Chapter 41

Because of teaching magic, Li An didn't have time to make dinner.

So he simply took the two women and three shikigami out to eat together.

After leaving the apartment, the six of them arrived at a nearby seafood buffet restaurant.

Li An and Zen'in Maki both had huge appetites, nearly eating the owner to tears.

After finishing dinner, the time had already passed nine o'clock in the evening.

Zen'in Maki said goodbye to Li An and Kurahashi Kyoko, arranged to continue learning magic tomorrow, and then returned alone to the Jujutsu High.

After Li An and the others got home, they washed up and went to sleep.

Tonight Kurahashi Kyiko pulled Hotarugusa and Miko to her room to sleep, so Li An could finally sleep in the master bedroom again.

At midnight, Li An, unable to sleep, got up and drank a glass of water.

He decided to buy a bigger house tomorrow.

After all, the current house was clearly not big enough!

"I remember the Star Gate explored three world coordinates. I've already been to the Campione! world, but the Type-Moon World and the Mushoku Tensei world haven't been visited yet. How about going to play there?" Li An said, suddenly energized.

Thinking this, Li An directly activated the Star Gate.

However, just as he wanted to step into the Star Gate and head to the Type-Moon World, the system's notification sound suddenly rang in his mind.

【Ding! Successfully explored a new universal plane coordinate!】

"Holy shit!"

Li An was startled — what a coincidence.

Since the last time the Star Gate explored the coordinates of the Type-Moon, Campione!, and Mushoku Tensei worlds, he hadn't turned off the exploration function, letting the Star Gate keep exploring.

After all, according to the system's introduction, it generally takes several years for the Star Gate to explore a single world coordinate.

Who could have thought that just a few days had passed before a fourth world coordinate was explored.

"System, is the newly explored world one I'm familiar with?"

【Ding! Based on the host's relevant memories, this world is the Noragami World!】

"Noragami? That world where gods treat human souls as weapons?" Li An was immediately intrigued.

He himself was also a god — if he went to that world, could he learn that technique of turning souls into weapons?

According to that world's setting, any god could use that technique.

Coincidentally, there were so many ghosts in the Main World. Learning that technique and returning to the Main World would be equivalent to possessing countless Divine Instruments.

Thinking of this, Li An immediately changed his mind.

No longer heading to the Type-Moon World, he switched to the Noragami World instead.

After modifying the Star Gate's destination world, Li An stepped inside.

Noragami World.

The outskirts of Tokyo, an uninhabited mountainous area.

The Star Gate appeared out of thin air, and Li An walked out from within.

After the Star Gate vanished, he felt this world's rules transmitting some information into his brain.

At the same time, a strange force of rules merged into his divine body.

Li An closed his eyes to sense it, and after opening them, a smile appeared on his face.

The information the world's rules transmitted to him was all the basic information a god of this world should know.

Among this information was included the method of turning souls into Divine Instruments.

At the same time, the force of rules merging into his divine body also allowed him to absorb faith and develop believers.

Of course, Li An was not a faith god.

But having merged with that world's force of rules, he was also compatible with the abilities of a faith god.

"Let's find a soul to try it on!"

Li An flew into the air and activated "Witch's Eye"!

Instantly, a giant eye appeared in the sky.

The eye slowly opened, gazing over all of Tokyo.

"Found one!" A smile appeared at the corner of Li An's mouth, and with a single teleportation, he arrived at Shennaichuan County south of Tokyo.

It was a park that looked like it had been abandoned for a long time, its facilities covered in rust and cobwebs.

Here, Li An saw the soul of a middle-aged woman.

Li An learned from the information transmitted to him by the world's rules that not all souls could become Divine Instruments.

For example, the souls of those who committed suicide could not.

Divine Instruments were all lives that had once strived hard to live!

The soul of this middle-aged woman before him was just right.

Li An took a deep breath, began reciting the divine words aloud, divine power gathered at his fingertips, and he wrote the name of the Divine Instrument in the void.

"Having no place to return to, nor any place to go, I grant you a place to stay!"

Along with Li An's chant, divine light began to bloom around him, and streaks of divine script appeared around him, looking incomparably sacred.

"My name is Li An. Enter my grasp, stay here, with a pseudonym as my servant, obey its name. Divine Instrument, respond — obey my command. Be a Divine Instrument named Sakura, vessel as Sakura. Come, Sakura Vessel!"

As the divine words finished being spoken, Li An also used divine power to write the character 'Sakura' in the void.

The character Sakura merged into the middle-aged woman's soul, and her originally dazed expression instantly vanished, her eyes becoming clear.

At the same time, the memories of the middle-aged woman's life, and the scene of her death, also surged into Li An's mind.

"So it's you — what a coincidence!" A hint of surprise flashed in Li An's eyes.

Soon, the middle-aged woman's soul transformed into a long blade and flew into Li An's hand.

Li An examined the long blade in his hand and wore a satisfied smile.

This was a very beautiful katana; both the blade and the hilt were slightly longer than those of ordinary katanas.

It resembled a miaodao, yet it was not as long as a miaodao.

The tsuba was shaped like a beautiful cherry blossom; the blade was snow-bright and infinitely sharp.

At a thought from Li An, Ying Qi reverted from its divine artifact state to its human form.

"Master!" the middle-aged woman called out respectfully.

"From now on, you will take my surname; your name shall be Li Ying!" Li An said to the middle-aged woman.

"Thank you, Master, for bestowing this name!" the middle-aged woman said while bowing.

"From now on, be more natural when by my side; there is no need to be so polite." Li An said as he sized up the woman's appearance.

This woman was actually the divine artifact companion, Yon, of the male protagonist Yato in the original work; having grown weary of Yato's way of handling affairs, she had voluntarily requested to dissolve their contract.

Later, she became the divine artifact of the Heavenly Deity Sugawara no Michizane and was renamed Mahiru.

Who would have thought that now she had been snatched up by him!