman as the long-dead Miyamoto Musashi, who said he was taking Uesugi Tetsu to meet the current Sword Saint.
• Miyamoto Musashi led Uesugi Tetsu to the Sword Saint's residence, where Uesugi stopped nine steps from the curtain under a deadly premonition.
• The Sword Saint inspected Uesugi Tetsu and Qing, read their hidden abilities, and learned that Uesugi had cultivated for just over two months.
• Uesugi Tetsu demonstrated Tennen Rishin-ryū's Unknowing Sword, and the Sword Saint judged it barely acceptable before sending him into an experience of endless cultivation and slaughter.
• Uesugi Tetsu awoke before Miyamoto Musashi after experiencing what felt like centuries and saw countless notifications filling his view.

Uesugi Tetsu returned from a thousand-year phantom dream after only five minutes, with his sword abilities greatly strengthened and new techniques unlocked. Meanwhile, Okabe Motonobu arrived at Uesugi Tetsu’s Tokyo villa demanding to speak with her alone.

• Uesugi Tetsu realized that his dream had raised Sword Skill and Sword Principles to 49%, granted him Unknowing Sword: Void and Samurai Rain, and advanced several other abilities.
• Uesugi Tetsu found that only five minutes had passed, then left Cloud Pavilion with Minamoto Shizuka and asked to go to Fushimi Inari Shrine.
• At Uesugi Tetsu’s villa, Chisa practiced sword swings with Ririko watching and correcting her.
• Okabe Motonobu arrived at the villa and told Ririko that he had something important to tell Uesugi Tetsu alone.

Ririko confronted Okabe Motonobu, who insisted on waiting at the dojo to speak with Uesugi Tetsu. On the way to Fushimi Inari Shrine, Uesugi Tetsu heard updates about Hokkaido’s cleanup and entered the shrine after revealing his six-tailed fox identity to its guards.

• Okabe Motonobu told Ririko that she had seen her claim Uesugi Tetsu during the Seed Battle and said she would wait for him to return.
• Ririko warned Okabe Motonobu not to target Chisa, then let her into the dojo, where Okabe insisted on staying until she could speak with Uesugi Tetsu.
• In the MPV, Uesugi Tetsu discussed the Sword Saint’s overwhelming power with Minamoto Shizuka, Two-Shaku-Sama, Koga, Qing, and Karuta.
• Nanjō Emi called Uesugi Tetsu to thank him for sending help to Hokkaido and reported that most monsters and supernatural phenomena there had been cleared.
• Uesugi Tetsu arrived at Fushimi Inari Shrine, revealed six tails to its wary fox guards, and entered with Minamoto Shizuka.

Uesugi Tetsu visited Fushimi Inari Shrine with Minamoto Shizuka, Karuta, and Two-Shaku-Sama, then learned that an unusually large Festival of the Evening Shrine was being prepared. After Granny Fukuda examined him, she warned that the wish he sought probably could not be granted at the Grand Shrine.

• Uesugi Tetsu crossed into Fushimi Inari Shrine's divine domain and gave soul crystals to the spectral fox guardians.
• Uesugi Tetsu, Two-Shaku-Sama, and Karuta washed their hands and prayed, while Koga wished for Uesugi Tetsu's safety and happiness.
• Uesugi Tetsu learned from a young Miko that the Festival of the Evening Shrine would welcome Inari's arrival and that eighteen thousand lanterns were being prepared.
• Uesugi Tetsu agreed to wait for the festival with Minamoto Shizuka, and Granny Fukuda warned him that the Grand Shrine probably could not grant what he sought.

Uesugi Tetsu studied how worshippers generated faith at Fushimi Inari Shrine, then watched the Evening Shrine Festival reveal powerful fox messengers and two Great Aragami. As he left, a vast Will briefly noticed him, and a four-tailed fox pendant appeared at his feet.

• Uesugi Tetsu bought protective charms and fox statues for Ririko and Chisa, while Two-Shaku-Sama chose a fox statue and Karuta received a Peace Charm.
• Uesugi Tetsu observed worshippers and taught Karuta his findings about how devotion, clear objects of faith, fulfilled vows, and possibly vitality affected the power of faith.
• Uesugi Tetsu and Two-Shaku-Sama explored the shrine, and he planned ways to gather faith for Two-Shaku's future shrine.
• At the Evening Shrine Festival, fox messengers appeared in increasing numbers, and Uesugi Tetsu recognized two masked Eight-tailed Foxes as Great Aragami.
• After the festival ended, Uesugi Tetsu hung the Walker Arrow at his waist, sensed a vast Will briefly pause upon him, and found a golden-eyed four-tailed fox pendant at his feet.

Uesugi Tetsu picked up a Legendary Heavenly Fox Pendant and used it to speak with the Six-Star True God Heavenly Fox, who asked him to help someone if he encountered them. After learning what following him could entail, Karuta chose to remain at his side and face the dangers ahead.

• Uesugi Tetsu found that only he could see the Heavenly Fox Pendant and picked it up as he left Fushimi Inari Shrine.
• Uesugi Tetsu used the pendant to meet the Heavenly Fox, who recognized him as a Walker, asked about Magatsu, and offered him a favor if he helped someone he might encounter.
• Uesugi Tetsu returned to his body, explained the meeting to Karuta, and heard Aoi warn that the Heavenly Fox was beyond their ability to restrain.
• Uesugi Tetsu told Karuta that traveling with him could expose her to terrifying gods and other dangers, while leaving him would likely let her live in peace.
• Karuta chose to go with Uesugi Tetsu and become one of the people who could help hold up the sky.

Uesugi Tetsu used the Imperial Spirit Technique to contract with Karuta, a Three-and-a-Half-Star God of Possibility, and learned about her powerful fate and divination talents. The chapter ended when Ririko put Okabe Motonobu on the phone, and Okabe told Tetsu who she was.

• Karuta voluntarily offered to become Uesugi Tetsu's Shikigami, and he used the Imperial Spirit Technique to form a contract despite their vast rank difference.
• Uesugi Tetsu saw that Karuta had Legendary-minus quality, a six-and-a-half-star rank limit, and the talents Darling of Fate and Perceive Possibilities.
• The contract's Spiritual Power strengthened Karuta until all four of her attributes reached at least the average for a Two-Star Demon.
• Karuta awoke, welcomed her bond with Uesugi Tetsu, and joined the heartstring web connecting him with his other Shikigami.
• At Tetsu's Tokyo villa, Ririko agreed to let Okabe Motonobu speak to him after Okabe insisted her message was vital to his life.
• Ririko called Tetsu, and Okabe introduced herself by saying, "Tetsu, this is Okabe Motonobu."

Uesugi Tetsu learned that Okabe Motonobu had come from Everworld and waited at his home, so he hurried back after testing his newly acquired abilities. The chapter ended with Okabe accusing him of abandoning their lord without explanation.

• Uesugi Tetsu told Ririko to keep Okabe Motonobu at the villa until he returned, and Ririko confirmed Okabe was not a god-level threat.
• Ririko learned that Okabe Motonobu was a Warring States general who had used the alias Ogasawara Nobumoto.
• Uesugi Tetsu used Karuta and the Black-Skinned Book to confirm that Okabe was genuine and had come from Everworld.
• Uesugi Tetsu tested his sword skills and abilities in Everworld before returning to Tokyo with Karuta and Two-Shaku-Sama.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered the dojo and met Okabe Motonobu, who demanded to know why he had abandoned their lord without a word.

Okabe Motonobu confronted Uesugi Tetsu over his disappearance and the suffering Lord Yoshimoto endured, but he explained that he was a modern-day Walker who had traveled into the Warring States period. After hearing his account and his promise to change the past, Okabe chose to believe him again and agreed to tell him what had happened.

• Okabe Motonobu accused Uesugi Tetsu of vanishing while Lord Yoshimoto was cursed, fell gravely ill, and nearly turned to ash in Everworld.
• Uesugi Tetsu revealed that he was born in the modern era and used the Walker Arrow to travel back to the Warring States period; Qing confirmed that he was a Walker.
• Uesugi Tetsu explained that he had visited the past twice, met Lord Yoshimoto, helped resolve the Mikawa problem, and left when the Great Revival forced him away.
• Uesugi Tetsu told Okabe Motonobu he could return to the past and try to change what had happened, then asked her to explain everything after his departure.
• Okabe Motonobu believed Uesugi Tetsu for the last time and agreed to tell him what had happened.

Okabe Motonobu recounted how the Hozuki Clan cursed Imagawa Yoshimoto and how Yoshimoto’s health mysteriously declined as the Imagawa Clan fell. Uesugi Tetsu resolved to investigate the hidden causes and find a way to save Yoshimoto, while Ririko teased him about his connection to the famous female ghost daimyo.

• Okabe Motonobu explained that the Imagawa Clan prospered after the world’s revival, partly because Uesugi Tetsu’s reputation frightened the Hozuki Clan.
• Okabe Motonobu recounted that the Hozuki Clan cursed Imagawa Yoshimoto after realizing Uesugi Tetsu was gone, and the Imagawa forces raided their stronghold to obtain a way to lift the curse.
• Okabe Motonobu described how Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Xuezhai died after mysterious illnesses as the Imagawa Clan lost its strength and territory.
• Uesugi Tetsu identified the Hozuki Clan and Yoshimoto’s illness as mysteries to investigate, and considered medicines, experts, and connections that might help save her.
• Uesugi Tetsu promised to return and do everything he could for Yoshimoto, while Okabe Motonobu warned that she might become his enemy if he failed.
• Uesugi Tetsu asked Karuta to question the Black Book about Yoshimoto’s illness, and Ririko teased him about his connection to the female ghost daimyo.

Uesugi Tetsu explained to Ririko why he had allied with Imagawa Yoshimoto in the Sengoku period and why he had to change history carefully. A backlash from the Black Book revealed that the Eight Sufferings’ dying curse had struck Imagawa Yoshimoto, leaving Uesugi Tetsu furious.

• Uesugi Tetsu drew Ririko, Karuta, and Qing into his qi sea and explained how a person's standing could make powerful beings sense information about them.
• Uesugi Tetsu said he had sought out Imagawa Yoshimoto to influence history without causing major changes, while Ririko guessed he was raising a future empress and clinging to her coattails.
• Uesugi Tetsu revealed that he and Imagawa Yoshimoto had exorcised an Eight Sufferings Incarnation in the past, and Qing and Ririko recognized their bond as that of comrades-in-arms.
• The Black Book convulsed as black slime corrupted its pages, but Lord Magatsu's contingency devoured the backlash and the book began to recover.
• Uesugi Tetsu recognized the slime as the Eight Sufferings' aura and realized its dying curse had fallen on Imagawa Yoshimoto instead of him.

Uesugi Tetsu identified Imagawa Yoshimoto’s illness as connected to the Suffering of Illness and sought help developing a cure. After Ririko proposed a difficult Sword Heart solution, Uesugi Tetsu planned his next steps and devised a way for Two-Shaku-Sama to establish a religion in Everworld; Chisa then saw his extraordinary golden-legend label.

• Uesugi Tetsu used the Black Book to absorb the Suffering of Illness’s aura, and Ao confirmed it belonged to the Eight Sufferings.
• Uesugi Tetsu called nineteen gods and spirits to seek a cure for Imagawa Yoshimoto, and fourteen agreed to investigate using Yaobikuni’s blood.
• Ririko explained that a Sword Heart capable of reaching the Other Shore could identify and resolve the illness, though Uesugi Tetsu doubted Imagawa Yoshimoto could achieve one.
• Uesugi Tetsu decided to spend a week or two preparing before returning, while planning to help Imagawa Yoshimoto contend for supremacy in Everworld.
• Uesugi Tetsu conceived a plan for Two-Shaku-Sama to found a religion, and Chisa saw a golden-legend label above him identifying him as her master and the great master of Hundred Eyes.

Uesugi Tetsu learned a basic Sword Domain Prototype from Ririko almost immediately and spent the following weeks training Chisa while investigating his mysterious curse. He eventually opened his seventy-second major aperture and completed both the Python Tendons and Jiao Tendons, bringing the Palace of Flesh close to completion.

• Chisa used the True Sight Eye to inspect Uesugi Tetsu and the others, then explained how its labels and unreadable information worked.
• Uesugi Tetsu sent the exhausted Chisa to sleep before asking Ririko to teach him about Sword Domains.
• Ririko explained Sword Domain Prototypes, and Uesugi Tetsu learned and formed a basic prototype within minutes, astonishing Aoi.
• Uesugi Tetsu visited Lord Magatsu about the unidentified curse, while Magatsu confirmed it could not be brought back to the past for investigation.
• Chisa officially became Uesugi Tetsu's disciple and trained with him, Ririko, and the Sword Saint Kamizumi's phantom.
• Uesugi Tetsu opened his seventy-second major aperture and completed the Python Tendons and Jiao Tendons, nearing completion of the Palace of Flesh.

Uesugi Tetsu completed Flood Dragon Sinew and chose to delay forging his Palace of Flesh so he could pursue a stronger Palace of Flesh · Treasury of Kami. After training Chisa and arranging for Ririko to investigate a Ghost God-level anomaly in Hokkaido, he used the Key of History to return to the Warring States period.

• Uesugi Tetsu opened the seventy-second Great Acupoint and completed Flood Dragon Sinew, expanding his qi sea and improving his cultivation.
• Uesugi Tetsu postponed forging the Palace of Flesh so he could complete all four ultimate forms and the Treasury of Kami before forging the combined Palace of Flesh · Treasury of Kami.
• Uesugi Tetsu used his qi and blood to teach Chisa the three basic stances and strengthen her body, then replaced her Hundred Eyes' True-Sight Eye with the All-Sight Eye.
• Shizuma Manatsu asked Uesugi Tetsu for help with an anomaly in Hokkaido that beings at Ghost God level or above could not enter, and Ririko agreed to investigate with Chisa.
• Uesugi Tetsu prepared supplies and equipment, then used the Key of History: Anchor to return to the point when he had used Key of History: Stasis.
• Uesugi Tetsu plunged into a deep sea as an eerie-black tide surged toward him.