A Life Healed in the Same Way

"Brother, I'm a little scared."

"What are you afraid of?" Qing Chen asked, puzzled.

Jingūji Maki hesitated for a long time before saying, "Those things just crawled into my forehead. Will they eat my brain?"

The little girl raised her concerns.

Qing Chen said seriously, "From today onwards, you must train hard. If you don't train hard, they will cause trouble in your mind."

The little girl was so frightened that she burst into tears. "What kind of training is this?"

Qing Chen's lips curled up slightly, as if he had found some of the fun his master Li Shutong had back then. "There's a lot of training involved, just train obediently."

He thought about it carefully. Could he really buy a cell phone for such an easily fooled little girl? If he let Yi try to fool her, wouldn't he end up crippling her?

No, we need to keep the little girl away from the Outer World Division Yi.

Qing Chen pondered. Although he didn't know why the little girl couldn't sense the shikigami, one thing he was certain of was that they wouldn't do anything to harm the little girl while they were inside.

If the little girl dies, they will surely perish too, having lost their home.

The spirits of shikigami need nourishment from the divine bridge in their brains, which is why Crimson Leaf Hunt and the others use the little girl as their final resting place. If the little girl dies, they will die with her...

Qing Chen suspected that the three shikigami might already belong to the little girl, but since she hadn't embarked on the path of cultivation yet, she couldn't establish a connection with Crimson Leaf Hunt and the others.

Perhaps, after a few years, when the little girl completes her first Life and Death Trial challenge, she will see the rewards she has today.

What's interesting here is that all the other Onmyoji are physically weak, so when everyone tries to kill Onmyoji, they will try to attack the physical body first.

However, if the little girl follows the path of a knight, her true form will likely be stronger than the shikigami in the future.

Anyone who tries to pick on an easy target is likely to find themselves in a very dangerous situation on the battlefield.

Qing Chen, a knight-turned-yin -Onmyoji, found it quite amusing to imagine how many people he could outwit...

"By the way, after they entered your head, did you feel dizzy or experience any other discomfort?" Qing Chen asked.

According to Hu Corporation Intelligence Agency, Onmyoji can actually collect shikigami beyond their level; for example, B-Class shikigami can summon four.

However, after the extra summons, the Onmyoji will feel overwhelmed and drowsy all day, with a constant pain between their eyebrows.

Jingūji Maki and said, "No, I don't feel anything."

Qing Chen recalled reading documents about the Jingūji clan of the island nation, including a strange phenomenon recorded in the Uji Shii Monogatari: the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade.

Later commentaries cannot explain this phenomenon, because demons don't gather together idly, and if it were driven by Onmyoji, there wouldn't be Onmyoji powerful enough to do so...

Now that he thinks about it, Qing Chen looked at the little girl and wondered if she was some powerful figure from the Jingūji clan who had once commanded hundreds of shikigami!

Qing Chen glanced at the little girl, wondering if he should help her find the other Onmyoji and see how many shikigami she could take in.

Previously, Onmyoji would randomly select from hundreds of shikigami. If he took the little girl and lured away most of the shikigami, leaving only characters like Dojoji Bell, Nekomata, and Zashiki-warashi in the card pool, I'm afraid all Onmyoji would feel despair!

This is tantamount to cutting off the fuel supply!

No, I have to leave now.

Kamishiro Unichi has already relayed the message back to the Mysterious Affairs Department, and they will undoubtedly mobilize all their forces to ensure the death of a highly threatening figure like Jingūji Maki.

To be honest, although the little girl is still an ordinary person, in the eyes of the Mysterious Affairs Department, capturing her is definitely a higher priority than capturing Qing Chen.

This is an existence that could shake the very foundation of the Age of Gods.

Qing Chen led the little girl northward. "Let's go, let's leave here before some people go crazy."

They came from the north and fought their way through three search lines. Just when everyone thought he would continue to fight bravely and arrogantly, Qing Chen suddenly turned back.

Because Hokkaido is in the north, Jingūji Maki's mother lived there.

After an unknown amount of time, a fully armed combat team arrived at the scene. After finding the body of Kamishiro Unichi, they quickly searched the surrounding battlefield.

One of them squatted down next to Kamishiro Unichi and pulled out a black dagger.

The dagger was decorated with red runes. The man swung the knife lightly, cutting open the skin on Kamishiro Unichi's chest.

But then, Kamishiro Unichi's blood gushed into the dagger, yet the dagger seemed like a bottomless pit, never to be filled.

In the blink of an eye, the corpse withered.

The red runes on the dagger glowed, and the man used the dagger to carve a pentagram array in the snow. As he carved, the blood he had inhaled flowed out again.

The man stood up and waited, gazing intently at the pentagram array.

But... after a long time, nothing appeared in the pentagram array.

"Huh, where's the Benimaru?! Benimaru isn't here!"

He pulled a satellite phone from his pocket and dialed with a grave expression. "Boss, something terrible has happened. After Kamishiro Unichi died, his shikigami Benimaru wasn't inside his heart. Someone, using some unknown method, has taken the shikigami away!"

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone. "From now on, this will be the top priority for the Mysterious Affairs Department. We must find these two people, and we must also find the missing shikigami, Benimaru."

When Kamishiro Unichi risked his life to send back the message, the higher-ups in the Mysterious Affairs Department were only half-believing, after all, they had never seen anyone who could intimidate shikigami.

And now, they believe it.

There really are people who can intimidate shikigami and even abduct them.

It's important to know that each shikigami is unique. If they can't extract the shikigami Benimaru, it means that these cards will no longer be available in the "card pool"!

In an instant, the entire Mysterious Affairs Department went wild.

Originally, they only mobilized a small portion of their forces to hunt down Qing Chen and Jingūji Maki, but now, within a single day, 80% of the members of the Mysterious Affairs Department have joined the pursuit.

This time, Qing Chen really stirred up a hornet's nest. Although the outside world knew about the unusual activities of the Mysterious Affairs Department, they didn't know what could have driven the Mysterious Affairs Department to this point.

Many people think that even if Jiuzhou and the Mysterious Affairs Department were to go to war directly, the commotion would probably be this big.

No one expected that Qing Chen would be so bold as to return to Nakatsugawa City in Gifu Prefecture.

Nakatsugawa City.

A bored little girl waited outside the mall, sitting in a newly rented campervan.

She leaned against the car window, looking through the glass into the mall, where a boy was smiling and talking to another little girl.

Jingūji Maki felt a little envious. Qing Chen rarely smiled so brightly at her. It seemed that only recently had her brother started smiling more.

My older brother is usually very strict.

At this moment, Qing Chen returned to the car carrying large and small bags.

He has taken on a new identity and will now be living in a campervan with his little girl.

"Brother, where did you go just now?" the little girl asked softly.

"I went shopping," Qing Chen said.

"Who was that little girl just now? I saw you talking to her for a long time," Jingūji Maki curiously.

"Oh," Qing Chen said, "I asked her what gifts little girls in Japan usually receive for their birthdays. She said a lot, and since I didn't know what you liked, I bought them all."

Jingūji Maki was stunned for a moment, so that's how it is...

"Brother, why did you buy me things?" the little girl asked softly.

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "From now on, you have to call me Master, understand?"

Qing Chen fell into reminiscence. "A long time ago, when I first became an apprentice, my master foolishly went to ask the Time Walker what a father in the Outer World should give his child. The Time Walker were also foolish; some said to give a car, because you need a car to date; others said to give a house, Outer World has a one-house-one-wife system. My master... almost actually believed it."

"He took me to buy a car and a house, and even took me to kill my rivals. At that time, my master said, 'What other people's children have, I must have too.'"

"Thinking back now, I really miss those days. So, I'll treat you the same way; whatever other little girls have had, you must have too."

Qing Chen felt that, besides the tradition of knights constantly tricking their apprentices, there were also some warm things passed down through generations.

Li Shutong healed his own life, and now it's his turn to heal Jingūji Maki's life.

Strictly speaking, his passing on his cultivation techniques to Hu Xiaoniu, Li Tongyun, Nan Gengchen, Liu Dezhu, Luo Wanyai, and others was more like a search for fellow practitioners.

Only when facing Li Ke, Qing Yi, and Jingūji Maki can one be considered to have truly accepted disciples.

Li Ke and Qing Yi have their own careers and families, but Jingūji Maki is the one he always takes with him and teaches.

Therefore, Qing Chen put in extra effort.

Looking at the RV filled with gifts, Jingūji Maki could even imagine Qing Chen instructing the clerk to pack them up nicely.

The little girl lowered her head and quietly wiped away her tears. "Thank you, Master."

Qing Chen said, "Let's open all the gifts and take a look. Keep the ones you like and throw away the ones you don't."

The little girl said, "I like them all."

"You know you like them all without even looking at them?"

"Hmm, you'll know without even looking."

There will be another chapter at 11 PM.