"It should repay your kindness, but now... Benefactor, you’d better leave here as soon as possible."

"You can’t help but ask for the reason, and ’Moon City Purple Leaf’ seems to not want to involve you, repeatedly urging you to leave the shrine, it would be best to leave the capital, even better to leave Sakura fall, the further the better."

"Are you going to listen to ’Moon City Purple Leaf’s suggestion?"

Lin Xun raised an eyebrow, understanding that the master sister ’undercover’ in Tianming Shrine must have gained something.

But this clearly indicates the beginning of the subsequent plot, there is no way he could abandon it.

"You know that ’Moon City Purple Leaf’ is trying to repay your kindness in another way by advising you to stay away from danger, yet solving danger is what you enjoy most."

"You draw out the ’Dragon Sword Masamune’, telling it that the ’Ninja Master’ had bestowed upon you this sword before you came here, asking you to fulfil his duties. Now that it’s in danger, how can you ignore it?"

"You had saved it once, you certainly can do it for the second time!"

"Moon City Purple Leaf’ looks at the divine weapon in your hand and after hesitating for a while, she finally revealed the truth..."

"Its eyes are slightly frightened, and slowly says, ’The people in the ’Tianming Shrine’, I’m afraid, are no longer human..."

"Following the instructions of its master, it came to ’Tianming Shrine’ to continue serving as a priestess. Everything was smooth, the shrine lord looked at her and just agreed that she could join ’Tianming Shrine’."

"The work of a priestess is very dull, and being cheerful in nature it does not like this position. Compared to being a priestess, it would rather be a free ninja, roaming freely in the shadows of the night..."

"Befriending other shrine personnel became the best solution to its boring and dull life."

"It took the initiative to chat with other priestesses, but what came back was a strange indifference, not only from a single priestess, but from everyone in the shrine, from Mikonugi to the servants."

"It has been in the ’Tianming Shrine’ for some time now, but it has never seen any other expression on the face of the shrine personnel, always displaying that weird indifference."

"It’s as if they’re not human, but soulless puppet."

"It feels more and more that something is wrong with the ’Tianming Shrine’...until one day, it wakes up in the middle of the night from a nightmare." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"In the dream, all the staff of the ’Tianming Shrine’ were fanatically worshipping a terrifyingly evil deity in the main hall...it was definitely not ’Ancient Heavenly Warden’!"

"After waking up, it was unable to fall asleep for a long time, only feeling that the scenes in the nightmare were extremely real. In a trance it got up and left the dormitory and went to the place where other shrine staff lived."

"As a result, she was horrified to see that the dormitories were empty. The shrine staff who should have been asleep were all gone."

"At that time, the only thought in her mind was, could the scenes in the dream be real? In the middle of the night, apart from her, every shrine staff member was fanatically worshipping in the main hall?"

"The divine power of the shrine has the effect of making things apparent and omitting the hidden, but as a legitimate priestess, she could naturally not be influenced by this power."

"Using her disbursement technique, she arrives in front of the hall, only to see the doors of the main hall tightly closed, with a jade barrier obstructing her, making it impossible to enter."

"But the candles in the main hall were burning all night, and the thick black shadows cast on the rice-paper windows all tell her that all the shrine staff is in the main hall at this time."

"With the shadows rising and falling together, she knew that, regardless of whether it was the high priest or Mikonugi, or the chamber chief and priestess from the Blessing Department, they were all worshipping together..."

"She clenched her teeth and maintained her disappearance technique, waiting for those ’people’ to finish their worship ceremony."

"She didn’t know how much time had passed, but the worship ceremony ended, and the doors of the main hall opened wide, with the lord of the shrine the first to emerge."

"For the first time, she saw all the shrine staff, including the shrine lord, smile."

"Their eyes wide open, the corners of their mouths almost reaching their ears, the twisted smile wasn’t something a normal human could produce."

"Just as the doors of the main hall opened wide, she saw through the crack of the door a twisted and evil terrifying shadow deep inside the main hall..."

"In an instant, she lost consciousness and fainted."

"When she woke up again it was already the morning of the second day, and she found herself lying on her bed in the dormitory."

"When she got up and left the dormitory, the faces of all the shrine staff had returned to their daily indifferent expressions, and none of them asked about the events of last night, as if it was nothing more than an absurd nightmare."

"But she knew that it was not a dream because every day after that she dared not sleep..."

"When it was late at night, everyone would leave their dormitory together to complete that terrifying and fanatical worship ceremony."

"Only she would nervously hold onto her pillow, staying in the dormitory waiting for dawn."

"..."

"After ’Moon City Purple Leaf’ finished recounting everything, she finally regained some of her spirits, and the color of exhaustion on her face slightly eased."

"You didn’t ask why she didn’t escape from the shrine such a foolish question, but gently patted her shoulder to comfort her."

"’Moon City Purple Leaf’ looks at you and advises again, benefactor, you should leave the mountain as soon as possible... and please, don’t tell the master about these things."

"Her eyes were pleading, clearly not wanting you and the ’Ninja Master’ to get into danger again."

"She is extremely clear that this crisis may spread to the whole capital, even to the whole Sakura fall, and it’s not something human power can resist."

"She fears that the only way to escape would be to hide in ’Tisi Island’, far away from Sakura fall, or to escape to the exotic Western countries at the end of the world."

"Are you going to listen to ’Moon City Purple Leaf’s advice?"

According to Master’s sister’s description, the shadows worshipped by everyone in the main hall are undoubtedly related to the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’.

But with his power, can he deal with the terrible unknown shadow?

Lin Xun rubbed his forehead.

The grand general has not yet been resolved, and now another boss of unknown strength has appeared. As this Chapter progress to the second half, the hell-level difficulty is becoming somewhat despairing.