Chapter Summaries

Uesugi Tetsu and Imagawa Yoshimoto reached Kyoto after Tetsu annihilated the final alliance of obstructors. Yoshimoto watched the sunset from the city wall, reflected on her life, and asked Tetsu to remember her as her life came to an end.

• Thirty-seven Onmyoji, samurai, and demons prepared to stop Tetsu five li from Kyoto, but the Spirit Severing Barrier they witnessed vanish did not deter them.
• Imagawa Yoshimoto left the carriage, mounted the dragon horse, and told Tetsu to march with her to Kyoto and become one of The World's People.
• Tetsu destroyed the obstructors with the Five Thunder Technique and Koga and Qing, then led Yoshimoto past their defenses.
• Tetsu and Yoshimoto entered an empty Kyoto; the Miyoshi Triumvirate had fled, and no guards or Emperor appeared.
• Yoshimoto watched the sunset from the city wall, recounted her life, and asked Tetsu to witness and remember her before the sun set.

After Imagawa Yoshimoto died in Kyoto, Uesugi Tetsu preserved her belongings and learned from her letter that she wanted to be buried beneath a cherry tree at the Imagawa Residence. He parted from Okabe Motonobu and publicly announced Yoshimoto’s death, leaving the world stunned as he prepared to return and bury her.

• Uesugi Tetsu mourned Imagawa Yoshimoto, received quest evaluations that exceeded the SSS limit, and learned he had three days left in the era.
• Uesugi Tetsu found and read Imagawa Yoshimoto’s letter asking to be buried beneath the cherry tree she had planted at the Imagawa Residence, then preserved her armor and remains.
• Uesugi Tetsu told Okabe Motonobu that Imagawa Yoshimoto had died, and Okabe revealed that Matsudaira Motoyasu and the Matsudaira Family would take over from the Imagawa Clan.
• Okabe Motonobu led the Imagawa army back to Sunpu Castle while Uesugi Tetsu watched them depart.
• Uesugi Tetsu announced Imagawa Yoshimoto’s death to the world and warned anyone seeking revenge that they would die; he then set out to return to the Imagawa Residence.

Uesugi Tetsu buried Imagawa Yoshimoto’s crystal box beneath the sakura seed and prepared to leave the Warring States era. After the countdown ended, he returned to the present five hundred years later.

• Uesugi Tetsu returned to Sunpu Castle and buried Imagawa Yoshimoto’s crystal box beneath the sakura seed, protecting the site with restrictions and nourishing the seed with his vital blood.
• Uesugi Tetsu ordered Two-Shaku-Sama to settle her sect’s affairs and Karuta to list everyone involved in the interception.
• Uesugi Tetsu reviewed his gains from the March to Kyoto, including increased skill proficiency, strengthened attributes, and progress in the Heavenly Path Trial.
• Karuta gave Uesugi Tetsu the detailed list, and he sent the exhausted Two-Shaku-Sama to rest inside the Ksitigarbha statue.
• When the countdown reached zero, Uesugi Tetsu closed his eyes and returned to the present, where five hundred years had passed.

Uesugi Tetsu returned to the present world, discovered that Imagawa Yoshimoto had become its most famous Warring States figure while his own legend had vanished from the records, and received an Era Legend evaluation with four reward choices. After selecting rewards that strengthened his Walker identity and allies and granted him a map of Everworld, he visited the former Imagawa Residence and found the cherry tree he and Imagawa Yoshimoto had planted welcoming him home.

• Uesugi Tetsu searched the internet and found that Imagawa Yoshimoto was celebrated as the first ruler of the realm, while no records of Great Onmyoji Tetsu remained.
• Uesugi Tetsu noted his increased Soul Ash and Soul Points, then received an Era Legend evaluation and the chance to choose four rewards from nine.
• Uesugi Tetsu chose Walker Imprint, Unique Hundred Eyes, Demon King's Tokoyo Map, and Unfailing Mani Offering Mantra.
• Uesugi Tetsu visited the former Imagawa Residence in Shizuoka and saw that the cherry tree planted by Imagawa Yoshimoto had grown into a blooming tree.
• A visitor remarked that the cherry tree seemed to greet Uesugi Tetsu, and he agreed that it was welcoming him home.

Imagawa Yoshimoto awakened in the Sengoku Graveyard after 452 years with most of her memories lost, and Little Che guided her through her first missions. After recovering her Unfulfilled Wish, she remembered Uesugi Tetsu and vowed to find him.

• Imagawa Yoshimoto emerged from her grave and met Little Che, who explained that she had awakened in the Sengoku Graveyard.
• At Little Che’s guidance, Imagawa Yoshimoto summoned Warrior Kitajima and Warrior Arima, then ordered them to slay ten Walking Corpses.
• After completing the mission, Imagawa Yoshimoto summoned Warrior Ashan, Warrior Atian, and Warrior Ayong and formed a squad of five warriors.
• Imagawa Yoshimoto viewed Memory Fragment One and recovered her Unfulfilled Wish: she had asked Che to remember her and witness her life.
• Imagawa Yoshimoto realized that Little Che was Uesugi Tetsu’s imprint and vowed to find Uesugi Tetsu.

Kujo Machi followed her rigid daily routine while repeatedly missing the school bells, then arrived at school the next day to find a horrific scene of dead classmates and a monster. A middle-school girl named Chisa grabbed her and asked whether she could see it too.

• Kujo Machi left home for school, ignoring people who greeted her and continuing her hand-grip training.
• Kujo Machi missed the school bells throughout the day, trained during physical education, and studied Buddhism at home.
• The next morning, Kujo Machi noticed fewer people on the way to school and smelled a terrible stench near the entrance.
• Kujo Machi armed herself with protective charms and weapons before entering the school.
• Kujo Machi found her dead classmates and a many-eyed creature attached to a middle-school girl.
• Chisa grabbed Kujo Machi's arm and whispered, asking whether she could see the creature too.

At the old Imagawa Residence, Uesugi Tetsu helped Two-Shaku recover centuries of accumulated incense and devout wishes with a Buddhist secret mantra while Koga Kiyomitsu chose upgrades and fell asleep. He then evolved his Hundred-Eyed Demon into Unique Hundred Eyes, erasing a hidden influence and gaining stronger talents as he examined its changes.

• Uesugi Tetsu visited the old Imagawa Residence and summoned Two-Shaku-Sama and Karuta beside the cherry tree Yoshimoto had planted.
• Two-Shaku-Sama sensed that her shrines had gathered incense and devout wishes for centuries, though much of it was scattered too far away for her to absorb.
• Uesugi Tetsu taught Two-Shaku the Unfailing Mani Offering Mantra, which drew distant wishes to her and rapidly strengthened her as her Heavenly Path progress reached 23.81%.
• Uesugi Tetsu let Koga Kiyomitsu choose upgrades to thrusting, slashing, and intelligence, then spent eight thousand Soul Points; Koga fell asleep during her intelligence upgrade.
• Uesugi Tetsu claimed the Unique Hundred Eyes reward, which erased a hidden influence on his shadow and raised his Hundred-Eyed Demon and Hundred Eyes to Super Epic quality.
• Uesugi Tetsu examined the Hundred-Eyed Demon's strengthened talents, including its expanded vision and two hundred controllable eyes, and turned to inspect its new I See You talent.

Uesugi Tetsu examined his upgraded Hundred Eyes, spoke with Ririko about the dangerous City of Fakes and the path beyond forming a qi-and-blood core, then taught Chisa how to use Hundred Eyes and summon his help. After the call, he claimed the Walker Imprint and Demon King's Tokoyo Map rewards.

• Uesugi Tetsu discovered that I See You could transmit his power to targets he observed, and that the upgraded Hundred Eyes could share four eye talents, project his will, and protect its holder.
• Ririko told Uesugi Tetsu that Hokkaido's City of Fakes remained unresolved and that she intended to keep trying to save the people trapped there.
• Uesugi Tetsu advised Ririko to pursue seeing the god after forming her core, and they compared their cultivation progress.
• Uesugi Tetsu taught Chisa how to use Hundred Eyes and told her to repeat [Unique Hundred Eyes: Tetsu] if she faced danger; Ririko tattooed the words onto Chisa's arm.
• After ending the call, Uesugi Tetsu claimed the Walker Imprint and Demon King's Tokoyo Map rewards.

Uesugi Tetsu learned that the Walker Imprint was connected to the Lord of Everworld, but Lord Magatsu warned him to grow stronger before seeking its secrets. As he prepared to open his final Great Acupoint, Chisa vanished from a plane carrying her away from Doppelganger City.

• Uesugi Tetsu discovered that the Walker Imprint absorbed energy and helped focus his mind, while the Demon King's Tokoyo Map revealed extensive records after he found he had already contracted with it.
• Uesugi Tetsu brought gifts to the Walker Assembly, where Lord Magatsu used a space strategy game to conquer much of the galaxy and keep the assembly clean.
• Lord Magatsu told Uesugi Tetsu to keep the Walker Imprint hidden because many beings coveted it, and said it was deeply connected to the Lord of Everworld.
• Lord Magatsu advised Uesugi Tetsu to become a ghost-god and pass the previous Walker's Proof of Walking before learning more about the imprint.
• Uesugi Tetsu returned to cultivate and sensed he could open his one hundred and eighth Great Acupoint within three days, but a phone call left him cold-eyed.
• Ririko took Chisa away from Doppelganger City by plane, but Chisa disappeared from her seat, and Ririko's Sword Heart could not find her.

After Chisa vanished into the City of False People, Uesugi Tetsu traced the disappearance to the special Hundred Eyes he had given her and reached her through it. He found Chisa trapped in a classroom of rampaging doppelgangers and began guiding her as she investigated the scene.

• Ririko told Uesugi Tetsu that Chisa had disappeared from beside her during their flight from Hokkaido, and Uesugi Tetsu suspected the City of False People had taken her to stop her leaving.
• Uesugi Tetsu realized Chisa’s unique Hundred Eyes might have made her a target, and he decided to rescue her while asking the Special Affairs Division to prepare for the city’s possible spread.
• The Black-Skinned Book failed to give reliable answers about Chisa or the City of False People, leading Uesugi Tetsu to suspect it could not accurately prophesy about the area it was meant to unlock.
• Uesugi Tetsu reached Chisa through her Hundred Eyes and found her standing motionless amid a classroom of frenzied, dying doppelgangers.
• Uesugi Tetsu warned Chisa to stay still and guided her to inspect the corridor and a corpse; the True Sight Eye identified the dead doppelgangers as victims of the Bell Ghost’s chime.

Uesugi Tetsu discovered that Asahikawa City’s quests required him to protect Chisa and prevent Kujo Machi from dying too many times, while Chisa met Kujo Machi at a classroom full of corpses. Kujo Machi pretended not to understand Chisa’s question about seeing ghosts, but she could see a horrific entity that Chisa could not.

• Uesugi Tetsu received the Asahikawa City area prompts after remaining on Hundred Eyes for more than ten minutes, but the failed unlock quest gave him no rewards.
• Uesugi Tetsu read the mandatory quests to light the shrine and destroy the city’s Closed Loop, along with optional quests to keep Chisa alive and ensure Kujo Machi died no more than ninety-nine times.
• Uesugi Tetsu accepted the quest to increase Kujo Machi’s trust and learned that she could see the ghosts in Asahikawa City.
• Uesugi Tetsu instructed Chisa to introduce herself and ask Kujo Machi whether she could see the ghosts; Kujo Machi instead acted like a delinquent girl who had come to class without doing her homework.
• Kujo Machi’s trust in Chisa rose by ten despite her evasive answer, as she endured the sight and whispers of a monstrous ball of flesh that Chisa could not see.

Uesugi Tetsu guided Chisa as Kujo Machi led her out of the school and through Asahikawa City’s deadly supernatural hazards. At Kujo’s home, Chisa revealed that a shrine there could summon her Great Onmyoji master, but Kujo scoffed and invited her to look for it.

• Kujo Machi warned Chisa to follow her rules, explained that leaving school required permission, and said her home was one of the city’s few safe places.
• Kujo Machi hurried Chisa out before the dismissal bell, and Uesugi Tetsu saw the guard become a headless monster after they left.
• Chisa ignored a Bell Ghost and other bizarre entities while Kujo Machi guided her past a deadly traffic-light rule.
• Uesugi Tetsu found a quest involving a shrine ema and realized the shrine’s map location overlapped with Kujo Machi’s home.
• Chisa told Kujo Machi that a shrine in her house could summon her Great Onmyoji master, but Kujo dismissed the claim and invited her to search.

Chisa found a hidden shrine beneath Kujo Machi's bed, and Uesugi Tetsu activated it, convincing Kujo that supernatural powers were real. He left Chisa in the safe house and began breaking through his 108th major acupoint, Dragon's Sinew.

• Chisa defended her master's supernatural abilities, and Kujo Machi brought her into her home, where Chisa's safety level became Safe.
• Kujo let Chisa search the house, and Chisa used the All-Sight Eye to locate a shrine beneath Kujo's bed.
• Kujo uncovered the dusty shrine and handed it to Chisa, after which Uesugi Tetsu's notification confirmed that he had lit up the shrine in Asahikawa City.
• The shrine transformed into a new, glowing shrine, and Kujo realized that Chisa's supernatural claims were true.
• Uesugi Tetsu told Chisa to stay in Kujo's room and promised to return if she faced danger, then left.
• Near the cherry tree, Uesugi Tetsu began breaking through his 108th major acupoint, Dragon's Sinew.

Uesugi Tetsu opened his 108th Great Acupoint, endured the Dragon's Sinew trial, and forged his unique complete Divine Repository, Ephemeral Tribulation Sea. He fused it with the Four Ultimate Forms to begin forging the Palace of Flesh · Ultimate, leaving the Corona Breathing Technique's Palace of Flesh training complete.

• Uesugi Tetsu used his qi and blood to open the 108th Great Acupoint as Qing and the Special Affairs Division secured the area around the ancient Imagawa Residence.
• Uesugi Tetsu endured the Dragon's Sinew trial by crawling across the Heavenly Road to gather his scattered sinew fragments, completing the fourth of the Four Ultimate Forms.
• Uesugi Tetsu examined the three Tokugawa Family Divine Repositories, rejected them, and awakened his exclusive option, Ephemeral Tribulation Sea.
• Uesugi Tetsu burned his excess vitality to amplify his power and fused the Four Ultimate Forms as he began forging the Palace of Flesh · Ultimate.
• Uesugi Tetsu completed the Sea of Qi and Palace of Flesh chapters of the Corona Breathing Technique and called for the complete Divine Repository and Palace of Flesh to merge with him.

Uesugi Tetsu completed the Palace of Flesh and merged it with the Complete Treasury Tribulation Sea, creating the Palace of Flesh Sea Divine Treasury and gaining a major Life Essence enhancement. After suppressing the pressure he had leaked across Shizuoka City and checking on those around him, he sent his consciousness toward Hundred Eyes and saw blood-soaked Asahikawa City.

• Uesugi Tetsu chose to root his golden Flesh Body Divine Spirit in the Sea of Calamity rather than retreat as a mayfly, enduring its pale-black waters and tribulations.
• Uesugi Tetsu completed the Palace of Flesh and merged it with the Complete Treasury Tribulation Sea, forming the Palace of Flesh Sea Divine Treasury at 5% development.
• Uesugi Tetsu used the Treasury's Life Essence to enhance his body, then leaked enough physical pressure to make people across Shizuoka City feel short of breath.
• Uesugi Tetsu drew his pressure back into his body and created spiritual rain over Shizuoka City as an apology to its residents.
• Uesugi Tetsu learned from Aoba that his breakthrough had lasted about thirty-two hours, checked on Two-Shaku-Sama and Koga, and sent his consciousness toward Hundred Eyes.
• Uesugi Tetsu opened his eyes in his spiritual perception and saw blood-soaked Asahikawa City.

Uesugi Tetsu learned from Chisa and Kujo Machi’s notes that Asahikawa City’s Ghosts had begun reviving and killing people without being seen, while Head Lanterns filled the sky. When three lanterns bearing his face approached, he chose to descend into Asahikawa City and confront them.

• Uesugi Tetsu regained consciousness through the shrine and found Chisa safe in Kujo Machi’s room as horrific scenes unfolded outside.
• Kujo Machi saw and spoke with Uesugi Tetsu, while he learned that her parents had gone to work and that she had kept Chisa hidden from them.
• Uesugi Tetsu read Chisa and Kujo Machi’s notes about Asahikawa City, its impostors, and Ghosts whose revival had made them dangerous even to people who could not see them.
• Chisa told Uesugi Tetsu that a chief priest and a Miko had passed by, but she had not followed them because Head Lanterns were nearby.
• Three empty human-skin lanterns drifted toward the room, and Uesugi Tetsu recognized his face on one of them and descended into Asahikawa City.

Uesugi Tetsu protected Chisa and Kujo Machi from the head lanterns, testing their strange killing rule and destroying the lanterns tied to the two girls. Kujo Machi saw through his Six-tailed Fox disguise, and the chapter ended with Uesugi pressing her to explain what she had seen.

• Kujo Machi and Chisa tried to shut the curtains against three approaching head lanterns, but Uesugi Tetsu stopped the red light from entering the room by distorting it with Spiritual Power.
• Uesugi Tetsu transformed and prepared to fight, but Kujo Machi saw his terrifying disguised form and recoiled in fear.
• Uesugi Tetsu destroyed his own head lantern with lightning and survived its strange force, then crushed the lanterns matching Kujo Machi and Chisa.
• Uesugi Tetsu concealed the group from hundreds of approaching lanterns, and Kujo Machi tried to kneel and declare him her adoptive father.
• Uesugi Tetsu asked Kujo Machi whether he was human or a monster, then demanded that she describe what she had seen.

Uesugi Tetsu discovered that Kujo Machi could see the Hundred-Eyed Demon, summoned a Koma-inu army to protect her and Chisa, and investigated the strange darkness engulfing Asahikawa City. After Machi's parents failed to come home and he learned that leaving the city required breaking its closed loop, he set out with the two girls for Shiratsu Shrine.

• Uesugi Tetsu confirmed that Kujo Machi could see the Hundred-Eyed Demon and warned it not to eat her because she was a friend.
• Uesugi Tetsu left Chisa and Machi with protective talismans and summoned twenty-seven Koma-inu, ordering them to obey the girls.
• Uesugi Tetsu returned after gathering maps and found that the darkness had attacked the house, leaving much of the Koma-inu army injured or missing.
• Kujo Machi told Uesugi Tetsu that her parents had failed to return from work for the first time in years, while he confirmed the date and learned that leaving Asahikawa City required breaking its closed loop.
• Uesugi Tetsu decided to take Chisa and Machi to Shiratsu Shrine through a route that overlapped with Machi's school commute, and Machi agreed to go with them.

Uesugi Tetsu carved a path through Asahikawa City’s uncanny darkness and reached the ruined Shiratsu Shrine, where he revived its dying priest long enough to learn that the miko was dead. The priest warned him to kill the girl who could see before the Blood Moon rose.

• Uesugi Tetsu led Kujo Machi and Chisa out of the house, blasting away the darkness and laying a lightning road through the city.
• Uesugi Tetsu killed Look Back Ghost’s clone and crushed the uncanny creatures blocking their route while Kujo Machi watched and resolved to learn from him.
• Uesugi Tetsu brought Kujo Machi and Chisa to Shiratsu Shrine, passed the collapsed miko’s mutated body, and found the shrine overrun with corpses.
• Uesugi Tetsu used his blood and energy to revive the dying priest, then showed him the Shrine Ema from the Five-tailed Fox and asked about the miko.
• The priest revealed that the miko had died after looking up at the sky under Look Up Ghost’s influence and warned Uesugi Tetsu to kill the girl who could see before the Blood Moon rose.

After the shrine priest died and the Miko proved beyond saving, Uesugi Tetsu searched Shiratsu Shrine for clues and questioned Kujo Machi about her deaths, but she said she had never died. As Asahikawa City deteriorated, he suspected the Blood Moon held the answer and considered looking at the sky, while Chisa urged him to proceed even if she might be at risk.

• Uesugi Tetsu buried the shrine priest's ashes, searched Shiratsu Shrine with Chisa, Kujo Machi, and the Koma-inu General, and found no useful records or clues.
• Uesugi Tetsu placed the Shrine Ema on the mutated Miko, but Side Quest Three did not complete, so he retrieved it and left the shrine.
• Uesugi Tetsu asked Kujo Machi how many times she had died in exchange for teaching her the Five-Element Onmyō Art, and she truthfully said she had never died.
• Uesugi Tetsu killed swarms of Head Lanterns and reasoned that the Blood Moon and the worsening city might be connected, with the answer possibly found in the sky.
• Uesugi Tetsu told Chisa that his plan might kill her, but Chisa urged him to act and trust that he could keep her alive.