High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 1776: Extra Chapter 10: Human Tribulation

Perhaps it’s due to that forbidden spell.

Perhaps it’s because the Rat Immortal saw his wife, saved his daughter, and thus let go of the knot in his heart.

In any case, when the Rat Immortal chose to abandon his flesh to become a Bone Relic, using his own soul to replace the Philosopher’s Stone to activate the Giant Zero Three, making ’Tai Yi’ descend into the Black Prison world, suddenly, at the end of his originally dark and endless magical path, a sliver of light appeared.

He saw and touched the opportunity to break through the shackles of legend.

Like a drowning man at the bottom of the sea, who suddenly finds a rope appearing in front of him, the Rat Immortal grabs it without hesitation and climbs up with all his strength.

This process cannot be completed in a moment.

It might take a day, two days, a month, two months, or even one or two years. But he ultimately found the right path.

However, as he was constantly approaching the Legendary Realm.

The Mouse Clan he had once created, under the influence of that hint of legendary aura, began to transform — for the Rat Immortal, this was another surprise.

Originally, he created the Mouse Clan to emulate the Vampires or Fox race ancestors, to achieve ’ancestral status’ by creating an extraordinary race, thereby breaking through the shackles of legend.

Unexpectedly, he first touched the legend before his Mouse Clan did.

This, in turn, led to the evolution and transformation of the mice under his command. If nothing else, the Wizard World will soon add a new extraordinary clan based on the traditional extraordinary clans such as Vampires, Werewolves, and Fox race — the Buji Island Mouse Clan.

Fortunately and unfortunately, most of the Mouse Clan, originally meant to be underground, went to the Black Prison world with the Rat Immortal and died on the battlefield of Wizards and Demons. Only in the Mouse Clan’s upbringing field under the school, there were still many wearing yellow vests, left behind by the Rat Immortal because they were underage.

Additionally, a few mice, because they had other contracts, were sent back to school before the Rat Immortal left Buji Island for the Black Prison.

Such as Ding Dang Ears and Ding Dong Ears, who were hired as clerks by D&K.

...

Pedestrian Street.

Inside the San You Bookstore.

”Think it through.”

Seeing Yellow Flowered Cat’s tail about to stretch out the door, the owner of the San You Bookstore, lying on a lounge chair, had to remind: ”You make a move now, you’re saving more than just two mice.”

”If it were just two mice, I wouldn’t need to hesitate.” The Flower Cat lifted its chin and snorted. It meant that the two mice had already transformed into human form and should not be regarded as just two mice.

Obviously, the Flower Cat didn’t grasp the Bookstore owner’s meaning.

The gentleman was silent for a moment.

”Every wizard needs to face the wizard’s catastrophe in the process of ascending to legend.”

He sighed slightly, removed the book from his face, squinted, looking at the dark yellow ceiling above as if seeing the vast Xuan Huang in the Black Prison, and said very lightly:

”Some catastrophes are trials; overcoming them makes a wizard’s grasp of magic power more precise and understanding of rules more comprehensive; some catastrophes are wealth; overcoming them gives a stronger physique and a more powerful soul; other catastrophes are merely trouble... In the words of old-school wizards, they are the bad karma you accumulate daily, a bunch of causal lines wrapped around your true form and strands of red dust aura.”

”Only by severing those cumbersome causal lines and cleansing the red dust aura from the body can the soul be in its purest state and sense the true meaning of legend. Previously, the Rat Immortal was entangled by the two thickest causal lines of his wife and daughter and thus couldn’t escape the sea of suffering...”

”What does that have to do with me saving those two little guys?”

Yellow Flowered Cat, having listened patiently for so long without grasping the point, couldn’t help but interrupt, ”This isn’t a classroom... if you lecture any longer, those ogres will tear them into pieces as dessert!”

The owner of the San You Bookstore was silent and, after deliberating for a moment, spoke again: ”...What I mean is interfering arbitrarily in a legendary tribulation is a very dangerous thing.”

”Tribulation?”

Yellow Flowered Cat looked at the ’Rat Man’ curled up a dozen meters away in surprise and raised a paw, seriously pointing to them to confirm again: ”Are you telling me about the same thing? Those two little mice? Those silly ogres? Legendary tribulation?”

In Flower Cat’s eyes, the gap between these two matters was as vast as the difference between the sun and sesame seeds, utterly incomparable.

The bookstore owner replied calmly, ”Yes.”

”This is quite confusing.”

Yellow Flowered Cat lifted a paw, scratched its chin, full of confusion: ”How did they relate to the tribulation of a being about to advance to legend far away in Black Prison?”

Mr. Wu sighed deeply, seemingly regretting speaking up earlier. But as a mentor, he couldn’t ignore the eager eyes for knowledge — even if it was a cat.

”Tribulations aren’t static, merely pointing to the endless thunder and illusory hardships.”

”Tribulations vary in size: there are major, medium, and minor tribulations; they also arise and perish; Buddhism speaks of the four tribulations of formation, stasis, destruction, and emptiness, based on all causes and conditions forming, gathering, and perishing; Taoism speaks of heaven, earth, and man...”

”Get to the point! The main point!!”

Yellow Flowered Cat screeched, interrupting the gentleman’s long-winded lecture, raising its tail high like a middle finger, pointing at the gentleman, indicating outside the window: ”...those little guys’ lives are at stake!”

Outside the window, at the end of the pedestrian street, a towering two-headed ogre was dragging a thick wooden stick, wobbling toward D&K’s front door. Its two heads, one on the left and one on the right, were twitching their noses vigorously, and its big mouth full of tusks slightly opened, with drool dripping down the corners of its mouth, forming small scorched pits as it landed on the bluestone slab ground.

The gentleman paused and continued: ”...Human tribulation is the most complex and unpredictable tribulation. Because human tribulation is interlinked and evolves layer by layer, today’s tribulation might be tomorrow’s blessing; today’s means of resolving the tribulation might become the source of a greater tribulation in the future.”

”That ogre and those two little mice are the Rat Immortal’s human tribulation.”

”The Rat Immortal has a unique view of legend because the Mouse Clan he created, this intelligent species, has the potential to transform into the extraordinary, and he himself touched the outlines of a forbidden curse in the Black Prison — these are the two pillars for his future entry into legend. Before truly achieving legend, the collapse of any pillar would cause him to completely lose the chance to advance.”

”Saving these two little mice is helping the Rat Immortal stabilize one pillar, nailing down two lines anchored from the realm of legend. In the future, he just needs to hold on to these two lines to achieve legend smoothly.”

”So, do you still want to continue saving them?”