Chapter 620: Chapter 313: Start a New Chapter, The Holy Ritual of the Monastery_1

[You have chosen the sixth difficulty level (Hell)!]

[You have entered the Doomsday Chapter.]

[Chapter 76324956] 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

[A powerful Wandering Soul awakens in the dark Confession Room...]

[The place where you are located is extremely cramped. The space enclosed by wooden walls can only accommodate two or three people standing.]

[There is a large window covered with a black veil in front of you. Under the dim candlelight, you can vaguely see the scene on the other side of the confession room through the veil.]

[A corpse is curled up there, wearing a gray hooded cloak...]

[Because of the veil, your sight is blurry and you cannot see clearly.]

[You lift the black veil to examine the corpse closely, but your hand touches a sticky liquid on the veil.]

[It’s a pool of gray sticky liquid, giving off a nauseating bloody smell.]

[You casually wipe the veil to get rid of the disgusting sticky liquid on your fingertips and continue observing the corpse...]

[It is curled up, you can’t see its face under the hood, you can only see a pair of fluffy white wings embroidered on the back of the cloak.]

[’Feathered Monastery Monk’s Shell: Sacred rituals don’t necessarily bring about great Feathered transformations; They can also bring downfall or death. It’s unfortunate that the last monk in the monastery to receive a sacred ritual, did not emerge as the lucky one. Compatibility: 135% (+55%)]

[Do you want to possess this shell?]

Looking at the text description of the shell, Lin Xun could already imagine some kind of bloody and evil rituals of ancient Western.

"A sacred ritual? According to the nature of the underworld game, it’s definitely not a proper ritual!"

The starting point is a safe house, usually not dangerous, he chooses to possess the shell and check its memory to learn about the world background of this Chapter.

[You have possessed the ’Feathered Monastery Monk’s’ Shell!]

[There are fragments of the monk’s life memories remaining in the shell...]

[...]

[I am sinful!]

[I am not worthy of questioning the greatness of the sacred ritual, nor to refuse to join the glorious and sacred Feathered transformation!]

[Stubbonly, I was the last monk in the entire monastery to undergo the Feathered transformation ritual.]

[Having witnessed my brethren gain that extraordinary power, I finally realized that arrogance, stupidity, and obstinacy were my greatest sins.]

[It’s time to accept the sacred ritual...]

[...]

[The best time to perform the sacred ritual is the just passed ’White Fleece Snow Season’, in the divine snow bestowed by the gods, one has a high chance of successful Feathered transformation.]

[Unfortunately, due to my own obstinacy, I missed the White Fleece Snow Season.]

[Now to perform the sacred ritual, I can only pray that the abbot would spare me some strength for me to succeed.]

[If the abbot refused, I would have to turn to that greedy, miserly elder monk...]

[Having witnessed this extraordinary power, even if it costs me all my family’s wealth, I want to perform the sacred ritual and become one of them.]

[Perhaps finding that even the most stubborn me was moved, the abbot agreed to perform the sacred ritual for me without charging any fees.]

[...]

[When the abbot inserted his spiny, prickly needle into me, and injected the gray ritual blood into me... at that moment, I seemed to have seen the gods!]

At first, Lin Xun thought the ’sacred ritual’ might be a type of bloody and evil ritual.

But reading this, he couldn’t help showing the expression of an ’elderly man looking at a cell phone on the subway’.

A needle full of barbs?

What the hell is this abbot?!

[...]

[After the ritual concluded, the abbot gave me a most unfortunate piece of news... the ritual failed!]

[The reason for failure was not due to an error in the sacred ritual, but lay within me... my faith was not devout enough.]

[This was like a bolt from the blue for me!]

[I knew then that only two paths lay before me...]

[One was to let the power of downfall rampage within me, to become a devil in the end.]

[The second, and more honorable choice - self-break!]

[After getting the abbot’s agreement, I came to the confession room alone, confessed my sins to the gods, and prayed that death could pardon me for all...]

[If I hadn’t been so obstinate and held the sacred ritual during the White Fleece Snow Season, perhaps the outcome would have been different...]

[...]

[Fragmented memories end here!]

Lin Xun finished reading the monk’s memories with his eyebrows furrowed.

The memory revealed a lot of information, but at this point, the intelligence he knew was too little to string together the key pieces of information and form a complete Chapter background.

He kept several keywords in mind: sacred ritual, Feathered transformation, White Fleece Snow Season, spiny prickly needle, failed downfall...

Then he manipulated the newly acquired ’monk’ shell and began to explore.

[You stand up, push open the small door and leave the confession room...]

[In front of you is a large page floating in mid-air.]

[You have found a fragment of the Book of Salvation, ——the ’Rest Page’!]

[Do you want to touch the ’Rest Page’?]

[You ignore the ’Rest Page’ and look around...]

The grand confessional hall is empty, with only a few confessionals set up.

At this late hour, all is silent, and you only occasionally hear the crackle of the flames from the candles.

Looking out through the stained glass windows of the confessional hall, you see the dome of the sky outside blanketed in dense clouds. The monastery’s courtyard is overrun with weeds and looks desolate.

You bypass the ’Rest Page’ to explore the other confessionals...

Exploring...

...

In a corner of one of the confessionals, you discover a piece of grayish-white, incomplete skin...

You got ’Unknown Creature’s Broken Molting Skin’ (junk)!

Searching...

You couldn’t find any more valuable items.

Lin Xun opened the item bar to check the item information.

’Unknown Creature’s Molting Skin’ (junk): A grayish-white exoskeleton shed by some creature due to growth. It is comprised of a waxy layer and a chitin layer. The skin is not complete, so you can’t determine which species it belongs to.

Looking at the item description, and combining it with the key information he had previously acquired, he vaguely guessed what creature it might be.

The confessional hall has large doors to the left and right, you ponder which way to go...

You remember, the door on the left leads to the ’Sacrament Hall’, the door on the right leads to the ’Prayer Hall’.

Where do you want to go?

You step forward, open the door on the left, and head for the ’Sacrament Hall’...

Looking around, the hall is filled with rows of wooden benches, and towards the back is a stage carpeted with red.

As the name implies, the ’Sacrament Hall’ is used for holding ’Sacrament Ceremonies’, usually performed by the Dean or senior monks for disciples yearning for ’Feathered’ transformation.

You remember vividly that your ’Sacrament Ceremony’ was conducted here by the Dean, with all the monks and monks in the monastery witnessing the event. Unfortunately, you weren’t the lucky one.

You move forward, heading towards the stage...

The red carpet on the stage feels soft underfoot, but it’s soaked in a grayish-white sticky fluid. When you step, your foot pulls up strands of it...

In the center of the stage is a ’ritual vessel’ the size of a bathtub, filled with the familiar grayish-white slime.

You notice, next to the ’ritual vessel’, there is a small bottle also filled with the grayish-white slime. Unlike the vat, the slime in the bottle gives off an odd sheen.

You receive ’Ritual Blood’ (Ruined Level item)!

’Ritual Blood’ (Ruined Level item): The bottle is filled with the blood used for ’Sacrament ceremony’. Tiny egg-shaped objects float within the blood. It appears the blood was poured into the bottle not long ago and still retains its Feathered activity.

Using this item, you might have a certain chance to undergo the first stage of the Feathered transformation process!

Please note that Feathered transformation carries a risk of failure. Use this item with caution!

Lin Xun frowns, refraining from using the item rashly.

It’s better to be cautious before he understands the background of the Chapter.

He continues to explore the ’Sacrament Hall’, but apart from a bottle of ritual blood, there is nothing of value in the hall.

The large amount of ritual blood in the bathtub appears to have lost its activity and no longer has any Feathered effect.

There are still two large doors on either side of the ’Sacrament Hall’. The one on the right leads back to the ’Confessional Hall’ you previously explored, while the one on the left leads to the ’Monastery Courtyard’.

Where do you want to go?

Just as Lin Xun was about to press an option, the text began to jump rapidly...

The large door on the left is suddenly pushed open, and a tall figure walks in...

The grey cloak shrouds the figure, preventing you from seeing their face; you can only see a wing symbol on their chest similar to yours.

The tall figure suddenly stops, then lunges at you violently, a cold, sharp light flashing in front of you...

Lin Xun was in a state of high alert, ready for any surprises.

Understanding the intentions of the newcomer, he swiftly switches to a different Shell without hesitation.

You possess the shell of Star Lord Canis!

With a squeeze of your sword technique, the ’Rotating Stars Immortal Sword’ transforms into a sharp sword light, swiftly piercing the figure’s chest...

The swift sword light not only pierces their chest, but the gale force it stirs up also lifts their hood, revealing their true face.

Their head is wider at the top and narrows at the bottom, and their eyes, as big as fists, shimmer with countless unsettling glows. Those are the hexagonal little eyes found in a compound eye.

You’ve discovered the ’Feathered Monastery Monk’!

The ’Feathered Monastery Monk’ stalls momentarily, then continues its attack. When it attacks, its sleeves are thrown back to expose half of a sharp blade-like leg!

It seems the heavy wound in its chest is not enough to pose a fatal threat.

You activate the sword technique again, a flash of sword light!

The monk’s bizarre head flies up, but its body is unaffected. It continues to slash at you with the blade-like leg. ..

You dodge to the side to avoid the monk’s attacks. Despite losing its head, it continues to angrily slash forward, knocking over a few benches before it starts twitching and slowly dies...

You’ve defeated the ’Feathered Monastery Monk’, a slight increase in experience points!

You look at the beheaded body lying on the ground...

’Feathered Monastery Monk’: Monk who has entered the first stage of Feathered transformation through the baptism of the ’Sacrament Ceremony’. Monks with extraordinary powers desire nothing but to cross the strait and reach the Divine Kingdom they so long for.

Lin Xun pulls a face.

Feathered... Feathered... So, it’s not a transformation into an immortal, but a transformation into an insect...

So the ’Sacrament Ceremony’ is about going from human to a bug?

This new Chapter is truly...bizarre!