Chapter 210: A 3% Historical Impact Dramatic Change, the Illness-Death of Imagawa Yoshimoto

How many seconds had passed?

Uesugi Toru, who had already prepared to wait an entire day and meanwhile temper his bones once, gaped with his mouth open, taking several seconds to rein in his astonishment.

He removed the mask from his face, confirming it was indeed the 【White Lady Mask】, then murmured with slight puzzlement,

"I didn't wear the wrong one, did I……"

"It's naturally not Adult's problem."

The small gap on the straw face opened and closed, emitting the unique rustling sound of fodder rubbing together.

Katsumi snapped his small folding fan shut, leaped onto a tree branch before Uesugi Toru in two or three jumps, and looked levelly at him as he said,

"In recent days, the lingering aftermath of the gentle tide has arrived…… I also took this opportunity to scatter many clones, reconnecting with many clients who had long lost contact.

Coincidentally, one of my clones fell nearby here, and thus rode the wave into Genjitsu."

I see……

Uesugi Toru recalled the towering giant wave he had just seen sweeping past overhead.

Gentle?

Really?

Then what would one that isn't gentle look like?

He probed, "Are you referring to the tide's aftermath that will fall upon Genjitsu in two days?"

"Adult sees clearly."

Katsumi immediately nodded vigorously——because this clone of his was only palm-sized, and if his movements were slightly smaller, people wouldn't be able to see them clearly.

That wouldn't do.

It would cause customers to misinterpret his intentions.

"By the way." The straw doll sized up Uesugi Toru up and down, unable to help but exclaim in admiration, "Adult, it's only been a few days, yet your strength has actually far exceeded the past."

Katsumi couldn't help but laugh: "Looks like my judgment was indeed sharp!"

"Just good luck, fortunately encountering an Onigami Kyukei, not worth mentioning."

Uesugi Toru shook his head——he certainly wouldn't tell many truths in front of this merchant Katsumi.

Heaven knows whether, after some time, this information would be gifted to other demons and monsters in Chang Shi in the form of "bonus information."

Katsumi made a noncommittal sound, clearly not believing it.

But he didn't ask more; prying too much into a customer's private information wasn't a good practice.

A merchant, naturally, was here to do business.

"Then Adult."

Katsumi interrupted the previous topic, slightly bowing: "For what purpose have you summoned me this time?"

"Selling and buying."

Uesugi Toru answered concisely, waving his hand to take out several large items he wanted to sell from his Storage Backpack: "Katsumi, take a look."

Plague God Bell, Iron Pestle, blood-stained Broken Hina Crown, and Foot Soldier Armor……

As for more miscellaneous small prop materials, he temporarily did not take them out.

——The Plague God Bell's effect overlapped eightfold with Kaga Kiyomitsu's effect, and was even much weaker; the Hina Crown could at most summon a one-star-half, at most two-star puppet, and could no longer keep up with his pace.

The armor needed no explanation; from the very beginning Uesugi Toru had never thought of using it.

As for the Iron Pestle, it wasn't too late to decide after seeing what price Katsumi would offer.

The straw doll resembling Katsumi's eyes lit up at once.

He clicked his tongue in wonder while examining the items, finally letting his gaze fall on the matte Iron Pestle under the sunlight.

"Not bad!"

Katsumi happily unfolded his folding fan: "Adult, the several items you wish to sell are truly of quite good quality!"

"However, this clone of mine is truly not good at crossing the tide to collect goods."

The straw doll pondered for a moment: "Adult, why not set a time, then put on the mask in Chang Shi, and I will surely arrive within a short time."

He pointed at the Iron Pestle and said: "Especially this Iron Pestle, I have a Ghost God Level ox-demon customer who has a need for it, and surely can offer a price Adult will be satisfied with."

Katsumi cupped his hands: "Therefore, please Adult leave it temporarily for this."

Even Ghost God Level wants to use a Rare Level weapon?

No……probably it was because the Iron Pestle's effect made it durable that it caught their eye.

Uesugi Toru revealed a smile, nodding,

"Naturally so."

After reaching a consensus, Katsumi continued asking: "Adult, what else do you want?"

"——Business has been booming recently, so even if the main body entered Chang Shi it wouldn't be easy to move about, so please Adult first state what type of item you wish to purchase, and I will have my clone bring it at that time."

"Five Elements Materials, regardless of high or low quality, all wanted.

As for time, let's set it for one day later."

Uesugi Toru flicked the Kaga Kiyomitsu at his waist, continuing to spout nonsense: "Recently I found a day's work, wanting to reforge the weapon once more."

"I understand……"

Katsumi had just held his folding fan and bowed, preparing to leave, when his gaze was firmly captured by the Kaga Kiyomitsu at Uesugi Toru's waist, of which a small section of blade was protruding.

Unable to move.

Hum?

Kaga Kiyomitsu felt the gaze and trembled slightly in confusion.

Katsumi widened his eyes, immediately raising his voice: "Adult——!"

"This is not for sale."

Uesugi Toru interrupted the other person's words for once.

He replied indifferently, slapping the curious Xiao Jia back down with one palm.

This little brat wouldn't settle down unless he caused some trouble.

Uesugi Toru sighed inwardly—Xiao Jia apparently still didn't realize how attractive he was to others.

Only after Kaga Kiyomitsu's entire body had returned to the sword sheath did Katsumi come to his senses about his own lapse.

"Sorry."

He composed himself and jumped down from the tree branch apologetically: "If Adult has no further business, I shall take my leave first."

Uesugi Toru nodded: "Boss Katsumi, smooth journey."

The straw doll bowed again.

He turned and leaped, vanishing from Uesugi Toru's sight in an instant.

Seeing the strangely dressed scarecrow leave, Kaga Kiyomitsu, who had just been pressed back down, quietly poked out a small section of his blade and asked curiously,

"Xiao Jia... Xiao Jia can't understand what Master and the scarecrow are saying..."

Uesugi Toru was speechless and curled his lip.

Those honorifics and roundabout words between him and Boss Katsumi...

If Kaga Kiyomitsu could understand them, he'd definitely make a little certificate titled 【The Smartest Genius Uchigatata in Genjitsu】 and stick it on him the next day.

Recalling the scene just now, Uesugi Toru tapped Kaga Kiyomitsu's sword tsuba with his finger in annoyance.

He gave Xiao Jia a violent chestnut to eat.

"Mm."

Kaga Kiyomitsu shuddered dully, emitting a gloomy and confused emotion.

Uesugi Toru felt it, then reluctantly touched the spot he had just tapped and sighed,

"Xiao Jia, remember not to come out of the sword sheath casually when you see strangers in the future."

Kaga Kiyomitsu trembled in confusion.

Uesugi Toru made a threatening gesture: "Because it might be a bad person! Bad people might kidnap you! Then you'd never see me again!"

Kaga Kiyomitsu seemed very susceptible to this child-scaring combo, immediately freezing completely without even responding.

Uesugi Toru nodded in satisfaction inwardly.

That was better.

Otherwise, if Kaga Kiyomitsu poked his head out to observe the moment he arrived somewhere, he'd definitely attract a bunch of unnecessary trouble.

Uesugi Toru smiled and transformed into a four-tailed fox, opening Line on his mobile phone while circulating the Spirit Control Technique to sense the changes of heaven and earth in Genjitsu.

The Line interface was still spinning and loading because of the terrible network in the mountains, but the Spirit Control Technique had already given Uesugi Toru an answer from countless traces,

"The aftereffects of the wave haven't arrived that quickly, have they."

Although not far off, this at least meant he could properly rest and relax during his vacation.

Uesugi Toru grinned, and after Line finally finished loading, he clicked on Nanjo Ai's gray-and-white avatar.

With a slap, her latest signature popped out.

【——On vacation, do not disturb.】

Fine.

He figured Nanjo Sister had probably finished drinking not long ago and was still sleeping soundly.

Uesugi Toru backed out, then clicked on Huijue's avatar, who was also currently offline, and sent him two messages.

【Tsukisuna-chan: Master, my family's shikigami Ni-shaku Adult has had his cognition polluted from absorbing too much Wish Power, so he has sealed himself inside his vessel.】

【Tsukisuna-chan: If you have any good solutions or ideas, please contact me as soon as possible.】

After thinking it over, Uesugi Toru also sent a thank-you expression pack afterward.

Well, now it was just a matter of waiting for the professionals to reply.

Uesugi Toru, preparing to clear all the red dots as usual, was stunned to find that there didn't seem to be many red dots in the past couple of days.

Everyone seemed to have their own things to do... that is, Kitano Runa, that otaku, was like dumping trash into a tree hollow, sending him a string of messages one after another.

She kept sending them even if he didn't reply.

Uesugi Toru clicked in and found she was actually asking him which April new anime he had watched, and recommending "masterpieces" and "fine works."

Not only that, she also sent a link to a July new anime preview PV and talked about it at great length.

Mixed in were a large number of expression packs; otherwise, the red dots couldn't have become "99+".

If it were him living in a world without magic, he might get along very well with Kitano Runa.

But now...

Uesugi Toru sighed and typed on the keyboard.

【Tsukisuna-chan: Big sister, where do I have the time to watch anime.】

After that was the Arakawa Ward Tane Sai group he had been pulled into before.

In just a few days, the number of people in this group had increased quite a lot, nearly doubling.

Uesugi Toru nodded in satisfaction: "Looks like there are quite a few promising newcomers."

After lurking and scrolling through the group chat, Uesugi Toru, finding everyone chatting about some very simple questions, suddenly felt a wave of drowsiness hit him, making his upper and lower eyelids start to fight,

"How does it feel, Genjitsu's spirit qi is so abundant."

Uesugi Toru yawned: "It's making me 'spirit-dizzy'..."

Stuffing the mobile phone back into his pocket, Uesugi Toru prepared to follow the drowsiness and take the train straight home for a good sleep.

Not long after, he arrived on a relatively empty train, sitting in a corner seat preparing to nap for a while.

But just as he was about to fall asleep, a nearly forgotten thought flashed through his mind like lightning, making Uesugi Toru's whole body suddenly shudder.

Sleepiness was gone.

He almost forgot!

——This time, he had actually achieved a full 3% historical influence degree in the Warring States Period! And both his own reputation and Imagawa Yoshimoto's had significantly increased!

——The changes brought about by this, he hadn't had time to see yet!

Uesugi Toru hurriedly took out his mobile phone from his pocket, opened the browser, and prepared to input the four characters "Imagawa Yoshimoto."

But just as his finger had fallen on the 【Search】 field, the mobile phone screen suddenly went black.

It ran out of power and shut down.

Uesugi Toru: 「... 」

At such a critical moment when his pants were already off, the mobile phone actually ran out of power and shut down.

Actually, shutting down now was very reasonable.

Because he didn't know how long it had been since he last charged his mobile phone; even when not in use, it was tossed in the storage backpack, and those few times he took it out consumed quite a bit of power.

The key was this time point.

It was timed too perfectly.

Uesugi Toru ground his teeth displeasedly, and by the way retracted his fingertip surging with specks of lightning.

——Forget it, finding a place to charge wouldn't take much time.

If he accidentally broke the mobile phone, it would be troublesome; who knew how much information would need to be repaired.

Next stop, he would get off.

Uesugi Toru thought so, staring at the itinerary above the tram, tapping the slightly cold stainless steel handrail.

Until a gentle and mechanical female voice sounded.

「The next stop is arriving soon……」

Hiss-hiss.

The tram slowly stopped, and some old doors opened to both sides.

After everyone queuing to get off had all left the tram, Uesugi Toru stood up from his seat and walked toward the door.

「Uesugi-kun, is there some urgent matter to get off at this stop? 」

A voice so familiar it couldn't be more familiar stopped his footsteps.

Uesugi Toru raised his head, and under somewhat blurry sunlight saw that black-haired high ponytail girl with a peaceful qi fen and very common attire.

A simple loose long-sleeved white T-shirt, paired with a pair of seven-point jeans.

Nothing more besides that.

She was also looking at him with one hand in her pocket, like she had met a good friend on the road, so she casually struck up a conversation.

The urging bell of the tram about to run made the girl step in.

The two faced each other in silence.

Uesugi Toru took a deep breath, as if making some major decision.

Toward Shizuku, he asked the first sentence after a long reunion.

He asked,

「Do you have a power bank? 」

Even with Shizuku's mental state being calmer than Walden-ko, at this moment a look of astonishment couldn't help but appear on her face.

……

「So, you want to get off at this stop, and ask me for a power bank purely because your mobile phone ran out of power? 」

「Completely correct. 」

Returning to the original corner seat, the two sat side by side.

In Uesugi Toru's hand at this moment was precisely the girl's mobile phone.

「What era is it now, and going out the mobile phone can actually still shut down. 」

Shizuku, who had just finished guiding a certain shut-in girl, withdrew her gaze, crossed her legs, and mumbled: 「Uesugi-kun, your family also needs to hire an expert……」

Opening Shizuku's mobile phone, one could discover its interface was exceptionally simple.

Except for necessary chat, social, and information-acquisition apps, not even a single entertainment software was installed.

Beside, Shizuku's somewhat curious voice came,

「Looking for what? 」

「A bit of history. 」

「Oh. 」

Shizuku lost interest, so she propped her cheek with her right hand in a fist, quietly gazing at the scenery speeding past outside the van window.

Not seen for several days, actually Shizuku had quite a lot she wanted to say to Uesugi Toru.

But after suddenly meeting him on the tram, she discovered there was actually no need to chatter on.

The girl raised her hand, gently twisting the silk thread drifting from Uesugi Toru's body.

This sword principle was the best answer.

「Technique and principle……」

To her left, Uesugi Toru once again typed "Imagawa Yoshimoto" into the search box.

Clicked search.

Then entered Imagawa Yoshimoto's Wikipedia.

Uesugi Toru read line by line word by word, but discovered the encyclopedia recorded Imagawa Yoshimoto still lost at Okehazama.

The key historical node had not changed.

That shouldn't be right.

The losses in Mikawa Province were minimized by him, and she took the opportunity to seize actual control over all the local warlords of Mikawa Province, even making preparations in advance before the Revival of Heaven and Earth.

And Imagawa Yoshimoto, having experienced so much together with herself, surely couldn't make that kind of careless mistake again, right?

Uesugi Toru scrolled up and saw the information about suppressing the Mikawa Uprising at an outrageous speed in 1556.

This proved that his changes to history truly existed.

"Strange..."

Uesugi Toru didn't exit the page, but directly opened an incognito page to search "Sengoku Dai Onmyoji Tetsu".

Since his Sengoku Period reputation had already exceeded 8000 points, the records surely must be much more detailed than before...

【No relevant search results found for now】

The empty search page popped up on the mobile phone screen, causing Uesugi Toru to pause in surprise.

Scrolling down, he could only find a large number of searches related to Onmyoji, but completely no person called "Sengoku Period Dai Onmyoji Tetsu".

Not a trace.

It seemed as if they had never existed.

After searching repeatedly several times with no result, Uesugi Toru returned to Imagawa Yoshimoto's encyclopedia page.

Then he discovered that the text about him performing the Thunder Technique on the Genpuku Ceremony line originally there had also disappeared.

Uesugi Toru fell silent for a moment.

How could this be?

Reputation didn't increase by many times?

Then how could it be completely unsearchable?

That makes no sense.

"Still looking? Looking for what?"

Shizuku turned her head and poked his calf with her toes.

Uesugi Toru gazed at Imagawa Yoshimoto's encyclopedia, which had grown much longer, for a while, and asked: "Shizuku, do you know Imagawa Yoshimoto?"

The girl blinked her eyes, thought for a while, and replied: "Oh... seems I've heard of it,

"——a daimyo of the Sengoku Period, right, she's quite famous."

Uesugi Toru's eyes brightened slightly, hearing Shizuku continue casually: "I remember she was the arch-rival who fought evenly with that Sixth Demon King."

"——Supposedly, she died of illness in the middle of the Battle of Okehazama."

"You actually know this, genius history girl."

Uesugi Toru was about to nod, but then noticed something wrong in Shizuku's words.

Died of illness?

His thoughts stagnated, and a chill rose behind him.

Imagawa Yoshimoto had already cultivated the Breathing Technique to the stage of Qi Circulation, and was about to build his own Flesh Palace, how could he die of illness?

Shizuku hummed softly upon hearing this: "After that Demon King Oda killed his way over, he discovered that Imagawa Yoshimoto had actually died of illness in the main camp."

She spread her hands: "Please, such a famous historical event that even a three-year-old child knows clearly, okay."

Uesugi Toru didn't hear what she said afterwards, just silently thinking alone.

Died of illness.

This word made him have to recall the curse before death from sickness and suffering.

Uesugi Toru was speechless.

After he left, what exactly did the history of the following four years become?

Was it that he chose the wrong time to leave?

There was one more crucial point.

——Since even a three-year-old child knows Imagawa Yoshimoto's name, then does she now appear in Chang Shi?

Myriad thoughts floated in Uesugi Toru's brain, randomly stirred into a ball.

Until the mobile phone in his hand was snatched away by a hand.

Shizuku patted his back hard, causing Uesugi Toru to startle suddenly.

"It's time to get off, Uesugi-kun."

The girl raised the hand holding the mobile phone, her voice faintly coming from ahead,

"We're home."

Uesugi Toru then came back to his senses, walking out of the train as if waking from a dream.

——Hearing the footsteps from behind, Shizuku then focused her attention on the page of the mobile phone that had not yet been closed.

The girl examined Imagawa Yoshimoto's extremely complex encyclopedia, raising her eyebrows in incomprehension: "When did he become a history buff..."

You must know, before Uesugi Toru never cared about history, and was completely ignorant of related knowledge.

If even a three-year-old child knows Imagawa Yoshimoto died of illness in the Battle of Okehazama, then he is not even as good as a three-year-old child.

And, just looking at an encyclopedia, how could it make him fall into that kind of self-absorbed contemplation.

Shizuku narrowed her eyes.

Her Sword Heart stirred slightly, telling her there was definitely something suspicious in this.

Not long after, the two returned to the big villa.

Uesugi Toru, seeing the familiar home gate after a long time, was about to release Xiao Jia from the backpack, when he felt the sword principle everywhere around...

Uesugi Toru turned his head, surveying the "Sword Principle" wrapping everything within dozens of meters.

No, this should be called a Sword Domain...

Shizuku's Sword Domain.

He hadn't noticed it when he was focused on historical questions before, but now he could feel that Sword Domain which had previously been completely intangible.

But he could barely "see" it.

Probably because his Sword Principle had only just reached Entry Level.

Shizuku opened the door familiarly, and Uesugi Toru followed her into the empty Dojo.

He was about to ask about Technique and Principle when he heard Shizuku snap her fingers and say,

"Why not have Lunch first?"

Uesugi Toru opened his Mouth and swallowed the words he was about to say back down.

Then he nodded, showing a smile,

"That works too."

It had been a long time since he'd eaten a Meal made by Shizuku.

Shizuku waited several Seconds, and upon discovering he hadn't thrown out Adult, she proactively asked,

"How many bowls?"

"Two bowls is enough."

Meeting Shizuku's Gaze, Uesugi Toru's smile stiffened for a moment: "Adult she... uh, ran into a small problem."

Shizuku was slightly stunned and didn't ask further.

She just Looked at the Corner that had originally been noisy and lively but was now Empty.

A few days ago, Adult had been striking Samurai Zanmetsumaru together with her here.

The girl turned back without a trace and walked toward the upstairs, intermittent sounds coming from the Stairs into the spacious Dojo,

"I'll go make Meal first, since I didn't prepare in advance it might take a while..."

Uesugi Toru replied okay, watching her back disappear.

"A while."

Before Lunch, doing some small Exercise so he could eat more later is normal, right?

Leaning against the huge "Wu Zi" character below, Uesugi Toru held the deep blue star, taking out the Ten-span Sword Fragments.

He closed his eyes and inwardly viewed the Void Qi Sea which had already grown much larger than at the beginning.

Since the initial area was very small, the Qi Sea's expansion speed was fast.

Just in these several days, it had grown by about Halfway.

You must know, in the Sengoku Period there was the influence of a 15-fold Time Flow.

And within the expanded Qi Sea, the Yotsuo Kitsune Card had occupied the high ground, filling about two-thirds of the entire Qi Sea's space, squeezing the Shirabyoshi Card's living space to the brink.

Uesugi Toru thought somewhat strangely: "Clearly both have the same Quality, and the same Star Rating Rank."

But soon, he set this problem aside.

Thinking too much is useless; he had too much he didn't understand about the Qi Sea.

What he needed to do now was try whether this Super Epic Ten-span Sword Fragment could become one of his Void Qi Sea's Five Elements Boundary Objects!

Wrapping the fragment tightly with Gang Qi, Uesugi Toru tried to send it into the Qi Sea along with the Gang Qi.

Soon, accompanied by a pop sound, the Gang Qi and the Ten-span Sword Fragment went in together.

Success!

Uesugi Toru let out a sound of surprise.

He hadn't expected it to be this simple.

And the next moment, a sharp Warning Prompt jumped into Uesugi Toru's Awareness.

【Caution! You have placed "Potential Defining Object · Ten-span Sword Fragment" into the Void Qi Sea!】

【Do you wish to make it the Unique Defining Object of the Void Qi Sea?】

In that Instant, the Gang Qi wrapping the Ten-span Sword Fragments dispersed, revealing that fragment floating above the Qi Sea, blooming with dazzling Golden Light!

In an Instant, whether it was the originally arrogant Yotsuo Kitsune Card, or the Shirabyoshi Card that had originally been at the bottom, were both pressed down to the lowest layer by it.

Thus, Uesugi Toru could clearly Perceive.

If he chose now to make this Ten-span Sword Fragment the Unique Defining Object to define his Void Qi Sea.

Then his Qi Sea would absolutely expand in an Instant, increasing its area by dozens or hundreds of times!

And become the premier Metal Attribute Qi Sea!

Even, mysterious powers related to Susanoo or Yamata no Orochi might appear in the Qi Sea!

End of Chapter