Chapter Summaries

After recovering from his battle with Sickness and Suffering, Uesugi Tetsu reassured Imagawa Yoshimoto that he was not a demon, and she kissed him and claimed him as hers. He reviewed his rewards and growing resources, then reached Expert level in Tennen Rishin-ryū and was asked to choose between Sword Technique and Sword Principles.

• Uesugi Tetsu woke in Nishio Castle as the Imagawa Clan's forces began purging demons across Mikawa Province.
• Imagawa Yoshimoto asked Uesugi Tetsu if he was a demon, and he transformed into a Four-tailed Fox while explaining that the form was an outer manifestation of his Great Onmyō Art.
• Imagawa Yoshimoto accepted Uesugi Tetsu's answer, kissed him, and declared that he belonged to her; she then promised to handle matters outside while Nisha slept.
• Uesugi Tetsu inspected the Wish Power Crystal and Panacea, then found that he had accumulated 6,122 Soul Ash and 2,188 Soul Points.
• Uesugi Tetsu fed his compound-eye haul to Hundred-Eyed Demon, raising her quality progress to 80%.
• Uesugi Tetsu reached Expert level in Tennen Rishin-ryū, learned Unknowing Sword, and asked why he could not choose both Sword Technique and Sword Principles.

Uesugi Tetsu chose to pursue both Sword Technique and Sword Principle, discovering that his new understanding let him wield an invisible blade. After Kaga Kiyomitsu gained a plague-inflicting effect, Imagawa Yoshimoto brought him nine breathing-technique booklets, leaving him with material to study as he recovered.

• Uesugi Tetsu chose the Technique and Principle path for Tennen Rishin-ryū despite warnings that it would be much harder to master.
• Uesugi Tetsu discovered that his Sword Principle let him create an invisible, razor-sharp blade, then rested while Kaga Kiyomitsu continued evolving.
• Uesugi Tetsu woke to a meal prepared by Imagawa Yoshimoto and found that Kaga Kiyomitsu had gained Effect Eight: Plague Calamity after slaying the Eight Sufferings Incarnation.
• Uesugi Tetsu asked Kaga Kiyomitsu whether to strengthen its slashing ability or its intelligence, but it left the choice to him.
• Uesugi Tetsu watched the sky with Kaga Kiyomitsu until Imagawa Yoshimoto arrived and interrupted his contemplation.
• Imagawa Yoshimoto handed Uesugi Tetsu nine booklets containing the breathing techniques he had requested.

Uesugi Tetsu completed the Dragon’s Sinew form of his Corona Breathing Technique, enhanced Kaga Kiyomitsu’s Spirituality, and sensed that heaven and earth would revive in five days. He told Imagawa Yoshimoto about the coming changes, and they toasted to the new era.

• Uesugi Tetsu read the Imagawa clan’s breathing technique booklets, completed Dragon’s Sinew, and gained 141 proficiency in Corona Breathing Technique.
• Uesugi Tetsu spent 1,500 Soul Points enhancing Kaga Kiyomitsu’s Spirituality, and Kaga gained the ability to speak and control its effects.
• Uesugi Tetsu sensed that heaven and earth would revive in five days and gained 500 Imperial Spirit Technique proficiency by observing the changing world.
• Uesugi Tetsu told Imagawa Yoshimoto about Everworld and the coming revival, and asked her to tell the Mountain Whale King to go see Zashiki there.
• Imagawa Yoshimoto said she had obtained a basic Onmyōjutsu from a hidden Mikawa family and declared the coming era would belong to Onmyōji.
• Uesugi Tetsu and Imagawa Yoshimoto raised their tea cups to the times as Uesugi heard the arrival of a new era.

After the Mikawa Rebellion ended, Uesugi Tetsu received a save-point Key of History and an SS evaluation, then returned to the present just before the restoration of Heaven and Earth. His rewards included the Nine Syllable Mantra and a Super Epic fragment of the Ten-Span Sword, and Katsumi appeared when he summoned her.

• Uesugi Tetsu learned that the purge of Mikawa had ended and saw how Imagawa Yoshimoto’s orders had left Nishio Castle nearly empty.
• Uesugi Tetsu received Key of History: Stasis and Key of History: Anchor, then settled the Mikawa Rebellion mission with an SS evaluation.
• Uesugi Tetsu rode to Yoshida Castle, where he found Imagawa Yoshimoto and Matsudaira Motoyasu awaiting the imminent restoration of Heaven and Earth.
• Uesugi Tetsu asked Imagawa Yoshimoto to look for Five Elements treasures, then used Key of History: Stasis to return to the present on May 27, 2024.
• Uesugi Tetsu received the incomplete Nine Syllable Mantra Scroll and a Super Epic Fragment of the Ten-Span Sword, then summoned Katsumi with the White Woman’s Mask.

After discovering that history now recorded Imagawa Yoshimoto as dying of illness at Okehazama, Uesugi Tetsu returned home with Ririko and pondered what had changed since he left the Sengoku era. He then placed the Fragment of the Ten-Span Sword in his Void Qi Sea and faced the choice of making it the sea’s unique defining object.

• Uesugi Tetsu summoned Katsumi, arranged to sell several items, and asked him to bring materials of the five elements in a day.
• Uesugi Tetsu messaged Huijue about Two-Shaku-Sama’s contaminated cognition, then noticed his phone had run out of power and got off the train to borrow Ririko’s power bank.
• Uesugi Tetsu searched for Imagawa Yoshimoto and himself, finding that his own historical traces had vanished and that Imagawa Yoshimoto was recorded as having died of illness during the Battle of Okehazama.
• Ririko took Uesugi Tetsu home, where he sensed her sword domain and told her that Two-Shaku-Sama had encountered a problem.
• Uesugi Tetsu tested the Fragment of the Ten-Span Sword in his Void Qi Sea and received the option to make it the sea’s unique defining object.

Uesugi Tetsu integrated the Fragment of the Ten-Span Sword into his Qi Sea and learned the Lin Character Technique, then traded items with Katsumi in Everworld. He discovered Arakawa Village had been erased and his soul ash reserves were nearing ten thousand.

• Uesugi Tetsu chose the Fragment of the Ten-Span Sword as one of his Five-Element defining objects, expanding his Qi Sea while preserving the Brahma and Four-tailed Fox cards.
• Uesugi Tetsu poured Spiritual Power into the Nine Syllable Mantra scroll until it opened, learned the Lin Character Technique, and found its barriers used a limited number of charges rather than Qi Aura or Spiritual Power.
• Uesugi Tetsu ate Ririko's tonkotsu ramen and introduced her to the sentient Kaga Kiyomitsu before going to sleep.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered Everworld at Arakawa Village and found it gone, replaced by wasteland and a vastly expanded factory.
• Katsumi offered Uesugi Tetsu 1,800 portions of soul ash for several items and 3,000 for the Fine Steel Pestle, bringing his reserves close to ten thousand.

Uesugi Tetsu bought Ubume's Plumule from Katsumi and learned that a Factory Masters' outpost near Shizuoka Prefecture could provide the Factory Core he sought. After reuniting with his companions and meeting Nanjō Emi for a meal, he learned that the Everworld train was connected to the recently reappeared Kisaragi Station phenomenon.

• Uesugi Tetsu traded Soul Soothing Incense Ash with Katsumi and bought Ubume's Plumule as his second boundary item.
• Uesugi Tetsu learned that a nearby Logistics Sequence factory held a Factory Core and that the Factory Masters planned a landing in Shizuoka Prefecture.
• Uesugi Tetsu asked Katsumi to investigate how to resolve wish-power contamination and agreed to meet him again in half a month.
• Uesugi Tetsu found Ririko asleep while holding Kaga Kiyomitsu and took pictures as Kaga pleaded for help through their mental link.
• Nanjō Emi summoned Uesugi Tetsu and his companions to an expensive yakitori restaurant, where she brought up the train connected to Kisaragi Station.

Uesugi Tetsu agreed to travel to Shizuoka Prefecture for a Special Affairs Division assignment, learned the Scale of Technique and Principle from Ririko, and arranged a future spar with Yagyū Shion. He then returned to Edo Castle to seek the Nameless Swordsman and continue learning Tennen Rishin-ryū.

• Nanjō Emi warned Uesugi Tetsu to avoid trains and stations in Shizuoka Prefecture, then arranged for him to travel there alone for work.
• Ririko declined to join the trip, taught Uesugi Tetsu the Scale of Technique and Principle, and said she might enter the Tokyo Seed Battle if he wanted her to.
• Uesugi Tetsu learned that Ririko was more interested in pursuing her cultivation than competing against other fighters.
• Yagyū Shion contacted Uesugi Tetsu, briefed him on the Shizuoka assignment, and enthusiastically accepted his offer to spar after the work was done.
• Uesugi Tetsu returned to Edo Castle, where he faced two clusters of prairie fire and announced that he had come back.

Uesugi Tetsu learned the hidden form of the Unknowing Sword from the Nameless Swordsman and discovered a new effect of the Lin Character Technique. A helicopter then rushed him to Shizuoka Prefecture, where he prepared to support agents facing a demon-filled mountain forest.

• Uesugi Tetsu killed two Spirits of Congyuanhuo and avoided a confrontation with Jorōgumo on his way to the Nameless Swordsman's residence.
• The Nameless Swordsman taught Uesugi Tetsu the Unknowing Sword through repeated deaths, and Uesugi learned its Hidden stage after ninety-one attempts.
• The Nameless Swordsman told Uesugi to return as a world-renowned swordmaster, while Fangxiangshi watched from outside the courtyard and Uesugi left through the back door.
• Uesugi Tetsu raised his Lin Character Technique mastery to 5.011% and unlocked its second effect, which enhanced himself.
• A helicopter took Uesugi Tetsu to Shundong County in Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where he prepared to descend into a forest thick with resentment and demons.

Uesugi Tetsu arrived at the Shundong County Tunnel just as the Special Affairs Division agents were about to be overwhelmed, then used his newly learned techniques to destroy the demons. After the battle, he discovered that a stronger threat might remain deeper in the tunnel, while Tamamo worried about facing him in the Seed Battle.

• Yagyū Shion held the line against the demons while Tamamo protected the wounded agents and waited for Uesugi Tetsu.
• Uesugi Tetsu sent lightning into the demon horde, then used Kaga Kiyomitsu's pale domain to drive back the attackers and rescue Yagyū Shion and the others.
• Uesugi Tetsu activated the Lin Character Technique and wielded Kaga Kiyomitsu with astral energy, clearing the tunnel entrance of demons and gaining Soul Points.
• Uesugi Tetsu killed the Three-Eyed Oni with the Unknowing Sword and suspected more powerful demons lurked deeper in the tunnel.
• Tamamo marveled at Uesugi Tetsu's strength and worried that her team would have to face him in the Seed Battle.

Uesugi Tetsu learned that Tokyo planned an eastern regional Seed Battle, negotiated extra pay to help Shizuoka’s Special Affairs Division, and prepared to enter the haunted tunnel with Tamamo and Yagyū Shion. After Tamamo tested Yongming’s Headlamp and the team entered, Uesugi spotted a Five-Eyed Oni and ordered Koga to attack it.

• Tamamo explained that Tokyo planned to join neighboring prefectures for an eastern regional Seed Battle, and Uesugi Tetsu learned that the injured agents had called for medical aid.
• Tamamo described how the unstable wave had flooded the tunnel with monsters, and Uesugi agreed to enter only after negotiating extra pay.
• Uesugi checked his spoils, fed three Three-Eyed Oni eyeballs to the Hundred-Eyed Demon, and saw her progress rise from 80% to 83%.
• Uesugi gave Tamamo Yongming’s Headlamp, whose unusual light illuminated the darkness, and the Special Affairs Division’s medical team evacuated the injured agents.
• Uesugi entered the tunnel with Tamamo, Yagyū Shion, and the Koma-inu Hatamoto, then spotted a Five-Eyed Oni and ordered Koga to catch it.

Uesugi Tetsu helped Tamamo close a passage to Everworld after destroying a biological mech, glimpsed tens of thousands more mechs and a terrifying Ghost God-level eyeball, and tore off a fragment before escaping. After reporting the threat, he gave the fragment to Hundred-Eyed Demon, whose advancement began.

• Uesugi Tetsu used Kaga Kiyomitsu to cut two eyes from the Five-Eyed Oni, then recalled the sword instead of pursuing the fleeing demon.
• Uesugi Tetsu led Tamamo and Yagyū Shion through the tunnel, destroying demons as Tamamo used a formation disk to open a passage to Everworld.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered the passage, destroyed a biological mech, and saw tens of thousands of mechs approaching alongside a massive Ghost God-level eyeball.
• As Tamamo closed the passage, Uesugi Tetsu struck the eyeball with the Unknowing Sword and took a fragment before returning to the tunnel.
• Tamamo reported the Everworld factory and Ghost God-level threat to the authorities while Uesugi Tetsu and Yagyū Shion listened.
• Uesugi Tetsu gave the eyeball fragment to Hundred-Eyed Demon, filling its progress bar and beginning its advancement.

Uesugi Tetsu learned that a wager between the Yagyū dojo and the Hōjō Clan would decide whether the Hōjō Clan could attack the modern world before the Second Wave, and agreed to serve as the Yagyū side’s final fighter in exchange for Saionji teaching him the Yae Gaki footwork technique. After resting at the dojo, Uesugi strengthened Kaga Kiyomitsu’s Slashing Specialization, and the chapter ended as Koga completed the upgrade.

• Hundred-Eyed Demon entered a long advancement after Uesugi Tetsu used an eyeball fragment, and Tamamo explained that a Sengoku secret realm produced increasingly strong soldiers.
• Tamamo told Uesugi that the Special Affairs Division needed him to eliminate the Mokumokuren Labyrinth, and she arranged compensation that included a rare water-element material and separate reimbursement for the tunnel incident.
• Yagyū Shion brought Uesugi to the Yagyū dojo, where he met assistant master Saionji and learned that the supposed Warring States Secret Realm concealed a wager between the dojo and the Hōjō Clan.
• Saionji asked Uesugi to fight as the Yagyū side’s final participant and promised to teach him the modified Yae Gaki footwork technique before the match; Uesugi accepted.
• Uesugi spent 1,000 Soul Points to strengthen Kaga Kiyomitsu’s Slashing Specialization into Slashing Expert, then woke to find Koga had completed the upgrade.

Uesugi Tetsu traveled with Tamamo and Yagyū Shion to the Warring States secret realm in Hamamatsu, where Mr. Y began explaining its challenges. As Uesugi Tetsu arrived, the Hundred-Eyed Demon awakened in his Edo Castle summoning pool, and Mr. Y noticed something had happened.

• Uesugi Tetsu discovered that Kaga Kiyomitsu had gained the permanent Technique trait, raising his Sword Techniques comprehension from 1% to 3%.
• Tamamo helped Uesugi Tetsu install the Special Affairs Division app, where he found a golden Seed designation that let the group enter the secret realm without a pass.
• Tamamo, Uesugi Tetsu, and Yagyū Shion traveled to Hamamatsu in a Special Affairs Division car and approached the Sengoku Graveyard, where Uesugi Tetsu sensed an unusual gaze among the gathered experts.
• The group crossed into the secret realm’s safe zone and met Mr. Y, the director of the Countermeasures Office, who explained that the realm contained projections of powerful Warring States figures.
• The Hundred-Eyed Demon awakened in Uesugi Tetsu’s Edo Castle summoning pool, and Mr. Y noticed the disturbance before Uesugi Tetsu could check the notifications.

Uesugi Tetsu learned how the Warring States secret realm worked as Mr. Y publicized a Top 100 ranking, drawing young challengers to compete. After Hundred-Eyed Demon advanced to Epic+, she gifted Uesugi an eye that granted the Eye of Interpretation; Uesugi then entered the secret realm, where a quest appeared before him.

• Mr. Y explained the secret realm's challenge rules and revealed that it had been conquered through the thirty-ninth floor by Saito Ryuichi.
• Mr. Y created and promoted a Top 100 ranking, prompting agents to compete and conceal most of their names.
• Mr. Y offered Tamamo an invitation to join the Countermeasures Office, then departed and caused Uesugi Tetsu and Yagyū Shion to experience memory loss and nausea.
• Hundred-Eyed Demon reached Epic+ quality and gave Uesugi Tetsu her eye in exchange for one point of Soul Soothing Incense Ash.
• Uesugi Tetsu used the eye and gained the Eye of Interpretation, which sharpened his vision and slowed what he saw when activated.
• After Yagyū Shion reached the thirty-fourth floor and took fourth place, Uesugi Tetsu entered the secret realm, where a quest notification appeared.

Uesugi Tetsu rapidly cleared the Projection Secret Realm, gaining rewards and improving his Sword Principle as his anonymous ranking climbed to tie for first place. On the thirty-ninth floor, Great Otafuku recognized him as the Great Onmyoji Tetsu, leaving Uesugi Tetsu shaken and questioning how the projection could remember him.

• Uesugi Tetsu entered the forty-two-floor Projection Secret Realm, discovered that combat could improve his skills, and quickly defeated the first ten floors.
• Uesugi Tetsu chose a plain spear as his twentieth-floor reward and defeated Longzhong and the later projections while advancing.
• Uesugi Tetsu raised Sword Principle from one percent to two percent, then chose an Anchor as his thirtieth-floor reward.
• Mr. Y updated the Top 100 ranking in real time, and Anonymous Person No. 666 raced upward to tie with Saito Ryuichi for first place.
• Tamamo recognized Anonymous Person No. 666 as Uesugi Tetsu, while Minamoto Shizuka set out for Hamamatsu City after learning of the tied ranking.
• Great Otafuku recognized Uesugi Tetsu as the Great Onmyoji Tetsu, and Uesugi Tetsu asked whether it remembered him.

Uesugi Tetsu defeated Great Otafuku, then fought and discussed cultivation with his own Projection on the Fortieth Floor of the secret realm. After leaving, he told Yagyū Shion he had reached the Thirty-Seventh Floor, returned to the inn, and began reviewing his rewards while Minamoto Shizuka was expected to arrive soon.

• Great Otafuku recognized Uesugi Tetsu through Kaga Kiyomitsu, accepted that Uesugi Tetsu had killed it, and fought him again before Uesugi Tetsu defeated it without using Rage.
• Uesugi Tetsu survived the Fortieth Floor's opening attack and discovered that its opponent was a Projection of himself, then explained the secret realm and sparred with him before beheading him.
• The rankings and Special Affairs Division forum erupted over Anonymous Person No. 666, while Saito Ryuichi claimed the mysterious contestant had surpassed him and Shadow Woman suspected Saito had nearly cleared the Fortieth Floor.
• Uesugi Tetsu left the secret realm, told Yagyū Shion he had reached the Thirty-Seventh Floor, and returned to the inn before Minamoto Shizuka arrived.
• Uesugi Tetsu covered the sleeping Tamamo with a blanket, then went into the bathroom to inspect his battle notifications and rewards.

Uesugi Tetsu improved his sword skills and expanded his Qi Sea with the Anchor and Ubume’s Feather, gaining new attributes and a more lethal Five Thunder Technique. Minamoto Shizuka and Kyūkōin Jin reached the fortieth floor, while a manga artist watched Anonymous Person No. 666’s ranking beside a model of Kisaragi Station.

• Uesugi Tetsu discussed Tennen Rishin-ryū and Five Thunder Technique with his projection, increasing his sword understanding and skill proficiencies.
• Uesugi Tetsu examined the Ordinary Plain Spear and saw Minamoto Shizuka pass by his home.
• Uesugi Tetsu placed the Anchor in his Qi Sea, then suppressed Ubume’s Feather and gained physique, Spirit Arts, and fire resistance.
• Uesugi Tetsu noticed Kyūkōin Jin, and the rankings later showed that both she and Minamoto Shizuka had reached the fortieth floor.
• A manga artist stared at Anonymous Person No. 666’s place on the rankings beside a model of Kisaragi Station.

Uesugi Tetsu answered Tamamo’s plea for help by summoning Kisaragi Station and boarding its train to reach Shizuoka City. After the train threw Great Inugami off for confronting him, Uesugi Tetsu demanded a five-minute arrival, and the train began shaking violently.

• Tamamo learned that the Black Phone Booth had appeared across Shizuoka Prefecture, that local operatives had gone missing, and that her family was caught in the crisis.
• Uesugi Tetsu agreed to help Tamamo and rushed with her to a nearby bus stop, where he summoned Kisaragi Station.
• Uesugi Tetsu and Tamamo boarded the Kisaragi Train, which carried demons and supernatural beings, including several Great Demons at Ghost God level.
• When Great Inugami complained about the route change, the train inexplicably threw him off, and the other passengers fell silent around Uesugi Tetsu.
• Uesugi Tetsu saw that the train’s next stop was Shizuoka City and told Tamamo they would arrive in five minutes, causing the train to shake violently.

Uesugi Tetsu rushed to Shizuoka City, where the Weak Black Phone Booth was forming a Haunted House and nearing a four-star advancement, and received authority to direct the response. He entered the Haunted House to stop the phenomenon and rescue Tamamo’s family, while Chisa sheltered with her relatives and discovered a spotless phone booth before the surrounding sounds fell silent.

• Uesugi Tetsu and Tamamo rode a supernatural train to Shizuoka City, where he learned the train had a black-gold VIP card and reached the scene at speed.
• Uesugi Tetsu identified the Haunted House as the work of the Weak Black Phone Booth and received a mission to stop its advancement and rescue Tamamo’s five family members.
• Junior Official Yasui gave Uesugi Tetsu command authority and sent him the marked locations of the phone booths and Agent A032’s phone.
• Uesugi Tetsu entered the Haunted House, struck the Life and Death Taiko to draw out the phone booths, and used his folding fan to strike their clones with thunder as he headed toward Tamamo’s family.
• Chisa protected her unconscious parents and two brothers, followed Tamamo’s safety instructions, identified Kunōzan Tōshō-gū as a landmark, and reported a spotless phone booth before the area suddenly fell silent.