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Hanami could sense the strength in Jiang Lai, especially when he no longer pretended to be a naive rabbit cursed spirit but genuinely showed his true self.

She was indeed shaken for a moment, but then immediately calmed down. As a special grade cursed spirit, Hanami wasn't someone who could be easily persuaded.

Hanami doubted the authenticity behind Jiang Lai's words.

[If you can't guarantee giving us cursed spirits a brand new world as you claim, aren't you just like that organization, offering empty promises?]

"No, this isn't called an empty promise, more accurately, it's probably called investment." Jiang Lai smiled and said, "Your actions are undoubtedly investments. Because you can't find more like-minded cursed spirits, you placed the possibility of achieving your goals on humans and cooperated with them."

"And since it's an investment, naturally you compare and choose the side more likely to yield returns." Jiang Lai nodded. "With strength as proof, I'm naturally much more reliable than them."

Hanami's expression showed nothing, but her heart stirred with waves.

According to what this black-haired youth said, it seemed to make sense. But...

Hanami still hadn't made up her mind.

Jiang Lai still wore a smile, saying in a calm tone: "Furthermore, I haven't made any additional demands of you. Counting it up, you have no losses and aren't at a disadvantage, right?"

These words made Hanami slightly stunned, then she reacted.

It seemed true... the black-haired youth before her hadn't demanded they do anything, only asked them to step aside.

Since the Supervisory Committee couldn't fulfill their conditions and might even turn around to harm them, why should they still bother guarding this tower for the Supervisory Committee?

Better to hand it over to the visitor before them, switch investment partners. Perhaps miracles would emerge from the new Four Guardian Towers in the future.

This operation wouldn't disadvantage them.

After all, the tower belonged to the Supervisory Committee, and the visitor before them had no additional demands. Giving the Supervisory Committee's tower to the visitor seemed to require no extra effort from their side.

The only thing they needed to invest was time, because they'd have to wait for Jiang Lai to attempt building new Four Guardian Towers.

But for special grade cursed spirits with no lifespan limits, they had plenty of time. Waiting a bit longer wasn't impossible.

Thinking this way, Hanami's original hesitation and indecision swept away completely.

She suddenly realized she seemed to have no reason to foolishly guard a tower for humans.

Before her, Jiang Lai still wore a perfect smile. He didn't say much more, but by observing Hanami's micro-expressions, he knew he had convinced her.

Actually, Jiang Lai knew in his heart that his arguments weren't flawless either. Fundamentally, he was secretly guiding Hanami to think along the route he had predetermined.

If they really debated, there were many points worth scrutinizing.

But at this moment, these words were absolutely sufficient to topple the Supervisory Committee.

Kenjaku might be very good at exploiting verbal loopholes, but he definitely wasn't as skilled as himself at using details to leverage factions.

Hanami before him, following Jiang Lai's words, had now figured things out.

Special grade cursed spirits didn't have humans' roundabout ways of thinking. Their thoughts and actions were relatively direct. After figuring out the faction issue, she decisively changed her previous attitude and said straightforwardly:

[When do you plan to destroy that tower? I can take you there right now.]

Jiang Lai: "......" Although this was the ultimate goal of coming here, wasn't the progress too fast?

They were just engaged in verbal sparring, and now suddenly the gates were wide open, leaving people quite confused.

According to human world customs, even if both sides reached consensus in their hearts, verbally there would inevitably be several rounds of benefit tug-of-war.

From this perspective, in a certain sense, special grade cursed spirits were actually quite honest...

However, Jiang Lai wasn't in a rush to do anything. The more critical the moment, the calmer he became, so he first asked: "Is there anything I need to pay attention to when destroying the tower?"

Jiang Lai thought he might gather some intelligence from the special grade cursed spirit's side.

Hanami answered: [We just take turns guarding it, we don't really understand the details. You'll have to figure out the specifics yourselves.]

Jiang Lai: "......" He understood that once Hanami let go, she'd completely stop caring.

It seemed he still needed to explore himself. Jiang Lai thought.

Tonight wasn't convenient for immediate action. Tomorrow he'd call Okkotsu Yuta, first use the map to test whether the formation Hanami showed them was truly the Four Guardian Tower [Position Switch], then consider how to destroy it.

Jiang Lai still kept a layer of caution.

Even though tonight's conversation with Hanami went very smoothly, he remained vigilant at all times. What if special grade cursed spirits had also learned humans' false cooperation and misdirection?

He still needed to use the map to confirm the tower's authenticity.

Therefore, Jiang Lai said: "I'll have my people come here tomorrow. They are human youths. When the time comes, you'll meet under this cherry tree."

Jiang Lai lightly waved his hand, attaching a faint trace of cursed energy to the cherry tree.

His cursed energy carried the scent of nature, nourishing this cherry tree and making its growth visibly improve.

Faced with this, Hanami's expression became much gentler.

Even knowing Jiang Lai wasn't a true companion, she still had natural fondness for Jiang Lai who possessed nature's scent.

[Alright, then see you tomorrow.] She nodded in agreement.

The next day.

Jiang Lai switched back to his Little Sheep disguise, bouncing along with Okkotsu Yuta as they returned to Mount Fuji's foothills.

Okkotsu Yuta had already prepared the revealed map, finding the cherry tree where Jiang Lai had left his cursed energy mark. Hanami was also waiting early under the cherry tree.

Facing humans, Hanami's attitude was much colder compared to when she faced Jiang Lai's main body yesterday. However, compared to other cursed spirits, she could still be considered gentle and polite.

She led Okkotsu Yuta and Little Sheep Jiang Lai through narrow paths, around several "ghostly maze" concealment barriers, to a hidden cave.

The cursed energy aura here wasn't strong, but if you carefully focused your senses, you could perceive that it wasn't thin cursed energy, but cursed energy aura being concealed.

Okkotsu Yuta looked down at the map. The strange symbol beside [Position Switch] had lit up, marking this as one of the Four Guardian Towers.

Jiang Lai used the [Electronic Spirits] technique to summon one of his initial spirits, Leafeon, controlling this spirit shikigami he was very skilled with to charge into the cave first and scout the path.

Leafeon had both targeted and area-wide attack moves. Little Sheep Jiang Lai controlled the spirit, using curse-enhanced attacks of various types within the cave.

However, this place was like an ordinary cave, with nothing changing except scattered stones and gravel.

Jiang Lai's thoughts paused, thinking:

This wasn't right. He wasn't hiding his strength now, and the cursed energy output from the spirit shikigami should logically be able to damage the formation, or at least provoke some resistance. How could there be no reaction at all?

"I'll go in and explore." Okkotsu Yuta put away the map and bravely declared. He drew the long sword from its sheath, his aura suddenly climbing.

The black-haired youth's expression focused, those usually gentle nice-guy eyes now transformed into ice-sharp keenness.

The special grade jujutsu sorcerer's pressure made nearby Hanami instinctively rise with cursed energy. The cursed energy of both stirred the air here, actually rushing into the cave and shaking the hidden formation inside!

The originally thin cursed energy in the air became several times denser, like poking a hole and letting the air inside leak out.

Jiang Lai raised his eyebrows slightly, then took advantage of his current shell's benefits, saying in a clear voice: "Brother Okkotsu, why don't you first restrain your cursed energy?"

Okkotsu Yuta was startled, somewhat surprised by Jiang Lai's words, but still obediently withdrew all his surrounding cursed energy.

For a moment, only Hanami's cursed energy remained in the air, while the cave continued leaking its internal cursed energy aura.

Jiang Lai had a guess and chuckled inwardly:

Well done, worthy of Kenjaku. This [Position Switch] tower could only be truly accessed by the special grade cursed spirit originally designated to guard it.

This meant that even if unexpected visitors infiltrated, they couldn't destroy or trigger this formation, because it only responded to specific characters.

Unless the intruder convinced the guarding special grade cursed spirit to rebel and help destroy the formation, otherwise they'd have to put in considerable effort.

But special grade cursed spirits definitely weren't the type to communicate with humans. The identity conflict between cursed spirits and humans was irreconcilable, so meetings would definitely result in fights. This setup was indeed very clever.

Jiang Lai: But sorry, I can shapeshift and even convince special grade cursed spirits!

With one operation, Jiang Lai directly undermined Kenjaku's tower-guarding plan.

Having roughly guessed this tower's access method, the rest became much more convenient.

Special grade cursed spirit Hanami originally didn't intend to act, but felt that spending some cursed energy as investment wasn't a big deal.

For the sake of last night's natural aura and the possibly brand new Four Guardian Towers in the future.

Hanami thought this and made her decision.

She summoned Jogo and Dagon, and several special grade cursed spirits all exerted some power.

The [Position Switch] tower vanished and disappeared in the hands of the special grade cursed spirits who originally guarded it.

Okkotsu Yuta was still somewhat uncomfortable. He had drawn his sword and gathered his cursed energy, but in the end didn't need to act at all.

...But this was also a good thing. Anyway, it was resolved.

Okkotsu Yuta silently sheathed his long sword again.

It seemed his senpai was much more capable than he had imagined, not only powerful in strength but also excellent in other aspects.

The resolution of the first tower went very smoothly, even too smoothly.

But Jiang Lai sensed some unusual factors from this.

The resolution of the [Position Switch] tower was thanks to Kenjaku's loophole and the rebellion of the guardian special grade cursed spirits.

But by comparison, the other towers... might not be so easy.

For example, [Noble and Base], which was most likely at the Zenin family. To destroy this tower, would it require Zenin cursed energy? Or Zenin family lives? Or some other related measures?

But regardless, involving people made things complicated.

Okkotsu Yuta also figured this out, his expression becoming serious as his gaze fell on Little Sheep Jiang Lai:

"Senpai, I personally think our next step should be to first understand the rules of the [Noble and Base] tower."

"Exactly." Jiang Lai nodded in agreement. "I can switch back to my main body and infiltrate the Zenin family, first meeting with the Zenin family head or Lady Zenin. They should know some inside information."

Additionally, Lady Zenin had promised him one prophecy opportunity. Jiang Lai thought.

He didn't plan to prophesy about large-scale matters, like ultimate victory, because those depended more on human effort than divine calculation.

He wanted to obtain some information about Gojo Satoru through Lady Zenin's technique.

Having no contact all this time, Jiang Lai was inevitably somewhat worried.

He wanted to know what the situation was with Gojo Satoru's tower, and what exactly could trap him.