"Buddhahood? Forget it... See for yourself!"
Yae Sakura shook her head and pointed her index and middle fingers at Grandpa Higurashi, temporarily granting him the sight.
Back when she was Azure Empyrea, after collecting the cultivation methods of every immortal sect in Shenzhou... those hundred-odd years had not been wasted. She could use many spells with ease.
It was only because she had changed bodies and lost her cultivated spiritual power that many powerful spells could no longer be used. Soul-related spells were an exception; switching bodies did not affect them.
"G-Ghost!!"
After Yae Sakura granted him the sight, Grandpa Higurashi could finally see the departed soul Yae Sakura was holding before him. Looking at that hazy humanoid spirit, a trace of fear arose in his heart, and he could not help backing away several steps.
It was his first time truly seeing a ghost!
Most yokai and departed souls in the Far East could not be seen by humans. Though they existed in the same world, they occupied different spatial layers—or rather, special spaces beyond the reach of human eyes in the real world.
Only under certain special circumstances could humans happen to see beings such as yokai, or when somewhat stronger yokai chose to reveal themselves.
"Still want to try?"
Yae Sakura smiled at the old man before her and continued asking.
"...Forget it. It seems I truly have no spiritual power." Staring at the departed soul before him, Grandpa Higurashi suddenly seemed to have aged considerably. He had always believed himself to be a shrine priest with genuine spiritual power, but only after encountering a truly extraordinary being did he realize that it had all been self-deception.
"But I cultivated according to the inherited method. Could the inherited method be fake...?"
"Inherited method? Tell me about