"You're saying Abe no Seimei wants to rely on forcibly sacrificing all Onmyōji from Onmyōdō to break through and advance to the Transcendent realm?!"
Sitting in the empty café, Vali stared at Doman, who was recounting all the background, with a shocked face. Kagura beside him also added some details.
Suddenly it felt how ridiculous this was. How could the Transcendent realm be so easily broken through and entered.
"A few days ago, both our Super Disaster Countermeasures Office and other Onmyōdō organizations, Onmyō families, exorcist families... all received a secret order issued by the five Onmyōdō giants: Onmyō Agency, Onmyō Academy, Exorcists Group, Hanakai Family, and Tsuchimikado Family. The order requested all Onmyōdō combat forces to come to Kyoto to witness Onmyōdō Founder Abe no Seimei's birth, and observe whether he was worthy of our continued respect in Onmyōdō, or stand on the opposing side!"
"However, things afterward were far beyond our expectations."
Kagura sipped the coffee she had just brewed herself, and said bitterly: "When we arrived in Kyoto, we only learned it was all a conspiracy. Abe no Seimei had already been born without us realizing. The secret order we received issued by the five Onmyōdō giants was fake. Those five Onmyōdō giants had all been secretly captured by people sent by Abe no Seimei. Those who moved, besides those Great Yōkai, there was also the Gokadoin House, another bloodline branch inherited from Abe no Seimei."
"We were imprisoned by Abe no Seimei at the Hanakai Family. Our spiritual power was continuously squeezed inside the barrier. After spiritual power was squeezed dry, what remained was life energy."
"Father and the others, together with high-level Onmyōji, secretly broke a gap in the barrier and sent me out to seek help from outside. Unfortunately, I was discovered by those Great Yōkai before I left Kyoto."
"If not for Hikaru Nii-san appearing, perhaps I would also..."
Kagura recounted all the current situation in one breath. In her words, they could truly hear the difficulties faced by Onmyōdō people currently and Kagura's hardship.
"Sacrificing Onmyōdō, sacrificing human lives... He truly thinks he can break through and advance to the Transcendent realm with this!" Hikaru said with a contemptuous tone.
"Although I also think it won't be that simple, this method isn't impossible to try." Doman said.
"What do you take Transcendents to be? You truly think you can advance by relying on external power like this." Vali sarcastically interjected, saying: "That's too ridiculous."
"If it were that easy, it would be impossible for humans to only have one Transcendent. The number of Transcendents in the entire world would definitely multiply."
Transcendent.
An existence that transcended self-order, transcended race category, transcended power systems...
The gap between Devil King level and the Transcendent realm, how could it be bridged just with Onmyōdō? If this method truly succeeded, Grigori wouldn't have failed to birth a single Transcendent until now. The same applied to Heaven.
"Abe no Seimei hasn't even reached Devil King level's limit, he truly wants to ascend to heaven in one step and peek at the Transcendent realm. Either he's foolish or he's been completely deceived."
Hikaru roughly guessed the fundamental reason slightly.
"Emperor Shin, you say Abe no Seimei's power hasn't reached Devil King level's limit?!!!"
Doman was shocked.
In his impression, Abe no Seimei's power should be comparable to Devil Kings, which was the strongest combat power right below the Transcendent realm. How could it be according to Emperor Shin he hadn't even reached Devil King level's limit.
"You and Abe no Seimei should belong to one of the strongest sequences among humans besides me. However, right below me doesn't mean right below the Transcendent realm. Abe no Seimei still has quite a distance from Devil King level's limit. Your situation doesn't even need to be mentioned again, you've only reached mid-Devil King level."
Hikaru glanced at Doman, and continued mercilessly: "Although Onmyōdō is an important inheritance in human supernatural power systems, unfortunately, so far it doesn't have the potential to make someone grow to Devil King level's limit, let alone Transcendent."
"How is that possible?!"
Doman who obtained the 'truth' was truly like being struck by lightning in broad daylight. His expression appeared very confused and sad.
"So everything was my fantasy, a fantasy of setting foot in the abyss and end of Onmyōdō, which wouldn't lose at all to the god and devil race systems... Now thinking about it, that's truly ridiculous... Hahaha!!!"
As if the faith he pursued all his life had collapsed, Doman laughed loudly.
He laughed at his previous naivety, and also laughed at Abe no Seimei's current unrealistic arrogance and fantasy.
"Monk Dōman..."
Kagura was slightly worried looking at Doman, the origin of their Tsuchimiya family's Onmyōdō inheritance.
"Little girl from the Tsuchimiya family, I'm not that weak."
Doman stopped his laughter, returned to normal in his expression, and said while thinking: "According to Emperor Shin's words, then in the entire human power system, only Kenjutsu is a power system that can head toward Devil King level's limit."
After all, Hikaru relied on Kenjutsu to become a Transcendent step by step.
In Doman's consciousness, Kenjutsu must definitely be an existence that could rival the god and devil race power systems.
"Kenjutsu can indeed head toward Devil King level's limit, unfortunately, ordinary human Kenjutsu isn't enough. My Emperor Shin Kenjutsu can."
After saying this, Hikaru didn't mind telling Doman more. After all, among humans, aside from Sacred Gear holders, only a few attracted his attention.
"Thank you for the teaching, Emperor Shin!"
Doman bowed deeply to Hikaru. Today's brief conversation had benefited him greatly.
"Hikaru Nii-san, what will we do next?" Kagura asked.
"Wait calmly for a bit. I want to see what exactly that man wants to do?!"
The 'that man' Hikaru referred to naturally wasn't Abe no Seimei, but Rizevim, who was arranging all this behind him.
Kagura nodded slightly.
"Okay, Hikaru Nii-san!"
With Hikaru here, it was impossible for Yomi and the others to experience anything bad.