Lost Lambs

"Sir, would you like to join the Supernatural Bowl-Cut Cult?"

Several people with bulging muscles, mature faces, and student tracksuits came up to Bai Cangshu and handed him another flyer.

Seeing Bai Cangshu hesitate, they turned and pointed at a giant broccoli-like plant in the distance, its shadow stretched beneath the sunlight to cover almost half the city.
"If you don’t believe us, just head over there. It’ll soon become the cult leader’s divine kingdom!"

You have come into contact with the hidden faction: Spirit World Revelation

The Space’s notification came belatedly. Bai Cangshu smiled, nodded, and accepted the flyer, then watched as the group continued enthusiastically recruiting people throughout the streets.

At that moment, the Sage in his grasp had breathing and a pulse so faint they were almost imperceptible.

Bai Cangshu frowned and pressed a finger against the man’s brow. Golden qi flashed past, piercing through his skull.

You have killed Reincarnator GF55531477

You killed a Reincarnator in a team survival mode world. This kill cannot generate a Scarlet Drop Card.

Due to the effect of Omen of the Evil God: Cocoon of Greed, this kill grants Karma Points ×1, forcibly generates a Scarlet Drop Card, and increases rewards by 50%.

That Title-level Reincarnator, who had always clung to life and relied on the Cognitive Devil’s contract ability to achieve immortality through Substitute Death, had died just like that…

Bai Cangshu saw the peaceful expression on the man’s face. The pain of being repeatedly slaughtered by Bai Cangshu seemed to have vanished, and when Bai Cangshu killed him this time, he did not sense any trace of that spirit appearing.

It has been determined that the damage you dealt to Reincarnator GF55531477 exceeded 99%. This kill is judged to be an independent kill.

Advanced Quest: Flesh of the Enemy, My Fosterling II progress updated.

Would you like to use Reincarnator GF55531477's head as material to complete this advanced quest?

Bai Cangshu saw that the Sage’s corpse had not transformed directly into a Scarlet Drop Card as it had after the previous kills. Instead, his head glowed faintly. Clearly, the Space’s determination for the advanced quest took priority over the Scarlet Drop Card’s information extraction.

Bai Cangshu had killed quite a few enemies in this world, but this was the first time he had met the quest’s criteria.

Presumably, the previous Reincarnators had either been rated too low, or other Reincarnators and Plot Characters had contributed too much to their deaths.

Looking at the Sage’s face, which wore an oddly peaceful expression, Bai Cangshu snorted and crushed his head beneath one foot before turning toward the depths of New Seasoning City.

Because he had been sacrificed by Bai Cangshu upon the divine altar, the Sage had lost the mystery granted by his Mysterious World enhancements, effectively losing half his strength.

Bai Cangshu could not accept a "Defective Product" as material to forge his Divine Stairway Body. He wanted to find someone stronger, someone more suitable!

As he walked, the Sage’s shattered corpse rapidly transformed into scarlet radiance, gathering bit by bit before Bai Cangshu.

Bai Cangshu reached out and grabbed it, and the Drop Card landed in his hand.

You have obtained Scarlet Drop Card ×1

This Scarlet Drop Card contained that demonic power capable of twisting cognition. In this world, Bai Cangshu had truly witnessed the strangeness and power of this unique ability.

It could even be said that the strength of the Sage, a Title-level Reincarnator, was fundamentally built upon that demonic power capable of twisting causality and death.

Bai Cangshu had never thought much of the powers possessed by the devils in Chainsaw Man, but as the level of power he encountered rose, he increasingly realized something.

In this Space, a "stat monster" like himself was not all that unbeatable.

At least until his "stats" could overwhelmingly crush everyone else’s, these people with strange rule-based abilities were remarkably bizarre—and restrained him considerably.

Whether it was Millennium Worm’s Domain Expansion of curse-word jujutsu or the Sage’s Devil’s Contract power, both had caused him no small amount of trouble.

"Tch. What an irritating ability."

Of course, Bai Cangshu also knew perfectly well that this world was, to him, much like the previous One Piece World—a "punishment world" in a certain sense.

Because of his performance in the Naruto World, the Space’s assessment of him had soared once more. Combined with the fact that he had directly killed the Title-level Reincarnator Rainbow Mage: Qilin Temple, the hidden evaluation system had likely raised his combat rating to a level close to that of a Title-level Reincarnator.

That was why he had been thrown into such a dangerous world alongside Reincarnators like Li Qingzi, an established upper-mid Strong-tier Reincarnator.

Wanting to achieve a stat advantage in a world whose level was clearly above his own was extremely difficult.

But Bai Cangshu’s thirst for power did not care about punishment worlds or Reincarnator rankings.

He wanted true, unfettered strength, just like… that man!

The image of that bald man appeared in Bai Cangshu’s mind.

Hoo~

He took a deep breath, and the turbid air in his chest spread like white mist, concealing him.

"Calm down… Think again. What exactly is something like a Limiter…?"

Bai Cangshu sank into thought, yet his figure had already completely entered the shadow cast by that massive broccoli-like plant.

Here, he sensed a peculiar power. He could hear many faint voices beginning to echo beside his ears like the wind.

"It feels so good, Mom~"

"It doesn’t hurt anymore…"

"Thank you, cult leader. I’m not afraid anymore…"

"If that’s the case, then it doesn’t matter even if I can’t pass on, right…"

It was as if he had joined some kind of "call group," where a great many spirits were conversing.

Bai Cangshu raised his head and looked at the enormous plant. After pondering for a moment, he stamped his foot and shot into the sky.

A moment later, Bai Cangshu landed atop a high-rise building in the city. Looking at the plant that was still far away, he realized that it was not somewhere he could reach this way.

He recalled what those spirits, who were clearly members of the Body Improvement Club from the original work, had told him.

The cult leader?

A divine kingdom?!

Could it be that Shigeo Kageyama had not completely gone dark after all, and was preparing to build his divine kingdom here?

In that instant, countless thoughts flashed through Bai Cangshu’s mind. It seemed he truly had underestimated the ambitions of Eternal Destiny, that Supreme Expert.

That person’s target… was not Shigeo Kageyama!

Bai Cangshu turned around and looked at the faint spirits behind him. The Sage had already been killed by him, yet these spirits had not disappeared.

An idea suddenly came to him.

Bai Cangshu clasped his hands together and suddenly activated Yin Spirit Possession in the Spirit World!

Hoo~

Black-and-white cloud trails appeared around Bai Cangshu like wind, and then the wind grew increasingly violent.

As though he had done something terrifying, he heard countless howls rising from within the Spirit World.

Bai Cangshu closed his eyes, unmoved. The tens of thousands of yin spirits within him had escaped from the Consciousness Sea after his Star Spirit Body was shattered.

Now, he was going to call every one of those yin spirits back!

How could Bai Cangshu possibly miss something as interesting as creating a divine kingdom for spirits in the Spirit World?

After increasingly clearly sensing the powerful strength of this physique, his craving for spirits had become as fanatical as a craving for Food Source.

Come back, my yin spirits~

Come back, you lost lambs.