Bai Jing walked out of the building, looking at the brightly lit office on the top floor. Thinking of the scene of meeting the remains of Akakui just now, he couldn't help but sigh.
Returning to the agreed place, Jiang Wen was peacefully drinking tea and reading. Bai Jing felt that after Jiang Wen returned from Nanyang, his whole person had become more mature, completely unlike his youthful appearance. Although he didn't know what he had encountered in Nanyang, as long as he was still himself, the White Fox Clan wouldn't abandon him.
Retreating from his human form and transforming into a white fox, Bai Jing hopped beside Jiang Wen and lay on his shoulder. He felt his spiritual energy becoming active, and a comfortable feeling spread throughout his body. In this place of lazy spiritual energy, only beside Jiang Wen could he feel comfortable. This was also why many of the demons in the temple liked to stay with him.
"Did you encounter something?" Jiang Wen smiled.
"I saw that Akakui, or rather, she's no longer called Akakui, but Himiko," Bai Jing said.
"Himiko? That's a meaningful name in the overseas country."
"What's the meaning?" Bai Jing asked curiously.
"Himiko can be regarded as the first queen of the overseas country," Jiang Wen said briefly. "It seems she's not Akakui."
"Yeah," Bai Jing nodded. "She only inherited some of Akakui's memories and power; she's not Akakui. Akakui was already beheaded and her soul scattered, with no possibility of resurrection."
"How did you get along with her?" Jiang Wen asked with a smile.
"She's just a mortal who inherited demonic power and still has the ambitions of a mortal. Although she has some of Akakui's power, she's ultimately no match for Akakui," Bai Jing said. "I can see her ambition; she's still using virgin blood to nurture a great demon."
"So, she's been abducting so many women to nurture a great demon?" Jiang Wen asked with some curiosity. "What does she want to do?"
"She, or rather, all the demons who have come here, want to create a world belonging to demons in this world," Bai Jing sighed. "They even want to sacrifice all the mortals in this world to awaken the ancient great demon and then open the path between the two worlds to revive the demonic race."
"The ambition is indeed not small," Jiang Wen smiled. "It's just a pity that even if the ancient great demon were alive, it might not be able to open the path between the two worlds."
Listening to Bai Jing's words, Jiang Wen had some understanding of the demons' plan. However, in his opinion, many things were wishful thinking and couldn't all be realized.
"So, what do you think, my lord? What's the plan?" Bai Jing patted Jiang Wen's face and asked curiously. After all, now that he knew the whereabouts of Akakui's remains, Jiang Wen could go and kill her. With his abilities, no demon in Kyoto could escape.
However, apart from occasionally taking action a few times, Jiang Wen didn't seem to be engaging in mass slaughter. Bai Jing was also puzzled by this. She couldn't understand what Jiang Wen wanted to do.
"Me? I just want to see what she can accomplish in the end," Jiang Wen said with a smile.
"Why don't you just clean up all the demons here?"
"Slaughter can certainly solve the problem, but wouldn't it be better not to kill?" Jiang Wen said. "People have good and evil, and so do demons. Everything in the world depends on human effort."
"So, you want to...?" Bai Jing suddenly understood; she somewhat understood what Jiang Wen wanted to do.
"I just want all the demons living in this world to know—I'm still here," Jiang Wen said, and a momentum burst forth. However, before Bai Jing could recover, the monstrous momentum was withdrawn by him.
Bai Jing looked at Jiang Wen with lingering fear; only one sentence remained in her mind—My lord has become stronger again.
… …
In the next two days, Jiang Wen didn't run around. He usually drank tea and went to the Wooden Spirit Shrine to check on the situation.
The Wooden Spirit Shrine had been renamed the Qingxu Shrine, and the statue enshrined was Jiang Wen's. Bai Ze's son, Bai Qing, had agreed to go back with him, on the condition that he could cultivate.
Jiang Wen naturally agreed and promised to create a good demon cultivation technique for Bai Qing.
Incidentally, he also bought the abandoned shrine he had visited before and made Takenouchi Honto the person in charge of this shrine. The shrine was named Qingxu Shrine, the same as Kamimoto Kakei's shrine.
By the way, Zhang Jiao's company also resumed operations, and Jiang Wen invested all the money he got from Wang into her company. He planned to use the dividends from this share to maintain the expenses of the Qingxu Shrine, and Li Mu was also preparing to resign and come to help Zhang Jiao.
Seeing the two of them starting to show affection, Jiang Wen was too lazy to see them.
He just told them that if anything happened in the future, they could go to the shrine to find Takenouchi Honto. After being charmed by Bai Jing, that person was already considered one of Jiang Wen's people.
As for the Akakui remains who called herself Himiko, Jiang Wen didn't pay attention to them anymore. He was just waiting for his visa to expire before preparing to return to China.
The wind howled in the dark clouds, and gray fog enveloped the sky of Kyoto.
The dark clouds swirled into a vortex, gathering above the sky of Kyoto.
"What a thick demonic power," Jiang Wen sighed, looking at the vortex above the sky.
"I'm afraid Himiko has already collected the lungs of Akakui's remains," Bai Jing jumped onto the window, opening her eyes to look at the gathering place. "But why is she making such a big commotion?"
Bai Jing was a little puzzled. After all, although there were no cultivators in this world, people were not fools, and with various strange rumors and events occurring frequently, it was hard to guarantee that everyone had no information. Demons were still in a weak state in this world, and such a high-profile appearance was bound to cause problems.
"I'm afraid that Himiko can't control herself," Jiang Wen said after thinking. "No matter what, she's just a mortal who obtained Akakui's remains; without strong mental support, she will only be devoured by the remains."
"If that's the case, then now only Akakui's demonic nature remains to control her."
"What do you mean?"
"She's probably going to cause a big problem," Jiang Wen sighed. "Akakui herself came from the Teng Snake, which is gentle but has a poisonous mouth, and is in charge of demonic evil and bewitchment. If she is dominated by her nature, I'm afraid she will swallow hundreds of millions of people in Kyoto."
"… … Is that so," Bai Jing couldn't help but exclaim.
"Is there really a difference between humans and demons?" Jiang Wen chuckled. "It's just that those who prioritize nature are demons, and those who prioritize reason are humans. Those who can't control their nature and act recklessly are called demons."
"Then what should we do now?" Bai Jing looked at Jiang Wen and asked.
"Naturally, we will kill the chicken to warn the monkey, and give the demons of the present world a big show to watch," Jiang Wen smiled and patted his storage bag, and a Taoist robe flew out.
He put on the Taoist robe and looked at the increasingly dense vortex of black clouds in the distance, stepping into the void, golden lotuses blooming under his feet as he left.
"Let's go, it's time to end these messy things."
