Chapter 570

At night, Isayama Naraku had just parked his car at the front door after driving home from the Exorcist Alliance meeting when he suddenly sensed a hair-raising evil spirit aura inside the house, entangled with the familiar aura of his family's spirit beast.

【A powerful evil spirit has broken into the house, and Huangquan is commanding Ran Guren to intercept it?!】

With this guess in mind, this Isayama Family Head who had lost his left arm grabbed the spirit tool knife from the passenger seat and rushed toward the dojo, where the entangled auras were strongest.

"Bang—"

The dojo's main gate was kicked out.

"Huangquan, Broly, are you two alright?"

Isayama Naraku, with some gray in his hair, made a flashy entrance before the two of them just like that.

"Father, what is this?"

Inside the dojo, the girl with Ran Guren crouched beside her looked over in surprise.

"I sensed an evil spirit's aura!"

As Isayama Naraku spoke, his gaze turned toward the direction of the hanging evil spirit.

The source of that hair-raising sensation was the figure floating behind the boy, emitting its aura.

"Eh, this is……"

Isayama Naraku exclaimed in surprise, but before he could say more, his adopted daughter cut him off.

"Father, that is the C-rank spirit Broly contracted today, and I am currently giving him practical training in commanding contracted spirits."

"Ah, you say that's a C-rank spirit?"

Isayama Naraku's mouth fell open; he raised the spirit tool knife in his hand and pointed at the ominous spirit body, asking his daughter.

"That's right, it's a C-rank spirit. Broly only learned spirit contracting this afternoon, so I took him out to practice the technique, and he very easily contracted it inside a haunted house!"

Isayama Huangquan said in an unchanged tone, then signaled her adoptive father with a look; Isayama Naraku looked like he had swallowed a whole sour plum, his entire face scrunching up.

"Is that so? Then Broly really is amazing!"

Pointing at A and calling it C, Isayama Naraku could only play along with his daughter's words, praising the boy with a stiff expression.

"Cough cough, Father, Type C is merely a low-rank spirit; although for a beginner's first contracted spirit it counts as a very good result, if you praise Broly like this, it will make this child proud……"

Isayama Huangquan had to remind her adoptive father, lest he forget what he had instructed her yesterday and expose himself.

"Ah, right……"

Isayama Naraku looked at the mess in the dojo, recalling the two auras entangled together that he had sensed upon returning home; he could fully imagine what the 'C'-rank spirit the boy contracted had done to his family's generationally inherited spirit beast before he arrived, his heart crying 'absurd' while his face somewhat insincerely echoed his adopted daughter's words.

"Mhm, Broly, although your contracted spirit is quite good, you must not become arrogant."

Composing himself, he returned the spirit tool knife to its sheath, and Isayama Naraku spoke earnestly to the boy (with complex feelings inside).

"Sister Huangquan, is my contracted spirit considered powerful?"

Hearing this, Broly looked at Isayama Huangquan and asked.

"Being able to fight Sister's Ran Guren without losing certainly counts as a comparatively powerful contracted spirit, but compared to truly powerful contracted spirits, it is still far off — for example, the Tsuchimiya Family's Byakuei, renowned by the outside world as the strongest spirit beast."

Isayama Huangquan hurriedly gave an example to explain, but she felt somewhat guilty; deceiving the boy like this, who knew if he would get angry when he discovered the truth later.

"Buzz buzz buzz……"

Just then, the phone in Isayama Naraku's pocket vibrated.

"Hello?"

Isayama Naraku took out his phone and answered; his complexion changed drastically very quickly.

"What's wrong, Father?"

Isayama Huangquan saw this and hurriedly asked.

"The Tsuchimiya Family Head and his wife, on their way home after the Exorcist Alliance meeting, were attacked by a large swarm of evil spirits!"

"Eh, there are evil spirits that dare attack Byakuei's contractor?"

Isayama Huangquan exclaimed in surprise.

Byakuei, also known as Spirit Eater, that spirit beast mastered by the Tsuchimiya Family and publicly recognized by the outside world as the strongest — the price of contracting it is that the contractor must always walk the path of exorcism, and every so often must feed Byakuei evil spirits; it is a ferocious beast that truly devours evil spirits!

For evil spirits to attack Byakuei's contractor sounded to Isayama Huangquan just like a buffet growing legs and running to deliver food to a glutton.

"Huangquan, Spirit Eater Byakuei is indeed powerful, but the exorcist who contracted it is not invincible."

"Ah, Father, you mean……"

"An accident happened. The Tsuchimiya Family Head's wife is severely injured. If other exorcists hadn't noticed the abnormality and rushed to support them, perhaps they would already be dead."

"Uh……"

Isayama Huangquan was a bit embarrassed; perhaps this mindset wasn't quite right at this moment, but she had just spoken of the strongest spirit beast Byakuei in front of Broly, and now news of the Tsuchimiya Family's Byakuei contractor's misfortune arrived — it felt like she had just finished boasting and got slapped in the face.

"I need to go to the Tsuchimiya Family's side to help now. You two eat dinner, don't wait for me to return."

Isayama Naraku finished speaking and hurriedly left the dojo.

Inside the dojo, Isayama Huangquan and Broly faced each other in silence.

"Sister Huangquan, do we continue the contracted spirit combat training?"

Broly broke the silence first and asked.

"Forget it. With the current situation, I have to go protect Father."

Isayama Huangquan shook her head.

But in fact, from the contracted spirit combat training just now, she already knew the strength of the hanging evil spirit Broly commanded; it was only slightly inferior to her own commanded Ran Guren.

If Broly made the target of its attack not Ran Guren but herself, the exorcist commanding Ran Guren to fight, she would likely become the weak link in the combination.

The hanging evil spirit's lasso ability is extremely effective against humanoid creatures; one moment of carelessness, and a hanging rope would appear around your limbs or neck.

And against a spirit beast like Ran Guren, those dense lassos can also display quite excellent control effects.

Without Ran Guren using its Roar Wave, once entangled by a large number of hanging ropes, it would likely be very troublesome and difficult to break free.

"Broly, a bit sorry, but trouble you to watch the house."

Isayama Huangquan turned back and spoke to the boy who had followed.

"Uh, okay, I'll watch the house."

Broly originally wanted to go along to protect his father-in-law, but stayed behind to watch the house after the girl asked him to.

"Father, wait a moment, I'm going with you."

The sedan carrying Isayama Naraku was stopped by the girl as it started to move.

Isayama Huangquan opened the front passenger door and sat directly inside.

"You want to go to the Tsuchimiya Family with me?"

"The Lion King is with me, I'm worried the road won't be safe."

Isayama Naraku instantly understood; his adopted daughter wanted to escort him.

"But what about Broly, he's still a child, are you just leaving him alone in the house like this?"

"The house has a barrier, and he has that powerful contracted spirit by his side, it should be fine."

"No, that contracted spirit is the biggest problem, if it goes out of control..."

"Please rest assured, Father, even if it goes out of control it doesn't matter, because the opponent fundamentally can't beat Broly..."

Isayama Huangquan quickly explained the specific situation of how the boy subdued that hanging evil spirit in the Ghost House Villa, and Isayama Naraku in the driver's seat opened his mouth wide.

This Isayama Family Head had thought that high-ranking evil spirit was weakened by his daughter using Ran Guren and other Exorcists from the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau working together, then successfully contracted by the boy with transcendent talent, but the result was not that at all.

"Subdued a high-ranking spirit with pure spiritual power, Huangquan, are you sure you didn't see wrong?"

"Absolutely certain, and besides me seeing it with my own eyes, other colleagues who went along at the Countermeasures Bureau saw it too."

"It seems that child's spiritual power talent is even more formidable than I imagined, oh no, this is no longer a matter of being formidable, it's monstrous."

Isayama Naraku had the impulse to laugh three times toward the sky, but the Tsuchimiya Family side had suddenly suffered a tragic accident, and now was not the time for joyous laughter.

"Cough cough, alright then, let Broly stay home and watch the house, you and I will go to the Tsuchimiya Family to handle matters."

The sedan quickly drove off, Broly stood at the front door seeing off the taillights into the distance, locked his Ki Sense onto Isayama Huangquan, then closed the door.

"Only us left in the house, clean up what needs cleaning."

Walking back to the Dojo, looking at the mess here, Broly spoke to the Hanged Ghost beside him.

"Huh?!"

The Hanged Evil Spirit made a puzzled sound, and after confirming the boy wanted it to help with chores, it swayed its body once.

"What, your hands and feet are just decorations, the only thing you can really manipulate is the rope on your neck, and you can't even finely control the force?"

Broly watched the Hanged Evil Spirit manipulate its noose attempting to wrap around the wooden paper sliding doors on the ground, but because it used too much force it shattered the doors, and a speechless expression surfaced on his small face.

"Really, among all the summoned beings I've ever summoned, you're the most useless one."

Broly evaluated sharply, then waved his hand telling the Hanged Spirit not to clean anymore.

"White Shadow Ninja, come out!"

Broly raised his hand toward the glowing ground and called forth the Ninja Corps, but after a while, nothing appeared.

"Eh, the Xiao Yu World's spell can't be activated in this world?"

Broly could clearly feel the Qi for creating White Shadow Ninjas flow out, then get returned back.

"No, it shouldn't be that it can't activate, but that it needs to adapt to this world's system of power, it's just that this might need some research..."

Broly pondered for a moment, then switched to using Water Element Summoning, Qi converted to Magic Power, then Magic Power drove the formation of Water Creation Magic, within the clear and clean pure water liquid, constructing a stable summoning core, a water elemental resembling a slime appeared before him.

"Clean up here."

Broly gave the order, and the water elemental gurgled into action; it was like a vacuum cleaner, sucking filth into its body, rolling the broken door out and discarding it outside.

The returning water elemental came before the Hanged Spirit, gurgling, seemingly wondering if the Hanged Spirit also belonged to the garbage that should be discarded.

Hanged Spirit: "..."

From the harmless, round-looking water elemental, it felt a strong threat, as if this strange creature could easily tear apart its spirit body if it wanted.

Under this sense of threat, the Hanged Evil Spirit subconsciously formed many nooses, surrounding the water elemental.

And the water elemental also seemed to perceive the hostility of the ghost creature before it, shifting directly from cleaning mode to combat mode.

The round slime form transformed into a humanoid water form, the water flow inside its body beginning to rotate at high speed, seemingly preparing to construct a powerful water vortex, intending to engulf and shred the spirit body before it.

"Alright, this isn't garbage." Broly intercepted in front of the water humanoid in time, finished speaking to the water elemental, then looked at the Hanged Spirit on the other side, "You're really something too, don't provoke a summoned being stronger than you, now go get a garbage bag, it handles cleaning, you handle bagging and tying the garbage!"

Broly assigned tasks to the two summoned beings, letting a fight between summoned beings dissipate into nothing.

"Sigh, neither looks too smart."

Watching the two summoned beings working obediently, Broly couldn't help but sigh, he somewhat missed the White Shadow Ninjas with higher intelligence.

Although the water elemental has stronger accommodation, it's somewhat dumb in judging friend or foe, and because its whole body is composed of water, things like making beds and folding quilts, it can't do those either.

Tsuchimiya Family, Isayama Naraku quickly drove over, no evil spirit attacks occurred along the way.

"Yaele, I can't hold on much longer, the Family's Exorcist mission, and that child Kagura's matter, I entrust to you."

Tsuchimiya Mai, with a huge breach in her abdomen caused by an evil spirit, kept alive only temporarily by a Secret Technique, was explaining her final affairs to her husband.

"Mai..."

Tsuchimiya Yaele held his dying wife and wept bitterly.

"Madam's time is short, Family Head, we must immediately begin the Byakuei Inheritance Ritual."

The Tsuchimiya Family mages who rushed over after hearing the news all began persuading Tsuchimiya Yaele.

"Lord Tsuchimiya, how is Lady Mai?"

It was at this time that Isayama Naraku walked in with his adopted daughter Isayama Huangquan.

"Isayama, I need your help."

Wiping away his tears, Tsuchimiya Yaele resumed the posture of the Tsuchimiya Family Head.

"Lord Tsuchimiya, please speak."

"The Inheritance Ritual requires 49 days of Soul Imprint, and during this period I cannot leave the Spirit Vein Node, yet matters outside still need one person to handle them."

"Ah, what virtue and ability could I possibly have?"

"Among the family branches, you, Isayama Naraku, hold the most prestige; if even you cannot command the crowd at this time, others would be even less able, and the only person I can entrust this to right now is you."

"I will certainly not fail Lord Tsuchimiya's entrustment!"

After entrusting external affairs to Isayama Naraku, Tsuchimiya Yuele no longer hesitated, bringing his critically ill wife and heading to the Tsuchimiya Family's Spirit Vein Node, with the Tsuchimiya Family's Exorcists following into the Spirit Vein to cast spells helping Tsuchimiya Yuele suppress the strongest Spirit Beast Byakuei inside Tsuchimiya Mai's body before completing the Soul Imprint.

That night, Isayama Naraku stayed at the Tsuchimiya Family with his daughter, helping receive other guests who came to inquire about the situation on Tsuchimiya Yuele's behalf.

Early the next day, Isayama Huangquan returned home once, the girl coming to fetch a change of clothes.

"Sorry, Broly, some unexpected situation has come up with the Tsuchimiya Family, the main house of the Isayama Family, so Father and I will likely both have to help out there recently, and you may have to stay home alone for these few days."

"Do you need me to help?"

Broly asked.

Hearing this, Isayama Huangquan shook her head: "This is a matter of the Tugong Family Lineage; Father has not yet publicly announced the matter of adopting you.

And now is not the time to speak of this either, so for the time being, as an outsider to the Tugong Family Lineage, it would be inappropriate for you to intervene in this."

But in fact, her status as the Isayama Family's adopted daughter of many years is also being discussed by the Tugong Family Lineage's relatives through connections.

Those discussions are nothing more than debating whether Father truly treats her as the family successor, keeping her by his side to cultivate.

This was the situation before, and now, with the Tsuchimiya Family Head hidden behind the scenes, Father temporarily acting as Exorcist Alliance and Family Alliance Leader, the shift in the main house's authority may increase the weight of such discussions.

Having Broly participate now would really be no good thing; it would only groundlessly add more gossip and would put pressure on the boy.

(Chapter End)