Kikyo and I are of one mind

"This is……"

"It's spiritual power." Kikyo answered in his heart, "The owner of this shop has added spiritual power to his cooking. For ordinary people, this power is not obvious, and it's not even enough to improve the deliciousness of the food, but for..."

Before he finished speaking, a tingling voice came from the door——

"Boss, I'm here again... Hey, is there a new customer?"

The moment the voice turned the topic to Kikyo, Feng Xue could only feel a creepy pressure in her heart...

Chapter 62 Spirit Restaurant

"What a strong vitality!" Although he didn't look back, Feng Xue's ripples had already felt the huge vitality of the other party. I can't justify it.

"It's a ghost." Kikyo's voice sounded in her mind, and Feng Xue's first reaction was a ghost like Sadako, but then she remembered that it was a ghost with horns like the neon one.

That is "Oga".

In the neon legends, ghosts have the characteristics of strong body, powerful strength, strong self-esteem, and love to fight. The more famous ones are Shuten Doji, Ibaraki Doji, Blue Oni, Red Oni, etc. The appearance rate in Riman can be said to be high.

only……

If it is said that for other life forms, strong vitality does not necessarily mean strength, then a guy like a ghost who pursues extreme destructive power really means that the stronger the vitality, the stronger the strength.

"Is it still the same?" Just when Feng Xue's thoughts were rushing, the petite waiter was not surprised at this ghost who turned into a burly man, and said with an attitude of entertaining regular customers.

"Need to say?." The ghost nodded, sat down in front of a table with a big horse, picked up a handful of boiled edamame with salt, and drank a large glass of beer brought by the waiter. Peel the edamame with delicate techniques.

The boss turned around to cook the dishes, and the ghost shifted his gaze to Feng Xue's side. His golden eyes narrowed slightly, and then he said in surprise:

"New face? Just arrived in Tokyo?"

"..." Feng Xue was a little baffled by this man's question, brother, are you so familiar with me?

"Hmm." Just as Feng Xue was thinking about how to reply, Kikyo hummed lightly, and then continued to eat her seafood rice bowl.

The ghost didn't care about Kikyo's indifference, instead he poured a whole glass of beer boldly, then laughed and said: "Then you have come to the right place, the spiritual food in this spiritual restaurant is the best in Tokyo! "

"Spiritual food?" Feng Xue silently memorized the noun in her heart. Kikyo seemed to have said before that this boss used spiritual power to process food.

However, probably thinking that Kikyo didn't mean to chat, the ghost understood very well and didn't say any more, eating edamame bite by bite until——

A scent slowly dissipated, and then, what was brought to the ghost was a bowl of...

Uh, pork chop rice?

The color of the newly fried pork chops is very beautiful, and if you listen carefully, you can hear a soft rustling sound. Compared with sashimi, Feng Xue still prefers this kind of food, but after seeing the bowl of pork chops, Kikyo, Gently wiped my mouth with a tissue from the store:

"thanks for treatment."

"Are you going to leave now?" Feng Xue's heart was full of question marks. He still understood that Kikyo deliberately controlled the eating speed, but since Kikyo had already said it, he didn't want to talk nonsense, so he reached out and counted out the corresponding amount of banknotes Put it on the table, then turned and left the izakaya.

Walking halfway, Feng Xue suddenly said:

"What exactly were you observing just now?"

"Observe the food in this store." Kikyo replied succinctly, "Although the ghost is very strong, it doesn't have any blood in its body, which is very abnormal, so I'm observing whether he uses spiritual food instead of blood food, or the boss used a method to clear blood."

"Is there any difference?" Although Feng Xue, who lacked professional knowledge, could vaguely guess something, she still felt confused.

"Spiritual food is food produced by the participation of spiritual power in cooking. It is a relatively common faction, but it is difficult to master it. Ordinary onmyojis will make their own spiritual food to feed shikigami, but that is just the most basic way to inject spiritual power into ingredients. It is said that advanced spiritual chefs can use ordinary ingredients to make food that can replace human pillars and calm the anger of gods. However, in my era, due to the war, it is rare to see spiritual chefs who specialize in spiritual food."

Having said that, Kikyo looked around in distress, Feng Xue saw this, and immediately said: "If you want to go home, turn left."

"..." Kikyo was silent for a moment, skipped this topic for the time being, and continued to educate Feng Xue:

"Any industry has two sides. A good spiritual chef can produce food full of spirituality, which can reduce the demon's desire for blood food, while an evil spiritual chef will directly use human beings as ingredients to stimulate the spirituality in flesh and blood. Come out, let the monsters get a faster improvement than eating people directly. And it can also remove the resentment in human flesh, so that even if the monsters do eat people, they will not be contaminated with any traces, helping them hide in human society. "

"So you were judging, which kind of owner is that store?" Feng Xue was stunned, while Kikyo continued:

"According to what the ghost said before, there should be many spiritual food restaurants in this city, and there are also many monsters like him who live among the crowd. From this point of view, monsters in this era should be much more disciplined than in my era."

Kikyo's tone was mostly rejoicing, but Feng Xue didn't see it that way.

Judging from the vitality of that ghost, even if it is not a big demon, it still has the strength of Sesshomaru in the early stage.

A ghost of this strength will obey the rules, but Feng Xue doesn't think it's because the other party is self-disciplined enough. In other words, in this era, there may be more dangerous forces, so that even such a powerful monster has to follow the rules.

"Things are much more complicated than I thought. So what is the plot of this era? Slick ghosts? Ghouls? Shaman Kings? Or... the East? No, no, no, no matter how you say the East is too strange, the world in the East Human technology is much stronger than modern times..."

Feng Xue suppressed her wild thoughts, and began to think about whether to remodel the defense measures of her mansion. At first, she felt that modern security was really out of her mind, and she really had to think about it no matter where it was.

Just as Feng Xue was thinking, Jikyo had already reached a dark alley, she was staring into the depths of the alley, as if she was watching some terrifying beast, and Feng Xue also felt the message transmitted from Jikyo's consciousness. That tension.

"???" Seeing this, Feng Xue's head was full of question marks, and immediately increased the ripple scanning that he maintained normally. However, even though he had raised the accuracy to the highest value that can be achieved so far, he still couldn't sense anything. The ripples are the waves of life, and even the ripples couldn't be sensed. Either the bellflowers sensed wrongly, or, that thing, there was no life at all!

Of course Feng Xue didn't think that Kikyo's perception was wrong, so, is it a robot, or... a spirit body?

"It's the other shore!" Kikyo spat out a very convoluted Japanese noun, and Feng Xue searched for a long time in the language skills he got from Qian Shen before finding an approximate translation.

However, when the surrounding air began to change, Feng Xue felt a strong sense of familiarity again, because when he was tempted by a group of monsters, there was such an aura in the cave.

Chapter 63 Grocery Market

As the breath became more intense, all kinds of twisted creatures began to descend in the night, and the originally narrow alleys suddenly became as open as a square, but the main color in the air also changed from pure darkness to a muddy, uncomfortable dark red.

Looking at the environment in front of him that seemed like something would jump out at any moment, Kikyo explained softly to Feng Xue:

"The other shore is the phenomenon that occurs when human beings' evil thoughts, resentments, obsessions, and other emotions accumulate to a certain level. Once they appear, they will breed a large number of ghosts and monsters, attracting more terrifying things to eat. In my era, they usually only appeared on the battlefield."

"So, I'm pretty good at being able to provoke the other side by myself?" Feng Xue grinned, but Kikyo didn't deny it:

"Being able to single-handedly trigger the phenomenon of the other side, your obsession at that time was indeed very terrifying. Generally speaking, such a person ends up becoming a terrible monster. I am also very surprised that your soul escaped." Kikyo's tone was very calm, and there was no surprise at all, but Feng Xue could vaguely feel that when Kikyo said this, she seemed a little... shy?

Speaking of which, when the soul merged, I saw a part of Kikyo's past, so did Kikyo also...

Feng Xue quickly stopped her wild thoughts, for fear that she would say it again if she didn't pay attention.

Kikyo, on the other hand, looked calm and breezy, quietly waiting for the completion of this space, while continuing to popularize science:

"Generally speaking, the evil thoughts, resentments and obsessions that form the other side come from different people, so they will be relatively heterogeneous, and the ghosts and monsters generated are also very chaotic. For real monsters, this is just bait. Although some powerful monsters will be attracted to eat, they are only eating behavior after all. Conversely, if you are like you, if you are attracted by a single obsession, resentment or evil thoughts, the thoughts will be so pure that those ghosts and monsters can have no grievances." fusion, and finally turned into a terrible monster."

Feng Xue nodded lightly, expressing her understanding, but suddenly heard a noise, and immediately, another figure also appeared in this alienated space.

And this person is not a monster, but...

Former izakaya owner?

"Isn't this the little girl from just now?" The calm middle-aged man waved his hand in greeting, and Feng Xue immediately said:

"Why does the store manager appear here?"

"I'm here to collect ingredients, how about you?" The boss spit out a somewhat surprising answer, but Kikyo explained in his mind:

"The spiritual food used to raise monsters must use sprites or spiritually rich flesh and blood as additives, otherwise the bloodthirsty impulse of monsters cannot be suppressed. Generally, onmyojis will use their own blood, while large families of onmyojis will use their own blood. Raise some low-level monsters."

"I just sensed the breath of the other side, so I came here to check it out." Feng Xue found a panacea excuse, the boss heard this, nodded slightly and said:

"The other shore? This name... Are you a witch who just finished her training and went out on a tour? Or an exorcist who came to a big city to work hard? Or a monster who woke up from hibernation?"

"???"

"Witch." Kikyo nodded lightly, and before Feng Xue could think about how to answer, she reported her identity.

"Oh, that's why." The boss seemed to understand something, and said, "Tokyo and Kyoto have different attitudes towards Shihua. The pace of life here is fast, the pressure is also very high, and there are more temptations than ever before, so resentment, obsession, and evil thoughts are very easy to breed. You can go here and have a look."

As he said that, the boss took out a business card and handed it to Kikyo. There was no name on it, but only an address, which should be a place similar to the Adventurer's Guild.

"Understood." Kikyo reached out to take the business card, and Feng Xue also noticed a detail - in this generation, or at least in Tokyo, the other side is called "timely".

While the two were talking, the space on the other side had become more and more muddy, and disgusting noises began to appear, accompanied by noisy sounds similar to laughter and juggling. It sounded a bit like the background music of Plague Inc. when it was playing in the later stage.

"It seems that this time it's mainly about resentment, that's right, that's the way it is in this kind of place." The boss slightly raised the corner of his mouth, and at some point a kitchen knife appeared in his hand.

Kikyo took two steps back, indicating that she would not do anything. The boss was very satisfied with her wit.

The light of the knife flickered, and the twisted monsters that had just condensed were cut and shot down by him, but he didn't mean to kill them completely, but took out a metal bottle with an industrial aesthetic, like the Golden Horn King Like a purple gold gourd, it sucked the falling monsters into it.

Seemingly noticing Feng Xue's curious expression, the boss harvested the ingredients deftly, and said:

"This is a Naling bottle, [-] yen each. It can be used to hold some spirits or demons. It is a relatively common prop. There are also onmyojis who use this to hold shikigami. It is a new style released by Yinyangliao this year. It is more used than before. It's much easier to use a Naling ball that needs to be dropped once."

"Can you share one with me? You can share two with me, too." Kikyo said suddenly, which made Feng Xue a little surprised, but the boss was not surprised, and threw a similar vial to Kikyo, "You don't need the money, but you can catch it yourself."

The boss didn't explain how to use the bottle, and Kikyo didn't ask, but directly picked up the bottle, facing the sprites who were still wandering around nibbling resentment, Feng Xue only felt the spiritual power in her body shake slightly, and then two sprites were grabbed and put away without any resistance.

"Thank you for the Naling bottle. I put the money here." Kikyo took out [-] yen from Feng Xue's wallet and put it on the ground, then turned and left the other shore area. Seeing her disappearing back, the owner of the izakaya rubbed her face. Rub your head:

"Such a strong demon-breaking spiritual power, and he is also very proficient in the magic spell and sealing technique. There is no doubt that it is a serious inheritance... Which hidden genius is it? This kind of person is not practicing in Kyoto, what is he doing in Tokyo? There will be no trouble, right?"

……

"What do you want these sprites for?" Back home, Feng Xue asked curiously. Kikyo put the vial on the table, and then said, "Prove that I am really a human witch who cultivates magic-breaking spiritual power, and not a monster pretending to be a human for any other purpose."

Chapter 64 Bellflower for Cooking

"It proves that I am really a human priestess who cultivates demon-breaking spiritual power, not a monster pretending to be a human for some other purpose."

Although these words sounded a bit out of date, Feng Xue understood what she meant.

They doubted that chef, and of course that chef could also doubt them. In order to get rid of this kind of trouble, that Naling bottle and Kikyo deliberately showed their demon-breaking spiritual power to prove their camp and identity.

After all, anyone who can cultivate the power to destroy demons is absolutely impossible to be a treacherous person.

"Then here, do you want to go?" Feng Xue played with the business card, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, because the place marked on it was actually... Akihabara!

But thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is no problem. After all, exorcism missions cannot all face such rubbish mobs. Clothes and the like are fine, but weapons must always be carried with them.

And Tokyo is a modern big city, even if the upper class knows about the existence of Transcendence, it is impossible for the lower class civilians to understand. If you go to the streets with knives, guns and sticks, it will easily attract the police to watch.

On the contrary, in Akihabara, as long as you use the name of Manzhan as a cover, no one will care about the strange appearance you wear. As for not being able to wear C clothes on the street without reporting?Just kidding, it is said that the upper echelons know about the existence of Chaofan, so is it difficult to report all year round?

Kikyo obviously didn't know what kind of place Akihabara was, and she didn't know what Feng Xue was talking about in her inner voice, but she didn't care, she just thought for a moment, then said:

"Go check it out and at least learn the local rules."

"Alright." Feng Xue nodded, and then turned her attention to the Naling bottle, "By the way, do you know how to make this?"

"I know some ways to deal with it, but I'm not very proficient." Kikyo shook his head lightly, but seemed to think of something, and said, "But it's not the way to leave it like this, so let's deal with it."

With that said, Kikyo opened the lid of the Naling bottle, tapped out a little spiritual power, and immediately released a spirit-like monster that looked as big as an anaconda, and at the same time, Kikyo also explained to Feng Xue:

"The runes on this spirit bottle form a simple sealing technique. As long as the spiritual power is unfolded in this order, the absorption and release can be completed. As for what to release and how much to release, it depends on the mastery of the spiritual power."

"Can runes be mass-produced by machine?" Feng Xue felt very strange about this point, because as far as the ability system he has obtained so far, it basically does not have the ability to mass-produce extraordinary items. Even the scrolls of the Chakra system require ninjas to inject chakra during the copying process to make them effective. And the price of this Na Ling bottle is only [-] yen, which means that it is impossible to make it by hand, even if it is mass-produced and injected with spirits by hand.

"It's not what you think." Kikyo shook his head, "Scrolls of ninjas, talismans of onmyojis, these are essentially carriers for storing spells, and the essence is the spells inside, so they cannot be mass-produced, and this bottle , is a mold, you inject spiritual power into those runes, and the corresponding effect can be produced quickly. If you use a scroll as an analogy, when the spiritual power is injected into it, the bottle is considered to be finished. Its The function is not to release spells, but to make it easier for the caster to construct spells. The main difference between the two is that scrolls and talismans can be used with very little spiritual power and chakra. When this bottle is used, It requires a little more spiritual power than simply performing the sealing technique above."

"Understood, it's the difference between computer fonts and copybooks." Feng Xue nodded, but Kikyo didn't understand.

But this is not important, Kikyo has enough time to learn modern knowledge.

And now, she is going to take care of this "long worm".

It is worth mentioning that most of the monsters in the other shore are monsters in the form of semi-spiritual bodies, and it is difficult for ordinary people to even find them. How to turn these things that do not even have a body into food that can be chewed, Feng Xue is very curious.

Then he discovered that it seemed easier than he thought.

Kikyo just injected the demon-breaking spiritual power into the monster's body, and with the scream of the guy, it exploded into a puddle of meat in an instant.

In fact, Feng Xue originally thought that Kikyo was playing off, but soon he realized that he was wrong.

The monster's blood, internal organs, and most of its flesh were all evaporated at this moment, and only a piece of meat about twenty catties, the size of a piglet, remained on the chopping board.

This immediately made Feng Xue have a new understanding of the micro-manipulation ability of the platycodon, and the platycodon probably sensed Feng Xue's surprise, and while picking up the knife to cut the meat, explained:

"Precise operation is the basis for setting up the enchantment, but there is no need to perform too fine operation in daily battles, as long as the monsters are killed."

Hearing Kikyo's words, Feng Xue felt that this probably meant the same as Senju Zhuma said "I have never saved chakra", right?

What Feng Xue was thinking, Bellflower didn't care very much, he quickly broke down the meat on the table into meatball-sized pieces, then picked up the pot and started to stew, Feng Xue only felt her brows twitching for her cooking method, she thought it was just like blanching water, skimming blood foam, etc., but then, when the meat started to turn white, Bellflower actually fished it out, and then put it on a plate!

Well, she also put a plate of salt and a plate of soy sauce, probably to eat directly?

"Well, that's all right?" Feng Xue grinned, but Kikyo took it for granted:

"correct."

"..." Feng Xue has now begun to wonder whether it is purely psychological that he thought the medicinal porridge was delicious back then, but after hesitating for a while, he decided to give it a try.

What if this thing is the same as sashimi, and the original taste of the ingredients should be kept as much as possible?

With this thought in mind, Feng Xue took over the control of her body, picked up a piece of meat, dipped it in a little salt, and brought it to her mouth. Well, let alone, it was really delicious, probably because it didn't need muscle strength, the meat was very tender and smooth, and probably because it was purified by the magic power, there was almost no miscellaneous smell in it, very pure meat taste.