In Zhou Huai's mind, information about that SS-Class Expert appeared.
Oki Bunko.
The previous head of the Kujo Family, Kujō Kōji's maternal uncle.
He beca famous very early, and his strength was unfathomable.
However, he never participated in Family disputes nor paid attention to worldly affairs.
In Sakura Country, he was more widely known as a historian and archaeologist.
A scholar obsessed with studying ancient history.
Zhou Huai seed to understand sothing.
"So he's guarding it not for the Kujō Family, but for himself."
Nakamura Shin'ichirō nodded heavily, his voice even lower.
"Yes, my Lord."
"Lord Oki Bunko is the top scholar in Sakura Country; he has dedicated his life to studying ancient civilizations."
"Guarding the Ise Grand Shrine is also for the purpose of researching the secrets within."
Zhou Huai understood.
No wonder Kujō Kōji was so eager to resurrect Qin Ze Duoichiro.
They were truly short on manpower.
Oki Bunko was his maternal uncle and couldn't be ordered around at all.
The only obedient one he had was Wada Hirayama.
That person's strength was still far from Soma Kosuke's.
Zhou Huai had already begun to consider the possibility of cooperating with the Omiya Family.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
At least his and the Omiya Family's current goal was consistent: to prevent the Kujō Family from continuing to use the pendulum of life.
However, it seed that now was not the best ti to discuss cooperation.
The Omiya Family had not yet been pushed to the point of a desperate struggle with the Kujō Family.
They would not easily cooperate with other external forces.
Appearing now would easily make them a focal point.
He could only wait and see.
Zhou Huai pondered silently, and Nakamura Shin'ichirō had already proactively opened the car door for him.
"My Lord, this is the small house your subordinate once lived in; all facilities are complete inside."
"I will inform the guards here; unless there are special circumstances, no one will co to disturb you."
Zhou Huai looked around.
This was a typical Sakura-style detached courtyard, located in an extrely secluded corner of the Takamagahara district.
Tall walls completely isolated the outside noise, and the courtyard gate was made of heavy solid wood, exuding an ancient charm.
Pushing open the door, one entered a ticulously maintained dry landscape garden.
White gravel was raked into undulating patterns, symbolizing flowing rivers.
Several uniquely shaped green rocks were dotted among them, like isolated islands in the river.
In one corner of the courtyard, a gnarled black pine tree stood silently.
Zhou Huai walked along the pebble-paved path and slid open the wooden sliding door.
The entrance was clean and tidy, and the air was filled with the faint scent of tatami.
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The living room was spacious and bright, with huge floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the tranquil courtyard.
Zhou Huai nodded with satisfaction.
He took the suitcase out of the car and instructed Nakamura Shin'ichirō, "You go ahead and get busy. If the Omiya Family makes any new moves, rember to report to ."
Nakamura Shin'ichirō respectfully acknowledged, just about to turn to drive away.
Zhou Huai rembered sothing and called out to him.
"By the way, does the Omiya Family have 'Curse-Breaking Spirit Incense' (Po Zhou Ling Xiang)?"
Nakamura Shin'ichirō's body involuntarily paused.
He naturally understood the purpose of the Curse-Breaking Spirit Incense.
It was specifically used to dispel the Shinto Curses within the Ise Grand Shrine.
Could the invasion of the Ise Grand Shrine a few days ago be related to his Lord?
This thought flashed through his mind, then he forcibly suppressed it.
His Lord's affairs were not for him to question.
The sensible Nakamura Shin'ichirō did not ask any questions, but instead answered even more respectfully, "Yes."
"If my Lord needs it, I will fetch it for you imdiately."
Zhou Huai nodded.
"Go."
Watching Nakamura Shin'ichirō's car disappear around the corner, the expression on Zhou Huai's face finally relaxed completely.
Since he could obtain the Curse-Breaking Spirit Incense from the Omiya Family, then the curse on Polina could be resolved.
He still planned to keep Polina and Karen as troublemakers.
He couldn't let them exit the stage just like that.
Zhou Huai opened the huge black suitcase.
He carried out the unconscious Natsu Rinku and gently placed her on the clean tatami mat.
The young girl's eyes were still tightly closed, and fine beads of sweat trickled down her forehead.
Her brows were furrowed, her expression pained, as if she was trapped in an inescapable nightmare.
Zhou Huai could feel that the mysterious power within her had not subsided; instead, like a trapped beast, it was violently crashing against its cage.
This should be a battle for the body.
A brutal struggle between her own consciousness and that unknown entity.
Zhou Huai was powerless to do anything about it, nor did he care.
The only thing he could do was, when the energy within Natsu Rinku again beca uncontrollable and overflowed, let the dozen or so Parasites lurking within her open their greedy mouthparts and absorb all of it.
"System prompt: Gained experience 10000"
"System prompt: Gained experience 10000"
...The intermittent prompt sounds were like the most beautiful music.
Caesar's level 21 experience bar visibly increased by a large margin again.
Zhou Huai sighed inwardly.
Indeed, bringing along this young girl, Natsu Rinku, was a wise choice.
She was practically a mobile, regenerative super experience baby.
He had originally thought the young girl would wake up quickly after a night of tornt.
However, a full three days passed.
Natsu Rinku still showed no signs of waking up, only occasionally uttering a blurred murmur in her nightmare.
And Zhou Huai's Caesar had already reached level 22.
Besides the credit of Natsu Rinku, the "experience baby," Zhou Huai also controlled Caesar to release more Parasites in various corners of Takamagahara.
Nearly five thousand Professionals, like diligent worker bees, continuously supplied Caesar with hard-earned experience points 24 hours a day, greatly improving Caesar's leveling efficiency.
In addition, the number of Hell-Rank Soldier Beetles in the Swarm Space had reached an astonishing nine.
Under Zhou Huai's command, Caesar, controlled by the smart core ai, basically spent its ti in the various Instance Dungeons of Takamagahara.
The goal was singular.
To frantically raise the levels of those few Hell-Rank Soldier Beetles... anwhile, in Donghai City.
Inside the temporary headquarters of the Eternal Night Guild.
Zhuge Kongming's Instance Dungeon design had also made significant progress.
"Mr. Kongming, this... this is the Instance Dungeon space you created?"
Gao Yuan followed behind Zhuge Kongming, stepping into a completely new world.
The expression on his face instantly changed from initial anticipation to indescribable shock.
Underfoot was a smooth, clean white marble plaza, vast enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.
In the center of the plaza, a magnificent goddess statue stood silently.
The goddess wore a sacred white robe, her face compassionate yet majestic; she held a staff inlaid with a huge blue gem, raised high as if praying to the sky, or perhaps blessing the land beneath her feet.
A sacred and inviolable aura emanated from the statue.
Gao Yuan instinctively held his breath; he could feel that the statue contained an extrely pure and vast energy.
He looked around; four wide roads extended from the four directions of the plaza, leading to four distinct areas in the distance.
To the east was a dense prival forest, where animal roars could faintly be heard.
To the west was a desolate Gobi Desert, filled with swirling sand.
To the south was a volcanic region with rolling lava, the air thick with the scorching heat of sulfur.
To the north was a frozen snowfield, bitterly cold.
Gao Yuan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the tumultuous waves in his heart.
As a lecturer in Instance Dungeon Architecture Studies at Dongning Academy, he had seen no less than eighty to a hundred Instance Dungeon spaces.
But none could give him such a strong sense of realism as the one before him.
The mountains, water, wind, and even the flow of energy elents in the air here were no different from the real world.
If he hadn't personally watched Zhuge Kongming activate the spatial anchor, he would have even thought he had been teleported to so unknown Secret Realm.
"Mr. Kongming, your talent... is truly... truly..."
Gao Yuan racked his brains but found that any words of praise seed so pale and powerless in the face of such a miraculous creation.
He finally could only shake his head with a bitter smile.
"I've studied Instance Dungeon Architecture Studies for half my life, and only today do I realize that there is always soone better."
Zhou Huai, controlling Zhuge Kongming, wore a faint smile.
"Teacher Gao overpraises ."
"It's nothing more than so insignificant parlor tricks."
Gao Yuan's mouth twitched.
This is called a parlor trick?
Then what he taught wasn't even kindergarten scribbles?
He looked at the goddess statue in the center of the plaza and the four roads leading to different areas, deep in thought.
"Judging by this layout, it seems to be a typical city defense Instance Dungeon."
"I wonder if Mr. Kongming has nad this Instance Dungeon?"
Upon hearing this, the smile on Zhou Huai's face grew wider.
"A na?"
"I've already thought of it."
"It's called..."
"Guard athena."
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