"Since I have applied for self-study, I have the time to visit your grandpa anyway. If you want to practice, you can also go there. Your grandpa is very strong."

On the way home, her mother Eriko, who was driving, said to Ito Cheng who was sitting in the passenger seat.

"Really? Whatever, you can do it anywhere." Ito Cheng nodded and replied indifferently. Instead, I thought to myself that going to the shrine would be a good time to learn how to use spiritual power. It would be a waste to have this power without using it, and I would also make some preparations for my trip to the next world.

"Well, let's go back and pack your clothes, and then you can live there temporarily." Eriko Ito said.

"Yes." Ito Cheng nodded.

There was no conversation all the way, and the two returned home. According to what was said on the way, Ito Cheng packed up a few clothes for daily wear, then took out a big bag, put the medicinal materials for medicinal baths out of the space and carried them on his back. , then went downstairs to the living room and set off for the shrine in the suburbs with her mother Eriko who had prepared herself in the morning.

After a journey that was neither long nor short, the two finally arrived at the shrine. This is a quiet hill. There are almost no buildings about a hundred meters around the foot of the mountain. Only some low houses gradually appear in the distance. There are no high-rise pavilions in the city, which gives people a sense of openness.

Walking step by step along the stone steps on the mountain path towards the shrine above, you will see thick trees. Their broad crowns extend to both sides of the stone steps, blocking large swaths of sunlight. Only the scattered strands of light fall to the ground, and the fallen leaves that look like light are very beautiful. But without the direct sunlight, a cool feeling envelopes the whole body, as if summer has gone away from me all of a sudden.

"It's such a good place." Ito said to himself.

After passing the long stone steps, the two of them crossed the torii gate at the gate of the shrine. They looked across the small square paved with stone slabs behind the torii gate. What they saw was a quaint building. It was initially estimated that the Japanese-style wooden tradition had a history of more than 200 years. The houses are scattered according to a certain pattern, which shows the long tradition of the Ito family's shrine.

There is a small house standing on the left side of the small square between the torii gate and the main hall of the shrine. Under the roof, there are words such as lottery and so on. Behind the hut and around the shrine are bamboos common in Japan, which cover the shrine in small pieces, making it feel like a place outside the world.

On the right side of the main hall of the shrine facing the torii gate, close to the bamboo forest, there is a small earth temple that is only as high as a person's calf. In the middle of the main hall, there is a thick rope with a huge bell made of brass tied to it. This is the shrine's blessing. Bells. Every year during the Chinese New Year, people come here to ring the bells to announce a safe year. Underneath the bells is a tank of sesame oil. Finally, there is the left side of the main hall, which is an open space. Except for a sacred tree planted there for tying prayer ropes, there is a row of karma-locked buildings.

The two of them walked around the main hall of the shrine and came to the back where the shrine staff lived. There was a tall and energetic old man wearing Japanese-style priest robes sweeping the floor with a bamboo broom. In Ito Cheng's mental perception, although the old man in front of him was very ordinary and nothing outstanding, there was always a voice in his heart telling him that it was very dangerous, very dangerous!

"Dad." Eriko Ito greeted respectfully.

"Ah, it's Eriko here." The old man whom Eriko called daddy, Ito Kikujiro, smiled and nodded, and then turned his attention to Ito Shige who was standing aside.

"Is this? Ah Cheng?" Ito Kikujiro asked with some uncertainty. After all, except when he was a child, Ito Cheng rarely came to the shrine, so Kikujiro was not very impressed by him.

"Yes, this is Ah Cheng." Eriko nodded, patted Ito Cheng beside him and asked him to salute.

"Hello, Grandpa!" Ito Cheng saluted.

"Okay, okay." Ito Kikujiro said with a smile on his face, which showed how happy he was to see Ito Cheng. Afterwards, Ito Kikujiro put the broom in his hand aside and took Eriko and Ito Cheng back to the room. After making arrangements for Ito Cheng, he took Eriko to sit down in another room.

"Are you bringing Acheng here this time?" Kikujiro asked seriously.

"That's it..." Eriko explained what happened recently and Ito Cheng's explanation, and then quietly waited for Kikujiro's inquiry.

"That's it, I understand, I will teach Ah Cheng well." Ito Kikujiro nodded and said with a relaxed look on his face. I thought that something important happened when my daughter suddenly brought her grandson here. After understanding it, I found out that it was just some trivial matter, so I relaxed.

"The Summer Festival is coming soon, so you should prepare well. This year, the government plans to hold a large Summer Festival for publicity. At that time, other shrines may be invited to compete to host it, although the current shrines are all incompetent. Guy, but you can't be careless, after all, it is related to the government's aid funds for the shrine in the next year." After understanding Ito Cheng's problem, the two began to discuss the shrine's problem.

"I know father, I will be well prepared. By the way, do you want to bring Suzu and Reina over? After all, if I am the only miko, I might not be able to do it by then." Eriko Ito nodded in agreement, and then asked.

"Okay, it's all family business, how can they not participate." Ito Kikujiro said decisively.

"I understand, Dad." Eriko nodded to express her understanding.

After the two talked, they returned to the outhouse and found Ito Cheng. After Eriko gave Ito Cheng a few more instructions, she turned and left, leaving only Ito Cheng and the old man Kikujiro.

"Ah Cheng, your mother said that you have recently started practicing the family swordsmanship, right?" Kikujiro asked cheerfully.

"Yes." Ito Cheng nodded.

"Well, let's go to the dojo to see your progress so that I can teach you." Kikujiro said.

"OK."

Ito Cheng stood up and followed Ito Kikujiro towards the dojo in the backyard.

The dojo is very large, at least about 100 square meters. The wooden floor is smooth and shiny, reflecting reflections. The two of them put on their equipment and picked up their weapons. After making a sword salute to each other, they began to confront each other. Ito Kikujiro's impression of Ito Cheng did not change. He was still the image of an ordinary old man.

"Ha!" Ito Cheng couldn't hold it back, stepped forward, raised his sword and struck.

Ito Kikujiro did not move, but casually blocked and slashed with his sword, forcing Ito Cheng back. However, Ito Kikujiro did not pursue him, but still stood there, waiting for Ito Cheng to attack. According to his words Just to check the progress.

"Is this the gap..." Ito Cheng felt the gap from the old man's movements. Putting his thoughts away, Ito Cheng started a steady attack, and used all the swordsmanship learned by Ito Cheng in Ito Kikujiro's defense.

"Bang" After Ito Kikujiro's casual counterattack knocked Ito Cheng's bamboo sword away, he said, "Okay, that's it."

"Yes." Ito Cheng put his hands on his knees and gasped.

"It's very good. You have completely learned the basics. I heard from your mother that you have only been learning swords for less than a month, which shows your talent." Ito Kikujiro nodded and praised with a smile on his face.

"There is no need to study the basics anymore. Now let's start learning something new, the Demon Exorcist Sword." Ito Kikujiro said seriously, staring at Ito Cheng with his eyes tightly. A huge pressure instantly hit Ito Cheng's body. He was so weak that he didn't kneel directly to the ground.

Fortunately, Ito Cheng is not the same as Ito Cheng. Both mentally and physically, he has made great progress. He gritted his teeth and persisted in Kikujiro's pressure, and at the same time thought to himself, "Sure enough, the old man of the Ito family is not that simple."

Ito Kikujiro was surprised when he saw that his grandson was not forced to kneel to the ground by his own momentum. Then he smiled all over his face, slowly increasing the pressure...

"Damn it!" Ito Cheng felt the pressure increase and persisted with his willpower. I don't know if it was a second or a minute. The spiritual power in Ito Cheng's body suddenly moved. In an instant, Ito Cheng felt that the pressure on him had changed. A light. And as the spiritual power moves faster and faster, the pressure on oneself becomes more and more easy to resist, and it gradually becomes less uncomfortable.

"This is...spiritual power!" Ito Kikujiro looked at his grandson with a shocked face, speechless.

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